"Why do you still need Prime Minister Wang to intervene in such a trivial matter? Zhu Guanying, you f*cking frightened some black-hearted and dirty officials. You only dared to shrink into your mother-in-law's crotch and pant. You didn't even dare to go to the black-hearted and dirty officials to argue with you. Really?"
You are looking down upon!" Xu Huai said sarcastically when he saw that Zhu Xiaotong actually turned the hot mountain Yu and stuffed it into their arms.
"You bastard, what are you talking about?" Wang Xun said angrily.
"What nonsense am I talking about? Zhu Guanying doesn't dare to offend the evil officials in the Food Institute, so he can just leave this job to me. I will take people to collect the food in five days. If the Food Institute still dares to be evil and ruthless,
If you are greedy for our rice, I will beat these thieves to pieces and make their eyes bloom, so that they will know what justice is! How many thieves and traitors have I killed, why are you afraid of a few evil-minded officials?" Xu Huai curled his lips and shouted.
, with a look of disdain.
He didn't expect that Zhu Xiaotong, who was frightened and frightened yesterday, would actually take advantage of the situation and force them to dig into the hornet's nest in the grain yard in front of all the prisoners.
A normal person would not let this happen easily.
In order to prepare for the joint attack on Yanzhou, the State Grain Institute was not only responsible for the collection of money and grain for Lanzhou's internal affairs, but the large warehouse of the Grain Institute was also responsible for the collection and storage of part of the military supplies, and it has transformed into a military center. At present,
Even though the original officials are still responsible for the distribution of grain and other materials in the grain yard, the guards of Okura have been replaced by forbidden troops, and the defense is extremely tight.
At this time, whoever dares to cause trouble in the grain yard is no longer a question of accountability afterwards, but a matter of whether they will be directly suppressed by the stationed imperial troops on the spot.
Who the hell would be dissatisfied with longevity?
However, Xu Huai and Wang Zhen's aggressive campaign yesterday ignited the hearts of the prisoners. If they don't accept the matter at this time, and still shirk the matter with Zhu Xiaotong in front of so many people, it will only appear harsh and cruel.
This is no longer a matter of losing momentum in front of Zhu Xiaotong and others, but a question of how the prisoners will view them in the future?
Zhu Xiaotong played the general's trick, which can be said to be vicious.
However, what they never expected was that Xu Huai's limit was much lower than they expected.
What Xu Huai wants to do now is to take the prisoners and cause trouble.
Even if the world is shattered, he doesn't care.
As long as he thought of the catastrophic disaster that would come with the first year of Jianhe, Xu Huai thought that even if he really incited thousands of prisoners to launch a riot, the Guanlui Mountain and even the wider south, and even the densely forested and dangerous Luliang Mountain, would be invaded by grassroots.
None of it is unacceptable.
Will he be frightened by Zhu Xiaotong's tricks?
Zhu Xiaotong was hesitant when he saw Wang Zhen, and wanted to use some words to flatter him, but he didn't expect Xu Huai to agree to it. He thought to himself that he was really a fool, and he couldn't understand what he had done before.
Would you want to act recklessly with such a reckless person? Isn't this a loss of your own arrogance? You have to lead him to jump into the fire pit!
"General Xu, are you really willing to accept this matter?" Zhu Xiaotong stared at Xu Huai and asked sadly.
He just wanted to watch this fool go to the grain yard to seek death, and he didn't mind his disrespectful words. Now he wanted to tell the truth in front of many prisoners, without giving him a chance to regret it.
"It's a matter of picking off a chicken. Is it possible that the grain yard is still a dragon's den or a tiger's den? If I walk in, they can bite off my bird?" Xu Huai said impatiently, "Grandpa can't pick out so much grain alone, but like
Zhu Guanying, a coward like you who is timid and afraid of getting into trouble, don't let your mother follow you. You will be so scared that you will pee and your grandpa will be embarrassed. But among the prisoners, I don't believe that I can't pick out 70 or 80 good guys who dare to follow me.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Yan Xiaoyi, Shen Zhene, what will happen to you if you dare to come with me in five days?"
"Why don't you dare?" Yan Xiaoyi and Shen Zhene said proudly, ignoring Wang Kong's eyes.
"Where are you, Beaver King?" Xu Huai asked Wang Kong again at this time.
"I'd like to go for a while." Wang Kong didn't want to go, but he couldn't abandon Yan Xiaoyi. Shen Zhenying ignored him, so he had to go anyway.
"The Food Institute dares to blackmail our food. Now that Wang Xianggong and Zhu Guanying are backing it, is it possible that they don't dare to seek justice? This world is so unreasonable!" The dozen or so people who ate meat and drank wine together all agreed.
"Okay, you can choose the manpower, and the number is limited to eighty people. When the time comes, you only need to bring back two hundred and fifty stones of fine grain, and I will reward you heavily. If you can't get the fine grain, then don't blame me for falling out. You don’t recognize anyone!” Zhu Xiaotong said.
"You talk so much nonsense, but I don't see a grain of salt from you." Xu Huai said disdainfully.
"Okay!" Zhu Xiaotong realized that he really had no way to reason with this fool, and he would get angry if he continued talking, so he threw away his hands and walked to the prison warden's office...
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The prisoners had two full meals in the morning and evening, and then went to work in the quarry during the day. Even though there were many fewer supervisors than the previous day, the stone quarry was quarried much faster than before.
Xu Huaiwu also worked in the quarry with all the prisoners before Wu. At the same time, he also sent Wang Kong, Yan Xiaoyi, and Shen Zhene to recruit fellow prisoners who were willing to go to the grain yard to collect food in five days.
Wang Zhen didn't block Xu Huai at the edge of the quarry until noon, and asked Xu Huai's true intention with a serious face:
"In five days, Zhu Xiaotong and the others will definitely find a way to drag me to the quarry and ask you to take people to the grain yard alone. How sure are you that you can get the fine grain back? Are you planning to have Zhufengtang prepare it in Kelan City? A good portion of refined grain can make up for the shortfall?"
Xu Huai sat on the earthen ridge to rest his strength and said: "Since Xin'an, Tangpan and I are on the bright side, Zhufengtang will inevitably officially operate a branch in Kelan City, but there are more than a thousand people in the stone field. The shortage of meals for prisoners was caused by the ruthless hands of so many officials in Lanzhou who joined forces to make up for the shortage. If Zhufengtang is to fill the gap, where is the justice and justice?"
"Do you really want to go to the grain yard to cause trouble this time?" Lu Xiong stood aside with a frown on his face and asked hesitantly.
Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Yin Peng, Tang Qing and others guarded the perimeter to prevent irrelevant people from approaching and hearing Xu Huai and Wang Zhen talking.
Xu Huai smiled and said: "In Zhu Xiaotong's eyes, I am just a foolhardy fool. How could I fail to fulfill their wishes??"
"If the Food Institute is not a dragon's den or a tiger's den at this time, it is not far off - when Mr. Wang cannot escape, Zhu Xiaotong, Zeng Run and others will most likely instigate the defenders of the Food Institute to deal cruel attacks on you indiscriminately. Hand, when the time comes, you will only bring seventy or eighty unarmed prisoners to make trouble, and you will be a sheep in a tiger's mouth!" Lu Xiong couldn't guess what Xu Huai was thinking at the moment, so he stared into his eyes and said.
"Then it depends on whether Zhu Xiaotong and Zeng Run can eat us!" Xu Huai said calmly.
"You are not afraid of causing trouble, but you are not going to bring dozens of unarmed prisoners here to cause trouble,"
Wang Zhen was very familiar with Xu Huai now. He frowned and asked,
"Have you ever thought that in the next five days, it will not be the Shichang prisoner family who will go to the grain yard to collect food, but all the prisoners assigned to the border wall, the camp construction site, and the prisoners assigned to logging, road building, casting, etc., as well as a part of the Xiang army? On that day, everyone will send people to the Grainyard to collect food? Are you thinking that the Grainyard will never be able to camp a family in a stone pit and give other prisoners only refined grains without any adulteration? Mixed with old grains and rotten grains, not mixed with weeds and mud? By agreeing to this, are you trying to secretly encourage all the prisoners in the prison camp and even some of the Xiang troops to cause trouble?"
Hearing what Wang Zhen said, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan and others all looked at Xu Huai in shock.
Xu Huai hadn't told them his plan yet, and they had no idea how they would be able to get enough refined grain from the grain farm in less than five days. But after hearing what Wang Zhen said, they suddenly came to their senses.
Xu Huai only sent sixty, seventy or even hundreds of prisoners to the grain yard to cause trouble. Guo Zhongxiong would never be merciful, but if there were seven to eight thousand prisoners in Lanzhou and tens of thousands of soldiers and rural soldiers making noise together, even the imperial army would be disturbed.
Where is the resentment?
Does Guo Zhongxiong still dare to do something cruel?
Different people have different limits.
The limit of Zhu Xiaotong and Cheng Yanqing is that they are afraid that the roar of the stone camp will tear them to pieces.
Can Guo Zhongxiong withstand the roar of seven or eight thousand assassins and prisoners across Lanzhou and even tens of thousands of exploited Xiang army soldiers?
The allied forces are about to attack Yan. Once there is a roar of tens of thousands of people in Lanzhou, and even the imperial army is involved, there are signs that the morale of the army is shaken. Even if Guo Zhongxiong can suppress the roar in time, it will not calm the panic of the people.
This will be an immeasurable heavy blow to the upcoming coalition attack on Yan.
At that time, even if Cai Zheng and others still want to protect Guo Zhongxiong, it will be the lightest thing to remove Guo Zhongxiong from his post and investigate, and replace him with a more capable and prestigious minister who comes to Lanzhou to take charge.
The most likely possibility is that the imperial court used Guo Zhongxiong's head to appease people's hearts and the morale of the military.
In the past year, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Yin Peng, and Tang Qing, in addition to being taught martial arts by Lu Xiong, also learned from Wang Zhen how to command troops and manage the world. It is not difficult to figure out these subtleties, but Xu Huaizhen planned
What to do?
Xu Huai sighed softly, looked at Wang Chen and asked: "Wang Xiangzhen can understand everything, but why is he so embarrassed by Cai Zheng?"
"There are things to do and things not to do." Wang Zhen said.
Xu Huai was silent for a while and said: "Zhu Xiaotong's trick of playing tricks is because he thinks he has seen through our limits, and if we don't want to be controlled by others, we can only act according to their limits - my principle is to have certain limits.
There are things I shouldn’t do, and things I have to do. I haven’t learned how to restrain myself.”
"It's too dangerous for you to do this. Yesterday, thousands of prisoners were so aggressive that the clamor was about to break out at any time. Even if I could barely control it, I would be frightened for a long time afterwards. After five days, I will most likely be restrained.
How can you ensure that the roaring noise does not get out of control in the stone field?"
Xu Huai said: "I can't guarantee that, even if I have to force Guo Zhongxiong, Zhu Xiaotong, Zeng Run and the people behind them to make concessions, we only have five days to secretly encourage people. In such a short time, it is impossible to do anything.
Hold back and leave no room."
"What happens after the roaring riot? You can take your troops and flee into the Guanluo Mountain and Luocao is the bandit. You must have some back-ups in the villa, but who will clean up this mess in Lanzhou? How many people will be killed or injured by then?
Stop?" Wang Xun opened his eyes and asked, "You can't think that you don't care even if you start a rebellion in Lanzhou!"
"Prime Minister, please don't think that I want to do that to Zheng Hui,"
Xu Huai stood up, looked at the green and black distant mountains, and said,
"It is a fact that officials are greedy and excessive. It is a fact that prisoners and Xiang soldiers have their meals severely deprived and exploited. It is also a fact that they are bullied on a daily basis. It is fair that they go to the food court to beg for food according to the regulations set by the imperial court. As the magistrate of the state, Guo Zhongxiong is the supervisor of the army and horses.
, he should stand up and give everyone justice. Justice cannot be obtained, so that the whole thing has unpredictable consequences. The responsibility also lies with Guo Zhongxiong and other officials who have no public conscience and only know private fighting, as well as those officials who are greedy and evil-minded.
, it’s not on us. Why does the Prime Minister bother to take all the responsibilities on himself? The Prime Minister has never thought that if he is just seeking justice, there will be unpredictable serious consequences. Isn’t that even more clear?
Yes, there must be something inside that we need to smash and smash. There must be pus cells that threaten the safety of the world and need to be punctured and squeezed out? I don’t talk about the world. I am young and can’t see that far.
So deep, so penetrating, I would like to ask Wang Xiang, if there is no one to squeeze or puncture the pus cells in Lanzhou that are already rotten to the core, what chance does Fa Yan really have of winning?"
Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan and others all looked at Xu Huai with disbelief. They did not expect that his words were so sharp and ruthless. Looking at Wang Zhen at this time, it seemed as if he had been punched hard. He sat slumped on a rock and remained silent.
