Chapter 5 Caogu (Nine)

"What if I don't give up?" Zheng Ziming was stunned and said casually: "It's nothing more than bribing the local government to set up posts along the way, intercepting and killing all of Yelu Liu Ge's confidants! Just kill them, and save us from doing it ourselves!"

This was his personal experience, so when he said it, he didn't feel anything strange. He didn't think there was anything worth being more careful about. However, when Li Shun heard it, he waved his hand in a hurry, "No, no! My subordinates, I didn't mean this. Khitans, Khitans..."

He was already timid, but when he was anxious, he became more and more nervous. He stuttered for a while, but couldn't say a complete sentence.

"What do you mean? Just say, don't go around the corner!" Zheng Ziming glared at his eyes and urged loudly, "I won't eat you again! When did I cure people for speaking?"

"Oh, ah!" It's strange that Li Shun, who was as timid as a mouse, was greatly energetic by this shout. He used his strength to straighten his back from the horse's back and added loudly: "No, it's not that he bribed the local government to kill people. Yes, he ran over to kill people and rob people, and led the disaster to the east. In the past, when the club was in the past, the Lianzhuang Association also liked to do this. As long as there was trouble inside, he would go outside to find fault and fight with other farmers. When the war started, few people could immediately take care of internal troubles!"

"Don't say it, there is such a possibility." As soon as he finished speaking, Tao Dachun frowned beside him, "In the past, the Khitans came to grab things and food, but they were not always there when the Qinghuang was not in the process. Several times, the Khitans had just withdrawn, and then some messy news came from the north!"

"Are they afraid of triggering a war between the two countries?" Pan Meiyue asked in a hoarse voice as she heard it, her slightly simple face was full of disbelief.

"What are you afraid of? As long as you don't fight to the Yellow River or don't leave, who in the Great Jin Kingdom dares to fight! The same is true if it's the Great Han Kingdom!" Tao Dachun and Li Shun answered in unison.

"It may not be afraid. The imperial army was concentrated in the hands of the Jiedushi. When the news reached Bianliang, Bianliang discussed with the Jiedushi who should send troops and how to send troops. The Khitans had already retreated by themselves!" Zheng Ziming's mood was not as excited as the two of them. He smiled awkwardly and explained wishfully.

This explanation could not convince anyone except himself. Li Shun had no courage to confront him and quickly turned his head aside. Tao Dachun looked at him blankly, his eyes full of suspicion.

"Although these soldiers on the border are also called Jiedu, they are very small in strength!" Zheng Ziming was so upset that he was afraid of it, and he added, "The only ones who can compete with the Khitan soldiers are Fu Yanqing, Guo Wei, Shi Hongzhao and Gao Xingzhou. They did not have the orders of the court and could not send troops without authorization. It took a long time for the court to receive the alarm to make decisions...". "What are you all saying? I, I understand everything. I, I..." In the embarrassment, Pan Mei sounded again, with obvious anger.

"You are still young! Adults don't let you know. Besides, your Panjiazhuang is remote and the Khitans have no time to deal with it!" Tao Dachun and Li Shun quickly changed the topic and targeted Pan Mei personally.

"You, you are talking nonsense. Me, why am I..." Pan Mei was caught off guard, her face turned red quickly, and sweat beads of water were oozing out of her forehead. It seemed as if she was protesting. What Tao and Li said just now was too incredible.

"Okay, don't just be busy teaching him a lesson!" Zheng Ziming felt more and more upset when he heard it beside him. He sighed and took the initiative to change the verbal words, "If the Khitans really come to kill and set fire, the local area will generally make any reaction? What about Lianzhuanghui here, how did this deal with it in previous years?"

"Official government, how can you count on the government at this time?" Tao Dachun shrugged and sneered, "Official government of course closed the city gate and let the Khitans do whatever they want! Anyway, I can't grab the official's head on his own!"

"In the Lianzhuang Association, the usual practice in previous years was to withdraw all the men and women near the villages outside the mountain to the mountains." Li Shun'er thought for a while and then reported in a low voice, "There are many Khitan cavalry and they are unwilling to walk on the mountain road. They also think that the villages in the mountains are poor, so they rarely go into the mountains to rob."

"If you haven't joined the Lianzhuang Club, the young and strong people will hide in the mountains with their women and children, and the elderly and weak will squat in the village and leave their fate. If the Khitans don't come to the door, everyone will escape. If the Khitans come to the door, they will have to let them go. Anyway, like Taojiazhuang and Panjiazhuang, the location is relatively remote. There are not many times when they are knocked to the door. Nine out of ten times, they can escape by chance!" Tao Dachun hung his head and continued to replenish weakly.

"If there are not many Khitans, occasionally Lianzhuang will fight with them. Otherwise, the name of building a village for self-protection will not be continued. If you win by chance, the Khitans will see that it is really difficult to chew here, so they will usually send people to persuade them to surrender. At this time, Li Huishou and Li Youde will give up their faces and take the initiative to send a batch of food and gold and silver to the Khitan general who led the troops. In this way, both sides will have a step down and then they will be at peace with each other!" Li Shun'er was not very energetic. While shaking her head, she dragged out the previous countermeasures of Lianzhuang.

"Isn't that the same routine as dealing with Green Forest Shock Horse?"

"It's okay to say they are Xiangma, they're all here to grab things anyway!"

"What if I'm unfortunately not winning!"

"If you have fast legs, you can escape into the mountains. If you have slow legs, you will either commit suicide or wait for a knife. What else can you do? Alas——" Li Shun'er sighed again and responded listlessly.

"Oh--" Tao Dachun clenched his fists with both hands, but he didn't know what else to do except sigh.

As a martial arts practitioner, the robbers fought at the door of their house but could only escape. This was definitely a great shame. However, the Jiedushi, who held heavy troops, pretended to be grandchildren in front of the Khitans. What better way could ordinary martial artists have? Even if they risked their lives to rush out to fight, they would just be a mantis arm to be a chariot. Apart from letting themselves die heroically, they would not have any effect.

"Oh--" Zheng Ziming sighed, which sounded particularly dull. The court of the Great Jin Dynasty was his grandfather and father? It turned out that he not only gave up the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun! It turned out that he had always been so cowardly! No wonder when the Great Jin Dynasty was destroyed, he could not even find someone who was willing to fight for his death!

For a moment, everyone present lost interest in speaking. They lowered their heads and looked at the beating torches, and they were all unconscious. However, the night wind became colder, huh, huh, huh, huh, through the gaps in their clothes, pierced the skin and muscles, and kept sending the cold into the human bone marrow.

"Ah snee!" I don't know how long it took, but Li Shun'er broke the silence with a sneeze.

Fearing that Zheng Ziming asked himself why he had not yet executed the previous order, he wiped his nose a few times with his hand, and said with a shiny snot on his face: "I just wanted to say, I just wanted to say, sir, you are now a inspector of the Three Prefectures, and you have worshipped Mr. Guo and Mr. Zhao. But, these Khitan dog thieves who went south to find help pulled the two young masters Guo and Zhao in. So if the Liao people go south to rob, I'm afraid someone will take the opportunity to cause trouble for you!"

"It's very possible! I heard Yelu Min confession just now, and they seemed to know the origin of you and the two young masters Guo and Zhao! And Han Kuangsi in Youzhou seemed to have a grudge against you three!" Pan Mei was slightly stunned when she heard this, forcibly cheered up and whispered a reminder.

"It's not just a grudge!" Zheng Ziming shook his head and slowly pressed the hilt of the knife with his right hand.

"Then, that's a foregone conclusion! If the Khitans don't go south, they will have to go south. If they go south, Han Kuangsi will send minions to the door!" Pan Mei raised her eyebrows high, and her voice became sharp and thin.

"So what?" Zheng Ziming shook his head again and asked with a smile. It seemed that after a flash, all the worries in his heart shook beyond the sky.

"Then, that's a battle! You, you are in a mood to laugh!" Pan Mei was so angry that she jumped up and shouted loudly when the scent of relaxation suddenly appeared on his face.

After screaming, his expression became dark again. He lowered his head and stomped his feet anxiously on the snow.

If the Khitans went south to rob, the inspection department would definitely not be out of the matter. With his understanding of Zheng Ziming, his lord might not be the one who was beaten to the door but did not dare to fight back. However, the inspection department had a lot of plans, but only six or seven hundred soldiers were only enough to deal with nearby bandits and other alliance villages. If he really faced the Khitan regular army, he would probably have been delusional if he hurt others' teeth.

"Then just fight! It's a mule or a horse, you have to walk it before you know it!" In a while he was upset, Zheng Ziming's voice came from his ears. He didn't see the previous frustration at all, as if he suddenly realized, or had known that there would be such a fierce battle. "They couldn't be able to attack our inspection department. If there were fewer people coming, they just happened to practice their skills for everyone. If there were many people coming, they knew that they would beat him, why would I have to squat in the village and wait for death? Hidden the old and weak into the mountains and pull the team out in circles, and I wouldn't believe it, and I could never find a few left alone!"

What happened to the Great Jin Kingdom in the past is the past after all.

The officials around me are all others.

I have to walk my own path myself.

Start from the first step and go all the way to the end.

"Yes, at worst, we can go to Taihang Mountain as well. Let's see who has the courage to chase after him!" Tao Dachun heard Zheng Ziming's boldness and cheered up and agreed loudly.

Seeing that Zheng Ziming and Tao Dachun were fearless, Li Shun felt that he should show a little bit of a man's courage, so he raised his neck and echoed loudly: "That's right! The four legs in the mountains are definitely not enough to run two legs! Just as the adults said before, take them around a few circles first, then turn around and knock on his slap. I don't believe it, I will not make them diarrhea!"

He was originally temporarily introduced by Zheng Ziming and Zhao Kuangyin to replace Li Youde's puppet camp leader, but later Lijia Village was changed into a military camp by an imperial edict by the court, and the Lianzhuang Association also became the inspection department. His puppet camp leader immediately became very embarrassing. For a long time, he didn't know what he should do. He just wanted to save his life and followed Zheng Ziming like a tail all day long.

But today, he found that besides being a follower, he seemed to have a little use. Although this feeling may not be accurate, at least it gave people a reason to continue to exist.

In Zheng Ziming's eyes, Li Shun'er's purpose is not a little bit. He took the man's words and said with a bit of encouragement: "You are right, go around in circles first, then hit them to death. We are not responsible for defending the land. Avoid their edge, and then..."

"Avoid his aura and attack his idleness!" Pan Mei finally cheered up from her depression and began to drop her schoolbag with a wry smile.

"Yes! Avoid his aura and attack his lazy return! Zhongxun, this sentence is very good!" Zheng Ziming was stunned for a moment, laughing and stroking his palms.

"This is what Sun Tzu's Art of War, not what I said!" Pan Mei was so amused and cried that she was forgetting half of her worries in an instant.

Following a chief official like Zheng Ziming, there are such benefits, and you can find opportunities to show your talents and abilities anytime and anywhere.

He doesn't care about face, and he won't easily be jealous of his subordinates being smarter than himself, knowledgeable than himself, and more capable than himself. Unlike officials in other places, he is a weasel, and his subordinates cannot be more than a mouse in size!

"No wonder I feel familiar with it. Whoever said it, it's enough to be useful!" Zheng Ziming seemed to have completely walked out of the shadow of the Khitans who might have come to cause trouble, and continued to laugh. "Let's go, leave. If he doesn't come, I'm happy to be idle. If he comes, he will fight and test the effectiveness of our training some time ago!"

"Let's go, go! I heard the raucous clamor, and the ground was still not allowed to be planted!" This kind of heroic spirit of falling down as a cover of quilts also infected many people around. Tao Dachun, Li Shun'er, and the personal soldiers jumped onto their mounts, shouted loudly, and rode their horses and galloped.

Only Pan Mei was unwilling to be influenced by other people's emotions. She frowned and rode her horse to the end of the entire team. Halfway through, she seemed to have figured out something important. She found an opportunity, leaned against Zheng Ziming, and said in a very low voice: "Are you looking forward to this day? Yes! How could a person like you be willing to squat in a small village and be unknown? Who is worth squatting here around Ding County?"

"What does it mean?" Zheng Ziming was slightly stunned, turned his head and asked with a smile.

"You, you stayed in Lijiazhai, definitely not to be this fifth-rank inspector!" The wind was a little loud, and Pan Mei's voice was blown intermittently in the night. "You are not afraid of those Khitans coming to cause trouble. Even if they don't come, sooner or later you will cross the river to find their troubles!"

The skin on Zheng Ziming's face was blown by the wind and kept thrusting. The expression on his face was also unpredictable due to the change in the shape of the skin. "You, what do you mean? I don't understand? So what? So what if it's not?"

"A real man is like a mediocre..." Pan Mei turned her head and tried to face him with her eyes. She faced the bitter cold wind, and her voice floated in the air like the brocade robe behind her. "If it is like a mediocre... and the plants... and the plants are gone, how shameful! It's simply, I feel ashamed... and the plants are here!"
Chapter completed!