The night gradually faded away, and light once again occupied the world. After a night of fierce fighting, Xia County, a large and populous county, finally fell into the hands of Pei Xiaoer.

"The most urgent task is to write a notice to calm the people and tell the people that my Pei family army is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and will not engage in banditry that oppresses good people, kills people and sells goods. Let the people not panic and do whatever they need to do, just like before." Pei Xiao

Sitting in the magistrate's trial court, Er felt the feeling of a magistrate.

"In addition, send people to Guojiazhuang and ask my father to bring the new army as soon as possible to replenish the troops. In addition, our current scale is no longer suitable for future wars and must be expanded. I will think about how to expand specifically. What do you have?

You can put forward your opinions."

Pei Xiaoer took a sip of water and continued, "Also, send someone to the largest restaurant in the county to order a few tables of food. I will entertain the wealthy gentry in the city for dinner tomorrow. Don't let them jeopardize me then. Do you have anything to add?

Is it?"

Several people in the hall were sitting on chairs. You looked at me, I looked at you, but they didn't say much.

"If you have something to say, just say it, if you have something to say, let it go. How can you be a hero if you can't even say anything?" Pei Xiaoer scolded his mother while setting the table.

Finally, Zhang Zhiyuan stood up and said to Pei Xiaoer: "General, everything else is easy to talk about, but how to write this notice to calm the people? No one has written it before."

This is Pei Xiaoer's negligence. There are several people below who are very illiterate. It is really difficult for them to write notices for peace of mind.

However, this public notice must be written, not only written but also well written. The common people must know that they are doing justice for heaven and are not bandits who want to plunder. No one can compare the importance of public opinion to those born in later generations.

Pei Xiaoer understands better.

A great man once said that if you don’t occupy the high ground of public opinion, others will.

After thinking about it, Pei Xiaoer gritted his teeth and was about to write it by himself. At this moment, Xu Ze, who had been standing silently behind Liu Zhizu, suddenly whispered in Liu Zhizu's ear. After a while, Liu Zhizu stood next to him.

He nodded and said, "Just say it."

"General, why don't you let your subordinates try it?" Xu Ze bowed to Pei Xiaoer and said.

"You?" Pei Xiaoer squinted his eyes and looked Xu Ze up and down, feeling a little suspicious.

"Exactly, I was once elected as a candidate in the Ming Dynasty, but later by some strange combination of circumstances, I became the head of a household in Xia County. If the general can entrust this job to me, I will do my best to do it.

Handle the errand properly." Xu Ze blocked his future at Pei Xiaoer's office because of this errand.

"Okay, since you are confident, I will let you write it. You go down and write a draft first and let me take a look." Pei Xiaoer also wanted to try this young man's skills.

"Thank you, General. General, please wait a moment. My subordinate will be ready soon," Xu Ze said with great joy after hearing this.

Pei Xiaoer hummed and ignored him. The opportunity was given to him, it just depends on whether he can take it.

Not to mention that Pei Xiaoer was arranging tasks in the city. But in a hidden forest outside the city, a group of men and horses collapsed on the ground panting. The blood stains showed that they had experienced a battle not long ago.

"Dad..." A man's suppressed cry came from time to time, but beside him was a petite boy with bright eyes and white teeth, and a bulging chest that could not be concealed even if he wore slightly loose men's clothes.

Comforting him.

"Brother Tao, I'm sorry, my uncle's spirit in heaven definitely doesn't want you to grieve forever." The young man comforted him with a gentle voice.

"It's not like your father died, of course you're not sad." Unexpectedly, Brother Tao didn't appreciate it at all and pushed the boy away.

Unexpectedly, he used too much force and knocked the little boy into the tree next to him. The intense pain, coupled with Ailang's ruthlessness, made the little boy lie on his knees and started crying.

The cry made Zhang Tao blame himself. After all, she was his childhood sweetheart and fiancée, and she had good intentions, but he...

Brother Tao had no choice but to come close to her again and comfort her in a low voice, "Hui Niang, it's all my fault, I'm just too sad." He said with his voice accompanied by sobs, "My dad was right in front of me, and I watched helplessly.

He was killed by the bandits. But there was nothing I could do.”

"Cry, cry, cry, damn, you just know how to cry, bitch," an impatient voice suddenly sounded.

The small place fell silent for an instant, and everyone looked at the speaker in disbelief. "Liu Laosan, what do you want to do? Do you want to rebel?" The man whom Brother Tao had always called Uncle Jiu sternly scolded.

The man didn't give in. He stood up and strode to the center of the crowd. "I want to rebel? The leader Zhang is dead. It's time for us to find a new leader.

I know you, Lao Jiu," he said, pointing at Zhang Tao, "You want this loser to take over his father's job and become the new boss, but do you think the brothers will accept it? Don't you, brothers?"

"Yes, we are not convinced." Most of the people present expressed their opposition. They were willing to follow Zhang Tao's father at first, but this does not mean that they are willing to continue to follow Brother Tao.

"Actually, when the headmaster was still alive, everyone was dissatisfied with him," Liu Laosan continued, "If he hadn't been the son of the headmaster, the brothers would have killed him countless times.

It's okay now, the boss is gone, and the brothers haven't killed him yet, so they can be considered worthy of the boss's kindness. So now, before everyone falls out, get out of here."

Zhang Tao listened to Liu Laosan's insults with a red face. He never thought that the man he had always regarded as his elder brother would treat him like this after his father's death.

It was also his fault that his father, the head of the family at the time, protected his son too well and failed to let him understand the dangers of the world and the complexity of the human heart.

Hui Niang nervously protected Zhang Tao behind her. Uncle Jiu also slowly came to Zhang Tao's side, "Tao'er, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. Let's leave here and think about it in the long term."

"Yes, Brother Tao, let's go." Hui Niang helped.

"Yes, let's get out of here." Zhang Tao also reacted. Looking at his former brother, now he wanted to eat him alive. He shrank his head in fear and turned around to leave.

Uncle Jiu and Hui Niang on the side also quickly followed.

"Bah, coward." Liu Laosan spit thick phlegm in the direction the three of them left with disdain.

After walking a long way, they felt that these people would not catch up again, so Uncle Jiu called them to find a stone to rest on.

"Brother Tao, where are we going next?" Hui Niang asked Zhang Tao timidly.

Yes, where am I going? How did I end up like this? Why did I lose everything? It's all the fault of those gangsters.
Chapter completed!