After sending the letter to Zhang Chong, Jisun began to organize manpower. He would never allow the existence of a traitor like Zhang Goulv to bring unpredictable danger to Huang Tian's great cause.
Sacrifice to Sun has already been decided. Regardless of whether Zhang Chong wants to take action or not, he will lead his men to kill Zhang Goudu.
He was organizing capable manpower here, and suddenly a believer came to report:
"Taishan Zhang Qukui has entered the house."
The priest was shocked, not expecting Zhang Chong to come in person, so he hurried over with his companions.
At this moment, Zhang Chong brought in Xian Guan, who was dressed as a Confucian scholar, and he was sitting in the hall with his two generals, eating fruits. Seeing Zhang Chong's leisurely look, he was not angry at offering sacrifices to his grandson, so he immediately asked someone to give the fruits to him
Remove.
Ji Sun sat aside and was angry. Zhang Chong, who had no fruit to eat, laughed and said:
"Senior brother, don't worry. What happened to this dog and donkey? I'll ask him directly when the time comes. The sky won't fall."
Jisun was annoyed and spat:
"I'm afraid that the blue sky won't fall, but our yellow sky will collapse. Don't take it seriously. Last time Tang Zhou let you go for some unknown reason, but this time if the opportunity to start an uprising was missed from you,
, then really no one can save you, and you will have to hurt Master Liang."
Zhang Chong calmed down and said seriously:
"So I came in person."
Ji Sun sighed and stopped talking.
Zhang Chong directly asked Zhang Goulv what was going on now and did he know where he was?
Sacrifice to the Sun:
"I have been here until Zhang Goulv rebelled, and he was immediately tracked. But this man was well protected. He had been hiding in turns in the past few days, but starting from yesterday, he moved into the city posthouse, and then he
Never appeared."
"Inn in the city?"
"Yes, this post is called Pingling Post. It was specially built to welcome officials from various counties. It's not easy for us to enter that place."
"How's the defense there?"
"From the outside, it looks like there are only four guards guarding the door. I don't know if there are any other defenses inside."
Zhang Chong frowned and asked:
"Do you have anyone in the post house? For example, disciples, concubines, cooks, etc.?"
Ji Sun shook his head and said:
"Originally, there was, but yesterday the people in the posthouse were replaced. Now we have no idea what's inside."
"Then some of you were in the post house before, so you must know the layout of the post house."
Ji Sun took out a piece of silk from his sleeve pocket and spread it on the table. This was the map of the post house. He asked several concubines from the original post house to draw it out after a lot of effort. And the other disciples
Most of them don't know where they are, and they can't even explain where they stay every day.
When Zhang Chong looked at this picture, it was roughly in the style of a floor plan, but the drawing was simpler, but the general layout could still be seen.
This post house is a typical dockyard layout. The first is the defense force. There are two turrets in the northwest corner and the southeast corner. These two places are the commanding heights of the post house. Then there are stables in a row in the west, and the second floor in the northeast.
houses, and then there is a row of houses outside the southeast.
This is the layout of the post station, and then Zhang Chong looked at the situation facing the street. The post house is in the residential area of Dongcheng, facing the street to the east, about one mile from the East City Gate.
Sun Ji saw Zhang Chong thinking there and thought he had something in mind, so he said:
"What do you think?"
Zhang Chong did not answer directly, but asked Ji Sun:
"This time I will lead the team myself, plus Cai Que and Guo Zu. I also need four horses. You can help arrange them on the north side of the post house facing the street. After I am done, I will lead the people from here."
When Ji Sun heard this, he became anxious:
"Are you going by yourself? Are you crazy? I always feel that something is wrong with this matter. If it is a trap, wouldn't you be throwing yourself into a trap if you go?"
You see, first Yang Mao, then Sun Ji, they all tried to persuade Zhang Chong to calm down and not take risks. But why did Zhang Chong insist on going his own way? Could it be that he had really lost his mind?
In fact, no, Zhang Chong also knew that he was taking a risk, and with his status, he should not be involved in dangerous situations again. However, both Yang Mao and Ji Sun only saw one side, and did not think carefully about it in Zhang Chong's situation.
Pass.
Although Zhang Chong is now the leader of five thousand soldiers, how can he talk about stability? Can he avoid arrows and hide in the rear? For him, it is too early to talk about stability. Now is the early stage of starting a business, and there are many things
He needs to be involved, so there won't be so many subsequent troubles.
Just like this incident of Zhang Gou Donkey, this matter really cannot be left to others. Why?
Because Zhang Goudu is the seventy-five brother Zhang Chong and he swore in the forest, and they have sworn to live and die together. If you let others kill Zhang Goudu, then the other old brothers will feel that Zhang Goulu will be killed even if they don't say anything in their hearts.
To be mean and ungrateful.
Some people may wonder, if this dog and donkey betray the group, they will be killed. What's the problem?
The person who asked this obviously doesn't understand the fickleness of people's hearts.
At the beginning, everyone may indeed think so. But later when they find out that Zhang Gou Donkey has not harmed the interests of the group, then they will attack others again.
They will have doubts. When the old brothers are needed, we have a life-and-death bond. If the old brothers are no longer needed, why don't we just ask us to die? Moreover, if someone else is the one who kills the dog and donkey, it will be more likely to cause divisions in the group.
Zhang Goulv is from Dashangli. Who should Zhang Chong want to kill? Is it from the Dashangli faction? Or from the Jibei faction? Or from Xue Shibi? Whoever does it will leave a trail of gossip.
Zhang Chong is the leader of this group and also plays the role of the eldest brother. Only he has the power to decide the life and death of the brothers. Only if he is upright and punishes Zhang Gou Donkey will the brothers really feel that this matter can be done.
Damn it. This piece of shit really deserves to die!
This is actually the common psychological state of the seventy-five old brothers: it is okay to die in the hands of Zhang Chong, but they will not accept death in the hands of others.
In the final analysis, Zhang Chong and the others are still just a grassroots team. The core of the team is bound by kindness and righteousness, and their ideal is to do justice for heaven. They are not yet an organized group bound by criminal law. At this time, human relationships outweigh rules and regulations.
This is also where people like Zhang Chong find it difficult to get started.
For example, the sons of powerful men had a group at the beginning. At that time, the top and bottom were established, and the favor and prestige took care of themselves. Later, they only had to lead the team to become bigger and stronger. But sons of Guizhou leaders like Zhang Chong had nothing.
When building the core team, he had neither a clan to rely on nor relatives to help him. He just gathered a group of beggars and tied them together with kindness.
Therefore, Zhang Chong must do things ethically and fairly, so that his brothers can always be convinced. This is not only what attracts everyone to Zhang Chong, but it is also how everyone disciplines Zhang Chong.
It was precisely because Zhang Chong knew the stakes involved that he had to personally hoe the traitors. Otherwise, it would not be enough to intimidate the public; otherwise, it would not be enough to calm people's hearts.
After that, Zhang Chong and Ji Sun discussed it several times, checked for any omissions and made up for them, and then planned to carry out the plan tonight. The matter of hoeing out the traitor cannot be delayed without delay.
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Dusk, Dongpingling, Pingling Posthouse.
At this time, the entire neighborhood was quiet, but the posthouse was still brightly lit and noisy.
At this time, a banquet was being held in the post house. The local powerful people in Dongpingling were entertaining the county planners. Because it was time for the annual census again, the planners in Dongpingling were waiting to count the counties under their jurisdiction. I have to rush to Luoyang to complete the planning data for this year.
But that's all over. At this moment, the county planners who have completed their tasks are enjoying the prosperity of the big city. There is vocal music, singing and dancing, the food is exquisite, and the people are polite. This is a big city, and it is not their fault. County and countryside can compare.
Celebrities gathered inside the hall, and the people outside the hall were strictly guarded. From time to time, twos and threes of county soldiers and warriors were seen patrolling outside the hall, and they were heavily guarded.
Among them, two warriors are particularly eye-catching. One of them is fat and the other is tall. They are wearing the armor of a county soldier and holding a halberd. They are standing by a gate.
If you take a closer look at these two people, aren't they Zhang Chong's two generals, Cai Que and Guo Zu?
How did they get here?
In fact, Zhang Chong and the others had already sneaked into the post house through this big banquet. Cai Que and Guo Zu took on the uniforms of Taojun soldiers and pretended to be patrol soldiers, while Zhang Chong and other Taiping Taoist disciples from Dongping Ling Everyone is dressed up.
As soon as everyone came in, they divided their duties. Zhang Chong took the Taiping Taoist disciples from Dongpingling who were familiar with the post house to find out which house Zhang Goudu was in, while Cai Que and Guo Zu were outside to check the wind direction.
Everything was going well at first, but Cai Que and Guo Zu were arranged by several county officials to serve as halberd bearers in the inner hall because they were born strong.
The reason why they have not been recognized as fakes until now is not because of how well these two people played the role. It is because these Dongpingling County soldiers are all newly recruited, and soldiers generally do not know generals and generals.
The county soldiers who knew each other and saw that these two people came with the county officials, thought they were officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion in Dongpingling, and did not dare to interfere.
In this way, Cai Que and Guo Zu took a spurge and became the halberd bearers.
Moreover, because of the majestic life of these two people, the drunken and powerful old men often looked sideways. Some of them took advantage of the drunkenness and even came down to pat Cai Que's belly and touch Guo Zu's chest, looking intoxicated.
These people even pretended to accidentally pull their talismans on the ground, hoping that Cai Que and Guo Zu would be knowledgeable and capable of carrying the talismans to the palace.
Cai Que and Guo Zu looked unmoved and unmoved. They didn't dare to think too much. They prayed in their hearts that Qu Kui could finish the matter quickly, and then they would see if they would tear up these old gangsters.
And what is Zhang Chong doing now?
He took three Dongpingling believers to the northeast area of the post house in the dark to find where Zhang Goulv lived.
But they searched for a long time and still found nothing. Just when time was getting shorter and shorter, things took a turn for the worse.
They had just opened another door and were about to go in to see if it was a dog or donkey. Suddenly, they heard footsteps coming from upstairs.
Zhang Chong and the others immediately turned around and hid in the darkness.
After a while, two disciples came out of the building. They held a basin and complained to each other as they walked:
"You said that person is the same. He insists on eating beef at this time. How can he get this thing?"
"Don't you know, during the day, Chusi killed a cow with its head and legs broken off, and wanted to fry it for the nobles who were having a banquet in the front hall. I'll give him some later."
One of the disciples who heard this looked distressed:
"These noble people are also like lowly animals. Where did the cow with a broken leg come from? It was not broken by them. And the family upstairs doesn't look like a noble person to me. All noble people are in vain.
He also applied powder. His dark appearance looks quite similar to ours."
"Who knows, anyway, the postmaster asked us to obey his orders, so we still have to deliver the beef."
In this way, the two of them joked with each other and went to Houchu Temple all the way.
And Zhang Chong, who was hiding in the darkness, finally knew where Zhang Goulv was.