After Zhu Gui heard Liao Qinghai's words, his expression changed slightly. He originally thought that after using tricks to get rid of the leaders of the seven major gangs, the remaining small gangs in Taiyuan City would not be enough to rely on.
But I didn't expect that the remnants of these gangs would still put up a stubborn resistance and dare to openly confront people from the three major families.
Fortunately, in order to prevent accidents, Zhu Gui had already asked Gong Sunming to take the people there in advance. With the other party's strategy and courage, those small gangs should not be worried.
However, in order to prevent accidents, the loss of Gongsun Ming's good 'material', and even the loss of the most important means of restraining the Gongsun family, Zhu Gui decided to go outside the city with Liao Qingming to see the situation.
So Zhu Gui joined Liao Qinghai's officers and soldiers, but he saw that these officers and soldiers were all frightened, as if they would run away at any time if there was any trouble.
Can such people expect them to protect themselves? Zhu Gui frowned, and then called a personal guard and asked him to contact Hu Shidao's men and ask them to secretly gather manpower to prevent any accidents.
Zhu Gui has developed the habit of being cautious and not looking down on any opponent. Naturally, the more trump cards the better.
Then he talked to Liao Qinghai about the changes in Taiyuan City in the past two days. The other party's intelligence network was somewhat different from Zhu Gui's, and Zhu Gui also heard some information that he had not mastered.
According to Liao Qinghai, it seems that the imperial court has felt that the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been settled, and there are no more wars on the Ming border. In addition, there are many ministers who have come forward to advise, and Zhu Yuanzhang seems to have the idea of withdrawing from the vassal state.
The first person to bear the brunt of this is a person named Fang Xiaoru who was thought to have suddenly been reused recently.
When Zhu Gui heard what the other party said, he couldn't help but frown.
Why did Fang Xiaoru become an official in this world early? Is this another result of him changing history?
Moreover, Lan Yu, who should have been proud and complacent because of the defeat of the Mongols, was eradicated by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his arrogance, but nothing happened at this time.
Did Zhu Yuanzhang plan to let him go?
If this is the case, after Zhu Yuanzhang passes away, with the help of Fang Xiaoru and Lan Yu, the civil and military assistants, the Yan King Zhu Di, who was originally a "narrow victory", may have an even lower chance of winning in the "Battle of Jingnan" in this world.
Zhu Gui felt a big trough in his heart. If Zhu Gui lost, wouldn't it mean that Zhu Gui would face frontal pressure from the entire Ming Dynasty?
No, no, absolutely not, let’s not talk about whether he has the strength to fight against the entire Ming Dynasty with a vassal territory.
Even if he did, he didn't want to be criticized in terms of 'legal principles'. This was different from Li Shimin and Zhu Di in history. They just wanted to be the emperor, but their methods were somewhat disgraceful.
But Zhu Gui didn't want to be the emperor. He wanted to change the destiny of the Ming Dynasty and let the flag of the Ming Dynasty be planted all over the world.
Zhu Gui's face gradually darkened, which made Liao Qinghai next to him a little uneasy. He thought that what he said was wrong and made the young prince unhappy.
Liao Qinghai had also heard of the other party's "notorious reputation" in Nanjing. He didn't want to lose his head due to confusion, so he didn't dare to disturb Zhu Gui anymore.
In this way, the two of them arrived outside the south gate of Taiyuan Prefecture in a strange and dull atmosphere.
Only a fierce shouting of killing was heard in the distance, and even the city gate had been closed by the soldiers guarding the city.
"Open the city gate." Liao Qinghai shouted to the soldiers guarding the city.
When the soldiers saw that Commander Liao had brought so many officers and soldiers, they opened the city gate.
As soon as the city gate opened, many people stumbled in from the outside.
They were Wang Hua and Zhao Tian's subordinates, and they had frightened expressions on their faces.
It wasn't until they saw the officers and soldiers on the street, as well as Zhu Gui and Liao County Sheriff on the horse in the front, that they stopped.
"Are you Wang Hua's men? How is the war outside?" Zhu Gui asked with a frown.
"It's Master Zhu. He's been saved. Go and save our young master. We were ambushed by those bastard gang members. They gathered thousands of people from nowhere."
One of them said loudly.
"Thousands of people? How come there are so many people?" Liao Qinghai on the side heard this and immediately couldn't sit still.
He only brought two hundred officers and soldiers with him this time, and in terms of ferocity, they were not as ferocious as those gang members who licked blood from their swords. It would be good if two of them could defeat one.
This is going to be troublesome. Now it seems that they may not be able to provide reinforcements, but will instead bring him in. If this is the case, he will be the end of the line as a county guard.
However, Zhu Gui on the side had a calm face. He saw Liao Qinghai's panic and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he still said: "Master Liao, let's go to the military camp to mobilize the troops. These officers and soldiers are here to guard
City gate, prevent those people from attacking the city gate, leave the rest to me."
Zhu Gui immediately formulated a battle plan.
"But, Wang, Master Zhu, how can this be done? I can't let the young master put himself in danger." Liao Qinghai said seriously.
If he loses this battle, he may only lose his official position, but if Zhu Gui makes any mistakes, not to mention the nine clans, his ancestral graves will have to be digged up. He can still tell the difference between what is serious and what is minor.
Zhu Gui explained: "Don't worry, Gongsun Ming is already on the road with 500 people, and I also have a surprise force outside the city, which is more than enough to deal with these bandits."
"It turns out that the young master has been prepared for a long time, so the officer is relieved, but over there at the military camp..."
Liao Qinghai had a troubled look on his face again, it was obvious that he had no right to mobilize the escort troops belonging to King Jin.
Zhu Gui seemed to have guessed this, and took out his belt card and said: "Take this and go to the person in charge of the military camp. If he doesn't want to be beheaded, he should send troops. As for how many they can send, it depends on them."
How much face have you given me?"
Liao Qinghai took over the badge and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Zhu Gui is the vassal king of Yunzhou, vassal kings from different fiefdoms were originally unable to mobilize the guards of other fiefdoms, but now that King Jin is dead, the retention of these three guards has become a problem.
At the very least, the future military pay of these armies may become a problem. Now that the King is willing to extend an "olive branch" to help them tide over the difficulties, anyone with a good mind will seize this opportunity.
So Liao Qinghai immediately issued orders to the officers and soldiers. He originally wanted Zhu Gui to take these people out of the city, but Zhu Gui refused.
These "surprise soldiers" who have never experienced the battlefield will be dangerous if they go crazy and counterattack their own military formation.
Liao Qinghai did not insist, but led a group of people to quickly trigger the attack in the direction of the military camp.
Zhu Gui asked Commander Zhang to stay at the city gate while he led three personal guards towards the outside of the city.