There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

The pirate leaders shook their heads in unison.

"What the Fujun said is wrong! What do you mean by crossing the river and tearing down the bridge? Obviously, I don't want military power anymore!"

"That's right, the last general has been very lazy recently. He is getting old and can no longer lead soldiers. I took the initiative to hand over the military power. What does it have to do with the Lord Fu?"

"That's right, my 80-year-old mother is sick in bed, and no one is taking care of her. Loyalty and filial piety should be the first priority in life. It is clear that I want to hand over the military power and go back to serve my mother!"

"Which bastard dares to say that the governor is not a gentleman, I will kill his whole family in return!"

The chief pottery merchant sighed, and said helplessly, "You guys, this is trying to force me to cheat and do those unfaithful things, are you still human?"

Chapter 288 Intimidating the Sheriff

Hearing what the potter said, the water thief leaders started crying again, kowtowing, pleading, and a sandstorm was caused by kowtowing in the tent.

Seeing the endless croaking of the pirate chiefs, the pottery merchant was really upset.

"Okay, okay, Tao will help you settle this matter." The pottery merchant sighed helplessly: "I have been a gentleman for 20 years, but I still stumbled in the hands of you bastards, ruining the Qing Dynasty for a lifetime." I don't know if I owe you or you owe me."

These words only made the heads of water thieves blush, and they didn't know how to answer them.

When I was young, I saw Village Master Liu asking Tao Shang submissively: "Your Majesty, how do you plan to help us solve this matter?"

The Tao merchant smiled and stared at Village Master Liu, and said, "Then Captain Liu thinks, how should Tao deal with this matter?"

It was a matter of his own life and death, Village Master Liu did not dare to neglect, he bowed his head and pondered for a long time before hesitatingly said:

"Could it be that the Fujun wants to come forward in person, persuade Sheng Xian with kind words, and ask Sheng Xian to show his respect and let me wait?"

The pottery merchant grinned and looked at Village Master Liu, who was looking forward to it, feeling very helpless.

Brains are a good thing, but unfortunately none of these guys have them.

If Tao really went to tell Sheng Xian in this way, then if he wanted to intervene in the affairs of Wu County, it would be impossible at all.

In this world, the most useless method is to beg others!

Without any planning, without any right to speak, success or failure can only depend on the charity of others

"You go down first and hand over the military power to Zhou Tai. As for the matter of you lying about the military situation and taking credit, Tao will go to Sheng Xian to solve it. Don't worry."

The potter didn't want to talk nonsense with them, he was afraid that talking to them too much would lower his IQ.

These water thief leaders had no other choice right now, they could only obediently get up and leave the tent, and go to Zhou Tai to hand over the military power according to what the pottery merchant said.

Xu Rong stayed by the potter's side all the time. Seeing that the bandit leaders had all retreated, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty really intends to help them solve their fraudulent work?"

The pottery merchant sighed helplessly, and said: "Although these people are stupid, greedy and hateful, they helped me defeat Yuan Shu in the first place. Now I take the opportunity to seize the troops from their hands, and it is enough to be incorporated into the Jinling Navy Well, if they die, I'm afraid it will affect my gentleman's reputation to some extent, and reputation is the key to attracting talents from all over the world, and it can't be easily lost, so I still have to help them think of a way to lie about the crime of falsely reporting meritorious deeds."

Xu Rong frowned, and said: "What a crime it is to pretend to be meritorious. Even if you use the name of Liu Yao to suppress Sheng Xian, the governor of Yangzhou, he may not be convinced. We don't care about this matter."

Tao Shang lightly tapped the table with his hands, and said calmly: "Then make the unreasonable things reasonable, General Xu, do you know how Sheng Xian found out that these stupid thieves lied about their military achievements?"

Xu Rongyi shrugged and said: "These stupid people lied about the military situation, saying that they had wiped out the Shanyue Zong thief Zu Lang, but within a few days, Zu Lang's soldiers rushed out from the mountain."

The pottery merchant laughed when he heard the words: "Did Sheng Xian see it with his own eyes?"

Xu Rong shook his head and said: "He is the head of a county, how can Tianmao go to the ravine to spy on bandits, of course there is no such thing."

"Then how does he know that the soldiers and horses that came out of the mountain and were considered to be Zu Lang's army must be Zu Lang's men, and not other Shanyue pretending to be?"

Xu Rong was a little dazed at first when he heard the words, but then slowly, he began to get over it.

This brat, is he starting to stir up trouble again?

The pottery merchant smiled and said to Xu Rong: "You go to my elder brother Tao Ji, he is a native of Danyang, he knows something about Zu Lang's situation, you should find out clearly, and send a few more teams to pretend to be Zu Lang's soldiers in Wujun Show up in the counties, remember to keep as far away as possible from the counties, as long as they can see it, and you can't harass and rob the common people, just show up and let them see it. I want to let Zu Lang be everywhere in Wu County overnight .”

Xu Rong pondered for a moment and said: "Tao Ji may not have seen Zu Lang's men and horses, and the general may not be able to pretend."

The potter laughed when he heard the words: "It's just to let you pretend that you don't look like the real one. Who would think it's fake?"

Fishing in troubled waters every day, this is really no one.

By the side of Taihu Lake, the pottery merchant regained the water army under the command of those water thief leaders who thought carefully at the beginning, and set aside all the "fake captains" whom he had appointed at the beginning, and then ordered Xu Rong to send out dozens of troops Horses, disguised as soldiers and horses of Shanyue Qu Shuai Zulang, showed their prominence in various parts of Wu County.

After the matter was settled, the pottery merchant led his troops straight to Wu County, the seat of Wu County.

Sheng Xian belonged to the gentry literati, and was once a member of the party. His literati reputation is very large, and he can almost compete with gentry literati like Kong Rong, and his relationship with Kong Rong is inseparable.

This is why pottery merchants are greedy for Wu County, but it has been inconvenient to grab it directly.

Pottery merchants don't want to fight directly with well-known literati. He is a gentleman, and Sheng Xian is a literati great Confucianism. The savage who knows the war saw the joke?

Mr. Tao loves to convince people with virtue.

Hearing that the potters and their troops were about to arrive in Wu County, Sheng Xian, a cultural man, was a little at a loss.

He wanted to send troops to stop the potter's progress, but he dared not.

The military prestige of Jinling City was not something that his soldiers from Wu County could resist, not to mention that the pottery merchants' entry to attack Shanyue was authorized by Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou. It was justifiable for him to send troops to Wu County.

Sheng Xian was distraught and didn't know how to deal with it.

It is said that although the pottery merchant is called Mr. Taiping, he is very good at fighting with soldiers, even Lü Bu took his mount away from him.

If he gets rough on him, since he is a scholar, wouldn't he even strip off his underpants.

But it was clear that the potter didn't intend to be rough on him, at least not for the time being.

Tao Shang first sent someone to send a letter to Sheng Xian, stating that his purpose of coming to Wu County this time was to serve as the general of Yangzhou Inspector Liu Yao to attack the local thieves in Wu County, and he did not want to fight with Sheng Xian. If there is any conflict, please don't mind too much.

The name of the potter is very righteous, and the letter is very polite, so polite that Sheng Xian has no reason to reject him.

He didn't even have a reason to plot against the potter.

Sheng Xian's reputation and family background, including his literati character, did not allow him to be as disregarded as ordinary heroes in dealing with such issues, because reputation was more important to him than life.

Therefore, he could only order his subordinates to pull down the banner, and warmly welcome Mr. Taiping to raise troops to Wujun.

The two met in this way.

Regardless of other matters, Sheng Xian asked the potter for advice as soon as they met. Why did the potter send a group of captains from Danyang County to the subordinate county of Wu County? What kind of move is this?It's as impolite as entering someone's house without saying hello.

Sheng Xian intends to take the lead and give the pottery boy an axiomatic blow.

The pottery merchant was silent, and read directly from the book.

Wu County is not yours, it belongs to the court. If you compare Wu County to your home, then you, Sheng Xian, are at most a low-rent tenant. The court has the right to let others come and rent a house with you.