Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

When he arrived at the gate of the county government, Guo Ye ignored Cheng Erniu and asked him to find a jurisdiction of the handyman class at will to get a sense of accomplishment as the second head of the handyman class.

Then, he entered the gate of the county government office alone and searched in the direction of Gongcao's room.

As soon as he arrived outside Gongcao's room, before entering the room, he bumped into Ma Yuanju at the door.

Guo Ye joked playfully: "Oh, Ma Gongcao, why are you running out in such a hurry? Could it be possible that you have another house outside, my lord?"

Raising another house, this is an elegant way of saying it, but to put it bluntly, do you have a mistress outside to raise a third child?

Knowing that Guo Ye was bickering and playing with him, Ma Yuanju didn't bother to scold him, but dragged him into the meritorious service room, and then sent out the little officials with knives and pens inside, and then said: "Don't follow me!" The officer said haha, I was going out to find you."

When Guo Ye saw Ma Yuanju's serious face, and he went out in such a hurry just now to find himself, most likely to discuss important matters, he immediately restrained his cynical frustration.

Then he inquired, "What's the matter, what happened?"

Ma Yuan waved his hand to signal Guo Ye to sit down first, and then quietly asked: "Lieutenant Gu Xian led the people back to the city, do you know?"

Guo Ye nodded, said "I knew it a long time ago", and then explained in detail what he saw and heard in the prison.

After hearing this, Ma Yuanju said in surprise: "You know all about it, but you must not know the reason why Gu Dezhao failed to suppress the bandits this time, right?"

Guo Mianrongye was taken aback for a moment, and murmured in his heart, isn't it because Gu Dezhao, a son of a bitch, went on a tour instead of fighting against bandits?

Seeing Guo Ye's expression, Ma Yuanju whispered: "Just now Gu Dezhao was in the back hall of the county government office, and was scolded by the county magistrate for a while. Good guy, the county magistrate really got angry this time."

The county magistrate really got angry?Guo Ye can guess it without looking at it. The key is that Ma Yuanju and the others know it?

Immediately asked: "Okay, Ma Gongcao, the market has seen a rise recently? The county magistrate reprimanded Gu Dezhao, and even allowed you to be on the sidelines."

Guo Ye's tall hat made Ma Yuanju feel a little embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly and said softly: "I saw it secretly in the grass in the garden of the county magistrate. From the beginning to the end, only Gu Dezhao made a statement about this incident. During the process of suppressing the bandits, the county magistrate didn’t say a word, and he didn’t even move his buttocks while sitting on the chair.”

Cut, your sister's Ma Yuanju, you also have the habit of peeping, my little brother really has to despise you.

However, according to Ma Yuanju, Guo Ye could also feel the oppressive atmosphere in the back hall. It seemed that County Magistrate Gu was still quite angry, and Gu Dezhao, an old boy, would probably be able to bear it this time.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Yuanju said vividly: "Finally, wait for Gu Dezhao to finish speaking. Guess what the county magistrate said?"

Guo Ye shook his head, I am not a roundworm in Gu County Magistrate's stomach, where would I know?

Ma Yuanju imitated Gu Weiyong's appearance, leaning lazily on the chair, first heaved a sigh, then slowly closed his eyes, raised his right hand and waved slowly, and said, "Get out!"

"Haha, hahaha, what you said is true? Damn, this bastard is still alive today, so damn happy!"

It can be heard that Guo Ye is really happy this time. Gu Dezhao, an old boy, used his authority to crush him at every turn, and now he is being crushed by Gu Weiyong in the same way. Can Guo Ye be unhappy?

After a few hearty laughs, Guo Ye suddenly asked Ma Yuanju's previous question, and immediately asked, "Didn't you just say that Gu Dezhao failed to suppress bandits in another way? Tell me, what is it?" Condition?"

Ma Yuanju groaned, and said to Guo Ye: "I tell you, you must keep your mouth shut, and don't let it out easily, otherwise it will cause panic in the city, and something big will happen. At that time, the county magistrate will blame you, you and me I can't eat and walk around."

Guo Ye rolled his eyes at Ma Yuanju, who made a big fuss, patted his chest, and said loudly: "I, Guo Ye, are famous for my iron-toothed and copper-teethed brother Guo. Everything that enters my ears only goes out of my ass, not out of my mouth." Leak. Don't worry, hurry up, mysterious, let's see what you can do."

Ma Yuanju listened to Guo Ye's assurance, and said angrily: "The words are vulgar, ignorant and incompetent."

Then he looked around in the direction of the doors and windows, waved to Guo Ye, and motioned softly: "Come on, come here with your ears, I'll tell you in a low voice, lest you have ears on the wall."

Holy crap, seeing Ma Yuanju being so cautious and cautious, Guo Ye felt a little bit in his heart for no reason. Could there be some other big disaster coming?

Chapter 104 It's not as simple as defeat

Guo Ye put his ear close to Ma Yuanju's mouth, and Ma Yuanju, like a flirt who just stole a man, whispered in Guo Ye's ear, turning his head to glance at the doors and windows from time to time.

The more Guo Ye heard it, the more dignified his face became, and in the end even he couldn't help the horror in his heart, and he blurted out and asked: "I'm sorry, that water bandit leader Zheng Sanjiang is really a coward, he is not afraid of being ransacked and wiped out." ?"

Ma Yuanju sneered, and snorted, "If he was afraid of ransacking his family and exterminating his family, he wouldn't be a water bandit who robbed his house."

Guo Ye still shook his head in puzzlement, and couldn't stop asking in doubt: "You said just now that Gu Dezhao told County Magistrate Gu that they failed to suppress the bandits this time because Zheng Sanjiang was assisted by hundreds of bandits in the Sunset Mountain. The strong squad was defeated, and even threw away their armor and armor and fled?"

Ma Yuan raised his head and said yes, he really heard this point, the words came out of Gu Dezhao's mouth, there was no mistake in the slightest.

But Guo Ye still couldn't believe it, and said suspiciously: "Ma Gongcao, do you think it's Gu Dezhao, a bastard, who just made up a mess in order to shirk responsibility, and created a non-existent sunset mountain with hundreds of bandits? ah?"

This time Ma Yuanju stood on Gu Dezhao's side, shook his head and said, "I believe him in this point, maybe you don't know if you haven't traveled far, this sunset mountain is in Bashu County, the neighboring county of our Longxi City, but it is separated from the Minjiang River. Not far away, take a boat and go down the Minjiang River to reach the foot of Sunset Mountain.”

Ma Yuanju swallowed his saliva, took out a copy of "Longxi County Chronicles" from the bookshelf, then opened it and found a map depicting Longxi County, found a location of the neighboring county Bashu County in a small corner on the lower left corner of the map, and said: "Look , Sunset Mountain is in Bashu County. Look, this is the Minjiang River. If you go down the Minjiang River and leave Longxi County, you will be at the foot of Sunset Mountain. Moreover, the meritorious officer of Bashu County and I are from the same imperial examination. The two have a friendship of correspondence. I once heard him say that the bandits in Sunset Mountain have always been a serious problem in Bashu County, hiding in the mountains all the year round, and it is difficult for the officers and soldiers to eliminate them."

I grass!

Guo Ye's eyebrows were raised sharply. According to this meaning, Gu Dezhao's defeat this time was really unjust.

Forty strong soldiers, no matter how good your weapons and armor are, they are not soldiers of the Tang Dynasty after all, at best they can only be regarded as militia reserves in the regular army.

If only forty strong soldiers wanted to wipe out more than 100 water bandits and hundreds of mountain bandits, then Gu Dezhao was really on par with Li Jing and Li Weigong, the current God of War in the Tang Dynasty.

Why did the water bandits and mountain bandits get mixed up?

Now it's all right, the land and water armies are in a meeting, how can Gu Dezhao's 40 people be undefeated?

not good!

Guo Ye's mind turned, and he suddenly caught some dangerous breath, and shouted at Ma Yuanju: "Wan Duzi, Ma Gongcao, you said that since these water bandits have become bandits, it doesn't matter if they even beheaded and ransacked their families. You said that they got down on Guxianwei's strong squad this time, and tasted the sweetness, and let them discover that the strong squad used to defend the safety of the county is so vulnerable. Do you think they will? Will they? meeting……"

Guo Ye couldn't continue, because his careful analysis and his sense of crisis made him predict that a greater danger was coming.

If these two groups of bandits merged into one, risking beheading, risking the risk of encirclement and suppression by the government and army in the future, and coming to Longxi County to make a vote, then relying on the current defense forces in the city, what can be used to defend and resist?

Just relying on the only twenty or so wounded soldiers left in the strong squad?

Or relying on forty policemen in the city, a dozen or so Zaoli and a hundred or so mob-like handymen?

The more Guo Ye thinks about it, the more numb his scalp becomes. You must know that although the Tang Dynasty has been in peace for more than ten years, from the great ancestor Li Yuan to the current emperor Li Shimin, it has not yet reached the point where swords and guns have been put into storage and horses have been released to Nanshan.

Now it is the third year of Zhenguan, and the prosperous age of Zhenguan is only in its infancy, and it has not yet reached the peaceful and prosperous age of more than ten years in Zhenguan, when the door is not closed at night, the road is not picked up, and even the four parties come to congratulate, and all nations come to court.

On the contrary, at this time the people of the Tang Dynasty had just experienced several years of struggle for supremacy at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and in many places there were still a handful of remnants of the Sui Dynasty and small groups of anti-Tang forces.

This is an era when the general trend is set and the situation is surging, and it is even more an era when the atmosphere is public and the people's customs are strong.

It is precisely the above factors that have led to the illusion that Datang's country seems to be peaceful, but in fact it is unstable.

Guo Ye came from a later generation, and he had a lot of understanding of the trend of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, especially the rise of the Zhenguan prosperous age.

Seeing the big from the small, seeing the whole leopard from a glimpse, after deduction and analysis in his mind, Guo Ye said with certainty that these hundreds of water bandits and bandits will definitely risk their lives to come to Longxi County to make a big vote .

For these bloody bandits, being able to rob a county is enough to make them rich for a lifetime, and they no longer need to run around for money and food.

For these bandits who are risking their lives, it is such a rare opportunity that the defense force of a county is so weak and so vulnerable.

If this doesn't motivate them to make up their minds to fight hard, then I'm really sorry for the word bandit.