Those things about fighting wits and courage with the little grudges

Suppressing bandits is a hard job, and no one is willing to take it. It's not that it's difficult to fight, but the difficulty is that you find something you shouldn't be looking for after you hit it.

Uncle Guo listened to the Queen Mother's order and went to various houses, but everyone refused. This is a difficult matter.

"That's what they said?" After listening to Uncle Guo's report, the queen mother almost fell down clutching her forehead.

Uncle Guo was so frightened that he almost jumped up to help him.

"Queen, queen!"

"Uncle Guo, Aijia is getting old..."

"The queen mother is still very young, don't say such things."

"The Ai family entered the palace for two decades, and now it has been more than [-] years. The Ai family asks themselves, and they have never done anything wrong to Yuan Qi, the late emperor, or their clansmen."

"The Ai family is just a younger brother like you, you have to give me a little bit of courage. The Ai family can ignore the past, but the Ai family will explain it to you now, and be more active in the future. Your private property is enough for the family to use." On behalf of, don't be confused again."

Uncle Guo knew what to say, his eyes were a little dark. "Queen, I..."

"Tell the truth to Aijia, have you participated in this incident?"

"This time..."

Uncle Guo didn't dare to say the following words. Earlier, a minister came to him to talk about doing some business, and asked him about the official route. Now it seems that this matter may not be that simple.

The Queen Mother took out a small piece of iron ore and handed it to him, and Uncle Guo fell to the ground in fright.

"He...they!"

Iron ore smuggling is not just a matter of smuggling. Yuanqi has strict controls on iron ore, fearing that someone will open the mine privately and cast ironware.

"You must tell the Ai family the truth!"

"I, I... I didn't, I didn't..."

He didn't participate, he just pointed out the route... The bird that the queen mother gave him last time was like something, and when he thought about it together, the bird kept calling "Idiot, idiot".

It is also a gift from the imperial court, and you can't do anything with it at all, and you have to offer it every day.

Those who dare to do such things as smuggling iron ore are either relatives of the emperor or the Duke and Marquis.In the Yuan Dynasty, most of the princes were pro-appointed by Emperor □□ when the country was founded, and their titles were hereditary. In order to accept these people's military power, the first emperor promulgated a law that the princes should not have the death penalty.

"Aijia, at this point, if you lie a little bit, Aijia will never forgive you." The queen mother's face was as usual, but her eyes were full of deterrence.

Uncle Guo was terrified, kneeling on the ground and trembling extremely low.

"The Ai family knows that when the family sent me to the palace, in order to protect my post, the treasures were like water, and the favors were exhausted. But you have to understand, Uncle Guo, this Yuan Qi is not the Yuan Qi of the Ai family. The Ai family is just A queen mother! Your Majesty is in charge now, and the Ai family is like a candle in the wind. You are the last hope of the clan, don't let the Ai family down..."

After the queen mother finished speaking, she could not calm down on the soft couch for a long time.

After Uncle Guo was invited out by Dexi, he was in a daze, not knowing how he got out of the palace, and when he came to his senses, he was already sitting in the mansion.

In the morning of the second day, the court was still arguing endlessly. The Empress Dowager was in a bad mood today, her eyelids were half closed, and her breathing was short and long.

The little emperor noticed that the queen mother was not in good spirits, and took the memorial on the table and threw it on the main hall, ending the farce below.

"That's enough! There is no need to discuss this matter again, General Zuo! I order you to lead the Thousand Guards to suppress the bandits in the eastern suburbs. Where is the commander of the Guards!"

"Chen is here!"

"You lead thousands of people to suppress bandits in the western suburbs."

"I order!"

"The bandit didn't hurt anyone's life, so he wants to live! Capture the bandit leader alive! Reward! Upgrade to three levels in a row. If you can recruit the bandits, you will be promoted to four levels in a row! Retire!"

The little emperor looked sideways at the somewhat pale face of the Empress Dowager, his brows were furrowed, but he couldn't say a word.He waved his sleeves and left, but told Deshun to take a look.

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Before the end of the early court, Gu Nanzhao had already led people to set up defenses, and the head of the family followed closely behind, building momentum for Gu Nanzhao to prevent the brothers in the village from disobeying.

Gu Nanzhao was about to give Yunshu some instructions, when an arrow "swish" suddenly struck, Gu Nanzhao heard the sound and caught it, with a small note wrapped around the arrow, the messenger was Luobei, he was so fast that he came and went quickly. There was not even an afterimage left.

Gu Nanzhao raised his eyebrows and opened the note, his eyes darkened.

"Second brother, is something wrong?"

"This time, the imperial court sent two teams of thousands of people, and the eastern suburbs were also included in the imperial court's suppression of bandits." At first, he only thought that what the little emperor wanted to suppress was the western suburbs, but he didn't expect that this time even the eastern suburbs were not there. Let go.

"This brat..." Gu Nanzhao smiled and bit his lower lip when he insisted on trying to see if I could control the soldiers.

When the head of the Xijiao village heard that thousands of soldiers were about to go up the mountain, they looked at Gu Nanzhao in disbelief. Now that Gu Nanzhao and his team are in charge, they have a chance of survival. If he hadn't promised him to take people up the mountain, it would be a shame. Knowing the consequences...

"Is the head of the family willing to accept the people from the Eastern Suburb Village?"

"This..." The head of the family understood, "Second brother is a tricky matter."

"I know that the head of the family is a man of righteousness. In the past, the Dongjiao village had a feud with the western suburbs, but this time the situation is serious, and I ask the head of the family to save their lives!"

With a sincere attitude, Gu Nanzhao bowed to the master.

The head shook his head, and supported Gu Nanzhao's clasped hands.

"This is the end of the matter! Give it all to the second brother!"

Gu Nanzhao didn't dare to delay, taking advantage of the darkness of the day, Gu Nanzhao led the team to the eastern suburbs. Compared with the western suburbs, the terrain of the eastern suburbs was flatter, with no natural dangers, no canyons, and ordinary hilly terrain.Fortunately, there are many trees and they are dense.Those who are not familiar with the terrain can easily get lost in it.

Gu Nanzhao took Li Erniu to the western suburbs in the dark, and set up a bandit whistle at the mouth of the forest, and suddenly a few burly men jumped out of the quiet forest.

"Li Erniu, what are you doing in the eastern suburbs?" The leader was Wang Mazi.Last time when he robbed the Laojun Temple, there were more or less ties between the two sides. His tone was not good, and the sword made a lot of noise when he struck the ground, as if to alert the brothers below.

Gu Nanzhao walked up, showing his big white teeth, and said, "Brother Wang, brother is the second head of the Xijiao village."

Wang Mazi sized him up for a while, his eyes sarcastic.A person who is white, clean, and upright can become a bandit. "Li Erniu, the imperial court is now going to suppress the bandits. You, the second master, look like an official. I don't think your western suburbs have been instigated to rebel!"

Li Erniu listened, angry, and shouted back: "Wang Mazi, I look like that in the western suburbs? I don't want to say anything else, I want to invite you to take refuge in my western suburbs today. You, the eastern suburbs, can't stop it." Live in the court soldiers and horses."

"Hahaha! Li Erniu, you are so arrogant! I don't need your help in the eastern suburbs."

Gu Nanzhao cupped his hands and stepped forward. He had thought of such a situation, and he just asked, "Brother Wang, are you going by yourself, or are we going to carry you along? Brother Wang, you can see clearly how many brothers are behind me." Come on, he turned sideways, behind him was a team of nearly a thousand people hiding in the night.

Wang Mazi couldn't see clearly, he only heard the deafening "huh".

"Ah!" Wang Mazi roared, "Li Erniu, you still said that they are not from the imperial court. These people are clearly well-trained soldiers."

"Brother Dongjiao! Hit me! The lackeys of the imperial court are here! One will kill the other. I, Dongjiao Zhai, would rather die than surrender. Li Erniu, I..., you..., I will die here today. I'm going to pull you back too."

Wang Mazi rushed forward with a big knife, Li Erniu wanted to meet him, Gu Nanzhao picked up a branch on the ground, and Li Erniu was one step ahead, and Wang Mazi's big knife was taken away with just one move.

Brothers from Dongjiao Zhaizi rushed out one after another, Gu Nanzhao immediately ordered that they could only be wounded but not killed, and the sound of fighting broke out in the woods.The Dongjiao Zhaizi brothers went forward one after another, and Gu Nanzhao didn't push too much. Gu Nanzhao could mobilize as many people as there were in the Dongjiao Zhaizi.

In less than half an hour, the bandits in the eastern suburbs were defeated.Wang Mazi cursed Li Erniu uncleanly, but Gu Nanzhao thought he was noisy, so he found something to block his mouth.

Before the night was over, Gu Nanzhao asked Li Erniu to bring back all the people from the eastern suburbs, and those who fled halfway would not be left alone, and he would not be able to control them.

Gu Nanzhao was not familiar with the terrain of the eastern suburbs, so he asked the remaining hundred people to divide into four rows and explore in four directions. White beans are used in the area, and soybeans are used in the grassy area.

In this way, each person explores a hundred steps, and then he jumps to the top of the tree and uses the whistle as an order to indicate the direction.

Until dawn, a semi-complete topographic map of the eastern suburbs was completed. Last night, the team escorting the bandits from the eastern suburbs to the western suburbs also arrived in batches, and the news that the imperial guards assembled at the gate of the city also came along.The bandits in the eastern suburbs are also pitiful, there is no serious stockade, only a few thatched huts, in the middle of the forest, it does not look like a bandit den, but a small village.

Gu Nanzhao squatted on the ground, pulled out his sleeve arrow and kept poking at the topographic map on the ground, the corners of his mouth slowly raised.