"Okay, shut up!!!"

Hu Ming, who could not bear it, slapped the table on the solid wood desk, and he slapped it into pieces with his palm in anger.

Although the others were not very afraid of Hu Ming, they still had to rely on him to defend the city. So when they saw his appearance, they all stopped quarreling tacitly. However, from their eyes, they could see that they did not surrender so easily in this matter.

"Before the imperial army came, they were thinking about fighting for power and profit. Do you really think that Yining City is a wall of iron?"

Hu Ming suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at everyone and said, "Each family will send two hundred people to form an army, and I will personally lead these people."

"I can guarantee in the name of my teacher that this team will be disbanded after the war. This is my bottom line. If you can't even do this, then don't defend this city!"

After saying that, Hu Ming ignored everyone's reaction and left angrily.

After Hu Ming left, all the remaining officials and the people in the aristocratic family fell into silence. After a long time, someone tentatively said: "The matter of defending the city depends on Hu Ming. Judging from his attitude, he has to settle these three thousand people. I think it is better to hand over these people to him first. After all, defending the city is important."

The rest of the people looked at each other for a moment, but there was no good idea, so they nodded, "Well, he has brought out the name of Lord Situ. If he doesn't give it to him, this matter will be a bit unreasonable."

"However, give it to him, and you still need to have the precautions you should have. After all, you don't want to have one more person who will issue orders in Yining City afterwards."

"Don't worry, we can give him this right, and we can naturally take it back."

Hearing this, someone spoke, "Although he is a student of Lord Situ, he has no foundation in Yining City after all. As long as you work together, if he wants to stay away after the imperial army retreats, we have a way to drive him away."

“Yes, yes…”

A family member was about to express his gratitude when he suddenly remembered that this was the catchphrase of the county magistrate Liu Ruqian. He couldn't help but laugh, and then stopped talking.

...

Liu Ruqian, who had left the county magistrate's house here, naturally didn't know that his catchphrase had assimilated a person. At this time, he was slowly rushing towards the temporary residence of the civilians. Although he was no longer in the government office to continue to discuss matters, he thought about it and knew that those people would definitely quarrel.

In such a huge county town, everyone is vested interests. Everyone wants to hold on to the interests in their hands and not let go. How could it be so simple to reconcile?

But all this has nothing to do with him. Although he is nominally a county magistrate, he is actually just a decoration. Even if he goes out for a few steps, he will not worry about these things at all, so he should give Hu Ming a headache.

You should hide as far as you want to be angry again by that little bastard.

Because Liu Ruqian, the county magistrate, still has some reputation among these refugees, the recruited civilians have always been dealt with by Liu Ruqian. Of course, when he handles, there will definitely be people watching him to prevent him from saying anything inappropriate. So he is dealing with it, and more of it is just borrowing his reputation.

On weekdays, when Liu Ruqian comes here, he always takes a walk around first, just to relax himself, but today he suddenly discovered something wrong.

"Old Wu, why are you doing in a hurry?"

Liu Rugan frowned and called out to someone. The old man looked like he was in his fifties. He seemed to have something urgent. Even the county magistrate in official uniform didn't see him, so he lowered his head and walked over from a distance.

"Ah, the county magistrate... the magistrate... the magistrate."

Old Wu is one of the leaders of the civil servants here. Although he is not a formal official position, his subordinates have many people in charge. He is a little familiar with Liu Rugan who often comes. However, after being stopped by Liu Rugan at this moment, he looked a little panicked, "I...I...I want to go to the lower place to explain something to them. Because I am a little anxious, I didn't see the adults. I hope he will forgive me."

"Oh, is that?"

Liu Rugan looked at Old Wu's head with some suspicion, but did not go into it, but asked another thing, "I have just walked all the way, and it seems that I haven't seen Zhao Dabao, Zeng Erniu and others. Do you know where they are?"

The people Liu Rugan said were all the leaders of these civil servants. Any orders they had on weekdays were conveyed to these officials first, and then they let the civil servants do the orders according to the orders.

On weekdays, these civil servants and leaders have fixed places and generally do not mess around. But today, Liu Rugan has gone to several places and has not seen the leaders of those civil servants. This made him feel a little puzzled. After he caught Old Wu, he immediately asked about the whereabouts of those people.

"Ah, Zhao... aren't Zhao Dabao and the others... not here? I... I don't know where he... they are going."

Old Wu's mood was just calmer and asked by Liu Ru's question, and he was a little panicked again. However, after all, he was an elderly person and had experienced a lot of things. He quickly adjusted his mood and flattered him: "My master's memory, you have a good memory. You can remember their names by just meeting them one or two times. It's so amazing."

"Of course."

Old Wu's flattery just scratched the itchy part of Liu Ru's dryness. He looked at Old Wu's admiring gaze, smugly touched his beard twice, and then said, "The biggest advantage of this official is that he has a good memory. It was through this hand that I became a famous little prodigy."

"Not just meeting two or three times, I can remember them just by relying on the files."

"Adults are worthy of being a child prodigy. With this memory, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are Wenquxing and descend to earth."

Seeing Liu Rugan eating this set, Old Wu's flattery suddenly slapped him as if he didn't have any money, "No, sir, you are the Wenqu Star, descending to earth, otherwise how could you be the county magistrate?"

"Okay, okay, stop flattering, hurry up and work. If you dare to be lazy, I will not let you go just because you flatter."

Although he said this, from Liu Ru's small round face, which was so dry that he couldn't see even his eyes, he could still see that he was extremely happy by Lao Wu's flattery. "By the way, if someone blames you for not finding your business, you can say that this official asked you to do things."

"Although my official's reputation is not very good now, I think someone else will give you this little face."

"Thank you, sir, please don't worry. Even if you say this, we will definitely not be lazy in our work."

Seeing that the matter was fooled, Old Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief. After he said goodbye to Liu Rugan, he realized that his entire back was soaked in cold sweat. It was the weather that was cold and he was wearing thick clothes. No matter how much sweat was, it was enough to reveal his body.

But what he didn't know was that after he left, Liu Rugan squinted his eyes and stared at his back for a long time before retracting his gaze, "It's interesting, the person in charge is not there at the same time, and Old Wu is still so panicked, so there is something wrong with it."

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Liu Rugan's mind, and even thought about the possibility that the court sent an in-house officer to contact these civilians in Yining City.

However, these thoughts were thrown behind him in the blink of an eye.

Even so, no matter what, it is true that he was controlled by Hu Ming and others, but in the final analysis, he was still the county magistrate of the court, not these rebels. His army could not defeat Yining City as soon as possible.

Although he, the county magistrate, was forced to become a thief, would definitely be unavoidable to deal with it at that time, but he did not do anything and would not be punished until he died. At that time, he would be exiled at the worst.

Anyway, even if it is exiled, it is more comfortable than being a puppet for these thieves.

"I was originally a casual person from Wolonggang..."

When Liu Rugan saw someone doing damage in the city, she was in a good mood, so she simply stopped patrolling the camps of these villagers and hummed a small song and walked back.

The person who followed Liu Rugan was in charge of monitoring him. Seeing that Liu Rugan suddenly felt good, he couldn't help but look at each other. Just a few flattering words could make him so happy. This county magistrate is so easy to pass on. No wonder he hasn't known for so many years.

...

Outside Yining City, Mo Zizai and his army marched on the road, and when he saw the villages and towns that were robbed by Hu Ming on the road, his face turned pale.

As the saying goes, bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like combs. The officers and soldiers of Yining City are not elites and have no military discipline. Now they are ordered to plunder. In this case, how can these robbed villages and towns have a good end?

Along the way, there were countless villages and towns that were burned and killed and robbed, and some villages were even burned to white ground. Among the ashes of the villages and towns, there were countless burnt corpses of villagers, attracting crows all over the sky.

"Hu Ming is really damn!"

Mo Zizai's anger was simply uncontrollable, "I openly robbed the troops. If I were to catch him, I would have to cut him alive!"

Looking at the angry Mo Zizai, Yang Yanzhang was speechless. Although he had seen more cruel scenes than this as a person in charge of intelligence, after all, those were just intelligence, and it was the first time he had seen him with his own eyes.

So under the strong impact of this scene, he also had the urge to cut Hu Ming into pieces.

However, Han Qu, who was standing aside, did not have much turmoil in his heart. He said calmly: "It's okay. After all, there are still people in these villages who can survive, and there will be a body left after they die."

"If they were on the border, they wouldn't even be in the capital."

Hearing Han Qu's words, Mo Zizai, Zhou Qi and others turned to look at Han Qu. Mo Zizai was silent for a moment and asked, "Those barbarians are still..."

"Um."

Han Qu nodded and said, "We usually divide the barbarians on the grassland into Baiman and Mature Man."

"The so-called mature barbarians refer to those tribes that often contact the people of the Great Zhou and even trade with the Great Zhou. These barbarians are slowly approaching the Great Zhou in terms of behavioral customs, and they are barely considered half-civilized people."

"As for those savages, they are talking about those completely uncivilized tribes. They are self-enclosed and do not contact externally. Many bad habits have been preserved, including living sacrifices and eating people."

After Han Qu said this, seeing that the atmosphere was a little solemn, he spoke again: "But that's all the time before, and now there are very few situations."

"oh?"

After hearing what Han Qu said, Mo Zizai guessed: "Is it because there are quite a few children?"

"That's right."

Han Qu nodded and said, "But it's more because of Kou Shuai's revenge."

"Revenge Act?"

Mo Zizai felt that the word was a bit novel and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What is the law of revenge?"

“The revenge is simple.”

Speaking of this, Han Qu couldn't help but feel some inexplicable spirit on his face, "That is, if the enemy kills me, I will destroy ten people, if the enemy slaughteres my village, I will destroy one part of the enemy."

"In the early years, the Tianmen Army fought almost every year. As long as there were grassland tribes who dared to move the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Kou Shuai would definitely lead the troops to retaliate himself. No matter how much casualties were, he would erase the tribe that took action."

"Ten years, Kou Shuai spent a full ten years killing more than a dozen Shengman tribes around the Great Surrounding Area, and the grassland tribes killed were frightened."

"It's no exaggeration to say that at that time, the grassland tribe would be frightened when they heard Kou Shuai's name, let alone invading my Great Zhou!"

"I didn't expect that Marshal Kou had such a domineering side back then."

After hearing what Han Qu said, Mo Zizai's expression couldn't help but be fascinated. Kou Yi was a person from his grandfather's era. Before Mo Zizai was born, wars rarely occurred in the north, and Kou Yi was not revealed, so he didn't know Kou Yi's past very well.

But now after hearing what Han Qu said, he realized that the peace in the northern border over the years was completely defeated by this veteran general Kou. No wonder he had such a high prestige in the northern border.

I just don’t know why this old Marshal Kou lost his life in his later years and chose to hand over the Tianmen Army to his fourth uncle, causing turmoil in the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Is it because he is more optimistic about the fourth uncle? But it doesn’t look like him. If he is really optimistic, he can just surrender to the fourth uncle directly. Why bother to retreat directly and ignore anything?

Mo Zizai was a little confused about what the old Marshal Kou was thinking, but he was too lazy to guess. Anyway, he would have a battle with his fourth uncle sooner or later. If he had a chance to win, he would go and ask him personally.

Han Qu, who was standing by, obviously thought of Marshal Kou's current choice, and his originally energetic expression also dimmed.

"Forget it, let's talk about the matter in the Northland again. Let's solve Yining City first."

Mo Zizai saw Han Qu’s thoughts, then changed the subject and said, “This time, you should keep an eye on this Hu Ming.”

"If you can capture him alive, then you will capture him alive. If you can't, you can kill him on the spot. In short, you must not let him go."

When Hu Ming was mentioned, a chill appeared on Mo Zizai's face. He had no intention of letting Hu Ming go, and now he could not let him escape.
Chapter completed!