Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

But just a few days before Junhou's arrival, a fire suddenly broke out in the granary, and a lot of food was burned, so now the food in the city is completely insufficient. "

Zhao Kuo frowned immediately after hearing these words, and said a little unhappy, "Why didn't you report such an important matter as the fire in the granary before?"

When Mai Bo was questioned by Zhao Kuo, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he knelt down with a plop.

"This matter is a dereliction of duty by a subordinate official, and I ask the prince to punish him."

Zhao Kuo snorted and looked at Mai Bo in front of him, feeling disappointed with Mai Bo for the first time in his heart.

It seems that Maibo is really like the kind of person who can only play against the wind but not against the wind. If everything goes well, his talent can be brought into play, but if everything goes badly, he will immediately became a fool.

If Zhao Kuo hadn't come to Daliang City in advance, after this winter, Daliang City really didn't know what it would be like.

Zhao Kuo said very calmly: "Let the past matter pass by, now let me tell you what means you have prepared to solve this problem."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Mai Bo felt amnesty first, and then said with a blank face: "Xiaguan has thought of several methods now. First of all, it is to use the government's means to persuade those who have food at home to release food." Relief for disaster victims, our government can exchange them with money.

Secondly, the lower officials will also send people to find the merchants who sell grain, and ask them to supply grain at a fair price. These merchants are under the control of our country Zhao, so there should be no trouble. "

After listening to Mai Bo's words, Zhao Kuo said calmly: "Your method is indeed useful, but the problem is that this method can only be used in Jinyang City. If you use it in Daliang City, you will be successful." No way."

The reason why Zhao Kuo said this is also very simple. All the people in Jinyang City are extremely loyal Zhao people. Of course, they will support the government to tide over the difficulties.

But this food crisis in Daliang City is obviously caused by someone deliberately. As long as these people are not fools, they will definitely collude with those noble families who have food and the merchants who sell grain stores in advance, and it is even very likely that they are these The nobles who had grain and the grain merchants themselves.

Under such circumstances, how could these people support Maibo through this winter without any complaints?

After Zhao Kuo's explanation, Mai Bo suddenly realized, and then he was completely dumbfounded.

"If that's the case, wouldn't the food prices in Daliang City completely collapse?"

If the grain price in Daliang City collapses, the outcome will be very unacceptable.

Still the same sentence, people depend on food, once people starve to death, then the whole thing will be very big.

At that time, a large-scale rebellion is likely to break out in Daliang City, and this kind of rebellion will not only affect Maibo's official position, but also affect Zhao Kuo's prestige.

Zhao Kuo shook his head, and said to Mai Bo, "Hand over the soldier talisman in your hand, and let me settle this matter."

This is the end of Maibo's test, and it's time for Zhao Kuo to go into battle.

Chapter 950 Zhao Kuo's Thunder Method

After Zhao Kuo said this, Mai Bo was not depressed, but showed an expression of amnesty on the contrary.

"Jun Hou is willing to make a move, that would be the best!"

Zhao Kuo looked at Mai Bo and nodded slightly.

Fortunately, although the sheriff said that he lacked the ability to deal with complex situations, he was still a self-aware person.

A person who has self-knowledge can still be used. What is afraid of is those people who start to swell immediately after being promoted, and they don't even know how much they are.

Mai Bo hurriedly said to Zhao Kuo: "I don't know how the next official can cooperate with the action of Junhou?"

Zhao Kuo smiled slightly, and said to Mai Bo: "You just need to give me the soldier talisman, and then sit in your county guard's mansion and watch the show."

According to common sense, the military commander of a local official should be the military officer of a county, that is, the county lieutenant.

However, since Dang County belongs to the newly conquered territory, the court of Zhao State temporarily put the military amulets in the hands of the county guards like Maibo for the convenience of the county guards who just arrived here, so that they can mobilize the army at critical moments. Suppress some behaviors that may affect Zhao's rule.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Mai Bo didn't dare to say anything more, and immediately said: "I understand, I'll go back now, and immediately send the soldier amulet to the gentleman."

After Mai Bo left, Su Li immediately appeared beside Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo said to Su Li: "You have done all the preparations that I asked you to do before, right?"

Su Li nodded respectfully and said: "Please don't worry, my lord, all the preparations we should make have been made, and all the targets have been locked."

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile and stopped talking.

Another half an hour later, Mai Bo came again and brought a soldier talisman.

Zhao Kuo took the talisman and said to Mai Bo, "Immediately issue an order and tell everyone in Daliang City that the food price will increase before sunset tomorrow, and this matter will be completely resolved." .”

Mai Bo was taken aback after hearing Zhao Kuo's words, and almost felt that Zhao Kuo was joking with him.

After being in a daze for several seconds, Mai Bo found that Zhao Kuo had no intention of joking at all, so he said: "Please don't worry, Junhou, the next official will pass on the order of Junhou immediately, so that everyone Everyone in Daliang City knows about it."

Looking at the back of Mai Bo leaving for the second time, Zhao Kuo showed a smile, and said to Su Li beside him: "Everything is ready now, let's start!"

Mai Bo's other things were really not very good, but because he rarely expressed a very tough attitude on this matter, in a short period of time, Zhao Kuo's order immediately spread throughout the whole country. A big beam city.

This order immediately ushered in the discussion of countless people.

"This matter will be resolved before sunset tomorrow. Is this Wu Xinjun just bragging?"

"It shouldn't be. He is the Xiangbang of the Zhao country. If he can't solve it by what he says, he won't have a place to save his face."

"Maybe he has already found those guys who manipulate the price of grain. To be honest, these people are very hateful. My family can't afford grain now."

Generally speaking, most of the people in Daliang City still very much hope that Zhao Kuo can quickly resolve this matter.

The people in Daliang City are different from the people outside the city. They don't have farmland, and most of them want to do things for merchants or some nobles in exchange for rewards, and then use these rewards to buy food.

Because of this, they are very sensitive to the price of food, and they are also the group of people who are most easily affected by the price of food.

Facing the pressure of real life, their priority can only be their own survival.

Of course, if they really can't survive, then for their own survival, they don't mind calling out the slogan of recovering Wei.

In many cases, the reason why slogans can be supported is that there are many personal reasons behind them. In the feudal era, there is usually only one such personal reason, that is, lack of food.

Different from the eager expectations of the people, another group of people gathered immediately after hearing the news.

Needless to say, this group of people is precisely the group of Xinling Lord's veteran subordinates who wanted to recover the Wei State from the food crisis in Daliang City that was carefully planned.

The previous few people were still the protagonists, and they said in a calm voice: "Have you exposed your whereabouts?

Why was Zhao Guo's government able to issue such an affirmative announcement? "

With a rough voice, he said in a disapproving tone: "How could it be possible to expose his whereabouts? That Zhao Kuo's own whereabouts have been firmly grasped by us, and he didn't even notice that he was being followed by our people. Can his ability catch our whereabouts in turn?"

Another voice that sounded a little hoarse said: "It is estimated that this is just because of the promise that the people of Zhao Guo made in a hurry after learning about the sharp rise in food prices. How about completely calming down the food prices in the entire city in just two days?"

The rough voice said directly: "Now at least 7% of the food in Daliang City is in our hands, as long as we don't talk about it, thousands of people will starve to death in Daliang City this winter.

At that time, do we still need to worry that the people in this city will not rebel with us?

Now it is just another winter of ice and snow, and it is very difficult to mobilize Zhao Guo's army. By the time Zhao Guo's army in the nearby city knows the situation and wants to come to rescue, Zhao Kuo's head may have been dried up! "

The rough voice obviously said that he was addicted, and the whole person became more and more excited.

The calm voice was silent for a while, and then he said: "I always feel that you think this matter is too simple. If Zhao Kuo is really such an easy person to deal with, then it is impossible for him to be in the past so many years. , caused so much trouble to the other six countries including our Wei country, and destroyed two of them."

The rough voice immediately corrected him: "Not two countries, but one.

Because our country of Wei is about to recover successfully. "

The rough voice, just after the words fell, a loud laugh suddenly sounded outside the door of the room.

"A group of rats who only know how to hide their heads and show their tails and play tricks in the dark, but they still want to recover Wei, it's just a daydream!"

Accompanied by these words, the door of the room was kicked open with a slam, and a young man in general-style armor strode in.

This young man is none other than Pang Nuan's grandson, Pang Jian.

During Zhao Kuo's journey south this time, Pang Jian was temporarily ordered to become Zhao Kuo's guard captain.

The few people in the room obviously never expected that Pang Jian would suddenly appear in this place.

So when the door opened, they subconsciously wanted to escape, but it was a pity that the whole room was surrounded by soldiers from the Zhao army early in the morning, and they were all tied up in a few seconds.

At this moment, a few people suddenly understood, they didn't know when Zhao Kuo's people had touched the mansion, surrounded them silently, and completely by surprise.

Immediately, someone shouted injustice and shouted loudly.

"You all misunderstood, we are all good citizens, this general, it is all a misunderstanding!"

"Yes yes yes, we are all loyal to Da Zhao, our loyalty to Da Zhao is evident every day, this is just a misunderstanding!"

"This general, why don't we sit down and have a few drinks, how about we clear up this misunderstanding?"

Pang Jian couldn't help laughing as he looked at the dozen or so nobles of Wei State who were captured in front of him.

"You guys really think this general is an idiot, let me tell you, everyone here today, don't want to see the sun tomorrow again!"

Pang Jian's words stunned everyone present. They were shocked and looked at Pang Jian in disbelief.

However, Pang Jian didn't give them any chance to explain, and just waved his hand: "Okay, stop talking nonsense with these guys, take them all down!"

A moment later, a large group of soldiers from the State of Zhao escorted the nobles from the State of Wei, and came out of a very gorgeous mansion in Daliang City.

This mansion is the home of one of the nobles of the Wei state, and it is also the base where these nobles of the Wei state have secretly gathered these days.

At this moment, the base was completely copied by the soldiers of the Zhao army under the command of Pang Jian, who was ordered by Zhao Kuo. Not only the nobles of the Wei state, but even everyone who was in the mansion were killed. All watched.

The news quickly spread back to Zhao Kuo.

Su Li excitedly said to Zhao Kuo: "The Marquis has already confirmed that basically these dozen or so nobles are the owners of more than 7% of the grain shops and granaries in Daliang City."

Zhao Kuo nodded, and asked Su Li a question: "Among these guys, is there any clan from the previous Wei State?"

Su Li opened his mouth and replied: "There are indeed two or three, but judging from the current interrogation situation, these people should mainly be Lord Xinling's subordinates."

Zhao Kuo's expression didn't change much when he heard the words, everything seemed to be exactly as he had imagined before, mainly because the prestige of Lord Xinling was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In fact, the whole thing was basically not too difficult for Zhao Kuo. In front of Nightingale's professional spies, the clumsy movements of these Wei people to hide their bodies were completely elementary school-level performances.

As long as you can follow the clues, find the gathering place of these nobles, and then capture them all in one fell swoop, the whole thing will be over.

At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, and the county guard Maibo hurried into Zhao Kuo's lobby.

Zhao Kuo seemed to have thought that Mai Bo would appear, so he looked at the other party with a smile: "How is it? Could something happen in Daliang City?"

Mai Bo smiled wryly when he heard the words, and said to Zhao Kuo, "Your Majesty is really generous. It's only a short day's time to fight for Daliang City, and the world has been completely turned upside down."

The smile on Zhao Kuo's face remained unchanged, and he said to Mai Bo, "Tell me about the reaction in Daliang City now."

Mai Bo said: "Ordinary people actually didn't react, at most they talked behind their backs.

However, all the officials in Daliang City who were originally from the Wei state were in a turmoil. They all said that you have wronged a good man, and I hope you can release these captured nobles as soon as possible. "

After Zhao Kuo heard Mai Bo's words, he couldn't help laughing: "You wronged a good man?

Although they can also say such a thing?

By the way, do you remember the list you gave me earlier? "

Mai Bo nodded and said of course he knew, after all, his forgetfulness was not that great.

Zhao Kuo said very calmly: "My soldiers and horses have already been dispatched, and the next thing you have to do is to help these soldiers and horses of mine arrest all the state officials on the list. Can't let them get away."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Mai Bo was completely dumbfounded. After a few seconds, he couldn't help but said: "If this is the case, then more people will be arrested. Please help me!" Lord, think twice."

"Think again?"

After Zhao Kuo heard this sentence, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared.

After a few seconds, Zhao Kuo said calmly to Maibo: "Maibo County Governor, you must be clear, this time I'm here to wipe your ass.

What we rule now is not those Zhao people who support us from the bottom of their hearts, but those potential traitors who are thinking about recovering Wei at any time.

For such people, if you only think about Huairou, it is impossible to gain their respect.

If you want to really do a good job, you must first show the big stick in your hand, and let these people know what will happen if you continue to fight against us.

In this way, they will remember how they broke through this city and destroyed their country in the first place, and then they will know what true majesty is! "

Zhao Kuo's words were deafening, echoing in Mai Bo's ears like a great bell, making him stunned all of a sudden.

After a while, Mai Bo showed a helpless smile, and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty's meaning, I understand, I will do it now."

Looking at Mai Bo's leaving figure, Zhao Kuo shook his head slowly.

This incident also taught Zhao Kuo a small lesson, that is, some people are indeed not suitable to be officials in places where this kind of situation is reviewed, but only in places where they are loyal and loyal, and they are a person who convinces everyone. Good officer.

But this matter was quickly forgotten by Zhao Kuo. He glanced at Su Li and said, "Let our soldiers sharpen their knives a little bit. Tomorrow is the time for the show to begin."

Chapter 951 Execution of 2000 People in One Breath

When Zhao Kuo was speaking, there was a clear murderous intent in his eyes.

For a famous general like him, killing people is just a very common thing.