Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Su Yan and Jing Hong got on their horses and left the camp before the soldiers arrived, but they didn't go far.

Seeing Yan Chang chasing soldiers into the fort, he stopped a petty official who was chasing after him out of breath, and asked, "That is Zhang Qianhu from Ningxia Guard? Earlier, the chief said he was here to demand horses. What happened?" ?”

The little official accepted the knock on the door and let him in. He didn't hide it, and replied: "Exactly. Zhang Qianhu wanted a thousand war horses, but he thought the horses were thin and thin, and said that riding on such a broken horse The horse fell down before charging, and even started a fart fight, insisting on replacing it with us. How could we have a good horse for him, no, when there was a quarrel, he rushed to the stable with his troops to pick it out himself."

Su Yan pondered for a while, and tentatively said: "How about I don't want my five hundred horses, and stick to the barracks first?"

"That can't be done!" The little official was afraid that what he got would be spoiled. After all, they eat meat all the time, and they can also drink soup, so they blurted out, "What should we do if we have a good business deal? Mr. Su doesn't have to worry about other things." , leave it to us to handle."

"There is a shortage of horses in the border barracks, and the cavalry is useless, so you are not worried about the Tatar army coming in?"

The little official said: "The Tartars invade the border every year. Most of them rob horses, money, food, and women and leave. Sometimes they set fire to the village. I have long been used to it. Besides, Qingpingyuan is far away from the pass, and they can't get in."

Su Yan lowered his voice with a bit of worry: "I'm worried. What if the Ningxia Guard falls because of our deal? It's said that the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest..."

The little official said in his heart that you are a businessman, just do your business well and earn your money, and you don’t care about state affairs. All temples and gardens do this, and the border defense may not necessarily collapse.But for the sake of money, he still smiled and said: "Mr. Su is really worried about the world, but it's a pity that we are promoted to ordinary people, so we don't care so much. If we have money to earn, the most important thing is to live a good life first.

Stupid and short-sighted!Greedy and selfish!What a bunch of silverfish of the country!Su Yan was so angry that he couldn't help clenching his fists.Jing Hong chased after him and held his hand, calling out in a low voice, "Master."

Now is not the time to attack, we have to take the overall situation into consideration.Su Yan said silently: Don't look at the fun now, I will make a list for you in the future.With a clear face, he smiled and said, "I'm relieved in this way."

The little official nodded and said: "I also invite Mr. Su to go to the yamen to rest. We will deal with Zhang Qianhu, but it's hard to explain when we meet."

Su Yan bowed his hands and said goodbye, and chased with Jing Hong to the place where Wang Chen was buried.

The thief head mushroom is still planted in a piece of luxuriant grass. The only moving head is looking up at a 45-degree angle.

Su Yan looked funny, and signaled Jing Hong to dig him out quickly.

With his hands still tied behind his back, Wang Chen got up in disgrace, and stared at Su Yan angrily and aggrievedly: "I thought you really wanted to bury me alive! Where's my brother?"

"Caught him, threw him into prison, and executed him after autumn."

"What?! If you dare to kill him, I'll kill you!" Wang Chen struggled hard, broke through the whip, and slammed into Su Yan like an angry rhinoceros.

Su Yan was startled, dodged and said, "I'm lying to you. Your brother ran away and said he would leave you to us."

"Impossible! My brother won't leave me alone, and you lied to me again!"

"I really didn't lie to you this time. You see, he didn't come to rescue you. When he saw the cavalry coming, he ran faster than a rabbit."

"—Don't think I can't see that this is a divorce, you dog official!"

Su Yan smiled: "Have you ever read military books? It's not easy. If you have this ability, it would be great to join the army and serve the country. Why should you be a grassroots bandit who robs and robs houses?"

Wang Chen yelled at him, "I will believe that you are a pig in the future! Return the necklace to me."

"I think Wang Wu also has a necklace around his neck. These days, it's still popular for brothers to wear couple necklaces?"

Wang Chen was so angry that his eyelids trembled: "What nonsense! That was the first wolf our two brothers hunted together when we were young. We made two necklaces with wolf teeth, which means that brothers are united in their efforts to break gold. Who is like you? It's all...it's all..." He gritted his teeth and thought, why did he think that this person was beautiful, extraordinary, and straightforward, he was really blind!

Su Yan also knows that he sometimes owes a lot. I don't know if it's because he poured too much water on the Internet in his previous life, and he just opened his mouth. When he is in control, he starts to act unscrupulously, such as when facing Ah Zhui.

so what?Ever since he entered the palace on the first day, he accidentally offended the dignitaries in the golden palace, and almost died under the scepter. Since then, he has been very careful in what he says and does in the officialdom, so as not to stumble again one day.Wearing a mask and long-sleeved dance in the officialdom is exhausting, but in private, people are not allowed to let go?

He chuckled and said, "The necklace was thrown in the camp, and it seems that your brother picked it up. But you are going to jail now, and you can't get it. When I put your brother in, you can ask him for it yourself." .”

Wang Chen was almost out of breath, and wanted to bump into him again, but was chased by Jing Hong and grabbed him by the back of the collar, and warned in a serious voice: "If you dare to offend your lord again, any finger that touches you will be cut off!"

"Let's go back to the yamen and see how Chu Yuan and the others are counting."

Nineteen Jin Yiwei and two young servants, together with the small officials of Qingpingyuan, picked out only about [-] horses in half a day, all of which were official horses with marks branded on their hindquarters.These selected horses were in much better condition than those raised outside, and they were driven into a small pasture that was specially enclosed, and waited for the inventory to be completed before picking up the goods.

Su Yan knew that he couldn't finish picking that day, and he didn't want them to finish picking - after all, he couldn't afford the 5000 taels of money to buy horses.

He pretended to buy horses just to understand the situation of the temple garden, but now that he knows a lot about it, he plans to slip away.

He said to the little official: "The chief is busy dealing with Zhang Qianhu, so I'm afraid he won't have time to greet me. Seeing that it's getting late, I'm going to go back to my residence first, and I'll pick the remaining half tomorrow."

The little official hurriedly said: "Don't bother Mr. Su, we will pick out the rest overnight tonight, and put them in the stables of the C type. Tomorrow, Mr. Su can come directly to pick up the goods. The transaction is on the spot, and the money and the goods are paid."

This suggestion hit Su Yan's heart. He thought of a good place for the five hundred horses, and immediately said with a smile: "It's settled, the horse stables with the C name."

After walking out of the yamen, he told Chu Yuan: "Take a few people to collect some dry horse manure, wrap it up and take it away."

Chu Yuan didn't know why, but he did as he was told.

Su Yan left Qingpingyuan with his guards, stuffed Wang Chen, who had been bundled into rice dumplings, into the second carriage, walked a few miles along the official road, stopped, and said to the guards: "Go and rest in the woods beside the road. Wait for the fish to bite."

Chu Yuan was puzzled and asked, "What kind of fish?"

Su Yan smiled, but did not answer.

A group of people were tired after working for a long time. They rested under the shade of a tree, took out dry food and water, and ate and drank.

Ever since they left Qingpingyuan, the thieves and spies who had been watching their every move went back and told Wang Wu: "The group of people are resting in the woods next to the official road. The first master, should we do it now and snatch the second master back?"

Wang Wu said suspiciously: "He knows that my team is waiting nearby, yet he dares to stop? Could it be a trap?"

"There are only twenty or so of them, and there are more than a thousand of us. What is the head of the family worried about?"

"Yeah, hurry up and rescue the second master. If he is thrown into the government prison, it will be even more difficult to rob the prison."

All the bandits persuaded one after another, but Wang Wu hesitated.Although Su Yan and his entourage were few, Jing Hongzhui, who wielded the sword, was a master with one enemy against one hundred. The other twenty guards with swords were not vegetarian either.At the beginning, the 20 brothers in the village attacked these [-] people, and they were severely beaten. They lost [-] or [-] members, and none of them died. Now they obviously put on an undefended posture. fraudulent.

He talked about his doubts, but most of the bandits around him didn't take it seriously. They felt that the head of the family was too cautious, and there were only twenty or so people, even if they were all three-headed and six-armed Nezha, they would not be able to overcome the sea in front of a thousand-strong army. If you don't save it, when will you wait.

Wang Wu was moved, and decided to surround the woods, attack and kill Su Yan and his party, and rescue Wang Chen.

Gao Shuo followed the thieves and spies, and he played the high standard of Jinyiwei's spies. He didn't disturb any bandits and came back immediately with the news.

Su Yan asked about the distance between each other, made a gesture of "pinch fingers" like a magic stick, and secretly took out his pocket watch to take a look. He estimated that in 15 minutes, a large number of thieves would arrive, and ordered Said: "There will be an enemy attack in a quarter of an hour. You pile the collected horse dung by the side of the official road and set it on fire."

Chu Yuan was startled and said, "Enemy attack? Lord Su leave this place quickly, I will swear to protect your safety to the death."

Su Yan waved his hand: "If you don't leave, someone will settle it for us. Do as I tell you, hurry up!"

Chu Yuan knew that he was very assertive, and that he was easy to talk about in small matters, but his decisions in major matters could not be questioned by others, so he had to obey orders.

The burning of dried horse manure produced a large amount of black smoke, similar to that of wolf dung, which shot straight into the sky in a columnar shape.Su Yan folded his sleeves and looked up at the billowing smoke.

Jing Hong asked: "Sir, are you... wanting to attract Zhang Qianhu from Qingping Garden?"

Su Yan nodded and said: "Ningxia Wei is an important border defense town. It has been resisting the northern barbarians all year round. The leading generals should be extremely sensitive to the wolf smoke. Believe it or not, they will be ready to meet the enemy. Come and find out."

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, there were chaotic footsteps from all directions, obviously a large group of people surrounded them, it was not suitable to charge on horseback in the woods, and the thieves didn't have so many horses, so most of them were still infantry.

Su Yan ordered: "Gather and move to the direction of the official road. If there are thieves and bandits besieging, just tear a hole, and you don't have to fight."

Twenty guards covered him and the two carriages, and their swords and swords rushed through the encirclement like sharp arrows and rushed up the official road.Behind them, countless thieves with sharp weapons shouted and came towards them like a flood.

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky and earth like gold. Su Yan squinted his eyes and looked towards the direction of Qingpingyuan. Seeing the smoke and dust, he shouted: "You guys guard the carriage where you are, and don't let Wang Chen be robbed. Give me a horse!"

He got on his horse, and Jing Hong chased and stabbed a bandit, pulled out the tip of the blood-dripping sword, jumped onto the horse's back, and held Su Yan to his chest.

Su Yan urged the horse to gallop, and the distance of hundreds of feet was reached in a short time. He shouted to the cavalry team in armor: "Thieves robbed and killed the caravan, please help me, Lord Qianhu!"

The leader of the cavalry was a big man with leopard eyes and beards. He heard the cry for help, raised his whip and stepped forward. Seeing a sixteen or seventeen-year-old handsome man in brocade clothes on the horseback, who was guarded by his fellow guards, he immediately shouted: "How do you know my identity?" !"

Su Yan panted: "I just came out of Qingpingyuan, and I heard the chief of the police, Yan Chang, called the general 'Ningxia Wei Zhang Qianhu', so I learned about it. I don't want to be targeted by thieves and robbed halfway, but I also hope that the general will relieve the people." Hang upside down."

Zhang Qianhu waved his horsewhip, "Don't mess with these pedantic words, I don't understand, you are just begging me to save your life anyway, right?"

Su Yan nodded: "Yes, I beg Lord Qianhu for help, I will thank you very much."

Even if the other party didn't thank him again, Zhang Qianhu still planned to beat up the bandits. The thieves broke into Yan'an City and robbed the prison, killing many guards and soldiers. A reward of a thousand gold is offered, and the general will be promoted to a higher level.

If you are lucky, there is a bandit leader among these thieves who robbed the road. Zhang Qiucheng, who has made great achievements in suppressing the bandits, can be promoted to the deputy commander of Ningxia Wei. Why not save him?

At this point, Zhang Qianhu said: "The two soldiers are fighting, you should stay away, so as not to accidentally hurt the arrows."

Su Yan said emphatically: "I still have some guards and servants staying beside the carriage, you can't leave them alone, I will go with Lord Qianhu."

Zhang Qianhu glanced at him unexpectedly, and couldn't help thinking highly of this young man who was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and raised his arms and shouted: "Kill the bandit, save the people! Brothers, follow me!"

The five hundred cavalry under his command then shouted: "Come on!" The whole cavalry charged forward like a lightning bolt, and cut into the team of thieves and robbers from behind.

Jing Hong held the reins and asked, "Sir, do you want me to help them kill the enemy?"

Su Yan put his hand on his forearm, "No need, we just watch from the side. The terrain here is flat, and five hundred well-trained cavalry is enough to fight against ten times the number of infantry, not to mention that the thieves are all mobs. , have not been drilled by the regular army, they are not their opponents at all. Before long, these bandits will flee in all directions, just watch."

Sure enough, the thieves were caught off guard by the sudden cavalry team. Those who were shot to death by arrows and stabbed to death by cavalry spears and spears were unknown, leaving corpses scattered all over the place.In less than half an hour, hundreds of people died, and many people disregarded the leader's orders in a panic and scattered like birds and beasts.

When Wang Wu saw that the situation was not good, he didn't care about his younger brother anymore. With his bravery, he fought his way out and led the remaining defeated soldiers to flee to the dense forest on the hillside.

The mountains are not conducive to cavalry pursuit, so Zhang Qianhu can only regret losing the reward of the deputy commander, but with a negligible loss, it is quite cost-effective to record a record of bandit suppression in military merit.

Before the dust settled, Su Yan rushed to the carriage, counted his precious guards, and found that there were quite a few bandit corpses piled up around them, all of which were the achievements of Chu Yuan and the others. Xiaobei and Xiaojing hid in the carriage , also safe and sound, he was greatly relieved.

The fact that Wang Chen was not taken away was naturally the icing on the cake, even if he was taken away, it would not be an irreparable loss.The safety of the guards and boys is what he really cares about.

Su Yan walked up to Zhang Qianhu, bowed to the bottom, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Sir Qianhu! I will do what I say, and I will send five hundred horses to my lord to express my gratitude."

Zhang Qianhu's expression changed drastically, he pointed at him with the spear in his hand, and shouted, "Who are you? Where did you get the horse from!"

"I'm a businessman from afar. I just made a deal and bought [-] horses for freight. Although they are not good horses, they are good enough to ride. As a token of gratitude, I would like to donate these horses to the Ningxia Wei. Officers and soldiers, contribute meager strength to defend the country."

After hearing his explanation, Zhang Qianhu's expression softened a little, and he asked, "Five hundred horses are not a normal number. Where are the horses?"

Su Yan said with a smile: "It's in the stables of the C-brand in Qingpingyuan. However, they haven't finished the selection yet. In the morning of tomorrow, Lord Qianhu will go straight to the stables without saying anything, and you will be able to see the gift."

Zhang Qianhu turned his head around three times before realizing that the other party seemed to have played a trick on someone, but it was not on himself.On the contrary, he really gave himself a generous gift.

He widened his eyes and asked again, "You...are you a smuggler?"

Su Yan shook his head modestly: "Actually, I'm a fraud."