Rebel

The members of the next family have already received the report, and Gu Ao from a distance saw that the house was brightly lit, and more than 20 men in Chinese clothes knelt outside the door one after another. When they saw Gu Ao bringing someone here, they first whispered to each other for a while, and then He shouted unevenly: "The king of Han is here, I will wait for a long time."

Gu Ao reined in his horse, with the torch burning behind him, and the horse's hooves kicking up dust, illuminating the face of the leader. As the patriarch, he took a step forward and saluted, "The King of Han is far away, and the children of the family have admired the King of Han for his bravery and handsomeness. Wuer, I am here to wait and pay my respects, and now I offer ten stones of grain and ten taels of gold for the king to enjoy."

Shi Yan scolded at the side: "You are here to deceive the King of Han now? How many times did I come here to beg, who are you showing your hypocrisy now?"

The man smiled wryly, and some clansman whispered: "Mr. Shi, now that you have become a nobleman, just give us a way to survive. We have done everything we have. If you don't believe me, Mr. Shi can go to the treasury to check."

"Humph."

Gu Ao glanced at the crowd, and said: "The patriarch is a high-spirited person, and you all know the general idea. This king will go to the county government later to have a drink with the county magistrate. Let the children of the whole family follow this king. This king recommends For filial piety, I think it is a commendation."

"Thank you, King of Han! Thank you, King of Han!" The patriarch thanked him again and again, and then called the youngest of the kneeling clansmen: "Sanlang, follow the King of Han."

"Yes, Daddy." The young man went to Gu Ao's horse and knelt down, Gu Ao nodded, and a servant from the clan brought a horse for the young man.

Shi Qi said: "Since the head of the family has this kind of heart, let's share the food!"

It turned out that I heard that the king of Han was distributing grain, and at this time many hungry people who had not received grain came from all directions. They were all locals and knew the way best.After the news spread, there were even people waiting at the next one.

Shi Chi gave an order, and the hungry people stepped forward one after another, and divided up the food in a short while.

Gu Ao continued to rush towards the next family with his people, a total of seven families left that night.Except for the first family, the other six families all led their children to welcome them and prepared food when they heard about the tragic situation of the first family.Only the fourth family saw that the second and third families were spared, and that they had a lack of Xiaolian, so they cheated, raped and played tricks, and only offered seven shi of grain.

Shi Yi was exposed in public, Gu Ao immediately sent troops to ransack the house, and found four stones of grain and some land deeds, but still burned the land deeds and distributed the grain.The next few families heard about it, trembling with trepidation, and did not dare to hide it at all.

Finally, Gu Ao took Shi Yi, five sons of the clan who offered food, and three thousand cavalry, and surrounded the county government.The county magistrate was still in a dream, completely drunk.Shi Yan went in to persuade him, "Old brother, the King of Han is here! Why don't you go out to greet him?"

The county magistrate is a son of a family who loves singing, poetry and drinking. He was happy to write good poetry back then, so he chose to appoint this poet friend as his assistant, and he was happy to be the shopkeeper.Later, many people complained to him that it was inappropriate for Shi Yi to be the county magistrate, but he rejected them all.Once he said to someone after drinking: "People don't understand, besides me, who would see him in the county? He is talented, but he can only rely on me. I call it 'government by doing nothing'."

Hearing the word "King of Han", the county magistrate sat up in a daze, looked at Shi Mo: "Brother, what did you just say... what King of Han?"

"The King of Han has come to our county, so hurry up and pay him a visit!" Shi Yan said while putting on official uniforms for him. Seeing that the county magistrate was in a daze, Shi Yan said, "Look at my wink and act, you just answer 'yes' and that's fine." .”

The county magistrate was dragged into the hall by Shi Yan repeatedly, but he saw armored soldiers lined up around the hall, candles were lit, the flames were blazing, and there were five young men in brocade clothes standing under the hall.And on the high seat that originally belonged to him, sat a stern and heroic young man.The young man is wearing fine armor and has a yellow dragon pattern on his cloak. When the candle lights up and goes out, he is not angry but mighty.My case is full of county chronicles and household registration books, and the young man is reading them leisurely.

Shi Ke reminded in a low voice beside him: "Quickly pay homage to the King of Han."

The county magistrate came back to his senses: "The lower officials pay homage to the King of Han. The King of Han has orders, and the lower officials must obey."

Gu Ao's eyes remained unchanged, he did not raise his eyes from the case, but only looked at the words in his hand, and said: "This king has five candidates, and their families and clans, who have just donated food to the people, this king is very moved, how about Take Xiaolian together."

The magistrate looked at Shi Yi, Shi Mo nodded, the magistrate leaned over and said, "Yes."

Gu Ao said again: "The king just saw that before the disaster, there were many farmers with land, and there were thousands of households. Unfortunately, when the disaster came, all of them were annexed. Shi Cai told the king that the population has decreased by [-]% Today, the king of Ben has just received two pieces of land, and according to this record, they will be distributed to those who had land before the disaster, exactly one mu per household."

The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened, he was half sober, he looked at Shi Chi as if asking for help, Shi Chi nodded.

The county magistrate had no choice but to say: "Yes."

Gu Ao said: "The title deeds of those two lands have been burned by me. I order you to have the title deeds made tonight, and they must be handed over to the farmers of the subfields tomorrow."

"Yes."

Gu Ao said: "Officials in the yamen, I have asked people to invite them one by one. I am here tonight. If you don't manage well, the hall will be the court."

The county magistrate was dripping with cold sweat, and knelt down with a plop: "Forgive me, the King of Han, I... I'm an official... If I don't understand government affairs on weekdays, I will leave it to the county magistrate to handle all these matters. Let the county magistrate do all these things. I am an official. Incompetent... incompetent..."

Shi Wei took a step forward and said, "I would like to share the worries of the King of Han."

When Gu Ao heard that Shi Yi called himself a "minister", he raised his eyes from the copywriting and said, "Then you let go and do it. Come and add a chair to Mr. Shi."

"Yes!"

At this time, the Yu family secretly entered through the back door, quietly came to Gu Ao's side, knelt silently on the ground, and presented a secret letter.Gu Ao opened the letter, glanced at it, nodded, and said to the dark song: "You follow me, I have something to ask you later."

That secretly said: "Yes!" Then he stood silently behind Gu Ao.

At this time, there were scattered sounds of gongs, drums and singing outside the county yamen, as if they were playing music, and some soldiers hurried out to watch, Gu Ao asked, "What's that sound?"

The soldier replied: "It's the hungry people who received the food. I don't know where to find the gongs and drums team. They say they are thanks to the King of Han."

Gu Ao said: "There's no need for them to sing. With this skill, we can call everyone to the county yamen."

"Yes."

The singing team filled out the words smoothly with the tune of the folk song and sang it around.Although it was a late night, almost no one in the county fell asleep at this late night. The hungry people exchanged information in the dark, and then heard a familiar song: "The king of Han came, and he was not hungry. He received the army rations and gave them to the farmers. They all went to the county government gate. Wait, the King of Han still has a big gift."

With the sound of gongs and drums, the noise was loud.

Counting from sunset, in the first half of the night, Gu Ao led people to share the food, and in the second half of the night, he came to the county government office. Following the cavalry, taking advantage of the last twilight, they withdrew to the camp.

Many hungry people walked along the road, as if they were no longer afraid of the Han army.

Gu Ao went back to the camp, summoned Anqu alone, and said, "How many people are here this time?"

"Counting the small ones, a total of 21 masters came."

The top experts are always limited, Gu Ao pondered: "Then there are fewer people at the prefect Yu's place?"

Na Qu said: "Prefect Yu said that he moved with the army and was as stable as Mount Tai, so he asked all the younger ones to help the King of Han."

Gu Ao said: "Okay, many of General Liao's tents are descendants of aristocratic families, and three people are sent to guard General Liao's tent in the name of protecting General Liao. Come and report to me. The rest of the people put half in the north, and the other half follow me."

"Yes, the little one knows."

Gu Ao summoned Liao Qinghui again and asked, "What happened to the tiger tonight?"

Liao Qinghui shook his head: "Tonight they sent a lot of scouts, and several of them were arrested, but there was no change in the army. But after I interrogated, I found out that the [-] troops of Huben's rear were also marching day and night, and they were probably only ten miles away from here. It seems that Yongchi wants to flank and surround our army."

Seeing Liao Qinghui's worried face, Gu Ao said, "Apart from the place where we are stationed, is it plains or mountains?"

Liao Qinghui said: "It's Hirano."

Gu Ao said: "Is that Ma Qiang from Huben, or our Ma Qiang?"

Liao Qinghui said: "The horses of Huben are not only not as strong as the horses of the Western Regions, but also not as fast as the horses of the Western Regions."

Gu Ao said: "Why did the Rong people always come to the grassy valley before, as if they were entering a land without people, and the frontier guards were like a display, why?"

Liao Qinghui said: "Because soldiers and horses come and go like the wind."

Gu Ao said: "Then what are you worried about?"

Liao Qinghui said: "King of Han, but what we are facing is not the frontier guards, but the elite tiger and ben, and they are so deceitful. Now they are ten times stronger than our army. It is extremely dangerous."

Gu Ao smiled: "If it is not dangerous, Yongchi's 20 troops will be dragged down by our mere 2 people? My place is dangerous, but Yu Taishou's is not dangerous. Now that the Northern Army has left Yuyang, we can fight today." Huben and the Fenwu army who went north met. But you are right, you and I are indeed trying to survive the danger, and I will let the elite of the Yu family follow you and protect you."

The three dark songs quietly came to Liao Qinghui's side, Liao Qinghui said: "Xie Han Wang, how will we fight today's battle?"

Gu Ao gave orders like this.