Turbulent Times Chapter 339: White Scorpion Gang
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Li Fengmu nodded quickly.
Li Zongxian walked out of the room slowly, with a look of tiredness on his face: "Did you see Liu Zhigang, the prefect of Longxi?"
Li Fengmu frowned and replied: "Yes, father, he came to borrow food again!"
Li Zongxian sneered: "Liu Zhigang came to borrow food, but it was also for the emperor and Wang Junlin to see. After all, Wang Junlin suddenly disappeared and hid in the dark. With his vicious name, how could Liu Zhigang not be afraid. "
"Father, will Wang Junlin turn into an assassin and secretly sneak into our mansion to poison us?" Li Fengmu still doubted.
Hearing this sentence, Li Zongxian's eyelids twitched, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes became deeper and deeper. After a long while, he shook his head and said, "Probably not. In the past few months, I have taken more than 30 staff members to analyze carefully. Considering everything that Wang Junlin has done in the past year since he appeared, this son is ruthless and decisive, but he is not a reckless person. Moreover, this son has always had ambitions for the officialdom, and he will never risk being judged by all the aristocratic families, nobles and others. The risk of being the No. 1 enemy of the family and doing such a thing."
Li Fengmu felt that his father's words were reasonable, so he couldn't help but look slightly relaxed, and said after thinking for a while: "Recently, the capital city has fallen apart due to the disaster victims in the three counties of Yongzhou. More than half of the court officials forced the emperor to order Wang Junlin to be taken down. But the emperor insisted on resisting everyone's pressure and did not make an order for a long time. If the emperor failed to make an order to arrest Wang Junlin in the end, I am afraid that he would inevitably use that Taoist nun's apprentice as a bait and mobilize people to surround and kill Wang Junlin. But in this way, we broke the rules of the game first. If we kill Wang Junlin, everything will be happy, and no one will say anything. But if we fail, Wang Junlin will definitely use taboo methods to deal with us, and there will be endless troubles at that time Already."
"The reason why the emperor has not issued an order is because there is no turmoil in Yongzhou..." Li Zongxian, the head of the Li family in Longxi, sneered and said: "For the emperor, the most feared thing is the turmoil in the country. Although Wang Junlin's status in Yang Jian's heart It is important, but compared to the turmoil in a state, it is not worth mentioning. At that time, the emperor will not hesitate to sacrifice Wang Junlin."
Li Fengmu frowned slightly and said: "Father, Yongzhou Inspector Wang Tong's attitude has always been ambiguous. Will he betray us?"
"This is an old fox. The Taiyuan Wang family and our Longxi Li family belong to a thousand-year-old family. I know exactly what he thinks in his heart. You don't have to worry that he will betray us, but before things are clear, don't think about him Will help us." Li Zongxian had a faint smile on his face, "Of course, if the situation is not good, the big deal is just a deal with Taiyuan Wang."
After thinking about it for a while, Li Fengmu said softly: "I met you a few days ago before sending you off to Heishifeng."
The so-called everyone in this sentence refers to the nobles and big landlords who can be ranked in the Yongzhou area.
Li Fengmu continued to report: "After preliminary calculations, the food in the hands of our Li family accounted for about half of Yongzhou, and the food in the hands of the nobles and landlords who were invited to eat and drink in Heishi Mountain for a while added up. Not much less than us."
Li Zongxian nodded and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Wang Junlin is also secretly looking for these people, and wants to get food from them. So we must be optimistic about these people. You might as well satisfy all their demands. , After the matter is over, if anyone dares not to listen to us, then let them pay the price."
Speaking of this time, the owner of the Li family in Longxi faintly revealed the self-confidence and pride that the owner of a thousand-year-old family should have.
"The key is Zhonglang General Yang Hushi." Li Zongxian frowned slightly and said: "The White Scorpion Gang has been secretly raised by us for many years, and now its strength cannot be underestimated. He is a master during the stagnation period, and there are 2,000 people in his gang. Moreover, the Black Rock Mountain where the White Scorpion Gang is located is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Unless Wang Junlin has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, even if he knows that those noble landlords are on Black Rock Mountain, he will not be able to attack them. Way. Therefore, as long as Yang Hushi firmly controls the general manager's mansion, it will be difficult for Wang Junlin to mobilize any troops in Jincheng County. However, the soldiers and horses in Zhangye County do not have the court's order and the emperor's will. He can only mobilize a thousand soldiers at most. That's all. And as long as his soldiers dare to show up in Jincheng County, he himself will be exposed to the public. Not to mention, we have a lot of opportunities to let his soldiers and horses clash with refugees, and thousands of refugees will die. I wonder if Yang Jian dares Protect him with all your strength."
"My child understands, please show me what my child needs to do now." Li Fengmu asked for instructions respectfully.
Li Zongxian thought for a while and said: "You go to Heishi Mountain to sit in the town yourself. Although Chen Xuanpeng has high martial arts skills, he is a reckless person, and I am worried that this bureaucrat will bully those big landlords and nobles. Go and watch it. Don't let this bureaucrat cause things to end badly."
Li Fengmu said solemnly: "My child knows what to do, now go back and clean up, and set off for Heishi Mountain immediately today."
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In Jincheng, Wang Junlin took Xu Jingzong to bid farewell to Wang Tong on the second day, left the governor's mansion, and returned to the secret stronghold.
"In this way, the Black Stone Mountain White Scorpion Gang is an armed force secretly raised by the Li family in Longxi on the rivers and lakes, and now the more than one hundred nobles and landlords who own half of Jincheng County's grain are hiding in the White Scorpion Gang. Help." Wang Junlin was a little surprised by Shen Guang's investigation into the hiding places of the landlords and nobles.
"That's right, Lord Hou, there is a spy named Dou Fagui among his subordinates. He has a friend who is a member of the White Scorpion Gang. The other party didn't know that Dou Fagui was one of us. Inadvertently mentioned that a group of landlords came to their gang, and their gang leader took a fancy to a landlord's concubine. After the secret report, I gave Dou Fagui fifty taels of gold, which not only bought his friend, but also further confirmed the news from him, and made Dou Fagui join the White Scorpion Gang." Shen Guang said with a look of luck, I have to say, Longxi The Li family is too powerful, and they hid these noble and big landlords in the White Scorpion Gang in an extremely concealed manner. It was pure luck that they were able to find out this news this time.
"Tell me about the strength of the White Scorpion Gang." Wang Junlin nodded and asked a key question.
Shen Guang lifted his spirits and said, "Report to Lord Hou, the White Scorpion Gang was originally the largest gang in Jincheng County, and its lair is located on Heishi Mountain, a hundred miles south of Jincheng. It was just a group of ordinary bandits before. , only a few hundred people. A few years ago, the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress it, but the Black Rock Mountain is behind a deep stream, and the mountain has strange peaks and dangerous cliffs, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack."
PS: The third watch tonight———