Chapter 129 Pingling
After sending the letter to Zhang Chong, Jisun began to organize manpower. He would never allow the existence of a traitor like Zhang Goulv to bring unpredictable danger to Huang Tian's great cause.
Sun Ji has already decided. Regardless of whether Zhang Chong wants to take action or not, he will lead his men to kill Zhang Goudu.
He was organizing capable manpower here, and suddenly a believer came to report:
"Taishan Zhang Qukui has entered the house."
Sun Ji was shocked, not expecting Zhang Chong to come in person, so he hurried over with his companions.
At this moment, Zhang Chong brought in Xian Guan, dressed as a Confucian scholar, and he was sitting in the hall with his two generals, eating fruits. Seeing Zhang Chong's leisurely look, he was not angry at offering sacrifices to his grandson, so he immediately asked someone to remove the fruit.
Ji Sun sat aside and was angry. Zhang Chong, who had no fruit to eat, smiled and said:
"Brother, don't worry. What happened to this dog and donkey? I will ask him directly when the time comes. The sky will not fall."
Ji Sun was annoyed and spat:
"I'm afraid that the blue sky won't collapse, but our yellow sky will collapse. Don't take it seriously. Last time Tang Zhou let you go for some unknown reason, but this time if the opportunity for the uprising was missed from you, , then no one can really save you, and you will have to hurt Master Liang.”
Zhang Chong calmed down and said seriously:
"So I came in person."
Ji Sun sighed and stopped talking.
Zhang Chong directly asked Zhang Goulv what was going on now and did he know where he was?
Sacrifice to the Sun:
"I've been here until Zhang Goulv rebelled, and he was immediately followed. But this man was well protected. He had been hiding in turns in the past few days, but starting yesterday, he moved into the city posthouse, and then he Never appeared.”
"A post house in the city?"
"Yes, this post is called Pingling Post. It was specially built to welcome officials from various counties. It is not easy for us to enter that place."
"How's the defense there?"
"From the outside, there are only four guards guarding the gate. I don't know if there are any other defenses inside."
Zhang Chong frowned and asked:
"Do you have anyone in the post house? For example, disciples, concubines, cooks, etc.?"
Ji Sun shook his head and said:
"Originally, there was, but yesterday the people in the posthouse were replaced. Now we have no idea what's inside."
"Then some of you were in the post house before, so you must know the layout of the post house."
Ji Sun took out a piece of silk from his sleeve pocket and spread it on the table. This was the map of the post house. He asked several concubines from the original post house to draw it out after a lot of effort. Most of the other disciples couldn't tell the direction, and they couldn't even tell the reason for where they stayed every day.
When Zhang Chong looked at this picture, it was roughly in the style of a floor plan, but the drawing was simpler, but the general layout could still be seen.
This post house has a typical Wuyuan layout. The first is the defense force. There is a turret in the northwest corner and a corner tower in the southeast corner. These two places are the commanding heights of the post house. Then there are stables in a row to the west, second-floor buildings to the northeast, and then there is a row of buildings to the southeast.
This is the layout of the inn, and then Zhang Chong looked at the situation on the street. The posthouse is located in the residential area of Dongcheng, facing the street on the east, about one mile away from the Dongcheng Gate.
Sun Ji saw Zhang Chong thinking there and thought he had something in mind, so he said:
"What do you think?"
Zhang Chong did not answer directly, but asked Ji Sun:
"This time I will personally lead the team, plus Cai Que and Guo Zu. I also need four horses. You can help arrange them on the north side of the post house facing the street. After I am done, I will lead the people from here."< br>
Sacrificing his grandson became anxious upon hearing this:
"Are you going by yourself? Are you crazy? I always feel that there is something wrong with this matter. If it is a trap, wouldn't you be throwing yourself into a trap if you go?"
You see, first there was Yang Mao, and then there was Ji Sun. They were all trying to persuade Zhang Chong to calm down and not take risks. But why did Zhang Chong insist on having his own way? Has he really lost his mind?
In fact, no, Zhang Chong also knew that he was taking a risk, and with his identity, he should not be involved in dangerous situations again. But both Yang Mao and Ji Sun only saw one side and didn't think about it carefully in Zhang Chong's situation.
Although Zhang Chong is now the leader of five thousand soldiers, how can he talk about stability? Can you avoid arrows and hide behind? For him, it's too early to talk about stability. It's the early days of starting a business, and he needs to do a lot of things to avoid so many subsequent troubles.
For example, this incident of Zhang Gou Donkey cannot be left to anyone else. Why?
Because Zhang Goudu was Zhang Chong's seventy-five brother in the forest, and they swore a life-and-death bond. If you let others kill Zhang Goudu, the other old brothers will think that Zhang Chong is mean and ungrateful even if they don't say anything in their hearts.
Some people may wonder, this is a dog and donkey betraying the group, just kill him, what's the problem?
The person who asked this obviously doesn’t understand the fickleness of people’s hearts.
At first, everyone may indeed think so. But later when they discover that Zhang Goudu has not harmed the interests of the group, then they will attack others again.
They will have doubts that when they need their old brothers, they will live and die together. There is no need for old brothers anymore, so why don’t you just ask us to die? And if the person who kills the dog and donkey is someone else, it will be more likely to cause the group to split.
Zhang Goulv is from Dasangli. Who should Zhang Chong want to kill? Are they from the Dashangli faction? Or are they from the Jibei Kingdom group? Or is it from Xue's wall? Whoever does it will leave a gap in their mouths. Zhang Chong is the leader of this group and the eldest brother. Only he has the power to decide the life and death of his brothers. Only if he is upright and punishes Zhang Gou Donkey can the brothers really feel that this matter is done well. This dog is really damned!
This is actually the common psychological state of the seventy-five old brothers: it is okay to die in the hands of Zhang Chong, but they will not accept death in the hands of others.
In the final analysis, Zhang Chong and the others are still just a grassroots team. The core of the team is bound by kindness and righteousness, and their ideal is to do justice for heaven. They are not yet an organized group bound by criminal law. At this time, human relationships outweigh rules and regulations.
This is also where people like Zhang Chong find it difficult to get started.
Like the sons of powerful men, they have a group from the beginning. At that time, the superiors and subordinates have been established, and their grace and authority are their own. From now on, we just need to lead the team to become bigger and stronger. But the son of a Guizhou leader like Zhang Chong had nothing.
When building the core team, he had neither a clan to rely on nor relatives to help him. He just gathered a group of beggars and tied them together with kindness.
Therefore, Zhang Chong must do things ethically and fairly, so that his brothers can always be convinced. This is what attracts everyone to Zhang Chong, but it is also how everyone disciplines Zhang Chong.
It was Zhang Chong who knew the stakes involved, so he insisted on killing the traitor himself. Otherwise, it is not enough to intimidate the public; otherwise, it is not enough to calm people's hearts.
After that, Zhang Chong and Ji Sun discussed it several times, checked for any omissions, and then planned to implement it tonight. The matter of hoeing out rape cannot be delayed without delay.
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Dusk, Dongpingling, Pingling Posthouse.
At this time, the entire neighborhood was quiet, but the posthouse was still brightly lit and noisy.
At this time, a banquet was being held in the post house. The local powerful people in Dongpingling were entertaining the county planners. Because it's time for the annual plan again, the planners in Dongpingling have to rush to Luoyang to complete this year's plan after counting the statistics of the counties under their jurisdiction.
But that's all over. At this moment, the county planners who have completed their tasks are enjoying the prosperity of the big city. There is vocal music, singing and dancing, the food is exquisite and the people are polite. This is a big city, not something they can compare with in the countryside.
Celebrities gathered inside the hall, and people were strictly guarded and killed outside the hall. From time to time, twos and threes of county warriors were seen patrolling outside the hall, and they were heavily guarded.
Among them, two warriors are particularly eye-catching. One of them is fat and the other is tall. They are wearing the armor of a county soldier and holding a halberd. They are standing by a gate.
If you take a closer look at these two people, aren't they Zhang Chong's two generals, Cai Que and Guo Zu?
How did they get here?
In fact, Zhang Chong and the others had already sneaked into the post house through this big banquet. Cai Que and Guo Zu split the outfits of Taojun soldiers and pretended to be patrol soldiers, while Zhang Chong and other Taiping Taoist disciples in Dongpingling had their own costumes.
As soon as everyone comes in, they all have their own division of labor. Zhang Chong took the Taiping Taoist disciples from Dongpingling, who were familiar with the post house, to find out which house Zhang Goudu was in, while Cai Que and Guo Zu were watching the wind direction outside.
Everything was going well at first, but Cai Que and Guo Zu were arranged by several county officials to serve as halberd bearers in the inner hall because they were born majestic.
The reason why they haven't been recognized as fakes until now is not because of how well these two acted. It's because these Dongpingling County soldiers are all newly recruited, and generally the soldiers don't know the generals, and the generals don't know the soldiers.
The county soldiers who knew each other and saw that these two people came with the county officials, thought they were officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion in Dongpingling, and did not dare to interfere.
In this way, Cai Que and Guo Zu took a spurge and became the halberd bearers.
And because of the majesty of these two lives, they always attracted the attention of those drunken and powerful old men. Some of them got drunk and came down to pat Cai Que's belly and touch Guo Zu's chest, looking intoxicated.
These people even pretended to accidentally pull their talismans on the ground, hoping that Cai Que and Guo Zu would be knowledgeable enough to hold the talismans to the palace.
Cai Que and Guo Zu did not squint and were unmoved. They didn't dare to think too much, and they prayed in their hearts that Qu Kui could finish the matter quickly, and it would be up to the two of them to tear up these old gangsters.
And what is Zhang Chong doing now?
He took three Dongpingling believers to the northeast area of the post house in the dark to find where Zhang Goulv lived.
But after searching for a long time, they still found nothing. Just when time was running out, things took a turn for the worse.
They had just pried open another door and were about to go in to see if it was Zhang Gou Donkey. Suddenly I heard footsteps coming from upstairs.
Zhang Chong and the other two immediately turned around and hid in the darkness.
After a while, two disciples came out of the building. They held a basin and complained to each other as they walked:
"You said that person is the same. He insists on eating beef at this time. How can he get this thing?"
"Don't you know, today during the day, Chusi killed a cow with its head and legs broken off, and wanted to fry it for the nobles who were having a banquet in the front hall. I'll give him some later."
A disciple who heard this looked distressed:
"These noble people can also be treated like cheap animals. Where did the cows with broken legs come from? They were not broken by them. And the family upstairs doesn't look like a noble person to me. All noble people are in vain. He also wears powder. His dark appearance looks quite similar to ours.”
"Who knows, anyway, the postmaster asked us to obey his orders, so we still have to deliver the beef."
In this way, the two of them joked with each other and went to Houchu Temple all the way.
And Zhang Chong, who was hiding in the darkness, finally knew where Zhang Goudu was.
(End of chapter)