Yue Fei led the people all the way.

When everyone saw these cavalry, they couldn't help but retreat under the tree.

Li Baozheng said with a smile on his face: "This Shangguan, I don't know where he comes from, what is his honour?"

Looking at Liu Xi who was being stepped on, seeing Liu Xi's outfit, and looking at Li Baozheng, Yue Fei, who grew up in the countryside, immediately guessed something.

He asked: "What has this man done that makes you so humiliated?"

Li Baozheng said: "This man dares to take the lead in resisting taxes! He fights against the imperial court and wants to rebel!"

Liu Xi shouted loudly: "It's unfair! We are just farmers!"

"Shut up!" Li Baozheng yelled angrily, "You are so bold and unruly!"

Yue Fei said: "Who are you?"

"The villain is the guarantor here."

"You said he was plotting rebellion. Where are his accomplices?"

"This... Shangguan, he..."

Yue Fei asked: "You don't want to say that he rebelled alone?"

"this……"

"What about the weapons of rebellion?"

"this……"

"Who can prove that he rebelled? Why did he rebel?"

"Shangguan, this person resists taxes!"

"I don't……"

"If you dare to talk nonsense, beat me up!" Li Baozheng said angrily.

"Stop!" Yue Fei yelled angrily.

Those people didn't dare to move.

Yue Fei looked at Li Baozheng and asked, "Are you here to collect taxes?"

"Yes...no...I'm here to inform them to pay taxes on time and in amount."

"Then why arrest him?"

Li Baozheng said: "Zhenjiang Prefecture wants to send a little more troops this year, but this person refuses to cooperate..."

Before Li Baozheng finished speaking, Yue Fei asked: "Additional sending? Who said we need to increase sending?"

"Yes... of course it was the magistrate of Dantu County who said so. We are just following orders."

Yue Fei said: "Where is the official document sent by Jiapai?"

"ah?"

“Where is the official paperwork for the extra mission?”

"This...this doesn't happen!"

Yue Fei's face immediately turned gloomy: "You don't even have the official official document to increase the number of dispatches, and yet you dare to come to increase the number of dispatches! I think you are talking nonsense and want to take this opportunity to blackmail people! Come on, arrest these people!"

As soon as Yue Fei said this, several Shenwu Army soldiers came up immediately.

Those big men wanted to resist, but where they could resist against the Shenwu Army, they were captured in the blink of an eye.

The villagers under the tree were so scared that they did not dare to speak. Liu Xi got up from the ground and immediately went to pick up the rice that had fallen on the ground. If he did not eat a little full, he would not be able to work in the afternoon.

Li Baozheng was arrested and screamed: "Shangguan, I am Baozheng, and I am doing things under orders!"

"Nonsense! You don't even have an official document. How can you add more people just by saying a word!" Yue Fei knew too well the tricks of officials in the private sector. "Whose order are you following? The magistrate of Dantu County or Zhenjiang

Prefect?"

"this……"

Seeing Li Baozheng's eyes dodge and his words hesitant, Yue Fei felt even more that this guy just wanted to make some money for himself.

Originally, Yue Fei came here under orders to maintain stability and should not be involved in these matters, but now this man clearly has something up his sleeve.

"It's the magistrate of Dantu County."

"Oh, let's go, let's go see the magistrate of Dantu County together and see if it's the order he gave you."

When he saw that Yue Fei was going to take him to verify, Li Baozheng was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and said, "Shangguan, spare your life, I don't dare to do it anymore! It was all Zhang Guanren's idea!"

Li Baozheng is now filled with regret. He himself is just a small Baozheng. Although the imperial court is reforming the officials, after all, the reform of the officials has not yet come to Zhenjiang Prefecture, and his status as an official is actually not high.

.

"That official Zhang said that someone recently wanted a large amount of grain, and he could sell it to them to make some extra money, so the villain got greedy for a moment, so..."

Zhang Xian immediately interjected and asked: "There is no war in Zhenjiang Prefecture, who wants a large amount of food?"

"I don't know much about this. I say that a wealthy businessman came from Jiangning Mansion and is in urgent need of a large amount of food."

"What's the name of the rich businessman?"

"The villain doesn't know."

"Where is the Zhang Guan you mentioned?"

"Let's go to the manor twenty miles west from here."

"Then the wealthy businessmen in Jiangning contacted Zhang Guanren?"

"Yes Yes."

Zhang Xian said: "Shuai Yue, do you want to go and investigate?"

"Walk!"

Everyone took Li Baozheng with them and rushed towards the Zhang family's manor.

At this time, the manor was still lively.

Liu Biao was delivering his extremely contagious speech: "I heard that there was an uprising among the people in Hongzhou with great momentum and that they have captured several state capitals. A man should do something big. How about we unite and gather troops in Jiangdong to conquer the world!

"

Zhang Zhi said: "The imperial army is strong, and I am afraid we cannot resist it."

Liu Biao laughed and said: "The war on the northern front is tense. How dare the imperial court send troops south?"

"Then you said that Zongze has arrived in Jiangning. Isn't this a soldier?"

"Zongze only brought two thousand troops. Zhu Changgui already had an army of ten thousand people. He said that Zhenjiang Prefecture and Li Baozheng yesterday told him to send more troops. They would increase the troops severely so that those mud-legged people would have no way to survive. They also

On the contrary, wouldn't it be better to enrich our staff?"

One of the wealthy businessmen asked: "What should we do now?"

Liu Biao said: "To be honest with you, Zhu Changgui's troops have arrived in Jurong County, which is thirty miles away from here. By the time we finish discussing, I am afraid that Jurong will have been taken. And the news will reach Jiangning tomorrow.

Tomorrow Zhu Changgui's men can surround Jiangning and capture Zongze!"

Some people are still a little worried.

"This is treason, and you will be beheaded!"

Liu Biao said: "You all have countless loan sharks, do you think you can survive? Think about the news that came before, how many people the dog emperor killed in Xiangyang Mansion! Are we going to sit back and wait for death!"

Zhang Zhi said: "Liu Guanren is right. Now that the Jin people are suppressing the imperial court on the northern front, it is a good time for us to take action!"

It is normal for Liu Biao, Zhang Zhi and others to have such thoughts.

It is said in official history that after the Jingkang disaster occurred, the local tyrants and gentry in various places recruited their own troops and supported them in the local areas to cause chaos.

Liu Biao raised his wine glass and said loudly: "If you are willing to join, take a sip of this wine. We will capture Jiangning in one fell swoop, then capture Yangzhou in the north, go south to Suzhou, and capture Hangzhou. Aren't we waiting for this southeastern wall?"

Upon hearing this, everyone raised their glasses and drank heavily.

"Okay! Today's tyrants have no virtue and traitorous ministers are in power. Those with lofty ideals in the world must defeat them!"

"The tyrant must not have thought that we would cause trouble here and take advantage of his illness to kill him!"

"Come on! Have another drink. After that, we will split up, recruiting people, recruiting people, and collecting food, collecting food!"

"Okay!" Liu Biao drank his second glass of wine and smashed the glass into pieces. "Tomorrow, I will go to kill old man Zongze and avenge my son!"

At this moment, the servant outside suddenly ran over and said hurriedly: "Official! Official!"

"Brother Zhang, are all your servants so mischievous? We are having a meeting now, how dare he barge in rashly!"

Zhang Zhi said angrily: "What's the matter?"

"A troop is coming..."
Chapter completed!