There is a lake called Baitang, 18 miles west of Suzhou City. The name is no longer verified. There is an unknown island in the middle of the lake with green bamboos. There is a manor in the bamboo forest on the island called "Tangbai Villa". The site of the Suzhou No-face Meeting is located in the village. W√w    W     .

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It was already the autumn of the second year of Kaicheng. Compared with the spring of Kaicheng, the external environment was much better. During the faceless meeting of Yongfeng, Yang Hao and Meng Bochang were wearing strong armor to patrol day and night, as if they were facing a great enemy. At that time, except for the three towns in Hebei, Qiu Shiliang's confidant was inscribed with Tianxian and rushed around to supervise the local settlement of the forces of the Spurs Camp. He fought a few tigers, caught more than a dozen dogs and wolves, and killed a group of rabbits, mice, deer and cats.

Although the Spurs and the Eunuch Party are still in a state of hostility, the contradictions have been greatly alleviated. The Spurs and Eunuch Party has gradually recovered its vitality from the disastrous defeat of the Daming Palace. On the other hand, within the Eunuch Party, Qiu Shiliang, Yu Hongzhi and Guo Qin have become a three-legged tripod. Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi have ended their honeymoon period, and the conflicts between them have gradually become public. In addition, the Eunuch Party and court officials have been constantly in conflict, and local vassal states have loud voices in counter-arguing Qiu Shiliang for his autocracy. These forced Qiu Shiliang to attack and defend the Spurs and Eunuch Party. Now, except for Chang'an and Guanzhong areas, the Spurs and Eunuch Party has basically recovered its vitality in other fields.

The governor of Suzhou Wang Zhe was a fourth-rank rank of the Maying Camp. Although he was young, he was extremely strong and was absolutely the only one in Suzhou. Even his immediate boss Li Deyu wanted to give this younger generation a little bit of shame. Wang Zhe was once a censor, but was demoted to Suzhou Sihu for writing a letter to impeach Zheng Zhu. Later, he was promoted to the governor by Li Yan's recommendation. Since then, he has become a loyal follower of Li Yan.

Yang Hao and Li Yan separated before they entered Suzhou. According to the rules of the Mazhan Camp, a horizontal sword was not qualified to speak in front of the general manager.

Suzhou is far less prosperous than Yangzhou, and it is different from Runzhou. However, the spirituality of the Jiangnan water town is still five-body. Going out to take a boat or not, this group of people from the north feels novel. In the past two days, he took Xiaoyu on a small boat and wandered around the corners of Suzhou City, visiting the ancients, drinking and drinking tea, and buying a bunch of silk and local products that are rich in local production. Xiaoyu felt that this trip to Jiangnan was not in vain.

Three days later, Wang Fu'er suddenly came to the inn, greeted Yang Hao and then entered Xiaoyu's room, and studied his experience in shopping. After a cup of tea, Wang Zhe also came to the inn. As a landlord, he was polite to come to visit the guests, but when he came in with Wang Fu'er, the deep meaning was quite interesting. After the greetings, Wang Zhe made clear his intentions and hoped that Yang Hao could stand up and do him a favor.

Yang Hao said: "Brother Wang just ask for instructions if you have something to do, but I will never refuse if I can help you."

Wang Zhe said: "Last night, I received a message from Huzhou, saying that a group of bandits in Taihu Lake went ashore to plunder villages and towns, killed thirteen people, plundered 23 women and children, and burned more than a hundred houses. After the bandits were defeated by the official army, they sneaked into Taihu Lake again. According to a bandit caught, they may have to plunder Suzhou in the near future."

Speaking of this, Wang Zhe smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Hundreds of bandits may not be worth it in the eyes of Brother Yang, but Suzhou is not as good as Fengzhou. There are only some old, weak and disabled soldiers in Suzhou. It is okay to scare and scare the thieves who steal chickens and dogs. When fighting against the bandits in Taihu Lake, it will be a defeat. The lieutenant general of the camp is in good health, and he has been out of control for a long time. He can't ride a horse or pull a bow. How to fight against the enemy? I have ordered the people along the lake to move into the city, but this is a faceless meeting... Alas, you can't change the location just because of a few bandits."

Yang Hao immediately understood his intention. He wanted to lead his troops to guard against bandits. Who is Wang Zhe? He is Li Yan's confidant, so it goes without saying that he led his troops. It doesn't matter whether the bandits are true or false. What is important is that Li Yan handed over the military power to himself. After experiencing conspiracies of all sizes, Yang Hao knew very well the role of the army in these conspiracies, which was Li Yan's greatest trust in him.

"I am not good at learning, so I may be reluctant to let my brother ask you."

"Brother Yang is too humble. Even the 20,000 elite soldiers of the Tianlang Army are not your opponent, so why not talk about hundreds of thieves? If you don't do it, no one in Suzhou can do it."

Speaking of this, Yang Hao had no choice but to respond: "It is rare that Brother Wang is so favored, so I will obey my will."

Wang Zhe handed over the only two brigades in his hands to Yang Hao. The army belonged to local recruitment, and the local government decided on the recruitment, training, garrisoning and mobilization. Yang Hao came to Tangbai Villa in advance and took a boat to circle the island. The island was covered with bamboo forests, and the bamboo forest was covered with pits, and a nest of bows and medicine crossbows were set up. These things may be useless to block the army, but it was more than enough to deal with a few thieves.

The villa is in a large Hui-shaped shape, with two floors of walls, with an exterior wall of about one meter high, and a city built with blue bricks. Every 100 steps, there are three village guests guarding each with bows. Yang Hao climbed up to a watchtower and his vision was very wide, and the area controlled by the archers was very considerable.

Then Yang Hao checked the venue again. It was a square hall with black curtains hanging around it. With the dense evergreen and wood in the yard, even in the daytime hall, the light was dim. A high platform was built directly to the south of the hall, and a tiger-skin seat was placed in front of the Su-Embroidered "Mountain and River Map", three chairs were placed in the shape of the left and right. The tiger-skin seats were the main body, and the six chairs on the left and right were swords. According to the example, a sword was hosted by a sword, and the host only had a platform but no seats.

When dusk droops westward, the faceless meeting in Suzhou of Baoli Society opened.

In a festive welcome music, 81-one horizontal swords and seven swords were added to the venue. Because they were all wearing masks, they could not tell who each other was, so no one said hello, but they just found their own positions according to the rank.

Suddenly the band played the vigorous and passionate music "Mountains and Rivers Drunken", which was a special music for the Mazha Camp when the grand celebration was held. The composer was ominous. Yang Hao heard that the melody of "Mountains and Rivers Drunken" was quite similar to the military songs of a certain country in later generations. Accompanied by the music, Li Yan, wearing a golden mask, entered the main gate under the escort of six guards holding halberds, and everyone stood up to greet them.

Amid the majestic music, everyone silently recited in unison: "... The eunuchs are in power and misled me from the Tang Dynasty. Our children are passionate and angry... The Holy Lord of Fu Bi, reviving the Tang Dynasty!"

After revisiting the camp song of the Spurs Camp, Li Yan waved his hand vigorously, hit the band out, and then said to Wang Zhe: "Open the window for breath."

Wang Zhe was stunned for a moment, and everyone was also a little surprised. He would not tell anyone about his secrets when he was in a faceless manner. He never opened doors and windows during meetings. This is the rule. This is not the first time Li Yan has served as the chief executive. Doesn’t he understand this principle? Just in the shocked eyes of everyone, the six people beside Li Yan walked in all directions and pushed open all the windows.

The cold night wind blew in, and the turbid air in the hall became fresh, but many people shrank their necks. They didn't seem to like the fresh air.

"Where is Zhang Lu from Yangzhou?" Li Yan asked suddenly.

The horizontal swords under the seat looked at each other. As usual, the host should have delivered a speech at this moment. What exactly does the new chief executive want to do?

"The subordinate is Zhang Lu."

Zhang Lu, deputy envoy of Huainan Jiedu, is the oldest third-rank rank stern in Baoli Society. Two of the seven swords on the stage were his students and subordinates, and 70% of the stern in the stage were all inseparable from him.

"Take off your mask." Li Yan said lightly.

There were screams in the hall. You must wear a mask when attending a faceless meeting. This is customization. There is only one possibility of removing the mask: being punished and deprived of the citizenship. Because even if you are punished with demotion, you can still keep the mask.

"I don't know what crime did my subordinates commit?" Zhang Lu said in a voice.

"You don't know? Well, I will tell you. Zhang Yao bullies others with his power and bullies the weak girl in Yijiang Tower. After being knocked out by me, in order to cover up your crime and shelter your son, you secretly mobilized ten Huainan Navy ships to chase me along the river. Zhang Lu, are you still saying that you are wronged now?"

Zhang Lu sneered and said slowly: "Zhang has three sons, the eldest son died young, and the second son was loyal to the country, leaving only three sons alone. The old wife spoiled too much, which made the rebellious son idle all day long and not even adult. Ten days ago, he was jealous and beaten with people while drinking flower wine in Yijianglou, which led to others being injured. Xiao Lu, the deputy general of the navy, privately mobilized ten crafts to avenge the dog's son. Zhang did not know that the person who was arguing with the dog's son was the chief manager, nor did he know that Xiao Lu was arguing with the navy. After all, it was just a crime of missed supervision. The crime should not be punished, right?"

Zhang Lu's words attracted a lot of discussion, and some people openly agreed with Zhang Lu's words, and there were many people who criticized the mulberry and scolded the locust.

Li Yan sneered and said to the knife and halberd, "Drag the loud noise down and take the forty military sticks."

The six halberds were both guards of the Grand General Manager and law enforcement officers of the venue. It was originally the host's business to maintain the discipline of the venue, but since the Grand General Manager was in charge, the six people dared not to obey. The six halberds caught three horizontal swords and walked out, and no one dared to speak.

Yang Hao said in a panic: "Although Ma Wei showed his might, he also cut off his retreat. Zhang Lu's intention to mobilize troops was ill-intentioned, although it was the truth, there was no evidence. How should he conquer everyone? If this matter is not handled properly, everyone will definitely attack them. At that time, will it really be bloody to kill?"

After being beaten forty military sticks, the three of them were dragged back. They stared at Li Yan with gritted teeth.

"Sit down and talk." Li Yan faced the hostile gazes of everyone, without any hesitation.

The butt was already rotten after being hit by the forty military sticks. How can I sit still? But the rule of faceless meeting is to sit and hold a meeting. Li Yan refused to make an exception. Who dares to say no?

In the first confrontation, Li Yan won the game completely.

Just as everyone was indignant and planning a counterattack, Li Yan said lightly again: "Take Zhang Yao."

Several brass masked halberds escorted Zhang Yao in. Zhang Lu suddenly became angry when she saw this, and pointed at Li Yan and said, "What's my son's fault? Are you using such despicable means?"
Chapter completed!