"Boy, you can be considered awake, if you don't wake up, Lao Tzu will splash you with water."

"Goo!" Chen Fei saw that his subordinates were really planning to splash the water, swallowed a mouthful of water, and showed an ugly smile.

"Uncle Cheng, boy... The kid can't drink too much..."

"Okay, okay, the old man is not in the mood to talk nonsense with you." Cheng Yanjin waved his hand, interrupting Chen Fei's words, sat back in his position, looked at the four people below, and finally showed a smile.

"They are all my good sons of the Tang Dynasty, I will travel tomorrow, the old man will give you a drink!"

Chen Fei... Curse! Why do you still want to drink?

After drinking a glass of wine, Cheng Yanjin put down the wine glass, looked at everyone with a smile, and finally stopped his eyes on Chen Fei, "Boy, I'm going to leave tomorrow, do you know anything about the situation in Shunan?" ”

Chen Fei scratched his head and looked embarrassed. To be honest, he really didn't know much about the situation there. First, the news in this era is too closed, and second, his foundation in the DPRK and China is still shallow, and many news cannot be grasped at the first time.

Cheng Yanjin suddenly showed a disgusted expression, pointed at Chen Fei and said, "You're going to go on the expedition tomorrow, you don't even know what the situation is?" Knowing yourself and knowing that the other side can survive a hundred battles, you are going to die in the past! ”

Chen Fei scratched his head and said aggrievedly: "Uncle Cheng, you can't blame me entirely, the order is so sudden, where can I go to understand the situation?" ”

Cheng Yanjin snorted and gestured to Cheng by default. Cheng Chumo took out a piece of paper and handed it to Chen Fei.

"This is the information that my father asked for from the Ministry of War, Ah Fei, you can take a look first."

Chen Fei took the paper and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

The site of this rebellion was at the junction of Luzhou and Yuzhou, and it was mostly mountainous.

The initial reason for this was that when the tax was collected in the autumn, there was a conflict between the name of the local village and the official uniform.

The name of the village accuses the government of raising taxes privately, but in fact, it is normal for the government to deduct a little bit when collecting taxes, and everyone knows it.

But this year's harvest of the villagers was not very good, so they couldn't help but expose the government's behavior in public.

In a fit of rage, the people of the government "taught a lesson" to the villagers who made trouble, and the villagers spoke lightly, and after being beaten, they had to swallow their anger and go home.

How do you know that three days later, when relatives visited his home, they found that this person had died tragically in his own home.

This villager has always been honest and has no enemies, so it stands to reason that no one should deliberately come to kill him, but when everyone was puzzled, someone suddenly said that he had seen someone from the government come to his house that night.

So the villagers quit one after another, perhaps because they were dissatisfied with the harsh government of the government, or maybe because of the grievances of the dead villagers, they gathered a crowd to make trouble in the yamen.

The county magistrate of the Yamen is a corrupt official, and he has no ability, but he has a great ability to show off his might. When the villagers make trouble, they send people to drive away the villagers who are making trouble.

Well, the dissatisfaction of the villagers was squeezed to the extreme, they were overwhelmed by the oppression of taxes, and the government killed people and suppressed them by force, so they were completely disappointed in the country, and they thought that it would be better to fight for it.

That night, the villagers broke open the granary of the government, robbed all the grain inside, and killed more than a dozen officials, about 100 villagers in one village participated in the incident.

Later, more and more people participated in the rebellion, including villagers who also couldn't get along and mountain bandits who were originally bandits.

All in all, the number of rebels is now in the more than 2,300.

These people disguised themselves as ordinary people, infiltrated the nearby county offices, and then robbed the granaries and weapons, which has now become quite large-scale. The local army was very difficult to suppress.

Even more difficult was the fact that the villagers were so familiar with the nearby terrain that the mountains had created a natural barrier that would make it even more difficult to exterminate them.

After reading the information, Chen Fei couldn't help but feel that his head was big for a while, rubbed his head, and finally sighed. "In other words, the people who rebelled this time were originally ordinary people?"

Cheng Yanjin nodded: "Most of them, there are also some mountain bandits mixed in." And, boy, don't you think it's all going too well? In just one month, from more than 100 villagers to more than 2,000 rebels, the development has been so smooth, without a little twists and turns, and the local county government has actually done nothing, allowing these people to develop, the old man feels that there must be something strange here. ”

Yes, that makes sense! As soon as Cheng Yanjin said this, Chen Fei finally found out where he felt that something was wrong.

It stands to reason that when these more than 100 people gather to make trouble, there should be an army to suppress it, but until it grows into a team of more than 2,000 people, the army seems to be unaware, and when the other party has become a climate, the army only knows that it is attacking, searching like a decent for a while, small-scale engagement, and then ending in no result, how to think about how to feel wrong.

Is the local government handling it too child's play? It is no wonder that Li Shimin appointed him as the ambassador of the deposed army, not just a general who led the army.

I think Li Shimin must have noticed something and wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Chen Fei also suddenly understood what Li Shimin's strange smile and his "other intentions" meant before leaving today.

I'm afraid that this time I went to Bashu to quell the rebellion was secondary, and the most important thing was to let Chen Fei find out the truth of the matter and find out the real cause of the rebellion.

He was sure that there must be a pair of black hands behind this to promote the development of things, and what he had to do was to find out the owner of this pair of black hands. And quelling the chaos is just a pretense.

In political matters, it is rare that you have not understood that key point, but once you understand it, the rest of your thinking will suddenly be smooth.

Knowing Li Shimin's true intentions, Chen Fei didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

If the conjecture is true, then this trip to Bashu must be extremely dangerous, and someone will definitely try to get rid of him in every possible way. He may have to face more than just more than 2,000 rebels.

The invisible, the visible, and even the local defenders, have the potential to become his talisman.

"Boy, do you know it's stressful?" Cheng Yanjin saw Chen Fei's face was tangled and painful, and he smiled very happily.

"Hey, Uncle Cheng has a clever plan?"

"Me? What do I have a plan? Didn't you kid just come out of Li Jing's old guy's house? Why didn't he tell you this? ”

Chen Fei smiled bitterly: "Uncle Li taught me a lot of key points to quell the rebellion, but he didn't talk about this level. ”

Cheng Biting Jin touched his beard, nodded and said: "Old guy Li Jing doesn't ask about the world, I'm afraid I don't know the specific situation, but then again, the method... No, there is a piece of advice, I don't know if you kid would like to hear it. ”

"Uncle Cheng, please speak, the kid listens."

Cheng Yanjin stared at Chen Fei, gritted his teeth word by word and said, "Be cautious!" ”

(End of chapter)