Chapter 180 All are cruel people

Sun Mansion, Sun Erlang's bedroom.

Sun Erlang lay on the bed and listened to Guo Xiaoke's words. His injuries were very serious. Thirty military sticks had already beaten him so hard that he could not move. To be honest, it was the first time Sun Erlang had tasted such a harsh punishment. The military stick hit his butt was like a fire-burning iron on his butt. The guard who executed the execution today was the Black Guard. The way of hitting the military stick was different from the military sticks in the past. When the first stick was hit, blood oozed out from Sun Erlang's butt. Sun Erlang was punished by Li Ji before when he violated the military law, but today's military stick was completely different from the past. Guo Xiaoke was shocked at that time. He did not expect that Sun Erlang, who was silent when he was punished on weekdays, would shout like that when he hit the first stick today. What he had not thought that the black Guard would oozed out from the blood oozed out from Sun Erlang's butt.

Fear! Absolute fear! Sun Erlang only has this word in his heart at this time. Today he tried what ruthlessness is! Li Ke's method is ruthlessness. Those who do not obey him will die, and he will not let you die easily, and it will make you die very painful. Now Sun Erlang is no longer thinking about how to resist Li Ke, but how to make himself die without pain. He knew that Li Ke would never let him go.

Shock! Absolutely shocked! For Guo Xiaoke, the black-clothed guards around Li Ke shocked him. They were also ordinary military sticks, and they suddenly became the torture instruments in the cell, even more terrifying than the torture instruments in the cell. He couldn't figure out, and he didn't understand what kind of terrifying existence the black-clothed guards around Li Ke were. First of all, they were their unique method when executing Sun Erlang. Secondly, the ruthlessness and ruthlessness of the black-clad guards under Su Dingfang when they took action without any scruples against the generals of the Governor's Office.

The generals of the Governor's Office were already in vain at this time, and they were now expecting Guo Xiaoke to come up with an idea to deal with the current crisis. With the current attitude of the Han King, they dare not expect him to give up. If he seized anyone who was disrespectful to him in the Governor's Office and wanted to deal with military law, what should he do? Therefore, they were very uneasy, quite naive and ridiculous about following the previous governor's wishes to give the new King of Han, and how ridiculous their plan at that time made the Han King Kong have the order of the governor without the power of the governor.

"Chief Guo, how should we do tomorrow?" The question was Xu Hui, the director of the military officer, "Does everyone forget about being humiliated by the Han King in the governor's mansion today? You can swallow this, but I, Xu Hui, can't swallow this!" Xu Hui could tell from his name that his relationship with Li Ji was definitely not as simple as superiors and subordinates. Because Li Ji's original name was Xu Shiji, with his courtesy name Maogong, and Gaozu Li Yuan gave him the surname Li, and later avoided the taboo of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin and changed his name to Li Ji. Xu Hui is Li Ji's cousin, and the spokesperson for Li Ji to stay in the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion. The reason why he suggested that Guo Xiaoke should not tolerate Li Ke's suppression of the generals of the Governor's Mansion is that there are many of the generals of the Governor's Mansion who are not Li Ji. If Li Ke is tolerated and suppressed, they will turn to Li Ke's side, then his plan may fail.

"Guo Changshi, Xu Guanjun is right. The King of Han gave us a warning when he first arrived. How can we tolerate it? If we hold on like this, Bingzhou will sooner or later become his world." The person who spoke was Wang Chong, Sima of the Governor's Office. He was also a long-time general who followed Li Ji through life and death, just like Sun Erlang.

"What do you mean?" Guo Xiaoke didn't say anything, and he turned his gaze to the rest of the people and asked.

Except for some Li Ji people such as Sun Erlang, Wang Chong, Xu Hui, etc., the others are all generals who vassalized them. Guo Xiaoke is asking them now. Guo Xiaoke's mind is the same as Xu Hui. Not everyone in the Governor's Office is Li Ji's, so if you want to fight against the King of Han, you must win over these people.

After Guo Xiaoke asked, Xu Hui, Wang Chong, Sun Erlang and other Li Ji people stared at them with their eyes, with the purpose of making these people express their opinions on the spot.

"Everything follows the arrangements of Changshi Guo!" said one of the soldiers.

"Okay." Guo Xiaoke said, "Tomorrow, His Highness the King of Han will be in the military camp. Don't be late to avoid military law."

"Guo Changshi, are you?" Xu Hui did not expect Guo Xiaoke to issue such an order. He thought Guo Xiaoke would order everyone to ignore Li Ke's orders.

"You go back, remember that when the military camp is on the verge of Mao tomorrow, everyone should not be late." Guo Xiaoke said.

"No." The generals replied, and then there were only four people in the house, including Sun Erlang, Wang Chong, Guo Xiaoke and Xu Hui.

"Hmph!" Xu Hui ignored Guo Xiaoke and turned his head over. Guo Xiaoke ignored Xu Hui's attitude towards him and asked with a serious expression, "What did Xu join the army, Governor Li tell you and me when he left?"

"Control the military power of Bingzhou and don't let it fall into the hands of the King of Han." Xu Hui glanced at Guo Xiaoke and said angrily.

"Then what will happen if you encourage everyone to confront Han Wang?" Guo Xiaoke asked.

"Hmph! They are all cowards!" After Xu Hui said that, he sat on the bench next to him and remained silent.

"Xu Jun, you should understand the current situation. If we encourage everyone to confront the King of Han, I would like to ask you, whether we are all under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office in terms of power, and whether the 8,000 iron cavalry of the Han King was a new army formed by the court to deal with the Turks, how can our government army be comparable? Also, Li Mengchang obviously supports the King of Han. He has 10,000 troops. Do you think how can we confront the King of Han with the 20,000 troops in our hands? Do you know what the final result is?" Guo Xiaoke's tone became even more stern when he said this, and he shouted, "For the sake of the current plan, we can only avoid its edge, and don't leave the King of Han with the excuse that he wants to deprive us of military power. Only in this way can we ensure that the military power in our hands will not be taken away by the King of Han."

"What Guo Changshi said is right, let's bear it first!" Wang Chong advised Xu Hui. Guo Xiaoke agreed with the current situation very much. "As long as the troops in Bingzhou are still under our control, we have completed the task assigned to us by Governor Li. Why bother with the King of Han for a while?"

"Hmph!" Xu Hui snorted lightly, his face calming down, not as blue as before.

"Don't you think that as long as we have the troops in Bingzhou, with the eight thousand iron cavalry and the ten thousand troops in the hands of the King of Han, do we have no room for dealing with him? Is it so easy for him to slaughter him? Don't forget the governor's mansion. Although the current governor Di Zhixun is the king of Han, since ancient times, the governor's mansion of Bingzhou has been the territory of the gentry of Taiyuan Prefecture. How could they allow the King of Han to be involved? Therefore, as long as we can calm down and avoid the current edge of the King of Han and the King of Han to keep the troops in hand, and when the King of Han and the Chief of Han had a dispute, Guo Xiaoke did not have the rest, but the four people in the house understood. They smiled at the same time after listening to Guo Xiaoke's words.

The four of them had a great time in Sun's house when they heard someone report outside the door.

"Come in!" Sun Erlang said, then a soldier walked in and reported to the four people that the Grand Governor Su Dingfang had transferred three thousand iron cavalry from outside the city to the city. After the sergeant said that, Guo Xiaoke's face turned pale. He waved his hand to let the soldiers withdraw, looked at everyone, and saw that they were the same expression as his, he couldn't help but feel scared. Fortunately, he and others did not do anything out of order, otherwise they would definitely not see the sun tomorrow.

During the Wu period, Li's mansion and study room, the candlelight was swaying, and the two were talking in a low voice, and they were Li Yan and Li Ke.

Li Ke said apologetically to Li Yan, "What happened today is because the incident happened suddenly and I didn't have time to report it to my brother. I hope my brother will forgive me."

Li Yan smiled and said, "Your Highness is too worried. The affairs of the governor's office are caused by the malicious troubles of the generals of the Governor's office. Your Highness responds to the emergency and makes it very appropriate. How can I blame Your Highness?"

Li Ke couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he heard that Li Yan still called himself Your Highness in the Li Mansion and called himself a humble minister. He wanted to narrow the distance between the two through his brotherly relationship, but now it seems that Li Yan's performance is not as he expected. At the same time, Li Ke also measured Li Yan's meaning, and he wanted to use this method to tell Li Ke his attitude to the governor's mansion, that is, to remain neutral and not participate in the battle between Li Ke and the governor's mansion.

That's good. After Li Ke understood what Li Yan meant, he thought to himself that the purpose of the governor's office being able to remain neutral might be to benefit from the fisherman. However, Li Ke didn't think too much. The most important thing at the moment was to deal with the affairs of the governor's office. It was the main thing to grasp the military power of Bingzhou as soon as possible. As for other things that should be abandoned, you should not feel sorry for them, and you should not hide them privately.

"I am not very familiar with military affairs of the Governor's Office when I first arrived in Bingzhou. Can you give me some advice?" Li Ke thought that since you remain neutral, you would never be stingy with some information.

"Your Highness——" Li Yan said after a moment of silence, "When Li Ji was the governor of Bingzhou, there were four tiger generals in Bingzhou, namely Guo Xiaoke, Sun Erlang, Wang Chong and Xu Hui. After Li Ji was transferred to Shuofang, the four tiger generals should know the intention of it."

"Yeah!" Li Ke nodded. He also felt that the Governor's Office was definitely instructing him to tit for a while. Through Li Yan's words, it is very likely that he would be sure of Li Ji.

"Before Li Ji was transferred to Shuofang, guests from Chang'an often went to and from the Governor's Office." Li Yan continued,

"When?" Li Ke suddenly asked, thinking that this might be the reason why the people in the Governor's Office competed against him.

"It's already been the year before. It should be the time when the court heard that you were intercepted by the Turks in Mobei." Li Yan said.

Li Ke was shocked. If the people in the Governor's Office competed with him because of the instructing others, and this person was Li Ji. Then it is certain that Li Ji was not the final instructor. He might have been instructed by others to compete with him. However, Li Yan said just now that the people from Chang'an who had contacted Li Ji were when he was robbed in the Turks two years ago. Wouldn't it prove that when he was robbed in the Turks, others were already planning to let the Governor's Office deal with him? However, at that time, his life and death were uncertain, so why would he think that he would be demoted to Bingzhou?

Li Ke thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on. He looked out the window and it was already late, so he said goodbye to Li Yan. Li Yan did not try to keep Li Ke and sent him out of Li's mansion respectfully.
Chapter completed!