"Lord, are these enough?" Luchang Mountain, the Taiping Cultists who had been surrounded by mountains have been withdrawn. After all, the Taiping Cult is not the court, and they are shameless. In terms of discipline, it cannot be compared with the well-trained court soldiers. After finding nothing in the mountain for three days, Zhang Jiao gave up on searching. However, within the Taiping Cult, Guan Hai has been included as the key target of hunting. At this moment, in the mountain village that originally belonged to Gao Sheng, Gao Sheng stood carefully in front of Ye Zhao.

"Enough." Ye Zhao looked at the bamboo papers in his hand. They were not testimony. The thing was easy to imitate and it was impossible to overthrow Wei Xian. These bamboo papers recorded letter exchanges between some Wei Xian and some middle and senior generals of the Taiping Cult. There were also records of Wei Xian's use of his position to secretly help the Taiping Cult raise funds. Once these things were sent to the court, they would be enough to move Wei Xian down.

He looked up and looked at Gao Sheng and said, "I did a good job, I look at you with admiration."

"Little man!" Guan Hai glanced at Gao Sheng coldly, looked at the bamboo papers, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

Ye Zhao ignored these things and looked up at Gao Sheng and said, "Is that horn still in the city now?"

"The day after the lord left, he left." Gao Sheng shook his head and said, "Now the senior officials of the Taiping Sect in Ji County have almost gone. The villain was arranged by Zhang Jiao to return here to establish a copycat to facilitate supervision of the movements of the court."

Ye Zhao shook his head and smiled: "Okay, I will set off for Macheng to take office today. I lack some people under my command, how many people are there in your village."

"I returned to the lord, and my subordinates have newly established a mountain village. Now there are only more than 150 people, but they are all young and strong, and they are willing to follow him." Gao Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this. The years and the years were not good, and the court had many heavy taxes. Most of the people who would come here were forced to survive. If there was a way out, who would be willing to become a bandit? Not to mention those ordinary bandits who just wanted to eat, even if he had the opportunity to join the court, he would not be willing to stay on the mountain and be a bandit. What's more, he had seen Ye Zhao's methods. With such people, he would have been able to make a name for himself in the future and seek a background, which is many times better than those who are the Taiping Sect.

"One hundred and fifty people?" Ye Zhao nodded. Ye Zhao nodded, turned his head to look at Ding Li and said, "Split fifteen brothers, each leading ten people. Along the way, just be trained recruits. Walk slowly and don't be afraid. Send someone to urge them to urge them. The craftsmen we recruit in Hanoi will be able to keep up as soon as possible."

"Here!" Ding Li nodded when he heard this and went out to find someone.

"Mr. Ye, those bamboo papers..." Guan Hai looked at the bamboo papers on the table and looked at Ye Zhao with some hope.

"I will send someone to the Jizhou Governor's Mansion." Ye Zhao stood up and turned his head to look at Guan Hai: "I know what you are thinking, but Taiping Cult cannot achieve great things. Even without these things, they may be able to have a momentum, but it won't take long to be put out."

"Sir, I'm afraid I don't know how many Taiping scholars are!" Guan Hai snorted coldly when he heard this and said unconvincedly. Although he had to follow Ye Zhao now, he was Zhang Jiao's disciple after all, so he naturally didn't want Zhang Jiao to be so unbearable.

"No need to know." Ye Zhao shook his head: "I know that there are many Taiping Church, but so what? Sometimes, it may not be a good thing to have a large number of people, especially in Taiping Church, where the organization is loose and there are many believers, they cannot exert the abilities of these churches. Zhang Jiao does not have this ability. Even if there are, how can he control the entire man? How many people are under his command? There are no people who can take charge of the overall situation. No matter how many people there are, they are just a mess of sand, which is not to be afraid."

"Just, there are 72 coaches under the command of the great sage, each of which is a well-known hero. After a shout, followers gather..." Guan Hai was dissatisfied and wanted to defend himself.

"The marching requires consuming food. The more people, the more food consumed, the more food it consumes, where does the grain come from?" Ye Zhao sneered: "Ratch, right? But when they rob the grain from the government, the next one is the people. When the people rob it, where will they go to find food after they rob it? Even if they take over the Han Dynasty, the people will live in poverty and the Central Plains are devastated. This is what you want to see? A well-known hero? Then, after capturing the counties, how to manage it, do you know?"

Ye Zhao asked a series of questions like a bamboo tube pouring beans, and Guan Hai was speechless and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Okay, I won't discuss these issues. I'm willing to accept the loss. Now that I have not arrived in Ji County, Zhang Jiao has already escaped. You and I have to make a bet, there is no need to continue." Ye Zhao didn't want to continue discussing this issue. It's meaningless. Zhang Jiao is at best just a gun used by the aristocratic family to deal with the imperial power, which will open the prelude to the troubled times, but ending the troubled times is definitely not something Zhang Jiao can do.

Guan Hai stood there with a gloomy face, a little unwilling and a little disappointed. Finally, he knelt down in front of Ye Zhao weakly and bowed hard to the ground: "Guan Hai, see the lord."

"Get up." Ye Zhao stretched out his hand and pulled Guan Hai up: "This matter is not something you should be in charge. The official's jurisdiction is in Macheng, the border area, and there is no conflict with the Taiping Sect. In a short period of time, there is no need to worry that I will have a conflict with the Taiping Sect. These things can move Wei Xian down, but they have little effect on Zhang Jiao. The current court..."

Shaking his head, Ye Zhao did not continue to say that the internal and Chinese relations were intricate. Zhang Jiao would not have any trouble before the uprising. The officials in the court who were involved in the Taiping Sect would not sit idly by and watch Zhang Jiao be taken down by the court. It was not only a matter of interest, but also about their lives. These people would do their best to suppress this matter. Wei Xian would become the one who took the blame. Ye Zhao's goal has been achieved. He did not want to touch this network independently at this time. This network was too big. Once it was trapped, it would not be beneficial to him, and it might even cause a murder.

Guan Hai did not speak, obviously feeling uncomfortable, but Ye Zhao didn't have the heart to take care of it anymore. He ordered people to pack the bamboo papers together with the military talismans that Wang Fen had handed to him before and sent them to the governor's house. After attaching a letter to thank Wang Fen, he summoned everyone to take office in Macheng. As for how Wang Fen handled this matter, it was his business. Ye Zhao didn't want to be too deeply involved.

There were only twenty-six people when they came, but now there are more than one hundred and eighty people. After meeting with the recruited craftsmen, Ye Zhao's entourage had more than two hundred people. He passed Heishan, bypassed Jizhou, and headed towards Macheng.

While walking, they also had to train these recruits brought by Gaosheng, and they also had to find ways to make some money. Fortunately, the Ye family had some contact with several wealthy merchants in Jizhou. They didn’t have to worry about the food consumed by training. Instead, they lacked weapons. Ye Zhao looked down on the broken iron in Gaosheng’s village, so they collected them as iron ingots and let the craftsmen take them together, and then settled in Macheng and rebuilt them.

The two-month itinerary originally planned, but after five months of joining the recruits, I spent all the years on the road. When I arrived in Dai County, although the weather was still cold, there was already a bit of green on the earth.

"After passing Gaoliu, it is less than two hundred miles away from Macheng. However, the mountain roads in this area are difficult to walk. With our current marching speed, it may take three days to reach. If the lord still needs to continue training troops, it will take five days." Outside Gaoliu City, because there are too many people and Gaoliu is the county governor, the prefect Guo Xuan is unwilling to let his group enter the city, so Ye Zhao could only find a village to settle down, Guan Hai and Gao Sheng stood beside Ye Zhao and said to Ye Zhao.

Although the two of them were ignorant, the biggest use of Guan Hai and Gao Sheng's joining was that they could see less maps. They were different from Ding Li, a hero from the green forest, and were home to the world. They had visited many places. Even if they hadn't been there, they knew who to ask for directions.

"Five days? Not long." Ye Zhao was not anxious, and thought for a while and said, "You two are traveling around the world. Have you ever been to Macheng?"

Guan Hai and Gao Sheng shook their heads in a daze when they heard this. Most of them were active in the Central Plains on weekdays, but fewer border areas were coming.

Guan Hai thought for a while and said, "Although I have gone in the future, I have heard from people in the Taiping Sect that the troops in Macheng have been withdrawn for many years. Although they are nominally governed by our great Han Dynasty, they are under nominal control."

"Oh?" Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows. Uncle Liang had already told him about these things, but Uncle Liang didn't know the reason, and asked immediately: "Why is this?"

"The Hu and Han in Macheng live in a mixed manner, and even many Hu people live there, which is difficult to manage. I heard that three county magistrates died. Later, the people who were named Macheng magistrates dared not go, and the court was unwilling to send troops to go. So now Macheng is a place of three no-counsels, and many murderers will flee here to take refuge." Guan Hai said in a muffled voice.

"No wonder the court is willing to promise me three years of tax exemption, and all military and political power are handed over to me. So that's it." Thinking of the previous visit, the prefect Guo Xuan did not mention a word, Ye Zhao sneered in his heart. It seemed that the prefect Guo Xuan wanted to die by himself.

"Lord, don't panic. We now have more than 180 children. After the training of the lord these days, we are all elite troops. What's the difficulty of suppressing these rioters?" Gao Sheng smiled. These days, he had seen with his own eyes how his subordinates who couldn't even stand in the queue step by step under Ye Zhao's training, becoming a well-trained elite soldier. A small horse city with a population of only 3,000 households, nothing is difficult to deal with.

"Blind self-confidence is not a good thing. The military strategy is full of military tactics. Only by knowing yourself and the other can you win a hundred battles. If you go to Macheng rashly, if there is really a crisis in Macheng, someone will set up an ambush halfway, what's the difference between dying?" Ye Zhao shook his head. Besides, Guo Zhi knew that Macheng was dangerous but did not mention it at all. Isn't that suspicious?

"Then... lord, what should we do?" Ding Li asked.

Ye Zhao groped his chin and said, "Ding Li, you will continue to walk and train with the craftsmen. I will take Guan Hai, Gao Sheng and ten guards to arrive in Macheng first pretending to be vendors. Slow down. In five days, I will send someone to contact you, but..."

Ye Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at Gao Sheng and said, "If no one comes to contact you in five days, it means something is wrong. You take a detour and take a mountain road, attack Macheng from behind, and capture Macheng for me."

"Lord, is this too dangerous? It's better..." Ding Li was shocked and said quickly.

"Don't worry, if I don't show my identity, even if there is danger in Macheng, I will not refuse the passing merchants. On the contrary, if it is not expected, I am afraid that someone has already been targeted. You need to be careful." Ye Zhao said in a deep voice.

"Here!" Ding Li stopped refuting when he heard this, and bowed and bowed.

"When will we set out?" Guan Hai asked.
Chapter completed!