Chapter 731: Zhongchong (I)
There is something in the wind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
In the village of Shibinxia near the city of Zezhou, the villagers gathered on the threshing floor and watched the soldiers enter the big house on the hillside, and the noise did not stop for a while, it was the wife of the big landlord crying.
“…… You are filthy and good...... You're filthy—"
“…… Shen Ling of the Shen family opened his eyes for the Black Flag rebels in the private school, and secretly hid forbidden books, which clearly had something to do with the rebels! This family is full of suspects, arrest them all, ask them clearly, and then say-"
The actions of the army caused mass cries, and in the past few days, it has not been the first such incident in the vicinity of Zezhou. The villagers on the threshing floor were uneasy, but the big families were involved, and for a while, it did not cause too much panic.
"The situation in Zezhou is uneven! Gangsters gather, in recent days, I am afraid that there will be trouble, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we will arrest people and eliminate rebellion, just to stabilize the situation. In the next few days, there may be major events that will cause inconvenience to your lives, but General Sun assures you that as long as the rebel thief king Lion Tong is given the head, the situation will be peaceful! ”
The soldier in charge of propaganda spoke loudly in front of the threshing floor, and then cited the evidence of the Shen family's guilt. Shen Ling, the son of the Shen family, was originally in charge of the township school in the village, and he liked to talk about current affairs, and occasionally said a few good words about the Black Flag Army, and the villagers felt that it was not surprising when they heard it, but recently, the peace of Zezhou was broken by the hungry ghosts, and the hungry ghost forces are said to have something to do with the black flag. Although you may have a good impression of Shen Ling on weekdays, who let you go to the rebels.
After all, the psychology of the villagers is simple, fighting the Jurchen is fighting the Jurchen, but they just want to live their own lives, and if the Black Flag Army wants to burn the fire here, it will naturally be a heinous bad guy.
The soldiers escorted the Shen family and pushed and shoved all the way to Zezhou City. The villagers watched this scene, but no one realized that they might not be able to come back.
Two days later is the time for the Ghost King to confer the head, and after two days, everything will be fine......
In the government office of Zezhou, Lu Anmin walked through the corridor with a complicated and anxious face, and when he stepped down the steps, he almost fell.
He held a roll of rice paper in his hand, anxious in his heart. All the way to the main hall of Sun Qi's office, I saw that there were many officials waiting in the lobby of the state capital, some were generals in the army, and some were civilians in the state capital, noisily waiting for the general to receive him. Seeing Lu Anmin coming, civilian officials rushed up one after another to share with him about Zezhou affairs at this time.
Sun Qi is now sitting in the state capital, handling all the situation, but he is giving priority to calling in the army generals, and the civil servants in the state capital have been stopped at the door for a long time, and many urgent matters at hand cannot be dealt with.
When the Wu Dynasty still controlled the Central Plains, many affairs were always headed by Wenchen. Lu Anmin was a herdsman guarding a place, and at this time he was already the highest civil official in the local area, but he was still stopped outside the gate for a while. He has been running back and forth in the past few days, and he has not been treated coldly once or twice, even if the situation is stronger than others, the resentment in his heart has already been accumulating. After a while, seeing a few groups of generals coming in and out of the lead, he got up and walked forward abruptly, and the soldier wanted to stop him, but he pushed him away.
"Don't stand in my way! This official is still the governor of Zezhou - just to see the Tiger King! Nor will they be so despised—"
In the lobby, Sun Qi was discussing with several generals, and when he heard the noise, he stopped talking and his face turned cold. He is tall and thin, with long and powerful arms, but his eyes are narrow and narrow, and his long military career makes this general extremely dangerous, and ordinary people dare not approach. The first time he saw Lu Anmin, he slammed the table.
"Presumptuous! Now that the army has moved, this place is the camp tent of the Chinese army! Lord Lu, you are so ignorant!? ”
"General Sun, this official has not been dismissed, and now he is the governor of Zezhou. I have something important to see you, and I have been reported again and again, but I don't know who you and I are! ”
His eyes were bloodshot, and in the past few days of torment, he had also been dizzy, and temporarily ignored the fact that the army was actually the biggest one at the moment. Seeing that he was reckless, Sun Qi also waved his hand violently: "You guys go down!" Before the person left, he looked at Lu Anmin: "Lord Lu, this action was personally ordered by the Tiger King, you only need to cooperate with me, I don't have to explain too much to you!" ”
"However, after this incident, Zezhou will not want it!"
"Lu Anmin, do you know what is going on now!"
"It doesn't have to be that way!"
"Who do you think Ben is going to be waiting for? An army of 70,000! You think it's just for the 10,000 dying people outside the city!? ”
"It doesn't have to be this way!" Lu Anmin emphasized loudly, "There are so many people, more than ninety percent of them are innocent!" They have relatives and families behind them - the family is ruined! ”
"Ben's army of 50,000 has scattered 400,000 hungry ghosts! But now it's 70,000 people in the city of Zezhou! Land! Big! Person! Sun Qi's voice overwhelmed the wind roar in the gloomy sky outside the lobby, "You! Arrive! Bottom! Know! Road! No! Know!? Who are we waiting for—"
Lu Anmin looked at him in a daze, and then said one word: "Home!" Break! Person! Lose! Yes! ”
"It's been ten years of fighting! The family is ruined! Lu Anmin pointed outside, "How many people have died, General Sun, I know that you have the means, the 10,000 displaced people outside the city you suppressed, suppressed and killed, they couldn't resist, and the people in the city still felt at ease." I'm a civilian, but I know that after the thing is done, Zezhou City is going to collapse, it's going to be chaotic, it's been ten years, and it's hard to have such a place, and you want to mess with him. ”
"I know you have to do things, you think I don't know what to prioritize, but I don't have to do that." Lu Anmin waved his hand, "If there are fewer deaths, there can be fewer deaths." You want to collect money, you want to take power, but to this point, you will have nothing to take in the future......"
"What did you say!" Sun Qi slammed, stretched out his hand and slammed it on the table, his eyes were fixed on Lu Anmin, like a devouring cobra, "You tell me again, what is the meaning of collecting money!" Take power! ”
When Lu Anmin said that at that time, he was already a little afraid. He mustered up the courage to face Sun Qi for a while, and his brain was also dizzy, but he also said some things that he couldn't say. I saw Sun Qi stretch out his hand:
"Ninety percent innocent? If you say innocent, you are innocent? You vouch for them! Guaranteed that they are not Black Flag people!? You are responsible for letting them go, can you afford it!? I thought I told you, you would understand that my 70,000-strong army was waiting in Zezhou, and you took it as child's play—I think you are dizzy. Ninety percent innocent? When I came out, the Tiger King said that I would rather kill by mistake to the black flag! Don't let it go! ”
"Humph! People like you are also worthy of being parents in a state! You think you're just a petty official? Seeing you is a waste of effort. Come! Take him out, and if anyone dares to make trouble in front of this general, he will be killed! ”
As soon as Sun Qi said this, the deputy general beside him had already brought people in, put up Lu Anmin's arms and walked out. Lu Anmin looked at Sun Qi, and finally couldn't help but struggle: "You guys are making a big fuss!" General Sun! You-"
He had been pulled to the door at this time, struggling, the two soldiers didn't want to hurt him too much, just held his hand and asked him to retreat, and then, when he heard a snapping sound, Lu Anmin suddenly staggered back and rolled down the ground outside the lobby.
This sound came suddenly, and many people outside saw it, but they couldn't react, and the nearby corridors instantly quieted down. After a while, people realized that just now, the lieutenant general of the army actually slapped Lu Anmin in the face, whipping him almost out of the air.
Lu Anmin was also stunned at this moment, he sat up after falling to the ground, only to feel the hot pain on his face, and what was even more embarrassing was probably the onlookers of many people around him.
At a time when everything is collapsing, such a thing is not surprising. The vicinity of Zezhou also experienced and felt that period a little, but the peace of the past few years has diluted everyone's memory, and only this slap at this time has made people remember it again.
Even in the most stable and peaceful place in the Central Plains for several years, the tiger king Tianhu was once just a rebellious hunter. This is a troubled time, not a martial dynasty......
Lu Anmin sat there, and he didn't know what thoughts were rolling in his mind, and it was only after a long time that he struggled to get up from the ground, and the humiliation and anger made him tremble all over. But he didn't look back and entangle, when this land was the most chaotic, no matter how big the official's mansion was, it was also washed into by the rebels, even the family members of the prefect of Zhizhou were also **** to death by the rebels, what is this? The royal family of this country also experienced such a thing, and those women who were captured and went north included queens, concubines, princesses, ministers and noblewomen......
In fact, nothing has changed......
The adjutant general returned to the lobby, Sun Qi looked outside, gritted his teeth and nodded: "If he can do things, let him do things!" If not, take off his hat—"
In the city of Zezhou, most of the people are quite stable. They only thought that it was the chaos caused by the killing of Wang Shitong, and Sun Qi's control of the situation outside the city also allowed the civilians to temporarily find a sense of superiority in Taiping. Some people ran back and forth because their homes were affected, and in the early days, they did not get everyone's sympathy - on the cusp of the storm, don't add to the chaos, kill Wang Shitong, and things will be fine.
The barracks and checkpoints outside the city, the streets and high walls inside the city, the 70,000-strong army tightly guarded everything, and at the same time kept purging the interior of possible foreign parties, waiting for the enemy who might or may not appear. In fact, most of the cities under the command of the Tiger King have fallen into such a tense atmosphere, and the purge has begun, but the core is to kill the prestige of Zezhou and the Tiger King.
In the prison, You Hongzhuo sat in the haystack, quietly feeling the chaos around him and the increasing number of "fellow inmates", he could hardly have too many guesses about what would happen next, and he could not know much about the situation outside the prison. He was just wondering in his heart: did he really see Mr. Zhao the night before, and why did he become a doctor and enter this prison again? Could it be that he is the man of the Tiger King? And if he had come in, why would he not save himself?
Maybe it's fake......
He finally thought so. If in this prison, the fourth brother Guo Wenbai can reach in with his tentacles, and Mr. Zhao and the others can also come in at will, wouldn't this matter be too child's play......
The experience of these few days, the tragedy he has seen, has made him a little disheartened, if it were not for this, his mind might have turned faster and realized something else.
In the increasingly tense city of Zezhou, the people of the green forest are also gathering in various ways. Some of these people from the nearby green forests have found organizations, some have wandered around, and many have been besieged or imprisoned by officers and soldiers during the clashes that have lasted for several days. However, in the past few days, more articles have been written around the prison in secret.
It was evening, the sky was not good, the wind was blowing but there was no sign of rain for the time being, in the alley of the back door of the prison, there were several figures supporting each other out of the prison door, several carriages were waiting here, seeing everyone come out, there was also a monk with more than a dozen people, greeted them.
The people who were released were young and old, but they were dressed in the air of warriors, and many of them were even tortured and injured. The monks and entourage greeted them with the greetings of the rivers and lakes - they also brought a few doctors.
"Tang Yingying, Zheng Yingying, seniors, brothers, have suffered, this time the incident started in a hurry, the government is cunning, we can't rescue it, it's really a big mistake......"
The monk spoke respectfully. Among the rescued people in the green forest, an old man waved his hand: "Needless to say, needless to say, there is a time when this matter will be recovered." The great virtue of benevolence and righteousness of the Bright Sect has also been kept in our hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a bad thing, in this prison, we can be regarded as clearing the road and feeling a little better......"
"What Tang's predecessors said is extremely ......," everyone agreed.
"Let's leave this matter and talk about it......"
"Exactly, leave ...... first"
In the midst of the discussion, everyone got into the carriage and walked away. The alley became empty, and it wasn't long before another carriage came and picked up another group of Greenwooders and left.
In a quiet small building not far away, the masters of the Great Light Sect gathered, and Tan Zheng, the Heshuo Heavenly Knife that You Hongzhuo had not seen for several days, was one of them, he was well-informed, and he stood in front of the window and quietly watched all this from the cracks, and then turned around and whispered some information to the man in the room who was wide and large, like Maitreya: "'Soul Attracting Knife' Tang Jian, 'Dragon Fist' Zheng Wu, some friends of Chaimen Fist...... was rescued, and there should be a hero of the five phoenix swords in a while, the hero of Kaminami......"
This has been going on for some time since the arrival of Maitreya-like nobles—there were other minions here to make notes. Hearing Tan Zheng's report a few times, Lin Zongwu put down the teacup, nodded, and signaled out: "Go." A moment after he had finished speaking, there was a knock at the door.
Tan Zheng went over to open the door, and listened to the subordinate report the situation, and then turned back: "Sect Master, the origin of those people from before has been clarified." ”
"Hmm." Lin Zongwu nodded.
"I heard that it is the 'eight-armed dragon king' party, he can't do it in Chifeng Mountain, but he didn't think that he came to Zezhou, and he wanted to be embarrassed by us.
"Earlier, he ran Chifeng Mountain, and I thought he had some talent, but I didn't expect to come back to run the rivers and lakes, it's really ...... The pattern is limited. ”
Lin Zongwu said lightly and took a sip of tea. These days, the Great Light Sect is operating a big game of chess in Zezhou City, gathering a lot of green forest heroes, but naturally there are many people who are unwilling to go with it, in the past two days, a group of people have emerged, lobbying all parties in private, and ruining the Great Light Sect A lot of good things, after noticing, Tan Zheng is investigating, and now he knows that it is the eight-armed dragon king.
In recent years, the eight-armed dragon king was originally regarded as the most powerful column in the Central Plains, and the heroes of Chifeng Mountain gathered 100,000 heroes when they were most prosperous, but in this half year, news about the infighting in Chifeng Mountain came out frequently, probably not long before the hungry ghost was scattered by Sun Qi, the power under the command of Pingdong General Li Xizhi broke Chifeng Mountain, and the eight-armed dragon king fell into the rivers and lakes, and unexpectedly appeared here.
Tan Zheng looked at the information collected: "This 'eight-armed dragon king' Shi Jin, it is said that he was originally a bandit in Liangshan, this name is the nine-pattern dragon, Liangshan lost his trace after it was broken, and he has only been famous for the eight-armed dragon king in recent years, and he spared no effort to kill the Jin people in private." I heard that martial arts are quite strong, and there is private news that when the iron-armed Zhou Dong assassinated Sticky Han, Shi Jin once walked with him, and he also lit Zhou Dong and taught the mantle......"
"Haha......" Listening to Tan Zheng's words, Lin Zongwu laughed, he got up and walked to the window, and put his hands behind his back, "Whether it's the eight-armed dragon king or the nine-patterned dragon, his martial arts, this seat has heard of it earlier." When I tried the world in this boxing, I thought about meeting with him, but I was worried that he was a hero, and I was afraid that it would damage his status in the hearts of my subordinates, so I skipped it. That's fine, Zhou Dong's final teaching...... Hahahaha......"
Lin Zongwu smiled happily, and Tan Zheng walked up: "Do you want to visit him tonight?" ”
"Why bother? Why did I come to Zezhou? Even if you can't take it head-on, how can you face the enemy behind this pool of troubled waters? Just prepare as usual, and at tomorrow's hero meeting, this seat will personally meet his octagonal mixed copper stick with both fists, and pull out his dragon skin and dragon tendons! Right to do-"
"—the appetizer of the trip!"
The wind blows through the city, and countless different wills are converging.
Wu Jianshuo eight years, June 28. Night falls. (To be continued.) )