Chapter 15: Reorganizing the North City
Cao Cao grabbed the man's hand, the scholar was powerless, and he couldn't break free from the pair of eagle claws with all his might, Cao Cao broke his arm down, but the man desperately lifted it up.
Those officials, tall, short, fat, and thin, all wanted to catch up and stop Cao Cao when they saw Cao Cao's actions, but Xiang Xu and Xiang Qing, who walked into the lobby, had already stopped them with an unkind face.
"If you don't want to die, don't move, I pull out this sword, and if I can't see blood, I won't go back obediently."
Several officials felt a terrifying momentum, and their chests were a little out of breath, although the murderous aura was as formless and colorless as air, but people with insufficient concentration were easily affected when facing the murderous shock.
The main source of murderous aura was not Xiang Qing who spoke, but Xiang Xu, who stood there without saying a word, and there was an amazing momentum.
The corners of Cao Cao's mouth raised, and he pressed the scholar's arm down hard, and several dice fell out of the scholar's sleeve.
Cao Cao covered his chest, pointed to the scholar's face, and said bitterly: "You are not kind! I just want to get involved, you guys are working together to lie to me? ”
The scholar didn't dare to look at Cao Cao's eyes, his eyes flickered left and right, and finally thought of a good reason: "That, this dice wasn't in my sleeve just now, it's you!" You just quietly put it in! ”
The big fat man on the other side also plucked up the courage to rush over: "I will testify to him, he is indeed not a thousand." ”
Xiang Qing couldn't stand it anymore: "Brother, don't make up for it, you just now, you were blind?" I think my eldest brother is a stupid son of the landlord's family, and he wants to cheat money, even if he cheats money, can you use some advanced techniques to open my eyes, who does this garbage method look down on? ”
The big fat man was a little annoyed and angry: "Who are you?" ”
"My name is Xiang Qing, the word Junhe, of course, you can also call me the second master."
"Whew!" The big fat man spat out a mouthful of phlegm casually: "What are you, this is my territory, uncle, and I still call you lord, you have a good mouth!" ”
Xiang Qing and Cao Cao looked at each other and smiled, Xiang Qing looked at the big fat man who was a head taller than him and said, "It seems that you are not convinced?" What's wrong? Second master, I will accompany you to practice? ”
The big fat man's face was full of meat, and he felt that the flesh was trembling: "Hmph, practice, practice, who is afraid of whom!" ”
The big fat man thought to himself, he was frightened by these two sword-wielding swords just now, but he couldn't let the younger brothers see his jokes anymore.
The tall and short man tossed aside the rotten wood in the courtyard and made a field for them to compete.
The scholar ran over to be the referee and said: "Let's say it first, whoever falls out of the circle first will lose, whether it is the one who admits defeat or the one who falls out of the circle and loses, you have to call the other party the master, do you understand?" ”
This circle is not big, it is not small, it is about one-third of the area of a basketball court, and both of them are bare-handed, which is enough for them to toss.
I saw that the big fat man put on a posture of a tiger digging out his heart, and then rushed up, the so-called tiger digging out his heart, that is, two hands like tiger claws, one up and one on the chest.
"Good posture." Xiang Qing teased, his body didn't stop, the big fat man pounced, he lunged forward with his right leg, retreated with his left leg, grabbed the collar of the big fat man with one hand, and grabbed the belt of his trousers with the other, just like a bidding gun, and threw the big fat man out of the circle.
The big fat man's whole body was more than 200 pounds of flesh and fell to the ground, and the flesh of the whole body rose and fell like waves.
"I'm not convinced!"
He rushed up again and was thrown out again, but as if he didn't believe in evil, he rushed up again and again, and he didn't even touch the edge of Xiang Qing's clothes once.
"I'm not convinced! You're opportunistic! ”
"And what do you want?" Xiang Qing asked with interest, it is actually quite easy to convince this kind of person, just go from disobedience to obedience, and keep beating if you are not convinced.
The big fat man wiped the nosebleed that flowed into his mouth, and then shouted: "You and I wrestle your wrists, in the realm of Beicheng, I have never lost in terms of wrist breaking, if you win me, then I will be completely convinced." ”
Cao Cao on the other side said impatiently: "You just call the master, waste time, compare your wrists with him, thank God if your hand is not pinched by him." ”
The big fat man didn't answer, and the big tall man took the ill-fated table again, and there were vague palm prints left by them slapping the table, and they didn't say anything, and the two of them directly competed.
The green tendons on the big fat man's head are about to burst, and on the other side, Xiang Qing still looks light, even Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan can't break me, what are you playing with me?
"You can have two hands." Xiang Qing said.
The big fat man was not polite, he put his hands together, and used the strength to eat milk, and Xiang Qing's hands did not move as if they were cast from steel and iron.
"If you don't exert yourself, if you don't exert yourself, I will have to exert myself."
As soon as Xiang Qing was about to break the big fat man's two hands, the big fat man directly let go of his hands.
He said with annoyance: "No need to compare, I admit defeat." ”
Xiang Qing smiled, didn't say anything, turned his head and wanted to find a stool to sit on for a while, this boat was tiring, and he had to wrestle with someone when he first arrived in Luoyang, and he was really tired of standing.
The big fat man looked at Xiang Qing, obviously a head shorter than himself, and his body did not have such exaggerated muscles, but his strength was indeed no match for him.
"I'm convinced, second master!"
Xiang Qing found three pieces of wood, sat down on the spot, and heard the big fat man shouting Second Master, his mouth smiled crookedly, this Second Master is so good, I have to make this name bright in the future.
"You're polite, they're all your own brothers."
The big fat man didn't feel humiliated, since his most powerful ones were lost to others, then he had nothing to be arrogant about, but these people, one has eyesight, one has force, and the other is quite mysterious, they shouldn't be ordinary people.
He arched his hand and asked, "Who are you?" What are you going to do when you come to my Beicheng Yamen? ”
Cao Cao took out the appointment document of the northern lieutenant of Luoyang, although the Eastern Han Dynasty had Cai Hou paper, but that kind of paper, the words written with a brush would be lost, so at this time the official documents were still bamboo slips or silk, until Cao Cao's son Cao Pi was called emperor, it was gradually replaced by paper.
"I am the new lieutenant of the northern part of Luoyang, this is the appointment document of the imperial court, you can take a look at the authenticity."
The tall, short, fat and thin man with a paperwork, the five of them stared at each other, they never thought that the newly appointed northern lieutenant would be the one who was shaking the dice with them just now.
The scholar nodded: "Well, this document is true." ”
Cao Cao rolled up the paperwork, and said while rolling it back: "Oh, you were gathering a crowd to gamble just now, as a servant of the Yamen in Beicheng, you know the law and break the law, if you are in accordance with the law of the Han Dynasty......"
Several people immediately knelt down, kowtowed like pounding garlic and shouted: "Please spare your life!" ”
"Let me ask you, how long has it been since there has been a new northern lieutenant in this northern city yamen, and you are so lazy!"
The big fat man raised his head and replied: "If you go back to your lordship, this Beicheng yamen has been ignored for more than a year, and Lord Luoyang Ling doesn't care about Beicheng, so we ...... But my lord, we know that we are wrong, we are all old and young, and please raise your noble hand, my lord! ”
"Well, just now I was walking on the street, someone actually wanted to steal my money bag, what is the difference between this North City and the East and West South Cities, the law and order is so chaotic!"
The scholar shouted: "My lord, this is absolutely not our business, we also want to take care of it, but we don't dare!" ”
"Don't dare?"
"My lord, you don't know, this Luoyang City has four departments, east, west, north and south, on the dignitaries and dignitaries, just count our northern ones, what kind of concubines, princesses, royal relatives, famous families, we can't afford to provoke it, the last northern captain, because he offended the housekeeper in the general's mansion, he has been assigned to Liangzhou, I don't know life and death."
Xiang Qing frowned and snorted coldly: "It's ridiculous that a housekeeper can have so much power and be able to send the imperial court officials to the frontier!" ”
Cao Cao shook his head: "Second brother, you think wrong, a housekeeper, no matter how domineering, it is also a dog fighting people, after all, he is just a minion, so it seems that I have to visit this general another day, after all, it depends on the master to fight a dog." ”
The tall, short, fat and thin and the five scholars knelt on the ground and looked at each other, and the superior adults are also such people, saying that it sounds good, it is called not afraid of the powerful, not being in the same stream with the world, and saying it is ugly, that is, I don't know the depth, I don't know what to do.
"Okay, listen to it, in the laws of my Han Dynasty, there is no explicit provision that officials are not allowed to gamble, and a few of you, as officials of the yamen, do not understand the law, and this matter needs to be punished."
When several people heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, "Yes, yes, we are willing to be punished, willing to be punished." ”
"Well, look at this broken place, where there is a little bit of the yamen, punish you, clean up this place, the tallest one, you wipe the plaque clean and hang it again, big fat man, you have the strength to put the door on me, only half of the door is like words, the one that is quite thin, you throw all these broken copper and iron, broken wine jars to me, throw them wherever you like, dwarf, I don't want to see dust anywhere, do you understand?"
Everyone received the order, and then rushed to work, and Cao Cao called the scholar over.
"What's your name? What do you do in the yamen? ”
The scholar replied respectfully: "If you return to the adult, the villain's name is Wang Shu, who is the scribe of the Yamen in the northern city, responsible for sorting out all the books and files, and also responsible for the court records. ”
"Well, you go and help me do something, you find a good carpenter, I need twenty five-color killing sticks, just put them in the lobby for me, and then make a new table, and the other items that are missing in the yamen are all purchased for me, and I will give you money."
Cao Cao didn't take out the money from his arms for a long time, but he really lost it just now, and he didn't even have a broken silver.
"No need for adults, this money must be taken by the small ones, and the small ones will take it."
Just won the money from his boss, doesn't mean that he can't wear small shoes, this scholar also understands very well, and immediately went to do things.
Cao Cao explained to the "Four King Kongs", and then took Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu back to the house.
Walking on the road, looking at the chaotic order of this northern city, pickpockets are rampant, cars and horses are galloping, accidentally hitting people or roadside vendors, and even some people are fighting in the street, just to occupy a better stall for themselves.
This Luoyang City looks very prosperous on the surface, but this city is like this, and it has to make people sigh, even the center of the world has become like this, what is the world like?
Xiang Qing wanted to find a topic to chat with, so he asked casually: "Big brother, it's not that troublesome to subdue those officials, can't you just show them the appointment documents?" Why lose so much money? ”
Cao Cao looked at a couple fighting on the side of the road, the husband was holding a child in his arms, the wife was holding her husband with both hands, the husband was ruthlessly withdrawing his sleeve, and the child kept crying and he didn't care.
Xiang Qing got off the horse and helped the woman up, and asked what happened, the woman cried and said that her husband was originally a businessman who went to the Western Regions to do business, and he had always done his duty, and he also had a lot of family background, and their son was just one year old, but the husband was obsessed with gambling money, and he went out early and returned late every day, and he didn't take money from the family, and in the end he owed a lot of gambling debts, and he didn't pay it, so he was going to sell his son.
After listening to the woman's speech, Xiang Qing immediately got up and wanted to chase the woman's son back, but Cao Cao chased Xiang Qing back.
Xiang Qing broke free from Cao Cao's shackles and walked in the direction where her husband left, Cao Cao didn't have as much strength as him, so he could only shout anxiously: "Xiang Junhe!" This kind of thing, you can manage it once, manage it twice, can you still manage it for a lifetime! ”
"You can't see it, just don't care! If his son is sold, how sad she should be as a mother! I can't sit idly by, never! ”
"Listen to me, now in Luoyang City, gambling is prevalent, there are many casinos, I don't know how many such things are every day, you can't control it, I have a way, you can do it once and for all!"
Xiang Qing stopped and said, "Big brother, what can you do?" ”
Cao Cao's eyes narrowed slightly, and there seemed to be a raging fire burning in his eyes, and he said word by word: "Establish the law!" Closed casinos! ”