Section 197 Repayment of Debts

Captain Su was anxious that the newly replenished border army on the Hebei West Road was not only unbearable, but also hastily transferred to the border pass and lacked sufficient psychological preparation and training time, and that the autumn harvest and the fierce autumn criminals of Liao Kou would definitely just adapt to the life of the border pass in the blink of an eye, and whether the military could settle down or not was two words, how could it be possible to deal with the dangerous and fierce battle of Liao's intensity, and it would not be used at all, and the war knife might not be fully equipped in time at that critical juncture. The melee-combat resistance to kill the Liao Kou on Shangguan can only rely mainly on guns and special wooden sticks, which will become a catastrophic joke. Sadly, this possibility is extremely high.

If the west road is not guaranteed, the east road and Hejian Mansion will be implicated and will be in danger.

It may be because the pirate country is entrenched in the tropics, and the bowstrings made of animal tendons by the northerners cannot withstand the high-temperature, rainy and humid environment of the pirate country, and will soften and break easily, the bow of the Song army is a waste in the eyes of the pirates, and there are better wood bows in the tropics, and the pirates are not rare to ask for the bow of the Song army; Or maybe the rebels understood that there were no opponents who could stop them from fleeing on the way to the east, there were no big battles, long-range weapons were useless, and they disliked that arrows were not easy to carry, in short, the rebels did not take away a large number of long-range weapons such as bows and arrows.

In this way, there are still bows and arrows in the border of Hebei West Road after the rebellion, which is enough to fight several big battles.

Many bulky bed crossbows, trebuchets, and gunpowder crossbows prepared by the Song army were also still in hand.

However, these precious weapons to guard the border are afraid that they will not comfort the military morale of the New Western Route Army.

There are certainly very few people in the new army who can shoot arrows, and after just more than a month of hasty training, they are neither accustomed to nor able to be good at using them, and when they are in a fierce battle, when people are nervous, the effect of bows and arrows against the enemy can be imagined, and it is strange that they do not shoot all over the sky but do not shoot at the enemy. It's still good.

I was afraid that I would be frightened by the dirty and savage enemies who rushed up, and my nervous bow could not be drawn, and the arrows could not be shot at all.

And what Liao Kou is best at is shooting.

If the new army cannot shoot its opponents, they will be ridiculed by their opponents and stunned by their skillful and accurate marksmanship, and they will collapse under the blows of arrows like a rainstorm.

Formidable ranged weapons such as bed crossbows were also of little use in the hands of the new army.

The hasty army is not skillful, not to mention that it is not used to it, the launch speed is too slow, and the deterrent effect is great, but the effect of blocking the enemy is not strong, and it is even more difficult to play the due deterrent role in the chaos, and it is definitely impossible to effectively prevent the Liaokou crowd from quickly killing in front of the pass.

The members of the new army are mainly composed of the thugs of the dying powerful and powerful gentry family, Diao Nu, members of the ruffian gang, and the children of the local martial arts sect such as the boxing gang, the gun and stick hall, and the knife gate. These people are all fierce and unscrupulous, relying on force or the forces behind the mountain to commit evil is common, personal force is not low, used to fighting, are good at close combat, but also fierce and dare to fight, some are still the gang leader of the sect, the head, the owner of the hall or something around the martial arts celebrities and even the famous martial arts is very martial arts identity boss, now in the army has become a decent officer, overall, the individual combat effectiveness is not under the front army soldiers, maybe it can be a lot more powerful, but it may not be possible to gather into an army to fight.

In wartime, if they don't have the weapons that martial artists are accustomed to and are best at fighting, such as knives, hammers, whips, and other weapons, they will not have the courage to fight.

Su Taiwei didn't dare to expect the Western Route Army to withstand the Liao people's autumn invaders, and he was even more afraid that the Great Song Dynasty's ability to smelt and manufacture weapons was gone, at least in a short period of time.

What hope can a country have if it can't even make weapons?

This year's catastrophe has changed the Great Song Dynasty from the local bureaucracy to the military, to the weaponry and manufacturing, to the common people, who were not only valued but despised by the ruling class, to the economy, which was highly valued by the ruling class...... It is a miracle that the country has not fallen and can stand still under the relatively stable leadership of the central government.

But Su Taiwei is now more and more soberly aware that the rule of the Song Dynasty is already like a paper paste, and if there is something to stab, it will be broken, and if it is tossed a little bigger, it will be coaxed, and it will fall on fire.

Song Ting enjoyed the huge benefits brought by the Cangzhao family's hard work for more than ten years, but he was deliberately harming others, and now the retribution came, and the debt was repaid ruthlessly.

What is hateful and terrible is that when the country is over, the ruler is all finished, and he will die, but it is he, an important member of the ruler, who has to die first.

He is the first border guard who will be killed in the blink of an eye in the face of Liaokou.

Taiwei Su was only worried in advance, but in fact, he was still in front of the powerful and confident, dignified, and comfortable officials.

There are many unlucky officials who are more unlucky than him, and they are suffering the consequences of wanton iniquity and ruin.

Let's talk about Luo Ruji and Wan Qiaoduo first.

These two guys, one is from Dali Temple, the other is from the Criminal Department, they are both middle- and upper-level backbone officials of the Central Headquarters of the judicial organs, and they were supposed to live well in front of comfortable and promising Beijing officials, but they were under the personal orders of Bai Shizhong, the prime minister of their respective refuge, and Zhang Bangchang, the governor of the political affairs department (the position is equivalent to the first vice premier, but the power is greater, almost the prime minister), and they left Beijing privately, mixed in the ranks of the Qincha in disguise with an insidious purpose, and came to Liangshan to spy and the driver to make trouble and make trouble with utilitarianism and confidence, but they were hit by a fierce blow in the head, Just as the Song officials were always weak and powerless against the barbaric violence of Shangliao and Western Xia, the scheming and mouth cannon skills that they were good at were useless here, and it was good not to play them, but once they played they became the direct fuse of suffering, and the conceited status and protection of high-ranking judicial officials were of no use to the people of Liangshan, and the people of Liangshan played the ignorance, rudeness, and ferocity of the grassroots people and their behavior at all, and they did not know what kind of official position he had, and they ignored his power deterrent power at all, and they simply cleaned them up with decisiveness and ferocity.

was beaten half to death, and in the small circle of Liangshan Bo Wharf nested in discomfort, starved half to death, and enjoyed the more toxic wild mosquitoes in the wilderness water Bo enthusiastic care and close for several days, tortured to the point of not being human, not dying in Liangshan is already in response to the ancient precept of "good people don't live long, bad guys live for a thousand years", life is hard enough,

After leaving Liangshan, he was casually abandoned by the Qincha Xue Bi to take care of the surrounding officials, and it seemed that he had opportunities and hopes, but the officials around Liangshan took a look at these two people: the face was ugly, the person did not look like a person, the ghost did not look like a ghost, the spirit was obviously abnormal, the brain should be abnormal, and the eyes were also blinded by mosquitoes, whether it could be cured, it was difficult to say, there was not much hope, the mouth was full of teeth, and the words were not clear and neat, and the decent image of the official was ruined, and the official was designated to be unable to do it. For such a designation with no future and use value, how can the most powerful officialdom take the two seriously?

The official who was responsible for receiving and taking care of the two of them casually found a doctor with two knives nearby and showed them to the two, and then left it alone on the premise of ensuring that they would not die in their own hands.

The prefect of the prefecture, who was supposed to come forward to receive the two judicial officials, did not show up at all when he heard about the situation of the two, and just waited for what it meant.

As a result, the two just escaped from the cage of Liangshan, and they had to continue to endure the blows and painful torture from mental to physical, and there was still no way out of the predicament.

And Bai Shizhong in the capital, Zhang Bangchang knew that the task undertaken by the two of them had failed, and the good effect did not work, but it was bad and caused trouble, so he was secretly very angry that these two people were vain, and they looked shrewd and talented, but they were useless, and they listened to the secret report of the official government in Liangshan, and knew that the two were useless, so they naturally had no intention of caring about the waste.

In addition, in order to redeem the two before, the two prime ministers paid 100,000 yuan out of their own pockets to get back from the two people's homes, plus the situation is not right, the emperor wants to rectify Cangzhao but has to be extraordinarily generous and honorable Cangzhao and is in a state of irritability and killing, Luo and Wan Qi are very likely to become the bane as soon as they return to Beijing, and they cannot let the two return to Beijing in order to avoid being burned.

Naturally, it is best to let the two of them die outside, extinguish their mouths, and kill them all in one place.

In this way, even if the emperor hears something, there is no proof of his death, and there is no way to investigate.

However, Zhang Bangchang in Bai Shizhong couldn't let the government of Liangshan secretly get rid of the two.

In their capacity, it is impossible for outsiders to see and spread the word about how ruthless they are to useless henchmen.

Otherwise, who would dare to actively seek refuge in them and serve them faithfully with trust and hope.

So, Wan Qiaowei and Luo Ruji, who did not die in the hands of the Liangshan government, were secretly and urgently picked up by the two ministers' subordinates to take away from Liangshan warmly and considerately, but as soon as they left the eyeliner of the Liangshan government, it was not like that.

The person who came down to pick up the person immediately changed his face, but he didn't kill the two, he told the two: You look like you can't be an official anymore, and you have done bad things, and you have caused a big disaster for Xiangye, you deserve to die. But Xiangye is generous, reciting your past merits and affections, and not getting rid of you, he has arranged for relevant people to report to the saint, saying that you have become seriously ill after hard work and can no longer serve the court for the officials, and have given you some retirement benefits, and have dismissed your officials, and you are free, but you don't have to go back to your home in the capital, keep your mouth shut honestly, and go what you like in the future.

Then, the two parties each gave a little silver, and when they asked Hanako to send it, and cut off the thumbs of the two so that the two could not write a letter to go to Beijing to make trouble, and left the two of them and left.

The two of them are gone, and the retirement benefits given by the emperor and the family property in the capital have also been lost, and all of them fell into the hands of Zhang Bangchang in Bai Shizhong, which is not enough to compensate 100,000 yuan, and the family has confiscated or even sold the top account, and only spent the money in the blink of an eye, and has become a de facto disabled beggar.

In the past, they would only play tricks on their minds when they were officials, and they would not be able to do anything, they would not have the ability to make a living independently, they would not be able to cook, they would live in Shandong, they would not be able to cook, and they would not be able to return to their hometowns in the chaotic and sinister society where the people had no sympathy and no charity, and even if they returned to their hometowns, the rich and arrogant families in the local area did not exist, and after spending all the money, they could only rely on stealing corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes in the fields to eat clumsily, fortunately, deserted cottages are everywhere, In the wandering, he did not worry about living without a place, and then died of hunger and cold in the following cold and severe winter, and died in a deserted house.

When the nearby villagers found out, the two of them huddled in the corner of the kang and hugged each other tightly covered with thick grass, they had already frozen hard, and they didn't know when they died, but the two had weird smiles on their faces, as if they were very happy and satisfied before they died.

The villagers didn't know that the two who were as ugly as ghosts used to be decent judicial officials, but they were shameless and nasty homeless people who came from elsewhere, and scolded and fed wild dogs in the graveyard.

The two people who were prominent in history and left a strong traitorous deeds in the annals of the association ended early under the flapping of Zhao Laoer's small wings.

died extremely tragically, but he did not leave a reputation that has been passed down through the ages, and the descendants of the family will not be able to raise their heads in the future generations, and I don't know if the two will hate or rejoice in this ending if there are spirits after their deaths.

At that time, the government around Liangshan, which was responsible for temporarily taking in the two, ignored the miserable experience of the two, and there were also reasons why they couldn't take care of it.

This time, it was also the turn of the government around Liangshan to repay the debts, and bad luck was coming.

Under the holy decree, the government around Liangshan, from the officials to the main officials in the yamen who have no rank but have position-level treatment, and then to the army, had to be transferred.

The highest-ranking Jeju Prefecture, followed by Dongpyeong Prefecture and Yanzhou, and then Puzhou and other yamen, from the highest chief executive to the general judge and other local officials, to the subordinate petty officials, to the main officials registered below, all had to quickly set off to transfer to the garrison of the Hebei West Route Army, so as to fill the vacancy in the bureaucratic system in the border areas that had been wiped out by the rebels.

No one may postpone or excuse non-compliance.

Those who dare not go to the border pass under the pretext of not asking the reason, they will all copy their homes and fill the army and distribute them to the border pass, and they still have to go to the border pass on Hebei West Road.

If you don't want to be an official, you can't ask for it.

To the hearts of the emperor and the powerful ministers of the court who want to kill people with a belly full of fire and red eyes, who do you think you are? What is your official position in the imperial court? When you want to resign, you can leave it, you can go home leisurely and never have to listen to the court? You are also Zhao Gonglian, and the court has to treat you leniently?

At this time, if you dare not be loyal to the court, if you don't listen to the greeting, your whole family will be unlucky.

If you have the ability, you also defected to the pirates, and you will never be in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's a pity you don't have that qualification.

If you dare to go to pirates, you will be sent to death.

In the past, there was no big event in the world, and the officials only enjoyed the benefits of the Great Song Dynasty, but now when the national disaster is in need of your contribution, you want to get out of the matter and refuse to endure hardships and contribute?

You're beautiful.

Rectification doesn't kill you.

Once you've enjoyed the benefits, you have to go up when you need to dedicate yourself.

Didn't the Cangzhao family say: with power comes responsibility, and with advantage comes obligation. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Under the faint fierceness and high pressure of the imperial court, these yamen people could only honestly leave the safe and comfortable interior of Shandong and move to the unfamiliar and dangerous Hebei West Road.

A cadre from the Yunzhou Yamen was transferred to Weizhou, and since then he has lived on the edge of the powerful Erlongshan bandits.

And Tian Shizhong, the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture, was unlucky in Liangshan, not only lost money and almost went bankrupt, and people almost starved to death and died of exhaustion on climbing Liangshan to find corpses, but also gloriously drank the unique "pure heart and few desires" soup of the pirate empire, and since then he has been a healthy eunuch like the emperor, and finally has the objective physical conditions to be a clean official.

But this guy doesn't know yet.

He only felt that his health was very poor, and when he returned to Dongchang Mansion, he was a noble official and master, and he didn't have a ** thought about the concubines and beauties serving and seducing them diligently, he just thought that he was tortured too weak by Liangshan. Even if he knew the eunuch, he would not be able to become a good official, he would only be perverted and more evil and insidious.

The body was not well maintained, and before he could figure out how to effectively retaliate against Liang Shan, the holy decree of transfer came down.

To be the prefect of Qingzhou?

From the general prefect to the prefect of the road-level marshal station, this is reuse, and it is really promoted.

But that's a fatal place,

Being under the threat of bandits and even war in Erlong Mountain all day long is more dangerous than when he was guarding the border area and facing Liao Kou, and the responsibility is heavy, which is actually a punishment and depreciation.

However, he does not have the strength to rebel, his cronies and generals and the soldiers of the former Cangbei Army can follow him to mix peace and benefits, dare to commit evil and violate the law and discipline, but will never follow him to fight against the court and risk rebellion, that is all just for himself to live as comfortably and safely as possible The shameless Qiu Ba, but it was caused by him as a chief, and now the evil consequences are coming, and he is no longer willing to go to Qingzhou to be an official under the blade, but he can't resign and get out, he doesn't dare to disobey the will of the court, and he has no choice but to go honestly.

Evil deeds are rewarded, and debts must be repaid.

Under the influence of Zhao Laoer's clear view of enmity and hatred, these high-ranking officials and officials have to suffer more than just transfer.