Chapter II. 299. Anger on others
Those Flying Tiger soldiers who 'smelled the smell and rushed to come', looking for the direction where the smell was wafting, had just opened a crack in the gate of the Fengjing Mansion, and they were immediately dazzled by the 'magical smell'. The leader saw darkness in front of him, staggered back into the courtyard, and a few people with a deep hangover, after smelling the stench outside the door, lay directly at the base of the wall, and vomited desperately.
After everyone covered their mouths and noses with wet cloths and squinted out of the gate of the mansion, they gently shook the torch in their hands and were stunned by the scene in front of them: the Fengjing Mansion, which was originally a solemn and solemn mansion, now seems to have become a century-old stinky pig's nest: from the surrounding courtyard wall to the vermilion lacquer gate, from the official signboard to the two stone lions squatting at the door, all of them have been splashed with a layer of colorful and sour-smelling 'semi-liquid' objects. Judging from this amount of work, this is by no means a single person, or even a family, that can be completed in such a short period of time, and still flee without a trace.
In the previous Fengjing City, no matter who wanted to 'attack' the Fengjing Mansion at night, it was not an easy task at all. Not to mention how complicated the "process" of preparing the "materials" is, it is impossible to ignore such a large "team" just by talking about the husbands, land guards, and government officials who are responsible for searching for the city at night.
But since Zhang Huangling, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, respected Yan Day's will to fully take over Fengjing, he ordered his closest guard battalion commander to lead five hundred brothers in the guard battalion to enter Fengjing City; These 'proud soldiers' who fought on the battlefield would not take the original three classes and six rooms of Fengjing Mansion in their eyes at all. As soon as they entered the city, they brandished the steel knives in their hands, and even drove all the soldiers back to their homes in fright, and by the way, they also completely took over the Fengjing Mansion of 'the dragons without a leader'.
And these 500 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army's personal guard battalion, although they can all be called veterans of the battlefield, are still laymen who know nothing about the 'miscellaneous matters' of maintaining the ground and restraining the people, and those soap officials and yacha who have been driven home have no dissatisfaction at all. After all, they haven't paid any money all winter, if they are not afraid of losing this 'iron rice bowl' errand, who is willing to do day work for the emperor Lao'er? It's easy to have such a legitimate reason to 'take a temporary vacation', and although those people are reluctant on the surface, they are actually happy in their hearts.
If you talk about the battlefield of real swords and guns, this is a soldier of the Flying Tiger Army's personal guard battalion, and there are five or six government officials on the top of his feet; But if you want to find out who poured the 'dirty water' on the government in the huge Fengjing City, it is really as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.
As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains! Don't look at the martial arts of catching fast in those yamen, and most of them are lazy to do, but for investigating and solving cases, they have their special means and ways. is not quite the same as the 'public case story' told in the storyteller's book, most of the biggest help for these arresters to solve the case on weekdays are some people who have mutual friendships.
For example, if they want to solve a theft case, according to the type of lost property, they can ask people from different sects for help. Taking the ground of Fengjing City alone, whoever loses their livestock will quickly go to Yu Liang'an, a livestock dealer in the mule and horse market; If someone's house is broken into the 'empty door', the matter will fall on the head of the old beggar Wu Chengfeng, and if someone pickpockets the silver taels, they will usually ask the little maiden to inquire......
Even ordinary people often boast about these things: What are you afraid of if you lose something, my brother will find someone to help you get it back! Everyone in the rivers and lakes has rules, 'don't shoot for three days'!
But how can these soldiers who only know how to fight on the battlefield understand the doorways on these rivers and lakes? These Flying Tiger soldiers searched the city of Fengjing with great vigour, and until dawn the next day, they still found nothing except for several large wooden barrels that had been thrown in the back streets of the government and emitted a foul smell.
If you find a few old catchers to inquire, you may be able to receive some rumors. But their group of people felt that their faces were dull and they really couldn't open their mouths: so many men lived together in Fengjing Mansion, but they were stunned to let people take advantage of the cover of the night to block the door and splash dung, and finally ran away without a trace, and even the 'flies' didn't catch a single one. The news of this incident alone is enough to be embarrassing; What's more, when they drove away those yachas, these soldiers and men also said some cool words in their mouths; Now that even the right time has passed, do you want to ask those 'waste' for advice without skin and face? These Flying Tiger Army guards can't pull off that face! is full of tough guys with knives and axes and has never wrinkled his eyebrows, who can be willing to suffer that idleness?
At this time, it was already dawn, and under the warm sun of midsummer, the dirty Fengjing Mansion was even more 'terrifying'. The soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion, who had been busy for most of the night, looked at the Fengjing Mansion that was emitting the smell, and they all looked bitter and hateful.
"I said Lao Wei, what should we do now, you should hurry up and get an idea! The brothers just got drunk in the first half of the night, and almost broke their legs in the second half of the night, and now they are all looking forward to having a good meal and getting some sleep! ”
The man known as 'Lao Wei' is the Flying Tiger Captain who slaughtered the butcher 'King Lin Yan' on the street yesterday and made a 'two-day appointment' with Ni Xing. Wei Yingzheng also looked at the 'new barracks' not far away at this time, and smacked his lips in worry. Don't look at the fact that they have suffered all kinds of hardships and sins on the battlefield, but in the face of such a dirty government barracks, no one has the 'courage' to stomp their feet and clean it up in person.
"Go, find a random alley, knock on my door from door to door, and tell those Diao people, just say that the yamen has changed the new regulations, and the 'clean street tax' will be increased from today! If they don't want to pay, or don't have the money to pay, we can also be flexible. Let them give each family a mouthful of people to 'clean the street' around the Fengjing Mansion! ”
As soon as he heard Wei Yingzheng's immoral idea, the person who asked the question just now first lit up, then touched his chin, and said with a somewhat embarrassed face:
"Although there are too many lice and no bites, and there are too many debts, let's add this file of 'clean street tax' and make some loose money in private, which is not a big deal...... But our General Zhang's official career has not been smooth recently, let's not eat mutton, and finally provoke myself......"
Battalion Commander Wei flew up and kicked the man's buttocks:
"Do you see who collects taxes and only collects one alley? This time, we didn't do it to make money at all, we just wanted them to make a few coolies who didn't need money to clean up our yamen...... Let me tell you, don't look at the people on the South Gate Street yesterday, they were all scared away when they saw us slaughtering people; But if my estimation is correct, this 'good show' at the Yamen Gate is also done by them! Don't dare to resist us on the surface, and play these indiscriminate tricks behind the scenes! Bah!
"What if someone holds their necks and doesn't pay the money, and they don't come out? Can we really slaughter them all? ”
Wei Yingzheng thought about it carefully, and then looked at the Fengjing Mansion that was already unrecognizable, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth:
"The good deeds they have done themselves, and letting them clean up are already regarded as Wei Ye's extrajudicial grace. You'll take a few clever brothers and go straight to the vicinity of South Gate Street. The people who live in that place are all Diao people who follow Ni to wake up and coax the seedlings. If you really die under the knife of our masters, it will be considered 'Fa-rectification on the spot'! But before I leave, I'll tell you one more thing! Those ordinary people, all of them are cheap, if you don't let them see some blood, I'm afraid you won't be able to do anything! ”
These Flying Tiger soldiers are all veterans who have been used to killing people on the battlefield. After so many years of corpses and a sea of blood, the blood of the army has long been chilled by life and death; In addition, the last two commanders of the Flying Tiger Army are not generals who are good at commanding and governing the army, which makes the original Yan family strong army become what it is today.
The colonel of the personal guard battalion who had won the order, with more than a dozen brothers who knew each other, went straight to the South Gate Street outside the palace. He randomly chose a mixed alley that looked quite secluded, and started to call the door from the first one at the mouth of the alley.
Let these soldiers play tricks, naturally they are not as good as those Fengjing people who have lived at the feet of the Son of Heaven for a long time, and before the two sides could answer a few words, the little soldier who was pushed to the front and knocked on the door was blocked from speaking, and looked back at the little colonel who led the team with a sad face.
"Greyhound, what are you doing? Lao Tzu brought you to appease the people? Your 'guy' style, is it used for fires? Such a deep alley, according to your question, it will have to be delayed until the beginning of spring next year! She's an old lady, where did you get so much trouble? ”
After counting his brothers, the little colonel drew his knife, stood in front of the lady who was standing on the threshold with her chest and face raised, and asked with a big grin:
"Do you pay this 'clean street tax'?"
"Don't pay!"
"Then the householders of this clean street, are you not out of the house?"
"If you don't get paid, you won't be able to!"
"I said, auntie, didn't you go out on the street yesterday?"
"Recently, my aunt has had a chest ache and hasn't been on the street for several days! What's wrong? You move ......"
'Poof'!
The little colonel stabbed out a random stab, and pierced the 'hard-boned' lady out of a crossing, and then he flew up and kicked the eldest lady directly back into the courtyard:
"Hey, tell me yourself, whether you are unjust or not! Have you seen it? Hurry up, call me the door door door from house to house, and if you continue to grind, you will have to sleep in the dung pit at night! If you have silver for silver, and if you don't have someone, you will die, and you will be able to make a little bit of money for me with your hands and feet! ”
Since there are leaders on both sides who have made 'demonstrations', what follows is actually not so bloody. There were quite a few people who were present yesterday to watch the excitement, but when they saw the military uniforms of the Flying Tiger Army, they didn't say a word, stood up straight, asked for money, asked for money, and asked for people to leave, and they didn't even dare to look at them again.
Things went so smoothly that the little colonel couldn't help but think of the 'experience talk' that Wei Yingzheng had taught him before he left. Immediately, he shook his head again, and rubbed the blood stained on his steel knife against the eldest lady who died in his yard:
"Phew, he's a!"