In the third year of Yonghui (652 AD), the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the time of Chen.

On the official road to Muzhou, there is a strange convoy. Two black-clothed knights opened the way, and twenty black-clothed men behind them wore black hats and horizontal knives at their waists. There was a troika in the middle of the procession, with the carriages raised and all enclosed with wooden planks.

The back of the team rode two cars and one cart, the carriage was luxurious, and it was used by large families. A red horse is tied to the back of the car, and the knight on the left is burly, and he is also a three-piece set of hats, black robes, and horizontal knives. If you look closely, along the round neck of the clothes, embroidered with white characters the size of copper coins, Shengshi security services.

The knight is Wu Kang, and Jiu Niang is sitting in the car. Shengshi Security Company, after the annual meeting of Wuzhou bigwigs, was officially listed for business, and the bosses behind the scenes were Wu Kang and Fox Friends. The predecessor of the company's employees was a southern ruffian. Xiucai, Erniu, and Qian Shun went undercover in the southern faction, and fought with the other three factions, and the judicial yamen added fuel to the fire, and finally unified the Nancheng District of Wuzhou.

Those who are disobedient will eat fried meat with bamboo shoots in the cell; Obedient, join the southern faction before and after the saddle. So the question is, how to arrange these more than 200 people? After careful consideration, Wu Kang exchanged views with fox friends and jointly funded the establishment of a security company. Xiucai was appointed as the general manager, Er Niu and Qian Shun were appointed as managers, and the minions got rid of the status of ruffians and became glorious security guards.

The company is mainly engaged in two types of business, security output and dart game. Security output is the bodyguard business, since you like to be brave and ruthless, this job is very appropriate.

Train in the dead and feed the chickens in the dead. At the meeting of distributing chickens and supporting farmers, farmers raised chickens and sent them to Wukang's house as agreed. The chickens and dogs at home are jumping, and they are worried about how to deal with it, and now they found consumers, some of them are fed to two tigers, and the rest are fed to bodyguards.

Ten days of military training, three days before the notice to the merchant, the official output of bodyguards. In the Tang Dynasty, large families relied on the family to care for the home, but the law stipulates that forcing a good person to be a maid is a crime, and the number is not much. The output is staggering, two hundred and ten bodyguards, hired by wealthy businessmen in Wuzhou.

The monthly salary of a bodyguard is 100 Wen, which is 73 Wen with the company and 30 Wen from the company. Wealthy merchants vied for hire for three purposes. The first is to protect children, criminal cases in the Tang Dynasty, theft and kidnapping account for half of the country; The second is used to see the store, and then there are little ruffians blackmailing, and the bodyguards will beat them, and they will run around with their heads.

Thirdly, decorate the façade and follow behind you to pose majestic. The Tang Dynasty did not strictly control weapons, and the common people could carry many bells, including bows and arrows. Bows and arrows are ancient guns, and Wu Kang wondered if he should ban them in Wuzhou. But the horizontal knife is very strictly controlled, you can wear a decorative sword, but you can't wear a murder knife. Ran Wukang, as a big man, gave the bodyguard a piece of cake.

Just imagine, when you go out shopping, followed by two black-clad bodyguards, wearing hats, wearing black clothes, and hanging horizontal knives, it's not too cool. The bodyguard was a ruffian before, and he was often bullied. Now that the script is reversed, can you make them feel more reckless, is there anything more cool than this?

Fortunately, Wu Kang stopped him, otherwise the managers would have to be hired. Nancheng District is a market area, with a concentration of nine-story shops in Wuzhou. Three mountains have been set up on the heads of the merchants, and two of them have been eradicated by the wicked people, the ruffians, and the city officials. The city officials are very tricky, they are the subordinates of Si Cang's old grandson who joined the army, even if the relationship is iron, he does not dare to cross the line.

The second business is the dart game, and there is also a soil for survival. Even if the express delivery system is established, there are limitations, valuables and bulk goods, will not go express. The day before yesterday, in the afternoon, business came to the door, and three truckloads of cloth were transported to Muzhou City.

For the first dart business, Wu Kang naturally took it and gave Boss Qiu a 20% discount, only charging three times. Originally, I let Erniu dart, but Jiuniang was a demon again, saying that she wanted to experience the fun of darts. There is an even stronger reason, usually there are only three days off a month, and now that she is on annual leave, she must accompany her on a trip.

It's very helpless, pinch your nose and admit it. In fact, he also wanted to experience it, influenced by novels, film and television dramas, and also thought about dart addiction. The destination is still Muzhou, the place where Chen Shuozhen rebelled, and it is also his hometown, but I have to take a closer look at how black Muzhou is.

Leisurely riding on horseback, the expression gradually obscene, the first dart game in history, is the Xinglong dart game, the Manchu Qing Dynasty Shanxi Shenquan Zhang Heiwu was created, he is also known as the originator of the dart game. Wu Kang thought about it, I opened a security company in Datang, and the name of the bodyguard and the ancestor of the dart bureau fell on Wu someone. The children and grandchildren of future generations should build a temple for me, right?

was daydreaming, heard Jiu Niang speak, turned his head to see the puffing little face, and heard the angry anger: "What do you think?" Everyone shouted several times! Put your head over and I'll wipe your sweat. ”

Where did the sweat come from, lying is not professional! I had no choice but to turn my head, and sure enough, I heard an unreasonable request: "Erlang, after sending the dart, let's go to the Stacking Cloud View to incense, worship the Red Joy God in the view, and listen to the mother say that the spirit is very good." And also... I want to ride a horse. ”

Hongxi God, isn't that the old moon, what kind of incense do you give him... Feeling a pain in his ears, Wu Kang asked the convoy to stop, dismounted and untied the reins behind the car, and led the jujube red horse over. Jiu Niang stepped on the wheel of the horse and walked side by side with him.

Looking at Jiuniang's shape, Wu Kang couldn't cry or laugh, the same bodyguard uniform, nondescript embroidered shoes, one meter and five small. The originally strong team became a boy scout in an instant, and the bandits saw your declining appearance and came to rob you. After pondering for a moment, he smiled and said, "That Jiu Niang, I think it's okay, you still stay in... Never mind! ”

Jiang Erniu, who was in front of the team, turned his horse's head and came over to report: "Wu Shuai, we have left Lanxi County and entered the boundary of Muzhou." In front is Pheasant County, about three hours, to the south gate of Muzhou City. ”

In Pheasant County (Jiande County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang), Wu Kang pondered for a moment and said: "Erniu, the security in Muzhou is very poor, and it is not our territory. Don't call me Wu Shuai, call me ... Wu Song! ”

Jiang Erniu promised, beat the horse and left to convey, Jiu Niang asked curiously: "Erlang, you seem to like 'Wu Song' very much, and the 'poke toad' for me is signed by Wu Song." Who is he, Jiro's younger brother? ”

"No, I'm Wu Song's younger brother", Wu Kang hurriedly denied it, whoever is Wu Song's elder brother, who is unlucky, he laughed and said: "Jiu Niang doesn't know, Wu Song is very powerful!" No matter how old you are, how tall you are, how strong you are, and how much you drink, all of them are on par with me. Once he drank eighteen bowls of wine, went to Jingyanggang alone, and killed the tiger with his bare hands! ”

Jiuniang sneered, rolled her eyes and said: "Erlang cleans me, I fight the tiger with my bare hands, and I can't hold a knife!" The hunter in Lin Pinglang's village, the tiger lady who hunted our tiger, was bitten several times. ”

Wu Kang said with a smile: "Jiu Niang is right, the tiger is the king of all beasts, except for the person with the gun, the others are younger brothers." The two of us are South China tigers, the younger brothers of the tiger species. The bearers of the tiger are the Bengal tiger and the Siberian tiger. Bengal tigers are found in the south of Tibet, Siberian tigers in the northeast of Murowei, and in the Greater Khing'an Mountains. ”

"Datang doesn't have it", Jiu Niang was a little regretful, and sighed: "It's a pity, I still want to buy a few and be accompanied by tiger heads." I heard the fifth brother say that the tiger is bigger than the calf, and the two that Erlang said, are they as big as the ploughing ox? ”

Oh my God, people buy cats, you buy tigers, tigresses! Wu Kang wanted to cry very much, and said half-truths and half-truths: "When the tiger brain grows up, you can make do with it first." I worked hard to climb up, and when I became the prime minister, I wrote to the sage, led thousands of troops and horses, conquered Tubo and Murowei, and caught a big tiger for you to play. ”

Jiuniang smiled and rewarded him with a white eye. chatted like this, and gradually entered Pheasant County. In the afternoon, the convoy entered the village, about 100 households. After entering the village, the convoy was forced to stop, and the road was full of villagers, watching a family. In the fenced yard, there was a faint sound of crying.

Erniu came over to ask for instructions, Wu Kang signaled the convoy to stop, and Tima came to the front of the team. The villagers scattered on both sides to give way out, and were about to direct the convoy to pass, when a terrible scream came from the courtyard. Turning his head to look over, several gray officials were beating the head of the household.

The woman knelt beside her and pleaded, tears streaming down her face. Holding the little lady in her arms, looking at the age of about five years old, and the little man who is about one year old on her back, she cried with her voice. Jiu Niang couldn't look at it, Tima was about to step forward, Wu Kang hurriedly pulled her, frowned and shook his head.

After punching and kicking, the man lost his ability to move, and his life and death on the ground were unknown. The woman ran over with the child in her arms, knelt beside the man and cried, but there was no response, and the crying was even more heartbreaking. In this scene, those who heard it were sad and those who saw it wept, and the tragedy in the world was nothing more than that.

The little man who looked like a dog kicked the fence door and yelled at the onlookers: "What to see, what is there to see?" The new Jiang Thorn is named Yuan Zhu, and the 'pig' is guilty of Jiang Gong's name, so Muzhou prohibits pig breeding. All the pigs were killed, and whoever dared to stop them would be against Jiang Gong! ”

The crowd panicked, and some of them hurriedly left, and another official spoke: "Everyone disperse, this is an order from Jiang Tingshi himself, and our brothers are just acting on orders." Folks, let's all disperse. ”

Wu Kang sneered, Jiang Yuan and Zhu Jiang stabbed history, what a big official! Just because "Zhu" and "pig" are homophonic, it is forbidden for the people to raise pigs and kill the people's pigs, you are better than Zhu Yuanzhang! He is the president of Daming Entrepreneurship, and he only prohibits the people from mentioning "pigs", and does not prohibit the people from raising them, and he does not dare to prohibit them.

Forbidding the people to raise pigs is tantamount to digging their own graves, and without pigs there is no home, and without a home there is no country. What is home? There is a pig under the treasure cover, the treasure cover is the house, and the pig is the pig. If there are no pigs at home, it means that the fields are not fertile; If the fields are not fertilized, it means that the crops are reduced; Reduced crop yields mean the destruction of families.

Jiu Niang's little face flushed, and she lowered her voice and said, "Erlang, how can Jiang Tingshi be so ridiculous, how can he make such an order?" It's the same state's thorn history, yes yes definitely won't be like this. Erlang help them, they are so pitiful! ”

How can you help? This is Muzhou, there is nothing to do! Hold her hand tightly, shake her head with a wry smile, sigh and whisper: "This is the Tang version, only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps." This is officialdom, and I will not be surprised no matter how bizarre the decree is. Jiuniang, I joined the army in Wuzhou, and I really can't do anything! ”

The courtyard was mutated and reborn, and the gray-robed officer rushed to the pigsty, and the woman screamed, let go of the child and cried to stop her, and was kicked to the ground by the gray-robed officer, clutching her stomach and wailing. After a while, I don't know where I got the strength, got up and ran to the pigsty, kowtowed like pounded garlic, and begged bitterly.

Unfortunately, it was useless, the two gray officials grabbed her hair, pulled her into the yard, and threw her on the ground to punch and kick. The little lady ran over crying, was slapped to the ground, and fainted directly. Ignoring the pain in her body, the woman protected the little lady with her body.

Jiang Erniu's face was hideous, his left hand pressed the reed, and he held the handle of the knife in his hand, half of the horizontal knife was unsheathed, and his eyes looked at this side. Wu Kang shook his head slightly, Er Niu couldn't believe it, the horizontal knife was sheathed, and his head suddenly turned over. All the bodyguards also loosened the handle of the knife.

Jiuniang couldn't help crying, looked at her with teary eyes, and said with a trembling mouth: "Erlang... I don't want you to be an official anymore, I'm afraid that one day, you will be like Jiang Gou Guan, and you will be scolded by all the people. ”

Wu Kang looked slightly stunned, and after a while, he smiled bitterly: "Officialdom is dark, and politics is dirty. However, the lotus flower comes out of the mud, the golden cicada comes out of the dung, and the firefly comes out of the rotting grass... That is, the lotus flower grows out of the mud; Silkworm pupae are born in the dung soil and eventually break out of the cocoon into a butterfly; Beautiful and shiny fireflies, which are the breeding of rotting weeds. What is clean is born out of filth; What is bright is conceived in darkness! ”

Staring into her eyes, she continued: "Jiu Niang, your eyes are clear and innocent, and you should always be innocent. Lotus, golden cicada, fireflies, you come to appreciate, and help me appreciate; Silt, dung, rotting weeds, I'll look at it directly. Let's divide each other and get back in the car, shall we? ”

About half a minute, Jiu Niang wiped away her tears, lowered her head, and got off the horse and returned to the car.

The crying in the courtyard was even louder, and several gray officials with sticks in their hands turned over and jumped into the pigsty, and the wails of the pigs rang out. Then there was a bang, the pigsty collapsed, and the black sow rushed out.

The gray officer stopped beating the woman, but met her with a stick and struck it on the sow's head. The sow fell down and roared like a pig. The sticks rained down, and soon the black pig stopped wailing and was beaten to death. At this time, a litter of piglets ran out of the pigsty, and it took less than half a month to see the head.

All the gray officials worked together, the tigers and tigers dancing with sticks were vigorous, and the piglets also suffered from the catastrophe, and none of them slipped through the net. The yard was a mess, littered with pig carcasses, and the woman was crying to death, lying on the ground with her hands scratching the ground, her nails broken and bleeding. The onlookers were indignant, but they dared not speak out.

Wu Kang sighed lightly and watched the woman fall into deep thought. Chen Shuozhen rebelled, with only 2,000 people, and broke through the city of Muzhou. Muzhou Zhichong Prefecture, plus tens of thousands of militiamen, were beaten and fled. In less than half a month, Muzhou was turned upside down, and the rebel army grew by tens of thousands of people, and had the capital to conquer the city, and even attacked Shezhou and Wuzhou. The picture in front of you is the root cause, right?

I almost forgot that Pheasant County is Chen Shuozhen's hometown. Thinking of the woman who had a one-sided relationship, I couldn't help but hate from my heart, Wen Ruo died under her knife. You rebelled in Muzhou, I raised my hands in favor, you killed all the corrupt officials in Muzhou, I beat gongs and drums to celebrate. But if you attack Wuzhou, I will take your head.

For the entire Tang Dynasty, Muzhou is just a finger, a finger with an abscess, and it's a big deal to cut it off. But if you Chen Shuo really attack other states, it is to infect the abscess on your hands and spread it to the whole body, who will you destroy if you don't destroy it?

The arrogant reprimand interrupted his thoughts, and his pupils gradually focused, and he saw the gray officer stop in front of the convoy. The one at the head took the copper coin of the bodyguard's filial piety, weighed it a few times and snorted: "Visiting relatives? Are there any people who bring knives to visit relatives? Honestly, from where to where, what is in the car? ”

This kid, who is more horizontal than a bald-tailed dog, walked towards the black wind horse with six relatives and was stopped by Jiang Erniu. Bald Tail glanced at Erniu, his eyes fell on Wu Kang's face, and he scolded fiercely: "What are you doing?" Who's in that carriage? Get him out of the car right away! Hmph, I see that you are all Jiangyang thieves, come with me to the state office! ”

Wu Kang smiled very warmly, and without replying to the gray officer's words, he slowly raised his right hand and put his five fingers together on his neck. Almost at the same time, the sound of neat tension springs sounded, all the bodyguards pressed the handle of the knife, and all the horizontal knives revealed the blade of the knife.

The other gray official reacted quickly, laughed twice, and said loudly: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!" Qian Bantou, they are riding horses, and there is that beautiful carriage, they must be visiting relatives. How can the daughter of a big family get off casually? Qian Bantou, don't you say? ”

"Huh? Yes, yes, yes", Bald Tail nodded again and again, his attitude reversed, and he sneered: "It's all a misunderstanding, Lang Jun, where are you going to visit your relatives?" I'll show you the way... Hehe, since Lang Jun doesn't need to lead the way, we still have to go back on a business trip, you see..."

Wu Kang felt a pity that he couldn't make a gesture to wipe his neck, and he waved as if chasing flies. The gray-clothed officials nodded their heads and saluted, turned around and ran away faster than rabbits. If they continue to die, they don't mind helping them. After killing people, he will return immediately, as long as he arrives in Wuzhou, even if he assassinates Muzhou, he can't do anything about himself.

The gray officials left in a gray manner, and the people hurried around. Some hugged Xiaolang to comfort, some surrounded the woman to ask for warmth, some pinched the little lady, some went to invite Langzhong, and some scolded the Muzhou government, and it was a mess.

Jiu Niang got out of the carriage, trotted to the Black Wind Horse, stretched out her hand on tiptoe, and grabbed the money bag on Wu Kang's waist. Due to the altitude, his hand couldn't reach it, so he pouted directly. Wu Kang immediately smiled, grabbed the reins and lay on his side, almost at right angles to the horse's back.

Jiuniang ripped off the money bag and ran towards the crowd, and Erniu hurriedly took a few bodyguards, shouting for the crowd to give way. The common people were afraid of knives, so they quickly got out of the way, and Jiu Niang came to the woman, untied the money bag and took out two taels of silver.

Liu frowned slightly, took out two taels, put them in the woman's hand, and comforted softly: "This is four taels of silver... can be worth four copper coins, looking for Lang Zhong to catch medicine. I'll buy your big pigs, and those little pigs will make up for your husband... Don't cry! ”

The crowd was stunned and a little rough with each other, and the woman stopped crying and looked at the silver and shed tears. Jiuniang got up and pinched her waist, and shouted at the bodyguards: "What are you doing in a daze, come here to carry the pig, don't you want to eat?" ”

The bodyguards came back to their senses, rushed into the yard, carried the sow out, and tied it to the cart board with hemp rope. Jiuniang got on the horse angrily, glared at Wu Kang again, hung the money bag on her waist, and confiscated it directly.

Looking at the puffing little girl, I couldn't cry or laugh, this loser girl, a litter of pigs added up, it's not worth the same money, you can be happy!