Gongsun Xun didn't get angry, he just walked in front of the northland horse that caused the destruction of the two families, and calmly brushed the mane on the horse's back:

"Brother Yigong put him down, I'll ask, let him answer."

Han Dang let go angrily.

"Young gentleman, excuse me." The man kowtowed again, and the woman next to him quickly knelt down.

"Are you Jia Chao or Jia Ping?"

"Jia Chao is also a younger brother." This person, that is, Jia Chao, hurriedly bowed his head and replied.

"Then it is naturally your brother Jia Ping who was tied up and detained in the pavilion today?"

"Yes."

"And who killed the man?" Gongsun Xun suddenly turned his head and stared at the other party.

"It's me!" Jia Chao replied without hesitation. "Brother, where can a farmer kill people, or nineteen lives?"

"Your brother loves his brother very much, I probably can understand." Gongsun Xun asked expressionlessly. "But Jia Chao, tell me, why can you sit back and watch your brother die for your guilt?"

Han Dang also narrowed his eagle-like eyes, and what he was angry about was actually this problem - Gongsun Xun brought his group here, no matter what, he wanted to try to lend a helping hand to this person, but the premise was that the person he saved should not be a greedy person who is afraid of death.

There is no way, since the Spring and Autumn Period, the folk atmosphere has been regarded as death as if it were home...... From the secretary of state to the head of Qian, greed for life and fear of death are to be despised, and even eunuchs and relatives who fail to play political struggles are also to talk about a life that I can't help it, I should wipe my neck and wipe my neck, I should jump into the river and jump into the river, and there is very little hesitation!

Jia Chao's face turned red, as if he was ashamed: "Jia Chao is by no means a greedy person, otherwise he would not have written his name directly on the shadow wall after killing someone......"

Gongsun Xun and Han Dang glanced at each other, their eyes softened a little, and I have to say that this is quite convincing.

"I wrote my name after the killing, I was disheartened, and I wanted to leave, but I just went home and was really reluctant to go to my brother, so I secretly returned home to say goodbye to my brother and sister-in-law." This Jia Chao lowered his head and said earnestly. Unexpectedly...... Unexpectedly, when my brother found out what had happened, he stopped me and talked to me. ”

"What did he say?" Gongsun Xun frowned and asked.

He said...... If I leave, according to the Han law, those ruthless as sheep will inevitably come to ban the family wealth, and I am afraid that the house will be looted at that time, and Ma's husband is still alive, and he will never let my family go after relieving himself. In this case, I am on the run, and the day is not safe, he and his sister-in-law are at home, not to mention the loss of land and money, but I am afraid that I will also sit back and wait to die, and be killed by Ma's husband. ”

Gongsun Xun was secretly speechless in his heart...... If you escape and leave your brother at home, then Ma's husband and the local public have a fear in their hearts, and I am afraid that they may not be ruthless. But if they find out that you, the murderer, are still there, and they will kill you even if they fight for their lives, right?! How can you mess around for some land and money?

You must know that the so-called saving people lose money, people and money are gained, saving money and losing people, and people and money are lost!

"There's some truth to that." Han Dang urged impatiently. "You just say why it's not you who surrender, but your brother who surrenders!"

"Brother said......" Jia Chao stopped talking, and couldn't help but glance at his sister-in-law, and his sister-in-law also buried her head lower.

"What the hell did your brother say?" Han Dang urged again.

"My brother said that unfilial piety is the greatest...... He and his sister-in-law have no children for several years after marriage, if I die, our Zhang family is only afraid of being extinct! "Jia Chao is very ashamed." So I hope that I will stay and take care of my sister-in-law in his name, and he will confess his guilt in my name, then treat this dead person as Jia Chao, and the living person as Jia Ping, and if he has a child in the future, he will naturally be regarded as his descendant of Jia Ping......"

At this moment, even Gongsun Xun was speechless.

How do you say this reason? I don't hear nonsense, but if you think about it carefully, in terms of the situation, identity, and knowledge of the two brothers, it is really very convincing.

"Shaojun!" Jia Chao grabbed the ground with his head again. "I was also a little flustered after I killed someone, and I still respected my brother in major matters since I was a child, so I responded in a daze last night. But now that my brother has been kidnapped, I am afraid that my head will fall to the ground in a few days, and my heart is in turmoil at this time, and I don't know what to do...... Ask Shaojun Wanwan for help, I am willing to pay for my life and come back in exchange for my brother! ”

After saying this, even Jia Chao's sister-in-law quickly kowtowed.

Han Dang's expression was greatly soothed at this time...... After all, unlike the greed for life and fear of death just now, this kind of thing is very admirable for brothers to fight for death.

However, Gongsun Xun had some other questions he wanted to ask: "Isn't there anyone in the whole township who knows you two brothers?" Why didn't anyone point it out during the interrogation? ”

"Returning to Shaojun." Jia Chao hurriedly replied. "We are brothers after all, and we still look a little similar, unkempt and covered in blood, and it doesn't look easy to assert from a distance. Besides, my brother begged the immortal master of Taiping Dao last night, and the immortal master was grateful for my brother's love for me, so he persuaded the chief of Benli, who also believed in religion, and promised to bring the Taiping Dao believers in the township to cover up for us, and there were more than 200 families in Dasanli and Sanmari, but 1780 households were willing to listen to the words of the Taiping Dao immortal master...... Therefore, as long as the husband himself does not come out to identify it in person, there will be no mistakes. ”

Gongsun Xun's eyes instantly flashed the lieutenant who was lying on the ground cowering in front of Cui Xianjun, and the Taiping Taoist who was holding a nine-section scepter and leading the people to bow down to Cui Xianjun...... Of course, there was also the terrifying silence for a moment when the thief Cao ordered the fake brother and the real brother to be pressed up for questioning.

If the entire Julu countryside is like this, then Taiping Dao is really scary, and it is no wonder that it can do that kind of big thing ten years later.

Even, in Gongsun Xun's opinion, the purpose of the Taiping Daoist to help this Zhang brother is not very simple, I am afraid that he took a fancy to this Jia Chao's courage and blood, and wanted to take it for his own use...... His heart is quite reprehensible!

In other words, people and people are in different positions, and they have different views on the same thing. For Gongsun Xun, the focus of this matter has become worry and vigilance about Taiping Dao, but for Han Dang, he is still thinking about how to save people, only to see that he wants to speak and stop, as if he wants to ask Gongsun Xun to pull this Jia Chao by the way.

Gongsun Xun naturally also noticed the expression of his confidant, not to mention that since he had reached this point, it didn't hurt to push the boat along the river, but purely to restrain Han Dang, he could also make a certain gesture.

However, after a slight pause, Gongsun Xun still asked another question: "Jia Chao, are the words that are as fierce as a tiger, as ruthless as a sheep, and as greedy as a wolf true?" You were forced to kill last night?! ”

"It's true, contemptible people have heard it with their own ears!" Jia Chao clenched his fists against the hard soil on the ground, and unexpectedly wiped the bloodstains. "Shaojun is in Youzhou, I don't know the strength of the eunuch children here in Jizhou, they don't pay attention to the nobles of two thousand stones, although this husband Ma is just a disciple of a eunuch's son, but it is enough for people like us to die...... If I don't kill him, I really don't know what way to live, but it's a pity that I didn't have enough strength to kill him, and I caused a disturbance, so I let him escape from the dog hole. ”

"Well, in this case, I will take you to meet Cui Xianjun." Gongsun Xun didn't believe in any two thousand stones, but since it was true that there was a reason for it, and there was a routine of 'brothers fighting to the death', he could naturally help him......

Of course, it is enough to just help a gang, because for a gangster like Jia Chao, if there is no intervention by a noble child like Gongsun Xun, then he may not be able to go to Cui Xianjun's side to say a word for the rest of his life.

"Why are you so troubled?" In the post house in the pavilion, Cui Xianjun, who had just settled down, even jumped out of the Qinghe dialect in a hurry.

"If a friend asks for something, how can he not help!" Gongsun Xun held his head high and was soft and hard...... In other words, he also grew up in the county government, how can he not know that this Cui Xianjun can't help himself at all?

"Then let his brother come and exchange it for his brother, why do you want me to let them all go?" Cui Xianjun was still angry.

"Brothers fight to the death, where righteousness lies!" Gongsun Xun still refuses to forgive. "If Ming Gong doesn't make some gestures, isn't he afraid that the matter will spread out, and it will be insulting to his name?"

"Virtuous nephew, why is the persecution so great?!" Cui Xianjun was speechless. "My county order has also been earned through hard work for many years."

"The county gentleman is my elder, and I am doing this for your good." Gongsun Xun pretended not to hear the second half of the other party's sentence. "Even if the matter spreads and the officials investigate it, then everyone in the world will say that you are a person who values righteousness and despises it."

That Cui Xianjun, that is, Cui Min of Qinghe Cui's family, was anxious and angry, so he had no choice but to walk out of the pavilion, drive out all the officials around, and then close the door of the pavilion with his backhand, and then said something:

"Virtuous nephew, since you call me an elder, why can't you give me a way to live?"

"What did the county gentleman say, how did this come to life?" Gongsun Xun was dumbfounded.

"In the dark room, I'll be blunt." This Cui Min took the other party's hand, and his expression was quite sincere. "A virtuous nephew is a young man after all...... Do you know that what I'm afraid of is not Shangguan, but what about Shangguan? Everyone is a fellow practitioner and can always talk. But this case vaguely involves the children of eunuchs! ”

Gongsun Xun nodded: "I did hear that Zhen Jia Chao say something relevant just now, but he is just a minion of a eunuch's son." ”

"Enough!" Na Cui Xianjun immediately replied. "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if, if this case causes a storm, then Ma's husband is disgruntled, entangled layer by layer, and finally provokes Zhao Changzhi to come out with a random nephew, so what should I do?"

"There are no thirteen or thirteen nephews of this Zhao Changshi, I'm afraid there are seven or eight, why is the county monarch afraid to this point?" Gongsun Xun frowned slightly.

"Didn't you talk about Zhang Jian and Zhang Yuanjie when you saw me before? How can it not be clear about the tyranny of the eunuchs? ”

"Don't hide it from the county." Gongsun Xun bowed his head and said. "I used Yuan Jiegong as an example today just because I happened to know him...... He fled from Qingzhou to Saiwai the year before last, taking my family's merchant ship and stopping at my house for a few days. All I knew was that he was famous, and then his family told me about him, and I just remembered that he killed for his friends. As for the relationship between him and the eunuchs, I am a kid from Liaoxi, and I really don't know very well. ”

"Really?" Now it was Cui Xianjun's turn to be stunned. "That Yuan Jie Gong is actually sheltered in your house now?"

"In the dark room, I don't recognize when I go out." Gongsun Xun hurriedly reminded.

"That's, that's!" Cui Xianjun nodded again and again. "Let's not talk about Yuan Jiegong, only about eunuchs...... Do you know that the son of this eunuch can treat two thousand stones as nothing? What's more, I have a 600-stone county order? ”

Gongsun Xun heard this for the second time today, and unlike what Jia Chao sounded in his mouth, Cui Xianjun couldn't help but believe it: "How can you say this?" ”

"I'll tell you a few things." Cui Xianjun sighed. "Now there are ten permanent servants, and there are five marquis in the first emperor's season, all of whom are eunuchs who are in power. One of the five marquis is named Xu Huang, who is a native of Xiapi in Xuzhou, and his nephew is a Xiapi order, so I won't say how to do evil, but I just said that there is a family in the local area, and the head of the family is the two thousand stone members who have been the Taishou of Runan, and Xu Huang's nephew has taken a fancy to the daughter of the Taishou, and he has also taken a fancy to the family background of the Taishou of Runan, so he wants to marry the door as his wife......"

"Taishou is naturally unwilling to marry?"

"That's natural, and then how does the virtuous nephew think this Xu Huang's nephew acts?"

"Broke in, snatched people, and forcibly married?" Gongsun Xun could only think along this line.

"Robbing is robbing, and it doesn't hurt if you marry later." Cui Xianjun sneered. "It's just that Xu Huang's nephew snatched the daughter of the two thousand stone guards home, and he neither married nor accepted it, so he killed it in public in his garden......"

"What do you mean by playfulness?" Gongsun Xun suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"It was to let the daughter of the Taishou flee barefoot, and he and his guests took bows and arrows in the back, and killed them as if they were hunting...... After killing, he buried it directly, and continued to do his next order as if he was fine. ”

Gongsun Xun was dumbfounded.

"This is far away, and there is close, let's talk about the matter of Yuan Jiegong......"

"Didn't you say that you wouldn't talk about Yuan Jiegong?" Gongsun Xun hurriedly laughed dryly. "Besides, the matter of Yuan Jiegong involves the issue of the party, and the people in the border counties don't care much about the party......"

"Is that what the people in the border counties think?" Cui Xianjun asked disapprovingly.

Of course not, Gongsun Xun secretly said in his heart, it's just that my wife has a lot of high-level opinions on this matter, and then I myself feel that what my wife said makes sense.

The so-called scourge of the party, to put it bluntly, is that the scholars criticize the eunuchs for disorderly government, and praise each other, and then the eunuchs grab the latter and insist on it, saying that they 'form a party'. In the end, the emperor personally went down to kill the 'party' scholars, arrest them, and recall them, and finally directly forbade these 'party members' and their relatives, protégés, and descendants to be officials.

On the one hand, the imperial power borrowed the sword of eunuchs to get their own way of employing people, on the other hand, the scholars wanted to continue to monopolize the recommendation rights of officials, and finally the two sides tore their faces, and the emperor directly played a "don't allow your whole family to be an official" of the three clans.

Even according to Gongsun Auntie's self-righteous interpretation, from a long-term perspective, the self-righteous monopoly of scholars cannot support a strong state power, but it is the emperor's feeling of being a one-man and a thief that helps to maintain the operation of a centralized state.

Of course, when Aunt Gongsun said this, she probably didn't see what she called the 'extension of imperial power', that is, how arrogant and lawless the eunuchs were!

"I am confident that the people in the border counties have not been implicated in the scourge of the party." Cui Xianjun shook his head and said. That year, the Liao general Huangfu Gui was ashamed because he was not listed as a member of the party, so he asked himself to be imprisoned, but the first emperor ignored him at all. It can be seen that the imperial court is very aware of the role of your border counties, and absolutely does not want the border counties to be affected by these things. In addition, the border county is bitterly cold, and the population is too small, and the power of the eunuchs cannot reach that side at all, and they have not done evil in you, so you have a little fantasy...... But virtuous nephew, isn't this in the mainland? And we're talking about me, not you! ”

Gongsun Xun laughed dryly.

"Anyway, if you don't want to hear it, I won't say more." This Cui Xianjun shook his head and said. "But you have to understand my difficulties...... First, the eunuchs are powerful, and it is common for them to break down their families and destroy their families at every turn, and these eunuch children have no knowledge and morality at all, and the matter is getting bigger, who knows which of the clan's nephews of Zhao Zhong and Zhao Changshi will think that I am humiliating him and hating me for no reason. Second, as a scholar, if the matter is really big, and it involves the eunuchs' family to do evil, and there is such a righteous thing as brothers fighting to the death, if I don't help, I'm afraid I will be despised by Shilin! So, in the dark room, can I beg my nephew to let me go? I'm only in my thirties this year, and if I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely have a good reward! ”

Gongsun Xun had the heart to open his mouth to refute, but the story of the 'playful killing' of the daughter of two thousand stones was right in front of him, and what the county monarch said was also sincere, he was really a little embarrassed: "Actually, the county monarch doesn't have to be like this...... I had the idea of getting the best of both worlds. ”

"Oh?"

"The county gentleman released the brother who was in custody and asked him to continue to go back to be his Jia Ping and live his life. And the murderous brother, I took him away and flew away...... Then the county gentleman, you go to the prison to find a murderer with a similar figure, gag his mouth, spread his hair, and make it dirty, and wait for the official document of the county guard, and immediately cut it down, and say that he is Jia Chao...... Could it be that Zhao Changshou's family and Ma's husband will go to the autopsy? ”

"That's ...... That's true! Cui Xianjun suddenly realized. But you are an uncrowned boy, why are you so bold? ”

"The people in the border counties are best at killing people and setting fires." Gongsun Xun laughed dryly again. "Let the county gentleman see a smile."

"People who are good at killing people and setting fires still have to go to Luoyang to study...... Gongsun Xun is right, you will definitely be able to become a great weapon in the future! Cui Xianjun praised the case, or mocked.

"In that case, I won't bother the county gentleman." Gongsun Xun stood up, he also knew that his trip was annoying. "Excuse me, I'll take people away, and I'll never be an eyesore in front of the county monarch again......"

"It's fine." This Cui Xianjun nodded. "It's convenient for everyone...... But nephew, I have a word for you before I leave. ”

Gongsun Xun had already walked to the door to open the door, but stopped again.

"Virtuous nephew." This Cui Xianjun pinched his beard and said. "Don't think that if you are from the border county, you can watch the fire from the other side. Today, eunuchs and scholars are incompatible, since you have come to the mainland and want to go to Luoyang, you have to pick a side! Let me ask you, you border county people, as long as you pick a side and go to the side, and don't go to the side of the scholars, can you still stand on the side of the eunuchs? Back then, General Huangfu invited himself to be a 'party member', was it really nothing to do?! You're a smart man, think about it......"

Gongsun Xun was shocked, he stood at the door in amazement and didn't know how long it had been, turned around and bowed seriously to this Cui Xianjun, and then turned around and pushed the door out.

"Taizu passed through Jizhou, there were Julu Nan and Ling Cui Min, who were famous people in Qinghe, and they were shocked when they saw Taizu. He said: 'I see that there are many famous people in the world, and there is no one who is like a king! Junshan is self-sustaining, and he will become a great tool in the future. May I trust my wife! —The Book of Old Swallows. Volume I. Emperor Taizu Wu Benji

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