Xingquanfu City, Guizhou.

If he looked at Xingquanfu City from a distant hill, then the first thing he saw would not be the city wall, but the black smoke rushing into the sky!

It was the chimney of the steel workshop under the Ministry of Industry!

As soon as you enter the city, you will find that this small city is extremely crowded, and you can see many small vendors selling all kinds of knick-knacks to passers-by on both sides of the street.

In fact, many of these small traders are farmers from rural areas outside the city, and they carry their own vegetables, chickens, ducks, eggs, woven bamboo products, handmade furniture, and even timber cut down from the mountains into the city early in the morning, and they also earn a small amount of silver.

Then buy it from the city, salt, cloth, or simply all kinds of knick-knacks and so on.

These small traders have grown from few to many, and they have almost witnessed the prosperity of Xingquan Mansion day by day!

Since the Tang Dynasty captured Xingquanfu City, it was not only regarded as an administrative center, but also as an industrial center, so a large number of military and political personnel and workers in the workshop were gathered here.

When the Tang Dynasty first conquered Xingquan Mansion, there were about 10,000 residents in the city, but up to now, there were more than 25,000 residents in the city, and this did not include the troops of the Tang Dynasty Division stationed outside the city.

Why are there so many more?

Because the number of workers in the workshops under the Ministry of Industry alone is in the thousands.

Secondly, the workshops under the Ministry of Industry will also place a lot of orders to private merchants and workshops, and those merchants naturally need to hire workers in order to make money, so the number of workers in the city is even more.

These extra workers, as well as military and political personnel, need to consume, and their consumption has led to the expansion and prosperity of the consumer industry in Xingquanfu City.

In this way, more people from the vicinity will flock to the city of Xingquanfu, some of them will work in the city, and some will do business.

The influx of many people has also made the small Xingquanfu City crowded!

On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Xingquanfu City had just opened the city gate on this day, and arrived outside the city gate early, and the people who were about to enter the city lined up very consciously.

It's not just ordinary people who are honestly queuing, even merchants who are transporting many goods are honestly waiting in line to enter the city.

Want to skip the line and go straight into town? If you are a big man in the military and politics, then there is nothing to say, but if it is just an ordinary gentry and businessman who wants to cut in line, what do you think of the patrolmen who maintain order at the city gates?

Believe it or not, minute fines and penalties until you go bankrupt?

If you are not afraid of these patrolmen, then there is a whole team of Datang Army stationed near this city gatehouse.

Therefore, although there are many people entering the city, the continuation of the city gate is quite good, no one cuts the queue, and no one dares to make trouble!

However, it didn't take long for the people queuing at the city gate to cause some commotion, and the people in the queue behind seemed to have encountered something.

At this time, Zhao An, the team leader of the Chengdong Branch under the Xingquan Mansion Patrol Police Bureau, who was responsible for leading the team to maintain order at the gate of the city, saw this scene, and immediately frowned, and said secretly in his heart, what's going on, could it be that someone from other places came to make trouble?

Generally, people in Xingquan Mansion City, even the sons and daughters of gentry families know that the most rules in Xingquan Mansion are the most important, especially when entering and leaving the city, if you don't obey the order, even if you are the son of a gentry family, you will be swept away, and if it is serious, you will be arrested and put in prison, although it is impossible to be locked up for too long, it is estimated that it will be fished out in a few hours, but the money spent will also make the adults in the family feel painful.

In the Tang Dynasty, although it is said that it is easy to do things with money, this money is not a small amount!

For example, in the Xingquan Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau, because the funds allocated by the top are very small, even the daily salaries of the subordinate patrol officers are not enough, and in order to maintain the operation of the patrol police station, the patrol police station will also use some careful thinking to make money.

Well, it's not a private money-making thing, it's a public money-making business!

For example, for some minor daily offences, the prisoner can pay a fine in lieu of detention.

In fact, in order to make better money, several judicial departments in Xingquanfu City invented an innovative system called 'bail pending trial', that is, criminal suspects in some cases of little harm to society can pay a high amount of security deposit, and with the guarantee of a person with a certain social status, they can be exempted from pre-trial detention and seizure, and wait until the formal trial, and then go to the court to accept the trial.

Of course, you can run away, but the person who vouched for you will also be implicated.

Moreover, this system is to make money and make up for the dilemma of insufficient funds for the operation of the judiciary, so this system is actually specifically for the wealthy. In other words, the more money you have, the more you collect, hundreds of taels or thousands of taels are possible, and there is no upper limit, if you have a net worth of millions of taels of silver, it is also possible to collect a deposit of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty also has a bottom line, but if you want to be released on bail pending trial, fifty taels of silver is the starting price, no matter how low it is, what are you in our Tang Dynasty?

Who do you send with just a few taels of silver, hurry up and give Lao Tzu to go to prison to work!

That's right, in order to make up for the expenses, the prisons in the Tang Dynasty are better called their factories, and the prisoners say that they are in prison, but in fact they are going to work as coolies, and they are still the kind that they get without wages.

You can do so many people's coolies for the Tang Dynasty for free, and you can also bring benefits to the Tang Dynasty, so you can't let you go for those few taels of silver.

And this kind of small troublemaker, especially those ordinary gentry and the children of merchants, is the favorite person of the patrol police, this kind of person has oil and water!

But as time passes, the people in Xingquan Mansion also know that although this crime can be done without going to jail like before, it is definitely not okay to hand over a piece casually, you have to take out real money to ransom people!

Although they all have money, they can't stand such a toss for three days and two days, so slowly, no one is so messing around, which makes Zhao An and other patrol team sigh: It's getting harder and harder to make extra money!

Now that he saw that there was a riot outside, he immediately guessed that there were people from other places who didn't have long eyes and came to Xingquanfu City?

This is a great thing, I haven't caught a fat sheep for a long time, if I catch a big fat sheep, the sub-bureau will be able to live a fat year, and as the first person to catch people, the bonus is naturally indispensable.

Immediately, I was going to take a few people out to see who had the courage to make trouble, preferably a certain boy from out of town, and the family was still the kind with special money!

But as soon as he took two steps with the others, he heard not only a cry from the crowd outside, but also the sound of horses' hooves.

Immediately, his face showed a look of surprise, and he shouted: "What a bold man, who dares to gallop on the heavy ground of the city gate, in case you hurt someone, you will definitely be allowed to sit through the prison!" ”

In my heart, I was ecstatic, and now I was going to get rich!

The person who dares to ride his horse fast in a crowded place like the city gate must be a very powerful son, and this kind of son's family is generally very rich!

And the relevant judicial institutions of the Tang Dynasty like nothing more than to deal with this kind of rich people!

This time, I'm afraid that the fine can be opened to hundreds of taels of silver, and the bail pending trial will be more than a few hundred taels of silver, Nima, get rich, get rich!

At that moment, Zhao An rushed out with people!

But before he could take two steps to lead people, there was another voice in front of him: "Get out of the way, those who block the military report will be killed!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao An's footsteps stopped instantly, military report?

Nima, this is a fat sheep, this is a disaster!

Last time, a few sons and buddies who drank too much dared to intercept the messenger who delivered the military report on the street, but they were cut by the military messenger on the spot, and the whole head flew into the air after the knife went down.

Every messenger in the Tang Dynasty King's division who transmits military information is a qualified cavalryman, and drawing a sword and charging is the most basic!

After another burst of chickens and dogs jumping in front, Zhao An finally saw two knights galloping on war horses, and on the backs of these two knights, there was a small red flag with a big 'newspaper' on it.

This is the military's military messenger, and those who dare to intercept this kind of military messenger are all killed, if they delay the military situation because of this, they will be wiped out!

These two military messengers obviously have important military information to transmit, and before the war horses arrived, they were already shouting for the crowd to get out of the way, otherwise there would be no forgiveness.

The two knights had already drawn their sabers, and looking at this posture, they were planning to forcibly rush through the city gate!

Nima, these uncles can't be messed with!

In an instant, Zhao An shouted at everyone: "Quick, get out of the way, get out of the way!" ”

In fact, there was no need for Zhao An's orders, the people who were originally queuing at the gate of the city had already consciously run to both sides, there was no way, the speed of the war horse of the military messenger did not stop because there were people in front of him, even if the knight did not use a saber to cut, just crashing into it, not dead and disabled!

After a few breaths, the originally congested city gate had become extremely empty, and then the two knights did not look at everyone, and continued to run forward, the horse's hooves stepped on the bluestone slab, making an incomparably crisp sound of horses' hooves.

Not surprisingly, the street ahead also ushered in a burst of chickens and dogs!

When the two knights passed, Zhao An looked at the chaotic city gate, sighed and muttered: "It's so bad luck early in the morning!" ”

Not to mention the chaos at the city gate and on the streets, but to say that these two knights, they ran wildly all the way until they reached the Privy Council Yamen next to the temporary palace!

When they reached the door, they turned over and dismounted, and one of them shouted: "Guangxi good news!" ”

Another person also shouted: "Please report quickly, Guangxi good news!" ”