On the evening of the seventh day of the second lunar month, Zhao Hongrun and his party were still about six or seven miles away from Yu County. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On this day, they were assassinated twice.

The previous time, those assassins disguised themselves as business travelers and tried to attack Zhao Hongrun's team under the pretext of asking for directions, but it was a pity that the guards had long been suspicious of these past business travelers and did not let the other party succeed.

Then, the gang of assassins hid in a forest next to the official road, and when Zhao Hongrun's team passed by, they actually killed them directly.

This wave of people, if nothing else, should be those profit-hungry rangers and chivalrous brave, who were carried away by the 50,000 gold bounty, and once again gathered to attack Zhao Hongrun.

And the number of people who came to attack this time was also as many as more than 100 people, and the guards and soldiers fought to the death, so they killed these people.

This series of assassinations caused heavy casualties among the soldiers in Zhao Hongrun's team, not to mention them, even the guards were injured this time.

Gao Kuo's right leg was cut and the blood flowed, Wei Jiao, Lu Mu, Mu Qing and others also suffered different degrees of skin trauma, especially the most brave Chu Heng, who was stabbed in the stomach by a ranger, but fortunately, he grabbed the opponent's blade with his hand in time and pinched it tightly, otherwise, Zhao Hongrun was afraid that he would lose a loyal Zongwei here.

However, as the price of survival, Chu Heng's left hand was seriously cut by the blade, and it was vaguely visible that there was something faintly blue and white under the blur of flesh and blood, which was the bone.

One can imagine how deep this cut wound is.

Outrageous! Outrageous!

Seeing that his own side was assassinated one after another, the guards were wounded, and the soldiers were sacrificed, the anger in Zhao Hongrun's heart became more and more intense.

However, reason forced him to calm down, after all, he also understood that this was not the time to attack, but when he got in touch with the Shang Shui Army and summoned the Shang Shui Army to escort him, then he would ......

With a thick killing intent in his eyes, Zhao Hongrun clutched the reins, his face gloomy like water.

Because he was afraid that staying overnight in the wilderness would provoke the assassin again, Zhao Hongrun and his party slowly went to Yu County despite the fact that it was already night.

After all, in order to reduce the burden, He Zhirong had to place the corpses of those sacrificed soldiers in the field, and wait for the day after tomorrow to borrow county soldiers from Yu County, and then come to collect the corpses for them and handle the aftermath.

It wasn't until around the end of the day that Zhao Hongrun and others arrived in Yu County.

At this time, the gate of the county seat that had long been closed in Yu County.

"Open the door! Open the door! ”

Shen Yu, the head of the sect's guard, stood under the city and shouted loudly.

After a while, a torch was thrown from the city wall of Yuxian County, and then a head poked out of the city wall and said with a curse: "What is it called?" Don't you know that the hour has passed, and I will come back tomorrow! ”

At this time, Zhao Hongrun was holding back a fire in his heart, and when he heard the reply of the county soldier on the city wall, he scolded in a rare angry voice: "I am Su Wang Hongrun, get down and open the door for this king!" ”

"Su ...... King Su? The county soldier on the city wall was startled, and immediately, a few torches were thrown down from the city wall again, illuminating Zhao Hongrun and his party.

"You...... You say you're the King of Su? What are the credentials? ”

Zhao Hongrun laughed instead of anger when he heard this, and sneered: "When this king throws you into prison one day, you will know what credentials this king has!" ”

From the side, He Zhirong frowned slightly, and couldn't help but persuade: "King Su is angry, the contemptible people know that the king of Su is angry in his heart, and the contemptible people are the same, but why bother to be as knowledgeable as the city guards in office?" ”

Hearing He Zhirong's persuasion, Zhao Hongrun also realized that he was a little out of shape, so he nodded and restrained his anger.

At this time, He Zhirong took a few steps forward on his mount and shouted at the county soldiers on the city wall: "The contemptible man is the post chief of the post station twenty miles away in the northern suburbs of the county, He Zhirong, have you ever heard of the contemptible man?" ”

"Master He?"

Another head poked out of the city wall, took a closer look at He Zhirong, and then said to the rest of the county soldiers on the city wall: "That's right, it's Master He of the He family in the north of our county, open the door." ”

After a while, the city gate was opened, and the county soldiers greeted them with a smile. After all, He Zhirong's post chief, that is also a big official, after all, he has a soldier under his hands.

He Zhirong smiled slightly at those county soldiers, and then looked back at Zhao Hongrun and said, "His Royal Highness King Su, please." ”

Hey?

Is it really King Su?

The county soldiers looked at each other, especially the county soldier who was scolding on the city wall just now, and he was even more frightened at this moment, lowering his head and not daring to speak.

Fortunately, Zhao Hongrun was only angry, and he didn't really want to deal with this person, so he didn't pay attention to these people at all, and drove his mount into the city.

"In what direction is the county magistrate's office?" After entering the city, Zhao Hongrun turned around and asked.

The county soldiers didn't dare to speak in fear because they knew that they had offended the king of Su, but He Zhirongce came forward immediately and said: "Your Royal Highness King Su, don't worry, the contemptible people are also from Yu County, and they are quite familiar with Yu County, and the contemptible people will lead the way for King Su." ”

"I'm tired." Zhao Hongrun took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.

Half an hour later, under the leadership of He Zhirong, Zhao Hongrun went straight to the county government of Yu County.

The county magistrate of Yu County is surnamed Huang, with a single name, and he is a few years younger than He Zhirong.

When I heard that His Royal Highness King Su Hongrun had arrived in Heyuan County and was outside the county government at the moment, Huang Yu, the county magistrate who had been on the bed at that time and was ready to rest, was actually wearing only a single coat and stepping on a pair of boots and hurriedly rushed from the back office to the front office, probably wanting to personally welcome Zhao Hongrun into the palace.

It's just that he was assassinated one after another, and Zhao Hongrun didn't have the heart to put up any shelf, as early as when Huang Yu had not yet arrived, he advanced the government through the relationship between He Zhirong and the county government.

A moment later, Huang Yu, the county magistrate of Yuxian County, who was only wearing a single dress, met Zhao Hongrun in the front office.

During this period, he also said hello to He Zhirong: "Brother Zhirong." ”

He Zhirong smiled and arched his hand, and called respectfully: "Lord County Commander." ”

Zhao Hongrun strangely found that He Zhirong seemed to have a good relationship with Huang Yu, the county magistrate, so he asked: "Chief He, have you and Huang County Commander known each other for a long time?" ”

He Zhirong smiled when he heard this: "His Royal Highness King Su, the wife of the county commander, is the contemptible sister. ”

Zhao Hongrun understood as soon as he heard it, no wonder He Zhirong could enter the county seat after closing the city gate, and he could enter and exit the county government at will.

Of course, this is not surprising.

After all, generally speaking, these county orders like Huang Yu were appointed by the imperial court as the county orders of a certain place through the imperial examination or recommendation.

When these county commanders went to work, most of them were alone, or with a small servant.

Take the county magistrate Huang Yu in front of him as an example, if he ascended to the official career as a commoner and had no backer, then the first thing he did after taking office was not to pay attention to local security and people's livelihood, but to establish a good relationship with the local nobles and gentry.

And the best way is to marry a woman from a local wealthy family, just like this Huang Yu in front of him.

In this way, the prefectural ordinance, as an "outsider", will be accepted and supported by the local wealthy clans, and will not deliberately make any mess to trick the prefectural magistrate.

The difference is only that in some places, the wealthy families just hope to have a good relationship with the county magistrate so as not to damage the interests of the family, while in some places, the wealthy clan simply wants to control the county magistrate and seek benefits.

Sometimes, local officials collude with the wealthy because of this nepotism.

And this kind of relationship cannot be said to be good, nor can it be said to be bad.

Compared with the He family where He Zhirong is located, he is so miserable as a descendant, it is not difficult to see that the He family is a relatively upright and simple nobleman in Wei, and marrying with him, Huang Yu, the county commander, can integrate into Yu County more quickly, so that he can start to implement his ambitions as soon as possible.

This is certainly a positive example, but admittedly, there will be negative examples as well.

But no matter what, for this kind of thing, the imperial court has always turned a blind eye, because this kind of thing has been repeatedly prohibited, even if there was a period of time when the imperial court stipulated that only officials after marriage could serve as county magistrates, but it still didn't use it, even if there was a main room, couldn't you still marry a partial house?

What's more, the main room can also be taken off, right?

All in all, this phenomenon is difficult to really eradicate, even if every few years, the county orders in various places are moved to other places, in fact, the result is still the same.

After a simple greeting, Huang Yu, the county commander of Yuxian County, welcomed Zhao Hongrun, Zong Wei, and several female dependents to the back office.

Because the front office is the place where the case is judged, and the back office is the resident.

After arranging the residences of Miss Su and other female dependents and Zhong Zongwei, Huang Yu invited Zhao Hongrun and He Zhirong to the study.

Although Huang Yu didn't dare to ask Zhao Hongrun's intention, He Zhirong, as the head of the post station in the northern suburbs of Yu County, was not allowed to leave without permission, let alone leave with the soldiers in the post station.

"Brother Zhirong, could it be that what happened?"

In view of the fact that Huang Yu is not an outsider, He Zhirong did not hide it, so he told the former about the events of the past two days.

Huang Yu was stunned when he heard this, and his face was full of horror.

Think about it, even Zhao Hongrun, His Royal Highness the Prince, and the dignified King of Su dared to assassinate, what else could those assassins not do?

"It's just a king! Lawlessness! ”

Huang Yu is also worthy of being a reader, similar to He Zhirong, the vocabulary of scolding is extremely lacking, and there are only a few sentences back and forth.

After scolding a few words, Huang Yu realized his gaffe, and hurriedly apologized to Zhao Hongrun, and then asked: "I don't know if His Royal Highness King Su has any orders for the lower officials?" ”

Zhao Hongrun was also not polite, and said bluntly: "Huang County Order, this king thinks that the gang of thieves will not stop just because this king has arrived in Yu County. This king wants to ask you to send someone to Yanling immediately, there is a merchant army stationed in Yanling, and ask the merchant army to rush to this county immediately to protect and help! ”

"Troop transfers?" Huang Yu was taken aback and asked, "I don't know how many troops Your Highness will transfer?" ”

Zhao Hongrun pondered for a moment, to be honest, he didn't have many available troops at the moment, because the Dangshan army that attacked Sanchuan in front and the 16,000 Shangshui soldiers who were damaged in the battle had not yet returned to their garrisons, and Qu Cheng's 20,000 Yanling troops were also far away in Dangshan, staring at Song Di for the Dangshan army.

In fact, at present, Zhao Hongrun's available troops are only the 10,000 merchant troops stationed in Shangshui and Yanling.

But as long as you wait for a month or two, when the Dangshan Army, the Yanling Army, and the Shangshui Army return to the garrison respectively, hum!

Although without the permission of his father, Emperor Wei Tianzi, Zhao Hongrun still could not directly mobilize the Dangshan army, but even if there were only Yanling troops and Shangshui troops, the troops in his hands were forty or fifty thousand.

It's just a sunny summer, why worry about it?

It's just that he has to wait another month or two, and Zhao Hongrun can't wait.

He couldn't wait to vent the grievances and resentment in his heart for the past few days, or to put it more bluntly, he couldn't wait to try to take revenge on those Yangxia hidden thieves. (To be continued.) )