Chapter 108: Carrying a knife at night
At night, the lights in the inner state of Xiyang City were bright, Bazhou Assassin Shi Yuwen and his subordinates were still busy, Hao Wubo led people to count the household registration, and the main Bo Zhengtong helped the assassin Shi look through the prisoner files, and Yuwenwen gave him the task of finding fault.
Find any case that can be related to the local Haoqiang Tian clan and the Lu clan, and then find a way to find a way to get along with the vine, the motive is a little dark, but Yu Wenwen doesn't care about this, what he cares about is that the two old foxes have the ability to sell Xiyang City at any time.
Yu Wenwen doesn't like to pin the safety of himself and his family on the thoughts of others, the Tian and Lu families have a large area of mountains, tenant farmers, and thousands of troops are entrenched outside Xiyang City, he can't observe words and looks, and he always pleases the other party, don't want to cause chaos for himself, so he has to take the initiative in his own hands.
His father asked him to come to Bazhou to be a thorn, not a gilded brush of qualifications, and Yu Wenwen didn't want to be a gatedog, he wanted to make a difference, so he couldn't tolerate two powerful people out of his control.
What if one day he led his troops to fight outside, and as a result, Xiyang City sold the family to these old foxes, and he didn't want to repeat the tragedy of Ma Chao's wife and children in the Three Kingdoms.
"Hao Zhizhong, you don't have to be in such a hurry, anyway, it's impossible to finish tonight, so let's go and rest first." He walked next door and saw the scene of Hao Wubo and his subordinates fighting at night, and felt a little emotional, this Hao Langjun is really hard.
Hao Wubo and Xu Shao came to Bazhou to take office, both with their own staff groups, so they can be regarded as solving the urgent need, although Yu Wenwen took office in Bazhou, although it was expected, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, and there were no people in hand except for the newly recruited Zheng Tong.
"Envoy, the subordinate knows the measure. After a while, let them rest. Uncle Hao got up and saluted and said. This was his first important job after becoming a businessman, so he didn't want to make any mistakes.
The backyard of the state government is reserved for the residence of the assassin and his family. Yu Wenwen himself has a mansion in the city, so he uses the backyard as a 'duty room' and a temporary residence for Xu Shao, Hao Wubo and their subordinates, and until they find a house to settle down, this state government is a place to work and rest.
Xu Shao was busy in the grain depot today, sorting out the accounts in the back at night, so Yu Wenwen didn't want to bother, he came to another room to see how his master Bo Zhengtong was doing, and saw that this energetic person was leading a few people to go through the case file.
Zheng Tong saw Yuwenwen come in and was about to get up and salute when he was signaled by the other party not to, he only noticed the sky outside the door at this time and realized that it was night, Zheng Tong did not dare to slack off this time, and with the help of several officials recommended by Ren Chong in the long history, he was eager to investigate the case file to help Yuwenwen 'find fault'.
"Zheng Zhubo, it's not too early, let's see tomorrow, a few of you are also resting in the yali." Yuwen Wen commanded. Although he wants to find fault, he is not in a hurry to do so in the next day or two.
Zheng Tong also said the same as Hao Wubo, he would rest after a while, his family followed to Xiyang, and lived in the side courtyard of Yuwenwen's mansion, just like Yang Ji and Wang Yue and his wife, but tonight he planned to live in the state government for the same night as yesterday, so that he could get up tomorrow morning and continue to work.
Seeing that Yuwen Wen seemed to be going out, he asked if he wanted to go home, Yu Wenwen smiled: "This official is going to patrol the city, you should rest early." ”……
Xiyang City is silent at night, the streets are dim, only the night watchman who is on the watch walks with lanterns, Yu Wenwen and his party of dozens of people walk on the street, and the lantern that opens the road is marked with the mark of the government in order to prevent misunderstanding.
The curfew is a regular official ban in ancient times, even in Chang'an City at night, no one is allowed to walk around the street at will, which is the so-called 'night walk', if you let the patrol soldiers and horses bump into it, then you have to toss, because according to the law, 'night walk' is either treachery or theft.
It sounds very strict, but in fact, it is two different things for high-ranking officials and ordinary people, of course, there are many big officials in Chang'an, so under normal circumstances, no one will deliberately 'brush their faces', so as not to cause discussion among the government and the public.
As for the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianliang, Tokyo, a city that never sleeps, is a special case. In most of the times, the city, whether it is the capital or the state county, except for a few festivals such as the Lantern Festival, it is forbidden to walk at night, if someone suddenly falls ill or other urgent things at home, then you can only ask God to bless.
As they walked, they came across a party of night watchmen. The other party saw them from a distance, carrying knives and walking at night, first as if surrounded by a great enemy, but they didn't expect to see the official mark on the lantern, and then they wilted, and when they knew that it was the new assassin Shi who patrolled the city, they were even more silent.
This is the Yuwen evil wolf who drew a knife and slashed indiscriminately in Gangneung, and the blood flowed into a river!
"You don't have to be like this, you guys have worked the night patrol, and ten cents per person is considered a night snack money." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, he asked his entourage to take out the prepared copper coins and distribute them to the other party, and the people who were patrolling the night were overjoyed with the money.
Today, the newly appointed Yang Sima went to the state army camp to find fault and made thousands of old and young masters disgraced, and they thought that the newly appointed Yuwen made it difficult for the monarch to speak, but now it seems that he is quite 'amiable'.
Yu Wenwen led the team to continue to move forward, just now the team performed okay, so he wanted to reward, if Jiao Erlang hid on the side of the road and took a nap, then he should also be rewarded - reward whip, although the curfew is a little unkind, but it must still be strictly observed.
"Commander of the army, this Xiyang City is indeed not as good as Anlu, and the Hushao City is also small." Team Zhengtian Xiaoqi said on the side, he led a hundred people from his team into the city, stationed in the Xiyang County Mansion and took turns around Yuwenwen in batches to prevent accidents, and now it is the teammates who are patrolling the city.
"There are only about 5,000 households in Xiyang City, of course, it can't compare to Anlu, compared to Jiangling, it is the light of fireflies, compared to Haoyue." Yu Wenwen said with a smile, not at all annoyed by the other party's call to lead the army.
As the assassin of the Seven Lives State, he is three levels higher than the unified army of the Seven Lives, but he still likes the soldiers under his command to call himself a military position, if he has no military power in these years, just having an official position is useless, and the county princes, national princes, and vassal kings who are all nine lives in Chang'an are still as helpless as lambs to be slaughtered.
"Team Master, if you are asked to set the fire, will this fire be better?" Yu Wenwen looked at the rows of houses on both sides of the road and asked, the houses where these civilians lived were one after another, not only wooden houses but also thatched houses, in his eyes, it was really a fire that could burn it down.
Tian Xiaoqi said that this mess is not to mention that setting fire is to accidentally go out of the fire, and it is also troublesome, although the government often says to be careful of fire candles, but there are always rammed goods to cause trouble.
Nowadays, the system of the city has begun to be implemented, taking Chang'an City, which Yuwenwen is more familiar with, as an example, in order to prevent fires, each square is equipped with a fire tower, and there are patrol shops under it, which are stationed soldiers, and there are all kinds of things to fight fires.
In this era, there are no fire hydrants and fire water trucks extending in all directions, so once the fire can not be extinguished in time, it is a disaster, Xiyang City is not big, and there are not many residents, but if you want to make a fire, I am afraid that most of the people will be killed and injured.
They came to a lookout downstairs, outside the patrol shop house snoring, easy to open the door, a few sleepy-eyed men first frightened a group of people outside the door with armor and knives, and then heard that the new assassin Shi after the night patrol finally came back to his senses.
Yu Wenwen asked people to look at the fire tower and found that there were people on duty but they were asleep, and then looked at the inside of the shop and found that the bucket was filled with water and mud for use
There are bamboo poles to extinguish the flames, and the bamboo poles are wrapped with strips of cloth or hemp rope similar to mops on their heads, although they are sparse and barely pulled.
The function of this thing is to dip water or mud and then extinguish the fire, from the perspective of future generations, these fire extinguishing tools are so simple that they can't do it, but in this era, they are standard, Yu Wenwen is barely satisfied with the situation of temporary spot checks, so he didn't care about these people sleeping lazy, so he let his entourage give rewards.
"Take good duty all night, if there is a fire and wait but you don't know that the fire is delayed, you will blame the official for being polite!"
He temporarily took the initiative to spot check the fire and did not continue to check the next place, but led people to the nearest north gate to check the access control, whether the north or the south of the world, whether it is the capital, the state or the county are the implementation of a strict access control system, the twilight city gate will be closed, no matter who is not allowed to enter or exit unless there are special circumstances, so as not to mix in or abscond.
After the city gate is locked, it will not be opened until the next morning according to the prescribed hour, Yuwenwen's night patrol this time is to see how the access control system of Xiyang City is implemented, the guards at the north gate are okay, although the soldiers are napping, but they are at the city gate instead of not seeing people, although the sentry on the city tower is not very vigilant, but at least they are still at their posts instead of sneaking under the city to take shelter.
Yuwen Wen, as the new assassin and the first night patrol of the city, so he did not hesitate to give out a reward, and after walking around the city, he found that the access control was a normal implementation, and he also did a round of scattered wealth, and the boy scattered a few pieces of money.
Ordinary people have to feed bones even if they raise a guard dog, Yuwenwen is not the rebellion of the brain-disabled gentry in the late Ming Dynasty who did not take the soldiers seriously, and even defected to the enemy army, the more famous is the Wuqiao Mutiny in Shandong that was forced out by a chicken.
He originally planned to go to the arsenal and the grain depot, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it, these two places were just tossed enough by his own people during the day, and now he came to toss again at night, I was afraid that it would be unkind, so he decided to give up
"Master Tian, after you go back, think about what you should do with your subordinates, if you want to attack the city, how to arrange it." Yu Wenwen not only visited the city this time to make money, but he also considered learning the lesson of Yongyang City, which was caused by a night uprising and almost burned down the granary.
To effectively prevent fire is a big project, the first thing involved is the demolition of those 'illegal buildings', his current focus is Haoqiang, so he has no energy to toss 'forced \ demolition' but the basic early warning and fire protection system to be implemented,
It was midnight after patrolling, Yuwenwen led people back to the mansion, thinking that the wives and concubines had fallen asleep before the housekeeper Li Sanjiu came to report that they had not rested, Yuwenwen thought that he did not send someone back today to inform him that he was spending the night in the state government and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Three, oops" (to be continued. )