Li Yuanyin saw Ji Qingwen striding towards Yuzhong County, so he immediately rushed up and asked, "My lord, these people's soldiers are our prisoners, what should I do with these people?" ”

Chen Wenzhao also said: "We don't have many people, and we are a guest army, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to be thorough." Adults need to have a plan! ”

At this moment, Ji Qingwen had already calmed down, realizing that it was also quite a tricky matter to dispose of the nearly 2,000 captives......

He suddenly had an idea, ran to Zhu Cunshu's side, and said: "Lord Qin, these people's troops are just being bewitched by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for a while, but in fact, they are all good citizens of Shaanxi Province. I don't think it's up to us to wipe the butts of the officials in Shaanxi, so it's better to hand over all these people's troops to Liu Guangsheng for disposal - originally, isn't this the intention of the imperial court to set up a governor of Shaanxi? ”

Zhu Cunshu was a person who had no idea, and after listening to Ji Qingwen's proposition, he immediately said that it was wonderful.

So Ji Qingwen said again: "It's that I have no affiliation with Liu Guangsheng." Then I have to ask the prince to show the face of the vassal king and order him to do what I just said, presumably he will not dare to oppose the prince. ”

Zhu Cunshu had just come into contact with Liu Guangsheng, and he also had some opinions on him, so according to Ji Qingwen's meaning, he told Liu Guangsheng in a tone and tone, and then went into the city side by side with Ji Qingwen.

The scene inside the city of Yuzhong is not much better than that outside the city, there are ruins and broken walls everywhere, trees and crooked walls, and most of the people in the city have fled the famine, and there are empty and crooked houses everywhere - it can be seen that the ruined city wall did not completely block the famine from the county seat.

Looking at the entire Yuzhong county, only the county yamen is the most eye-catching.

Now that Jiang Yao, the owner of the county yamen, is dead, Zhu Cunshu, Ji Qingwen and others have lived in this yamen as a matter of course.

There are still many officials, masters, and old mothers in the yamen, and they all have ghosts in their hearts, and they all come up to greet them with flattery. There are even a few maid concubines who can be regarded as quite good-looking, pretending to be pitiful and wandering around Ji Qingwen and others.

Ji Qingwen felt disgusted when he saw them, and immediately drove all these people away, and asked Chen Wenzhao to arrange for his regimental training soldiers, who were injured or severe, to be stationed outside the yamen and inside the yamen respectively to prevent all unrelated people from approaching and harassing them.

As for the more than 1,000 palace guards brought by Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, they also chose empty houses to live in.

…………

The eldest son of the dead emperor, Jiang Yao, is really a corrupt official.

Don't look at the inconspicuous yamen of Yuzhong County, the warehouse is stuffed with rice, grain and grass, enough for two or three thousand people to eat for a month.

In addition to the treasury, Jiang Yao's private study is also full of all kinds of precious pen, ink, paper and inkstones for vassal elegance. I also saw that there were two large boxes with copper locks hanging in the corner of the wall, which seemed quite a bit of an article - Li Yuanyin twisted the copper lock with his hands, and opened the box to see - and saw that the box was full of gold, silver and jewelry, and it was worth thousands of taels of silver, to say the least.

Ji Qingwen picked up one of the strings of coral beads and said, "Good Jiang Yao, such a poor county in Yuzhong, he has scavenged so many good things, it can be seen that he is not a good official." With this box of treasure alone, it is not wrong to condemn him to death! ”

Li Yuanyin rummaged through the study again, found a few account books, and after flipping through them slightly, he said, "My lord, this Jiang Yao is really too unreasonable. You see, the imperial court paid one of ten taxes per mu of land, and Yuzhong County Heyin paid five cents of silver per mu of land, but Jiang Yao doubled it privately, and collected one dollar per mu of land. In addition, another 5 cents of fire consumption is also collected. In this way, it is equivalent to an extra penny of silver per mu of land, and all of them were filled by him! ”

Ji Qingwen also said: "That's it, he still dares to embezzle the money and grain of the imperial court for disaster relief, such a corrupt official, it is really cheap to kill him by beheading, he should be let Ling Chi be executed." ”

Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, listened to the conversation between Ji Qingwen and Li Yuanyin in a daze, and asked, "What are you talking about?" How can you see that Jiang Yao is not a good person? ”

Ji Qingwen replied: "The prince might as well think like this - your palace sent a subordinate to purchase a thing, the original price was one tael of silver, and this subordinate spent three taels of silver to buy such a thing for you, but this thing is still broken." You say, can such a subordinate let him go? ”

This example is very popular, which provoked Zhu Cunshu to immediately scold: "There can still be such a minion, if it falls into my hands, see how I skin him!" ”

Ji Qingwen took over the conversation and said, "That's the truth. This Jiang Yao is the servant and subordinate who takes care of Yuzhong County for the emperor, and he commits such a crime, so he naturally deserves to die. If the emperor asks me, please ask the prince to say a few words for me......"

"That's nature." Zhu Cunshu agreed, but said, "It's just that I'm stupid, if Brother Ji can write a piece of music and send it to the emperor after we sign it jointly, it would be great......

Zhu Cunshu, a vassal king who does not learn and has no skills, rarely says such a standard - it is a pity that among the people present, Ji Qingwen is a modern person who does not know how to write ancient official articles; Although Li Yuanyin is a brocade guard, he is not proficient in writing and ink; Chen Wenzhao is a martial artist who is less than a liter of literacy; And Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, himself is a rough man who can't be thicker...... It's just that there is no such thing as the resourceful and brilliant Li Yan and Li Gongzi.

So everyone discussed, first stay in this Yuzhong county for one night, and after leaving for Xi'an City tomorrow, and then ask the master who is good at writing and ink in the palace of King Qin, after writing the chapter in the name of Ji Qingwen, and then Zhu Cunshu wrote a note and sandwiched it in the chapter, and then sent it to the capital.

However, it was this night that something terrible happened.

This night, Ji Qingwen lived in the county government with Zhu Cunshu and others, he was sleeping soundly, and suddenly heard a rapid knock on the door from outside the door, followed by Chen Wenzhao's voice: "My lord, wake up, wake up!" ”

Ji Qingwen opened his sleepy eyes, and saw that the window was just a little cloudy, so he asked, "It turned out to be General Chen, what time is it?" I think it's too early to leave for Xi'an, so I might as well sleep for half an hour. ”

Yesterday, Ji Qingwen led the army in a bloody battle, and talked nonsense with Liu Guangsheng for a long time, and he was indeed a little tired.

Unexpectedly, Chen Wenzhao still said in a very urgent tone: "My lord, it is still early when I have just arrived, but there is a big event outside the city, my lord must go and see it!" ”

Ji Qingwen knew that Chen Wenzhao had always had a calm personality, and it must not be a trivial matter to be able to rush him into such a thing.

So he barely shook his spirits, crawled out of the quilt, dressed neatly at a very fast speed, and pushed the door out, only to see Chen Wenzhao gather all two hundred group exercises, and they had already lined up outside the door, with a serious and nervous look on their faces.

Seeing this, Ji Qingwen also became nervous, and asked: "General Chen, what happened outside the city, could it be that Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong have come back to kill again?" ”

Chen Wenzhao's face sank darker than the bottom of the pot, and replied, "No." It was Liu Guangsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, who was ...... Ing...... ......"

"What's going on, you tell me clearly!" Ji Qingwen urged.

"He's slaughtering those people who surrendered yesterday!" Chen Wenzhao gritted his teeth and replied.

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he almost exclaimed: "What! The surname Liu actually dared to do such a thing! Don't be mistaken, right? ”

As he spoke, he involuntarily hurried out of the city.

Chen Wenzhao hurriedly followed and said: "I arranged for the outpost in the city to come back, and I didn't believe it at first, so I ran over to see it myself, and I found out that ...... Alas! Let's go and see for yourself! ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, his heart was sour and tight, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace, but he didn't forget to recruit two reliable soldiers and ask them to call Zhu Cunshu and Li Yuanyin outside the city together.

The county seat of Yuzhong is not big, and after walking a few steps, it has reached the foot of the city wall.

As soon as he left the city gate, Ji Qingwen saw dozens of civilian soldiers who had been blindfolded and kneeling in a row, and behind each of them stood two officers and soldiers, holding official knives stained with red and black blood.

And beside them, three or four hundred civilian soldiers had already been killed, and the corpses were placed separately from the heads, piled up into two blood-drenched hills, one large and one small!