Chapter 48: The True and False Hostages of Mouliangshan (1)
Regardless of the injury on his leg, Deputy General Gan Hong stood up from his seat and said angrily: "These Liangshan thieves are really too lawless!"
Song Ting was not surprised at all by the fact that Dong Cheng was captured by someone from Liangshan, and when he saw Gan Hong fighting with Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang and the other four people, he had already expected this result. However, this deputy general of the forbidden army can last so long under the siege of the four heroes of Liangshan, and he is not a good general.
"yes, these people...... There is simply no royal law! Even the officers and soldiers were killed, I think they are simply ...... It's just a rebellion!! Wu Ruxiong, the county magistrate, had a very loud voice, and he was so angry that his face couldn't help shaking.
If the transfer envoy really had some accident within his jurisdiction, if the court punished him, then he must be the first to be questioned, thinking of this layer, he continued to sweat on his forehead, and his heart cried bitterly.
At this time, the prefect Wu Kui sat on the chair with his eyes closed, his face was full of worries, and his heart was heavy, he sighed and said slowly: "Song Sheng, I came to you this time, just to see that when you dealt with the affairs of the county government before, you were thoughtful and had a lot of ideas, I don't know about this matter, do you have any good ideas?"
Wu Kui's tone when he said this was already helpless. The transfer made Master Dong be arrested by people from Liangshan, and kept saying that they would exchange Lu Junyi, but they didn't have Lu Junyi in their hands, what should they do?
Of course, there are not many people who know about Lu Junyi in his hands, he has given a death order, if anyone dares to reveal this news, there will be no forgiveness!
Seeing that Song Ting had something to say, Wu Kui waved his hand and said, "You all step down, Master Song and Vice General Gan stay."
Everyone including Wu Ruxiong, the magistrate, retreated, and after the door of the lobby was tightly closed, Wu Kui called Song Ting and Gan Hong to come along.
Wu Kui got straight to the point and said: "Now that Master Dong is in their hands, we don't have Lu Junyi in our hands, but how can we do it?"
Gan Hong clenched his fists and said, "In case of accidents to the Liangshan thieves, we must find Lu Junyi before them!"
Wu Kui increased his forehead with his hand, his face full of worry: "Yes, if the Liangshan thief Kou found Lu Junyi first, or knew that we didn't have Lu Junyi in our hands, we would definitely not easily put it back to Master Dong."
In fact, the prefect Wu Kui was not worried that he could not find Lu Junyi, but that he was worried that he would not be able to save Dong Cheng, and his black gauze hat would not be guaranteed......
Listening to the prefect's complaint, Song Ting almost couldn't help laughing, Lu Junyi, who everyone was looking for, was actually in his house at the moment...... However, of course, he will not hand over Lu Junyi to the government easily, let alone Liang Shan, this game is related to Zhao Yuanzhen and his name, status, and even more about his own life, if Lu Junyi is handed over like this, then he will definitely be finished.
Just as he was contemplating it, he heard Wu Kui sigh and say, "Master Song, what do you have in mind?" The tone is quite respectful, and the title has changed from "Song Sheng" to "Master Song", as if he is his master.
Gan Hong also looked at him with a respectful expression.
Although the Song Dynasty is only a master, no rank and no rank, but Gan Hong is only a general from the seventh grade, Daliang has always been heavy on literature and light on military force, the highest level of military attache is only the second rank of the lieutenant, and the highest level of the military institution is the first rank of the privy envoy, the highest level of civil officials is the Taishi, the left and right prime ministers, and the status disparity is like this; What's more, the military generals only have the right to command the troops, and they do not have the right to transfer troops, so they naturally avoid three points to the civilian officials, and Hugh should underestimate that the Song Dynasty is just a little master, but many chapters and official documents in the yamen, the masters in the yamen generally ask the master for his opinion, or directly hand it over to the master to draft.
This time Lord Dong was arrested by someone from Liangshan, Gan Hong is indeed suspected of poor preservation, if Lord Dong really has an accident, and the prefect throws the blame on his head, then, I am afraid that the crime of killing the head is unavoidable, although Da Liang "can't punish the doctor", but what he said is that he does not kill civil officials, but military generals, or kills......
Therefore, Gan Hong not only remained respectful to the Song court, but also maintained respect to the prefect Wu Kui, and did not dare to offend in the slightest.
Song Ting listened to Wu Kui's inquiry, pretended to bow his head and think carefully, "thought" for a while, and then said: "Lord Prefect, the top priority is to find Lu Junyi!"
Wu Kui nodded and said, "This is natural."
Song Ting continued: "Then how did this Lu Junyi lose it? Wasn't it in a prison car? ”
Gan Hong hurriedly said: "Listening to the report of the detained commander Wu, at that time there was a man named Yang Xiong in Liangshan, and a man named Zhang Qing, who suddenly came out of the street with men and horses, and Wu Commander fought with Yang Xiong and Zhang Qing, but he didn't notice when Lu Junyi ran away, he hurriedly called more than 30 soldiers to look for it, but they all said that they couldn't find ......it."
After listening to Gan Hong's words, Song Ting groaned slightly, and finally let go of the worries in his heart, what he was afraid of was that someone saw Lu Junyi break into his door, since no one saw it, it was naturally better.
Song Ting retracted his mind and said to Gan Hong and Wu Kui: "In this way, since this Lu Junyi is not in the hands of the Liangshan thieves, and it is not in our hands, is it possible that he will be hidden by some Diao people nearby?"
Hearing this, Wu Kui and Gan Hong were all shocked, neither of them thought of it, this Master Song actually broke through with a word, and the two of them suddenly had a happy face. Wu Kui even took the case and said with a smile: "Okay! is worthy of Master Song, Master Song's words are like an enlightenment, which makes me suddenly open! I'm going to send someone to search every village and every house! ”
Song Ting looked at the two of them again: "What if you can't find it?"
Gan Hong said in a rough voice: "How can it not be found? How can you not search every village within a radius of ten miles? It's a big deal that the prefect took the tiger talisman and transferred the entire Jiangyou battalion to search together, I don't believe that I can't find it! ”
Wu Kui's eyes flickered, his beard groaned, he suddenly raised his head, looked at Song Ting and said: "What you said is also true, there are too many places where people can be hidden in every village in this village, even if the entire Jiangyou battalion is transferred, it is impossible for us to dig three feet into the ground."
He asked again, "So, Master Song...... In your opinion, if we really can't find it, what should we do? ”
Song Ting had already been in his chest, pretending to be pacing at the moment, and pretending to bow his head and think for a while, then suddenly looked up at the two of them, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you can't find it, we'll use a fake one!"
Hearing this, Wu Kui and Gan Hong glanced at each other, Gan Hong didn't know why, and asked, "Use a fake?" What do you mean? Wu Kui thought for a moment and said in surprise: "You mean to use the fake 'Lu Junyi' to exchange for Lord Dong to come back?"
Song Ting smiled and nodded: "Exactly!"
Gan Hong only knows how to lead troops to fight, and he doesn't know anything about the fancy intestines of civil officials, so he is confused at the moment, why use the fake 'Lu Junyi' to exchange for Lord Dong?
Wu Kui's eyes flickered, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly stroked his beard and smiled, "Good, good, good" said three times in a row, pointed at Song Ting and said, "Master Song, you must plan very well!" What a plan! ”
Gan Hong was a little puzzled, scratched his beard and asked, "What do you mean, if you can't find the real Lu Junyi, just find someone to pretend to be Lu Junyi and go back in exchange for Lord Dong?"
"Exactly!" Song Ting and Wu Kui said at the same time.
Gan Hong scratched his chin again, he was a military general, he looked at the problem very directly, thought for a while, and asked: "Once the Liangshan thief Kou finds out that this person is fake, he will definitely hack this person to death, where can we go to find a person who is willing to die?"
Wu Kui smiled slightly, stared at him and said, "Aren't there dead soldiers under your command?"
Hearing this, Gan Hong was shocked and hurriedly said: "That's not good, these dead soldiers went into battle to kill the enemy and exchanged their lives with the enemy, how can they die so unjustly?"
Wu Kui's face slowly showed a gloomy color, straightened his face, and said coldly: "Vice General Gan, do you think that the life of a soldier is important, or the life of a third-rank officer is important?"
Gan Hong was stunned and speechless.
Wu Kui's tone softened a little, and he said seriously: "Don't forget, Lord Dong is Prime Minister Wang's confidant...... Who is Prime Minister Wang? Uncle of the country! The big red man around the emperor! If Master Dong fails, we can't afford to take this responsibility! ”
Gan Hong looked unwilling: "But ......"
Before he could come out, Song Ting had already waved his hand to interrupt, and said: "You don't need to use the soldiers of Deputy General Gan, I know that there is a death row prisoner in the county government prison, but he looks a little similar to Lu Junyi." Then he told the name of "Liu Blind" and the things he had committed with Wu and Gan.
This blind Liu killed Liu Mou'er and Liu Mengshi for his own selfish desires, and sentenced him to behead after the autumn, but he didn't expect to be able to make some contributions before he died today. When the time comes, it will be reported to the above, and it will be fine if he dies of illness in prison, and the court will not care about the death row prisoner anyway.
Wu Kui patted the case and said: "So good! We set the time for the hostage exchange to be at night, and at that time, even if we light the torches, we can't see it very clearly, if this person is really a little similar to Lu Junyi, he will definitely be able to get through the trick. As soon as Master Dong arrived, I shouted 'release the arrows', and I shot these Liangshan thieves to death! ”
Hearing this, Gan Hong also nodded and said: "Please also ask the prefect to borrow the tiger talisman from the last general, and tomorrow I will go to the Jiangyou camp to transfer some soldiers and horses."
"Well, that's settled." Wu Kui said.
"Well," Song Ting also nodded in a deep voice, and said, "Let's start preparing tonight and act according to the plan."
Wu Kui walked out of the warm pavilion, looked at Song Ting with a smile and said, "From today on, you are the master of the prefect's yamen." When this matter is over, you come to my prefect's yamen. ”
Song Ting hugged his fists and said, "Lord Xie Zhifu cultivates!"
The three of them came out of the lobby door, and Wu Ruxiong and other people outside were still waiting, Wu Kui called them into the lobby and began to distribute the task of searching for people.
When Song Ting returned home, he saw that Lu Junyi was still sleeping in the house, so he woke him up and whispered in his ear: Tomorrow, you go to meet with the people of Liangshan and tell them, so and so, so and so......