Chapter 20: The Bandits Are Rampant
On the pipeline outside the imperial city, Zhu Haotian and the two walked in front on horseback, and the four Gangqi realm masters followed behind.
Today's Zhu Haotian is dressed in a white power suit, with a dragon pattern on the collar, a white windbreaker outside, holding a folding fan, handsome and chic, looking like a noble son.
Zhu ignored a brocade robe and followed beside him, and there were four people behind him, all dressed in black suits, holding weapons in their hands.
It seems that everyone is out playing, and no one can guess that the other party is the current emperor.
If you want to get to Cangbei County, you must pass through Fengxian County, which is the gateway to the same world as the capital, with nine cities under its jurisdiction, each of which has jurisdiction over some towns and villages.
The closest city to the imperial city, because it is close to the capital, has a large army to guard, so it seems that the people live and work in peace and contentment, just out of the city, in front of the endless pipeline, the pipeline is inhabited.
Compared with the city itself in the back, it is simply a world of difference, obviously in recent years, the chaos in the outside world is unbearable.
"Your Majesty, now our army in front of us has not been able to set foot for many years, and the entire world is occupied by the forces of the sect, and many people do not know the imperial court, only the local forces. ”
"So the whole world, except for the capital, is in accordance with the style of the rivers and lakes, the strong are respected, and there is no one who acts in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty. ”
"This kind of thing has been maintained for many years, in addition to these sects, there are gangs, cottages and other forces, ordinary people, all living in the shadow of these forces, have long been used to it. ”
"If you want to change in a short time, you can only eradicate these forces and let the people know that there are still forces of our Ming Empire to protect them. ”
Seeing Zhu Haotian frowning, Zhu ignored and hurriedly explained to Zhu Haotian.
"I want to see who is the master in this world. ”
Now that we have left the realm of the capital, you will not be called Your Majesty in the future, according to the name on the rivers and lakes, call me Gongzi!"
"It's Childe. ”
When the five of them heard Zhu Haotian's words, they hurriedly said.
"Drive!"
After Zhu Haotian finished speaking, he took the lead and went forward, and the five people hurriedly urged the horse to follow.
After walking for a long time, he came to the outside of a town, but Zhu Haotian felt that something was wrong, and there was a sound of fighting in the town.
"Come with me!"
Zhu Haotian rushed forward first, and the five of them hurriedly followed.
Soon led people to the streets of the town, only to see two sides of the centaur fighting, a group of centaurs dressed like bandits, fighting with some of the town's family guards.
These bandits, led by a black-faced man with a quenched body of the Sixth Heaven, with a team of hundreds of people under his command, all fierce and vicious, holding weapons in their hands, is obviously not a good thing.
Among these people, most of them are ordinary people, and there are also some martial artists who have a quenched body.
On the other side were the squires of the town, all of whom were men and guards, fighting each other with their weapons.
However, these squires don't have any strength, and the power of the Guardian is the Quenching Body One and Two Heavens, and the strongest is a young man about twenty years old, who is a martial artist of the Quenching Body Realm Five Heavens, who is fighting with the leader of the other party.
At this time, the young man obviously lost the upper hand, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated, and several squires were watching the battle between the two sides with a worried face.
"Hmph, boy, just because you still want to stop our Black Cloud Village, you don't know what you can do, hand over the gold, silver, jewelry, food, and food as soon as possible, and the uncle will spare your life." ”
"By the way, the most important thing is the little beauty named Mu Qingqing, our young master has taken a fancy to her, which is his blessing. ”
"Otherwise, we will slaughter you Wushan Town, kill all the men, and bring all the women to the cottage, so that you will know what will happen if you offend us. ”
The black-faced man said as he fought.
"Hmph! You are delusional, Yun Biao, that scumbag, I don't know how many hurtful things we have done, even if we die, we will not let my sister be taken away by you and ruined by that brute. ”
The young man had an angry expression on his face as he fought.
"Hahaha! If you don't pay it, you can't help it, wait until we kill you all, we will rob it ourselves, and then it won't be so simple. ”
"Bang!"
As the other party spoke, the big knife in his hand was swung out with all his might, slashing at the young man's sword, and directly forcing the young man to retreat, the young man took a few big steps back, his arm was numb, and the tiger's mouth was cracked, obviously not the opponent of the other party.
"Don't go too far in your Heiyun Village, I'm a subordinate of the county lieutenant of Tieyun City, no matter how I say it, I'm also a court official, aren't you afraid of reporting to the county lieutenant to kill you?"
Knowing that he was not against the other party, the young man directly reported his origin, wanting to scare the other party away.
The young man is a wealthy family in Wushan Town, the son of the Mu family, called Mu Qingyun, because of his strength and good family conditions, he is now in the county seat, and he is serving under the county lieutenant.
This time, when I went home to save my family, I happened to meet someone from Heiyun Village who came to the town to make trouble, so I matched the other party.
The Mu family is the biggest force in Wushan Town, but in the face of Heiyun Village, which is full of big forces within a radius of hundreds of miles, it is a bit insufficient.
Mu Qingyun has a younger sister named Mu Qingqing, who is only fifteen years old this year, has good looks, and the whole town is famous.
Yun Biao, the master of Heiyun Village, is a scumbag who does all kinds of evil, bullying men and women, killing people and setting fires, and often happens.
Many places in the surrounding villages have been violated by them, and even the towns have to hand over some silver taels every year to avoid the threat of being threatened by Heiyun Village, this time I heard that Mu Qingqing was beautiful, so he sent his subordinates to come.
Mu Qingyun now has the confidence to be a county lieutenant, not to mention that he doesn't want to see his sister being ruined by Yun Biao, so he led the family's nursing homes, as well as other family courtyards, to fight with the other party.
The reason why the other forces in the town were willing to cooperate with him was because they thought that Mu Qingyun was a subordinate of the county lieutenant.
wants to use the name of the county lieutenant to scare off the other party, after all, they don't want to be controlled by Heiyunzhai every year, so there is this situation.
The entire Ming Empire is divided into 81 counties in Kyushu, in addition to the regular army at the border pass, each state and county also has an army, and these county guards and daotai have an army in their hands.
These armies were not part of the regular army, but were the road forces of the empire to maintain law and order, and they were recruited and managed by officials of various states and counties.
Even in the county seat, there are these armies, responsible for public security and banditry tasks, but since the control of the Ming Empire has become lower and lower, these forces have become the private forces of these officials.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness is low, far inferior to the regular army, and the army officials, who are generally those who are placed in the big families, do not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court at all.
For example, the entire Tieyun City has an establishment of 1,000 soldiers and horses, as well as headhunters and other personnel to manage the entire county and surrounding areas.
Therefore, even if it is Heiyun Village, it is not good to spread wildness in the county, and can only do anything in nearby towns and villages.
The army of the county town went to encircle and suppress it several times, but it was unsuccessful, and the strength of the other party was about the same as that of the county town, so in the end, the matter was over.
Now it has led to the fact that the power of Heiyunzhai is becoming more and more presumptuous.