One afternoon in early September. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Outside the inspection department of Yangshui Town, Yingzhou and TH counties, there were five young people riding high-headed horses, and these five young people were all wearing waist knives, and the young man in front was about twenty years old, with a heroic face and a tall figure, and he was also wearing the official uniform of a low-level military attaché.

This young man is Zhang Shihua, the contemporary eldest son of the Zhang family in TH County, the Zhang family is a famous wealthy family in TH County, and the Zhang family is a famous family in TH County as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, and because of this, Zhang Shihua was less than 20 years old and served as the inspector of this Yangshui Town.

The inspection began in the Five Dynasties, flourished in the Two Song Dynasty, and the Jin and Western Xia also had similar settings. Yuan because of the Song and Jin legacy, the establishment of the inspection department is mainly the state and county of the arrest of robbers, in the Yuan Dynasty official office, the inspection department is the lowest rank of a kind, the Yuan Dynasty was the first to create, usually for the jurisdiction of sparsely populated public security chaos of the non-permanent organization, in addition to no administrative discretion, there is no permanent chief official management, its function is mainly military.

Before the five of them arrived at the inspection department, an archer soldier guarding the door hurriedly entered the department to report when he saw them, and the other soldier trotted over with a flattering face, bowed his head to the young man in official uniform at the front and said: The adult is the new inspection master Zhang, and the little Li San has asked your lord to say goodbye.

Zhang Shihua bowed his head and said to the soldier: No need to be polite, get up quickly. Then he said to the man behind him: Let's dismount.

The group got off the horse, let Li San lead the way, and walked into the Yangshui Town Inspection Division, just entered the door and saw a group of people standing in the courtyard, as soon as these people saw themselves, they bowed to themselves under the leadership of the two officials in the lead and said: I will wait to meet the inspection lord, I don't know if the adult came to meet the forgiveness of sins.

Zhang Shihua said to everyone: Okay, those who don't know are not guilty, everyone get up. Mr. Xie. The crowd replied.

Okay, a few of you will lead our horses to the stable, and the others will disperse if they have nothing to do, the two of you will stay first, the kid has just taken office and there are still many things to ask the two, Zhang Shihua said to the two officials.

The two hurriedly bowed their heads and said: The adult has tormented the villain, and the adult must know everything even if he asks the villain.

Zhang Shihua nodded and said, "Okay, the two brothers will follow me into the house, and we will talk about it when we enter the house."

The group entered the main house, and two of the four people brought by Zhang Shihua guarded the door, and the other two entered the house with Zhang Shihua.

After entering the room, Zhang Shihua naturally sat in the main seat, and after Zhang Shihua sat down, he said to the two middle-aged officials: You don't need to be too restrained, please sit down.

After the two thanked Zhang Shihua, they each found a seat and sat down.

Seeing that both of them sat down, Zhang Shihua opened his mouth and said: In the next surname, Zhang Ming, Shihua doesn't know the names of the two high surnames?

One of the older people said: The villain's surname is Li Muzi, and Li's name is Chongsan, and the other person also said: The villain's surname is Zhou's name is Sijiu.

Seeing that the two of them finished answering and said no more, Zhang Shihua asked again: Scribe Li doesn't know how many scribes and archers there are in this inspection department, and how many soldiers are in armor.

Li Chongsan replied respectfully: There are two scribes in this department, 56 archers, 30 spears, 7 bows and arrows, 10 quick knives, 10 pairs of leather armor, and more than 200 arrows.

Zhang Shihua's expression on his face did not change when he heard Li Chongsan's answer, and he smiled and said to the two: These armors are there, let's go and see them first.

When the two heard Zhang Shihua's words, their faces changed greatly, and they wanted to say something to Zhang Shihua but didn't dare to speak, Zhang Shihua knew that there was definitely something wrong with those weapons when he saw them like this, but he didn't break them but said to the two of them: Why is there anything wrong with the two of you?

When the two heard Zhang Shihua's words, they could only nod their heads in response, and then took Zhang Shihua and his party out of the main house and walked towards the small warehouse opposite, this room is very small, about twenty square meters, and there are not only weapons but also some sundries piled up in the room.

Because the room was too small, Zhang Shihua entered the room alone.

Seeing the weapons stacked in the room, Zhang Shihua showed such an expression on his face, and before coming to the warehouse again, he guessed that these weapons should not be too good, but he didn't expect them to be rotten to this extent.

Some of the dozens of spears have been bitten by termites, the heads of the spears are all rusty, and the bowstrings of the bows and arrows have lost their elasticity because they have not been maintained for a long time.

After staying in the house for two minutes, Zhang Shihua didn't bother to look at these rags anymore, and when he went out, Zhang Shihua had a gloomy face, and said to Li and Zhou with some anger: The two of them did a really good job, and it really opened Zhang's eyes.

Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Li and Zhou looked frightened, and hurriedly knelt down and said to Zhang Shihua: My lord Mingjian, the reason why these weapons are like this is not because we are greedy for public and private interests, but because the county has not allocated enough money to the town's inspection department for several years, and adults should also know that our inspection department has no other income at all except for the county's appropriation, so it is really unable to maintain these armor.

Zhang Shihua heard the two of them reply and said: What you two said is the truth?

Li and Zhou replied: I don't dare to wait for the expiration of the adult, if you don't believe it, you can go to the county's household to ask, from the beginning of the Yellow River flood in the fourth year of Zhizheng to the present, the county has given less and less money to the town's inspection department, and the money allocated in the past two years is only enough for food, and these weapons have not been changed for several years.

Zhang Shihua heard the answers of the two, and then looked at the expressions of the two Zhang Shihua also knew that what Li and Zhou said should be the truth, so he said to the two: In this case, the official blames you, okay, don't kneel anymore, get up.

He turned to a young man behind him and said, "Brother Donkey, tomorrow you go to the county to find my father, and ask him to approve a sum of money from the county for me as soon as possible."

The young man named Donkey heard Zhang Shihua's words and bent down and saluted: Obey.

When Li and Zhou heard Zhang Shihua's words, they also showed joy on their faces, and thought to themselves: This Zhang family is worthy of being the strong man of TH County, I heard that Zhang Dianguan in the county is still the father of our inspection adult, this time I must hug the thigh of this new inspector, if I can get in touch with the Zhang family, I may leave this poor place and transfer to the county seat.

When Zhang Shihua said this to Brother Donkey, he also secretly observed the expressions of Li and Zhou, and saw that the two of them bowed lower after showing joy on their faces, and Zhang Shihua also showed a faint smile on his face.

Then Zhang Shihua turned to Li and Zhou and said: Come on, let's go into the house, and I will ask you two to talk to me about the specific situation of Yangshui Town.

Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Li and Zhou hurriedly bowed their heads and said: We must know everything.

When Zhang Shihua and his party entered the house again, and Zhang Shihua asked the two to sit down, both of them were cautious, like nails on the stool.

Zhang Shihua couldn't help but laugh secretly when he saw this scene, but Zhang Shihua didn't show it, but smiled and said to the two: Please talk about it.

Li and Zhou glanced at each other, or Li Chongsan replied to Zhang Shihua, and replied to your lord: There are about 1,000 households in Yangshui Town, with a total of five surnames, and the surnames Li and Zhou are the two largest surnames in the town, and these two surnames alone account for about eighty percent of the town's household registration, while the three surnames Wang, Liu, and Yang have a smaller number of people accounting for the remaining twenty percent of the household registration.

Because the town is not big, the population is not much, so there is no powerful family in the town, before the Yellow River flood in the fourth year of Zhizheng, it was quite peaceful here, although the taxes were heavier, but the life was barely able to get by.

However, since the beginning of the flood of the Yellow River, the people affected by the disaster in the north have continued to flee south, and there are more and more displaced people, and the security of Yangshui Town has become worse and worse.

In May this year, the Yellow River broke again, causing the Guidefu to suffer a flood and even rushed into the Grand Canal, endangering the water transportation and the salt works.

Although most of these thieves did not go out of Gui, Germany, and Fu, but there are still a small number of people who have flowed southward, two months ago, a thief came to the boundary of TH County on our Runing Road, and they almost 40 people came to our side to loot everywhere, because our Yangshui Town is located in the northernmost part of TH County and is not far from Guide Mansion, so these people often come here to loot.

Oh, didn't the town and the head of the village lead people to resist? (There are townships under Yuan D County, and there are Lizheng in the townships, and there are capitals under the townships, all of which have the main head.) Zhang Shihua couldn't help but ask when he heard this, although it is said that Li Zheng and the main head are only the people who only have the duties of urging taxes, urging errands, and persuading farmers, but these three functions and powers are the most related to the people at the bottom, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are in control of the fate of the people at the bottom, and it can be said that the vast majority of Li Zheng and the head must be the richest people in the village, and they also think that the robbers who come to rob these people must be the main target of the bandits.

So how could they not lead the people to resist?