Zhao Xiang said: "Li Zhutou, for example, you didn't see anything at all, and when you came and saw corpses all over the field, you went to hunt down those murderous bandits, what do you think of this explanation?" As he spoke, he stuffed a bag of broken silver into his hand, and there were twenty taels of it.

Li Gang held the silver, but shook his head: "These dozen brothers have seen it, I can't say it!" If the brothers say that they leak their mouths......"

Only the dead don't say anything, but killing the official in public is tantamount to rebellion, not to mention whether they can succeed, whether they can succeed or not, whether these nursing staff members under their own hands can succeed is another matter. People who are accustomed to being obedient to the people are sheep, and when they suddenly take up arms, they are actually still sheep, not wolves.

So Li Gang's men each got ten taels of broken silver, and happily pursued the robbers, but as for here, they never came.

He Defang stood behind Zhao Xiang, bowed down and asked, "Brother Xiang, do you want someone to catch up and completely block their mouths?" ”

Zhao Xiang shook his head: "Forget it, no matter what, they are also officials, let them go." When the money is washed, put it away. He wouldn't tell Ho that each silver bag contained a small bag of that colorless, transparent liquid encapsulated in waterproof paper......

If it weren't for some controlled chemicals in modern times that were pushed to the public by the media, ordinary people might not know about their existence for the rest of their lives, such as the fatal express incident that was contaminated by this colorless transparent liquid a few years ago. Just because there were some leaked chemical samples on the shoes, they smelled it twice more and died after rescue failure.

The waterproof paper is sealed to prevent it from breaking at the beginning, and when those people run, the silver particles rub against the paper and break, and soon the silver will be stained with poison...... As long as you pick it up and smell it, in this era without modern medical technology, it is basically equivalent to death.

Soon after Wang Zheng and Li Gang left, he came over with the officials and told the county Cheng Wang Haoran's words: Take precautions, and you must continue to give porridge regularly and quantitatively. At this time, the sub-city had already entered a state of alert, and four hundred bandits were running around and had already killed three big families. The Xiang army followed behind, only chasing and killing less than 200 people, and more than 200 people had already dispersed, and it was very difficult to capture them.

The next day, all 18 arresters in Zhangzhou and the chief catcher were killed. The autopsy was carried out, and it was confirmed that it was the same poison as some of the soldiers who died at the foot of Kaiyuan Temple.

Zhao Gongsu ordered the remaining Xiang army to pursue the bandits with all their might, and at the same time, batch after batch of people came to Xiaozhishan, and the answers they asked were almost the same. On the third day, when Tian Qi and 17 other bandits were crossing Fuqi Road and preparing to flee north from Jiangdong Bridge, they were recognized by officers and soldiers and struggled desperately, and all 17 were shot dead on the spot.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Shiyong, the magistrate of Longxi County, personally signed it, and Wang Haoran, the county magistrate, personally led a team to arrest five big Zhangzhou households who colluded with bandits, and two of them stubbornly resisted in the process of arrest and were killed on the spot. So far, the Zhangzhou civil rebellion case has been temporarily closed.

The Zhangzhou General Judgment made a detailed description in the document submitted to the imperial court, to the effect that eight local tyrants who wanted to make a windfall in the year of the disaster, colluded with bandits to embezzle the property of Kaiyuan Temple, and burned and looted the court of Kaiyuan Temple, resulting in the death of more than 500 monks in the whole temple. The army stationed in Zhangxiang and some state capitals went to suppress it, and more than 800 people were martyred, but fortunately all of them were reeled......

At first, Zhao Xiang naively thought that it was because he stuffed silver into every official who came to investigate the case, but then he realized that this was just an excuse for officialdom and a balance, as for why he finally chose to conceal Zhao Xiang, who had the most doubts, and did not mention anything, relying on more than 20 parallel spies who were inferior to half a bucket of water, Zhao Xiang had no way of knowing.

The answer was revealed when an unfamiliar visitor arrived that day.

Zhao Ruyu is probably the first historical figure that Zhao Xiang saw in the Southern Song Dynasty to leave his name in the official history. Zhao Ruyu, who was the governor of Fuzhou at the time, miraculously appeared on the boundary of Zhangzhou, and the unreasonableness that Zhao Xiang was puzzling in the past can be explained. Moreover, it is very important that Granny Zhao said before that she was going to move the rescuers......

Zhao Ruyu appeared in Xiaozhi Mountain, but did not come to the door, but just asked Xu Changde to come over and report, and sat at the foot of the mountain and waited.

After Zhao Xiang came to visit, he only walked around the construction site twice. The two entourages followed from a distance, and there were no people from Zhangzhou officialdom accompanying them, indicating that this was just a private visit.

"I heard Gongsilk mention Zhishan eventful, and when I looked at it today, it was really so. For example, these strange hands are a hundred times better than manpower, which is indeed an eye-opener for this official...... It's a pity that it's not of much use to the country. Zhao Ruyu turned around and said, "Do you know what the dynasty needs most?" ”

Zhao Xiang shook his head: "Please give me advice." ”

"I, Zhao Song, have no shortage of people, although there is only half of the country now, but there are hundreds of millions of people. What the Great Song Dynasty lacks is horses, and what is lacking is hard work! What is lacking is the determination of the whole country to go on the Northern Expedition and restore the Central Plains of the Great Song Dynasty! If you have the interest in Gewu, it is better to put your mind on this aspect, it is of some use to the country and the people, as for these useless iron beasts, I think it is better not to do it, I heard that they feed on oil as expensive as gold, and spend extravagantly, it is better to stop using these expenses to recruit more disaster victims, and to work for relief, and also to relieve the urgent needs of the court. ”

Another ancient man who ignored modern machinery!

Zhao Xiang remembered a science fiction novel "Beijing Folding" that he read earlier, which said that the level of technology could already automate the disposal of garbage, but the authorities still decided to use manual decomposition and processing, not for anything else, but to provide more employment opportunities. Presumably, the same is true of the considerations of these officials.

People are always self-centered, no wonder the whole world turns according to their own ideas, and Zhao Xiang is the same. But Zhao Xiang's world did not revolve around him, even if he had a powerful golden finger and took out something that he thought was very unacceptable, in the eyes of the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was still just a small trick.

Zhao Xiang didn't ask what the relationship between Zhao Ruyu and Zhao's mother-in-law was, why he was willing to make a special trip to Zhangzhou for his own business, but when he saw Zhao Ruyu away, he faintly felt that the Southern Song Dynasty, which "only regarded Hangzhou as Bianzhou" in the eyes of later generations, did not seem to be all content to enjoy, and there were still some people who thought about the Northern Expedition and wanted to clean up the old mountains and rivers, but this force was too small, so small that it could not even leave a mark in the history books.

Of course, there is no Guo Jing and his wife in this, but there must be pure yang.

Sending Zhao Ruyu away, Zhao Di told Zhao Xiang that Chunyang was waiting for him outside. Standing on the wall of Zhishan Yunju, hunting in the autumn wind, the robe is fluttering, the only fly in the ointment is that the beard is a little messy, but it also affects the image of his Dao bone fairy wind at all.

He Defang stood beside the old Taoist priest, saw Zhao Xiang coming, and bowed: "He Defang, the Zhangzhou Chengxin Lang of the Fujian Zhongyi Patrol Society, has seen Zhao Gongzi." ”

What the heck? Faction?

Zhao Xiang has traveled so many times, and he has checked a lot of information, but he has never heard of any Zhongyi Society, and he has always felt that He Defang is a person with an identity, and today he really can't hold back his identity to show himself, but what the hell is this Zhongxinlang, the official position is right, when will He Defang still have an official body...... This is going to do something!