Chapter 175: Troops were sent out to search in the middle of the night

Sweat on a hot day, shallow water gushing is difficult to cool off, and deep wells are easy to cool. Cold melon quenches thirst and melts hot, mung bean porridge is boiled into rock sugar. Moving mountains and building bridges is not bitter, and it extends in all directions to build a hometown.

Li Xun's road construction has been going on, and it is all his own money, so the imperial court will not contribute funds to his fiefdom, and the rent he should get this year has already been spent 30,000 yuan before he has arrived.

Looking at the people who are not lazy when they work, Li Xun is also happy to spend money, learning from the Zhang family's practice, the people who build roads are not only paid for their wages, but also responsible for food.

The people are not slaves, they consume a lot of work, they have to supplement their nutrition well, the first meal in the morning is salted beans with sorghum rice, the people usually eat such things, and there are barley, etc., but they can't afford to eat saltwater beans, and they dare not eat water and rice, so the food consumption is too much.

When the road was built, Li Xun paid for it, as long as he didn't eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, he didn't care, eat it, the more he could eat, the more powerful he was.

Wait until noon to change the dish, according to the nutritional matching, a meat and a vegetarian, vegetarian is a variety of local vegetables, meat can only be selected, pork, fish and chicken, in addition to fish local fishing, pork and chicken are all provided by Sanshui County or Yaozhou.

Relying on his own fleet, what Li Xun did was to communicate with each other from the north to the south, not counting the freight, when a pig was sent to Shuzhou, it had already become the price of two pigs, ice money.

Such a rich and generous family reassures the people, a Zhang Thorn Shi family has countless money, and a county king is also a mountain of money, so there is no need to worry about blindly setting up a name and collecting more rent and taxes if there is nothing to do.

Adhering to the caring method of Zhang Wang's family, in addition to eating, the rest is mung bean rock sugar water, Li Xun forgot about this matter at the beginning, and the people did not know which wages to repair roads can still enjoy such treatment.

I never thought that I would start to let the road be built, according to the people's idea, the county king wanted to let them work for nothing, so they had to do it, and they only hoped to work for 20 days a year.

It turned out that there was a salary to take, which was reassuring, and when the first day of food was given, everyone felt as if they were in a dream, with such benefits, who would dare to think of anything else.

Li Xun finally found the problem when he walked around, the weather was hot, the people brought their own water bags, if the road section was close to the river, it would be convenient, and they drank water directly in the river.

For others, one thing that is no longer common is not common for Li Xun, the food money is taken, and the mung bean water money is still missing?

Since that day, rock sugar mung bean water has been continuously supplied, and in the past few days, the watermelons in the sandy land by the river have come down, and Li Xun has begun to let people throw watermelons into Jingli Town, take them out to quench the thirst of the people who work, and each of them sent one to take home for their families to eat, asking for the melon skin and seeds to be brought back so that they can make things.

In addition to all kinds of welfare, Li Xun also asked people to write slogans and shout slogans, this kind of thing has little impact on knowledgeable people, but it has an unusual effect on ordinary people, even if the people don't know what is written on it, they are still willing to tell others after hearing what others have said.

The general meaning is to build your hometown and make it more beautiful.

Li Xun finished taking care of this matter, and as soon as he turned around, he began to make money, what did he do when he planted so many watermelons if he didn't make money.

Because Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan asked the doctors of the medical school to study the various uses of watermelon, when they came here, they prepared a variety of watermelons, and then sold them to wealthy families with other medicines and tonics.

You can only earn money for a year, and next year it will be worthless if more people plant it, good planting, sandy land can be planted, of course, it can't be kept secret, and it's not an industrial thing, make money once and let the people benefit.

Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan and Li Xun are ready to take advantage of this only opportunity to earn back the money invested in local construction.

When Li Xun was busy with watermelons, Zhang Zhong had already organized more officials in the palace, and also transferred 500 sergeants from the records to join the army, and ran all the way to the place where Taihu County was located by night.

There were also old man Zhang, old man Bi and old man Yao, and he also brought a few relevant officials to follow him when he joined the army, holding the document written by Zhang Zhong to transfer troops to investigate the copper mine, and followed the team with a sneer.

After Zhang Zhong rode on a horse and told the three old men about the affairs of Taihu County, the three old men also expressed their support, and after arresting the people, Old Man Bi and Old Man Yao were ready to write a book of impeachment.

Zhang Zhong also brought the three dogs raised by Wang Juan to help, looking for people who wanted to run away, which can be said to be quite determined.

The whole team ran forward as fast as possible, and according to the information obtained, a group of people came out of Taihu County a few days ago, and there were many vehicles, loaded with copper ore and marble that had been secretly mined from somewhere, and they had to go to Wanshui first, and then enter the Yangtze River to transport the goods away.

Zhang Zhong's order to the team was to go to Anhui to block it, catch people, and get the stolen goods from one person.

The team came out as soon as it was dark, and ran until the end of the hour, and then they arrived at the place, and sure enough, as soon as they arrived here, they saw someone on the shore carrying things to the moored boat, and listening to the urging sound from there, they knew that the other party was very anxious.

"My lord, what should I do next?" The secretary of the army came over from behind and asked Zhang Zhong.

"Arrest people, whether they are on the boat or on the shore, and arrest them for the officer." Zhang Zhong said with a calm face.

"My lord, what about the crime?" The reporter joined the army and asked again.

"Isn't the charge already written to you? Stealing copper ore, as for whether it is used to make utensils or minting coins privately, it will be clear if you catch it and ask? Don't do it yet. ”

Zhang Zhong was a little dissatisfied when he saw that he had joined the army and pointed to the place in front of him and said, "If you let one go, you will wait for the official to impeach." ”

The record officer seemed to be frightened, and shouted: "Someone, Lord Assassin Shi has an order, the people in front seem to be secretly digging copper ore to mint coins, all of them will be arrested for me, if you resist, kill!" ”

Five hundred sergeants unsheathed, arrows on the strings, roared and rushed up, the momentum is not small, but no matter how you look at it, there is a feeling of killing, Zhang Zhong shook his head, how about not going to the local sergeant, and he is not in charge, there are local records to join the army, and the military and politics are separated, unlike Luzhou, which is convenient to use.

There was chaos in front for a while, and two people ran back to report, and all of them were caught.

Without waiting for Zhang Zhong to speak, the three of Old Man Bi came from the car and walked to the front under the protection of the guards, wanting to see who was so bold.

The recorder joined the army and said to Zhang Zhong, "Lord Zhang, please." ”

Zhang Zhong responded, turned over and dismounted, strode forward, followed by the army, looked at the sky, and looked in another direction, with a smug smile on the corner of his mouth.

Old man Bi and the three of them arrived first, and by the light of the torches that had just been lit, they saw the forty or so people who were escorted snort coldly, and they were about to speak, but suddenly reacted, the three of them couldn't take care of this matter directly, and they had to wait for Zhang Zhong to arrive.

Zhang Zhong was not in a hurry at this time, he slowly swayed over, glanced at the person who was detained, and asked, "Do you know why you were arrested?" ”

"My lord, I don't know, adults can't arrest people for no reason, adults have to investigate." One of the people who was escorted struggled forward twice, but the person who was held on to him held it down and opened his mouth to give in.

At this moment, the recorder joined the army and took a few steps forward and said loudly: "You still dare to quibble, Lord Assassin Shi is here, saying that you are secretly mining copper mines, but fortunately, Lord Assassin Shi is clever and has already known what you and others are doing in advance, and they are not invited quickly, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin." ”

After the reporter joined the army and shouted to this person, he turned his head to Zhang Zhong and said: "My lord, it seems that they won't say anything if they don't let them suffer a little, it's better to ......."

"No need, they will naturally recruit them when the time comes, tie them up and escort them back." Zhang Zhong rejected the proposal to join the army and ordered.

The man struggled even more now, and shouted as he struggled: "My lord, we are wronged, we didn't mine any copper, we just cut wood and wanted to transport it back to burn charcoal, my lord, wronged." ”

"I'm quibbling again, escorting away." This time it was Zhang Zhong who spoke, and turned around to return.

The recorder stepped forward to block Zhang Zhong, and said: "My lord, this late night to send troops, the junior officials are all listening to the adults, it is better to take a look at the ship and the unfinished goods first, otherwise, if it is a mistake, it will not be easy for the lower officials to do it, and please ask the adults to call the shots." ”

The record officer said that he wanted Zhang Zhong to think about it, but he didn't give Zhang Zhong a chance to speak, and as soon as the previous words fell, he immediately ordered: "Come on, move the things on the ship, and send the things that have not yet been loaded on the ship here, Lord Assassin Shi has his own decision." ”

The sergeants agreed in unison, and some rushed to the boat to get their things, and some unloaded the goods from the shore carts.

The rest of the people were waiting here, and the sound from there made people feel that something was wrong.

Old Man Bi looked at Old Man Yao suspiciously, and said, "Listening to the movement, it is indeed wood, is it true that Zhang Zhong is wrong?" Caught the wrong one? It's over, if he doesn't transfer the government soldiers, it's nothing, it's a big deal to release people, and now that the troops have been transferred, there are no people who say they want to be arrested, and the copper mine and marble can't be found either, then ......"

"Then I'm going to help in the back, I just encountered this matter when I arrived at the place, it's just that, I can't just look at it, didn't I say that the Zhang family has two masters? How could such a mistake be made? Could it be that Zhang Zhong did something in private without listening to the master's words? ”

Old man Yao understood what Old Man Bi meant, even if Zhang Zhong made a mistake, he had to keep it, in fact, he understood that even if someone really reported the matter to the imperial court, Zhang Zhong would not have anything, but the prestige he had accumulated would be greatly reduced.

At this time, someone came to the sergeant who was sent to inspect and reported to the record, "My lord, there is no marble, no copper mine, all wood, please decide." ”

"Oh? Really? That's not right, Lord Assassin Shi only let this official send troops because of conclusive evidence, Lord Assassin Shi will never take such a major event as a child's play, right? Check again, take a closer look. ”

The record officer gave an order to join the army, and at the same time gave Zhang Zhong a strong proof, and when the others went over to check, he turned his head to look at Zhang Zhong and said, "Lord Zhang, are you sure that there is copper ore here?" If not, the lower official will have to report it truthfully, but the adult does not need to worry, the lower official will definitely help the adult to say. ”