Chapter 264: King Qi's Banquet
With Zhou Faxian's words, Chen Ping immediately left the prison, looked for Zhang Shan'an, led a group of guards, and went straight to Wang Renze. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"There's no one in there, I don't know where it's gone." Coming out of Wang Renze's room, Zhang Shanan shook his head and said to Chen Ping.
"Look around." Chen Ping looked around and commanded.
Several people were about to search around, but a guard came: "Wang Ren is in the stable, with two people, I saw it when I first came." ”
Chen Ping stared at this person with a puzzled face, this guard was not his subordinate, how could he come over to report the news?
"Governor Chen, is the thin marquis okay?" The guard asked again, "I was originally a subordinate of Wang Renze, and I fell into the water, so I was lucky to escape and didn't let those thieves kill me." ”
"Do you know Hou Xing? He's fine, he was wronged, and now he should be out of prison and healing. Chen Pingdao, suddenly in his heart, it turned out to be Wang Renze's subordinate, this is not strange, turned to Zhang Shan'an and the others, "Go, go to the stable." ”
After the stables were in Liuhe Mansion, a piece of land split was originally a woodland, and the trees on it were just chopped and bundled to build a military mansion. There are nearly 100 military horses inside, and there are veterinarians and slaves to take care of them.
According to the law, horses in the military palace are not allowed to go out without a reason, and if there is a war or a hunting exercise, they are allowed to ride military horses.
When he arrived at the stable, Chen Pingzheng was worried about whether he had missed it, and saw the three people leading the horses out, it was Wang Renze and his two guards.
Now, those who are still with Wang Renze should be his cronies.
Wang Ren obviously saw Chen Ping as well, and his face became even more gloomy: "Why, if Governor Chen doesn't practice today, he wants to go out?" ”
"You attacked lightly, fell into the enemy's ambush, and lost more than a dozen guards, General Zhou ordered me to arrest you and put you in the government prison to await interrogation." Chen Ping was directly Dao, turned his head, and Zhang Shanan and the others immediately surrounded Wang Renze and the others.
Holding the reins of the horse, Wang Ren said, "What do you mean by this?" Victory and defeat are a common thing, and the dead and wounded guards, that is because they have only entered the military palace, are lazy during the exercise, and do not fight the enemy effectively, this is the only way to fail. Get out of the way, don't stand in my way, my uncle is holding a banquet in Hanjiang. I have already taken leave from General Tongyu, and I am going to go to the banquet. ”
As soon as he didn't agree, he took out his uncle's brand, the corners of Chen Ping's mouth turned up, and he said coldly: "Then I'm really sorry, you can send a guard to inform your uncle and ask him not to wait for you." If you have a banquet directly, I'm afraid you won't be able to go today. ”
Zhang Shan'an and a few people were already close to the past, and the two guards still wanted to resist, but Zhang Shan'an was not polite, and directly kicked one person over, and the other person was hit with a few punches and was held by the guards.
"Do you know who my uncle is? He is a squire of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he is now in Yangzhou. His hand was cut behind his back, and there was some pain, and Wang Ren said angrily, "How dare you arrest me, a little governor?" ”
"I thought you were too strong to report your uncle's official position. How? Do you want to get away with your comfortable job title? The squire of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, such a big official title, but the prince broke the law, and he was guilty of the same crime as the common people, who are you, but a governor, who has violated the military law, he should be punished. Chen Ping scolded, not taking Wang Renze's words to heart, "Put the three of them in the prison and take care of them, don't let them run away." ”
escorted Wang Renze and the three into the prison, and when the onlookers saw it, they actually shouted hello.
The military mansion is densely populated, and the scope is not large, and the quarrel in the prison of the palace, Zhou Faxian and Yu Zan's voices are already loud, and they let the two guards outside hear it. Later, Hou Xing left the prison, and the situation inside spread out.
Up to now, it has only been half a day's work, and everyone in the military government knows what Wang Renze has done, and it is shameful for his behavior of shifting the blame to the guards.
The rest of the matter is no longer something that Chen Ping can handle, Zhou Faxian personally interrogated the interrogation, and two days later, the thief Zhang Jizhen and more than a dozen thieves after the interrogation were escorted to Beijing together.
After staying in the military government for more than ten days, the one-year-old drill was over, Zhang Shanan and others returned to Liuhe County, and Chen Ping was directly entourage Zhou Faxian, and there were more than a dozen escorted guards to Hanjiang County.
Hanjiang County is adjacent to Jiangdu County, adjacent to Liuhe Military Mansion, and it is less than half a day's walk to Liuhe County.
A few people walked on the post road, there were many pedestrians on the road, there were many guards with northern accents, and on the side of the post road, there were people from that village, putting melons and fruits to eat, selling them on the spot.
There are those who are more courageous, and when they see someone passing by in front of the stall, they will shout two sentences, attracting others to stop and watch.
"The Holy Driver is here, and there is such a scene." Zhou Faxian sighed.
Chen Ping didn't speak, but he didn't think so, if it was really as Zhou Faxian said, the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty might not happen. If Yang Guang had not gone down to the river capital frequently and on a large scale, the Sui Dynasty would still be able to breathe for some time.
With a population of 200,000, the entourage of the guards plus a number of officials, concubines, slaves and maids, the food consumption was not from the government treasury, but was evenly distributed to the county, and finally it still fell on the people.
As seen on this post road, it is only a corner, and there is another one is that Jiangnan is rich, and the people still have surplus grain at home, and the taxes paid are within the scope of bearing.
But if there are a few more times, the rice grain in the jar at home and the silver money hidden in the house will probably bottom out.
But these scenes can only be seen by foreign officials and officials, such as Zhou Faxian, who is difficult to know, and Yang Guang, who is in the deep palace, cannot see it.
Hanjiang County Fang, the wall of the square is a few feet higher than Liuhe County, the side of the county gate extends to more than ten zhang away, it is a green brick, the door is several zhang wide, there is a building wall, and there is a soldier wearing bright light armor.
Seeing Chen Ping staring at the armor on the wall of the building, Zhou Faxian said with a smile: "That's Mingguang armor, with neck guards, shoulder pads and shawls, made of leather, two pieces of armor on the chest, tripping with armor, and a robe inside, with a tongue buckle belt tied around the waist, and arm guards to tie the cuffs."
The style is good-looking, majestic and imposing, and the protection is better than the commonly used Liangdang armor, but unfortunately the cost is too expensive, and only the palace guards can wear it. ”
"These guards are palace guards? Is the saint in the county? Chen Ping turned his head and asked, there were many people in the city, Chen Ping didn't dare to be careless, and pulled the reins of the horse tightly.
Zhou Faxian shook his head: "Although they are wearing Mingguang armor, these people should not be palace guards, but just guards, and follow the escort to defend the saint to the county seat." There are so many people in the county, how can the holy car stop here? The holy car should be in the Jiangdu Palace, and if it is not summoned, it will not be seen. ”
In the county town, there are more people than the post road outside, Zhou Faxian got off the horse, and a guard behind him took the hand, Chen Pingtong followed and turned over and dismounted, but there was no such treatment, he could only hold the reins.
"King Qi is in this county?" Chen Ping asked again.
"Well, let's go to King Qi's mansion now." Zhou Faxian said, "This time you caught the thief Zhang Jizhen, you have a lot of merit, I think King Qi will be very happy to hear this news, even if there is a reward, maybe it." ”
After walking for a while, turning into the northeast of the fang, I saw a house in front of the fang road from a distance, with a blue brick wall, a vermilion gate, and the gate of the house was facing the cross street, and there was an endless stream of people in front of the door, and even a lot of people in official robes could be seen.
"King Qi also invited others?" Chen Ping asked again, and the official robes looked very dazzling, which made Chen Ping frown. (To be continued.) )