Chapter 517: Wang Fubao

Aozhou

Since Dou Jiande became king, Yuzhou has become more and more important. There is a row of courtyards behind the yamen of the Zhaozhou Mansion, which looks no different from ordinary houses on the surface, but no one in the whole of the Zhaozhou Prefecture is willing to live in this place permanently, for no other reason, this seemingly ordinary house is the dungeon of the Zhaozhou Mansion.

The two rows of houses in front and back of this large courtyard are torture cells, that is, the places where prisoners are tortured. It can be said that all the means that can be thought of to torture people are here, if someone can say that there is still any torture equipment missing in this room, then Wu Bushan, the chief arrester of Zhaozhou, will laugh happily, and then spend a lot of money to buy back the torture tools that he does not have or use torture methods, which is a kind of collection preference for him. Of course, if the person who questioned the incomplete torture equipment could not come up with something new or an idea, Wu Bushan would never mind asking this person to taste the torture methods in each room from beginning to end.

Wu Bushan is the chief arrester of Zhaozhou, which sounds like a very majestic official name, but in a place like Zhaozhou, he does not dare to publicize his official position at all, Zhaozhou is the capital of Daxia, where the Daxia court is located, Mo said that he is a petty official from the sixth rank who does not dare to show off his might, and even a member of the third and fourth grades does not dare to be presumptuous.

When Dou Jiande was not in Zhaozhou, there were only two people in the city, and no one dared to object to questioning it.

One of them is that he stayed behind in Zhaozhou, and the original Song of Great Xia. Although this person has a bad temper and is hard, he is indeed a capable person. At the beginning, Dou Jiande was able to lay such a big foundation, and there was a big reason because Song Zhengben wrote a development strategy for Dou Jiande. Including where to hit first, and then where to fight, and not only military affairs, but also civil affairs, after all, Song Zhengben is a literati, and he thinks more about governing the country. Because of such a huge merit, Dou Jiande named him a man and a loyal country.

When Dou Jiande was not in Zhaozhou, almost all the political and military affairs of the court were handed over to Song Zhengben, this person had real skills, but he was a person who could not be an official. He doesn't know how to be flexible, his temper is cold and hard, and he will repay him, when he was a small official, he bullied and humiliated his people, and after he made his career, he killed all of them, and the least of them also punished the three clans.

Since Dou Jiande appointed him to stay in Zhaozhou, the respected Song Zhengben has become more and more obedient, and the Great Xia court has simply become his hall, and no one dares to oppose anything he has set. But if anyone is against him, he will always find some means to kill him.

But even so, there is still a person in Song Zhengben in Zhaozhou who dare not provoke and cannot afford to provoke.

This person was a woman, named Dou Hongxian.

Dou Hongxian is Dou Jiande's younger sister, and Dou Jiande's favor for her has reached the point of no return. Even if it is a person who eats the gall of an ambitious leopard, no one in the territory of Great Xia will dare to provoke the county lord of Dou. According to this look, Dou Hongxian is a high-flying woman, but in fact she is a gentle and lovely girl, with a tranquil temperament, although she is outstanding in martial arts, she likes to do embroidery the most, and it is because of her good hand that she is red, so people also call her Dou Linniang.

From childhood to adulthood, there was only one thing that Dou Jiande did not mean to follow his sister Dou Honghong.

That was the marriage between Dou Hongxian and Wang Fubao, because Wang Fubao publicly accused Dou Jiande of killing Shi Zan and several other old heroes who followed Dou Jiande at the beginning, and also opposed Dou Jiande's premature proclamation of emperor, and was ordered by Dou Jiande to be imprisoned in the dungeon of the Zhaozhou Mansion.

Because of this incident, Dou Hongxian quarreled with Dou Jiande a lot. It was precisely because of her that Dou Jiande did not immediately kill Wang Fubao to vent his anger.

Dou Jiande is very contradictory, he always trusts others very easily, and is magnanimous to others, he has never killed a prisoner for many years, Song Zhengben and others chose to serve him after being captured because of his magnanimity, because of this character, Dou Jiande has never lacked followers around him.

But for the old subordinates who followed him when he was in the most difficult time, he was never merciful to kill. Shi Zan followed Dou Jiande when Gao Shida was the head of Gao Jibo, because he knelt down to intercede for Wang Fubao, blocked Dou Jiande's way and begged him to forgive Wang Fubao once, and was pulled out by the angry Dou Jiande and cut off his head. There is also Yin Qiu, this person's qualifications are older than Shi Zan, and even older than Wang Fubao, when Dou Jiande funded Sun Anzu to raise troops, Yin Qiu followed Dou Jiande.

Dou Jiande personally led an army of 100,000 to cross the Yellow River to the south, his vanguard general Su Dingfang committed suicide in an ambush in Yuncheng, and the deputy general Yin Qiu fled back to the camp with hundreds of people to kill the siege, and the upset Dou Jiande did not listen to his explanation at all, and ordered Yin Qiu to be dragged out and divided into five horses.

The contradiction of this person's personality can be seen in this.

The dungeon of the state of Zhaozhou is not something that ordinary people can enter if they want to, and the thirty-two dungeon stone rooms under the torture room, those who are qualified to come in and live for a while and then be dragged out and beheaded, are all court officials.

In the first dungeon from the left, he was once the first favorite general under Dou Jiande, and he was also the general with the greatest military merit in the Zhaozhou army, the champion general who once had a marriage contract with Dou Hongxian, and Wang Fubao, who was named the Marquis of Death by Dou Jiande.

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There is no daylight in the dungeon all year round, and even during the day if you don't come down with a lantern in your hand. Maybe it's too eerie, so the dungeon aisles are lit with dense oil lamps. But the dim yellow lights and candles set off this place even more beautifully, even in the summer when it is hot, it seems cold and uncomfortable.

Because of Dou Honghong, Wang Fubao did not suffer in the dungeon.

The dungeon where he lived was the largest one, with simple furniture in it, and because Dou Hongxian would come to visit him from time to time, the guards who took care of the dungeon respected him. After all, before King Xia killed him, such a great general was worthy of respect just by virtue of his military exploits.

Wu Bushan is not a good person, he is always the master of this place by carefully holding his tail between his tail on the bright side. Therefore, Wu Bushan in the prison cell of the Zhaozhou Mansion and Wu Bushan on the bright side are simply two people, Wu Bushan on the bright side is cautious and sleek, but when he returns to the prison of the Zhaozhou Mansion, he becomes ruthless and vicious.

There will always be a lot of officials who offended King Xia or Song Zhengben in the dungeon of the state of Zhaozhou, some of these people will be released soon after a small mistake, and some are destined to die inside, and many people who are not good at Dou Jiande are not good at blatantly beheading, they can only "die of violent illness" in the prison, these are all masterpieces from Wu Bushan.

Pei Yu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, once said more than once in front of Dou Jiande that Wu Bushan is a talent.

Wu Bushan is indeed a talent, at least he knows who deserves to die and who doesn't.

The most contradictory thing he has ever done in his life is that he has always been in awe of a person who he thinks is absolutely damned and will never be tolerated by King Xia.

"I heard that the Lord was defeated on the south side of the Yellow River......"

Wu Bushan filled a glass of wine for the bearded man sitting opposite the table, and said in a low voice.

The person who was wearing a cloth shirt and looked at the plate of cooked meat on the table in a daze, raised his head suddenly, and his tiger eyes were shocked. This man has a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a beard, a strong and tall body, although he wears a cloth shirt, it is difficult to hide the momentum on his body, which is the momentum that only people who have experienced countless battles and killed countless people.

Wang Fubao was indeed shocked when he heard the news, but soon he shook his head with a wry smile and took a drink from his wine glass.

"Although there is no definite news from the south, and King Xia has not sent anyone back, but the news has spread, some people say that the general Su Dingfang was ambushed by Xu Shiji, the military division of Yanyunzhai in Yuncheng, General Su Dingfang led the army to fight for several days and was outnumbered and killed, General Yin Qiu was killed, but because the battle was not conducive to rescue, he was killed by King Xia......"

Wu Bushan glanced at Wang Fubao's face, poured him a full glass of wine and continued: "Another month passed, when King Xia was about to cross the river to the north and return, he was stuck by Xu Shiji's troops, and Wu Yunzhao, the general of the Yanyun army, led his troops to copy the back road of our Xia army, and the seventy or eighty thousand troops were all defeated, forty or fifty thousand died, and most of the rest were taken prisoner, and very few escaped. ”

Wang Fubao's eyes suddenly changed, and he looked at Wu Bushan awe-inspiring and sneered: "Mr. Wu, if it's just hearsay, you can't know so much." ”

Wu Bushan's face changed, and he smiled wryly: "General, don't look at me like that, you also know how bold I am." These things are indeed not hearsay, I have a brother of the same clan who was a captain in the army that went south, and escaped on the day of the defeat on the bank of the Yellow River, he did not dare to catch up with the army of King Xia but absconded all the way back incognito, did not dare to show his face, and now lives in my house. ”

"If you tell me this, aren't you afraid that I will say it?"

Wang Fubao looked at him and asked coldly.

"What are you afraid of!"

Wu Bushan sighed and said, "General, you are not that kind of person, besides...... The defeat that day was so tragic that it is said that the accumulation of dead bodies almost cut off the flow of the Yellow River, and the river was red for dozens of miles. King Xia fled west along the Yellow River with less than 3,000 people, and if it weren't for the fact that Wang Bo of Zhishilang took the remnants of the army to respond, he was afraid that it would be difficult to break out of the encirclement. Although my brother is a deserter, he is also excusable, isn't he? Some people rumor that King Xia has suffered an accident, and others say that King Xia has left the team with dozens of personal guards and has returned from the river. ”

"King Xia will be fine."

Wang Fubao said firmly.

He was silent for a while and asked, "Did Song Zhengben send someone to answer?" ”

"Major General Dugu led his troops out of the city a while ago, but I don't know if he went to pick up King Xia."

Wang Fubao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Dugu Shao is an old man who is serious, this time Song Zhengben didn't choose the wrong person." ”

"Congratulations to the General!"

Wu Bushan lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the generals in the court are secretly discussing, and when King Xia comes back, they will jointly write a letter, asking King Xia to release you and General Cheng Mingzhen." Our Great Xia has lost several generals one after another, and it is the time to employ people, I don't think King Xia will refuse. When you go out, you will still be a champion general, or a mortal marquis who will terrify the enemy! I just ask you not to forget to mention the humble position when the time comes. ”

"You want to join the army too?"

Wang Fubao asked with a sneer.

"I don't have the guts!"

Wu Bushan waved his hand again and again and said: "I heard that the officials in Wuyang County and Guancheng County have been killed by Yan Yunjun, Song Nayan is worried about who to choose to make up for the past, after all, there are not enough people in the court now, if the general goes out, help the humble post and say a few good words, let me go out to be a county commander, and I am grateful." ”

"Your total arrest is from the sixth grade, and the Wuyang County Order is only from the seventh grade, you don't want to be promoted, but want to be demoted by two levels."

Wang Fubao took a sip of wine and said.

"I just want to leave this place...... The water is too deep. ”

"Die."

Wang Fubao suddenly smiled and said, "Anyone can get out alive from here, but I can't." You asked the wrong person, in this way, now you go and invite Cheng Mingzhen over for a drink, he still has a chance to go out, you beg him, maybe he can help you. ”

Without waiting for Wu Bushan to be surprised, Wang Fubao waved his hand and said, "Go, ...... If the county lord comes again, you can help me stop it, and say that I don't want to see her. ”

Stop?

Wu Bushan sighed in his heart, the county lord often comes to the dungeon and even Song Zhengben and his wife Cai don't dare to care, do I dare to fart a little Zhaozhou Hunt? Even if it's a fart, you have to hold it back and squeeze it out and make a silent sound, and it must not smell bad. But he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to nod and get up to invite Cheng Mingzhen.