Several drinkers turned around, it turned out to be Feng Xiaotian, the proprietor of the wine shop, and they hurriedly got up and gave their hands, "Why did you alarm Feng Dongzhu?" ”

Feng Xiaotian is about forty years old, is a native of Qinghe County, has been idle since he was a child, causing trouble, because his eldest sister Feng is the wife of Beihai County Taishou Liang Zhi, so Feng Xiaotian caused a lot of trouble, but he was not punished.

As he grew older, the desire to cause trouble subsided, and the desire to make money soared, so Liang Zhi gave him a sum of money to open a wine shop in Yidu County, which is now Qingzhou Restaurant, but Feng Xiaotian is only the nominal proprietor, and the real proprietor is too Shou Liang Zhi.

Feng Xiaotian smiled, "I saw a few people talking about it, so I came over to have a good time." ”

Several drinkers gave up a seat, and an old man said with a smile: "We are discussing the question of whether to return to our hometown, everyone has their own opinions and different opinions, I don't know what Feng Dongzhu thinks of this matter?" ”

Feng Xiaotian coughed lightly and raised his eyebrows, "I've heard Taishou say a little bit about this." ”

This is his verbal language, which involves Taishou's brother-in-law in everything, so that everyone is attracted at once, and several tables of drinkers next to him also surround him, "Feng Dongzhu, what did Taishou say?" ”

Feng Xiaotian was proud in his heart, took a sip of wine, and whetted everyone's appetite, and then said leisurely: "Taishou said that the army living in Yidu City can't control us, and we don't have to think about paying grain to support the army, but once we return to our hometown, we have to raise the army, the problem is that the army may not be able to protect everyone, if the bandits come and the army escapes, everyone will become fish and meat on the board." ”

Several drinkers frowned, Taishou wouldn't say such a thing!

At this moment, there was a commotion downstairs, everyone was stunned, and there was a sound of rushing running at the stairs, only to see a bartender stumbling over, "Owner, a group of soldiers downstairs are making trouble." ”

Feng Xiaotian was suddenly furious, this was his brother-in-law's wine shop, and someone dared to make trouble?

He stood up. Strode downstairs, he wanted to see who ate the bear's heart leopard gall, and rushed to Qingzhou Restaurant to make trouble, and the guests on the second floor followed him downstairs. Everyone wanted to go and see the excitement.

In the lobby on the first floor, more than a dozen soldiers were testing wine at each table, and the leader was Chen Xu, a cavalry captain, who was naturally ordered by Zhang Xuan to take a group of men down to the wine shop to find fault. At this time, Feng Xiaotian angrily squeezed into the crowd and shouted, "What are you doing? ”

Chen Xu glanced at him, "Who are you?" ”

The shopkeeper next to him hurriedly said: "This is my Feng proprietor!" ”

It turned out that this person was Feng Xiaotian, Chen Xu secretly sneered, he was looking for this person, Chen Xu snorted and said: "We received a report from the soldiers, you openly disobeyed the ban of the imperial court, and even sold rice wine in the wine shop, we are here to investigate!" ”

Chen Xu raised a pot of wine on the table, "This is rice wine." You won't admit it! ”

Feng Xiaotian was annoyed and ashamed, and stiffened his neck and shouted: "What is the will of the imperial court, which wine shop in the world does not sell rice wine, why do you want to stare at us?" ”

The shopkeeper next to him saw that the proprietor actually admitted it, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, these soldiers were obviously here to find fault, how could the proprietor admit it?

He hurriedly pulled Feng Xiaotian and wanted to remind him quietly, but Feng Xiaotian was so angry that he broke free of his hand. He continued to glare at the other party and said, "What if I sell rice wine?" ”

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers came out of the kitchen with the wine jar in their arms and reported: "Captain Qiyu, we have found a lot of rice wine in the wine cellar. Their signboard also openly sells rice wine. ”

Chen Xu nodded and sneered a few times: "You dare to openly sell forbidden alcohol, you have no court law, arrest me!" ”

Several soldiers rushed up and pressed the shopkeeper and Feng Xiaotian down on the table together, Feng Xiaotian was so anxious that he yelled: "My brother-in-law is too guarded by Liang Zhi, and this wine shop is opened by my brother-in-law." If you are bold, let me go! ”

The shopkeeper next to him screamed, and he actually implicated the Taishou, this proprietor is really stupid, the other party is the army, how can there be an army to care about such a thing, it is clearly to stir up trouble, and the proprietor can't see it.

Although the shopkeeper understood in his heart, his mouth was blocked by the soldiers with rags, and he couldn't make a sound, several soldiers tied them up with ropes, and Chen Xu shouted, "Take it away!" ”

Dozens of cavalrymen grabbed the two men and got on their horses, took them with them along with the evidence they had found, and urged the horses to gallop out of the city.

There was a mess in the wine shop, and the drinkers were talking about it, and I didn't know what was going on, and Feng Xiaotian's henchmen had already rushed to report to the county office

Beihai Taishou Liang Zhi is a native of Qinghe County, born in poverty, but he is talented, and he has a talent for reading, and he was favored by Qinghe Cui's family, and trained him for more than ten years, and finally passed the imperial examination and embarked on a career in office.

He was about forty-five or sixteen years old, not tall in stature, a little thin, and looked very shrewd and capable.

Liang Zhi has been an official in Qingzhou for nearly 20 years, and has served as the county lieutenant of Qingping County, the commander of Licheng County, the Cheng of Qi County, and the Taishou of Jibei County, and was transferred to the Taishou of Beihai County five years ago.

He is also a little capable and flexible, and despite the raging bandits, he finally saved Yidu and Linzi counties from being slaughtered and looted by bandits.

This made him quite prestigious among the people of Beihai County, and various wealthy families bought his account.

Liang Zhi was not in a good mood during this time, originally he and Zhang Xutuo did not violate the river water, Zhang Xutuo generally only asked about Beihai County, and Beihai County was basically decided by him.

Ten days ago, Zhang Xutuo suddenly announced the division of troops to garrison the counties, which seemed to have little impact on the surface, but Liang Zhi found that the problem was not so simple.

Once the troops are divided and stationed in the counties, it is necessary to increase the number of troops, so whoever will pay for the military rations must be the people of the counties.

In fact, the problem of sharing military rations is not big, and Liang Zhi doesn't care, after all, the army protects one side, and the local people should make some efforts, Liang Zhi is worried about power, and the armies stationed in each county will compete for the power of the local government.

For example, Zhang Xuan, who was stationed in Beihai County, actually wanted to take away the two thousand Zhuang Ding recruited by the three major families.

The two thousand troops were actually the local army he had established in a workaround, how could he let Zhang Xuan take it away, this Zhang Xuan was not very old, and his ambitions were not small.

Liang Zhi did not know Zhang Xuan's background and had never heard of this person, he always believed that Zhang Xuan was Zhang Xutuo's henchman, and everything he did was to carry out Zhang Xutuo's orders.

At this time, Liang Zhi was sitting in the official house and thinking about the problem of dispersing the population in the city, there were 500,000 people in Yidu City, and the county town was really overwhelmed, and once the epidemic broke out, the consequences were unimaginable.

He also planned to take advantage of the opportunity of Zhang Xutuo's extermination of Zuo Xiaoyou and Meng Rang to divert the population, but instead of returning to his hometown, he would scatter and live around Yidu County to form a hundred new villages, and when the situation was critical, the people could quickly withdraw into the city.

At this moment, a servant reported at the door: "Envoy, Feng Dongzhu's men have come down, saying that there is an accident at the Qingzhou Restaurant." ”

Liang Zhi frowned, stopped his pen and said, "Let him in!" ”

After a while, Feng Xiaotian's henchmen hurriedly came in, knelt down and cried: "Qi Yu Taishou, Feng Dongzhu was captured by the army. ”

"What!"

Liang Zhiteng stood up, "What did you say?" ”

"Just now, a group of soldiers came to the store, saying that the liquor store violated the ban of the imperial court to sell rice wine, so they arrested Liang Dongzhu and Li Shopkeeper together."

Liang Zhi was stunned for a moment, and he immediately reacted that this was Zhang Xuan stirring up trouble.

He gritted his teeth for a while, and actually used the excuse of selling forbidden alcohol, which is very good! I'll see what other excuses he can find.

Liang Zhi immediately shouted: "Prepare the carriage, I want to go to the barracks!" ”

After a short time, Liang Zhi boarded a carriage and sped away in the direction of the north gate under the escort of several retinues.

Of course, Liang Zhi also knew that the Son of Heaven had issued a decree a few months ago that it was strictly forbidden to use grain to make wine, but the Son of Heaven has issued more holy decrees over the years, and how many people in the local area will carry it out?

For example, two years ago, it was decreed that the city walls of each county should not be higher than Luoyang City, but in fact, there is no county that does not increase the city wall, in order to prevent bandits, who will care if the city wall is higher than Luoyang City, of course, the higher the better.

For another example, the imperial court strictly forbade the people to have long weapons, crossbows, and armor, but in fact, every household had a spear, and every man wore a saber on the street.

Even if all the counties of the world ignore these important decrees, who cares about an insignificant prohibition of alcohol?

Of course, Liang Zhi also did not agree with his brother-in-law to brew rice wine privately, after all, the food was indeed insufficient, but Liang Zhi would never tolerate the arrest of Feng Xiaotian itself.

He wants to find Jang Hyun to make it clear that he will never allow the army to arrest people in the city, that is not their right, and it cannot be tolerated once.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the barracks, Liang Zhi stepped out of the carriage and said coldly to the soldiers guarding the door: "Please tell General Zhang that Liang Zhi, the Taishou of Beihai, came to see him!" (To be continued.) )