Chapter XXXVII
"What" is what Zhu Houzhao shouted, and "what kind of system" is said by Master Yang, who just came. Zhu Houwei didn't speak, just frowned. At this time, Master Yang was educating Zhu Houzhao that he should "collapse in front of Mount Tai and not change his face". After Master Yang finished speaking, looking at the depressed and anxious Houzhao, Zhu Houwei stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, smiled and blinked, and said softly, "Go to class first, don't worry." As soon as Zhu Houzhao heard this, he knew that Zhu Houwei seemed to have expected such a situation, his face began to become calm, and then he entered the hall to prepare for class.
Although Yang Tinghe advanced to the hall, Zhu Houwei said something to his brother, and he also saw it, but he was a little far away and couldn't hear it clearly. Master Yang was also a little surprised that Zhu Houwei could calm down Zhu Houzhao with one sentence.
Zhu Houwei said to Jinyi Wei Qianhu, "You go down first, and the prince and I will go to Huangzhuang to solve it at noon." "Yes, Wechen retired." Qianhu just left.
After class, the two brothers went to Zhu's Mansion first, because Huangzhuang was not very safe, so they brought the little girl to Zhu's Mansion to let her play, and didn't take it to Huangzhuang. After class, Zhu Houzhao asked, "What's going on in Zhuangzi?" Zhu Houwei replied, "This time I brought back so many people from Shandong, it is normal for there to be spies and anti-court people, but the number will not be very large, now many people live in temporary grass huts, and most of them have just arrived here, and people's hearts are unstable, this is the best moment for their actions." ”
"You really expected it, how to deal with it?" Zhu Houzhao asked
"It's nothing, just let Jinyiwei send some people to ambush in the bushes around the foot of the mountain at night, and solve any abnormalities."
The two took all the first-term students to Huangzhuang. When I arrived at Xiaolizhuang, there were Mu Bin, Bai Xiaode and Lao Li waiting there. Zhu Houzhao jumped out of the carriage and asked Mu Bin directly, "How is the situation and how much is the loss?" ”
Mu Bin Shili said, "Back to the prince, a total of 8 people died last night, a total of 15 people died in the chaos, and 12 people were caught alive, but the fire was too big to extinguish, and the grass shed built was lost, and there were 2,000 stone of grain." ”
Due to the implementation of a new unit of measurement in Huangzhuang, that is, the unit formulated by Zhu Houwei, one catty is 500 grams, called the city catty, 2 catties are equal to one kilogram, 1000 kilograms are equal to 1 ton, and one stone is equal to 100 kilograms, which is heavier than a stone in this era. The villagers are not accustomed to using tons as units, and they usually use stones to measure heavier things. 2,000 stone is 200 tons, which is not a small number, and it will cost 2,000 taels if it is converted into money.
Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that people don't lose much, as for the loss of food, it's not a big deal." Mu Bin, Bai Xiaode, and Lao Li couldn't help but nod after hearing this, they felt more and more good about this prince.
Zhu Houwei had already jumped out of the carriage with Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houwei had heard all their conversations. At this time, Zhu Houwei said, "The first thing to do now is to calm people's hearts, as for the origin of those people, we probably know, Commander Mou, you take them and see if you can ask anything, it doesn't matter if you can't ask, it still needs a lot of stones to build water conservancy in the village, just let them dig stones, you send some people to be overseers, and the village will pay them monthly money every month." Mu Bin replied with a smile, "That's okay, there are also stone mountains around the capital." ”
Zhu Houzhao sent the first student to appease the people who had just arrived and let them return to work, and then a few arrived at the main hall of Lao Li's house, and Mu Bin began to elaborate on what happened yesterday.
Yesterday (11 o'clock in the evening) a few people began to walk out of the hut, at first three people, then about thirty people gathered in a corner of the hut group, whispered for a while and then disbanded, and at the third class (half past two in the morning) the group came out of the hut again and walked to the south of the hut. To the south is the place where the grain is stacked, and since the houses have been built at the foot of the mountain recently, there are the most workers here, so the grain is simply transported here for daily use. The guards of the grain are two people each from Xiao Li Zhuang and Da Li Zhuang, divided into two shifts, two people watch the first half of the night, and two watch the second half of the night.
200 tons of grain are all packed in sacks, a bag of 100 catties, a total of 4,000 bags, in order to facilitate management, are ten bags and ten bags stacked on top of each other, more than 2 meters high, all stacked in a centralized manner, so that the shed that needs to be built is relatively small. Tonight, there are no dark clouds in the sky, and it is still relatively bright, but people do not see as clearly in the dark as they do in the daytime. These people bypassed the sight of the guards and ran behind the grain and grass. There were 27 people in total, some of whom took out fire sickles and flints and started to light them, and others brought out some oil or other things that could easily start a fire, but there were not many of them.
It was quiet now, and although the group had been careful, the sound of the scythe and flint still aroused the awareness of the guards. These are two men from Lizhuang, they quickly picked up the spears in their hands, ran to the location where the sound came from, and shouted "What person?" as they ran. The 27 men did not answer, except for a few who were attentive to the fire, and the others took their daggers from their bosoms and ran towards the guards. The two groups of people soon met, and the guards were a little frightened when they saw so many people, and the hands holding the spears couldn't help but tremble a little, and these people on the other side did not answer the guard's questions, and launched an attack with shouts of "kill" in their mouths.
The spear was much longer than the dagger, and the group had checked their luggage before coming, so even if they dodged the inspection, the weapons they could bring would only be so short. The situation was no longer for the guards to consider, so they could only take their spears and stab at the nearest enemy in front. However, this group of people seemed to be difficult to deal with, and the spears that the two stabbed out only hurt one enemy in the thigh, and the other enemies quickly approached the guard, and the two saw that they were invincible, so they had to shout "Come on, there are thieves burning food" while scrambling to block the enemy's attack.
The enemy's first round of attacks caused great damage to the two of them, after all, two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, and the weapon also pays attention to "one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short and one inch dangerous". Both of them were stabbed in the stomach with 2 daggers, and their arms and thighs were also injured, and before they could finish shouting "come on", the second round of enemy attacks arrived. The voices of the two men stopped abruptly, although they were still standing, but they saw a clear stiffness, the enemy put away his knife, and the two guards fell straight to the ground, the enemy built their spears and quickly left, leaving only the two people who fell on their backs and the slowly expanding pool of blood on the ground.
The fire was lit, and the fire was rapidly expanding, and the group took up their weapons and ran towards the grass hut. The nearest hut is about 200 meters away from the grain, and it takes less than half a minute to run away. At this time, the straw shed has been in a mess, the guard's previous shouting has made some people in the straw shed come out to inspect, see the food fire, can't help shouting, after a while, the whole grass shed thousands of people are in a mess, everywhere are women and children crying, adults shouting, the sound is too noisy, too big, so that it is not clear at all, everyone is running around like headless flies, I don't know what I should do at this time.
The 27 thieves had already rushed to the nearest straw hut, and the fire behind them had made their hideous faces even clearer, and some people had already seen them. At this time, the nearest military household behaved differently, and 7 or 8 men picked up what they had at hand and ran towards the thief, shouting from their mouths, as if to embolden themselves, as if to scare the enemy away. Many more are running in the opposite direction.
Holding the snatched spear, the two thieves stabbed at the man who rushed up, although the courage of the resisting military household was commendable, but the fighting technique was not good, and the weapons in their hands were even more cold, basically wooden sticks. In the blink of an eye, two spears had been inserted into the chests of the two men, and their sticks were held high before they could be swung out. At this time, the two looked at the enemy with the spear with angry eyes, and suddenly, the enemy was like a hedgehog with arrows, and there were many arrows stuck in their bodies, especially the enemy with the spear, who had the most crossbow arrows on their bodies, and before their spears could be withdrawn, their whole bodies stiffened, and they involuntarily let go of the spears and fell down. And the two pierced soldiers, seeing this scene, their eyes changed from anger to distraction, and they also fell to the ground. Then more than 200 brocade guards came out from the side, some of them were responsible for controlling the enemy, and the other was to calm down these completely chaotic military households.
The enemy, who was not injured just now, did not give up resistance, and took his weapon to kill Jinyiwei, but only 10 meters away, suffered a second attack from the crossbow arrow, and all of them fell.
The fire of grain was swaying, and Xiao Li Zhuang, who was a few miles away, saw it, and slowly more and more villagers came out of their homes to watch, but under the comfort of Jin Yiwei and Lao Li, everyone went back to the house. The same is true for Da Li Zhuang, Gu Dayong was also notified by the Zhuang guest, and then the clothes were not neatly dressed, so he went out of the Zhuang Mansion and cooperated with Jinyi Wei to let the villagers go home.
The closest to the straw hut is the Shandong people who have moved in at the foot of the mountain, children, women, and the elderly have been left at home, after all, there is still a wall, and it seems that the new home is the safest place at present. The man ran out of the gate, met the man next door, ran out nearby, and asked, "What's the matter, why is there such a big fire, why is there such a mess in the grass hut?" "After a while, there will be a brocade guard to appease, probably said that it was a food fire, everyone went back to the house, there is still work to do tomorrow, or sleep.
After about an hour, the thousands of people who lived in the straw hut were calmed down, and when they returned to their temporary cottages, their relatives were basically found. Jin Yiwei is counting the situation, now that the grain has all caught fire, there is no point in extinguishing it, there is mud next to it, and the fire will not expand.
In the end, there were 27 thieves, 15 died, and 12 were still breathing. 2 guards died, 2 military households were killed, 4 were trampled to death in the chaos, 3 children under 12, and an old woman. All 2,000 stone of grain was burned, and that's all that happened during the night.