"Daddy, Daddy, there's a big Han official who wants to retry Sister Mu Yike's case."

A tiger-headed child hurried to his tent and said to the tall man who was weaving a mattress from grass. This man is the man with huge bones among the slaves rescued by Yang Hao in Dongyang Village. He listened to his son's words, and his hands were only slightly paused, but he did not speak.

"Hong'er, come here." A middle-aged woman who was squatting on the ground next to her, who was also weaving a straw mat, called out, pulled the child into her arms, wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeves, and said in a low voice: "Hong'er, this is the place of the Han people, don't run out to play casually, so as not to cause trouble." If a child from a Han family bullies you, bear with it if you can, don't make trouble, you know. ”

"Why?" The little kid named Hong'er stared at a pair of big black eyes, and said in surprise: "Didn't Dad say that when we arrive in Luling Prefecture, we will be the people of that big official like other Han people, as long as we honestly serve that big official in green as our leader, we won't be bullied by others?" ”

"You...... Alas, you stupid boy, go and go, go and play in the woods behind, and don't run far. ”

The woman slapped Hong'er on the ass and blasted him away. When her son ran away, the woman glanced at her man worriedly, and said with a sad face: "His father, I have inquired, the one who tried the Han yesterday was a very big official, called the judge, and he is the official who specializes in managing prisoners in this Han realm, he is so partial to the Han people, and the official who is bigger than him will speak for us?" ”

The man was silent, and his hands continued to weave the straw mat, his fingers were very thick, and his palms were full of calluses, but his ten fingers were very flexible, and seemed to be faster than his woman could weave.

Without waiting for her husband's answer, the woman sighed and said worriedly: "You also said that the Han official looks like a kind-hearted person and will not treat us badly." In my opinion, we are foreigners after all, and he will not treat them as his own people. If the Han man surnamed Hua had escaped last night, it would have been if you had caught him, if the Han master found an excuse to blame you......"

The big man stared at a pair of big eyes and shouted impatiently, "Ina, don't say it!" What do you want me to do? Don't you save yourself when you die? What a woman's family, short knowledge! After saying that, he threw the handful of grass he was holding in his hand to the ground, raised his legs and left.

"His father ......," the woman raised her hand, and the big man walked away without looking back, the woman sighed, shook her head, and said: "Such a stinky temper, just can't listen to people's persuasion, if it weren't for your sex, how could we run away from Lingzhou and abandon our business, and be taken captive by the Dongyang clan as slaves......

As soon as she said this, she saw four Han men with waist knives in the distance stopping her man, and she immediately panicked, and immediately got up and ran over. The tolerance of the four soap-clothed yarn hats came all the way to block the big man's way, and Yang Jincheng asked, "You...... Is it Li Xing? ”

"Aang! Four grandfathers, this is ......" The big man looked at them vigilantly and asked with some uneasiness.

"Hehe, don't be afraid, our prefect is going to retry the case of the rape of the Qiang girl and the murder of the father, you are an important witness, come with us."

"Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please let him go." The woman caught up with her, and stood in front of her man with open arms, like an old hen guarding her chicks. Frightened, he pleaded: "My man doesn't know anything, it was when the Han man surnamed Hua ran out of the tent that he rushed to arrest people." Whether the Han people are telling the truth or Mu Yike is telling the truth, my man doesn't know at all. ”

Yang Jincheng said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, it's just to ask your man to ask for something, and it's not to arrest the stubborn." We're tolerances, don't you think we're thieves who kill people? ”

When he said this, the woman was even more afraid, and her originally yellow face turned pale, and when Yang Jincheng saw it, he hurriedly comforted him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, if we have malicious intentions towards you, how can only the four of us enter your Qiang Village?" Let's tell you the truth, yesterday Judge Cheng decided the case, Qiang people have a lot of complaints, my family is aware of everything, today is going to open a retrial, self-appointed presiding judge, your man is an important witness, should be present, the place of public trial is still in place, that is, the vacant land outside your Qiang village, will not take him too far. ”

"Okay, I'll go to you." The big man said sullenly, stretched out his hand, and his wife was pulled aside.

"Daddy, daddy," the woman grabbed his sleeve and instructed with tears in her eyes: "You can say whatever the Han master wants you to say, but don't talk back, ah......"

The man didn't speak, he muttered in his throat, and he didn't know if he was agreeing, so he threw off and strode forward, and the four of Yang Jincheng immediately followed, and the woman stood in place in despair and thought about it, so she also chased after her.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ today's prefect overturned the case decided by yesterday's judge for a new trial, causing a great sensation in the entire Luling Prefecture, and the Han and Qiang people living in the villages and towns 15 or 6 miles away also rushed to the scene when they heard the news, and not only the hillside was full of people, but even the slope of the hill more than 100 meters away was overcrowded.

The prisoners, the bitter masters, and the witnesses were all brought, and the three classes of officials carried water and fire sticks, lined up on the grass slope, standing neatly, with a table of eight immortals in the middle, with red and black order signatures on it, a small table next to it, and a bookstore placed the four treasures of the study, and was slowly studying the ink.

The prefect did not try the case in the yamen, but ran here to raise the court to ask about the case, obviously intending to let the people of the whole state hear about the case, so there was no yacha to stop the people from coming. However, in addition to the three classes of officials, there are nearly 100 people on both sides who wear waist knives and hold tasseled guns to maintain order, so although there are crowds of people in front of this Qiang village, there is no noise.

"Bang, bang, bang......" The gong sounded, and a big sedan car came from afar, and the scene was immediately breathless. This place is high and the emperor is far away, and the prefect of a state is the biggest official who controls their life and death in the hearts of the people, how can he not be in awe.

Luling Prefecture because of the new place, so many things in the government are not complete, compared to the inland state capital to the shabby very, such an official sedan chair is only one ride, and usually Yang Hao is not very useful, always a horse when he goes out, now Yang Hao sits in the official sedan chair, but other officials are still riding horses. When the officials arrived, they dismounted one after another and waited solemnly in front of the seats on both sides of the case.

The people stared at each other, and saw a young man jumping off his horse very neatly, walking quickly to the front of the sedan chair to lift the sedan curtain. This young man has handsome eyebrows and eyes, very beautiful, but the hair on his head is very short, and if he is not wearing the official uniform in the yamen, he is simply a lama monk on the Tufan grassland.

He lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and slowly stepped out of it, a pair of satin official boots with white gangs and black faces, and a light green official robe, but there was a silverfish bag hanging on the robe belt that only scarlet officials could wear.

Yang Hao didn't wear an official hat, layers of white cloth wrapped his head like an Indian Ah San, many people in the northwest region have seen Tianzhu people, look at his rare appearance, many people don't know that Yang Hao was injured yesterday, and there are even those who don't know Yang Hao's origin soon, and they think that this Lord Yang is originally a Tianzhu person. Since the Tang Dynasty, it is not uncommon for foreigners to be officials in the Central Plains, so there is a voice of surprise in the crowd.

Yang Hao sat down on his seat with a big head, and the officials below Cheng Dexuan sat down in turn, Yang Hao looked left and right, grabbed the startled wood and patted it gently. In fact, in such an open place, the shocking wood could not play a role in deterring criminals, but this was a necessary procedure, and the officials on both sides saw the prefect's signal and became "mighty".

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the establishment of Luling Prefecture, most of the people have been able to abide by the king's law and act in accordance with the rules, but they are not without a small night, and they are rampant in the township. Judge Cheng taught the first and punished less, but some people did not want to repent, and intensified, as the so-called troubled times have heavy codes, of course, I am the Great Song Dynasty and the people, and I will definitely not talk about the troubled times, but this Luling Prefecture because of the new construction, and there are Hengshan Qiang bandits to make trouble, it is inevitable that some gangsters take the opportunity to fish in the muddy water and run rampant. Today, this official opened a public trial of yesterday's Qiang Shao Muyi can be humiliated by others, and the case of his father being killed. ”

In fact, because this is not a public court, and there is no second door of the Yimen and a guard waiting for trial, so the plaintiff, the defendant and the witnesses are all standing at the scene, but there is no need to go down to the court to summon it, Yang Hao said, Mu Yike was taken to the front of the case and knelt down, the girl has not yet spoken, she has already cried loudly.

Mu Yike means the moon in the Qiang language, this girl is not very old, only thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was really born like a thin moon, with graceful eyebrows and a very soft posture. Yang Hao saw that she was young, her facial features were immature, her spirit was pure, how could she have the slightest smell of wind and dust, but she was humiliated by Hua Wuyue, who had lost her conscience, and took a bite back, falsely accusing her of being a half-hidden prostitute, and a fire in his heart couldn't help but arise secretly.

Ina stood in the crowd, and when she heard the Han official mention the Hengshan Qiang bandits, she felt bad in her heart, and saw Mu Yike crying in front of the case, the Han official's face showed anger, his eyes were murderous, and his heart was even more frightened. When Li Xing saw his wife's signal, he turned his head over, so angry that Ina stomped her feet again and again.

The girl's father died tragically, she was humiliated, and now she is left alone, and yesterday's official is still a person who refuses to make decisions for her, and she doesn't know if today's weird Tianzhu Lord can administer justice for her, and she screamed in pain in front of the case.

Yang Jincheng saw that it was not a way for her to cry like this, so he approached and said loudly: "Plaintiff, the person sitting above is Lord Yang Hao, the prefect of this state, what grievances do you have, just speak up to your lordship." My family is discerning and impartial, and will definitely make decisions for you. As he spoke, he leaned closer and whispered: "What are you crying for, when will you cry like this, you must always tell your grievances, and my family will be the master for you." ”

Mu Yike was reminded by him, so he wiped his tears and choked up to recount what happened the night before from beginning to end. In fact, this case is very easy to triignore, these Qiang people were originally slaves of the Dongyang clan, and the girl was not originally a prostitute. They have only been in Luling Prefecture for a day, and they have just settled down, just in case, from escorting all the way to settling in the valley, there has always been a military vigilance, how could they start a business so quickly, and also recruited such a prostitute as him.

Besides, he was caught red-handed, and he only had a few pennies on him, so where was the prostitution money he was talking about? If this girl is really a prostitute, is she so generous that she only asks for money after the fact? Nothing was found in the girl's tent, and she was destitute. Furthermore, where did his knife come from? When these Qiang people entered the valley, they searched the package and the body, and called the casino guy to ask, and under Yang Hao's official authority, the guy obediently identified the knife that he usually carried. There is also the testimony of Li Xing, who captured him on the spot, and there are all human and material evidence, and the victim is all there, how can he quibble?

Originally, Hua Wuyue had to repeat the old trick, wanting to deny it in front of Yang Hao and incite the hatred of the people, Yang Hao understood his intentions, he only said a few nonsense, and then put on a cool face to call people slap their mouths, and a few boards went down, and Hua Wuyue's cheeks were red and swollen, and his nose bleeded. Although this person is a prankster, he does not have the ruthlessness of ordinary pranksters, and as soon as he is beaten, he relieves when he is beaten, and obediently confesses what happened one by one.

The book next to him hurriedly wrote, and when the case was tried, he drew a charge and made a confession, Yang Hao stood up and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, the imperial court has set up a state here, and you have settled down here, and you will have to deal with Hengshan Zhuqiang in the future." Among the Qiang people, there are indeed some stubborn and arrogant people, thinking that my Luling Prefecture is weak and can be bullied, and they are robbing and plundering. Such a traitorous person can only treat each other with swords and soldiers and cut his arrogance. However, for the good people and ordinary people, who are also the people of the Great Song Dynasty, they should be treated equally, and they should not be oppressed because of their Qiang status.

The Qiang people, since the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, have lived here for hundreds of years, and are the native people here, and here is the place where their ancestors have lived and grown for generations. If we want tens of thousands of immigrants from the Northern Han Dynasty to take root here, we must live in harmony with the local people. In this place where all the tribes live together, the people should treat each other as equals, and if the government favors one side and degrades the other, it will pile up a deep gully between the two tribes that can never be bridged. In the eyes of this official, there is no distinction between Han and Qiang, only friends and foes, and only the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Hua Wuyue raped the people's daughter, committed murder, and the crime was unforgivable. According to the laws of my Great Song Dynasty, he should be sentenced to beheading! ”

The people were silent for a while, and then burst into cheers. Although some people only distinguish between far and near and do not ask about reasonableness, but reasonable people account for the majority after all, especially if this is said by Yang Hao, the weight in their hearts is different, and the people of Luling have reached a point of blind trust in Yang Hao.

Hua Wuyue trembled when she heard this, her face turned pale, and she just wanted to kowtow to the ground and beg for mercy, but her cheeks were swollen and her teeth were loose, and she couldn't squeak and beg. Cheng Dexuan clenched his teeth, his face was pale, and he sat there without saying a word. Yang Hao knew that if he had different opinions, he must have offended him ruthlessly, but before the big right and wrong, he couldn't be ambiguous.

Besides, in this extraordinary place and extraordinary time, in order for this Luling Prefecture to be able to survive on its foothold, many of the things he did could not be completely based on Kaifeng's face, so he could not avoid being deceived, and in Luling Prefecture, there was only Cheng Dexuan, who he was quite afraid of and did not dare to trust. He already had the idea of squeezing this Cheng Dexuan away, so he broke off the idea of befriending him.

Yang Hao waited for the people to cheer for a while, raised his hands weakly, pressed down slightly, and immediately fell silent in all directions, even those newly attached Qiang people were also forbidden, neat and tidy.

Yang Hao raised his anger and said: "According to the laws of my Great Song Dynasty, those who should be beheaded according to the law should follow the system of review, the state government will be convicted, the official will decide, the royal pen Zhu will be approved, and the autumn queen will be beheaded." However, the case was caused by the surrender of prisoners of war, and the official could also be sentenced by military law. Someone's coming! ”

The one who walked up in response was not a red-robed executioner with a ghost-headed sword, but two Luling Minzhuang with arrow sleeves in green clothes, each wearing a waist knife. The two strode forward, knelt down on one knee to Yang Hao, clasped their fists and saluted: "Please give the order of the regimental training envoy." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Yang Hao is now enforcing military law, not civil law. Yang Hao waved his sleeves and shouted in a deep voice: "Drag the prisoner Hua Wuyue down, behead!" ”

Cheng Dexuan was startled, his eyebrows raised slightly, and then he couldn't help but sneer secretly. The two people roared in response, dragged up Hua Wuyue, whose body was like sifting chaff, and pulled it to the near left. There was a big tree that was thick enough to hug, and the tree had been sawn down to build a house, and there was a stump on the ground the size of a millstone, which served as a head-cutting platform.

These two people are real Han people, although they were originally a peasant with a hoe, but after a few battles, they have been as hard as iron, and they kill people without blinking, one of them pressed the five-flowered flower Wuyue to the stump, so that his foot stepped on his back, and the other man pulled out a knife, "Hi", the knife was like lightning, and he chopped down on his neck.

With a "tuk", the knife broke open the cavity and slashed straight into the stump, and a human head rolled to the ground with a grunt, blood smeared the entire stump, and the headless corpse twitched a few times like a chicken with a cut throat, and then it was silent. This was the first time that Yang Hao had opened the knife on the people he brought out, and for a while, the audience was silent and silent.

Swinging a knife to break the bridge in front of the wave river, it is the knife of the benevolent. In the eyes of the people, Yang Hao is their real parent, for the great benevolence and righteousness of the people who can abandon their lives, so that they are grateful to Dade and sincerely admired.

In this battle with the local Qiang people, Yang Hao wielded the butcher's knife of the overlord, his decisiveness and means, so that the people knew him a little more, they suddenly found that their parents were not only a "loving father", but also so brave and resolute against the enemy, which made them more proud and admired Yang Hao in addition to their love.

Now, Yang Hao picked up the magic knife again, and cut the criminal people under his rule without mercy, and this kind of behavior made them solemn and awe-inspiring.

Li Xing stood there, and couldn't help but be very surprised when he saw Yang Hao slashing Hua Wuyue so neatly. He is not confined to the people like most people, and lacks knowledge, in fact, when he was in Lingzhou, he was also a well-informed figure, he naturally understood what the law was, and he also understood what it meant for Yang Hao to execute Hua Wuyue without following the emperor's orders. He looked at Yang Hao, who was dressed strangely, with a strange look in his eyes, and his eyes flashed with an incomprehensible light.

Yang Hao personally experienced the battlefield, waved the army personally, and after several experiences, it was difficult to shake his mind by law enforcement and killing, he didn't look at the headless corpse, bypassed the book case, helped the girl up with his own hands, and said with a pleasant face: "Miss Muyike, you get up." You were bullied, my father died tragically, this is the official did not govern the people of the state capital, the official is to blame, now you are alone, no livelihood, the official has discussed with the foreign minister of Li Yuan in this state, and helped you find an easier job in his business, after a while, you will go with them to see, if you are satisfied, you will work there, and it can be regarded as a livelihood. ”

"My lord......" Mu Yike knelt down again, kissed the tips of his boots according to the highest etiquette of meeting the big head of his clan on the grassland, and then hugged his official boots and cried.

Ke Zhenwei sat aside, and when he saw this situation, he sighed softly, and his expression became relaxed. On the side, Mu Qingxuan, who was dressed in men's clothes, moved his ears, moved closer to him, and said in a low voice: "Now you are relieved?" ”

Mu Qingxuan has no military position, but her intelligence and martial arts can be described as a woman who does not let her eyebrows, when she was in Mu Kezhai, she was fully responsible for the security of the whole village, and when she arrived in this Luling Prefecture, she also became her husband's natural deputy, and was quite loved by the people. Therefore, although she does not have the name of group training, she has the fact of group training, because she likes men's clothes, and there is no obstacle to access, so there are also her seats here.

Ke Zhenwei nodded lightly, and Mu Qingxuan also smiled.

The leaders of the forts and villages of Fuzhou, although they are not officials, actually hold the official positions of the Fuzhou Zhe clan, and there are many people whose children serve as generals and colonels in the Zhe army. Except for Mu Yu's youth, several males of the Mu family are all in the Zhe army, what is the close relationship between Mu Kezhai and the Fuzhou Zhe clan? How could he put Mu Kezhai's net worth and life on him, an official with no foundation, because of a ridiculous bet by his younger brother Mu Yu?

When Yang Hao sent Mu Kezhai to Mu Yu to come, and invited Mu Kezhai to send more people to help, they informed the local military lord Chi Zhong, and he forwarded it to General Fuzhou, and after the general agreed, they rushed to Luling. It is true to help Yang Hao, and it is also a task to observe his words and deeds.

Junior Brother Mu is young now, he can't do anything big, he only serves as a guard in front of Yang Hao, but he must learn from his words, he is very loyal to Yang Hao, Mu Qingxuan is very worried, once Luling Prefecture and Fugu are not one heart, but stand with the imperial court, and Fuzhou Zhe's enemy, at that time, the younger brother was loyal to Yang Hao, but his brothers were generals in the Zhe's army, isn't it the same as the two brothers of the Yang family in Linzhou, they will not be reunited from now on, and even have to meet each other?

Now seeing what Yang Hao did, they gradually settled down. They have already received instructions from the Fuzhou side, I don't know what the purpose of General Zhe Da is, and now they have begun to support this Luling prefect, and in the near future, they will also transport a batch of armor weapons to help Yang Hao build an army, the purpose is to support him, let him breed ambitions, and start another domain in the northwest.

The only thing I'm worried about now is how loyal he is to Kaifeng. And what Yang Hao did, many places were smooth and flexible, and he concealed something from the imperial court, and an official who followed the rules would never dare to do this. Once what he did was made public, it was bound to be not tolerated by the Great Song Dynasty, and his style was fundamentally the style of the warlords of the feudal towns, so that it was in line with the meaning of Fuzhou, and between them, the future would also be the path of an alliance between Linzhou and Fuzhou.

In fact, Yang Hao really has no ambition now, he wants to be based in the northwest, it is impossible not to show favor to Fuzhou and Linzhou, and it is also a last resort to hide the cooperation of the imperial court. If he had ambitions, he would have been cautious and vigilant, and how could he have taken into account the possible close ties between him and Fuzhou when recruiting the Mukezhai people? It's because he has no ghosts in his heart, that's why he is so open-minded, and he doesn't even think about this relationship.

As for his lack of reverence for the court, he is sleek and flexible, not like an official who follows the rules and does his duty, it is because he is from later generations, and he lacks the awe of the officials of this era, but this reason will never be thought of by the Ke couple. If they knew Yang Hao's great ideals, they were just a peace officer who was well treated, ate and waited for death, I really don't know how they should feel.

Yang Hao pulled up Mu Yike again, relieved with kind words, and said to Li Xing and other Qiang people who had just come to Luling Prefecture: "Fellow villagers, now, you are also the people of Luling Prefecture, both governed by the laws of Luling Prefecture and protected by the laws of Luling Prefecture. If anyone deceives you as Qiang people, and instigates conflicts between ethnic groups, this official will not be spared, and you can rest assured.

Today, Master Lin's book is also with his own official, and in a few moments, he will register and register for you one by one, and establish a household registration. You can tell you what kind of business you have done in the past and what specialties you have. According to your strengths, this government will arrange for you to be farming or animal husbandry, or industry or business, and you will not be left without a livelihood and no dependence. ”

When the Qiang people heard this, they knelt down to him and worshipped, and there were words in their mouths, and what they said was vaguely the words of prayer that were said in Dongyang Village that day, but that time it was mostly out of awe, and this time it was full of pious reverence and love.

Li Xing hesitated slightly, took a step forward, bowed down at Yang Hao's feet, solemnly kowtowed, then raised his head, and said excitedly: "Lord Prefect, now that Luling is surrounded by strong enemies, the skills that the villain is good at may be helpful to adults." If the adult is willing to recruit the villain as his subordinate, the villain is willing to work for the adult and offer all this skill! ”

Yang Hao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh?" I don't know what a strong man is good at? ”

Li Xing opened his mouth to speak, but when he looked around, he suddenly hesitated......