Seeing a cart of people pushed on the street, Zhao Yan and Su Shi in the restaurant all stood up in shock, and even Zhao Yan thought that the Liao people had killed them. However, when he saw that all the people following the car were Song people, and the people on both sides of the street not only did not have any panic, but also pointed to those heads excitedly and discussed, and finally Zhao Yan saw Zhang Zai wearing an official uniform and riding on a horse, which made him finally completely relieved.

"Hey, the county lord has exterminated the iron-headed thief, it seems that our Jiaohe County is finally going to be peaceful!" At this moment, the young man who served the food just now leaned over to the window and looked out, and immediately praised loudly, with an excited expression on his face.

"Shopkeeper, what do you mean by an iron-headed thief?" Before Zhao Yan could ask, he saw a guest at another table on the second floor and asked, looking at his dress, he should also be a merchant from other places, and now there is no one eating on the entire second floor, so they all stood up and crowded to the window to watch the excitement outside.

"Hehe, the guest officer doesn't know, our Jiaohe County is close to the Liao country, the biggest disaster in addition to the Liao country at the end of autumn every year, there are several thieves in the county, these thieves often take advantage of the official army and the township Yong when they are not prepared to sneak attack the village, there used to be a village slaughtered every year, the caravan passing from us is also worried, once these thieves are encountered, the goods are taken away, and the heavy is also the life of the victim, fortunately, after the county lord came, the organization of the township Yong wiped out most of the thieves in a row, leaving only a group of the largest iron-headed thieves, but looking at this in the literary world, the iron-headed thief has finally been exterminated, and our life will be much better in the future. The young man explained excitedly.

"Why is it called an iron-headed thief? And shopkeeper, how can you be sure that the head of the car is an iron-headed thief? At this time, Su Shi also asked curiously, and at the same time admired Zhang Zai even more in his heart, when he was in Tokyo before, he knew that Zhang Zai was not only proficient in Confucianism, but also had a lot of research on the art of war, and even organized a militia group to prepare to recapture the land occupied by Western Xia when he was young, and later was persuaded by Fan Xianggong, so he gave up martial arts and literature, but he didn't expect that after so many years, Zhang Zai was more proficient in the art of war. Just by virtue of the courage of the township in the county, several bandits were exterminated. That's a big feat.

Hearing Su Shi's question, I saw the guy salute him and replied: "Guest officer, take a closer look at the head of the car, the big bald bandit on the top is called Tietou, it is said that this Tietou used to be a Khitan nobleman. No one knows his real name. Because he offended nobles in Khitan. So he came to us as a thief, and relied on a few Khitan subordinates to win over a group of people, including Khitans and Han Chinese. In the area of Jiaohe County, there are hundreds of people who died in his hands alone, and his death is finally revenge for those who died in his hands before. ”

When Zhao Yan and Su Shi heard this, they turned their heads to look out the window, and sure enough, there was a human head on the top of the pile of heads on the car, although it was dead, it still looked very vicious, and there was no head on the head, if it wasn't for the guy's identification, I'm afraid Zhao Yan and Su Shi wouldn't know that he was a Khitan.

I saw Zhang Zai's team pushing people's heads around the city, which was also the practice after the suppression of bandits, first, to show off the military exploits of the government to the people, and secondly, to warn those with bad intentions, so that they could weigh before doing bad things, so as not to go astray.

After the car passed under the restaurant, Zhao Yan and Su Shi also immediately got out of the restaurant, and then went to the county office to wait for Zhang Zai, but after waiting for nearly an hour, Zhang Zai came back with people, and was shocked to see them, and then immediately apologized: "I thought that the county king and Brother Zizhan would rest for a few days, but I didn't expect you to come today, it's really rude!" ”

"Haha, if we don't come today, we won't have the opportunity to see Brother Zihou's feat of carrying people's heads, when I met Brother Zizhan just now, the people around me praised Brother Zihou's move is really happy!" Zhao Yan laughed at this time, he was also very surprised by Zhang Zai's military talent, after all, in his heart, Zhang Zai has always been the image of a middle-aged scholar, but he didn't expect the other party to be both civil and military, such a talent is rare.

"The king of the county praised falsely, it was originally the responsibility of officials such as us to protect the land and the people, and Zhang was just loyal to his duties!" Zhang Zai said with a smile, his face was still that calm look, and it was this kind of bearing on him that left a deep impression on Zhao Yan.

"Haha, Brother Zihou, don't be modest, I and the county king have been waiting for you for a long time, why don't we find a place to have a good chat, in addition, I am very interested in how you exterminate the thieves in Jiaohe County, it is best to prepare a few drinks and food, let's talk while eating!" Su Shi was influenced by his father Su Xun, and he was also very interested in martial arts, and now he was eager to know how Zhang Zai exterminated the thieves, and if he returned to the capital in the future, he could also make a name for Zhang Zai.

For Su Shi's words, Zhang Zai also laughed, and invited him and Zhao Yan into the inner house, and then ordered his wife to prepare wine and food, and then the three of them talked while eating, in fact, the main thing was Zhang Zai said, because Zhao Yan was also the same as Su Shi, he wanted to know Zhang Zai's experience of suppressing bandits, and Zhang Zai did not refuse this, and immediately told his own experience after taking office.

When Zhang Zai took office, Jiaohe County was not what Zhao Yan and they saw now, although the county seat was still this county seat, but because of the rampant bandits in Jiaohe County, not only did the people of Jiaohe worry all day long, but also led the merchants who came and went to prefer to detour through the surrounding counties rather than pass through Jiaohe County.

It is also in this situation that Zhang Zai's first priority after taking office is to suppress bandits, as long as the thieves are destroyed, then it will attract caravans to pass by, and as long as there are caravans, then there will be taxes in the county, and at the same time, it can also drive the business of the merchants in the county, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

However, if he wants to suppress bandits, Zhang Zai is facing a big problem, that is, there are no soldiers in his hands, although there is a Hebei army of more than 1,000 people stationed in Jiaohe County, but this army is mainly used to defend the county seat when the Liao State goes south to fight the grass valley, and there is no order from above, Zhang Zai has no right to mobilize this army.

Zhang Zai also asked the above several times at the beginning, hoping to obtain the leadership of the Hebei Army in the county, but the above did not pay attention to his request at all, in this case, Zhang Zai had to think of another way, and finally set his sights on Xiang Yong.

Jiaohe County has to face the danger of the Liao army going south to fight the grass valley every year, and bandits are rampant in various places in normal times, so in order to protect themselves, the people here will live in the village, and the men in the village will also be trained, that is, the so-called Xiangyong, when encountering the Liao army or bandits, these Xiangyong will be guarded according to the village, as long as they hold on for a period of time, they can wait for the rescue of officers and soldiers, so as to reduce the losses in the village.

However, the organization of the township is loose, and usually only under the command of the head of each village, Zhang Zai in order to convince these people of the village can be said to be scheming, and finally organized those township warriors, and then Zhang Zai personally trained these village warriors, and in the last year of the month of the month in one fell swoop to destroy one of the thieves, which made him more famous in Jiaohe County, and all the villages were convinced of him as the magistrate.

It is with those township warriors that Zhang Zai spent a few months to make the thieves in Jiaohe County die or flee, and the iron-headed thieves he killed today are already the last thieves in the county, they are usually uncertain, Zhang Zai has been surrounded and suppressed several times before, and they have escaped from the other party, this time he set a clever trap, and even Zhao Yan and they were also used by Zhang Zai.

Yesterday, when Zhang Zai went to Yingzhou to meet Zhao Yan and them, he deliberately leaked the news, so that the thieves mistakenly thought that he would stay in Yingzhou City for one night, but the iron-headed thieves who had not opened for several months could no longer bear it, and finally raided a village outside the city last night.

"Good! Brother Zihou used troops exquisitely, and Zhuge Kongming in the Three Kingdoms was nothing more than that! When Su Shi heard this, he stroked his palms and laughed and praised, Zhao Yan also nodded again and again when he heard this, feeling that Zhang Zai was indeed extraordinary, and it was not easy to exterminate the thieves in the territory by relying on a group of villagers who were not strong in combat.

For Su Shi's praise, Zhang Zai did not show any smug expression, but shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Brother Zizhan doesn't have to praise me, this time I can exterminate the thieves in the territory, mainly because those villages are willing to contribute, and the villagers are also willing to die, so that the thieves can be exterminated, for which more than 70 villagers died in battle, and more than 200 people were injured. ”

When he said this, he saw Zhang Zai pause for a moment, and then said: "In addition, although these Xiangyong have exterminated the thieves in the territory, the biggest scourge in Jiaohe County is that the Liao army goes south to fight the grass valley in late autumn every year, and those Liao troops are much more powerful than the thieves. But I can only watch them being plundered by the enemy, which is really unbearable! ”

Hearing Zhang Zai mention that the Liao army went south to fight the grass valley, Zhao Yan and Su Shi were also silent, the matter of fighting the grass valley has been going on for a long time, and the high-level officials of the Great Song Dynasty have no way to do it, although Yelu Hongji did not fight the grass valley for three years in exchange for Zhao Yan's trip to the Liao country, but the credit of the Liao country is really unbelievable, so Zhao Yan does not dare to guarantee that the Liao army will not go south this year. (To be continued......)

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