"Wait!" Lu Sheng suddenly thought of something, "Where did we get the information about these brides?"

"The government's household registration department has a household registration move, and we lock the newlyweds' homes from the household registration move, and then check the information according to the list.

I may have thought about this, but the information from the Household Registration Department was not stolen, so the murderer probably didn't know about it from there. ”

"Is it true that only the Department of Household Registration has relevant information? Although the seven victims are from different state capitals, it may not necessarily be that the General Department of Anqing Prefecture was stolen, and the place has not been archived?" Lu Sheng's words suddenly seemed to open a window for the spider.

"I understand, the relevant yamen will definitely keep a file for verification when they hand over the files, so I'll check it out!" The spider hurriedly clenched his fists and left.

"My lord!" Suddenly, the post-mortem officer at the scene called out loudly, "Your Excellency. ”

Lu Sheng strode forward and pointed to the chest of a corpse, "These dead soldiers all have a tattoo on their chest. This is a kind of tattoo of exiled prisoners, usually stabbed by the Ministry of Criminal Justice after committing a serious crime, and then confiscated into the army.

This kind of prisoner has a very low status in the barracks, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work, and receiving almost negligible military salaries. In the military department, basically this kind of person will not be regarded as a comrade-in-arms. ”

"You mean, they're all from the military department?" Suddenly, Lu Sheng's brows furrowed.

"No, the military department does not recognize these criminals as members of the military department, but they should be affiliated with the barracks. ”

"It seems that I have to deal with the Three Towns Army of Chuzhou. ”

Leaving the scene, Lu Sheng immediately went to the three major military towns of Independence City. This is the first time Lu Sheng has stepped into the independent city.

Although the three towns of Chuzhou are called together, they have no subordinate relationship with each other, and even if they are in the same military department, they belong to different factions.

Outside each of the independent cities was a military camp with a garrison of 300,000 troops, and the departments that managed and maintained the normal operation of the 300,000 troops were set up in the three independent cities.

The three independent cities have no names, only the difference between the first town and the second town. But don't look at the first and second, the three major town armies are fighting for this.

After reporting his identity, the city defenders let Lu Sheng enter. The moment he stepped into Independence City, Lu Sheng clearly felt the difference.

The city is not as busy as Anqing Mansion, and the whole city gives Lu Sheng the feeling of being particularly quiet. But this kind of silence is not a dead silence, there are many people on the street, but these people seem to walk with some purpose, and the tiger walks very quickly.

The houses in the city are also uniform, and the huge city makes Lu Sheng, who has already stepped into the realm of the grandmaster, feel a little depressed. The sky above the entire city seemed to be filled with an aura of slaughter.

"It is worthy of the city of the town army......" Gai Ying beside him couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"What? You seem to feel a lot?" Lu Sheng said with a slight smile.

"Subordinates ...... gaffes"

"No, you can say whatever you want. Lu Sheng was actually a little uncomfortable with being pressed by Zhen Juncheng, so he wanted to talk to Gai Ying.

"I feel like the city is a whole, like a giant with a knife out of its sheath. Being in the city, you will unconsciously feel small. ”

"No matter how powerful an individual is, he will look small in front of the collective......" Lu Sheng smiled slightly, "It seems that Dong Shuai sent someone to pick us up." ”

As he spoke, a carriage approached, and on top of the carriage, the military flag fluttered. There are no carriages, or rather, no airtight and comfortable carriages. The carriage was disassembled and open-air, except for a shade cloth covering the head.

The carriage stopped, and the four soldiers jumped out of the carriage and came to Lu Sheng.

"Dare to ask, but Lord Lu Sheng, the head town of Xuantian Mansion in Chuzhou?"

"Exactly!"

"Lord Lu, please get in the car, the handsome man is already waiting. ”

"I'm tired. ”

The carriage Lu Sheng has done it many times, but the chariot is the first time in his life. The carriage pursues stability and comfort, while the chariot pursues sturdiness and lethality. Therefore, it is inevitable that a lot of comfortable designs will be abandoned.

At least, under the galloping of the fast horse, the violent bumps of the chariot could not withstand the slightest physical fitness. Seeing that Lu Sheng's faces were as usual, the faces of the four soldiers who greeted them showed a trace of admiration.

"Don't blame me, the vehicles in the city are all chariots, and we haven't found a comfortable carriage, so we have wronged you. ”

"It doesn't matter, although Xuantian Mansion does not belong to the military department, they are all people who practice martial arts. Dare to ask what this general is called?"

"I don't dare to be a general, I'm just Dong Shuai's personal guard commander, adults can call me Xiao Zhang. ”

"Who are the people living in this town?"

"We are civilian officials of the town army, as well as the families of officers. Some of the soldiers' relatives would come to visit their relatives and would also arrange to live here on an ad hoc basis. The Chuzhou town army has been camped here for almost 50 years, and the soldiers have changed two or three batches.

Most veterans returned to their villages, while a few were left homeless. After decades of development, there are no less than 200,000 people in the city. ”

"Well, originally the official thought that this town should also be a military camp, but now it seems that there is no difference except that the atmosphere is different from other cities, restaurants, restaurants, shops, clothes, and villages......"

"This is natural, we soldiers are also ordinary people, and we also eat whole grains. My lord, turning this corner is our Great Marshal's Mansion. ”

Soon, the carriage stopped, and Dong Minghuang, the generalissimo of the First Town Army, strode down the steps.

"Lord Lu is coming, there is a loss of welcome, there is a loss of ......"

Dong Minghuang is tall and mighty, eight feet tall, and looks like a fierce beast from a distance. But this person's smile is extremely kind, so he doesn't give people much coercion, but thinks this person is very amiable.

After the locust plague, Lu Sheng had a good sense of the Three Towns Army of Chuzhou, and they reacted quickly and worked hard. Especially after putting forward the idea of using military formations to plough the land, they did not have the slightest gossip about how the military formations were used to go into battle to kill the enemy.

"Dong Shuai is polite, if it weren't for the fact that there have been too many things in Chuzhou in the past year, the younger brother would have wanted to come to visit. ”

"Lord Lu, please!"

At the invitation of Dong Minghuang, Lu Sheng entered the Marshal's Mansion and then entered Dong Minghuang's study.

"Lord Lu has a lot of opportunities, he must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, I am a soldier, I have always liked to go straight, after I have finished talking about business, I will invite Lord Lu to drink again. ”

"I'm afraid I'm out of time to drink, don't hide it from Dong Shuai, there was a case in Chuzhou recently, and the younger brother made a military order in front of the people of Chuzhou, and the case will be solved within a month. After the case was cracked, the younger brother made a special trip to Dong Shuai to make amends. ”

"It's easy to say, what case needs Dong's help, Lord Lu just spoke. ”

"Please take a look at this thing. Lu Sheng said, took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Dong Minghuang.

Dong Minghuang took it and looked at it, and his face suddenly froze, "This is the sashimi that must be on the body of the criminal?"

"Yes, there was a bad case in Chuzhou recently, and seven brides have been kidnapped by mysterious people within a month. And this group of people all have this tattoo on their chests. ”

"So Lord Lu suspects that it was the criminals of the town army who confiscated the army?"

"Please forgive Dong Shuai. ”

"Lord Lu doesn't need to be like this, he will be so suspicious if he changes his boss. But Lord Lu, do you know why they have this tattoo on their chest?"

"Identification?"

"Yes, there is also a point to prevent them from escaping the barracks and not being able to find them, tattoos, wherever they go, as soon as they are found, they will be reported, and once caught, they will be punished by military law. ”

Saying that, Dong Minghuang stood up and called Xiao Zhang, who had picked up Lu Sheng before, "You introduce Lord Lu to the trapped camp in our First Town Army." ”

"Yes, Lord Lu, my first town army is trapped in the camp, a total of 16,000, and the rest of the soldiers in the camp except for the officers are all criminals sent by the Criminal Department.

The oldest in the camp is seventeen years, and the shortest is less than half a year. Every October, a group of criminals would be dispatched, and the first, second, and third town armies would be the same.

The number of deaths in the camp ranges from 100 to 500 each year, whether they are alive or dead, they are all registered, and they have to see people and dead people.

In the past seven years, there have been five desertion incidents, all of which were desertions not long after enlisting in the army, and they could not bear the life in the barracks for a long time and risked their lives to become deserters, but none of them succeeded.

Every time a deserter is captured, he will be beheaded in front of the trapping camp to show public example. This seems to have become the norm. ”

"So, aren't these soldiers from the three major town armies?"

"Absolutely not, we are managed like this here, and the second and third town armies are also managed as well, and there has never been a precedent for the soldiers to successfully escape. ”

"So apart from the three major town armies, where else will there be these soldiers?"

"There shouldn't be!" Xiao Zhang thought for a while and shook his head, "If you are assigned to join the army, you must be assigned to the army of various states and towns, otherwise it will not be called a military service." ”

"Then what the hell, those people all have this tattoo on their chests, can they still come over the mountains from other towns?"

"Lord Lu, in fact, it doesn't have to be a soldier in the town army, there are so many criminals in the imperial court every year, but less than thirty percent of them are actually sent to the town army. ”

"Oh, where did the other seventy percent go?"

"Dead!"

"Dead?"

"At least to the outside world, it is dead, or sick, or unadaptable, or unbearable to travel long distances, or accidents. But in fact, the mortality rate is not so high.

For these people who were sentenced to join the army, Dayu Gate Lord Guixun actually likes it a lot. There are two kinds of people who like to use the gate valve, one is the generation of domestic servants, this kind of people are loyal and rest assured.

The second type is the kind of people who are already dead, and since they are already dead, then their lives are no longer their own. Many prisoners who were conscripted into the army would be trained to become dead soldiers by the gate lord Guixun. ”

"So that's ......" At this moment, Lu Sheng figured it out. He already knew that they were dead soldiers, but Lu Sheng didn't know that the dead soldiers would be prisoners.

It's only to blame that although Lu Sheng has become one of the gate valve nobles, he knows too little about the filthiness between the gate valve nobles. The idea that a prisoner should be in a barracks is a bit naïve.

"In this way, the one who is trained into a dead soldier by a military prisoner must be the gate lord noble?"

"It's basically the same, but there are countless gate lords and nobles in Chuzhou, such as small ones such as county lords, captains, large ones such as marquis of the country, and countless county lords of the opposite sex. But no matter what, Lord Lu needs to be more careful, dealing with those gate lords and nobles is different from dealing with people in the rivers and lakes. ”

Dong Minghuang slowly stood up, came to the window and looked out the window, "The chaos in the south has been born, and the stability of Chuzhou depends on Lord Lu." ”

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