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The Qingcheng rebels did not make any resistance, led by the city lord, all surrendered to the Zhenjun army. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt is worth mentioning that the lord of Qingcheng actually has eighteen wives and concubines, and there are even dozens of maids in the room.

Even Cai Huang was deeply surprised by this, the Cai family has a great business and is rich enough to rival the country, but he Cai Huang has no more than five wives and concubines, just one city lord, and the monthly salary is only a few taels of silver, and there are dozens of wives and concubines plus the house, where did he get so much silver to feed such a large family? The extent to which the city lord took the lead in doing evil is self-evident.

Cai Huang ordered that the city lord, together with the big and small officials of the city lord's mansion and his rebels, be imprisoned, and in addition, he sent people to search for the absconding rebels throughout the city, and once discovered, they were immediately arrested.

Cai Huang's policy towards the imprisoned rebels was to let the people in the city report their evil deeds, and as long as the reports were found to be true, they would be dealt with in accordance with the law.

Thousands of officials and rebels, where does Cai Huang have so much energy to investigate one by one, as long as someone comes to report, the result is basically beheading.

In just two days, almost all the imprisoned city lord's officials and rebels were killed.

This is where Cai Huang and Shangguan Xiu act differently. If Shangguan Xiu was in charge, he wouldn't be so troublesome, and on the day of the capture of Qingcheng, he would have killed all these rebels.

Cai Huang, on the other hand, has to talk about procedures, someone has to report it first, then do an investigation, and finally make a conviction and punishment. When I kill you, it's not indiscriminate, but it's well documented, I'm doing things according to the law, and no one can find fault with it.

Although the final result is the same, the process of doing things is completely different, and to put it bluntly, this is determined by the status of the two.

Shangguan Xiu wants to kill you, he can kill you with or without evidence, whether he is honest or not, it doesn't matter to him, no one really dares to stand up and impeach him.

But Cai Huang is different, his status and Shangguan Xiu's status cannot be compared, especially in the massacre of the East China Sea Army, which made him more deeply aware of the importance of word of mouth.

So when he was doing the same thing, he couldn't be as unscrupulous as Shangguan Xiu, so he could only be careful and try his best not to be honest.

There are indeed many boats in Qingcheng City, but most of them are small boats, medium and large ships, which are basically in the hands of the old bustard of the Qinglou, and they are the painting boats used by the Qinglou.

Cai Huang didn't encounter any trouble with the requisition of the people's boats, and most of the people were also very cooperative, but when the requisition of the Qinglou's painting boat, it was resisted by the bustards.

It is not easy to make a painting boat, not only time-consuming, but also have to invest a large amount of silver, on the painting boat, even the most inconspicuous railing, are carefully crafted, now to be requisitioned to transport troops, it will inevitably be damaged, of course the bustards will not be willing, in addition, the Zhenjun army has 100,000 people, thousands of artillery, so many soldiers, so many materials, all transported to the other side of the Gujiang River, not a day or two can be done, which will naturally affect the business of the Qinglou.

In the past few days, Cai Huang's work of requisitioning ships in Qingcheng has not been very smooth, and he has not requisitioned a painting boat that can transport a large number of soldiers and materials across the river at once.

On the third day after the Zhenjun army captured Qingcheng, Shangguanxiu sent Zhao Chen to Qingcheng to urge Cai Huang to requisition civilian ships.

After Cai Huang and Zhao Chen met, he said with a wry smile: "Lord Zhao, I can't hide it, these days, I am also at a loss about the ship. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Chen asked curiously, "What difficulties did General Cai encounter?"

Cai Huang immediately told Zhao Chen about the old bustard's refusal to cooperate, and in the end, he said helplessly: "The bustards only value interests, but don't know what the righteousness is. And if we forcibly requisition the painting boat in spite of the opposition of the bustards, what is the difference between our army and the rebels? ”

Zhao Chen frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "For this matter, General Cai doesn't have to ask anymore, I will solve it." ”

Farewell to Cai Huang, Zhao Chen found the branch master of the Shura Hall in Qingcheng. This person's name is Zhao Wen, a native of Qingcheng, and he is also a well-known local snake.

Zhao Chen told Zhao Wen the truth of the matter, and then asked, "Brother Zhao, let's see, can this matter be handled as soon as possible?"

Zhao Wenqi has nothing to do with his name at all, he is five big and three thick, with a full beard, a typical rough man.

After listening to Zhao Chen's words, he smiled leisurely and said: "Oh, I thought it was a big deal to bother the adults to come forward in person, although the adults can rest assured, this matter is covered by the subordinates, tomorrow, no, tonight, the subordinates will take care of this matter." ”

"In this way, it will trouble Brother Zhao. ”

"Oh, my lord is polite, torture my subordinates!"

That night, Zhao Wen held a banquet at his house and invited all the bustards in Qingcheng.

Zhao Wen is the branch master of Shura Hall, not many people know, but he is indeed very famous in Qingcheng, when he was twelve years old, he accidentally beat someone to death, was sentenced to prison, and then he didn't know what way to find it, and was quickly released, and then he surrounded idle gangsters, gangs, formed gangs, and later, Shura Hall expanded to all counties and counties across the country, he took the brothers of the whole gang to take refuge in Shura Hall, and he also naturally became the branch hall master of Shura Hall in Qingcheng.

This time, the Zhenjun army was able to capture the Qing city without blood, and Zhao Wen's strategy in the city was indispensable.

There are more than 100 large and small green buildings in Qingcheng, most of which have paid protection money to Zhao Wen, and the old bustards in the green buildings are naturally very familiar with him, and after receiving his invitation, even if the old bustard is unwilling to go, he will not dare not give him face.

That night, more than 100 bustards gathered in Zhao's mansion. Zhao Wen sat on the main seat in the center, shirtless and shirtless, revealing the tattoo of the tiger descending the mountain. On his left and right, they were all Zhao Wen's subordinate brothers.

After the banquet began, he didn't have any extra nonsense, and said straight to the point: "I must be very curious, why do I, Zhao, want to hold a banquet tonight?"

The bustards nodded one after another, and the bustards who would come to the scene smiled and said: "Boss Zhao has something to do, just say it bluntly, as long as we can help, it's Boss Zhao's business!"

"Since Boss He said so, then I'm not welcome. Zhao Wen stood up, walked among the crowd, and said, "The rebels have occupied Qingcheng for several months, how are everyone doing in the past few months?"

"Alas, Boss Zhao, do you need to say this? Who of us people has not been bullied by the rebels?"

"That's it!" the bustards echoed with deep feeling.

"How does the Jungjun Army compare to the rebels?"

"Naturally, it's good!"

"Now that the Zhenjun Army needs to cross the river by boat to fight the rebels, your bosses shouldn't support it, right?"

......Hearing this, everyone present looked at each other and said nothing. Zhao Wen raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Boss Zhao!" an elderly female bustard said with a smile on her face: "The rebels in Qingcheng City have already died, and as for the rebels outside Qingcheng, it has nothing to do with our Qingcheng. ”

"Yes, Boss Zhao, what do we support for things that have nothing to do with us?" said the old bustards one after another.

Zhao Wen walked up to the female bustard, put his hand on her shoulder, and said with a smile: "First, you don't need to pay, and second, you don't need to contribute, so what's the difficulty of borrowing a painting boat for a few days?"

The female bustard said with a dry smile: "I said that I borrowed it, but I didn't return it after borrowing, who are we going to reason with?" Her words resonated with many bustards, and people all nodded their heads, indicating that she was reasonable. Seeing this, the female bustard continued: "Even if the Zhenjun Army is willing to return the painting boat in the end, if there is any damage, then who is it? Zhenjun Army is a group of big bosses, they don't care for the painting boat as much as the girls, where is it broken, and in the end, we have to pay for the repair?"

"That's right! In the past few months, we haven't made any money, if we don't even have a painting boat, what will we and the girls rely on to eat, Boss Zhao has to be considerate of us!"

"Haha!" Zhao Wen smiled on his back and said: "Considerate! Of course I understand you! Everyone lends the painting boat to the Zhenjun Army, and I will guarantee that after the Zhenjun Army has used it, the painting boat will definitely be returned, and if it is damaged, the Zhenjun Army will also be responsible for compensation." Of course, I, Zhao, will not let you help in vain, and in the next three months, I will not charge a penny for the protection fees of each family. ”

Hearing this, the eyes of everyone present lit up. Three months' protection fee is not a small amount of money, if Zhao Wen can do what he says, each of them can save a lot of money.

The female bustard looked left and right, and saw that everyone was a little shaken, she frowned and said: "The painting boat is our dinner guy, even if Boss Zhao comes forward to vouch, we can't hand over the painting boat easily!"

Qingcheng is a water city, here, the green building generally has no fixed place, the green building is the painting boat, and the painting boat is also the green building. The ghost knows how many days the Zhenjun army will be requisitioned, these days, they all have to drink the northwest wind to live, besides, Zhao Wen said it well, he came to vouch, but in case the Zhenjun army just doesn't pay it back, who do they find to reason, can they really find Zhao Wen to paint a boat? With Zhao Wen's temperament, it would be strange if they didn't chop them up.

Zhao Wen looked at the female bustard, and asked with a smile: "So, Sister Yueying doesn't trust me Zhao?"

"Hey, the slave didn't say that, didn't Boss Zhao deliberately wronged the slave?"

Zhao Wen didn't bother to go around the bend with her, and asked bluntly: "In a word, to borrow or not to borrow?"

The female bustard forced the nervousness in her heart and said with a smile: "Boss Zhao, we are indeed in trouble......

Before she finished speaking, Zhao Wen suddenly reached out, grabbed the back of her neck, pressed down, and pressed the female bustard's head the table, and then, with his other hand, he grabbed a chopstick on the table at random, aimed at the female bustard's ear hole, and stabbed it with all his might.

Burst!

The chopsticks entered her left ear and peeked through her right ear, piercing her entire head, and not only that, but the chopsticks pierced the table top and poked its head out under the table.

The bustard's head was pinned to the table by him, and his eyes were still blinking.

"Fuck you, you don't have a face for you!" Zhao Wen stood up straight, looked down at the old bustard who was out of breath and less in breath, scolded viciously, and then stretched out his hand to the side, a big man respectfully handed over a handkerchief, he wiped his hands, looked around at everyone present, and asked again: "Borrow, or puzzled?"

Everyone present who had been stunned and frightened came back to their senses one after another, at this moment, where did people dare to say half a word? The old bustards said in a gossipy: "Boss Zhao personally guarantees, what do we have to be afraid of?"

"Yes, yes, everyone is an old acquaintance, we have known each other for so many years, do we still not believe in Boss Zhao's character?" "Whatever Boss Zhao says, we will do it, all based on Boss Zhao's words, go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and we will not give up!"

The corners of Zhao Wen's mouth raised, he threw the handkerchief on the female bustard's face, shook his head left and right, and said, "Don't leave her here to be an eyesore, get out, chop up and feed the fish!" As he spoke, he looked at the rest of the bustard with a smile and said, "Tonight, we will rest as soon as we get drunk!"

What Cai Huang didn't solve, Zhao Wen only took one meal to solve it properly.

The next morning, the bosses of the Qingcheng Qingcheng Qinglou took the initiative to find the Zhenjun Army and offered to lend the painting boat for free for the use of the Zhenjun Army. No matter how strong the strength of the strong dragon is, at the local level, it is often the head snake that can get things done.