The high sky and distant shadow are blue and the sky is endless, and the white sails of Jishui are rocking.

Seeing that everything was going well, Pavilion Chief Sun Xun was very interested.

He sat on the horse at the bow of the boat, humming an unknown Qingzhou dialect song all the way, slapping his thighs and beating the beat.

He shook his hand and motioned for Zhang Chong to come over.

Zhang Chong took a broken step, stood aside respectfully with his hands down, and listened to Sun Tingchang's teachings.

"Second son, I have been looking forward to growing up since I was a child, and I am the same as my own nephew, yesterday I saw you volunteering to take the lead, and I felt that I would be able to do things in the future.

But if you just have the heart to do things, if you don't know the joints of doing things, that is also the way to take trouble.

As an uncle, I will tell you about the customs and people on this water, and I will come out to roam in the future, so that I can know the high and low.

In the afternoon, we will be able to go to Zhu'a, and I will first talk to you about this Zhu'a's human feelings.

Zhu A has three Hao surnames, namely Zhang, Chen, and Gao. Let's talk about the Chen and Gao Erjia in the back, they are all military meritorious marquis of this dynasty.

The Gao family was the hero of the former Han Dynasty Taizu, and was sealed in Zhu'a, although he was expelled from the country within two generations, but he was also a powerful family of Zhu'a.

The Chen family is also, this family is the military merit marquis of Guangwu Zhongxing, who was originally a Nanyang county official in the new dynasty, and later went to Hebei to vote for Guangwu and became the twenty-eight Yuntai generals.

Later, Zhu A was assigned to our Jinan Kingdom, and the Chen family was transferred to another place, but Zhu A also left a branch here.

In addition, the children of their family are still practicing strong crossbows, and martial arts are prevalent, so in this wish, their Chen family is still a strong party.

But no matter how proud these two are, they are nothing compared to this first one.

This Zhu A Zhang, to be precise, should be called Zhu Ahou, which was sealed during the filial piety period.

It is only 60 years old to be rich and rich, and it is not comparable to the latter two. But if you want to talk about the momentum, it has to be this one.

Why?

Just because this family is a eunuch lineage, it is one of the nineteen marquis who supported Emperor Shun.

At that time, the Yan family, a foreign relative, controlled the government and set up a new emperor.

At that time, there was a person named Zhang Xian in the Zhang family, who was a small yellow gate in the palace, and he swore an oath with the other eighteen eunuchs under the bell tower to support the abolished prince at that time.

And it did.

This Zhang Xian was directly named Zhu Ahou, with 4,000 households. You must know that this Zhua is a small county, less than 10,000 households.

And the taxes of 4,000 of them belong to the Zhang family alone, so it can be seen that Zhu A is basically their Zhang family.

Although Zhang Xian fell out with the eunuch Cao Jie, who came later, his food was reduced to 3,000 households.

But in Zhu'a, it still depends on the Zhang family.

The three of them are here to wish Ah Tongqi to be in good spirit, and the local tyrants in the township also support the three families, so the county magistrates are not taken seriously by them.

Previously, there was a Zhu Chang to take office. He asked the assistant officer what kind of arrogance Honma had.

The officials said about these three.

Who knows that Zhu Ah Chang was angry, saying what kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp this is, and I said Haoqiang is Fan, Yin, Ma, Liang, these relatives.

After saying that, he drove away the officials.

But guess what, later Zhu A Changxun County, he was stabbed to death on the road, and his head was placed at the intersection.

Since then, none of the Zhu Achang who took office later have not been respectful to these three families.

This is Zhu A's favor, just like people in charge of officials need to know the local favors, and we who are transported away from the water must also know, otherwise we will be offended indiscriminately, and we don't know how to die.

As you saw just now, the old Jiang is bald. Don't look at him as good-looking, he doesn't have any martial arts, he seems to be an ordinary person.

But you must know that this person is a ruthless outlaw, and he doesn't know how many murders there are in his hands.

He wasn't like this before, but then because of trivial things, he was pincered, and then people became like that.

But for this kind of big thief, the Zhang family said that they would take it in, and if they dared to offend others, they would have to take their heads at night.

But this is also good, I wish Ah to have such a family, we walk on the water, our hearts are also stable, and we know who to look for in case of trouble.

I'm afraid of chaos, and if it's messy, the business won't be able to continue. ”

"Ahem~Ahem"

In the end, he is old, and the river breeze in February is still a little biting, and Sun Xun has been blown a little unbearable after saying this.

He was going to say more, but his body didn't allow it, so he ordered Zhang Chong to keep an eye on him, and he was supported by Qingxiu to enter the warehouse.

Seeing Sun Xun leave, the little father came up.

He also said to Zhang Chong:

"Second son, it's okay for the old grandson to be right. I also have familiar friends with this wish, and it is indeed like what Lao Sun said.

This Zhang family is the emperor of the soil in this area, not to mention ordinary people, even if it is two thousand stones, it is impossible to provoke.

Not because of the weight of the title, but because of their status as eunuchs.

Growing up in the countryside, you may not know how many internal officials weigh.

They seem to have only a few dozen people in one generation, but from generation to generation, the party members, relatives, friends and guests who depend on them add up, and I am afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands, and these people are all over the government and the opposition, and they want people and money.

In the past, the Qingliu Party couldn't do these people at all, but later these people suffered from the party's curse, and these eunuchs became even more powerful. ”

Little Dad's words surprised Zhang Chong.

Because, the knowledge involved in this is certainly not something that a landless homeless person can have.

He knew that his little dad had gone out for a long time, but he didn't know what he was doing outside.

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The Cao transport fleet arrived at Zhu'a in the afternoon.

They went to a wharf in Jishui, called Chaoyangdu.

By the time they arrived, there were already five hundred-stone boats parked on the dock. This will already be under the command of the barnmen, and they will begin to load the grain on the ship.

There is a special warehouse official on the wharf to count the number of goods loaded on the ship.

Their responsibility is to let the chief of Cangcao know the data of Cao rice sent to Xingyang every year, so that he can cope with the annual calculation.

But in fact, these real data will never be known to Shangguan.

These clerks will count two books, one with real data written on them, but only kept on file internally, and the other for the cao officials who lead the Cao team.

There will only be one stamp on this book, and the specific number will be filled in by the cao officials when they arrive in Aocang, according to the specific amount of cao rice on the ship.

Why?

If you ask a storekeeper like this, he will surely teach you in the tone of an old official:

"There is a loss of this luck, the corn beans eaten by the porters and men on this boat are all on the ship, and when they arrive at the place, the Ao Cang officials have to check it, because they will dislike the millet or Chen or the tide, so they will let them take it to dry.

This goes back and forth, and the amount of corn at the time of departure is not the same as the actual amount of corn that arrives.

At this time, you hand over the statistics at the time of departure to the Ao Cang officials for sealing, but they don't recognize it, and they stamp it with the actual corn that arrives in the warehouse.

In this case, the cao official can only run back again, which will delay time.

Therefore, in terms of actual government affairs, we all give the officials an empty stamp, and let them go to Aocang to actually write. ”

If you are a new official, you may be blinded by the words of this old official, and you really think that this is because of the actual implementation, but you don't know that this is all convenient for the river, and the upper and lower levels are corrupt.

At this point, the dock was already full of boats, and the fleet had to anchor in the middle of the river.

Then five or six bartenders and their helpers came in with their oars and oars, and they were to inspect the cargoes and identities of the fleet.

Just as everyone put down the ropes and was about to pull them onto the boat.

There was a sound of fighting on the docks, followed by fire.

It turned out that the hay field on the dock had been set on fire.

Du Man and Zhang Dan will also go to the deck.

They have been rallying around Zhang Chong since they got on the boat, and they had been rocking the oars below, and they only came up when they heard the shouts from above to verify the talisman festival.

As soon as they came up, they saw that the dock was in flames, and the concubines who had been weaving rice by the hay yard had already cried and ran away, but more of them were killed by a group of villagers.

Under the firelight is a pile of humanoid corpses, the reason why they are called humanoids is because these concubines are tortured by a miserable life, all of them are like thin monkeys, and there is no longer a human appearance.

But because of this, those townsmen are even more ferocious to kill.

They cut down the corpses of their concubines to pieces, severed their hands and feet, and some of them had a sword stuck in their heads.

After they killed the concubines, they killed the warehouse officials.

The nearest one was the clerk who kept the book, and he was directly beheaded.

There was a villager who was using Ge, hanging the head of the barn official on Ge, and kept shouting wildly.

Panic spread like a tidal wave, and the entire dock was in chaos.

The porters and bangfu ran crazy to the boat, and the captain on the boat also panicked, and they subconsciously wanted to hold the boat away.

But when I heard someone shouting below, I still stopped hesitantly.

A few close Bangfu immediately seized this opportunity and climbed up along the cable.

But after a few climbs, his legs were grabbed by the back again, and several of them fell into Jishui together.

Everyone had gone mad, and they had no idea why the townsmen who were used as guards began to kill people like crazy.

The officials on the boat did not care about the people on the shore, and when they saw that the captains were still hesitating, they drew their knives and pointed at them to support the boat.

But the boat was in a hurry, and it collided directly with the boat on the side.

One of the five ships overturned on its side, and the entire ship was covered underwater.

At this time, the Cao transport fleet in the middle of the river saw the chaotic soldiers killing people and robbing the boats, and they all took anchor to escape.

But at this moment, a team of men and horses came out of the pavilion not far from the pier.

They carried the banner of "Chen", about 20 people, led by a samurai on horseback.

The townsfolk who were still killing people indiscriminately didn't have a formation at all, and when they encountered this strict team, they were immediately killed and dispersed.

A countryman with a disheveled head, waving wildly with a long go, hoarse.

But the samurai on horseback drew a crossbow from his coat, wound it with an arrow, and shot it right in the forehead of the pawn.

The townsman looked into the distance and opened his mouth to say something, but seven or eight ring-headed knives came down and became puree.

The chaos started suddenly, and it calmed down quickly.

Except for those who were hacked to death, the rest of the villagers were dragged to the samurai on horseback.

The samurai condescended, looked at each other, and asked:

"What's the mess?"

When a pawn with a bloody face and his right hand cut off heard this, he took a mouthful of blood and exclaimed:

"The warehouse official of the dog day, take our salary rice to load the ship, and leave it for us to eat Chen Su, who can't eat the dog, and a few people in the grandfather's family have nothing to eat, so if you don't kill him, kill anyone."

Immediately samurai, humming and sneering:

"The new millet has been given to you, so who will eat the old millet?"

After speaking, he didn't look at it a second time, waved his hand and asked people to drag the pawns down and cut them down.

Suddenly, at the edge of the water, people's heads were rolling and the fishy smell was permeated.