Chapter 134: Into the River
One hundred and thirty-four chapters into the river
The location of Jianzhou is too important. Along the Jialing River, you can go straight to Langzhong, the city of Baoningfu, to the west, is Jiangyou, the important town of Long'an Province, to the east is Bazhou (now Bazhong) and the Nanjiang River, north of the Nanjiang River, and after crossing the Big and Small Bashan Mountains, it will return to the rich Hanzhong of Shaanxi Province - and if you wave the southwest, after Mianzhou (now Mianyang), the soldiers can go straight to the provincial capital of Sichuan: Chengdu Mansion!
The Sword Gate Pass was a natural risk, but Zhang Hu took it without much effort.
Because the garrison did not receive any early warning, Zhang Hu's department was originally in the uniform of the Ming army, and drove down the river along the Jiameng River, and drove directly into Zhaohua County without encountering any resistance. Slaughtered the county government, with the official seal of the county, and put a few officials as guides, Zhang Hu, who was born in the horse team, rushed into Guangyuan, which was close at hand, with lightning speed. Here, Zhang Hu met Fang Ge, a tiger general who was later relied on by him as his arm. With the help of the latter, under the guise of "intercepting mountain bandits", the brigade once again moved south along the Jialing River and easily won the Jianmen Pass.
After gaining a foothold in Jianzhou, Zhang Hu breathed a sigh of relief and seriously pondered the next step. Before this, objectively speaking, Zhang Hu was just dying all the way, completely unaware of where to go and where his future was.
At this time, Zhang Hu's department had expanded to more than 30,000 people, but before arriving in Guangyuan, the people who could fight with real swords and guns were the thousands of brothers brought out from Cao Ying, and most of the rest were people who were captured along the way. Zhang Hu's purpose in coercing these people was to fear that in case of being surrounded and suppressed by a large number of officials and soldiers, he could drive the people to stumble and run away by the officials and soldiers - Zhang Hu, who was born in the official army, knew very well how attractive these effortless first-class merits were to his former comrades. Unexpectedly, along the way, he didn't encounter any decent resistance, and more than 20,000 mouths brought great pressure to Zhang Hu. If it weren't for the massive amount of grain seized in the Sword Pavilion, this group of people would still not be able to last long.
More important than grain and grass, Zhang Hu also picked up a reorganized army in Guangyuan, and more valuable than the army was Fang Ge - a good helper that the Beichuan officials helped him prepare in advance!
The Sichuan Metropolitan Government has a garrison in Guangyuan, "Hongwu 31 years to put Lizhou Wei in Guangyuan County", and the camp of the garrison is located a few miles east of the county seat. Of course, when Zhang Hu desperately captured Guangyuan, he didn't know that there was a regular guard next to him, but the military households of Kelizhou Wei knew that there were thieves who had entered the county seat. However, everyone didn't do anything and just watched the excitement right there - because they had been hungry for a long time!
Lizhou Wei has commanders and commanders, but these official positions have long become the shadows of the children of important ministers of the imperial court. Take the commander and acquaintance Lu Zhiyun as an example, he is the son of Lu Shenlu, the political envoy of Henan Zuobu. Lu Fantai once served as an envoy to Shandong, and he was appointed to guide the Grand Canal in a good way, which effectively guaranteed the transportation of the imperial court. Well, that was three years ago - Lu Zhiyun Tongzhi is seven years old this year, a virtual age.
In the eyes of these families, the military position of the imperial court is just an honorary title, and the imperial examination is the right way to enter the office. Now the biggest official of Lizhou Wei is called Fang Sanhuai, and his official position is to command the affairs, and he is also the big landlord of Juntun. Fang Yanshi is still a bachelor in his thirties - he has accepted a concubine, but he has not yet married a wife. After all, he is a military attache of the fourth grade of the imperial court, and of course he has to be the right person to marry a wife, but there are really some serious people with social status unless there is really no way, no one will be willing to push his daughter into the fire pit: the children born will not be able to get rid of the military for generations! However, Landlord Fang was imprisoned a few years ago and was dying in Guangyuan's prison, and now he is just more breathless than a dead man.
The cause of the incident was that Fang Sanhuai offended the Shu Prince's Mansion. Two years ago, the flooding of the Jialing River not only washed away most of the military tuns of the landlords, but also caused some losses in Wang Zhuangtian under the name of the King of Shu. If it was in the past, the order of the Shu Wangfu to transfer people to borrow a few guts from the landlord, he would not dare not give it. Because it is located at the junction of the two provinces, there are really seven or eight hundred soldiers in Lizhou Weizhenger, and there are two battalions. Most of the remaining military households are serfs, even if they are exhausted to death, it is nothing, and one day they will go to the Chaotianguan area to search for some homeless people to make up for it. The bad thing is here in Fan Yanghuan of Guangyuan Zhi County: there are only 800 people in the palace, in order to show his loyalty and ability, Fan Zhi County found Fang Sanhuai and opened his mouth is 2,000, and they all have to be strong! Fang Sanhuai was dumbfounded when he heard this: the men, women, and children under his command were all counted as less than 4,000 serfs in total, and most of them lived in shacks. Unlike the city protected by walls, most of the shacks built in low-lying places were washed away by the flood, and people were naturally more than lucky, and now there are only 3,000 serfs who can breathe, and 2,000 are taken away at once, and they have to prepare dry food for them in the camp? The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled will not be able to feed the two battalions of soldiers no matter what! In particular, the intermittent food and salary have been in arrears for a long time, and the little emergency grain in the camp warehouse has also been washed away by the flood, making the fish and shrimp cheaper...... If you push these guys into a hurry, you can't say that it will lead to a mutiny! reluctantly handed over 500 people to come out, which angered Fan Zhixian: Don't cry to the old man, these useless things! Who to scare with a mutiny? Do you dare to demolish the county and let me lose face in front of the prince? Okay, you wait!
To the south of Guangyuan County, there is a Yuntai Mountain in Cangxi County, near Baoning Mansion, and there is a Yuntai Taoist Temple on the mountain. In the main hall are Taishang Laojun and Zhang Tianshi, and there is a three-eyed dragon king statue in the side hall*. After the flood of the Jialing River, a group of believers came from all directions to worship the Dragon King, the Taoist priests in the temple can not collect the incense money in vain, pinching their fingers and forgetting for a while to give everyone a trick: this time the flood is a group of ghosts, the ghosts are afraid of the sun's yang energy during the day and dare not come out, and at night at home to hang a red lantern can drive away evil spirits. So at night, many people in the surrounding prefectures and counties lit up red lights. This kind of situation is very common for ignorant and foolish people, and the local officials such as the prefect of Baoning and the magistrate of Cangxi, who are full of "silent and strange powers", are used to it, and no one has taken it to heart.
It was also the bad luck of Fang Sanhuai, and when there were not enough people, he sent a few teams of people out of the camp to arrest the displaced people as usual. These guys are all swaggering all the way through the market, where do you care what good people or homeless people, pulling them into the bowl is the dish, anyway, even if you catch the registered good people, you can still squeeze some oil and water...... So many people ran to Fan Yanghuan to complain here.
Fan Qingtian, who was also full of poetry and books, and was thinking about how to clean up the Fang Pifu who didn't know how to lift, didn't think about any strange powers, but immediately thought of another story.
The story of the Yellow Nest lighting the lamp.
Legend has it that Huang Chao stormed Huncheng for three days, so he personally infiltrated the city to reconnoitre. In distress, he was rescued by an old man. The old man pointed out the secret way to enter the city, in order to repay the kindness, Huang Chao asked the old man to wait until the soldiers entered the city to hang a red light as a record, so as to avoid military disasters. After returning to the camp, Huang Chao broke the city according to the old man's instructions, and then saw that the people in the city were hanging red lights, knowing that the old man intended to protect the people of the city, so he did not burn and kill, let alone arrest the people to be his famous "two-legged sheep".
The soldiers openly plundered the suburbs in groups, and the people in the city were terrified and hung red lights at night...... Aren't you going to take advantage of the chaos to rebel?! Lord Fan not only immediately sent an alarm to Baoning Mansion and copied it to the neighboring Long'an Mansion and Kuizhou Mansion, but also reported it to Chengdu Mansion and Shu Wang's Mansion: "The story of the 'Huangchao Lighting Lamp' is as good as cooking in five days!" "ββLord Fan's fist heart jumped on the paper!
Duan Yuanji, the prefect of Boryeong, actually knows the origin of the incident. If Fan Zhixian just reported to the mansion, he only needed to call Fang Sanhuai over and scold him, teach him to kowtow to Fan Zhixian and confess his guilt, and then pay some silver, and the matter would be over. But Fan Yanghuan shouted that the neighboring mansions and even the Shu Wangfu were well known, and the small Baoning Mansion couldn't cover the lid - in the end, even if it was a false alarm, who could say that Fan Zhixian was always concerned about the safety of the Shu King Chitose was wrong? In the past, the prince may not know who a small county in Beichuan is, Fan County played such a hand, although some did not play cards according to the routine, more or less offended the top boss, but it can make the prince Chitose leave a deep good impression, worth it! Having said that, if something really makes a mess and shocks the body of the prince's daughter, not to mention the black gauze hat of the prefect, the head will definitely not be saved!
"The minister is not afraid of the worries of the minister, and the minister is afraid of the hurricane (phonetic 'standard', the appearance of sparks splashing) The wind of anger is at the end of Qingping. Everyone knows that it is often said that prevention is not happening, but how can the big talk be about the heat and the flames? Looking at the transcript of Fan Zhixian's book to the palace, Duan Zhifu only agreed to the option of arresting people: both ends were blocked by this guy - who said that I was worried about nothing, but in case there was a little mess, the responsibility was all yours!
Fan Zhixian first captured a few battalion soldiers. The guys who had their legs broken by the clamping stick all admitted that Fang Sanhuai did have antipathy, and arrested a few people who hung red lights at night, and after a few boards, the master enlightened: "Think about it carefully, have you heard the rumors of hanging red lights to avoid disasters?" Treat unjustly? Hmph, why don't you catch someone else and catch you alone? Don't worry, you are ignorant and being taken advantage of, and the government will not pursue it, but you have to show your attitude...... "Everyone drew a circle on the confession that they didn't recognize a word.
So there was a witness.
There is physical evidence - there are knives, guns, bows and crossbows in the camp, and even there are more than 20 iron armors!
This is called a mountain of ironclad evidence.
If it weren't for the intervention of the Dusi Mansion, Fang Sanhuai's head would have been hanging at the gate of Chengdu City a long time ago. It's not that the relationship between the landlord and the capital is very good, and a commander in the mountains of northern Sichuan can't get the Sichuan capital government to talk about it - just because rebellion is a big crime, once the capital is confirmed, it will be difficult to escape the blame, and the people involved are absolutely indispensable, so the capital government will come forward. So Fang Sanhuai was kicked back to Guangyuan from the prison of Chengdu Mansion like a ball and retried by Fan Qingtian, and the final conclusion was: The evidence of rebellion may be a little insufficient, and it is impossible to escape the crime of arson!
Let's bet on it.
After a long time, the adults forgot about Fang Sanhuai.
Fan Zhixian has not forgotten - because there are tens of thousands of acres of land under the Lizhou Weijun cantonment. If you can take advantage of this opportunity to circle thousands of acres, this magistrate will not do it in vain!
It's a pity that there is a guy in the way: Fang Sanhuai once recognized a righteous son. It's Fang Ge!
Fang Ge is a thousand households. Of course, Fang Sanhuai, who was wearing a sinful body, couldn't let Fang Ge attack his official land, but the soldiers in the battalion obeyed him. After Fang Sanhuai was imprisoned, everyone seemed to be the leader of this gang, and the military households of Lizhou Wei barely maintained it. Fan Zhixian, who was looking forward to them escaping from all directions, of course would not give these guys a good life, the rice beans in the past few years have been particularly ruthless, and a large amount of military food has been piled up in the warehouse of Jianmen Pass and moldy. was brewing to find a crime to arrest Fang Ge as well, Zhang Hu and his gang rushed into the city in a daze, and slaughtered Master Fan and the people in the yamen.
As the saying goes, the official and military duty, only the thief is begging.
There is another sentence: The Son of Heaven is not bad for hungry soldiers!
After all, the hungry and dizzy military households were all locals, and Zhang Hu didn't notice them at all, but they all saw Zhang Hu's gang rushing into Guangyuan City. To fight, or not to fight? Fang Ge immediately shook the mound, looked at the smoke rushing into the sky in Guangyuan City and hesitated for a moment, and the two villains were fighting fiercely in his mind.
One said: "Look at it, the dog officer wants to starve us to death, why do you still work for him?" β
The other said: "Look at what, let's just go to the dog cutting officer together to avenge my father!" β
So when Fan Yanghuan's head was just raised high on the city gate tower, Fang Ge took two dissatisfied war battalions and directly threw Zhang Hu!
Fang Ge carried Fang Sanhuai out of prison, and the latter swallowed in Yizi's arms. Since then, Zhang Hu has one more tiger general under his command. Fang Ge, who was familiar with the geography and military situation of northern Sichuan and was brave, gave Zhang Hu, a raging mad tiger, a pair of wings.
*This is true. Legend has it that when Zhang Tianshi took a macaque monkey to Yuntai Mountain, a tall dragon god immediately appeared on the mountain - obviously, the dragon god is the protector of Yuntai Mountain. According to this, when the Taoist priest built the Yuntai to observe the dragon statue, he caught a live monkey and poured drunk mud and sealed it in the belly of the dragon god statue (do such a lack of virtue and cruel things, even if there is really a god, can it protect you?). ), in order to ask for the heavenly master to appear and the dragon god to bless.
In that decade, the dragon statue was smashed, and it was found that there was really a shriveled monkey skeleton in its abdomen, and a red silk tied around its neck that had long been broken, and the handwriting such as "Yuntaihua County xxxx" was still faintly legible. Later, the monkey skeleton was sold as a medicinal herb by a local farmer named Zhang Mounian!
- Well, I hope the warrior who took this medicine is safe, though it is much more likely that Lyden Immortal Class will be in the world.