If you don't agree with each other, you will shoot people with arrows? Shao Xi heard the sound of feather arrows flying from afar, and couldn't help but scold his mother in his heart, this eyeless thing really dared to do it to himself.

Shao Xi hurriedly dodged, and the arrow grazed and shot on the ground.

"Uncle, you really dare to shoot your little master with an arrow! Today's matter is urgent, you still dare to cause me trouble, see how I settle accounts with you! ”

Time is pressing, Shao Xi really can't afford to delay, and he doesn't have time to stand under the city and fight with this little soldier above. So he once again performed the method of climbing the clouds, and jumped to the top of the city with two vertical jumps on the city wall.

The soldier looked stupid for a moment, why did this madman jump to the top of the city in a few moments? How could he come up?

The first thing Shao Xi did when he went to the city was to give this guy a slap in the face.

"This slap is not because you scolded me, nor because you shot me with an arrow, but because you delayed my time. Now go and inform your chief officer immediately, and ask him to inform the county guard to come to see me, if you dare to delay for a moment, I will use the emperor's hand to edict your nine clans, why don't you go quickly? ”

The soldier was stunned by Shao Xi's slap, and wondered in his heart that this posture didn't look like a lie, isn't it really a big official who has something urgent? I'd rather believe it, not believe it, or hurry up to inform the captain of the city gate, there is someone to carry it when I turn around, although I am a bachelor, but there are still people in the nine clans, because this bit of was punished by others The nine clans are really not cost-effective.

The soldiers ran to call the captain of the city gate, Shao Xi stood alone on the head of the city and sulked, running to death in the middle of the night, and when he got here, he was scolded and shot, and he felt aggrieved when he thought about it.

After a while, a person dressed as a colonel followed the soldier, and as soon as he arrived in front of Shao Xi, he arched his hand and asked, "This lord, I heard a report from my subordinates that you are an official from the capital and want to find our county guard." It's not that the villain is suspicious, but what identity credentials do adults have? In addition, if there is no urgent matter, it is really unaffordable to disturb the county guard in the middle of the night, and please ask the adult to tell a reason, and the villain can explain. ”

Shao Xi pondered, got! Don't be embarrassed, I ran over alone in the middle of the night, and I really don't blame others for being suspicious, it seems that I still have to take out a token to prove my identity in order to make the other party believe in myself.

So Shao Xi took out the official seal of the four-grade supervision and inspection history of the "Jing Cheng Division" from his satchel, handed it to the captain of the city gate to watch, and then held the imperial edict that Cao Gong gave him before the envoy in his hand.

"The official seal is a token to prove my identity, and what I hold in my hand is the edict of the Holy Emperor to give the emperor, seeing this edict as if the Holy One is coming in person, if you delay my business today, all of them are the crime of deceiving the king, and the nine clans will be destroyed."

After checking Shao Xi's official seal, the captain of the city gate confirmed that the person in front of him was indeed the four-grade supervision history of the "Jing Cheng Division".

Now that Shao Xi's identity has been confirmed, the captain of the city gate is naturally so frightened that he hurriedly returned the official seal to Shao Xi and gave Shao Xi a salute, where would he dare to test the imperial edict again? At this time, he kept apologizing to Shao Xi.

"The villain has seen Lord Shi, but I really didn't think of Lord Shi coming in the middle of the night, and I hope that Lord Shi will not blame, so I will rush to the county guard mansion to inform the county guard that Lord Shi is coming."

"There's no need for him to come, the matter is too urgent, you can just take me to the county guard's mansion, and I'll take care of whatever you want."

"The villain obeys!"

After speaking, the captain of the city gate hurriedly called for someone to bring two fast horses, one for each person, and the two of them galloped towards the county guard's mansion.

Compared with Shao Xi's previous hurry, this short stretch of riding a horse felt like it had arrived in an instant.

Before they came to the county guard's mansion, the two threw their stirrups off their saddles and dismounted, and the captain of the city gate stepped forward and knocked on the door.

After a long while, the gate of the county guard's mansion opened a crack, and a servant yawned and stood in the door with sleepy eyes, looking at the two of them with a dissatisfied look on their faces.

"Don't you have long eyes? Don't look at what time it is, run to call the door in the middle of the night, and make noise about the county guard's clear dream, can you afford it? ”

The captain of the city gate didn't care about the servant's attitude towards him, and hurriedly said: "Youlao quickly go and inform the county guard, and say that the official sent by the Kyoto Shengshang, the inspector of the 'Jingcheng Division', is outside the gate at this time, and quickly let the county guard come out to greet him." ”

This sentence was like a slap in the face, the servant instantly fell asleep, stretched out his head to look at Shao Xi who was standing outside the door, and then looked at the captain of the city gate, the captain of the city gate nodded to him again to confirm, the servant did not dare to delay any longer, turned around and ran towards the house, while running, he shouted in his mouth.

"My lord, get up, don't sleep! The adults of Kyoto came, and it was the adults of the Kyoto Shengjoqin faction who came. ”

Shao Xi didn't wait for the county guard to come out to greet him, and directly stepped into the county guard's mansion, standing in the courtyard and waiting.

After a while, the servant ran out of the backyard with a man, who was still putting his clothes on his body as he ran, and he could see that he had just gotten out of bed.

No need to ask, the person in front of you must be the county guard of Shangling County. Shao Xi didn't have time to be polite to him, and he didn't wait for him to give him a salute, so he took a few steps forward and explained his intentions.

"Lord County Shou, this official is the envoy of Nanzhao sent by Shengshangqin, 'Jing Chengsi' Inspector Shi Shaoxi, I don't have time to be polite now, I am here this time for an urgent matter, and I need your county to send troops and horses to assist me in exterminating the rebel army. If you think that I have no right to mobilize your county soldiers and horses, I have the imperial edict given by the Holy Emperor in my hand, and if I see the edict, I have the right to ask any official in Jingyuan to cooperate unconditionally. ”

The clothes of the county guard of Shangling County had just been put on, and before he had time to give Shao Xi a salute, he was stunned by Shao Xi like a machine gun, but he heard the last sentence very clearly, Shao Xi had the imperial edict in his hand, which could be played first.

"Uh, this ...... What's coming? ”

The servant next to him hurriedly reminded: "Shao." ”

"Oh! Lord Shao, it must be an urgent matter for you to rush to Shangling County late at night, and the lower officials will definitely do their best to cooperate, but ......"

Of course, Shao Xi knew what he meant, and asked the family to mobilize troops and horses as soon as he opened his mouth, and that person must confirm your identity first. This kind of thing is not a joke, once it goes wrong, it will harm the nine clans, so it is very reasonable for people to look at it.

The official seal and the edict were all handed over, and after the Shangling County Guard took it and read it carefully, it was considered to confirm Shao Xi's identity, especially after seeing the edict, he held it in his hand, raised it above his head, and knelt down to return it with both hands.

"Your Majesty will obey the holy will! If Lord Shao has any orders, just open your mouth, and the lower officials will unconditionally obey all orders of Lord Shao. ”

"Now is not the time to be polite, hurry up and ask the county lieutenant to mobilize your county's soldiers and horses, at least fifteen hundred, if you can more, the better, immediately send troops to Yujiang City to camp in the woods south of Nanshan, remember to act covertly, you must arrive before dusk tomorrow, and you will enter Nanshan at night to exterminate the bandit army."

When the county guard heard this, he was a little dumbfounded.

"Lord Shao, are you talking about Yu Jiangcheng? Isn't Yujiang County under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou? How do you want us to send troops to Shangling County? ”

Shao Xi knew that this kind of problem would occur, and hurriedly explained: "This matter is confidential, and it involves the corruption of officials in Yujiang County and the maintenance of private troops. Due to the urgency of the situation, this official had to transfer troops nearby, and your county, Wuyang County, and Liantai County are the closest to Yujiang County, so it is convenient to send troops, and I don't know if this matter involves other officials in Yuzhou, so in order to avoid leaking the news, I want to transfer troops from your Lingzhou. ”

The reason is reasonable and sufficient, the county guard of Shangling County is not a stupid person, and the reason for the encirclement and suppression of soldiers and horses from other states is that the states generally rarely have interests with each other, so there is rarely favoritism.

In addition, the mobilization of troops and horses from other places, the officials in the encircled and suppressed areas did not get information in advance, which was more sudden, and the effect of the surprise attack was better.

Since it was Shangguan Youzhi, and he was also an official of the "Jingcheng Division" from Kyoto, and he still had the imperial edict in his hand, the county guard of Shangling County had no reason to refuse, and he did not dare to refuse.

In fact, speaking of which, Shao Xi's secondment of soldiers and horses to these three counties this time can be regarded as crooked, and these three counties and the Zhao family in Yujiang County have also had deep contradictions over the years because of the cloud yarn industry.

The three counties were originally rich in mulberry silkworms, and planting mulberry and raising silkworms was one of the important local industries, and the cloud yarn industry in Yujiang County was prevalent, which happened to require a large number of high-quality silk, which should have been a relationship of mutual support. However, due to the private increase in yarn tax by the Zhao family in Yujiang County, the price of cloud yarn skyrocketed, but the yarn mill and cloth shop had meager profits and could not purchase high-quality silk in large quantities, which also seriously affected the silkworm industry in these three counties.

So since these three counties are rich in silk, why not develop the cloud yarn industry by themselves? In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, the relationship between transportation costs and local interests.

Yujiang County is close to Yujiang, the transport is developed, the production of cloud yarn can be sold to various places on the spot, and these three counties have no advantage of transport, and is located in the mountains of Bozhou, although only on the edge of Bozhou, but relative to Yuzhou is still rugged and difficult to travel, so the development of cloud yarn industry in this place will greatly increase the cost of transportation, if you want to borrow Yujiang County's transport system and inevitably be the Zhao family to make it difficult to exploit, after all, you do cloud yarn and the Zhao family has formed a competitive relationship, people will not let you smoothly transport the goods out.

It is precisely because of this that the three counties of Shangling, Wuyang, and Liantai have always complained about the Zhao family in Yujiang County, but they are not in the same state, even if they are dissatisfied, they can't do anything. Therefore, this time, Shao Xi borrowed troops from these three counties to encircle and suppress the Zhao family, and basically did not need to mobilize, if it were not limited by their respective jurisdictions, these three counties might have wanted to do something to the Zhao family who monopolized the wealth of one party for a long time.

Whether it is a corrupt official or a clean official, there is no official who does not want the land under his jurisdiction to be rich, and only the richer the place, the better it is for himself, whether it is wealth or fame.

Now that there is such a person with huge power in his hands who has come out to take the lead in bringing down the Zhao family, the county guards of these three counties are naturally happy to see it happen.

"The lower official understood, so he immediately sent someone to inform the county lieutenant to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and he must set off before dawn, and he will never miss the big thing of the adult."

"Lend me a horse, I still have to go to Wuyang County, I really can't run!"

"Ah......? My lord, you came running on two legs? ”