Chang'an, Jingzhao Mansion Prison.

Yang Zhi was already so hungry that he didn't have much strength.

During the drought, he received an errand to transport grain from Jiangnan all the way from Tokyo to Chang'an, and handed it over to Jing Zhaoyin to recruit displaced people as soldiers.

The ship traveled to the boundary of Shaanzhou, and suddenly it rained rainingly. Finally waited for the sunny day, and two days later, it began to rain again, and the grain was stuck near Tongguan and could not move.

Immediately, the water of the Yellow River rose sharply, and all the grain and boats washed away.

There is no need for anyone to frame him, according to the law, he should pay for food, and if he can't afford it, he has to be stabbed and recharged.

After the flood peak, Yang Zhi was escorted to Chang'an for a business trip.

Due to too many local affairs recently, no one cares whether he lives or dies, and he is thrown into a prison for trial. And the price of food here is extremely high, how can it be possible to take care of the prisoners? I couldn't eat for three days.

The dark cells were full of half-starved prisoners.

There was a dead silence, no one spoke, and there was no strength to speak.

I woke up in a trance, I was woken up by pain, and my stomach was empty and burned.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the whole prison shook.

The jailers who were bragging and chatting all stood up in shock, and then shouted: "The earth dragon has turned over, run outside!" ”

All the prisoners were awakened and waited in fear for the judgment of fate.

After a while, it shook violently again, and the corner of the cell was directly collapsed. It's 300 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake, but it's still powerful enough to collapse houses, and even the aftershocks are terrifying.

Some prisoners escaped through the gaps, almost crawling due to hunger and weakness.

Yang Zhi shouted with all his strength: "I am the former general of the Kaifeng Palace, and you will die if you escape like this." Go find something, pry all the cells open, and save more brothers to go together! ”

A few prisoners who were about to escape from the prison felt justified when they heard this, and they were so hungry that they couldn't walk, and it was indeed a dead end to get out.

The fellows searched everywhere, and soon picked up a knife and a few clubs, all of which the jailers had left in panic.

"Dangdangdang......"

After cutting for a long time, I was weak and weak, and I couldn't cut the door lock at all.

They came in turns, one by one exhausted and out of breath.

There was a prisoner next door, who shouted weakly, "Sharpen a wooden needle, and I will pick the lock......"

"This brother will unlock the lock, sharpen the wooden needle, sharpen the wooden needle!" The prisoners in the same prison shouted along.

A small piece of wood is cut off from the edge of the stick, and then the blade is continued with a hand knife. Slightly into a needle type, I took it and tried it, but it was too thick to insert into the keyhole.

"Grind, grind into a needle!" The prisoner next door said again.

So he took it to the wall and grinded it a little thicker than a sewing needle, and sent it to the prisoner who could pick the lock.

The prisoner was unable to move and was helped to his feet by his fellow prisoners. The whole person was lying on the wooden railing, he was wearing a wooden flail on his wrist, and his arms could not be stretched out to move.

So they put in him chains and brass chains.

The wooden needle is inserted into the keyhole, and it only takes about a second for the copper lock to open.

After he was dragged out of his cell, he first opened the yoke for his companions.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the large increase in iron smelting, prisoners generally wore iron shackles. In the Song Dynasty, it was much more foolish, and in order to save money, the local government put wooden flail on the hands of the prisoners, and tied their feet with ropes. Preventing prison escapes is only one thing, the bigger role is to avoid prisoners from fighting.

Cells are opened, locks are unlocked, ropes are cut.

"Boom!"

There was another aftershock, and a few of the freed prisoners fled in horror.

Yang Zhi shouted: "Come back quickly, go together!" ”

The prisoners turned a deaf ear, fearing that if they stayed for a few more moments, the entire prison would collapse.

Fortunately, the jailers also ran away, and rushed to the widest streets, and they did not dare to stay even more narrow streets.

After dozens of minutes, Yang Zhi finally escaped with the prisoner.

There are still cells that have not been opened, but they can no longer be rescued, because the prisoners who can open the locks are faint from hunger......

"Don't care about this guy anymore, you can't live!" One of the prisoners said.

Yang Zhi said: "He opened the lock for so many of us, how can we leave him when we come out?" ”

"Can you carry the man who is dying of hunger?"

"If you can't carry it, drag it away!"

Before the jailbreak began, there was already a disagreement.

No one was convinced, and in the end they were divided into two groups.

There were only more than a dozen people who were willing to follow Yang Zhi and take away the prisoner who had opened the lock.

The remaining 40 or so people no longer cared about the lock-picking prisoners, but also took their knives and sticks, and rushed out in groups to find food.

After another delay, Yang Zhi and his companions took turns to escape with the lockpicker. They were slow, some were holding on to the wall, some were crawling all the way.

Fleeing from the prison to the streets, no living people were found, and many officials and civilians went to the wide avenues of the central axis of the city.

"Go to the back door of the mansion!" Yang Zhi said.

The fugitives beside him were shocked: "It's still ...... It's better to find a private house, and go to the government office for fear of being caught. ”

Yang Zhi said: "The earth dragon turned over, there was no one in the houses everywhere, and the government was the same as the private houses. When we escaped from prison, we were the closest to the government, and there must have been meat to eat in the back house of the government. ”

Everyone will be suspicious, and they will go to the back door of the government with the courage to go.

The door turned out to be open, and when Jing Zhaoyin's family members avoided the shock, they were so panicked that they didn't even lock the door.

After searching separately for a while, I finally found the kitchen.

There was a pot of white fungus porridge, the temperature of the charcoal fire was still there, and the white fungus porridge was hot, and it was shocked to the ground and sprinkled a lot.

Make bowls of porridge and gobble it up.

Yang Zhi didn't eat and pinch the unconscious person first, and let the guy who helped pick the lock fill his stomach.

Some prisoners had finished their porridge and gone to the kitchen to find other food.

Yang Zhi shouted: "If you're hungry for too long, don't eat too much and make your stomach up." Get some sacks, load them with food and go out of town! By the way, go to the house to find some clothes, get a comb grate and dress up. Find out where the stables are, and get a few horses, or a carriage. ”

After entering the mansion, there was food, and there was no one to guard it, Yang Zhi's decision-making was very wise, and the other prisoners were willing to listen to his command.

Two quarters of an hour later, the prisoners returned, and they were all dressed cleanly.

They brought water to wash their faces, helped each other comb their buns, and then put on their headscarves or crowns.

"Brother's surname?" One of the prisoners asked.

Yang Zhi said: "Yang Zhi, the former general of the palace, was arrested and imprisoned in Chang'an because the flood washed away the official grain. ”

When this identity was reported, all the fugitives were in awe, and they called him big brother and elder brother.

The general in front of the palace is not worth mentioning in the eyes of civil officials, and even the senior officials don't take the general seriously.

But after all, he is a military attaché, and for the fugitives, Yang Zhi is already a big man.

A prisoner immediately knelt down, holding a treasure knife in both hands: "Brother Yang, I found this in a room." Since Brother Yang is the general of the front division of the palace, he must be skilled and worthy of this treasure knife. ”

"You're welcome." Yang Zhi tied the treasure knife around his waist.

Suddenly, someone came back and said happily, "There are three horses, and there is a carriage!" ”

Yang Zhi immediately arranged a plan to leave the city, and he first sent two fugitives who were still physically fit and had no tattoos on their faces, and rode horses to explore in the east and west directions. Where there are few people, go that way.

The north and south sides must not go, and most of the people in the city gather on the streets of the central axis.

Some food and goods were carried into the car, and the physically weak also sat in the car.

When the inquirer returned, the group set out at once.

Yang Zhi and another fugitive rode to open the way, pretending to be the armed entourage of the powerful family. Six more men were guarding the front and rear of the carriage. The rest dressed as coachmen and nobles, all sat in the car.

There was another aftershock in the middle of the way, which frightened the horse almost crazy.

Far from the epicenter, the damage was modest, with only a few houses collapsing along the way.

There was not even a single soldier guarding the city at the gate of the city, and they all ran to the open area on the outskirts of the city.

Yang Zhi led more than a dozen fugitives, rode horses and swaggered away, and fled until more than ten miles away before stopping to rest.

"Brother Yang is worthy of being the general of the palace, and he actually knows how to go to the back house of the government to get a lot of food and goods, and he can escape from Chang'an in a carriage!" The fugitives admired it and admired it from the bottom of their hearts.

These people are more righteous and willing to take the lockpickers away.

Those fugitives who have no righteousness don't know where to go at the moment, but most of them didn't follow Yang Zhi well.

"What are Brother Yang's plans?" A fugitive asked.

Without waiting for Yang Zhi to answer, the other person said, "What else can I plan?" If you are a fugitive, you will go into the mountains and fall into the grass and become a bandit in the Zhongnan Mountain! ”

"I still have an old lady at home."

"Then you go home and try it, I'm afraid it won't affect the old lady."

"If the grass falls, you have to get some more weapons."

"Try it halfway to see if you can grab a few rich people in the countryside."

“……”

These guys, you and I are already talking about the robbery plan.

Yang Zhi said: "I have a good place to go. ”

"What's the best place to go?" Everyone asked.

Yang Zhi said: "I have an old man in Hanzhong, he is a noble man with official status. If you go there, you can change our name and settle down, so you don't have to go into the mountains to be a thief. ”

"That's good!"

"Let's follow Brother Yang!"

The fugitives turned south, looking for a rich family in the countryside to rob them on the way.

Not to grab money, but to get some weapons. No matter how bad it is, a kitchen knife can do, and a hoe or sickle can also be used as a weapon.

The people abandoned the carriage and only brought three horses into the mountain, and let the horses carry the goods and grain, and went to Yangzhou through the Fu Luo Road.

Halfway through, he also encountered bandits, Yang Zhi fought hard, broke two brothers back and forth and many of them were slightly injured, and finally passed through the bandit-ridden area.

Finally arrived at the boundary of Yangzhou, Yang Zhi came to a village and asked the rich households in the village: "We are the ancestors of Yuan Zhanggong, and we give some gifts to Daming Village, do you know how Daming Village went?" ”

I heard that it was Zhu Guoxiang's friends and family, and the rich man was very enthusiastic: "Walking along the Han River, it is quite difficult to walk on the side of the Golden Gorge." You have been inquiring all the way to the shore, and everyone knows where Daming Village is. ”

"Thank you!"

Yang Zhi hugged his fists and thanked him, and led people straight to Daming Village.

They inquired along the way, and sure enough, everyone knew. And when they heard that they had an old relationship with Zhu Guoxiang, they were all extremely enthusiastic, and there were even rich people who left them for dinner.

The fugitives were extremely surprised: "This Yuan Zhanggong is so famous, everyone knows it." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "If you go over there, you won't have to worry about the government chasing you." ”

(End of chapter)