By the time Xu He and the others rushed back to the east gate of Hailing City with their men and horses, there was no longer the hustle and bustle when they came out.

It was getting late, the wind was biting, and the field was endless, but there was not a single figure except them.

As soon as he reached the city gate, he saw a sudden fire at the city gate, and someone shouted, "Who is it?" ”

Xu He said: "I'm Xu He, and I've brought the group training back!" ”

After a while, I heard Chen Hua on the city wall: "Is it a bright voice?" ”

"My lord, it's me!"

Chen Hua said: "Liangsheng, you told all your people to light torches and get closer!" ”

Xu He knew that it was dark at this time, and Chen Hua was afraid that he would be kidnapped, so he was cautious.

However, they were not Xibei goods, so they were naturally not afraid of inspection, so they stood under the city gate with fire.

Chen Hua was still not at ease, so he asked someone to fall into the city and go down to the city, and asked Xu He to sit in and enter the city first.

When Xu He went up to the city tower, Chen Hua said nervously: "The people below are all your people, right?" ”

Xu He smiled bitterly: "Of course it is!" ”

"Well, you're going to be held hostage, and the thieves won't let you in alone!" After speaking, he waved his big hand and said, "Open the door!" ”

"Boom" ......

As soon as the sound passed, the gate opened, and the regimental training troops entered the city.

Xu He said to Chen Hua: "My lord is very cautious!" ”

Chen Hua smiled bitterly: "Being reminded by you when you left the city, I realized that I was not prepared for the enemy at all!" ”

Xu He knows that this situation is actually very common, why has there been peace for a long time in history, and suddenly a war broke out, and the thieves were able to quickly take down several big cities?

This is because the mindset of local officials has not yet shifted.

They still think like local civil servants.

What does the civil servant consider?

Of course, the people can't freeze to death?

But the enemy sees you at this point, so he often uses indirect tactics to catch you off guard.

The best example, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations, fought from Guangxi to Jinling, and conquered cities and conquered cities along the way, like a bamboo, and still entered a no-man's land.

The decay and degeneration of the Qing court was one of the reasons, and this point was also one of the main reasons.

"By the way, Liangsheng, it's okay if you don't remind you, after you leave, I will organize people to register the names of the people in the city in the city! I've found out about 40 people with accents from elsewhere, and now I'm in prison! What do you say about this? ”

"There are more than forty?" When Xu He heard the news, he immediately frowned.

Chen Hua nodded and said: "There are many foreign accents, for their sake, they all say that they are in business, but they can't see the goods!" ”

Xu He nodded and said, "I'll take a look!" ”

After speaking, he asked Qin Lie and Zhou Bi to meet Zhang Jingxian and ask him to help arrange the stationing of these three hundred or so people.

After speaking, he followed Chen Hua to the prison.

The first time he came to the county jail, Xu He was really a little unaccustomed.

In this kind of place, the air is full of the smell of mold, mixed with the smell of urine, which is very unpleasant.

Seeing that the eldest master personally took the famous Xu Gongzi of Hailing to this place where birds don't, the prison head hurriedly dropped his chopsticks, and Xiaoyi gave everyone a lantern and led the way.

The prison in Hailing County is not the kind of wooden fence in the TV series.

In fact, there are two places where the magistrates hold prisoners.

One is the place where petty offenders are held, which is the widely spread [class room]!

In fact, the squad room is not a place for detaining prisoners, but a place for the third class of officials in the yamen to work.

In the beginning, in order to prevent delays in the trial, the prefecture and county yamen often put the supporting evidence of the parties to some civil cases, minor offenders, and cadres into the squad room to await trial, and sent officers to guard them so that they could be on hand with them.

In the class room, both witnesses and "prisoners" are huddled together in a noisy manner, sleeping and together.

Of course, the class room is also divided into grades, rich people can spend money to enter a large room with a bed, in spending some money can remove the iron chain, less money can be spent, then you can lay on the floor, and even at the end of the Qing Dynasty, you can eat opium, it is said that you can turn on the lamp once and hang five dollars! I just don't know if it's okay to bring the Qinglou woman in.

In short, the origin of sitting in the class room comes from here, and here it is a misdemeanor.

Such a felony, such as the county jail where Xu He and others are now located.

It was dark here, and there was only a small door in and out of every room, with a hole in the door, which was closed on weekdays, and the jailer would only open the small window when he had something to do or deliver food.

The most important prisoners were all wearing shackles and shackles, that is, handcuffs and leg shackles in later generations, which were about the same.

Once these people go out, such as to be tried, they will have to go to Miki.

What is Miki? The so-called [Miki] that can't be asked for under the three woods is actually the first flail, foot shackles, and hand shackles.

This thing, wearing it, is torture, every minute and every second.

When Xu He stood in the dark and looked at the forty or so people, he found that although Chen Hua did not give them three woods, the foot shackles were everyone's standard.

This...... It's an exaggeration.

Chen Hua whispered: "Just in case, just in case, first wronged them for a few days, as long as you don't move around at will, it's fine!" ”

Xu He nodded and said, "Just now, the adults said, how many businessmen with Zhejiang accents are among these people?" ”

Chen Hua nodded: "They said they were here to collect silk, but when I asked them where the silk was, they couldn't tell." When I asked them which village they lived in when they were harvesting, they couldn't tell. ”

In this era, the merchants who went to the countryside to collect silk were all to eat and live in the villagers' homes, generally to find a village family, and then negotiate the price of food and housing, monthly settlement or familiar, once given.

Therefore, what Chen Hua said is not false at all, these people can't tell where they live, so it is very suspicious.

There were many things, and he and Chen Hua didn't have time to bring these people to the lobby, so he ordered the jailer to take one of the suspicious people to a secluded place for questioning.

The jailer went to pick up someone, but Xu He still stood in the dark and watched the movement over there.

As soon as these people saw the jailer, they shouted that they were wronged, and the jailer did not have the humanitarian spirit of later generations, and when they heard the noise of these people, they drew their whips and frightened: "Shout again, I will die of sorrow for you!" ”

After scolding for a while, the gang finally stopped.

He tapped with his hand at the small window: "You, it's you, the man with a black mole under his mouth, you come out for me!" ”

After saying that, he beckoned the other two jailers to come forward and watch the small door, and then he took out the key and took out one person from inside.

The man had just come out, and he was trembling with fright: "Brother Cell Boss, I caught the wrong person, I'm a silk collector!" ”

The jailer scolded, "You have to tell me an egg, come with me!" Go meet our lord! ”

When Xu He came out of the man, he looked at the man's legs, and he didn't have the feeling of being cross-legged on the boat all the year round.

It's not the appearance of a lewd, fierce, or arrogant widow in my impression.

I can only say that I am a little nervous and a little dazed.

In terms of performance, nothing is a problem.

"There's another chapter a little later!

Sorry to my family, I've been doing a lot lately!

My family is in the hospital, and I didn't sit down until eight o'clock!"