"Two masters, you use it slowly, the little old man will go to the official errand first!"

After sending away the yamen's arrester, Xu Ye confessed with a smile on his face, and then picked up the portrait and prepared to post it in the most conspicuous place.

Zuo Yu glanced at his back, with a trace of coldness on his face, as if he had murderous intent towards Zhang Xianzhong in the portrait.

Zhao Lihe said softly: "Don't worry, I transferred a satellite to the police department two days ago, and he can't escape the ......."

Zuo Yu turned his head to look at Zhao Lihe, and said lightly: "Why wait for your subordinates to arrest him, this guy is more or less a historical celebrity, why don't you and I go and see it in person, how about it?" ”

Zhao Lihe thought for a moment and nodded lightly: "It's okay!" ”

Hearing this, Zuo Yu immediately got up, threw down a silver dollar, and left the teahouse with Zhao Lihe.

These silver dollars were the new currency issued by the Great Xia Dynasty, because the Great Xia Dynasty was not long established, and it was not yet enough credibility to be cultivated in the people, and it was difficult to be accepted by the people to issue paper money rashly, so it was better to start with silver dollars and copper dollars.

As the saying goes, it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to govern the country, and Zhao Lihe thinks so.

He has now discovered that the difficulty of governing the people's livelihood after the founding of the People's Republic of China has increased geometrically compared with the difficulty of fighting the world before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The science and technology tree of the Great Xia Dynasty was already deformed, which was the result of typical seedling pulling, and its military strength was comparable to that of the major warring states in the late World War II, but in terms of people's livelihood, it was at best the level of the end of the nineteenth century in China, and it was not even comparable to the Republic of China period.

When the country was first built and the economy withered, the talents needed by Zhao Lihe had not yet grown up, so he could not achieve all-round development in terms of people's livelihood, and could only give priority to focusing on the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the people.

Nothing else, has yet to develop.

For example, mobile communications, etc., although the Great Xia Dynasty has enough technology and information, but it is too late to build communication base stations in various places, at present, only the local government has pulled the telephone line, and even the fixed telephone has not yet entered every household.

Because of this, in many remote areas, there are still many places where the power of the imperial court cannot be reached.

This is also normal, after all, the founding of Huaxia in other worlds has not been handled well for decades, and how can it be possible to expect the Great Xia Dynasty to deal with it in half a year?

But in the same way, this also gave Zhang Xianzhong the opportunity to wander around and avoid pursuit.

At the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, there is a place, called Dongtangyu, here is a good place for bathing in the soup pond since ancient times, when the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, those rich and noble families built countless mansions here, used to cool off and bathe.

Later, as the Ming Dynasty gradually withered, there were more and more bandits entrenched in the Qinling Mountains, and it was not as safe as before.

Until Shaanxi took the lead in the uprising, the Qinling mountain bandits thought that the time had come, and immediately waved their flags to make peace, they kidnapped and even slaughtered many dignitaries who came to Dongtangyu to bathe, and threw their bones into the hot spring pools of Dongtangyu.

Since then, Dongtangyu has inevitably been abandoned.

Now that Great Xia was founded, 99% of the bandits entrenched in the Qinling Mountains have been exterminated, but it is still barren and inhabited.

It's not that there is no one alive in the nearby towns and villages, it's just that the people who survive don't want to go back to live here.

Although the troubled times only lasted for a few years, it was during these years that the bottom of the hot spring pool in Dongyuyu was covered with white human bones.

Thousands of dead souls inhabit the bottom of the hot springs in Dongtangyu, making the people fearful of the place, and actively concocting and spreading many horror stories.

Thanks to these horror stories, Zhang Xianzhong doesn't need to bother too much, as long as he pretends to be the soul of an unjust death, he can scare away the innocent passers-by who strayed into Dongtangyu.

Of course, not all innocent passers-by are spared, for example, today, a passing Orion suffered......

"Crackling—"

The precious fragrant wood that had been torn down from the Takato Mansion burned in the rising flames, and the flames licked the wild boar meat strung with branches above, and the fat fat roasted the fist-sized pork to a creak.

In front of the campfire, three big men sat on a random stone, their eyes greedily looking at the burnt pork skewers.

Behind them, there was a small pool of soup with a fresh human corpse in the pool.

His clothes had long been stripped of his clothes, and he was tied with thick hemp rope around his waist, and many large stones with scorched marks were tied to the ropes, and the skin and flesh of his body had been soaked in hot water and turned white and rotten.

The surface of the pool floated with glistening grease, emitting a disgusting and strange fishy smell in the steaming white air.

When ordinary people smell this smell, not to mention vomiting on the spot, at least it is unbearable, but the three big men in front of them did not react at all, and devoted themselves to the pork barbecue in front of them, obviously adapting to this strange taste.

Finally, the wild boar that had been unjustly killed by the hunter was roasted.

The big man in the middle immediately picked up a bunch and feasted on the hot pork.

After he finished eating a bunch, the two men next to him dared to reach out for the meat and gnaw it greedily.

After eating and drinking, the leader sat on the edge of the soup pool, holding the pig bones shaved with a knife, and threw them into the soup pool one after another, and from time to time smashed the corpse at the bottom of the soup pool, as if he was making fun of the bones.

However, if you look closely, you can see that the focus of this person's gaze is not on the bones, but directly into the distance, as if he is thinking about something in a daze.

This person is the famous Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong, the word Bingwu, Shaanxi Dingbian Liushujian people, when he was young, he studied when he was young, and later joined the army, as the catcher of Yan'an Mansion, but he was dismissed because of the incident, and then went to Yansui Town to join the army, and was beheaded for breaking the law, the main general Chen Hongfan looked at his strange appearance, and pleaded for it, and the general soldier Wang Wei looked at Chen Hongfan's face, and beat Zhang Xianzhong with a hundred military sticks, and then removed his name.

Since then, Zhang Xianzhong has been living in the countryside.

In the original timeline, this person should have gathered eighteen farmers in his hometown to form a rebel army in the third year of Chongzhen, and since then he has fought in various places, and has grown into a giant with Li Zicheng in one battle after another.

But in this world, Zhao Lihe's rise is too fast.

When Zhang Xianzhong wanted to persuade his father and fellow villagers to revolt and rebel, Daxia had already taken Guanzhong at a very fast speed, and those young officials who came out of the League easily gathered the hearts of the people he had so hard to incite by relying on a book of accounts used to distribute land.

Looking at the old folks who were full of excitement and obediently cooperated with the officials in distributing land, Zhang Xianzhong only felt that hatred was not made of steel.

But he didn't dare to really go against Zhao Lihe and Great Xia, so he could only leave his hometown with a few equally unwilling fellow villagers, intending to go to other places to join those real rebels.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, Daxia's army is like a great white shark that smells blood, following him to death.

Wherever he went, Great Xia's army pushed to.

The rebel army he wanted to defect to was powerless in the face of the army of Great Xia, and was easily bulldozed.

Finally, after the same experience happened several times, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but scold angrily, he felt that these people were all wine bags and rice bags, so in a fit of anger, he took his fellow villagers to gather the homeless people, gathered the mountains as a village, and planned to set up an army on his own.

But helplessly, the new army of Great Xia was too powerful, and the mountain bandits were not opponents at all, so they could only rout down the mountain and wander everywhere.

In this way, the desperate Zhang Xianzhong took his two henchmen and brothers to wander in the countryside beyond the reach of the government's power, relying on courage and a little cleverness to repeatedly do big cases, and has not been arrested so far.

But when people walk by the river, how can they not get their shoes wet.

Zhang Xianzhong knew in his heart that sooner or later he would miss out.

If you want to survive, you must either find a way to fake your identity and turn around, or you must leave Great Xia as soon as possible.

As for surrendering, Zhang Xianzhong never thought that he had already killed a lot of people, and he couldn't turn back for a long time......

Suddenly, a man walked hurriedly and said with an anxious face: "Big brother, someone is here again!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at him and said lightly: "What are you afraid of, look at your bear-like appearance, quickly change your clothes and scare them away." ”

The man hurriedly explained: "Big brother, this time it's not the people under the mountain who are here, it's a group of fast catchers!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong Huo Ran got up, frowned, and said, "Daxia's catch?!" ”

The man nodded again and again, his eyes revealing a hint of fear and retreat.

Zhang Xianzhong's heart also tightened, and he immediately asked, "How many are here?" ”

The man hurriedly said: "Eight, it happens to be a fast catching team." ”

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, and said decisively: "If you can't fight the enemy, prepare a trap and see if you can pit a few first, if you can't do it, you can hide in the cellar we found two days ago and avoid the limelight for a few days." ”

"Yes, big brother!"

The man hurriedly responded, turned around and hurried away.

At the same time, on the mountain road two miles away, a group of eight people were striding forward.

Beside them, a clear mountain spring rushed down the valley, steaming white gas steaming above the spring, there were no fish swimming in the water, no insects were visible, and the stones on the shore and at the bottom of the lake were full of scorched black marks left by the sulfur.

Smelling the smell of sulfur in the air, the young man holding the knife among the eight couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Brother Yun, do you really think Zhang Xianzhong will hide in this kind of place?"

"Yes, Brother Yun." The shorter boy among the eight shrunk his neck and whispered, "I heard the people of Tangyu Town say that there are thousands of dead souls buried in this East Tangyu, Zhang Xianzhong is hiding here, isn't he afraid of the dead souls asking for his life and being haunted by evil ghosts?" ”

“……”

The heroic young man who was called Brother Yun by everyone glanced at the young man and said lightly: "Good people are afraid of evil ghosts, evil ghosts are afraid of evil people, Zhang Xianzhong has been in hiding for more than three months, and he has traveled all over the country to do a series of murders, and there are 17 of them that the government knows about alone, and there are countless people who don't know." ”

"Such a person is already a wicked person among the wicked, he will only worry about the encirclement and suppression of the government, how can he be afraid of evil spirits?"

(End of chapter)