Chapter 327: Outside the City Gate, Inside the Prison
Song Wen, Wu Song, Wu Erlang and others hurried to the city gate, and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that nothing was strange... Pan Yu had a huge power, and there were probably hundreds of thugs and servants hiding in Mizhou City! Like this
Never be careless if you start a fight rashly.
Wang Yuan and Wang Zhizhou's sudden move hit Pan Yu's seven inches. It can be said that the method was vicious and far-sighted... Originally, Song Wen wanted to subdue the two Xiang soldiers who were outside, Marquis Yu, and then come back to deal with them.
Got this Pan Yu.
Now think about it... If you are the master, once you kill Pan Yu, most of Pan Yu's power and wealth will probably fall into your hands! In addition, the Mizhou Xiang Army will only obey your orders in the future...
...Wang Zhizhou, a place far away from the imperial court, is even more worthless!
After all, he is a Mizhou military envoy with a serious background, someone with money and status! Wang Zhizhou caught Pan Yu and Song Wen off guard... Could it be that he knew in advance that Lu Da would kill Pan Yu?
Fruit? Or is there something fishy here?
Song Wen thought about it for a long time, and finally could only smile bitterly... He had already figured out Ruda's temperament. He hated dandies and corrupt officials the most in his life, and he was extremely loyal. There was absolutely no way he and Wu Yong could go behind his back.
What kind of tacit understanding does Wang Zhizhou have... This incident should be caused by Wang Yuan and Wang Zhizhou seizing the opportunity of the confrontation between himself and Pan Yu before suddenly launching an attack! If the guess is correct, Wang Zhizhou's people have already begun to liquidate the Pan family.
If his people attack the Pan Mansion and suffer heavy casualties... I am afraid that even the benefits of the Pan Mansion will fall into Wang Zhizhou's hands!
In a panic, there were actually a dozen thugs or managers of the Pan family who learned about the state government's attack on Pan Yu, and then took away the property outside with the intention of escaping...
A dozen old Mizhou Xiang soldiers were called to the city gate by Song Wen. Together with the Xiang soldiers who were originally responsible for guarding the city gate, they identified these people one by one and tied them under the wall next to them to await their release.
Song Wen felt a little tired, so he dismounted and sat aside to check some information about the garrison at the Mizhou Guard Station. Suddenly he heard a commotion in front of him... After taking a closer look, Song Wen almost burst into laughter!
It was actually the old accountant who collected the city gate tax for the Pan family that he saw when he first came to Mizhou and entered the city?
Several former Mizhou Xiang soldiers cursed him and pulled him out of the crowd. They didn't beat him. They just took his package and threw it on the table next to him to tie him up... Song Wen saw the old accountant trembling.
Weiwei had a beard and must have been fifty if not sixty, so he waved his hand and asked them to bring him over.
Song Wen had no interest in the thugs he caught guarding the hospital. They were all scoundrels who followed the Pan family to do evil for a few dollars. After cleaning up the Pan family, Song Wen planned to take down the prison camp on the seaside and use
These people go to mine and farm fields, which can be regarded as recycling waste!
The old man knelt down tremblingly, raised his hands and thanked: "Thank you, General, for your life, and thank you for your kindness..."
Song Wen smiled: "Get up! I haven't said I'm going to let you go yet? What are you thanking?"
The old man raised his hand and replied: "The common people's name is Qu Zhou. He is a lonely and failed scholar. His family was hit by banditry and he has no way to come to Mizhou to make a living. He just wants to earn some money to support his little granddaughter... The common people also know that Pan Yuanwai's family is rich and unkind.
I have done a lot of bad things, but there is really nothing I can do about it..."
Song Wen nodded and said: "As long as you don't help the tyrants to harm the people, and you just work hard in the Pan family, there won't be any punishment..."
"Thank you, general, thank you, general!"
Song Wen sighed and was about to ask him to go down and wait. At this moment, Zhou Laoer suddenly hesitated, then looked up at Song Wen cautiously and said: "General, the common people accidentally discovered a few years ago that the Pan family seems to have a secret."
The road can directly connect the inside and outside of the city..."
"What?"
Song Wen was very surprised. Although Mizhou was not big, it was still a state city! The city wall, which stretched for dozens of miles, was as high as three feet. With the moat and foundation, how could it be possible for thousands of people to dig for half a year and a year to complete it?
This matter? How much noise is there? Even if the magistrate and magistrate of the state punish these people for pretending to be deaf and mute, if word spreads, the court will come and kill them! What? Openly digging holes in the ground to rebel?
Song Wen frowned and asked: "Don't talk nonsense. Is it true or hearsay? How did you know about it?"
Qu Zhou cupped his hands and said: "The common people are guilty, how can they dare to deceive the general? The common people have no future in this life. They have not even been admitted as a scholar. There is only one granddaughter left in the family... She is born with a beautiful appearance, and she is a big brother in the Pan family.
The housekeeper heard about this, and one day he came to the side yard drunk and wanted me to give my granddaughter to him as a concubine! My granddaughter..."
An Chun, who was behind Song Wen, frowned and said, "When you talk about authentic things, don't talk about them in places where there are no shadows!"
"Well, yes... the butler was drunk, and later he said that there was a secret passage in the Pan family's backyard, which was built by a prince during the war in the previous dynasty... Later, the Pan family master rebuilt the secret passage.
Use it as a way to escape!"
Song Wen frowned and asked, "Have you ever seen this secret passage with your own eyes?"
"No, no, how could the Pan family let an outsider know such a secret? The common people knew that this matter must not be made public, so they used the excuse to avoid the butler's entanglement and hired a hard job of collecting taxes at the city gate... just for fear of causing trouble.
What trouble!"
"Where is the exit of the secret passage?"
"The common people don't know!"
An Chun whispered to Song Wen: "Brother, the Pan family's residence is in the west city. It is impossible for the secret tunnel to pass through the entire Mizhou City. It must have been dug out of the city nearby. Or should I take someone to the west of the city to have a look? Then
There are two shabby villages next to it, maybe the exit is right there..."
Just when Song Wen was about to agree, he saw a horse running from a distance... The Qingshan Camp cavalryman on the horse turned over and dismounted and raised his hands and said: "Lang Jun, the old thief Pan Yu has escaped! Master Wu led his men to break through the Pan Mansion, and the whole house was in chaos.
In the chaos, Pan Yu escaped from a tunnel with some guards, and all the remaining family members were abandoned... The fire was extinguished, but the entrance to the tunnel had been burned down! The main bookkeeper could not enter, so the young informant
You must not run away from Pan..."
"Well! Come on, gather all the cavalry to chase the old thief Pan Yu. You must not let him go out to meet the thief or the two Xiangjun Yuhou..."
The city of Mizhou was in chaos. Many of the Pan family's shops were in a mess. There were even some thugs in the shops who heard that Mr. Pan was being hunted by the government and turned around and started looting their own owners' property! There were also many other thugs.
The government officials came like hungry wolves to seize it... In the end, the Xiang Army joined in without saying a word to seize and occupy the Pan family's territory near the small camp in Beicheng.
The county government office was deserted, and no one dared to come here to take advantage of the situation. However, the county magistrate had already taken the money and hurried to the government office to express his loyalty to Wang Yuan, the governor of the state. By the way, he had also secretly collected a lot of evidence against Pan Yu.
Take it with you... Although it's a little late to cram it in temporarily, it's better than waiting to die, right? Although I was wavering between Pan Yuanwai and Wang Zhizhou in the past, but as an official... As long as it's beneficial, the best thing I'm good at is forgetting!
Several county magistrates also asked, what should be done with Luda, the commander of the Xiang army who surrendered? The county magistrate, who was anxious to join in the fawning, only left one sentence... "How can the officers under Song Qianha be murderers?"
?That is a brave man who acted out of a sense of justice! Let him go immediately and thank Lu Dadu on my behalf... Just say that he acted out of a sense of justice and drew his sword to help... Whatever you say, don't bother me!"
Ruda was haphazardly removed from the shackles and walked out of the prison in a daze...suddenly he found that even the police officers who were watching the prison had all fled, and it was so chaotic outside that he didn't know what was going on.
Except for some criminals, the innermost prison was filled with tax arrears and runaways who owed the Pan family loan sharks... Each prisoner sat dull and dirty in the dirty prison.
, his eyes were lifeless, like a zombie.
Lu Da snorted and figured out in his mind... I am afraid that Song Wen has already attacked Pan Yu. If Pan Yu hadn't fallen, Magistrate Ma probably wouldn't have let him go just like that.
With two punches, Ruda smashed the wooden door of the prison in a rage... A stench floated out, and the prisoners inside were so frightened that they did not dare to move.
Ruda raised his head and looked at the sky... This court, this world! It's like this stench that makes people unable to open their eyes!
He was used to seeing the powerful people in the court oppressing the good, and he had seen too many powerful landlords bullying others for the sake of wealth. However, Ruda always had the shadow of an old-timer in his heart... Do you serve the country and the people? Are you loyal to your duties?
These two punches seemed to have shattered the last trace of Ruda's faith in the imperial court, and his whole body shook... On Shabo's big fist, after being scratched by a wooden thorn, blood dropped drop by drop on the ground.
"If the Sa family heard it right, the Pan family is finished... Mizhou should be able to live a peaceful life in the future! Why don't you leave quickly?"
It was silent, and none of these fearful and pitiful prisoners dared to come out...
Ruda didn't know what he was doing, so he actually walked over and picked up a prison roster from the table... It recorded the prison numbers and charges and fate of all the prisoners in the county jail in Fukuo County, Michigan.
"Three murderers, seven thieves, forty-six people who owed the Pan family loan sharks...seven people have died of sudden illness, thirty-nine people have escaped from their households due to tax arrears, and four people have died suddenly..."
Ruda turned around and looked at the escaped prisoners who had just recovered and walked out of the prison... "How did these people who died suddenly die?"
An old man with a dirty beard knelt down and replied: "My benefactor, those people were extorted from money by the government servants, and finally were beaten to death with sticks and sticks..."
Lu Dama nodded numbly... "Let's go! The government has no time to pay attention to you now. They are all busy fighting for money and shops... They are all hiding for a few days, and will come out to help when the Mizhou Xiang Army starts large-scale farming."
Just the military field will do! You will have a bite to eat..."
"Thank you so much, my benefactor! Then...then the Pan family really fell?"
Luda looked at the chaotic sounds and thick smoke outside the county government office, and whispered: "It fell, it must have fallen! Otherwise, why is there no one to guard the prison?"
All the misdemeanor criminals climbed out, looked around suspiciously, and then ran out and disappeared along the corridor outside the small door...
Ruda was left standing in the prison yard with his head blankly blank, not knowing what he was thinking.