On the dock, more than 600 Zhangqiu County workers were arrested, densely packed, kneeling all over the ground, and more than a dozen bodies were piled up on the other side. They were killed when they resisted the officers and soldiers. More than 2,000 soldiers were aggressive and drove the workers.
Surrounded by a group of people.
Song Hao's face was ashen. He had just received news that a team of soldiers sent to capture the wife of the thief was ambushed. Nine brothers were killed. The wife of the thief was rescued by a woman in red.
"It's her again!"
Song Hao gritted his teeth with hatred, and swung his whip to the brigade coach who reported the news, "You hundred soldiers can't catch a woman?"
The brigade coach was so scared that he knelt down, "General, that's the Jianghuai female hero! Her arrow is highly poisonous and she will die as soon as she touches it. The brothers dare not get close to you."
Song Hao was furious, and whipped his head and cursed: "The bullshit heroine, it's obviously a female thief, you useless bastard!"
He shouted, "Drag it down and beat a hundred military sticks!"
Several executioners dragged the brigade commander down. For a moment, a series of tragic sounds came. Song Hao was still angry. The female thief ruined his major events several times. He had to cut her into pieces when he caught her!
A military officer next to him advised: "General, the rebellious thief leader has been killed at least, so you can explain it to the prefect."
Du Sheng's head was hanging on Song Hao's horse. He picked up the head and looked at it, nodded. He looked at the laborers kneeling all over the ground, waved his hand, "Take them all away!"
The soldiers started to drive away the laborers with their knives. At this moment, a soldier pointed to the river in the distance and shouted, "General, the official ship is here!"
Song Hao was startled and turned around and looked at the river. He saw a fleet of officials coming from the canal not far away. About thirty large ships were standing on a two-story large ship in front.
The two officials in front held talismans in their hands, and in the middle was a young high-ranking official in purple robe. He was tall and stern, with two generals behind him, one on the left and the other on the right, both with helmets and armor.
Song Hao was stunned. He didn't know who he was, but the other party was wearing a purple robe and holding a talisman. He saw that Zhou Yang, the prefect of Qiao County, was also on the boat, so that Song Hao did not dare to neglect, so he immediately rode his horse to meet the person.
It was Yang Yuanqing who was ordered to tour the south. He took a boat along the canal and inspected the canal all the way to inspect the canal transport. This morning, Qi County was the first stop to enter Pengcheng County. Unexpectedly, the soldiers found that there were officers arresting the dock from a distance.
people.
He turned around and asked with a smile: "Emistress Zhou, do you know what happened here?"
Zhou Yang, the prefect of Qiao County, accompanied Yang Yuanqing to inspect Qiao County and was preparing to go ashore in Qi County. He did not expect such a thing to happen. Zhou Yang looked at it for a while and said, "It seems that the laborers in the docks should be causing trouble, the army
Many people were killed in suppressing the arrests.”
He pointed to the officer led by him, "That is General Song Hao, the commander of Pengcheng County, nicknamed Qingyan Diao, and is a famous general in Jianghuai."
Yang Yuanqing nodded. He had heard of this Song Hao, Yuwen Shu's confidant general, and Zhou Yang snorted coldly again, "There are actually two thousand troops being transferred, and I don't know if it is registered with the Ministry of War."
He was reminding Yang Yuanqing that there might be problems here. These counties and counties are all harmonious on the surface, but in fact they have disputes of interests, and there is no peace behind it.
Yang Yuanqing went south and did nothing. Finally, he encountered a major event in Pengcheng County. He was so serious that he immediately ordered, "The fleet docked!"
More than 30 large ships slowly landed. A boatman layed on the board. Song Hao stepped forward to salute, "Premier Zhou, which high-ranking official of the imperial court is this? Song Hao doesn't know, please forgive me!"
Zhou Yang walked up and smiled and said, "This is Censor Yang's ship. The new Censor is ordered to inspect the grain transportation. Your prefect should have received the certificate."
As soon as Zhou Yang finished speaking, he saw dust flying in the distance, and a team of officials rode on horseback. The head of the official was Sima Jiang, the new prefect of Pengcheng County. According to the court's practice, the letter was first arrived for the officials to receive it, but Pengcheng County was under the jurisdiction of Pengcheng County.
It is far from the canal, so it is one step late when it arrives.
Sima Jiang turned over and dismounted, ran forward and saluted, "Censor Yang, the official is late to welcome him. I hope the Censor will forgive him!"
Song Hao just knew that the Censor Yang was Yang Yuanqing, which surprised him. He looked back at the laborers kneeling all over the ground, and felt a little uneasy. Fortunately, the prefect came, so there was no need for him to come forward, so he retreated.
Go down and hide behind.
Yang Yuanqing walked onto the board, bowed and replied with a smile: "Go south by orders and disturb you all the way!"
Sima Jiang greeted Zhou Yang again, and Zhou Yang smiled and said, "When I meet Sima Envoy, my affairs will be over. You can go back and chant the wind and go to the moon. Anyway, Censor Yang can't find it."
Everyone laughed together, and Yang Yuanqing also joked: "Envoy Zhou is not kind! I was there and I went to sing the wind and play the moon when I left. This is not a good place for guests."
"Okay! When Censor Yang comes back, I will ask the Censor to spend all his time and drink, as long as the Censor does not impeach me."
Amidst laughter, Zhou Yang said goodbye to Yang Yuanqing. Several of his followers led the horses off the boat, and Zhou Yang got on the horse and returned to Qiao County.
Sima Jiang received Zhou Yang's reception and introduced Yang Yuanqing one by one to her subordinates, Pengcheng County Magistrate, Sima, Recording Officer, etc., and introduced the commander Song Hao. Yang Yuanqing glanced at the one he was still dripping blood under the horse's neck.
The head gentry said: "General Song sent troops to quell the rebellion, can there be a transfer order from the Ministry of War?"
Three years after Daye, Yang Guang also strengthened his control over local prefectures and counties. If more than 100 people were mobilized, he must be registered with the Ministry of War. The troops on the dock had at least 2,000 people, which was obviously a violation.
Yang Yuanqing's sharp problem made the atmosphere on the dock a little awkward. Sima Jiang complained secretly. He received Zhang Yunyi's jade Pixiu yesterday afternoon and immediately ordered Song Hao to lead his army south to arrest the rebel workers. Unexpectedly, he received a letter from the court.
Only then did he realize that the Censor went south, and Yang Yuanqing, who was famous for his cruelty, had chased him all the way, but he was still one step slower.
Sima Jiang had no choice but to step forward and said, "The officials have sent people to Beijing to file. Because the situation here is urgent, we will send troops to quell the rebellion first. Please forgive me!"
Yang Yuanqing looked at the laborers all over the ground and asked, "Are they rebelling?"
"Report to the censors, they gathered to attack the county government!"
More than 600 workers saw that the group of senior officials began to pay attention to them and shouted together, "It's unfair! We're unfair!"
Yang Yuanqing turned around and ordered Shen Guang, "Go and ask what's going on?"
Shen Guang ran away, and the group of local officials became nervous, especially Sima Jiang. In fact, he didn't know what happened, but just read the report written by Linghu Shou. This matter was to give Zhang Yunyi face, otherwise he wouldn't have
He secretly regretted the easy foul, why did the Censor come so well?
At this time, Chen Guang came back to report, "Report to the general, his subordinates asked clearly that these workers were from Zhangqiu County, Qi County. They killed their fellow townsmen because of Wanji Shipeng. The county government sheltered the murderer. They went to the county government to ask for people, and There was no impact on the county government and their leader had been killed."
Sima Jiang took out Linghu Shou's report and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "Yang Censor, this is the report of Linghu County Magistrate. Whether they have attacked the county government or not, it is a fact that they killed the Wanji Shipman's servant without authorization. So they themselves have illegal things.”
Yang Yuanqing took the report and looked at Sima Jiang's slightly nervous eyes. Intuition told him that this was just a small fish, not the person he wanted to deal with, and he couldn't catch the small and lose the big one. He smiled and said, "Sima Envoy." Since the person who was the principal was killed, this matter can be explained. To arrest so many people, it is easy to cause even more chaos. If the court is alarmed, it will be difficult for Sima Envoy to explain the matter of dispatching troops to the emperor. , I suggest that you make big things small and let them go and envoy Sima think?"
Sima Jiang was overjoyed. Yang Yuanqing's implication was not to pursue his own military affairs. He hurriedly said, "Censor Yang has given orders, how dare the subordinates disobey?"
He waved his hand immediately, "Let these workers go!"
The tense atmosphere of the workers was relieved. At this moment, several horses rushed to the distance. Sima Jiang thought it was the county magistrate, but when he ran closer, he saw it was the county magistrate and several yamen runners. He frowned, what happened to Linghu Shou? Do you not understand the rules of the officialdom?
The county magistrate turned over and got off his horse and ran forward and shouted, "Sima Prefect, the magistrate Linghu was killed!"
This news surprised everyone, and Sima Jiang said angrily: "What's going on?"
The county magistrate said with a sad face: "The concubine of the county magistrate came to cry early in the morning and said that the county magistrate was killed. When we went to the back house, we found that the county magistrate Linghu had died in the bedroom and his head was cut off.
The county magistrate took out a small iron arrow that was one inch long and said, "The county magistrate's concubine said she was killed by a woman in red, and we found this at the scene."
Yang Yuanqing's heart was thrilled. This small iron arrow was exactly the same as his iron arrow, and it was simply the shrinking of his iron arrow.
Sima Jiang was furious and gritted her teeth and said, "It's that female flying thief again!"
Song Hao also bowed and said, "Report to the prefect, this female thief rescued the leader's wife in the morning and killed ten of our brothers."
Yang Yuanqing took the small iron arrow and saw four words engraved on the arrow shaft, "Jianghuai Female Hero!, turned over, and the other arrow shaft also engraved on the punishment of evil, four words, Yang Yuanqing became nervous, Is it really her?
"Sima Taishou, who is this Jianghuai female hero?"
Sima Jiang said angrily: "This female thief claims to be chivalrous. In recent years, in Jiangnan, Jianghuai area, many people who are considered to be not guilty of death were killed by her, which made the wealthy families in Jianghuai area panic. Not only that, there are already three A famous official died under her sword. The governments of the fourteen counties in Jianghuai and Jiangnan offered a total of 30,000 yuan to capture her. But this female thief was very skilled in martial arts and was elusive and could not be arrested until now."
"But why did the imperial court not file a record? At least the Censorate has not heard of this female thief."
"I don't know much about this."
Sima Jiang said lightly to turn this matter off himself, "The lower official was originally the governor of Liang County, and there was no trace of this female thief in Liang County."
He turned around and asked the county magistrate of Pengcheng, "Have this female flying thief ever filed a record with the court?"
The county magistrate Pengcheng smiled bitterly and bowed quickly and said, "Report to the Censor Yang and the Prefect, the previous small case has not been reported to the court, but in June this year, he was assassinated by a female thief because of a Heyun envoy, and reported to the Ministry of Personnel. Two months ago, Wei
The censor came to investigate the case, but the female thief did not find it, but found out that the case of Heyun Si si increased the commercial tax, which also implicated the prefect Zhang."
Only then did Yang Yuanqing realize that the case of Zhang Xin being demoted was exposed like this. He sneered in his heart, wondering how many things were hidden in the small cases before.
"Sima Envoy, go to the county to have a look!"
Sima Jiang was also in a hurry to go to Qi County to check the situation. He urged him repeatedly. Yang Yuanqing called Yang Silang and whispered to him: "Let's check why these workers are causing trouble? What's going on with Wanji Ship?"
Yang Yuanqing had already discovered that there were very few merchant ships in the canal, and he could not see the individual cargo ships, which made him very suspicious.
Yang Silang agreed and stayed on the dock. Yang Yuanqing turned over his horse and led hundreds of accompanying soldiers and Pengcheng County officials to the county town together...