This time, Han Yu spent four days inspecting the port area of Hekou Town, most of the time was spent on the road, when they returned to the county seat, they felt a special atmosphere, Han Yu felt strange in his heart, he arranged the two stewards in the county post house, and came directly to the county office.

As soon as he entered the official room, his staff member Xu Jian greeted him and said, "County Jun, something is wrong!" ”

"What's going on?"

Xu Jian glanced out, and saw several county officials standing outside, who were sneakily probing their brains here, he pulled Han Yu into the room, closed the door and said: "Yesterday morning, there was a large-scale armed fight in Yantian outside Dongcheng, killing more than a dozen people and injuring dozens of people. ”

Han Yu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" ”

"I heard that the Gao family and the Miao family reached a compromise two days ago, and the two families went to the Fei family to negotiate the distribution of salt fields, but the Fei family had a tough attitude, resolutely refused to give in, and insisted on distributing according to the ratio of 622.

Han Yu knew very well that the root cause of this was that the predecessor Cangzhou Thorn Shi Libin rewarded the three families with 20,000 mu of salt fields in order to provoke the relationship between the three families, but he refused to divide it clearly, and just let them negotiate and distribute it by themselves.

The Fei family insisted on distributing according to the ratio of 622, and the other two demanded to divide it equally, and at most compromised to 433 proportions, resulting in many contradictions between the three families.

The previous county commanders were going to be strongly suppressed as soon as they came, so that the three families temporarily put aside their grievances and unanimously went to the outside world, but Han Yu's arrival was very low-key, especially throwing out a big gift package, the salt and iron division intended to buy the salt fields in everyone's hands at twice the market price, and in the face of real interests, the three began to compete fiercely.

"Who are the dead?" Han Yu asked again.

"Basically, they are all from the Gao Miao family, they have no weapons, and the other party is aggressive and prepared, this time it is more serious that Gao Changxin, the youngest son of Gao Song, the head of the Gao family, was hacked to death on the spot, Gao Song's other nephew also died, and the Miao family also died a child, that is, Miao Dazhi, who took the lead in besieging the county monarch last time, Zhang Tao's brother-in-law, was seriously injured and died."

Han Yu's expression was solemn, this time the situation was really serious, in the past, the weapon fight was only to hurt people, even if someone died, it was a family member or a salt worker, but this time it was the family sister-in-law who was killed, and this feud was great.

"That Miao Dazhi is also a son-in-law!"

Xu Jian nodded, "I heard that it is the son of the head of the Miao family, but it is also said to be a nephew, the details are not clear, but it must be a son-in-law." ”

"What about the Fei family's attitude?"

"Last night, the Gao Miao family carried the body to the Fei family to ask for an explanation, but the door of the Fei family was closed and they never paid attention to it."

"What's next?" Han Yu asked.

Xu Jian shook his head, "No one knows what the next outcome will be, but one thing is for sure, next, the Gao Miao family will never give up!" ”

At this time, the voice of county lieutenant Zhang Tao came from outside the door, "Is the county order Han back?" ”

Han Yu hurriedly stepped forward and opened the door, and said with a smile: "I just came back!" ”

"I saw Han County's horse outside, and I guess the county order is back."

"Is there something wrong with County Lieutenant Zhang?"

Zhang Tao nodded, he glanced at Xu Jian, but he stopped talking.

Xu Jian immediately understood, and hurriedly smiled: "I just have something to do, you can talk!" ”

He went in a hurry, Zhang Tao walked into the house, closed the door with his hand, and said with a solemn expression: "I want to talk about something with Han Xianling." ”

"County Lieutenant Zhang, please take a seat!"

The two sat down, and Zhang Tao was silent for a moment and said, "The Fei family has actually been in collusion with Zhu Tao. ”

Han Yu was stunned, "County Lieutenant Zhang, this is not something that you just said. ”

"Of course I know what I'm talking about!"

Zhang Tao sneered and said: "The Miao family knows about this matter, and the Gao family also knows that the Fei family has a daughter who is Zhu Tao's concubine, so he is so strong, and the 20,000 mu Yantian family will swallow more than half, and he resolutely refuses to give in." ”

"This ...... It can only prove that he used to be in the past! Now that Zhu Tao has gone to Liaodong, the Fei family should cut off relations with Zhu Tao. ”

Zhang Tao shook his head, "When I said the collusion between the two, I not only meant that the Fei family was strong in the past, but I also meant that now, the Fei family still colludes with Zhu Tao." ”

"Do you have proof?"

"Of course there is, there is a man in the Fei Mansion, called Fei Lu, his real name is Peng Lu, who came from Liaodong last month, and he is Zhu Tao's personal guard, and he brought a letter from Zhu Tao."

Zhang Tao left, and Han Yu immediately gathered Xu Jian and the other three and told them what Zhang Tao said.

Xu Jian frowned and said, "It seems that the Gao Miao family wants us to make a move, but how credible is what Zhang Tao said?" ”

"I think that's very credible!"

Ma Qingchuan smiled: "Even the name was said, besides, isn't this what we are looking forward to?" Grab the handle of the Fei family and clean him up, the people of the county have nothing to say, and the Gao Miao family supports us even more, we can try it. ”

Yang Jun also made it clear: "As long as the county monarch makes up his mind, we will be responsible for arresting people and searching the letters!" ”

Han Yu took a few steps and said: "This matter is not enough for us alone, we must ask the garrison for support, can General Yang send an eagle letter to His Royal Highness the King of Jin?" ”

Yang Jun took out a gold medal from his arms and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin has expected that you will ask for a garrison, so he specially gave me this gold medal, as long as it is in Cangzhou, five hundred troops can be mobilized." ”

Han Yu was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Do you want to leave now?" ”

"I'll rush to Zhongyanchang now, ask the garrison to come to support, and before I come back, please try not to alarm the Fei family."

The Jin army currently has 3,000 garrisons in Cangzhou, mainly guarding the major salt farms and ports, and the middle salt field where Yang Jun went is only a hundred miles away from the county seat, and it can be arrived in one day, Yang Jun led several entourages to set off immediately.

Han Yu fell ill at this critical moment, and no one was seen, so he recuperated at home.

Although the Fei family maintained an indifferent attitude, it did not mean that they did not pay attention to the serious consequences of this fight.

In the middle hall of the Fei Mansion, the head of the family, Fei Cheng, had a gloomy face and listened to the report of the eldest son Fei Yang without saying a word.

Fei Cheng is about 60 years old, with a fiery temper, but his health is not very good, a few years ago he was angry once, causing a cerebral infarction and collapsed, and since then he has been half paralyzed.

"Father, this time we did go too far in the fight, killed two Gao family sisters-in-law and one Miao family sister-in-law, this kind of thing has never happened, how can the Gao Miao family give up, father, we should apologize and compensate, forgive or not forgive is one thing, but we can't let the situation expand further, the three families have made enemies since then, and our Fei family will have a sad life in the future."

Although Fei Cheng had the word Cheng in his name, he had no sincerity in his heart, and he snorted coldly, "Who did it first?" If Miao Dazhi hadn't beaten Steward Liu to death with an iron rod first, and his head was opened, would we have killed him? Also, your brother Fei Xing's two legs were broken into seven or eight pieces, and he may not be able to stand up for the rest of his life, why didn't they come to apologize? ”

"Father, there have been countless fights in the past, but never as tragic as this one, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes, and I always feel a little strange."

"What do you think is wrong?"

"Father, after the new county order came, a lot of things happened, and the reason for this fight was ostensibly because of the distribution of salt fields, but the root cause was that the salt and iron division was willing to buy salt fields at twice the market price, which was said by the new county order, but we don't know if this news is true or not,"

"You mean to say that the new county order is to retreat and advance, deliberately provoking a fight between the three of us?"

"That's what the child is suspicious of."

Fei Cheng thought for a while and said, "That's it! Send someone to the Zhanghekou Salt and Iron Bureau to inquire and see if there is any news, but I guess they don't necessarily know, and they have to ask Chang'an about this matter. ”

"If it's true or false news, this Han County Order can't be taken lightly."

Fei Cheng snorted heavily, gritted his teeth and said, "If this news is fake, I will definitely break this dog official's legs!" ”