The day after receiving the official letter from the state government, Sun Tu asked Yang Zhi and Luda to stay in the camp to continue training the township soldiers, and he took a few of his own subordinates, as well as Huang Wenbing, who had recently been very effective, to the prison camp near the west gate of Jiangzhou to learn about the relevant situation.

It is said that this Huang member is also a wonderful person, after experiencing the previous field turmoil, he deliberately befriended Sun Tu, and from time to time he would provide some vegetables and meat for the soldiers in the army for free. Sun Tu had no intention of refusing his repeated overtures, and simply had an open and honest conversation with him, only to know that Huang Wenbing did have an ambition that ordinary landlords did not have - to become an official in the court.

In fact, with the chaos of the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty now, it is not difficult for Huang Wenbing to use money to buy an official. But he didn't want to be such a lowly and low-ranking official who was looked down upon by his colleagues, but wanted to enter the court in a dignified manner, but this was difficult. Although he has some talents, he has not been on the list after several examinations, and the road to the imperial examination is completely cut off, and it is a hundred times more difficult to become an official in the army with his somewhat thin body than it is to re-open the cold window for ten years.

Therefore, in the end, there are only two right ways to choose from relying on the powerful or gaining merit. In fact, in this year, Huang Wenbing did try to curry favor with Taishou Cai Jiu, but Cai Jiu made a good relationship in the city, although he could see Taishou's face in his identity, he couldn't make him have a deeper impression of himself, at least for now, it seems that this road is not easy to walk.

In fact, it is also because of this that in the original story, Huang Wenbing, who had the intention to make meritorious contributions, deliberately reported to Cai Jiu soon after Song Jiang wrote an anti-poem on the Xunyang Tower after being drunk, which caused a storm and finally put his life on the line.

And now, because of Sun Tu's intervention, Huang Wenbing had a new idea, and began to deliberately befriend Sun Tu, who was deeply appreciated by Taishou and had just made great contributions to Jiangzhou's group training, hoping to achieve his final wish to become an official of the imperial court through him.

If he was a pretentious person, he would definitely be disdainful when he heard his intentions, and it was even possible to drive Huang Wenbing away from his side. But Sun Tu has his own opinion, even if Huang Wenbing has selfish motives, it is not pure, but as long as he truthfully says what he thinks, he is willing to give the other party some opportunities, especially in the previous contacts, he also found that the other party does have real materials, so he has the intention of cultivating. Because there is no shortage of martial artists around him now, but there is a lack of staff and think tanks who can help them come up with advice.

Today, Sun Tu took Huang Wenbing to the prison camp together, and he also had the intention of taking the school to him, and if he was satisfied, he would entrust the daily affairs of the prison camp to the other party to deal with. In fact, Huang Wenbing also faintly had a conjecture about this, so he was also very excited at this time.

In the past, Sun Tu had also passed near the prison camp, but it was the first time to look at this Jiangzhou prison city as carefully as he did today. Looking from afar, I saw that the wall of this city in the city was not much shorter than the city wall of Zhijiangzhou, and the city bricks on the rammed earth outer ram were particularly solid. In addition, there were more than a dozen soldiers with swords and spears standing at the small city gate, and there was also a guard standing every one or two paces on the city wall, which really gave people a solid feeling.

Of course, today's pomp and circumstance was obviously aimed at his grandson, and it should be that the camp officials in charge of the prison camp guessed that he, the new boss, would arrive in the next two days, so they made corresponding arrangements.

Sure enough, when Sun Tu led people to the gate of the camp where only two horses passed side by side, and revealed his identity, several green-shirted officials greeted him with flattering smiles on their faces. After the big ceremony, the broad-faced, square-lipped, slender and slender official named Dai Zong, who claimed to be at the level of the prison of the two courts in Benzhou, smiled and said: "Xiang Rili always heard people mention that Sun Tuanlian's heroic martial arts are outstanding, but the villains and other lowly can't be seen in person. Today, I am fortunate to see the true face, but it is more admirable than I imagined. ”

"Haha, Dean Dai is too ridiculous, this official is just a fluke victory, but he doesn't deserve such praise from the officials and people in the city." Sun Tu was quite affectionate to this one of the future heroes of Liangshan, and after replying with a smile, he said a few words of gossip with the others, and then they led him to the prison camp.

Don't look at the entrance to this prison camp, but this is just to better prevent it, in fact, the area inside is not small, after all, there are thousands of prisoners and jailers in it. Moreover, in addition to the cells located in the middle and rear of the camp, there are also many signing rooms for officials in front, so they must not be crowded into a small room with more than ten people like ordinary prisoners.

When Sun Tu was invited by them to sit down in the hall in front of him to serve tea, Dai Zong and the others sent all the relevant books and ledgers that had been prepared long ago, and then reported to him one by one the daily expenses and affairs in the prison camp. They also knew that Sun Tu was now a hero of Jiangzhou and a cronie around Taishou, so they didn't dare to deceive, so they told everything truthfully.

Sun Tu listened quietly, and when he encountered something he didn't understand, he would ask a little bit. It wasn't until they had explained their official duties clearly that he asked with a smile: "In addition to the sum of money issued by the state government, you should have benefited from these prisoners, right?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was speechless, and some didn't know how to answer. This Sun Tuanlian is really a martial artist, is he so straightforward in his speech? Even Huang Wenbing, who had been standing behind Sun Tu, smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, and couldn't help but lean up and whispered: "It's not easy to investigate the matter of group training, at least now is not the time for an in-depth investigation." ”

Sun Tu gave him a slightly calm look, and then continued to look at everyone and smiled: "This official doesn't mean to blame you, the environment in this prison camp is not good, and there is no chance to get ahead, you are actually not much different from those prisoners here, if there are no additional benefits, I'm afraid no one will come here on an errand." ”

Seeing that everyone breathed a sigh of relief, he continued: "However, this official also has his own rules, some of the items set before can continue to be used, but some of the methods that have to squeeze all the oil and water out of the prisoners are still exempted from me, although they are all guilty, they should also retain some dignity." ”

"What the regimental training said is that the lowly rank will definitely act in the future." Dai Zong only then understood that the new Shangguan just wanted to establish his prestige, as long as he didn't wait to do things too much, he naturally wouldn't be too harsh.

After beating them a little, Sun Tu asked them to lead him to the cells behind him to take a look around the cells to see what kind of prisoners were being held inside.

In fact, how can there be heinous prisoners in a rich place like Jiangzhou who are assigned here, at most, some prisoners who have committed serious crimes but are excusable, or whose families are still wealthy, are serving their sentences here. But even if there are many prisoners here who are from good backgrounds, life in this prison camp is not easy, all of them look depressed, and when they see a group of officials and jailers coming, it is like a mouse seeing a cat, and they salute and say hello there again and again, and the rules are very good.

Some of the cells in front of me where only one or two prisoners were held were okay and looked pretty clean. But after going deeper, as the number of people in the cell increased, the environment inside became bad, and some of them were even more stinky, and people were still some distance away, and the stench was already coming, which made Sun Tu frown deeply.

After looking inside a few cells and there was no improvement, Sun Tu asked Dai Zong: "Dean Dai, this kind of prison will make the prisoners get the epidemic, and once there is a real outbreak, I am afraid that the prisoners in the entire prison camp will be infected, and even spread to the people of my Jiangzhou City, do you have this consideration?" ”

"This ...... It is true that the lowly office never thought of this. Dai Zong bowed his head a little uneasily.

"But we can't just give them a better place to live for that sake, can we?" An official muttered something in the back.

Sun Tu was not angry by this, but said, "Things can always be solved." The officer asks you, what kind of hard labor do these prisoners do on weekdays? Is it to repair the city wall, or to dredge the Xunyang River waterway? ”

"All of these are available, but these can only be done after the farming is slack, after all, only a few hundred prisoners here can't do it, so the forced labor, and the local people must be conscripted together. And in order to facilitate governance, we don't dare to let them all out......" Dai Zong quickly explained.

Sun Tu nodded understandingly: "Wouldn't these prisoners have nothing to do during the busy farming season?" In that case, why can't you let them clean up the environment in this prison camp themselves? The official thinks that this is equivalent to something of great benefit to them, and no one will object to it, right? ”

Several officials were dumbfounded, they really didn't think about it, or they had never thought about the prisoners. Now that I think about it carefully, I really feel that Sun Tu's suggestion is good, not only these dirty prisons in the back, but also the front yard and other places can actually be cleaned by these prisoners.

Dai Zong immediately hugged his fists and said: "Sun Tuanlian is really wise, he only came to the prison camp for a while to solve this problem, and the villain admires it." ”

"Hehe, that's easy to say. I also know that you are still a little worried that this will give the prisoners a chance to escape, so in two days, I will send some elite village soldiers to help the guards, so that you don't have to worry. As long as they are shackled and they are safe. ”

The implication of Sun Tu's words was that he was going to plant his own people in the prison camp, and Dai Zong and the others naturally did not dare to disobey this.

So in an understatement, Sun Tu held these subordinates in his hands, thus paving the way for Huang Wenbing to take over related matters. In this way, he will be able to devote more energy to training the troops, and no longer have to worry about the prison camp.

It wasn't until a few months later that the arrival of one person made Sun Tu pay attention to the prison camp again.