Du Zhongxiao stood up and said to Huang Tianzheng: "Let that man come forward and speak." ”

Huang Tian was singing a promise and said to Shi Dalang: "Da Lang, the judge asked you to come forward and speak." ”

Shi Dalang's eyes rolled around, and he said to Huang Tianzheng: "County Lieutenant, what kind of official is this?" Is it bigger than Zhixian? ”

Huang Tian was busy saying: "Da Lang, don't talk nonsense!" This is the transport judge, in charge of the affairs of the camp on this road. Officials from more than a dozen prefectures on Jingxi Road can check whether Zang is doing or not and how he is administering. ”

Shi Dalang didn't know what Huang Tianzheng was talking about, but he only took Huang Tianzheng, an empty county lieutenant, with him, and he intuitively felt that Du Zhongxiao was not such an important person. After a while, he stepped forward with Huang Tianzheng.

Du Zhongxiao looked at Shi Dalang and said in a deep voice: "What's your name?" Where are the people? Why do you bring so many people to hunt? ”

Shi Dalang said: "My name is Shi Daqing, not far from the north. There was nothing to do today, so I brought a few bankers and shot some roe deer rabbits to eat. ”

Du Zhongxiao looked at the person behind Shi Daqing who was holding a knife and gun in his hand, and said, "It's not Orion, how can you have a bow?" How can the banker behind you be holding a knife and a gun? If you want to hunt, it doesn't hurt to be in your farm. This place is more than ten miles away from your Zhuangzi, and it is not a mountain forest, who allowed you to hunt? ”

Shi Daqing listened to it and said: "What the official said is funny, there are only me Shijiazhuang in the surrounding area of one or twenty miles, why do you need others to agree!" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Seeing that you are not a good way, take it first!" After returning to the county seat, let the local people come to pick up people! ”

Shi Daqing couldn't help but be annoyed when he heard this, and he was about to attack as soon as he raised his hands. Unexpectedly, Thirteen Lang strode up and shouted: "This guy is not bound by his hands, isn't it a rebellion!" ”

Before the words fell, he raised a kick and kicked Shi Daqing to the ground. A few followers behind him stepped forward, held it down, and took out the rope and tied it. The rest of the bankers saw that the momentum was not good, so they didn't dare to fight back, so they let Thirteen Lang lead people to tie them up one by one.

Huang Tianzheng jumped to his feet in a hurry, hurriedly stepped forward, and said to Du Zhongxiao: "Judgment, this Shi Dalang is the only son of the former historian of Shijiazhuang, not a bad person. There are more than 500 Zhuangzi in the Zhuangzi outside the historian, and there is only one son. Take him, I'm afraid—"

Du Zhongxiao said: "As soon as this guy met, he said that we picked his fruit, and we wanted to come and get used to it." I still have a lot of things to do in Zaoyang, if everyone is like this, then what is it? Let Li Zheng come to lead the people and teach them the rules! ”

After speaking, he said to the people around him: "Get on the horse, let's continue to look around!" ”

Shi Daqing tied his hands and was led by others, secretly hating in his heart. I don't know where Du Zhongxiao came from, why he didn't drink a word, so he tied himself up. I have lived for more than 20 years, and I have seen several officials in the county, where have I ever seen such a ruthless person. I hate Du Zhongxiao, but I am also a little afraid.

Huang Tian was worried. There are more than 200 villagers in Shijiazhuang, but they are not easy to mess with, and even the magistrate does not easily provoke their family. There are only more than 1,000 households in Zaoyang County, and most of them are customers of more than a dozen senior Zhuangzi, and they are in charge of all affairs in the county. offended them, and even the taxes of the imperial court were not settled, and the magistrate couldn't do it. Moreover, these people are in the same spirit, offending one family, and several other families are working against each other, which is not comparable to ordinary places. When Du Zhongxiao first arrived, he tied up Shi Zhuang Dalang, which was too reckless.

The scale of the county in the Song Dynasty was determined by the number of households, and the large number of households was a large county, and the small number of households was a small county, regardless of the area. Because the structure of the county and the number of officials are distributed according to the hierarchy of the county, and the fiscal revenue is related to the number of households. Therefore, in densely populated places, the county is dense, and in sparsely populated places, the county is less. Zaoyang has a large area, which is a middle and lower county, and the number of households is just over 1,000. In such a county, there are more than 200 landlords who are villagers, and there is no doubt that they are strong, and the county magistrate does not dare to offend easily.

In Du Zhongxiao's memory, the village of more than 200 households is in the plain area, but it is a small village that cannot be smaller, even if it is a villager fight, this kind of village is also a small role, how can you care about this kind of small landlord.

This area is full of small mounds, not too high, you can go up in dozens of steps, endlessly. The mound is densely vegetated above, and the lower part is swampy with reeds. To open fields here, one is to drain the water, and the other is to build terraces on the mound.

As we traveled northward, the terrain gradually increased, hills appeared, and lakes and swamps gradually decreased.

Huang Tianzheng stepped forward and said: "Yun Juan, a few miles ahead, it is Shijiazhuang." He has a lot of good land, and there are more than 200 villagers in the village, and he collects 10,000 stones of grain a year. ”

Du Zhongxiao looked at the sky and said, "Since we have arrived, we will go to his village to sit and beg for a bowl of water to drink." ”

Huang Tian was looking at Shi Dalang who was tied behind the horse, and said with some embarrassment: "The historian is a kind-hearted outsider, and it is not difficult to use some wine and rice in his village." It's just that Shi Dalang is here, and it's not easy to talk at that time. ”

Du Zhongxiao looked back at Shi Daqing, was silent for a while, and said, "Then I won't go to Shijiazhuang!" We headed northeast, rested at the horse shop on the road to Tangzhou, and then returned to the county seat. ”

Hearing this, Shi Daqing in the back only screamed bitterly. If you go to Shijiazhuang, you will inevitably let yourself go, otherwise how can you enter Zhuangzi? As a result, the transport judge did not go again, and went to the horse shop on the official road, and it seemed that he had to take himself to the county seat. What kind of official is Yun Juju? is so majestic, how can I be bumped into by myself! Isn't it a tour of the streets with you like this?

After Du Zhongxiao had a general understanding of the local situation, he knew that if he wanted to camp here, there would inevitably be conflicts with local big households. This is the fringe area of the Xiangyang Basin in Nanyang, with fertile land, mild climate and abundant rainfall, which is particularly suitable for the development of agriculture. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is conceivable that the development is backward. The proportion of main customers in the Central Plains is generally seven to three, with seven main customers and three customers, but the main households here only account for two or two percent, and eighty percent are customers. Most of the people in the countryside depend on a few big landlords, and they are afraid that they will find a lot of trouble for the camp and farm work.

This Shi Daqing died, and as soon as he appeared, he said that he would pick his family's fruits, and Du Zhongxiao just took him as his example. As soon as the camp and field affairs came, there were at least a few thousand households, and they were also military organizations, so they were not afraid that these big families would go against the sky.

Not far to the east is Tongbai Mountain, there is a lot of gold and silver in the mountain, and there are households mining gold in the mountain all the year round. Because the official did not set up a field, it was a poaching operation, and the gold miners were mixed. Those talents are a big problem, and if they collude with big people outside the mountains, they will inevitably cause trouble.

Walking to the northeast, in less than an hour, you will arrive at the official road to Tongtang Prefecture. After arriving at the horse shop, drinking tea and using some dry food, Du Zhongxiao led the people to continue westward, and then returned along the country road.

Walking on the road, I saw local people passing by from time to time. They were all empty-handed, in a hurry, looking at Du Zhongxiao and the others with strange expressions.

Huang Tianzheng said to Du Zhongxiao: "Judgment, the news that we took Shi Dalang must have spread." You see, these villagers don't look like they're in a hurry, but they look like they've come to inquire about the news. I wanted to know that the identity of the official was not trivial, so I didn't dare to be reckless, but I just came to look. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let them go." People have already taken it, and in two or three days everyone will know about it. It is better to set rules for them now than to have conflicts in the future. We're less troublesome, and that's good for them. ”

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