Chapter 633: The Evidence Runs Away
Du Wenzhong is actually a bastard, and he didn't understand that it made no difference whether he ran or not. Jiehe Commercial Market is a place where you don't want to die for money, whether you run or not is a fine for money, and Du Wenyu pays for it.
Oh, it's not the same, but if he doesn't run, no one will shoot him with a bow and arrow!
And if no one shoots him with an arrow, he runs and runs, and it is estimated that there will be no future...... In fact, it's nothing if he runs away, as long as Du Wenyu cries for a while in front of Wu Haogu, Wu Haogu will not be held accountable - money, of course, will be punished!
But Du Wenzhong just rode a horse and galloped all the way, and ran along Nankai Road when he left the finance office. There are not many cars and horses on Nankai Road at this time, and the trading of Jiehe Commercial Market revolves around Jiehe, and Nankai Road leads to the boundary of Beicangzhou outside the city, so it is not very lively.
Du Wenzhong drove his horse all the way, but he didn't hit any vehicles, but knocked over a few stalls on the side of the road, and also frightened a few students from Nankai Academy who came out of school.
The south gate was also open at this time, and the guards were several Baoding of the Dadu Bao, and the leading one was named Chai Fang, a child of the Wudi Chai family, and a "knight" - not Zhao Ji's knight, but a knight of Wu Haogu! There is a manor of 1,500 acres outside the Jiehe commercial market, and he works as an errand in the metropolitan insurance office in the commercial market.
The Baozheng of Jiehe Commercial City is not something that can be done casually, and everyone must have the ability to shoot a good arrow, especially if everyone can shoot a good arrow, and firewood fir is no exception. When he was on duty outside the Nankai Gate that day, he suddenly heard a noisy scolding sound coming from Nankai Street inside the door, and then he rode out! Then came Lin Chong's roar: "Catch him ......"
Must be a thief!
Chai Fang immediately reacted, took out the bamboo and wood longbow and a feather arrow he carried with him, and then opened his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the galloping horse under the man's crotch and shooting an arrow. I only saw the sharp arrow leaving the string, gliding through a graceful arc in the air, impartially, and plunged into Du Wenzhong's shoulder!
Yes......
Sharp pain in the heart! Du Wenzhong scolded in his heart: You surnamed Wu don't recognize your six relatives! You actually sent someone to shoot your grandfather Du with arrows...... Ouch, it hurts!
Du Wenzhong endured the severe pain and fell on the horse's back, and the arm that could still move waved desperately and slapped the galloping horse under his crotch, running faster and faster, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Lin Chong also rode out of the south gate, but unfortunately, he only led out a very poor horse in the stable of the finance office, and his own weight was heavy, the horse could not run fast at all, and he could not catch up with Du Wenzhong, who was injured and fled......
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"Ran away?"
Wu Haogu was stunned when he heard Lin Chong's report, "Why did you run away?" β
He looked at Sect Leader Lin a little speechlessly, he was not old, he was not yet forty, why was he so useless?
"He couldn't run far," Lin Chong said, "and when he went out of the city, he let the guard shoot an arrow and was injured!" β
"Shoot, shoot an arrow?" Wu Haogu thought to himself: Don't shoot to death! Otherwise, Du Wenyu would have cried to death.
"Yes!" Lin Chong said, "All twenty mounted police have been sent to chase after me." β
The so-called mounted police are police patrols on horseback, not pretending to be landscapes in Jiehe Shang City, but police patrol officers who perform tracking tasks outside the city - in fact, the police patrol of Jiehe Shang City still has a lot of cases to deal with. After all, the commercial market is a place where fish and dragons are mixed, and there are three religions and nine streams of people. There are nobles from the north who have taken refuge in and out, and there are also many Jiangyang thieves who have committed crimes elsewhere. If there was no capable police patrol team, the city's law and order would have been in shambles.
In addition to patrolling, the Dadu Bao Office of Jiehe Shang City also controls a fairly effective Baoding force. The current Dadu Baozheng is Ximen Qing's cousin Ximen Anguo, and there is a basic Baozheng regiment under his command, and everyone is Baozheng - in fact, it is the knight of Jiehe Shang City, there are about 200 people, all of whom are knights with 1,500 acres of land, and they take turns to serve in Jiehe Shang City.
With these 200 Baozheng as the core, Jiehe Shang City can also mobilize a defense force of thousands of people when necessary.
In addition, the Kaihe City Boji and Wu Haogu themselves also have quite strong weapons.
Belonging to the Boundary River City Bo Division are the Commander of the Obstruction War Slave and the Commander of the Water Patrol. The number of the former is also two hundred, and the commander is Chai Li of the Wudi Chai family, and he is deployed in Jiehebei City. Equipped with armor, horses, bows and arrows, etc., it is quite a sophisticated unit.
The latter was a small naval army, not many in number, only two hundred, equipped with some small river warships, crossbows, and paper armor, and was commanded by Wu Yanzhao, a veteran of Jiehe Shang City. Wu Yanzhao is also a scholar of the Jiehe Ship Administration School, that is, the principal.
The above two units under the Municipal Ship Division are both van armies in terms of formationβonly in this way can they legally possess armor and crossbows.
And what belongs to Wu Haogu personally is his young fake son thousand-man army, led by Murong Parrot. It has not yet become a final army, but it can also be driven into the border Hebei City to be guarded when necessary.
Wu Haogu frowned and thought for a while, "Twenty mounted policemen are still missing, let Dadu Baozheng also send knights, no matter what, I have to find people!" And don't hurt him again. β
As he spoke, Wu Haogu picked up the brush and took out a red troop transfer document, wrote the order for the transfer of fifty cavalry and Lin Chong, put on the flower of "the world's wealthy merchants", signed it, and handed it to Lin Chong.
"Whoa!" Lin Chong took the document and immediately went to transfer troops to arrest people.
The news that the fifty cavalry had left the market in the evening and dispersed and galloped south soon spread among the small Jiehe market.
Although there are a lot of bad people in Jiehe Commercial Market, such scenes are not very common!
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"I must be going to catch Du Wenzhong!"
"Hehe, this kid has a kind of work, and he actually works so many people to catch it!"
"I heard that when he went out of the city this afternoon, he asked the knight guarding the gate to shoot an arrow......
That night, in a private seat on the third floor of Heyue Tower, which specializes in Jiangnan cuisine, Ji Sheng, Xiang Bao and Zhang Kexiang were plotting around a table of Pingjiang cuisine - it seems that Wu Haogu was still negligent in Jiehe Commercial City, and he never established a spy agency under his control!
"The surname Du is Wu Haogu's henchman, and he must know that he has done that shady thing."
Xiang Bao gritted his teeth and said, "If you can hold him in your hand, maybe you can bring him down." β
Although Xiang Bao's master, the Xiang family brothers, is the same old party as Wu Haogu, but Wu Haogu's "betrayal" of Empress Meng made them hate it to the extreme - now not only is Empress Meng gone, but Empress Liu has also become Empress Dowager Liu! Isn't this beating the old face of the Queen Mother Xiang who is "not cold in the bones"?
And Empress Dowager Xiang offended Empress Liu to the house back then, and now Empress Liu has become Empress Dowager Liu, can the life of the Xiang brothers be better?
And the Xiang family didn't dare to sprinkle his anger on Zhao Ji's head, so he used Wu Haogu as a punching bag, and spent money to fund Xunbao, and Cheng Tian couldn't get along with Wu Haogu. Xiang Bao, the patriarch of Xiang's family in Jiehe Shang City, also became Wu Haogu's opponent.
Zhang Kexiang lowered his voice at this time and said, "I have already sent someone to find it, and I am happy to find it." β
His cousin Zhang Shuye was once in charge of the intelligence activities of the Jiehe Shang City, and he installed many talents from all walks of life - they all came from the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, but they didn't know how to fight! These forces are now in the hands of the Zhang family's commercial bank, so the Zhang family's power in Jiehe Commercial City is still quite strong.
However, the Zhang family still didn't have the evidence that could really bring down Wu Haogu - Wu Haogu raised 200 ironclad soldiers to be the box soldiers of the Bosi Division of Jiehe City, and they were stationed in Jiehe City, which belonged to the Liao State! This is clearly laying the foundation for the official family's Northern Expedition to Yanyun in the future! If Zhang Shuye and Zhang Kegong talk about this, the official will probably come to an end.
As for Wu Haogu's fake army, because it was hidden deeply, the Zhang family didn't know about it.
"If you find it, don't go back to Shang City," Ji Sheng said, "Go to Qingchi County to find Lu Tongju." β
"It's saved," Zhang Kexiang smiled, "Lu Yihao has long been unaccustomed to Wu Haogu's nonsense, but it's a pity that he didn't get the evidence of his crimes!" β
Xiang Baodao: "This time Du Wenzhong's matter is not small, it can make it difficult for Jiehe's report, right?" β
"That's it!" Ji Sheng said, "You can also let the shipbuilder take the lead in petitioning...... Now is the critical moment for the preparation of Jingdong Commercial Market, how can I find some trouble for Wuhao Guna, so as to save him from interfering in our Jingdong Commercial Market! β
"Good!" Xiang Bao said, "That's it! β
Zhang Kexiang smiled and said: "I'll write an article, and I'll write it tonight!" β
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"Ahh
With a scream, the arrow stuck in Du Wenzhong's shoulder had been pulled out!
"Outside, the arrow came out, except for bringing out half a tael of meat, nothing else, it seems that there is no big problem......
"Ouch, it's a pain in someone's ......"
"Du Thirteen, what the hell is going on with you?"
"Isn't it still harmed by Wu Haogu?"
"Wu, Wu Fuhrer?"
Du Wenzhong was already saved at this time! The one who saved him was the sheep dealer Chen family, the young master of the Chen family in Qizhou who sold 30,000 mu of land to Wu Haogu and then moved the base of cattle and sheep sales to Jiehe Shang City. After his family's business moved to Jiehe Commercial Market, it became bigger and bigger, not only selling sheep to Jingdong East Road, but also selling some cattle and sheep to Kaifeng Mansion.
Recently, he had also discovered that there were many horse ranches around the Jiehe Trading Market, which were run by the knights' families. Moreover, there are occasionally very tall foals in these pastures, so that Chen Xiaotian sees an opportunity to enter the horse trafficking industry, so he often takes people to the horse farms where good horses appear, trying to find the source of good horses - these good horses are actually the stallions of the second generation of boundary hippos of Wu Haogu after leading the hooves of Khitan mares from Liao, and these Khitan mares were sold to knight families at a low price. There are not many of them, and they are the smoke released by Wu Haogu in order to cover up the existence of the Jiehe Stud Farm.
As a result, Young Master Chen did not find the source of the good horse, but met Du Wenzhong, who fled with an arrow.