417 Weiqiao Town in distress
“…… The official wants to stay in the West Courtyard? "Fuji didn't have time to rub her ass in a hurry, the pony's words are very informative. Prepare yourself with bath water, wouldn't that be sleeping in your own room!
"Nonsense, the eldest princess and Jia'er are already asleep, is it possible to wake them up? After a while, the official will teach you a game called Mandarin Duck Bath, hehehehe......"
Since Zhang Dun accepted his own conditions and opened his mouth to borrow money, it shows that he is basically sure that the matter of promoting the reform of the currency system will develop in a direction that is favorable to him.
The ancients often said that they were full of warmth and thought of silver, but in fact, what they wanted to express was not to be full of food and clothing, but to be in a good mood. Now Hong Tao is in a good mood, so he must think about it. As soon as I thought of Fu Ji's ashamed and embarrassed appearance, this silverfish couldn't help it even more.
On the fifth day after Zhang Dian and Su Shi Lianjue visited, Wang Xu, the concubine, set off with three hundred forbidden troops. This is the grain road supervision camp given by the emperor, which is stationed in Weiqiao Town and Lanzhou.
In the future, the crown's water tiger wings will escort the goods, and these forbidden troops from the Tianwu Infantry Army will follow to see who dares to rob them. In fact, the emperor is not afraid of others robbing, but afraid of the retaliation of the new army in Huangzhou, and he always beats his own people.
When he came, Hong Tao went straight to the palace, and when he went back, he didn't have to be in such a hurry, he first went to Jinmingchi and Qionglin Yuan to see, this is his own industry, and he must inspect it.
The most important thing is Weiqiao Town, which has been gone for more than a year and has never been back halfway. When he saw the black sky from afar, Hong Tao grinned and touched his pocket, how much environmental protection tax would he have to pay in the future generations.
If you tell your uncle now that within 30 years, Jingzhao Mansion will become a dead land where you can't see the sun for 200 days a year, I wonder if he will also make the heavy industry base in Weiqiao Town save energy and reduce emissions?
But unlike the first time I came to Weiqiao Town, a large number of people appeared in front of the team just after Bashui, blocking the road. The Tianwu infantry army in charge of opening the road reported that it was not a bandit or anyone's army, but the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture and the magistrate of Tidian who came to greet him with all his officials.
"Then you don't need so many people! It is inevitable that there will be a situation when there are many people and miscellaneous hands, so let the prefect and the judge come and talk back, and everyone else will go to Weiqiao Town to wait, and the official will set up a banquet to entertain everyone. ”
Out of instinct, Hong Tao is not willing to drill into the crowd, in case anyone gives him a knife and the wasp is not there, the special forces are not full-time personal guards, and they are unable to cope with this situation.
But you can't be too high-minded, after all, people are kind-hearted, and there are a lot of parents and officials, you don't care, but don't make trouble for Gao Cuifeng.
The two sides are reconciled, simply, let's go back to Weiqiao Town to be lively. It's your own nest, the rules are ready-made, it's easy to distinguish between outsiders and your own, and security is easier to secure.
As the saying goes, there is nothing wrong with being careful, Hong Tao is just a thought, but it is equivalent to saving his life. Just in the welcoming crowd, there was really an unknown situation, and the two men dressed as sedan chairmen were not sedan chair men, but only wearing sedan chair men's clothes.
There was also a man in the sedan chair parked behind them, holding a winding steel crossbow in his hand, looking out through the sedan curtain. As long as the target appears on the main road, less than fifty meters apart, and with the cooperation of two companions, the chance of hitting is very high.
Then take advantage of the chaos to flee, or simply commit suicide. But anyone who comes out to do this kind of thing is reporting the intention of dying, and if he dies, he can exchange glory and wealth for his family, and he can't say that he loses.
"Third brother, the dog official doesn't seem to be planning to come over, but just called the prefect and the judge surnamed Gao over, what should we do!" Unfortunately, the target's line stopped far away, and only two Praetorian officers came.
"Just rushed up, the third brother used a crossbow, and the two of us took a knife, and the dog officer was killed!" The other black-faced man seemed to be in a hurry to die, and came up with a very fatal idea.
"Shut your mouth! Seeing clearly, it is the Tianwu Infantry Army, the most elite forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, can the three of us still get close? The camel riders weren't good either, they all had short crossbows on their saddles, and we would be shot as hedgehogs as soon as we went! ”
The person sitting in the sedan chair spoke with a strange accent, obviously in official language, but his tongue didn't seem to be straight, and he always had a curly tongue sound. If he was present at this time, he could immediately hear that this was not the official language of the Han land, but the Chinese language within the Western Xia aristocracy.
There are many Western Xia nobles who are also Han Chinese, most of them have lived in the territory of Western Xia for generations from their parents or grandparents, and although they can also speak Chinese when they reach the second generation and the third generation, the accent is slightly different from that of the Han land, and this thing is not pretended.
That night, the three men stayed in an inn in the east of Chang'an City, planning to go around the city again tomorrow to see if they could find an opportunity to kill a few craftsmen from Weiqiao Town, get their identity cards, and then infiltrate those huge workshops to wait for an opportunity to assassinate.
This huge group of workshops looks full of loopholes on the outside, but outsiders really can't get in, and there are no beautifully engraved metal plaques, let alone enter, and they will be strictly interrogated if they are discovered. If it weren't for the identity of the palanquin man as a cover this afternoon, these three people would probably be directly arrested by those with bows and crossbows.
But the three of them didn't have a chance to plague the craftsmen again, and by this time the outside of the inn was already full of men in black. All of them wore black masks, moved swiftly and silently, each carrying two scorpion crossbows in their hands, and a metal weapon that looked like a wedge but not a wedge, like a hammer but not a hammer.
"Lao Shi, are you sure that person speaks the Western Xia dialect? You must not make a mistake, if you kill the wrong Lord Shuaisi, you will inevitably offend the local officials again. The two leading men, one tall and one short, the shorter one did not hold a bow and crossbow in his hand, but carried two earthen pots, and was whispering to the tall.
"If I make a mistake, I will go to the Yamen to subdue the law, and I will never involve the adults in the slightest! Long-winded, hurry up and light the fire! ”
The tall one simply lifted the mask, revealing an old face with gray hair and ravines, and applied copper! How could he run to Chang'an City in the middle of the night to attack the three Western Xia assassins?
This has to start from the afternoon, the horse did not go halfway to greet the welcoming crowd, but asked the prefect and Gao Cuifeng to take the crowd to Weiqiao Town. In this case, in addition to the officials with heads and faces, other entourages and family members must all be registered and checked, which is also the ultimate goal of the horse.
Shi Tong had been stationed in Weiqiao Town for a period of time before, he was cold by nature and didn't like words, and there were not many people he was familiar with, only a few drinking friends, such as a small head in the Water Tiger Wing. They are drinking buddies and fellow villagers, and they like to get together for a drink or two when they have nothing to do.
Coincidentally, today was just in time for the head of the capital to be on duty, Shi Tong simply followed him to chat in the duty room, and wanted to go to Chang'an City to find a good restaurant to reminisce about the old relationship after being laid off.
The canteen food in Weiqiao Town is good, but unfortunately people above the engineer level are not allowed to drink, the level is enough and limited, the rules are too strict, it is better to enter the city freely.
The duty room is actually a wooden pavilion, with only a simple roof to shield from the sun and rain, and there are no walls at all.
Shi Tong suddenly heard a very unique accent, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, and he swept his head sideways with his afterglow, and he was even more puzzled.
Not to mention this kind of accent in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, even in the border of Western Xia, it is very rare. Those who can speak this kind of Chinese are all Western Xia Han nobles, they are generally not engaged in herding and border work, even if they really become soldiers, it is a position above the middle level of officers, how can they come to Jingzhao Mansion?
Looking at the looks and demeanor of the three of them, they are not like the envoys of Western Xia, Shi Tong is even more incomprehensible. What if you can't figure it out? It's easy to do, go and talk to the special forces in the caravan, they naturally have a way to tell the difference.
Before it was dark, the special forces came back from Chang'an City and clearly told Fu Ji that the three people were very suspicious. The identity they said was completely inconsistent with the actual situation, and the carriage and horse shop that rented the sedan chair did send three sedan drivers, but their appearance was far from these three, and they didn't even match their age.
Fu Ji didn't bother the colt, who was drinking and talking happily with her parents, and she had every right to do it for her as a colt's woman, and she had to make up her mind. What's the idea? It's better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let go of one, the biggest horse in the world and the earth!