"The grass market has been open for a few days, why did you choose to make trouble today?"

Xu Ping looked at Huang Conggui and asked slowly.

Huang Conggui glared at Xu Ping viciously, took a sip, and turned his head.

Xu Ping looked at Huang Conggui's appearance, smiled self-deprecatingly, raised his left foot and kicked Huang Conggui's face violently, and stomped his head firmly on the ground.

Seeing that Huang Conggui was frightened and was about to scream again, Xu Ping said coldly: "The official's patience has been exhausted, if you shout again, I will break your mouth!" ”

Huang Conggui was willing to believe it, and he had long thought that Xu Ping would not dare to really beat him, and shouted at the top of his voice: "You dog official!" Do you dare to hit me? Believe it or not, we are Chungju-"

Xu Ping raised his foot slightly, stepped on Huang Conggui's mouth, and stuffed all his words back into his stomach.

shook his head: "Do you really think that I am coaxing the child here, I am not your father, where is that leisure." Gao Daquan, do you remember how I cleaned up that elder Li Wei back then? ”

"I didn't see it clearly at the time, and I don't remember it very clearly. But don't worry, give me this little barbarian, and you can try it out slowly! ”

Gao Daquan was a little embarrassed, why didn't he study hard back then.

Xu Ping is still the same Xu Ping, but Gao Daquan is not the same Gao Daquan anymore. Back then, Xu Ping was just a small rich man in the countryside, and Gao Daquan didn't dare to follow the matter of killing people and setting fires. Now that Xu Ping is a general judge, he can be regarded as a member of the shepherd guarding side, as the closest personal attendant, what else does Gao Daquan dare not do?

Looking for a rag, Gao Daquan gagged Huang Conggui's mouth and dragged him to the stool next to him. There is the current hemp rope in the prison cell, and Gao Daquan used it to tie Huang Conggui strongly.

"Official, isn't that so?"

After finishing his work, Gao Daquan asked Xu Ping.

Xu Ping shook his head: "No, no, you're too strong!" Let go of his legs, alas, that's right. Strap it tightly, be sure to hold it tight, and put something under his legs. - Whatever you want, you have to put his legs up anyway. No, you can't pad rags, you have to be hard, the harder the better. Gao Daquan, let me tell you, this is called a tiger chair, and tigers can be cured better than cats. You practice hard, follow me in the future, whoever dares to disobey will eat you a stool! ”

With Xu Ping's guidance, Gao Daquan finally figured out the trick of this punishment. There was nothing else in the cell, so he took his military staff and slowly put it under Huang Conggui's legs one by one.

The Song Dynasty torture rod is divided into a big rod and a small stick, the small rod is used to sentence the flogging, and the big rod is used to sentence the cane, the shape is similar, a stick, the head is a flat shape, and it will be used.

Putting the five big sticks in, Huang Conggui's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and his expression became more and more fierce.

Gao Daquan scolded: "What a jackal, full of anger!" There are also five sticks here, see if you can wear off your anger! ”

A small stick was put in, and Huang Conggui's green tendons burst out, and his face was full of anger.

"Come again!"

Gao Daquan shouted, and continued to pat inside.

Two more sticks were put in, and Huang Conggui's complexion turned into a dead ash, and finally polished his anger.

Gao Daquan glanced at it and said, "This guy's eyes are very fierce, and I still don't accept it when I think about it." Then I will fulfill you and heal you from the inside out. ”

Another small stick went in, Huang Conggui's head tilted, and his pupils began to astigmatize.

Gao Daquan was taken aback, and said to Xu Ping: "Official, this fight is over!" ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "How can you die so easily?" It's just a fainting pain! If you still want to toss him, I have two ways to teach you. One is to remove a small cane and pour it with water to wake up, and as soon as you wake up, you will put the small cane in again. Go back and forth a few times, and you will be able to get in with another stick. Otherwise, take off his shoes, there is a whisk made of brown silk over there, and you can scratch the soles of his feet, so that he can't faint, and life is better than death. ”

When Gao Daquan heard this, he brought the bucket next to him over, and said: "This guy's feet haven't been washed for many days, and he doesn't have the patience to suffer from that disgust, so he splashed the water!" ”

woke Huang Conggui up, went back and forth a few times, and finally put a small stick in. At this time, Huang Conggui's limit has been reached, and his leg bones are about to break.

The fierceness in Huang Conggui's eyes was gone, and tears flowed down without a head and face, looking at Xu Ping pleadingly.

Xu Ping sighed: "If you hadn't wantonly beaten those people in the grass market outside and didn't treat them as human beings, I wouldn't have done this to you." If you don't treat others as human beings, how can others treat you as human beings? This hardship, I will teach you for your elders! ”

said to Gao Daquan: "This punishment is enough for him to remember for a lifetime, and he has learned to speak well." Gao Daquan, put him down, I want to ask. ”

Although Gao Daquan didn't understand why Xu Ping said these words, the customs of the barbarians were like that, how could they be compared with the Han people? But he didn't dare to disobey Xu Ping's intentions and dismissed Huang Conggui.

Rolling down from the stool, Huang Conggui pulled the rags out of his mouth, and crawled in front of Xu Ping crying: "If Shangguan has anything to say, I don't dare to talk back anymore!" ”

"I've asked you all, why is your memory so bad? The grass market has been open for so many days, why are you only looking for trouble today? ”

Huang Conggui was so frightened that he shrank on the ground, and hurriedly said: "The people in the inspection village are not masters, it is useless for us to drive people away, as long as there is a grass market, the people in the mountains will come out to trade." Even if my family doesn't want to, they can't look at this mountain. Today, I heard that Shangguan was coming, so I brought people out, thinking that as long as there was an accident, Shangguan would definitely ban the grass market, and it would be over. It's me who has no eyes and bumps into the official! ”

"Why doesn't your family let the mountain people come out to trade?"

Huang Conggui hesitated for a moment, saw Xu Ping's complexion change, and hurriedly said: "Shangguan is angry, blame our family for greedy money!" The people in the mountains do not trade with the Han people, and if there is anything that can only be given to us, we can sell it to the horse merchants who come to the mountains in exchange for some treasures that are not available in the mountains. ”

Xu Ping sighed, these slave owners were really still for their own interests. Isolated from the world in the mountains, many places were still primitive societies in the original, and the powerful ones had status and status called the main household, and the rest of the people were called Tituo, which was equivalent to the people in the Chinese dialect. Since the Tang Dynasty began to operate the frontier, new production methods and culture were introduced to the mountains, and the gradual transition to feudal serfdom led to the emergence of a hereditary privileged class. The new aristocratic class used various means to turn the scattered mountain people into their hereditary slaves, and then used the slaves they controlled as bargaining chips to obtain rewards from the Central Plains Dynasty, and their status became more and more unbreakable. The population was firmly controlled by the aristocratic class, and the Central Plains Dynasty became a tree without roots in the management of the frontier, and it has been full of toast for thousands of years.

Xu Ping has no ambition to liberate the toiling masses, this is not the world he is in, he is too lazy to bother with that effort, he just wants to do something within his ability. He is too lazy to take care of other places, this Zhongzhou is on the edge of the place he wants to run, and he can't recruit people if he doesn't clean up properly, so he can't be careful.

After asking about this, Xu Ping asked about Chungju's manpower and products.

Chungju is a hundred miles away, and the main products are tea and gold place, as well as treasures from the mountains. There are more than 500 private slave families controlled by the Huang family in Zhizhou, and more than 300 families are scattered in the mountains, but they are nominally under the jurisdiction of the Huang family.

In Xu Ping's previous life, this population was a big village, how could it be worthy of the name of the state. This era is like this, there are dozens of states and counties in the left and right rivers, most of them are of this scale, and the battle between them is a fight between villages and villages. In order to control it well, the Central Plains Dynasty tried to divide every local tyrant's place into small places as much as possible, so that they could not make waves. The barbarian chieftains in various places fought endlessly, annexed each other, and turned small states into large states. This contradiction is the main theme of this place, which lasts for thousands of years, and when the political situation of the Central Plains Dynasty is stable and strong, it can suppress the chieftain, and the Central Plains will be in chaos, and there will be a powerful mountain king here.

The Song Dynasty did not manage this place until after the Nong Zhigao Rebellion, and with the backing of force, it took Dong Ding from the hands of the chieftains to the hands of the imperial court, and controlled the barbarian leaders in various places, and there was no major chaos for hundreds of years. It was only in the Yuan Dynasty that the Tusi was divided, and the barbarian chieftain forces revived, and the Ming and Qing dynasties began to follow the policy of the Song Dynasty to change the land and return to the stream, and the mountains of this frontier were stabilized.

Xu Ping's handling of Zhongzhou was also considered to be in line with the official policy of the Song Dynasty, but it was only a few decades earlier.

After asking this, Xu Ping's heart moved, and he asked Huang Conggui again: "I heard that the Duan County Order of Ruhe County has a lot of grievances with your family, what is going on?" ”

Huang Conggui was a little relieved at this time, his eyes rolled and said: "This is a private matter between our two families, and the general judgment is the official of the imperial court, why are you asking this?" ”

Gao Daquan stood aside boredly, already impatient in his heart, and kicked Huang Conggui: "You will answer honestly what the official asks you, what are your official and private affairs?" Looking for a fight! ”

Huang Conggui looked at Gao Daquan, remembered the suffering he had just suffered, and replied honestly: "Back to Shangguan, this matter is all caused by Duan Guanren, and our family has no respect for the imperial court!" My aunt—"

"Who's your aunt?" Xu Ping asked.

"My aunt's name is Ah Shen, she is the daughter of the lord of Shen Tong in the north, and the two families are good friends, and they have been promised to my uncle since she was a child, but she hasn't passed the door yet. Who knew that Duan Guanren came to Yongzhou to take office, and saw that my aunt was young and beautiful, and I don't know what means they used to seduce her, and they also gave birth to a child. My father asked the Yongzhou government to ask my aunt back, but it was reasonable and legal, and no one could speak. Since coming to my house, my uncle has also respected my aunt and has lived a good life for more than ten years. Who knew that Duan County Ling did not give up, and came to Ruhe County as an official. Shangguan, you said that the officials of the imperial court are all knowledgeable and knowledgeable, how can there be such a person as Duan County Order? ”

Xu Ping listened silently and did not speak. Of course, things are not as simple as Huang Conggui said, everyone is picking what is beneficial to him, he just wants to know more.

The barbarians live in different surnames, and Shen Tong is not an official place, but a place where the surname Shen lives, which belongs to Wuli County. The Huang family and the Shen family must have the factor of political marriage, and they want to extend their influence. This is a common thing among the barbarians, and it is also commonplace. It's only to blame Ah Shen for not being willing to be arranged by fate, and had a love affair with a young scholar of Han who came here as an official, and gave birth to a daughter, causing countless turmoil. When it happened, there were not so many details later, Duan Fang was an official of the imperial court, and he was a young man, and the lord of Shen Dong still felt that his family had climbed high, and a hundred were willing. The boss of the Huang family was weak, and he never thought that he would dare to compete with the officials sent by the imperial court, so he honestly accepted Shen Dong's divorce. Who knew that the second eldest of the Huang family was ambitious, and took this opportunity to seize the position of the boss, and actually asked Ah Shen to return to the Shen family, which caused countless incidents.

This ambitious current governor of Chungju is Xu Ping's trouble.