Chapter 20: So a Hundred Lords
On the third day of the station, Lu Zhe learned the name of the place, it turned out that the county seat was called Yangzhou, and he always had a very familiar feeling with this place name but couldn't remember it.
In addition to the capital, the administrative hierarchy of the Qin Dynasty was county, county, township, pavilion, and li. According to the preliminary understanding, Yangzhou County has jurisdiction over three large townships and 12 small townships, of which there are 17 pavilions and 48 li. As for how much population there is, it is estimated that no one knows how much it is, except for the county governor, the county guard, and the six Cao, who are in charge of the household registration in the county.
Yangzhou is not close to the water, there is a mountain about 600 meters above sea level in the south of its city, the inhabitants here call it the mountain, this mountain is long and wide and stretches for hundreds of miles, and the cypress trees covered in it are also full of silver at the moment, and it looks cold and misty from the station.
The new garrison was very large, and troops continued to arrive in the snow, and when the number of troops stationed exceeded 5,000, all the officers above the commander were summoned, and then the 100-man detachments were divided from non-commissioned officers to 500 masters. Reluctantly, Lu Zhe, Li Liang, and Ma Ren were assigned to different sequences, but Lu Zhe and Flails were assigned to a hundred generals named Jiaoqu at the same time.
Lu Zhe did not have a good impression of his new boss, who was about forty years old with a beard and a rude personality, although he did not treat his subordinates very roughly, but he did not know how to be compassionate, and many times he also mobilized soldiers to do some personal things.
Once, Jiaoqu was drunk and ordered his corporal to beat Qianshou, and afterwards Qianshou went to the county to complain, and the county ran to find the county lieutenant, and the county lieutenant went to the county magistrate. Then the matter simply got bigger, waiting for the highest commander stationed in the station, that is, a partial general Zhi Lu Dao, the soldiers of the Shi were cut down by two, and the Shi Commander who led the team also beat the fifty military sticks and went to half his life, and Jiaoqu This guy didn't know why Lu Dao escaped and was not punished.
Today, just as Lu Zhe was practicing the small seal in the snow with a tree branch, the slaves of the hundred generals rushed over.
The pawn slave is actually the private slave of the hundred generals, and it is a kind of pro-soldier who helps the 100 generals who don't know how to read to keep the military book and the supply plate of the 100 people. He looked disheveled, his left eye was still blue, and his nose was dripping with blood.
"Quick...... Fast! Captain Lu Tun, hurry up and lead the troops into the city! ”
"Bringing troops into the city?" Lu Zhe was deeply surprised, he glanced at the embarrassed Artemisia (the name of the slave), "Is there a general's order?" ”
Artemisia kicked his feet, angry and very anxious: "Even more of the order, the master is about to be killed!" ”
Lu Zhe already knew that the slaves of the Dao Dao had no social status at all, as long as they dared not to give face or were not afraid of offending people, even the slaves of the county guards could fight each other with fists and feet, flashing their eyes and bowing their heads to continue to practice calligraphy: "Please come to the order, Zhe immediately led the troops into the city." ”
This guy seems to be very fond of kicking, and the snow mixed with the mud shook Lu Zhe's boots. When repeated persuasions were unsuccessful, he even threatened: "The master will punish you severely!" After saying that, he covered his still bleeding nose and ran away.
Looking at the square mouth that had been thrown into muddy water, Lu Zhe looked up at Artemisia who was running away, and after thinking about it, he threw away the branch and stood up: "Go find the flail first, and then go to report to the five hundred masters?" ”
He found the flail that was hiding in the tent and drank the mash chaff, and gave a rough explanation.
"Zhe, are you saying that the two of us will take leave and go by ourselves?"
"Of course! If you transfer troops without permission, you will be killed, and if you don't go, you will inevitably be yin by the hundred masters. So even if we get beaten, we have to go by ourselves! ”
“…… Such a hundred masters! We're really deadly. ”
When he came to the tent of the five hundred lords, he respectfully asked to see the five hundred lords and refused the request of the two small tun chiefs to meet.
Lu Zhe also seemed to know that this was the result, and begged the five hundred personal soldiers standing guard: "Big brother, please help, we need to enter the city in an emergency." Ask the eldest brother to help take leave, and invite the eldest brother to eat and drink on the day of foolishness. ”
The soldier standing guard was actually eighteen or nineteen years old, he glanced up and down at Lu Zhe a few times, looked at Lu Zhe's diligent and hurried appearance, hesitated "um" or went in.
After about ten minutes, the young soldier came out, with obvious slap marks on his face, raised his hand and threw two pieces of wood on the ground, and then roared in a low voice with a fierce look that he wanted to step on a few feet: "Traitor! You must invite me to a drink! ”
The traitor is actually not a particularly heavy curse in this era, Lu Zhe picked up the wooden coffin on the ground with a smile, glanced at it and saw the seal character that allowed him to take leave for half a day, and retreated while arching his hand: "Eldest brother, please remember my appearance, and please tell me my name, and ...... in the future." No! Tomorrow, I will invite my eldest brother to eat and drink! ”
"Name?" The aggrieved young soldier who covered his cheeks couldn't help but behave fiercely: "I scream, what are you?" ”
Lu Zhe, who had retreated two or three meters and was about to turn around, said in a low voice, "My name is Lu Zhe", and regardless of whether he heard the Ming who was asking for his name clearly, he had already completed the action of turning around and was about to trot......
He turned his head and saw that the flail was still a little stunned standing in place, and scolded in a low voice, "Pit teammates" had to retract the foot that was about to step out of the flamshell and make another turn, with a smile on his face, "Brother Ming, I'll come to you tomorrow at noon", pulling the flail that didn't understand the situation, and ran away.
The soldier named Ming saw the two of them running away in an instant, rubbing his slapped-face face, his eyes were red and tears flashed: "You must be lying to me?" How can you run so fast......"
It wasn't until he ran to the corner of a tent to block his view that the flail reacted.
The flail was pulled by Lu Zhe, and his mouth kept asking, "Are you really inviting him to drink tomorrow?" "It's clear that you have no money, are you deceiving people?" , asked a few times but didn't get an answer, and immediately became anxious, trying to shake off the hand that kept pulling, with an expression of shame on his face.
Lu Zhe's money bought cloth, how could he have the money to invite people to drink? To be honest, it was just a few kind words just now, but I didn't expect the flail to keep asking as if he cared.
It has been delayed long enough, and Lu Zhe, who has no time to answer at this time, can take care of anything, according to the location of the wine shop that Jiaoqu has always gone to in his mind, he just pulled the flail and ran to Yangzhou County.
The camp was only three miles away from the county seat, and the exit from the gate was exactly in the direction of the city gate, and they entered the city not long after leaving the barracks.
When the county soldiers at the city gate saw two officers wearing armor running quickly, several people thought of something and grinned? After waiting for the city gate officials to shout, he regained his expressionless face and continued to collect taxes from those who brought goods into the city.
After entering the city, there was no bustling crowd, and even within two hundred meters of the city wall, there were no buildings at all, and only after a clearing did there gradually become thatched huts.
In fact, in ancient times, there were no buildings at all on the edge of the city wall, and the ancient city in the film and television was full of buildings and crowds as soon as you entered, which was nonsense. At that time, the buildings were all built of thatch and wood, if the enemy attacked the city, the enemy army rocketed towards the city, wouldn't there be a building to burn up, then it was a fart, and the soldiers waiting for support at the corner of the city wall should be burned to death!
Lu Zhe, whose physical strength was no longer what it used to be, ran for several miles, and although his speed was not fast, he would no longer be out of breath, and he pulled the flail all the way into the city, and turned several times in the chaotic rammed earth streets.
While waiting to stand and adjust his breathing, the flail kept asking if it was a lie.
Lu Zhe, who was so annoyed, said casually while observing the wine shop in front of him: "I lied to your sister!" ”
The flail seemed to be provoked, and his eyes widened: "My sister? What do you have to do with my sister to deceive people? ”
Lu Zhe finally saw Jiaoqu who kept thinking about it and was blocked back, the slave named Artemisia was kicked out and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to someone, and occasionally Jiaoqu could be heard cursing incoherently with a red face and red ears.
The flail who kept asking and couldn't get an answer was really annoyed, and roared, "What do you have to do with my sister?" "When you raise your fist and smash it......
Lu Zhe roared very quickly and rushed: "Follow me!" ”
The flail swung out his fist and fell into the air, looking at Lu Zhe who was rushing forward, and muttered very seriously: "If you deceive people, you will deceive people, what does it have to do with my sister?" ”