On the wharf, more than 600 Zhangqiu County laborers were all arrested, densely packed, kneeling on the ground, and on the other side there were more than a dozen corpses, which were killed by resisting the officers and soldiers, and more than 2,000 soldiers were violent, surrounding the laborers.

Song Hao's face was pale, he had just received news that a team of soldiers sent to capture the wife of the thief leader was ambushed, nine brothers were killed, and the wife of the thief leader was rescued by a woman in red.

"It's her again!"

Song Hao gritted his teeth with hatred, picked up his whip and whipped it at the brigade commander who reported the news, "Useless thing, can't you hundreds of soldiers catch a woman?" ”

The brigade commander knelt down in fright, "General, that's a Jianghuai woman!" Her arrows were so poisonous that they killed her at the slightest touch, and the brethren did not dare to approach them. ”

Song Hao was furious, the leather whip slashed his head and face, and scolded: "Bullshit woman, it's clearly a female thief, you useless bastard!" ”

He shouted, "Drag it down and beat a hundred military sticks!" ”

Several executing soldiers dragged the brigade commander down, and in a moment, a series of miserable sounds came, Song Haoyu was still angry, this female thief had ruined him several times, and if she caught her, she had to be cut with a thousand knives!

A soldier next to him persuaded: "General, the leader of the rebels has been killed, and you can give an explanation to Taishou."

Du Sheng's head was hanging on Song Hao's horse, he picked up the head and looked at it, nodded, he glanced at the laborers kneeling all over the ground again, and waved his hand, "Take them all!" ”

The soldiers began to drive away the laborers with their knives, and just then, one of the soldiers pointed to the river in the distance and shouted, "General, the official ship is coming!" ”

Song Hao was startled, turned his head and looked at the river, only to see an official fleet on the canal not far away, about thirty large ships, in the front of a two-story big boat stood a group of officials, the front two officials held talismans, in the middle was a young high-ranking official in a purple robe, burly, with cold eyes, and there were two generals behind him, one on the left and one on the right, both wearing helmets and armor.

Song Hao was stunned, he didn't know who this person was, but the other party was wearing a purple robe and holding a talisman festival, and he saw that Zhou Yang, the Taishou of Qiaojun, was also on the boat, so that Song Hao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rode up to meet him

The person who came was Yang Yuanqing, who was ordered to tour the south, he went south along the canal by boat, and inspected Caoyun all the way This morning, he entered the territory of Pengcheng County, and Qi County was the first stop to enter Pengcheng County.

He looked back and smiled and asked, "Zhou Yuanjun, what's going on here, do you know?" ”

Zhou Yang, the Taishou of Qian County, accompanied Yang Yuanqing to inspect the territory of Qian County, and was ready to go ashore in Qi County to go back, he did not expect to encounter this kind of thing, Zhou Yang looked at it for a while and said: "It seems that it should be the dock workers making trouble, the army is suppressing and arresting, and many people have died." ”

He pointed to the officer at the head, "That is Song Hao, the general of Pengcheng County, nicknamed Qingyan Diao, who is a famous general in Jianghuai." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, he had heard of this Song Hao, Yu Wenshu's confidant and favorite general, and then Zhou Yang snorted coldly, "There is actually a transfer of two thousand troops, and I don't know if it has been filed in the military department." ”

He was reminding Yang Yuanqing that there may be a problem here, these local counties are all harmonious on the surface, but in fact they all have competing interests, and there is not peace behind them.

Yang Yuanqing had nothing to do all the way south, and finally encountered a major event in Pengcheng County, he was in good spirits and immediately ordered, "The fleet is docked!" ”

More than 30 big ships slowly docked, and a shipwright laid the ship's board, Song Hao stepped forward to salute, "May I ask Zhou Taishou, which high-ranking official ship in the imperial court is this?" Song Hao doesn't know, please forgive me! ”

Zhou Yang stepped forward and said with a smile: "This is Yang Yushi's boat, the new Imperial Doctor, who is ordered to inspect Caoyun, you should receive the text too much." ”

As soon as Zhou Yang's voice fell, he saw dust in the distance, and a team of officials galloped on horseback, and the first official was the new Taishou Sima Jiang of Pengcheng County, according to the practice of the imperial court, it was Muwen who arrived first, so that the officials could receive it, but Pengcheng County was far away from the canal, so it was a step late when he came.

Sima Jiang turned over and dismounted, and galloped forward to salute, "Yang Yushi, the lower official greets the late, and I hope that Yushi will forgive his sins!" ”

Song Hao just knew that this Yang Yushi was Yang Yuanqing, which surprised him, he looked back at the laborers kneeling all over the ground, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, but fortunately, Taishou also came, and he didn't need to come forward, he retreated and hid behind.

Yang Yuanqing walked onto the board, bowed his hand and said with a smile: "I am ordered to go south, and I have disturbed you all the way!" ”

Sima Jiang gave Zhou Yang a salute again, and Zhou Yang said with a smile: "When I see Sima Yuanjun, my matter is over, and I can go back to Yin Feng and make the moon, anyway, Yang Yushi can't find out." ”

Everyone laughed together, and Yang Yuanqing also joked: "Zhou Yuanjun is not kind!" When I was in the coarse tea and light meal, I went to Yinfeng to make the moon, which was not good hospitality. ”

"That's good! When Yang Yushi came back, I asked Yushi to spend all his time, as long as Yushi didn't impeach me. ”

In the midst of laughter, Zhou Yang said goodbye to Yang Yuanqing, several of his attendants led the horses from the boat, and Zhou Yang mounted his horse and returned to Qian County.

Sima Jiang took Zhou Yang's reception, and introduced his subordinates to Yang Yuanqing one by one, Pengcheng Juncheng, Sima, and Records joined the army, etc., and introduced to the commander Song Hao, Yang Yuanqing glanced at the head he was still dripping blood tied under the horse's neck - and said coldly: "General Song sent troops to quell the chaos, but there is an order from the military department?" ”

Three years after the Great Cause, Yang Guang also strengthened his control over the soldiers of local prefectures and counties, and the transfer of more than 100 people must be filed with the Ministry of War, and the troops on the dock were at least 2,000 or more, which was obviously a violation.

Yang Yuanqing's sharp question made the atmosphere on the dock a little embarrassing, Sima Jiang secretly complained, he received Zhang Yunyi's jade pixiu yesterday afternoon, and immediately ordered Song Hao to lead the army south to arrest the rebel laborers, but he didn't expect to receive the imperial court text at night, he knew that the imperial history went south, and it was Yang Yuanqing who came out ruthlessly, he chased all the way, but he was still a step slow.

Sima Jiang had no choice but to step forward and say: "The lower official has already sent someone to Beijing to record, just because the situation here is urgent, so I will send troops to quell the chaos first, please bear with Yang Yushi!" ”

Yang Yuanqing looked at the laborers all over the land and asked, "Are they rebelling?" ”

"Back to the imperial history, they are gathering crowds to attack the county government!"

More than 600 laborers saw that this group of high-ranking officials began to pay attention to themselves, and shouted together: "Wronged! We have been wronged! ”

Yang Yuanqing turned around and instructed Shen Guang, "Go and ask what's going on?" ”

Shen Guang rushed away, and a group of magistrates were worried in their hearts, especially Sima Jiang, in fact, he didn't know what was going on, but he just read the report written by Ling Hushou, this matter was for Zhang Yunyi's face, otherwise he would not easily send troops to foul, he secretly regretted in his heart, how could the imperial history come so coincidentally.

At this time, Shen Guang came back to report, "General Hui, my subordinates have made it clear, these laborers are all from Zhangqiu County, Qi County, because the thugs of Wanji Boat Company killed their fellow villagers, and the county government shielded the murderer, they went to the county government to dignitaries, and did not attack the county government, and their leader has been killed." ”

Sima Jiang took out Linghu Shou's report and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "Yang Yushi, this is the report of Linghu County Order, whether they have attacked the county government or not, but it is a fact that they killed the guys of Wanji Boat Company without authorization, so they themselves also have something illegal." ”

Yang Yuanqing took the report and looked at it, and then glanced at Sima Jiang's slightly nervous eyes, and his intuition told him that this was just a small fish, not the person he wanted to deal with, and he couldn't catch a small loss, so he smiled and said: "Sima Yuanjun, since the leader of the lot has been ambushed, this matter can be explained, arresting so many people, it is easy to cause a bigger mess, not to mention, if the imperial court is alarmed, it will be even more difficult for Sima Yuanjun to explain the transfer of troops to the Holy Lord, I suggest that the big thing be made small, and let them all go, what does Sima Yuanjun think?" ”

Sima Jiangda-Xi, Yang Yuanqing's implication was not to investigate his unauthorized use of troops, he hurriedly said: "Yang Yushi has orders, how dare the lower officials disobey." ”

He immediately waved his hand, "Let these laborers go!" ”

The workers were released and the tense atmosphere was relieved, at this moment, a few horses galloped in the distance, Sima Jiang thought it was the county order coming, but when he got closer, he saw that it was the county lieutenant and several officials, he frowned, what is going on with this Linghu Shou, is he so ignorant of the rules of officialdom?

The county lieutenant turned over and dismounted and rushed forward and shouted: "Sima Taishou, Linghu County Ling has been killed!" ”

This news surprised everyone, and Sima Jiang said angrily: "What's going on? ”

The county lieutenant said with a sad face: "The concubine of the county order came to cry early in the morning, saying that the county order was killed, we went to the back house, and found that the county order of Linghu had died in the bedroom, and the head was cut off. ”

The county lieutenant took out a small iron arrow one inch long and said, "The county concubine said that she was killed by a woman in red, and we found this at the scene." ”

Yang Yuanqing's heart jumped, this little iron arrow was exactly the same as his iron arrow in appearance, it was simply a shrinkage of his iron arrow.

Sima Jiang was furious, gritted his teeth and said, "It's that female snitch again!" ”

Song Hao also bowed down and said, "Back to Taishou, this female snitch rescued the leader's wife in the morning and killed ten of our brothers. ”

Yang Yuanqing took the small iron arrow, and saw four words engraved on the shaft, 'Jianghuai Woman!' ，

turned over, and the arrow shaft on the other side was also engraved with the words 'Punish rape and eliminate evil, four words, Yang Yuanqing's heart became nervous, is it really her?

"Sima Taishou, who is this Jianghuai woman?"

Sima Jiang hated and said: "This female snitch prides herself on being chivalrous, and has committed countless crimes in Jiangnan and Jianghuai in recent years, and many people who are considered by the government to be less than capital crimes have been killed by her, which has made the big families in Jianghuai and Jianghuai panic, not only that, but three officials have died under her sword, and the government of Jianghuai and Jiangnan 14 counties has offered a total of 30,000 rewards to arrest her. ”

"But why didn't the imperial court file it? At least the Imperial Observatory hadn't heard of this female thief. ”

"This.... I don't know. ”

Sima Jiang lightly pushed this matter away from himself, "Xia Guan was originally Liang Juncheng, and there is no trace of this female thief in Liang County." ”

He turned back and asked Pengcheng Juncheng, "Has this female snitch filed with the imperial court?" ”

Pengcheng Juncheng smiled bitterly, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Back to Yang Yushi and Taishou, the previous small case was not reported to the imperial court, but in June this year, because the river envoy was assassinated by the female snitch, it was reported to the ministry, two months ago Wei Yushi came to investigate the case, the female snitch did not find out, but found out the case of the river transport envoy privately increasing business taxes, and Zhang Taishou was also implicated. ”

Only then did Yang Yuanqing understand that the case of Zhang Xin's demotion had been exposed in this way, and he sneered in his heart, he didn't know how many favoritism and bending the law had been hidden in the previous small cases.

"Sima Envoy, let's go to the county and have a look!"

Sima Jiang was also anxious to go to Qi County to check the situation, he urged repeatedly, Yang Yuanqing called Yang Shilang, and whispered to him: "Check why these laborers are making trouble?" And what's going on with Wanji Boat Company? ”

Yang Yuanqing had already discovered that there were very few merchant ships in the canal, and even more so that he could not see a single cargo boat, which made him very puzzled.

Yang Shilang agreed to stay on the dock, Yang Yuanqing turned on his horse and led hundreds of accompanying soldiers and Pengcheng County officials to run towards the county seat.

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