Chapter 295 Leader Zhao and the Radish Head

Qin Lei still insisted on getting on the road.

At this time, the sky was not yet dark, and the black guards were riding in an ice row. Two people stood in groups at the end of the ice bed, and used a metal pointed pole on the top to support the ice bed.

The rare low temperature in winter this year has caused thick and flat ice to form on the Xiaoqing River. After the first few effortless support, the ice trays slid faster and faster on the ice surface. Later, you only need to click a few times to control the direction and move forward quickly, which is very labor-saving.

Half an hour before dark, I actually traveled more than ten miles.

The sky was completely dark afterwards. Even though the "Airy Wind Light" was lit on each ice tray, the visibility was still very low on this snowy night. The worst thing was that the snow covered the ice surface, making it difficult to tell which rivers and road surfaces were.

I stumbled along the way, and my speed naturally couldn't be increased. Fortunately, the wind that had been blowing for two days finally stopped, greatly slowing down the physical energy of the guards. I met the caravan that also entered Beijing overnight, and followed the others and fell less. By dawn, I even took a thirty miles to go, and Kyoto was finally in sight.

Half a day after Qin Lei set out from Jingshan Camp, Gou Ji also took the three thousand black armored cavalry and headed straight to Zhongdu. They walked in a straight line. Although they set out half a day later than the prince, they arrived half a day earlier. After checking out the prince's itinerary, Gou Ji took the cavalry and hid in the valley twenty miles southwest of Kyoto.

He slept all night with ice and snow. It was not until the 20th that he received a report from the scout: the prince was ten miles away from Zhongdu. Gou Ji took the black-armored cavalry and raised the Longwei County Prince's flag and drove towards Zhongdu City.

It was already the first time outside the Nanyang Gate of the Xicheng of Zhongdu. The snow was still falling, swelling, covering the entire towering city walls. At this time, the soldiers guarding the city had long been hiding in the city gate building, roasting fire, drinking and gambling. But today, the soldiers of the City Gate Division stood on the top of the city gate, and even if the snow had already exceeded their knees, they would not dare to move.

This is not the old man from the City Gate Division. He finally found that he was ashamed of the country's salary and decided to be loyal to his duties once on this heavy snowy day. The reason is actually very simple - the leader is here, to be more precise, the leader's leader is here.

The leader's surname is Zhao, his name is Chengsi, and his courtesy name is Jiye. He is now 35 years old. He is the best age for a man. At that age, Lord Zhao was honored to be the General of the Kyoto Guard, in charge of the Kyoto Military Temple, and in charge of the Kyoto City Defense. The City Gate Division, the City Inspection Division, and the Five City Military Division are all under their jurisdiction. They can be said to have a high position and a high and powerful position and a proud spring breeze.

But life cannot be perfect, and leader Zhao is no exception. He thought of three regrets: first, he was broken up when he was young and did not marry a princess who was in love. Second, he had the ambition to join the military, but he was reluctant to be involved in the officialdom of Kyoto. Although he was proud of his youth, he became a general in charge of the defense of Gyeonggi in his thirties, but he had never been on the battlefield for a day. I was really embarrassed to call himself "I am the general".

Third, the young Junyan, who was Jian in the Emperor's heart, was promoted, but for the position of General Guard, he changed his life to the Taiwei Party. Recently, he was not familiar with the prince. It is said that leader Zhao fell in love with Princess Heyang and his old love with Princess He vaguely heard that the people had changed his nickname from "Yuwei Wenhou" to "Three surnames slaves". Although they were all Lu Bu, the meaning of their representatives was far different.

So Leader Zhao was also unhappy, but many things were unexplained and could not be expressed. So he chose to remain silent. He was originally quite cheerful, but now he doesn't say a word all day long, which can suffocate the people around him to death.

For example, in the past two days, it was cold, and he didn't sit in the yamen. Every day, he ran to the Xichengmen Division before the city gate was opened. He stood on the high city gate tower for a day. No one could figure out what he was going to do, but the soldiers knew that standing on the city gate tower and looking down, all the places were visible at a glance. Now that the New Year is approaching, I am afraid that the general will be lazy and lose the silver reward at the end of the year. Therefore, I gritted my teeth and held on, and I didn't know how many times I had scolded Leader Zhao.

After standing like a stone in my husband for two days, Zhao Chengsi finally waited for the big flag. Looking at the winding long snake coming from the snow field in the distance, he said the first sentence in the past two days: "Close the city gate."

The followers next to them ran down quickly. After a while, with the sound of "gla" springs, the heavy city gates all fell down.

Gou Ji saw the city gate slowly falling from a distance, cursed loudly, and ordered the team to stop moving forward. He led a squadron to the city. He pinched the horse and pinched his waist. He held the horse whip and shouted loudly: "Listen to the city, this is the main minister of the Qinming Zongzheng Mansion, the general manager of Jingshan Camp, and the Qiansui Guard of the Prince of Longwei County. My prince is going to enter the city to report his duties. You can open the door quickly!"

The soldiers who were almost frozen in the city realized that it was because Leader Zhao was waiting to block the door of His Highness Five... They couldn't help but pray for Leader Zhao in their hearts. Although Leader Zhao was a very high-ranking cadre and looked quite powerful, it was not a little bit worse than poking the prince's eyes, burning the old house of the Grand Marshal, and beating the fifth prince of the Prime Minister's family. If a bet is started, ten percent of them will be on the side of His Highness Five.

But leader Zhao obviously didn't think so, and he only heard him say loudly: "Please tell the prince of the city to the prince, and finally Zhao Chengsi will be summoned to pass the order..."

Gou Ji obviously did not feel like kneeling down to the ground and said coldly: "Tell me." He thought to himself: "The prince is indeed not wrong, the prince has forged an edict. But I cannot kneel down for this traitor, so as not to defame the prince's reputation."

Zhao Chengsi's face was stagnant, trying to scold the city officer for being rude, but he was afraid that the prince would mess around and use the situation to make use of the problem, so he pretended to be unaware of it: "Your Majesty has said: Qin Lei should take things diligently and work diligently. Don't always run to the capital, wait until the New Year before coming back. I'm here."

When Gou Ji heard this, he was furious and said, "Where is the imperial edict? Take the imperial edict and everything will be done! Otherwise, you will be a forgery!"

Zhao Chengsi said coldly: "As there are so many people, I dare not take the big fuss, please go back." After that, he turned around and went down the city tower.

Gou Ji shouted and scolded for a while, but when no one responded, he had to turn back in a bad mood and lead the team to the southwest.

Earlier, outside Zhongdu Water Gate.

Because the Xiaoqing River running through Zhongdu has ice, all ships of all sizes are suspended, but Zhongdu City, with a population of one million, consumes countless daily food, rice, oil and salt, and cannot be cut off for a day. Moreover, the coverage of ice and snow makes it very difficult for the official roads to travel, and transport by land alone can obviously not meet the huge demand.

Therefore, the water gates in the north and south cities are open all day long, and countless ice rows full of cargo pass through the water gates, instead of the cargo ships on the Grand Canal, and transport nutrients to the middle. Even in the middle of winter when the river is frozen and the ships are unable to travel, the entry tax that can be obtained is several times more than that of the land city gate.

The Taxation Department and the City Gate Department have always had a dispute over this golden passage, and they all wanted to take it for themselves. Finally, the lawsuit was filed at Kyoto Prefecture and Kyoto Bingma Temple. Qin Shouzhuo discussed with the former general Huangfu Ke and decided that the two families would take turns to take charge, one side was collected for three days, and then switch to the other side, which was fair and reasonable, and the only one was to resolve the dispute between the two parties.

Today is twenty, which is the day when the Taxation Department is in charge of the Water Gate. From the opening of the door at the hour of Yin, the endless stream of ice sheets began to enter the city. Each ship was paid a large amount of 50 cents, regardless of the amount of cargo. By the time of Mao, nearly two hundred taels of silver had been packed. He was so happy that Han Shidi, the Dushi of the Taxation Department who was in charge, held a warm stove and couldn't stop talking.

In fact, the door should be opened at the hour of Mao, but yesterday the city gate officer said that he was going to hunt down the imperial prisoners. After a day of chaos, Han Dusi suffered huge losses. Therefore, the city gate that was one hour earlier this day was opened to make compensation.

But the good mood didn't last long, and the tax servant came over to report: "The people from the City Gate Division are here again." When Han Shidi heard this, he changed his face and put the Huai Fu heavily on the table, and said annoyedly: "Are you finished these birds in Radish Head?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a scream at the door: "Fatty Han, who are you talking about?"

Han Shidi Huo De stood up and saw a thin goatee, rumbling into the house under the protection of a group of soldiers in the city patrol. The tax collectors in the tax department were not willing to be outdone, and followed more than a dozen, filling the originally spacious Dushi room.

Seeing that his subordinates also came in, Han Shidi looked calm and said with disdain: "Ro Botao, why are you here again? Or check your criminal? There is still one day before the handover. When did you see us messing with you? Are you shameless in your city gate?" A string of questions spurted out, obviously Han Dusi had been tolerating for a long time.

The thin Roberto face tightened. It was a decisive rule for both sides to take turns to serve as a banker. It has been like this for five or six years, and both sides are in peace. This time, the top peak ordered a strict investigation of Watermen, but did not tell the specific reasons. He only said that any soldiers were not allowed to be allowed, making it difficult for him to do it.

Thinking of this, Luo Dusi's expression calmed down slightly, and he barely changed into a smile and said, "Brother Yu doesn't want to mess with the rules, but this is all the meaning of the superior. We can't resist our arms, so we really can't disobey. Please forgive me." He said, "We only check people and don't collect taxes. Don't worry, brother."

But Han Shidi didn't understand, so he stretched out his chubby fingers and lit the soldiers in the city gate in the house, saying rudely: "You did this yesterday, what was the result? You didn't find a single hair, but we shortened at least four hundred taels of input. I think you want to use the same trick again and keep everyone out of the city, waiting for you to get a good harvest when you are on duty, right?"

Luo Botao spat and said, "You fat man Han fell into the eyes of money, but no one else has it. Do you agree?"

Brother Han Shi blinked his eyes and sneered: "Okay, as long as you check for one day, you will compensate us for one day. I will ask you to check it, otherwise there will be no way." As soon as this statement came out, the tax servants of the Taxation Department started to clamor, obviously very satisfied with this plan.

But the soldiers of the City Gate Division were not happy. As the New Year was approaching, the brothers were still pointing at the little money to spend a generous year. If they checked for ten days and half a month, they would have spent a ball year.

The two sides started arguing loudly, and the sound waves were almost lifting up the roof.

Seeing that the situation was in danger of losing control, Roberto screamed: "Stop your mouth!" His voice was sharp and harsh, and it really shocked the crowd. Staring at Han Shidi's fat cheeks, Roberto gritted his teeth and said: "Give you a day back."

He vaguely knew that this matter was arranged by the general himself. It is said that several other city gate officials were on guard, and even the generals were in charge of Nanyang Gate. With these matters in contact, coupled with the mysterious spirit, it was obvious that something big happened. So even if you love money like your life, Roberto would still cut his flesh for one day. You must know that the day before the New Year is comparable to three days off-season!

But Fatty Han was obviously not satisfied, and without blinking, he shook his head and said, "How many days will it take to check!"

'How can I agree to this? What if I really check it for more than ten days?' Roberto trembled and said, "I will give you two days."

"How many days will it take to check?" Fatty Han was obviously very stubborn.

After being rejected for 'three days', Roberto was reluctant to add any more, and glared and said, "It seems that I have made up my mind to not eat toast and punish me!" As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers pulled out their weapons one after another and were going to be tough.

Seeing the bright sword light, Fatty Han's legs trembled, and the head next to him whispered: "Three days are only three days, so we can collect for nine days in a row, and we should still make a profit."

Fatty Han also wanted to nod, but he had no choice but to do so. He shook his head with difficulty, and said with a stern look on his face: "Brothers, aren't we guys?"

Although the tax soldiers were useless, they were not afraid of the same useless city gate soldiers. Hearing this, they drew out their weapons and confronted the people of the city gate department. Fatty Han also took the initiative and shouted: "Carrot head, please wait. You trespass into the tax department and threatened my official with weapons. We have to go to Dali Temple to make a good argument."

Roberto's face was stagnant. He didn't expect that Fatty Han, who was timid and afraid of things on weekdays, was so tough at this time. When he was in a dilemma, he heard the voices outside gradually becoming louder.

Han Shidi raised the window and looked at it. It turned out that the dispute between the two sides continued outside, blocking traffic on the river surface. Countless ice trays were blocked outside the door, and they were unable to move in and out. This was very dangerous. If the ice surface was too crowded and collapsed, death and injury were small matters. It was unavailable for several days, but it was a great event.

Both of them understood this truth, and Roberto said anxiously: "I will give you five days to let your people go out of the way."

Han Shidi thought to himself: 'It won't be possible even for a hundred days.' He glared and said, "It's time, it's time to return your mine, it's important to keep the ice surface!" He said loudly and shouted outside: "Removing the obstacles and letting them go!"

Roberto looked at the crowded ice surface and opened his mouth, but said nothing after all. He knew that if the ice surface collapsed, everyone would not have a good life, so he took a chance and thought to himself: "It shouldn't be such a coincidence."

When the tax soldiers moved out of the obstacles, thousands of ice beds that had been waiting for a long time rushed into Zhongdu City like a tide. After a while, they scattered and disappeared on the river.

Among them, a team of people transporting dry goods turned into the Yudai River and shuttled through the many frozen cargo ships for a long time. After no trace of other ice beds behind, they stopped in front of an ordinary pleasure boat. An ice bed leaned forward, and the rest were scattered around, with a faint sense of protection.

On the ice bed that was leaning up, a vigilant man stood up and made two loud and short whistles. The pleasure boat opened a small window, and an ordinary old face appeared, and asked with a hissing, "What are you doing?"

"Delivery." The man whispered.

"No, no, nothing is needed." The old man looked impatient.

"It's so cold, don't you need an air conditioner?" the man said in a deep voice.

"My family has a large population, so I have to drag four." The old man's expression suddenly became warmer, and he said anxiously: "Come up quickly." After a while, the hanger ladder was lowered on the side of the boat. The man tightly held the sharp blade in his hand, and climbed up the ladder to the pleasure boat.

After a while, Shen Bing's pale face appeared on the deck. An Ice Paizi on the east side also revealed Qin Lei's handsome face with expressionless expression.

The dispute at the water gate finally came to an end. Looking at Luo Botao who was leaving one after another, Han Shidi wiped the white-haired sweat from his forehead and said with a sigh of relief: "It can be considered to have driven away these turtle sons." The tax soldiers looked at Lord Dusi with a complete admiration today. For a moment, flattering and flattering made Han Dusi smile as bright as a chrysanthemum.
Chapter completed!