"If Zhu Xiaotong behaves like a slut to us again, I'll kill that dog | son of a bitch!"
The earthen walls and wooden roofs of the cells were covered with thatch, which could not cover up the roaring sounds of punching orders, yelling and cursing. Even the prisoners in several other cells started to make a fuss - it was a good thing that they had a good meal at night.
, the prisoners just laughed loudly, cursed, and some unscrupulously vented their resentment. No one has broken down the door yet.
The jailers and jailers were terrified, fearing that if a riot broke out, they would be the first to be torn to pieces by these vicious thugs.
The jailers and jailers on duty tonight had no way to hide, so Zhu Xiaotong thought of transferring other jailers and jailers out of the barracks just in case.
However, Zhu Xiaotong had only been in office for a few days, and most of the jailers did not know his background yet. At this juncture, they were afraid that his scholarly scholar would act on his own initiative, so he sent someone to ask Cheng Yanqing for instructions. Cheng Yanqing just said no, so he
No one paid any attention to Zhu Xiaotong.
Zhu Xiaotong stomped his feet with hatred, but he did not dare to go into the cell where Xu Huai was in to find Cheng Yanqing. He was afraid that if he walked in, he would add fuel to the fire and stir up a mutiny on the spot. He gritted his teeth and walked towards the northeast corner.
Prison cell.
"Didn't I say, don't come to me if you have nothing to do?" In the dark cell, only a faint moonlight shone in from the palm-sized window on the opposite side. The unkempt Yue Hailou was sitting against the earth wall, dissatisfied that Zhu Xiaotong came over at this time.
Find him.
"The soldiers of the forbidden camp were expelled from the quarry in the afternoon, and Wang Zhen attacked the prison camp again at night. How can the tiger marquis remain calm?" Zhu Xiaotong was so angry that he stamped his feet and shouted in a low voice.
"Zheng Hui, Dong Qifeng, Guo Caoling and others made such a big fuss in Tongbai Mountain. In the end, the prime minister had to ask for help and sent Dong Shizhi to Tangzhou to help. But you don't know what happened to them in the end?
Zheng Hui, Dong Qifeng, and Guo Caoling could not do anything to Wang Zhen and Lu Xiong until they died. When did you think you would come to take charge of the prison camp? Even Chen Zixiao, Pan Chenghu, and Guo Junpan may not be very cooperative.
Can Wang Zhen and the others be eaten to death in ten days and a half month? Do you think too highly of yourself?" Yue Hailou frowned and asked with dissatisfaction.
"It's not that I'm impatient, but the situation in the prison camp could turn upside down at any time!" Zhu Xiaotong defended himself in a low voice.
"If the prisoners riot, you will be the first to be torn to pieces, but I want to ask you, if thousands of prisoners really riot, what good will this do to Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen can really stay out of it? Or Zhu Xiaotong, what do you think?
Do you deserve to die with Wang Zhen?" Yue Hailou frowned and said, "Not only are you impatient, but you are also afraid in your heart. This is the basis of Wang Zhen's plan. They just use the fear in your heart to force you to retreat at every turn.
to achieve their goals."
"They instigate prisoners everywhere all the time. Even if I am not afraid personally, people like Cheng Yanqing are as cowardly as rats. If they force them to keep retreating, their purpose will still succeed!" Zhu Xiaotong said.
"You are still too impatient," Yue Hailou did not reprimand Zhu Xiaotong because of his repeated excuses, but explained more patiently, "I ask you, if Wang Zhen and the others succeed, what can they do? Can it change the world? Or is it still Wang Zhen?
Do you really want to incite these more than a thousand prisoners to raise a flag to rebel? Take a step back and say, even if you and Chen Zixiao and others are unable to stand inside and outside the stone quarry and are kicked out, in the end it is Wang Zhen who alone has the final say.
How big of a deal is Lanzhou? Don’t forget what’s most important right now! If you think about these things clearly, you’ll know what things can be urgent and what things are urgent are useless.”
"I understand." Zhu Xiaotong lowered his head and said.
"That reckless tiger has unstoppable martial arts and a vulgar temperament. Wang Zhen uses him to confuse people's hearts." A slightly younger voice in the corner of the cell said at this time, "He doesn't go around clamoring for someone to fight, I will do it tomorrow Just take this opportunity to get close to him and find an opportunity to kill him at night."
Yue Hailou shook his head and said: "After Wang Xun recalled Manghu Xu Huai and others to the Lanzhou stone quarry, he suddenly launched an attack. He first drove out the soldiers of the imperial army, and then reached into the prison camp to explain that they They have a strong sense of vigilance, and may have already suspected us. If you try to get close to that reckless guy, you may expose us. We don't care about them, and you don't have to worry about what will happen. Don't forget , Guo Zhongxiong could not transfer Wang Zhen out of the Lanzhou Stone Field or evacuate him at will, but one day he saw that the situation was not right, he ordered the prisoners to be swapped between different prison camps, and the prisoners in the Stone Field Prison Camp were moved to the north to repair. The border wall, and even when the troops were officially launched against the Khitans, Guo Zhongxiong transferred all the prisoners in the stone camp to follow the army northward. Can Wang Zhen stop this?"
"Yeah, no matter what they are causing trouble now, just give him some relief when the time comes." Zhu Xiaotong's eyes lit up, and he realized that he was really too impatient.
"You have forgotten what our real advantage is. At this time, you are forced to lose your composure by Wang Zhen's tricks. You shouldn't be!" Yue Hailou shook his head and said.
"Then it's pointless for us to be here?" the younger voice said in a somewhat unconvinced voice.
"What does it mean to be meaningful and what does it mean to be meaningless? It's better to sit in this small room and think about the problem from a different angle than to sit in this small room and think about the problem from a different angle," Yue Hailou said. In terms of the camp, how can you prevent the prisoners from growing resentment in the food that pigs and dogs don’t eat? If you can act according to the rules and control the prisoners yourself, how can the king, no matter how clever he is, use incitement to threaten you? ?It is said that if you have no desire, you will be strong. If you can't stand up in front of Wang Zhen, isn't it because your heart and hands are too dark?!"
"How much deductions will be made from top to bottom? This has long been a rule. I don't know how many people depend on this for a living. Guo Langjun doesn't dare to touch it. What can I do? I can't deal with Wang Zhen and the others now. The biggest headache is We will still have to provide meals as usual in the future - this is exactly what is impossible. Even if we don't deduct from it, there will be a shortage of these grains when they are pulled out of the grain yard, and they will be mixed with a lot of old grains, rotten grains and even grass. Dust, mud and sand, I still don’t know what to do about this!" Zhu Xiaotong cried bitterly.
"Since Wang Zhen is planning to turn against his guests and take over the whole thing, and then he pushes that reckless guy out to stir up trouble and force you to retreat step by step, why can't you just follow his plan and treat him the way he wants? Are they going to make trouble in the grain farm? Zhu Xiaotong, you, you are usually quite resourceful, but now you don’t even understand such a little trick?" Yue Hailou said, "Or do you think you have absolute control in Lanzhou? If you take the initiative, you can forget about it, just stretch out your fingers and want to crush everyone to death, and don't want to bother with more tricks? Are you really so arrogant? You have no problem dealing with ordinary people, just crush them to death, but in front of people like Wang Zhen , these are your ways of defeat."
"Xiaotong is ashamed!" Zhu Xiaotong finally figured it out and said with shame.
"Go away. Unless the prisoners really riot, don't bother me again!" Yue Hailou waved his hand and said.
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After receiving a lesson from Yue Hailou, Zhu Xiaotong sent Wang Zhen and others to the granary early the next morning and said:
"Wang Langjun has an order, and Mr. Zhu dare not disobey it, but the prisoners' food needs to be improved, starting from the renovation of the granary - Xu Huai, Wang Kong, Yan Xiaoyi, Shen Zhene, you go and open the granary door..." "
Regardless of the embarrassment on the faces of the officials below, Zhu Xiaotong directly called Xu Huai, Wang Kong, Yan Xiaoyi, Shen Zhene and other prisoners who were the most noisy in front of Wang Zhen, and opened the granary door of the prison camp. , and immediately a smell of rancid smell hit your nose.
Several fat rats came out of the barn door. With quick eyes and quick feet, Yan Xiaoyi trampled three fat rats to death one at a time.
Inside the granary, there are white maggots squirming in the piled wheat grains. Rotten and black grains are everywhere. Grass clippings and mud and sand can be seen everywhere.
"It's not that Mr. Zhu doesn't know the evil of prisoners' food. It's because the officials at the state government's food court are too evil and ruthless. They only give them this rice. Mr. Zhu is a clever woman, but it's hard to cook without rice," Zhu Xiaotong said , "What Mr. Zhu can do now is to sift out the rotten grains, grass clippings, mud and sand from the stored grains. And we have indeed derelict in our duties. We have been short of quota these days. I, Mr. Zhu, am willing to be punished." My salary has been replenished, but the next time I receive food is five days later. I have to ask Wang Langjun to send people to the grain yard to collect food. Don’t let the gangsters from the Prefecture Division have the courage to bully us again..."
All the food for the prison camp was provided by the state government. Every ten days, the warden here would bring a dozen Xiang soldiers and a group of honest and obedient prisoners to the grain yard under the jurisdiction of Sihu Junjun to collect what the officials and prisoners needed. of food, salt, vegetable money, etc.
The rice they received from the grain farm was not only deducted, but even more serious was the fact that the poor quality was passed off as good. The rice was mixed with a large amount of old grain, rotten grain, and even grass clippings and mud.
In other words, even if the prison camp did not skimp on anything, even if they used enough rice from the food court to make meals, it would still be of poor quality and far from being enough to support the heavy labor consumption of the prisoners.
If you don't want to make poor food, at least 30% to 40% of the black rotten grains and grass mud must be screened out of the rice you receive from the grain yard.
Of course, there is a lot of corruption in the Grain Food Institute, so it cannot just be put into the pockets of Sihu Junjun and a few warehouse officials - if that is the case, it will be easier to deal with.
In addition to paying filial piety to the officials of the Supervisors and Judges during the holidays, whenever important officials come to Lanzhou, the reception should be extremely warm. The Food Court is the main organizer, not the post office. .
The post house's annual budget is extremely limited. Sometimes there is a gap, and the state and county even have to take some from the warehouse to fill the gap.
Everything here basically comes from embezzlement, which also makes the corruption in the Grain Institute extremely involved. The stubborn problems can only be solved by catching one or two officials.
After getting advice from Yue Hailou, Zhu Xiaotong also changed his mind. Since Wang Zhen used the prisoner's food as a plot to meddle in the prison affairs, he should not just think about confrontation, but should solve this most difficult problem in public. The problem was thrown back again, forcing Wang Zhenzuo to stab the hornet's nest in the grain yard.
If Wang Zhen didn't dare to poke the hornet's nest of the Grain Feeding Institute, Zhu Xiaotong wouldn't be afraid that they would have the nerve to bewitch the prisoners again...
