The Tianlao in Yicheng is located near the station of the Shanshan Army. It is also guarded by a thousand elite city defense troops in rotation and is heavily guarded.
The Tianlao is divided into three floors, inside and outside, in the shape of a "hui" structure. Each floor is made up of tall buildings on the inner and outer floors connected end to back. The outermost building is the garrison station, and the middle floor is the sky prison.
The innermost circle is where prison officials and prison wardens at all levels live and work. The innermost circle is where the cells are located.
In the sky prison, there are not only guards and patrol soldiers between each floor, but also soldiers patrolling the roof of each floor day and night. There are watchtowers every ten feet on the roof of the building. Anyone who is allowed to enter or exit must be searched.
, heavily guarded.
However, there are actually not many cells in the Sky Prison, and there are not many people who are truly qualified to be detained here. Most of the time, there are not many visitors in the Sky Prison, even????????????
???As for the alleys around Tianlao, they are also deserted all year round.
In the innermost layer of the Heavenly Prison today, apart from several members of the Meng clan and relatives who had committed crimes and were imprisoned during Meng Xiaotian's reign, there are only two people who can be called repeat offenders. One is the former head of Zhaoshui City.
Meng Zian, the former general of Southern Xinjiang in military affairs, and Meng Caoer, the former general of the Shanshan Army.
These two men were military heavyweights who joined the army in the middle of Meng Xiaotian's reign and only rose to guard one side at the end of his reign. They were both young generals who were originally responsible for carrying forward the past and forging ahead in Yongchang County. However, in a battle between princes last year,
During the war, he was convicted and imprisoned one after another, and he became a neighbor in the prison for several months.
In the early morning of this day, when there was some light, a carriage drove up outside the main gate of Tianlao. The carriage was very ordinary, and it could even be said to be a little shabby and shabby. So before it could get close to Tianlao, a group of soldiers got on.
Stop it before.
The driver was a stern and unsmiling man, who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He had a fleshless face but a very burly figure. When he saw the group of soldiers approaching with weapons, he did not panic. He just pulled the reins to stop the carriage.
He got down, took out a golden token from his arms and said, "By order of the Grand Administrator, I saw the prisoner in Tianlao, Meng Zian!"
The leader of the group of soldiers who gathered around him was a middle-aged general with good features but a cold expression. Hearing this, he made a warning gesture towards his subordinates, and then came to the carriage alone and started from the man driving the carriage.
He took the token in his hand, looked at it, and returned it, "Those holding the token can enter, but carriages cannot."
The man driving the car took the token and frowned, "We are here under the order of the prefect...!"
"We are also stationed here under the order of the Grand Administrator!" The middle-aged general interrupted the driver's words expressionlessly, and then retreated to the surrounding soldiers on guard without saying more.
The man driving the carriage jumped out of the carriage and said angrily, "How dare you...!"
"Okay," just as the driver's actions provoked the surrounding soldiers to press down their spears, a voice came from the carriage, and then the middle-aged scholar Meng Sanshu opened the curtain and walked out, holding in his hand
Carrying a large food box, he took the token from the driver and said to the middle-aged general, "Find two people to keep an eye on the carriage. The two of us will follow you in."
The middle-aged general glanced at the driver's face and asked two soldiers to handle the carriage. He waved his hand again and asked a group of soldiers to protect Meng Sanshu.
The two of them entered the prison together.
The group walked through the outer and middle floors, and after four or five inspections, finally came to a rather empty and clean corner on the inner floor. The cells here were quite large. In addition to beds, they were even equipped with cabinets and tables.
Chair, if it weren't for the fact that the outside side of the cell was made of stainless steel cages with complex patterns carved on them, and the hands and feet of the people inside were also shackles made of special materials, it would make people think that this was a hotel.
’s place, not the prison.
The hundred generals and his entourage brought Meng Sanshu and the two here. After pointing at the cage, they stepped back ten feet and looked at it from a distance.
The man driving the car looked at the soldiers vaguely surrounding the two men and snorted coldly.
Meng Sanshu didn't care at all. He carried the food box that had been turned over countless times at the inspection area and came to the cell. He sat on the floor and opened the food box without paying attention to the man in the cell. He opened the food box and mixed the food and wine inside.
He took it out and placed it on the ground in front of the cell. Then he took out two wine bowls and filled them for each other. Then he picked up the wine bowl in front of him and took a sip. He looked at the man in the cell and raised the bowl to invite him, "Meng
General, this is your favorite wine, Orange Island, you haven’t tasted it for a long time, right?”
The man in the cell was dressed in prison uniform with a messy beard, but his face was clear and energetic. He was the general Meng Zian who once led the army to besiege Sichuan City. He noticed Meng Sanshu when he appeared outside the cell, but he was silent.
He looked at it, and only then smiled slightly and said, "Did the prefect ask you to bring it to me?"
Meng Sanshu shook his head, "During the six months you stayed in the prison, many things happened in Yongchang County." He drank all the wine in his bowl and refilled it for himself. "The old governor abdicated, and the new governor
The prefect ascended the throne, the four counties of Hanzhou in the southwest formed an alliance, and the mountains and the mountains merged into one..."
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Mencius listened quietly, but suddenly a roar came from the cell adjacent to him, "The old governor abdicated? What does the old governor abdicate mean?! Hey, that scholar, speak!"
Meng Sanshu turned his head and glanced at the half-pale face that had his head squeezed out by the iron bars of the cell, but said nothing.
Meng Zian spoke slowly, "The current Governor of Yongchang... is Meng Jiaoyang?" He thought for a moment and then asked, "Who helped you accomplish this?"
Meng Sanshu looked at Meng Zian and smiled slightly, "Yi Bai, and...juncheng Zhao Nanpeng!"
Meng Zian was not surprised when he heard Yi Bai's name, but frowned slightly when he heard the three words Zhao Nanpeng, "You persuaded the old eunuch to use Sun Miao?!"
Meng Sanshu nodded.
After Meng Zian pondered for a while, he suddenly sighed and said, "Now that the matter has come to this, why did you come to me?"
Meng Sanshu picked up the wine bowl originally prepared for Meng Zian, put it to his lips and took a sip, then put it back to its original place, then picked up his own wine bowl and raised a glass to invite him, "Today's Yongchang County has already
Now that you have regained a foothold, the only thing that the Grand Administrator is concerned about is the defense line in Southern Xinjiang. He asks you to write a military strategy for Southern Xinjiang. If you can get the approval of half of the civil and military officials in the court, he will fight against all the opinions and re-activate it.
I will kill you and let you return to Zhaoshui City."
He looked at Meng Zian with a solemn expression, "This must be a practical and stable defensive military strategy, and this military strategy... is indispensable for you!"
Meng Zian did not agree or refuse, but asked, "You said that Yongchang County has regained its footing now? I heard from Meng Cao'er what happened in the aftermath of the battle half a year ago, and almost three counties were in control.
How can we govern Lijun in this land?"
Meng San wrote, "Guang County, Qing County and our Yongchang County have become brothers, and Li County is locked in the southwest corner again."
Meng Zian pondered for a moment, then looked at the early dawn in the east, "At this moment, it should be morning. Why...why are you here alone?"