Huai'an is a famous city in Huaizuo. The Huai, Si, Yi, and Shu rivers, as well as Qingjiangpu, Hongzepu, and Baima Lake all converge in Huai'an. In history, it is known as "Jianghai connects Tianjin, Huaichu is a huge defense, the north and south are blocked, and Huaidong is a barrier."
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To the west of Huai'an is Shanyang, right against Huaisikou.
Sishui, also known as Qingshui, is the main river connecting the Central Plains, Shandong, Heji and the Jianghuai Plain abroad.
The Huaihe River waterway between Shanyang County and Huai'an City is a bend that bends to the north, known as Shanyang Bay. The current is strong and the waves are strong. Ships passing by are often in danger of capsizing, so it is not a place to cross the Huaihe River.
Shukou Yingzhai is at the east end of Shanyang Bay, and at the east end of Shanyang Bay, where Sishui River enters Huaikou, there is a city walled village Sikou facing Shanyang County across the Huaihe River.
The key point of guarding Huaizuo is to use Huai'an City as the base and guard Sikou and Shukou outside to defeat the powerful enemies coming from the north.
Nowadays, the Sikou Walled City is occupied by the refugee army, and the Shanyang City across the Huaihe River is the defensive point for controlling Huaisi and Hongzepu. However, the Jiangdong Left Army established a stronghold at Shukou, which prevented the refugee army from crossing the Huaihe River on a large scale.
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The war on the front line was intense, but Huai'an city was singing non-stop, and even the night markets on both sides of the Zhouqiao Bridge were not stopped. Two Huai salt merchants gathered, one in Weiyang and the other in Huai'an, so the city of Huai'an was naturally very lively.
Zhouqiao is the center of Huai'an City, located at the intersection of Nanhe Street and North-South Official Street. Both sides of Zhouqiao are crowded with vendors holding large umbrella tents, and the bridge deck, which is more than four feet wide, is squeezed into less than ten feet.
The night market goes on in the narrow road, and there are rivers of pedestrians and cars and horses. The narrow road that is more than ten feet wide is also blocked.
Lin Fu, surrounded by his cavalry, entered Huai'an City from the east gate at night and walked along Nanhe Street, but was blocked in front of Zhouqiao and could not get to the government office in the north of the bridge.
Zhao Hu was about to lead his men to drive away the passers-by on the bridge. At this moment, gongs and drums sounded on the north bank, and a group of officers and soldiers crowded onto the Zhouqiao Bridge, drove the passers-by away, and cleared a path.
Liu Tingzhou, who had just learned that Lin Fu had come in, did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly changed into his official robe to come to greet him. When he saw Lin Fu standing in the south of the bridge with his arms and hands, he came down from the official bridge and said hurriedly: "I didn't know that Mr. Lin came to the city at night.
There are mistakes, mistakes, mistakes..."
"If you don't want to welcome me, it's not an outsider." Lin Fu said.
Liu Tingzhou was slightly startled and then thought about what Lin Fu meant.
Although Huaidong Jingkou's Zhizhi Shi was only a temporary assignment, and there was no fixed headquarters at all. He planned to cancel this assignment after the war and let Lin Fu continue to return to Chongzhou. No one would want to see Lin Fu's territory change from
Chongzhou expanded to the entire Huaidong area. However, the original intention of sending Jiangdong's left army north was to defend Huai'an. Lin Fu regarded Huaicheng'an as his territory, and there was nothing unjustifiable.
Lin Fu entered the city at night, and the city gate defenders did not dare to stop him. They only sent people to inform Liu Tingzhou.
Liu Tingzhou smiled awkwardly and said, "My lord, you are joking." Seeing that Lin Fu did not ride a horse or sit in a sedan chair, he led Lin Fu in front and walked across the Zhou Bridge to the government office in the north.
There was a lot of noise on the Zhouqiao Bridge, so Lin Fu couldn't bear to say anything.
Walking two hundred steps to the north, a four-story heavy building stood facing the street. The light from the window of the building illuminated the official street as bright as day.
The door of the heavy building is open, and you can see the twists and turns of the many pavilions and courtyards inside. In the lobby, there are many people looking for fun and drinking, and there are also prostitutes leaning on the building and laughing. There are young ladies in Tsing Yi shouting to welcome guests on the steps in front of the building.
There are also five big and three powerful warriors guarding the courtyard. There is even more luxury and luxury in the courtyard.
There is both drinking and prostitution in this building. It is early autumn. Even after the new rain, the beauties' clothes are light and thin, exposing their bare skin. The contrast with the flames of the lamps makes it even more luxurious. Some people see people waiting in the street and have already smiled charmingly, but This building is not a low-class prostitute's village, and no women come out on the street to solicit customers.
Lin Fu stopped on the street and asked Liu Tingzhou: "Is this Xiaofan Tower?"
Seeing Lin Fu's unkind expression, Liu Tingzhou said: "It is the Xiaofan Tower built by Shanyang Weimafu, the son-in-law of the King of Chu. The Big Fan Tower is in Weiyang City and is the gold sales cave of Lianghuai salt merchants. It didn't know how to restrain itself during the war. , it’s really lawless.”
"The curfew in Huai'an City has been suspended?" Lin Fu asked again.
"It didn't stop..." Liu Tingzhou saw Lin Fu's face was cold and wondered if he was going to perform surgery on the horse uniform?
The King of Chu took control of Xuzhou, and Xuzhou was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of rogue bandits. Lin Fu took advantage of Ma Su to do this, and the Ma family had no way to go to the King of Chu's palace to complain and ask for help.
After Liu Tingzhou came to Huai'an, he also had a headache with the local forces in Huai'an headed by the Ma family.
Almost all of these people were born in salt merchants, accumulated over several generations, have a fortune of tens of millions, and have friends with powerful people. What's more, they are directly married to powerful people, and exchange goods and services. Local officials dare not offend them easily.
Normally, Liu Tingzhou would have hoped to punish these people, but Lin Fu chose this time to act, and his intentions may not be pure. He frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied with the Ma family, but actually he was thinking of some excuse to excuse the Ma family.
"The curfew does not stop, but the music and singing here does not stop. Our generals and soldiers are throwing their heads and blood in the front, but you merchants and officials are happy and happy here. They really treat military law as child's play! Since the government cannot govern, Lin will I'll do it for you!" Lin Fu said to Zhao Hu behind him with his eyes like a cold pool, "Surround Xiaofan Tower, capture all the people in the building, and judge them with military law! Anyone who dares to escape and resist will be killed on the spot, and will be punished as a bandit. !”
As soon as Lin Fu said these words, he became so murderous that Liu Tingzhou and others turned pale in horror.
"..." Liu Tingzhou wanted to stop him, but Zhao Hu had already led his escorts to disperse along the street to block the streets. The speed of his actions and the accuracy of his steps made people suspect that Lin Fu had a premeditated plan before entering the city!
At this moment, the people in Xiaofan Tower noticed the movement on the street, but they did not know that a disaster was coming. A short, fat middle-aged man in brocade clothes came out with two young men, and bowed to Liu Tingzhou: "Master Liu, it's been a long time." If you don’t come, I will miss you so much. My boss is upstairs, drinking with Mr. Chen from Sheyang Prison. I sent someone to report..."
The middle-aged man in Jinfu, Ma Teng, the shopkeeper of Xiaofanlou, came over and grabbed Liu Tingzhou's sleeve to show his affection.
Liu Tingzhou was very embarrassed. When he saw the smile on Lin Fu's face getting colder and colder, knowing that he had no choice, he immediately threw up his sleeves and cursed: "Sa Bo'er, why don't you kneel down and reply when you see me? The government office has issued orders three times." , banning late-night riots, does the small feudal lord treat the government office as child's play?" He ordered the people to knock him down and kneel down!
Ma Teng never thought that Mr. Liu, the usually amiable Mr. Liu, would change his face in an instant. He was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do.
"Lord Liu, calm down," two more people came out of the building at this moment. The middle-aged man in front of them was a Huaidong salt eunuch who started his career as a salt dealer and married the Prince of Chu and was awarded the title of Shanyang Lieutenant. He came over and kicked Ma Teng over with his palm, then bowed his hands to Liu Tingzhou and apologized, "Ma Teng, this little beast has made Master Fu unhappy. I will teach him a lesson for Master Fu. Master Fu will follow me in first to drink." A glass of wine to calm down. Qing Lian'er has been thinking about Master Fu Zun these days. The strings are almost rusty, and others can't hear her playing..."
"Master Liu is asking Mr. Ma about the curfew. Since I'm here, why don't you, Ma, answer Master Liu's question?" Lin Fu, who was standing next to Liu Tingzhou, said at this time.
"Who are you? Do you have a place to talk?" The white-faced middle-aged man who came out with Ma Fu rudely lectured Lin Fu. Seeing Lin Fu wearing armor, he thought that the military attache beside Liu Tingzhou, Ma Fu, wanted to be polite to Liu Tingzhou. He was
The people in the Yantie Bureau are not afraid of offending Liu Tingzhou.
"Are you Mr. Chen from Sheyang Prison?" Lin Fu looked at the fair-faced and beardless middle-aged man in front of him, who looked like a eunuch. He thought that in the past, he had to give Zhang Yan some face. Zhang Yan was naturally willing to be a pawn, so don't blame me.
He took the salt and iron to make the people of the Si Yamen vent their anger, and yelled, "As an official of the imperial court, you know the law and break the law. You violated the curfew order. I won't let you pay for it today. You don't know what military law is. Come on, please give this horse a horse."
Take the eunuch! Anyone who dares to resist will be killed!"
In addition to Zhao Hu, who led a guard camp of more than 200 cavalry, Zhou Pu also led a sentry of light-armored cavalry into the city with Lin Fu. Lin Fu issued an order, and several people came forward to arrest people. Ma Teng was a young man, and Liu Tingzhou also
It was the prefect, and the military guards guarding the building kept silent. When they saw the owner coming to arrest him, the military guards and soldiers from the Salt Supervisory Academy rushed over to rob him.
Lin Fu emphasized the kill order twice, and Zhou Pu was certainly unambiguous. When he saw that the military guards in the building dared to come up to grab someone, he drew his sword and slashed at him diagonally with the back of the sword. He immediately chopped off half of the person's head. Both men on the left and right drew their swords and held bows.
, guarding Lin Fu and Liu Tingzhou, the light-armored cavalry mounted their horses and chopped down the military guards who broke out of the building. For a time, the brightly lit Xiaofan Tower became a Shura killing ground...
Liu Tingzhou stood there in a daze, his hands and feet were cold, his face turned pale as he held the horse suit that he could not move, and his three souls and six souls left his body. Sheyang Salt Supervisor collapsed on the ground, and he no longer had the strength to even kneel.
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Only then did Lin Fu look down at the eunuch and asked with a smile: "Master Chen, do you remember who I am at this time?"
"You...you...you...are...yes...yes..." The eunuch collapsed on the ground, unable to even utter a smooth word.
Lin Fu snorted coldly, ignored the castrated dog again, and said to Liu Tingzhou: "Master Liu should reprimand the people who buy wine in the building, so that they can reflect and repent. Ma Fu and Sheyang Salt Supervisor took the lead in resisting the curfew order, and
You are relying on the crowd to resist arrest and make noise. If you do not deal with it, it will not be enough to convince the crowd. I will take him away first..."
"Your Majesty knows." Liu Tingzhou didn't dare to defend Ma Fu. Seeing that Lin Fu was willing to withdraw his troops and not make the matter a big deal, he was already thankful. He ordered the soldiers to go over and arrest everyone who violated the order in Xiaofan Tower. Why?
They also had to deal with it, so as to give Lin Fu some face. Lin Fu took his retinue, Ma Fu and Sheyang Yanjian to Budu Pavilion in the north of the city.
You can stay in a post house temporarily.
Zhang Yubo was in Shanyang County before nightfall. When he learned that Lin Fu had just entered Huai'an City, he sent troops to capture the horsemen and suppressed the officials of the Salt and Iron Envoy. Knowing that this matter was not trivial, he rushed back to Huai'an City from Shanyang overnight.
Came to see Lin Fu. In his heart, Zhang Yubo did not want Lin Fu to become like Cao Yiqu, a prince who ignored the imperial edict and occupied the local area to defend himself. Even if Ma Fu deserves to be killed, he should be handed over to the Huai'an Prefecture.