That night, Huang Yu, the magistrate of Yuxian County, sent for Zou Liang, the military commander of the county. [[{ (网
Wei, that is, Wei officer, is a military position.
Wuwei generally refers to military positions such as county lieutenant and county lieutenant, but in some local counties, there are slight differences.
For example, in a county where thieves are rampant, there will be military lieutenants who are responsible for training guards and suppressing bandits; there are also county lieutenants who are responsible for maintaining public security in the county and arresting criminals, etc.
The troops commanded by Wu Wei were specifically used to suppress banditry around the county or to guard against invading other troops. They were called garrison troops. They were in the same category as the Sixth Battalion of the garrison, that is, the garrison army.
This type of special military officer is usually a military attache specially appointed by the imperial court. The length of his term depends on the severity of the local banditry or the state of Wei. Although it is nominally under the jurisdiction of the local county magistrate, it is actually under the control of the Ministry of War.
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However, in some counties where banditry does not exist, Wu Wei actually refers to the county captain.
However, the military officer Zou Liang of Yuxian County invited this time was indeed a military officer worthy of the name, and he was in charge of hundreds of guards.
No wonder, after all, Yu County is also on the border between Wei and Song Dynasty, and its southeast is Yangxia County. In this area, bandits are very serious, so even though Yu County is a small county,
But in fact there were 800 county soldiers in the city.
For a small county with only a thousand households in the city, this is indeed a quite impressive number of troops.
Even Zhao Hongrun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there were actually 800 county soldiers in Yuxian County, but he couldn't help but be surprised.
After asking about it, I found out that Yangxia in the southeast has always been a cancer in the hearts of Yuxian County and other surrounding counties. Yangxia thieves opened so-called gentry houses and took in homeless people in the name of charity houses.
of people, including many desperate people.
Those people occupied the mountains and became kings in Yangxia County, dividing their territories among themselves, and causing trouble to the surrounding counties like Yuxian County.
"Infighting? Will Yangxia Hidden Thieves still fight among themselves?" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
After hearing this, Wu Wei Zou Liang asked in confusion: "Does your Highness think that the Yangxia Hidden Bandits are just a group of men?"
"Isn't it?" Zhao Hongrun asked doubtfully.
"It would be nice if there was just one." Wu Wei Zou Liang shook his head and explained: "The so-called hidden thieves in Yangxia actually refer to the many hidden thieves in Yangxia, ranging from a dozen to hundreds.
On weekdays, they are constantly fighting each other. According to what I know, the most powerful among the hidden thieves in Yangxia are undoubtedly the Fuqiu thieves and the Yiqiu thieves. This time, His Highness Prince Su must be one of the two with a bounty on his head.
I would never have the guts to do something like this."
"Fuqiu thieves? Yiqiu thieves?" Zhao Hongrun touched his chin, secretly keeping these two terms in mind, and said with some surprise: "These two groups of thieves...the names are really similar, does it have anything to do with it?
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"His Royal Highness King Su really knows how to see fire." Wu Wei Zou Liang flattered, and then explained to Zhao Hongrun: "Actually, many years ago, the Fuqiu bandits and the Yiqiu bandits were the same group. They were entrenched in Geyang, northeast of Yangxia County.
Mountain, also called Geqiu, the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress it many times, but failed to eradicate it... But later, for some reason, this group of people split on their own, and became the Fuqiu bandits and Yiqiu bandits today. In fact, Fuqiu bandits
Regardless of whether it is Yiqiu or Yiqiu, it refers to Geqiu in the northeast of Yang County, that is, Geyang Mountain."
"I see." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then he frowned and asked, "But having said that, Yangxia is causing so much trouble, what is the local magistrate doing?"
Huang Yu, the county magistrate of Yuxian County, sighed after hearing this: "It's not that the local magistrate didn't do anything, but actually..." As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said: "I remember that five or six years ago, the imperial court sent a magistrate named Ma.
, when this man passed through Yuxian County, he was entertained by the lower official. He was a learned man. After listening to the lower official's warning, this man determined to eradicate the cancer of Yangxia. As a result, within seven days, his wife and daughter died.
All the women were killed. Although the thieves did not harm him due to his status as an official of the imperial court, the gentleman lost his wife and children and eventually suffered from heart failure..."
"How unreasonable!" Zhao Hongrun was furious when he heard this and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you report it to the court?!"
"Reported." County magistrate Huang Yu smiled bitterly and said: "After we learned about this, we reported it to the court, and the court also sent troops to suppress it, but what's the use? When the army arrives in Yangxia, those thieves will
We have already fled to Goqiu, and there are only some uninformed civilians left in the city. We can’t kill those civilians, right?”
Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this and said, "Are you sure that there are no disguised thieves among those civilians?"
"The problem is that we can't tell the difference." County magistrate Huang Yu said helplessly: "There are ten people there, and one of them is a thief. How can we kill one person in vain and kill the other nine?"
"..." Zhao Hongrun remained silent.
After listening to the words of County Magistrate Huang Yu and Wu Wei Zou Liang, he finally understood how difficult Yangxia's hidden thieves were.
It's not that the imperial court can't deal with the thieves in this area. Otherwise, it only needs to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to surround Geqiu and set fire to the mountain, while on the other side, they will kill all the people in Yangxia and keep Yangxia Yin.
The thief was annihilated from then on.
But can the court do this?
Setting fire to the mountains is okay, but massacring civilians is unethical, not to mention the people who are massacred are the people of the country. If anyone issues such an order, the stigma will not be washed away for a lifetime.
It was precisely because of the imperial court's ban on rats that the situation in Yangxia became increasingly corrupt. The county magistrates and military guards sent there were of no use at all. They were assassinated within a few days of entering Yangxia County, unless they were honest.
Really, don't touch the interests of local thieves.
Over time, the imperial court became too lazy to take care of the land of Yangxia. Anyway, Yangxia was located near the borders of Wei, Song, and Chu. As long as troops were deployed in counties like Siyu County, those hidden thieves would start to cause trouble.
, the greatest impact will only be on Pingyu County of Chu State.
Unexpectedly, today, I would be bumped into by Zhao Hongrun.
That night, County Magistrate Huang Yu and Military Lieutenant Zou Liang explained to Zhao Hongrun the situation in Yangxia. Of course, this was only limited to what they knew.
Afterwards, Wu Wei Zou Liang personally took 300 county soldiers to Yanling to convey Zhao Hongrun's order and summon the merchant navy stationed in Yanling to come to Yu County.
As for Zhao Hongrun and his party, they were finally able to have a good night's rest in the back office of Yuxian County Government Office.
But in the middle of the night, someone actually set fire near the county government office, and even tried to enter the county government office with a knife. Fortunately, the county magistrate Huang Yu had already deployed more than 200 county soldiers at the county government office, and even issued a temporary curfew order.
Putting the whole city under martial law, the thieves finally didn't succeed.
However, what makes Zhao Hongrun regretful is that these guys who had the audacity to attack the county government were not the hidden thieves of Yangxia, but the rangers who were greedy for profit and were dazzled by the 50,000 gold bounty on his head.
Zhao Hongrun didn't bother to interrogate this group of people, because this group of people were simply the outskirts of the Yangxia Hidden Thief, and there was no way he could get any important information out of them.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun asked Huang Yu to throw all those who had not yet died into the county jail. As for the killed rangers, they found a place to burn their corpses and then buried them in the soil.
The next day, the county magistrate Huang Yu formally imposed martial law in Yu County. Hundreds of county soldiers were divided into dozens of teams to search for those outsiders throughout the city.
During this period, the wealthy squires in Yuxian County, like the He family from which He Zhirong was born, also dispatched their servants and servants to help the county magistrate Huang Yu in hunting down those outsiders.
This scene finally gave Zhao Hongrun some confidence in the aristocrats in the country.
He had to admit that not all the nobles and gentry were bastards. No, the nobles and gentry in Yuxian County set an example for the nobles and gentry. Although the security of Yuxian County was closely related to their lives, they helped Huang Yu
They are also helping themselves, but it is undeniable that these nobles and gentry are self-maintaining the prestige of the county government.
In this regard, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but sigh once again: The so-called nobles are the cornerstone of the country, which refers to these nobles who have not been corrupted by money, status, rights, and interests!
Because the targets of the search were foreigners who were not local to Yuxian County, it was inevitable that the wrong arrests would occur. However, it is undeniable that after the extensive search throughout the city, Yuxian County was peaceful for the next two or three days, and there were no more daring arrests.
The guy tried to assassinate Zhao Hongrun at the county government office.
On the eighth day of February in the eighteenth year of Hongde, Yuxian County Wu Wei Zou Liang led the 300 county soldiers. They repelled a wave of bandit attacks on the way and arrived at Yanling in the evening of the next day.
He did not enter the city because he learned from the soldiers at the gate of Yanling City that the Shang Shui Army was stationed in the Yanling Army's camp, and this camp was built outside the city.
So Zou Liang led his men and horses straight to the camp of the Yanling Army and asked to see the general of the Shang Shui Army, Wuma Jiao, in the name of Su Wang Hongrun.
In fact, as early as when Zhao Hongrun was still in Daliang, he wrote a letter and sent it to Guliangwei in Shangshui and Wuma Jiao who was stationed in Yanling at that time, and these two
Like Wu Ji, Qu Cheng and other generals, they can all be regarded as Zhao Hongrun's direct leading generals. Therefore, Zhao Hongrun has something to explain to them.
When Zou Liang brought people to see him, Wu Majiao was wondering in the military camp. Because he calculated the days, Zhao Hongrun should be able to reach Yanling long ago. Could it be that he went directly to Shangshui?
But this is wrong. After all, it is actually faster to go to Shangshui by boat than to Yanling.
Wu Majiao would never have thought that Zhao Hongrun would be assassinated on his way to Yanling and Shangshui, and he would be attacked one after another.
"Is this serious?!"
When he heard that King Su had been attacked, Wuma Jiao was furious.
Even before Zou Liang could produce the letter written by Zhao Hongrun, Wu Majiao summoned his generals and ordered them to leave a thousand troops to guard the Yanling Army's camp, while he led four thousand troops.
They fought non-stop towards Yu County.
After a day and night of rapid march, the merchant navy rushed to Yuxian County and arrived at Yuxian County in the early morning of the 10th day of February. (To be continued.) 8