That night, Huang Yu, the magistrate of the county, sent someone to invite the Wuwei Zou Liang of the county.

Wei, that is, Wei, is a military position.

Wuwei generally refers to military positions such as county magistrates and county magistrates, but in some local county towns, there are slight differences.

For example, in a county where bandits are rampant, there will be a Wuwei, which is responsible for training guards and suppressing bandits; at the same time, there will be a county lieutenant responsible for maintaining the public order of the county town, and arresting criminals, etc.

The Wei Wei, who is in charge of the Wei-wei, is specially used to suppress bandits around the county town or to prevent the invading teams, is called the Wei Rong Army, which belongs to the same category as the Sixth Battalion of the Army, namely the garrison army.

Such special military lieutenants are usually military officers sent by the court. The length of their term depends on the severity of the local bandits or the Wei State. Although they are nominally under the jurisdiction of the local county magistrate, they are actually under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

However, in some counties where there is no bandit problem, Wu Wei actually refers to the county lieutenant.

However, the Wuwei of Wu of Wu who was invited this time, Zou Liang was indeed a veritable Wuwei, holding hundreds of guards and Rongjun under his hands.

No wonder, after all, Wu County is also on the border between Wei and Song dynasties, and the southeast of it is Yangxia County. In this area, there are very serious bandits. Therefore, although Wu County is a small county, in fact, there are 800 county soldiers in the city.

This is indeed a very impressive number of troops for a small county with only more than a thousand residents in the city.

Even after hearing that there were 800 county soldiers in Wu County, Zhao Hongrun was relieved and couldn't help but be surprised.

After asking, I realized that Yangxia, in the southeast direction, has always been a cancer in the hearts of surrounding counties such as Wuxian County. Yangxia hidden thieves opened the so-called vocational hall, and under the name of a charity house, sheltered some wandering people, including many desperate people.

Those people occupied the mountains and became kings in Yangxia County, and divided their territory with each other. The disturbances were like surrounding counties such as Wuxian County.

"Internal fighting? Will Yang Xiayin Thief still have internal fighting?" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help asking after hearing this.

Hearing this, Wu Wei Zou Liang asked in confusion: "Your Highness, don't you think that Yang Xiayin thief is just a group of people?"

"Isn't it?" Zhao Hongrun asked in confusion.

"It would be great if it was just one." Wu Wei Zou Liang shook his head and explained: "The so-called Yangxia Hidden Thieves are actually referring to the many hidden thieves in Yangxia, ranging from a dozen people to hundreds of people. They often fight each other on weekdays. As far as the Beishi knows, the most powerful among the Yangxia Hidden Thieves are the Fuqiu Thieves and Yiqiu Thieves. This time, His Highness Su was offered a reward, and it must be one of the two. I will never have the courage to take on the task and do such a thing."

"Fuqiu thief? Yiqiu thief?" Zhao Hongrun touched his chin and secretly kept these two terms in mind. He said in a little surprised: "These two groups of thieves...the names are really similar. What's the relationship?"

"His Highness Su is indeed as if he is aware of the fire." Wu Wei Zou Liang flattered him and explained to Zhao Hongrun: "In fact, many years ago, the thieves of Fuqiu and Yiqiu were the same group. They were entrenched in the Geyang Mountain in the northeast of Yangxia County, also known as Geqiu. The court sent troops to encircle and suppress them repeatedly, but they failed to eliminate them... But later, somehow, the group of people split on their own, and became the current thieves of Fuqiu and Yiqiu. In fact, whether it is Fuqiu or Yiqiu, they all refer to the Geqiu in the northeast of Yangxian County, that is, Geyang Mountain."

"So that's it." Zhao Hongrun nodded, then he frowned and asked, "But then, Yang Xia is making such a big fuss, what is the local county magistrate doing?"

Huang Yu, the county magistrate of Wu County, sighed and said, "It's not the local county magistrate who is inaction, but it's actually..." As he said, he lowered his voice and said, "Xiaoguan remember that five or six years ago, the imperial court sent a county magistrate named Ma. When this person passed by Wu County, the official was entertained by him. He was a well-educated man. After listening to Xiaguan's warning, this person decided to eradicate the cancer of Yangxia. In the end, his wife, daughter, and daughter were all killed in less than seven days. Although the hidden thieves were not harmed because of his identity as an official in the court, the adult lost his wife and children and eventually suffered from loss of heart..."

"It's outrageous!" Zhao Hongrun was furious when he heard this and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you report it to the court?!"

"Report." County Magistrate Huang Yu said with a wry smile: "After I learned about this, I reported it to the court, and the court also sent troops to pacify and suppress the enemy. What's the use? When the army arrives in Yangxia, the thieves have already fled to Geqiu. There are only some uninformed civilians left in the city. You can't kill those civilians, right?"

Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this and said, "Can you be sure that there are no hidden thieves among the civilians who are pretending to be?"

"The problem is that it is impossible to distinguish." County Magistrate Huang Yu said helplessly: "There are ten people there, one of them is a thief. Can you kill the other nine people in vain to kill one?"

"..." Zhao Hongrun said silently.

After hearing what the county magistrate Huang Yu and Wu Wei Zou Liang said, he finally understood how difficult it is to Yang Xia’s hidden thief was.

It’s not that the court cannot deal with these mere thieves in the local area. Otherwise, tens of thousands of troops would be transferred to surround Geqiu and set fire on the mountain. On the other hand, it would slaughter all the people in Yangxia to keep Yangxia Yin thieves from then on.

But can the court do this?

It's okay to set fire to the mountains, but slaughtering civilians is an unethical matter, let alone the people of the country. If anyone gives such an order, he will never be able to cleanse his stigma for the rest of his life.

It was precisely because the court was afraid of the situation in Yangxia that the situation in Yangxia became increasingly corrupt. The county magistrates and the military troops sent there were no use at all. They were assassinated within a few days after entering Yangxia County, unless they were honest, they would not touch the interests of the local hidden thieves.

Over time, the court was too lazy to care about Yangxia. Anyway, Yangxia was located near the borders of Wei, Song and Chu. As long as the troops were deployed in counties such as Siyu County, even if those hidden thieves were going to make trouble, the biggest influence would be Pingyu County of Chu.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongrun was hit by him today.

That night, the county magistrate Huang Yu and Wu Wei Zou Liang explained to Zhao Hongrun about Yang Xia's situation. 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 orders and summoned the Shangshui troops stationed in Yanling to come to Yan County.

As for Zhao Hongrun and his group, they were finally able to rest for a night in the back of the county government office.

However, at midnight, someone set fire around the county government office and even tried to enter the county government office with a knife. Fortunately, the county magistrate Huang Qi had already deployed more than 200 county soldiers in the county government office, and even issued a curfew order to make martial law in the whole city. Finally, the thieves did not succeed.

However, what makes Zhao Hongrun regret is that these brave guys who attempt to attack the county and county governments are not the Yang Xia Yin thieves, but the rangers who are blinded by the fifty thousand golds that are rewarded with him.

Zhao Hongrun was too lazy to interrogate these people, because these people were simply the periphery of Yang Xia Yin thief and could not ask for any important information.

So, Zhao Hongrun asked Huang Yu to throw all those who had not yet died into the county jail. As for the killing rangers, they found a place to burn the corpses and then buried them in the soil.

The next day, county magistrate Huang Yu officially ruled martial law against Wu County. Hundreds of county soldiers divided into dozens of teams to search for those foreigners in the city.

During this period, the He family, which seemed to be He Zhirong's origin, and these local gentry gentry from the county, also sent out servants and servants from the mansion to help the county magistrate Huang Qi search for those foreigners.

This scene finally made Zhao Hongrun feel a little more confident about the nobles and gentry in China.

He had to admit that not all the nobles and gentry were bastards. So, the nobles and gentry in Wu County have set an example as nobles and gentry. Although the public security of Wu County is closely related to their lives, and they are also helping themselves, it is undeniable that these nobles and gentry are maintaining the prestige of the county government.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but sigh again: The so-called aristocrats are the cornerstone of the country, referring to these aristocrats who have not been corrupted by money, status, rights and interests!

Because the search target was a foreigner from non-local county, it is inevitable that the wrong arrest would occur. However, it is undeniable that after the city's search, the county was calm for two or three days after that, and there was no bolder guy trying to assassinate Zhao Hongrun in the county government.

On the eighth day of the second month of the 18th year of Hongde, Wuwei Zou Liang of Wu of Wu led the 300 county soldiers to repel a wave of thieves on the way, and arrived in Yanling on the evening the next day after leaving.

He did not enter the city because he learned from the soldiers at the gate of Yanling City that the Shang navy was stationed in the Yanling Army's camp, and this camp was built outside the city.

So, Zou Liang and his men came straight to the camp of Yanling Army, and in the name of King Su Hongrun, he sought to meet Wu Majiao, the general of the Shang navy.

In fact, before Zhao Hongrun was still in Daliang, he wrote a letter and sent it to Guliangwei, Shangshui. Like Wu Majiao, who was stationed in Yanling at this time, and these two men, like Wu Ji, Qu Jun and other generals, can be regarded as Zhao Hongrun's direct commanders. Therefore, Zhao Hongrun has to explain some things to them.

When Zou Liang brought people to ask for a meeting, Wu Majiao was wondering in the military camp, because he calculated the days and Zhao Hongrun should have been able to arrive in Yanling long ago. Could it be that he went to Shangshui directly?

But this is not right. After all, if you take a boat to Shangshui, it is actually faster than to get to Yanling.

Wu Majiao would never have thought that Zhao Hongrun would be assassinated on the way to Yanling and Shangshui, and there were a series of attacks.

"This is serious?"

When Wumajiao heard that King Su was attacked, he was furious.

Even before Zou Liang could present the letter written by Zhao Hongrun, Wu Majiao called his generals and ordered him to leave a thousand troops to guard the Yanling army's camp, while he led 4,000 troops to kill to Wu County without stopping.
Chapter completed!