The night in early autumn is extremely beautiful, the night sky is extremely clear, and with a bright moon, the outline of the border town can be seen just before our eyes with a few stars filling it.
The city of three miles and the country of seven miles are only a little dilapidated. The small city of Lanzhou has been sadly depressed after being fought over by several forces for decades.
This city no longer has the function of city defense and can only be regarded as a big market. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, the final winner, the city has been completely opened and unguarded, with only the simplest laws, just like the Han Dynasty.
The law proclaimed by Emperor Gaozu when he entered the Pass was the same: murderers and thieves should be punished.
That is to say, if you kill someone here, you will be beheaded and your life will be saved. If you injure someone else, they can cut you back again according to the severity of your injury. As for stealing, there is no second punishment other than chopping off the hands and feet.
After driving away Pang Wuzang, Yun Zheng once tried his best to persuade Pang Ji that in order to reflect the majesty of the Song Dynasty in this city, garrisoning troops was necessary, and enforcing the law in troubled times was a necessary means.
However, the tolerant scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty believed that this was inappropriate. Harsh punishments would only alienate the people here, which was not conducive to the rule of the Song Dynasty.
Yun Zheng actually found it very strange. Didn't any of the scribes in the Song Dynasty study? This place was occupied by the Tubo people for twenty years, and by the Xixia people for thirteen years. Then it was in a state of anarchy for six years.
After the Song Dynasty came to power, would they implement rule by inaction here again?
Political correctness and factual correctness are two different things. Yun Zheng has a strong understanding of this point. Therefore, most people think that it is enough to declare sovereignty in Lanzhou and there is no need to destroy the city.
Officially incorporated into the bureaucratic rule of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the existence of the Lanzhou prefect of the Great Song Dynasty was limited to Lanzhou City, or in other words, his majesty was limited to the Lanzhou prefect office. It was still those local powerful people who really had the word in Lanzhou City.
However, three years later, Yun Zheng realized how foolish his original advice was. After the Pingdingshan alliance, the Song Dynasty began to seek peace. The alliance with Xixia was naturally indispensable, so Lanzhou City became the largest city in the Song Dynasty.
With the concession weight, a purely commercial transaction place suddenly appeared in Lanzhou.
After the Sichuan Commercial Bank spent a large amount of capital to settle in Lanzhou, Yun Zheng belatedly discovered that the city was already overcrowded by the caravans of senior officials of the Song Dynasty.
The emperor shines in all directions like the sun, but there are always places where his radiance cannot shine, so these places breed a large number of shameful maggots.
This plump maggot from the Yun family is actually one of them. It’s just that other people’s maggots are gobbling up all kinds of benefits on the ground, but this maggot from the Yun family has been buried underground, silently waiting for a new round of competition.
In the beginning, even when the Yun family withdrew their power from Shu, he still did not give up the small place of Lanzhou.
Yun Zheng was always very wary of Wu Zang's Pang. Among the Xixia people's nobles, the one he knew best was Wu Zang's Pang. The person he couldn't understand the most was actually Wu Zang's Pang. He couldn't see through it.
Yun Zheng always wanted to destroy Tou's enemy from body to soul. Over the years, Yun Zheng had assassinated Wu Zang and Pang no less than six times, but failed without exception.
The person in charge of this matter is Yun Zheng's most powerful general - Lang Tan!
He is now stationed in Hequ, surrounded on both sides by the Xixia Zuoxiang Shenyong Military Division and Shizhou Xiangyou Military Division. On the other hand, he has to face the pressure of the Liao Kingdom's Xijing Army. Therefore, as long as the war breaks out, he will be in the limelight first. Therefore,
, Yun Zheng handed over all his informants in the northwest to Lang Tan.
The men under Lang Tan's control were all from Yunzheng's old tribe in the northwest. As early as the end of the Battle of Qingtang, Yunzheng had already consciously retired some soldiers. These people were often naked and carefree sergeants. They
Almost all human contacts and relationships are formed in the army. It can be said that leaving the army is the biggest punishment for them.
After receiving enough compensation, they had no choice but to reluctantly leave the military camp and face the Song Dynasty society that was extremely unfamiliar to them again.
There are always one or two retired officers among them, so, according to the characteristics of human beings living in groups, they naturally and habitually continue to live around their former commanders.
The life in the military camp all year round, especially the extremely strict distinction between superiors and subordinates in the army commanded by Yun Zheng, has made the soldiers, even those who have retired, still habitually obey the orders of their former commanders.
Therefore, every large-scale retirement of Yunzheng's soldiers is actually an expansion of Yunzheng's personal power...
Xiaoman was different. She came to this city voluntarily. Yun Zheng actually didn't understand why she would commit herself to Brother Chun. According to the escape route arranged for her by Hua Niang, there were countless possibilities that would be better than her staying.
It's much better to be around Brother Chun.
But this woman chose Brother Chun without hesitation, leaving Yun Zheng, a man who thought he had some understanding of women, stunned and stunned.
How could Xiaoman let Brother Chun go? There is no need to think too much about this. That bastard took away his three children. This is something Xiaoman cannot tolerate under any circumstances.
She has the highest authority among those people. Therefore, a mother who lost her child immediately led everyone to desperately search for her child. At this time, how could she be in the mood to deal with the camel army outside the city?
Camel City.
Naturally, there are experts in the army who are responsible for tracking. Three hours later, they saw the bullock cart parked on the side of the road in the dark. After all, the bamboo pieces tied behind the legs of the bullocks by Brother Chun could not withstand the long-term use.
After moving back and forth, the old cow was finally broken after taking a big stride. Without the bamboo to drive it, the old cow stopped on the side of the road and closed its eyes to rest.
After Xiaoman glanced at the ox cart, she immediately turned the horse's head and ran towards the road. She suddenly remembered one thing. There was no way that Brother Chun would let her three children sleep in the wild, especially those who were only a few months old.
Xiao Xiaolin simply can't stand such running around!
The tracking experts found the bodies of two camel travelers at dawn. The corpses were bleeding from all the orifices and turned blue. This is a standard reaction to being poisoned. There were only camel travelers but no camels. This made Xiaoman look at the rugged road south.
Somewhat dazed.
Too much time was wasted going back and forth. Brother Chun, who was riding a camel, was already at least fifty miles away.
Based on Xiaoman's understanding of Brother Chun, Brother Chun who was fifty miles away must have blended into the vast sea of people at this time, and it would be difficult to find him.
After all, hiding is the special skill of him and his cunning master. At this point, Xiaoman thinks that he cannot be the opponent of Brother Chun.
Xiaoman sat on the horse, tears streaming down his face. On the one hand, he felt guilty, but on the other hand, he hated Brother Chun's ruthlessness.
Brother Chun was lying in a bean field, looking at Xiaoman from a distance, standing alone on the high slope like a headless fly. At this time, he felt uncomfortable. If he wasn't next to Xiaoman,
If there were more than twenty warriors, he would probably stand up and scold this stupid and loyal woman in person. Is there anyone or anything in the world that is more important than his three children?
He didn't doubt his relationship with Xiaoman. People from Nanfeng Pavilion would have died long ago if they didn't know what true feelings were and what were false feelings.
When you don't have children, it's nothing to throw away your life for Xiaoman. It's just to return the true love to others. The more fake people live, the more they regard true love as their fate.
After having a child, Brother Chun will never throw away his life easily, even for Xiaoman.
He lost his parents when he was a child, and he did not suffer any of the hardships that an orphan should suffer. Finally, he met a pair of fake parents who pretended to take him in, but in the end they sold him to Nanfeng Pavilion.
He will never allow his three delicate, flower-like children to follow his old path. His children do not deserve such suffering at all, even if he and Xiaoman part ways for this, he will not hesitate!
A warrior drove his horse to Xiaoman's side and said, "Mrs. Lin, the general has ordered that closely monitoring Haihu'er is our first priority. Madam, please put the overall situation first!"
Xiaoman nodded and said: "You go first, I will follow you soon."
The warrior looked at Xiaoman, sighed and waved his hand behind her. The warriors drove their horses past her and ran towards Lanzhou City. This morning, the scouts came to report that Huer had not stayed where he was.
move.
"Lin Chun, get out of here while I'm giving you a cup of tea. The forest is so dense and the children can't stand the mosquitoes inside. If there's anything wrong with the children, I'll skin you!"
Xiaoman suddenly turned his horse's head and looked coldly at the dense forest behind him and shouted loudly.
"Others think you have gone away, but I know you have not left here at all. The eldest brother is afraid of the dark, and the second and third children are too young to spend the night outside. If you are contaminated by unclean things, you will regret it!
There are only a few dozen private houses here. If I had ordered a raid just now, you would not have been able to escape. I also want to go to Jiangnan with you to enjoy life, but I still owe you a favor. If I don’t repay this favor, I will never feel at ease in my life!
You have worked so hard to dig the cellar, and I can see it. I don’t know why the Yun family dug the cave for hiding soldiers next door to our house. When I found out, they had already dug it. Apart from hiding it from you,
, what do you want me to do?"
No matter how Xiaoman shouted, Brother Chun remained unmoved. He picked a green pod from the bean vine and carefully opened it and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it slowly.
This woman is doing a show now. This kind of trick of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger has been performed frequently in the past few years. Don’t think that I don’t know that there are ambushes behind the hillside. Only fools would go out at this time. I and my sons are free men. Let’s face it.
There is no chance in the world of being a slave to others! (To be continued)