Chapter 289 What's the matter, you and I are not obstructive?
"Trash! They are all a bunch of trash! The prison camp in Jiangzhou was robbed, the Xiang army and the thieves rebelled openly, and the infantry, horse and naval forces of the imperial army were all repulsed by the thieves. What's the use of the state raising these wine bags and rice bags!
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In the official residence of the prefect in Jiangzhou City, the prefect Cai Jiu was thunderous. After roaring in a high-pitched voice, he angrily picked up the teacup on the table and was about to moisten his throat when he saw a new cup of scalding hot water being brought to him by the waiter.
Cai Jiu was so excited that he couldn't drink the tea, so he threw it hard and broke the tea cup into pieces.
Several civil servants in the study were docile, and none of them dared to take a breath. Cai Jiu became even more furious when he saw it. His face was twisted with anger, he pointed at the civil servants and cursed:
"You are all chaotic idiots! If you have free time, you guys would be enjoying the blessings in this government office. Now this is the only thing, but you are silent! What is the use of me raising you!?
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After Cai Jiu scolded him, he looked at the scholar next to him, with the eyes of a bee and a snake, the head of a deer and the eyes of a rat. He shouted: "Huang Wenbing, don't you think you are smart and smart?
What about you? Now that I am using you, why don’t you say anything?"
Cai Jiu scolded the man who was the magistrate of Jiangzhou, Huang Wenbing, known as the Hornet Sting. He was narrow-minded and jealous of talents. Although his character was poor and he was a flatterer, Song Jiang was so deceitful and crazy that Dai Zong
The forged letters he had hid from Cai Jiu, the magistrate of Jiangzhou, but Huang Wenbing discovered the flaws at a glance, which shows that he is really astute and good at discerning things.
But... Cai Jiu forced him to make an idea about the prison robbery, which was a bit difficult. The reason why Huang Wenbing was able to see through the tricks of Song Jiang, Dai Zong, Liangshan Wu Yong and others was because
He usually harms those who are better than him, and makes trouble for those who are worse than him. How can he be so familiar with the method of finding people's weak points and making a fuss about them? How can he hide it from him by just pretending to be crazy and acting stupid? Secondly, he is familiar with scriptures, so he is a poor man.
For those scholars who study hard only to get promoted and make a fortune, it is an expert's ability to show off their knowledge through the lines of words. The ability to talk about right and wrong in words alone is probably not as good as that of Wu Yong, a wise man who was born as a teacher in the village in Liangshan Mountain.
It's just that Xiao Tang not only sneaked into the prison camp and kidnapped the prisoners, but after being discovered by the guards in the prison camp, he actually dispatched two strong men to fight openly with the officers and soldiers and other simple and crude actions. Nowadays, most of the troops in the prison camp have mutinied.
After the rebellion, the jailer involved was defeated again. What's more, Huang Wenbing, a free judge, could only advise the governor of the state on matters such as grain transportation, farmland, water conservancy, and litigation. He was not good at criminal investigation in the yamen.
The head of the investigation was not Kong Mu, who was in charge of the prison accounts and reviewed the case. How could he find clues to Xiao Tang?
But seeing that Cai Jiu's expression became more and more ugly, Huang Wenbing was also worried. He secretly said: This magistrate Cai Jiu is the son of the powerful Prime Minister Cai Jing. I often come to visit him, hoping that he will recommend me to the job.
But now this guy definitely wants me to give advice, so how can this be a good thing?
After thinking hard, Huang Wenbing suddenly came up with a plan and said: "Xiao Xianggong Cai, since the ones who kidnapped Li Zhi were strong men from the green forest who gathered in the mountains and forests, if they were bandits from outside the boundaries of Jiangzhou, thousands of thieves would cross the border.
If someone crosses prefectures and goes to Jiangzhou to cause trouble, he will definitely alert the inspection departments of other towns under the jurisdiction of other prefectures. As long as Cai Xiaoxianggong sends a letter to the surrounding prefects to inquire in detail, he will definitely be able to trace the strongman who came to rob the camp.
road.
If they are strongmen and thieves from this state, and thousands of thieves in the prison camps join the army to join the bandits in the green forest, it is impossible that no news will leak out. If they are really copycat thieves from this state, things will be easy to handle. If they run away, the monks will run away from the temple, and the young husband only needs an official document to say There is a bandit rebellion in Jiangzhou, please invite the Bianjing Privy Council Army to attack, and we will surely wipe out all these rogue gangs."
After listening to Huang Wenbing's words, Cai Jiu began to murmur in his heart. The reason for his doubts was that the fact that he was robbed in the prison camp was too cowardly. Most of the troops in the third battalion mutinied and surrendered to the thieves, although the loss of men and horses was not enough. However, the strong men with less than a thousand people forced the five thousand officers and soldiers back to Jiangzhou City. A prisoner and two military envoys under the Jiangzhou Command Department were all killed by thieves. He killed hundreds of Jiangzhou navy troops guarding the river and were even intercepted by a bandit in the Xunyang River... After all, the newly surrendered Xiang army bandit soldiers and horses were only two thousand at most, so they mobilized a large number of troops to summon the army. Suppression, then what does he, the prefect of Jiangzhou who guards one side, do for a living?
What's more, Cai Jiu secretly sent people to torture Li Zhi in prison, and the idea of resulting in him was just because of his personal enmity with Li Zhi. At that time, Cai Jiu relied on Cai Jing's power in the capital, and when he was in Bianjing, he usually wore fresh clothes. Numa, a son of an official who was flattered by others. But Li Zhi followed his father and worked as a prisoner in the capital. Not only was he a professional in technology, his father Li Jie was also a senior courtier in charge of large and small construction projects. Li Zhi didn't take Cai Jiu seriously. When Cai Jiu was in Beijing, he was wavering between the old and new parties in the DPRK. When he was prime minister, he repeatedly broke laws and was widely criticized. Li Zhi, who had a strong temperament, often used this matter to tease and ridicule him. Cai Jiu.
What Cai Jiu couldn't bear the most was that Li Zhi once said that he, Cai Jing's son, was a side branch of the sect, and that he was just a dandy who relied on his father's power for a while. Cai Jiu, who was already very sensitive to his own origin, met Li Zhi. This humiliation already made him hate him like a bone. So after he became the prefect of Jiangzhou, he was surprised to find that Li Zhi had become a prisoner in the prison camp under his rule. Naturally, he wanted to torture and ravage him to death. Later, he took his life to vent his anger.
No matter how deep the personal feud between Cai Jiu and Li Zhi is, these reasons cannot be publicly known to the court, or even to his uncles and brothers of the Cai family. But...since a strong man from the green forest came to rescue Li Zhi, he Such a serious crime as secretly colluding with the rebellious party to cause trouble will definitely not be spared.
After Cai Jiu made some mental calculations, he said to Huang Wenbing and other officials: "Okay! Let's start with the origins of the thieves and bandits, and order the inspection departments in various places in Jiangzhou to detect any changes in the strongmen in the strongholds in various places in Jiangzhou! If we go to the sea again to capture the document and arrest Li Zhi, the traitor who has rebelled against the party, all the county and town officials will conduct a strict search and search, and they will dig three feet into the ground to arrest that guy!"
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In Jieyang Town, one of the many counties and towns under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, due to the coordination of the state government's Yamen Wen, the extremely ferocious Dutou Officer went door to door to search and arrest people, causing uproar in Jieyang Town.
At this time, there were two men with more than a dozen government servants standing at the entrance of a large village. There was no trace of arrogance or domineering on their faces. Instead, they accompanied Xin and said to the villagers at the gate: "It's not that we don't know how to be human. , It’s just that the superior officer of the state government has an order, so I hope it will be convenient.”
But the banker at the door rolled his eyes and said in a sinister manner: "I am going to facilitate you, but who will be facilitating me? I let you gentlemen into the village rashly, don't you want to punish me?"
The head of the town in Jieyang suddenly became angry and cursed in his heart: What a damn thing you are relying on human power! A mere boy in Mujiazhuang dared to behave like this with me.
Who is not respectful to me? If I don’t give you some advice, you are really treating me like a soft persimmon!
Just when the two of them were about to start thinking, they heard someone yelling: "Straight bitch! What kind of bird dared to run wild in Mujiazhuang after eating the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard!?"
After hearing this, both of them looked down. They saw the two brothers Mu Hong and Mu Chun in the Mu family village, drunk and drunk, walking to the door with arms swinging. Mu Hong, who was angry and impulsive, looked at him strangely.
After a glare, the two Dutou were frightened. At this moment, they heard Mu Chun scolding: "It's you two! Zhang Dutou, Tian Dutou, I usually give you enough face."
, why do you come to our Mujiazhuang to ask me for wildfire!?"
"Erlang of the Mu family, look what Xie said." Zhang Dutou smiled so hard that his face was all wrinkled. He nodded and bowed to Mu Hong, and the Mu Chun brothers said: "The state government issued a death order, and they need to hunt down the escaped thief.
If you are a prisoner, if you still violate the limit, you will also be punished. If not, how can you dare to disturb your house? "
"My surname is Zhang, what the hell do you mean!?" Mu Hong became even angrier after hearing this. He shouted and cursed: "You are saying that I am harboring a thief who escaped from prison!? You are saying that our Mujiazhuang is having an affair with a bandit?
Can’t make it?”
Mu Hong became more and more anxious as he spoke, and he sprayed the smell of alcohol and spit foam all over Zhang's face. Mu Hong immediately stepped aside and shouted: "Okay, I will let you search! But the ugly words come first."
, if you guys don’t find any prisoners or thieves, I will argue with you slowly!”
The two bosses secretly complained in their hearts. Even if they were ruthless and violent in Jieyang Town, how could they defeat one of the three tyrants in Jieyang? Although they were government officials, the Mu family was a large local family and there were many people on weekdays.
Whether they want to benefit from it depends on his face. Besides, they both know that Mu Hong has a bad temper. If he really wants to get angry, don't talk to him. Even the King of Heaven and I can't stop him!
What are you doing to offend the evil star Tai Sui for no reason? Not to mention that if you can't find the thief, you will be resented by him. Even if you find the thief, how much benefit will our brothers get? Zhang Dutou and Tian Dutou looked at each other with depressed faces.
, then hurriedly clasped his fists towards Mu Hong and said, "We have lost our sense of proportion. Who are the first and second sons of the Mu family who are collaborators with bandits? Offended, offended, I have to stay for a long time due to official duties, so we will leave first."
After saying that, they both walked away dejectedly with their official duties in their heads, while brothers Mu Hong and Mu Chun stood up with anger on their faces. They looked at each other and smiled before returning to the main hall of their manor. Mu Hong stepped forward.
Holding his fists, he said to a man sitting on the table: "Xiao Renxia, that bird man was beaten away by my younger brother!"
Note: According to historical facts, the traitor Cai Jing had eight sons, including Cai You, Cai Min, Cai Chen, and Cai Sui. Cai Dezhang, the prefect of Jiangzhou in "Water Margin", was also called Cai Jiu, so he was set as a concubine.
