Chapter five hundred and eighty seventh will say goodbye
The sunset is like blood.
When Tie Ce's army in the field began to bury pots and make rice, the carriage with Qi Zhuji in it returned to the camp.
"It's done."
Qi Zhuji jumped out of the carriage and nodded to Wang Chaozong and others who came forward to greet them, and said.
"Where's that guy?"
Wang Chaozong was stunned.
"In the back."
Qi Zhuji glanced back and said, "Most of them have injuries on their feet. I asked the people from Tongshan Prison to apply medicine to them, and each of them was given a new pair of shoes. They probably have some scratches on their feet, so they walk slowly."
After he replied to Wang Chaozong that it was enough time for him to have a cup of tea, some ragged figures appeared on the road outside Menglong City, looking a little staggering.
"You actually use death row?"
A surprised voice sounded.
Luo Jilian looked at the figures marching towards the camp, and she quickly identified the identities of these people. These people looked a little difficult to walk because they usually wore shackles on their feet. This kind of shackles were on their feet.
Over time, the flesh and blood around the feet will be worn away, and even the muscles and bones will be rotten to the point of being rotten.
In the Southern Dynasties, generally only those on death row who had committed heinous crimes would wear shackles for a long time.
These death row inmates are usually obedient, but if they are still violent and unruly, the wardens in ordinary prisons will not give them any treatment at all, not even the worst medicine for sores, leaving these people's feet to fester to the point where they cannot walk.
His legs are ulcerated and he cannot walk, but he still has to perform hard labor like other prisoners on weekdays. As a result, he may be dragged to death in a short time.
The official administration of the previous dynasty was originally chaotic, and not many people cared about the lives and deaths of prisoners who had committed serious crimes. Although Xiao Yan rectified the situation after he came to the throne, after he came to the throne, he eliminated the old party forces of the previous dynasty, and he did not want to let the civilians appear.
Incest, so the law is more severe. There are just a lot more criminals in prisons in various places, and the prisons are even more overcrowded.
From top to bottom, the more serious offenders are imprisoned in a prison, the higher the tolerance for the death of criminals.
During the three years in Tianjian, the summer heat in Jiankang Jingzi Prison was so hot that several cells were poorly ventilated and more than 30 people were suffocated to death. Those officials were only demoted one level and fined for one year.
This shows the tolerance of the Southern Dynasties towards the death rate of prisoners in various prisons.
"This...why is she here?"
Qi Zhuji was stunned when she saw Luo Jilian.
Luo Jilian defected to the army, her family affairs and how much help she could bring to Tie Cejun were now known to everyone. Seeing Qi Zhuji's dazed look, Wang Chaozong immediately whispered a few words and explained.
clear.
"On the way to Meishan during the march, I felt that her behavior and temperament were completely different from those of women from the Southern Dynasties. At that time, I only thought that Dongliang Prefecture was bordering the Northern Wei Dynasty, and that her temperament was closer to the women of the Northern Wei Dynasty. I did not expect that there would be such a thing.
layer."
Qi Zhuji was just surprised that Luo Jilian was here before. He would have no lack of etiquette towards the senior sisters in the courtyard, especially now that Tie Cejun was a big help, he could just look at Luo Jilian from a distance.
He bowed and said, "Senior Sister Luo."
"No wonder you left Zhongli City and marched all the way here, but you didn't recruit troops or recruit elite sergeants from the local army. You actually had such an idea." Luo Jilian was not as restrained as other practitioners at all.
She jumped up and reached Qi Zhuji's side after two ups and downs.
"Different generals have different characteristics in leading armies. Your Tiece army that came out of Zhongli City all came out of the Shura Field where they were strangled with hundreds of thousands of elite troops from the Northern Wei Dynasty. They all came from prison.
The death row prisoner mentioned among them... Qi Zhuji, your Tiece Army seems to want to directly build a Shura Army, an army of dead soldiers that are simply full of dead soldiers."
Luo Jilian looked at the prisoners with great interest, "I just don't know what your criteria are for selecting these prisoners?"
"The chivalrous one."
Lin Yi's voice rang out.
Lin Yi also walked out of the camp and came to their side.
"The fourteen people I initially selected from Tongshan Prison were not the most brave outlaws, but most of them were imprisoned for standing up for injustice. In my opinion, these people are truly brave and brave. They are better than some dynasties in ancient times.
, yet a respected ranger.”
He looked at the excited Luo Jilian, smiled slightly, and said: "Then I will let each of these people choose five people. Those who can be like-minded to them are naturally not bad."
"Combat strength can only be replenished the day after tomorrow. You are indeed a born general. The people you want to find are all similar to you." Luo Jilian couldn't help but shook her head, "However, Lin Yi, you are really bold and dare to
After directly mentioning so many repeat offenders, you yourself are the criminals, and you suddenly gained power. You are not afraid that the emperor will think you are a private party by mentioning people like this."
"I have already exiled Dangxiang on my own, and I still care about his thoughts. No matter how dissatisfied he is, if I fight with Dangxiang together, can he still send someone to lead the army to take me back?" Lin Yi smiled brightly.
"You, at that time, had to rely on a letter of recommendation to get into Nantianyuan. In the eyes of the students in Nantianyuan, you were already a poor person in Jiankang City. Just like one of our five-year Tianyuan students who moved out at random, your family background
It's enough to crush you to death, but you are better off. At that time, you were the tattooed green one, and you alone offended the entire five years of the Tianjian." Luo Jilian smiled, and she spoke directly, "Now you are starting to grow.
Feng, he doesn’t even pay much attention to the emperor’s thoughts.”
"It depends on what everyone thinks."
Lin Yi smiled and said: "The true wise kings of all dynasties in history respected each other and their ministers. They did not look at the position, but only looked at who was polite. No matter how many ranks I am a general, I do not cross the boundaries between kings and ministers, so why should I be afraid?
Think about what he thinks."
"Although it makes sense, in the entire Southern Dynasty, how many people dare to think and do this like you?" Luo Jilian smiled sarcastically, "Nantian Academy is known as the best academy in the Southern Dynasty, with so many students, let alone
There are only a few generals who can truly lead an army, even if they are used to it and comfortable with it."
"There are some awesome ones."
Qi Zhuji glanced at her and retorted.
He didn't mean to be arrogant. When Luo Jilian said that, he naturally thought of Ni Yunshan and Wang Pingyang.
Luo Jilian smiled.
She didn't feel angry at all.
Because she had already met Li Moxiao just now, and she thought that Ni Yunshan had gone out of her way to help Lin Yi and let Jiange belong to Tiece Army. At this time, Qi Zhuji said this, but she couldn't help but think of those Nantianyuan
Really powerful characters seem to naturally join Lin Yi's iron army.
…
"See General Lin."
After an arduous journey, these prisoners from Tongshan Prison finally arrived at the Tiece Army's camp. When some Tiece Army sergeants began to allocate tents, a prisoner who was elected came not far in front of Lin Yi and walked.
He bowed and said, "Thank you, General Lin, for saving your life."
"May I have your name?"
Lin Yiwei bowed in return. He looked at the prisoners who seemed very quiet even though most of their feet were ulcerated, and said, "It seems there are three more people?"
"My name is Liu Huaiyao."
The prisoner replied calmly: "We heard from General Qi that you recruited us into the army to fight against the party. You gave us each the right to bring five people out. This is naturally a great reward for us."
, we also dare not abuse this gift. We each selected the people we brought out. Some of them were absolutely good people who were unjustly imprisoned. Some were careless and committed serious crimes. Some were really useful in the war against the party.
Some of them were imprisoned because they offended local dignitaries. It was impossible to survive in Tongshan Prison. We carefully selected, but in the end there were three more people. We couldn't make a choice, so we informed General Qi of the difficulty, and General Qi also
Right."
"You are Liu Huaiyao. You were originally a private school teacher, but you saw injustice and killed three people in anger. You are from Qingyang Town, Dingzhou?"
Lin Yi was a little surprised when he looked at this man.
The prisoner in front of him seemed to be about forty years old, with a haggard face, but according to the records of the cases he had seen before, this man was only thirty-one years old.
Among the prisoners he selected at Tongshan Prison, Liu Huaiyao was one of the first ones he selected.
According to the records of the case, this private school teacher was not a Buddhist practitioner, nor had he practiced martial arts. However, when he saw a local wealthy businessman bullying a mountain man selling bamboo in the town, he was angry and killed someone, and he used a weapon other than the one he used.
The sword is just sharpened green bamboo.
After killing three people in a row, he stabbed himself in the throat with a bamboo stick, but was rescued and imprisoned in Tongshan Prison.
Lin Yi's eyes fell on his throat, and sure enough he saw a hideous scar.
Liu Huaiyao lowered his head at this time. The scar was not obvious in the night, but Lin Yi could tell that the stabbing was very hard at that time, but the location was wrong. If it was deflected another inch, the Adam's apple and esophagus would be completely shattered to the left.
, he should not be able to survive. To the right, his main blood vessels are severed, making it impossible to save him immediately.
"General Lin, do you know me?" Liu Huaiyao's body shook slightly, and he was even more surprised.
"I have seen all the cases of you people, otherwise I wouldn't have singled you out among so many people." Lin Yi nodded and said: "I'm just a little confused. According to the case,
The mountain man selling bamboo was not related to you, and although the rich man bullied him, he seemed not to want his life, so why did you get angry and kill those three people?"
"It's true that I don't know that mountain man, but I happened to listen to what those three people said."
Liu Huaiyao took a deep breath and said slowly: "That mountain man has an old mother and a pretty wife at home. It's not that the wealthy businessman didn't know this mountain man before, but he happened to have met this mountain man before.
The rich man and the mountain man's wife, so when he saw this mountain man in the town this time, the rich man deliberately called two of his followers to provoke and bully him. If the mountain man dared to fight back, his two followers would deliberately
If he was injured, he would try to imprison the mountain man, and then he would naturally deceive the mountain man's wife. I happened to listen to the discussion between the rich man and the two followers, and the mountain man was bullied by them.
I tried my best to be patient, but the methods of these three people became more and more despicable, and even forced the mountain man to eat horse dung on the ground. I watched on the side and saw that this mountain man actually had a very violent personality. After being humiliated in every way, this mountain man...
In fact, he has already had thoughts of killing. But if this mountain man takes action, no matter what, his family will be doomed. I am afraid that my mother and wife will end up very miserable, but I am different. I was alone at the time, and my parents died young. Damn it.
Teach people how to read and write to support themselves. What I usually teach those children is the principles of life. After thinking about it, I couldn't help but snatch the sharp bamboo from the mountain man and stab the three people. The three people were defenseless against me.
In a moment of daze, I stabbed them in the vital parts."
"I heard that you committed suicide and were rescued. You were originally going to be executed, but countless people in the town asked for your life, so you were taken into Tongshan Prison." Lin Yi glanced at him and said, "Why did you kill these three people?"
The details of the person are not recorded in the case."
"I originally believed that I was going to die, so as not to have to suffer the consequences of living in prison. Later, although I was not executed, I knew that according to the law, it was impossible to forgive me, and my appeal was useless, so I resigned myself to it and was doing hard labor in Tongshan Prison."
Liu Huaiyao said calmly: "Some prison officials knew how I was imprisoned, but they took good care of me. So although I am weak, I have been free of illness and disaster these years."
Lin Yi did not judge these old things. He looked at the peaceful Liu Huaiyao and said, "You are here on their behalf. Naturally, you want to ask me some questions?"
"General Qi's carriage goes ahead. I see that there are no sergeants watching along the way. Aren't you afraid that we will escape after we leave Tongshan Prison?" Liu Huaiyao did not answer his question first, but asked in return.
"Use it if you believe it, don't use it if you don't believe it."
Lin Yidao: "If it's not the person I want, there's no regrets in running away."
"Most of us are not sergeants. Even if we have the desire to risk our lives to repay our gratitude, do you really think we can be useful on the battlefield?" Liu Huaiyao raised his head, looked at Lin Yi, and said seriously: "Of course we are not afraid of death, but I'm afraid we mistakenly
General."
"In the past dynasties, the most outstanding figures, the most number of casualties among their disciples were only a thousand. For example, the Marquis of Liuchun, who served under the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, had 700 dead men under him, but these 700 dead men,
But they are more terrifying than an army of 70,000. The most terrifying thing about these dead soldiers is not the absolute force, but the true determination to die."
Lin Yi laughed with some arrogance. He turned to look at the surrounding camps and the sergeants who were like "miscellaneous troops." "You should know how the people in Zhongli City and my Jiange fight. Jiange
The middle man is a real dead soldier, and now, these people who came out alive from Zhongli City and the entire Tiece Army are real dead soldiers."
"A practitioner's true energy, flying swords, and all kinds of powerful weapons are all external forces."
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze. He looked at Liu Huaiyao and said: "Ordinary people have very strong weapons and have good combat power. But even if they have such weapons, it is unknown whether they can kill the enemy. But you
It's different. You killed three people with sharp bamboo back then. If you were given the most sophisticated weapons, wouldn't you dare to fight the party members?"
"Of course I can kill on my own, but a group of scary people can kill the enemy faster than one scary person, and it is easier for the enemy to be frightened."
Lin Yi looked at the silent Liu Huaiyao and said seriously: "I need sergeants who are all like dead soldiers, but when I go to Dangxiang, I don't want you to die, but to get the victory you want as soon as possible."
…
The night is getting darker, and in addition to the aroma of food, the camp is gradually filled with the fragrance of some cool medicine.
The people in Tongshan Prison almost all have external wounds, which are not difficult to heal.
Chen Baowuan and Lin Yi walked side by side to the outskirts of the camp. Chen Baowuan stopped by a ditch near the official road.
"Are you leaving?"
Chen Baowan didn't say anything before, but Lin Yi looked at the look on her face and guessed some possibility.
"You may not care much about the emperor's thoughts now, but the Chen family cannot ignore it."
Chen Baoyuan took a deep breath, and turned to look at Lin Yi, her eyes bright in the darkness, "The emperor will recruit your father back to Jiankang, and he will feel more at ease. If I stay in Tiece Army for a long time, he will
Then I'm afraid there will be many negative associations for us. When I return to Jiankang, he will of course feel more at ease. My father and my brother are both in the north. When I return to Jiankang City, I can take care of many things for them and for you.
.”
Lin Yi was silent for a moment, "When are you leaving?"
"Just tonight."
Chen Baoyuan looked at the running water in the ditch in front of him and said: "I will leave tonight, but everyone outside will think that I am still in your army. Whether it is against me or you, I don't think that if you go to Dangxiang, it will be a piece of cake."
Smooth road, you should be careful yourself."
Lin Yi shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not the party members who are difficult to deal with. Rather than saying that I have to be careful, it's better to be more careful when you return to Jiankang."
"Chen Jinru has a high opinion of you. You are the kind of general who is born to be followed to death, because everyone will soon find that while you trust them, you are also trustworthy enough. So even if Luo Jilian is here
I came at this time because your character has nothing to do with luck." Chen Baowan straightened her hair that was blown away by the wind, and then said: "If there is anything I'm worried about, I'm just worried that you're not cunning enough.
It's because you don't want to act casually on the surface. You don't like to be on guard against others, and you certainly don't like others to be on guard against you, so if you didn't like the emperor before, you won't like him in the future either."
"You put it that way, but you are actually worried about the emperor. I am worried that he will do something intolerable to me in the future."
Lin Yi understood what she meant. He thought for a while and said, "In that case, after you arrive in Jiankang, help me think of more ways to get my father to come to my side and prevent him from staying in Jiankang.
"
"good."
Chen Baoyuan nodded without hesitation.
At this time, she did not think that she was helping Lin Yi, but that she was helping the entire Southern Dynasty and the emperor.
"I always owe you."
Lin Yi looked at her profile in the darkness, and at the moment when they were about to part, he said this.