The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Zhu Manzi was thinking hard with a sullen face, but Su Jin didn't have time for him to think it through. He walked quickly to the door, opened the door and said to the people standing outside: "Come on, cover Guanshi Zhu's eyes and send him out. Don't hurt him, just knock him unconscious."

Chao Mahan promised, pushed the door open, pulled Zhu Mangy and raised his fist, Zhu Mangy shouted, "Don't, don't let me think about it?"

Su Jin said: "Master, I don't have time. I have important things to do at dawn, and I have to take advantage of the morning to send people out of the city. You can delay it, but I can't afford it."

Zhu Laizi said, "Isn't there a third choice?"

Su Jin said angrily: "You're fucking dead, do you know that? You're still bargaining with me here. What's the third option? Wang Chao, dragged him out and buried him alive under the flowers. That day I broke into Xiaoye's house. I didn't settle the accounts with you, I will settle the accounts together today."

Zhu Manizi collapsed on the ground and murmured: "These three are dead ends, what choice do I have?"

Only then did Su Jin realize that he didn't have enough bargaining chips, which caused his hesitation, and hurriedly added: "Do you understand what it means to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds? As long as you cooperate with me, the third secretary will protect you, a little ruffian, right?" It's as easy as flipping the palm of your hand, since I've given you a second choice, I can save your life, otherwise, what would I have to say to you."

"Can you really save your life?" Zhu Manizi seemed to see a ray of dawn, crawled over and hugged Su Jin's legs and said, "If I can save my life, I will be at the service of Mr. Su for the rest of my life. .”

Su Jin smiled slightly, and thought: If I let you live, how can I be worthy of so many souls who died in vain under your command, and how can I be worthy of the people who have been bullied by you.

"I'll give you ten breaths, you choose it yourself, after ten breaths, don't even think about saying a word to the young master."

Su Jin counted down with his fingers.

Zhu Manizi couldn't resist the countdown sound urging him to death. Su Jin only counted to five, and then he collapsed. Su Jin struck while the iron was hot, and after questioning and answering, some behaviors about Teng Wang Zhao Zongdan surfaced.

Zhao Zongdan is not only the general backstage of the evil forces in this city, he has also done some unbelievable things. He raised nearly a thousand bandits in the mountain of Jianglangtou Mountain, a hundred miles northeast of Yingtian Mansion. The bandit's nest called Kuangfengzhai.

There are nearly [-] so-called palace guards in Yu County and Yingtian Mansion's own food town southwest of Yingtian Mansion.

There are 200 personal guards in the palace in Yingtian City, and nearly 400 hooligans in the other four cities also rely on the rights bestowed by the prince to survive.

A rough calculation shows that Zhao Zongdan has raised more than 2000 people just as private soldiers. This is what Zhu Manizi knows, and Zhu Manizi doesn't know how many there are.

Only then did Su Jin understand why King Teng was so frantically accumulating money that so many private soldiers had to be allocated by the palace to eat, drink, scatter, weapons, horses, food, grass and supplies. To raise a private soldier, it would cost nearly two hundred and fifty-six dollars to raise a private soldier. In ten years, more than 2000 people need to spend nearly 70 to 90 yuan. Su Jin has calculated the income for the palace, and the annual income is about 200 million yuan. It costs just to raise the known number of private soldiers Nearly [-]%, according to this ratio, Prince Teng's Mansion has at least kept nearly [-] private soldiers.

Su Jin is no longer willing to think about it. A prince has raised four to five thousand soldiers, disguised as bandits, gangsters, guards, and other identities. What is he going to do?

Since Taizu released his military power with a glass of wine, all the governors of the state capitals of the Song Dynasty, the generals who led the troops, and the princes all turned over their military power. Everyone knows that this is a measure of Taizu’s concentration of military power. It is also to prevent some people from embracing troops with too much weight and tail. Since the Taizu, this measure has become the ancestral training and the court practice. According to the regulations of the court, people at the level of King Teng can have a guard of up to 200 people. For the members of the court, the armed forces in the palace will never be allowed to exceed five hundred.

It is obviously intriguing that King Teng raised so many soldiers all at once, and spread them out under various names in a cover-up manner.

Zhu Laizi also explained that in Yingtian Mansion, all officials, big and small, were in collusion with King Teng. From Tang Jie down, the county magistrates and heads of departments were almost all regular visitors to the palace. Zhao Zongdan was not stingy, and shared the benefits with everyone. Every year before the new year, officials have to go to the palace to collect a share of money according to their rank and density. Zhao Zongdan used this method to pull all the officials on his boat.

Moreover, Yin Tangjie of Yingtian Mansion was originally just a small inspector of the sixth grade in the imperial censor's platform in central Beijing. Through the secret efforts of King Teng, the Prime Minister Lu Yijian vigorously promoted him, and he became the Yin of Yingtian Mansion who guarded the place where Mulongqian , and because of this, Tang Jie naturally colluded with Teng Wang.

Some small officials are quite upright and have their own principles, so they are unwilling to go with them. Most of these officials were eventually transferred or relegated because they found fault.

The only exception is Li Gang, the general deployed by the German army stationed here. He rejected the prince's solicitation many times, and because of this, he became an effective force to deter King Teng, Tang Jie and others. Everyone was told that if the German army patrols everywhere, all actions must be stopped, and they are not allowed to act rashly, lest they be caught by this ignorant guy.

Su Jin's scalp was numb when he heard it, and he didn't have time to think about these things at the moment. He just ordered to record everything one by one; se is about to start to light up.

Su Jin hurriedly asked Yan Biyun, who hadn't slept all night, to find a way to send Zhu Mangyzi and the two confessions that had been pledged out of the city to the capital. Going out of the city with Fenglou's two real companions is.

As for Huang Ergou and Qian Gou, there were only two people left. Su Jin ordered someone to tie them up, gag them, put them into the carriage, and made another list for Xiaoxian'er to help with the purchase.

Yan Biyun saw that there were incense cases, white candles, white cloths, incense bundles, blank tablets, etc. on the list, and suddenly felt confused; when he asked Su Jin, Su Jin didn't answer, but hurriedly urged them to deal with them. Fortunately, these things are not difficult The things I was looking for were quickly set up. After all these things were put into the car, it was already half past five, and the sky had gradually brightened.

Su Jin finished washing, and went downstairs in full clothes. He looked up at the sky. The sky that was still slightly cloudy last night was now full of dark clouds, and the air was so stuffy that it was suffocating. It's cool and pleasant, but at this moment, for some reason, it looks like it's going to rain heavily.

Su Jin wondered, is this a bad omen?Soon he denied his idealistic idea. For some reason, he became more and more like an ancient person, and even his thoughts became superstitious.

Su Jin stepped out of the small gate in the back garden, boarded the car, Yan Biyun and others followed behind him, their faces were as white as paper, Su Jin waved and said: "Go back, Dynasty Ma Han Zhang Long Zhao Hu four people Come with me."

The girls were willing to leave, Xiao Sui'er was already crying like tears; Su Jin sighed, looked around the crowd, lowered his head and got into the car, shouting: "Let's go."

"My lord, where are we going?"

"Yingtianfu Yamen Square."

"...Young Master!"

"What are you talking about? Yingtianfu Yamen Square." Su Jin said quietly, with a kind of sternness and majesty in his words that had never been seen before.

Xiaozhuzi didn't think about it any more, he whipped his whip on Xiaoqing's buttocks, the car suddenly started, and went straight out of the alley, followed by the car with things and money leftover Huang Ergou .

Yan Biyun's teary eyes were dim, and the big drops of tears couldn't stop streaming down, but Xiao Xian'er whispered in his ear: "Miss, then Mr. Su said that he was going to the gate of the yamen, isn't this a self-inflicted snare?"

The girls stopped their mourning, looked at Yan Biyun, and wanted her to make up her mind.

Yan Biyun gritted his silver teeth, wiped his tears and said, "Come on, let's go back, wash and dress up, and go to the Yamen Gate to find him, today...today is going to die...and die together."