The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

As expected, Pan Shiyi gained something. According to Pan Shiyi’s recollection, after Su Jin led the troops away, Song Xiang handed over the defense of the city to Pan Shiyi, and Pan Shiyi assigned the remaining one thousand soldiers. In the respite period after the turmoil, some disturbances would arise from time to time, so in addition to the guards of the four cities, it was necessary to dispatch troops to patrol the city.high-speed update

Originally, there were not many troops, but they were divided into five or six places for use. In addition, the box soldiers were not made of iron and needed shifts to rest, so it was conceivable that the personnel were stretched.

In such a large city of Yangzhou, a dozen or so patrol teams were put into the city and almost immediately fell into the lake like a few drops of water, submerged without a trace; the guards at the four city gates were also equipped with 200 people each. Taking turns guarding, reduced to an unprecedented 100 people, that is to say, 50 people in two shifts during the day and night; and these 50 people are not even at the city gate, let alone the patrol of the city wall, the inspection of comings and goings and some related affairs up.

Pan Shiyi was very anxious, and the soldiers of the Xiang army complained about his daily hard work. At this moment, someone came to the door to relieve the urgent need. This person was Guo Pinchao, the general judge of Yangzhou.

Guo Pinchao had never been out of the yamen to go out to patrol, but that day he suddenly ran to the city gate to patrol. Although the Yangzhou Xiangjun was not directly under the general judge, after all, it was a subordinate in terms of official position, so Pan Shiyi received him carefully.

During the chat, Guo Pinchao praised the Yangzhou Xiang army for being able to endure hardships, and for being able to meet the urgent needs of the state government in special times, sticking to their posts and guarding the people, but at the same time sighing that this is not the way.

Pan Shiyi felt something in his heart, and he couldn't help complaining a few words, so Guo Pinchao immediately proposed a solution.

"I plan to organize the patrolling and arresting yamen servants of each yamen, and organize a temporary army. In addition to the necessary yamen servants, I can gather more than a hundred people no matter what. In this way, these people are divided into two teams and take turns. What do you think of replacing the Xiang Army on duty in the four cities so that the brothers of the Xiang Army can also take a breather?"

Pan Shiyi almost knelt down to Guo Pinchao. To provide manpower at this time would be a timely move, so he almost agreed. It is still easy to do; and Guo Pinchao also offered to let these people replace the guards at night, because during the day, the people come and go more, and the yamen and arresters have never done errands at the gate of the city, so they are afraid of mistakes; at night, they only patrol the city. The gate wall, fire prevention, theft prevention, theft prevention and overpassing of the city wall, the miscellaneous troops will certainly be able to deal with such things.

Naturally, Pan Shiyi admired Mr. Guo Tongpan's foresight, so after discussing the details, he implemented it in the evening of the same day. That time, he replaced the midnight guard at the east gate. Everything went smoothly. In the next few days, each The city gates are on duty in turn, and there are no major mistakes.

For this reason, Pan Shiyi also went to pay a visit to the mansion on East Street of Tongpan to express his gratitude to Shangguan for his sympathy.

Hearing this, Su Jin became clear-eyed; the fox's tail was exposed, and he was on duty at night, and the guards were not the Xiang army, but the miscellaneous army organized by Guo Tongpan, and Guo Tongpan was Feng Laohu's number one trump card. Strange.

"Do you have a record of replacing guards here?" Su Jin asked.

Pan Shiyi said: "Of course there are. They are all archived in the on-duty barracks at the city gate. The number of people entering and leaving the goods every day, the on-duty records, the number of people, and the affairs are all recorded."

Su Jinyi clapped his hands and said: "Come on, this matter is settled." After finishing speaking, he reached out and took out the reinstatement letter from his bosom and handed it to Pan Shiyi, saying, "Congratulations to Commander Pan for his reinstatement. From now on, you and Nai brother Pan Jiang will be in command together." Jun, Brother Nai has been busy working as an adult these days, so you are well nourished."

Pan Shiyi hurriedly kowtowed, really puzzled and said: "My lord envoy asked this, but did something go wrong during the shift change?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "You are quick to react, and I won't hide it from you. I suspected that Feng Jingyao took advantage of the opportunity that Ye Gang was not on duty to transport all the hoarded food out of the city and hide it, but you didn't know anything about it. "

Pan Shiyi was so frightened that he knelt down to plead guilty, Su Jin said: "You don't know their conspiracy, how can you blame you, but you can't get rid of the responsibility, now take me to check the records, I want to know who it was in those few days Stand guard at the city gate."

Pan Shiyi said angrily: "These bastards actually took advantage of this opportunity to trap our army into injustice. If you have a humble job, you can take the adults to check the records to see if those grandsons are black-hearted and black-hearted. I just don't know which city the adults want to check. The record of the door? Which day's record should I check?"

Su Jin thought for a while and asked, "Is the nearest county near Yangzhou Tianchang?"

Panjiang and Pan Shiyi nodded and said, "It's just the sky, and we are less than forty miles away."

Su Jin said: "Do you think it's more secret and safe to take the road from Yangzhou to Tianchang?"

Pan Shiyi said: "Tianchang is in the northwest of Yangzhou. There are official roads from the north gate of the west gate to the city. However, the official road to the north gate passes through the west end of Shugang Mountain. There are few villages and towns. In terms of secrecy, only the north gate is the only one; The road is the way for adults to go to Bagong Mountain, the official road is easy to travel, and there are many people."

Su Jindao: "Then go to the North Gate to check the records first. The time is a certain day between November 26th and December [-]nd. During this time, Yangzhou learned that we had captured the Bagong Mountain bandits and brought them back. The news of the food, but we have not returned to Yangzhou, the smuggling must be one of the days."

Everyone nodded, it could only be that during this time period, when they got the news that the food was taken back, Feng Huhu here must know that the black market must be temporarily closed, and the food envoy will definitely search for the stored food in the city, because the imperial court The deadline of November [-] has passed. As long as the hoarders are found, the hoarders can be arrested in accordance with the relevant regulations.

The crowd rushed to the North City like a gust of wind. The small barracks near the city gate was where the city gate guards usually rested. They would also eat and drink here when they changed shifts, and military affairs were also handled here.

The city guard's surname was Ma, and when he saw the envoy coming with two commanders, Ma Dutou hurried over to greet him, holding stools and pouring water, he was very busy.

Pan Shiyi said: "Don't be so busy, take the duty records of last month and this month, and the envoy wants to watch it."

Ma Dutou hurried into the barracks, and soon came over with two soldiers and a military officer holding a lot of booklets.

Su Jin frowned and said, "So many?"

Ma Du nodded and said with a smile: "Master Special Envoy, we need to record everything here, even if we knocked over the old woman's basket of eggs, there should be some broken ones, some intact ones, etc. Why it broke, who caused it, how to deal with it, etc.”

Su Jinxin said: "Isn't this a running account?" After taking the records, he rummaged through them one by one, but the hateful thing is that the gang of Qiu Ba didn't even make up a number. Jumping to November [-]th to [-]th, Su Jin was sweating, and finally had to mobilize everyone to search in a pile of records.

As a result, a large group of elders pouted their buttocks and rummaged on the ground with their thick bear-like fingers, looking for the records of the corresponding days like catching eels, which seemed ridiculous.

Finally, after a lot of hard work, I finally found all four records between November 26 and December [-].

Su Jin hurriedly took it over and opened it, but as soon as he opened it, his head was covered with waterfall sweat, and the circles of words on it were dotted with ink, and the writing was quite powerful, but Su Jin didn't even know a single word.

Su Jin sighed and said, "Who usually records this record?"

The minister hurried forward and said: "The villain is full-time to record, the brothers dictate, and the villain records."

Su Jin stared and said, "Your ancestor opened a medicine shop?"

The secretary smiled and said: "The villain's house is tofu grinder."

Su Jin said: "Then why is this word written like a prescription for medicine in a pharmacy? I'm afraid that others will recognize a word, but it really belongs to you."

Feeling ashamed to death, the minister hurriedly took over and said, "Read the little one for you."

Su Jin sat down on the wooden stool, sighed, "Wang Mazi writes, Wang Mazi recognizes it, that's all I can do."

The minister nodded with a sneer, stretched out his hand to soak the saliva in his mouth, pulled the first one away, and began to read.