The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Zhu Shiyong regretted it greatly, and under his anger, he made a foolish move. He followed Su Jin's words and told the story of Liu Dalang's murder of Wukor Angkor, so that Liu Dalang smashed himself out. . .

At this moment, the matter is no longer irreversible, and he has no choice of retreat; it is useless to say anything now, the only thing he wants to do is to tear Su Jin, Liu Dalang and others into pieces. As for the future In the end, that was simply out of consideration.

"Where is the government guards!" Zhu Shiyong's tone was flat, as if he had changed suddenly.

As the name suggests, the official guards of the prefecture are the personal guards of the magistrate, and the number of them is actually not large. According to the legal system of the court, there are only [-] places for the magistrate. Small civil servants, while the personal guards are responsible for protecting the safety of the magistrate adults, similar to the identity of patrol inspectors.

With the protection of such a team, if there is no special need, the magistrate does not need to mobilize the garrison soldiers for protection, so as to keep the integrity and dulixing of the soldiers.But in fact, although the quota is limited to 30 people, the number is not limited to 30 people.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court only pays the 30 people in the establishment. If you have enough financial resources, you can also recruit more people yourself. Zhu Shiyong's personal guards have more than 80 people, and the extra 30 people are naturally paid by Zhu Shiyong. .

Of course, Zhu Shiyong can naturally afford to support these dozens of people, unlike Bao Zheng and others, who are about to waste their money to raise a few guards, if Zhu Shiyong is not afraid of being too ostentatious, he can afford to support ten times as many people.

After entering the door, the guards didn't even move a finger. The guards wouldn't do such a desperate job, and the ones who died were naturally the soldiers.

The larger the number of guards, the higher the loyalty to Zhu Shiyong. This is not difficult to understand. Most of the team are paid by the magistrate's personal salary, not the imperial court's salary. Whoever takes care of the bowl Everyone understands this truth; what Zhu Shiyong absorbs are all desperadoes, all of whom Zhu Shiyong tried to save from the prison knife. Such people are naturally grateful to Zhu Shiyong. As for using your own wealth.

"The humble Ma Biao is waiting for your lord's orders." Behind him, a burly man dressed in a policeman's costume stepped forward to salute in a low voice.

"From now on, you are in charge of supervising the army. If anyone refuses to obey orders, they will be killed without mercy!"

"Follow your orders!"

Zhu Shiyong took a deep breath, turned to the soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Everyone listen to me, this government will warn you one last time, this government is carrying out official duties to arrest Su Jin and his accomplices, and the military order is like a mountain. If someone disobeys the military order, the warlord will kill him on the spot, there will be no mercy!"

Zhu Shiyong paused, glanced at Liu Dalang, and said in a low voice: "Cang Si Liu Dalang disobeyed the orders of the superiors, covered up his crimes, and slandered the government. Be an example to others."

Zhu Shiyong hadn't finished speaking, two people from the personal guard behind him rushed towards Liu Dalang at a fast pace, Liu Dalang ran away when he saw that the situation was not good, the two moved very fast, and they bullied Liu Dalang in a blink of an eye; fortunately, the soldiers in the courtyard There were so many, Liu Dalang barely escaped the siege a few times by hiding and circling around the pile of people.

"Run to me." Seeing that Liu Dalang couldn't last long, Su Jin yelled loudly; he didn't really want to save Liu Dalang, this guy had a life in his hands, and he deserved to die, but right now it happened to be a good way to win people's hearts Opportunity, it is in our own interest to keep Liu Dalang alive, so he yelled.

Liu Dalang panicked and didn't choose his way. Hearing Su Jin's call, he hurriedly ran to the entrance of the hall. Two soldiers of the guards chased after him. When there were more than ten steps away from the door, one of them touched Liu Dalang's back with his finger. back; that man obviously has martial arts, as soon as he exerted force on his toes, his arm swelled up, and it immediately landed on Liu Dalang's shoulder.

Liu Dalang's heart felt cold, and he thought: It's over, death is inevitable at last.

At the very moment, someone shouted in a low voice: "Low your head!" Liu Dalang lowered his head subconsciously, and felt a black shadow passing over his head. Then there was a scream, and the hand on the shoulder was released.

Liu Dalang scrambled and crawled, threw himself to the bottom of the steps with all his strength, and turned to look back; he saw a bodyguard who was chasing him rolling on the ground, his head and face were covered with blood, and several pieces of wood were scattered on the ground. Appears to be a bench.

Su Jin pointed at Zhao Hu and said, "Brother Zhao Hu's methods are getting more and more handsome. This bench may even break the bridge of his nose."

Zhao Hu laughed and said, "If I throw this bench on it, even his parents won't know him."

Zhang Long cut it and said: "Look, you're so frightened, don't you just throw a bench?"

Su Jin laughed out loud, the four big foodies under his command were nice, no matter how urgent the moment was, they didn't know what it was to be nervous, they bickered and bickered, and sarcasm still sarcasm.

Zhu Shiyong's face sank, and he ordered someone to help the bodyguard who fell to the ground. The bodyguard's nose was broken, and the protruding parts of his face were all flattened. It is estimated that his parents would not be able to recognize him here. he comes.

Zhu Shiyong sneered and ordered loudly: "Light it up!"

None of the soldiers moved, and Wang Chao Ma Han waited to taunt a few words, but he heard blue smoke rising from the back door, mixed with heat waves, and rushed into the house; it turned out that Zhu Shiyong sent someone to light the fire at the back door; Jin understood that this fire was inevitable. If Zhu Shiyong hadn't been short-circuited just now, he would have started lighting the fire at the back door long ago. At this moment, he had given himself too much time to wake up and light the fire.

"You can't stay in the house anymore, help the old lady up, everyone follows us closely, let's fight out!" Su Jin shouted loudly.

The crowd acted in a hurry and surrounded Mrs. Wang. Xiao Sui'er bravely led a few maidservants to block the periphery, protecting Mrs. Wang Yan Biyun and others in the middle; After Jin and one of the personal guards brought by him broke up, Zhang Long drank the drama of another personal guard brought by Su Jin, Zhao Hu and Liu Dalang protected the right side, and everyone formed a circle and slowly moved to the open space in the courtyard .

Zhu Shiyong laughed loudly and said, "Do you eight want to break out of this heavy encirclement?"

Su Jin scolded: "How many people can you have? Will the Xiangbing brothers follow you to rebel?"

Zhu Shiyong shouted: "Kill them all."

The soldiers surrounded them with steel knives and did not attack. None of them rushed forward; Liu Dalang said loudly: "Brothers of the Xiang soldiers, don't be fooled by him anymore. This old thief is leading you to death. You only need to get a drop of blood on your hands, and when Lord Ouyang's army arrives, you will be slaughtered all over the place. Although I, Liu Dalang, am not a very good person, I have not lied a single word in this matter."

Zhu Shiyong shouted: "Where is the superintendent's army? Anyone who retreats cowardly, cut him off immediately!"

The Fuya pro-guards shouted in unison, rushed forward a few steps, and lined up in a row. As soon as the two box soldiers retreated in front of them with their knives, they heard two "plop" sounds, and the two were stabbed. Heartbroken, the body fell to the ground.

Shocked, fearful and angry, the soldiers rushed forward a few steps involuntarily, and one of them rushed in front of Wang Chao. Wang Chao's saber came out like lightning, and a cold light flashed and went straight to his head and neck. The soldier closed his eyes in fright. He screamed, but found that his head was still there. When he opened his eyes to look, there was a steel knife on his neck but it didn't cut off.

In this way, the soldiers didn't want to rush forward to confront Su Jin, and they didn't want to retreat to be hacked and killed by the superintendent's army. He was hacked to death with a knife; the wailing before death was so shrill that it was creepy to hear.

Seeing this, Su Jin shouted loudly: "Brothers in Xiangbing, this old thief wants to force you to rebel and to die; you have also seen that I have no intention of hurting you, but he has no mercy for you; From now on, I will order you as the special envoy of grain affairs to protect me from rushing out of the city to meet Ouyang Zhongcheng's army. I won’t settle accounts with you, and the dozens of lives that died in your hands will all be counted on the head of the old thief Zhu Shiyong.”

Chao Mahan and others also followed Su Jingao to persuade, Zhu Shiyong and the supervising army yelled and threatened, and the soldiers looked at this side and that side, at a loss.

Su Jin shouted loudly: "If you still don't believe it, you might as well send someone out of the city to the north and go along the official road to inquire. At this moment, Ouyang Zhongcheng's army should have entered the territory of Luzhou, and they must arrive at the city before noon; this is your last chance , Once the army arrives, you will have no chance to change your ways."

The soldiers were even more moved. Zhu Shiyong saw that the eyes of the soldiers looking at him were a bit wrong, and he couldn't care less. He kept shouting: "Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows! Shoot them all to death."

Originally, the place was small, and the arrows would only be effective unless the enemy and the enemy were clearly distinguished, but in the courtyard, Su Jin and others were entangled with the soldiers, and they were very close together, and the bows and arrows were too easy to accidentally injure; and there was no commanding height in the courtyard, such a short distance It is almost impossible to throw a shot, so you can only use a flat shot; Zhu Shiyong's order is equivalent to asking the archers to shoot all the Xiang troops blocking the front before they can shoot Su Jin and others.

Ma Biao was stunned and hurriedly asked: "My lord, this is to accidentally injure one of my own people."

Zhu Shiyong yelled: "These worthless bastards are going to turn against each other in no time, why keep them? Shoot your arrows quickly."

Ma Biao didn't hesitate any longer, and gave an order, and the guards lined up collected their steel knives, bent their bows and set up arrows, aiming at the buttocks of the soldiers in front of them, and there was a rain of arrows; suddenly they cried and howled, and the soldiers were caught off guard. It was knocked down like a crop of wheat.

All the soldiers yelled and spread out to both sides, exposing the front guarded by Chao Mahan and others to the supervising army. If they were allowed to shoot the second round of arrow rain, Chao Mahan would definitely not be able to protect Zhang Xu Kuan's front.

Su Jin's head was about to explode, and at this moment, one of the soldiers shouted loudly: "Damn, what kind of bird prefect, treat our soldiers as dogs, why are we still working hard for him? Brothers from the Baoxin Army How can we allow people to trample like this, brothers, just rely on Zhu Shiyong, an old thief's virtue, so what if we turn against him?"

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a horse-faced soldier wearing a capital costume, with a feather arrow stuck in his arm, getting up from the ground full of rolling and howling soldiers, stretching out his hand and pulling it deep into the muscle. The arrows brought up a trail of flesh and blood.

"I'll kill you, old bastard." Na Dutou rushed over with a steel knife in his hand, and chopped down a soldier of the Superintendent Army who was nodding his arrow and bowing his bow.

The soldiers of the supervising army on both sides came to their senses, raised their steel knives and chopped off the horse's face to the ground one by one. They spat and were about to curse when they suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right.

They raised their heads, and wherever they looked, there were fire-breathing eyes. Before they could react, they heard a loud cry, and all the soldiers in the courtyard raised their steel knives and pointed at Zhu Shiyong. And the warlord's army came over to cover up and kill them.

The soldiers were finally irritated. The fatigue, resentment, fear, confusion, and worry of the night finally broke out at this moment. Zhu Shiyong will finally taste the bitter fruit of arrogance and stupidity.