Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji got on the dock.

Shan Xiongxin's men were still immersed in the excitement of witnessing a bloody battle, enthusiastically discussing the details of the fierce battle between officials and bandits, scrambling to guess the identity of the white-haired prisoner and the secrets hidden behind this fierce battle at the dock.

Everyone has curiosity. Dan and Xu are also curious about this unexpected fight, especially Xu Shiji, who is young after all, and is less than seventeen years old. He is at the age of full of fantasy and passion, but at this moment they are in a heavy mood and forcefully look happy.

This fierce battle in the dock will definitely have an impact on the situation in the White Horse, and this impact will definitely greatly increase the difficulty and risk of rescuing Zhai Rang.

Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji had just realized this problem, because from Baima City, there were not only a team of Yingyang knights, but also the chief and deputy chief of Yingyang Mansion and the Yingyang Guards of a whole regiment. In addition, the commander and commander of Dongjun local army, the commander of the Dongjun County, and the county magistrate of Dongjun County, rushed over one after another. In the end, even the county magistrate, the county magistrate and the supervisor and censor from Dongdu came together. This mobilized the masses, which shows the importance of this matter. From this, it can be inferred that the extraordinary identity of the white-haired prisoner was extraordinary. If you think about it deeply, it is not difficult to guess that the fierce battle in the dock must have been involved in the complex power struggle in Dongdu.

Shan Xiongxin took a group of subordinates to the city first.

After a while of discussion with the deacon who managed the dock, Xu Shiji hurried into the city with a few followers. He first went to the old shop in the city to pick up some valuable items, then rushed to the Danjia Restaurant, and met with a group of brothers and friends who secretly gathered here. Among them were Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Hong, nephew Zhai Mohou, Zhai Rang's friend Jia Xiong, and other friends on the road, including Wang Yaohan, Wang Bodang's brother, Wang Dangren, Zhou Wenju, Li Gongyi and other heroes.

Among all the people, Zhai Hong is the most noble, and he is the head of the Zhai family in Dongjun.

The Zhai family was a prominent family in Dongjun and a family of officials. They belonged to the third and fourth-rate nobles of the Central Plains. The Zhai family was passed down from the Han Dynasty. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Runan and Nanyang were prosperous. From the late Southern and Northern Dynasties to this dynasty, they also took the Zhai family in Henan as a prosperous. Because the Guanlong people who ultimately unified Zhongtu were the people, the Guanlong nobles naturally occupied the largest proportion of the power and wealth distribution after unification, and the Shandong nobles and Jiangzuo nobles, as losers, could only be at the end. The result can be imagined that Shandong third and fourth-rate nobles such as the Zhai family quickly declined.

Although Zhai Hong and Zhai Rang brothers all entered the career of officialdom, they always lived under others, had no name, no day to stand out, and no time to shine in the family. When they were poor, they wanted to change. Like most of the descendants of Shandong, the Zhai family was unlikely to achieve success in their careers, so they had to work harder on wealth. After all, they maintained a noble family that had been passed down from generation to generation, and power and wealth were indispensable.

The Zhai family was a nobleman and could not reduce their status to do business, so their way to obtain wealth was to trade power for wealth, and the one who helped the Zhai family obtain wealth was the Dongjun Lihu Xu family.

The Xu family of Lihu in Dongjun is a great man in Henan. Its relationship with the Zhai family in Dongjun is extremely close, but the Zhai family is a nobleman and the Xu family is a merchant, with a very disparate status. The so-called intimacy is based on the common economic interests of both parties.

If you want to become a giant in China and form monopoly strength in a certain industry to obtain monopoly benefits, it is absolutely inseparable from the support of power, and the owner of power is a noble. For example, the five major families in Shandong, the two major nobles of Guanlong and Han Lu are all wealthy families with extremely large power, and they belong to the top and top of the power. Generally, giants cannot reach high levels and can only cling to local hopes like the Zhai family in Dongjun, and then use these local hopes to achieve the goal of seeking rents and greater power, and then maximize benefits between all parties.

As the head of the family, Cui Hong has devoted himself to family affairs over the years, mainly to business relationships and accumulating wealth, and has long been away from his career. It is not that he did not want to work hard on his career, but that he had embraced the wrong "thigh" back then and was assigned to the former crown prince Yang Yong's party. The late emperor and the king of Shang spared no effort to attack the prince and imprison the prince. It can be said that as long as the king of Shang is still alive, the remaining princes like Cui Hong will have no possibility of re-entering the official career.

So Cui Hong put his hope of revitalizing Zhai's family on his younger brother Zhai Rang. However, the disaster came from the sky. Zhai Rang was suddenly arrested and was also a death sentence.

If something happened to Zhai Rang, it would inevitably affect the entire family. Zhai Hong's lifelong efforts would be destroyed, which made him unacceptable. He wanted to resist, fight against fate, rescue Zhai Rang, and save the entire family.

In the current situation, Cui Hong has lost the possibility of seeking help from the "top" and can only put down the aristocratic airs, ask for help from the "bottom" and ask for help from the local tyrants and wealthy merchants who were once sheltered from the Zhai family.

After Xu Shiji came in, he first greeted Zhai Hong with his son and nephew, and asked about Zhai's current situation.

In fact, Shan Xiongxin had already told him before that after receiving the news of Zhai Rang's arrest, Zhai Hong knew that he could not escape the bad luck of extermination, so he decisively dismissed the child servants and allowed his family to hide in multiple secret places. But this is not a long-term solution. A family of dozens or even hundreds of people can hide if they can escape the first day of the first day and cannot escape the fifteenth day of the day, and they will die sooner or later. They must think of a survival strategy.

However, no one is interested in discussing the survival of Zhai's family. If Zhai Rang is not rescued and Zhai Rang's case is allowed to expand and the government arrest more people, then even if Zhai Rang refuses to confess, others will confess. In the end, everyone who is sitting here today will be buried with Zhai Rang. What's even more terrifying is that each family will be unable to escape, and they will be buried with Zhai, and it will also cause more innocent people to be buried. Therefore, there are probably tens of thousands of people who died in the case.

Zhai Hong gave Xu Shiji a little perfunctory sentence, and then asked straightforwardly, "There is no other way except to rob the prison?"

Zhai Hong obviously still had a trace of fantasy, believing that Xu might still find a chance to reverse.

The Xu family is a tycoon in Henan, and of course it is not only the Zhai family in Dongjun. The Zhai family in Dongjun has been declining for a long time, but is just a local force. It has no ability to help the Xu family monopolize the shipping of the north and south of Henan. Therefore, there must be a big backer behind the Xu family, and it must be protected by a top wealthy family like the five major families in Shandong, which are ranked at the top of the top leaders.

Based on this, Zhai Hong believed that if the Xu family could ask the wealthy family behind him to help, they might be able to save Zhai Rang and Zhai. After all, Zhai Rang's status is not high and his power is not great, and the Zhai family in Dongjun is just a sub-class nobleman, so the status and power of those who "exploited" Zhai Rang and Zhai's family are also limited, and they will definitely not be compared with the top wealthy families.

Xu Shiji of course understood what Zhai Hong meant and shook his head without thinking.

"Only I can live and die with Ming Gong."

As soon as Xu Shiji said this, the only glimmer of hope in Zhai Hong's heart was suddenly shattered. Xu Shiji refused bluntly. I could give Zhai Rang a burial, but Xu could not give Zhai Rang a burial.

The house was silent for a long time. The reason why everyone waited for Xu Shiji to come back was because the Xu family had both money and backing. If Xu Shiji was willing to give all the strength of Xu family to save Zhai Rang, there might be room for rescue, but now it seems that everyone overestimated Xu family.

After all, the Xu family is a businessman with a low status. Even if he relies on the "big tree", he is just a mustard and ant parasitized on the "big tree". He is a tool to earn benefits for the "big tree". He has no influence on the "big tree". After the Xu family fell, his family was damaged by the Zhai Rang case and his family was destroyed, and there will be a substitute immediately. For "tower trees" like the five major families in Zhongtu, which "turned their hands into clouds and turned their hands into rain", it is easy to create a wealthy businessman.

Xu Shiji's decision is beyond reproach. Doing his best to protect the Xu family is equivalent to leaving everyone a way out. As long as the Xu family does not fall, there will be hope of seeing the light of day again.

Finally, Zhai Hong's voice sounded again, exhausted and determined, "Do you all know the consequences of the prison robbery?"

Everyone looked at each other but didn't say anything. Everyone knew the consequences of the prison robbery, but as Xu Shiji said, now only living and dying with Zhai Rang is the only way to die, anyway, so it's better to take risks and perhaps you can break out in darkness and despair.

Since we have decided to rob the prison, the next step is to discuss the specific plan for rob the prison. How to rob the prison? How to rob the prison? How to rob the prison after robbing the prison? How to evade the pursuit of the officers and soldiers? The government will definitely offer a reward to be wanted. Where do you hide? All kinds of plans are indispensable. Whether it is to save people, hide or live in the future, it requires relying on the powerful strength of the Xu family.

Zhai Hong, Shan Xiongxin and others have actually made the worst preparations and drafted a specific way to rob the prison, but the Zhai family in Dongjun has been "destroyed to ashes" overnight. Shan Xiongxin and Wang Bodang and others are both local tyrants, real declined nobles or simply a gangster. They have very little strength and influence, and are limited to a place with a large size of "slap" in urban and rural areas. Therefore, the strategy for robbing the prison is just a paper talk. If they want to implement it, they must rely on the help of Xu Shiji and the Lihu Xu family behind him.

At the critical moment, status and superiority are all empty, and only strength can determine everything. Don’t think that Xu Shiji is still under seventeen years old, but he is the first heir of the Lihu Xu family and the next head of the Xu family. He has begun to participate in the major decisions of the Xu family and has the right to call most of the "power" of the Xu family for his own use. Therefore, Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang and others respect him very much and discuss friendship with his peers. However, Zhai Hong and Zhai Rang and other nobles dare not look down on him, treat him with courtesy and give him a favor.

As for the matter of robbing prison, no matter what plan Zhai Hong and Shan Xiongxin drafted, they would eventually need to win Xu Shiji's recognition, and then Xu Shiji would call on Xu's "resources" to implement it in detail, otherwise it would be empty talk.

After everyone discussed it, the plan for robbing the prison was decided. Everyone performed their duties and took responsibility, and then they wanted to "scatter" and go their separate ways. At this moment, Zhai Hong suddenly remembered something, "There was a change in Jinkou today, and there were powerful thieves robbing prisoners. Not only did Yingyang Mansion send people to dispatch troops, but the envoy and the commander and the commander, and even the supervisor and the censor from the East Capital went to the scene in person. Such a big event would definitely affect the situation of the white horse, which would be even more unfavorable to someone robbing the prison and saving people."

Everyone looked at each other. Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji thought of the white-haired prisoner at the same time, and a trace of ominous thoughts flashed through their minds for no reason.

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