Qi, Qizhou, Jinan County.
It had just dawned, but the city was filled with people.
I saw people carrying large and small buckets and basins. The adults carried them on their shoulders, and the small ones held them with their hands. They were divided into four rows, some were walking forward, and others were walking out.
On both sides, there were many officials and soldiers standing. These people had ferocious looks, pacing back and forth, staring at the people, with fierce glints in their eyes.
The people walking forward saw that the buckets and basins were filled with water.
As for the people who came out, their buckets and basins were all empty.
The faces of the people were full of despair.
The woman was sobbing softly, the man looked numb, and a few old men could be seen, with wrinkles piling up on their faces, suddenly in a trance.
Several of the children were holding buckets in their hands, their hands were sore and they were trembling.
A child could no longer hold on and fell to the ground with his bucket. The clerk on the side suddenly screamed, as if he had encountered some unforgivable sin. He rushed into the crowd, grabbed the child's hair, and threw it into the crowd.
He dragged him out, and several tough soldiers stepped forward, punching and kicking him. The mother screamed and stepped forward to tear her apart, but was also knocked down by wooden sticks. As soon as the men dropped the barrels in their hands, the soldiers not far away started
They surrounded them, thrust their spears into their chests, and forced them all back.
The crowd continued to move forward, and a carriage in the distance left with several corpses.
Everyone moved forward very slowly, just slowly squirming.
The queue coming in and out was unknown, and it was impossible to see beyond.
Someone was walking and suddenly fell to the ground and never moved again.
Someone dragged them away and put them into the carriage.
After an unknown amount of time, this group of people finally arrived at their destination while slowly squirming.
It was a luxurious mansion, and the door of the mansion was open.
The people carrying water entered the mansion little by little. The mansion was quite luxurious, but no one had the intention to appreciate it anymore. They were surrounded by green trees and exquisite gravel roads. On the high platform in the distance, one could vaguely see the scenery.
Hear laughter.
Finally, they reached their destination.
There was a big pit in the backyard of the mansion, and people poured water into it.
Then, follow the team and walk out little by little.
On a high platform in the distance, Gao Chuo, the governor of Qizhou, raised his wine cup and motioned to the people around him to drink with him.
Sitting around him were all young scribes.
These scribes looked at Gao Chuo with shock and fear, none of them dared to show off their literati character.
On the side, there were some big dogs, and they were munching something.
No one dared to take a look.
Gao Chuo pointed to the common people in the distance and said: "The back pool in my mansion can only be built in this way to show its extraordinaryness."
"The water in my back pond was made by the people in the city, who dug buckets of water from wells that were centuries old outside the city, transported them all the way here, and poured them down little by little!"
"I think it can become an allusion in the future!"
Gao Chuo looked at several scribes and found that none of them answered, so he emphasized his tone and said, "Huh?"
The scribes reacted and nodded hurriedly.
"The king is right!!"
"This Houchi must be extraordinary! Absolutely extraordinary!"
"When the pond is built, I will definitely write a poem to the king."
Gao Chuo heard this and laughed very loudly.
"Well said, keep talking! Keep talking!"
Several scribes surrounded him and began to flatter him constantly.
These scribes were sweating profusely and almost exhausted. Only then did Gao Chuo happily reward them with money and let them leave the house.
Several people staggered out of the mansion.
But none of them dared to show any strange expressions. It was not until they left the official office for a long time that someone knelt on the ground and broke down crying.
Some people retched.
A mess.
The older scribes hurriedly helped these people up and said, "Go home first! Go home!"
After Gao Wei officially ascended the throne, he appointed Nanyang Wang Gaochuo as the governor of Qizhou. This position has always been a position that only clan members or important ministers can hold.
After Gao Chuo came to Qizhou, he quickly became the biggest scourge in Qizhou.
In terms of cruelty, absurdity, and moodiness, he can be compared with Gao Yang.
The whole thing is a crazy bloody butcher.
It can attack at any time and kill people at any time, and in the most brutal way.
Anyone who dares to oppose or advise will be killed by him.
In my life, I love to do things that are too cruel to describe and challenge the bottom line of being a human being.
While several scribes fled in confusion, Gao Chuo also led more than a hundred guards and left the mansion.
His favorite thing to do is to travel incognito, lead his escort, ride a big horse, lead a few big dogs, and go out to have fun.
Gao Chuo was wearing silk clothes, with a fashionable hairstyle, riding a red war horse, driving several big dogs, and rushed out of the mansion.
When he left the house, the people outside suddenly began to panic.
Not only the common people, but also the soldiers and minor officials were all trembling with fear and hurriedly bowed to see him.
Gao Chuo ignored these people. He galloped past on horseback. As he walked, the riding crop in his hand suddenly hit the left and right. There was a "pop" sound and someone screamed and fell to the ground.
Even those loyal officials cannot escape such a fate, and Gao Chuo's whip does not care who it hits.
Everyone did not dare to move and knelt on the ground, watching Gao Chuo leading many knights to charge away.
Gao Chuo's face was filled with happiness.
He just rushed out of the city gate and started wandering on the roads outside the city, wandering like a ghost seeking life.
He was obviously only in his teens, but his eyes were flashing with a frightening ferocity, and they were bloodshot. He was staring at the surroundings, looking for his own fun.
The knights followed not far away, not daring to get too close or too far away.
Those big dogs seemed to have become more and more unscrupulous because of the support of their owners, running around freely.
Gao Chuo walked for several miles in this way, but he didn't meet any pedestrians along the way.
Gao Chuo was a little angry. He reined in his horse and stopped, looked behind him and waved.
Soon several knights rode forward and bowed their heads in salute.
"It's broad daylight, why is there no one on the official road?"
The officer was stunned, looked into the distance, and stopped talking.
"I really don't know."
Gao Chuo laughed. He looked at the officers in front of him. His guard of honor in Qizhou was not the soldiers who could only bully the people, but the escorts who followed him. More than three hundred Xianbei knights were enough to deal with them.
Most of the trouble.
He stared at the officer and said, "If you hadn't made some achievements in the past, I would really feed you to the dogs."
The officer lowered his head slightly and did not dare to answer.
Gao Chuo cursed: "Do you still need me to give orders? Why don't you send someone to find it?"
"only"
The knights scattered in all directions, and Gao Chuo walked gloomily on the official road, looking around.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
He saw a few vague figures on the farmland in the distance.
"Catch it! Catch it!!"
Gao Chuo pointed to the distance and shouted.
The knights immediately charged away, only to hear screams in the distance, and Gao Chuo looked into the distance with great interest.
After a while, the officer came to Gao Chuo with a family of three.
They were a young couple, and the child in their arms was only two or three years old.
Both of them had indescribable fear in their eyes, and the man kept kowtowing to Gao Chuo, begging for his life.
Gao Chuo looked at their family of three with a smile, but he was thinking about how to have fun.
He has played the game of letting a dog eat a child in front of his parents so many times that he no longer has any fun.
In front of the child, the dog was allowed to eat his parents. He also played with it twice, but it was boring.
Gao Chuo gently stroked his chin and began to think deeply.
Those big dogs were surrounding the couple at this moment, grinning and looking fiercely. The child was so frightened that he cried loudly.
Gao Chuo pondered for a moment, then looked at the officer on the side, "Chi Luo, do you think you'd like to let the big dog chew up the little cub and then feed it to the other two people? Is it fun?"
The officer trembled all over at this moment and slowly looked at Gao Chuo.
This officer is a real old Xianbei. He has been ordered to protect Gao Chuo over the years and has done a lot of bad things. But even he feels that Gao Chuo has been a little outrageous recently.
It's getting more and more outrageous.
He said solemnly: "Your Majesty, if you want to kill, just kill. Don't do such a thing, it goes against the laws of nature and human ethics."
"The way of heaven?"
Gao Chuo laughed loudly, pointed in the distance and said loudly: "Who am I?!"
"I am the eldest son of the Supreme Emperor!!"
"The emperor is nothing more than a trapped beast at the moment. He is trapped in Jinyang and cannot get out of the city even with edicts!"
"And I, as the eldest son of the Supreme Emperor, sit in Qizhou, and I may not be able to be the co-lord of the world in the future. Even the way of heaven should make way for me!!"
When Gao Chuo said this, the knights around him were all shocked.
This is true for all military officers.
Gao Chuo didn't care at all, "Since you think it's inappropriate, it must be fun!"
"Come here, tie up these two sheep first and break their jaws so that they can't shut up."
The couple hugged their child tightly and cried, begging for mercy again and again, but the knights around them had already begun to dismount and were preparing to take action.
Gao Chuo's eyes became brighter and brighter.
"Boom, boom, boom"
The ground suddenly trembled slightly, and the sound of drums could be faintly heard from the distance.
Gao Chuoshang didn't react at all, but the surrounding knights quickly mounted their horses and hurriedly began to form a formation around Gao Chuo. The officers quickly drew their weapons and stood in front of Gao Chuo.
"Why are you so crazy?!"
Just as Gao Chuo scolded him, he saw dust flying in the distance and the sound of horse hooves becoming clearer and clearer. It was obvious that a large number of knights were coming here.
The officer hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I don't know who the visitor is, please go back to the city first!!"
Gao Chuo seemed not to have heard what he said. He stared leisurely into the distance without any fear on his face.
Before the officer could give the order, the knights in the distance appeared.
There were thousands of them, but they did not display any flags.
These knights were all multi-horse, tall and tall, with sharp eyes. In a moment, they had already lined up to confront the noble men and horses.
The officer looked at the army in front of him, sweating profusely.
He could tell at a glance how terrifying the army in front of him was. They were marching at full speed just now, but as soon as they saw him, they could quickly change their formations, from marching to facing the enemy. Such a change of formations
The officer had never seen such speed in his life.
He swallowed, took the initiative to step forward, looked at these elite knights, and said loudly: "I am a personal soldier under the command of the governor of Guangzhou, King of Nanyang. I wonder which general's men they are?"
Faced with his inquiry, the knight opposite did not answer.
The next moment, the knights quickly moved out of the way and saw a tall general riding a big black horse slowly walking out.
"King Nanyang?"
The general looked at the crowd opposite, and finally looked at Gao Chuo, who was surrounded in the middle.
The officer saluted again, "I wonder who the general is?"
"I'm Liu Taozi."
The officer trembled, "General!!"
The knights behind him also became frightened at this moment. They looked at each other for a few times and rode back slightly.
Gao Chuo still looked the same as before, arrogant and disdainful of any foreign generals.
The officer turned around and saw the arrogant-looking King Nanyang. He secretly thought it was wrong and said bravely: "I wonder if the general has come suddenly. What are your orders?"
"I was originally going to Qingzhou. I heard something while passing by, so I came here."
"Tell your men to drop their weapons and kneel on the ground."
The officer was stunned and gritted his teeth, "General, please don't embarrass us."
Liu Taozi said nothing and raised the horse.
The next moment, the knights rushed out from Liu Taozi on horseback and fought head-on with the knights in front of them.
The officer had no time to react and was knocked off his horse by the oncoming knight.
The knights were frightened but did not run away. They rushed to stop Liu Taozi's men.
Gao Chuo watched his men fighting to the death with Liu Taozi's men. He was not afraid or retreating, but he raised his head and laughed wildly.
The knights on both sides began to fight in a melee. Even the elite Xianbei guards were unable to cause any casualties to the other side when facing the Mandrill Battalion. In a very short period of time, these guards had been chopped down.
The couple held the child in their arms and squatted on the ground, trembling and trembling as they listened to the shouts of death coming from all around.
After an unknown amount of time, the sounds of fighting around them stopped.
Gao Chuo had already been surrounded by knights, and not even a single guard was left.
Gao Chuo raised his head, still showing no fear.
Liu Taozi rode up to him slowly.
He stared at Gao Chuo, "This half-grown brat is so vicious."
Gao Chuo slowly pulled out his sword from his waist and pointed it at Liu Taozi in front of him.
"You forced me to do this."
The next moment, Gao Chuo flew out on horseback, raised his sword, and was about to kill Liu Taozi in front of him.
"Pfft~"
A knight next to him slashed his wrist with a knife.
The next moment, the hand holding the sword fell to the ground. Gao Chuo raised his hand in shock, and when he saw the bloody wrist, his eyes finally showed fear, and he screamed and fell to the ground.
He held his bloody wrist and cried bitterly.
"Ah! It hurts! It hurts! Someone is coming, someone is coming!!"
The knight raised the horse in his hand and was about to give him another blow. Liu Taozi stretched out his hand to stop him.
Liu Taozi lowered his head and stared at Gao Chuo, "Use him to open the city gate."
A knight then caught him and tied his wrists roughly, fearing that he would bleed to death on the way.
The knights continued to rush towards Jinan.
Liu Taozi looked at the couple huddled on the ground.
"Go home."
Immediately, Liu Taozi rode away together.
The couple trembled, not daring to speak as they watched the knights flying past them.
It wasn't until they disappeared into the distance that the man stood up tremblingly, helped up his wife and children, looked into the distance, knelt on the ground, and knelt down again and again in the direction of the knights' retreat.
The city gate is open, and there are no soldiers on the city wall.
The moment Liu Taozi led his troops to attack, the entire city was in chaos.
Staring at the small officials who were fetching water for the common people, the county soldiers fled in all directions, and the common people also lost their buckets and fled one after another.
Liu Taozi rushed into the city without any hindrance, and even rushed into the official office.
There were not many officials left in the government office. He saw the corpses of many officials whose faces had been removed, placed on both sides of the alley in the government office, like trophies.
After a while, the prefect was tied up and brought to Liu Taozi.
The prefect was older, his hair was disheveled, and his face was pale.
"General!!"
The prefect just knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
"What's going on in the city?"
"Report to the general! Gao Chuo, the king of Nanyang, has been wreaking havoc on the prefectures and counties, preying on the people. When the officials opposed him, he sent those guards to attack the government offices and brutally killed the local officials. He has done all kinds of evil things."
The prefect talked about Gao Chuo's evil deeds one by one.
Liu Taozi asked calmly: "What did you do when he did evil?"
When the prefect heard this, he cried and said, "General, the official office has been breached. What else can I do besides bowing my head?"
"Since you have become a prefect, you have to protect the counties and counties. Now I will remove you from your official position and send you to Pingcheng to live in peace. Do you have anything to say?"
"No! No!"
"Thank you, General, for not killing me!"
Liu Taozi said with a straight face: "I was originally going to Qingzhou. When I passed the official road of Qizhou, some people blocked my road and informed me of what happened in Qizhou."
"I never thought that the situation here is even worse than what I heard."
"After you return to Pingcheng, you must truthfully tell Xingtai what happened here, and you must not hide it!"
"only!!"
Liu Taozi then looked to her left and right, "Go and bring Gao Chuo over."
Several knights brought the screaming Gao Chuo and threw him in front of Liu Taozi.
Gao Chuo's face was ferocious, he was holding his hands and just rolling around and screaming.
Liu Taozi looked at him indifferently.
"Don't send this kid to Pingcheng."
"Tomorrow, I will gather the people in Xijie and punish them in public to appease the people's anger."
"Send people to all directions to tell them that no matter who dares to prey on the common people and cause trouble, this is what he will end up with."
Chapter completed!