Chapter 365 The scapegoat

The port of Mingzhou is already a busy scene. Several treks deep into the water are full of ships. The dense masts look like forests from afar. In the piled area of ​​the wharf, the civilians and taxes of the brigade ships, driven by officers, transport a large amount of material to ships to prepare for the future invasion of Taizhou.

"Idiot, these grains are loaded on that sand boat. These lucky boats are bumpy on the sea and are used to transport livestock. What they want is feed for them, and move them down quickly." An officer stood by the boat and suddenly found that the things brought up were wrong, so he shouted. Several civilians who were pressed by heavy rice bags and couldn't stand up straight, and they were standing in the middle of the pedal. They couldn't move forward and retreat for a while, so they had to beg: "Mr. Jun, let's make a way first, let's get on the boat first to take a breath. We stand on this pedal and carry a hundred kilograms of things. It's inconvenient."

The officer was very arrogant. He jumped onto the pedal and whipped his head, which made the men scream and cursed: "You guys dare to talk too much. If there is a time limit, if there is a mistake and the time is wrong, all military law will be carried out. Let's make it clear first. If you can't do a job well, you must take you some matte before you lose your head." While cursing, he pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and wanted to chop it. The men had to retreat randomly. Those who were carrying heavy objects were inconvenient to move. They either dodged their waists or were crushed by heavy objects and fell to the ground.

The officer was so heartless that he just stepped forward and beat and scolded him, not allowing anyone to rest.

Seeing this, the people started to clamor. They had been working hard for four or five days in a row. Even the man who was fighting was unable to bear it. When he encountered this cause, he immediately started to attack and threw the cargo aside. He lay on the ground, just shouting to kill people. When the neighboring people heard it, they also responded. The officer was furious and jumped off the boat and beat him hard. However, two people were beaten here, and three more people sat down there. Seeing that more and more civil servants stopped working, in a hurry, the officer grabbed the leader and shouted loudly: "Aren't that little slave, I can't get up to work, can you be dead?"

The man in the leader had already been forced to the extreme and shouted loudly: "If you work hard like this, you will die sooner or later. Why not be happy?" When everyone next to him heard it, they responded in unison. The officer was extremely angry and knocked the man in the leader to the ground, shouting loudly: "What's the harm of killing a hundred of him like this?" He stabbed the man in his hand with a force in his chest, and he wanted to nail the man to the ground.

The grabbed man's eyes were already shocked to death by seeing the blade stabbing in his chest. But after a while, he did not feel the expected severe pain. He opened his eyes hesitantly and saw the officer standing upright, as if he was pleading guilty. There was a person standing behind him, full of armor, and under the backlight, he couldn't see what he looked like. He could only vaguely hear the man saying, "What happened? Why did he kill the man indiscriminately?"

The military officer looked arrogant, but now in front of the man, he was like a mouse in front of a cat, trembling all over, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence. Although the civilians on the side did not understand who the man was in front of him, they saw that the officer was obviously not low in status, and saw that the arrogance of the officer was no longer the only one, the clamor of the clamor suddenly increased, and they all cursed the officer for all kinds of bad deeds of seizing rations and beating the civilians. The momentum was quite terrifying for a moment.

The man was Zhao Yingong. When the guards who were accompanying him saw the surrounding men stirring up, they drew their swords forward, trying to protect them in order to prevent the civilians from mutiny and hurting the master. Zhao Yingong turned around and repelled the guards, took a few steps forward, came to the public, and glanced at everyone without saying a word. The head civilian lying on the ground was just looking at Zhao Yingong, and he felt that the other party's eyes were cold, as if they were extraordinary. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and the curses in his mouth could not help but lower.

When the voices of the people became quiet, Zhao Yingong shouted in a deep voice: "Come, bring the Xu Duchang." Before he finished speaking, the officer had been twisted and pushed up. Before he could stand firm, he was kicked at the bend of his knee and fell to the ground. Before he could speak, Zhao Yingong pulled out his sword from his waist and wiped it around his neck, which had cut off his throat. The red blood immediately spurted out and splashed all over the ground. Even the few people standing near him were splashed a little, which scared them to shut up immediately and kept shrinking back.

Although Xu Du's head had its throat cut off, it was not dead for a while, and his lips could not be opened and closed, but his trachea had been cut off. He could only make a hissing sound, but he couldn't say a word. He hugged Zhao Yingong's legs with both hands and crawled up desperately. After a while, he died. Zhao Yingong did not break free, let Xu Du's head hold his legs with both hands and whispered to the public: "This person is entrusted with food, and is not polite, I have already

He was executed according to the military law, and now you can do your work. At lunch, each person will have double rations." At this point, Zhao Yingong paused for a moment and said in a deep voice: "If there are still people who are lazy, they will be treated according to military law, just like this guy." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Yingong used force on his legs and kicked the body of Xu Dutou out, and got out two or three meters away. The civilians in the direction of the body rolling immediately screamed and gave up a clearing.

After Zhao Yingong gave the order, the mutiny men returned to their jobs like tamed sheep. They intentionally or unintentionally tried to get farther away from Zhao Yingong and Xu Dutou's corpses, as if these two people had some disease. As the loading and unloading work continued, the dock returned to its previous noisy scene, as if everything that had just happened had not happened again.

Seeing that everything was done, Zhao Yingong walked to the corpse and saw Xu Dulong's eyes wide open, his face full of incredible expressions, as if he could not believe that he had been killed by Zhao Yingong. Zhao Yingong stared at the corpse for a long time, sighed, reached out to close Xu Dulong's eyes, wiped away the blood stains on his face, stood up and asked, "Does Xu Dulong have any wife and children in his family?"

The guards on the side didn't understand what Zhao Yingong meant, so they had to reply carefully: "Xu Duchang has two young sons in his family, and his wife and mother are in the hall. I wonder what the lord should do about it?"

Zhao Yingong turned around and said, "You will send ten pieces of silk, five scoops of money and ten stones of grain to his house later. From now on, I will send five stones of grain every month. Also, let's bury him well." After Zhao Yingong finished speaking, he looked at the body of Xu Du's growth and then walked forward strode forward. Before leaving, he silently said in his heart: "I will treat your wife well, so go with peace of mind."

Zhao Yingong walked quickly at the port and carefully inspected the preparations for invading Taizhou. This work had reached its final stage. Although by the end of the Tang Dynasty, the maritime traffic in the Fujian and Zhejiang area had already been largely large, and whether it was the manufacturing of sea ships and the knowledge of meteorological and cultural knowledge, it was still quite risky compared to the land march. If it were not for the steep terrain of Taizhou and the surrounding situation, he would not have made this adventure. Although he obtained a large number of ships through solicitation and plunder, these ships of different sizes, uses and speeds were repaired and formed, and then various materials such as eight thousand people were loaded on different ships. Moreover, such a large fleet was obviously impossible to start from a dock at the same time, who sets first, who sets later, who sets where, and where to gather. The complexity of this series of work

The difficulty is incredible. The mutiny that occurred before was the result of this heavy work. In order to save every little time, he gave heavy pressure to the heads of the transport work. Naturally, the officers also passed on this pressure to the civilians. In order to use the small amount of food on the knife, the rations of the civilians who were temporarily collected became the target of compression. In this way, the result of the high-pressure policy was that the mutiny was not as good as that.

It happened, and he finally used Xu Duchang as a scapegoat, suppressing the incident without delaying the entire shipping work. But can the invasion of Taizhou be successful? Even if Taizhou is captured, can he resist the attack of Lu Fang that will follow? There is no answer in his heart, but Zhao Yingong knew that in this chaotic world, he had no choice but to do his best to bet, fight, and grab. There is no way out.

"Enjoyed father, the ships of the central army are almost all installed." A voice woke Zhao Yingong up. When he turned around, he saw that it was his adopted son Zhao Quan. Over the past few days, he had almost lived and fed on this dock to supervise the transformation and shipment of the ship. He had already lost weight, his cheeks were sunken and his cheekbones were protruding, making him look like iron.

"Okay." Zhao Yingong couldn't help but feel excited: "If the weather is right tomorrow, I will lead the central army and the front, and you will ship the supplies, food and fodder from the rear army here."

"The last time we will obey the order." Zhao Quan bowed his hand and took the order. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Enjoyed Father, should we wait for two more days? Most of the detailed works we sent to investigate Taizhou's military information have been sent back, but there is no news on the side of Linhai, the provincial government, but there is no news. Our elite troops in the Mingzhou army are here. It is better to wait for two more days to have the exact news before taking action."
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