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Chapter 160

: Pulling the banner into a tiger's skin

The next day, I woke up in the morning and felt refreshed. Shi Chuan stretched and suddenly felt empty around me. Everything about last night seemed like a dream.

However, he still smelled a faint fragrance in his nose. After a careful look at the pillow, there were still a few black hairs left on the pillow...

Several female envoys were whispering in the courtyard. Shi Chuan turned over and sat up. He heard the female envoys say intermittently: "......... This turmoil is together, the food price... I'm afraid the refugees... the village..."

After a little leaning, a loud voice shouted: "Have the head of the family woke up? Let's shout, I'm replying to the city."

Shi Chuan quickly agreed in the room: "I, come in quickly."

Not only were the servants who followed, Cui Xiaoqing was wearing light makeup and a noticeable blush on her cheeks. She quietly followed the servant who reported the news. When she saw that she was wearing a dress, she turned slightly and ordered the female envoy: "Go and bring the soup quickly and clean the face of Dalang."

The servant who came to report the news was a native of Haizhou, so the name he called Shicheng was completely a migrant worker. He bowed and handed over a mansion: "The head of the family, this is the mansion that Miss Huang'e just received from the county government. Master Gao rebelled and Haizhou was shocked. The head of the family had not returned. Miss Huang'e went to the county government to ask about the news and took the mansion by the way. He heard that the head of the family was safe and worried that the head of the family would not know the situation outside, so he asked me to bring this mansion."

The first news on the Di Daily News was: The court appointed Tong Guan, the envoy of the Suzhou Inspectorate Bureau, as the commander of the expedition army, and began to mobilize troops in Suzhou... It seemed that a large-scale anti-rebellion war was imminent.

Apart from sending the mansion newspaper, Huang E didn't say anything. At this time, Cui Xiaoqing, who seemed to be innocent, stepped forward and looked at the mansion newspaper sideways, and said with a faint smile: "After your little Huang E contacted your family, she is capable, and even the court's mansion newspaper can be obtained so quickly."

Shi Chuan reached out and Cui Xiaoqing turned around gently, letting his outdated hand. Shi Chuan retracted his empty hand and reached to the tip of his nose to smell the remaining smell of his fingertips... Everything last night seemed like a dream, and Cui Xiaoqing now seemed to be as usual. Shi Chuan also tried hard to pretend to clear everything. He buried his head and replied, "The court will do it very quickly."

"Of course, the court has always responded quickly to the rebellion. If Mr. Gao did not claim to be king, the court would have been quarreled for a while. Since he had already claimed to be king, he would naturally have to mobilize the army nearby, so he would never let him have a chance to breathe again?"

At this time, Tong Guan was in charge of the Huashigang matter at the Suzhou Enjoyment Bureau, which was to help Song Huizong collect rockery stones. His plundering had already made the people of Suzhou resent. It is said that the officials of the Injoyment Bureau took a fancy to someone's rockery and immediately broke into the door and put the imperial seal on the rockery stones. If the owner of the house did not bribe, they would tear down the walls and houses, and used barbaric demolition methods to forcibly transport the rockery stones out of other people's houses.

But if the homeowner is tactful and handes a bribe, the worship bureau will choose a reason to remove the seal of the rockery stone and no longer harass the homeowner. Of course, if the bribe given by the homeowner makes them dissatisfied, or the rockery stone is really outstanding and makes it difficult for them to abandon it, then the homeowner can only live in a ruin.

Generally speaking, those who build small gardens at home and have the ability to pile rockery stones in the garden are basically middle-class, and the stable middle class is the basis of state rule. This group of middle-class families who originally supported the ruling class are now overthrown by the ruling class. They are full of resentment towards the current regime, which also means that the collapse of the Song Dynasty regime has begun.

However, it should be emphasized that the censors of the Song Dynasty were not eulogists, and they still dared to criticize them. Therefore, although Tong Guan was arrogant, his arrogance avoided the gentry class - that is, scholars. It was mainly aimed at ordinary middle-class people who got rich through business and had no shelter on their heads.

The official newspaper also asked local governments to pay attention to organizing refugees into the wing army, and at the same time strengthen the strength of the local regiment training... Ah, that is, strengthen the landlords' armed forces. This is the most important thing. When Shi Chuan saw this, he immediately raised his head and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's take action first and then report. Let's start the regiment training today, call Mu Shun, call the heads of the family in our village... Oh, bring my official uniforms and let Wang Xiaochuan put on the yamen runners' uniforms. Now we have all outfits, let who dares to stand up?"

Cui Xiaoqing exclaimed: "Dalang, you are still carrying a corpse. If you delay it, the thing will smell bad."

"It's okay, anti-corrosion and freshness are the strengths of modern people; defending their homes should be the strengths of landlords - the most urgent issue now is: protecting my collections."

Shi Chuan said this, which actually had a different meaning, but Cui Xiaoqing misunderstood. She blushed and turned around and walked away.

Later, the servants sent by Cui Yuanzhong went to various families... Of course, Wang Xiaochuan could not be idle. In order to strengthen his deterrence, he was shamelessly bribed by Shizhan Sanguan. The servants who were wearing yamen runners and accompanied Cui Yuan to invite the heads of the family one by one. When the heads of the family arrived at Cui Yuan's main hall with fear, the one sitting on the main hall was Shizhan wearing the uniform of a general.

"Look at it, this is the latest palace newspaper from the court." What does it mean to pull the banner into a tiger's skin? The palace newspaper sent by Huang E was also used. Shi Chuan gave the palace newspaper to everyone to read it, and said in an orderly tone: "Since all families have their intentions in the group training and the court also supports it. Let's do it now, and those with money contribute money and those with strength.

Cough, I have decided on Miss Cui’s business. Her family has thirty tenants. My family is relatively idle, so I also have thirty people. In addition, the official service stipulates that the daily salary of the wing army is 30 cents, one liter of rice. They are all local in the hometown. They naturally don’t care about the family’s farmland when doing group training. So we are more generous, and subsidized by 50 cents a day and one liter of rice. Our Cuizhuang organizes 100 group training, which costs five cents a month. Including the rice, it is about ten cents a day.

Well, I and Miss Cui and I paid for this money - since I paid for this money, the coach of this group... Cough, of course, I am the chief coach. The Cui family will produce another coach, the Fang family will produce one, each Zhao family will produce one, and our Cuizhuang will have a chief coach, three coaches, each coach will manage 20 people. As for me, the chief coach, I will be reluctant to do so, and I will take care of the rest - don't be polite to me."

"This..." The head of the Zhao family pondered.

Fang Yuanwai met Shi Chuan for the first time. He looked at Wang Xiaochuan, the yamen runner standing beside Shi Chuan, and said, "Since the general has paid for his people and money, just be more refreshed and take on all the training teams. Wouldn't it be more beautiful?"

Shi Chuan laughed a long laugh: "That's the point... Well, Zhao's, Yu's, Lu's... What do you guys think? If you agree, I and the Cuisine will cover all the training."

Fang Yuanwai wanted to control Shi Chuanyi Army, but he didn't expect Shi Chuan to go down the slope and directly wanted to take over the entire regiment training armed forces... As for the landlord, he was particularly sensitive to the control of the landlord's armed forces. If Shi Chuan had to hold all the force on the village in his palm, Fang Yuanwai might not be able to sleep at night.

"Haha, jokingly, General Shi first came to Cuizhuang, how could he bully you like this... This group training was originally intended to protect the local area of ​​the country, how could we wait for the villagers? I didn't say anything, my family also paid 30 people and another two stale money."

The Zhao family followed Fang Yuanwai's statement: "I don't have many tenants in my family, many children and nephews, we pay 10 people, and we have always paid for it."

Mr. Zhao quickly added: "Since the Fang family cannot raise enough staff, we have to cover the remaining vacancies, but the position of coach under the Zhao family..."

"My Yu family makes up for the Zhao family's vacancy," Yu family quickly stated: "Our two families have enough to make up for each of them. As for this coach, my Yu family supports the Zhao family as the one."

When the Yu family opened their mouths, the Fang family couldn't fight any more... and they started to share the spoils and bear the training costs of group training...

More than ten days later, on a stormy night, Shi Chuan led a team of people into the city. The team drove four carriages. In addition to Wang Xiaochuan, Zhou Yi, and Heifu Obama, six corpse-carrying households in Shi Village were added.

The first carriage transported Zeng Laizi's corpse, and the other three carriages were loading the newly brewed wine this year. Shi Chuan first went to the prefecture yamen to dispose of Zeng Laizi's case. Such a fast speed made the county magistrate patted the former's shoulder and sighed: "I knew you were good, Dalang, this is just a try. There are many bandits hidden in Yuntai Mountain. I have more than a dozen sea captain documents here, all of which are for you. If you are idle, go and go around. How many can you catch them?"

Shi Chuan silently put the captain's document into his arms. The excited County Magistrate Meng rubbed his hands and shouted: "Mom, this new official took office, and this year's performance is difficult not to appraise an excellent performance. Dalang, I will send it back to your house. You told Miss Huang that the county master had left office. He was anxious to go home to settle his relatives. Now the county government has been vacant and her father can take office at any time."

Shi Chuan laughed and joked: "Then, during this period, you have become the only county magistrate in Haizhou County."

The county magistrate Meng laughed and said modestly: "This small Haizhou County Government Office is placed above the prefecture. How much business can I do? It's just to arrest thieves."

Shi Chuan suddenly remembered something, and he stopped walking out: "So, your command is now under your command in Haizhou County?"

County Magistrate Meng rubbed his hands and couldn't help but feel proud: "More than 500 people are standing in the schoolyard. Unfortunately, according to the court's laws, the transfer of more than 150 people requires permission from the Privy Council, so I can usually mobilize up to 100 people. Ah, I don't know if there are a large number of thieves in the cloud platform. If so, I can still be able to command thousands of troops."

Shi Chuan asked again: "I heard that there are Shandong thieves coming?"

County Magistrate Meng nodded: "It's because of this. I heard that this gangster usually hides in Liangshan, so it is called Liangshan gangsters. A few days ago, they broke a village on the border of Huaiyang Army. I heard that the village was named Zhujiazhuang. It is said that a leader of a gangster went to a hotel in the village to have a drink, stole the chicken that the owner had reported to the dawn and cooked it. The owner was unwilling to do so, so they said that the owner bullied others with his power, drew a knife and killed the owner's entire house, and then burned the store..."

Shi Chuan asked with a smile: "Are you not planning to send troops?"

County Magistrate Meng was stunned and immediately replied: "Mom, Liangshan gangs are circulating in Shandong, and the counties cannot resist. Who am I? It's okay to fight the little thief. Take a hundred people out to fight the thief, isn't it asking for death?"

Shi Chuan asked again: "Oh, what's the leader's surname in that group of Liangshan gangsters?"
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