Chapter 29: Break the word

Qi County Government is the largest building in the city, covering an area of ​​ten acres. It was already dark at this time. The gate of Yin Sensen County Government is like a bloody mouth of a wild beast. Two stone lions under the steps of the county government are cold-eyed.

Looking at what happened in front of the county government, it symbolizes power and majesty.

The county magistrate of Qi County is named Linghu Shou, who is over 30 years old and from Dunhuang County. Three years ago, he was just a county magistrate of Qi County. He was commended by the court for digging Tongji Canal and was promoted to the county magistrate of Qi County.

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After three years of being a county magistrate, his political achievements were very bad. He could not complete the tax quota issued by the court every year. This was also his own deception. He levied 30,000 civilians in the county to participate in the digging of Tongji Canal, but he died nearly half of them.

He also got the nickname of Linghu Beast.

There was a shortage of labor, the fertile land was deserted, and the tax was greatly reduced, so naturally the amount set by the Ministry of Revenue could not be completed. Fortunately, he had Yu Wen Kai, the Minister of Works, as the backstage, and barely retained the position of county magistrate.

Linghu Shou's sister married Yuwen Kai's nephew. He cherished this twists and turns. Every year, he would try every means to prepare a generous gift to respect Yuwen Kai. Hard work pays off. He has received the transfer order, a month later,

He will become the magistrate of Jiangyang County, which is the county of finance and taxation in Jiangdu County, which makes him excited.

Tonight, he took his concubine to bed early. Just as he was about to be united by nature, a rapid knock on the door interrupted his interest. Linghu Shou was furious and turned around and said viciously: "What's the matter?"

"Master, the yamen runners come to report that hundreds of people gathered in front of the yamen, and some people are about to rebel."

Linghu Shou was shocked and lost all his interest. He hurriedly touched his clothes and put them on, ran to the outside room to open the door. Outside the door was his housekeeper and a yamen runner who was on duty tonight.

"What happened?" he asked anxiously.

The yamen runner hurriedly said, "Report to the county magistrate, hundreds of dock workers came to the county yamen to ask for people."

"Who do they want?"

"They said they wanted to make a thousand-dollar murderer in the ship's journey."

Although Linghu Shou had poor political achievements, his mind was enough. He immediately understood what the bastards in Wanji Ship did and hid in his county government office.

"Are those people in Wanji Ship hiding in the county government now?"

The yamen runner lowered his head and said, "It was Sun Gongcao who brought it into the county yamen."

"Bad!"

Linghu Shou cursed in a low voice, helpless, so he had to walk out the gate. The backstage of Wanji Ship was the Zhang Jin family, whom he could not afford to offend, and he was about to go to Jiangyang County to serve, the new boss,

Zhang Yunyi, the prefect of Jiangdu County, is Zhang Jin's eldest son. He dare not make a decision immediately, so he can only take a look.

His home was the back house of the county government office. He walked around and arrived in front of the county government office. He saw fire in front of the county government office, with five or six hundred people holding iron rods and wooden sticks, all of whom were excited.

"The county magistrate is here!"

The yamen runner shouted, and countless pairs of eyes looked at him. Linghu Shou had never seen such a formation before. He felt agitation in his heart, but he could not lose his authority. He coughed heavily and walked forward slowly.

"I am the magistrate of Qi County, who are you the leader?"

Du Sheng stepped forward and bowed, "Du Sheng, a small-minded person, is the leader."

"Why did you lead people to besiege the county government? Don't you know this is a serious crime?"

Du Sheng said with neither humility nor arrogantly: "We did not siege the county government, and even the steps of the county government government did not take a step. We are here to reason and ask the county magistrate to uphold justice for us."

"Okay! Even if you are not siege, what's the matter?"

Du Sheng pointed to the yamen and said, "A dozen murderous thugs hid in the county government and asked the county magistrate to hand them over to us."

"nonsense!"

Linghu Shou shouted angrily: "How come there are thugs in the county yard? Even if there are, I will send the yamen runners to arrest him. I will deal with it. What do you do with you?"

At this time, Fu Gongyou yelled "Kill!"

The roar was like thunder, and the five or six hundred people behind him yelled together, "Kill!"

The sound was terrifying, and Linghu Shou was so scared that his face was as dark as earth. He took two steps back, and his two trembling trembled. Du Sheng waved his hand, stopped everyone's roar, and said coldly: "Mr. Linghu County Magistrate, we are all

The rough man who works hard labor does not know any laws. We only know how to kill people and pay for their lives. If the county magistrate refuses to hand over the person, I will not be able to control the anger of everyone and cause chaos."

Linghu Shou was helpless. Although he could not afford to offend the Zhang family, these dozen scoundrels were still far from the Zhang family, so he didn't have to take risks for them.

Although he was a little embarrassed, Linghu Shou couldn't care. He turned around and gave a look to the yamen runners. At this moment, Du Fuwei found that more than a dozen black shadows were flipping out from the county yamen wall.

Obviously I wanted to slip away.

He pointed his hand and shouted, "On there!"

The workers all saw it, and they were angry and raised their iron rods and rushed up. The dozens of thugs in the Wanji Shipyard felt that the county magistrate could not save them, so they wanted to sneak away, but Du Fuwei discovered them. They were so scared that they were out of their minds.

, ran away, but was blocked from all directions by the workers and had no way to escape. More than a dozen people were so scared that they knelt down and begged for mercy. The angry workers rushed forward, and beat more than a dozen people to death.

Linghu Shou felt a chill on his back when he saw it. It was said that the people of Qi shared the same hatred of the enemy and were prone to gathering and rebellion. Now it was true.

When he saw Du Sheng walking towards him with dozens of people, he was so scared that he raised his hand and shouted: "I swear to the heaven that the government will never pursue the matter tonight!"

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Jiangdu City, which is the center of the southeast rule of the Great Sui Dynasty. After the Great Sui Dynasty pacified Chen and unified the country, King Yang Guang of Jin was ordered to govern the south. He was in charge of Jiangdu and governed the south for ten years.

At this time, Jiangdu still had an extremely important position in the Great Sui Dynasty. Yang Guang regarded it as the accompaniment capital and was preparing to officially establish Jiangdu as the southern capital.

The prefect of Jiangdu County also had a very high status. Yang Guang issued an order that the prefect of Jiangdu County was equivalent to that of Jingzhao Yin and belonged to a senior official of the third rank.

This prefect of Jiangdu with a high status is Zhang Yunyi, the eldest son of General Zhang Jin. Zhang Yunyi is over 40 years old this year, with a medium figure, fair skin, big ears, and full of official appearance.

Zhang Yunyi has been the prefect of Jiangdu for nearly four years and has strong connections in the entire Jianghuai area. Moreover, when Emperor Yang Guang visited Jiangdu two years ago, he also said to him in person, "You can take his father on his behalf," that is,

It is said that Zhang Yunyi is qualified to join the cabinet as a minister.

It can be said that Zhang Yunyi is the leader in the new generation of the Sui Dynasty and the leader of the Guanlong nobles.

Zhang Yunyi just received a quick message from the Qi County Magistrate Linghu Shou. Hundreds of workers in Zhangqiu, Qi County, rushed to the county government and killed more than a dozen friends in Wanji Boat Train in Qi County. The reason was that Wanji Boat Train accidentally injured while patrolling the canal.

A businessman in Zhangqiu County.

Logically, Qi County belongs to Pengcheng County and has nothing to do with Jiangdu County. Linghu Shou has no need to report this to him, but Zhang Yunyi knew in his heart that Linghu Shou was about to move to Jiangyang County Magistrate, and he was showing himself.

Wanji Ship belongs to the Zhang family's industry and is also related to him.

Zhang Yunyi closed his eyes and said nothing. If it were the past, he would immediately ask the court to suppress the workers who dared to attack the county government for the crime of gathering people to rebel. But now he is a little worried. More than a month ago, his uncle Zhang Xin was arrested.

Pengcheng County was transferred, and now the censor Wei Deyu and Sili doctor Xue Daoheng appeared in the Jiangnan area at the same time. His unique political sensitivity told him that there might be a trace of extraordinary information hidden in it, and at this time, he must not be careless.

At this time, the butler reported at the door: "Master, Master Wan Dong asked for a meeting!"

Wan Dongzhu is Wan Qi, the eldest master of Wanji Ship, who is the eldest son-in-law of their Zhang family. Zhang Yunyi knew that he came for the Qi County, but Zhang Yunyi didn't want to see him now.

"Go and tell him that I know the matter in Qi County. I will handle it well and let him go back!"

Zhang Yunyi decided that the matter in Qi County should not be serious, but he should not be careless of the people who make trouble. At least he should arrest their leader, as if he was Du Sheng.

Zhang Yunyi immediately called a confidant servant and took off a Pixiu paperweight carved from the bookshelf at any time, put it in a box, and handed it to the servant, "You go to Pengcheng County and hand it over this paperweight."

To the new Sima prefect, I say it is my wish and congratulate him on his new job.”

There are many things in the officialdom that cannot be said explicitly, but I can only understand them. I will give him a gift, just to ask him for help. It depends on whether he will give him this face.

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After the county government incident, everything became calm, just as nothing happened, and the government did not hold them accountable. The dock workers in Qi County were still busy every day, and as the autumn harvest of grain entered the warehouse, the dock warehouse

The grain stored in it should be entered Beijing, and an official fleet of hundreds of canal ships was moored in front of the dock.

More than a thousand workers kept moving grain back and forth on board. Du Sheng, like other ordinary workers, also had to participate in moving grain to make money. He was just the leader recommended by everyone, but he was not the foreman, his apprentice, Gongyou and his son Du

Fu Wei also helped on the dock.

At this moment, a sound of horse hooves suddenly came from afar, and dust was flying. Soon, thousands of troops appeared outside the dock and were running towards the dock quickly.

Du Sheng was shocked. He immediately understood that the army was coming to arrest him. The county magistrate went back on his word and sweared to the sky as if fart.

Du Sheng was anxious and immediately looked for his son. Someone told him that Fu Gongyou and Du Fuwei were both in the warehouse. Du Sheng turned around and ran towards the warehouse. He ran more than a hundred steps. He saw his son from afar.

At this time, more than 2,000 local troops in Pengcheng County rushed into the dock under the leadership of the commander Song Bing. Song Bing pointed at the officials on the dock with a horse whip and shouted: "Where is the thief leader Du Sheng?"

The official did not dare to hide it, and pointed at Du Sheng and his son in the distance and said, "It's them!"

Song Hing pulled out his long sword and waved it, "On the cavalry, the anti-captures will kill them!"

Hundreds of cavalry in armor rushed towards Du Sheng and his son. Seeing the crisis in the situation, Du Sheng shouted to his son and apprentice: "You jump into the river and go! Go!"

Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou refused to leave, Du Fuwei cried in a hurry: "I want to go back to save my mother!"

"Go away!"

Du Sheng knocked Du Fuwei to the ground with one punch and yelled at Fu Gongyu, "Save my son!"

Fu Gongyou knew in his heart that no one would be able to survive without leaving. He knelt down and kowtowed to Du Sheng with tears in his eyes, carried Du Fuwei and ran, jumped into the Grand Canal.

Du Sheng saw his son wake up in the water, and he calmed down. He picked up a stick, shouted, jumped up, and smashed a cavalry head-on. The cavalry screamed and fell off his horse. Du Sheng was overjoyed.

He jumped onto the back of the horse, but at this moment, a cold arrow came silently. Du Sheng was unprepared and was penetrated by an arrow. Du Sheng screamed and fell off the horse and died.

Song Hung Shou Gong said coldly: "Acatch his wife and children, and they cannot let them go!"

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Dozens of soldiers rushed to Du Sheng's home. In the yard, only Du Sheng's wife Li was cooking rice. The soldiers were overjoyed and rushed into the yard. At this moment, an arrow was so 'whoosh!' she faced her head.
To be continued...