The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 906 I am also a soldier
The Liaodong Plain has fertile land, criss-cross water network, and no disasters of drought or flood. After several years of development, it has become an important source of grain for the Sui Dynasty. Some businessmen with a keen sense of smell have come here to look for business opportunities.The successive rise of agriculture and commerce has brought about earth-shaking changes in Liaodong.

The prosperity of commerce has led to the prosperity of many places, especially the estuaries of some big rivers. Due to their unique geographical advantages, they have a tendency to catch up from behind. For example, the mouth of Bailangshui is called Wanghai because it is close to the sea. Tuen.Originally, it was just a sandbar protruding into the Bohai Sea formed by the alluvial white wolf cement sand. It was uninhabited. It was not used by the imperial court until the year of Yang Guang's expedition to Goguryeo. However, Wanghaitun was only a shipyard of the Ministry of Industry at the beginning. .However, with the outbreak of agriculture in Liaodong, Wanghaitun, which occupied the convenience of water and land, gradually became lively. The concentration of population prompted the imperial court to set up Wanghai County with a population of nearly [-] households, and some of them built boats for a living. Craftsmen, the other part are farmers and common people; there are also some grain merchants who buy grain from people from all over the country and sell it to the southern grain merchants waiting here to earn a small difference. The crew and their families who specialize in running the ship.

Wanghai City is the head of this new county that has become Shangxian County. Its main theme is prosperity and flourishing literary style. place.

This town, which rose from the prosperity of water transportation, maintains a population of tens of thousands of young and strong all year round. The number of young and strong is so large that even some small counties combined are not enough.

Here, the imperial court only sent tax officials and tax officials to the city office, and there were no county soldiers to maintain law and order.

Therefore, lawlessness is the law of Wanghai Town, the law of the jungle is the law of Wanghai Town, and fighting is the daily life of Wanghai Town.

Perhaps the local government believes that it is the best rule to let the people here survive the weak and the strong, so that Wanghai Town, which is full of people coming and going, forms its own set of rules, and then passes through this set of laws that are far better than the imperial court. Laws are stricter than the law, and they are strongly constrained, and finally make Wanghai Town an effective and efficient group, so that peace outside the town can be maintained.

In order to achieve this goal, everything in Wanghai Town is also resolved by the people here.

This is not an abandoned extrajudicial place, but a Colosseum designated by the local government.

It's just that there is an underground force in Wanghai Town who dare not provoke taboos, that is the Hero Tower, whose background is the emperor and the military; in any place, the Hero Tower represents absolute safety, which also makes it Business is booming.

That night!It was drizzling in Wanghai Town, and Qiao Shiwang in the guest house of the Hero Building silently looked at the pier in the distance, lighting torches as numerous as stars, and looking carefully, one could see a busy scene.

There are clumps of camellias blooming in the courtyard of the guest house. The leaves are dark green and as thick as leather. The narrow round leaves are wet by the rain, and the light is shining brightly. The edges of the jagged leaves are slightly white.The blossoming red flowers are dazzling, crystal clear and oily, as if coated with a layer of wax, giving people a transparent texture.

Cup-shaped, pot-shaped, and bowl-shaped flowers are delicate and colorful, beautiful and elegant, just like a beautiful girl.

Qiao Shiwang is from Feng Yi County, a small family of the Guanlong aristocrats. He was deceived by Li Xiuning and turned against the Sui Dynasty. As a result, Li Xiuning married Yang Tong and became the concubine of the prince of the Sui Dynasty. The army that came out was brutally dismembered by Li Yuan, and all the generals who were thieves were sent to watch the door. Qiao Shiwang also followed He Panren to guard Pujin Pass at that time. Later, He Panren was captured alive by Shen Guang who was posing as a businessman. Depressed, he simply brought a large army down to the Sui Dynasty, so Qiao Shiwang also changed from a rebel army to a soldier of the imperial court in a daze. At that time, people from the Military Affairs Department went to brainwash them every day. Shi Wang also became a member of the Military Affairs Department, and then he went to wash other people's brainwashing. He didn't know what happened to others. Anyway, as time went by, the more he washed himself, the deeper he sank himself, and he became Yang Yang. Dong's most loyal disciple.

After serving in the army for a year, the imperial court's territory skyrocketed, and Yang Tong, who was in a predicament of no one to use, came up with the idea of ​​the Military Affairs Department to encourage them to abandon the military and enter politics. The majestic Emperor Shengwu received and encouraged him in person, and was so excited that he burst into tears. He went to Yiwu County, which is extremely weak, poor, and complex, to serve as a county governor for two years because of his outstanding performance; Wang Wang became a doctor of the imperial department.

Now Qiao Shiwang is one of Liu Yanke's two assistants. After they entered Shuangliao County, several of them split up. He led several subordinates to investigate the southern part of Shuangliao County. The Wharf of Wanghai Town is the most important place. As long as you find out the owners of the warehouses standing on the White Wolf Waterfront, the contents of the warehouses, and the boats entering and leaving, you can get the evidence of breaking the situation.

When Qiao Shi saw Wanghai County, he stopped all the flags and drums. Like Liu Yanke, he also wanted to use the method of incognito visits to investigate here first.

This is not because of a tacit understanding. In fact, the officials of the Criminal Ministry, the Imperial Ministry, and the Dali Temple are naturally at odds with other officials. After all, friends who are also officials will break up with them amicably and silently.

This kind of thing happens a lot, so when officials from the Criminal Ministry, Imperial Ministry, and Dali Temple go to the local government to investigate cases, almost without exception, they will choose private visits through micro-services, although the information obtained from the side is suspected of hearsay, and it is difficult to use it as conclusive evidence. Handling a case is somewhat more objective than the reports and explanations of local officials, and it can even be used as a breakthrough point in the case. Therefore, private visits on Weibo can be regarded as a good way to listen and understand.

Although Qiao Shiwang pretended to be a businessman, he lived in Wanghai Town 'quietly'. Since the group settled down, he has a square appearance, a gentle manner, and a humble and gentle temperament in his speech, which makes people feel good. , and he is from Feng Yi County, not only has martial arts, but also has the heroic temperament of a soldier in his temper; after moving into Wanghai Town, he met some businessmen who came and went to Wanghai Town all the year round with his own unique pride, talkativeness, and generosity. I got to know some Liding, and when he applied brainwashing recipes such as 'recalling bitterness and thinking sweet', he soon became brothers and sisters with these simple and honest low-level people.

During the chats with these people, Qiao Shiwang got a surprising piece of news: like Wanghai Town, where the weak and the strong prey on the lawless place, there are usually several large forces with balanced strengths formed by fighting and killing. There is a group of small forces following them; since the strengths are not much different, when there is conflict of interest, they often resort to courtesy first and soldiers later, and only use force to resolve it if they cannot be resolved. , The existence of this balance is also in the interests of the local government, and generally they will not intervene in their struggles. If someone wants to unify the "world", the government will absolutely not allow it, and even send official forces to suppress it.

It is not surprising that the five major forces coexist in Wanghai Town, which is in line with the rules of the lawless place; however, he found out an unusual news—that is, the five major forces are too aggressive, and they will fight one after another every once in a while. It's a big fight, and it's not that the small leagues are fighting each other, but they are fighting each other, making it seem that no one can tolerate the other.

This is against the rules. After all, everyone is here for money. Even if there are disputes, they will eventually form superficial alliances, but this is obviously not the case.

Four days ago, there happened to be a dispute between the two factions headed by Fan Jiang and Lu Yan. Negotiations failed to resolve the dispute. The two parties finally agreed to fight on the outskirts of town at night to decide the male and female by force.

This kind of fight is generally not allowed to be watched by idlers, otherwise it will be a right to be killed, and over time, it has formed a rule that other people make appointments and no outsiders watch.But Qiao Shiwang was not in this case. He and three of his followers quietly went to the camp and found that these people were fighting desperately. There was no difference in the duel. In the end, Lu Yan's soldiers won the decisive battle. The defeated Fan Jiang gave him a booklet, and the two sides broke up.

This surprised Qiao Shiwang. Normally, Lu Yan, who has an absolute advantage, should stab Fan Jiang to make his power fall into a leaderless predicament, and then join the other three to carve up Fan Jiang's property, but Lu Yan did not.

Ok.

This may be the rule of Wanghai Town.

In the early morning of the day before yesterday, he heard that Fan Jiang had lost three ships, two warehouses, and a brothel.

I thought it was over like this, but who would have thought that someone would make an appointment the day before yesterday.

But the other side, Cheng Hou, asked Lu Yan to fight. As a result, Cheng Hou's soldiers also fought in an army formation. However, the result of the fight was that Cheng Hou lost three sea ships, two warehouses, and a brothel.

As of yesterday, the forces headed by Liangxiang had asked Lu Yan to fight again, but they still lost three ships, two warehouses, and a brothel.

Today, Yuan Qin and Lu Yan fought and lost again.

In other words, Lu Yan, who had won four games in a row, won twelve sea boats, eight warehouses, and four brothels.

However, Qiao Shiwang discovered that Lu Yanjun, who had fought four consecutive battles, also fought quite fiercely. When he fought Liangxiang, he had already used wounded soldiers. Today, he has used all active soldiers, and the result was quite miserable.

Strange things happened again, Fan Jiang, Cheng Hou, Yuan Qin, Liang Xiang didn't take advantage of his illness to kill him.Instead, they fought on their own. It is said that Fan Jiang will fight Chenghou tomorrow.This gave Master Qiao the feeling that they were going to decide on No.2, No.3, No.4, and No.5.

If so.

It is obvious that there is one person or one force controlling these five forces. Otherwise, how could these men who live a life of licking blood with knives be so civilized?

Maybe it's a local official, maybe it's an unknown force.

Slowly, he realized an astonishing guess from the names of the five leaders.

Fan Jiang, Lu Yan, Liang Xiang, Cheng Hou and Yuan Qin represent five symbols closely related to Fan Yang Lu's family.

Lu's original surname is Jiang, Fan Jiang, which may refer to Fan Lu, Fan Yang's Lu family.

Lu Yantong Lu Yan can be interpreted as the Lu family of Yandi.

Liangxiang is the title of Lu Zhi, the ancestor of the Lu family - Liangxiang Bo.

Chenghou is the posthumous title of Lu Yu, Lu Zhi's youngest son.

Yuan Qin is related to Lu Yu's son Lu Qin. After his death, his posthumous title was "Yuan".

The Lu family of Fanyang lived in Zhuojun for generations. Because Zhuoxian County was under the jurisdiction of Fanyang County, and the gentry were called county prefects, it was named "Fanyang Lushi". Zhuojun was originally the Zhuoyi of Yan State. It is one of the famous capitals in the world, where there are flat mountains, fertile fields and fertile fields, and it is a famous fertile land. The map of "Dukang" of Yan State presented by Jing Ke when he assassinated King Qin is located in this area.The Lu family of Fanyang has cultivated and studied here for generations, and their children and grandchildren have multiplied and become a world-famous prominent family.

They have been the uncrowned kings of Youzhou and Liaodong since the end of Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties. Until the appearance of Lu Mingyue, a rebel who directly rebelled in the Sui Dynasty, the power of the Lu family, which was implicated to a certain extent, was slightly reduced, but they still sat firmly as the number one family in the north. In terms of position, Lu Mingyue did not live up to it. Even with the weapons and equipment and money and food slaves secretly supported by the Lu family, after he was in power for a while, he was defeated too thoroughly. At this time, the Lu family fell into a period of weakness because of supporting Lu Mingyue, so he was killed to nothing.

Of course, "disappearing" is only Lu's superficial strength, and it doesn't mean that Lu's is completely finished.

The so-called "a centipede is dead but not stiff", not to mention that the Lu family has operated Youzhou for more than a thousand years, and the influence here is beyond the imagination of others.Just to avoid the limelight in troubled times, the surviving Lu family members were hidden underground by the ubiquitous local forces.To completely destroy such a deep-rooted thousand-year-old noble family is definitely not a matter of decades.With the current policy of the imperial court, at least in this dynasty, the Lu family has shrunk to the end.

From this point to the next, Qiao Shiwang thought of County Magistrate Lu of Liucheng and County Magistrate Wanghai Cui. From the surnames of these two people, he was keenly aware of a certain connection.He didn't know how big the storm would be, but he knew it would not be too small, but no matter what, it was necessary to report it to the court.

only……

Thinking of Liu Yanke, the envoy who has not shown up for a long time, Qiao Shiwang couldn't help frowning deeply, feeling very angry in his heart.

Although he has abandoned Wu Xiuwen, Qiao Shiwang has always missed his short military career, and has always demanded himself with the strength of a soldier, strict self-discipline with military discipline, and the same in dealing with others.However, his boss was hooking up with a woman of unknown origin during the investigation, which not only displeased him, but also worried him a lot, for fear of ruining the event, how could he turn to the Holy Majesty and the court?But Liu Yanke was addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself. He felt that it was necessary for him to explain the situation to the Holy Majesty and demand the officials of the Three Laws with iron-like military discipline. This bad trend has already been stopped. If not, they will not reach their destination in the future. Maybe the itinerary has already been known by the local officials, how can this solve the case?
What's more, the law enforcement team is so lax, how can they set an example and suppress Xiaoxiao?
No.

You must let the Holy One know.

Thinking of this, Qiao Shiwang seemed to have regained his status as a political commissar, full of passionate fighting spirit, but before he was grasping military discipline, this time, he planned to arrest officials as trainees.

"Zuo, Zhaoduo! Zhuozhuo, Zhuo!" At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, which was the entourage's signal.

"Who?" Although the secret signal was correct, Qiao Shiwang didn't dare to be careless. The horizontal knife, which looked like an ornament but was actually a murderous weapon, was placed at a distance where he could draw out its sheath and injure someone in an instant.

"Your envoy, it's me." This was the voice of Hu Min, his follower.

"Come in." Master Qiao sat upright,

The door opened, and Hu Min walked in quickly, followed by a dusty young man with a handsome appearance.

Qiao Shiwang's eyes lit up, and he stood up and cupped his hands: "General Xue."

The person who came was Xue Wanbei, as Yang Tong's trusted general, many people knew him.

This includes Qiao Shiwang.

Qiao Shiwang knew that someone from the court would join them, but he didn't expect it to be Xue Wanbei who was fighting the flood in Dongjun.

"Qiao Langzhong." Xue Wanbei returned the gift. He found this place after reading the letters Liu Yanke and Qiao Shiwang left in the inn respectively.

"General Xue, aren't you fighting the flood in Dongjun?" After Xue Wanbei sat down, Qiao Shiwang sent Hu Min out and poured a cup of tea for Xue Wanbei.

Xue Wanbei took a sip of tea and said with a wry smile, "We are the ones who provoked this massive food investigation."

The dusty Xue Wanbei explained the ins and outs of the incident.

"Ah?" Qiao Shiwang was taken aback.His eyes widened in disbelief, and he stared blankly at Xue Wanbei.

These hamsters are so arrogant!Not only came up with a way to dig a tunnel, but also stole more than 200 million stones of grain?How greedy is this.

After he digested the shocking news, Xue Wanbei asked, "Do you understand this?"

"Understood!" Qiao Shiwang let out a long breath, "So, all seven sects and five surnames participated?"

"Exactly." Xue Wanbei handed him a letter and said, "This is an urgent letter from the imperial court. All seven sects and five surnames are involved. In just a few years, countless prohibited items have been resold to Turks, Goguryeo, Baekje and other countries, in the troubled times, there are countless people, and they even set up a 'Chunqiu Hall' to act in secret."

After reading the letter at a glance, Qiao Shiwang's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "What kind of bullshit is a thousand-year-old noble family and a famous high-ranking family? They are simply a bunch of rebellious officials and thieves who know a lot about foreign countries!"

hateful.

The more he thought about it, the more unhappy Qiao Shiwang became.

The Holy Majesty led the soldiers from birth to death, and exchanged their lives and blood for the peace of Tai Sui, but this group of high-ranking guys kept selling prohibited items that threatened Tai Sui and the safety of the soldiers to the enemy country. The feeling of stabbing a knife secretly is really uncomfortable.

Xue Wanbei sneered and said, "Seeking power in prosperous times and seeking wealth in troubled times are their usual tricks, isn't this normal?"

"General Xue, the factions in Wanghai Town are very unusual. They don't act like the local hooligans at all, and they are almost the same as the army. After analysis, I'm [-]% sure that this is one of the Lu family. In the stronghold, all the forces here obey the orders of the Lu family, and even the leaders of these forces are probably Lu's children." Qiao Shiwang also reported the news he had inquired, and according to "Fan Jiang", "Lu Yan ", "Liangxiang", "Chenghou", and "Yuanqin" have all been inferred.

"Whether it is the Lu family or not, I can't say, but judging from the way these five forces handle things, it must be an abnormal existence." Xue Wanbei said with a smile: "After all, 'killing you while you are sick' is the work of local bullies. The law of survival, since ancient times, how can there be such a rule-based local bully?"

"I think so too." Qiao Shiwang also laughed, and asked, "Shall we join Liu Shaoqing?"

Xue Wanbei's face turned dark when he heard this, and he said angrily, "Don't talk about that bastard, luckily I didn't meet him."

"Why is this?"

"The chaos has already been mixed with Lu Maozhi, the county magistrate of Liucheng. We cannot make a decision whether he has surrendered to the enemy, but he has shown up openly and mingled with local officials, which shows that he is a variable. For now, he has already It's unbelievable."

"General Xue, it's not that I speak ill of people behind their backs and add insult to injury, but that Liu Shaoqing is honest, a little frivolous..." Qiao Shiwang felt that what he was most worried about had happened, so he told about Liu Yanke's "love affair".

There was a long silence.

Xue Wanbei said: "I will let people pay close attention to this person. It depends on whether he really joins the enemy, or breaks into the enemy's interior to learn more about the inside story."

Qiao Shiwang said again: "General Xue, I took a sneak look at the forces in Wanghai Town, and found that these people not only fight with the force of the army, but also fight with each other, and the fight is very cruel; since they are different from the local ruffians From the performance point of view, it should be controlled by people. I think the reason why they fight every day is to hide people's eyes and ears, and to train strong soldiers. These people are very fierce. If they are equipped with weapons and equipment, their combat power is no less than that of regular troops. Depending on the county soldiers, I'm afraid we can't decide in one battle."

"It doesn't matter, the Holy Majesty has ordered the Fourth Army to go south in secret batches. The mere private army in Wanghai Town is no different from a mantis holding a cart."

"That's good."

Qiao Shiwang breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Shall we report to the Holy One?"

"No need! Liu Shangshu of the Royal Department has been ordered to coordinate the overall situation, and my brother is responsible for military operations. Our task is to dig out more and deeper criminals so that the army can catch them all." At this point, Xue Wanbei asked again: "Qiao Langzhong , do you have any other plans?"

"For now, the five major forces in Wanghai Town can be regarded as enemies. Next, I plan to go to Yingkou County, where the Liaoshui River enters the sea. Maybe it is another Wanghai Town." Qiao Shiwang said his thoughts plan.

"I think it's good."

Xue Wanbei said: "I don't understand the affairs of the officialdom, and I don't know where to start to find out. These will continue to be your responsibility... As for places like Yingkou where good and bad people are mixed, the power is almost superficial, so let me take care of it..."

"Okay." Qiao Shiwang agreed, "Then what should we do here?"

"I will let people continue to monitor these five major forces. Our military scouts are good at doing this kind of thing."

"I know that." Qiao Shiwang laughed and said proudly, "I was also a soldier before."

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