Lord Yuan

Chapter 172 The head of the Zhao family who is still dreaming

In the face of the sudden news, although Zhao made a good gesture on the surface and gave people a fearless attitude, in fact, only he knew the impact of this incident.

I have never heard of who this Xun Chen is, so how dare he make such a decision so casually that it is almost equivalent to destroying the foundation.

You must know that those foreign tribes are heterogeneous and have all kinds of people. Within their tribes, they can even freely decide the tribe's customs, lifestyle, and even the reported population tax. In this way, the assigned Officials have become crucial supervisors.

The entire Liaodong vassal state has six cities under its jurisdiction. Except for Changli County, which is the administrative seat of the Liaodong vassal state, the rest are all foreign tribes. The original intention of the establishment of the vassal state itself is to supervise, prevent, and accept those foreigners. If officials are assigned to guard against theft, there are There are so many doorways.

The Zhao family was one of them. Although Zhao didn't know about the other powerful people, he thought that everyone would be concerned about such a fat job.

Zhao thought for a while and planned to meet the so-called Xun Chen. In his opinion, the other party might have taken advantage of a certain family, so he deliberately dealt with himself in this way, and by the way, he replaced officials from those foreign tribes. become their own.

As for these matters, in fact, as officials in the Duwei Mansion, they are basically clear-sighted, but they cannot interfere in the intrigues involved.

Basically everyone among them is more or less involved in the interests of various family forces, and an invisible network has drawn countless people into it.

Zhao Que walked up to Zhao Jian and pretended to sigh: "For you to come out on top, an unknown boy dares to open the table to play games. He really doesn't know how to live or die."

He was also surprised to learn that Xun Chen had arrested so many foreign tribe officials in one go.

In his impression, Xun Chen was a typical representative of gentleness and calmness. Although he had only met him a few times, Zhao Jian was very impressed by him, and because he was also one of Yuan Shao's followers, he was The reason why he can do things in the Duwei's mansion without having to worry about his duties.

Being able to make such a crazy move, if not handled properly, may even directly arouse the dissatisfaction and even hostility of those foreign tribes. This is equivalent to naked distrust and can easily have serious consequences. Then Xun Chen cannot make such a decision. Come.

That Yuan Shao must be back!

Zhao Jian sighed and reminded his uncle Zhao Que: "Uncle may not know that Xun Chen is also a follower of Yuan Changshi, but he is a civil servant. It must be Yuan Changshi who returned and discovered some clues, so he can Make this decision."

He tried to loosen the rope around him, but the rope was tied too tightly. To no avail, he could only say helplessly: "Yuan Changshi is a very human being. He dared to attack the enemy camp at night with only a dozen cavalry, which is enough." Seeing how brave he is, if my uncle wants to divide him, my nephew advises you not to do such useless work."

Zhao stopped instantly when he heard the news. He really couldn't understand how a small long history, just a plaything in his hands, could gather so many talents under his command. There were Yan Liang, Wen and Chou and the brave three armies in front of him. Later, there was an internal affairs wizard like Xun Chen, which made him feel headache.

After thinking over and over again, Zhao Jian made a decision that made Zhao Jian feel ruined.

"In the worst case, I will go to Xianbei outside the Great Wall again. Instead of giving them more treasures and sending troops to harass them, I will let those refugee bandit leaders go to the Duwei Mansion to cause trouble, so that they will not be able to continue the next move under pressure. I don't believe it. , it’s just a long history, I wasn’t afraid when the captain was here, what could he do to me!”

Zhao Jian was dumbfounded, looking at his almost crazy uncle who was so mad that he wanted to do such a thing.

He could only sigh helplessly and bring about his own destruction. No matter whether he finally overthrew Yuan Shao or not, for the Zhao family, all they would receive was destruction.

Zhao Jian felt that it was too tiring to get along with such an uncle. No matter how others tried to persuade him, he was always immersed in the world he took for granted. Little did he know that there were people outside the world, and there was a sky outside the sky. Yuan Shao must have made such a decision. Have some evidence.

As for his uncle's words, he wanted to persuade Goulian Xianbei to continue going south. In this regard, Zhao Jian could only say that his uncle regarded the war as too trivial.

In the previous battle of Liaodong, Xianbei leader Kan Ji had nearly squeezed out [-] troops. This was the largest force that the entire eastern Xianbei could send. The other tribes needed to defend the border. Not only the Han army was guarding Xianbei, but also the rest, such as Goguryeo. , Fuyu and other potential enemies of Xianbei need to be guarded by separate troops to prevent them from advancing straight in.

Under such circumstances, Kanji still suffered a huge defeat, and even himself was captured by the Han army. The morale of the entire Xianbei had been severely damaged. Coupled with the logistical resources he used, in that battle Zhong Ye almost lost all his money, but he turned around and compensated the Han army with countless gold and even war horses.

It is already impossible to persuade Xianbei to continue going south.

But Zhao Jian had no intention of telling him this, and he would not give up until he touched some southern walls.

Moon and night.

The bright and pure moonlight shines in through the cracks.

Yuan Shao looked at the officials from various places who had been tortured repeatedly. Although they all said in unison that they were not involved in any so-called tax evasion, it was precisely this consistent rhetoric that made Yuan Shaodun feel... There's something fishy about it.

He doesn't need these people to reveal any evidence. Even if they can withstand rounds of criminal law, it won't be a surprise to Yuan Shao. As long as they can be fingerprinted at the last step, they will sit back and watch the charges. However, there was no need for any dictation at all, he had already listed the crimes for them.

If it weren't for the fact that these people all had the same Haidongqing mark on their necks, he wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to catch them all.The first time he saw such a pattern was on Zhao Jian's neck, and he was still confused at the time.

And when the Zhang family also told about the imprint of the totem in this regard, and then thought about the various behaviors that had been frequently targeted at the former Chang Shi's family in the past few days, when they first came here in the past, a group of people kept saying that it was Zhao. The family members came here to collect debts, and he roughly understood the reason for this.

This sea blue pattern means that it is the symbol of the Zhao family.

As for whether he had arrested the wrong person, Yuan Shao could only classify these people as members of the Zhao family for the time being. After all, under normal circumstances, few people would choose to print the exact same Haidongqing pattern. In addition, these people have the same caliber. Yuan Shao, who was well aware of the fishy nature of this, naturally understood.

If ordinary common people are caught and tortured at this time, even if they are not members of the Zhao family, they will often choose to succumb to the torture instruments. However, these people are uncharacteristically, and this will not be good for them. In the last class, I felt sorry for these instruments of torture.

Of course, in the end Yuan Shao also successfully obtained the confession that had been recorded long ago.

This is the first step.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Shao sent people to search from house to house and found the pockmarked man who first bullied the Zhang family.

I can get some desired information from his mouth.

what?
Do not say?

Then the only way to proceed is by subduing the enemy.

Yuan Shao was being polite enough in order to obtain enough evidence, and also to make the people who were arrested later understand what he had to say.

Soon, after a day of searching, the pockmarked man was sleeping when he opened his eyes and saw several burly men in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, he was beaten and kicked to the Duwei Mansion.

Yuan Shao smiled, took the other person's hand, and said with a smile: "We meet again."

The face of the pockmarked man suddenly changed dramatically. Looking at the miserable situation of those around him, even though he was used to seeing blood, his legs trembled involuntarily. His body trembled and he panicked: "What are you going to do? I haven't gone back since then. Harass that Zhang!"

Of course he couldn't harass them anymore. In view of his previous mistakes, Yuan Shao specially sent someone to take Zhang's mother and son to live in the Duwei Mansion.

Looking at the pockmarked man in front of him who was gradually losing his mind, Yuan Shao understood that this man did not need to be punished and moved him directly to a tribal official.

Without exception, the officials had various scars all over their bodies caused by torture, most of which were like brand-like traces of rust.

The pockmarked man felt even more frightened as he looked at the official who was almost breathing out in front of him.

His whole body became stunned at this moment, and his thick lips turned white due to extreme panic. Sweat gradually began to leak out of his protruding forehead, flowing down his temples like a stream. Both eyes moved nervously.

Suddenly, when he raised his head and looked at the face of the person opposite, he was instantly shocked.

He knew this person. At a banquet of the Zhao family, this person was entertaining the guests as a member of the Zhao family. At that time, he was the lackey of the Zhao family, so naturally he was not noticed by him. It was just because of his face. I could only let him in with a cold snort for the banquet.

Unexpectedly, the situation turned around, and he had only been punched and kicked, but the other party was only able to vent his anger at this moment. It was obvious that he had experienced such horrific criminal torture before.

Yuan Shao brought a chair from behind and sat in front of him. He only had to turn sideways, and the pockmarked man could clearly see the miserable face of this Zhao family member, which was filled with a combination of blood and an unknown substance. .

The pockmarked man's face turned pale. He looked at Yuan Shao who was about to sit down and quickly shook his head crazily. He muttered, "If you have anything to do, just ask. As long as I know, I will tell you everything and I will never hide it!"

Yuan Shao looked at the sensible pockmarked man in surprise, and nodded happily: "You have saved me some energy."

The pockmarked Nan was startled. Of course he understood what the other party meant. He immediately bowed his head respectfully and said, "I know the person behind you. He is from the Zhao family."

(End of this chapter)