Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

Tang Gaoyi recalled silently, and it seemed that there was indeed a new face this afternoon.

"Langguan, is the companion you mentioned a six-foot man? He looks righteous?"

Song Zhen was stunned. If you say that Di Renjie looks righteous, it seems to be right.

He nodded.

"If so, that's great." Tang Gaoyi showed a happy expression, "I'll take you up to find him tomorrow morning."

"Okay, then I'll trouble you."

"Langguan, don't say that. You helped us, so it's right."

In order to welcome Song Zhen's arrival, Huang Maguai secretly risked his life to go down the mountain and catch a duck.

The people of Yongzhou are like this. When friends come, they naturally have to treat them with delicious food and drinks.

"We're having blood duck tonight." Huang Maguai excitedly shouted while holding the duck's neck. Here, he has always been the chef.

......

Early the next morning, Song Zhen and Uncle Guang, led by Tang Gaoyi, turned left and right and went up the mountain.

He finally met Di Renjie, and they hugged each other.

Di Renjie smiled indifferently: "Isn't it okay?"

"It almost happened, okay?"

"Okay, okay, I'll pay attention next time."

Song Zhen glared at him: "Do you want a next time?"

Di Renjie said embarrassedly: "There won't be a next time."

At this time, Tang Shuyu walked in. She saw Song Zhen and Uncle Guang and was curious.

Di Renjie introduced the two.

Then, they walked out of the cave and looked down at the Lingling County below.

The scenery is beautiful and refreshing.

This kind of scenery is not common in the north.

Di Renjie stretched out his hand and felt the flow of the wind.

"What a great treasure land, but it was destroyed by a group of people."

Song Zhen snorted coldly: "They? They are not even human beings."

"Indeed, human beings still have compassion and know how to write the word kindness."

"Go back, don't mention that group of bad luck."

"By the way, Shouzheng, have you sent the letter?"

"I put it in the river, and I don't know if the water post station in Quanzhou downstream can receive it."

"I hope so."

In the following days, Song Zhen and Di Renjie spent a happy time with the local people in Shunhuang Mountain.

Every morning, they went up the mountain to hunt or pick wild fruits.

When they were free, they helped the people to open up wasteland and cultivate crops on the mountain.

They tasted various local delicacies of Yongzhou made by Huangmaguai. Although life was difficult, the villagers were not pessimistic at all.

Don't say it, the craftsmanship is really good and delicious!

It was the first time they had tried this kind of pastoral life in such a long time.

To be honest, they finally experienced Tao Yuanming's poem.

"Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the southern mountains."

......

The messenger of the Quanzhou water post station fished out the bamboo tube from the river as usual. To be honest, it was the first time in so many years that they received a bamboo tube with a letter.

Although they are a water post station, they should receive this kind of business frequently.

Unfortunately, Quanzhou is remote, let alone bamboo tube communication, even the letters received on land are few.

Jiangnan West Road can be said to be a place ignored by the court.

Until the Kaiyuan period, there was not even a Jiedushi here, it was so unpopular.

The messenger opened the bamboo tube and a fish token fell out of it. He picked it up and took a look.

Wow, it turned out to be the Dali Temple Secretary?

Generally speaking, when sending a letter, you only need to sign and stamp it, but this time...

He spread out the letter, and the first word that caught his eye was.

"Urgent!!!"

Yu Gu continued to read, and the more he read, the more frightened he became. He felt that this matter was not trivial.

What on earth could make a dignified Dali Temple Secretary put the fish token in to prove his identity? In exchange for the speed of sending the letter?

Yu Gu carefully put the letter away. After thinking about it, he chose not to inform the Quanzhou government office of the letter.

Because he was not sure whether the other side was in collusion with the Yongzhou government office.

So he repacked the letter and handed it to a postman.

"This letter is urgent and sent to Luoyang, the eastern capital."

The postman looked down at the address and couldn't help but jump in his heart.

Good guy, it was actually sent to the palace?

He quickly stuffed the letter into his arms, fearing that it would fall.

If it was accidentally lost, it would be his head, so he didn't dare to be careless.

......

Although the distance between Quanzhou and Luoyang in later generations is more than 1,100 kilometers.

But with the help of several postmen, it was delivered to the palace in two and a half days.

"Your Majesty, this is the letter from the Song Jiaofang Envoy."

"Oh?" Li Zhi raised his head and said,He began, "Hurry up and send it to me."

He opened the envelope, thinking, what's wrong with this kid, why did he suddenly send a letter to me.

Then, when he saw the first line of words, he was furious!

[Wen and Yu families in Yongzhou intend to rebel, and now they have controlled the local government office. 】

Li Zhi thought he knew Song Zhen's character, and he knew that the other party would never lie.

What's more, slandering rebellion is also a capital crime, and no one would be so stupid to do such a thing.

Li Zhi read the words in the letter over and over again.

It can be seen that Di Renjie and Song Zhen are in a very critical situation now.

There are only two of them, and they can't confront the two big families that have been rooted in Yongzhou for many years, as well as the Yongzhou government office.

It won't work to use public opinion, because they dare not show up at all.

What can they do? They can only hope that the court can send troops to help and suppress the local tyrants.

Li Zhi quickly summoned Li Ji, the Duke of Ying, into the palace.

"Your Majesty."

Li Zhi asked straight to the point: "Which road does Yongzhou belong to?"

Li Ji bowed his head and pondered for a while before answering: "Your Majesty, it is in Jiangnan West Road."

"Who is the governor of Jiangnan West Road?"

Li Ji smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, there is no governor's office in Jiangnan West Road."

"?"

"Because Jiangnan West Road belongs to the center of the south, there are no foreign enemies to guard it, so Tian Khan did not set up a governor's office here."

The absence of a governor's office means that there is no large-scale army in the area.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the system of government soldiers, which was divided into inner and outer government.

However, there were three major criteria for the selection of government soldiers: financial resources, physical strength, and population, especially financial resources, and the concept of hierarchy was very strict.

The soldiers of the "three guards and five government offices" in the inner government were composed of the descendants of officials of the fifth rank and above, and the soldiers of the outer government were composed of officials of the sixth rank and below and children of good families.

In other words, if you have no money and no status, you are not even qualified to be a soldier in the Tang Dynasty.

As long as you successfully become a prefectural soldier, you will be enlisted at the age of 21, and go out at the age of 61. You will be inspected every three years, which is equivalent to a lifelong conscript.

You will enjoy a lifetime exemption from rent and labor service, as well as various subsidies.

You only need to conduct drills under the command of the Zhechong Duwei in the prefecture every winter.

Then the question is, those who can serve in the army are all rich, but their taxes should be reduced or exempted?

Do you think it is contradictory?

This has created a phenomenon that the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. From the moment we are born, we are not standing on the same starting line.

Li Zhi pondered for a while, and asked: "Where is the nearest palace soldier to Yongzhou?"

Li Ji was stunned: "Your Majesty, doesn't Yongzhou have palace soldiers?"

"This matter is hard to explain. Do you have any generals you can trust?"

"Yes, the governor of Hongzhou, I know him."

Li Zhi asked curiously: "Who is it?"

Li Ji smiled mysteriously: "In fact, your majesty also knows this person."

......

Luoyang, Longmen Grottoes——

Cui Mengzhu and her bestie Yan Zhaoping got off work as usual. They didn't notice that there were several figures sneaking around behind them.

[Little knowledge: Hongzhou is the place of Nanchang today. You can recall what is in Nanchang? You can guess who it is. ]

[I was stuck all night and really vomited. ]