choke element

Chapter 149 Business

According to the records of the imperial court, Zhigu Village is a military village, and it is of a very high status.So in the local area, there is really a stockade for the garrison.

At the point where the three branches of the river converge, on the opposite bank of Xin'an Hairu, there are two earth mounds about Zhang Xu higher than the river beach, one in front and one behind, roughly in the shape of a convex character.The military village occupies the front end of Tufu.

At the back end, the flat land with a radius of more than ten mu is crowded with houses.Those are not government-built river warehouses. Official river warehouses are all in low-lying, rotten land below, and they will be flooded by seawater during high tides.What can occupy the dry highlands are private warehouses used by various shops and merchants.

Because Zhigu Village is not within the jurisdiction of Zhongdu Lingsi, the shops and warehouses were built without any planning at all, and the various houses were squeezed and piled up, leaving only narrow roads to pass through them.

What's interesting is that the Commander of Zhongdu can't intervene, and can't collect commercial taxes. However, the City Buying Bureau and Zhongdu Buying Department in the palace have a special station here. The scale is still very large, and the business is not easy. Happy.

When Qiu Huiluo led more than a hundred soldiers into the store area in a grand manner, the deputy envoy of the Jiupin of the Municipal Buying Bureau and the Department of Shopping from the capital prison of the Jiupin immediately hid in the military stronghold.Jiagu Alihe, the commander of the local garrison, personally accompanied them and led them to look at the wall of the village.

As soon as he climbed up the wall of the village, he saw that more than a hundred people left as quickly as they had come.

The superintendent of the shopping department visibly relaxed.He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "Although they are all soldiers, they look a bit fierce... But after all, there are only more than a hundred people, so there is no big trouble!"

The deputy envoy of the Municipal Buying Bureau also laughed: "It's good to go! It's good to go!"

These two institutions, one belonging to the Inner Palace and the other belonging to the Daxing Mansion, transfer money like mountains and seas every day, and even small officials are fat and oily.

Even though Jiagu Alihe is the capital, how dare he offend these two people, Ying smiled and said: "After all, we are a place where dragons and tigers are hidden. There must be people from the capital who have cooperated fiercely and conspired with each other. Ke, there must be a warrior who can fight, who dares to mess around!"

The capital inspector of the shopping department glanced at Jiagu Ali and said, "That's not necessarily the case. Now there are Meng'an Mokes in Zhongdu Road, except for Huo Luhu who will attack Meng'an from Pu San's family, there are also good fighters, Zong Wang The Hu Tuai brothers Man Meng'an and Hu Lu Tu Meng'an under our control have long been abolished. Jia Gu Dutong, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the soldiers under your command to fight?"

Jiagu Alihe had no choice but to look up to the sky and laugh.

"Anyway, didn't that group leave? Come on, you two, there is a banquet prepared in the village, it's rare for you two to come here, don't be disgusted."

"Okay, okay, let's go then?"

"Please, please."

With so many nobles' hands stretching out in the Zhigu village, Jiagu Alihe is all in charge if he is armed with heavy troops, so everyone is not at ease.Jiagu Alihe still wants to stay in this position for a few more years, so naturally he won't make any taboos.

Anyway, the Jurchen soldiers under his command are all on paper, but in fact, most of them are swindlers and servants who make up their numbers, and they can't do it if they want to show their might.

Over the past few years, men in Meng'an Mouke have become less and less willing to join the army.

The subordinates of several military commanders in the south, those Meng'an Mouke households in the farmland, are actually no different from the Han'er landlords. If you insist on letting them go to war, all of them are like dead mothers. People are on the battlefield, but their hearts Separated early.

As for the Meng'an Mouke household on Zhongdu Road, most of them are related to officials, big and small, in the imperial court, so they are also bold.After Taihe conquered the Song Dynasty, these Meng'an Mouke households let Kekou and their servants take the place of Dianji, and they never set foot in the barracks.

Those who drive away are mostly poor people who lost their land and fled over the years, lacking in food and clothing, and then were mortgaged by relatives or sold themselves. Their daily life is worse than that of pigs and dogs.

When these people arrived in the military camp, they couldn't take on military duties, so Jiagu Alihe could only use them to pick soil and move bricks.In the past two years, many of the large warehouses and houses in Zhigu Village were newly built by Jiagu Ali and his co-leaders. He is not so much a military officer as a businessman who makes money by sitting on the ground.

The ones responsible for local security are actually the two patrol inspections that merged with Jiagu Ali and have no subordinates.

Liang Zuo, the inspector of Wuqing County, and Li Bite, the inspector of Liukou Town, are both local tyrants.Each of them gathered hundreds of vicious men under their command, and opened up the relationship with the Water Transport Department, and connected with the soldiers and Cao Ding along the river, forming an intertwined force.

Outsiders don't know, but Jiagu Alihe knows. In what year will there be thirty or fifty lives under the hands of these two families?

For example, this time, that boy Li Yun came to Zhigu Village rashly to test things out, and then he was unlucky...Jiagu Alihe heard that it was Li who bit the hand that caused people to move.

Obviously, the buildings in Zhigu Village are so dense, but the fire only burned Li Yun's shop, and Li Bite was considered a good means.

As for who ordered and instigated Li to bite, Jiagu Alihe didn't care at all.Many things seem to be disputes among the underworld, but in fact, when you look deeper, they all involve the big shots in the capital city.The water in Zhigu Village is very deep, so why bother with so much water?

No matter what kind of trouble they make, I just ignore it.

With this in mind, Jiagu Alihe exchanged cups with the two guests and ate and drank to their heart's content.In a blink of an eye, it was already dusk, and the three of them were a little bit drunk.

While drinking happily, a subordinate hurried in: "Dutong, then Li Yun is here, and he is asking to see you outside."

Jiagu Ali frowned together: "Ahem, this guy really doesn't know anything..."

When he was about to say the word "I don't see", the subordinate approached and said: "Dutong, you go to the wall of the village to have a look first! After you have seen it, it is better to discuss whether to see you or not..."

The three people at the table suddenly had a bad feeling.

"What are you looking at! What's there to see?" Jiagu Ali closed his mouth and yelled, but he left the table and hurried out.

The two small officials from the Municipal Buying Bureau and the Shopping Department hurriedly followed.

After leaving the main hall, walk not far along the corridor to the wall of the village.Jiagu Alihe quickly walked up the steps on the inside of the wall, but he saw several soldiers on duty with guns on the top of the wall with dull faces, blocking the steps like clay and wooden tires, not moving.

This look is too ugly.Jiagu Alihe pushed away the person blocking the way impatiently, and raised his voice: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

When he stepped onto the wall, he was also stunned.

Just in front of the burnt shop, the more than a hundred soldiers from before came back again.

Together with them, there are two crude carts.The cart was full of dead bodies.

From the gaps in the corpses, blood continued to ooze out, flowing along the dirt road.The soldiers lined up in a calm and well-trained manner, in groups of two, lifted the corpses, and threw them in front of the charcoal-shaped ruins.

The corpses looked horrific, some were missing legs, some were missing arms, some had their stomachs cut open, and when they were moved, their viscera would fall out, looking horrific.

Jiagu Ali rubbed his eyes together, and felt that there were a few corpses among them, they should be acquaintances.There are famous warriors under Li Bing's command, and there are also powerful figures around him.Those people in the Liukou area were also well-known ruthless characters, and they were all dead right now.

At the turn of summer and autumn, the temperature was very high, and the army village was not far from the ruins of the fire scene.As a result, the stench of corpses slowly drifted over, causing Jiagu Alihe to churn the wine and meat he had just eaten.

The corpses are piled up, and roughly estimated, there are forty or fifty.The tallest one was a strong man in a round-neck robe.

That gown is orange, very gorgeous, obviously not Hebei silk, but the silk that was sold to the Central Capital in the Sichuan and Shu areas in the Southern Dynasty.It is said that the material used to make a robe is worth a full silver collar.Jiagu Ali recognized it together, and it was what Li Bitze ​​often wore.

But for the time being, only the robes are seen, and it is not sure whether Li bit him.

After all, the corpse was headless.

As soon as Jiagu Alihe was thinking about it, he saw the leaders of the soldiers yelled twice, someone touched the cart twice, and pulled his long braids and raised his head.

This is the hairstyle commonly used by the Jurchens in the early years. The hair on the top of the head and the temples are all shaved clean, while thick braids are kept on the back of the head.

Now the Jurchens themselves have gradually changed the hairstyle of the Han family, but Li Bite is very considerate, and has always been very concerned about this aspect.

Well, he was dead, yes.

The patrol inspectors are small officials from the eighth rank, and these days, death is just a matter of death.

But how long did it take for this group of people?Is there an hour?In an hour, these hundred soldiers fought back and forth between Zhigu Village and Liukou Town, and easily bit and killed Liukou Inspector Li?
Looking at the postures and expressions of those soldiers, it seems that they didn't take it as a big deal at all?
At this moment, in the direction of shops and warehouses everywhere, there are family soldiers with weapons on guard, and there are no less than a thousand people who show up one after another.That's what Jiagu Alihe said, Hezha Meng'an and Muke who belonged to the nobles of the capital.

But those soldiers were not afraid at all.Obviously, they are all veterans who have been through life and death, have experienced too much, and are also very courageous, so they don't pay attention to the vigilance of the people around them at all, and they don't even bother to look around!

Is it...

Jiagu Alihe suddenly remembered that when Li Yun came to Zhigu Village earlier, he claimed to have a background, and behind him was a certain nobleman in Zhongdu City.

Could it be...

Thinking of the increasingly weird atmosphere in the central capital these days, and the increasingly exaggerated rumors, Jiagu Alihe felt a sudden chill all over his body, and his vest, which had just been drenched with sweat, made people shiver.

In the city of Zhongdu, is the sky going to change?Will Zhigu village also be affected?

"Ahem...quick, quickly invite the distinguished guests in, how can the distinguished guests wait outside!" He shouted loudly, and hurriedly walked under the wall of the village.

(End of this chapter)