Chapter 11 Trouble
The river washed the dock, mixed with blood and pulp, and then flowed back into Jinji River, a bright red color.
It is now an hour after the peasant rebellion, and the few surviving warehouse officials are reorganizing the packers.
They need to clear the dock quickly so that the remaining corn can be loaded onto ships.
The packers had no time to grieve for their companions, relatives and friends before they were forced to move by the warehouseman with short sticks.
Soon buckets of river water were hoisted up to wash away the pier, and the stumps of the mutilated limbs were loaded on the carts and transported away. As for the heads of the rebel soldiers, they had already been pinned to the waist by the pavilion guards, which were to be taken back to record their merits.
Although the warehouse clerks were not working, their faces were paler than those of the porters who were working.
It's not that they feel sorry for the dead and injured concubines and packers, it's the public's loss.
It wasn't that they were stung by the smelly scene, but that they were in big trouble.
The big problem is that a ship has sunk.
One less ship means that one-fifth of the goods will be transported less. The amount of grain transported to Xingyang may not be enough, and the task will not be completed.
But that's not the most terrifying thing. What's even more terrifying is that half of this batch of goods is their private goods.
They made the book in partnership with the three major families in the county and planned to sell it along the way.
In the past years, everything went smoothly, but unexpectedly today, Qiu Ba, who had always been submissive and submissive, turned out to be so unruly that he wanted to cause chaos.
What do you mean, hungry? Didn't you give them something to eat? Didn't they get millet?
Besides, hot girl, you have to rebel when you are hungry?
What kind of truth is this? You can tell us if you are hungry, it will be like this. Hey...
They looked at the watercraft docked in the middle of the river. They knew there must be room for them on these boats, but they did not dare to make this idea.
Because these watercrafts are also owned by wealthy families from all over the country, and they are people they cannot afford to offend.
Hey, what should I do?
……
Hey, what should I do?
At this time, everyone on the tanker where Zhang Chong was was thinking the same thing.
Looking at the confused soldier lying on the deck, everyone looked left and right, and then looked at the pavilion elder and grandson, waiting for him to pay attention.
Sun Xun's head was about to explode.
It turned out that he was as comfortable as in the warehouse. Although it was not as comfortable as having his beautiful concubine at home, it was different having that smart servant to take care of him.
After the boat stopped, it was announced that the talisman was to be tested, so he reluctantly went to the deck.
As soon as he came up, he saw the bloody scene on the dock.
The stumps, blood, cries, and flames intertwined together, stimulating his dulled senses, and he seemed to have returned to the days when Taishan bandits ravaged the prefectures and counties.
He will never forget that time.
That was more than 20 years ago, when he was still a wealthy son from Jichuan Township, Licheng County. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have lived a happy life wandering in the countryside.
But when he was twenty-eight years old, a group of thieves suddenly appeared in Mount Tai, a hundred miles away. The leader was Gongsun Ju. They killed the chiefs and rebelled, ravaging the prefectures and counties.
In order to protect the territory, Licheng County recruited a battalion of county soldiers. It was then that he enlisted in the army.
In the following two years, this group of thieves became stronger and stronger, traveling between Huaiji and across prefectures and counties, and were unable to control the three prefectures of Qing, Xu, and Yan.
Later, the imperial court sent a man named Duan Ying to punish the thieves. This prince was from Liangzhou and had the means to defeat the thieves in ten months. After that, he was transferred to Xizhou to suppress the Qiang chaos. Later, I heard that he killed many people.
Duan Ying is gone, but Mount Tai has not returned to its past tranquility.
Four years later, Gongsun Ju's old army raised troops again. This time, the imperial court directly sent a censor to supervise the army.
As soon as the censor came, he mobilized various county soldiers to encircle and suppress the Taishan bandits. Their county soldiers from Licheng County were also among those dispatched.
This time, Sun Xun saw how the guest soldiers acted like wolves and tigers, not against the Taishan thieves, but against the mountain people and shanty towns at the foot of Mount Tai.
In order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, but also to raise food and fodder.
The guest troops killed all the refugee tribes and mountain shacks in the wild, and did not attack the powerful Wubao Qiuqiu everywhere. They only ordered them to hold on and not let a drop go to the Taishan bandits.
Sun Xun followed along and watched the guest soldiers kill each other, but he himself didn't get any blood.
He had neither martial arts nor murderous intentions, so the lords mocked him as "Grandma Sun".
He shrugged and said it didn't matter.
He just wanted to go back to be with his aunt and baby.
The censor's strategy was very successful. The Taishan bandits who were raging everywhere quickly dispersed in the countryside because they had no supplies.
The Taishan thief, who was so powerful for a while, fell silent.
In the end, the censor returned to Kyoto with his military exploits, leaving behind a scorched earth.
Sun Xun couldn't figure out why the sacred place where the emperor enshrined Zen would eventually become a home for thieves.
He had read books when he was young and knew that the ancient king was ordered to change his surname, and when he was granted Zen status, he must be in Daizong.
The so-called sealing means increasing. Zen means broadness and depth. And because heaven regards height as its respect, and earth regards thickness as virtue. Therefore, the saintly emperors of the past dynasties will repay the sky by increasing the height of Mount Tai, and repay the earth by paying homage to the father Liang's site.
King Cheng of Zhou granted him the title of Mount Tai, the head of the Zen Society. Qin Shihuang conferred the title of Mount Tai and Zen on Liangfu. Wu of Han Dynasty granted Mount Tai and Zen Liangfu.
This is all true.
But now it has become a gathering place for refugees and bandits who cannot survive.
The world is getting worse and worse.
Later, Sun Xun left the army and went to work as the pavilion chief in his hometown of Dasangli. He worked there for twenty years.
The leisurely days had worn away his military spirit, but the scene at the dock today made Sun Xun understand that the past had always stayed in his mind.
The turmoil was over, and the warehouse officials who were supposed to check the rules left in a hurry.
Sun Xun also watched the boys on the boat start to salvage the floating corpses and driftwood, clean up the waterway, and then leave. He felt uncomfortable here.
But who knew there was big trouble.
First, Zhang Dan, the white-collar drummer from Da Sang Village, picked up a soldier wearing hakama pleated trousers, and then the waiter from the Gouzi family kept pressing on the soldier's chest. He actually saved the drowned soldier.
This is fucking awesome.
But something went terribly wrong.
Because he knew that 90% of the soldiers who could be fished out of the river were the rebels on the dock before.
He was obviously not the only one on the boat to realize the problem. The man named Heifu, who had been a county soldier, was there immediately screaming:
"Hurry up and call someone, hurry up and send him away, it's fatal, it's fatal."
"Shut up, are you going to kill our crew?"
The one who spoke was Zhang Chong, who had just been performing CPR on the hakama folded man.
After finally rescuing him, he heard the black man barking.
Zhang Chong pointed to the tanker that sank in the port and said to Sun Xun:
"Ting chief, if we had met this man before, we would have given it to a local pavilion regardless of what he thought. But it is different now. Look at that sunken ship. You should understand how corrupt the warehouse officials are now. This ship Once it sinks, their goods will be unable to be transported. Where can they get a ship? ”
"If we call for someone now, it goes without saying. Even if we are not labeled as traitors and accomplices, we will still be detained for a period of time, just for the sake of the ship under our feet. Therefore, this person must not be sent away."
Sun Xun was a little bit more understanding by Zhang Chong, and he even added on Zhang Chong's behalf:
"Second son, do you think those hamsters will let us go? I guess they are sizing up our boats now? If they don't take care of the wealthy people behind us, will they restrain themselves? And once we show up to the door ourselves, that person will have reason to be angry. Swallow us. When you enter someone else's place, it's not up to you what to do.
"Let me think about it, let me think about it."
After that, Sun Xun kept spinning, muttering:
"The trouble is big, the trouble is big."
Zhang Chong saw that Sun Tingchang was struggling, but he was not confused at all. He had saved this person.
Just because he saw a flashing pop-up window above this person's head, which said:
"Proficient in crossbow skills."
This is the fifth person he has seen with proficient level martial arts since Big Beard, Zhang Heizi and Zhang and his son.
It has been almost a month since I came to this era, and I have seen eight hundred people, not to mention one thousand.
But there are only four people who can possess such martial arts. It can be seen that these people are truly the cream of the crop.
Moreover, the martial arts this person mastered was the crossbow technique, which was more lethal than his halberd throwing technique.
If he can defeat this person, he will gain another powerful martial skill. In addition, he is obviously in a difficult situation. If you help him now, there is still a lot of hope for him to be a helping hand in the future.
Therefore, as soon as he was fished out, Zhang Chong quickly performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him, and he was really saved.
Looking at it this way, this idle boy is still his lucky star, and he got a good man as soon as he fished it out.
Just when everyone on the boat was getting impatient, Sun Xun, who had been going in circles, stopped turning and suddenly waved his sleeves. Make a decision:
"Let's just pretend we've never seen this man before, and don't tell us what his name is or where he comes from. I'll free up the warehouse in my boat and let him settle in. When we pass Ohnozawa later, we'll find a place for him. He let it go.”
After Sun Xun finished speaking, he was still jumping up and down.
Later, I couldn't help but look at Zhang Dan standing there stupidly, and gave him a three-legged kick.
It’s all thanks to this frivolous guy, he’s really a loser.
Hey...
Soon, the river channels were cleared one after another. At this time, all the ships no longer planned to wait for Zhu'a's ship, probably because they were afraid that the local warehouse officials would go crazy.
Just like that, Zhang Chong and his younger father Bingnan replaced Duman and Zhang Dan and went to the barn to row the oars.
This boat, carrying trouble, sailed towards the destined Xingyang under the constant chants.
……
In the days that followed, they officially entered the boundaries of Yanzhou.
All the way through the Kingdom of Jibei, they met the tribute ship of the King of Jibei, and then the ship kept moving until it reached Gucheng in Dongjun.
When we stopped to rest, we also picked up a county official named Wei Meng.
He knew that the next stop of the ship was to Xuchang in Dongping Kingdom, so he got on the ship, saying that he was going there to work for Chief Gu Cheng.
After boarding the boat, he fell asleep and didn't talk to anyone the whole way. When we got to the place, we left in a hurry.
The boat rested for one night in Xuchang.
Sun Xun and the others also took advantage of the darkness to contact the local wealthy Zhao family and sold another batch of grain.
Sun Xun also called Zhang Chong and asked him to accompany the Zhao clan members.
The man drank a few cups and kept talking about how distinguished the Zhao family was back then and how much they had contributed to the emperor and the Han Dynasty.
He said, if their ancestors had not offered suggestions to Chencang Xiaodao to help Gaozu fight out of Hanzhong, how could the Yan Han have been so illustrious for four hundred years.
Then he complained that now the Zhao family has been reduced to doing such great things.
Zhang Chong was disdainful. He had already done everything, but what else could he do? These right-wing gangsters really wanted him inside and out.
Feeling disgusted by what he heard, Zhang Chong used his urine to escape to the warehouse and gave some of the pulp to the man with pleated hakama.
Hakama Fold Han's proficiency in the super strong crossbow technique was inherited by Zhang Chong early on.
How did you inherit it? Who can speak first.
When the man with pleated hakama woke up, he just kept looking at the plank of the ship without saying a word. If Zhang Chong has something to do, he will come and deliver some fresh water, corn, and wheat. Seeing that he looked like a living dead, Zhang Chong had an idea.
Come on, let's bet on who can speak first.
Not surprisingly, the man with the folded hakama lost, and Zhang Chong inherited his crossbow skill.
Therefore, Zhang Chong was very happy these days and continued to send millet and water to the hakama folded Han.
Some people just throw people away after use, but Zhang Chong is not such a person.
Unmentioned, he, Zhang Chong, is benevolent and righteous.
(End of chapter)