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Chapter 458 Third Master Jiang Reads the Notice—Amazing!
In Luoyang City, teams of Chuangjun soldiers wrapped in turbans or wearing felt hats patrolled on Chayuan Street, maintaining the peace in the city. The first person in the team beat the gong and shouted the military order of Chuangwang.

"King Chuang has an order prohibiting arson and looting, but anyone who violates the law, regardless of military or civilian, will be beheaded for public display!"

From time to time, there was a sound of hooves of horses, and they were galloping and patrolling the wide streets. Some of the horses still had bloody heads hanging on the saddle bridles, which must have been chopped off from the rebels just now.

On the street, people gradually went out to wait and see what happened. At the beginning, they were cautiously walking slowly around the corner of the wall, but gradually they became more courageous.

At this time, a large number of people crowded together in front of the screen wall at the entrance of the procuratorate office, looking at the newly posted An Min notice on it, not only here, but all over the city of Luoyang. "Nine Persuasions" big announcement.

Wherever the "Nine Questions and Nine Persuasions" is posted, there are groups of people crowded together to watch it. Of course, most of them can't understand it. After all, in the last days of Ming Dynasty, it has not yet reached Everyone can read.

But there are always some literate people who can't help but mutter and read aloud when they are watching, and some of them have slightly amplified voices, as if they have ideas for others to hear.

There are many poor people who are illiterate or have very little literacy in each crowd. The purpose of them crowding into the crowd is not to read the notices, but to listen. Careless, act as the big understanding in the small circle!
Today, there is a little old man named Jiang Laosan, and people call him Third Master Jiang.

He was originally a small landlord in the Xiaomengjin area in the north of Luoyang. Later, most of his family's land was taken over by the Fuwang Mansion, and his life was poor, but he didn't know how to do other things. He spent most of his time sitting in teahouses every day. In this way, many years have passed.

In fact, he is not very literate, but whenever the government or county government posts a new notice, he always squeezes into the crowd at the first time, pretending to read the notice, but in fact he is secretly listening to others After reading the announcement, he quietly remembered it in his heart, and then went back to the teahouse to talk about it.

In fact, most of the young people in this neighborhood know how he can read and write. Whenever they saw him squeezed into the crowd, they raised their heads for a while, and then lowered their heads for a while, pretending to follow the notice line by line. When the text moved up and down, he would always deliberately ask him: "Jiang Sanye, what is written on this notice?"

This Jiang Laosan always replied without hesitation: "Amazing! Awesome!"

In fact, Jiang Laosan was not wrong, because nine out of ten of the proclamations posted by the government were either urging food donations, announcing martial law and various prohibitions, or beheading criminals.

In the inner city of Luoyang, there is an allegorical saying, which is called "Xianzi" by Henan people, and its content is: "Jiang Sanye read the notice—it's amazing!"

Now Jiang Laosan had the word "Shun" stuck on his hat, squeezed into the crowd with anxiety, stared at the newly posted proclamation, and listened attentively.

A strange young man wrapped in a shabby cotton-padded jacket asked behind his back, "Old man, what does King Li Chuang say in this notice?"

Jiang Laosan replied casually without thinking: "Amazing! Awesome!"

After a while, he had carefully listened to the content of "Nine Questions and Nine Persuasions" twice, and the questions on it that exposed the royal family's officials and gentry's domination of the land were particularly to his liking.

It was the strange young man wrapped in a ragged padded jacket who asked him from behind: "Old man, what does this notice say?"

He blurted out and replied: "It's a pleasure! It's a pleasure!"

But he immediately realized that he had made a slip of the tongue. In his heart, he was afraid that once the Chuangwang troops left Luoyang, he would cause trouble because of this sentence.

Hastily changed his words and said: "I can't say it, I can't say it!"

With a slightly excited mood, Jiang Laosan squeezed out of the crowd unsteadily, turned around and walked towards a tea stall not far away.

Just now, the young man who asked Mr. Jiang twice in a row raised his hand to support the bald cotton hat on his head, shrugged his slightly sunken shoulders, and put his hands in the sleeves of the ragged cotton jacket that was fried with fried dough twist. He also swayed out of the crowd.

Everyone was looking at the newly posted "Nine Questions and Nine Persuasions", but no one paid attention to the young man wrapped in a ragged padded jacket. He squeezed out of the crowd and turned into a small alley next to Chayuan Street. He didn't walk much. Yuan then dodged into the side door of a house.

"Squeak..." With a sound, the wooden side door closed tightly again.

"What's the situation outside, have the intruders entered the city?" A slightly rough voice asked in a deep and eager voice.

The young man wrapped in a ragged padded jacket stretched out his hands from the sleeves of the padded jacket, embraced him in front of his chest, and said: "Go back to Master Tong, the bandits haven't entered the city yet, and now the city is full of bandits, patrolling around, already Burning of houses and looting of houses are prohibited.

But all the government offices and storehouses in the city have been controlled by bandit soldiers, and they are searching for the old man Fu Wang and all the officials, gentry, and wealthy families in the city. "

That Master Tong seemed to be about [-] years old, black and strong, he looked quite fierce and capable, he stretched out his hand to greet the young man, and said: "Qiangzi, let's go into the room and talk."

He turned around and gave orders to the others: "Be smart, everyone, keep a close eye on the door. If there is an interrogation, you can deal with it carefully, and don't panic."

"Yes, Master Tong, don't worry, this is not the first time for us!"

This group of people are all dressed as poor people, but Master Tong is dressed like a dilapidated little landlord.

They are the officers and soldiers of the cavalry department under Zhang Cheng's command, and the leader is Tong Shoushan, the vice president of the cavalry department and the chief of the left sentry, and the young man called Qiangzi is Bao Ji, the team officer under his command. powerful.

Tong Shoushan led the sentry cavalry of the left sentry to check around Luoyang City. In the early morning, he found that Luoyang City had been breached by trespassers.

They were originally equipped with armor and armor according to their own preferences. Although they looked a bit messy, everyone used them smoothly. Except for the two hand guns on each of them, which were a little more conspicuous, it can be said that they looked It looks like an official army, but also like a bandit soldier who breaks into the army.

Just like this, they clashed left and right in the city, pretending to be thieves for a while and killing the officers and soldiers, and for a while pretending to be the officers and soldiers to kill the thieves. Only after entering Chayuan Street not far away did they hear the tragic wailing of a house.

When they quietly climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, they saw that the ground was bright red, and corpses were scattered in all directions in the courtyard, and the howling and screams came from the main room.

Tong Shoushan led people to break in and found that more than a dozen rogues were bullying several women, and several of them had been tortured to the point of death.

Those rogues were killed on the spot, and the disheveled woman on the bed took advantage of them to kill the rogues, and found a short knife in her hand, so she understood herself.

When she was about to die, she yelled: "Even if I die, I will not allow you to bully me!"

(End of this chapter)