I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 175 I want to destroy Su Liang’s name, what can you do to me?
May 22.

Su Liang, escorted by five hundred cavalry, finally arrived at Qinzhou City.

Liu Cun, the magistrate of Qinzhou, and Wang Huxiong, the general magistrate, personally greeted him at the city gate.

five days ago.

The imperial edict to "establish Xihe Town and resettle homeless veterans" was sent to Qinzhou.

He also ordered the chief officer of Qinfeng Road to build a walled city by the Xi River to promote trade.

Liu Cun did not expect that the imperial court would pay so much attention to this group of veterans.

But this move not only solved the big trouble that troubled him, but also gave Qinzhou an extra line of defense.

He is naturally happy.

He knew that Su Liang had at least half of the credit for this, and Fan Zhongyan had specifically told Su Liang to treat Su Liang favorably.

Therefore, Liu Cun did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

Battalion commander Liu Dazhi followed Su Liang into the city with [-] cavalry.

His mission is to protect Su Liang until Su Liang and his party leave the northwest.

As for wild sharp thorns.

Liu Cun directly offered a reward of a thousand gold and asked the people in the city to help hunt him down.

……

into the night.

In a cave in the wilderness less than thirty miles away from Qinzhou City.

The fire flickered.

Yeli Ci and more than 20 of his cronies were hiding here. There were also many crossbows, hard bows, and swords in the cave.

"Major General, the Song people are serious this time. People are looking for you everywhere outside. It's not safe here and the food is running out. Let's go back to Xixia quickly!" said a Xixia craftsman.

Yeli Ci looked at the portraits of him scattered on the ground and couldn't help but frown.

He didn't expect that an assassination would cause such a big fuss.

All the soldiers and civilians on Qinfeng Road were trying to catch him.

Yeli Ci had no military position in Xixia, so he called himself "Major General".

He belongs to the Yeli Yuqi branch of the Yeli tribe.

Yeli Yuqi, known as the "King of Tiandu", was the commander-in-chief of the battles between Sanchuankou and Haoshuichuan. He was executed on suspicion of rebellion.

Although Yeli Ci is a sideline, he wants to follow Yeli Yuqi as his father, so he calls himself: Young General.

He had just turned 24 years old. Because of his short stature and good calculation skills, coupled with the gradual loss of power of the Yeli tribe, he became the leader of Xizuo.

He has been operating in the northwest of Song Dynasty for nearly three years.

The second priority was to find out information, and the most important purpose was to assassinate Fan Zhongyan and Di Qing.

However, the opportunity has never been found.

……

a few days ago.

Yeli Ci couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that the supervisory censor Su Liang had come to Qingzhou in the northwest.

Su Liang's articles had a great influence on the civil servants of the Xixia court.

Wild thorns have also been heard.

According to his information channels, Su Liangnai was a favorite of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and people in the Song Dynasty rumored that he had the appearance of a prime minister.

This made Yeli feel murderous.

But what Ling Yeli Ci didn't expect was that the soldiers guarding Su Liang were extremely tough.

With twice the number of people, not only did he not take any advantage, but he almost lost them all in front of the inn.

Yeli Ci is a particularly conceited person and is particularly familiar with the land in the northwest.

Although he had been forced to hide in a cave, he still felt that the Song people could not catch him.

these three years.

He provided a lot of information to Wei Mingchui, the guard stationed in Jiaola City.

It also made Wei famous and sometimes ordered Xixia soldiers to dress up as ordinary people and sneak into the border of the Song Dynasty to steal food and money.

His last retreat was Jiao La City.

The standing armies of Xixia are all tribal armies.

In addition to Yeli and Wuzang, the noble tribes also include Weiming, Weimu, Wuyi, etc.

Some of the tribes were warring factions. They looked forward to the war between Song and Xia in order to redistribute the internal interests of Xixia.

This also made Yeli Ci understand.

If he could trigger another war between Song and Xia, there would definitely be a clan willing to give him a military position and let him lead troops in battle.

this moment.

Yeli Ci was very unconvinced and hated himself for not being able to kill Su Liang.

But he also knew that the opportunity had been lost.

It is obviously impossible to assassinate Su Liang again.

He thought for a while and murmured: "Before I leave, I want to give a big gift to this censor who is favored by his words."...

May 24, Qinzhou official office.

Su Liang began to understand Qinzhou's troop reduction situation.

When the eight thousand veterans learned that the imperial court was going to set up a town specifically for them and build a walled city on the banks of the Xi River, everyone was happy.

He even took the initiative to petition to become a city builder.

In addition, Su Liang also learned about the situation of the Qinzhou garrison.

Many veterans were on their way home, almost without causing any trouble, and some were even happy.

Those eight thousand veterans were bent on revenge, but most of them were actually tired of life in the military camp and wanted to live a life of "wives and children on the hot kang".

……

The next day, the sky was bright.

Su Liang had just finished washing when he saw Qinzhou magistrate Liu Cun and Cao Hu walking over quickly.

among them.

Liu Cun also held a letter in his hand that was penetrated by an arrow.

"Su Yushi, someone shot an arrow at the north gate of Qinzhou today. There was a letter on the arrow, and your name was written on the envelope."

Su Liang took the envelope. There were ten big characters written on the envelope: Personally signed by Su Liang, the youngest son of the censor of the Southern Dynasties.

Xixia called itself the Western Dynasty, Liao was called the Northern Dynasty, and Song was called the Southern Dynasty.

Cao Hu on the side removed the arrows from the envelope, then opened the envelope and made sure there was no foreign matter before handing the letter to Su Liang.

Su Liang slowly unfolded it, and there were only two lines of words on the thin letter paper.

"You gain favor through your words, but you will also be stinky for your words for eternity!"

"Daxia Yeli Ciliu."

Su Liang frowned slightly and handed the letter to Liu Cun.

Liu Cun looked confused.

"This Yeli can't assassinate you, and then he leaves such a harsh word? This person is indeed arrogant, but it shouldn't be that simple!"

He shot an arrow into the city gate just to scold Su Liang.

Obviously impossible.

"Next, he may make big moves, we must take precautions!" Cao Hu said seriously.

Su Liang nodded in approval.

Next.

He wanted to see how this wild thorn could sneak into Qinzhou City and break through the guards of the cavalry battalion to assassinate him.

……

May 26, afternoon.

Su Liang got the news.

Thirty miles north of Qinzhou City, eight people were killed, and all had their tongues cut out.

The murderer also wrote a sentence in human blood: Give it to Su Liangsu, the censor, and keep it in Daxia Yeli.

……

The next morning, Su Liang received the news again.

Ten more people were killed, and all had their tongues cut out, but they still kept the same words.

……

This sentence directly made many people on Qinfeng Road aware of it.

There was a censor named Su Liang. Because he offended Yeli Ci, innocent people suffered.

this moment.

Su Liang finally understood what Ye Licai meant when he said, "You gain favor with your tongue, but you will also be stink for your tongue for eternity!"

Yeli Ci is ruining Su Liang's reputation.

Although these innocent people were not harmed by Su Liang, they died because of Su Liang.

Xixia people have never cared about fame and honor.

Adultery, incest, patricide, son-killing, and wife-robbing are all commonplace.

But the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty cared very much about reputation.

If Su Liang fails to catch the wild thorn this time, a word will soon spread in the northwest region.

"The Western Xia Yeli Ci had an enmity with the supervisory censor Su Liang, cut his tongue and tortured a large number of people in the northwest. The censor Su Liang was incompetent and ordered him to flee to Xixia, but the follow-up was fruitless..."

Such words are more terrifying than the annals of history, enough to make Su Liang infamy for thousands of years!
Even if Zhao Zhen will not punish Su Liang for this, such an incident will affect Su Liang's subsequent reputation.

Just like the saying "Xia Song never stood up, Han Qi is not surprising", Xia Song and Han Qi have been tied to the pillar of shame of Xixia's defeated generals.

Su Liang would never tolerate being bullied like this.

"Ye Li Ci, don't tell me that you escaped from the northwest, even if you escape to the Xixia Empress Dowager Wu Zangshi's bed, I will catch you back!" Su Liang clenched his fists and said, with a murderous look on his face.

　It’s just one chapter tonight, and there’s a big climax next. I’ll finish it tomorrow, and we’ll share it together at ten o’clock in the evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)