Chapter 611 Disposal
This night, for the dozens of yamen, hundreds of officials and thousands of officials in Jiangling City, it was undoubtedly a night of fear, kicking and extremely torment. Because many people received orders from their superiors and went to a certain location overnight to be interrogated.
After most of them went there with uneasy thoughts, they were only briefly asked a few questions on the spot and then asked again with a lot of questions. But there are also people who enter the designated place and never come out again; this is a bit frightening.
However, to the many soldiers and civilians in Jiangling City, things seemed uneventful again. Only after the curfew ended at dawn and they walked out of their homes again to gather in the city, would they hear a few street rumors and see some unfamiliar sergeants patrolling the streets.
Occasionally, some people delivering food and firewood or running errands on the streets discovered that in several districts in the inner city where officials and wealthy people gathered, a number of mansions had been raided and sealed. ; There are also some cries and cries behind closed doors and high walls.
And the Jiangling County government office that reopened was taken over by a whole team of armored sergeants. In the cabinet warehouse of the county government office, more than a dozen veteran officials, under the supervision of a military academy, carefully rummaged through piles of old documents and household registration documents.
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Then transfer to another room and undergo inspection and comparison by a dedicated person. Occasionally, one of them would be singled out, and then it would become a small team of sergeants running through the streets; then, they would break into a certain inn, shop, or private home, and take away everyone there.
In the midst of this continuous manhunt and the panic-stricken atmosphere throughout the city, Jiang Tian, who was supposed to be sitting in the government office, came to the embankment outside Jiangling City in disguise. Jianglingfu is located at the hub of the Jianghan Plain and the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Therefore, it was called the thoroughfare of seven provinces in later generations. In this time and space, it is also a strategic hub that connects and runs through the Xiajiang Road in Bashu in the upper reaches, the Jiangxi and Huainan Roads in the lower reaches, the Hunan (Sanshui Basin) Road in the south, and the Shannan East Road (Nanyang Basin) in the north.
As the saying goes, it is a beautiful place that "controls Bashu on the right, Wuyue on the left, Wuling on the south, and Shangdu on the north." Therefore, shipbuilding, shipping, and land and water commerce have been extremely developed since ancient times. Just outside the embankment, there are many port and city wharves, such as Houhu, Left/Right Shatou, Caoshi, etc.
In the open space between the inner side of the embankment and Luocheng/Waiguo, there is a large area of Chengxiafang area lined with vehicles, boats, mules and horses, restaurants and shops, and buildings; almost densely filling the space inside the embankment, almost all There are not many traces of the former farmland left.
This was also the reason why when Taixing was reformed, Jiangling Prefecture was directly divided into one of the sixteen direct-controlled prefectures in the world, next to the two capitals. Jingnan Jiedushi/Observer Envoy, the transformed Jingnan Dudufu, was also asked to send The important reason is Jiangling Mansion. It is precisely because of the importance of Jiangling taxation.
You must know that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has been ranked among the most prosperous places in the world with "Yang Yi Yi Er, Chu San Long Si". Among them, Yangzhou Prefecture, as the southeast economic center and product transshipment hub, has naturally ranked first in the world for a long time; followed by Chengdu Prefecture, located in Sanchuan, Jiannan, which is rich in products.
The third place among them is Jiangling Prefecture, which is the core of the hometown of Jingchu. Since ancient times, because of the richness of the place, celebrities and beautiful actors have emerged in large numbers from generation to generation; and there are "more pipa than rice bowls; more cuotai than crucian carp." There are many passed-down jokes about “planting flowers is like farming”;
Therefore, in terms of taxes and other local tributes provided to the dynasty, Jiangling Prefecture also had to surpass Liangzhou Prefecture, which ranked second in the "Long Fourth" and was located at the head of the Silk Road in the Hexi Corridor. It occupies almost half of the annual tribute and taxes of the twelve prefectures in Jingnan.
It can also be said that the Anshi Rebellion caused the densely populated northern land to decay and decay. The imperial court relied on the continuous blood transfusion of these wealthy towns in the south, which were far away from the war and the rear area, to quickly put down the civil strife and implement light corvee and low taxation in the north. Of the policy.
In the following ten years, he continued to launch successive campaigns against Nanzhao and Tubo; he even intervened in the civil strife of Huihe, eventually dismembering it, and re-supported and strengthened the Anxi and Beiting Protectorate; he also conquered the land in the river and the South China Sea. A series of long-term strategies for Zhengtuo.
Although, after more than a hundred years of peace, the importance of Jiangling Prefecture as an inland hub has greatly declined; even in the economic/tax ranking of the two capitals and sixteen prefectures, it has given way to the largest city in the South China Sea. Guangzhou Prefecture in the port, and even Jiaozhou Prefecture of Annan Governor.
However, compared to Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, which were actually deeply influenced by the princes of the Nanhai vassal state and used various rights and interests to share considerable profits, the imperial center had stronger control in Jiangling Mansion, and the annual tax revenue was purer. Therefore, Jiang Tian came here under the entrustment of the Prime Minister Liu Zhan.
But wherever his eyes passed, whether it was the city square inside the embankment or the dock city outside the embankment, the most intuitive feeling was a large, cold and empty scene; among them, there were only a few burned piers with a few boats and merchants coming and going; But he seemed to be in a hurry.
Most of them have sad faces or sighs, more like families who fled to Fucheng with their families to seek asylum. Obviously, after a long period of peace and prosperity, the war that suddenly broke out and spread to Jiangling City has had a serious impact on Jiangling Mansion.
Therefore, during the whole day, Jiang Tian led people to patrol outside Jiangling City, checking the surrounding terrain and hydrological conditions, checking the water and land patrol posts and checkpoints arranged on the periphery; he also discovered many problems on the spot. For example, someone took the opportunity to pretend to be an official or military officer and set up a card to blackmail someone.
There are also people who paddle boats on the river, using the transition as a cover to rob people who are fleeing. It was obvious that the social order a little further away from Jiangling City had been allowed to collapse; this also made Jiang Tian lose even more confidence and hope in the officials in Jiangling Mansion.
Therefore, he then transferred several regiments of Xingyuan cavalry from the city and ordered to expand the scope of warning and search; he also asked people to start building fortresses with civil structures at some designated locations. After being busy until nightfall, Jiang Tian still did not return to the city but came to the southeast of the city.
A tributary of the Jingjiang River that passes around Jiangling City merges into the Dachan Lake in Anxing County, forming an estuary called "Haoxue" that impacts sandbanks and marsh areas; this is the time of summer and autumn floods. , so the boundless water under the moonlight is as bright as the sea.
This is also an area where "Jiawei Miwang" and "giant thieves haunt" since ancient times. Therefore, there is always a water stronghold for the Jinghu Navy under Jiangling Prefecture. It's just that this water stronghold has been breached and burned, leaving only a few blackened and dilapidated ruins, still standing tenaciously.
In the midst of the silence, with the whistling of the wind, the roar of the water, and the chirping of insects and birds, a dozen figures suddenly emerged from the ruins. Wearing the navy's unique short leather armor and tight-fitting shirts, with their legs and hips exposed, and their heads shaved into short hair, they all saluted silently.
They were the members of the navy who were specially pardoned and released after Jiang Tian's preliminary interrogation, and were re-guilty and meritorious; most of them were from local fishermen and boat people. Jiang Tian offered to take in and protect their relatives in exchange for their unconditional cooperation.
One of the sailors with a fresh scar on his face saluted respectfully: "Greetings to Shangguan, the ancient battlefield you are looking for is deep in the sandbank not far away; it is said that it was the site of the Three Kingdoms in ancient times. In the tug-of-war, there are still rusty weapons occasionally being rolled out by Chao Xun."
"Okay, then please lead the way!" Jiang Tian nodded and said: Jingzhou/Jiangling Prefecture has been the strategic point of Jianghan since ancient times. It is a battleground for military strategists in troubled times. It can be said that there have been many large-scale battles; just during the Three Kingdoms period. Three major battles took place between Wei Wu/Wu Shu.
The most famous one was Lü Meng's "White Clothes Crossing the River" attack on Jingzhou; this led to the "flooding of seven armies" in the Battle of Xiangfan, the martial saint Guan Yu who had reached the pinnacle of his life; thus cutting off his escape route, he was defeated and captured, and fell. In the long history. Therefore, it is surrounded by ancient battlefields.
Of course, there are actually not that many lurking aliens in Jiangling City. In addition to the organ-eating ghost who became the local censor's official, only two other similar ones were discovered; they were the son of a well-connected wealthy businessman, and a united school captain who had escaped.
But this discovery is enough to cause these local powerful people to feel insecure and not know who else around them can be trusted. Therefore, they would rather not go home for a short period of time, but stay in the government office to be protected by lay officers and entrusted with full investigative powers.
And Jiang Tian took advantage of this opportunity to establish his power, and took away some people who might be in the way in key positions in the name of interrogation and review; even if no loopholes or handles were found in the end, there would be no problem in being isolated for a period of time. This will also enable you to better supervise others.
This is also an upright conspiracy method. In a short period of time, people know that the situation is wrong, but it is difficult to single out specific problems. Therefore, Jiang Tian adopted both internal and external preparations and multi-pronged follow-up measures. With this thought in mind, he came to the sandbank.
You can see that the sky completely clears the clouds and reveals the moon, spreading soft light all over everything; it also dyes the clear and dark water surface, the weeds and reeds swaying in the night wind, and the delicate sand dunes. Frosty white color. Then with a thought, Jiang Tian took out a small skull out of thin air.
This skull is only as big as a child's fist, translucent and clear like agate; it also has lines like frost flowers; it is like a handicraft carved from chalcedony. However, this is a strange object from another world, a certain existence found in the underground altar of Seine City.
It is also the origin of the alien headless horseman (Durla Khan) who comes with the frost in the flowing mist. However, after the transformation across time and space, the skull that was originally the size of a normal human head has shrunk to this small size, and Jiang Tian plans to use it to try.
