The administration of officials in the Song Dynasty was quite strict. Anyone sent by the government and if there was any transgression must be handed over to the superior officer to carefully investigate the situation and then make a decision.
Moreover, the official families of Zhao and Song Dynasty followed the so-called "ancestral etiquette and laws", so there was a saying that "the punishment is not as good as that of the scholar-bureaucrats".
From this reference, even the government police officers also benefited, and ordinary trivial matters were generally not dealt with.
According to Gao Kan, the county government officials just took people at will and lynched them without review by the county magistrate. In fact, this was a common practice for county government officials.
It's just that this time I arrested a Shangguan officer by mistake. To be more serious, I made the following mistakes.
But as the saying goes, those who don't know are not guilty. They don't know the identities of Gaokan and his group. If they catch someone wrong, they usually just ask for mercy.
As a last resort, it is not necessary to deal with them directly, or even to kill them, even less so.
Neihuang County Magistrate obviously thought that Gaokan and the others had broken into the inner hall, and the officers outside were afraid that they would have a hard time surviving. He was terrified. He had no helpers around, and he was afraid that he would also suffer misfortune.
He hurriedly begged for mercy and said: "Shangguan handled it properly. It's a damned thing. Please help me, Shangguan."
Gao Kan didn't expect this man to be so despicable, he raised his eyebrows and said: "We are here this time under the military order of Master Zhongshu to wipe out the bandits in Huangmen Mountain and recover the birth certificate of Taifu Tong. It is an important matter. I don’t dare to indulge in the slightest, if someone creates unforeseen circumstances and ruins Master Zhongshu’s important affairs, causing Master Taifu’s birth date to be unrecoverable, what should we do?”
"No, no, no, I will definitely cooperate with you!" Magistrate Neihuang said quickly.
Gao Kan narrowed his eyes: "But I heard that you have summoned the county soldiers and officers to work together to suppress the bandits a few days ago?"
"Your Excellency, it is clear that my subordinates are nothing more than a group of people who eat nothing but wine and rice. They are no match for the extremely vicious bandits on Huangmen Mountain. They dare not say anything about suppressing the bandits."
Magistrate Neihuang didn't dare to talk back to Gao Kan at this moment, and kept going on.
Hearing this, Gao Kan put his hands on his hands and said, "It's good that you know me well, but Huangmen Mountain is under your rule after all, and I'm not a ungrateful person who wants to monopolize everything."
"All your subordinates will obey your orders," Neihuang County Magistrate said hurriedly.
"Since the county government officials have gathered together, it is not in vain to ask them to go to the left side of Huangmen Mountain immediately and block the official road to and from the road, so that no one without any business can pass."
Gao Kan said with a smile and put down the tea bowl in his hand: "When it comes to suppressing the bandits, I will personally report it to Master Zhongshu and record your contribution."
"Thank you so much, sir, for the promotion!" Magistrate Neihuang thanked him immediately.
With a wave of his hand, Gao Kan glanced at the scared-faced girl on the bed, and said jokingly: "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir. If you have nothing else to do, please continue. We'll leave first."
"Please, sir." Magistrate Neihuang breathed a sigh of relief.
Gao Kan didn't stay long, got up and went out, beckoned Lin Chong and Tang Heng to join him, and left directly.
It wasn't until he left the Neihuang County Government Office that Lin Chong couldn't help but step forward.
"Sir, are we leaving like this? If the county magistrate doesn't know how to praise me, wouldn't it ruin things if he has evil thoughts again?"
Gao Kan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, if he really dares to have second thoughts, he can be uprooted by the roots."
After speaking, he turned to Tang Heng and said, "Commander Tang, I would like to trouble you a little. I'd like to recruit a few people from the brothers in the camp, put them in disguise, sneak into Neihuang County, and keep an eye on this place."
"Don't worry, sir, my subordinates understand."
Tang Heng responded with cupped fists.
After settling the matter at Neihuang County Government, the three of them hurried back to Sanlian Village.
Everyone in the village is ready and ready to go to the foot of Huangmen Mountain.
Tang Heng wanted to arrange for someone to go to Neihuang County to keep an eye on it, but Gaokan was not in a hurry and asked the brothers to repair for another day and set off tomorrow.
At nightfall, Lin Chong came to report, and the Neihuang County Magistrate sent someone to deliver the letter.
Gao Kan smiled knowingly and secretly thought that Magistrate Huang was still a knowledgeable person, so he summoned people to talk in the house.
When the county government servant saw Gao Kan, he knelt down and saluted, saying, "I have seen Lord Shangguan."
"Get up, what did the magistrate ask you to do?"
Waving his hands calmly, Gao Kan asked calmly.
"Your Excellency, I have asked this little person to send you a letter. There are some documents about the situation of bandits on Huangmen Mountain, so that I can help you suppress the bandits."
As the boy spoke, he carefully took out the secret letter from his arms and held it above his head with both hands.
Gao Kan raised his hand and asked Lin Chong to take it, took it, opened it and took a look.
Immediately he nodded and said: "I accepted the kindness of the county magistrate and went back to tell him that after the Huangmen Mountain bandit suppression is completed, he will definitely be credited with a share of the credit."
"Yes." The young man kowtowed hurriedly and responded.
After sending the people away, Lin Chong returned to the house and saw that Gao Kan had opened the envelope, taken out the contents and placed them on the table.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows: "Sir, what is this?"
"This is a tribute from our Lord Neihuang County Magistrate." Gao Kan said with a smile.
"It just so happened that when I came here this time, Mr. Zhongshu only gave me the troops, but not the money to mobilize them. Instead, I asked the county magistrate to make up for it."
Lin Chong smiled and said: "He is quite sensible."
"I dare you to be ignorant. The so-called 'sin gold' mentioned by the county government officer is probably his original creation. The location of the inner city is very important. It is sandwiched between Bianliang and Damingfu in Tokyo, and has the Yellow River as its back. There are countless merchants who have stopped during the transaction. There are also special docks for docking, and I don’t know how much is collected year after year.”
Gao Kan looked indifferent and explained: "In the past, no one cared about it, so the sky was high and the emperor was far away. If we just happened to bump into him, wouldn't he be afraid of being exposed?"
"But what if he takes revenge later?" Lin Chong asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, at least he won't have any other thoughts until our trip is over."
Gao Kan said calmly: "Afterwards, I asked Liang Zhongshu to issue a document and transferred Huangmen Mountain to the Daming Prefecture's left-behind department and turned it into a military camp. No matter what he thought, he had no chance."
In fact, before Gaokan finished speaking, the Jin army would soon move south. By then, all the places north of the Yellow River, Hebei, and Shandong would fall, and even Tokyo and Bianliang would not be able to survive.
By that time, the small Neihuang County will be wiped out in an instant.
Under the chaotic situation, Gaokan has countless ways to prevent the county government from leaving any living things.
In the future, it will be based on Huangmen Mountain and radiate to Hebei, Shandong and other places. Neihuang County is so close to Huangmen Mountain, so of course it is impossible for outsiders to control it.
I'm just not in a hurry right now, but I'm not really letting things go.
Lin Chong didn't realize that Gao Kan was worried, so he just assumed that Gao Kan had no idea and didn't say much.
However, the filial piety sent by the Neihuang County Magistrate gave Gaokan another chance, and he immediately asked Lin Chong to invite Tang Heng to come over and discuss something.
While Lin rushed to the stall to call someone, Gao Kan took out paper, ink, pen and inkstone, wrote a new secret letter and put it back in the envelope.
Then I picked up the original banknotes in the letter and counted them, and I couldn't help but secretly admired that the position of Neihuang County Magistrate was really a huge one.
He was thinking about whether he should find an opportunity to rob the rich and give to the poor.
