Chapter 440 Surrounded and Surrendered in the Jedi(2/2)
The schoolbag behind him was carrying the spring holiday homework, and Xiaobei and others formed a team to set out towards Yiying County.
"Making a plan is a very difficult thing. Be cheer up, otherwise we will never think of becoming an official." Xiao Bei grabbed the strap of the backpack on his back with both hands, walked in the middle of the team, muttering constantly, not knowing whether to tell others or encourage himself.
They wanted to find Yan Jiang's younger brother and study in the yamen every day, wanting to learn skills before the holiday, make plans, and then become officials. Of course, homework must be done.
After arriving at the place and starting to participate in daily affairs, Xiao Beijiu realized that things were not as simple as they thought. At the beginning, I thought there were not many things in the yamen, and the most interesting thing was to ask for the case.
Some people wanted to complain, and beat the drum at the door of the yamen, led them in to ask about the case, and then punished the bad guys and protected the good guys.
As a result, after staying for five days, the little guys were stunned. There were cases, but they were not good people or bad people. For example, two neighbors had their fences blown down by the wind, crushing the chickens from the other family to death.
Often, it should be the family who fell into the fence to compensate the dead chickens, but the problem is that the reason why the fence is blown down by the wind is because the drainage ditches of the people who were crushed to death flow there, and a group of chickens kept digging under the fences.
"What's this?" Xiao Bei, who was determined to be an official in the sky, could not figure out how to judge the case by his fingers, because in the law, there is no such thing as being too specific in this aspect. If he is judged according to the law, one side will inevitably suffer a loss.
The chicken raising person can be sentenced to destroy the neighbor's house, but the complainant is the chicken raising person, not the family that crushes the chicken raising person. If the fence is sentenced to fall and hurts the neighbor's poultry, the chicken raising person will not be convinced.
"Can you judge one side first and then another? In this way, one case becomes two cases, each of which is sentenced to their own?" Xiao Bei thought hard for a long time before asking Yan Er.
Yan Er shook his head and patiently explained to Xiaobei and others: "Being a parent official does not mean that you can figure out the case. What you need to do is to regulate neighborhood relations. Law is nothing more than human relationships. If everything is judged according to the law, then you can only have a person who has mastered the law, and there is a special sword and pen."
"How to judge?" Xiao Bei asked for advice humbly.
Yan Er smiled slightly and asked the two families below: "Li Si, your chicken was crushed to death. Do you want this official to condemn your neighbor Li Fangcheng?"
"Mr. Yan, yes." Li Si, who was asked, glared at Li Fangcheng next to him in anger.
Yan Er turned to Li Fangcheng again, "Do you feel wronged? Li Si destroyed your fence?"
"Yes, sir, you have to make the decision for me." Li Fangcheng also said.
Yan Er nodded, "Then the official will be sentenced. Li Fangcheng, there is a ditch beside your fence. Do you don't know why you don't report it? Today, a chicken is crushed to death. Maybe tomorrow will crush the children of the neighbor's house to death. Many chickens may not return to the nest if they lay eggs. There are children to pick them up. I think you planned to crush the children of the Li family to death. Do you know that you were guilty?"
When Li Fangcheng heard this, he was stunned. He just crushed a chicken to death. How did he become a murder?
Yan Er turned his head to look at Li Si again, "Li Si, don't you know where the ditches pass are unstable? You are trapped in a house. I think you want to cause your neighbor's house to collapse. Do you know your guilt?"
Li Si was also scared. Why did he come over and talk about the death of a chicken and get a murder case?
"Come on, take them and take them into custody. After I finish writing the case, I will send them to the state center. Then I will pass by the capital. I will ask for a beheading in the autumn." Yan Er's voice continued.
Bei Bei turned his head and touched Xiaoyuan, "Is there such a saying? Need to behead him?"
Xiaoyuan thought hard, shook his head, and whispered: "No, he is judging blindly."
Xiaobei and others knew it, but the two people below didn't know that they could understand the laws of the Tang Dynasty. What they knew the most was to kill people and pay their lives and pay their debts.
Seeing that one of them was about to lose two lives, both of them were afraid. Li Si first said, "Sir, I won't sue you, will I not sue you? I'm going to kill the chicken and eat meat. I want to thank Li Fangcheng. I will change the ditch when I turn around."
Li Fangcheng also hurriedly followed and said, "Sir, I am willing to pay for it. I have wanted to repair the fence again, so I can't get enough time. I will repair it more firmly when I look back."
"That won't work. Now that the two of you are coming, you will definitely feel resentful. At that time, I will have to work hard on this case." Yan Er said with a stern face.
"Sir, don't blame anyone, but I'm actually good. I'm going to pack up the chicken and cook two dishes, and I'll have two cups with Brother Fang Cheng."
Li Si promised, and Li Fangcheng continued, "Yes, I'll go and sell wine. Brother Li Si makes chicken delicious. I won't bother you."
The two reached a unified agreement and walked out of the yamen while wiping their cold sweat, looking lingering in fear.
Seeing the two people leaving, Yan Er smiled and said to the nine children: "Did you see? As long as it is not hurting others and killing others, as long as it is not too much loss, if you can not judge, you will not judge. If one of them is judged, the other will inevitably hold a grudge. Both will be judged. In the future, neighborhood relationships will be difficult to get along with, and maybe something bigger will happen.
Officials should judge the situation and make a case. It is better to stop a quarrel than to establish a case. Don’t think that you can judge a case at will after learning a lot of laws. Such an official is definitely not a good official.”
Xiaobei and others were surprised and nodded at the place where they were taught. Finally, they realized that it was not easy to be an official, so they decided to study hard and become a good official after learning.
The matter was soon passed on to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
Seeing the content written in the letter, Zhang Xiaobao smiled, "It seems that if you want to be a bad official, you must be more capable than a good official. Once you get better, you will be better than an ordinary good official."
"Not that? This is good. We can't teach Xiaobei and others the skills directly, so that they can learn from others. Do you really plan to let them go to Jian'an to become an official?"
Wang Juan was also very happy. It was really not easy to find such a good official. The two brothers were really capable. When they were brothers, they were also engaged in research. At least they could manage the place well and then be greedy.
It would rather have such an official than be honest. The people followed the innocent official who suffered the crime. Thinking of the appointment that Xiaobei and others wanted from Li Longji, Wang Juan asked Zhang Xiaobao again.
Zhang Xiaobao looked at Jian'an's direction and nodded, "As long as they learned about it, let them go, there is actually not much population there, so it's okay to let them go over and have fun. Even if they pay for the remaining people to live a good life, I will give it to you and there is no need to repay you."
"Just spoil them."
"Why do you call it arrogance? Let them have more knowledge than what we have learned all the time. Many experiences need to be experienced by life."
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head and no longer thought about his younger brother and sister. He picked up the map on the table and looked at it again. He asked Wang Juan to analyze which place there were minerals.
Half a month passed by, and Xiaobei and others had not finished their holiday yet, so they continued to study with Yan Er.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are still waiting for the sent people to discover North America and come back safely.
Li Xun ended his leisurely days. As the weather warmed up, the sea water gradually melted, and no one from the Hei Shui Governor's Office came over for a long time, which made his mood a little ups and downs and wanted to take the initiative.
Spread out the temporarily drawn map, Li Xun looked carefully on it, and the soldiers next to him looked serious.
"They are now gathering on the coastal line. They know that I am here, but they are not here to attack. What are their intentions?"
Li Xun pointed his hand on the map. It was where the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office were located. He took the risk of reconnaissance in the strong wind and had determined the other party's location.
The army joined the army and thought about it carefully, and said, "Can you be recuperating and ready to wait until the injured some time ago to recover and then beat us down in one go?"
"Rehabilitation? I guess it's not possible? I suspect they knew that we had gunboats here and didn't want to put themselves in a dangerous place. It seemed that they needed to let the gunboat leave. I sent me the order to let the gunboats sail to a place that people could not see, and the hot air balloons in the sky continued to rise."
Li Xun considered and issued an order. The army's mouth moved, trying to dissuade Li Xun from not causing himself to a dangerous place, but in the end he didn't say a word. He also knew that Li Xun's temper was difficult to change, so he could only wait until the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office really came to protect him.
As the fleet retreated, Li Xun also acted as if he wanted to leave, and sent all the hunted prey to the fleet, as well as wild vegetables and other things. Then he started the camp and slowly evacuated backwards.
The matter really made him think it right. The reason why the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office did not come over was that they were afraid of the gunboats in the sea. As soon as the gunboat retreated, Li Xun also acted as if he left. He immediately rectified the team and chased Li Xun.
Li Xun had a hot air balloon in charge of reconnaissance, discovered the situation early, and surrounded him around the road, and suddenly rushed out when the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office were about to enter the mine array.
However, there were not many people rushing out, only more than 300 people, which made people see that they were the ones who stayed behind and left behind.
The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office were stunned at first. Seeing that there were only such people, they commanded more than 2,000 people to continue charging towards the 300 people.
They didn't know that there was still something deadly buried underground. As soon as they entered the mine array, people with bad ideas were blown into the sky, and rumbling sounds sounded one after another.
People who were stunned by the bombing thought that the gunboats were back and rushed around, some ran back, some ran to other places, and some lay on the ground pretending to be dead.
Except for the people running back, the people running in other directions stepped on landmines one after another, making heart-wrenching noises in the explosions.
This completely suppressed the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office and looked around blankly, hoping to find where the enemy was attacking so that they could avoid it in advance.
When Li Xun saw the opportunity, he directed others to bypass the mine array and attack the people of the Hei Shui Governor's Office. The gunboats in the sea also turned north to attack the assembly ground of the Hei Shui Governor's Office.
It turned out that because of the high mountains and dense forests, the hot air balloons that could not play a big role also began to gather and flew towards the place where the Black Water Governor's Mansion was camped.
Suddenly, the people in the Hei Shui Governor's Office were in chaos. The defeated army was different from the army ready to attack the enemy. When Li Xun commanded the team to rush over, the first two thousand people who had broken the rear were also surrounded.
There are not many people who were killed by landmines in the Hei Shui Governor's Mansion. The main reason is that the effect is too shocking and they die inexplicably. The people who ran back were under great psychological pressure and directly disrupted their own side.
When the enemies from three sides gathered towards this place, the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office could no longer raise the courage to fight, leaving some people to break the rear, and the others took the old and young to run further north, hoping to run far enough, and the Tang army gave up the pursuit.
"Chase, surrender and not kill." Li Xun shouted, wanting to lead the way, but was protected by others, and he also shouted.
The people who left behind the rear and those who were bombed by landmines were the first to surrender. They didn't want to die. Li Xun left some of them tied up and watched them, and continued to chase them with the rest.
The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office were rushed by the riots and could not be arranged in the array. In addition, there were still young and old in the team, so they couldn't raise their speed at all. The more they ran, the more anxious they became, the more tired they felt, and the more they ran, the more they felt, the crying sounds came from the team.
The elderly who cannot run first gave up, followed by women and children crying, willing to leave themselves with the sound of parting sounds resounding on the beach and the woods.
Li Xun was unhappy in chasing him. Whenever he got closer, he would slow down and take good care of the elderly and women who were left by the other party. There was no child, and he was run away by the adults.
This chase took only half a day. The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office wanted to hide after a distance, but they could not escape the hot air balloons flying in the sky. Moreover, they thought that they ran out of the Tang army's sight, but in fact they were still within the range that the Tang army's telescope could observe.
Li Xun commanded the man to chase him for another half an hour, but finally couldn't run anymore. The main reason was that he didn't have to catch up with the enemy at once. Without the idea of fighting to the death in his heart, people would easily become slack.
"Stop, stop, stop chasing, wait for them to run back. If they had run north earlier, I wouldn't have any choice, but who asked them to give me time to rest, rest, and then face the enemy after they have taken the arrested person here, and attack the heart first."
Li Xun was panting and pinching his waist with his hands. He couldn't run anymore. He had been left behind for a long time. Joining the army was far inferior to Li Xun. After all, Li Xun had received training with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office could not run anymore, but they had to run away. If they didn't run away, they would die. When they found that the pursuers behind had no sound, they stopped carefully to make temporary rectifications.
Many adults are blinded, while children are tired from crying, resting or sitting on the ground blankly waiting for the arrival of unknown destiny.
A large number of things were thrown away during the escape, and only a few people were carrying jerky and pancakes on them. They sent people to look back and saw that the Tang army was really not chasing them, so they began to concentrate their food to fill their stomachs.
It is very difficult for people from the Black Water Governor’s Office to eat a bite of dry food and find unmelted snow as water.
After finishing their meals and having the previous running, I felt even more tired, there was a sudden shout of killing in the direction north of them.
Everyone stood up with difficulty and looked at the escape route that was supposed to be their continued journey, and saw dense figures appearing on the small hill to the north.
The monarch of the Hei Shui Governor's Office looked at the people of less than 10,000 people around, and then looked at the thousands of lively Tang soldiers who appeared in front of him, and could not have any fighting spirit for a moment.
Waiting for the other party to reach less than a hundred steps away from him, everyone here showed helpless expressions on their faces.
"Where did you come from?" The monarch of the Hei Shui Governor's Office wanted to die and understand. He knew that he would never survive anyway. Who asked him to send someone to plot against Li Longji?
A person stood up opposite and shouted at the top of his voice: "Run, do you run again? I thought you knew to run north, but we didn't know how to come and ambush first? Well, let you understand what's going on.
When our Highness retreated, he began to order people to take a boat to the ice there. At that time, the ice had not yet melted, so he sent us to go around from the ice to behind you. He thought you could launch an attack some day ago, but he didn't expect that you had waited for so long and almost let us eat up all the food we brought.
Now that you are surrounded by all sides, you have been driving for such a long time, I wonder if you still have the power to fight? Surrender, my Highness said that if you surrender, you will not be killed, except for you, the leader, you will be exempted from death."
The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office finally understood what was going on when they heard what the other party shouted. They regretted it for a moment. If they hadn't been worried about continuing to freeze to death in the north at the beginning, they would not have been surrounded today.
As the other party said, he no longer had the power to fight. Everyone looked at the monarch, wanting the monarch to make a decision. If he fights, he will not be afraid of fighting to the last person.
Chapter completed!