On the evening of the seventh day of the second month, Zhao Hongrun and his party were about six or seven miles away from Wu County.

On this day, they encountered two more assassins.

The previous time, the assassins disguised themselves as business travelers, trying to attack Zhao Hongrun's team using the excuse of asking for directions. Unfortunately, the sect guards had long been suspicious of these past business travelers and did not let the other party succeed.

The next time, the assassins hid in a forest next to the official road. When Zhao Hongrun's team passed by, they actually killed them directly.

If nothing unexpected happens, this wave of people should be those greedy and brave, and they were blinded by the reward of 50,000 yuan, and once again gathered to attack Zhao Hongrun.

This time, there were more than a hundred people who came to attack. The clan guards fought with the soldiers to kill them.

These successive assassinations caused heavy casualties among the soldiers in Zhao Hongrun's team. Not to mention them, even the sect guards were injured this time.

Gao Kuo's right leg was cut, and blood flowed. Wei Jiao, Lu Mu, Mu Qing and others also suffered skin trauma to varying degrees, especially Chu Heng, the most brave, who was stabbed in his stomach by a ranger. Fortunately, he grabbed the other party's blade with his hands in time and squeezed it tightly. Otherwise, Zhao Hongrun might have lost a loyal sect guard here.

However, as the price of survival by chance, Chu Heng's left hand was severely cut by the sword blade, and there was still a faint blue and white thing under the blood and blood, which was the bone.

It is conceivable how deep the cut was.

It's unreasonable! It's unreasonable!

Seeing that one side was assassinated one after another, the sect guards were injured and the soldiers died, Zhao Hongrun's anger became stronger and stronger.

However, reason forced him to calm down. After all, he also understood that this was not the time for an attack. However, when he contacted the Shang Shui Army and summoned the Shang Shui Army to protect the support, then...

There was a strong murderous intent in his eyes, and Zhao Hongrun held the reins tightly, his face gloomy as water.

Because he was worried that sleeping in the wilderness would cause assassination again, even though it was already night, Zhao Hongrun and his party slowly headed to Wu County.

I was a little sorry for the soldiers who died on the way. After all, in order to reduce the burden, He Zhirong had to place the bodies of the soldiers who died in the wild. He would borrow the soldiers from the county tomorrow and the next day, and then collect the bodies for them and handle the funeral.

It was not until around the Xu hour that day that Zhao Hongrun and others arrived in Wu County.

At this time, the gate of the county town that had been closed long ago.

"Open the door! Open the door!"

The chief of the clan guard Shen Yu stood at the city and shouted loudly.

A moment later, a torch dropped from the city wall of Wu County, and then a head poked out from the city wall and said cursingly: "What is it? I don't know if the time has passed, come again tomorrow!"

At this moment, Zhao Hongrun was in a state of anger. Hearing the county soldier cursing reply on the city wall, he shouted in a rare angrily voice: "I am King Su Hongrun, come down and open the door for me!"

"Su...King Su?" The county soldier on the city wall was startled. Then, a few torches were thrown off the city wall again, illuminating Zhao Hongrun and his group.

"You...you said you are King Su? What are the evidence?"

Zhao Hongrun laughed without anger when he heard this, and sneered: "When I throw you into prison the next day, you will know what evidence I have!"

From the side, He Zhirong frowned slightly and couldn't help but persuade: "King Su calmed down. I know that King Su was angry. I am the same as me, but why do I have to be as knowledgeable as the city guards in office?"

Hearing He Zhirong's persuasion, Zhao Hongrun realized that he had lost his composure, so he nodded and calmed down his anger.

At this time, He Zhirong took his mount and took a few steps forward, shouting at the county soldiers on the city wall: "I am the head of the post station twenty miles away from the northern suburbs of the county. Have He Zhirong ever heard of me?"

"Master of the He family?"

Another head was poked out from the city wall, and he looked at He Zhirong carefully, then said to the other county soldiers on the city wall: "That's right, it's Mr. He from the He family in the north of our county town, please open the door."

After a moment, the city gate opened wide and the county soldiers came up with a smile. After all, He Zhirong's post commander was also a big official, after all, he was in charge of a garrison.

He Zhirong smiled slightly at the county soldiers, then looked back and asked Zhao Hongrun and said, "Your Highness Su, please."

Huh?

Is it really King Su?

The soldiers of the county looked at each other, especially the county soldier who had just cursed on the city wall. At this moment, he looked even more afraid and looked down and dared not speak.

Fortunately, Zhao Hongrun just took his anger and didn't really want to care about this person, so he ignored these people and drove his mount into the city.

"Where is the direction of the county magistrate's office?" Zhao Hongrun turned around and asked after entering the city.

Because the soldiers of the county knew that they had offended the King Su, they were afraid to speak. However, He Zhirong came immediately and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, Prince Su, I am also from Wu County and are quite familiar with Wu County. I will lead the way for King Su."

"I'm working hard." Zhao Hongrun took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.

Half an hour later, under the leadership of He Zhirong, Zhao Hongrun went straight to the county government office in Wu County.

The county magistrate of Wu County is named Huang, with a single name of the word "玉", and he is a few years younger than He Zhirong.

When he heard that the Prince Su, Hongrun, had arrived in his county and was outside the county government, Huang Yu, who had already been on the bed to rest, was wearing only a single dress and a pair of boots, and hurried from the back yamen to the front yamen, probably because he wanted to welcome Zhao Hongrun into the government yamen in person.

However, Zhao Hongrun had no intention of putting on airs after being assassinated one after another. Before Huang Yu arrived, he entered the government office through He Zhirong's relationship with the county office.

In an instant, Huang Yu, the county magistrate of the county, who was only wearing a single dress, paid a visit to Zhao Hongrun in the front yamen.

During this period, he also greeted He Zhirong: "Brother Zhirong."

He Zhirong smiled and bowed, and respectfully called out: "Mr. County Magistrate."

Zhao Hongrun strangely discovered that He Zhirong seemed to have a good relationship with the county magistrate Huang Yu, so he asked: "President He, have you known each other for a long time with the county magistrate Huang?"

He Zhirong smiled and said, "Your Highness Su, the wife of the county magistrate, is my clan girl."

Zhao Hongrun understood as soon as he heard this. No wonder He Zhirong could enter the county town after the gate of the city, or enter and exit the county government at will.

Of course, this is not surprising.

After all, generally speaking, county magistrates like Huang Ju were appointed by the court as county magistrates in a certain place through imperial examinations or recommendations.

When these county magistrates took office, most of them were alone or with a servant.

Take Huang Yu, the county magistrate in front of him. If he had entered the official career as a civilian and had no backing, then the first thing he did after taking office was not to focus on local public security and people's livelihood, but to establish good relations with local nobles and gentry.

The best way is to marry a woman from a local wealthy family, just like the yellow squid in front of you.

In this way, the county magistrate, who is an "outsider", will be accepted and supported by the local wealthy families, without deliberately making any trouble to tease the county magistrate.

The only difference is that some local tyrants just want to establish a good relationship with the county magistrate to avoid damage to the interests of the family, while some local tyrants simply want to control the county magistrate and seek benefits.

Sometimes, local officials collude with the wealthy family because of this nepotism.

And this kind of relationship cannot be said to be good or bad.

Compared with the He family where He Zhirong is located, he has been so miserably as a legitimate descendant. It is not difficult to see that the He family is a relatively upright and simple noble in Wei. With his marriage, Huang Ju, the county magistrate, could integrate into Wu County more quickly and start to implement his ambitions as soon as possible.

This is of course a positive example, but it is undeniable that there will be negative examples.

But no matter what, the court has always turned a blind eye to such things, because such things are repeatedly banned. Even if the court stipulated that only officials after marriage could serve as county magistrates in various places, it was still useless. Even if they had a regular wife, wouldn't they still be able to marry a side house?

What's more, you can also have a break in your room, right?

In short, this phenomenon is difficult to truly eradicate. Even if the county magistrates from all over the country are moved to other places every few years, the result is still the same.

After a simple greeting, Huang Yu, the county magistrate of the county, welcomed Zhao Hongrun, Zong Wei, and several female relatives to the Houya.

Because the front yamen is the place where cases are handled, the back yamen is the residence.

After arranging the residences of Miss Su and other female family members and the clan guards, Huang Qi invited Zhao Hongrun and He Zhirong to the study.

Although Huang Qi did not dare to ask Zhao Hongrun's purpose, He Zhirong, as the postmaster in the northern suburbs of Wu County, was not allowed to leave without authorization, let alone leave with the soldiers in the postmaster.

"Brother Zhirong, was it that something happened?"

Given that Huang Ju was not an outsider, He Zhirong did not hide it, so he told the former everything about the past two days.

Huang Yu was stunned and shocked when he heard this.

Thinking about it, even the prince Zhao Hongrun, the dignified King Su, dares to assassinate. What else can those assassins not do?

"It's simply a matter of being unable to tell the truth! It's impossible to tell the truth!"

Huang Yu is worthy of being a scholar. Similar to He Zhirong, he has extremely scarce vocabulary for swearing, and he only has a few words back and forth.

After cursing for a few words, Huang Yu realized his incompetence and quickly bowed to Zhao Hongrun to apologize, and then asked, "Do you know what His Highness Su has ordered the subordinates?"

Zhao Hongrun was not polite and said bluntly: "Master Huang County, I believe that the group of thieves will not stop just because I arrived in Wu County. I want to ask you to send someone to Yanling immediately. There is a Shang Shui Army stationed in Yanling, so I ask the Shang Shui Army to rush to this county to protect the support immediately!"

"Deploy troops?" Huang Yu was shocked and asked for instructions: "I wonder how many troops your highness wants to dispatch?"

Zhao Hongrun pondered for a moment. To be honest, there were not many troops available at the moment, because the Dangshan army attacking Sanchuan in the front and the 16,000 Shangshui soldiers who had not returned to their garrison after the war were damaged. Qu Jun's 20,000 Yanling troops were also far away in Dangshan, staring at the Song territory for the Dangshan army.

In fact, the only available troops Zhao Hongrun currently has is the total number of 10,000 Shangshui troops stationed in Shangshui and Yanling.

But just wait for a month or two to wait for the Dangshan Army, Yanling Army and Shang Shui Army to return to their garrisons, hum!

Although Zhao Hongrun could not directly mobilize the Dangshan army without the permission of his father, Emperor Wei, but even if there were only Yanling army and Shangshui army, he had 40,000 to 50,000 troops in his hands.

What's the point of being a mere summer?

However, it would take another month or two to wait, and Zhao Hongrun could not wait.

He couldn't wait to vent his aggrievance and anger in his heart over the past few days, or to put it bluntly, he couldn't wait to try to retaliate against the Yang Xia Yin thieves. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!