Chapter six hundred and ninetieth: fierce scholar
"Master Fan, do you think Xu Xiang is a scholar? Why do I feel that he is more cruel than us martial artists?" Shi Hong looked at all this in a daze, and after a while, he turned around and said to Fan Shengdao.
Fan Sheng was also dumbfounded.
He didn't expect that he wanted to come and contact Xu Xiang in person, but he would have seen such a big show. Before coming, he did not inform anyone, but only brought Shi Hong and two other guards. He didn't want Xu Xiang to know in advance that he would come to see him. What he observed casually was the most real thing.
But he really didn't expect that Xu Xiang would be such a person.
During the conversation with Zhu Youzhen, Xu Xiang in Zhu Youzhen's mouth was an outstanding figure who was elegant, elegant in his conversation, had a gully in his chest, and had courage. Therefore, in Fan Sheng's mind, the general appearance of a person like Xu Xiang was already outlined.
This is a talented man who was forced to go up the mountain to become a bandit.
Unexpectedly, what he saw now was a hideous face, the hem of his robe was tucked around his waist, the knife in his hand was waving bloodily, and a dirty word in his mouth was cursing the guy on the street.
Where is this scholar?
Seeing him cursing, he was as straight as a ruffian on the street.
Seeing that he was still indifferent to his face and his heart was still beating, he was a bandit.
Oh, by the way, he did have been a bandit.
Not long after, the sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder in the distance, and a group of people swept over. Shi Hong pulled Fan Sheng to the side of the road, watching these knights rolling over from them like the wind, and the first one was the guy named Xu Ba who left here not long ago.
These people were wearing constables' clothes and county soldiers' clothes, but they were cursing in a mess. Fan Sheng mostly didn't understand it, and only one sentence made him laugh and cry.
"That guy dares to bully our second leader, I'll invite him to eat the noodles!"
Shi Hong sighed: "It's just such a group of people who are governing Tai'an Mansion. The third prince actually said that Tai'an Mansion is very good now?"
Fan Shengdao: "Or it was this group of people who governed Tai'an Mansion that made Tai'an what it is now."
The two of them saw the group of people rushing to Zhou Hao's servants, and they didn't get off the horse. The whip in their hands was like a windmill, and the crackling sound was accompanied by the wails of the servants. These people bullied the common people, but when they faced these tough professional bandits, they were beaten to the ground in an instant.
It was not until everyone fell down that the people got off the horse. The iron chains shook and locked the servants who were wailing on the ground. Even Zhou Hao was no exception. Seeing that they tied Zhou Hao and his men behind the horse's butt and intended to drag them back like this, Fan Sheng strode over.
"Xu Fujun!" Fan Sheng bowed with fists.
"Who are you?" Xu Xiang skillfully rubbed the knife under the foot board a few times, wiped the blood clean, and then took it back into his waist.
"In the lower Fan Sheng."
Xu Xiang's movement immediately froze. After a moment, the originally vicious and ferocious face immediately became snowy. His smile naturally floated up. He stretched out his hand and put down the corner of the robe tucked around his waist. He clasped his fists and bowed deeply: "It turns out that it was Fan Zhusi who was responsible for it. I have misfortune. I wish you forgive me for your crimes and forgive me for your crimes!"
Looking at the other party's standard etiquette, Fan Sheng was speechless again. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, the fierce second leader of the Taishan bandit just now became a humble gentleman.
It seemed that Xu Xiang knew who Fan Sheng was. The two had a big difference in official positions, so Fan Sheng stopped returning the courtesy, but smiled and said, "Do you know who I am?"
"The Third Highness once told me." Xu Xiang straightened up and said seriously: "It's as thunderous as thunder!"
"The Third Prince really trusts you, and even tells you about my affairs!" Fan Sheng said with a smile.
"Give it to your peach and repay it to your plum." Xu Xiang said with a smile: "The Third Highness is my mentor, treating me with sincerity. This is exactly the reason why I, Taishan bandits, are willing to vote for the Third Highness. But it is not just because of someone's head."
"Can you talk about it step by step?" Fan Sheng sent an invitation.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xiang waved to Xu Bayi's men and said, "Train these guys who are indecent to me back to the government office and put a big shackle outside the government office to show it to the public."
"Second leader, are you here alone?" Xu Ba hesitated.
"With Mr. Fan here, who can touch a hair?" Xu Xiang laughed: "Go quickly and go quickly. Guys like Zhou Hao just happened to warn some guys that people who do not abide by the rules in Tai'an Mansion will end up like this."
"No!" Xu Ba turned over and wanted to leave.
"Xu Fujun, although Zhou Hao is guilty this time, he will not die. Let Fan's guards give him some medicine for injury. Otherwise, if the blood continues like this, I'm afraid that when I arrive at the government office, I will be 70% or 80% of my life will be gone." Fan Sheng said with a smile.
"That's true, I'll ask you all." Xu Xiang glanced at Zhou Hao in disgust and bowed to Shi Hong.
Taking advantage of Shi Hong's chance to apply medicine to Zhou Hao, Xu Xiang turned his head and said to the farmers: "These lands are yours. This is registered in the government office. Whoever dares to rob it will go to me to complain."
"Thank you, Master Qingtian!" A group of farmers thanked them very much.
"Please, Master Fan, let's walk slowly, and say ok as we walk?" Xu Xiang said to Fan Sheng.
The two of them walked slowly on the road.
"Does Xu Fujun bring so many people every time he comes out?"
"Yes." Xu Xiang said: "I killed a lot of people in Tai'an, but those bastards always kill each other. People always jumped out to cause trouble for me. On a few occasions, they almost killed my life, so they had to be careful."
"Do you deserve to die for those people you killed?" Fan Sheng glanced at Xu Xiang.
Xu Xiang laughed: "Some people do not kill themselves."
"Then why did you kill them?" Fan Sheng's face changed slightly: "Aren't you still talking about the law just now?"
"Although I won't die, I have to kill you for the sake of the great cause of the Third Prince. Anyway, it's unfair to kill all of these people, but if you kill one of them, there will definitely be someone who misses the net." Xu Xiang said lightly. "Is Master Fan here to ask for the crime?"
Fan Sheng shook his head: "Of course not, I'm just curious."
"With Fan Zhusi's intelligence, what's so strange about this?" Xu Xiang smiled and said, "The Third Highness said that a large number of people would be moved from Qingzhou. When these people came, they had to have food and work to do, and they had to settle down. What could make them settle down? Of course it was the land. But the land in Tai'an was controlled by these gentry landlords. They said that they supported the Third Highness, but would they really want them to offer these lands? Of course, they slaughtered them with one knife. After collecting their land, they could distribute them to the immigrants, paying their family wealth, and the military capital of the Third Highness's army temporarily had a place. Fan Zhusi, otherwise how could you think the Third Highness could form an army of tens of thousands of people in Tai'an at such a fast speed? If you don't have money, can you do this?"
Fan Sheng was speechless.
That's really the case.
"No matter how much you give these local tyrants and bad gentry, they take it for granted. But these common people are different. If you give them a little, they will remember your good fortune for the rest of your life. Look, next year, we will definitely be extremely easy to collect taxes and military rations in Tai'an, because these people all know that their land is given by the Third Highness!" Xu Xiang continued.
"Are you so sure?"
"Of course, because I am also a little bitch." Xu Xiang said seriously: "No one knows better than me what the little bitch thinks."
Fan Sheng nodded, maybe what he said made sense. From Zhu Youzhen's perspective, a person like Xu Xiang is indeed a capable guy.
"Is it necessary to offend Zhou?"
"It's very necessary!" Xu Xiang said: "Actually, they don't come to cause trouble for me, and I'm going to cause trouble for them. Such people are just used as rules for setting up rules."
"You are not afraid of offending Sun Tonglin, that's the most useful person in front of the Third Highness!" Fan Sheng said with a smile.
Xu Xiang burst into laughter.
"What are you laughing at? Aren't you?"
"When I was still in Qingzhou, Sun Tonglin was indeed the most useful person in His Highness, but now it may not be better than me." Xu Xiang said with a smile.
Fan Sheng was stunned and looked at Xu Xiang for a while. This person was too smart. When he was in Qingzhou, the third prince had to use Sun Tonglin's power to successfully complete the migration. Now the migration has been completed, and Xu Xiang did a much better job in resettlement than expected. Sun Tonglin's importance has been greatly reduced.
"Do you know that many people in the Sun family will enter the shogunate of the Third Prince and become the generals of the Third Prince. The Third Prince even handed over his fiefdom in Guanzhong to Sun Tonglin for management. Moreover, Sun Tonglin's granddaughter will become the concubine of the Third Prince soon!"
"I, Xu Xiangke, are not alone, they have helpers. And in the future, I think my accomplices are much more capable than Sun. As for the concubine? Ha, if the third prince is a person who can be blown over by the wind on the pillow, it would be that Xu Xiang is blind. It's amazing. I will be a bandit again!"
Fan Sheng smiled bitterly.
"Actually, sometimes you can reason. You have read a lot of books and are extremely smart. There is no need to be so tough." Fan Sheng advised.
Chapter completed!