It was dark, and Gao Guiyan's carriage drove into the courtyard from the side door. He got out of the carriage, glanced at the soldiers on the left and right, suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed one of them, and spoke a few words in his ear.
Immediately, he strode into the inner room.
The inner room was bright and bright. Gao Guiyan roughly took off his clothes and threw them on the ground. A servant rushed up to pick them up. Gao Guiyan looked around and became furious, "Where's the beauty?! Where's the wine?!
Where are the musicians?!”
The steward's servant was shocked and hurriedly explained: "The king never said when he would come back."
"No matter when I come back, you must prepare beauties, wine and meat. The musician has been with me for so many years, and you don't even understand this? Come here! Take this guy down and give him thirty lashes!"
The slave did not dare to beg for mercy. Instead, he shouted his thanks and was immediately taken away by the soldiers.
The door to the inner room is tightly closed.
I don't know how long it took, but a few soldiers led a man to this place.
The man who came was tall, wearing armor, and had a strange smile on his face. He was walking behind several soldiers. The soldiers felt uneasy and turned their heads frequently.
The group of people came to the door, and the soldier went up and knocked on the door.
"Come in!!"
Gao Guiyan's roar came from inside.
The soldiers stood on both sides, holding sword hilts. The masked soldier strode forward, pushed open the door in front of him, and rushed in.
At this moment, the house was in a mess.
The musicians were playing cheerful tunes. Gao Guiyan was lying on the ground, surrounded by all kinds of beauties. The wine cups were poured on the floor, and the meat was thrown away casually.
The beauties looked up and saw that under the light, the mask became more and more weird. Several beauties screamed in fright, and some ran inside holding their clothes.
Gao Guiyan waved his hand and made the musicians stop playing.
He stood up angrily and put on his clothes, but still exposed his lower body. He looked at the masked soldier in front of him and said, "How brave! How dare you scare my beauty?!"
The soldier saluted slowly towards him, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Gao Guiyan snorted coldly, sat on the upper seat, and motioned for the beauties to leave.
Soon, they were the only two people left in the room.
Gao Guiyan took another sip of wine, stared at the person in front of him, and shouted irritably: "The mask is taken off! It's taken off! It makes people panic just looking at it!"
The masked soldier took off his mask, and the face under the mask was none other than 'Liu Da', Liu Taozhi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Liu Taozhi looked at Gao Guiyan calmly in front of him, his eyes were cold and showed no emotion or anger.
Gao Guiyan said, "Taozhi, why did you disappear after Emperor Wenxuan passed away?"
"Your Majesty, my subordinates are training the warriors of the guard in the palace and have never gone out."
"Oh, I don't dare to go out. Let me think about it. Prime Minister Gao Dezheng, um, practices benevolent governance and has a very high prestige among the scholars. Even if Yang Min doesn't like him, he still has to show respect for him outside.
Killed by you, well, the third eldest brother of my clan, Yong'an King, and the seventh eldest Shangdang King. Even if Gao Yan, the sixth son, didn't like them, he still had to act like he was commemorating them outside. They were also killed by you.
"
Gao Guiyan suddenly laughed ferociously, "It seems that without His Majesty's protection, no matter who takes office, you will inevitably die."
Liu Taozhi's face remained cold and unmoved.
Gao Guiyan waved his hand and said, "You are a very boring person. Let me ask you, before Emperor Wenxuan passed away, he left an order for me to take charge of the imperial guards inside and outside the palace. Are you, the warrior camp, under my control?
!”
Liu Taozhi then lowered his head and saluted and said, "Here you are."
"Okay, from now on I will call you general, not king."
"only."
"Right now, there is something you need to do."
"Please give me your orders, General."
"There is a lieutenant named Liu Taozi in Boling County. You have to go there for me and kill him."
Liu Taozhi's calm face finally showed a little uneasiness. He raised his head and glanced at Gao Guiyan.
Gao Guiyan suddenly laughed, "This guy's name is quite similar to yours, Taozhi, Taozi, could they be relatives?"
Gao Guiyan's eyes gradually became sharp, "Where are you from?"
"General, this subordinate is from Huaishuo Town."
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot that you are an old man from Six Towns. Well, as I said before, I have to kill him."
Liu Taozhi saluted again, "Wei."
Gao Guiyan then said: "This is the prime minister's order. Just say so to the outside world. I will send someone to read the edict. You can bring some of your own people to protect the envoy and reach Boling County safely."
Gao Guiyan explained in a low voice.
Liu Taozhi listened very seriously.
It was quiet in Yecheng. Under the night, you could occasionally hear the sound of soldiers clashing armor and cursing outside. This sound was transmitted from the road to the inner courtyard. The people inside the house cowered in fear, and mothers covered their children's mouths.
, not daring to make the slightest sound.
On the quiet road, you can't see your fingers.
Only the footsteps of the soldiers patrolling back and forth could be heard. Occasionally they stopped, and then they heard a scream and cry.
From the shadows, something seemed to come out.
There were ordinary houses on both sides. They looked ordinary. Liu Taozhi walked out of the shadows and gently opened the door. He looked around and quietly entered the house.
When he entered the inner room, it was still empty, not even a candle.
Liu Taozhi came to a wall, moved the dilapidated wooden cabinet in front of him, and saw a secret door.
He knocked on the secret door rhythmically, and soon, someone opened the door.
Xiao Wu's eyes were bright and he hurriedly bowed to Liu Taozhi. Liu Taozhi didn't even look at him, but pushed him away roughly and quickly walked into the dark room.
Mrs. Liu Zhang got up excitedly and walked over quickly, "I would have left some food if I had known that my beloved was back."
"No need, I've eaten."
Liu Taozhi immediately sat here and waved his hand, signaling Xiao Wu to come over and give him a shoulder squeeze.
He looked at Mrs. Liu Zhang aside. His expression was extremely complicated, and his lips trembled for a long time before he said, "I have to go out for a trip, which may take more than ten days."
Mrs. Liu Zhang quickly became alert, "Going out at this time? Could it be that King Changshan wants to take action and drive away his beloved?"
"It's an order from Gao Guiyan."
"Gao Guiyan and Yang Zhen don't get along. Could it be that he has surrendered to King Changshan and wants to drive away his beloved and then launch an attack?"
Liu Taozhi sneered, "These are not important. What is important is the person he asked me to go out to kill."
"Who to kill?"
"Great Qi Boling County Lieutenant Liu Gong!!!"
Liu Taozhi gritted his teeth at this moment, and the word "Liu Gong" was almost squeezed out from between his teeth.
Liu Zhang's expression changed drastically, and she frowned, "Then we need to find someone who looks similar to him quickly."
"Hey, why don't you just look for me? I have a similar appearance to him. I happened to take people to Boling, cut off my own head, and then sent someone to give it to Gao Guiyan, and said that this is Liu Guiyan.
peach."
Xiao Wu burst out laughing, Liu Taozhi turned around and glared at him, Xiao Wu quickly lowered his head.
Mrs. Liu Zhang looked at him helplessly, "Taozi is kind-hearted, too simple, and easily trusts bad people. He will be used by these bad people and eventually abandon him. Alas, I told him before that he should not be like this."
Liu Taozhi then said: "Okay, don't worry, I didn't really want to kill him, I just wanted to show it to Yang Min. You are right, Gao Guiyan did submit to Gao Yan."
Mrs. Liu Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and she hurriedly said: "Maybe we can bring Taozi back during this trip? Let him not take risks again?"
"Oh, Mr. Liu is not a stupid official now. He has reached the ninth rank. The disappearance of an official is different from the disappearance of a minor official!"
"Damn it, I think that Gao Yan wants to continue to promote him. If this continues, I'm afraid this guy's official position will surpass that of Nai Gong."
Mrs. Liu Zhang was worried, "In short, a good man should persuade him more. Tao Zi is a good boy. I'm afraid that bad people from other families will lead him to bad things."
Liu Taozhi didn't speak. He sighed again, "If Gao Yan wants to take action, I'm afraid Yang Min won't be able to stop him. Gao Yan has a good relationship with King Yong'an."
Mrs. Liu Zhang comforted her again: "My dear, don't worry. Gao Yan has a good relationship with King Yong'an, but they are not particularly close. However, the relationship between Gao Zhan and King Shangdang is quite bad. The two are incompatible.
With this matter, Gao Zhan can keep his beloved."
"Besides, seeing that such a big thing is going to happen here, it is a good thing for my beloved to leave Yecheng."
"I hope so."
Changshan, Zhending.
The previously empty road was now bustling with people, people crowded together, stretched out their necks, and looked to the front, their eyes full of urgency.
Their eyes were eager and they kept pushing forward.
The county official held a long whip, and the whip made bursts of sound in the air, throwing out beautiful whip flowers and crackling sounds.
The people on the left and right retreated in fear.
The county official said loudly: "No crowding is allowed!! Everybody line up for me!!"
"Whoever dares to squeeze again will no longer be compensated!!"
The people retreated one after another, looking at the sea of ​​people in front of them. The county officials also had a headache, so they could only keep shouting around to get everyone to line up to avoid trampling casualties.
At the front, there were county officials sitting, sorting out the people who came.
"What standards were used to collect grain from you last year?"
"Forty acres of farmland will be granted, and twenty acres of mulberry fields will be granted."
"Then how much money do you have in your name? Tell the truth. We will investigate thoroughly. If you lie, do you know the consequences?"
"I know, I know, there are actually eight acres of mulberry fields, and there is no land granted."
The county official started writing, "Okay, take this and go over there to collect the compensation. In addition, your household registration should grant you forty acres of land. The county government will compensate you as soon as possible. Don't move around these days.
Officials will come to your door."
"Wei,wei."
Zhending County Magistrate was standing not far away. Looking at the lively scene in front of him, he couldn't help but chuckle. He stroked his beard and said to the people around him: "The person who came up with this method is really clever."
"If we tell the people that we need to thoroughly investigate Grantian and Mulberry Fields and ask them to come to the county government to report, I'm afraid they won't dare to come."
"But if it is for compensation, these people will come one after another, and they will tell the truth about the nominal and actual amount of cultivated land without asking."
"Who thought of this?"
The county magistrate on the side quickly said: "I heard that it was mentioned by Zheng Zifan, the Anping Order of Boling County."
"Oh, it turns out it's him. No wonder. Zheng Zifan comes from a famous family. He is really talented and learned. He will definitely be put to good use in the future."
The county magistrate looked at the magistrate with a smile on his face and hesitated to speak.
The county magistrate said softly: "Why, do you think there is anything wrong?"
The county magistrate hurriedly said: "Yang Gong, it's not that there is anything wrong. It's just that the governor is so troublesome, bullying famous families in Dingzhou, even Confucian families, which has caused great controversy in various places. I heard that great
In Lu's Quyang and other counties, there were scholars running around shouting that Confucianism had been vindicated and demanding that the cruel officials be killed. Scholars from all over Dingzhou responded, but officials did not dare to punish them."
"There are many scholars in Zhending. If these people also make trouble, what should we do?"
Looking at the worried county magistrate, the county magistrate sneered disdainfully, "What are you afraid of them for? These people don't know the Heart Sutra, and they don't know about state affairs. They hang out together all day long, like sex, and sing songs all day long. Why are they rehabilitating Confucianism?
They are unwilling to pay the grain and provide farmland, and they just want to force King Ande and Lieutenant Liu away."
"Their method can be used to scare scholars like you, but if they use it to deal with King Ande, they are asking for trouble. How can these Chinese people care about their own reputation??"
"These scholars are stupid because of their reading. They think they are noble and think that they can control the reputation of others and blackmail the powerful. Oh, this is treating King Ande as the King of Kaifeng. It is ridiculous and ridiculous."
"If something like this happens in the county, you can just lead the county officials to shoot the leader."
Hearing the county magistrate's words, the county magistrate's eyes widened, "Shoot the scholar here."
"This is for their own good. If we don't shoot the leader, when King Ander comes with his army, hehe, it won't be a matter of two or three lives."
"only!!"
Just as the two of them were talking, shouts and curses suddenly came from the distance.
"Get out of the way!! Get out of the way!!"
I heard someone shouting angrily.
The horseman waved his whip and drove the people in front of him. The road was already blocked by these people. At this moment, due to the forced driving, some people bumped into each other. The entire county government office became chaotic. Some people began to flee and some shouted.
, the order that the county officials worked so hard to maintain was actually destroyed at this moment.
The county officials were furious, but looking at the carriage, they did not dare to get angry.
The county magistrate secretly looked at the county magistrate beside him, and the magistrate's face turned out to be ugly.
He looked straight at the carriage in the distance, "Lu Zhuangzhi"
He suddenly threw off his sleeves and turned back. The county magistrate hurriedly followed behind him.
Lu Zhuangzhi's carriage passed through the people unscrupulously. Lu Zhuangzhi frowned and urged the coachman anxiously. Finally, the carriage squeezed through the crowd and galloped away into the distance.
The carriage stopped outside the state government office. Lu Zhuangzhi quickly dismounted and, led by several petty officials, hurried towards Beppu.
When I got here, I saw a handsome and energetic scribe coming out to greet me.
"Female the Lord!"
"Jun Lu!"
The two of them bowed to each other, and Lu Zhuangzhi followed him into the inner room. As soon as he sat down, Lu Zhuangzhi couldn't help complaining: "This bully is too deceptive. He uses food from various county offices to deceive the ignorant and win over people's hearts."
, His heart can be killed!!"
"The road in front of the county government office has been blocked by people, making it impossible to enter or exit."
Shi Fengxun, the governor of Ding, took his hand and said, "Brother, please don't be angry."
Feng Xun slowly took out a letter, looked around, and handed it to Lu Zhuangzhi in front of him.
Lu Zhuangzhi hurriedly read it. After a few glances, he was overjoyed.
He asked excitedly: "The temple is going to send people to kill Liu Taozi??"
"Brother! Keep your voice down!!"
Feng Xun quickly snatched the letter back and carefully hid it in his sleeve. Lu Zhuangzhi's face was full of excitement, and he quickly asked: "Is this true??"
"Of course it's true. I heard that Duke Yan's clan brother Huangmen Yan Zifei is the envoy, and he is guarded by more than a hundred warriors. He is holding an edict and is already on the way."
"This time they came, firstly, to remove King Ande from his position as governor, and secondly, to kill the cruel official Liu Taozi!!"
Lu Zhuangzhi couldn't help crying because of his excitement. He wiped his tears and said, "Okay, okay, this guy is finally going to die."
He couldn't help but said: "This thief has committed so many murders. In Anping, he killed two members of the Cui family, destroyed the rest of Wubao, and took away all the cultivated land. The Cui family in Boling was actually killed by him.
The torment was so unbearable. Not to mention, he committed another murder in Raoyang. Who doesn’t respect Liu Confucianism? All the Five Classics of the World came from him. It was such a Confucian family that he wiped out the family, including the women and children.
I’ve never let it go!!”
Lu Zhuangzhi's tears fell again.
Feng Xun couldn't help crying at this moment, "He himself did evil, but he also instigated King Ande. In this month, King Ande followed him to many counties and counties in Dingzhou. The places he went to were all
Massacre, killing families and ransacking homes, killing tens of thousands of people in more than thirty days!!"
"Don't you know, Mr. Lu, that Liu Taozi is leading the governor to Quyang, saying that the scholars there are plotting a rebellion, and they want to suppress it with a large army. I don't know how much bad karma will be caused! It's too many to describe!!"
Thinking of these suffering sages, the two couldn't help but hug each other and cry. Lu Zhuangzhi even cried out: "What have we, the people of Dingzhou, done to let God send such evil beasts to do harm!"
The two cried for a long time before they calmed down.
Lu Zhuangzhi hurriedly said: "Fengjun, you have to act quickly. Before they attack Quyang, quickly send someone to call them to Zhending!"
Feng Xun nodded, "That's what I have in mind. I'm contacting sages from all over the country. There are many people who are dissatisfied with them. When the time comes, we can accuse them together in front of the angels! So that the angels can know the evil deeds of these two people.
It would also be good for everyone in Dingzhou to know that you and I are determined to punish rape and eradicate evil!!"
Lu Zhuangzhi's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood what the other party was thinking. He said with a smile: "If this is the case, I'm afraid my good brother will become famous all over the world. Whether it is Cui or Yang, they will pay more attention to you in the future!"
Feng Xun shook his head, "Brother, I'm just a long history man. How can I accomplish such a big thing? It's up to you to make the decision."
"Well, how about this? I'll contact the officials, and you'll contact the famous sages. How about this?"
"Hahaha, good!!"
The two of them had countless calculations going on in their minds at this moment. They looked at each other with confident smiles.
Chapter completed!