The waist is hunched, the back is slumped, the neck is shrunk, and there is a trademark flattering smile on his face. This is the standard expression for subordinates when they see a superior. As a professional bureaucrat who has been immersed in officialdom for twenty years, Huang You knows this well.

Sun Ruyou has this expression now. If there is anything different, it is that he is bent lower than himself and his smile is more flattering than himself! Huang You feels that his spine is cold and his calves are a little weak.

"Hey! Mr. Sun, it's rare." Xie Youcai held his fists and cupped his hands towards Sun Ruyou. The handcuff chains on his hands made a clanging sound.

"What are you...!" Sun Ruyou looked at the handcuffs on Xie Youcai's wrists and felt an ominous feeling. He glanced sideways at the pale Huang You, guessing that this bastard had caused a big trouble.

There’s no one in the capital that you can mess with, but you’ve chosen to mess with someone like Xie Youcai. Who doesn’t know that this guy used to be Dong Laishun, the big shopkeeper of Quanjude, and the big manager of Bianyifang. These transactions were all done by Mr. Li Xiao

Yes, now this capital city is said to belong to the imperial court, rather than to the Liao army.

Ordinary people don't know it yet, but Sun Ruyou, who is the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, knows that the imperial government's decrees are even ignored in the capital today. At this time, he actually dared to take Xie Youcai back to Shuntian Prefecture. This Huang You is dissatisfied with his long life.

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"This Master Huang looks at a villain but wears accessories. That's not right! He gave me a pair of bracelets, but they hurt my wrists when I rubbed them. He also said that the muscles and bones in my lower body are a bit tight and I need to go to your Shuntian Mansion to loosen them. Master Sun, I didn't hear about you."

Shuntian Mansion has a good master of bone loosening. This is your fault. You hide your secrets from your brother. It’s not kind!"

Xie Youcai smiled softly, but he didn't forget to make fun of him.

"Huang Tixing, what's going on?" Sun Ruyou looked at Huang You with a cold face. At this moment, it would be better to take it out as soon as possible.

"Sun...Master Sun...!" Huang You was tongue-tied and could no longer say a complete sentence. The calmness and composure he had practiced throughout his life was now flowing out of his sweat pores in the form of cold sweat.

"Huang Tixing! You may not know that this is Marshal Li's chief steward. I will give you a chance to explain things clearly to the great steward Xie. Otherwise...!" Sun Ruyou usually talks to this Huang You.

The relationship is pretty good. Although I don't want to get involved, I don't want to add insult to injury.

"Thank you, steward! Your Excellency, you don't remember the faults of villains, let... let this official go." Huang You couldn't care less about his official status, and with a "pop", he knelt down on the ground and cupped his hands to beg for mercy.

"Ouch! How dare I let you go? You are an official, and I am just a commoner as big as a mustard seed. How am I qualified to let you go!" Xie Youcai still teased with a smile.

Huang You is about to collapse, why are you still here? You are a common man, even the Shuntian Prefecture Yin will pout when he sees you.

"Actually, I am also a person who is willing to make friends, and I have no intention of getting into trouble with Huang Tixing. It's just that your brother-in-law just teased the handsome maid in front of the handsome man. This is a bit too much! Besides, you,

Brother-in-law, my reputation is not very good on weekdays. I heard that you still support me, so... if you really want grace, it would be better to go to my handsome man.

Oh! By the way! Before asking, you'd better break your brother-in-law's legs. It's more polite!" Xie Youcai is a good person, and when he saw Huang You's appearance, he gave the most kind gesture.

Huang You didn't hesitate at all. His body seemed to be equipped with a spring, and he immediately jumped up from the ground. He grabbed the short stick from the catcher's hand, and before his brother-in-law could react, he knocked on it with lightning speed.

on his knees.

"Crack!" There was a crisp sound, and Dahuangya's leg was broken with just one stick. His quick and brutal moves showed that he had practiced it at first sight.

"Ouch!" Amidst Da Huangya's screams, Xie Youcai screamed in surprise. He didn't expect that this Huang Tixing was still a practitioner. Fortunately, there were many people on the street just now, otherwise he would have done it for himself. I would be afraid in the future.

To become a cripple.

"May I ask the steward, where is the commander-in-chief? Please let me go and see you. Uh...!" Huang You bowed his head and spoke to Xie Youcai, but after seeing the look in Xie Youcai's eyes, he swallowed his words.

Huang You realized that Li Xiao was now the ruler of the capital. I was afraid that he was not high enough to meet others with his official position.

"Please report to the Commander-in-Chief, please. If you have any important information, please submit it to me." He looked around like a thief, then came to Xie Youcai and whispered.

"Oh! What's the matter?" Xie Youcai didn't take it seriously at all. He was just a criminal officer, what could be important about it.

"I heard that Wang Tiqian returned to Beijing."

"Seriously?" Xie Youcai's eyes lit up.

"real!"

Xie Youcai returned to the house, and Li Xiao was doing military boxing in the yard. Although this kind of boxing is a bit like group gymnastics, it is also very good to exercise one's body in one set. Now the Liao army is promoting this military boxing. Can

I don’t know if it can be used for anything, but it is just a way to exercise.

Li Xiao didn't say anything, and neither did anyone else. After he finished punching, Xing'er immediately brought a military cotton-padded jacket and put it on Li Xiao.

"Have you finished the punishment matter?" He wiped the sweat on his forehead with a cloth and looked at Xie Youcai, who had just come in. Today, Li Xiao was originally going to follow him to have a look, but an urgent military report came from Shanhaiguan.

There was internal strife between the two red flags in Shenyang City, and Abatai and Dege killed Daishan. Thanks to the backward communication methods of this era, it was not until five days later that Li Xiao received the military report from Mao Wenlong at Shanhaiguan.

"If I return to the commander-in-chief, everything is done. The execution officer Huang You broke his brother-in-law's leg, and he will probably be a cripple for the rest of his life. Lord Yin Sun of Shuntian Prefecture means that there is a shortage of people at the Yamen Gate now. Suggestions

Demoted to three levels and retained!"

"Yes!" Li Xiao nodded. There is a serious shortage of officials at all levels now. After all, the Donglin Party has too much power among scholars. With the opposition of Qian Qianyi, the great master of the generation, most scholars do not dare to work under Li Xiao.

Although he can let his officers serve temporarily, Li Xiao has always believed that soldiers are more familiar with combat than management. Simple and rough should be the thinking of soldiers, and complicated personnel politics should never be allowed to get involved by soldiers. Besides, officers are not enough.

use.

Although the military academy is working hard to train officers, it still can't keep up with Li Xiao's army expansion speed. Now Li Xiao begins to understand what it means to find a general with a thousand troops but it is easy to get one. It is really difficult to find a general who can do his job alone.

Now Li Xiao's subordinates are just Ao Canghai, Yuan Chonghuan, Cao Wenzhao, Zu Dashou and Mangui. As for Wu Xiang, Li Xiao has always had a problem with this person. Maybe it's because he has a very famous son named Wu Sangui

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"Tell Mr. Zhang to straighten out the officialdom. We can't let the officials below do whatever they want, like this Huang Tixing. The people are still alive. Since Huang Tixing's brother-in-law has had his legs broken, then Don't waste it. Let people carry it and parade it through the streets, but it can be paraded in the four or nine cities for three days. It's like acting like a baby, and let's see what happens when you bully the people."

"No!" Xie Youcai agreed, turned around and walked out.

Huang You was taken to a courtyard in Tongzhou, which he recognized as the former headquarters of Bianyifang. There was only an outrageously beautiful woman in the room, and an old man smoking a cigarette.

The old man had never seen it before, but his eyes were like those of an eagle. Huang You felt that this guy could see through his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

"Your name is Huang You?" Old Chen Fu flicked the ashes from his cigarette and looked at Huang You who was feeling uncomfortable.

"No! The villain...the villain is Huang You." For some reason, Huang You felt that the old man in front of him gave him an endless sense of oppression.

"You said you knew that Wang Tiqian secretly returned to Beijing. How did you know?"

"The villain's neighbor is Eunuch Zhang from the Palace of Internal Affairs. The relationship between the two families is pretty good on weekdays. I heard what his son said when we were drinking on a business trip yesterday."

"The eunuch has a son?" Old Chen Fu felt that his intelligence was insulted.

"Uh...! He turned out to be Eunuch Zhang's nephew. Eunuch Zhang was purified when he was young and entered the palace without an issue, so he adopted him to provide for Eunuch Zhang in his old age."

"Oh!" Old Chen Fu nodded, which makes sense. These days, eunuchs who are prominent in the palace usually adopt a child from a nephew in the same family to prevent themselves from becoming old and unable to support themselves.

There are also many nephews in the family who covet the eunuch's power and money, and take the initiative to curry favor with the eunuch's family. Anyway, everyone gets what they need, and they are the nephews of the same family. This situation is very popular.

"Do you know where Wang Tiqian is staying?"

"I heard that he only came back at noon yesterday, and he went directly back to the palace. He stayed in the palace's honorary room. He originally had a house in the honorary room."

"I got it! You can go out!" Old Chen Fu waved his hand, and Huang You wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in greeting, then turned around and went out.

Just as he walked out of the door, a sword flashed and blood began to spurt from Huang You's neck.

"Is it true?" Hearing the sound of corpses falling to the ground outside, Luzhu lit another cigarette for Lao Chen Fu.

"I don't know! Why is Wang Tigan back in the capital at this time? The emperor wants to go back to the capital? I haven't heard the news from Nanjing. According to the current situation, Qian Qianyi should hold the emperor and play a trick to coerce the emperor and the princes. Yes. He will never let the emperor return to Beijing!" The cigarette was lit, but old Chen Fu did not smoke it. He held it in his hand and looked far away, as if he wanted to see through thousands of mountains and rivers all the way to Nanjing.

"Wang Tiqian didn't see the commander immediately when he came back this time. This is a bit strange!"

"Maybe he also wants to observe whether our commander-in-chief wants to be independent or loyal to the emperor. If he wants to be independent, he will run away with the gold and silver. He will find a place where no one is aware of him and spend the rest of his life. .If the general is still loyal to the emperor, he will encourage the general to march south and rescue the emperor from Qian Qianyi.

I have to say that Qian Qianyi was really smart. He took advantage of the plague to move the emperor from the capital, the capital with the highest imperial power, to his home base of Nanjing. Now that all the government decrees have been issued by Qian Qianyi, the emperor has actually been emptied by him. He became the second Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and Qian Qianyi became Cao Cao.

Oh! Wang Tiqian’s return to Beijing must have something to do with the emperor. The emperor must have a decree for our commander-in-chief!”

"Then should we report it to the commander?"

"No! No! No! Not only do you not report this matter to the commander, but you also need to keep it a secret. Your trip to Shuntian Mansion today is just the right time, otherwise Xie Youcai reported it to the commander, and the matter would be difficult to handle. ." Old Chen Fu showed a sinister smile.

Luzhu knew that this old fox was thinking about evil people again. But it was a coincidence that she was ordered to go to Shuntian Mansion today to check how many household registrations there are in the capital. But she accidentally bumped into Huang You who was thanking you for your wealth and high-density!

"Let's hide this from the commander-in-chief, just in case...!" Lu Zhu felt that when the matter came to this point, he should report it to Li Xiao.

"No, girl! The existence of people like us is to do some dirty and tiring work for the Marshal. If one person wants to achieve something, he can't do it without people like us. Let the Marshal be a clean man! We need to discuss this matter with that old guy Zhang Huangyan. That old bastard is even more treacherous and bad than me.

Let's go! Let's go see Zhang Huangyan!" Old Chen Fu said and left. He stood up and walked out. Panicked, Luzhu quickly picked up the mink cloak from the hanger and chased Old Chen Fu out.

It had been a day since Wang Tiqian returned to the palace, and Li Xiao had taken over the capital. Except for setting up guards at the entrance of the palace, no one entered the Forbidden City. Wang Tiqian sneaked into the palace by relying on the guards' ignorance and the standard appearance of a eunuch.

Li Xiao did not occupy the palace, which shows that Li Xiao still has loyalty and respect for the Ming Emperor. Unlike that bastard Qian Qianyi, who even replaced the eunuchs and maids in the palace with his people. Since the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, Since the capital was moved to the capital, few emperors have ever been to Nanjing to stay for two days.

Although there were many eunuchs and maids in the Daming Palace, they had all been bribed by the plutocrats in Jiangnan. Only after leaving the capital did I realize that Jiangnan was already under the rule of the Donglin Party. The words of Donglin boss Qian Qianyi were comparable to an imperial edict. Zhu Youjian accidentally lost all the games, and now he is trapped in Jiangling like a puppet emperor. He can only complain of illness all day long!

In times of crisis, Zhu Youjian thought of Li Xiao. In Zhu Youjian's opinion, although Li Xiao was greedy for money, he was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty royal family. The only one who can deal with Qian Qianyi now is Li Xiao's power.

Wang Tiqian escaped from Nanjing through all kinds of hardships in order to go north to ask Li Xiao to go south to Jingnan. Zhu Youjian firmly believed that his ancestor Zhu Di had successfully done it once from the capital, so Li Xiao could certainly do it again.

Of course, Wang Tiqian has his own selfish motives, and if Li Xiao changes, he probably won't end up well with his dark background. It's better to clean up the weaklings in the palace and find a way to escape. Find a place where no one knows him. , forget it after living this life. Anyway, I am already over sixty, and I won’t be able to do it for a few days if I want to.

After observing for a day, Wang Tiqian decided to find Li Xiao. He determined that Li Xiao was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty royal family. There were countless beauties and treasures in the palace. Li Xiao was still in his youth, and the fact that he did not enter the Forbidden City was the best proof.

As soon as he walked out of the guest room, Wang Tiqian saw an old man and a beautiful girl.
Chapter completed!