high official

Chapter 129 The Visitor from Hell

Although the imperial envoys are simple, there are four to five hundred people. The heavy responsibility of taking care of so many people's food and drink falls on Huijiang Yicheng and the post officials.Although they had fifty civilian men from the county under their command, they were still busy from morning till night.It wasn't until the middle of the night, when they were ready for tomorrow's breakfast, that the two of them were as tired as dead dogs, and went back to their rooms to sleep for two hours.

Li Yili entered his room, while beating his back, he took out the fire pocket, blew out red light, and lit the candle on the table...

With the candlelight, the room was brighter at once. Li Yili saw a man in black standing motionless in front of the window...

Li Yili was so frightened that he dropped the fire bag, opened his mouth wide and sifted the chaff with his legs. When he saw the face of the man in black, he fainted from fright...

The black-clothed man who planned to make a shocking appearance couldn't help being very embarrassed, so he had to put Li Yili on the bed, pinched the person and pinched the tiger's mouth, and finally heard Li Yili's snoring after a long time... too tired.

The man in black completely lost his patience. He slapped Li Yili awake with two slaps. He picked him up by his collar and said, "Look who I am?"

"Ghost..." Li Yili said in a weak voice, terrified.

"That's right, I'm a ghost!" The black-clothed man said angrily, "An evil ghost who came to demand his life from the enemy!"

Seeing that the postman Li was about to faint from fright, the man in black had no choice but to speak in human terms: "Don't be afraid, I am so often!"

"He... He Yuanwai?" Li Yili's eyes were bigger than that of the man in black, and his teeth chattered: "That's still a ghost..."

"Do ghosts have shadows?" The black-clothed man raised his hand, and the shadow cast by the candlelight enveloped Li Yili's face.

"You are not dead?" Li Yili believed that he was alive, but still couldn't believe it: "How did you escape the autumn judgment?"

"Hehe." Seeing that he finally believed, the man in black pulled himself up and sat by the bed and said, "I told you earlier that I am Jin Yiwei!"

"Then why didn't you reveal your identity earlier?" Li Yili became sensitive and suspicious after going through hardships: "Is this humiliation just for nothing?"

"Hey," the man in black sighed, and said truthfully, "Actually, I didn't expect that the identity passed down from my father is still working..." After speaking, he briefly explained the cause and effect:
"Three generations of grain chiefs in my family, my father and grandfather were all chief grain chiefs in the Hongwu Dynasty. During Emperor Taizu's reign, grain chiefs were more valued than they are now. My grandfather and father would go to Beijing every year to face saints. In addition to asking about the harvest In addition to questions about customs, they will also ask them about the local officials and people's conditions. In order to win them over, the Emperor Taizu organized all the food chiefs in the world into brocade guards and ordered them to secretly monitor local officials..."

"Unfortunately, in his later years, Taizu misunderstood the slander of civil officials, executed the commander of Jinyiwei, and disbanded the Zhenfu Division. My father, the spies of Jinyiwei, lost his organization at once. He told me the truth before he died, and said to me, Now that the emperor is rebuilding Jinyiwei, we spies may one day recover their identities sooner or later. I didn’t care at first, life is good, who wants to be spies?” He Chang, the man in black, said bitterly: “Until that Wang Little thief, I only remembered my identity when I was about to be beheaded, but unfortunately no one believed me when I told it!"

"Then what happened afterwards?" Li Yili asked cautiously.

"Actually, some people heard it in their hearts. The Jinyiwei Qianhu who participated in the interrogation personally found out my identity. After confirming that I was indeed a Jinyiwei Baihu, he referred me to the Imperial Prison in the capital and gave me Change your name and surname, and let me out!" He Chang spoke out about such a secret matter, not afraid of causing trouble... His identity as Jin Yiwei made him very courageous.

"Then who is the outsider now?" Li Yili exclaimed.

"Now there is no other member outside." He Chang said with a straight face, "My surname is Chang, and Fusi Xiaoqi Chang is here in Jinyiwei Town!"

"Isn't it a hundred households..." Li Yili whispered.

"Hey..." He Chang, now called Chang Zai, Chang Xiaoqi stared at him awkwardly and said, "This is the price of living, and it was bought with a three-level official rank!" Xiaoqi, the local magistrate must also respect him!"

"That's true." Li Yili praised enviously: "Who dares to mess with Jin Yiwei."

"Of course." Chang Zai snorted complacently: "This time, brother volunteered to escort the imperial envoy with our Lord Qianhu. I never expected to return to Fuyang so soon."

"But Fuyang has changed beyond recognition." Li Yili sighed, quite like the ruined flowers and willows.

"By the way, how did you become a post official?" Chang Zai looked at Li post official who was at least ten years older and said, "I didn't dare to recognize you when I saw you so old earlier."

"Alas..." The postman Li is of course Li Sheng, and seeing that he shed tears before opening his mouth, he sadly said: "You two surnamed Wang, know that I was the one who helped you back then, so naturally they won't let me go. The one surnamed Wei thinks that I don't agree with him, and he is willing to help him and his father to rectify me..." Speaking of the sad part, Li Yili cried and said: "The bastards in the county are also a group of animals who make trouble , took turns beating my autumn wind. Later, even the hooligans on the street dared to come to my house to blackmail...The more Wang Xian and his son became officials, the more people stepped on me to curry favor with them...Now I The valuables at home have been looted long ago, and your sister-in-law doesn’t even dare to go out on the street, she’ll be taken advantage of by others. Woohoo, I don’t want to live anymore…”

"Oh, we are really brothers and sisters..." Chang Xiaoqi was also saddened by the arousal, and said with snot and tears: "After my accident, all the valuable things in the house were taken away by those bastards like Hu Buliu Several wives and concubines also remarried one after another. When I found my son, he was begging for food with a beggar... Wuwu, if I don’t avenge this, I swear I won’t be a human being, wuwu..."

The two hugged each other and cried for quite a while, before Chang Xiaoqi wiped away the tears and said: "Fortunately, the sky has eyes, not only did I survive brother, but also made me a royal guard!" He patted the edge of the bed heavily and said: " This time when I come back, I will take revenge on those surnamed Wei, Wang, and Hu!"

"God, I'm sorry to see you!" Li Yicheng official looked out and said, "Brother, what are you going to do, I will fully cooperate!"

"Isn't it up to you..." Chang Xiaoqi said: "See if there is a good way to put them to death!"

"I can't help it," Li Yili scratched his head and said, "This group of people has been very fierce recently. They have monolithically managed the yamen and tidied up the big households in the county. The common people are even more grateful..."

"Could it be that they are invulnerable?" Chang Xiaoqi stared bull-eyed and said.

"Of course not, the rich people hate them to death, but they are afraid of their lustful power and dare not mess around." Li Sheng said angrily, "As long as we can grasp the vital points, we don't have to worry about killing them!"

"Why can't I understand what you're saying?" Chang Xiaoqi said in a daze, "Sometimes you say you can't help it, and another moment you say you don't have to worry about it."

"I can't help it now, but as long as I can get the accounts of the households in Fuyang County, I can do it!" Li Sheng said coldly: "Starting from this spring, the county has rented houses, opened terraces, and It’s buying grain and raw silk...the expenses are huge! Brothers know, what does this mean?”

"What?" Chang Xiaoqi didn't understand what he was talking about.

"This means that there are a lot of opportunities to make money," Li Sheng said enviously, "For example, renting private houses. According to the usual practice, half of the errands are charged, half of the house is collected, and [-]% is controlled by the county magistrate. "" Paused and said: "Even if they clean up their hands and stop deducting from it, the whereabouts of [-]% of the money is still unknown. As for opening terraced fields, buying grain, and collecting raw silk...there are only a lot of money in it. It’s called a bad rule, but according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", it is undoubtedly corruption!"

"Corruption..." Chang Xiaoqi said: "In these years, I have never heard of any official being arrested for corruption."

"It's not a big deal," Li Sheng said quietly, "If the big households jointly report to the imperial envoy, and the officials in Fuyang County are colluding, corrupt and perverting the law, what do you think the imperial envoy will do?"

"Uh...[-]% will be handed over to the magistrate's yamen." Chang Xiaoqi whispered.

"Why, won't you hand it over to Jin Yiwei for investigation?" Li Yili said in surprise.

"Civil officials have always been very wary of us Jinyiwei," Chang Xiaoqi sighed, "Don't think we are on the same side as Hu Yun, but he guards against us like a thief..." After a pause, he said, "But we are not intimidating either. They!" Thinking of Lord Qianhu who kicked away the Chief Banner who said something wrong that day, he resolutely said: "Our Qianhu said that if necessary, we can get rid of the surname Hu and go it alone!"

"Then let them report to Jin Yiwei." Li Yili said: "Brothers will have to take care of you when the time comes."

"No problem." Chang Xiaoqi said, lowering his voice: "But our Lord Qianhu, why should we help you?"

"Brother, you..." After all, Li Yili was used to this kind of business, and he came to his senses and said, "How much does it cost?"

"1 taels of silver." Chang Xiaoqi raised a finger and said, "Brother, I have no money now, so I can only pay you."

"I don't have that much money anymore..." Seeing that He Chang's complexion was different, Li Yili had no choice but to grit his teeth and said, "I'm going to sell everything, and I'll make it up for you too!"

"Can you ask those big households to contribute too?" He Chang suggested to him: "It is also their wish to bring down those surnamed Wei and those surnamed Wang, and they must also bleed!"

"Okay, but it's best for you to show up too, so that they can easily believe it." Li Yili was completely sleepy, his eyes lit up and said: "Well, I'll go to Master Diao tomorrow and ask him to arrange it. See you all face, "

"Alright." He Chang said: "We must hurry up, we won't be able to stay in Fuyang for a few days..."

"Well, I'll go find Master Diao right now!" Li Yili said: "He is also extremely depressed, and he must be very active!"

"En." He Chang nodded.

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