Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 222 Returning to Shiji (Second Watch Subscription)

Chapter 226

"No, I've been tricked!" At this moment, Xie Youmin felt a chill on his back, which was a vague killing aura.

Xie Youmin is one of the four great priests of the Xie Clan, so his kung fu is naturally not weak, and his reaction is fast enough.He immediately pulled out a sword flower and used Su Qin's back sword.

"Dang clang", Xie Youmin turned his head and saw a young man standing behind him with a sword in his hand.

"Who is under your feet?"

"Hedong Pingyang Huo Qi!"

It turns out that this man and woman are none other than the Huo brothers and sisters!Ran Ming interrogated the two, and he knew that the Huo brothers and sisters were from Pingyang. Their father, Huo Shen, was a merchant in Pingyang. His family was rich. According to legend, their ancestors were descendants of Huo Guang, a famous official in the Western Han Dynasty.

Ten years ago, Jiang Qian was the lieutenant of Zhao Tenglong's military academy, and when he saw Huo's mother's beauty by chance, and Huo Shen's family was quite rich, he felt malicious.

Jiang Gan took dozens of confidants, broke into Huo's house, and killed anyone they saw.Taking the opportunity to rape Huo Shen's wife and kill Huo Shen's family members.Fortunately, the loyal servant Ye Qinghu was loyal, and protected Huo Qi and Huo Rui, brothers and sisters, and broke through the siege.After ten years of hiding, the brothers and sisters of the Huo family followed Ye Qing to learn art and wanted to take revenge.

But now Jiang Gan is no longer a pity. He is now in General Weiwei Wei, an important minister of Wei State, and his guards are usually tight, so Huo Qi and Huo Rui can't do anything!
Yu Shi adopted a strategy, using Huo Qi's swordsmanship to win Jiang Ju's appreciation and lead him as his personal guard.And Huo Rui pretends to be a singing girl to seduce Jiang Ju.

Huo Rui sacrificed her body to avenge her parents.But when Ran Ming appeared, Huo Rui saw a turning point.It was no secret in Ye City that Ran Ming and Jiang Ju were at odds. She improvised and planned to use Ran Ming's hand to deal with Jiang Gan!
When Ran Ming learned of this situation, it happened that Wang Meng offered a plan to come and wait for work and sit on the sidelines.Use the Huo brothers and sisters to deal with Xie An's dead soldiers.This is considered to be a vote of honor for the two of them.

The Xie family of Chen Jun is a first-class wealthy family in the world, second only to the Wang family of Langya. In terms of reputation, it is not even inferior to the Sima royal family.As long as the Huo brothers and sisters offend the Xie family, there will be no way out in the world, just follow Ran Ming!

Huo Qi drew the sword very fast, although Xie Youmin is very skilled, he must be old, although the evasion is fast, he is still half a beat behind.Huo Qi cut his clothes with a sword.Xie Youmin roared: "I am Song Gang, I have an old relationship with Ye Shuangjue, we are friends rather than enemies, why are we so hard to force each other!"

Huo Qi knew that the Ye Shuangjue he was talking about was the name of his master Ye Qing in the Jianghu. The master's sword and spear are rare in the Jianghu. Although he is not the enemy of thousands of people, he is still a famous figure !
Huo Qi said: "There is no one else, each is his own master!"

Seeing that her brother was about to fight with Xie Youmin, Huo Rui shouted coquettishly: "Kill, just leave one alive!"

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" In a small space, the power of the crossbow machine is brought into full play.The experts around Xie Youmin were shot by arrows in a short while.

After only one round of firing from the crossbow, there were only three people standing around Xie Youmin.

But Huo Qi took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and Xie Youmin was in danger for a while.

……

On this day, Ran Min untied the knot in his heart, no longer felt guilty, and felt relieved.Ran Min did not stay in the queen's bedroom, but instead went to Concubine Yin's bedroom.

Marry a wife and a virtuous man, take concubines and beauties.

Ran Min's only concubine was the 15-year-old daughter of the Yin family in Jingxian County, Jizhou, who was accepted by Ran Min as a concubine.Now that she is double ten this year, she is enchanting and charming, with a variety of styles.Ran Min's heroism remained the same, and the Yin family quickly surrendered and surrendered. The two embraced each other and fell asleep.

In a daze, Ran Min heard the whirring sound of the window lattice outside the palace. When he listened carefully, the window lattice seemed to be the sound of wind blowing, but it didn't quite resemble it, but Ran Min could hear it clearly, it was actually the rhythm of a code word .Ran Min stood up suddenly, which naturally alarmed Concubine Yin beside her.

Concubine Yin said: "Your Majesty, this concubine will change your clothes for you!"

Ran Min waved his hand and said: "My dear concubine, please sleep peacefully, I will be back in a while!"

Ran Min quickly put on his clothes, pushed open the palace door, and the cold wind of early spring hit his face, making Ran Min's originally confused head instantly clear.Ran Min raised his eyes and saw a man in black kneeling on the ground outside the palace. He was the leader of the "deaf and dumb", General Wuwei and Zhang Ping, Qu Jinghou.

Zhang Ping couldn't speak, but he also knew how annoying it was to disturb people's dreams in the middle of the night, so he made a sign language of apology in his heart.

Ran Min pushed his hands flat, signaling Zhang Ping not to worry.Then ask him what happened!

Zhang Ping said in sign language: "Your Majesty, the dozens of masters who secretly followed the Jin envoy into Ye showed signs of gathering tonight. The hidden piles who were secretly watching reported that their goal tonight was to hijack Huan Wen's family and set the blame on them." Reality!"

Ran Min replied in sign language: "Will you open the net and wait for it!"

"No." Zhang Ping shook his head and replied, "Today at [-]:[-] pm, the Qilin Guard of His Highness King Jiaodong suddenly took over the defense of Tongque Terrace secretly with His Highness's warrant!"

"Oh!" Ran Min said: "How did Ming'er know that the Jin envoy will attack tonight? Does he have any other sources of information?"

Zhang Pingdao: "Reporting to Your Majesty, my subordinates found out that the King of Jiaodong established an organization similar to the "Heavenly Deaf and Dumb", called Tianyan. It was fully responsible for 35 people including Jing Zhan, who had studied with his subordinates for half a year. Backbone, at present, Tianyan uses restaurants, inns, pawnshops, gambling houses, brothels, and caravans under the names of the major merchants of the business alliance as cover, with eyes and ears covering Jin, Qin, Dai, Yan, and Liang. At present, there is no Sky Eye intelligence point set up in our Great Wei territory!"

Ran Min asked again: "Since there is no information channel, how did King Jiaodong get this information!"

Zhang Ping thought for a while and said, "This subordinate suspects that this is His Royal Highness Jiaodong's guess!"

"guess?"

"That's right!" Zhang Ping said: "His Royal Highness King Jiaodong happened to meet Huan Wen's family when he was leaving the palace. At that time, the axle of a carriage was tampered with, and His Highness ordered people to follow the clues. It is estimated that the envoy of Jin was the one who showed his cheating feet at that time! "

Ran Min said: "If you're not prepared for mental arithmetic, there shouldn't be any trouble this time!"

Zhang Pingdao: "Tonight will definitely not be peaceful, I want to invite His Majesty to go out to watch a big show!"

Ran Min said: "What else?"

"The Jin envoy sent a large number of dead soldiers, and Huan Wen's envoy, Meng Jia, and his party also had a change. Meng Jia sent people to the Cai Mansion in the southern city!"

"Cai Mansion!" Ran Min said, "Could it be Chen Liu and Cai Feibai's descendants!"

Zhang Ping nodded.

Cai Feibai refers to Cai Yong, a great writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.He was also the father of Cai Wenji, a talented woman in the Three Kingdoms period.Cai Yong once created Feibai style originally. This kind of calligraphy style, with traces of white in the strokes, seems to be written with a dry brush. Weiqin.

Although Cai Yongsheng was considered a famous family at that time, from being an official to the grand master and general Zuo Zhonglang, but after Cai Yong, his nephews in his later life had nothing to do except his second daughter Cai Wenji's talent and name.

Later, Chen Qun created the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, and the Chenliu Cai family ranked the sixth rank of the gentry, which was the last of the gentry.After traveling south, the Chenliucai family was divided into two branches, the north and the south, among which the Liubei branch actually faded out of the ranks of the gentry and became the common people!

Time turned back a little by two hours, Cai Mansion in the southern city of Yecheng was now caught in a dilemma since the head of the Cai family, Cai Ying, received a secret letter.

He hastily summoned the elders of the clan to discuss matters.Although the Cai family has declined, like other noble families, the Cai family also has a family elders.

The Cai clan is no longer registered as a scholar. Although they have a lot of land and wealth, they can barely be regarded as a rich family.The life of the big family is relatively better, but they are also made things difficult by the government and local officials.The taxes that should be paid cannot be less, and the corvee that should be served, if you don’t want to serve, you must spend money to buy it out!

But the gentry is different. Not only can they be exempted from taxation, military service, and corvee service, but they also have the opportunity to be an official.And you can also have the status of a noble family, increasing a lot of shade households.

The so-called shady households, shady households are the private property of the owner, and they also do not need to pay taxes and service to the government. Generally, the more Menghu households there are, the greater the power of such noble families. For example, the Xie family in Chenjun had more than [-] Menghu households at most , These cute households have been servants of the Xie family for generations, just like the coated slaves in the Qing Dynasty!
These cute households are not in the household registration of the government, and they also belong to the hidden population.When troubled times come, why can the gentry quickly pull up an army and dominate one side.The main reason is that they have cute households and tenant households. They serve as soldiers for food, and whoever pays them will work hard for them. This is a tradition that has existed in China for thousands of years.

But once the protective color of the gentry is lost, the common people are just like ordinary free people.

No matter how much money and food you have, if you have no protection ability, you will soon be eaten by other gentry big fish like small fish!
Cai Ying entered the Cai family temple. The Cai family temple is an independent building located in the middle of the Cai mansion. The various branches of the Cai family surround the family temple. At this moment, in the main hall of the family temple, five elderly people are sitting in a circle to discuss the family affairs. Countermeasures.Cai Ying entered the hall of the family temple, and the other five elders slowly got up and said, "See the Patriarch!"

Cai Ying came to an old man who was about ninety years old. This old man is currently the longest in the Cai family.According to seniority, Cai Ying needs to call him grandpa.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the general life expectancy was less than forty, it is definitely an outlier to be able to live to 90 years old!
The name of the old birthday star was Cai Zhi, and Cai Zhi said, "Yinger, what's the matter with you inviting some of our old bones here?"

Cai Ying took out a secret channel: "The Ran family has occupied Wei Guoguo for four years now. Seeing that the Yan, Dai, Qin, and Jin countries all seek peace with Wei, it can be seen that the Ran family has formed wings, and it is irresistible without manpower. We are going to settle down, and our Cai family is facing a big fortune. However, to achieve this great wealth, there must be risks. The Cai family is not Cai Ying's Cai family, but also the Cai family of your uncles, so what should we do? Ying wants to hear your opinions !"

Cai Quan, the elder of the first house, took the secret letter first, glanced at it, and jumped up suddenly. If he didn't look at his silver hair, it would be hard to imagine that this is a fifty-year-old man just based on this action.

Cai Quan said loudly: "Returning to the scholar status, is this really true?"

(End of this chapter)