Taiping Inn

The boss put away the silver and watched Li Xuandu and his party go upstairs. He secretly took out the Taiping coin from his sleeve, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then put it in his mouth and bit it gently. Finally, he was sure that it was real gold, and his face was full of smiles.

Running an inn is also a hard job, and there is not much profit. Normally, after working for a year, after deducting various expenses, you can only earn about 100 taels of silver. Today, you can earn 30 taels at once. How can you not be happy? With these 30 taels, you can buy the official clothes that you liked last year but couldn't bear to buy.

Although the "Da Wei Hui Dian" contains a clear text that merchants are not allowed to wear silk and satin, in the time of Taizu, a pair of young brothers without official titles were cut off their feet by the yamen runners in the street because they wore a pair of deerskin boots on the street. It was miserable, but this time is different. Now the court is focused on collecting taxes, so who cares about these things? It is said that some businessmen who have become big dare to wear jade belts and dragon robes in their own homes after spending money to buy an official position! Compared with these people, what does it matter if I wear a suit made of silk and satin?

It’s just that the innkeeper doesn’t understand that the laws established by our ancestors and the national tools of nobility have become so corrupt and rampant. It can be seen that the current Wei Dynasty has reached the point of collapse and decay. How many years of peace can we enjoy? When the day comes when the sky collapses and the earth collapses, how can the eggs under the overturned nest be intact?

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Just when the innkeeper was wandering in the world, another group of people came, making the innkeeper who came back to his senses shiver and almost drop the peace money in his hand on the ground.

It’s not that he is timid, but these evil stars in front of him are too scary.

This group of people are all dressed in green official uniforms, with solemn expressions, swords on their waists, and exude a cold breath from head to toe that keeps strangers away.

How can he not understand this? It is the Qingluan Guard who can stop children from crying at night!

The innkeeper had only one thought in his mind at this time, good fortune and bad fortune are interdependent, and there is really no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

As soon as these people entered the inn, except for the woman who was slightly lifting her veil and revealing her little mouth to eat braised beef, the other guests immediately put down their money, paid the bill and left. The shop assistants who were usually the most familiar with people were timid and did not dare to greet them, but they could not let these adults of the Qingluan Guards stand there. If they offended them, not to mention the inn, they might lose their lives.

There was no way, the shopkeeper could only bite the bullet and personally go forward to welcome these people into a private seat by the window, and then personally busy himself with tea and dishes. After all this, his back was already wet.

This is not hot, but scared!

The leader of this group of Qingluan Guards is a middle-aged man named Zhang Nanmu. He can be said to be born in a Qingluan Guard family. His great-grandfather has served in the Qingluan Guards since his generation, and his father and son have passed it down to him. He entered the Qingluan Guards at the age of eighteen and started as a captain at the bottom. For a full twenty years, he was always rated above average in every assessment. Now, with his solid qualifications, he has become a Qingluan Guards commander.

Officialdom is not like the Jianghu where everything is based on force. It also pays attention to family background, seniority, prestige, backers, connections, etc. Take him for example, his Baodan realm cultivation can be said to have rolled out from the sword and sword, while his boss is only a low-level Ru Shen realm. He can beat his boss to death with one hand, but he can't do this, and he dare not do this. Every time he is scolded by his boss, he can only bow his head and accept it. Even if he is slapped by his boss, he dare not complain at all. Who let his boss have a good sister? Married to a governor as a concubine, and he has nothing except martial arts, so he can only accept his fate.

Fortunately, his boss was finally dismissed from office because of his unfavorable handling of the case not long ago. If it weren't for his brother-in-law, I'm afraid he would have to go to the South Court. And he was temporarily authorized by another boss to temporarily take over the position of his original boss.

Once in power, Zhang Nanmu was not full of vigor and enthusiasm, but was trembling with fear, and was cautious in every move, not daring to make the slightest mistake.

Because along with this power came an extremely confidential matter.

When Zhang Nanmu heard the news, it was like being struck by lightning.

On the way to escort the imperial prisoner, the deputy governor of Luzhou was killed, and the young daughter of the imperial prisoner was kidnapped. Bai Chouqiu, the deputy governor of Chuzhou, was also killed during the pursuit. Gu Fengxian, the commander of Luzhou Qingluan Guard, was seriously injured, and his superior Zhao Lian was dismissed from his post because of this case and was suspended at home for investigation.

This matter has been reported to the Qingluan Guard Governor's Office in the Imperial Capital. In other words, at least one of the three right governors has been alarmed. As an old man who has been working in the Qingluan Guard for 20 years, Zhang Nanmu is very clear about the temperament and skills of the three right governors. Once this matter alarms them, it will be difficult to settle, whether it is external or internal.

Externally, although the Qingluan Guard is not as good as before, it is not bullied by others. If someone kills someone in the Qingluan Guard, he must give an explanation.

Internally, if the job is messed up, it is not as simple as dismissal.

In the Qingluan Guard, there is a saying of the South Court and the North Court.

For people in the rivers and lakes, when mentioning the Qingluan Guard, they must think of the Qingluan Guard North Court. The North Court has more missions to go abroad. When leaving the capital, it is an imperial envoy and is directly responsible to the emperor. Therefore, local officials are respectful when they see people from the North Court, and they are not careless at all. They call them "officers". This is also the reason why Bai Chouqiu was able to mobilize the troops of the Governor's Office.

For the people in the Qingluan Guard, the more terrifying thing is the South Court. If the North Court is for the outside world, then the South Court is for the inside world, which is responsible for the internal laws and military discipline of the Qingluan Guard. If they fall into their hands, even the Qingluan Guard themselves will never get any good results. The South Court is to the Qingluan Guard as the Qingluan Guard is to the civil and military officials. It can be said to be the Qingluan Guard among the Qingluan Guards.

According to the news from Lord Gu, the Governor's Office has sent a governor-general to deal with the matter personally. At the same time, Lord Gu also issued a strict order to track down the movements of that group of people.

The number of Qingluan Guards is large, claiming to be 100,000, but the dynasty is vast, with two capitals and 19 states. Even if there are a million people, it is nothing, not to mention a mere 100,000 people, distributed in each state, there are less than a hundred people left. It is extremely difficult to find three people between Luzhou, Jingzhou, and Zhongzhou, even if the Qingluan Guards have many informants.

But he had to obey his superior's order. Zhang Nanmu could only spread a wide net to search at the first time, and sent most of his men to Shuiyang Prefecture in Jingzhou to search or intercept. At the same time, he personally led a team of people, and came to Zhongzhou, following the other escape route of the thief speculated by Mr. Gu, and came to the south gate of Zhongzhou to wait for the thief.

Although Zhang Nanmu did not have much hope for this, he did not dare to take it lightly. According to Mr. Gu's order, he kept sending people. In the end, there were only a few people left by his side. In these days, not only he himself, but almost all the brothers were exhausted, but no one complained, let alone dared to complain. They just hoped to track down the clues as soon as possible so as to deal with this case.

Everyone knew that if the murderer was not found, the case that had alarmed the Governor's Office would not be closed. In the end, the commanders, the deputy commanders, and the deputy commanders would inevitably have to suffer. When those officials were angry, they would take it out on the subordinates. As the saying goes, "One rises, all rise; one falls, all fall." That's it.

But then again, even if the murderers were found, the people who could cause such a scene would not be petty thieves. Most of them would be big thieves who roamed the rivers and lakes, with strong cultivation. When the time came to capture this person, I don't know how many brothers would be killed.

It was a dilemma.

But Zhang Nanmu could never have expected that the wanted criminal he was looking for, the "big bandit" who killed Qian Xing and Bai Chouqiu, was right above their heads, separated by a thin floor, just a stone's throw away.