[Chapter Word Count:3541 Last Updated:2014-10-0318:00:00.0]

"Xiang Shaolong, this big fool, now you know what kind of virtue it is for a scholar to turn his face, right? This group of intellectuals who occupy the highest point of public opinion, once they start a black hand, they are no less than bandits!" Xiao Letian put down the information brought by the carrier pigeon, and the words written by Sima Yun on the silk scroll were still vivid.

On the night after Sima Yun's warning, Xiangjiazhuang encountered the encirclement and suppression of the local green battalion soldiers, and the commander of the army was actually a thousand generals. That night, the gunfire and fire in Xiangjiazhuang were loud and the flames were soaring, and when the wolf-like green battalion soldiers rushed into the house, they found that hundreds of people in the entire Xiangjiazhuang had all disappeared.

Xiang Shaolong is not a fool, he is a well-known dragon master in the north, and he has countless friends on the rivers and lakes. In particular, Yanqing still has a trade route leading to Zhangjiakou, and in many years of operation, Long Ye has also made friends with bandits and horse thieves outside the mouth. When he learned that the Qing soldiers were going to encircle and suppress Xiangjiazhuang, he dispersed the people of Xiangjiazhuang into dozens of teams, broke into pieces, dived into the mountains, and went straight to the family business outside the mouth.

There are three caves in the cunning rabbit, not to mention the dragon master.

When the news of the disappearance of the entire village of Xiangjiazhuang reached the city of Beijing, Weng Tongyong, the leader of the Qingliu who was invisible, frowned very rarely, and went back and forth in the house. The housekeeper was very puzzled on the side, even if his master saw the emperor and the queen mother, he would always be neither humble nor arrogant, why was he a little out of shape today?

When the housekeeper carefully persuaded two sentences, Weng Tongyi shook his head and said, "You don't understand, you don't understand at all." Since this Xiao Lotian appeared, I suddenly had a premonition, I felt that the sky was going to change, and I felt that the smell around me was different......"

"Assassinating a second devil, even the killer has betrayed? He can actually let him go? This was unimaginable before, I promised to keep a place for his family, this is the hope of their Xiangjiazhuang for hundreds of years...... But can he let people go halfway? Could he Xiao Lotian be able to deceive people's hearts?"

Weng Tonggong irritably walked back and forth in the study: "It's good now, someone actually reported halfway? Thousands of green battalion soldiers with firearms didn't even catch a single one alive? The whole Zhuangzi fled, if there was no Neiying, then what hell...... Why does something become extremely complicated as soon as Xiao Lotian sticks to it!"

In the end, Weng Tonggong was already trembling with anger, "This is the evil demon, this is the enemy of our manifestation, the enemy of life and death......"

The housekeeper made the old man stunned, he didn't expect that the old man, who was the leader of the literati, would have such a high opinion of that two devils?

"Master, since that's the case, I'll look for it again, there must be a better killer in the rivers and lakes, I don't believe he can't kill him!" said the housekeeper angrily.

"Stupid! Assassination is indispensable, on the one hand, Xiao Letian has now increased his vigilance, and on the other hand, his reputation has risen, and famous people in Jinghua are always assassinated, are you a decoration in the imperial court?"

"Besides, I am a dignified emperor, not a mad murderer, killing people for the sake of enlightenment is where the righteousness lies, and I never regret it. However, when the enemy has already set up a position to fight me in a dignified manner, I will definitely not be afraid to fight......"

At that moment, Weng Tongxiao's face was holy, his heart was full of strong self-confidence, the accumulation of Confucianism for thousands of years made him almost have countless contacts and resources, he would never believe that this two devils could win, never.

"Grinding ink! I want to play the book, and protect Xiao Letian into Hanlin!"

"Huh?" The butler's jaw almost didn't fall, this is the master's strategy, why are you still in a hurry to send the official?

Weng Tongyi smiled slightly, with a wonderful plan in his chest, he picked up the pen and began to promote Xiao Letian as the fourth rank of Hanlin Qinggui. And just as he was struggling to write, a figure had been climbing on the roof of the study for an hour, and every word in the room was clearly heard by this black shadow, and he was holding a bone nail in his hand, and he was hesitating to make a move.

There are no one else in the rivers and lakes who want to assassinate Weng Tonggong except Xiang Shaolong, but the reverence that the Chinese people have cultivated for thousands of years for scholars makes him hesitate. The current Weng Tongyi is a second-class top, and he is the leader of Qingliu, and he has never heard of Weng Hanlin being greedy for ink.

Is it really good to kill such a clean official? But why did this clean official assassinate Xiao Letian? Why did he kill my Xiang family after the matter was exposed? Is this also what a clean official should do?

Xiang Shaolong has been unable to figure it out for the past few days, and it was not until today that he got an accurate answer from Weng Tongyi's mouth, it turned out that Weng Hanlin made a choice based on the life and death of the entire Confucianism, and killing Xiao Lotian was definitely a helpless move.

Look at the current Weng Hanlin, he actually personally promoted Xiao Letian as an official, is this to turn enemies into friends? Or is it a justifiable contest? Xiang Shaolong couldn't understand it, but he faintly equated this matter with the confrontation between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party in the late Ming Dynasty.

But after thinking about it carefully, I felt that something was wrong there, and Xiao Lotian didn't do anything angry and resentful? Even if he was heinous, but he had just returned to China, even if he wanted to do something bad, he wouldn't have a chance? At that moment, Xiang Shaolong was confused.

Weng Tongxiao's excerpt was placed in front of the empress dowager of the two palaces the next day, and Cixi and Ci'an smiled when they saw it. This Weng Hanlin, he is really full of flowers, and he wants to pull Xiao Letian down to the Hanlin Courtyard? It is an acre and three points of land in Qingliu, and he can't help but rub it.

"Weng Shuping, Weng Shuping, you don't think about it, you don't want the top of the second grade surnamed Xiao, will you want this fourth grade to wear it? Forget it, this fold will not be sent in the middle......

Weng Tongxiao's farce reached Xiao Letian's ears after three days, and Xiao Letian frowned at that time, he understood that Weng Tongxiao was going to rush hope. He didn't want to get through this excerpt at all, he just wanted to send a signal to the people of the society, how generous I am Weng Shuping, how much I love talents, even if it is a talent in Western studies, I will also protect it.

"It's really shameless, these Qingliu will put powder on their faces, and bully the common people without knowing it......" Xiao Letian didn't take it to heart at all after hearing this, and then began to write his "Westward Journey" with great effort. But after a while, Fan Yao actually walked in from outside with a strange face.

"Oh, why is Shopkeeper Fan so leisurely today, how is the progress of the purchase of loose silver......"

"Mr. Xiao...... I'm not here for this today, I have a letter here, please take a look at it......, sir," After speaking, Fan Yao took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xiao Letian.

opened the letter paper and took a closer look, this was actually a letter written by Fan Ru, who was an elder brother, to his brother. It starts with a programmed greeting and says something missing. Then he regretted the separation of the family, hoping that his brother could return to the family, and finally Fan Ru also told his brother a good news, although the Internal Affairs Office did not restore the status of the Fan family's imperial merchants, but had handed over some of the leather and salt business outside the mouth to the Fan family to do, and it seemed that there was hope for the restoration of the status of the imperial merchants.

When Xiao Lotian finished reading it, Fan Yao said with a wry smile, "The letter is full of demonstrations, this is showing off to me, but...... But someone came with a quote from my brother...... He said that as long as I told him all the details of your husband, he would ensure that I returned to the family, and the Fan family would be able to restore the status of a first-class imperial merchant......"

Xiao Letian understood, this is because some forces in Beijing have begun to target Fan Yao and want him to be a spy. Maybe they thought that throwing out a position as a first-class emperor merchant was already a great gift, and a group of lowly businessmen had to pounce on them like a vicious dog grabbing bones.

"What about your opinion?" Xiao Lotian said with a smile.

"Hmph! This is coaxing a stupid dog to go up the wall, not to mention a predetermined imperial businessman, even if he really gives an imperial merchant now, I can't look down on it. From Mr.'s book, I have seen the power of businessmen, and people in the West regard businessmen as the pillars of the country, unlike the Qing Dynasty, which treats us all as slaves......"

"An imperial businessman can earn an extra two or three million taels a year at most, but the annual bribe must be ninety percent, and a fool will do it with them. My brother is a completely brainwashed fool......"

Xiao Letian waved his hand, "Okay, don't be angry, old shopkeeper, since your brother wrote a letter, you can agree for the time being." If you refuse, it will make people suspicious. You will have no chance of passing back some useless information, and maybe one day your identity as a double agent will be of great use. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Lotian suddenly stood up, took out his pocket watch and looked at it carefully, "It's almost eleven o'clock, it's lunch time again, today I will have a drink in the Liuhe Building, three days ago, the boss of the Liuhe Building said that he was going to invite me......"

Now Xiao Letian is not the same as before, when he came out of Qing Sanye's house, he was actually accompanied by eighteen big men waiting on the side, and the fierce taste of a hundred battle elite soldiers could rush from the corner of the street to the end of the street. Originally, Xiao Letian was very disgusted with this kind of pomp, but unfortunately Shi Da gave a death order, and he would never let Xiao Letian go out without enough guards.

This is just a guard on the surface, and there are three times as many guards in the cover. At first, Xiao Letian was still a little unaccustomed to it, but later when he heard about this year, even a non-mainstream person in the countryside had to be served by seven or eight people when he went out.

Liuhe building is in the center of Yi County, the three-story building shape is extraordinarily chic, when Xiao Lotian they walked to the door of the store, they found that the shopkeeper had already been waiting at the door, it turned out that someone had already booked a private room in advance.

"Say hello to Xiao Ye...... Xiao Ye, you are auspicious...... Distinguished guests go upstairs to the Tianzi number please...... "Xiao Lotian caused a sensation when he appeared, at this time Xiao Lotian was already the emperor of Yi County, from the order of Liu County down, as long as it was a yamen errand, there was no one who did not take Mr. Xiao's money.

Headcatcher, Master Book, Classic History...... Anyway, this place is not far from the county office, and these officials who have written blood books and pressed blood handprints all came over to greet Xiao Letian with a smile.

The people around Liuhelou looked stupid, and the county officials who were like uncles in the past laughed like the three grandsons today, especially Wang Hu not only smiled respectfully, but also had three points of fear in his eyes.

He had seen Xiao Letian burn Tailing with his own eyes, and he had completely lost his heart to this bold and reckless second devil, and now even if Xiao Letian forced him to rebel, he couldn't refuse.

During this time, Liu County Ling and Wang Hu took Xiao Letian's silver dollars and began to buy their officials little by little, and after killing an eyeless treasurer and a master who tried to go to Baoding to inform, the entire official layer of Yi County was honest.

"Look, that master is Xiao Letian, who wrote "Journey to the West" and is known as the great master of Western studies, that is the famous overseas lonely ......"

"Hey, I'm lucky today, I can take a look at the Great Grandmaster, and my ancestral grave is smoking......"

"Two masters, what kind of official position is this great grandmaster, how big is it?"

"Cut! Stick, the great grandmasters, they are all the ancestors of the founding sect, I don't dare to compare with Confucius and Meng, but compared to the previous Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, they are more than enough!"

In the midst of the crowd's discussions, the crowd sent Xiao Letian to the third floor like stars holding the moon.