Liu Ye, who vowed to divide the body of the thief, finally lost his temper, after all, in the face of his naughty and intelligent little son, Liu Ye still couldn't lose his temper after all.

Liu Ye's youngest son is called Liu Tao, although he is only five or six years old, he is not afraid at all in the face of a group of adults, and he is even able to speak, saying: "A son can't be regarded as stealing his father's things!" Zhang Xiu laughed, and for a moment remembered his cheap son Zhang Quan.

Liu Ye himself loves this young son more than his eldest brother, and he is willing to punish his young son for being playful and curious. Even if Xiao Liu Tao blinked his eyes and said that the sheepskin drawings were taken by him to Qiao's house in Anhui City to open the eyes of the Qiao family, and in the end, it fell on the Tao family and did not bring it back, seeing that Zhang Xiu kept smiling and praising Liu Tao for being young but articulate, Liu Ye only laughed at this matter.

After the Great Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the year, the number of "surviving" families in Lujiang County is quite small, just like the huge county governing Anhui City, but only the Qiao family was spared from the disaster of fire and water.

The so-called term "fire and water disaster" is actually the most popular word in Huainan this year. In the Qing Dynasty, those powerful families in the past were first confiscated of their family property, and all land deeds and deeds of sale were burned by law enforcement soldiers, which was the word "fire". Then they were all demoted to commoners, and all of them moved to undeveloped places in the south of the Yangtze River. Because to go to the south of the Yangtze River to cross the river, it is for the word "water".

What needs to be pointed out here is that the Qiao family in Wancheng is not like the other families who survived the death because they have always been meritorious, benevolent, and popular, but Zhang Xiu deliberately crossed out from the list of people to be purged on the eve of the purge.

If you want to entangle the reason why Zhang Xiu left Qiao's family, it is actually very simple, that is, because of the relationship between the big and small two Qiao!

Although Zhang Xiu is not a lustful and beauty-loving person, he is not a person who destroys flowers with hot hands. Thinking about the scene that a year later, the second Qiao of the national color Tianxiang will be reduced to a washerwoman by the pond, and the soft-hearted Zhang Xiu still decided to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade once.

Now, it's time to see the face of the big and small two Qiao who is alluring the country and the city.

In history, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were in Jian'an for four years, that is, Lujiang was conquered next year, and then married Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao respectively.

Regarding the marriage of the two children, Qiao and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, or forced to marry, or coveted and coveted, or talented women who are in love, Zhang Xiu is not interested in these questions now, the only thing he is interested in is how to match a pair and seek some benefits for the young talents under his command.

After all, Sun Ce has already hung up, and Da Qiao must have a belonging. Of course, Zhang Xiu did not rule out the possibility that the Qiao family would take a fancy to him.

To be honest, if Zhang Xiu came to the door to propose marriage today, the Qiao family would definitely not dare to have a word. Maybe you can marry one and get one free, so that Zhang Xiu can hug her sisters and return home.

Of course, these are all jokes, our Zhang Wenjin's concept of marriage is still relatively conservative, and he still maintains the modern concept of monogamy and has not been polluted by feudal dross.

When he went to Qiao's house with Liu Ye, Zhang Xiu did not bring a personal guard of the Wuwei Battalion, and even his confidant Hu Che'er, who was never ten steps away, did not bring him with him. Instead, he changed into a very simple outfit and pretended to be a scribe.

Although Zhang Xiu was tall and healthy, after wearing a Confucian crown and wearing a scribe's uniform, he quickly revealed a natural bookish atmosphere. When they found Lu Su and Zhuge Jin to walk together, if Zhang Xiu hadn't taken the initiative to speak, Lu Su and Zhuge Jin would have almost ignored this little scribe who was standing quietly.

Regarding Zhang Xiu's appearance, Liu Ye and Lu Su Zhuge Jin were extremely surprised. But he never expected that he, the lord who debuted and became famous for his martial arts, would have such a scholarly and Confucian temperament.

It's not at all any less bookish than a literati who has read the books of sages for ten years!

Dressed properly, Zhang Xiu also called his cheap nephew Lu Xun. For Lu Xun, Zhang Xiu's idea must cultivate deep feelings, and if you spend more time together, you will be closer.

A group of more than ten people went straight to Qiao's house in the name of retrieving the drawings for Liu Ye.

In the past, the Qiao family in Wancheng gradually declined because of the sluggishness of the male family members. But after Zhang Xiu took advantage of the time to launch the Great Qing Purge, the preserved Qiao family became the "one of the best" clans in Anhui City and even Lujiang County.

I have to say that this is really ironic. The façade of the wealthy family is supported by a family that is not in the stream, which shows the status of the wealthy family under Zhang Xiu's rule.

Zhang Xiu's policy is actually very clear, that is, to suppress the wealthy families and support the poor families, and to change the situation that the aristocratic families have acted as the link between the government and the grassroots people since ancient times, and establish a direct connection between the government and the people at the bottom.

At present, the big families in Yangzhou, including those of Zhang Xiu's heavy ministers, are extremely cautious in their every move. Because of the vacancies in the official positions that appeared after the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xiu uniformly promoted those officials from ordinary families or poor families to fill important positions.

The humble scholars who were suppressed by the officials of the wealthy family in the past can be regarded as turning over and singing this time. In view of Zhang Xiu's complete reporting and denunciation system, if those only remaining wealthy families have the slightest illegal act, waiting for these wealthy families to only sit down to the death without paying for their lives, the sentencing is also a misdemeanor and heavy punishment!

Of course, if there is a false accusation and framing, the consequence is not punishment, but a devastating blow such as directly destroying the Nine Clans.

In this kind of situation, where no one has an absolute advantage, although those wealthy families with deep roots are fighting day and night, they still retain some detached privileges such as recommending family talents.

Of course, the selection of officials and the like clearly stipulate that officials from non-wealthy families should fill the positions, and officials from poor families need to think twice before they report the wealthy families......

The Qiao family is currently no official, and its usual behavior can be described as walking on thin ice. Even if you want to repair the house, you have to look ahead, lest any of the poor scholars sue the Qiao family for moving the wall foundation without authorization, forcibly occupying the house, or being mean to the people, wasting people's money, and so on.

Therefore, when Zhang Xiu and his entourage arrived in front of Qiao's house, they saw that there were a few weeds growing on the wall, the door was peeling, and the horse tied at the door was incomplete, but they all suspected that they had gone the wrong way and found the wrong door.

There was no doorman at the gate, and after knocking for a while, an old man slowly walked out of the doorman and opened a door.

Seeing that there were people in official uniforms, the old man hurriedly opened another door, shouted a bud, and a little child came out of the gatehouse, and when he saw a group of people at the door, the child immediately ran to the inner courtyard.

The Han Dynasty respected the elderly, so this seventy or eighty old man did not have to salute, but Zhang Xiu and his party made a gesture to him.

"Gentlemen, are you from the Taishou Mansion?"

"We are the shogunate officials of General Zhendong, and we were ordered by General Zhendong and Liu Taishou to come to your mansion to retrieve a thing." Lu Su said.

This old man didn't know much about General Zhendong's rank, but he knew in his heart that this must be a subordinate of which general. Those generals and colonels in the army are more difficult to deal with than those poor officials, and the poor officials are still a little educated, and those mud-legged criminals in the army are directly smashing, looting, and burning, and they are not controlled by the laws of the official government, so there is nothing to say.

So although the old man didn't know why the things that were too guarded by the mansion would fall on his own mansion, he still bowed slightly and let Zhang Xiu and his party come in first.

As soon as Zhang Xiu and the others stepped into the courtyard, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked out of the main hall over there, with a smile on his face, and arched his hand as he walked: "Your lords have come to the cold house, and you have never welcomed you from afar, and you hope to forgive your sins." ”

Zhang Xiu and the others bowed back, but it was still Lu Su who said, "Presumably you are Master Qiao." Visiting your mansion rashly today is really a bit abrupt. Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just about what General Zhendong needs, so I'm waiting for an emergency. ”

"The master doesn't dare to be a master, Qiao has no official or position, where can he be valued by all the adults. It's just that I don't know what General Zhendong needs, if the Qiao family has it, it should be all owned by General Zhendong. ”

An hour before Zhang Xiu entered the city, it was spread throughout Anhui City, although Master Qiao didn't want to involve the military and politics, but when the wolf smoke was released at the head of the city, Qiao's Mansion still sent someone to investigate the situation. At this time, Lu Su mentioned Zhang Xiu, coupled with his elegant clothes, Master Qiao naturally knew the identity of the person who came in his heart.

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin not only laughed secretly in their hearts, although the Qiao family is in decline, but it is also a famous family in Lujiang, and it is the façade of Anhui City, how can the words be so humble and flattering, it is too disgraceful.

Young Lu Xun's heart suddenly soured at this time, a month or two ago Wu Jun Lu's family, but he didn't dare to raise his head when he spoke.

"What General Zhendong needs is the ...... in the boudoir of Old Man Qiao's mansion."

Before Lu Su finished speaking, the historical Qiao Guolao was in good spirits, and directly interrupted Lu Su's words to pick up the conversation: "Although Qiao is incompetent and only has one son under his knees, fortunately, the two daughters are angry." Not only is he handsome, but he also knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although Qiao does not anticipate political affairs, he has always known that General Zhendong has not continued the string, and it is very honorable to be seen by General Zhendong! ”

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin have a black line, this old man Qiao is too confident in his daughter. The beautiful generals of Zhendong all over the south of the Yangtze River have never taken a fancy to one, does your daughter still want to go to heaven?

Before Lu Su and Zhuge Jin could clarify the facts, Master Qiao immediately asked: "Forgive Qiao for being presumptuous, I don't know if General Zhendong has fallen in love with the eldest daughter or the younger girl, does he want to add a main house or a partial house?" ”

Lu Su Zhuge Jin: "......"

Seeing that Lu Su and Zhuge Jin looked like they were careful about their words, Master Qiao was the staff of these two Zhendong generals and it was difficult for them to speak because of the Confucian face. I guessed an answer in my heart, and it was a mixed blessing.

If you are married to one and then marry another, you can marry it, if your face is ugly, it will be ugly, anyway, Qiao's is already like this. Besides, marrying Zhang Xiu is not a loss-making thing.