Qi Xiaotian thought about it secretly, the officials in the south are similar to the officials in the north, but the officials in the hometown have already been killed, and in the south, according to the statement of an elder at the time of departure, now the southern provinces, because they have lost the authority of the central government, have become unscrupulous.

The reason is very simple, the original tax collection has to be handed over to the treasury, the enthusiasm is naturally poor, and you don't give a commission, so what do you do with your life, but now it is collected, but it is divided by officials and local gentry, so robbing the people, and you can share the profits up and down.

Especially in some places, while conscripting troops and collecting food under the pretext of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and saving the prince, but when the soldiers arrived, it was basically the "low-end population" that was pushed out by the villages to be sent to death, and was directly divided by military household officers or yamen from all over the country.

But tell you to be careful.

The most terrible of the two kinds of people, babies and people who have lost checks and balances, the former does not know the consequences of what they do, including some giant babies, and the latter knows that they can be lawless in whatever they do, even if they kill someone just to spend some money to get bail pending trial.

What Qi Xiaotian didn't know was that if it was another time and space, what these officials and literati were doing was actually even more ridiculous, and all kinds of things that were tight on the front line and tight on the rear could be said to be innumerable.

Qi Xiaotian naturally wouldn't let this old lady continue to live here, he felt that his work was here, and he didn't have to find a way to verify what his boss said, the rich man's house was seized many years ago, looking at the prefect's behavior, he could almost arrest people directly.

Of course, it would be better if more confession certificates could be obtained, originally Qi Xiaotian's task was to go to Vietnam to carry out "war and sudden" work, which could not be regarded as a military position, and for the sake of secrecy, no weapons were distributed, but there was money to open the way, so it was naturally inconvenient.

Master Liu is a person who loves money, and he does things very fairly, the door-to-door delivery of the post is a fixed price code, send the message to the study, say good, it is a fixed price code, as for making an appointment to talk about things, it is also a fixed price code, Tong Su is not bullied, and there is no black to eat black, it is simply, conscience.

Qi Xiaotian himself was born in the lower class, not so high-minded, after seeing Master Liu, he did everything possible to flatter, and he used all kinds of rhetoric, and fooled him very well, and at the same time invited two young girls, at most fifteen years old, but he was already familiar with the road, one left and one right hung next to Master Liu, and that Master Liu said obscene words while getting up and down his hands, it seemed that the evening program had been found.

"Oh, these days, it's my son-in-law's funeral day, but I'm hugging left and right here, it's not good, little brother, it's not good, well, you're from the north?"

"Yes, the north is getting more and more chaotic, and I am also lonely, so I came to seek refuge with my aunt, seeing that my aunt is here, she is not sensible, and she collided with adults, don't I come to make amends, find a way to see if I can let my cousin out."

"This is difficult, how benevolent and righteous the prefect of my family is, your cousin, shameless, it is already a great gift to allow a low-end population like him to live, but he is willing to sacrifice his life and money, and he refuses to spend money, he would rather hide the money in the pit than take it out to congratulate the adult, this is good, the son goes, he wants to come out again, it is not a little money that can be done."

"Master, let's not talk darkly, these two young ladies, I have already helped them redeem themselves, and at the same time, a small business has been purchased for you, wait for you to take them back directly, and it is good to comfort and comfort them when they are lonely, I don't know, you see, you work so hard, can you."

"Count you kid sensible."

Master Liu laughed and touched the two little girls next to him who were younger than his daughter, but his face changed, and he said, "It's a pity that the adults are in a bad mood now, so the eldest young master just went." ”

"The villain naturally has gifts, but unfortunately he can't find the way, for fear of recklessly knocking on the door and disturbing the prefect."

"Reasonable, reasonable, don't worry, Lord Prefect, how benevolent and righteous people are, as long as you have money, even if you are a low-end population, you can live."

"Can I get them out tomorrow?"

In Qi Xiaotian's opinion, this Master Liu is already a character who can't be cooler anymore, even if it is this house, he bought it quickly and gave it directly to this person, but it is just a temporary custody for the Presbyterian Council, in the policy of the Presbyterian Council, there is also such a bad policy, that is, when bribery, for this kind of character who will soon be cold sooner or later, he can give away all kinds of real estate generously, these things are not easy to realize, and they can naturally be "recycled" afterwards.

Qi Xiaotian also has his own careful thoughts here, although in the accounts, the money of the house is not touched by himself, but the little girl who comes with it, he can take the opportunity to take it, although it is second-hand, but it is a woman who has been sitting in the tank since she was a child, and she is the most good at serving men.

Of course, Qi Xiaotian is still a positive and sunny person, at least his loyalty to the Elders' mind is unchanged.

"That's going to be hard."

Qi Xiaotian didn't expect that this master was dozens of years old, eating his own, drinking his own, and hugging the woman he gave out, but he didn't eat so much oil and salt, and immediately asked with some questions: "This, my aunt is dying in a hurry, please be accommodating." ”

"It's not that I'm not accommodating, it's really the prefect's side, the sad son was killed by the little slut, and she is concocting her family, preparing for the funeral day, and her whole family will be wiped out, and the funeral scene is also going to be bigger, the big temple monks in Guangdong Province have been invited to come over, chanting the scriptures for the eldest son, wishing him an early ascension to bliss, early reincarnation and wealth, and the men in the whole city have time to wear linen and filial piety to be filial piety, and go to the eldest prince to cry and mourn."

Qi Xiaotian felt slightly ridiculous, but his face didn't reveal anything, and said: "I didn't expect that the prefect still believes in Buddhism, and he knew that I would prepare a gift for him, uh, by the way, what does this have to do with my cousin." ”

Master Liu said: "Don't you say that the monks don't spend money, those monks, but they cost a lot of money, all of them are served with wine and meat, and they all require a girl every day, not beautiful and don't do it, they all have to be teenage virgins, the beautiful name is Huanxi Buddha, and the silver of chanting scriptures is also to be sufficient, the prefect's official bag is really a little unsupportable, so ah, I plan to sell the low-end population in the prison overseas, in fact, it has been traded, and when the funeral of the eldest prince is over, these low-end people carry the coffin for the eldest prince, As soon as the linen and filial piety are finished, they will be sold to Citigroup as coolies. ”

Qi Xiaotian's heart moved, but he didn't know how many ideas he had, and immediately said, "Then my cousin." ”

"Wait for the funeral, I wrote down your affairs, and when the funeral is over, let him go home, you see, I'm very busy here, but the prefect has something in his heart, so I can't help but serve him well."

Are the people who died of their sons so perverted, Qi Xiaotian didn't know what to do, the big people he had come into contact with, those elders, could be said to be in charge of the identity of the imperial palace, but they were all amiable and didn't want money, but why were these scholars who were full of benevolence and morality so vicious.

However, Qi Xiaotian still politely sent the master away, and at the same time, he didn't know what idea he was turning around.

Due to the region, the information he collected could not be sent back, so he could only do things by himself, but fortunately, the prefect's family was torturing the victim's family, while looting the people's wealth for his son's funeral, which can be said to be a commotion in the whole city, compared to the red and white ceremonies promoted by the Presbyterian Council in the north, the dead could not be allowed to block the way of the living, and the local governor presided over the wedding, so that the poor young people could have a decent wedding. The spirit of the chanting of the scriptures: "eat grapes without spitting out grape skins...... the master of the scriptures, there are not a few, and the firecrackers can go to war, burn some paper money, can burn the entire Foshan, as for the threat of the leather whip, with rope shackles, after being shackled, in the filial son who wears linen and wears filial piety, or is escorted by a knife and gun, or is a little meager copper money and the threat of paying the funeral tax if he does not come, the "filial son" who has to come here to cry and mourn almost kneels all over the school.

The cry shook the sky, as for whether he was sad for the death of the eldest prince, it was another matter, it was a matter of opinion, Qi Xiaotian at least found that although the other sons of the prefect's family also looked sad, their eyes were not red at all, obviously there was no sadness, and they seemed to be very happy.

He still gave some gifts, and it was also used as a bowing protocol, and the money came to open the way, seeing the dozens of concubines crying and crying left by the eldest prince, but he was a little more happy in his heart, and he didn't know where he had hit his idea.

Of course, the main event is naturally the back, that is, the killing.

Different from the public trial and murder carried out by the elders in Jiangnan, the whole of Foshan knew that the little girl killed the eldest prince in order to resist the rape, and she didn't have to read anything according to the script, several executioners carried out the woman who had been tortured so much that there was no good meat on her body, in order to humiliate her, the clothes on her body had already been stripped naked, and her eyes were blurred, obviously people had been tortured and unconscious, at least Qi Xiaotian knew that those jailers and servants had been ordered to humiliate the female dependents of this family day and night, and the female dependents of their family were all crazy.

Crazy or not, at least, when the mill weighing hundreds of pounds was lifted to the woman, and after that, before it was smashed little by little, there was no sound of grief, so it was not painful to go all the way.

As for the men, they had little ability to resist, and some of them were obviously missing arms and legs, and they were also killed one by one.

When even children of a few years old were thrown into the pit and burned to death as virgins, there was almost no sound in the whole city, as if the world was over, only the cry of children, and Qi Xiaotian could only press his calves with his hands.

There seemed to be a smell of blood in the air, Qi Xiaotian didn't say anything, the things agreed with Master Liu before, the man didn't break his promise, maybe it was the satisfaction of the two girls' service, and soon he took the young man and his mother out of the city, and he already knew the situation here in his heart, and when he went out of the city, he happened to meet the officials of the prefect's yamen.

Those servants held bloody water and fire sticks, driving away those low-end population, all of whom had been tortured, not like people's thin physiques, but one by one with ropes around their necks, dressed in a row, walking slowly, if they walked a little slower, they would be beaten, if they couldn't stand it, they would be beaten down at that time, these people specially beat people's heads, and a few strokes were skin and flesh, and their mouths were not clean: "Kill you." ”

At this time, a dark-skinned man ran over, laughing with him, and said a vernacular that Qi Xiaotian couldn't understand, but at the same time, he reached out and took out a handful of money and stuffed it into those fierce officials.

That money, in Qi Xiaotian's eyes, looked so familiar.

Qi Xiaotian couldn't do anything, that is, he took his aunt and cousin he recognized, and went south together, and the order he got was to investigate whether the official had done something to seize people's land, and now, he almost didn't have to look to know the answer.

However, the more he walked, the team of people who bought those low-end people to be slaves also walked on the same road with him, Qi Xiaotian's eyes on the people over there became more and more weird, but for the sake of face, he didn't dare to approach, but there were still some humane treatments for those slaves over there, at least the water and food were sufficient.

It's quite peaceful along the way, although there are more and more tax cards, and there are many taxes and fees required to enter and exit the road, and those who charge are all typical of difficult to enter and ugly faces, but there are almost no people who kill people and take money, Qi Xiaotian has been back in Guangzhou, and has always found the contact point here, which is actually Zheng Zhilong's business inn here, and after reporting his name, he naturally got good food and drink.

However, what surprised him the most was that the low-end population who were sold was also next door, but they had changed into new clothes and could barely eat and drink.

Not only in Foshan, but also in other places, they are all men who can't see their age, and have long been suffering by years and hard work, and at this time they are looking at the people in front of them with some blank eyes.

"Everyone, this Guangdong can't stay any longer, next, we will take you to Vietnam, and when you get there, one person can give a hundred acres of land, and women ......"

Qi Xiaotian understood that he was home.

According to the plan, he brought back the witnesses, but with the old gentleman sent by the Zheng family, he wrote a letter back about what he had seen and heard on this trip, and it was only after the things arrived in Vietnam that they caused people's surprise.

(End of chapter)