Out of the Qian family, Cao Hong only felt that there was nowhere to vent the anger in his chest, and he was uncomfortable. In the past, although I was accustomed to seeing deceit in the palace, I had never seen anyone so arrogant, without talking about conspiracies or twists and turns, and insulting a corpse lying on the bed in broad daylight and in full view of everyone. Cao Hong really wanted to catch that Xu Zhi'an and beat or kill him happily, but reason made him hold the anger in his chest. He knew that as long as he didn't grasp the real evidence, he couldn't do anything about it with a local snake like Xu Zhi'an.

When he returned to the post station, it was already dark, and Cao Hong saw that Wang Ying had not come back, so he didn't wait for them, and lay on the bed thinking about things.

Mengjin County has been slow to submit the three long files to the government office, and it seems that the Xu family must have secretly done something. Mrs. Qian was originally elected as the party leader, but the second son in the family died suddenly the night before the wedding, and the three candidates in other townships also suffered similar things. The Xu family's power in the county is huge, and the blackness of the means can be seen.

If you want to do a good job in the affairs of the three elders, you must solve the affairs of the Xu family. To solve the Xu family, the county government is unreliable. Cao Hong jumped up from the bed at this time, and secretly thought in his heart: "Since others are unreliable, I will check it out here first, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover up the matter, and if you think too much, you will suffer from gains and losses." Cao Hong must have an idea, and his heart is a little better.

At this time, the courtyard sounded the voice of Wang Ying and others, Cao Hong greeted him out, only to see the three of Wang Ying, red faces and red ears, thinking that they had drunk a lot of wine, and when they saw Cao Hong, one of the clerks smiled and said: "Secretary Li, it's a pity that you don't go today." That Cui'er's little hand, tsk! ”

Another clerk said with disdain: "What is a little hand, do you know what it means to drink in a leather cup?" ”

Wang Ying and the three of them looked at each other and laughed.

Wang Ying couldn't stand up by himself, so he was supported by the two clerks next to him and said: "Brothers, tomorrow, tomorrow I will be the east, I finally hid from the management of the yellow-faced woman at home, this time I have to play enough in Mengjin." ”

Cao Hong saw that the three of them were drunk and noisy, so he hurriedly called the post guard and sent the three of them into their respective rooms.

Woke up the next morning. Cao Hong saw that the three people were drunk and did not wake up, so he went to the county government to inquire about the news, who knows, Menzi did not give a message at all, only said that the county commander would only be in the afternoon in the past, so it depended on whether he was drunk.

Cao Hong shook his head, thinking that such a county order might not be able to fight the Xu family, and it would be a blessing for the people not to collude with it. completely lost hope in the government, Cao Hong could only investigate the matter himself. picked a small shop that sold breakfast, ate something, and inquired with the shopkeeper about the location of the Xu family, Cao Hong settled the account and went by himself.

Speaking of the Xu family, no one in Mengjin doesn't know, the shopkeeper said to Cao Hong, go east along the street, on the outskirts of Mengjin County, there is a dock fort that is the Xu family.

The so-called dock fort is a small city, since the end of the Jin Dynasty, the north has been in constant turmoil, thieves and thieves, at that time the Central Plains Han people can not stay away from the local to move to other places, most of them are entangled in the clan and township party, gather in the fort dock, defend themselves according to the danger, in order to avoid war. Over time, the big dock forts can be compared to the city, and the small ones are scattered all over the world. Because most of the Han people who defend themselves in the fort are linked by clan relatives and hometown friendship, the soldiers of the fort are very fierce, and the soldiers of the general state capital have nothing to do with them. Each dock fort is like a small country, and the owner of the dock fort is mostly the suzerain of the local clan, and this suzerain is naturally the existence of the emperor in this dock fort.

Any imperial court will not allow such an extralegal place to exist, since the former Han Guangwu Emperor ordered the destruction of the dock fort, but it is always forbidden, and later the Yellow Turban Army rebelled, this dock fort is even more prevalent in the world. Cao Hong's father, Emperor Cao Qi, saw that Wubao gathered its people and reduced its taxes. It seriously affected the foundation of the Great Wei, so he made up his mind to eradicate the deformed existence of the dock fort.

But the problem is that there are many wars, and Hermes-Epitek has no interest in who will be the emperor, and who to farm is not planting, so everyone gets together, no matter how fierce he is outside, it is of course better for us to live a stable life in the castle. Since the former Han Dynasty, although the imperial court has repeatedly ordered the cancellation of dock forts, large and small dock forts have sprung up all over the Central Plains. Since the hard ones can't work, then come to the soft knife to cut the meat, Cao Jue's "three-long system" is to target these forbidden dock forts.

Now that the country has not had a war for more than ten years, and a lot of land has been abandoned, the state now exerts land, collects very little taxes, attracts the Han people from the dock fort, and the three chiefs manage these people, and strengthen the control of the local court over the region, instead of handing over the control of the local area to the clan as before.

When people see that there is land to plant, they don't have to pay such heavy taxes, and the key is that the surrounding area is still safe and there is no need to fight. Naturally, there were people who were willing to come out of the dock fort.

Seeing that there was no one to farm the land to support him, the suzerain of Wubao must have tried to obstruct the implementation of the imperial court's decrees. It is not surprising that Meng Jin, the three elders, had "accidents" one after another.

Out of Mengjin County, Cao Hong walked for a while, then saw a dock fort like a monster lying in this wilderness, the fort wall of the dock fort is made of earth and stone, about two people high, there are dock soldiers patrolling on the fort wall, the fort door is wide open, there is an endless stream of people in the dock fort to go to the fields outside the fort to farm.

Cao Hong thought about the county town of Mengjin that had just come out, the city wall was just an earthen wall, and a large section had collapsed, and no one had repaired it so far. The county soldiers are even less pitiful. Only a few lazily basked in the sun at the city gates. Look at the behemoth in front of you. Even if Cao Hong was full of confidence when he came, when he saw this dock fort, he couldn't help but warn himself in his heart to be more careful.

Cao Hong was looking around at the fort, only to see an ox cart out of the fort, this dynasty is not as short of horses as the previous dynasty, but the people still use ox carts more. Although it was an ox cart, the body was wrapped in fine fine yarn, and a roof was covered with gold ornaments and jade, and several gorgeously dressed sons and daughters on the ox cart were drinking while pointing to the ragged peasants in the field and laughing bursts of laughter.

Cao Hong saw that on the ox cart, wasn't the person who laughed the loudest was Xu Zhi'an, who made a big fuss about the Qian family's spiritual hall yesterday?

Seeing the ox cart heading towards Chengguan in Mengjin County, Cao Hong hurriedly followed.

After only a while, the ox cart entered Mengjin, stopped in an alley in the south of the city, but saw that there were no pedestrians in the alley, Cao Hong saw a few people get down from the ox cart, Xu Zhi'an explained a few words to the coachman, and the ox cart drove out of the alley. Cao Hong took a closer look, and there was a plaque on the upper floor, which read, Yicui Pavilion.

Cao Hong thought to himself, no wonder there are not many people walking around in this alley, this kind of place is the place where people are buzzing and brightly lit at night. Cao Hong saw that those people disappeared in a blink of an eye, and hurriedly followed.

Because it was not yet noon, it was quiet in the Yicui Pavilion, Cao Hong walked in, and saw that the people were sitting in the lobby downstairs, accompanied by a middle-aged bustard. When the old bustard saw another person coming in, he thought to himself, "What day is it, and these perverts have come at noon." ”

The stomach was slanderous, but the old bustard still had a smile on his face: "This son, what time is this?" Are the girls still resting upstairs? Would you like to have something to eat first, are you waiting? ”

Before the words fell, Xu Zhi'an's group shouted: "You are a green building, it is about to become a restaurant, hurry up and call the girls to come down and serve the masters!" If you push and hold back, you'll smash your chicken nest. With that, several people laughed out loud unscrupulously.

Cao Hong frowned when he heard this, only to see the old bustard smile apologetically at him, hurriedly walked over, and complained repeatedly: "My son Xu, alas, this is noon, I just asked the girls to come down to accompany you, and I have to give them time to freshen up. After saying that, he picked up his skirt and ran upstairs.

Those people glanced at Cao Hong, and then chatted to themselves.

I saw one of them, his face was pale, his eyes were blue, he stood up, poured a glass of wine for Xu Zhi'an, and said, "Cousin, I heard that you went to the Qian Mansion yesterday?" ”

Xu Zhian shook the fan in his hand and said proudly: "Go, I not only went, but also personally worshiped Brother Qian." ”

The dark circle under his eyes asked in surprise, "Qian Bin is not you...... How did you go to worship? ”

Xu Zhi'an smiled and told the story of yesterday's big trouble in the Qianfu Lingtang, and looked at everyone triumphantly after speaking.

I saw that everyone was stroking their palms and laughing, and the black circles under their eyes were even more smiling, and they said in a loud voice: "Absolutely, absolutely, when the dead ghost Qian Bin was against us before his death, I am afraid I didn't expect this day!" Hahaha......"

Xu Zhian sneered: "His father is pretending to be benevolent and righteous on weekdays, and Qian Bin is even more-for-tat with us everywhere, and he dares to shelter our fugitives from Xujiabao." I really don't know whose world this Mengjin County is. ”

The dark circles smiled and said: "We don't need to talk about other places, just here in Mengjin, what is not our Xu Jiabao in charge?" What kind of Lao Shizi is elected in the court, then Qian Yanqing thinks that if he is elected, he can work against us, the old thing really doesn't know whether to live or die. ”

Xu Zhi'an shook his head and sighed fakely: "I didn't want to do it so desperately, but God didn't fulfill people's wishes!" It's a pity......"

After hearing this, he smiled at everyone and said, "It's a pity that this Qian Bin wants to marry a little lady that his cousin likes, isn't this unlucky!" ”

After hearing this, everyone laughed, and some of them were even more funny, and said to Xu Zhi'an: "Congratulations to Gongzi Xu for getting what he wanted!" ”

Xu Zhi'an said disdainfully: "Hmph, no matter how good-looking the skin is, it's just a joke, this matter will be stopped, there is no need to mention it in the future, there are rumors in the castle, don't blame me Xu for being ruthless." ”

After hearing this, everyone said that they didn't dare to dare, and Xu Zhian laughed again and said: "Come on, come on, drink and drink, and do something about this, I don't have to spoil my interest." ”

The black circles under his eyes said to everyone: "Let's drink it alive today, my cousin has brought good things that have diverged." ”

One of them asked, "Is it five stones?" I heard that after taking this thing, the four bodies are all over Thailand, and it is accompanied by wine, which has a strong effect......"

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

At this time, the old bustard shouted upstairs: "Girls, come down to accompany the guests!" ”

At this time, a group of warblers and warblers flew down from upstairs, and the old bustard went downstairs and said, "Hey, where is the little boy who came over alone?" ”

The dark circles under his eyes said: "The hair hasn't grown yet, so I came to prostitute the girl, I guess I can't lift it, and I'm ashamed to leave, right?" ”

The crowd laughed again.