Chapter 63: Countermeasures

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"Let's go!" The little flag officer hurried back to the barracks outside the Grange in the evening.

"What's going on?" It happened to be Wei Dayong's turn to be on duty that day, so he stepped forward and asked.

"See the General Flag." The little flag officer stepped forward to pay homage, and then told the story of the road, and handed Wei Dayong the secret letter he found from the butler's arms, he didn't know much about reading, but between the lines he asked about the smell of danger, his face changed greatly.

"Have you read this letter?" Wei Dayong asked.

"Back to the general banner, the lower officials are illiterate and don't know what is written on it." The little flag officer replied.

"Can anyone be seen on the road?" Wei Dayong nodded and still believed him, it was too normal for soldiers to be illiterate these days, and it was contrary to common sense to be literate.

"Before the grass startled the snake, the subordinate put him in a sack and hunched him on horseback." The little flag officer replied: "The carriage did not attract suspicion, and the lower officer hid it in a hidden place on the path. ”

"Well, you're doing a good job." Wei Dayong said: "You go and report this matter to the adult, and this person will be handed over to me." ”

"This~...!" The little flag officer couldn't make up his mind and was a little hesitant.

Wei Dayong looked at the gate of the barracks on the left and right, and said, "How do you treat you?" ”

"Adults treat the young owner as a brother, the young owner has explained to me, the adult's words are his words, there is no young owner in the future, only the general banner of the business, the adult is weak and young is not a rule or martial arts, the small are admired, we can follow the adults around, I really feel fortunate to live three lives." The little flag officer quickly knelt on the ground and said, and when the others saw the little flag officer kneeling on the ground, they all knelt on the ground.

"Well, what's your name?" Wei Dayong hurriedly helped him up and asked.

"Xiaguan Chen Jimin." The little flag officer replied.

"Hmm." Wei Dayong nodded and said: "Yang Qi takes me like a brother, and it is my greatest honor that I can follow him in this life." After speaking, he took out his portable dagger and stabbed it into the stomach of the butler next to him.

"Poof!"

"Hmm!" As soon as the housekeeper was about to call, he was covered by Wei Dayong with one hand.

"Poof!" Wei Dayong pulled out the dagger, and it was another knife, and the housekeeper was tied behind his back and his hands couldn't move, his eyes were wide, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

"If you want to blame, blame you and others for messing with people who shouldn't be messed with." Wei Dayong leaned into the butler's ear and whispered.

"General Banner, you....!" Chen Jimin didn't expect Wei Dayong to have such an aggressive behavior, and he was stunned for a while, at a loss.

"Hmm!" The housekeeper shook his head desperately after hearing this, and he didn't know what he was going to express, but Wei Dayong wouldn't give him a chance, he pulled out the dagger, the tip of the knife was obliquely upward, and stabbed into the housekeeper's body again, directly into the heart, Wei Dayong held the dagger and turned it hard, and immediately shattered the heart, and the housekeeper had a convulsion, rolled his eyes, and died in Wei Dayong's arms.

"Humph!" Wei Dayong pushed with both hands and threw the housekeeper's body on the ground: "Drag it out, find a place, and bury it." ”

"Yes!" Wei Dayong's soldiers said, and then the four soldiers carried him away.

"You want to ask me why?" Wei Dayong asked Chen Jimin rhetorically.

"Exactly." Chen Jimin was a little emotional.

"You know them." Wei Dayong raised the secret letter in his hand and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Chen Jimin looked at the secret letter in Wei Dayong's hand in a daze.

"Forget it, you still don't want to know about this matter, I'll go with you to find the adult." After Wei Dayong finished speaking, he took Chen Jimin and walked to the barracks.

Yang Qi worked in the grange during the day, and he had to return to the barracks to rest at night.

"Report!" Wei Dayong shouted outside the door with Chen Jimin.

"Enter." Yang Qi is examining the drawings submitted by the branch below to improve the design of firearms, as well as some of his own later insights on the development of firearms.

"See your lord!" The two knelt down and bowed.

"Well, get up, it's so late, what's the matter?" Yang Qi was surprised.

Chen Jimin, the little flag officer, briefly reported what happened.

"Well, you've done a great job, hard work! Let's go down and rest first. Yang Qi nodded and said.

"Yes. Subordinates retire! After Chen Jimin finished speaking, he retreated.

"Dayong, you're too impulsive." Yang Qi complained.

"Brother Yang, they are wolf-hearted things, the Grange is getting better and better day by day, day by day, they actually use such a means to do it? Look at these silver tickets! Wei Dayong pointed to the 100,000 taels of silver tickets on the table and said: "I just did what I should do, don't kill them, once this matter leaks, Shi Caiqi and they will definitely send messengers again, this matter must be resolved." ”

"I know you're doing the right thing, I'll kill that butler even if he brings him here, but it's too dangerous for you to do so." Yang Qi said: "Fortunately, that Chen Jimin is a clever one. ”

"We are brothers, you have done a lot for me, I am very happy to have such an opportunity, I can do something for you, if this matter is very tricky, just push it on me, I Wei Dayong is willing to bear it!" Wei Dayong patted his chest and said.

"Pure! Can I make you bear? Yang Qi went up and punched him and said, "You go down first, let me think carefully about what to do about this matter." ”

"What are you thinking about this?" Wei Dayong said: "I took my brothers to pretend to be bandits, rushed into the city, killed those landlords and old wealth, as well as Shi Caiqi and Ma Tingyin, and burned their mansions. ”

"You have a lot of bad ideas." Yang Qi said: "We are now governing the people, we can't treat them like bandits, they will be killed at every turn, not to mention that they are all landlords, and if they move, they will indirectly hurt our roots, which requires a gradual process, okay, you go down first, I will deal with this matter." ”

"Well, well, if there is anything, you must tell your brothers, let's break through the sword mountain and the sea of fire together." After Wei Dayong finished speaking, he retreated.

Weishi Academy.

"What?" Wei Deqiang was surprised: "Father, why are you so confused? Something to do? ”

"What? Don't you want to think about our family's situation? Wei Shixue said angrily: "You are not angry, you have only been working in the yamen for a few days? Forgetting where is your duty? ”

"Father!" Wei Deqiang also said with some excitement: "Didn't you see the smiles on the faces of the people of the Grange? That is the expectation of life, the yearning for a better life in the future. Are you looking at the businessmen, were they so motivated before? If you look at the grain price of the Grange, it is the cheapest in the surrounding area, and now the merchants in several surrounding counties have to come to the Grange to unload and load the goods, and you can't see the change in the Grange? Boom? ”

"Prosperity?" Wei Shixue sneered and said: "Son, that's all fake, only grain, the field is real, it's the heirloom, you look at our field, now no one cultivates it, if we also learn from them to hire people to work, how much will the grain produced in our field be sold in the future?" Look at how much the grain in the shopping mall is sold for now? If this goes on for a long time, where will our family go? Have you thought about it? ”

"Father, in the final analysis, isn't it a matter of income and silver?" Wei Deqiang said: "In the past two days, I have been drafting the Yamen bidding for the formation of a military supply chain, and after I finish drafting, I will show it to adults, and go back to implement it, Grange will need a large number of handicraft workshops to meet the development needs of the army, isn't this the industry?" ”

"You're saying we can do these production workshops?" Wei Shixue's glasses lit up.