Chapter 12: The Displaced (4)

The Assassin's Mansion is the heart of a state. Thorn history holds the festival, on behalf of the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, patrolling, is a piece of heaven in Cangzhou. Therefore, the Assassin's Mansion is a reduced version of the Chang'an Imperial Palace, and the county government is a reduced version of the Assassin's Palace. The front hall and harem of the Son of Heaven, the folk is the vestibule and the backyard. There are six divisions of the Son of Heaven, there are six divisions of the history of thorns, there are six rooms in the county government, and there are even six classes in the lowest post station! From top to bottom, the power is decreasing step by step, and the face is the same, which is called having a good appearance. No matter how poor a place is, it is necessary to repair the county government in a decent manner, and this is bureaucracy.

Cangzhou Thorn History Mansion is also well repaired. In front, sitting in a lobby facing north and south, it is not necessary for the assassin to meet with Shangguan, receive holy decrees, hold a conference, or meet some important local people. A little later on the right side of the lobby, there is an inner hall, which is the place where the assassin deals with daily affairs and sees the little people.

On the left side of the lobby, sitting east and facing west, are the six divisions and the scribes

of the office room. Behind, is a canteen, for the heads of the department and the scribe to eat, the inside of the canteen, and divided into inside and outside, four dishes and one soup outside, a meat dish, eight cold and eight hot inside, what you want to eat.

Opposite the six-room office room is the residence of some miscellaneous people. There is also a canteen, which only has pickles, and meat dishes are only eaten once in five days.

The front is public, the back is private, and the big back house is used by Thorn Shi for office alone. There are beautiful ponds, rockeries, cloister pavilions, everything. Speaking of which, there have been several wars, and the Assassin Mansion here is still not destroyed, thanks to the repairs of the previous pseudo-assassins and the Assassins.

Tang Law stipulates that the Assassin can live in the Assassin's Mansion, but there is no provision that the Assassin's family can live in, and there are Qing officials in history who do not let their families live in the Assassin's Mansion, but Xu Qing obviously does not lack that name.

The inner courtyard of the Assassin's Mansion also has a role, that is, to meet guests secretly. Miss Huang and Xu Qing were talking in a secret room in the inner courtyard, Huang Shimei was proud, and Xu Qing gritted her teeth.

"In this way, you can cut the meat with a soft knife, if you don't meet its enemy, reduce its strength first, Xu stabbing history is a good strategy, and the little woman admires! It's a pity ......" Huang Shimei linked and analyzed Xu Qing's decrees in the past few days one by one, and broke Xu Qing's calculations in one sentence. Xu Qing was shocked, and secretly admired Huang Shimei, what a little beauty! If it's a man, it's really an opponent......

It's a pity that this is a woman, or a little beauty, so lonely and widowed...... Xu Qing's heart was twisted: Do you want to conquer her with my big bird?! First "barbaric" its physique, and then "civilize" its spirit! Or rape first and then kill? It doesn't seem to be a loss...... Xu Qing tilted his head and thought, a hint of obscenity flashed in his eyes. was captured by Huang Shimei, and looked at Xu Qing nervously.

——Seeing this, Xu Qing's eyes returned to clarity,

"Miss Huang, I only saved your brother a few days ago, did you repay the favor like this?"

"Xu Tingshi laughed, where does the little woman dare to disrespect Tingshi, since I am here, I will not take this matter out......"

"Oh, you're here to make a deal, tell me what the conditions......" Xu Qing nodded, spread his hands, and looked like he was being slaughtered. Huang Shimei heard the word "transaction", and her willow eyebrows were upside down and said excitedly: "No! It's not a transaction, it's a cooperation ......" But in a blink of an eye, Huang Shimei realized the gaffe, her face was slightly red but her momentum was undiminished, and she said: "I do have a few conditions, but they can't be counted as a transaction......"

"Miss Huang, don't you want me to ......" Xu Qing buttoned his collar and was surprised, looking like he was about to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

- Huang Shimei was stunned, blushed all over her face, and said coquettishly: "You...... You are also a state assassin, and you have such a disregard for Sven's face! ”

"Oh, I'm afraid...... Xu Qing said cheekily. Huang Shimei couldn't help but sneer, and sighed again: "Brother Xu, I have three conditions, you can consider ......"

"Hmm...... You start with ......"

"First, you can't move the vassals of the Huang family, and my Huang family also guarantees that there will be no more vassals......

"Second, the salt of Yanshan, my Huang family will account for seventy percent ......"

"Third...... You think about the first two first, and I'll talk about the third later......"

- After Huang Shimei finished speaking, she lowered her head and looked at Xu Qing secretly, only to see Xu Qing smile slightly, and said: "The second one is whatever you want, I promised, the first one, I don't agree to ......"

Huang Shimei hurriedly said: "Why? ”

Xu Qing said slowly: "People can't stand without trust, things can't be done without trust, once I start to clean up a large group of people in Cangzhou, then I have to do it to the end, the land is used for the people, the taxes are all into its warehouse, one person, a grain of rice must also be investigated...... In fact, Xu Qing's words are also frightening, how can he not know that the water is clear and there is no fish? Xu Qing's thought in his heart was that the big family must be cleaned up, and the small landlord could be a good one. Pigs, to be fattened and then slaughtered......

"This, Brother Xu, those vassals are our lifeblood, once the vassals are gone, what kind of clan will they become?" Huang Shimei said sadly that she really couldn't balance her sweetheart and the burden on her shoulders.

"Poetry and books are heirlooms, and etiquette descendants are the family of everyone, which can be passed down for centuries...... The heirloom of the field house, the descendants of the law, are just dry bones in the mound. "Xu Qing has been in Tang for so long, and he has also learned a lot of literary crepe words.

"Alas, how can I not know, but the Huang family is not the only one who said it......"

"I can give you Huangjiachang a lot of wealth, do you believe me?"

"Brother Xu, I ......," Huang Shimei said hesitantly.

"I know you don't believe it......" Seeing this, Xu Qing laughed, and said: "Cangzhou produces salt, and if you sell it outside the Saizhou, you can get cattle and horses." Sold to Shuzhong, you can get splendid. Go south to the south of the Yangtze River, go west to Luoyang and Chang'an, you can get silk, grain, and things from the Western Regions. If all of them are transported back to Cangzhou, then not to mention the entire Cangzhou, that is, the goods in Hebei and Shandong are all up to us, so how big is the profit? ”

During the Tang Dynasty, seawater drying salt was not developed, and it was only mineral salt used, boiling brine to make salt, the output was very low, the price was also high, and the same profit was also large.

"But ......," Huang Shimei said suspiciously.

"I know what you want to say, it's nothing more than the exploitation of officials and the strong men on the roadside, so I say, I personally lead the troops to protect the merchants? Or rather, I sent 500 state soldiers to protect the merchant and asked for an imperial order? ”

"Imperial Order?!"

"......" Xu Qing found a yellow silk behind him and threw it to Huang Shimei. Huang Shimei took it, opened it and saw that her mouth was wide open and she couldn't close it, only to see that it was written:

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and he says: ......"

After the edict, it was a blank space, and a jade seal was stamped at the bottom, with eight big characters of "Ordered by the Heaven and Longevity Yongchang".

This handwriting, this seal, this yellow silk, is a true holy decree!

Why eighty percent? Because Huang Shimei doesn't believe it at all! She had only heard of the appearance of the Holy Decree, but she had never seen it, and even if she did, she didn't believe that Xu Qing had a blank Holy Decree, which was a priceless treasure! She looked at Xu Qing worriedly, and asked in a trembling voice, "Xu ...... Brother Xu, you ...... Do you dare to make a holy decree privately?! ”

"How can it be, I'm very timid, this is the ...... given to me by Old Man Li" Xu Qing smiled bitterly in his heart, this is what he promised Li Yuan before he left, and he promised Li Yuan to supply the imperial court and the Saibei army every year after two years, in exchange, this is the first unequal treaty he signed with the feudal imperial power!

- Huang Shimei was completely shocked, what did Xu Qing call the emperor just now? Old man Li! What does this mean? Xu Qing has a very close relationship with the emperor, and to the point of forgetting the New Year, there is no grace! Even a holy decree representing the highest power can be "begged", no matter how embarrassing the "begging" is, it should always be in hand, is there anyone else in the world? No!

Xu Qing's biggest reliance is not a big family, not a high-ranking official, but the emperor! The master of Datang, and he is just around the corner to become the master of the whole of China! Huang Shimei found that her previous thoughts were wrong......

"What, little silly girl? Isn't my brother powerful? ”

"Okay, I believe you ......" Huang Shimei no longer doubted, because she listened to what Xu Qing said and saw what Xu Qing did, everything was a matter of exterminating the Nine Clans, and she would never brag about it, nor would she tell such a lie for the sake of these families in Cangzhou. What's more, the words come from the mouth of the sweetheart! There will be no fakes......

"Shimei...... In fact, my strategy is not to cut meat with a soft knife, I call it a boiled frog in warm water...... Xu Qing replaced "Miss Huang" with "Shimei", and said an innocuous word in order to ease the atmosphere.

"Oh? Boiled frogs in warm water? ”

"Ahem, don't you know, if you put a frog in a pot with water and heat it slowly, but the frog can't feel the change in water temperature, it stays in the water all the time, knowing that it is cooked and ......dying," Xu Qing said viciously, wanting to scare Huang Shimei.

Unexpectedly, Huang Shimei smiled and said expectantly:

"Brother Xu knows so much, I'm going to give it a try when I go back......"

"Well, frogs are beneficial insects, so don't kill them......" Xu Qing smiled awkwardly, and said, "What is your third condition?" ”

"Hmph, I won't tell you......" Huang Shimei's mouth curled, she was coquettish, and looked directly at Xu Qingdao: "Do you want to know?" ”

A woman's heart, a needle under the sea, if Xu Qing guessed it, he would not be a single dog in his last life. Xu Qing only thought that Huang Shimei wanted money and land, and didn't think about anything else, in line with the principle of less is a little, Xu Qing replied: "No, no, no, I don't want to know, I don't agree with it, I will give you a fortune!" ”

"Humph!" Hearing this, Huang Shimei stood up with a snort, turned around and left, muttering a sentence of "big fool...... walked to the door, and saw Xun Xue'er pushing the door in, she knew that this was Mrs. Xu Qing, and she continued to go out angrily. Walking away, Huang Shimei glanced back at Xun Xue'er, her eyes were full of envy.

- Xu Qing made a "I didn't do anything" expression at Xun Xue'er, plus a "blame me" expression. Xun Xue'er asked about the whole story, and Xu Qing said everything to Xun Xue'er without reservation, except for the little flirtation. Xun Xue'er listened, smiled "poof", and said:

"Brother Xu doesn't know anything about men and women......"

"How?"

"Let Xue'er see ......" Xun Xue'er paused: "I'm afraid that Miss Huang's third condition is ......"

"I want to marry Brother Xu!"