In fact, Xuan Yi already knew about these news. This situation has not changed from the previous life, but it only confirms that the current situation has not changed much. Although Xuan Yi has predicted this, these news are related to the future development strategy, so it is necessary to confirm it.

Xuan Yi hurriedly finished eating the wine and food, then called Xiao Er, settled the account, and then led the donkey out of the door and walked forward along the road. After a while, he walked in front of the Yamen of Fushui County. There is an old saying that "officials don't repair the yamen, and customers don't repair the shops", and the county yamen in Shangnan County is naturally no exception. The rafters on the main gate of the county government have fallen into disrepair, and many of them have rotted and broken. The tiles are naturally not stable, and they are uneven. The vermilion paint on the door peeled off, revealing the wood underneath, and then the wood began to rot because it had been exposed for so long that the door was full of rotten holes.

On either side of the door, two couplets are hung. This couplet was originally engraved on the black lacquered wooden board, and then on the vermilion lacquer, now, whether it is the black lacquer as the background color, or the vermilion lacquer as the color of the word has peeled off, but faintly you can still see some of the words on the couplet, the Tao is: "The punishment reward book (lack) is private, is (lack) (lack) (lack) dare (lack) (lack) against the will of the people." "As for the lower link, I can't see it at all.

At the gate of the dilapidated yamen, there are two long rows of newly-made standing cages, which can be regarded as bringing a little novelty to this yamen. Naturally, these cages were full as usual, and there were wooden signs hanging next to the cages, on which were written in cinnabar the charges of these "lawbreakers" who were imprisoned in the cages. Most of them are tax arrears, or debts owed to others, but they can't return them, so they are locked up here by the county order, waiting for their families to come up with money before they can be released.

Xuan Yi knew that this station cage was the most vicious, and when it came to hurting people, it was far above the board. The cage was taller than a man, and the prisoner had a wooden flail around his neck, so that his feet could not reach the ground when he placed it in it. If you hang it directly like this, it will take less than half an hour, and a good person will be hanged. The "kind" officials would add a few bricks to the inside so that the prisoner's feet could barely reach a little, so that he could stand on tiptoe in the cage. Of course, this brick also has to be counted as money. No matter how good a person is, if he stands in this cage for one day, he will be disabled, and if he stands for three or five days, there will be no immortality.

Xuan Yi counted the number of these cages slightly, and there were as many as fifty. He knew that such a large-scale torture would naturally greatly damage the luck of the imperial court. Squinting his eyes, he took a look at his mana, and sure enough, he saw a trace of black qi rising from these station cages, mixed into the still somewhat majestic aura in the county office. And that luck is black and white, and it is already more black and less white.

The dragon qi of the imperial court, or the luck of the imperial court, is not generated out of thin air, but gathered from various places. The luck of the county is gathered to the state, and the luck of the state is gathered to the province, and then from the province to the imperial court, just like a hundred rivers converging the sea. If the politics of a county are clear, most of the accumulated luck will be white, and if it is the opposite, the gathered luck will be black. This black luck not only cannot increase the power of the imperial court's dragon qi, but will make the imperial court centrifuge inside and outside, and let the imperial court's strength deplete itself. If a dynasty reaches the time when the luck gathered from the local area is more black and white, it will naturally be a political collapse, and the person in the upper position will be peerlessly talented, and under the influence of such luck, it will definitely make a faint move, and every move is a perverse act against the will of heaven. At this time, there will be no dragons and snakes between the grass and the field, and in the court, there will also be ministers killing their kings, and sons killing their fathers.

Although he knew that the imperial court was his enemy, seeing this scene, Xuan Yi couldn't help but sigh. He didn't stay here, he still led the donkey forward, and after walking for a while, he arrived at the Fang City of this county. Xuan Yi first went to the rice shop and asked about the price of grain, and the price of this rice was almost four taels of silver and one stone. Xuan Yi asked why the price of rice was so high, and the shopkeeper replied:

"Lord Sun entered the king of Beijing Qin, and just requisitioned another batch of grain and left, so is it strange that the price of rice does not rise? Dao Chief, if you want to buy it, you need to hurry, or tomorrow, I can't say that it will not be this price. ”

Xuan Yi took out some broken silver, bought two buckets of rice, put them in a bag, let the donkey carry them, and went to the pharmacy to buy some commonly used medicines, and then turned back the same way, went out of the city directly, and rushed back along the official road. It wasn't until Jin Wuxi fell and the sky was full of stars that he returned to the stockade.

Huang Zide arranged a light and dark sentry outside the cottage, but these people all knew Xuanyi Taoist, the dark sentry did not move, and the bright sentry ushered in, and the leader was Huang Zide's personal soldier scalper. As soon as he saw Xuanyi Daoist, the scalper hurriedly greeted him and said: "The Taoist is back, and the owner of the village was still talking about the Taoist just now." ”

Xuan Yi nodded and said, "Xuan Yi has seen the owner of the village. Poor Dao also bought two buckets of rice by the way, which took some time. Then he entered the stockade and went to the Juyi Hall, and the scalper shouted vigorously: "The Taoist chief is back, the Taoist is back!" ”

In order to avoid being exposed, according to Xuan Yi's proposal, he asked others to no longer call him "King Shuntian", but "the owner of the village". This is to hide as much as possible from some people who will deal with them in the future, (after all, it is impossible for the cottage to be completely isolated from the world) On the other hand, it is also to let Huang Zide's luck be hidden, so as not to be discovered by the cultivators standing on the side of the court.

At the gate of the road, I saw Huang Zide, Liu Jiexuan, He Zhangqi, and almost all the generals of the rebel army who were still here stood outside the door to greet them. As soon as he saw Xuanyi, Huang Zide took a few steps, grabbed Xuanyi and said: "The Taoist has been going for a whole day, but now the soldiers are in chaos, but Huang is so frightened that he was scared, and he originally asked Niu Er to go with you, but the Taoist refused to go." The Taoist chief didn't know, today he went out to collect grain with the banner and met bandits, although he didn't suffer a loss, but I was really relieved when I thought that the Taoist went out alone. ”

Xuan Yi said with a smile: "Poor Dao is taking the official road this way, but there is nothing to do. When you meet a bandit with a flag, I'm afraid that the bandit has suffered a lot of losses! ”

"It's just a few bandits, if it weren't for the instructions of the owner of the village, none of them would have been able to leave!" He Zhangqi pursed his lips and said in a disdainful tone.

"Don't stand outside and talk, come in and drink some hot water and eat something." Huang Zide put Xuan Yi into the house again.

After entering the Juyi Hall, Huang Zide sat in the position of the owner of the village in the middle, let Liu Jiexuan sit on the left, let Xuanyi sit on his right, and then personally poured a cup of tea for Xuanyi, took a piece of baked cake and said, "Daoist Chief, drink some water first." The Taoist chief returned later, drank water and ate bread first, and the brothers also took advantage of this time to tell the Taoist chief about today's situation. As for the Taoist chief, he ate and listened at the same time. Let's start with me. ”

Huang Zide continued: "Today, I took a few brothers and went to the mountain behind the village, and the mountain behind it, although it is not high, but the ditch is forked, and after a day, I didn't understand it too much. The place that the Taoist chief is looking for is really good, if the officers and soldiers of the dog day come, let's take them to the back mountain to drill, and thousands of people don't want to figure it out for a while. Today's one day is not enough, I think we have to figure out the terrain behind it, not for five or six days, I don't even think about it. Well, Lao Liu, it's time for you to speak. ”

Liu Jiexuan said: "Zhangqi and I took our brothers to the north today, first, to collect grain, and secondly, to inquire about the situation. Today I passed by Zhangjiagou, Wangjiazhuang, and Lao Songzhuang, and received forty-five stone millet. In addition, I heard some rumors that the sister-in-law was scattered, some people said that the sister-in-law went to the mountains to the west, and some people said that a group of female dependents were surrounded by the official army and couldn't get out, so they all committed suicide, and I don't know if it's true. In addition, I also said that I saw a brother who had escaped on the other side of the Bazigou. I asked the brothers in charge of the flag to take the others to continue to collect grain, and I took five brothers to the Bazigou side, but I ran in vain and found nothing. It's the flag brothers' side that ...... Well, this matter, you say it yourself. ”

He Zhangqi was drinking water, and when he heard this, he put down the cup and said: "After Brother Liu left, I saw that the grain I bought was almost the same, so I turned my head back, who knew that when I walked to the black pine forest, I suddenly met a group of bandits who came out to harvest grain and stopped us." We started a friendship with the bandit leader. The gang of bandits is from Heifeng Village in the east, and the surname of the head is Xie, and the nickname is Zhuanshan Leopard. Let's say that we are also on the green forest road, and the green forest in the world is a family, and we don't see you when you look down. Everyone is destined to meet, and they can't let the brothers run in vain, so they plan to give them ten taels of silver, which can be regarded as making friends. Who knew that the leopard would not do it, saying that this piece was all their territory, and we could not be allowed to collect grain here. If we must collect grain, he can only collect it, and then sell it to us. Let's ask him how much a stone we want to buy from him. Damn, the tooth surnamed Xie is so deep, as soon as he opens his mouth, he asks for five taels of silver and a stone, which is several times higher out of thin air. How's that going to work? I can't go on, so I can only see the height of my fists and feet. The man surnamed Xie was also cool, he said, we each picked out five people on each side, and played five games one-on-one, if we won five games, and collected grain or something, he would not do anything at all, and gave us five stones of grain; If we win four games, every time we come here to collect grain, no matter how much, we will give him five taels of silver, which is considered to be a road money; If you only win three games, then the money for buying the road will become a stone of millet and a tael of silver; If they win three games, then they can only buy food from them according to their rules.

Let's hear it, that's a good idea! So I agreed. The first one is us and the leopard. To say that that guy really has the strength to do it, and his martial arts are not bad. But I still don't fight with people much, I have no strength, and I don't have much experience. He used a trick tiger pounce, well, it was the trick that the second tiger liked to use the most, and we caught the flaw, tripped with his foot at the bottom, and took a belt on the top, fell on his back, and couldn't get up for a long time. The brothers in the back were also good, and they didn't lose a single battle. That diamond leopard is also a good man who talks about credit, and if he loses, he admits it, and immediately asks people to get five stone millet over. Then he asked us if we had followed King Shuntian to fight with the official army, and had fled to this mountain. He also said that two days ago, he also met a group of heroes who fled to the mountains, and set up a village on the side of Yemagou to be the king of the mountain. The trick he was knocked over by me was learned from that man. It's also considered that you don't know each other if you don't fight. I listened to what he said, thinking that the person should be Erhuzi, but Yemagou is still sixty or seventy miles away from here, and it is too late to go today, so we will make an appointment with him, and tomorrow morning, I will go to their cottage, and then he will take us to find Erhuzi. ”