In the Pingping Restaurant in Taiping County, several big men are looking at each other. After a long time, a strong man with a black face said: "Everyone, then Yang Xiu of X County does not leave a river road for us." “

"He's too ruthless, I just contacted my uncle in the house, but it came that the city has cleaned the officialdom, what can we little fish do."

"Who doesn't know, among us, you have the most bad ideas with a white face, how do you say to give him a blow, even if he doesn't live, he can't make that X county better." It turned out that Huang Daming, a warden in the Long Yihua period, looked at everyone viciously.

"Yes, everyone is not afraid of him, we have been doing it for so many years, and we are afraid that we will not be able to cure a yellow-haired boy, and we don't have to hide it, you all have a shady curtain of those businesses, find out, and find all those who have a backstage, I don't believe it, that kid can't do it." The middle-aged man with clear eyebrows said in a weird way.

"That's it."

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"Young master, that new musket has been built."

Yang Xiuqing, who was looking at the rows of servants in new clothes, turned his head to look at Yang Er, who broke in from outside, and he beckoned: "Dafu, Dafu." “

"Young master, what's the matter?" Kim Dae-fu ran over with a medicine bag on his head, his eyes were black and his mouth was swollen, he was with a black stick when he went out to pee last night.

"You followed Yang Er to test the gun, and, did the retired veteran find it?" Yang Xiuqing looked at Jin Dafu and wanted to laugh, but he endured it.

Jin Dafu glanced at Yang Xiuqing secretly, and when he saw Yang Xiuqing's appearance of wanting to laugh but enduring it, he said softly: "Yes, yes, but there are some special." ”

"Didn't you do what I said?"

"Lao Jin, I spent more than a thousand taels to look for the cannibal Wang Zheng overnight, looking all over the county, only more than 70 veterans, still lying in bed and sick, I finally found another official, that is the military department servant Ye Youji, but when Lao Jin came to the door, the old guy beat me out."

"Are you stupid or not, is that the soldier of the military department can afford to be invited by my Yang family?" Without waiting for Yang Xiuqing to speak, Yang Er pointed at Jin Dafu and scolded.

Yang Xiuqing thought about it, "Tell me about the military department." ”

Yang Xiuqing thought, how could a soldier be considered a high-ranking official, how could he be in this small county. Jin Dafu glanced at Yang Xiuqing with some fear of Yang Er, and saw that Yang Xiuqing was a little interested, so he said rightly.

"I saw it in the official document, that Ye Youji was put on the official because of his tough request to use troops against the Hu people, I heard that he was born in a poor family on the border, and he lived alone in a grass hut by his side, Lao Jin thought, there is at least one official to confess to the young master without a general, then I know that the old guy is too human, if it weren't for Lao Jin, I am honest and loyal, I would have beaten him so much that I couldn't even recognize his mother."

"Alright." Yang Xiuqing frowned and thought about it for a while, and then said, "You go and sell some gifts, and then go to ask Uncle Zhu for five thousand taels, and the young master will come out in person." “

Jin Dafu looked up and saw Yang Xiuqing with that smile, a cold sweat broke out behind his back, and he said secretly, this little bastard is ready to be a yin person again, and that dead old man is unlucky for you.

Just as Yang Xiuqing closed his eyes and thought about the tax revenue in the county, Yang San came running with sweat profusely.

"Young master, young master, there is a legend outside, saying that the young master is recruiting people to collect black money, and those merchants in the city have to pay sixty percent of the tax, the small ones not only can't recruit people, but even things are smashed by people, if it weren't for the small ones running fast, they would really be like being rich."

"Well, then don't recruit those people, I thought, at this time, the farmers are busy, those farmers can't recruit, I really think that I must recruit these soft eggs, if it's good, it's those unwilling people who do it, you immediately go to the countryside to recruit me 200 people in, and then even the people who patrol the city have changed, and then Lao Tzu will regret that there is no place to go."

"Oh." Although Yang San was a little puzzled, he nodded and was ready to ask Zhu Zhanpeng for funds to go to the countryside to recruit people. Yang Xiuqing beckoned: "Slow, the people recruited now will pay three months' grain first, but if he signs the death deed, if he regrets the deed, let them give us a hundred times." ”

When Yang Xiuqing waved them down, he picked up the Taiping County tax record book on the side and looked at it, the more he looked, the more he could feel that people in this era were really tired of living, and they even had to pay taxes when they gave birth to babies, but he knew that this was a tax collected by those small officials in the county, but it was just another kind of greed for money.

It was getting dark, Yang Xiuqing took Yang Erjin Dafu to a grass shed by a farmland outside the city, Yang Xiuqing looked at him, and Jin Dafu slammed the wooden door.

"Smack, smack, open the door, open the door......."

"It's coming, it's coming, who's it, it's the night." Ye Youji was drinking and looking at the moon when he heard the sound of the door outside the door, he came to open the door slowly and worriedly, and when he saw Jin Dafu outside the door, he didn't think about it was a punch.

"Ouch, my eyes."

"Hmph, you're this shameless boy again, you'll break your leg if you come again." With a slap, Ye Youji closed the door and walked in, ignoring Yang Xiuqing and the others.

"Young master, you see, such an old man who doesn't know how to do good or bad looks like useless goods, no wonder he was put home."

As soon as Jin Dafu's words landed, the wooden door opened again, and Ye Youji stared at Yang Xiuqing with a gloomy face: "The old man only has a hard bone, no matter how far you are the bullshit prince, how far you will roll Lao Tzu, or you will be bloody." ”

After speaking, when Ye Youji was about to close the door, Yang Xiuqing pressed the door and said with a smile: "Slow, the younger generation doesn't know any prince, the younger generation is the new R County Cheng, and I came here at this time because of the heroic posture of the seniors, and I have important things to ask for advice and nothing else, the seniors can rest assured." ”

When Jin Dafu saw Yang Xiuqing's polite descendant, he retreated and secretly said, it is better to stay away from such yin people, otherwise he will not know if he will be yin again.

When he heard Yang Xiuqing's words, Ye Youji stiffened his face and let Yang Xiuqing in, and as soon as Yang Xiuqing entered the door, he saw Ye Youji's wine and food in front of the courtyard.

"Yang Er, put out the signature dishes of Yichun Building, and then bring the master's hidden wine, today I will not get drunk with Ye Daying."

As soon as Yang Er heard Yang Xiuqing's words, he didn't know how to put the food and wine brought from Yichun Lou on the table, and Ye Youji was embarrassed to come, because he didn't have any heroic deeds, let alone any heroic strategy.

However, Yang Xiuqing did not give Ye Youji a chance to speak, but poured a glass of wine and drank it one by one, and even made up nonsense and held Ye Youji high.

Unconsciously, Ye Youji was drunk, and when Yang Xiuqing blew about astronomy and geography, Yang Youji talked about his opinions as if he knew it, and finally became a worshipper with Yang Xiuqing.

Yang Xiuqing ignored Yang Er and Yang San's incomprehensible eyes, and talked about the details of life with Ye Youji, Ye Youji told everything he had done since he was a child, and the most important thing was that he also told Yang Xiuqing about his good friend Xiaohong in the county seat Yiqing Building.

Yang Xiuqing only knew at this time why this Ye Youtangtang and the first soldier of the military department lived in a grass hut.