Li Mao has stayed in the local area and knows that it is not easy to be a magistrate, so he has more sympathy and understanding for Hou Yong and others. He knew that Hou Yong was ordered by the Wang family to monitor him, so when he talked to the clerk, he did not shy away from Hou Yong's presence. He bluntly told Wen Cheng and Hou Yong that he wanted to settle Zhu San's family well, but he didn't mention the reason, this is the right of his superior. There are many things that don't need to be explained too clearly, so leave room for the following to guess.

After the official business was completed, the clerk invited Li Mao to go to Qingzhou, Li Mao refused, Hou Yong wanted to do the friendship of the landlord, Li Mao did not refuse, happily went to Linzi County, looked at the places of interest in the city, and participated in the grand banquet held in Linzi County. Hou Yong was drunk, Li Mao pretended to be drunk, drunk and shouted for prostitutes, and when the prostitutes arrived, they fell asleep, Qingmo rewarded the prostitutes who came in full costume, sent the local officials who came to flatter, and helped Li Mao back to the post house to rest, as soon as Li Mao entered the hotel room, the wine was all awakened, and he put tea and waited for Hou Wencheng's arrival.

At the second quarter of the third watch, the clerk entered through the back door wearing a cloak.

As soon as they met, they quipped: "Brother Maohua, what is this, old friends have to be sneaky when they meet." ”

Li Mao said: "The thief swaggers through the market, but the person who does things has to be sneaky, this is Qingzhou." ”

Wen Cheng restrained his smile and asked heavily: "Who are you going to attack from above, the Yingtian family or the Wang family?" ”

Li Mao said: "The Wang family has just been beaten, and this time it is the Yingtian department. ”

The clerk sighed and said quietly: "It's time to clean up, this shady curtain is too dirty and rotten." ”

Although the status of the picket officer is low, he has a lot of power, and if he only focuses on some trivial things, it is dereliction of duty, so Li Mao turned his attention to the camp system with deep defects after closing the assassination case of Xiao Songlin. There were originally two kinds of camps in Ziqing, military camp and private camp, which were merged into one after Li Na came to power. The mode of operation is to select an unowned wasteland to first realize military reclamation, dig ditches, build roads, build villages, and after three years and five years, the land becomes mature, and then recruit displaced people to take over, and when the time is ripe, they will rent or sell it, turning public into private.

At its peak, the Ziqing camp could supply 60% of the army of 100,000 troops, and a large amount of grain was sold to Hebei in exchange for important war materials. It is precisely because the interests are too heavy that the Yingtian system has been controlled by the children of the Li family, and in the late period of Li Na's reign, the Yingtian system has become the forbidden place of the Li family's Nanzong Qi Prefecture in Yingzhou, and even the festival makes Li Na have no right to interfere too much.

Li Shigu took over the throne when he was fifteen years old, the day loyal to Chang'an's feudal town Chen Chongbing outside, Qingzhou Wang family made waves, the two ends of the tooth military family, the territory of the flood and drought locust plague endlessly, the displaced people gathered in the mountains and forests to make chaos, pirates attacked the city and plundered the town, occupied the state city, the situation was critical, Li Shigu urgently needed the support of the clan forces, in order to gain a firm foothold, so he officially recognized the control of the Qizhou Li family represented by Li Zhengguang over the Yingtian system, and in the following ten years, the Ziqing Yingtian system has been in the hands of the Qizhou Li family. Influenced, Yingzhou Li Nanzong Qizhou Fang (Qizhou Li) is also known as "Yingtian Li", and Qingzhou Wang, Ya military, and Ma Wang are called the four major families of Ziqing, in addition to Yingzhou Li Nanzong, the most powerful family in Ziqing.

Three years ago, Li Guangzheng, the head of the Yingzhou Li family in charge of the Ziqing Yingtian system for nearly 20 years, died of illness, and pushed his nephew Li Fang to take over the Yingtian system, Li Fang's talent was far less than that of his uncle, and the shortcomings accumulated in the Yingtian system in the past three years have broken out one after another, Li Fang attributed this to his own lack of centralized power, so he abandoned Li Zhengguang when he was dying, "self-contained, do not leave the family, the right is not fake the hands of others, and the benefits are not in the mouth of the family. "Thirty-four words of testament.

During Li Zhengguang's era, the barracks and fields supplied 40 to 50 percent of the military rations to the military government every year, and in good years, they could reach 60 percent. Within the Yingtian faction, although the Li family of Qizhou dominates, it does not completely exclude the interests of other family factions, because the interests are evenly distributed, and the relationship between the Yingtian faction and all parties is good. Internally, Li Zhengguang was strict under his control, and his subordinates and nephews were severely punished and never tolerated, so the officials of the Yingtian system have always been praised, and they have won the appreciation of several Jiedu envoys, and they have even been praised by Li Na as a model for Ziqing officials.

Unlike Li Zhengguang's incorruptible self-discipline and strict control, although Li Fang was born in a big family, he was extremely demanding of wealth, after he took office, he turned the public into private, sold his official beard, embezzled public funds, accepted bribes extensively, and did not care about his ability and ability, whether it was right or wrong, only looked at loyalty, upward and downward effect, and the atmosphere in the Yingtian system quickly deteriorated, but Li Fang, with the support of the corrupt alliance, quickly gained a firm foothold, concentrated power, and only took three years to build the Yingtian system into an independent kingdom that could not be poured into the water. His sons, nephews, and grandchildren are all over the seventy-two counties of the twelve prefectures of Ziqing, and they control all the core and vital departments of the Yingtian system.

A word can determine the rise and fall, and a word can determine success or failure.

While consolidating its own position, this move also deteriorated the relationship with the outside world, and the Yingtian family became self-contained and self-fertilizing, and outsiders could not get benefits, and there were many complaints, and the Yingtian Li family felt more and more isolated. More importantly, after the public interest was self-fertilized, the interests of the military government were also seriously damaged, and the grain and grass handed over to the military government plummeted from 60 percent of the military at its peak to less than 10 percent.

The strange thing is that Li Fang can always find an excuse to be perfunctory, and what is even more amazing is that Li Shigu, who is strict and shrewd and arbitrary, also resigned himself to this. Thinking about it carefully, Li Mao couldn't help but sweat coldly, such a fierce man, he dared to confront him face to face with only the courage of his blood, he was really ignorant and fearless.

New hatred and old grudges, Li Mao has no good impression of Li Fang, Li Fang hates Li Mao even more, the two families are in a tense situation, Li Fang beat Li Fang with Zhu Wan'er, Li Mao immediately plunged into his heart with color.

The difference between Qingzhou Yingtian is that it is located in Qingzhou, Li Fang's power can not be completely reached after being filtered and intercepted by the Qingzhou Wangjia, and the control is relatively weak, and the presiding officer of Qingzhou Yingtian is the clerk, the clerk is the shogunate's envoy, and the Qingzhou camp is in charge, although it has long been hollowed out into a puppet, and the government decree becomes a piece of waste paper when it comes out of the study, but the clerk is not an idle person after all, he has not been idle these days, and has quietly collected a lot of materials, and has a deeper understanding of the evils under the shady.

Hearing that Li Mao was coming, the scribe Cheng knew what he meant, and he wrote something overnight and secretly handed it to Qingmo in Linzi Grange, hoping to help Li Mao. In this case, he knew that he could not have too much contact with Li Mao, and inviting him to Qingzhou was just a disguise, but he didn't expect to accept Hou Yongzhi's invitation to Linzi County, and sent a message to him to meet him late at night. Even in Linzi County, this is a big risk.

The clerk decided that something big would happen. Sure enough, Li Mao didn't go around in circles anymore, he said bluntly: "I read what you wrote when I was squatting in the toilet, since I am determined to do a big job, it is not safe for you to stay any longer, it is better to go back to Ziqing with me." You and my brother joined forces to turn him upside down. The clerk was taken aback and said, "Is it sure that this time the decision is so big?" Li Mao said with a smile: "With knives and guns in hand, I have them all over the world, if I don't do it now, when will I do it again?" The clerk was silent.

Qingmo said: "We have asked someone to pick up my sister-in-law, and we are on our way to Yunzhou at the moment." ”

The only one who could pick up the Wu family under the noses of the Qingzhou Wang family and the Yingtian Li family was the copper tiger head, Li Mao had the copper tiger head behind him, and the clerk's confidence increased greatly, so he said: "Okay, I'll go back with you." ”

The plan has been decided, Li Mao left the brigade alone, and the clerk, Qingmo, and Mo Qi Shentong set off overnight, took the trail and shortcut all the way back to Yunzhou, to the second day, Linzi County ordered Hou Yong to come to see Li Mao with a lunch box, and wanted to have breakfast with the picket, but got that Li Mao had something to do and had returned to Yunzhou overnight, Hou Yong was stunned, and immediately sent someone to report to the Wang family, at the same time, Zhang Che, the judge of the Qingzhou camp, also got the report that the clerk's wife and daughter disappeared, and he went to check it in person, After verifying the accuracy of the information, he was frightened for a while.