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Fengzhou Governor Shi and Tiande Jun all regimental training defense embassy judge Yang Qi arrived at the shogunate on three days, first drank a cup of strong tea, sat for a while, and then picked up an official document transferred by Jingzhao Mansion, asking Fengzhou to investigate a murder case, this murder occurred in the new hall opposite the Shence Prison, first a guy and a bath master were killed, and that night after the report, the shopkeeper and his family, four secret prostitutes and the noodle repair master who reported the case A total of nine people were killed, suspected of being a murderer. Sugar hua updates quickly, the website page is refreshing, there are few ads, I like this kind of website the most, and I must praise it

Yang Qi was about to drop this document lazily, and was suddenly attracted by several names, the official document stated that the new Yazhou Sihu Li Mao and other four people all disappeared shortly after being released from prison, and some witnesses said that they saw the four people enter this new museum, or it may be related to this homicide.

"Or something to do with it." Yang Qi laughed heartily, lit the official document on the case, and said to Shushi and Zhanggu: "What does this mean, does it matter in the end?" The Shushi laughed loudly, and some people said: "Either there is or no, if you don't talk to death, you boast of being smart, but you actually say a bunch of nonsense." ”

Yang Qi shook his head and said, "Li Mao has an old relationship with me, he was framed by a traitor and demoted out of Beijing, and now his whereabouts are unknown, I can't sit idly by." He instructed him to go down: All the gates and Jindu should be strictly investigated, and once people and things related to this case are discovered, they should be reported to me immediately, and no one should conceal them or delay them. ”

The people took the command.

After explaining the matter, Yang Qi stretched his waist and asked if there was any major matter to deal with, and when he heard that there was not, he yawned and said goodbye lazily. Yang Qi is an official and grasps the big and let go of the small, the subordinates have clear rights and responsibilities, he only asks about the results of the things he assigns, and never asks about the details, his subordinates have power in their hands and responsibilities on their shoulders, and they can do things well without supervision.

After a leisurely turn in the Thorn Mansion, Yang Qi went to a car and horse shop in the east of the city, which made a good barbecue, and a pair of beautiful twin sisters.

This day is still the same, the big double face red that was said at the door first, and the little ears that played in the store were red, so he said hello to the host's house, laughed and went to the inner courtyard, as soon as the door of the inner courtyard was closed, Yang Qi restrained his smile and knocked on a guest room, and it was Shi Xiong who opened the door.

Yang Qi flashed in, and Shi Xiong looked at no one on the left and right, and then closed the door.

The room was dimly lit, and the front and back windows were deliberately blocked, Yang Qi said to Li Mao, who was sitting cross-legged on the clay kang and drinking: "Chang'an came with an official document, they killed all the relevant people, but they didn't frame you, just hinted that you might be implicated." Li Mao knew that this matter could be good, Zhong Lian had contributed a lot, if he hadn't withstood the pressure, they would have been wanted by the imperial court at this time, if that was the case, even if there was a divine army, they might not be able to go so smoothly.

Zhong Lian is always a cold and smelly face as an official, but he is still a good person, the two killers pretended to be buddies and the bath master first poisoned, and then used knives, bent on killing four people, and they couldn't get out if they didn't kill.

Li Mao said lightly: "It's a big fuss, and they're afraid they won't be able to end it." I'm not waiting, I'm leaving today. Yang Qi said: "Xue Dalang's letter will not be returned tomorrow, and he will definitely come back the day after tomorrow, so it's good for you to see him." ”

Li Mao smiled: "It's gone, he's a straight person, but it makes him embarrassed when he sees it, and if you have a chance in the future, you can talk to him again." ”

Yang Qi nodded, and said: "Then go to Daqingchuan, transit from the Tugu Duoer Department, they have a bad relationship with the Zhenwu Army, they have a good relationship with Fengzhou, they have to come to Fengzhou every autumn to do business, I will write a letter to the chief of the department, he still has to give this face." ”

Li Mao said: "Forget it, I'll walk along the side and don't disturb anyone." ”

Qin Mo said: "The letter still has to be written, whether you go to see it or not, let's decide as appropriate." ”

Yang Qi had already prepared his outfit for going out of the fortress, clothes, food, common currency for the grassland and enough horses, and sent a young general to escort him through the customs, and the road was unimpeded. Read the full text of the latest chapter

It is not the first time that Li Mao has gone out of the grassland desert, but the mood of the two times is very different, the last time, he is in a period of rapid rise, good luck is at the head, high-spirited, everything is novel, everything is full of hope.

This time, he was a tiger in Pingyang, a refugee, with a heavy mood, gray eyes, and no interest in anything.

On this day, the four of them met a Uighur tribe in the sparse wood steppe area, only five or six families, more than 30 people, when they were collecting water and drinking horses, they heard someone crying in the village, and inquired and learned that the young son of the patriarch went out hunting a few days ago, accidentally fell off the horse, and has been unconscious ever since.

The sorcerer of the clan has determined that he has been taken by a ghost, and is summoning his spirit.

Li Mao claimed to be a doctor and asked to see him, and his subordinates were overjoyed and led Li Mao and the four of them into the room.

But I saw an old woman wearing a cloak and dancing a soul dance barefoot, and the copper bells on her feet, necks, wrists and necks were ringing crisply, and a simple music was playing.

Li Mao saw that the young man's face was red, he touched it with his hand, his cheeks were hot, and he knew that the high fever did not go away and he was dehydrated and fell into a coma, so he applied a decoction to the patriarch, the patriarch hesitated again and again, and while the wizard was resting, he fed his son to take it, and after half a day, the wizard continued to do it, and after a quarter of an hour, the young man woke up, and the clan was infinitely happy.

Everyone called the wizard magic, but the patriarch knew in his heart that it was Li Mao's decoction that worked, and he didn't say anything, leaving Li Mao and the four of them to be guests in the village and do all their dedication.

This year, the grassland was quite smooth, and each family had a lot of surplus grain, so Li Mao was not polite.

After being full of wine and food, everyone lit a bonfire in the open space in the center of the camp, dancing and singing around the bonfire, because there are many tigers, leopards and wolves on the grassland, and singing around the bonfire at night, with the intention of intimidating the tigers, leopards, bears and wolves in the wild, protecting their own safety and the safety of cattle and sheep. Secondly, the grassland people eat a lot, have high calories, and have excess energy, and they also need a channel to vent, in short, the grassland tribes that Li Mao has come into contact with must toss something around the bonfire every night, otherwise they won't be able to sleep.

Li Mao was not interested in this song and dance at all, just sat aside to watch out of etiquette, Qin Mo had a crooked mind about a few young girls in the clan, and it happened that the clan was not in a good place, and the yin and yang were out of balance, and those girls did not have a suitable male partner, and they also had evil thoughts about the foreign guests.

After some temptation, Qin Mo stepped forward generously, twisted his waist and swung his hips, and a Tianpeng Marshal Linfan descended into the world dance, which suddenly turned all beings upside down, and the women who were fascinated were also soft and soft, and they couldn't beat Qin Mo away.

Many tribes on the grassland have the custom of accompanying unmarried women to distinguished guests, the patriarch is grateful for Li Mao's kindness, naturally does not hinder, under the pretext of being old, he retired first, and the adults in the clan also say goodbye one by one, leaving only some teenagers and girls, when they are young, they each have a partner, or drill a small pine forest, or drill a tent, and walk a seven, seven, eight, eight.

Shi Kong saw that there was an opportunity, he didn't feel the spring heart rippling, and he couldn't bear the loneliness to join the ranks of singers and dancers, what made him feel a little depressed was that there were few young girls left, and there were a few yellow-haired girls in their early teens, but they couldn't get over it on their conscience, so they could only stay away, but fortunately, there were two middle-aged widows who still had charm and had a good impression of him.

Shi Kong couldn't cry or laugh, like eating chicken ribs, and he was very embarrassed for a while.

Shi Xiong had been sitting beside Li Mao and had not moved, and two eleven or twelve-year-old girls came to invite him to dance, but he politely refused.

Singing and dancing to the backstage, young men and women each found their own fun, and came to a big dispersal, Qin Mo hugged left and right, hugged a pair of sisters and went to their bed, and there was a group of infatuated alternate girls behind him.

Ishiku is also invited to the house of a beautiful lady who has recently lost her husband to taste her newly made desserts, while the rest of the group of boys and girls go back to their homes to find their own mothers.

The bonfire will not be extinguished, and only Li Mao and Shi Xiong will be left next to the bonfire.

The night sky is clear, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce.

Li Mao stared at a lonely dim star in the sky for a long time, and suddenly asked Shi Xiong: "Over the years, I have been promoted from a small official who is not in the stream to a high-ranking official of the third rank, and I have won the favor of the emperor. ”

Shi Xiong said: "Because your foundation is not deep, you run fast and fall quickly." ”

Li Mao said: "What you said is not right, I am not not deeply rooted, I am a person without wings who have no foundation at all, because I grabbed the dragon's tail and flew into the sky, I thought that I could do anything, complacent, arrogant, I was too naïve." ”

Shi Xiong said: "With all due respect, you just lost in luck. ”

Li Mao said: "This time it is, but next time I won't fly, but I fly so high, in addition to selling my personality as a slave, sooner or later something will happen." He also asked Shi Xiong: "In today's world, what is the foundation?"

Shi Xiong blurted out: "There are soldiers and horses, and there is territory." ”

Li Mao said: "If you say this, a high-ranking official in the DPRK and the central government, even if you are the prime minister, it is not considered to have a foundation." ”

Shi Xiong said: "The prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty are all short-lived prime ministers, as long as two or three years, as short as a few months. In the Han Dynasty, the prime minister was above 10,000 people, the auxiliary king, the yin and yang, the hundred officials, the Li Shu Rong, the prime minister of my Tang Dynasty, but the chief secretary of the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pressed, and there were twenty-four divisions under the top, and there were two thousand people under the South Ya, and there were feudal towns outside the court. ”

Li Mao said: "According to what you say, no one in the DPRK has a foundation. ”

Shi Xiong said: "Yes, those big families in the northern ya, control the forbidden army and the envoys in the interior, set up the southern ya, interfere in the government affairs, they hold together, attract relatives and nobles inside, and form feudal towns outside, which has become the climate." ”

Li Mao said: "The relatives and nobles who control the temple supervisors and the friends who control the six departments and twenty-four divisions are not considered to have a foundation?"

Shi Xiong said: "There are no soldiers and horses, no territory, no foundation, but the surface is rich." ”

Li Mao said: "The local marshals have soldiers and horses, and they all have a foundation?"

Shi Xiong said: "Only those who support the army and dare to confront the imperial court can be regarded as having a foundation." For example, the three towns of Hebei. The general marshals are also superficially wealthy, for example, the festival envoys of Huainan, Xichuan, and Lingnan. ”

Li Mao said: "The three towns of Hebei attacked each other, this time Liu Jiqin led an army of 70,000 to attack Zhenzhou, Tian Ji'an also raised 30,000 troops to go north, they did not dare to confront the imperial court, how do you say that they have a foundation In addition, Huaixi is divided into places, Ziqing also passed on the father and son three generations and four people, the imperial court wants to attack Huaixi, Wu Shaoyang dared to send assassins to kill the prime minister and blame the trouble, is he not considered to have a foundation?"

Shi Xiong said: "The three towns of Hebei, with the same qi and branches, have been inherited for several generations for decades, although there are attacks in the middle, but they can advance and retreat together when treating the imperial court. Liu Jifa became virtuous, just to avenge the old days, and occupied a place in Shenzhou and stopped. Tian Ji'an couldn't move in, secretly communicated with him, and when Tian Xing took charge of the army, he simply abandoned Jizhou and went back to Weizhou by himself, obviously going back to fight for power and profit, but in fact, he couldn't bear to lose his virtue and lose his life, so he secretly released water.

"Ziqing and Huaixi are different, although Ziqing also has three generations and four people, but the relationship with the three towns of Hebei is estranged, and it is connected with Wuning, Huainan, Xuanwu, Yicheng Zhuqiang Town. Once the imperial court frees up its hands and marches on all sides, Ziqing will be defeated, and in the same way, Wu Shaoyang in Huaixi can not be said to have a foundation, if the imperial court follows your advice and besieges Huaixi together, Wu Shaoyang's head will be hanging in the Chang'an City Tower at this moment, and Caizhou will have long been attached to the imperial court. ”

Li Mao smiled: "What you said has a foundation is not the same thing as what I said has a foundation, you misunderstood what I meant." ”

Shi Xiong said: "For now, Yuan and Zhongxing will eventually become an empty dream, the world will be in chaos, the heroes of the troubled times will rise in all directions, there is a gun is the king of grass, no gun and no territory, not only can not achieve meritorious deeds, but even the life of the family is difficult to protect." What I am talking about has a foundation, that is, I have the strength to divide the king, I can be loyal to the court, but the court cannot abandon me like a disobedient person. ”

Li Mao nodded slightly, and asked again: "We go to Liaodong, we are not familiar with the place, how should we deal with those barbarians?"

Shi Xiong said: "Although the barbarians are large, they are not monolithic, they are divided and disintegrated, each is broken, and they don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one village, and they kill people." ”

Li Mao said: "Will this cause them to rise up and attack them?"

Shi Xiong said: "So the first step is to divide, then to disintegrate, and then to break each one." ”

As soon as he said this, Qin Mo ran over in a hurry, disheveled and out of breath, and when he saw the two of them sitting and talking, he stopped, said hello, pointed to the nearby woods, and whispered: "Don't say I'm here." So he got into the pile of horse grass behind the two, and left his two legs outside, Li Mao caught up, hugged his two legs, and shoved them in, and finally grabbed a few handfuls of grass to cover his feet.

As soon as he came back and sat down, several disheveled young women chased after him.

Li Mao did not smile, his body was burly, he sat there very majestic, the women did not dare to move forward, you pushed me for a while, a slightly bolder woman rubbed over timidly, and asked, "Where are your accomplices?"

Li Mao pointed to the horse straw pile with his finger, and smiled at a few women, who were about to step forward, but were stopped by an old man who was smart, and several people muttered for a while, smiled at Li Mao, and went to the small pine forest nearby.

Soon after the girls went, Qin Mo crawled out of the hay pile, came out on the other side of the woods, and glared at Li Mao and said, "You have no righteousness, so you sold me like this." ”

Li Mao said: "The soldiers are not tired of cheating, don't you see that they didn't go." ”

Qin Mo sat down cross-legged opposite the two of them, and muttered, "They know the art of war, a group of sassy little girls." ”

Li Mao said: "What kind of family are you, chasing you so desperately and beggingly." ”

Qin Mo said: "Hey, let's play on the spot, who knows that they are serious, are the girls on the grassland so simple" and said: "I see that the weather is good tonight, let's hurry overnight, it's cool." ”

Li Mao said: "The sins you have created yourself, you end them yourself, and we will be the back." ”

Qin Mo muttered: "I knew you would say that, I don't care, it's great to bring a few of them with me, anyway, Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of them to eat if there are ten or eight." It's hard to say about General Shikong, so if you can't get it, you have to stay and be a son-in-law. ”

Shi Xiong exclaimed: "How do you say this?"

Qin Mo said with a smile: "That mother-in-law and old tree are overjoyed, and they are obedient, and they are comfortable and comfortable waiting for this old brother, and there is no door on this old brother's mouth as soon as he is comfortable, and he is talking nonsense to stay and live with her." You see, I just coaxed those chicks and said that I wanted to take them out to see the world, and they were looking for death and life one by one. ”

Li Mao frowned and sighed.

Shi Xiong said: "Hey, my brother is really confused, I see, this moon is clear and the wind is just in time to be cool and quiet." ”

The two looked at Li Mao together, Li Mao got up, dusted off his body, glared at the two, and said, "Are you still stunned, waiting to stay and drink the wedding wine?"

At dawn, the four of them fled to a valley, everyone who walked was sweating, Qin Mo drank the last drop of water in the water bladder, turned around to grab Shi Kong, Shi Kong protected the water bladder with both arms, and shouted: "Why rob me"

Qin Mo said: "It's not you yet, let people wait comfortably, there is no door on your mouth, if it weren't for the fear that you will be detained by them as a son-in-law, will we run away in the middle of the night Although the moonlight is bright, the wolf howl is really terrifying." ”

Qin Mo couldn't help but shiver after speaking, and Shi Kong couldn't help but sneer, saying that the wolf howl on the grassland was really scary, he boasted that he was not afraid of the sky and the earth, but last night he was so scared that he didn't even dare to get off the horse and urinate.

Having said that, he replied: "Let's not talk about the boss, you don't know who was chased last night."

Li Mao looked at the steep mountain cliffs and cliffs, and said to everyone: "This is a good place to ambush, do you guess there will be mountain bandits in front of the ambush?"

Qin Mo and Shi Kong stopped arguing, and looked forward together, each taken aback, what do you mean by whether there are mountain bandits in ambush and robbery, it is clear that the mountain bandits have already stood in the middle of the road.

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