Li Zhi said coldly: "The capital of the DPRK and China is that in the fat shortage of Guangzhou Thorn History, there is no one who has always maintained an innocent actor who is not greedy or occupied, and I can see it through today, sure enough, the world is as black as a crow, and his subordinates have reached the point where black and white are not clear, and there is no distinction between good and evil, and it seems that Guangzhou Thorn History will not be a good person!" ”

Bian Ping raised his head with snot and tears, and was about to speak, but Su Guangyuan on the side was already neighing and defending: "Lord Li's knowledge is a little one-sided, could it be that the Taishou Mansion has received an alarm that someone is openly committing murder in the city, and we, as the guardians of one side, are it possible to pretend that we don't know?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with receiving the police and calming down, it's only these foreigners in your eyes!" Li Zhi was extremely angry, and with a slap, several teeth in Su Guangyuan's mouth flew down.

Li Zhi turned around and mentioned the cultivator who knew Chinese, "I'll give you a chance to tell me what kind of collusion there is between the leader of the forces entrenched here and the local government!" ”

At the same time as the words were revealed, he secretly pulled out a wisp of energy in his body, turned it into an invisible oppressive force, and quietly escaped into the person's mind.

The man only felt that his mind was suddenly cold and cold, and his thoughts suddenly followed Li's words:

"The port is more than ten miles away, all controlled by the Sada Gang, the gang leader's name is Rahman, a third-class king, and the second-class king killed by Mr. is the brother-in-law of the gang leader. We, the Sada Gang, will pay 5,000 taels of silver to Li Xiang every month, and no less than three rare treasures such as rhinoceros tortoiseshell turtles in exchange for the authority of the Sada Gang to govern this port! ”

"Usually there are conflicts here, how does the government deal with them?"

"If there is a fight between us outsiders, we have the Sada Gang to solve it by ourselves, and if there is a conflict with the Datang people, the official will come forward, and under normal circumstances, it is to arrest the Datang people and go back to deal with the matter."

"In other words, in the face of those locals, the people in the government only use force against them?"

"Not only that, there have been murders here in three days, and the vast majority of the deaths are your people!"

As he spoke, those who fell to the ground in the distance and were not yet injured all rushed over one after another at this moment, and the figures of the three leaders who were about to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy appeared, how dare they stand by and watch.

Li Zhi turned his head to them, and the fierceness in his eyes was like the fierceness in his tone: "How many of you have heard it too?" Is there any discrepancy between what this person is saying and what the truth is? ”

As soon as these words came out, a few people secretly cursed themselves in their hearts, why did they rush here in a hurry, they knew that this was the case, it was better to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.

Those people looked at each other, and glanced at Su Guangyuan and the three of them from time to time.

Li Zhi turned his head and signaled to Jiyuan, Jiyuan's heart understood, the sword in his hand was clenched and waved, and his eyes flashed with decisiveness, showing that if someone didn't reach his words, he would cut it down.

Then one of them hurriedly said: "What Ameni said is true, because there are as many nomadic descendants as these outsiders as possible, and it is common for them to be brave and ruthless. What's even more difficult to discipline is that there is a deep sectarian hatred between them, and we really can't get involved. ”

In fact, there is merit in his words, such people have both the plundering characteristics of nomads and the cunning characteristics of merchants, fighting each other either ambushes or robbing, bloody and cruel, hatred and revenge passed down from generation to generation.

"Don't prevaricate for me some of his reasons, no matter how many ethnic disputes there are, I don't allow you to show your true nature on the ground of Datang. Your cowardice is only an excuse, indulgence is the goal, and the end is tempted by the desire for profit. But all outsiders who violate the laws and disciplines of the Tang Dynasty will be severely punished, how can there be such a situation of suppressing the inside and promoting the outside! Don't avoid the important and take it lightly, is it true that he said that he needs to pay five thousand taels of silver to Li Xiang every month, as well as rare treasures? ”

The man's expression froze, and before he knew it, he looked at Su Guangyuan opposite.

Su Guangyuan glared back viciously, and the sword in Jiyuan's hand fell on the head, so shocked that his kneeling legs moved desperately, making his body quickly turn to the side, and he shouted:

"Spare your life! This is indeed the case, and it is the first time that the lower officials have seen it with their own eyes, and Lord Assassin Shi has a very good relationship with that Rahman, and he was directly pulled to the mansion by a carriage. ”

Obviously, this man was frightened to tell such a secret thing, and he didn't even care about the consequences.

Li Zhi's attitude immediately eased slightly, "Don't worry, it is estimated that it will be difficult for you to return to the Assassin's Mansion, and I will protect you temporarily, but you need to tell everything you know before you can have future livelihood problems, and even keep your current official position." ”

His eyes also focused on the others, "The chaos in Guangzhou has been going on for a long time, it is definitely not the fault of one person, the imperial court only started from the top this time, although you subordinates are still doing all their crimes, but there is still a gap in atonement, others are the great sins of the Zhu clan, do you still need me to explain it thoroughly?" ”

Someone hurriedly responded, and there was more light in the original desperate eyes: "The adults really asked, and they didn't dare to hide a little." ”

Everyone then you and I said endlessly, Li Zhi shook his head while listening, that assassin Li Xiang Li Fangduo is really a person in Guangzhou City, and the means of collecting money can be called everything.

For example, among the few people in front of him, there is one other driver, Changshi, and Sima, according to the imperial law of the Tang Dynasty, these three positions are standard configurations, but Li Xiang actually has four configurations for each of them in addition to other drivers.

Regardless of this person's corruption and bribery, this crime alone is a heinous crime, and he will be beheaded for blatantly tampering with the staffing of the imperial court.

Of course, Li Xiang will not report it to the imperial court as it is, but the extra position enjoys the imperial court's offerings, but he cleverly passed it on in the name.

But in the city of Guangzhou, these extra positions are openly displayed in the list book of the Assassin's Office, and no matter which level, there are clearly marked prices, and they are all detailed in the book, and they are famous: Ming Zheng office, regulations and seals!

What's more, whether on the sea or in the Pearl River, there are many sea ships from Tianzhu, Persia and other places every day, loaded with incense medicines and treasures, and a large number of rare treasures and overseas foreign goods can be seen everywhere.

As a result, the nature of maritime trade centers and treaty ports has become increasingly obvious, and it has gradually become the center of Datang's foreign trade.

Therefore, Li Xiang grasped the pulse of the times when water and land transportation and foreign trade were flourishing at this time, and launched an almost crazy profit-taking behavior.

For example, the city gate where Li Zhi is located at the moment, which is one of the several city gates in Guangzhou City, and it is also a corner of Guangzhou Port.

A gang like the Sada Gang, which is controlled by foreign cultivators, is only a large one, and the other six docks are all controlled by foreign forces.

Headed by Li Xiang, the Assassin's Mansion became a sideline business to collect taxes for the state, and every time he symbolically turned around the various docks, a large amount of silver arrived, and the source naturally came from the bribery under the rule of the gang, which they called Guanxiang Silver.

Therefore, the tax in the port is mutated into a fractional extraction, and each gang will extract a very high share of the so-called element money according to the size of the ships coming and the number of goods unloaded on the ships.

As for the annual customs duties, at the end of the year, some of them are collected by the gangs and put into the state treasury.

Li Xiang and the others are in a good mood, and the specific number handed in will be more, if it happens to be unhappy at that time, they will find a reason to perfunctory.

Local business masters like the Bei family can only engage in the transportation and distribution of some goods after they are unloaded, as well as specific sales and reselling, they also intend to compete for the affairs of the port, and there are also powerful cultivators in the family, but the Assassin Mansion does not agree, and these business masters are also unrecruited.

The reason why Li Zhi thinks that this person is extremely evil is because Li Xiang's previous predecessors can be regarded as holding a guerrilla strategy of grabbing a handful of foreign wealth and windfall and leaving, because these people know that the imperial court will definitely not let the chaos flourish in this period, and one day they will be ruthless to deal with it thoroughly.

This Li Xiang is different from others, as if he has the arrogant ambition of occupying the land as the king, and intends to turn this land of wealth from the far reaches of the emperor into an independent kingdom.

Although in the past two years, the Lingnan Provincial Jiedu Envoy Mi Rui has consciously paid attention to this place on the orders of the imperial court, but because of the Jiedu Envoy's heavy power, the military still has a strong grasp of the territory, and there is not much real power in specific local affairs.

After several temptations, Li Xiang saw that Mi Rui couldn't do anything about himself, so he simply became more and more arrogant, just like Su Guangyuan said before, he was so rampant that he openly accepted bribes from the convoy in the Assassin's Mansion.

This Li Xiang is not only equivalent to the Jiedu envoy in terms of level, but also has the advantage of royal blood, and several people in the family have been important ministers in the court, so they don't care about it like this.

Even among his descendants, there are also many people with very high status, such as the assassin Shi Zuoguan, the official Yu Fang Taiping of Changshi, and there is a huge reliance on the Xiao family in Chang'an City.

For example, Su Guangyuan and these people are actually just children of various families who have been able to enter a high position through buying and selling officials, or officials transferred from other places, and they can't really integrate into the inner circle of the Assassin's Mansion, otherwise how could they do these specific jobs.

To put it bluntly, they are those people who are allocated outside the quota, although there is also oil and water to be fished, but it is only a fraction of the hands of Li Xiangyi, and more outside money comes from, which is to do more blatant protection work like today.

Because the local power is too huge, Li Xiang and the others do not often walk by the river, how can there be the relevant concept of not getting their shoes wet, what can the imperial court directly send down the supervision team, even their team leader Mi Rui, who holds a military power empty, is not qualified to touch anyone in the Guangzhou Assassin Mansion.

Knowing all this, Li Zhi pondered for a long time and said: "Su Beijia, I will go with you, and when you get out of this area, someone will take you away, of course, this is only temporary, to ensure your personal safety!" Next, I will start to punish Li Xiang's cadres and others, and when the time comes, not only do you need to come out to corroborate it, but also need you to come forward to help with in-depth governance of the specific affairs of Guangzhou City in the future, after all, there are some ditches and bumps, and foreign officials cannot know about them! ”

His words were like a package ticket, although Li Zhi couldn't get used to the behavior of these people, but compared to Li Xiang and others, these people were just some slightly older ants.

The huge city of Guangzhou, once a few people at the top are moved, it will inevitably cause chaos in the city, and it is really difficult to thoroughly govern it without a few people who know the roots.

This kind of solution is undoubtedly as good as a desperate situation, although some of them are still worried about how to deal with their relatives, but Li Zhi's next few words completely dispelled the doubts in their hearts.

"Master Ma, later on, you will always take these people to the Bei family with Brother Manshan, and inform the head of the Bei family that the Assassin Mansion will soon cause great changes, and ask him to secretly unite the major good families in the city and prepare to undertake the affairs of various ports as soon as possible! In addition, I instructed that Bei Zheng and Bei Taiqing to rush to the Assassin's Mansion and prepare to receive it! ”

Sun Simiao did not refuse, in his opinion, Li Zhi and Jiyuan, the two grandmaster-level figures, were enough, even if the Assassin Mansion ambushed thousands of troops, they also allowed the two to come and go freely.