In the lower city of Shuitoufang, everything is silent, only a frog chirping and insect chirping

Murong Wu, whose mouth was full of bitterness, led his subordinates to the dark city, and the clues he found with all his strength were hidden in it.

A day ago,

"My master, I want to give you a ...... of wealth and merit"

For Murong Wu, whose position was already crumbling, someone came straight to the point

But this wealth is not so easy to take, but can I refuse?

He thought about it and looked at it again, standing in the shadows like a gun-like figure, it was a properly battle-hardened general, which was not only a guarantee to prevent the last mistake, but also a representative of the strength and determination behind this person,

Obviously, it is not something that he, a small family official, can repent and resist. I just hope that they can keep their promises, have new income and have a way to play, keep this position, and go their own way, it is the best.

He gritted his teeth and took out a bag of incense that he had hidden, which he copied from a person's tooth den, those human teeth, using this recipe to abduct those casual children, so that they lost their minds in a daze, and they would not cry and take them away.

According to the recipe that I tortured, I prepared some plans not to use it for other purposes. Although it is certainly a great reduction in effectiveness when used on adults, it can reduce some casualties to some extent, which is still good. Although he is dark and greedy, he still looks at his pawns more seriously.

Then he, finding the direction of the upwind,

West Borneo (the third largest island in the world, Kalimantan) has entered the summer season early, the blue sky and blue sea are flowing in the air, so that those who are working in rice fields, cane fields, vegetable fields and orchards, coconut trees and palm groves, the sweat is quickly steamed.

It is hot and rainy all year round, so as long as you plant a variety of crops, you can harvest different kinds of crops throughout the year, from the most common rice, eucommia gum, pepper, western grain, coconut, and palm, to the rarer dyes, medicinal herbs, wood, fur and other high-value-added local products and commodities.

Every season, a stream of people from various farms and plantations gather on the main road in the domain, and after a simple wild market transaction, a small number of people continue along the road to the port of Najo at the end of the sea

Luocheng Port, but because the residence of the Luo clan - Luozi City is nearby, and it is naturally named.

Although there are still large areas of wilderness in the territory, as one of the few large cities in Fuyuan Prefecture, the market town area between Luozicheng and Luochenggang for more than ten miles gathers one-quarter to one-third of the population in the domain.

This is also the practice and layout of the colonists of the first Tang Dynasty,

They traveled thousands of miles in sea-going boats, centering on the bases and ports established by the coastal landings, along the banks of the rivers, taking advantage of the convenience of water transportation, and expanding inland.

After generations of overcoming thorns and thorns, expanding the territory, cutting down trees and paving roads, opening mountains and smelting mines, and finally rushing into a large area of primitive wilderness, little by little to seize land suitable for human habitation, attracting immigrants, taming the uncivilized local barbarians, naturalizing them as hukou or capturing as slaves, and finally forming the first feudal domains located on the coast

Therefore, the port city was also the capital and family residence of these earliest maritime domains, representing a certain kind of inheritance and continuation of a long history. Since then, the new feudal domains that have been developing have to continue to expand inward along the riverside

This is also a long tradition of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the eldest son inherits the family business, and the younger son respects his parents, as for the other children caught in it, they can only go out to study and become officials, and after some achievements, they enter the court or go to Yuanzhou; Or lead a marginal land, and then set up a portal on your own, expand this family business, and then wait until the conditions are ripe to continue to divide the domain, and so on.

As the largest local power in Fuyuan Prefecture, the lord of the Luo clan, when he first came to Borneo, was only a founding son, although the knighthood has not changed so far, but he has dozens of retainers, hundreds of vassals, thousands of scholars and more than 20,000 people, as well as seven or eight times as many tuhu and feudal slaves.

It is also the pyramid that makes up the local ruling structure.

Theoretically, as long as you pay enough tribute twice a year, about 80,000 stone of rice and grains, and 9 million yuan, as a feudal lord, you can live a luxurious life and enjoy conditions like that of the emperor of the soil under his own leadership.

Compared with other neighboring feudal domains, the proximity to the sea is undoubtedly an advantage, and the port of Nacheng is a private port opened up by the local feudal lords of the previous generation, although the scale is not too large, but it has become an important source of local finance and taxation.

Because it does not have as much red tape and control as the official port, although the location is not particularly close to the popular shipping route, it also attracts many smugglers and small and medium-sized boat merchants to come to the market, and with this small and medium-sized port, Luo Fan can also directly participate in some short-distance maritime trade.

The profits were made to support a 2,000-strong army of volunteers, who were generally stationed in the northern mountains to deal with the undomesticated barbarians, and the other half were stationed in several important places in the mountains, of which there were about 500 people in Luochenggang

Of course, if there is a need, if you want to send out the people of the country and the children of the retainers, you can at least get thousands of armed men with their own weapons and servants.

Therefore, under the perennial nothingness, from the feudal lord to the countrymen, almost all the accumulated wealth and spare time have been invested in projects such as the construction of residential cities and manors to improve their own environment and conditions, which also makes Luozicheng with the complex colors and changes of the hometown characteristics of a large number of inland immigrants.

In this complex and diverse building, Luo Abo, who is the head of Luo's residence in the city, was also persuaded by someone in his own business.

His clan has served the Lord's family for four generations, and is also a participant and living witness of various events and evolutions in the past, but in the face of the lobbying of the comers, he just keeps shaking his head and sighing, but he never lets go

"What you serve and are loyal to is always only the Luo clan......"

"It's not about a specific person......

Although the man said this, Luo Abo fell into some kind of memory retrospection because of this,

As one of the eight leaves, Luo's original foundation actually originated from Guangfu, since the previous generation of the clan was the lord of Qi Niangong, in the Guangfu curtain in the battle for the eldest of the family, and had to hide back in the collar, after the fear finally died, there was no successor to the head of the family.

I thought that the Guangfu side would take advantage of the situation to cut down the territory, or dismantle more than a dozen families, and use the clansmen to lead them, but in the turmoil and chaos, they did not express their position for a long time, and there was a great chaos in the domain, and the vassals and countrymen attacked or assassinated each other, and many families were cut off or withered away.

After waiting for several years, the Chinese people who did not bear it bypassed the clan and begged Yu Guangfu, but directly from Yinghui came back with his wife and the contemporary head of the family holding the eldest son.

This family head who was born in the local branch of Guangfu and separated from the Qinian dynasty for generations, was a rare decisive figure when he was young, reunited people's hearts with righteousness and skill, and then swept away those dissidents and reformulated the order of dignity and inferiority.

Although there is a hidden secret in the fire oil, the retainers and countrymen who remained after the chaos also accepted this reality, and gathered around the contemporary family head to recuperate for more than 20 years, which became the current situation.

Another place in the inner house of Luo Cheng.

Surrounded by silk curtains and cloth barriers, and filled with all kinds of precious ornaments, Luo Nianzu, the little son of the Luo family, has just woken up from the cool breeze of Xi Xi, looking at the tortoiseshell fan at the zenith,

In all fairness, he is a rather handsome young man, and it is said that he looks most like his father compared to some alternative and popular brothers, so as long as the lord of the Luo clan in the prime of life sees him, he will unconsciously think of himself when he was a child, and he will especially pamper this young son who has been found back in the back half of his body.

He even accommodated and complied with many things, and always stayed by his side to teach by word and deed, hand-in-hand demonstration, daily handling of government affairs and management in the domain, and hired a number of famous teachers to live in the domain, specializing in teaching various etiquette, art and literature, and also left a reputation for being smart and studious.

Of course, there is another theory among the people in the domain, when this little boy was found, he was already thirteen years old, and he was reduced to the lower class of the market, and he had been someone else's son for too long, so he inevitably had some congenital deficiencies and crampedness, so even if he was reluctantly sent to the colonization school in the prefecture, or to learn from a higher level of the clan, he was not immune from discrimination and exclusion.

Therefore, he stayed by his side, slowly trained and cultivated, and then hired a famous teacher to raise hope and momentum for him

To tell the truth, he is usually under the supervision of his biological mother, and he is indeed very hard working and hardworking, and he is obedient and filial in front of his father. Let others have to praise without mouth.

In addition to the playful and jumpy heart of the occasional young man, he perfectly played the role of a model of a young man of the clan family, if he can take another noble surname girl who is the right person, then the last shortcoming of his early life experience can also be made up.

The only disharmony is that even if he is not around, he has used all kinds of traces of the past to shroud him for a long time like a shadow, and suddenly became a member of this family, he is also full of longing and expectation, but he is always consciously or inadvertently compared again and again.

Then all kinds of sighs and regrets hidden in the subtext, like unguardable daggers and poisons behind him, slowly devoured the young man's heart, making him become urban and scheming.

hugged his mother and cried together, and then forced a smile to face everyone again, over the years, he felt that he had developed a scarred and extremely strong heart. Then, as if it was bittersweet, it ushered in a good day.

With no news of his brother, the minds of the retainers and the people of the clan have also changed somewhat, and his mother is even more good at seizing luck.

The experience of being in the dust did not become a stain on her that she did not want to look back, but anyway, she had a strong heart, an empathetic temperament and a well-informed quality, and tried to influence her children.

So these years have become his best time, his father's deliberate cultivation, the courtesy of the retainers and the welcome of the countrymen, whether at home or in the locality, the traces and imprints left by that brother are disappearing little by little.

Even in the social occasions outside the domain, more people call him Luo Gongzi, or Luo Shisun, rather than any little son, or Luo Ergongzi

However, there is always a time when the dream is shattered, and the haunted brother comes back intact, and as if it is a strong announcement, a group of countrymen in the domain, led by several senior retainers, used the action of going to Guangfu to express their position.

The attitude of the companions and Lang party who had gathered around him as potential members of the team to cultivate the relationship between the lord and the minister, due to his father's acquiescence and connivance, also underwent a certain noticeable change, and worry and apprehension appeared on their faces frequently, and then some people began to refuse his invitation to play on the safari under the pretext of something at home, and he felt betrayed and humiliated.

Why did you come back, why did you destroy the beautiful and harmonious atmosphere of our family.

He cursed the brother who had almost no impression so much, despair and frustration swallowed his mood again, and from the sigh and helplessness of the domain lord, he also felt something different, even as a feudal lord, he couldn't do whatever he wanted, and he had his own scruples and weaknesses.

Some of the things that his mother did in secret for himself, he did not see and hear about it occasionally, and it also made him hate his powerlessness and short-term time more and more, neither to help his father solve his sorrows, nor to help his mother solve his troubles, and could only passively play a protective role.

Then some of the people outside the domain, the former companions of Tongguò, found him, and then, as he was gradually relieved, he was able to sleep well again, instead of worrying that he would wake up and relive himself in the old dwelling with tattered walls, damp and musty smells.

Then, as he turned around, he touched something cold and wet

He looked at the blood-stained huge dog head on the side of the bed, and couldn't help but scream in horror, it was his favorite mastiff, because his ancestors were said to have the bloodline of the legendary pet of Liang Gong's generation, the little white wolf.

Therefore, the whole body is snow-white without a single miscellaneous hair, and it is a famous species that the contemporary feudal lord bought from the distant land of Liangxia with a lot of money in order to make him happy.

But now it was left with a neatly cut off head, still exuding residual warmth, grinning and drooping its tongue, and with its death-white pupils, it reflected the little master's horrified and distorted expression.

The screams that did not resemble humans lasted for a full hour, only to be interrupted by the servants who had been alarmed by the sound, and at first glance, their bodies were covered in blood and holding a dog's head

The large water stains and foul smell soaked in the lower body made everyone who saw it feel as if they were cursed.

Far from the crowd of panicked maidens, women with disheveled hair, wearing only a pair that could not hide the curves of the clan, as if haunted by evil spirits, rushed into the feudal lord's living quarters, and then closed the door to isolate everyone.

A moment later, loud cries and excited cries erupted in the room.

Speaking of excitement and forgetfulness, there are only a few vague words, but even the door of the thick sandalwood covered with colored silk can't hide the sound of the voice.

"The next person, they are already circulating,"

"If the eldest prince is in charge, he will definitely sell our mother and son to Xinzhou or Xiaoao."

"Our mother and son don't dare to fight each other, we just want the officials to be able to give decent happiness when they are alive......"

This kind of undisguised words suddenly rippled out a certain change in the expressions of those family slaves and servants. You must know that in the minds of most Chinese people, New Island and Big and Small Australia are a very distant concept.

Although the Tang Dynasty has discovered the Tai O and Xiao Ao in the southeast ocean during the Taixing period, thirteen years later, on the other side of the far east of the ocean, the Beiju Luzhou, which is known as the new continent, has been developed for hundreds of years.

But it is still a terrible place that is wild and barren in the hearts of most people, the wild people everywhere and the suffering of the miasma and the poison, and the place where the first-class exiles of the country are killed, and it will take more than a month to several months just to go back and forth.

This time, however, it didn't last long, as a sudden circumstance soon interrupted their solitude. The iron-faced Luo feudal lord led the woman full of tears. Came to the terrace.

Just over the summer solstice festival, the square decorated with huge fountains and flowers has been filled with a large number of onlookers.

Even the soldiers who were on duty could not drive them away, because there were several of them, who also lived in the city, but who came to hear the news as soon as possible.

And their focus is undoubtedly the dozen or so human bodies that are hung horizontally on the flagpole, this kind of disposal is like a pirate who has been caught, and it is said that it can ⊥ the dead from being able to live forever.

Each corpse also had its name, place of origin, occupation, and crime written on the white cloth, accompanied by coagulated blood and a stiff and distorted expression, which looked particularly strange and beautiful.

Others pointed and read it aloud to those who stood far away or who could not read

You must know that the Luo clan has been peaceful for many years, and in recent years, even the islands in the far mountains and inland have not dared to come out to make trouble, except for Luocheng Port, they have rarely heard of any major events that are not peaceful, and so many people have been hung up at once, even if it is the executive officer appointed by the feudal lord, he must be a little at a loss.

"Who's ......?"

Seeing this qiē, the Luo Domain Lord was like blood rushing to his face, his body shook, and he roared in a low voice

"Is it a provocation to my Luo Fan......

He was about to order the bodies to be taken down and the details to be thoroughly investigated.

Then a small group of people suddenly galloped in the distance, led by an official in Tsing Yi, sweat had soaked his official uniform under the scorching sun, but he strode forward unnoticed

"Is it okay to guard Luo...... There is an edict here"

A moment later, the door was opened and he was greeted in, but this was Sima of the Mansion, who was a distant clan brother of the Luo Domain, and he read out loud:

"The clan system said: Luo's words and deeds are sensitive, far away from the domain, and the world is a good relative...... Gift to the beloved, Taizhong doctor"

"Congratulations to the Guardian......"

After reading this short edict, Luo Sima's stiff face slackened and turned into a kind of smile.

"How can you say this......

Lord Luo was a little surprised.

"Ling Lang and Guangfu Zhuo are handsome and have merit with the country, and they dare not live, so please chase after the two generations of the ......"

"Giving birth to a child is like this, but it is the lintel of the vast gate, which makes my generation envious......"

On the contrary, the lord of the Luo clan calmed down, invited him in to entertain and drink tea, and sat with him for a while, until all the sweat was dripping, and then he left with the gift.

The lord of the Luo domain sat in his seat and was silent for a long time, and what he held in his hand was a sea fishing document issued by the Guangfu, which listed more than a dozen names, as well as the charges and rewards for killing people and setting fire in the street at the feet of the emperor of the Guangfu domain.

Finally, he ordered Luo, as the lord of the domain, to deal with the harsh words to see the after-effects.

There were a few familiar names that he had happened to hear, and if nothing else, they should be among the corpses that had been dissolved in the square outside.

The Luo Domain Lord sighed heavily, and when he stood up again, his body was a little rickety, as if he had become much older.

The woman who came in to support him when she heard the sound was also a little chilled by him, and then he called the woman's boudoir

"Yan Niang ......"

"Am I too old to be deaf......

Rewind time to a few days ago.

"Words ......"

As I walked out of the noisy bond market floor with the enigmatic creatures, she suddenly asked.

"Use this favor so lightly, is it really stress-free? ……”

I smiled and explained

"This favor has been hung for too long and doesn't need to be used in vain, and it will make people feel alienated,"

"If this matter is done, the other party will owe a greater favor......"

It's just a posthumous gift from the Sect Domain, and it's just right to use here, and it won't make people think we're insatiable or anything.

As for the sea capture warrant, I still found a way to spend money to get it, and I also got the reward, but after the embellishment of those sword and pen officials and the handling of it in the name of the boss, it is also an official document, and in the eyes of those who do not know about it, it is quite effective.

"That's all...... It's not like your style."

She looked at me suspiciously

"yes,"

I'm understated

"I also made people cob back to the classic scene of Marlon Brando......"

"Which? ……”

"The Godfather 2"

"I can't see it......"

She said with some surprise

"I thought you were learning the jokes of Sun Yubo in the Meteor Butterfly Sword......"

"That's just a coincidence......"

"Anyway, you sent the people sent by your little lady indiscriminately and sent them back, what a big husband.

"Won't this method be too drastic......

"If you want to do it, you can do it thoroughly."

"As a man's romance, it is certainly fun to fight with the sky and the earth, but the house is always just a stepping foot at a certain stage, and it is not ...... to chase higher and better scenery."

"I hate those ......who procrastinate, obviously have the corresponding forces, but they don't have the corresponding mentality and consciousness, and they always passively play the grievances and seek perfection, and wait for people to slap their faces before they are willing to fight back."

"Or like a woman who is keen on her mother-in-law and mother's inexplicable house fight, tangled in trivial gains and losses, pulling her IQ to the same level as her opponent, endlessly entangled like a soap opera, and then complacent about the so-called realism and depth ......"

"That's the difference between a woman and a man......"

"Why do I feel like I've been shot......?"

"I don't think so, are you a woman......"

"Die......"

She waved her parasol suddenly, swept through the thousands of troops, and chased me with her skirt for a while.