Chapter 128: Parents Officer

Characters? If he knew that the atmosphere in Ninghe Town was so special, then he would never agree to bring only twelve guards to accompany the Governor to Ninghe Town.

Bi Xiaoqing couldn't help it. According to a fashionable saying, he is a few levels lower than Ye Tao in terms of confidentiality and knowledge, and many of the reports that Ye Tao can see and the news that he can learn are not something he can know. And when Ye Tao chose not to tell him, he had no choice at all.

However, once he arrived in Ninghe Town and settled down in the more luxurious Bafang Building in the town, Bi Xiaoqing, who had walked around the street a little, felt that the atmosphere was not quite right. Although Bi Xiaoqing is Liu Meng's apprentice and his kung fu is quite good, he has never walked the rivers and lakes, but he still knows a little about the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes. There are indeed many Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons in the palace guards who were famous in the past, and they have also passed on a lot of experience and experience to guards like Bi Xiaoqing who can perform a lot of "field tasks". When Bi Xiaoqing became Ye Tao's chief of guard and began to take charge on his own, these experiences were particularly important.

On several street corners, he found signs of unknown meaning, which were obviously used by some people in the rivers and lakes to communicate with each other. And sat down in the restaurant, his inadvertent look of vigilance and the kind of serious and meticulous posture that only the forbidden army and the inner court guards can have, immediately alarmed the two Jianghu characters who were originally drinking in the corner. The two guys weren't armed with them, but they looked pretty good.

After encountering such a thing, Bi Xiaoqing thought of asking the Governor what was going on.

There were people of unknown origin on the construction site of Ninghe Town, and this news was not even obtained by Zeng Man now, but was transmitted to Ye Tao through the internal channels of the Governor's Palace. There are many children of the family under the governor's palace, and there is an advantage that each family will strive to let their children have better conditions and better career performance. The children of these families are surrounded by people such as the family members who are responsible for serving. And using these people to deliver letters is obviously faster than using the original post system of the imperial court.

Although Bi Xiaoqing was nervous, Ye Tao didn't feel anything. When the characters of the rivers and lakes come to Ninghe Town, they must have their purpose, and there must be a reason why they are worthy of coming here. How many of these reasons are related to the canal, this is what Ye Tao wants to know. The characters in the rivers and lakes will not rashly go against the court. Even if he is the number one master in the world, I am afraid that he will not find a governor to kill and play to prove how strong his martial arts are. After comforting Bi Xiaoqing for a few words, Ye Tao ordered to hand over the prayer post to Baoshan Hall. Secretly summoned several key officials from the Governor's Office in Ninghe Town.

Bi Xiaoqing had no words for such an order, although he was worried about Ye Tao's safety, he knew that in addition to the guards he brought, there were other people who were concerned about Ye Tao's safety.

Sure enough, when Ye Tao was still kindly asking the shopkeeper if there were any restaurants with some characteristics in Ninghe Town, so that they could enjoy the first dinner in Ninghe Town, the official who had reported to Ye Tao earlier came. Although this guy named Han Dongdi is also a child of the family, he did not take Ye Tao's path like some other people, and then he took a position first. Instead, he passed the exam, which was quite terrible for the vast majority of people in this era. The Han family and Gao Zhen are very close to each other, but the Han family has a long history, and they are not very interested in families like the Gao family that have emerged in a few generations, and Han Dong passed the examination to serve under the Canal Governor's Mansion, which may be regarded as an attempt by the Han family to expand their network. Ye Tao didn't take Han Dongtai seriously. Later, under Feng Hao's reminder and insistence, Han Dong was arranged to be in charge of Ninghe Town, which could be regarded as a return for the favor. And Han Dong's performance is among many officials who have just arrived and have little experience. It's really eye-catching.

The original county magistrate of Ninghe Town was a scholar who didn't know much about economic affairs, and he didn't understand some of Han Dongdi's practices, and he set up a lot of obstacles intentionally or unintentionally. As a result, after Han Dong communicated with his family, he recalled the guy back to Danyang to report on his work, and then he would be promoted by one and a half levels and go to other places to become an official. And in this way, Ninghe Town was before the new county order arrived. Basically, everything can be decided by Han Dong. Because Han Dong was quite spicy in his work, especially in the canal project, which was well arranged, and reduced the levy of local conscription in favor of using the method of employing people to be paid, when many local people got benefits, this temporary local magistrate was very good.

In the small courtyard under Ye Tao's bag, Han Dong said to Ye Tao with some anxiety: "My lord, it's not the right time for you to come, and now Ninghe Town is really a bit chaotic. I beg your pardon for being unreasonable. If only the adults weren't very tired. It's best to leave right away. Ninghe Town is going to be in a commotion for at least a while. ”

Ye Tao frowned and said, "Is this what happened?" You originally wrote to me. It's just that there are characters in the rivers and lakes, what's wrong now? ”

Han Dong sighed: "On the third day after the letter to you was sent, someone reported to the county lieutenant that there was something unusual in a warehouse in the south of the city, and the smell was extremely unpleasant, and it seemed to be corpse decay. When the county lieutenant went to see it, he found that the deceased in the storehouse was the warden of the town jail. This prison was sick on the day the two Jianghu characters on the river appeared, and it seemed that they wanted to leave Ninghe Town. Unexpectedly, he died in the warehouse. Only then did he realize that those two Jianghu figures were probably not afraid of Ninghe Town chasing them, but because they had finished what they had to do. Later, I wrote a letter to my lord to report this matter, but today, my lord, suddenly you appeared in Ninghe Town, and I realized that I am afraid that this letter was missed. ”

Han Dong sighed and continued to explain, "I've been trying my best to investigate the previous matter these days, trying to get a glimpse of the ins and outs of the matter. Unexpectedly, many people from the rivers and lakes came to Ninghe Town one after another. However, many people from the local gate faction in Dongping came to me and made it convenient for me to follow the rules, which made it easier for me to get some news from them. ”

"The story goes back to last summer, when a seriously injured Jianghu figure came to Ninghe Town. Since the person's origin is unknown, the Po Shan Tong Lok Jia did not admit the person. Later, the man settled in a small Taoist temple in the west of the city. The man refused to reveal his origin, and the county magistrate inquired several times. The guy didn't reveal his origins, so he ordered the guy to be put in prison. Although this guy was not imprisoned for any conviction he had been identified, it was impossible for the prison to take special care of that guy, so he was put in a solitary cell, and of course nothing else could be said except that there would be no shortage of food. The guy died in prison. And this person is the cause of everything. ”

It turned out that this guy who died in prison was Xing Yuan, the wife and brother of the master of the Eagle Hall of the Daoming Sect. is also a small leader in the Daoming Sect. This guy's wife is from Dongping. Last year, Xing Yuan took his wife back to Dongping's mother's house, but encountered some things, as a result, Xing Yuan's wife died, and Xing Yuan also fled to Ninghe Town, unable to resist. Died in prison. The matter was reported back to the Daoming Sect General Hall, and the Eagle Hall Master Mo Leng's face could not be hung up. Daoming Zongmingli is a Taoist type organization, which uses demagogic religion to attract believers, cultivate strength, and faintly want to become a state religion in Xiling. affects the momentum of national politics, but in private, the power of the Daoming Sect is also very deep, and the Eagle Hall is the one who rules all the forces of the Daoming Sect. And in line with the development direction of the Daoming Sect, it is a violent group that carries out assassination, looting, extermination, espionage, and so on. The news that Mo Leng got was conveyed several times, and it was obviously very out of shape, and what Mo Leng was told was that Xing Yuan was tortured to death in prison.

For the characters in the rivers and lakes, the war between Dongping and Xiling cannot affect the grievances and hatreds between them, and the exchanges at the level of the rivers and lakes are also the acquiescence of the two courts, just as not long after the end of the series of battles at Xunshan Pass, the trade between Dongping and Xiling began to gradually recover. It took only two months from the transit through Yunzhou and Chunnan to the official payment of taxes and customs clearance by the caravan from several passes. It is precisely because of this flow of people that the two countries can deploy intelligence against each other, spy and counter-espionage, bribery and counter-bribery, infiltration and counter-infiltration. However, for the charlatans. In the absence of offending the government. To be imprisoned to death is another matter. Of course. In terms of Xing Yuan's identity and functions in the Daoming Sect, whether he is innocent or not is two words. After all, last summer was the peak period for the intelligence system directly under the Dongping royal family to purge the domestic Daoming Sect forces. Xing Yuan still came to visit relatives at this time? The devil believes.

But Mo Leng wanted an explanation, and it was obviously impossible for Dongping to give him an explanation. He sent his right-hand men to snipe the people from all walks of life in Dongping who were involved in the matter, and that prison was just the beginning. Han Dong had already gone to warn the county magistrate who was waiting for a new appointment in Danyang through his friends in Jingzhongdi, but after the death of the warper, until now, several jailers in Ninghe Town had died. It was not until recently that the situation improved due to the entry of some Jianghu people from Dongping into Ninghe Town. The characters of the rivers and lakes are against the court, even if they encounter something like this, they can only knock out their front teeth and swallow blood, and when the characters of the rivers and lakes do not want to be recruited by the court, they must have such an awareness. What Mo Leng did was not only a provocation to the Dongping Imperial Court, but also a disregard for the Dongping martial arts world. The arrival of these Jianghu figures, although they are dissatisfied with the Xiling martial arts world and the neurotic situation of the Daoming Sect, there is a faint taste of a full-scale confrontation between the martial arts circles of the two countries.

When Han Dong figured out these things that were floating on the surface, he had at least eleven big heads. All the magistrates everywhere have always been the most annoying to the characters in the rivers and lakes. These people are so brave and ruthless that when they make trouble, they leave one or two lives on the streets, which has a very negative impact on the performance of the magistrates, and for the magistrates who have more complicated matters to be responsible for, they have to spend more time and energy to appease the people and continue to push forward the work. And Han Dong obviously doesn't want to encounter such a problem.

"There is news that Mo Leng is now near Ninghe Town...... That's the problem. God knows what the star is trying to do. Han Dong said a little anxiously, "Mo Leng and his subordinates are not easy to mess with. Daomingzong and the Xiling Imperial Court are too deeply involved, and they have always regarded me Dongping as a great enemy, and it is no longer purely the idea of the martial arts world and the characters in the rivers and lakes. It doesn't matter if a small role like me is, but the adult supervises one side, and it is my Dongping minister. Once Mo Leng knew that the adults were here, he might have some kind of thoughts. ”

Ye Tao was a little unimpressed by the people around him as an "adult". However, from the perspective of a high-ranking Dongping official, it is true that as Han Dong said, the situation is not optimistic. If he was just a civilian, he might be very interested in this kind of thing on the rivers and lakes, and he would wonder if the rivers and lakes were like what he had seen in martial arts before, whether there were so many magical martial arts, and whether there were so many happy enmities. If you want to talk about martial arts, he has already experienced it personally, if it wasn't for the timely treatment, maybe he would have died under the black sand. But what about the stories in the rivers and lakes? He had heard some things from his good friend, Guan Huan, a famous young swordsman in the rivers and lakes, but what Guan Huan said was just a glimpse of him who had not been walking the rivers and lakes for many years.

From the point of view of the officials and the imperial court, whether this dispute over the rivers and lakes is about to come is related to the entanglement between Dongping and Xiling, or whether it is related to the vast area under their control, it is by no means a pleasant thing. "Confucianism uses literature to mess with the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the ban", the most direct comment that can come out of my mind is this. He could understand Han Dong's difficulties. As the current magistrate of Ninghe Town, what is happening under his nose is powerless for him to stop. His most effective position now is the temporary commissioner of the county order of Ninghe Town, in which he has to supervise the progress of the river project while trying to stabilize the increasingly tense situation. As a newcomer, he could not solve the problem of the local area more than the local residents, and some of the local residents had already noticed that the atmosphere was wrong, and some wealthy families even went out to take refuge, while the vast majority of the people did not have such conditions, and these people needed the appeasement of him, the temporary parent official.

What happens if there is a fight? Those martial arts people in Dongping may still have scruples about going to the local Jingzhi, but Daomingzong will not have such scruples. If there is a large-scale vendetta in Ninghe Town, and things like the killing of the warden and jailer happen again, once the panic is caused and this panic is dispersed, the impact on a small town like Ninghe Town will be great.

After thinking about it carefully, Ye Tao calmly said to Han Dong: "Some things have to happen. We may not be able to choose when things happen, but we may be able to influence when and where things happen. ”