The beauty under the moon, the sound of the piano is long, and Xu Chu is in a good mood.

Suddenly, Cai Yan's slightly closed beautiful eyes slowly opened, and the plain hand that plucked the strings also stopped.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

Xu Chu apologized: "I'm disturbing Qing's Yaxing." ”

The title Qing has always been used only for people who are more close. In the few times Cai Yan and Xu Chu met, Xu Chu called her 'Qing', which was actually a bit rude. But Xu Chu's generous appearance makes her angry every time, and her father Cai Yong and Xu Chu are faintly 'year-old friends', so Cai Yan has no intention of caring about these details.

Xu Chu came here just to find Zhang Tai or her father, but when it was time for dinner, the two elders drank some wine, and at this time, they were afraid that they would be drunk and have already rested.

Cai Yan got up and bowed to Xu Chuwei, and said politely: "I've seen the prince." Then he told Xu Chu that the second elder had slept on the couch.

Xu Chu shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "In this case, I will come back tomorrow." ”

turned around and didn't take two steps, but heard Cai Yan behind him suddenly say, "Is the prince coming alone?" ”

Xu Chu turned around in surprise and nodded, I don't know why Cai Yan suddenly asked about this.

Cai Yan shook his head and sighed in a low voice, his black hair fluttering gently in the moonlight, "The ancients said: 'The son of a thousand daughters, he can't sit down', how can the prince and marquis act like this now that he kneels all the people?" ”

Hearing that Cai Yan blamed him for not taking the escort action, Xu Chu suddenly laughed and said: "This is my own military camp, why should I be so careful?" Moreover, if someone wants to take someone's life, I am afraid it is not so easy. ”

Cai Yan retorted: "The prince's martial arts are strong and admirable, but I wonder if the prince has heard the story of Zhuzhu?" ”

Zhuan Zhu, a native of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period, was one of the most famous assassins in ancient times.

Xu Chu naturally heard of Zhuanzhu, and according to legend, he 'fought with people, and his anger was unstoppable', so he was favored by Wu Zixu and recommended to Wu Guogongziguang, and finally assassinated Wu Wangyi by hiding the sword in the belly of the fish.

The legendary fish intestine sword is also from here.

Cai Yan further said: "When the prince returns to Lujiang County this time, in the opinion of a little woman, he must work hard. Since we want to work hard to make the country strong, then we must strengthen the army and enrich the people, and if we want to strengthen the army and enrich the people, we have to strike at the old heroes and big surnames in the county. Junhou, the world is brave and ruthless, not to mention the remote Lujiang County? Hao has a big surname, raising dead soldiers, and if there is a special character among them, even if the prince is ambitious, he is just a corpse. ”

Xu Chu was dumbfounded, he didn't expect to hear these words from Cai Yan's mouth at all.

Cai Yan is different from those famous ladies in the world.

Her father, Cai Yong, experienced the ups and downs of the eunuch sea, and Emperor Ling once reused him, but he was forced to leave the court because of the slander of the eunuch; Waiting for this matter, it was easy to be recalled to the court, but when passing through Wuyuan County, he offended Wang Zhi, the son of the eunuch who was the Taishou of Wuyuan at that time, and was falsely accused of 'resentment and slander of the court', for fear of being chased and killed by powerful eunuchs, Cai Yong had to flee again and lived in seclusion in Lujiang for 12 years.

Cai Yan, who followed his father to exile, even experienced being chased and killed by assassins sent by political enemies.

Of course, Xu Chu would not know what Cai Yan had experienced, but he also knew that many celebrities in the history of the Three Kingdoms had the experience of being assassinated - for example, Liu Bei and Sun Ce, the latter died young, which was sighed by the people of the time.

Xu Chu put away his casual heart and bowed to Cai Yan: "Thank you for the reminder, I have been taught here." ”

Not only in terms of his own safety, Cai Yan's words about Lu Jianghao's right surname also reminded Xu Chu.

Lujiang is not Yingchuan, Yingchuan County is adjacent to Luoyang, and the people in the county are deeply educated by the king's Taoism, on the other hand, Lujiang County, Xu Chu learned that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the county's Haoyou surname took the opportunity to strengthen his strength, not only to raise doormen, dead soldiers, but also with the bandits in the county has an inexplicable, unclear relationship.

When he first arrived in Lujiang before, in order to prepare for Dong with all his might, Xu Chu could only cry out in vain. Now that the discussion of Dong is over, he has returned with a great victory, and naturally he has to carry out a large-scale cleanup of these people.

Thinking about it like this, Cai Yan's reminder is not exaggerated at all.

After returning to the tent, Xu Chu couldn't sleep all night, and on the march the next day, he talked about it to Guo Jia and Xi Zhong.

Xi Zhong sneered: "Hao's right surname, many illegal things, and the protection of nobles, family assets can easily reach hundreds of millions, if the lord wants to govern Lujiang County well, of course he has to deal with them." ”

After Xi Zhong finished speaking, Guo Jia added: "Does the lord still remember Yang Zhai Huang's family? ”

Xu Chu said: "Of course I remember." ”

"Before the Huang clan was destroyed by the lord, it was the power of Mrs. Cheng to bring disaster to the county dynasty. I remember that during the Zhongping period, there was a time when the Son of Heaven ordered the purchase of a new stable, and the Huang family learned the news in advance from Mrs. Cheng, so he bought horses in the county at a price of 80,000 yuan, Gu Rong Horse Market, and then resold them to the county court at a price of 400,000 horses, and this time alone bought and sold horses, and Huang made nearly 200 million money. ”

Two hundred million!?

Xu Chu was shocked, the Huang family is not the first wealthy family in Yangzhai, after the Zhang family, what he relies on is nothing more than Mrs. Cheng, the nurse of Emperor Xiaoling, who can earn such a huge amount of money at one time! While shocked by the amount of profits made by the Huang family, Xu Chu couldn't help but sigh at the suffering of the people. Where does the money come from to buy horses in the county, isn't it all people's fat and people's ointment? At that time, the market price before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a horse was 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and an ordinary good horse was about 40,000 or 50,000 yuan.

"What does 'Gu Rong' mean?" Xu Chu was shocked, and remembered that there were two words in Guo Jia's words that he didn't understand, so he asked.

Guo Jia said solemnly: "Those who are innocent are synonymous with the word 'monopoly' that the lord said. ”

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During the period of filial piety, eunuchs and relatives were in power, and the world did not know how many Haoyou depended on them, so they grew and became the object of difficult control of counties and counties.

In this regard, Xi Zhong couldn't help but sigh: "Lord, it would be nice if there was a character like Wang Wenshu in my county." ”

Wang Wenshu, an official of Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty, was listed among the cool officials. One of the things he is most famous for is that after being appointed as the Taishou of Hanoi by Emperor Xiaowu, he fabricated all kinds of crimes, wantonly arrested the powerful in the county, and connected more than 1,000 families, and tens of thousands of people became ghosts under his sword.

Xi Zhong gave an example of Wang Shuwen, which was a little too much, no matter how strong the heroes in Lujiang County were, no matter how they colluded, they could not be compared with the heroes and powers of Hanoi County at that time, and Xu Chu could not kill tens of thousands of people at once.