Qiu Tongmian saw that the officers and soldiers drew their swords to block the road, beckoned Xiao Jian to step forward, Xiao Jian jumped off the horse, kicked over the officers and soldiers, and the remaining five officers and soldiers at the city gate saw that someone was looking for something, and immediately surrounded them. “

The officers and soldiers at the head of the group saw that Xiao Jian did not agree with each other, how could he have seen such an arrogant person, ignoring Qiu Tongmian's questioning, "Where did you come from, the nerd, dare to ride a horse and rush to the city gate, you are tired of being crooked," After speaking, he drew his sword and said, "Little ones, take it down for me." ”

Seeing that the officers and soldiers showed their swords, the surrounding people threw away their luggage and scattered in a hurry.

Qiu Tongmian also came from the sword and sword shadow all the way, and he was not timid, he took out the knife under the horse and was about to learn from Xiao Jian to fly and jump down, but was stopped by Xiao Jian.

Xiao Jian detained the officers and soldiers on the ground, took out the official seal of Qiu Tongmian and said, "My lord is the new alternate magistrate of Linxian County, and you dare to violate it here." ”

Seeing that Xiao Jian took out the official seal, he looked at Qiu Tongmian, who had been ignored by him, raised his hand to stop his subordinates from making a move, and said to Qiu Tongmian, "The little ones are frustrated, I don't know if it's the new appointment of the adult, and I still hope that the adult Haihan." ”

Qiu Tong Miandao took out his official authority and said, "I see that you are charging indiscriminately here, can you tell me why this is?" “

"The lower official was ordered by Lord Liu to set up a checkpoint here and collect the entry tax." The officers and soldiers changed their previous faces and said with a smile on their faces.

Qiu Tongmian also said with a smile, "Entrance tax, although this official does not dare to say that he is familiar with the laws of the Qing Dynasty, he has never heard of such rules in our dynasty." “

The officers and soldiers were embarrassed, "The humble post is also under the orders of Lord Liu, if there is no order from the adults, I will not dare to collect this money indiscriminately if I have ten guts." ”

Qiu Tongmian saw that these people knew each other, and they were wearing brave military uniforms, presumably not government service, but officers and soldiers, and should be subordinate to the military department, and he didn't want to be too stiff with the soldiers when he first came.

Seeing that Qiu Tongmian was an official of the imperial court, the soldiers also weakened in momentum, and they had no intention of embarrassment, so the city gate guards led by them took the lead in putting away their knives, glanced at the officers and soldiers who were held by Xiao Jian, and said to Qiu Tongmian on the horse, "Please also let my brother go, and I will wait for the guards to enter the city." “

After Xiao Jian saw Qiu Tongmian's eyes, he kicked the officer and soldier aside, turned around and beckoned his brothers to take care of the convoy into the city.

The city gate guards saw that there were so many guards behind them, and all of them were strong generals, and they were a little glad that they didn't make a move just now.

Everyone had to enter the city, the people on the road saw the officers and soldiers opening the road, they all ran away to make way for the road, starting from entering the city gate, seeing that the road was afraid of defeat, all of them were thatched houses, with a small number of tiled houses in the middle, and they saw that Qiu Tongmian shook his head for a while, if this is a fire, I am afraid that it will burn a city. There is no need to siege the city.

Qiu Tongmian instructed Xiao Jiandao, "You find a few brothers, which soldiers are bravely guarding the city gate?"

Xiao Jian said, "Why is this? “

Qiu Tongmian said, "I have my own ideas, you do it first." Xiao Jian agreed.

Everyone came to the former alternate magistrate's mansion, the mansion is not big, but it is not shabby, it is much better than the previous thatched and tiled house, Qiu Tongmian doesn't care so much, as long as the room is enough, sleeping does not leak rain, and does not ask for anything else.

After settling Xu Yingying, Qiu Tongmian summoned the three of them to a side room, and asked Xiao Jian to find a brother to watch outside.

After Qiu Tongmian sat down the three of them, he said in a low voice, "I have come all the way, I have thought a lot, I will analyze it for you, my previous argument of withdrawing the feudal domain has aroused the vigilance of the three feudal domains, coupled with Wang Rongzhi's incriminating evidence against Wu Sangui, compared to the current imperial court is eager to withdraw the feudal domain, there is no leaky wall in the world, I am afraid that the emperor's thinking is too natural, based on what I have seen and seen in Guizhou in the past few days, Wu Sangui will undoubtedly be the opposite, and he is already preparing." “

Ji Xiaolan touched her beard and said, "Why are you so sure?" “

Qiu Tongmian is not easy to say, because he knows the direction of history, this Wu Sangui is not only going to rebel, but also imminent, now it is almost May, if it is against history, Qiu Tongmian remembers that Wu Sangui is the second dragon raised his head to rebel in February next spring, Wu Sangui deceived Kangxi of several months of settlement fees, promised him to withdraw the feudal domain and change the defense, the lion opened his mouth, and asked for tens of millions of silver from Kangxi.

Qiu Tongmian said it in advance like this, because he wanted everyone to know his thoughts, since he had already thought about establishing his own power, he was waiting for time after the deadline, so it was better to take the initiative to find trouble, Kangxi gave an edict, as long as he could convict the county, he would take it first. Even if Wu Sangui noticed it, it didn't matter, after all, it was not in Yunnan, at this time Wu Sangui was not fully prepared for rebellion, he spent a lot of silver to bribe the court officials, just to delay the time to withdraw the domain, while cheating Kangxi's pacification expenses, while recruiting troops to prepare.

Qiu Tongmian dared to conclude that even if he fell out now, Wu Sangui would not be able to do anything to him for the sake of the overall situation, if he tore his face directly and wanted to come to Kangxi to prepare early, Old Man Wu would not have fought for five years in history. Kangxi doesn't know history, but Qiu Tongmian knows.

Talking about his thoughts with the others, although Ji Xiaolan still didn't dare to conclude whether Qiu Tongmian's analysis was right or not, but seeing that what he said was reasonable and well-founded, it was not easy to refute it, so he said, "In this case, let's take this Yao Zhi County first, the adult is the alternate Zhi County, and after taking him, we can be a justifiable substitute and exercise the power of the Zhi County." Xiao Jian, you send someone outside to collect all kinds of evidence of his crimes, as long as it involves corruption and perversion of the law, it will be reported to the adults, and it is best to find the evidence of his collusion with Wu Sangui, so that after taking him down, it will be more convincing to the imperial court. “

Xiao Jian nodded in response.

The three of them were discussing in the house, and someone from outside the door came in to report, and a group of people came outside, saying that Liu was inspecting Liu Da's housekeeper and looking for an adult if he had something important.

After hearing this, Qiu Tongmian said to Xiao Jian, "This Lord Liu should be the Lord Liu that the city gate guard said, and the news is spreading quickly." ”

When the two of them came to the door, they saw a butler with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks standing in front of the door, with a dozen servants behind him.

The housekeeper saw Qiu Tongmian walking in front, and said with a smile, "I've seen the adult, the villain is Lord Liu's housekeeper, just now the officers and soldiers at the city gate didn't know Taishan, I was afraid that they would offend the adult, and Lord Liu sent the villain to accompany the adult." ”

Qiu Tongmian once took advantage of the housekeeper's words to quietly glance at Xiao Jian, and Xiao Jian turned around and went back to the house after seeing it.

Qiu Tongmian held it behind his back with one hand, and said with a smile, "Lord Liu is polite, but the housekeeper is here to compensate, but I don't know that so many people have gathered to come to my house to be guests?" ”

The housekeeper smiled sadly and said, "Haha, this is because, there are too many displaced people in the city recently, and the security in the city is not very good. “

Qiu Tongmian smiled and said, "Let me ask you, is Lord Liu what Lord Liu meant about entering the city to collect taxes?" ”

The housekeeper said, "The entry tax is approved by the county, and the adults in the city discuss together, and my lord is also acting on orders, is this tax, my lord specially asked me to inform the adult, and there will be a share of the adult in the future." ”

Qiu Tongmian nodded and clapped his palms after hearing this, and Xiao Jian behind him rushed out of the mansion with twenty people, quickly surrounding everyone, and the housekeeper saw so many people rushing out, pointing at Qiu Tongmian and saying, "My lord, why is this?" ”

Qiu Tongmian Xiaojian was so clever that he was very happy, he approached the housekeeper and pretended to say, "Oh, I said that Butler Liu, didn't you just say that the security in the city is not very good, don't I also want to gather more people to protect Butler Liu." ”

After hearing this, the housekeeper pointed at Qiu Tongmian angrily and said, "The surname is Xiao, don't think that bringing someone is so arrogant, you wait for me." "After that, you have to take people to evacuate.

Qiu Tongmian would not let go of this good opportunity, and shouted, "Bold, the laws of the Qing Dynasty are clear and clear!" How dare you increase the tax items privately, and even lead people to besiege the court officials, and want to leave? Xiao Jian, take them all down for me, if you resist, you can kill them. ”

The housekeeper brought him was the opponent of these people, and after a while, they all lay down on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.

Afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, and he couldn't give this surnamed Liu time, Qiu Tongmian asked Xiao Jian to leave a few people to tie them up and watch them, so he asked the housekeeper who was tied up by Wuhua to lead the way to Liu's mansion.

The door of Liu's mansion was wide open, and I saw that there were also more than a dozen people guarding the door with wooden sticks. It should be that someone on the road saw Qiu Tongmian's group and came to report the news. Inspector Liu, who was dressed in an official robe, was furious when he saw Qiu Tongmian tying his big housekeeper, and said to him, "Okay, you Xiao Jin, I think you are a new official, give you a face, let the housekeeper go to congratulate you, but you tied up my people, do you still have the royal law in your eyes?" “

Qiu Tongmian was filled with righteous indignation when he saw Liu Patrol, so unjust to say that he wanted to laugh, but he knew that it was not the time, Qiu Tongmian wanted to talk to him, I am Wang Fa.

Seeing Xiao Jian waiting for his own orders, knowing that he could not delay, he must make a quick decision, took out the emperor's edict on his chest, held it high, and said to everyone present, "This official is under the emperor's edict, and he has come here to take office. ”

Liu Inspector didn't think that it would be this result, but seeing the bright yellow satin on Qiu Tongmian's hands, he knew that it was impossible to be good about this matter. Regardless of the truth or falsity of the edict and the right to cut first and then play, he dared to conclude that Qiu Tongmian would not let him go, let his family block him, but he would sneak back to the house, as long as he held on to this meeting, when things got bigger, someone else would definitely come to rescue him.

Xiao Jian also knew that the matter was urgent, so he left his family and didn't dare to fight, so he passed the family members who were blocking the road, and went straight to Liu Patrol, and when he saw that he was about to run back to the house, Xiao Jian threw out the sword in his hand and flew to the back of the inspection.