(Today's third chapter is delivered, well, the high * tide is coming)

The door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man walked out, the middle-aged man was wearing a robe, combing a loose bun, and a jasper hairpin was scattered on it, and his face was like a crown of jade.

Seeing this middle-aged man come in, the thin man hurriedly stepped forward to see it, and said respectfully: "Master! ”

"Hmm!" Needless to say, the middle-aged man was naturally the Admiral of the Four Counties Military Horse Yamen Zhou, he glanced at a few people hanging high on the wooden shelf, and snorted: "Have you recruited?" ”

The thin man said fiercely: "Master, these grandsons have sacrificed their lives and money, and they haven't recruited them yet!" I'm afraid that the money is gone. ”

Zhou Xingbo glared at him coldly, the thin man couldn't help but shrink his neck, Zhou Xingbo snorted, ignored him, he shook his steps, and slowly walked to a person hanging on the wooden shelf, his eyes suddenly became greedy and eager, he said coldly: "Wake him up!" ”

The thin man answered, lifted a bucket of cold water beside him and splashed it on his head and face.

With a 'bang', ice water splashed down and poured on the seven vertical and horizontal wounds on the body, and the stimulated wounds twitched for a while, as if ten thousand needles had entered the body, and the person who was splashed trembled all over his body and woke up.

The man's gaze was extremely dull, there was no look in his eyes, his eyes moved a few times, and finally it was fixed on Zhou Xingbo, suddenly, the pair of godless eyes erupted with infinite hatred, and there seemed to be a raging flame burning madly in a pair of eyes, as if it was going to turn into a hellish karmic fire, burning Zhou Xingbo into ashes!

Seeing that look, Zhou Xingbo couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he tilted his head slightly, snorted, and said with a smile: "Lao Zhang, I said, why are you so dead." Communicating with the Tartar outside the border is not necessarily a capital crime, although our Da Ming Law is written like this, but after so many years, who still takes that thing seriously? You are also a well-known gentleman in the township, a scholarly heirloom, a good business, and the richest man in Leling County! Why don't you understand this truth? On the side of Xuanfu Datong, how many businessmen are there who don't fornicate with Tartar? ”

He sneered: "Fornicating with a Tartar is not necessarily a capital crime, why don't you recruit it?" Anyway, where did you get your 500 good Mongolian horses? Where's the next home? Which pass to go? Make this clear, and this official will not only spare your life, but maybe there will be benefits! ”

The old man glanced at him coldly, moved his dry and cracked lips, and laughed miserably: "Lord Zhou, the villain really has nothing to make friends with." As you know, my lord, the villain has lived here for generations, has a clean net worth, and only does the cloth business in his life, and nothing else. In the villain's life, the farthest place he has been to is Yanjing, and the villain never knows about the five hundred military horses you said! How do you let the villain explain? ”

Zhou Xingbo smiled gloomily, stroked his chin with a beautiful hair, and said softly: "Lao Zhang, think about it again, maybe you are too old to forget about it!" Five hundred military horses is not a small number, this is a big crime of robbing the family! Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your wife and children. Tsk, it's just that I'm dead, my wife and daughter are all included in the teaching department, and they have become lowly people who ride thousands of people, and their sons are also castrated and sent to the palace to do errands, hehe, Lao Zhang, are you worthy of your ancestors and ancestors? I'm afraid that I won't be allowed to enter the ancestral grave even if I die! ”

The voice is faint, unspeakably resentful.

"You!" Lao Zhang's eyebrows and beard trembled together, staring at Zhou Xingbo deadly, with indescribable anger and resentment in his eyes!

As the largest household in Leling County, Zhangjia has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the whole Zhuangzi is a tenant of his family, which is a first-class family in the local area. Moreover, the Zhang family is a scholarly heirloom, and it is also kind and charitable in the countryside, who has no rice to cook, will always receive help, and every disaster year, when the green and yellow are not accepted, the rent of the tenants below will be reduced. Therefore, the Zhang family has a good reputation in Leling County, and some civil disputes do not need to go through the county master, and the head of the Zhang family directly comes forward, and everyone is convinced, and the situation will subside.

The Ming Dynasty has always pursued the rule of the holy monarch and the scholars, and there is no political axe below the county level, so the magistrates rely on these squires very much. As the number one squire in Leling County, the head of the Zhang family [***] doesn't have to kneel when he sees the county master, and there are seats to do. And every festival, they, the people with heads and faces in the countryside, the county magistrate will set up a banquet in the county office.

It can be said that he is a very face-saving and energetic person.

And there is no intersection with Ma Zheng Yamen, when Zhou Xingbo Zhou just arrived, the Zhang family also presented a thousand taels of silver in accordance with the rules of filial piety - in [***] opinion, this is already a lot, when he was doing business in Beijing, I heard that it was a gift to the six ministers, and a thousand taels of silver was also taken.

Later, Zhou Xingbo wantonly exploited in the four counties, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, as long as he took a fancy to whose family's fertile land and whose woman, he would be imprisoned for punishment on the pretext that it was unfavorable to raise horses and delay the major affairs of the court. Not only do you knock out all the family property, but you must also get what you like!

However, he was still very polite to these local gentry, and there was no conflict between the two sides.

But who would have expected that disaster would fall from the sky, some time ago, there were a few good Mongolian horses on the market in the city, and there were a lot of them in other counties. And at this time, the number of those Mongolian horses also increased dozens of times, and it turned out to be five hundred!

As a result, the Zhang family was confusedly charged with fornicating with Tartars and selling military horses, and they were arrested by the Admiral's Yamen.

The sky is pitiful, the Zhang family has thousands of acres of good land, and the family's business is also very large, but they don't raise horses. However, since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, in this era, the power of the government is so strong that ordinary people can't imagine it at all. Admiral Zhou said that his family colluded with the Mongolian Tatars, so his family naturally colluded.

A family of four was arrested in the Admiral's Yamen for ten days, and the family's 30,000 taels of silver were all knocked out, and then, the family's more than 20 stores in the county town also became Master Zhou's industry. Then, the more than 100,000 coarse cloths hoarded at home are not their own. Now, there are still those fields and an old house left in the family, this week Xingbo, he still doesn't let go of himself?

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