The sky was already bright, Zhao Min sat on the tiger skin chair, this was originally the gathering hall of thieves, the empty hall and the high seats made Zhao Min feel very uncomfortable, after all, he is still a modern person in his bones, and the idea of equality for everyone is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and it is not something that can be changed in a short time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are two things that need to be dealt with urgently, one is the thief leader Xu Dumu, who is tied like a zongzi and kneeling in the middle of the hall, and the other is Xia Houjie, who is sitting on the side, his face is still pale. "Relatives first!" Zhao Min sighed in his heart, although he and this relative were almost unknown.

"Let my uncle suffer, all because of Min, my heart is terrified! Fortunately, my uncle is safe and sound, otherwise Min would have no face to face his deceased mother! Zhao Min stood up, walked in front of Xiahou Jie, and slammed to the ground seemingly sincerely.

"North...... King of the North Sea" Xiahou Jie got up a little flustered and saluted back, but he didn't know how to call him, and he looked at a loss for a while.

"Uncle, just call Min by my name! After all, you are Min's maternal uncle, why do you need to bow to Min? Otherwise, in the future, others will blame Min for not knowing how to count etiquette! ”

"This ...... Alas! Xia Houjie sighed and didn't insist anymore. In fact, he is in a mixed mood right now. He is the descendant of the Xiahou family, the Xiahou family has been mainly engaged in business for generations, and there are only three sisters and brothers in the main family of his generation; The eldest sister is naturally Mrs. Xiahou, who married the emperor, that is, Zhao Min's biological mother; The second brother, Xia Houying, is the contemporary head of the family and took over the family's business business. Xia Houjie has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and he thinks very highly of himself, and he doesn't want to rely on his eldest sister Yu Yin, and plans to rely on himself to have a future. Who knows that until nearly 30 years old, he was promoted to filial piety, and has not yet filled the vacancy, in order to exercise his political ability, he is currently in his hometown of Jimo, a neighboring county in Jiaodong, as a household Cao Shi.

Originally, if everything went well, he should have been appointed as the county governor of a certain county within one or two years, and if he had two years of seniority and real talent, he could be appointed as the head of a small county. Who knew that this disaster fell from the sky and was actually kidnapped by thieves! Know how important fame is in this day and age! He has a resume as a thief before he comes out, and I'm afraid it's hopeless to make a difference in his career in this life! Therefore, he can be said to be in despair at the moment. When he was captured, he had already learned that all this was because of his nephew, but it was not Zhao Min's intention, as a scholar who was not unreasonable, Xiahou Jie really didn't know what attitude to use to face Zhao Min!

In fact, Xiahou Jie has never seen this nephew, he was only sixteen when the eldest sister married into the palace, and when he became an adult, he struggled on his own, so he never entered Beijing to meet him. Unexpectedly, this meeting was in such a scene, which made him have mixed feelings for a while.

Zhao Min naturally didn't know what Xia Houjie was thinking, but what did he need most now? Talent is needed! After all, this is his own maternal uncle, although he has no emotional foundation, but he is also a serious relative, and people often say: Fight tiger brothers and go into battle father and son soldiers! There is a bond of blood relationship between relatives, and it is a lack of heart when you don't use it! Zhao Min's original plan was actually to go back to Jimo to see if he could find a few talents who could help, why not use this ready-made?

He immediately spoke: "Min lost his mother since he was a child, and he has been lacking relatives to take care of him, and he regrets it very much. Now that I have to meet my uncle, I am infinitely happy in my heart, so I plan to ask my uncle to help me, so that I can always give advice to Min and share my family. I don't know what Uncle thinks? ”

This is a clear solicitation. Xia Houjie's heart turned a thousand times, he had also heard of the reputation of his nephew, and it was said that he was a vulgar guy. But looking at it today, it is obviously different from the rumors, and it is still known that Shu Dali is not a talent who cannot be assisted. The average prince will be an official in the court when he becomes an adult, and at worst, he will be placed in a local position. I have no hope for a career, maybe following my nephew is also a way out, right? However, for a while, I couldn't pull it down, so I only stumbled in my mouth for a long time, and finally said, "...... That's it! ”

Zhao Min was overjoyed when he heard this, and faced Xiahou Jie again: "I can get Uncle Uncle's help, Min Zhi is also lucky!" ”

In the meantime, by the way, take a look at the properties:

Name: Xiahou Jie is Zhonghao

Status: None

Command: 28

Force: 33

Intelligence: 67

Politics: 79

Characteristics: None

Zhao Min smiled bitterly in his heart. It's just a little bit! A little higher politics will meet the requirements of the mission! You did it on purpose, right? Right? But to be honest, it's not bad in terms of attributes, Zhao Min is still quite satisfied, people are content!

After dealing with Xiahou Jie's matter, Zhao Min turned around and walked in front of Xu Dumu, looked at him condescendingly, and did not speak for a long time. In fact, Zhao Min has a headache about how to deal with this guy. Under normal circumstances, the bandits caught are nothing more than sending them to the official to receive merit and killing them on the spot. The problem is that now he and Lu Xu are on the same page, and Lu Xu is unwilling to give such a credit for nothing; The casualties in this battle have been counted, and the death toll is fourteen, several of which died at the hands of this thief leader, and it is easy to chill the morale of the army if he does not kill; And I'm not a murderer, so I really don't know what to do now.

"Let me ask you, would you rather die or live?" After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Min decided to give him a chance.

There is no tyranny in Xu Dumu's one-eyed eyes, and all that is left is his heart. He is actually a greedy person, otherwise he would not abandon his subordinates and escape alone when the cottage was broken. was already confident that he would die, but when he heard Zhao Min's question, he raised his head suddenly: "How about life, and how about death?" ”

"If you want to give birth, you need to swear a poisonous oath, and from now on you will be my retainer! If you want to die, it's very simple, behead in public at noon today, to sacrifice the souls of my dead soldiers in heaven! "People in this era still believe in swearing, and Zhao Min really can't think of any other way, so he has to leave it at that.

Xu Dumu hesitated for a moment, then knocked his head on the ground, and said loudly: "I Xu Dumu swear to the sky that I will be a slave of the King of Beihai from now on, and I will be loyal." If there is a violation, it will not be good to die if there is thunder and thunder on a different day! ”

"Very good, from today onwards, you will change your name to Xu Ming, and now go to General Zhao Yun to report, your original subordinates will surrender if they want to, and if they don't want to surrender, just go back to their hometown."

Name: Xu Ming

Status: None

Command: 47

Force: 68

Intelligence: 21

Politics: 13

Characteristics: None

"Thank you, my lord!" Xu Dumu, now called Xu Ming, glanced at Xiahou Jie hesitantly, and still said, "The subordinates still have to report it!" ”

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After dealing with this matter, Zhao Min walked out of the hall and turned around to the door of a firewood room next to him. The guard at the door was Wei Ying's personal guard, and when he saw Zhao Min, he hurriedly bowed his hand. Zhao Min waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be polite, tidied up his clothes, and then stepped forward to push the door inside.

There was only one candle lit in the wood room, and in the dim light, a middle-aged scribe was sitting against the wall. When he heard the door knock, he looked up, revealing a bitter face.

Zhao Min smiled and said, "How is Chen Changshi?" ”

The bitter color on the middle-aged scribe's face became stronger, "The King of the North Sea will not be used to get it!" It's just a matter of being loyal to the king. Now that he has been caught, he can only blame his fate for not being good! ”

It turned out that this middle-aged scribe was Shi Chenzhen, the magistrate of Beihai County, a local magistrate with a dignified rank of 600 stones, but now he was in such a small and dim firewood house, who would believe it? This Chen Changshi is really unlucky, he originally stayed in the thief's den as a hostage to dispel the doubts of the thief leader, but who knew that when there was a sudden chaos, he could be regarded as making a quick decision and absconding from the back mountain with his henchmen taking advantage of the chaos. I happened to meet the young people who came up from the back mountain! Wei Ying knew that this was a member of the Taishou Mansion, and knew that something was wrong, so he immediately arrested several people, and after breaking through the cottage, he was secretly imprisoned in this firewood room until Zhao Min came. And for Zhao Min, this is probably the biggest gain of this trip!