Although he has been pretending to be obsessed with cultivation and does not care about the world, Liu Lan has been observing Zhang Xiu, waiting for Zhang Xiu to reveal his weaknesses, so Liu Lan will not be unaware of the current relationship between the two and Zhang Xiu's opinion.

And Zhang Xiu seems to have taken Yizhou smoothly, but after taking Yizhou, he did not have enough ability to manage Yizhou, and because of Zhang Xiu's identity, there would be no people of insight to go to Zhang Xiu, so Zhang Xiu seemed to be extremely struggling in Yizhou's affairs.

And under Liu Lan's impetus and quiet rhythm, Zhang Xiu was surprised to find that he was about to fall into the situation of betrayal and embattlement of Yin Jian, but fortunately, he had not yet reached the point of despair.

However, it is obvious that Zhang Xiu's first priority at present is to quell the turmoil caused by his own army, and all this requires energy to do little by little, but Zhang Xiu has been busy recently because the people of Yizhou oppose the tax increase.

At this time, Zhang Xiu's disciples learned about the master's troubles and came to offer advice.

"Master, since Yizhou is now short of finances, why don't you ask Uncle Shi for help, Uncle Shi is a local hero, with his help, we will definitely be able to survive this difficulty."

"I don't want to, it's just that the Liu family actually wants me to take the position of Taishou in Naba County and Hanzhong in exchange, both of which are important towns in Yizhou, how can I easily communicate with others."

"And if it weren't for Liu Lan's gang secretly playing tricks behind their backs, where would your master and I need to collect taxes from the people, let alone fall into such a situation."

Zhang Xiu held his head with a headache, and said weakly, thinking of the small tricks that Liu Lan and others played behind his back, Zhang Xiu immediately straightened up and said viciously.

"Even if you give them Bajun and Hanzhong, what about it?"

"In that case, it is undoubtedly a problem to raise tigers, Liu Lan and they were originally strong in Yizhou, if they occupy Ba County and Hanzhong, wouldn't it be a return of the tiger to the mountain."

"In vain, you can't just look at the present, but also make long-term plans."

Zhang Xiu couldn't help but be angry when he saw that his apprentice actually made such a suggestion, but in the end, he still taught his apprentice seriously.

Although he was taught a lesson by his own master, Zhang Xiu's apprentice still seemed very unconvinced.

"Then Hao Jian, doesn't Su Gu own the whole of Yizhou? Even so, they were not defeated by their masters, not to mention Liu Lan and a few of their local natives. ”

"Even if they occupy Ba County, Hanzhong may not be able to compare with Yin Jian and Su Gu, not to mention that after the master occupies Yizhou, he will kill Yin Jian and remove traitorous ministers, and his momentum is far from being comparable to that of the past, so why care about one or two local big households."

"And now the people of Yizhou are almost all disciples of our 'Five Doumi Sect', even if they really have any bad intentions, they can still escape the eyes of the master."

"The most important thing is that if they can deal with the trouble in front of them, then everyone will be happy, if not, then don't you take the initiative to give the master an excuse to do something to them, in this way, get rid of them, and our current predicament will not be solved the same?"

“...”

Zhang Xiu's originally impatient expression slowly became serious with his apprentice's explanation, and when his apprentice finished speaking, Zhang Xiu pondered for a long time, and then patted his legs and praised.

"Wonderful, this plan is very good, just do what you say."

Zhang Xiu immediately sent someone to invite the Liu family and other local tycoons to come to discuss, and after agreeing on the conditions, he appointed the people they elected to be the two lands Taishou, in order to prevent them from buying the hearts of the people, Zhang Xiu also asked them to charge double the heavy taxes on the people of the two places.

Sure enough, as soon as this order was issued, the people in the two places complained, and the reputation of Liu Lan and others also plummeted.

However, Liu Lan is not an easy person, when this matter ferments to a certain extent, the two Taishou Mansions issued an official document at the same time, saying that the tax increase is only Zhang Xiu's decision alone, Zhang Xiu is in charge of Yizhou at the moment, even if they are a county Taishou, they are powerless to change the overall situation, but the Taishou Mansion will contact the major wealthy families to help everyone pay off the taxes.

As soon as this announcement came out, the situation began to reverse, and everyone scolded Zhang Xiuen for taking revenge, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge to be an ungrateful villain, and the Liu family and other families are really thinking about the people and the foundation of Yizhou.

And when the news reached Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu was half angry at his self-defeating, but what was even more angry in his heart was that these families openly disobeyed themselves and contradicted themselves.

Zhang Xiu, who couldn't swallow this breath in his heart, went to Liu Lan aggressively and asked Liu Lan to give him an explanation.

"Senior brother, your family is so openly opposed to me, don't you have anything to explain to me?"

Zhang Xiu stared at Liu Lan tightly, if Liu Lan showed a little other clue, Zhang Xiu would let people take down Liu Lan, and at the same time send people to completely exterminate these Yizhou wealthy clans and truly control Yizhou.

"What do you say, senior brother? Haven't you already collected all the taxes you wanted? As for what Taishoufu said is true, what else is there to explain? ”

Liu Lan didn't seem to need to see Zhang Xiu's anger at all, and explained unhurriedly.

"Good, good, good!"

Zhang Xiu laughed angrily, I really don't know where Liu Lan got the courage to say this to himself, although Liu Lan has a high status in the "Five Doumi Sect", but because of his obsessive cultivation and not asking about the world, he has no cronies at all, even if the Liu family's power is not small, his hands and feet will not be able to reach his own territory for the time being.

I really don't know if this Liu Lan is stupid to practice and cultivate, or does he really think that he has a reputation in the "Five Bucket Rice Sect", so he doesn't dare to touch him?

"What do you mean by that? Does my junior brother also think that I have done something wrong? ”

Although he wanted to take down Liu Lan immediately, Zhang Xiu, who felt that he was in control, couldn't help but spend a few more words with Liu Lan.

"It's not interesting, it's just that Senior Brother broke his promise, and I don't think Senior Brother can continue to lead the 'Five Dou Mi Sect' and the people of Yizhou."

Liu Lan faced Zhang Xiu's questioning and returned lightly, with a slight irony on her face.

Zhang Xiu was really taken aback when he heard this, he didn't expect Liu Lan to really have a disobedient heart, but fortunately, he had already been prepared, and hurriedly stood up and hid behind his disciple, shouting loudly at the same time.

"Someone, arrest this apostate for me."

In stark contrast to Zhang Xiu's panic, Liu Lan still sat there unhurriedly, as if he was still talking about the Tao with Zhang Xiu. And Zhang Xiu saw that Liu Lan was so calm, and at the same time he was ashamed of himself, he was even more jealous of Liu Lan.

"Hurry up and get this guy up."

Just when someone stepped forward to grab Liu Lan, a big knife was laid across in front of them.

"Gan is here, who dares to be presumptuous."

Zhang Xiu fixed his eyes and saw that there was a person with bird feathers in his head, wearing a brocade robe, and Ganning Ganxingba, who was rampant in Ba County, how could this person be here? And it will also help this Liu Lan.

Zhang Xiu naturally wouldn't know that although Liu Lan had been immersed in the development of the sect, he would not miss Gan Ning, who was rampant in Ba County. Although he couldn't submit Gan Ning, with Gan Ning's character, with his usual boldness and generosity, it was naturally not a problem to ask Gan Ning to come to help at such an important moment.

And for Gan Ning, who dared to intercept and kill officials without saying a word, it was naturally not a problem to kill a rebellious Zhang Xiu.

"Be bold and Ganning, and the cultivator is presumptuous here."

Seeing that Gan Ning calmed the situation as soon as he appeared, Zhang Xiu's disciple reprimanded.

However, Gan Ning only glanced at it, then raised his hand and shot a crossbow arrow, and the disciple of Zhang Xiu, who had just spoken, fell straight to the ground with a muffled snort.

Just when Zhang Xiu was subdued by Gan Ning's ferocity and panicked, two more teams of people broke in.

"Zhang Xiu's old thief has taken his life, and today I want to take your head to pay tribute to Lord Sugu's spirit in the sky."

The person who came was Zhao Song, a righteous man who had received the favor of Su Gu, Chen Tune. After Liu Lan was executed by Zhang Xiu, Liu Lan secretly found the two of them, and after hearing that there was a chance to help Su Gu avenge him, the two followed without hesitation.

Zhang Xiu never thought that Zhang Xiu, who had always been alone, would suddenly come out with so many helpers, otherwise he would not have brought such a few people to Liu Lan's trouble.

However, now that the situation is tense, Zhang Xiu can't help but think too much, Zhang Xiu hurriedly shouted.

"Senior brother, why don't you do this, let's talk about something."

"Don't talk nonsense, take your life!"

Although Liu Lan didn't want to talk about anything with this Zhang Xiu anymore, she didn't expect that for fear that things would change, the two of them who had lost the opportunity to take revenge on Su Gu actually yelled directly and pounced directly.

Although Zhang Xiu was trying his best to dodge, he didn't expect the disciples who were blocking him to run faster than him, so he left himself exposed in front of the knives of Zhao Song and Chen Zhao.

Poor Zhang Xiu had not yet completed his dream of rebellion, so he died tragically under the knives of the two of them.