"Beaten." Gu Jinan was taken aback, and there was a clear understanding in his voice that he had already guessed.

Dou Shaodong nodded: "Well, I was whipped twenty times by the Yulin Army, and my entire back was about to be broken." ”

He bought a title of Yulin Army Halberd back then, and now when he returns to Beijing, he will invite a few Yulin Army to drink, and if he wants to buy a few news from the palace, he can still do it, so he knows more.

"The back is broken!" Gu Jinan was completely shocked and worried: "It must be a serious injury, I don't know if there will be any internal injuries." ”

Dou Shaodong: "It shouldn't be, the captain of the Yulin Military Academy who executed him knew that Lord Qi was the emperor's favorite minister, and he kept his hand, so he shouldn't hurt his internal organs." ”

But his back was broken, and his internal organs must have been slightly damaged.

"Don't worry, Lord Qi is in the prime of life, just raise it." Dou Shaodong's family still had to ask Gu Jinan to help with the work, and he didn't want him to feel at ease for Lord Qi's affairs, so he said a few perfunctory words.

Gu Jinan heard the perfunctory in his words, frowned and asked, "Does the Dou Shaodong family think that what Lord Qi is doing is looking for death, and there is no benefit?" ”

Gu Jin'an was angry, Lord Qi was the benefactor of his family, a good minister who asked for the people's life, and a good official with a benevolent heart that he believed in his heart, if Lord Qi's actions could not be praised by most people, he would feel very cold.

Dou Shaodong's heart sighed, eh, he was still guessed.

"Brother Gu misunderstood, I didn't mean that, Lord Qi is a good official who speaks for the people, I admire it very much."

I really admire it, but I still think he shouldn't have touched his head when the emperor was angry, how stupid, he was beaten, and his life was almost gone.

It's okay to be a good official, but at least you have to save your life first.

Only the longer you live, the more you can do for the people.

Gu Jinan stared at Dou Shaodong's house, the hand holding the pen tightened more and more, and with a click, the brush broke in his hand.

"Eh, you're excited, this is worthless, but if it hurts your hand, it's not good, Xiao Sanyuanlang's hand is still very valuable." Dou Shaodong's family took a few steps back, for fear that Gu Jinan would punch him.

Gu Jinan retracted his gaze, turned around and propped one hand on the table, and said in a low voice: "Lord Qi is a good person...... He deserves a good reward. ”

Dou Shaodong smiled and said very politely: "You are a person who has escaped the famine and seen the great evil, and you still believe that good people have good rewards?" Should this young owner praise you for being pure and kind, or should he call you stupid? ”

Gu Jinan also knew that he was a little excited at the moment, but Lord Qi was the first person who was kind to their family and willing to help their family get ahead, and he was also a civil official, he looked at Lord Qi, as if he saw himself in the future.

Therefore, he hopes that Lord Qi can be rewarded, instead of paying all his enthusiasm and talents.

He raised his hand and touched the dagger hidden in his sleeve, this dagger was given to Xiaoyu by Lord Qi to thank Xiaoyu for saving his wife and children, and later Xiaoyu gave him the dagger after he had a better knife.

Xiaoyu said at the time: "Originally, I wanted to give it to the eldest sister, but seeing that the eldest brother is quite similar to Uncle Qi, let's give it to the eldest brother, even if it doesn't need to be used for self-defense, you can take it out and take a look, encourage yourself, and strive to become a person like Uncle Qi as soon as possible." ”

But now, does he still want to be like Lord Qi?

No, his goal has always been clear, he can't put his own life and death and the life and death of his family on the line in order to assist a tyrant.

"Brother Dou's family is in the capital, and his wrists are all over the sky, can you send these two bottles of medicine to Lord Qi." Gu Jinan took two bottles of medicine for treating trauma and handed them to Dou Shaodong: "These two bottles of medicine are picked mountain and wild medicinal materials, although they are not as expensive as the medicinal materials in the capital, they are better than the freedom of growth, and they are good medicines." ”

The corners of Dou Shaodong's mouth twitched when he heard this, and said, "If you want Lord Qi to leave the capital, just say it, why do you want to say such a twisted thing?" Listening to this, the owner had a headache. ”

Gu Jinan stuffed the medicine into his arms and said in a cold voice: "If you want me to make it clear, I'm afraid that your head will hit the ground." ”

The emperor will definitely send someone to keep an eye on Lord Qi, and it is the people of Dou Shaodong's family who are passing the word, if the emperor's people hear this, I am afraid that Dou Shaodong's family will be finished.

Dou Shaodong's family choked, and the matter of letting Lord Qi leave the capital really can't be said too bluntly.

Dou Shaodong's family accepted the two bottles of medicine and gave him a sentence: "Cheng, this Shaodong's family will send someone to Qi's house, but if Lord Qi doesn't listen, I don't dare to guarantee whether he can leave or not." ”

I heard that Lord Qi is very loyal to the emperor, even if the emperor lets him go, it is estimated that he may stay and want to correct the emperor.

Seeing that Dou Shaodong's family agreed, Gu Jinan put away the anger and worry in his heart, and asked about other places: "What's going on in Zhongzhou?" Didn't they get a tax increase? ”

Oh, Dou Shaodong's family sneered: "I didn't raise taxes in Zhongzhou, but Zhongzhou has not really been stable since the beginning of the rebellion of the victims, and Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion, which are close to the northwest Chi Road, have long been unable to hold on, and they can't even collect ordinary taxes. ”

And the officials of the various prefectures in Zhongzhou did not care about the life and death of the soldiers, and the adults who commanded the envoys in Zhongzhou did not have extra silver to pay the soldiers and silver, and relieve the pain of the summer tax in their families, and many soldiers took their families to hide in the mountains. Later, it developed to the point that the general banner ran away directly with his soldiers and family members, and occupied the mountain as the king, anyway, they knew very well that with the current strength of the Zhongzhou Command Envoy, it was impossible to exterminate them. ”

"People, they all see what others do, they do what they do, as long as one soldier runs away with his family, other soldiers will follow suit, I heard that now there are no more people left in the garrison camp of Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion, and they are almost all gone."

"What? Dou Shaodong, what you said is true? Isn't that a lie? How is this possible?! He Jinsheng was shocked when he heard this, his whole body was trembling, he had not escaped the famine, he had never been hungry since he was a child, and he was a scholarly boy in the south, he couldn't understand the suffering of the northwest at all.

And......

"They are soldiers, officers, and people who receive the military salary of the imperial court, as long as they stay in the barracks, they can get the military salary, and their families can be guaranteed, why should they defect and go to the mountains to be bandits?"

He Jinsheng was very puzzled, and felt that it was a fool to defect to the mountains to be a bandit if he didn't do it.

After hearing this, Dou Shaodong's family smiled, and asked He Jinsheng a word: "What if the imperial court doesn't give them military salaries?" ”