Li Yan's face wrinkled into buns, and he felt that the bitter bile had reached his mouth.

As a member of the party, a spit and a nail, his words have always been his words, how can he ever be so questioned?

But he had to admit that Huang Yuandai's words were very reasonable.

In fact, a fluke idea in his heart is to talk to Huang Yuandai and the snake first, no matter what conditions the other party proposes, he will agree, as long as he can return to Bianliang City, it is not up to him to decide what to do when the time comes?

Could it be that Huang Yuandai could still send someone to follow him to Tokyo Mansion?

Even if he was followed, as long as he entered Bianliang City, thousands of cultivators and tens of thousands of troops would be dispatched together, no matter who was behind Huang Yuandai, he would not be able to resist this force.

Li Yan decided to pretend to be stupid again, and said with a chiseled word: "The lower official guarantees ......"

"No guarantees. Huang Yuandai interrupted Li Yan's words, he was obviously insightful of Li Yan's thoughts, and he didn't have the patience to listen to the other party's nonsense, "Accept the name!"

"What...... What kind of name-casting?" Li Yan felt his scalp tingle when he heard the three words of the name-to-name letter, and swallowed his saliva with difficulty.

Huang Yuandai smiled, stretched out two fingers, and leisurely: "One, a human head, and two, evidence of corruption and dereliction of duty by the main poor officials of Bianliang Mansion." ”

Li Yan's heartbeat was disordered, and he said stubbornly: "Xiaguan...... The lower officials don't know what other officials are doing to bend the law for bribes......"

"Lord Li, as a core official of Bianliang Mansion, if you don't even know this, then what is the value of your life?"

Huang Yuandai's face suddenly turned cold, his eyes were as sharp as a sword, and his murderous aura was like substance, rolling towards Li Yan like a tide from him, "When you come to me today, it's not up to you to decide whether you want to live or die, if you are hard, then try my method of cramping and peeling!"

Li Yan's face instantly turned to ashes.

Huang Yuandai smiled suspiciously, revealing Bai Sensen's teeth, "Lord Li, the four officials who are traveling with you are all Yuan Shen Realm cultivators, and their status in Bianliang Mansion must not be low. At this moment, my people are already torturing them, if the crimes of Tong Jing and others you confess are different from them, then I will definitely give you an experience that you will never forget.

"You can doubt my torture methods, to be honest, I also want to use all kinds of torture tools on you, after all, the confessions made under torture must be more accurate. And when the time comes, I will let Zhang Da be in charge of the torture of you. ”

As he spoke, Huang Yuandai looked at Zhang Jing on the side, "Is Zhang Da Boss willing to help?"

Zhang Jing laughed, hugged his fists and said, "Willing to serve!"

Li Yan suddenly collapsed to the ground, only to feel that the sky was spinning, and the sun and moon were dark.

He didn't understand how he had suddenly fallen into such a position.

A few hours ago, he was still hugging left and right in the green building of Bianliang City, accepting the hospitality of wealthy merchants, accepting bribes of gold and silver jewelry, and admiring the dance of the famous Oiran of the Central Plains.

What day is today? How can I have such a catastrophe?

When I went out this morning, why didn't I look at the yellow calendar?

Why is this small Xinghua Village actually the place where he died? Why didn't he find out at all before? Who is the son of this sinister strategist in front of him?!

Xu Xiang's son-in-law, or Zhenguo's son-in-law?

Could it be that the only heir to the head of the Zhao family who has done all kinds of amazing things in the past year?

Huang Yuandai said: "As long as Lord Li cooperates, after we achieve our goal, we will definitely not embarrass Lord Li, with this friendship, we can be regarded as friends." In the past 100 years, there have been fewer poor officials who have taken refuge in the family? Which of them is not rich and rich, and has become a winner in life?"

Li Yan's spirits perked up, as if he saw an oasis in the desert, at this moment, where could he care if that oasis was a mirage, he hoped from the bottom of his heart, needed that it was a real oasis, and hurriedly held his breath and asked: "Dare to ask, who is your son?"

Huang Yuandai smiled slightly, "Zhao's son-in-law Ning!"

"Sure enough, it's him!" Li Yan couldn't help but widen his eyes.

At this moment, all the doubts in his heart were solved, and his eyes suddenly opened up.

Except for the Zhao Gongzi Ning, who overthrew the two great families of the Liu family and the Pang family, made the Zheng family and the Lu family fall in the middle of the road, and found out the fine forces of Princess Beihu without anyone else noticing, and performed amazingly in the battle of the northern border, who else has this mental means and winged power, who else can quietly descend to the land of the Central Plains, and suddenly set off such a big storm in the dark, so that he is imprisoned and has no power to resist, so that the Hanmen forces of Bianliang Mansion are facing annihilation?

This Zhao son, Ning, although he has no official status now, the reason why he lost his official body is not that he failed to perform his duties, but that he openly beat the governor of the political affairs!

If you don't agree with each other, you dare to fight all over the ground to find your teeth in the governor's affairs, what else does the other party dare not do? What other poor official will be taken seriously by the other party?

He Li Yan is a fourth-grade magistrate, how can the other party care?

Li Yan no longer had any hesitation in his heart.

He knew that it was impossible for him to fight with the Zhao family's son, and he didn't have the strength to wrestle with the other party, and the two of them were different in terms of status and weight.

At the same time, he also knew that at the moment when Huang Yuandai did not conceal the identity of the Zhao family's son, Ning, he had only one way to take refuge in the Zhao family.

If he doesn't give in, he who knows this secret will definitely have no life at all!

Defecting to the family, as Huang Yuandai said, this is not an uncommon thing. In the more than 120 years since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, how can there be fewer poor officials who have become minions of the family either voluntarily or forcedly?

In order to ensure the strength and freshness of the family, it has always been a normal measure for the family to absorb the Hanmen Toshihiko.

There are not one or two poor officials who have been favored by the family and married the daughter of the family, thus changing their destiny. Some time ago, Tang Xing and Zhou Junchen, who were still the eyes of the new science list and Tanhua, were both tried to be subdued by the Xu family.

That is, in recent years, as the emperor's support for the poor officials has increased unprecedentedly, the plan to collect the authority of the family has gradually been revealed, and the number of poor officials who have taken refuge in the family has gradually decreased.

Becoming the wings of the family, Li Yan does not have too much psychological burden.

......

Li Yan, a native of Huangzhou, was once a local family, and his father's generation was in the middle of the road. When Li Yan was young, his family had only 100 acres of land. 100 acres of land yield, this is the number of acres that an adult male will get under the Daqi Juntian system.

However, there are four people in Li Yan's family!

Therefore, this little land is not enough for their family to be well-off, and his father is not a serious businessman but is addicted to alcohol, so the family farming is handled by his mother and eldest sister, Rao is so, and his mother and eldest sister do not allow him to farm, but let him study day and night.

From a large landlord to a poor family, when Li Yan was a teenager, his family was ridiculed and ridiculed by the neighbors, everyone wanted to step on them, and took pleasure in it, it seemed that bullying them was bullying a large landlord, which could prove their strength and let them obtain rare psychological satisfaction.

Li Yan was not less looked down upon, and his idle father's only hobby was to constantly brag to him about how rich and prominent his family was, how he was flattered, how much gold, silver, wine and meat there was in the family, and so on.

Therefore, Li Yan has been determined since he was a child that he must get ahead in the future, shine on the lintel, bully those who bullied them back, and take a bad breath for his hard-working mother and eldest sister.

As an adult, Li Yan got his wish to become a high school jinshi. However, his talent is limited, Mo said that he was not ranked in the first and third grades, and he didn't even get the second branch jinshi, so he only got the identity of a third-subject "fellow jinshi".

Under normal circumstances, the first and third branches will be on the rise, and as long as the second branch of the jinshi works hard, the career will not be bad, but the so-called jinshi who are born in the same three subjects as the jinshi are more difficult to get ahead, especially in the case of large-scale imperial examinations in the imperial court.

With an official body, Li Yan can already be regarded as getting ahead, and when he returned to the countryside, the ordinary people who had bullied their family were trembling and cowering, and kept coming to the door with chickens, ducks, wine and meat to apologize.

But Li Yan is no longer satisfied with just being a county official.

Having seen the prosperity of the vast world outside, he wants to climb up, and wants to have real prosperity and wealth! Fortunately, in this world, if you want to be promoted, the main thing is not to rely on ability, but to rely on relationships, as long as you win the favor of the officials and flatter the other party well, you will have a ladder to rise.

Although Li Yan's reading talent is not too strong, and his ability to do things is average, his mind is indeed lively and clever, and he not only succeeded in using a few poems and essays to praise virtue by doing what he likes, but also won the attention of the officials of the state capital.

After hearing that the other party was particularly fond of lychees, he personally went to Lingnan in the best season every year, and rushed back with fresh lychees day and night, which was faster than the fast horses of the post station, which made him win the favor of the governor of the state capital.

Then, he aimed at the other party's daughter - the other party is really ugly, he can't eat when he looks at it, and he also has measles, so almost no one wants to marry, but Li Yan doesn't care.

The so-called marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous concubine, anyway, marrying home is not to sleep together every day, as long as you have status, what kind of beauty do you want?

He flattered the young lady and made the other party feel the pursuit and love that he had never had, and the other party was quickly moved by him, and later married him.

became an official of the state government, Li Yan continued to exert his ingenuity, while amassing wealth while constantly bribing officials, relying on a bottomless face and a black heart, left and right in the officialdom, and at the same time took advantage of the emperor's general trend of supporting poor officials, only at the age of forty, he became a member of the four grades of the dynasty.

If nothing else, he can be promoted again next year and join the center, and at that time, he will be the backbone of the prime-age faction among the entire poor officials!

In order to climb up, Li Yan did everything he could, and as for his principled position, he had long been thrown out of the clouds. The more he wants, the more things he discards, and today, Li Yan can exchange anything for his own rich future.

Because of this, when facing the danger of life and death today, in order to save his life and official position, he betrayed his colleagues who had no true friendship at all, and he did not have the slightest psychological burden.