Chapter 738
Jinzhou City is now the core city of Liaodong, and all trains entering and leaving Shanhaiguan have to pass through Jinzhou. Sufficient movement of people has created a prosperous economy. Jinzhou can be described as the best industrialized city in the Ming Dynasty, because Jinzhou has been war-torn. Most of the buildings in the city, including the city walls, were ruthlessly destroyed by the war, so Jinzhou was almost a newly built city.
The city is full of matchbox-like buildings, and seeing the familiar reinforced concrete jungle in the land of Daming, Li Xiao feels a sense of accomplishment. It's a pity that the reason for coming to Jinzhou this time is not very exciting.
There are many factories in Jinzhou, and as long as people in the city are not stupid, almost everyone of school age has a job. Where there is a job, there is income, and where there is income, there is purchasing power. Driven by huge amounts of money, business is booming.
This time, Li Xiao went to Jinzhou, did not take his own special train, and did not notify the local leaders. Junzi took a few well-skilled guards to guard Li Xiao's side, and there were more than two hundred makeup guards sitting in the two adjacent carriages.
When I got on the bus, the police felt that the atmosphere was very weird. With vicious eyes, he actually saw that these people were carrying guns, and the policeman's face immediately turned green. One of the guards pulled him aside and pulled out a small red notebook to show him.
And it's very threatening to tell the police, as long as he says it, he will talk to you like that.
The police were very nervous, and they didn't dare to come to these carriages again. A whole bunch of guys with guns, whoever dares to make trouble here is unlucky.
After getting off the train, Li Xiao took Cheng Tiezhu beside him and went straight to the local yamen.
Li Xiao knew that Cheng Tiezhu's appearance was definitely supported by the robes around him. At the same time, it also means that what happened to him has made the soldiers feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.
The demobilization system of soldiers is a policy of supporting the army deliberately created by Li Xiao. After the soldiers in the army have served, they will go to the local area to serve as some of the most basic errand workers. Although he is not an official, he is better at a stable job and a good salary.
The Liao army's position as the cornerstone of the empire is unshakable, and the status of the Liao army in this country should also be the highest. At the same time, this group of people is also the most supportive of today's imperial court.
Unfortunately! It is precisely because of the great benefits of demobilized Liao soldiers that some people have their ideas.
Today's Jinzhou Political Envoy Yamen is a five-story building, with two three-story annexes on both sides. Looking inside from the gate, it is very majestic. The two huge stone lions at the door, Li Xiao looked like they were bigger than the two at the Noon Gate. The large steps, which are more than two zhang high, are completely made of white marble. In the sun, the white marble steps are dazzlingly white. Those two glass gates are as high as the Heavenly Palace.
Today, Li Xiao was wearing a shabby military coat and a long-eared cotton hat often worn by the Liao army on his head. The straights behind them are also similar to Li Xiao, if there is a difference, it is that the military coat on the body is more shabby. Junko's military coat even has a big hole in her buttocks, revealing the cotton inside, which looks very funny.
At the door, there were young servants on both sides standing guard with wooden sticks in their hands, and when they saw Li Xiao's group of tattered guys, they immediately came to stop them.
"What do you guys do?" The officer wore a cap on his head, and squinted his eyes to look Li Xiao and the others up and down. Seeing Li Xiao and a group of people, a breath of white air erupted from his nose, and he glared at Li Xiao and the others with his nostrils.
"Let's go to the cow scribe and ask about the resettlement of the demobilized soldiers." Cheng Tiezhu nodded at the big cap, with a flattering smile on his face. may have thought that Li Xiao was by his side, and straightened his waist again. However, he still handed out a box of cigarettes in his hand, and Li Xiao glanced at it, it was still Great China.
"Cow scribe! Didn't go to work, come back tomorrow. The messenger took the cigarette, naturally put it in his pocket, and then said impatiently with a small wooden stick.
"Today is not a day to rest, why don't you go to work?" Li Xiao looked at the errand and frowned. The proud Liao soldiers under his command were actually troubled by such two errands when they arrived at the place.
"What are you doing, you can ask about the things of adults. Hurry home and be willing to come back tomorrow. The officer was very impatient, and the gesture of chasing Li Xiao seemed to be chasing flies.
"Then we will come tomorrow and see the cow scribe?" Cheng Tiezhu asked.
"It depends on the mood, if the scrivener is in a good mood tomorrow, he may come to work. Let's go! Let's go! With that, the officer turned and walked back. Talking to these people about it is all for the sake of Greater China.
Shunzi is sure that these two little servants are going to be unlucky. That cow scribe is not much better, and even the political envoy of Jinzhou has to be unlucky. Behind Li Xiao, he had already seen Li Xiao's trembling body. After so many years, the only one who can make the big handsome like this is the tiger master.
The problem is that Master Hu is the younger brother of Da Shuai, even if he is angry with Da Shuai, it is a brother quarrel. This cow scribe and political envoy can ......!
Li Xiao is still lucky, and there are two more old people to run errands. As a result, the two servants didn't even bother to talk, and pushed the two old men out casually. He also threatened that if he dared to make trouble again, he would discount his legs.
Li Xiao ran over and picked up the old man who had fallen to the ground.
"Uncle! Ma'am! What are you here for? ”
"Hey......! The son followed Li Dashuai to fight in the northwest, but died in the northwest. We asked about the consolation money, and it turned out ......! It's really the entrance of the yamen to the south, and there is no money and no power to come in. We, the poor, can't even get through the door. The old lady wiped her tears as she spoke.
"Holy shit!" Li Xiao felt that his chest was about to be blown up.
"Big ......! Big brother, don't be angry, you're angry. Shunzi hurriedly walked over to help Li Xiao smooth his back, and his mouth almost leaked.
Li Xiao let out a long breath, and the mist that erupted from his mouth was a foot long.
"Uncle! Ma'am! Hurry up, it's cold, don't freeze if it's cold on the ground. Li Xiao helped the old couple up.
"Thank you Housheng, hey......!" The two old men wiped their tears and thanked Li Xiao.
Li Xiao straightened up and commanded with a cold face: "Leg discount!" ”
Junko waved at the guards behind her, and two guards walked over.
"What are you doing? This is the Yamen of the Jinzhou Political Envoy, making trouble here, let the Jinyi Guard come to arrest you. Seeing the two guards fierce and vicious, the two officials immediately became nervous. Wielding the wooden stick in his hand, he hit the two guards.
Li Xiao's guards are all masters selected from Cangzhou's martial arts nest. With a flash of his body, he dodged the stick. With a hand, the stick fell into their hands. By the way, he kicked directly on his calf, and the two officials fell to the ground without blinking.
The stick in his hand was rounded, and it smashed down on the officer's knee. With two screams, the officials convulsed in pain in the snow.
"Click!" Two sounds, two sticks smashed on the knee of their other leg, Li Xiao didn't say, and they naturally didn't ask whether it was one leg or two legs.
"Let's go in and ask the political envoy how dare he treat my soldiers like this." Li Xiao snorted and took the lead in walking into the yamen of the political envoy.
Seeing that his own people were beaten, several officials rushed out of the gatehouse at the door. All of them were carrying sticks, and several guards rushed over, and when they heard only a few screams, they all lay on the ground and wailed. This is the result of the guards' hands, otherwise the ground should be full of corpses.
The people of the political envoy and the yamen were all dumbfounded, they didn't expect someone to trespass. You must know that inciting people to trespass on state officials is a capital offense.
The old couple dragged Li Xiao's hand and didn't let Li Xiao go forward. Although they were bullied by those servants, they never thought of storming the yamen. It's beyond the limits of their nerves!
"Let's go! Let's go inside. Don't be afraid! All right! Li Xiao said it lightly, but the old couple was almost scared to death.
dragged the two old men into the yamen, and the big steps more than two feet high were very difficult to climb. By the time he reached the top, the old man had already begun to gasp a little.
The guards had already taken control of the glasses, and there were two people lying on the ground, who seemed to be also from the Yamen.
Entering the hall of the political envoy's yamen, Li Xiao couldn't help but gasp. Overhead is a huge crystal chandelier flanked by two huge thick pillars, completely clad in marble. The pillar looked thicker than an elephant's waist. It was so cold outside that the dog could freeze to death, but when you entered the hall, the heat hit your face and blew on your face.
At the front of each pillar is a vase, more than two meters high, carved with pinched gold enamel. The floor is also marble tiled, and a scarlet carpet runs from the doorway to the staircase steps.
The walls on both sides are marble stickers, one side is the scene of workers making steel, and the other side is the scene of Liao soldiers fighting.
The most ironic thing is that in the most conspicuous position on the front of the hall, there are portraits of Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong. Oriental paintings are usually freehand, and there are very few realistic ones. These two portraits must have been painted by Western painters. The ink is heavy and colorful, painting Li Xiao as heroic and extraordinary, and painting Sun Chengzong as wise as an immortal.
Li Xiao does not remember that anyone painted oil paintings on himself, and the provenance of these two portraits is very suspicious. But looking at those eyebrows, they are very similar to themselves, very similar!
Let the guards catch a person and take him directly to the study of the political envoy. In those days, books were just as much a place to work as the offices of later generations.
The man who was caught turned his legs and stomachs, and he didn't take Li Xiao and them away. Junko walked over and "snapped" and "snapped" and pumped two mouths. Then pull out a pistol and put it at his head!
"If I don't lead the way, I'll kill you now."
A hero doesn't suffer a loss in front of him, and this guy in front of him is obviously a hero. Faced with the muzzle of the black hole, he immediately betrayed the political envoy. He took Li Xiao and the others all the way up the stairs, through the corridor covered with red carpets, to a room on the top floor.
As soon as I walked to the door, I saw a guy in his thirties, wearing a pair of gold-wire glasses and a Shu brocade coat.
"Who are you, and who are you looking for?" The man with glasses looked at Li Xiao, he felt that the person in front of him was a little familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen it.
"Get out of the way!" Junko didn't talk nonsense to him, and reached out to push the person away. The man was still trying to speak, but one of the guards behind him punched him in the face. The lenses of the glasses were shattered, and the face was covered in blood.
Approaching the door of the political envoy Liao Pengju's study, he twisted the door lock, but he didn't twist it. The door is locked from the inside!
"Boom!" The heavy wooden door was kicked open, and a woman's scream was heard inside.
The study space is very large, and the office desk is the size of a double bed. But it still looks like a matchbox inside! Leaning against the wall, there is a huge glass fish tank. Inside, there were two small sharks, leaning against the window. There is a solid wood shelf on which squatting a towering macaw with phoenix feathers. That body size is half a foot larger than the Xiaobai that Xiaoyu bought.
Liao Pengju, the political envoy, was wearing a cloth gown at this time, and a woman who was wearing the same little was in his arms. This guy also had a short haircut, but his hair has begun to lose its top. I can only support the central government in the form of a local support center, and I can barely maintain a middle-of-the-way hairstyle.
"What do you guys do?" Liao Pengju was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he jumped up all of a sudden.
This jump, everyone can see more clearly. This thing is actually wearing only a pair of small pants, and the fat thighs and big belly are exposed.
"Come and cry out!" Li Xiao walked out from behind Junzi.
Seeing that it was Li Xiao who came out, Liao Pengju was so frightened that his soul flew out of the sky. He is much more knowledgeable than the bookstore outside, and he has seen Li Xiao more than once. The most recent time was when Li Xiao came to Jinzhou to inspect three months ago!
"Big ......! Big......! Big......! "The tongue suddenly suffered from a functional disorder, and it was a long time old, and the handsome word behind it was not spoken.
"You've done a good job!" Li Xiao had a gloomy face and walked to Liao Pengju's desk with his hands behind his back. The woman had already gotten under the table, and the table was big anyway, so it was probably not a problem for the two of them to drill underneath.
"Handsome! Spare your life! Finally recovering the language function, Liao Peng raised his knees to the ground with a "poof" and kowtowed to Li Xiao.
"Spare your life! All right! You give me a reason? ”
“……!” Liao Peng raised his eyes and gurgled around, really thinking of a reason.
"I didn't think of the reasons to spare you, but I thought of a lot of reasons to kill you. You allowed your subordinates to withhold the pensions of military dependents, and you erected a barrier to separate the court from the people. You play with women in the study in broad daylight, and you waste your national money extravagantly.
These......! Li Xiao's hand pulled in the study, "I can see it all." Tell me, how can I not kill you? ”
After Liao Pengju listened to Li Xiao's words, he sat on the ground like mud. He knew Li Xiao's Hades temperament, and if he didn't get it this time, he really lived to the end. How could he be so unlucky, Da Shuai suddenly broke into his study.
"Take the people and find the cow scribe. Around us, Lord Liao, hung to the roof of the building. Be careful, don't let him die. He still has something to do! ”