Liao Pengju was tied with a rope and hung from the roof of the Yamen building of the political envoy. As long as all passers-by look up, they can see the political envoy drifting left and right with the cold wind.

The outside is not as warm as the inside of the study, and the cold wind blows on the body like a small knife. From time to time, the envoy let out a desperate wail, and his voice was as terrible as a lone wolf.

The cow scribe came, and the guy was too scared to walk. It takes two guards to make it! You don't need to look at this product, you can know that it is a corrupt official by looking at the stomach. A woman who is five or six months pregnant does not have a belly as big as his.

"I want to know, who is Cheng Tiezhu's placement place?" Li Xiao glared at the cow scribe who was swinging all over his body and the fat on his chin was trembling.

"No, no!" Cheng Tiezhu stammered, and the sweat on his fat face flowed like a stream.

"Humph! This is Li Dashuai, you can recruit it. I inquired, and you gave my placement place to the son of the principal of Ci'an School. His son is only twelve years old this year, and you still want to deny it.

In order to settle the job, I bought you two bottles of Wuliangye Sijo Great China. You push tomorrow today, and tomorrow the day after tomorrow. Just don't settle me, if it weren't for the comrades-in-arms in this yamen, you would still be kept in the dark. I don't know how much money you're going to take away! Cheng Tiezhu now has the backing, and he suddenly came out. The tip of his finger pointed to the tip of the cow scribe's nose.

"Good! Don't say yes, come on. Tie him to a tree downstairs and water him. Cow scribe, I don't embarrass you. Tie you up for two days, and if you can live, even if God doesn't accept you, I, Li Xiao, will let you go.

That's it! ”

The cow scribe listened to the weather where his face was whiter than the snow outside, and the water outside was dripping into ice. Tie it to a tree and water it, let alone two days. Two hours won't make it through! It only takes one night for people to freeze hard.

"Spare your life! Spare your life! Principal Nama and I are cousins, we are relatives, and he asked for my head, and I was confused for a while. Marshal, please spare me. I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child. If you kill me, you will kill my whole family! The cow scribe seemed to suddenly have strength, hugging Li Xiao's thigh and crying non-stop.

"It's wrong to think about it now, do you know that the quota that originally belonged to Cheng Tiezhu was given to someone else, how will Cheng Tiezhu live? My Liao soldiers are all coming down from the battlefield, as a marshal, my soldiers shed blood and tears, how do you let me lead the troops in the future?

Let's be considerate of each other, it's still the same sentence. If you can't freeze to death in two days, I, Li Xiao, will definitely be a man of my word, and I will release you immediately. Li Xiao shook his leg and wanted to get rid of the cow scribe, but he didn't expect that this guy's weight was too big, and he didn't fly away after throwing it.

This thing is even more stubbornly holding Li Xiao's leg and not letting go, snot and tears rubbing on Li Xiaojun's coat, disgusting to death!

Two guards came over and grabbed the cow scribe's jaw and pinched it. The cow scribe immediately let go of his hand with a scream, and the two guards dragged one arm and dragged the person out.

"Let's go! Let's go to Ci'an School to see who this principal is. Li Xiao is very curious, the broken principal of a school can have such a great energy that he even dares to impersonate the Liao Army placement quota.

Dozens of wagons came downstairs, filled with heavily loaded soldiers. After getting off the bus, everyone lined up. Standing on the square in front of the Yamen of the Chief Minister, waiting for Li Xiao's instructions.

"Fence off the yamen of the political envoy and don't let anyone go. Without my order, let go of a mouse, and Lao Tzu will give you a bowl with a big scar. Li Xiao gave an order to the officer who led the team. Lu Xiangsheng is taking the next train, and it is estimated that his special train will arrive in an hour. He will take care of the rest. I believe that with Lu Xiangsheng's temperament, it is a dream for the people of the political envoy to retreat from the Yamen.

"No!" The officer who led the team stood up and saluted, and then commanded his men to surround the yamen of the political envoy. Of course, the command that came out of his mouth was a little scary.

"Those who dare to trespass, shoot and kill!"

Li Xiao took Cheng Tiezhu and Shunzi and others, and went to Ci'an School under the leadership of Cheng Tiezhu.

Ci'an School was newly built five years ago, and because Jinzhou is relatively wealthy, the school is also relatively good. Standing outside the school, you can see that the school occupies a relatively large area. Many students seem to be in physical education class, two teams of boys compete for a ball to kick, and the little ones are hot one by one on a cold day.

There are single parallel bars on one side of the school, as well as a huge slide. The gate of the school is made of white marble, forming the appearance of a book. Although he felt a little wasteful in his heart, Li Xiao was still very satisfied with this look. Enter the door of the book and learn the knowledge and truth of the world.

The name Tzu Ann School sounds a bit like a church school. However, Li Xiao is sure that there is not the slightest shadow of the church here. As for religion, Li Xiao's care is not generally strict. Tang Ruowang applied several times to build a church in Beijing, but was ruthlessly rejected by Li Xiao. For example, in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, those existing churches are counted, and churches are not allowed to be built in the rest of the places.

Not to mention Christian churches, even Buddhism and Taoism, are not allowed to build new Taoist temples and monasteries. If someone is found to have built it privately, in addition to demolishing it, the main donor will go to jail. As for the presiding monks, Li Xiao would exile them directly to the Wa Kingdom or to Korea. Some will be sent to Cochin and Burma!

Religion is willing to poison whoever it wants, just don't poison my people.

Under Li Xiao's high-pressure policy, the Ming religious circles have had a very difficult time these years. On the contrary, those monks and Taoists who were sent to the Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu, Korea, Cochin, Burma, and Siam had a relatively large space for development.

People in these countries became more and more obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism, and even Li Xiao heard that the Korean king Li Liang had offered several Taoist temples to him, and specially gave him the elixir of immortality.

Seeing this meaning, the Korean king had the idea of borrowing from heaven for another 500 years.

Li Xiao doesn't care about this, I hope Li Liang will live a long life.

"Uncle Chen, you're still here watching the gate." Cheng Tiezhu walked over and handed the old man a cigarette.

"Iron Pillar, you're here again. How about it, is there a letter on the side of the political envoy Si Yamen? "The doorman at the door was an old man in his fifties, with gray hair and beard. When walking, you need to carry a stick, and it seems that your legs and feet are not very good.

"With a little letter, is Principal Ma in the school? I want to find out! ”

"Hey......! Can you not be in school? The imperial court now called on women to participate in the work as well, and the school hired several women to help in the cafeteria. There were two quite beautiful ones, and they were in love with the stallion.

A good school, let him make a miasma. It's in the office in broad daylight...... Handsome ......! ”

Uncle Chen chattered and smoked at the same time. Suddenly, I saw Li Xiao through the smoke, and the crutches in his hand immediately came to a big.

"You know me?" Li Xiao looked at Uncle Chen in surprise.

"Report to the commander! Chen Liuzi, the former leader of the third squad of the reconnaissance company of the second division of the Liao Army, salute you! Uncle Chen, who was leaning over, suddenly straightened up. His legs didn't seem to be lame, and he stood straight and saluted Li Xiao.

"It turned out to be a veteran of our Liao army!" Li Xiao hurriedly hugged Chen Liuzi, looked at the place where he was not sitting left and right, and simply helped him into the gatehouse.

The inside of the gatehouse was a little dark, and the concrete floor under his feet was clean. Inside, there is a single bed against the wall, and in the corner of the wall there is a washbasin shelf with a towel on it.

"You live right here?" Li Xiao was a little surprised to see this scene, according to reason, the veterans of the Liao Army are discharged, if there are no relatives, the local government should divide the house, especially a veteran like Chen Liuzi.

"It's good that the court has placed it!" Chen Liuzi and Li Xiao sat side by side on the double bed, with honest smiles on their faces.

"The court didn't give you a house?"

"The school is divided, but some young students need a house to marry, so I let it go. I'm a lonely old man, why do I live in such a nice house. Besides, my legs are not convenient, and it is even more inconvenient to take the stairs. ”

"You're ......!"

"When the Tartars hit Jinzhou, they were shot in the leg. At that time, the medical officer took out the bullet, but I don't know what happened, and then it broke down. I managed to save my legs, but I walked with a limp. It hurts when it rains on a cloudy day! ”

Li Xiao remembered that Yuan Chonghuan's second division did have a big battle with the Eight Banners led by Huang Taiji in Jinzhou that year. At that time, with the help of the Dutch Commander, the Eight Banners had made great progress in firearms.

The 2nd Division fought a very hard battle and suffered heavy casualties. Chen Liuzi is one of the many wounded soldiers.

"How did you get here?"

"I want to, I heard about building a school, so I wanted to come here. I feel comfortable looking at the children all day long. The ancestors of the Chen family have never produced a single scholar for eight generations, and I know these two words when I was in the literacy class of the team.

Now the imperial court doesn't want money, and it also gives money to buy food for children, which is something that has never been imagined in many lifetimes. Now look at the children, and think again about when we were children. What a world of difference! Every time I think about this, I feel at ease. No matter how troublesome things are, I forget them all.

Look, I'm fifty-two, and my body is still very good! Chen Liuzi raised his arm and made a strong gesture.

How much strength can an old man in his fifties have. Even if he was born in the second division with the best training in the Liao army, I am afraid that when he returns to the locality, the good body laid by the army will be scrapped little by little.

"This Principal Ma ......!" For the veterans of the Liao Army, Li Xiao still believed in his heart, and he felt that the words in Chen Liuzi's mouth should be credible.

"Hey......! Don't mention it! This Principal Ma is a talented person in Chongzhen's year. When he relied on Xiucai, he was already thirty years old. I didn't mix well in my hometown, and at that time, you gave the policy again. As long as the scholars come to Jinzhou, they will be given a house immediately, and they will all be placed in the yamen. Principal Ma took advantage of this wind to come to Jinzhou.

Because he was good at drilling, he soon became a secretary in the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department. A few years ago, the imperial court began to run schools. I don't know which joint he opened up, and he actually came to this Ci'an School as the principal.

Don't mention it! A good school has almost ruined this bastard. All day long, he knows to put private people in various places, as long as it is someone he doesn't like, no matter how high your level is, no matter how good your teaching skills are, he will kick you out. Then, change to a relative of your own to do it.

Now more than half of the people in the school are his relatives. Look at the dog in the cafeteria, it's all his. The student couldn't eat the meat in his mouth, so it all went into the mouth of his dog.

Originally, the imperial court did not charge students for food, and it was all subsidized by the imperial court. But he insisted on making the dishes three, six, nine, etc., and the children who didn't pay could only eat pickles. After paying the money, I will be given some good dishes. Most of them don't see a few meat stars!

What's more, the people in his family can be teachers even if they don't know a lot of words. Every day, he took the royal court's money, and gave thirty percent of it to other literate people. Let them teach the students, and the remaining seventy percent of the salary will go into their pockets. These people smoke and play mahjong in the office all day long, making the huge office a miasma.

Teachers who actually teach students have to work in the classroom every day.

The most angry thing is that Principal Ma also ordered those teachers not to talk about key content in class. After school, I went to the tutoring class he ran. The school is the imperial court and does not need money, but the tutoring class is his, and each child is charged a silver coin per year.

Many parents want their children to have a future income, and everyone in Jinzhou City has jobs, so they won't take out a single silver coin. I endured everything, and he has made a lot of money over the years. When it comes to this Principal Ma, Chen Liuzi is constantly complaining.

"Then no one cares about him in Jinzhou?" Li Xiao was a little puzzled, when Sun Chengzong governed Liaodong, there was a complete bureaucratic system, and of course there were supervision agencies.

"Principal Ma has a lot of money, who dares to care about his affairs. In the yamen of the political envoy, many people call him brothers. Every day when Principal Ma gets off work, there is a carriage from the imperial court to borrow. I heard that I either went to the kiln or the gambling house. The money he has lost over the years is enough to build another school like this. ”

Li Xiao was so angry that his liver trembled, he didn't expect that under his rule, such a thing would happen. This is still the most developed city in eastern Liaodong, if it is in the deep mountains and old forests, I don't know how many people there are.

The governor of Sichuan reported that all the bandits in Shu had been exterminated so far. There is often a person sporadically in the jungle, which can be traced back to the Chongzhen Dynasty. If it weren't for his quick hands, he might have been cut to death that time.

It's so easy to commit suicide, find a piece of broken iron, and you can take your own life. But few people have the courage to actually do it.

"Jingle bell!" The school bell rang, and the children rushed out of the school building, pouring out of the school building like a tidal wave.