When Li Qiufeng said this, his tone was gloomy and terrifying. It's just that the farmer didn't panic, and said, "Your Excellency doesn't know, there is a village in Fengmen Village, which is extremely weird. Everywhere Wan Congyun went, it was a fake village deliberately set up by Fengmen Village. He had never been to the real village at all. ”

Li Qiufeng's heart sank, and he saw that there was no panic on the farmer's face, but it didn't seem to be a fake. He added a few more branches to the fire, and then said in a deep voice, "What does it mean that there is a village in the village?"

The farmer said, "After the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua fled into this mountain, they built two villages, one true and one false, because they were afraid that the enemy would chase and kill them. The fake village is located in a valley, with only one entrance on the west side, and from the topography, it can be said that it is a man who can not be opened. If the enemy invades the valley, seeing this situation, he will definitely think that it is Fengmen Village, and he will definitely not have the slightest suspicion. It's just that they don't know that the terrain of the real Fengmen Village is even more dangerous, and it is more difficult for outsiders to enter than to ascend to the sky. The five ancestors of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua spent so much effort to calculate that if the enemy was powerful, after attacking the fake Fengmen Village, he would inevitably think that it was a great success, and he would be defenseless. At that time, the five masters who retreated into the real Sealed Gate Village will be able to suddenly kill, and they will definitely be able to kill the enemy without leaving a single piece of armor......"

Li Qiufeng didn't wait for him to finish, and immediately asked in a deep voice, "Where is the real Sealed Gate Village?"

The farmer smiled bitterly and said, "When the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua built the Closed Gate Village, all the clan disciples knew where the real Closed Gate Village was. It's just that later they were entangled with the Xu family, and both sides sent dead soldiers to blend into each other's families, and they fought endlessly for hundreds of years, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Later, the Nie family stood out among the five families and became the leader of the five families. In order to prevent the dead soldiers of the Xu family from infiltrating the Fengmen Village, the head of the Nie family stipulated that no one other than the five family heads was allowed to know where the real Fengmen Village was. Unless the enemy breaks through the fake Fengmen Village, the patriarch of each family will lead the clansmen to retreat into the real Fengmen Village, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. It's just that for hundreds of years, the enemy can't even attack the fake Sealed Gate Village, let alone get a glimpse of the real Sealed Gate Village. Your Excellency wants to force me to tell me where the real Closed Gate Village is, but even if you burn me alive, I can't tell where it is. ”

Li Qiufeng sneered and said, "What you said is too mysterious. In broad daylight, even if Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, Hua and the Xu family have a deep feud in blood, these hundreds of years have passed, and the hatred has long faded. What's more, although the world was in turmoil in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the next five generations changed, and Fengmen Village was hidden in this mountain, which was rarely visited and perhaps no one knew. However, after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains was unified. Although the Song Dynasty was weak, it was successively bullied by the Khitan, Western Xia, Jurchen, and Mengyuan. However, the rule of officials in the Song Dynasty was still clear, and the local officials governed the territory very strictly. This place is not far from Luoyang, whether it is the Song Dynasty and the Khitan governing here, or the later Meng Yuan stole the Central Plains, I think the magistrate will not know that there is a village here. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, officials were set up from the center of the imperial court to even the border towns. If the Sealed Gate Village is so mysterious, how can the magistrate not know about it?"

The more Li Qiufeng spoke, the more stern his tone became, and when he arrived, his eyes were staring at the farmer, and a cruel and terrifying look appeared on his face. The farmer was a little frightened, but he was not panicked. He said to Li Qiufeng: "Your Excellency only knows one thing, but you don't know the other. I just listened to Your Excellency, and it seems that you are quite familiar with the government. Do you know how many years the term of office of a county governor is?"

Li Qiufeng was stunned, and he didn't know why this farmer had such a question. He thought for a moment, and then said: "I don't know the situation of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, but in the case of the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the country, all industries were waiting to be developed, and the number of officials was insufficient. I have heard people say that during the reign of Emperor Taizu, he severely punished and punished the law, and killed a lot of people from the court officials to the county officials, which made the state and county officials seriously insufficient. It is because some county magistrates have been county magistrates for fifteen years in one place. However, after the Yongle Emperor, there were no more frequent major cases as at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the imperial court set up the Jingcha system to evaluate state and county officials. Generally speaking, the term of office of the county governor is three years. If the evaluation is outstanding, he will be promoted to a prefecture, state, province or even Beijing official. If the evaluation is too poor, he will be removed from his official position and become a commoner. ”

The farmer didn't expect Li Qiufeng to be so familiar with the situation in the official mansion, and a look of surprise appeared on his face. It's just that this surprise is fleeting. I only heard him continue: "Your Excellency thinks that being a county master in one place for fifteen years is already out of the ordinary. But I don't know that in Xiuwu County, where Fengmen Village is located, some magistrates have been county magistrates for twenty-five years, but they have not been promoted......"

When Li Qiufeng heard him say this, his heart sank, and he remembered Huang Chong's matter. With Huang Chong's qualifications and talents, as well as his performance in governing Xiuwu County, he should have been promoted to a state official a long time ago, and it is not impossible to even become the governor of a province. But for more than ten years, Huang Chong has been stooping to Xiuwu County and being a small magistrate, which is quite strange. Although he heard Yin Zhutou and others talk about this matter, saying that whenever the imperial court intended to promote Huang Chong, the people of Xiuwu County would recommend the three elders to the provincial capital to petition to keep Huang Chong in Xiuwu County. However, there are rules for the promotion of court officials, and the regulations will never be changed because of the people's petition. Huang Chong has been staying in Xiuwu County as a magistrate, and there must be someone behind him.

But he heard the farmer say, "This idea was grown up by the Nie family." The five families took out a large sum of money to open up the upper and lower joints of the government, and the children of the five families were the magistrates of Xiuwu County, and even sometimes the children of the Luoyang prefect Yamen and the Henan Governor Yamen also had the children sent by the five families to serve as officials in it. These people used the power of the government to protect the village from black and white. Hundreds of years have passed since the Nie family set this plan. In the past few hundred years, the magistrates of other places may have changed seventy or eighty, but counting on the fingers, the successive magistrates of Xiuwu County together are definitely only more than fifteen. ”

When Li Qiufeng heard this, his heart was already bright. In order to avoid the pursuit of the enemy, the Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua families fled to this mountain, chose a dangerous place, and built a closed door village. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the five families not only spent countless efforts to build two villages, one true and one false, to confuse the enemy. Moreover, he spent a huge amount of money to buy off the government, and the children sent by the five families were appointed as the magistrates of Xiuwu County, which was to borrow the power of the government to protect Fengmen Village. As the saying goes, the county officials are not as good as the current management, in order to be foolproof, the five families also tried their best to make the five families who served as the magistrate of Xiuwu County able to serve for a long time. In this way, whether it is black and white, the closed door village has been placed with people, and it can be said that it is invincible. It's just that what are these five families afraid of, and why after hundreds of years, they still do not hesitate to spend so much money in order to make a perfect solution? And what is the origin of the Xu family, which makes the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua so afraid? ァ新ヤ~(8)~1~Chinese net ωωω.. còм

When Li Qiufeng was thinking about it, he heard the farmer continue: "Although Your Excellency has arrested me, you have also forced you to ask about all kinds of things in Fengmen Village. But because of this, I guess that Your Excellency is not the remnant of the Xu family, nor will he be the opponent of our five families. Otherwise, if you wanted to deal with the five of us earlier, how could you know nothing about the situation in Fengmen Village and the origins of the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua?"

Li Qiufeng smiled and said, "You are clever, the Nie family let you only be responsible for patrolling the mountain and monitoring suspicious characters, which is really condescending." ”

The farmer was relieved when he heard Li Qiufeng admit his deeds. secretly thought that as long as this person was not a child of the Xu family who escaped, he would have hope of survival. He groaned slightly, and then said: "If my guess is right, Your Excellency is a martial arts master in the rivers and lakes, and I don't know where I heard some legends of Fengmen Village, so I found this place and wanted to find out." I advise Your Excellency, Fengmen Village has experienced hundreds of years of ups and downs since its establishment, and has planted a lot of eyeliner in the rivers and lakes and the government, and the power is huge beyond your imagination. A few months ago, after several years of planning, we finally launched in Shandong, Jiangsu, and Fujian at the same time to wipe out the Xu family. From then on, the closure of the village will be even more terrifying. If you give up at this time and drift away, I will only keep you safe for the rest of your life if this thing did not happen. ”

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