In the seventy-ninth year of the Kyushu calendar, the Zhaoyang Emperor lived to the extreme, the prince of Liyang ascended the throne, was named the Liyang Emperor, demolished the old palace and rebuilt the palace, and named the Liyang Palace.

In the eighty-fourth year of the Kyushu calendar, the nine holy decrees came out of the Liyang Hall and summoned the heads of the nine major sects of the rivers and lakes into the palace.

In the ninety-ninth year of the Kyushu calendar, the Liyang Emperor ordered people to take Xuanjing Iron to create nine Liyang Iron Orders, distribute them to the most prestigious Nine Great Sects in the rivers and lakes, and issued a declaration in the world, saying that from this moment on, the Nine Great Sects of the rivers and lakes are worshiped by the imperial court, and the one who holds the Liyang token in the Nine Great Sects is Liyang Wei, who deals with the affairs of the rivers and lakes on behalf of the imperial court, and can dispatch 30,000 flying eagle iron horsemen for its drive with the Liyang Iron Order.

After the announcement of the world, the nine major sects were silent, and no one spoke up, and their attitude caused an uproar in the world. The Nine Great Sects control many forces on the rivers and lakes, and the submission of the Nine Great Sects means that most of the rivers and lakes have been accepted by the young Liyang Emperor. Just when the people in the world were talking, Emperor Liyang suddenly sent troops to wash the forces of the rivers and lakes, and caught the people of the world off guard.

After a long period of bloody turmoil, the large and small forces on the rivers and lakes have surrendered and perished. Just when the whole world was shocked by the thunderous methods of the Liyang Emperor, the Liyang Emperor founded the Wangji Tower, which gathered all the information on the reward of felons in the world, and no matter who could exchange the heads of felons for gold, silver and jade, glory and wealth. The people in the rivers and lakes have no means to make money, and with the Wangji Tower, they gave the down-and-out people in the rivers and lakes a chance to earn entanglement, but they were collected by Emperor Liyang and lost a lot of people's hearts.

Now the rivers and lakes and the imperial court have entered a strange honeymoon period. For a time, it was also the peace of the country.

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It is the dog days, the weather is hot, the sun is scorching, it should be a mud road, the official road is sunburned into a gravel road by the sun, a tea stall next to the official road supports a broken shed on the roadside to eat ash and sell tea, the tea stall is built quite big, and the curtain hangs down to block the spicy sun, compared to the outside of this tea stall inside is quite a little shady, occasionally passing by caravans or rivers and lakes passing by, run in to escape the heat, drink tea to quench your thirst, business is not bad.

The tea-man at this tea stall looks like a young man in his twenties, but his hands and feet are nimble, and his work is skillful, but this roadside stall can hardly see any dust attached to the tea set or table, and he is obviously a diligent person.

Bang, a big coin slapped on the old pear wood table, and the crisp sound was pleasant.

"Tea man, bring me a bowl of herbal tea. ”

When the young teaman heard the sound, he saw a scholar dressed as a scholar sitting at the table in the tea stall, carrying a bamboo cage and pulling his sleeves to fan himself in the cool breeze.

It was the hottest time of the day, and there were few people in the tea stall, but it was quite quiet.

The young tea man looked embarrassed: "This, I'm afraid you will have to wait for a while if you want to drink herbal tea, there are quite a lot of caravans today, and the cold tea in the morning has been sold out, and the freshly brewed tea has not yet cooled." ”

The person who came waved his hand indifferently: "It doesn't matter, master, I have time, just wait slowly." After that, he put down the bamboo cage on his back, took out a roll of bamboo slips and a bamboo tube, and shook the hand holding the bamboo tube gently, the top of the bamboo tube that seemed to be one shook out of an abruptness, stretched out his hand, and it was a brush, and it was a brush to see that the tip of the brush was inked to know that there must be a lot of things in this bamboo tube.

I don't know if it's a bump in the road or it's time to change the brush, the tip of the brush is forked, but there is no saucer with a moisturizer, which makes this person frown.

Although the tea seller is not very old, but this official road comes and goes, for a long time in this mixed place to set up a tea stall, but also mixed up a good eye, when about to turn out a palm-sized porcelain tray turned out, pulled a clean rag to wipe it clean, filled a thin bottom of water to put the porcelain tray in front of this person. The man was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "You have a heart." The young teaman grinned and went on to do something else.

As soon as I wrote a few words, I heard the sound of horses' hooves from far to near, and then a chaotic footsteps sounded outside the tea stall, and several figures stepped into the tea stall wrapped in the heat and gray sand of the outside world, and a thick nasal man's voice sounded: "Tea man, give our brother a bowl of tea to quench your thirst." ”

There were six people in total, all wearing ordinary cloth clothes, but the ankles were tied with some thick ropes and iron bars, the wrist cuffs were folded and tightened by wristbands, and the hair was wrapped in the towel that bound the hair, and only a little corner could be seen.

This is the common dress of a horse runner.

The work of the horse runner is to send the horse farm to various places to earn some labor fees, these people are usually the executioners or miscellaneous servants under the dart bureau, holding the dart board token can ride the horse away from the horse farm, usually can become a horse runner are the trustworthy people of the dart board, the horse farm employer is not afraid of these people to ride the horse away, anyway, the huge dart board is here to run the monk can not run the temple, the horse is lost directly to find the dart board.

It can be said that these horse runners are alternative dart pressers.

Seeing the people coming, the tea man greeted him with the same rhetoric: "A few guest officers, I'm sorry, the tea in the stall hasn't cooled yet, why don't you sit and wait?"

Hearing this, the scholar-like person shook his head, although the tea herdsman was good in his eyes, but obviously not very experienced, the job of the horse runner is to race against time, the shorter the time spent, the higher the reward, these horse runners have no time to wait for his tea to cool.

But who knew that to his surprise, the man at the head nodded: "It's okay, then let's rest." After greeting his companions and leading the horses to the shade of the trees and tying them up, the group of six people sat down in the tea stall with great swords, and several people also took out a few bags of what seemed to be dry food from their arms and put them on the table, talking and laughing with each other, looking like they really didn't want to hurry.

The horse runner is not in a hurry? Professional intuition told him that there must be something strange about this matter, so he quickly put away the bamboo slips and pen and ink, and brought the bamboo box cage on his back to the six people: "A few, meeting is fate, don't you mind the little brother to share a table, right?"

Several men glanced at each other, and a consensus was reached between the flow of their eyes, and the man in charge smiled heartily: "I don't mind, of course I don't mind, I'm afraid that Mr. will dislike us rough people who don't know how to be elegant." The sight of several men was extremely short-lived, and laymen generally couldn't notice it, but there was no need to break it, he smiled: "Mr. or something, it's just a mere scribe, under Bai Xiaosheng, haven't you asked the heroes for their names?"

Originally, several men were quite defensive of Bai Xiaosheng, but when they heard Bai Xiaosheng say that he was the recorder, and then looked at the bronze medal shown by Bai Xiaosheng, their expressions were a little less guarded.

There are scattered groups of reporters on this piece of rivers and lakes, and their job is to record all kinds of things that happen on the rivers and lakes, no matter how big or small, they are known as the historians of the rivers and lakes, and they are also nicknamed, called intelligence merchants who walk the world. No one wants to provoke this kind of person, who knows if the reporter will have any information about himself, grievances and hatreds are indispensable in the rivers and lakes, and naturally there are people who are willing to spend a lot of money to buy the information of their enemies' opponents. Therefore, the reporter is the object of friendship between everyone on the rivers and lakes, and the intelligence information on the rivers and lakes is so important, as long as you have money, who is going, and what you have done, the reporter can tell you in a short time.

Several horse runners are people who are dart bureaus, and they know the importance of intelligence, which road is easy to walk, which road is troublesome mountain bandits, and even which family has a good job with money and speed, this is the information that the dart bureau needs, and every month the dart bureau will have a large amount of expenses to spend on buying information from the reporter, so it can be said that there is an inextricable relationship between the dart board and the reporter.