Li Xiao smiled. People just like these mysterious topics with a bit of meat. Legends such as corpse fetuses are widely circulated in Shandong. Li Xiao has never heard of it. If this story is written into a novel and placed at the starting point

Chinese website, definitely a red book.

"I heard that now all the officials have to pay taxes on their property. In our Ming Dynasty, this has never happened since Emperor Hongwu. Scholars also have to pay taxes, just like us gangsters."

"Listen to them, officials pay taxes. Do you believe it? They have ten thousand ways to put these taxes on the heads of us people. In the end, we people are not the ones who are unlucky. Officials have two mouths.

"If you believe what they say, you will be at fault all year round." An old man with gray hair and beard spoke while mixing noodles.

This kind of noodle shop is sometimes like a tavern, where people who know each other are mixed together, and you say something and I say something. Various information and opinions collide here, and then ferment new opinions or rumors.

"That is, if you ask the tax collectors to pay taxes, will they be able to do it? Our officials in the Ming Dynasty don't know anything else but to do things that are good for everyone and do things that are good for them. Let's live as ordinary people.

." A middle-aged man next to him echoed.

"Hmph! Since ancient times, scholars have not paid taxes. This is the ancient motto of our ancestors. The new emperor has done this since he ascended the throne. The world seems to be in chaos. Did you see the chaos a few days ago? According to me, this is the cause of chaos in the world.

What do you know about the signs?" The speaker was an old man who looked like a master, with a goatee under his jaw. He was wearing a Shu brocade robe, and his hands were as white as a woman without calluses. Several fingers on the right hand were slightly deformed.

At first glance, he looks like an old scholar.

"Hey! Mr. Guan, don't you dare say this nonsense. Now the officials are arresting people like this, saying they are deceiving the public with their lies. You are old, and you won't be able to survive a few days in jail if you are caught."

Serve him some noodles and give him some kind advice.

"What do you know, little boy? As the saying goes, there are no two gods, no two people, no two masters. Now there is one emperor in the capital. There is another emperor in Jinling. According to my opinion, the emperor in Jinling respects the words of the saint and is assisted by knowledgeable people. But you see

What do you think of the emperor in the capital?

Li Xiao is as cruel as a jackal and ferocious as a wolf, Sun Chengzong is too old to be worthy of his age. Lu Xiang is as good as a rat, and Zhang Huang is sinister and cunning. Among these people, there is no one who looks like someone who can bring peace and stability to the country. I just put my words here, and I don’t need a word or two.

Year. The heavenly soldiers of the imperial court will attack Jinan City. By then, all the Liao soldiers and Tianxiong soldiers will be finished. Li Xiao and the others will either be bound to the execution ground or...!"

Ai Husheng couldn't listen anymore and wanted to stand up and scold him. However, he was grabbed by Li Xiao. Ai Husheng could only continue to sit on the table and looked at Master Guan with a rather unkind look.

"Master Guan, it's better not to say such things. It wouldn't be good if the officials came and arrested you!" The shopkeeper was afraid that arresting people would affect his business, so he hurried over to persuade him to make peace.

"Hmph! I'm afraid of them. My students are in front of the governor's office. That's sacrificing their lives for justice. I'm fifty-six this year, so it's not an untimely death. I'm afraid of them? Don't you know? That day Liao soldiers were in the governor's office.

Students were killed in front of the door. The shots were like popping beans, and the students were killed in rows. The corpses were piled high on pillows, and the blood could reach your ankles. Tragic! Tragic! Tragic! Ah...

…!" The old guy spoke vividly, and everyone looked at the old guy. They were frightened by the tragic scene he described.

Li Xiao picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and took a bite. Not to mention, the noodles were really authentic. Not only was the noodles chewy, there was also a piece of pork as big as a palm inside, making it a nice bowl of big meat noodles.

"Commander, this guy is full of nonsense...!" Shunzi wanted to speak, but Li Xiao stretched out his hand to stop him. He wanted to see what other tricks this guy could come up with.

"Tianxiong soldiers break into houses like gangsters. They defile women when they see them. They will not let go from eighty-year-old women to children of several years old. After the harm is done, they have to kill the whole family. What do you think?

, Is this what people do?" Guan Fuzi seemed to have some money, and ordered a bowl of wine and two side dishes. While drinking, he talked about the tragic situation in Jinan City.

It seemed that he was a little drunk, and his words became increasingly unreliable. In the end, Li Xiao was so angry that there were patrols in the city. If the Tianxiong soldiers dared to do this, they would have been torn into pieces by the cavalry battalion. For the Liao army

Li Xiao still has full confidence in military discipline.

"Master Guan, have you mentioned all of this? Why haven't you heard of it? I passed by the governor's office two days ago and didn't see any corpses. Not to mention corpses, I didn't even see any blood.

There are people defecating and peeing on the wall of the governor's office, and it smells so bad." An old man eating noodles questioned Master Guan's words.

His own words were questioned by a mud-legged person, which Master Guan could not tolerate: "Duo! You idiot, what do you know? These are all things I have seen with my own eyes. I am also a scholar with a distinguished background. How can I say that?

Will I still lie to you?"

Master Guan's beard was curling up and up, which was obviously a precursor to an explosion. If it weren't for the strong figure of the old guy, Master Guan might have gone over and slapped him.

"Oh! Master, you saw it all with your own eyes. I'm surprised why you didn't report it to me. Please tell me which year, month, day and where you saw these evil deeds happen. As long as what you said is true.

As for the matter, I will order someone to take their heads right now, absolutely unambiguously." Before Master Guan could explode, a young man of medium build walked to his table.

Guan Fuzi looked up and saw the young man in front of him with short hair. Behind him were two strong men like bears. He started to tremble in his heart. Short hair was the most obvious sign of the Liao army. This guy spoke in a tyrannical tone.

You know he is a high-ranking person in a high position in the Liao army.

"You...who are you?" Guan Fuzi, an old scholar, would not be easily intimidated. He calmed down a little and looked at Li Xiao and asked.

"Me?" Li Xiao pointed to his nose, looked at Guan Fuzi and said with a smile: "My name is Li Xiao, the new Minister of War of the Longwu Dynasty. The person you say is as ruthless as a jackal and as fierce as a wolf is exactly

Below."

"You...!" Master Guan was immediately frightened. Li Xiao was so fierce that even the Tatars were afraid of him.

"Don't be afraid! Mr. Guan, please tell me about the evil thing you just saw. When did it happen and where did it happen? Li Xiao will definitely investigate these injustices thoroughly. All relevant people will be severely punished. Tell me!"

When the last word came out of his mouth, Li Xiao's eyes became extremely fierce. Years of fighting on the battlefield made Li Xiao's eyes extremely scary.

"I...! I...!" Master Guan was so frightened that he couldn't utter a word. It was okay for him to spread rumors in front of these traffickers and lackeys, but to spread rumors in front of Li Xiao still required a certain amount of skill.

"Don't be afraid, just say it. I will make the decision for you!"

"Uh...this...!" It was originally a fiction, but now that Li Xiao was comparing it to the real thing, how could he say it?

"Say!" Li Xiao roared violently, and Guan Fuzi was so frightened that he slipped to the ground and fell to his knees on the ground.

"Say!" Li Xiao squeezed out the word between his teeth, regardless of Master Guan's embarrassment.

"I...I heard what others said." Guan Fuzi's face was pale and his whole body was trembling like a Parkinson's patient.

"Did you hear what someone said? You just said you saw it with your own eyes. Could it be that I heard it wrong just now, or everyone here heard it wrong. Tell me, did he just say you saw it with your own eyes?" Li Xiao pointed at a scary person.

The pale guy asked.

"No... it's... ah, yes, he said it with his own eyes." The guy's lips trembled when Li Xiao pointed at him. He had to organize his words several times before he could speak fluently!

"Master Guan, please tell me. Did we all hear wrongly? Or did you say something wrong?" Li Xiao looked at Master Guan coldly.

At this time, Guan Fuzi could not utter a word. His mind went blank, and in his heart he just regretted it and wanted to say something. Now that he was unlucky enough to be caught by the real owner, this... this is so damn unlucky.

"Even if you heard what someone said, please tell me the person who told you, and I will ask him for questioning."

Guan Fuzi was silent. At this time, his mind was completely blank. If you said that his biological father was Zhu Yuanzhang, he would not react at all.

Looking at the stunned Guan Fuzi, Li Xiao turned around and ordered Shunzi: "Take this man away and parade him in chains."

"No!" Shunzi waved his hand, and two soldiers from the security company rushed towards him like wolves. They had long been dissatisfied with this old bastard who was full of nonsense, and they used very vicious methods when cuffing him.

Li Xiao didn't say how many days he would be in prison, and Shunzi was smart enough not to ask. According to Shunzi's opinion, not many people like him would die in prison.

In the noodle shop, there was a loud sound of cups and plates, and the sound of tables and chairs moving. Everyone was kneeling on the ground. One guy knelt down too hastily and knocked the noodle bowl. The whole bowl of steaming noodles fell on him, causing it to fall.

It seems like this guy has become an immortal.

"Today, I, the person in charge, Li Xiao, tell you that the Liao army will not kill innocent people indiscriminately. But they will not be merciful to those who deceive the public and spread rumors and hate the New Deal. You can also rest assured that the imperial court will absolutely follow the New Deal.

Officials will not be allowed to transfer taxes to the people privately. If you see this, or encounter such a thing, you can go to the governor's office to complain. As long as what you say is true, the new dynasty will naturally make the decision for you.

"

"promise!"

"Thank you, old man!"

"Master Qingtian!"

"The great master is wise!"

The people follow blindly, and they will believe the rumors spread with hesitation at first. But later, as more and more people spread the rumors, they will believe it is true. This is what the saying "three men make a tiger" means.

"Finding the account!" Li Xiao shouted and saw the noodle shop owner still kneeling on the ground. He picked up Shunzi!

"A nobleman lives in a lowly place, and a small shop dares not accept money from a big man." The shopkeeper turned pale with fright at the fact that a high-ranking official took the initiative to pay.

"You have a small business, and I can't just eat and drink for free." Li Xiao winked, and Shunzi immediately took out ten big coins and put them on the table. For a small shop in the market, this money should be enough to make noodles.

"Is this money enough?" Li Xiao imitated the appearance of a big leader and tried to show his closeness to the people.

"Enough! Enough!"

"How much does a bowl of your noodles cost?"

"Five big boys!"

"Five big boys, let's have four bowls...!" Li Xiao turned around and glanced at Shunzi. Shunzi's face turned red, and he quickly took out another handful of copper brothers and threw it on the table.

"Hahaha!" After hearing what Li Xiao said, Zhang Huangyan laughed "haha" and "haha".

"Some people are like this. They talk about things that have no shadow in them vividly, and the storytellers are not as brilliant as them. In fact, they are just dissatisfied with the New Deal, and they talk freely. You can handle it this way, and let those who criticize the New Deal take a closer look.

, what will be the consequences of misleading the public and spreading rumors."

"Don't talk about me yet, what have you gained there? What does Lu Xiangsheng mean? From ability to qualifications, no one is more suitable for the position of governor of Shandong than him."

"Does he have a choice? Tianxiong soldiers have killed civilians and suppressed rebels, so he is not tolerated by scholars all over the world. The imperial court in Jinling still needs some courage to accept him. Besides, I have already found him.

A good way to make him have to follow us."

As soon as Zhang Huangyan said these words, Li Xiao knew that Lu Xiangsheng was plotted by the old fox. But he still wanted to know how the old fox plotted against the young fox, and the young fox didn't know it.

"Li Yongfang came to report today. The guy named Fatty Li who was caught confessed. The mastermind behind it was Xuezheng Wu Chang. I had already officially reported this matter to Liang Pu, who was under Lu Xiangsheng. In this chaos, Liang Pu

His men suffered many casualties. More than a dozen of them were beaten to death by the mob. Among them was a distant cousin of Liang Pu.

At the same time, I will use your name to give Liang Pu a warrant to arrest Wu Changshi."

"Is Liang Pu willing to go?" Li Xiao felt that the possibility of using his own warrant to order Lu Xiangsheng's people was very high. After all, it was Lu Xiangsheng's family fortune, not Li Xiao's Liao soldiers.

"Why don't you go? What a good opportunity this is to show you my loyalty. Don't think that warriors are rough people. Sometimes they have more intentions than anyone else. Lu Xiang rises to both sides, if neither family can please them.

, we can only hang up our hats and leave. When he leaves, Tianxiong Bing will eat and drink from whomever he wants. They don’t want to eat and drink from us. To put it bluntly, we are Tianxiong Bing’s new boss. There’s no guy who doesn’t want to please his boss!”

"He went?" Li Xiao's eyes widened. The old fox must have made a wish with that Liang Pu official.

"We're gone! It's enough to show that it was Tianxiong soldiers who captured Wu Changshi. Just now, Wuchangshi's son had already left the city and fled south." The old fox looked confident.

When Jinling knew that Wu Changshi was arrested by the Tianxiong soldiers, he would definitely think that it was Lu Xiangsheng who did it. If Wu Changshi accidentally died in prison, then Lu Xiangsheng would be like mud that fell into his crotch, either feces or feces, and he couldn't wipe it off even if he wanted to.

clean.

Originally, they suppressed the students' troubles, which offended the scholars all over the world. Now they have killed Zhou Yanru's students. The Yongli court in Jinling wanted to eat Lu Xiangsheng alive. If he wanted to survive, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to follow him.

Li Xiao ran all the way to the dark side. An old fox is an old fox. With just one order, people like Lu Xiangsheng were almost in despair.

Moreover, there are all the witnesses and physical evidence of this matter, and Liang Pu also has the warrant from the governor's office. All the procedures are reasonable and legal, and no one can find any fault. This is where the old fox is so good, he always engages in conspiracy.
Chapter completed!