In a courtyard with four entrances and four exits outside Xuzhou City.
The two half-year-old children, who were strong, not short, and had a calm look in their eyes that was rare among their peers, followed the four imperial guards through door after door and walked into the center of the courtyard.
There are two people standing here. The one next to him looks to be in his forties. He has a serious and tough expression and looks like he is not easy to offend.
The man standing in the middle is very handsome and elegant...but also very young~
They all wear black Jinyiwei Feiyu uniforms, with embroidered spring knives hanging on their waists. After these two months of basic training, they know that they are the attire of the Jinyiwei general banner.
"Humble Li Zicheng..."
"The humble Liu Zongmin..."
"I've seen two general flags!"
Zhu Youxiao looked at the two of them and nodded: "I am Yi Xiaochuan, the general banner of the Jinyiwei Anbu. You can just call me the general banner of Sichuan."
"Yes, Mr. Sichuan Banner!"
Liu Qiao took over the conversation and asked: "When will he stop losing wages?"
At this time, the secret service was responsible for targeting the best, most arrogant, and most shameless small landowners, small profiteers, small corrupt officials, and traitors.
Liu Zongmin asked: "How are you coming?"
Yi Xiaochuan is good at making torture instruments, because I have to make a living by blacksmithing at an old age.
Li Zicheng was good at whipping. Because he herded sheep, his legs and feet were excellent. He was also good at whipping cattle and sheep with clods, stones or whips while running.
Before the shepherd left, I herded the sheep alone for half a month. From then on, my employer paid me 10% of my adult wages."
Li Zicheng: "It's not like driving the sheep in front of the flock. Our outer tail does not mean the other tail. I didn't know until I came here."
Li Zicheng: "No! When he was ten years old, a pack of wolves killed eight sheep. The owner wanted to deduct a year's wages from the sheepherder, but the sheepherder was willing to work for another half a year in vain and then left.
I also accompanied His Majesty, serving as the Commander of the Imperial Guards and concurrently serving as the General Banner and the Head of the Hundred Households.
I was born in a poor peasant family. My father committed suicide because of the government's forced rent tax. His mother became a beggar and took Yi Xiaochuan to seven places to beg. After a long time, my mother died of cold and hunger, and Yi Xiaochuan was adopted by his uncle Han Qing. It was a fortunate experience.
, which made me hate the government and the weak from childhood.
Liu Zongmin: “What is beating the tail of a sheep?”
ANBU members are all from very good backgrounds, and a small number of hard-working and good-natured children with clean backgrounds are chosen to participate. ANBU members are directly arranged by His Majesty’s secret line to perform important low-level tasks, usually those who do bad things in the open, or who have no relationship with other officials.
task.
Liu Qiao interjected: "Is there any safety in herding sheep?"
Liu Zongmin said to Li Zicheng: "He ended up herding sheep for the landlord when he was young?"
At the age of seventeen, Yi Xiaochuan became a disciple of a blacksmith from Shaanzhou, Henan, and learned the art of forging iron. After eight years of hard work, he became a well-known blacksmith with superb skills.
Yi Xiaochuan pointed to Liu Qiao next to him and introduced, "This is the leader of the ANBU, Liu Gaoyao, who serves as the general banner of the ANBU."
Liu Zongmin: "Has he ever returned home?"
Liu Zongmin: "Nothing like that has happened yet?"
Li Zicheng showed a sad look on his face: "Oh! Forget it. I left two years later. When I got the news, I rushed back and she was not buried yet.
Liu Qiao then asked: "When did he become a shepherd?"
When performing tasks, the ANBU always ensures the purpose of eliminating harm for the people and the country, and must not harbor selfish thoughts. ANBU personnel must be responsible for their own tasks.
Li Zicheng said happily: "What else can I do? I left my eight years' wages to my brother so that I can clear the relationship, and then go back to herd the sheep. But sooner or later, I will seek revenge on corrupt officials!"
Liu Zongmin wanted to turn the leader of the peasant uprising who overthrew the Ming Dynasty into an enemy. The less he knew about Li Zicheng's past, the worse. Putting aside his identity and chatting with him as if he were friends was the worst way.
"Just call me Mr. Liu."
Li Zicheng: "Before the old sheepherder broke his leg at the age of seventeen, my boss was looking for a new sheepherder who would be more mature next year, so I was promoted to a sheepherder."
Liu Zongmin promised to ask the commander of the Jinyi Guard, or directly report to the emperor, to send someone to investigate the officials who harmed our relatives, and to bring the perpetrators to justice after two people confirmed the case before arresting them.
It turns out that I was so angry that the son of a poor family like me started his career when he was young. Before he reached adulthood, especially the seventh son, he went out to make a living and then went back. It is said that evading the poll tax is a thing of the past.
Liu Zongmin: "Can a big boy like him control the sheep?"
Li Zicheng: "There is no shepherd behind the flock. They only give food to eat and earn wages. The big boy who tails the sheep only cares about food, accommodation, clothing, and whether he has wages."
Li Zicheng: "One is a wolf pack, the other is injured from a fall."
"Yes! I have met Mr. Liu."
Li Zicheng and Yi Xiaochuan accepted the order happily and had great trust in Zuo Rongtian and Liu Gao after meeting.
Zuo Rongtian coughed. He was still very proud of his position in the Sichuan General Banner. In the past, he could not use the grassroots position in the Jinyiwei General Banner to visit people and direct the interrogation and torture of Li Zicheng, Yi Xiaochuan and other secret service members. This could be regarded as inducing people to do good and meritorious deeds.
Just one piece~
Then we will torture the main small salt merchants and small landowners, and ask us to explain the hidden properties, and who has not accepted bribes, collaborated with corruption, smuggling, collaborated with the enemy, etc.
That time, Li Zicheng was in charge of the first round of interrogation, and Yi Xiaochuan made a pair of sticks to torture those who still cooperated.
Zuo Rongtian was half a year older than Li Zicheng and was also born in Mizhi, Shaanxi. My experience was even more tragic.
"Although today's Emperor Tianqi is prosperous, he established the system of giants and often holds meetings with the giants, right Liu Dazi?"
Zuo Rongtian told us that the Jinyiwei Anbu was the department of Emperor Tianqi that specialized in punishing corrupt officials and bully landlords.
Liu Qiao nodded to Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin. In fact, he wanted to laugh a little. Emperor Tianqi insisted on taking a pseudonym in the Jinyiwei, and his position was still a small general banner. He also wanted to cooperate with him to become a giant of a hundred households, so he said he wanted to participate
For grassroots work, you need to go down to the company and so on...
Zuo Rongtian sighed deeply in his heart. Four years old refers to an imaginary age, and it is also very old. In the previous life, the age was basically around the age before going to college. Even if the parents went out to work outside the home, if there were no elders to take care of them, they would let the older children do it.
Such heavy work.
But the tax official found my brother and insisted that he pay ten years of head tax for the seventh brother, and he was still being reasonable!"
The members of the ANBU group were under the leadership of Zhu Youxiao, the ANBU general bannerman, and Liu Gaoyao, the ANBU general bannerman and tycoon of hundreds of households.
Li Zicheng replied: "Four years old."
"Yes, Your Majesty has really separated from you and other grassroots~" Did Liu Qiao often have meetings with Liu Zongmin? That statement is indeed a lie.
Li Zicheng: "I am the eldest child outside the family. My younger brother's sons are all eight years younger than me. My seventh brother has gone out to make a living and has come back. My sisters are married to married women and their child brides are child brides. When I was one year old, my father
I was forced to death by corrupt officials. In order to survive, my brother sent me to the landlord's house outside the mountains to beat the tail of a sheep."
Another sheepherder came here. He was seventy years old. Two years ago, he fell into a ditch while chasing sheep while climbing a mountain and broke his leg."
Li Zicheng: "It wasn't when I was ten that the wolves' attacks on the sheep ended. This time I blinded one of the first wolf's eyes with a sheep whip. The first wolf ran away howling, and all the wolves followed him."
Liu Zongmin asked: "So are you willing to let him herd sheep?"