Chapter 246 Just treat it as patrolling your own territory.
Li Shui breathed a long sigh of relief.
I thought Huang An would get more benefits from this, but he didn't expect it to end in such a hurry.
His Li family's mansion occupies a vast area, and there are as many as seven to eight hundred servants living in it.
With the eleven or two people just now, it would be impossible to find Yang Zaizhou tomorrow.
It is even difficult to say whether Yang Zaizhou is in his Li family's residence or not.
But Li Shui's complexion still didn't look good.
Huang An kept changing the focus of the topic, making him dizzy.
Facts and fictions, truths and lies, Li Shui rectified his thoughts and recalled Huang An's various actions, only to feel that he was looking at flowers in the fog and couldn't find any important points.
Everything seemed normal, and I also felt that it was safe since I had given Huang An and Zhao Yan so many benefits.
However, when these normal things come together, they become extremely abnormal.
He always felt that he had overlooked something, and when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember anything.
Helpless, he could only lead the way with peace of mind.
Yan Long led the people and didn't care about other things. They just followed the map Huang An gave him and followed the planned route.
Walk all the way and search all the way.
I was really careful when searching, and I searched according to Huang An's request.
The warriors did not do anything untoward to the servants or family members of the Li family because of their respective identities.
The warriors did not separate, so they escorted Xiao Wu and Jian Tong in the middle of the team, followed behind Yan Long, and followed orders.
They warriors just follow along and intimidate the Li family.
At the same time, you can take a look at the magnificent view of the mansion where only the core of the Li family can live, which is difficult for outsiders to enter.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Even if these people were warriors, they had never seen such a luxurious family mansion.
Most of them are warriors at the Five Internal Organs Realm. There are only three warriors at the Six Fuviscera Realm, including Yan Long.
Although their family situation is much better than that of ordinary people.
There is no need to worry about food, clothing and housing.
But compared with families like the Li family, the gap is still very obvious.
The Li family's wealth allows them to mass-produce bronze-skinned warriors, but small families like Yan Long do not have this ability.
They are now walking in the house where the Li family lives, their eyes full of envy, as well as a trace of greed and resentment.
How could the Li family be so virtuous and capable? They didn't have a single bronze-skin warrior, and they had no meritorious service in the army. How could they enjoy such a luxurious mansion?
They worked hard in the frontier army and fought bravely for the imperial court. The military merits they accumulated could not even be exchanged for a house here.
His Li family, why?
How unfair is the court?
In terms of their contribution to the imperial court, they were much better than Li Jiahai.
In terms of obeying the law, although they themselves are not really good people, compared to the scourge of the Li family, they are great good people.
In terms of martial arts cultivation, one of them can overwhelm the entire Li family.
This group of warriors were even more dissatisfied with the imperial court.
The disgust towards the aristocratic family is even stronger.
Huang An didn't expect that his unintentional move would actually yield unexpected results.
At this moment, he was walking side by side with Zhao Yan and Luo Feiyao, following Li Shui who was responsible for leading the way and explaining, watching as he walked.
In the entire team, in addition to Huang An and the other three clan leaders, there were also bodyguards Zhang Yi and Chen Yu, as well as a group of three Bronze Skin Realm subordinates who were following them and were also qualified to participate.
In fact, Huang An came to the Li family's mansion last night, but at that time, he didn't wander around so leisurely, and he left after less than half an hour.
Now I can take a good look, after all, after today, the Li family mansion belongs to me and my little senior sister.
This time, let’s just patrol our own territory.
The Li family's mansion is indeed beautiful, with bluestone floors underfoot, a narrow path one person wide, and a main road that can accommodate five people walking at a time.
Carved beams and painted buildings, towers and pavilions, and it’s a hot summer day. Everywhere in the mansion is full of colorful colors, it’s so beautiful.
The cool breeze blew by, making the leaves rustle, and the fragrance of flowers brought by the summer wind also made everyone feel relaxed and happy.
They are all warriors, and their tolerance for heat is much stronger than ordinary people.
Huang An looked at everything around him and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
"This mansion, if placed in any city in my hometown, even in a small county town, would definitely be worth over 300 million. It is so beautiful."
Huang An looked at the antique Li family mansion and was secretly frightened.
The wealth and harm of the family can be seen from this mansion.
The poor have no place to stand, not even a place to bury themselves after death.
A member of the aristocratic family occupies most of the southern part of Feng'an City alone.
It's really sad.
Under strict supervision in their hometown, some families can make a fortune, become extremely wealthy, and live a luxurious life that ordinary people can't even imagine.
Not to mention here in the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor is much more serious than in my hometown.
Moreover, this person from the Li family can do more outrageous and bold things than the rich children in the previous life.
Because no one will hold them accountable for their crimes.
To a certain extent, they are kings.
The Li family gathered together the most important "wealth" of Feng'an City, such as power, money, business, and land, and controlled Feng'an City, a county with more than 300,000 people.
Without supervision and restrictions, you can only imagine how much wealth and effort they can draw from the people.
It can definitely scare people to death.
The more roads he walked, the more frightened Huang An became.
"The number of people we saw along the way was greater than what was rumored outside. It seems that the Li family's hidden population is also very large!"
I have long heard that aristocratic families would take measures to hide their population. Now it seems that these are facts and it is simply shocking.
No matter in the history of my hometown or in the Ming Dynasty, the behavior of aristocratic families hiding their population is almost an unspoken rule.
"The intensity of the struggle between imperial power and rural power can be seen from top to bottom, as large as the court, as small as a county."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Huang An is a person with higher education after all. He can look at this issue from a high position and from an overall perspective.
"To build power, public support is the foundation. These large hidden populations controlled by aristocratic families will be the core of the power in the future. I need to find them all and give them a civilian identity."
If he wants these people to be used by him, Huang An must take measures that are in line with the interests of these people.
Transforming them from tenant farmers and serfs who were hidden away by wealthy families to common people with household registration is the greatest favor to these people.
Huang An was thinking too much for a while.
But soon, he focused on the road in front of him and the Li Family Mansion Garden.
Although this was his second visit to the Li family's mansion, he had read the detailed map and knew the roads in the Li family's mansion as well as the large portion of the Li family who usually lived here.
After a pause, Huang An suddenly pointed to a remote path on the right:
"Master Li, where does this road lead? It looks quite interesting."
Li Shui didn't doubt that he was there, because Huang An had changed his ways suddenly three times.
After a pause, he thought about it, and then he smiled directly:
"This road leads to the backyard, which is usually a place like a warehouse or treasury, where some vegetables and grains are stored, and there are two wells. Some servants also live here."
He explained with a smile, with natural showiness and pride in his tone.
Family is what Li Shui is most proud of.
Huang An sneered inwardly and twitched his nose twice. There was no smell of gunpowder in the air.
"It seems that the distance is still too far. We need to get a little closer."
His heart moved and his steps turned.
"In that case, let's go and have a look."
Li Shui didn't stop him either. As long as Huang An didn't go to Li Jie or go to a more remote area where the dungeon was, he wouldn't stop him.
Of course, he couldn't stop it.
Zhao Yan and the others behind him naturally had no objections and were happy to follow Huang An.
Under the leadership of Huang An, the group quickly changed their tour route.
And they didn't have the slightest doubt that Huang An deliberately led them on this path.
And similarly, the direction they went in coincided with the direction Yan Long and the others went.
The two teams were on opposite sides of the cellar where Huang An kept the gunpowder.
The Li family's mansion is indeed very large. The area where goods, tools and food are stored is guarded by dedicated personnel. It is difficult for ordinary people to enter here.
However, after Huang An and the others arrived, these people didn't even dare to fart, so they obediently moved out of the way.
The crowd was wandering around, and except for Huang An and Li Shui, the others didn't even know where they had gone.
Now, Huang An clearly knew that his location was less than 200 meters away from the three cellars where the "gifts" were stored last night.
My nose twitched slightly, but I still couldn't smell the smell I wanted to smell.
It seems that the cellar is indeed hidden, even the strong smell of gunpowder and saltpeter can be hidden so well.
Of course, the most important thing is that there are many walls here, blocking the way the smell can spread.
Huang An was not in a hurry at all, and still had an expression of praise and appreciation on his face. He held Li Shui's sleeve with one hand and walked forward without realizing it.
Just as I turned a corner, a strong summer wind blew.
Everyone subconsciously covered their faces with their hands.
Huang An's eyes suddenly lit up for a moment, and then quietly disappeared.
He smelled the pungent smell of gunpowder and saltpeter in the air. Although there was only a trace, he still smelled it despite his deliberate search.
He glanced at everyone calmly and found that there was nothing unusual on their faces, as if they had not smelled the smell.
Huang An was not surprised, and everyone's reaction was also expected. They continued to move forward against the wind.
Who would have thought that the Li family would be so bold as to "make and store" gunpowder in their own mansion?
Even if they did smell the smell for a moment, they would only subconsciously think it was coming from something else.
At present, they have not thought about this aspect.
Similarly, Yan Long, who was wandering around with someone in the area three hundred meters away, did not think of this aspect either.
As Huang An's right-hand man, Yan Long knew many secrets and received many secret orders from Huang An.
But the same thing is that he still doesn't know what his good brother is going to do.
Before setting off, Huang An gave him a map and then told him to take a good look and search in this area of the map, and maybe he could actually find a person named Yang Zaizhou.
Although Yan Long didn't know Yang Zaizhou, it would be enough if Xiao Wu knew him.