"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
This rude knock on the door aroused great dissatisfaction from the owner.
"Who is it?! So rude?!"
He heard someone asking loudly, and then a servant-like man opened the door. This man had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. He opened the door angrily and wanted to insult him. But when he saw many petty officials outside, his heart trembled and he hurriedly
Put away his anger.
"What orders do you have, sirs?"
The ferocious servant who was usually arrogant and did not take the passing officials into consideration was now smiling and guessing the other party's intention.
The cavalry officer pushed him away and rushed directly into the courtyard.
The slave was thrown to the ground and quickly got up. His attitude became more kind, even to the point of flattery, "Masters, is there any misunderstanding? My master is the old housekeeper of the Hou family in Li County."
"There was no misunderstanding."
The official said, picked up the document in his hand and looked at it, "Well, Li Shuan, is he the head of your family?"
"Exactly."
"Then who are you?!"
"My name is Li Shuang, and I am a subordinate of the family."
"Why is there not you in the household registration?!"
"I just came here, and the master of the house hasn't reported it yet. Sir, why is this?"
The official laughed ferociously, "Come and collect taxes!"
“The cultivated land of the county marquis’ family was given by the temple, so where did the grain tax come from??”
"Oh, we have been ordered by the county magistrate that Liyang's tribute this year is insufficient and needs to be shared equally among the whole city."
The slave was confused. He had no idea what the situation was. But before he could say anything more, the officials began to force their way into the backyard. The slave screamed, but how could he stop him? The officials raised their whips angrily.
, whipped at the slave, and the slave screamed miserably as he was whipped.
This movement attracted everyone's attention. After a while, an old man was seen walking out with the support of two people, "What are you going to do?! Are you trying to rob my house in broad daylight?"
“Split evenly!!!”
The officials shouted.
But before the old man could say anything more, an official broke open the door of the warehouse. The food in the warehouse was piled up like a mountain. The old man's eyes were straight. He raised his crutch and said, "Catch these robbers! Catch the robbers!!"
When his servants came forward, the county official drew his sword and slashed him with one blow. The fastest servant was cut down and fell to the ground. The other servants were frightened and fled in all directions.
The old man rushed forward to argue, but the official pushed him and the old man fell to the ground, motionless.
The gang of powerful county officials picked up the bags of millet and wheat and loaded them into the donkey cart. The donkey cart was soon full.
"Send these back first, and then come back for the second time!!"
When the evil officials who looked like tigers and wolves appeared in the south of the city, they immediately began to display the style of Daqi.
They forced their way in from house to house, and without explanation, they began to forcefully collect taxes from them, knock down their slaves, break open their warehouses and granaries, snatch out the mountains of food that was almost stinking, and take it back.
When these bandits dispersed, the entire south of the city was in chaos.
Cries, screams, and roars were heard from every house.
Then I saw one packed donkey cart after another, with officials holding bloody knives walking out of the tall vermilion gate.
Yao Xiong rides a horse and travels back and forth from place to place.
Someone shouted: "You Yougong!! Rebellion!!"
Yao Xiong hurriedly led everyone to help. When he rushed in, he saw more than ten servants holding sharp weapons, chasing the county officials and dodging in all directions. When Yao Xiong joined the battle, the situation suddenly changed. Those slaves were hacked and killed one after another.
, the rest wanted to escape, but were caught. Yao Xiong cut off the heads of everyone in the mansion, and then hung the heads on the waist of the horse, and asked the officials to take a few heads with them.
Some officials rode back and forth shouting: "Those who disobey and rebel will die!!"
He saw a raging fire burning from inside a mansion. Shi Yao was about to ride forward, but was blocked by Liu Taozi.
Shi Yao almost lost his eyes in shock when he looked at the scene in front of him.
He looked at Liu Taozi beside him in disbelief.
The donkey cart was quickly filled to the brim, and more than ten donkey carts rushed towards the county government office.
Liu Taozi was always riding a blue lion, looking at everyone calmly.
"Liu Liujun, there is something wrong with this. What are you doing?"
"Split evenly."
Shi Yao wiped the sweat from his forehead and was speechless.
On weekdays, this is how the officials of the county really go about making equal arrangements. However, the people they are equalizing are not here. In other places, they also rob, beat, and even commit adultery, arson, and murder.
Shi Yao hates such evil thieves the most.
He never thought that one day he would lead such evil thieves out to carry out plunder.
The anomalies in the south of the city continue to spread, and the situation becomes increasingly chaotic.
At this moment, a group of people and horses appeared in the distance. They were all in formation, holding various weapons, and some even rode horses. There were hundreds of people in total. They completely occupied the road ahead and slowly moved towards the county officials.
approaching.
The leader was riding a tall horse. He was very young and well-dressed. His face was gloomy at the moment, he was staring ahead angrily and yelling.
Seeing this person, Shi Yao's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he said: "Several members of the Li family are serving as officials outside. The leader is the youngest son of the Hou family in the current county. His name is Li Shen, and he is the most popular.
He was cruel. He used to study in Ye and accidentally beat someone to death. The family was not easy to mess with. They threatened to kill him, so he hid in Liyang and did not dare to go out."
"In the past two years, he has been rampant in the city, killing innocent people and bullying officials."
"My chief clerk was beaten to death by him, but I, the magistrate, could not avenge him."
Liu Taozi looked at the other party calmly. He looked around and motioned for Yao Xiong and others to come over.
A group of six riders passed directly between the officials and approached the opposite side.
Shi Yao followed Liu Taozi, his hand on the hilt of his sword.
The two sides met on the road like this.
The Li family's guards were piled on the road, packed with people, and there was a sea of ​​people.
The main road in Nancheng is not too narrow, but with hundreds of people armed with weapons and horse pawns, the road suddenly becomes unsightly.
As these people slowly approached, the county officials under Liu Taozi also began to panic, and some even dared not take action anymore.
The distance between the two sides is getting shorter and shorter, and they are getting closer.
Both sides can see each other's faces clearly, and can even see the malice in each other's eyes.
Li Shen suddenly looked at the green lion under Liu Taozi's crotch. When he looked at it, he couldn't move his eyes away. His eyes almost burst out with fire. He just stared at the war horse with a crazy look on his face.
Don't speak.
Liu Taozi was much calmer. He looked around and slowly pulled out his saber.
"kill!!!"
The next moment, Liu Taozi roared angrily, raised his knife and charged.
At that moment, the green lion suddenly became excited. It seemed to have regained the feeling it had at the frontier fortress. Its front hooves flew up, almost at the same level as a person. The green lion was like an arrow being shot out at a high speed.
Very quickly, before anyone could react, the war horses swept up the dust and rushed towards the hundreds of people.
Li Shen trembled. He reacted, raised his head, and saw the war horse galloping towards him. The man on the war horse had a ferocious look on his face and was staring directly into his eyes. The knife in his hand was flashing with cold light.
Li Shen was stiff all over. He wanted to do something, but suddenly he couldn't move or even make a sound.
"Pfft!!"
When the two sides encountered each other, Liu Taozi slashed the knife in his hand, and Li Shen's head flew high into the air.
Behind him, Yao Xiong's eyes were full of envy. He also got angry, raised his knife high and struck down hard.
The moment Li Shen was beheaded, the guards started to commotion, and several people on the left and right screamed, and the green lion directly led Liu Taozi into the crowd. The green lion was already tall, charging rampantly, on horseback
Liu Taozi lowered his body, and the knife in his hand was flying left and right. His knife was very fast, and he saw bursts of cold light flashing, and everyone who stood in front of Liu Taozi and on his left and right were hit by the knife one after another.
At this moment, Yao Xiong and several other people also bumped into each other and began to swing their swords randomly.
There was only one Shi Yao who was still stunned on the spot. He watched everyone rush out, and then he followed them out.
The guards were so frightened that they all ran back in a hurry, but the whole street was blocked. The person in front turned around, gave his own man a knife, and stepped on his body to move forward. For a moment,
The guards were in chaos, killing each other, trampling on each other, weeping and wailing.
"Madman, lunatic!"
"I"
Zhao Kai rode his horse and cursed extremely unpleasantly.
Several officials around him lowered their heads. They had never seen Zhao Juncheng look so out of sorts.
Zhao Kai gritted his teeth, with unspeakable resentment in his eyes.
When he learned that Liu Taozi led people to rush to Nancheng to rob, he was completely stupid. Since the founding of Daqi, he had never heard of the county magistrate leading the county officials to the city to rob!!
The ones who robbed were the big players in the city!
This is simply lawless and treason! This should be punished by the five tribes!! It should be divided into pieces by the five horses!!
Zhao Kai felt like his whole body was going to explode. Thinking of the many troubles that would follow, he had an unbearable headache.
He was riding an exquisite white horse. The white horse was all white and had many ornaments on its neck. It was very beautiful. Behind him, there were more than 20 officials and more than a hundred county soldiers.
They walked all the way to Nancheng. As they walked on the road, they saw a county official driving a donkey cart loaded with tons of food, heading towards the county government office.
Zhao Kai was furious when he saw these people.
"Leave them all here!!"
He opened his mouth to reprimand, but these people didn't seem to hear. They ignored Zhao Kai completely and drove forward. Zhao Kai was so angry that he almost fell off his horse. He just raised the whip in his hand, and the county official beside him
Opened his mouth.
"Mr. Zhao."
The county official's voice was a little strange, as if he was trembling.
Zhao Kai was stunned for a moment and followed the county official's gaze and looked forward.
In the drainage ditches on both sides of the main road, blood was slowly flowing.
Nancheng has the highest terrain, and small drainage ditches have been built on both sides of the road. This can lead the stagnant and dirty water in the south of the city to the north of the city, so that wealthy people can be protected from sewage intrusion.
At this moment, what was flowing in the sewer ditch was not sewage, but red blood.
The blood gathered into a stream of water, flowing along the sewage ditch, and then continued to move forward from everyone, heading towards the north of the city.
Zhao Kai's hand holding the whip couldn't help but tremble.
Several officials were so frightened that they took a few steps back, trembling.
Zhao Kai took a deep breath and ignored the officials driving the car, "Keep walking!"
Everyone was silent anymore, including Zhao Kai, who couldn't say a word at this moment.
As they approached the south of the city, the smell of blood soared into the sky, making everyone almost suffocate.
At the entrance to the south of the city, there are several hills piled up.
Yes, these are hills made of piled human heads. There are four of them, just standing at the entrance. Those heads all have their eyes widened in fear, and their various expressions are chilling.
When everyone looked inside, they saw a group of people riding horses. Those people were all red and almost covered in blood.
As if realizing that someone was watching, Liu Taozi slowly turned around.
His whole body seemed to be rolling in blood, covered in blood from head to toe. That calm face was stained with blood. When Liu Taozi's eyes looked at Zhao Kai, Zhao Kai's mind roared.
For a moment.
"Ahhh!! Ahh!!!"
Zhao Kai shouted three times in a row, each time his voice was much louder than before.
He finally fell off the horse. His face was pale and his eyes were lifeless. He fell off the horse. He rolled and crawled and ran to the north of the city regardless. After running a few steps, he fell to the ground again.
An old soldier helped him up, but found that Zhao Kai's mouth seemed to be stuck together. Zhao Kai looked at the county soldier in horror.
His mouth kept shaking, but no words came out.
The old soldier saw his situation, quickly took out his water bag, took a sip of water, and sprayed it on his face.
Zhao Kai shivered and finally came to his senses, "Call the county captain! Tell the prefect!"
"Quick! Quick!!"
Under the leadership of Zhao Kai, a group of people fled from the south of the city without looking back.
Liu Taozi rode her horse calmly, watching those people escape, and then looked ahead again.
The guards were kneeling not far away. They were all tied up and did not dare to raise their heads. Yao Xiong was dressing his wounds and cursing.
Shi Yao looked at this scene in shock, his eyes dull, not much different from Zhao Kai.
He also saw Zhao Kai escaping, but he was not surprised.
As one of the people who experienced it, he wanted to run away now, let alone Zhao Kai?
He looked at Liu Taozi stiffly, "Mr. Liu, is this really okay?"
"Gathering guards to rob and kill the county magistrate is a crime of rebellion, and he deserves to die."
Liu Taozi replied.
Shi Yao was silent for a long time, then suddenly smiled miserably, "I never thought that the revenge of my miserable master would be avenged like this."
Tian Zili stepped forward at this moment and asked vigilantly: "Brother, if Zhao Kai lets the county captain lead the troops, what should we do?"
Before Liu Taozi could speak, Yao Xiong burst into laughter, "The county soldiers here are different from those in Cheng'an. These people will be scared to death when they see this Skull Mountain. How dare they dare to get close?"
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"I have been to the school grounds before. These people rarely practice, their food and salary are often deducted, and they are not even given winter clothes. They have no fighting spirit and there is no need to be afraid."
Tian Zili stroked his chin, "Brother, since things have reached this point, it's better to go directly to the prefect's mansion."
"No!!"
Shi Yao interrupted Tian Zili in time and said: "This Li Shen has no official status. If he says he wants to rebel and kills him, the temple will still believe him. But this eunuch is different. Even if he is not the eunuch, he is the nephew of the Queen Mother.
You can't attack him, otherwise it will be rebellion!"
Tian Zili glared at him.
What Nai Gong wants is rebellion!
Shi Yao looked at Liu Taozi, "Later, just blame the matter on me. Just say it was me who gave the order. Then Lou Rui has long seen that I am not going well. If you say it was me, he will be happy to put me
Catch him and send him to Yecheng."
"I have only read some books and have no ability. I can't even resist a wooden door. Let alone be able to carry the world."
"I will die as soon as I die, and I will leave everything in Liyang to you!!"
Looking at Shi Yao with a determined look on his face, several Taozi minions who didn't like him also changed their views at this moment.
Yao Xiong looked at him and murmured: "Magistrate Shi is really a hero."
The surrounding petty officials are still collecting taxes door to door, but now, those people are quite cooperative. They huddle in the corner, or lock the door of the inner room, hug each other, and no longer dare to come out to resist.
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The work of the clerks went very smoothly.
Taozi rode a horse and looked into the distance.
The pagoda in the distance is still so conspicuous, and the many doors of the temple are tightly closed. The lively patrol team is nowhere to be seen at this moment. It is so quiet, like a real Buddhist pure place.
The ground trembled slightly, and Liu Taozi turned around again.
The county soldiers were trotting towards this side, led by the knight, who had a weird Xianbei beard similar to the Kou style, was wearing armor, and carrying a harness, and was running towards them.
The knight stopped in front of Jingguan. His horse rubbed its hooves uneasily, kept retreating, and shook its head. It seemed that the knight had encountered such a situation for the first time, and he kept comforting the horse.
As Yao Xiong said, when the county soldiers saw the mountains of human heads, they were so frightened that they did not dare to move, and some even dropped their weapons.
These foreign county soldiers formed by forcibly recruiting local civilians are not at the same level as the professional Xianbei warriors in Jinyang and Yecheng.
Many of these county soldiers were just farmers. One day they were suddenly caught by officials and taken to the school grounds to become county soldiers. They had not experienced many military trainings and could barely remember military orders.
The knight raised his spear and issued an order in Xianbei dialect.
The county soldiers heard the order and raised their weapons skillfully, but the weapons were still trembling.
Liu Taozi also pulled out his sword, and everyone got on their horses again.
At this moment, another group of people rushed towards here from a distance. It was a quite luxurious carriage, and there were knights following the carriage.
These knights showed no signs of surprise when they saw Jingguan. They violently knocked away the county soldiers in front of them. Some of them were unable to dodge and were trampled by their horses.
The county lieutenant shouted and reluctantly gave way to the road, and the group stopped at the south gate of the city.
Lou Rui got out of the carriage disheveled and hurriedly put on mourning clothes.
He raised his head and saw Jingguan beside him. Instead of being scared, he was laughing.
He finally looked at Liu Taozi in the distance.
With a smile.
"Good nephew!!!"
Chapter completed!