Chapter 110: The surname of the Son of Heaven is Zhu Bu, and the surname is Yun

After the preliminary identification, Liu Zongmin took the woman away, but a group of old thieves in Guanzhong surrounded Mu Tiantao and asked questions.

To be precise, Lantian is also a den of thieves.

Mu Tiantao was naturally contaminated with a lot of banditry, whether it was talking about the history of the rivers and lakes with these old thieves, or talking about the customs and customs of northern Shaanxi, it was difficult for Mu Tiantao to be affected.

It's just that most of what he said is heard, and some of them are quite untrue, which just proves that he has not lived in Lantian Pass for a long time, but has only lived with a group of Guanzhong swordsmen who went out to beg for a living.

Fooling this group of people is hardly difficult for Mu Tiantao.

Because, what is even more difficult is to disguise yourself as an ordinary Guanzhong person in Yushan Academy.

Therefore, half an hour later, Mu Tiantao squatted and ate noodles with a big basin with this group of men who missed Guanzhong.

Soon, he learned that Wei Dezao was being kept in a small, dark room, and that the general had not yet begun to torture him.

Now there is the saying that Cao Gong's treasure is fine.

Mu Tiantao wanted to go and see it, but was stopped by these kind Guanzhong seniors.

So, next door, he heard Wei Dezao's terrible roar.

also heard Wei Dezao's wail that he wanted to sacrifice his daughter to Liu Zongmin as a concubine.

The next day, Mu Tiantao saw a woman who was naked like a rag doll being thrown out by those big men—I heard that after the general enjoyed it, he gave it to the elderly guards......

Wei Dezao also died, when Mu Tiantao saw him, his head had been deformed, which was the sequelae left by the splint clamp head, he was very heroic, and he resisted for six days and six nights before he was splinted out of the brain and died.

As for where the money was, he didn't say a word, including the treasures of Cao Gong that Mu Tiantao knew!

It is said that Wei Dezao once said before he died: "I knew that there would be today's suffering, so it is better to fight Li Hongji to the death in the capital!" ”

There is no money in the family of the dignified first assistant, Liu Zongmin does not believe it......

Therefore, Wei Dezao's son Wei Changying was arrested.

Wei Changying said: "I really don't have any silver at home, if my father is alive, I can still borrow silver from my protégé, and now that he is dead, where can I find the silver?"

Perhaps seeing Wei Dezao's bravery, Liu Zongmin's guards gave up the idea of continuing to torture Wei Changying, cut off Wei Changying's head with a knife, and then took a large group of soldiers to Wei Dezao's house to carnival for three days.

This is a standard bandit behavior, and Mu Tiantao is very familiar with this set.

If a person values money more than life, for a robber, the only way to kill him is to go, this is the logic of the robber.

Mu Tiantao was a very learned Guanzhong man - because he could write his name and do a little arithmetic, he was sent to the silver treasury to count the looted silver.

Mu Tiantao entered the silver vault, and he viciously threw himself into the pile of gold and silver, and desperately filled his pocket with gold and silver.

The Guanzhong men who came with him laughed one by one, and it took a lot of effort to catch Mu Tiantao, who was obsessed with the gold and silver pile, to find all the silver ingots from him, and to throw them back into the silver vault.

In order to educate Mu Tiantao, he also specially took him to see more than a dozen miserable corpses erected outside the silver vault, all of which were without human skin.

At the beginning, the old guard who was captured by Mu Tiantao pointed to one of the skinless corpses and said to him: "This is Zhang Laosan, who stole a piece of gold, and the general asked him to take it out, so he spared him, he argued that he didn't, and he was skinned after being searched."

Boy, you can grab the silver that has not been put into the warehouse, but whoever moves the silver that has entered the warehouse will die, this is the general's military order. ”

These skinless corpses finally dragged Mu Tiantao back from his obsession with gold and silver.

He also lamented that this familiar guard remembered to search his body every day when he was on a business trip, lest he take gold and silver in a foolish mind, and finally be skinned by the general.

Mu Tiantao's job is to weigh the silver.

Sometimes I'm still stunned...... The main thing is that there is too much gold and silver......

When he tortured the nobles at the beginning, he had already noticed that the city of the capital was very rich, but he never expected that it would be so rich - 70 million taels!

If the Ming Dynasty still had 70 million taels of silver, it would be impossible for the country to die so quickly.

If the Ming Dynasty still had 70 million taels of silver, the emperor would not have collapsed in Shouning Palace.

The financial records are very clear, among which the princes and nobles contributed three-four out of ten, the civil and military officials and the great merchants contributed three-four out of ten, and the rest were contributed by the eunuchs.

Mu Tiantao didn't care much about the death of the Ming Dynasty, after all, when he was studying in Yushan, countless gentlemen had already studied the Ming Dynasty thoroughly, and they were doomed to perish.

With these 70 million taels of silver, it is just to be able to breathe for a while.

Mr. Gu Yanwu once said in class: Yi surname changed his name, which is called the death of the country, and benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for leading beasts to eat people, it is called the death of the world!

What Emperor Chongzhen and his courtiers did was nothing more than the destruction of the country.

At present, Li Hongji sent Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, and Li Mu to do the torture and salary, that is, to lead the beasts to eat people and die in the world.

A person who has read a book and learns to think normally will soon be able to see clearly the impact of these things on the future in the development of his career.

Therefore, Mu Tiantao can see from what Li Hongji, Niu Jinxing, and Liu Zongmin are doing that Li Hongji and others have no ambition to swallow the world at all.

Yun Zhao is different.

In Lantian, some people are afraid of the hedgehog, some people are afraid of Han Lingshan, some people are afraid of less money, some people are afraid of Yun Yang, but no one is afraid of Yun Zhao!

Even if it is a crime, he regards Yun Zhao as his last savior, hoping to obtain Yun Zhao's forgiveness through repentance, atonement and other acts.

Some people have actually been pardoned...... However, the vast majority of people still die.

Whether it was the one who survived or the people who were executed, they didn't complain about Yun Zhao, they felt that the man had done his best, after all, every time he pardoned a criminal, Yun Zhao would be blamed for a long time.

Yun Zhao is a harmless person, this is a conclusion made by Lantian and even everyone in Guanzhong.

At the same time, Yun Zhao is the protector of everyone, which is also a consensus of the people in Guanzhong.

As long as Yun Zhao is still leisurely every day, wandering around Yushan City leisurely and chatting with people, the people of Guanzhong feel that there is no major event in the world, even if Li Hongji breaks through the capital and Zhang Bingzhong escapes into the mountains, in the eyes of the people of Guanzhong, it is just a trivial matter.

As long as they see that Yun Zhao is still there, the exchange rate between the silver dollar and the silver copper coin tomorrow will continue to remain stable.

Today's Guanzhong can be said to be extremely empty.

There are only a few recruits in the Phoenix Mountain military camp who are being trained, and the only force that can be relied on in all the cities of Guanzhong is the catcher and the tax collector.

The people in charge of guarding the city are regimental drills in the surrounding villages.

However, even so, the whole Guanzhong is still calm, and the people have learned how to manage themselves.

The tax collector in the market still snoozed in a chair under a large umbrella with his eyes closed, and only when the copper coin fell into the bamboo basket did his ears move, and if the money was slightly missing, his eyes would immediately open and stare at the guy who paid the zero-hour tax.

Seeing this scene, Zuo Maodi's heart was cold.

He was born in the county order, once in charge of a county in Hancheng, and he was born in the imperial history, and once ran all over the country with his own legs.

Such a person sees whether a place is safe and prosperous, and it is enough for him to look at the bamboo basket beside the tax collector.

Since they stepped into the border of Henan, they have been warmly welcomed by the officials of Lantian Station, not only in terms of food, accommodation, carriages and horses, but also in terms of courtesy.

This kind of treatment made Zuo Maodi's deputy envoys Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu a little flattered.

Henan, which had been ravaged by thieves for a long time, was slowly recovering, and when they arrived, it was already the beginning of spring, and the fields were filled with cattle and horses driven by farmers.

The number of cattle and horses is so large that Zuo Maodi and others only see it.

When they found that Kaifeng City began to renovate the city, and countless people were quite emotional when they repaired the river on the river embankment, the stable Luoyang had entered their eyes.

When they thought that Luoyang had begun to come back to life, they saw the bustling Tongguan with a crowd.

The prosperity of Tongguan is no less than that of Nanjing, which has just expelled the White Lotus Sect, this is Chen Hongfan's emotion.

Zuo Maodi is deeply aware that Tongguan is just the most remote pass in the pass, and the military significance here is greater than the people's livelihood.

When the envoy team walked into Tongguan, the world became another world.

Not only is the scenery different, but even the people are completely different from the people outside the Kansai.

The people inside the customs are generally much more imposing than those outside the customs.

Even ordinary people who are promoted to fight, seeing their team of obviously officials, did not show any humility.

Zuo Maodi likes to talk to farmers and traders.

They had a very pleasant conversation, but when the farmer and trader had left, the dark clouds on Zuo Maodi's face were so thick that they seemed to be dripping water.

"Brother Zhongji, why are you melancholy?"

Standing in the Chang'an market, Zuo Maodi only felt that it was difficult to take a breath, however, Chen Hongfan, who liked to talk, felt a little unimpressed, he thought that this time to meet Yun Zhao, even if there was no good result, he could get out of the way.

"It's impossible to rule by rowing the river!"

Zuo Maodi saw a child who was obviously a schoolchild scolding an old farmer who was spitting, and sighed when he saw the schoolchild holding a handful of soil to cover up the thick phlegm.

Chen Hongfan hesitated and said: "Lantian is not bad, they are still using my Daming country name." ”

Zuo Maodi glared at Chen Hongfan and said: "The surname of the great tomorrow is Zhu, not Yun!" ”

Chapter I

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