In ancient times, the second generation of officials was very awesome, Gao Ya, Gao Ya's godson in the Water Margin, was not Gao Yu's own son, just because he fell in love with Lin Chong's wife, and then he was able to turn Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, into a prisoner and forced to Liangshan, although that was the Song Dynasty where civil officials were in power, but under feudal society, this is a common phenomenon, even if the Tang Dynasty officials are now ruling Qingming, it is impossible to say that there is no corrupt official and faint official, not to mention that this is in the south of the Yangtze River, where the emperor is far away.

Think about Tingzhou at the beginning, Cao Tian, as a small Tingzhou, can cover the sky with one hand in Tingzhou, eat both black and white, communicate with foreign countries, and murder several Tingzhou assassins, why can he be so awesome, because the emperor is far away.

Although Jiangnan is not as remote as Tingzhou, but in this era, Jiangnan has not yet become a climate, the main commercial and political center of the Tang Dynasty is in the Central Plains, and the probability of corrupt officials in Jianghuai and Lingnan is far higher than that in the Central Plains.

Li Hao then asked, "That...... Little second brother, tell us, how are these Liang Tingshi and Han Duwei officials? ”

The shopkeeper smiled when he heard this, and didn't dare to say it anymore, Li Hao knew, he didn't dare to say it, the shopkeepers have always been well-informed, but they are also human spirits, and they are used to seeing people coming and going from the south to the north, and their minds are very lively, and they know what they can say and what they can't say.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Li Hao smiled indifferently and said: "Second brother, don't worry, I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty who personally crowned the king of Qiongnan, and now I am also the envoy of the two provinces of Jianghuai, and I have the power of life and death for all officials in Jiangnan Province and Huainan Province, and the five thousand soldiers and horses on the canal outside Hangzhou City are transferred by this king, and you don't have to be afraid of any of them if you have this king to support you." ”

"You...... You...... Are you the King of Qiongnan? The shopkeeper was so shocked that his jaw was about to drop, his eyes were open like two round balls, and he looked at Li Hao incredulously.

Li Hao nodded, took out his token and showed it to him, and said: "This is the token of this king, it can't be faked, pretending to be the prince is a capital crime, who do you think dares to have this guts." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed down and saluted Li Hao: "The little one who has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, meet King Qiongnan!" ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said: "Don't be polite, whatever this king asks, you can answer, don't be afraid of anything, say, how about Liang Wenyou and Han Jin as officials?" ”

The shopkeeper was still full of embarrassment, he hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and said: "That's it, the little one will tell King Qiongnan truthfully, this Han Jin, in fact, is a ruffian from a ruffian, he was brave and ruthless when he was young, he was a tyrant in Hangzhou, and later he was sheltered by his brother-in-law Liang Tingshi, and spent a lot of money to find a relationship in the court, so he became our Hangzhou's Zhichong Lieutenant, he himself is a bit of martial arts, but if you want to say that the army is fighting, he can't fart, he knows how to oppress our group of flat-headed people all day long, and now the ruffians and bullies in Hangzhou City are all his people." , He is actually a bully wearing the armor of the court, the bully in the city will collect protection fees from merchants every month, saying that it is to keep us safe, in fact, it is to exploit us, if we don't pay the protection fee, those ruffians come to make trouble all day long, smash the table, break the stool, and make our business unable to do, many people are because they can't pay the protection fee, and finally they can only close the door. ”

"How can it be!" Li Guocheng said angrily when he heard this, "The imperial court has already collected commercial taxes, and they dare to collect private taxes!" How does this make the merchant live! ”

"Isn't it!" The shopkeeper sighed, "If you want to talk about this business tax, I heard that it was brought up by King Qiongnan, in fact, we Jiangnan businessmen don't like it very much, but fortunately, there are not many, everyone is handed, and they are also used to it, besides, King Qiongnan, you are a generation of virtuous ministers, you are the pillars of the country, and what you do must be for the good of the country, so we have no complaints, but the protection fee charged by these bullies is really unreasonable, and the protection fee they charge is very high, it is actually twice the commercial tax, and now the life of our Hangzhou merchants is very bitter." ”

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, he didn't expect that under the prosperous world, there would be such black sheep, needless to say, he also knew that the protection fee collected by that group of bullies was naturally Han Jin's meaning, Han Jin was just a small Zhichong Lieutenant, he dared to do this, of course, it was the stab Shi Liang Wen nodded right, and when the time came, the protection fee collected must be shared by them together.

Li Hao was silent for a moment, and then asked, "What about Liang Wenyou?" How is he an official? ”

The shopkeeper said: "Liang Wenyou is not very public, he is a literati, vassal and elegant, like calligraphy and painting, the small one has heard that he does things for others, never collects money, only accepts the calligraphy and paintings of ancient celebrities and some rare objects in ancient times, I heard that those things are old and valuable, more expensive than gold." ”

"Yo, I'm still a swagger official." Li Hao sneered, what he looked down on the most was these self-proclaimed and elegant officials, who thought that they were in the way of saints, full of benevolence and righteousness, but in fact, they were doing some dirty things behind their backs, and they were sanctimonious.

In the Ming Dynasty in history, he died at the hands of civil officials, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a group of civil officials, who called themselves the Donglin Party, and most of the Donglin Party were such people.

After Li Hao sneered, he asked again: "Now that there are frequent widows in the coastal areas, Hangzhou is close to the mouth of the river and the sea, have there been any widows?" ”

"I've heard of it." The shopkeeper said, "The Japanese have been here twice, but they didn't enter the city, and they killed people and robbed things in the villages and towns around Hangzhou. ”

Li Hao hurriedly asked, "Then how did Liang Wenyou and Han Jin deal with it?" ”

Shopkeeper said: "You may be laughing when you say it, the prince, that Liang Wenyou and Han Jin are as timid as rats, they heard that the Japanese were coming, but they didn't dare to send troops to resist, but sent people to send money and food to the Japanese and begged them to leave. ”

"How can it be!" Situ Feng slapped the table angrily when he heard this, and shouted coldly, "Is this still an official of our Datang Dynasty, actually sending money and food to the widows!" ”

Li Hao sneered, in his heart, Liang Wenyou and Han Jin had already been included in the death list, of course, there was also the second-generation official Liang Ping.

At this moment, I only heard a noisy sound outside, and the shopkeeper listened carefully, and suddenly his face changed greatly, and said: "Oh no, Liang Ping is here with the officers and soldiers!" ”

Li Guocheng was surprised when he heard this: "Officers and soldiers? How can he command the officers and soldiers? ”

The shopkeeper said hurriedly: "Han Jin is Liang Ping's uncle, once Liang Ping encounters any unfair people or things, he will go to borrow officers and soldiers from his uncle, and casually deduct a crime from someone and get caught in prison, whoever dares to resist will be even worse, and he will be directly charged with rebellion, rebellion!" ”

"I see." Li Hao nodded, handed over his jade pendant to Ye Mengqiu, and said, "You go to the boat to transfer some people, whoever dares to stop it, it doesn't matter if you kill it." ”

"Yes!" Ye Mengqiu took the jade pendant, came to the window and jumped over, and disappeared in an instant.

Li Hao turned his head to the shopkeeper and said: "Okay, let's go, so as not to be seen by Liang Ping and involve you, this king is on a private visit to Weifu, and his identity must not be leaked, you have to take care of your mouth." ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... shopkeeper said in a loud voice, "Don't worry, the little one will not dare to talk nonsense." ”

"Well, let's go."

The shopkeeper Nuo Nuo withdrew from the private room in a loud voice.

Outside the restaurant, hundreds of officers and soldiers are frequently mobilizing, surrounding the entire restaurant, and half of the officers and soldiers have bows and arrows.

In the restaurant, all the diners were so frightened that they fled from the restaurant, Liang Ping and a middle-aged man with a square face were guarding the door, and every diner came out, and they checked it to prevent Situ Feng from escaping.

After only a moment's work, the huge restaurant was empty, and only Li Hao and the others were still eating and drinking in the restaurant.

"Lord Wang, this Liang Ping actually transferred government soldiers, what are you going to do?" Li Guocheng didn't have much to eat and drink at the moment, and looked at Li Hao with concern.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly: "Just a few little shrimps, are you afraid that they won't be able to jump into the sky?" People often say that strong dragons don't suppress the head snakes, I am going to press these head snakes today, is there anything more cool in the world than pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? ”

Situ Feng was also worried: "There are many of them, Master, your status is noble, it is not appropriate to come with them, if there are three long and two short, then the gain outweighs the loss." ”

Li Hao smiled lightly: "Don't worry, the wind and waves have come over for the teacher, and in this kind of small gutter, you can't capsize the boat." ”

Just as they were talking, Liang Ping and the square-faced man had already broken into the restaurant with more than 30 soldiers and came straight to their private room.

The shopkeeper and the guys of the restaurant all hid in the back kitchen and didn't dare to squeak.

With a "bang", the door of the private room was kicked open, and a group of people rushed in with knives, instantly surrounding the three of them, and Li Hao and the others also put down their chopsticks.

Liang Ping and the square-faced man swaggered over, and before he could speak, Liang Ping kicked away Situ Feng's stool, but fortunately, Situ Feng walked calmly, even if he didn't have a stool, he didn't fall, but stood up.

Liang Ping was annoyed when he saw this, and he shook his hand and fanned towards Situ Feng, but a big hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed Liang Ping's wrist, and the person who made the shot was Li Hao.

"It hurts! Hurt! Let go! Liang Ping suddenly screamed in pain, Li Hao's hand strength was not a joke, he was grabbed by his hand, as if he was caught by iron tongs, Liang Ping felt that his bones were about to crack.

"Let it go!" Seeing this, the square-faced man suddenly shouted, and stepped forward to stop it.

Li Hao had already let go of his hand, Liang Ping hurriedly shook his hand again and again, took a few steps back, and looked at Li Hao in horror.

The square-faced man just wanted to ask, but Li Hao had already gotten up to look at him and asked, "Who is the honorable driver?" ”

The square-faced man said coldly: "This general is Han Jin, the commander of Hangzhou Zhichong!" ”

"It turned out to be General Han, disrespectful and disrespectful." Li Hao laughed, and then asked, "I don't know why General Han suddenly brought so many soldiers and horses here?" ”

Han Jin said loudly: "General Ben heard that there are Japanese pirates haunting here, so he specially brought troops to arrest them. ”

Li Hao shook his head and smiled: "General Han said that he was joking, how can there be a widow here?" ”

"He's a wolf!" Liang Ping angrily pointed at Situ Feng.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked Liang Ping: "You said he was a widow?" What is the evidence? ”

Liang Ping naturally has nothing to say, he has no evidence, he just splashes it casually with a basin of dirty water anyway, he has done this before, he has never asked for evidence, as long as he arrests people in prison, no evidence will become evidence.

As soon as Han Jin heard that Li Hao wanted evidence, he knew that Li Hao was not easy to fool, he had been in black and white for many years, and he still had the eye to see people, he could see that Li Hao was not an ordinary person, so he answered: "Although there is no evidence, we still have to take him back for interrogation, if he is innocent, he will naturally be released at that time." ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said with a smile: "You want to take people without evidence?" Have you always done things like this? Besides, you are a government soldier, not Dali Temple, you are abusing your power, you know? ”

"Tell the truth!" Han Jin glared suddenly when he heard this, pointed at them and shouted, "This general is strictly investigating the Japanese Invaders, if you dare to obstruct it, you must also be a Japanese Invader, all three of you are suspicious, and I will arrest them all for me!" ”