Liao Pengju was tied up with a rope and hung on the roof of the Chief Envoy's Yamen Building. All passers-by could see the Chief Envoy swaying left and right in the cold wind as long as they raised their heads.

It was not as warm as spring outside as in the study, and the cold wind blew against his body like a knife. From time to time, the chief minister would let out a desperate cry, his voice shrill and shrill, like a lone wolf.

The scribe Niu is here, and this guy is so frightened that he can’t walk. He needs two guards to hold him up! You don’t need to look at this guy, you can tell he is a corrupt official just by looking at his belly. A woman who is five or six months pregnant has no belly like him.

of big.

"I want to know, who was given Cheng Tiezhu's resettlement quota?" Li Xiao stared at Secretary Niu, who was swaying all over and the fat on his chin was trembling.

"No, no!" Cheng Tiezhu stammered, sweat flowing down his fat face like a stream.

"Hmph! This is Marshal Li, just recruit him. I have inquired, and you gave my placement to the son of the principal of Ci'an School. His son is only twelve years old this year, and you still want to deny it.

In order to arrange the work, I bought you two bottles of Wuliangye and Sitiao Greater China. You postpone today to tomorrow, and tomorrow to the day after tomorrow. You just won’t resettle me. If you didn’t have comrades in this yamen, you would still be kept in the dark. No.

Do you know how much money you are going to blackmail?" Cheng Tiezhu, now that he had a backer, jumped out and pointed at the tip of Secretary Niu's nose with the tip of his finger.

"Okay! Don't say yes, come here. Tie him to the tree downstairs and pour some water. Niu Shuli, I won't embarrass you. I'll tie you up for two days. If you can survive, it means God doesn't accept you.

I, Li Xiao, will let you go.

Just this horse!"

When Niu Shuli heard that, his face was whiter than the snow outside. It was freezing weather outside. He was tied to a tree and poured water all over him. He couldn't survive even two hours, let alone two days! Just one night and he would freeze hard.

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"Commander, please forgive me! Commander, please forgive me! Principal Ma and I are cousins ​​and we are relatives. He begged me for help, and I did it because I was confused. Commander, please forgive me. I

There is an eighty-year-old mother at the top and a three-year-old child at the bottom. If you kill me, you will kill my whole family!" Niu Shuli seemed to have suddenly gained strength, holding Li Xiao's thigh and crying non-stop.

"It's wrong to think about it now. You know how Cheng Tiezhu will live if he gives the quota that originally belonged to Cheng Tiezhu to others? My Liao soldiers all came from the battlefield. As a general, my soldiers shed tears after they bleed. You asked me to

How to lead troops?

Let’s all be considerate to each other, as I said before. I can’t freeze you to death in two days. I, Li Xiao, will definitely keep my word and let you go immediately.” Li Xiao kicked his legs to get rid of Secretary Niu, but he didn’t expect that this guy had too much self-respect.

It didn't fly away in one swing.

This guy even hugged Li Xiaojun's legs and wouldn't let go. His snot and tears were rubbing on Li Xiaojun's coat. It was so disgusting!

Two guards came over, grabbed Niu Shuli's jaw and pinched it. Niu Shuli immediately let go of his hand with a scream, and the two guards dragged him out with one arm each.

"Let's go! Let's go to Ci'an School and see who this principal is." Li Xiao was very curious that a bad principal of a school could have such great energy that he even dared to pretend to be a replacement for the Liao Army placement quota.

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Dozens of carriages came downstairs, filled with soldiers with live ammunition. After getting off the carriages, everyone lined up in a queue and stood in the square in front of the Chief Secretary's Yamen, waiting for Li Xiao's order.

"Surround the Chief Envoy Si Yamen and don't let anyone go. Without my order, if you let a mouse go, I will give you a big scar." Li Xiao gave the order to the officer leading the team. Lu Xiangsheng was riding in

The next train is expected to arrive in an hour. The rest of the matter will be left to him. I believe that with Lu Xiangsheng's temperament, it would be a dream for the people in the Chief Envoy Si Yamen to escape unscathed.

"No!" The officer leading the team stood at attention and saluted, and then directed his men to surround the Chief Envoy Si Yamen. Of course, the order coming out of his mouth was a bit scary.

"Anyone who dares to trespass will be shot without mercy!"

Li Xiao took Cheng Tiezhu, Shunzi and others to Ci'an School under the leadership of Cheng Tiezhu.

Ci'an School was newly built five years ago. Because Jinzhou is relatively wealthy, the school is relatively well built. Standing outside the school, you can see that the school occupies a relatively large area. Many students seem to be taking physical education classes. Two teams

The boys competed for a rubber ball to kick. It was a cold day, and the little ones were all so hot that their heads were steaming.

There are horizontal and parallel bars and a huge slide on one side of the school. The school's door is made of white marble, forming the shape of a book. Although it feels a bit wasteful, Li Xiao is still very satisfied with this shape. Enter the door of the book

, learn the knowledge and principles of the world.

The name Ci'an School sounds a bit like a church school. But Li Xiao is sure that there is no trace of the church here. Regarding religion, Li Xiao is not very strict. Tang Ruowang applied to build a church in the capital several times, but he failed.

It was ruthlessly rejected by Li Xiao. For example, in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, those churches that already existed were not allowed to be built in the remaining places.

Not to mention Christian churches, even Buddhist and Taoist churches are not allowed to build new Taoist temples and temples. If someone is found to have built it privately, in addition to demolition, the main donor will also be jailed. As for the presiding monks, Li Xiao will direct them

They were exiled to Japan or Korea. Others were sent to Cochin and Burma!

Religion can persecute whomever it wants, but just don't persecute our people, the Ming Dynasty.

Under Li Xiao's high-pressure policy, people in the religious circles of the Ming Dynasty had a very difficult time in recent years. However, those monks and Taoists who were sent to Japan, Ryukyu, Korea, Jiaozhi, Burma, and Siam had relatively large room for development.

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People in these countries are becoming more and more obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism. Li Xiao even heard that the North Korean king Li Zhu supported several Taoist temples and specially made the elixir of immortality for him.

Judging from this meaning, the Korean king had the idea of ​​​​borrowing another five hundred years from heaven.

Li Xiao doesn't care about this, I hope Li Xiao lives a long life.

"Uncle Chen, are you still here guarding the gate?" Cheng Tiezhu walked over and handed the old man a cigarette.

"Tie Zhu, you're here again. How are you? Is there any news from the Chief Envoy Si Yamen?" The guard at the door is an old man in his fifties, with gray hair and beard. When walking, he needs to lean on a stick.

Stick, it looks like his legs and feet are not very good.

"Now that I have some information, is Principal Ma in the school? I want to go and find out!"

"Hey...! How can we not be in school? The imperial court is now calling on women to join the labor force, and the school has hired several women to help in the cafeteria. Two of them are quite pretty, and they fell in love with that stallion.

A good school is turned into a mess. He is in the office in broad daylight...the handsome guy...!"

Uncle Chen was chattering and smoking. Suddenly, he saw Li Xiao through the smoke, and the crutch in his hand immediately moved.

"You know me?" Li Xiao looked at Uncle Chen in surprise.

"Report to the commander! Chen Liuzi, former commander of the third squadron of the reconnaissance company of the Second Division of the Liao Army, salutes you!" Uncle Chen, who was stooped, suddenly straightened up. His legs seemed to be no longer lame, and he stood up straight and saluted Li Xiao.

"It turns out he is a veteran of our Liao Army!" Li Xiao quickly helped Chen Liuzi, looked around and saw that there was no place to sit, and simply helped him into the concierge.

The concierge was a little dark inside, but the cement floor underfoot was clean. There was a single bed against the wall, and a washbasin shelf in the corner with a towel placed on it.

"You live here?" Li Xiao was a little surprised when he saw this scene. Logically speaking, veterans of the Liao Army retired from the army. If they have no relatives, they should be divided into houses in the local area, especially veterans like Chen Liuzi.

"The arrangements made by the imperial court are very good!" Chen Liuzi and Li Xiao sat side by side on the double bed, with honest smiles on their faces.

"The court didn't allocate a house to you?"

"The school was divided, but some young students needed a house to get married, so I gave it to them. Why would a lonely old man like me live in such a nice house? Besides, my legs are not convenient, let alone walking up the stairs.

It’s convenient.”

"Your legs...!"

"When the Tatars attacked Jinzhou, they were shot in the leg. The medical officer took out the bullet at that time, but I don't know what happened, and then something went wrong again. At least the leg was saved, but I was walking with a limp.

It still hurts when it’s cloudy and rainy!”

Li Xiao remembered that Yuan Chonghuan's Second Division did have a battle with the Eight Banners soldiers led by Huang Taiji in Jinzhou. At that time, the Eight Banners soldiers had made great progress in firearms with the help of Kueyi Holland.

The Second Division fought a very hard battle and suffered heavy casualties. Chen Liuzi was one of the many wounded soldiers.

"Why did you end up here?"

"I wanted to do it myself. When I heard that the school was being built, I just wanted to come here. I looked at the children all day long and felt comfortable. The eight generations of the Chen family have not produced a single scholar. I know these two words from when I was a student.

We met in the literacy class in the team.

Nowadays, the court does not ask for money, but also provides money to buy food for the children. This is something that I have never thought of in many lifetimes. Now look at the children, and then think about when we were children. What a difference! Every time I think of this, I feel comfortable

.No matter how troublesome things are, they are all forgotten.

Commander, look at me, I'm fifty-two years old and I'm still in great shape!" Chen Liuzi raised his arms, making a strong gesture.

How much strength can an old man in his fifties have? Even if he was from the second division with the best training in the Liao Army, I am afraid that when he returns to the local area, the good physique built by the army will be ruined bit by bit.

"This Principal Ma...!" Li Xiao still believed in the veteran of the Liao Army. He felt that what Chen Liuzi said should be credible.

"Hey...! Don't mention it! This Principal Ma was a scholar in the Chongzhen year. He was already thirty years old when he became a scholar. He didn't do well in his hometown. At that time, the commander-in-chief gave you policies. As long as he

When many scholars came to Jinzhou, they were immediately given houses and placed in government offices. Principal Ma took advantage of this situation and came to Jinzhou.

Because he liked to work hard, he soon became the secretary of the Chief Envoy Si Yamen. A few years ago, the imperial court started to open schools. I don't know which link he got through, and he came to be the principal of Ci'an School.

Don't mention it! A good school was almost destroyed by this bastard. He knows how to plant people everywhere all day long. As long as they are people he doesn't like, no matter how high your level is or how good your teaching skills are, he will

They will kick you out. Then, replace them with a relative.

Now, more than half of the people in the school are relatives of his family. Look at the dog in the cafeteria, it belongs to his family. The meat that the students cannot eat goes into the mouth of his family's dog.

The imperial court originally did not charge food fees to the students, all of which were subsidized by the imperial court. But he insisted on making the food low-quality, and the children who did not pay could only eat pickles and wowotou. Those who paid the money were given some good food.

.Most of them can’t even see a few meaty stars!

What's even more outrageous is that the people in his family can be teachers even if they are illiterate. Every day, they take the salary from the court and give 30% of it to other literate people. Let them teach students, and the remaining 70% of the salary goes into

These people smoked and played mahjong in the office all day long, making the huge office a mess.

Those teachers who really teach students have to work in the classroom every day.

The most irritating thing is that Principal Ma also ordered the teachers not to talk about key content in class. They would only teach in the tutoring class he runs after school. The school is owned by the court and does not cost money, but the tutoring class belongs to him, and everyone

Children are charged one silver coin per year.

Many parents want their children to be successful in the future. In addition, everyone in Jinzhou City has a job, so they don’t have to spend a single silver coin. They put up with everything. He has made a lot of dirty money in recent years." Speaking of Principal Ma.

, Chen Liuzi complained constantly.

"Then no one in Jinzhou cares about him?" Li Xiao was a little puzzled. When Sun Chengzong governed Liaodong, he had a complete bureaucratic system, and of course there was a supervisory agency.

"Principal Ma is rich and powerful, no one dares to interfere with his affairs. Many people in the Chief Envoy Si Yamen call him brothers. Every day when Principal Ma gets off work, a court carriage comes to borrow. I heard that he is either going to visit the brothel or

Go to the gambling house. The money he has lost over the years is enough to build another school like this."

Li Xiao was so angry that his liver trembled. He did not expect that such a thing would happen under his own rule. This is still the most developed city in Liaodong. If it were in the deep mountains and old forests, there would be no one knows how many people there were.

The governor of Sichuan reported that all the bandits in Shu have been wiped out so far. Individuals often appear sporadically in the jungle, which can be traced back to the Chongzhen Dynasty. If he hadn't been quick, he might have been cut to death on that occasion.

It is so easy to commit suicide. You can kill yourself with just a piece of iron. But few people have the courage to actually do it.
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