"One is the common people, how much summer tax, autumn tax, labor labor, and other taxes are paid this year. After asking, I will take out the imperial palace and report a pair, so I can know whether the officials in this place are greedy, and how greedy they are."

"Secondly, merchants. Apart from ordinary people, merchants are the most greedy for their money, and the best way to inquire about their words is also the hardest. It depends on what price you want to pay."

"The third is the subordinate staff. No one knows better than them whether the Shangguan is corrupt or incorruptible." Bai Yitang looked at the round-faced little guard meaningfully and said, "Do you think so?"

"Then it's very difficult to determine whether a person is a corrupt official." The round-faced little guard frowned and said, "Hero Bai, do you have enough time?"

Bai Yitang sneered, "Emperor Qianyuan might have been difficult, but what difficulty was there in the time of the first emperor? Corrupt officials can't be identified one by one, only greedy and cruel."

The round-faced little guard blushed, and the other guards blushed too, but they couldn't refute. Everyone knew that the late emperor was very kind to the courtiers, so nine out of ten corrupt officials in the locality were corrupt, and the remaining one might not be greedy. Or because he didn't take office.

Emperor Qianyuan was the father of the first emperor, perhaps because he was burdened with the hatred of the country and the family. He worked hard to govern, managed his ministers very strictly, and had a clear and clear administration of officials.

Bai Yitang likes him very much. His master started to take over the head of the sect during the time of Emperor Qianyuan, which caused him to not open for several years. He could only rely on the sacrifices of Lingtian sect to survive, and wanted to drink. I have to act as a merchant, selling goods from this place to another place to earn some wine money.

He would only take action when he met a rich and unkind gentry, but because the officials were good during Emperor Qianyuan, in most cases, the master just stole the evidence and threw it in the yamen to solve the problem, so he just threw some money to the poor and kept 100% for himself Ten.

He is so poor that he can't even afford a robe, but he still refuses to steal more, preferring to hand it over to the government. It is also because of this that his presence as the leader of the Lingtian Sect is getting lower and lower. Maybe even he has almost forgotten the rules of the Lingtian Sect, so he took in three apprentices.

The longer he walked in the mortal world, his heart did not harden, but became softer and softer. Bai Yitang once again sighed for his master and for Ling Tianmen.

Master is also really unlucky, accepting an apprentice broke the rules of Lingtianmen, but the disciples and grandchildren are not worried, the two disciples and grandchildren are ungrateful, and he will directly bully the master and destroy the ancestors.

Bai Yitang clicked his tongue twice, silently mourning for his master in his heart.

The round-faced guard recovered from his shame, and asked, "So Zhang Boying Zhang is really a corrupt official, and you really reported him because he is a corrupt official?"

Bai Yitang brought back the thoughts that were getting longer and longer, and looked at the round-faced little guard mockingly: "Zhang Boying is the biggest corrupt official since the founding of the dynasty, do you think he deserves to die?"

The round-faced little guard couldn't help but excitedly said: "How does Bai Daxia know that he is the biggest corrupt official? It's not surprising that the Zhang family has a century-old family and has a lot of savings. No matter how greedy he is, can he be as greedy as the Lan family?"

It was a miracle that the late emperor had officials who were not corrupt, so the round-faced little guard did not excuse Zhang Boying for not being greedy, but felt that it was unfair for Bai Yitang to designate Zhang Boying as the most greedy in the dynasty.

Some time ago, the Lan family ransacked the house, and the imperial guards confiscated a lot of gold and silver from the Lan family and other courtyards.

The gold was melted into the size of a square brick, and the silver was large silver ingots of twenty-one ingots and fifty-two ingots, which were pulled into the treasury by carts, and there were also carts of silk, satin, jade, etc. Antiques, etc. In those few days, what the people of the capital loved most was guarding the section of the road from Lan's house to the palace, watching the imperial guards escort mule carts.

The Lan family ransacked the house for eight days, and the round-faced little guards also went to join in the fun. The Lan family is a big greedy family. You must know that his family was just a miller.

Bai Yitang sneered and said: "How can the Lan family compare with Zhang Boying? Most of the things that the Lan family covet are gifts from businessmen and officials, except for doing business with Concubine Lan, or embezzling the internal treasury. However, Zhang Boying was able to lead the cavalry to encircle and suppress the border residents as Tatar roving troops, enclosing hundreds of thousands of acres of land, do you think Zhang Boying is better, or the Lan family?"

The round-faced little guard's face turned pale, "General Zhang killed a good man and pretended to be meritorious?"

"Except for the belongings that I took away, the rest of Zhang's house is no less than that of the Lan's family. Is there no record in your files? Then there is only one possibility. The things that were seized went out of Zhang's house and went into someone else's." Pocket," Bai Yitang sneered, "it's just a different pocket, it's useless if Zhang Boying is dead."

The round-faced little guard opened his mouth and couldn't refute. Zhang Boying was still a child when he died, so of course he didn't know anything about it.

However, he admired Zhang Boying in private, because he was considered outstanding among the generals. He defeated the attacking Tatar army many times.

As a military officer, he admired Zhang Boying, and felt that it was too unjust for him to be beheaded because of a thief from the Jianghu, so his senses towards Bai Yitang have always been not very good.

But now, when he thought that some of those heads might be the big Chu border people, the round-faced little guard turned pale. He didn't doubt Bai Yitang's words, because the past few days of getting along with him made him vaguely know that Bai Yitang would not be involved in such a matter lie.

The head guard at the side sighed slightly when he saw it, pulled the round-faced little guard up sympathetically, and said, "Come on, come with me to rest, there will definitely be a big battle in a while."

If you let him stay with Bai Yitang again, he will only be more stimulated.

Although he has never met Zhang Boying, he has heard about him, and the elders in his family will occasionally mention it, so he knows better. Zhang Boying is indeed very good at fighting and has military talent, but he is too fond of money. , acted fiercely.

As long as the first emperor could bear it, if he were Emperor Qianyuan, the entire Zhang family would have to be buried with Zhang Boying. On this point, he really couldn't say that Bai Yitang did something wrong.

Looking at Bai Yitang who was still staring happily at the round-faced little guard after the stimulation, the head guard was even more frustrated.

He looked down on Bai Yitang, he was just a quack, a thief, but...

Of course, Bai Yitang knew that they didn't like him. At that time, the head of the guard deserved to be treated well in front of the emperor. He had a cold and serious face when he left the palace gate. Don't think that he couldn't see the seriousness of his face because of his businesslike face. of contempt.

Bai Yitang has become a talent at a young age, except his master, who would dare to show him face?

Looking at the guards who were pointed out, they were all like him. Although they were respectful to him on the face, they didn't even cover up the contempt in their eyes.

In this case, he would not borrow people from Qin Xinfang, anyway, the emperor had to listen to him, so he used them as handymen.

They are also responsible for guarding the car, exploring the road, guarding the goods, and even three meals a day. When they can enter the town when they are staying, they are asked to run errands to buy this, which one to buy, or not to sell? beat!

To set up camp, you have to set up a tent for him, barbecue and find water for him to wash, and he even throws his dirty clothes to them for washing.

broken?

It's okay, I don't mind wearing yours.

The guards already felt ashamed to protect a Jiang Hu person, and they were so angry that their heads were smoking when they were asked to do so many things.

But what can I do?

Fighting alone, none of them can beat Bai Yitang, gang fight?

Stop making trouble, can they still block Bai Yitang?

It's not that they haven't tried it before, but they didn't even touch a piece of his clothes, and the man disappeared in such a grand manner that they almost broke out in a cold sweat.

The emperor sent them to protect Bai Yitang, firstly for protection, secondly for monitoring, and thirdly for pulling back those account books of Lingtianmen.

Of these three, no matter which one is missing, Bai Yitang can't do it. Losing people, what's the difference between losing their heads?

The guards hurriedly looked for him, but finally, after three days, this master was sitting on a branch of a tree with a roast chicken in his hand, watching them work, and the look in his eyes was extremely contemptuous.

Is it easy to catch a thief who can go in and out of Zhang's mansion under Zhang Boying's hands, and even throw things into the palace silently?

It is said that the reason why Zhang Boying was able to catch Bai Yitang back then was because of the betrayal of his senior brother and sister. Now where can they find someone who can lure people into being fooled?

So the guards could only pinch their noses and apologize to Bai Yitang, begging him not to run around like a grandpa suing a grandma, stay in the line and let them protect them, they will never dare to disobey his orders in the future, he told them to go East, they never go west.

So after entering the Kaifeng mansion, Bai Yitang asked them to move all the boxes into the room, and they had to move things like handymen. They could be angry, but they just couldn't show contemptuous eyes, so as not to annoy this master again up.

The head guard carried the round-faced little guard upstairs to avoid disputes between the two parties, and he deliberately left the two of them to "protect" Bai Yitang, and the rest went upstairs to rest.

As for the three people downstairs, he has no control over who protects the other.

Seeing that Bai Yitang liked the gate of the inn so much, the two remaining guards also turned around and entered the store and brought two chairs to sit beside him, one on the left and the other on the right, imitating him with his legs crossed to enjoy the street view.

One of the guards was very considerate and said: "Hero Bai, would you like to ask Xiaoer to bring us some sauced elbows? It is said that the sauced elbows in their store are not bad." He paused and said: "I treat guests without the life-saving money of the people. .”

Bai Yitang nodded happily, turned his head and shouted at the inn, "Xiaoer, here are the three pots of sauced elbow."

"Wait," the guard stopped him profusely with sweat and said, "Is the sauced elbow here put on a basin?"

Bai Yitang despised him, "A big man can't even finish a pot of soy pork?"

The guard was angry, did he mean that?

How much does a pot of sauced elbow cost, and you can come to three pots as soon as you come!

Seemingly knowing what he was thinking, Bai Yitang said: "Don't worry, the sauced elbow is calculated by the catty, how expensive is sixty Wen per catty?"

The guard breathed a sigh of relief, and waved his hands generously: "If you come for three pots, you will get three pots. Don't be polite to me, everyone."

Xiaoer replied: "Guest officer, are you here in the big basin or in the middle basin?"

"Since it's all in a basin, of course it's a big basin."

Bai Yitang swallowed the word "中" silently, a smile flashed in his eyes, he is really a group of deceitful guards, his apprentice has never been so stupid and sweet.

Of course, two taels of silver can't save a hundred people, because it is impossible to buy rice for twenty renminbi a catty in disaster-stricken places, and even two hundred renminbi can't be bought.

Of course, a pot of pork belly won't be cheap, because it's heavy! ! !

When Xiaoer put a long table in front of them, and then went in and brought out a big basin, the two guards opened their mouths wide, and the guard who called for a treat swallowed and asked, "This is three basins. Have you made a pot together?"

The shopkeeper, who was depressed because of the three sitting at the door, swept away his previous gloom, raised his chin and said, "Of course not, our shop is innocent. If you say it's a big pot, it's a big pot."

"That's right!" Xiaoer gritted his teeth and said brilliantly, "Don't worry, guest officer, our basin is definitely big enough."

The guard almost spat out a mouthful of old blood in his chest, but he couldn't change his words and said no, so he could only silently watch Xiao Er take out three large pots of sauced elbows.

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