Meng Qi likes to deal with smart people.
Take it easy, don't waste your time.
Without a cup of tea, Meng Qi already got the list.
—Tsk, there are quite a lot of people under King Wu, but there is no leader, and it is a bit mixed.
Huang Yang had a bitter face, like a concubine in mourning.
"Okay, why pretend." Meng Qi wrote down the list and rubbed his hands together, and the piece of paper turned into powder.
After brushing his sleeves again, Meng Qi said casually: "In this list, the most important people are all far away in Qiantang County. Maybe Huang Bie will be your opponent. If they die, you can only be happy."
Huang Yang subconsciously wanted to defend himself, but immediately reacted, smiling dryly and not speaking.
Meng Qi glanced at him and felt even more satisfied.
On the contrary, Mo Li was surprised, and Chuan asked Meng Qi how he could see it.
"There are a lot of people on this list, but whether they are from Ningtai or Qiantang County, they are all about the same thing. As for these positions, most of them are low-level officials of the 8th or 9th grade, and some of them have very strange names. The yamen where I am located doesn’t need so many officers… I think they are from the Jianghu, and King Wu has recruited many such people, and it is unreasonable not to give them official positions.”
Meng Qi stopped abruptly, looked at Mo Li's blank eyes that still couldn't understand, and said embarrassingly directly: "This Huang Biejia avoids the important, and most of the people on the list are unimportant people, those who are important are naturally not the ones who are important. People from the Jianghu who take the salaried name under the name. There is a famous hall in this place, and if you have not been in the official circles, you will not understand the key points."
It is not surprising that Huang Yang, relying on his identities on both sides of the official circles, used this method to prevaricate.
"Since we both know each other's identities, we don't have to pretend to be confused." Meng Qi picked up a paperweight from the desk and played with it.
Not to mention, this Huang Biejia is not only about the clothes he wears, but the things he uses are also first-class.
The ancient bamboo pen holder is filled with a fine pen of dozens of taels of silver or even hundreds of taels, a clear mud inkstone with natural carvings, fragrant pine smoke ink, a whole stack of fine rice paper, and even the pen washing paperweight. Such small objects do not reveal the taste of sophistication and elegance.
It takes a lot of effort to find this table, especially the craftsmanship of Chengni inkstone has been gradually lost due to the repeated wars in the world, and the number of pine smoke ink has dropped sharply in the past century because the ancient pine has been cut down, but these two are still the same. It's top grade, and it doesn't look like the extraordinarily expensive ancient inkstones and ancient inks.
It should be noted that such a thing, as long as it is a little old, the owner is not willing to use it, but it is passed down from generation to generation as a treasure.
In addition to these things, Huang Yang's house did not have a single piece of gold and jade, no antiques, not even large-scale famous kiln vases, and there were no paintings and calligraphy on the walls. The valuable things are probably all in the bookcase and wardrobe, let alone the clothes. After all, these years are all people looking at the dishes, but the things on the bookcase are afraid that the yamen and ordinary Jianghu people will not know the value.
For example, this ink jade paperweight.
It looked unremarkable, but when I picked it up, I realized that the weight was not light. It seems a little too heavy to make a paperweight
Meng Qi did not miss Huang Yang's suddenly nervous expression, although the latter quickly concealed it.
"Look at this, doctor, fish-shaped paperweights are quite rare."
"… "
To be honest, if Meng Qi hadn't pointed it out, Mo Li wouldn't have seen that it was a fish.
Although it is black jade, if you look carefully, there are indeed scale-like patterns and water ripples, but this carving is too ancient and clumsy, just like the jade pendant of the Warring States Period.
At that time, there were jade carvings with dragon patterns that looked like pigs. What is a fish that looks like a pig
Seeing Mo Li's expression of disapproval, Meng Qi smiled even more happily.
There was more cold sweat on Huang Yang's forehead. He gritted his teeth and said reluctantly: "The news here is not as agile as Fengxing Pavilion, but he also knows the prestige of Meng Guoshi. The news that the two went to Jiangnan was spread privately a few days ago, and Huang was just A small person, of course, is aware of current affairs."
There was something in his words, but Meng Qi didn't ask, so he didn't follow Huang Yang's path.
"Just kidding, the old man has not asked about the world for many years, what kind of prestige can he have?"
Huang Yang's expression was distorted when he heard the words, and he probably wanted to put a mirror on Meng Qi's face and let him look in the mirror before calling himself an old man.
The ink carp coughed.
"Forget it, since you're not willing to give the list, let's talk about useful things." Meng Qi said while playing with the paperweight in his hand: "For example, who is King Wu's most reliant counselor, and who is the most eloquent in front of King Wu. The person who speaks, King Wu is soft-hearted, he can't do big things because of his problem, there are not many people who can make up his mind for him, and he can't have too much ambition."
Listening to Meng Qi talking about King Wu's familiar tone, Huang Yang's expression became more complicated.
He is a man who cherishes his life, and he is also very ambitious. Since playing tricks and scheming will not work, if you want to survive, you can only tell the truth - Huang Yang does not know, in fact, Meng Qi will not kill him, all he thinks about is Qiu Si, whose life and death are unknown, has caused him too much shadow over the years. Now that even Qiu Si has been defeated, Huang Yang has no sense of resistance at all.
Qiu Si has more than a dozen attendants, and each of them is as high as him in martial arts, so he can escape for his life. What other thoughts does he have
"There are three forces under the jurisdiction of King Wu, but they rarely fight. Because King Wu's sons are not prosperous, there is nothing to fight for, so their eyes have been staring outside..."
Huang Yang talked about the important officials of King Wu in one breath, including the famous families in Wu.
Mo Li listened carefully for a while, and found that the complicated relationships and twists and turns of these noble families are really annoying. However, there is a very obvious feature in the land under the jurisdiction of King Wu. They are more interested in making money than fighting for power and profit.
Power is important, but if you are not careful, your family will die.
There are so many ways to make money in Qiantang County. When the speed of embezzling the fields is far less than when opening workshops and selling goods from HNA, when the workshops are always short of manpower, the common people are just as sought after as the fields. goods.
Wudi is very exclusive. No matter how many opportunities to make money, they are not willing to share it with others, and foreign firms will be excluded.
"... They want the Jiangnan to be in chaos. It's better for the Qi Dynasty to fight King Jing, and King Ning and King Jing fight to the death. In this way, people with little wealth and wealthy families will flee to Wu land. They have money to buy goods. , a person who can write and calculate when his family is down Embroiderers rarely make mistakes, and they rarely damage goods that need to be treated with care because of their clumsy hands, especially when the King of Wu sent troops to attack the Shanyi tribes the year before, and many of the newly built mountain tea gardens lack tea-picking women.”
Meng Qi's eyes became brighter as he listened, and there was an obvious smile on his lips.
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sp; Compared with the idea of the aristocratic clans taking advantage of the chaos to plunder the population, he cares more about the status quo of Wu land mentioned by Huang Yang.
It is quite remarkable that the nobles of the family can give up, even for a short time, to annex the land.
- Thinking about it carefully, this is still a unique situation in Wu. There are many rivers and fertile fields scattered, and it is difficult to connect them together. Besides fertile fields, there are only small hills, and there are few mountains. It is impossible to reclaim wasteland. Wu land can produce mulberry, hemp and salt, and various brocade weaving skills are also very good. Even ordinary wealthy households have the habit of opening shops to do business, instead of thinking about only buying fields and becoming a rich man.
"So you want to provoke King Ning to raise an army?" Meng Qi was in a good mood, and Huang Yang was also a little bit pleasing to the eye.
When Huang Yang choked, he avoided the important and said lightly: "The plan can't keep up with the changes, the holy lotus altar has repeatedly reached out to Jiangnan, but unfortunately there are people from Xiliang entrenched on King Jing's side, King Ning is the old nest of Fengxing Pavilion, and King Wu has captured many rivers and lakes. People, this didn't let them succeed. But since King Tianshou hooked up with Shengliantan, the situation in Yizhou has accelerated, and Mr. Qiu seems to be in secret contact with King Tianshou, and the people in Wudi are anxious."
They just want to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and they don't want a real chaos in the world.
The Holy Lotus Altar is swindling and coercing the people to rebel. Isn't this robbing the population of Wudi
"There is news, you may not know it yet, King Jing was assassinated."
Meng Qi stared at Huang Yang and said that the latter was agitated and blurted out, "Is it someone from the Heaven-given King's faction?"
"Besides him, there will be no one else." Meng Qi said playfully, "You are also a smart person, so you can do it yourself."
After saying that, they made a gesture to Mo Li, and the two of them jumped out of the window without a sound, and disappeared in an instant.
Huang Yang opened his mouth to speak, but held it back.
He realized that Ningtai couldn't stay any longer, he had to go.
Going to Qiantang County, whether it is to plan the future or avoid danger, because the army of the God-given King is very likely to sweep the south of the Yangtze River like locusts, and the chaotic army lacking silver and food will never be willing to plunder Jingzhou.
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When Meng Qi walked out of Huang Yang's yard and passed the first roof ridge, he suddenly stopped, like a falcon suddenly swooping down, pulling out a man in black from the dark with lightning speed.
Mo Li was taken aback, and saw that the man in black was small and thin, but his Qinggong was extremely clever.
Suddenly attacked, the man in black tried to break free from Meng Qi's restraint in a series of three movements, but unfortunately his movements were not flexible enough and he was like a sparrow caught by a falcon.
Meng Qi didn't say anything. The sky was already bright at the moment. It was not a good idea to stay on the roof of the patrol city for a long time. , which threw the man in his hand heavily to the ground.
The man in black rolled on the spot, shrinking pitifully against the wall, his eyes fluttering, trying to find a way to escape.
Mo Li frowned slightly, and he smelled the faint scent mixed with the scented sachets of the drugstore and sweet-scented osmanthus head oil.
"is her."
The woman who squatted on the roof last night and left after chasing Jingshanhu who wanted to solve the murder case.
Meng Qi noticed that when Mo Li spoke, the woman's eyes under the black scarf showed shock and confusion.
"You, you..."
The woman's voice sounded weak, but it was clear and beautiful.
Her eyes floated to and fro. At first Mo Li thought she wanted to run, but when the woman's eyelids floated to the point of cramping, she felt something was wrong.
Meng Qi seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
In the eyes of ordinary people, although this woman is covered tightly, the pair of water-cut pupils are really moving. When they glance at them, their eyelashes droop slightly, and their graceful and graceful state is completed. Unfortunately, they winked at the dragon veins, and the dragon veins are just a blind.
It doesn't matter whether it covers only one pair of eyes or half of the face... As long as the whole face is not exposed, it makes no difference in Longmai's eyes.
The woman simply pulled off the mask and said softly, "Li Kong'er of the slave family, I have no intention of offending the two seniors. I don't know what the seniors are admonishing?"
"Li Kong'er?" Mo Li had doubts in his heart, but he didn't forget the thief Li Kong'er he met in Yongzhou, why did one pop up here.
Meng Qi smiled directly: "It's not easy for you to maintain the sign of the number one thief in the world."
The brothers and sisters of the same generation are all walking on the rivers and lakes under the name of Li Konger, and their footprints are all over the country.
The woman bit her lip and said, "Huang Yang, who is patrolling the city's yamen, has a black jade double fish pendant from the Warring States Period. If the two seniors also want it, the slave family should retreat."
The ink carp frowned, what kind of ink jade is worn by the fish, the fish can't recognize it, okay
Meng Qi exposed her unceremoniously: "If you want to steal Huang Biejia's things, why don't you go into the house to get it when he's not around? Didn't you see people gathered at the door of the ice cellar last night, even if you were watching the fun, you were reluctant to leave? , why did you run after Jin Chakuai and his group again, and you didn't steal it until the owner of Mo Yupei came back?"
The woman looked at him in horror, unable to lie for a while.
"No, slave family..."
Her eyes began to float again, her expression was desolate, and her palm-sized face filled with tears.
It turned out that the two people in front of them were really dead, and they didn't respond. Li Konger didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly bowed his head and defended: "Actually, the slave family learned about the news of Pili Hall and wanted to sell it to Huang Yang, Wu Wang's side. People are always generous with their shots.”
Just as the words in front of her fell, a loud noise suddenly came from her ears.
This sound is like an ancient alien beast breaking out of the ground, the smoke and dust are rolling, the ground is shaking, and nothing can be heard clearly.
Li Kong'er was an unfortunate reel, and his forehead almost hit the blue bricks of the alley wall.
"What's going on?" Mo Li stabilized his body and his expression changed drastically.
Meng Qi, who jumped onto the roof first, looked even uglier than the ink carp, and a section of the city wall collapsed in the distance.
Ningtai City is very big and the city walls are very high. It was built by King Ning imitating the pattern of Taijing. No matter how you think about it, it will not collapse easily, but now it not only collapsed, but also affected three squares, and many houses were smashed. , Consecutive ruins, cries are heard endlessly.
Mo Li had seen the tragic earthquake in Qiuling County, but it was a man-made disaster right now.
Li Kong'er's face was pale, she got up and wanted to run, but was stopped by Meng Qi, who was full of murderous aura.
She was so frightened that she fell to the ground with a thud, and said tremblingly, "I don't know, I didn't know they started so fast, no no... I just saw people from Pili Hall sneaking around the city wall when I was stealing something a while ago. ."
The smoke slowly dissipated, and I saw that the Ningtai city wall was destroyed about 20 feet long, and it would not be repaired in ten days and half a month.