"Ah! Finally back to Tongren!"
As soon as he entered the city gate, Li Jing was in high spirits. Along the way, Ye Xiaotian was suspicious, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, which almost drove him crazy. It was enough to be on guard from time to time. Ye Xiaotian suggested to stay in an inn. When the moon was in the sky, he should have fallen asleep, but Ye Xiaotian suddenly made a quick march...
It was an easy return trip, but because of Ye Xiaotian's weird behavior, he couldn't sleep well, and he couldn't eat well. Now that he returned to Tongren City, he finally saw the light. Ye Xiaotian interjected cautiously: "The easier it is to slack, the easier it is to make mistakes. Brother Li, don't be careless."
Li experienced: "..."
Entering the city from here, you will pass the Dabei Temple on the road ahead. The inn at Dabei Temple is actually an inn, and the stay period can be long or short, and there are those who only stay for one night or just rest here, because it is temple property, and the government cannot collect taxes, it is a good business with huge profits.
Seeing the magnificent buildings of the Great Compassion Temple from a distance, Li Chin couldn't help turning his head and said, "Major Ye County, do you want someone to go to the temple to say hello and prepare the accommodation in advance?"
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said: "No need, the magistrate has entrusted me to go to Tixi. After I report to the magistrate, I will return to Hu County if I have nothing else to do."
Li Jingji comforted him: "It's up to people to plan things, but it's up to God to make things happen. You sacrificed your life for Hu County, and if you fail to catch things, it's not your fault, so don't think too much about it."
The current chaos in Mercury Mountain was originally fueled by Ye Xiaotian. He couldn't be depressed, but he couldn't explain it to Li Jing, so he had to smile wryly: "Thank you, Li Jing, for comforting me, huh? Isn't that Dai Tongzhi?"
Li Jingli turned his head and saw Dai Chonghua walking slowly on the road with a small bamboo fan painted with gorgeous peach blossoms, seeing his feet fluttering and his legs sluggish, Li Jingli laughed. : "This guy must have been fooling around again."
Li Jing got off his horse and greeted Dai Chonghua with a big smile: "Brother Dai, where did you come from and where are you going?"
Dai Chonghua's eyes were a little dull, and he looked a little depressed, as if he was very tired, but he didn't notice a huge team coming. Now when he heard someone talking and looked up, he couldn't help being surprised, and suddenly widened his eyes and said: "You... When did you come back!"
Li Xiangrong laughed and said, "Didn't you just go back to the city?" Then he winked at Dai Tongzhi and asked, "Quickly tell me, where did you fool around again today, and whose young lady did you hook up with this time?"
Dai Tongzhi saw Ye Xiaotian and his followers behind Li Xiangrong, and knew that they had just entered the city, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Li Xiangrong with a smile: "Your brother is joking, don't mention this, don't mention this, ah! County magistrate, long time no see."
Ye Xiaotian got off his horse, cupped his hands to Dai Tongzhi and said, "I met Dai Tongzhi."
Dai Chonghua asked: "How is it? Has the chaos in Tixi improved?"
Li Jing and Ye Xiaotian looked at each other, sighed, and said in unison: "It's hard to say."
Dai Chonghua said: "I happen to have nothing to do today, so I will accompany you to see the magistrate. Let's go, let's talk as we go." They had already reached a densely populated place, and Li Jingzhen and Ye Xiaotian didn't get on their horses. They walked with Dai Tongzhi and said, Tell him about Tixis' current situation.
Passing by the Great Compassion Temple not far ahead, Li Jingli suddenly stopped, and said lightly, "Isn't that my sedan chair? Lady? Lady!"
Li Jingli let go of his feet and rushed forward in a small sedan chair. Seeing that it was the master of the family, the bearer stopped quickly, and the sedan chair curtain was lifted, revealing a beautiful face with crescent eyebrows and almond eyes. It was Li Songyue. Madam Li's cheeks were as red as peaches and plums, probably because of the sweltering heat in the sedan chair.
Li Songyue was taken aback when she saw Li Jing, and said, "Master is back?"
Li Jing said with a smile: "Aren't you coming back? Where are you going?"
Li Songyue suppressed her shock, lightly brushed her hair at the side of her temples, and said, "Oh, my concubine just came back from offering incense in the temple."
Li Jing said: "Okay! Madam, let's go home and prepare a table for the banquet. I have been exhausted for my husband and wife all the way. After returning, you and I will have a drink and go to get tired."
Li Songyue said: "My family knows." With a flash of his wonderful eyes, he saw Dai Chonghua standing not far away, and immediately retracted his gaze, and smiled gently at Li Ching.
Li Ching said with a smile: "Brother Dai is over there. He is a very familiar person. You don't have to get out of the sedan chair to greet him. You can go. I will go back after I report to the magistrate."
Li Songyue nodded in agreement, then glanced in Dai Tongzhi's direction again, and opened the curtain to conceal the boundless love of the red apricot blooming.
Seeing the sedan chair being carried away, Dai Tongzhi heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head suddenly, and saw Ye Xiaotian squinting at him, he couldn't help touching his nose, and asked a little uncomfortably, "What is Master Ye looking at?"
Ye Xiaotian nodded to Dai Tongzhi, and answered irrelevantly: "I really admire Mr. Dai very much!"
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Lafayette Zhang Zhifu usually piled up in a chair, stared at Ye Xiaotian and said, "What do you say? Who died?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Yu Fushun, chieftain of Tixi Yu's family, was accidentally assassinated and died outside the gate of the village!"
"ah!"
Zhang Zhifu's bear body shook, and the chair under him suddenly let out a "creak" scream.
Zhang Zhifu was startled and said: "How could this happen, who did it?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "The murderer fled far away and was never caught. However, judging from the arrows left by Chieftain Yu, Yu Tong judged that the arrows are unique to Liangyue Valley."
Zhang Zhifu was shocked again, and the chair under him screamed again, and continued to be shocked: "It turned out to be the hand of the Guoji family? How could this be so! Now... how is the situation in Tixi now?"
Li Ching said with a wry smile: "When the two of us left, Yu's family was having a funeral. But I saw that the brave men in the village had gathered, wearing armor and holding spears, and mourning soldiers. I am afraid that a big war is about to break out!"
Zhang Zhifu's bear body trembled again, Ye Xiaotian coughed and said: "That was when we left, now, I'm afraid it's full of smoke!"
With a sound of "crash", the chair under Zhang Zhifu was torn apart, and a mountain of meat fell to the ground with a loud crash, shaking the ground twice.
"Master Zhifu!"
Ye Xiaotian, Li Jingchen, Dai Tongzhi, and two guards at the entrance of the hall, the five of them struggled to drag Zhang Zhifu up from the ground. How could it be? How could it be?"
Dai Tongzhi reminded: "Tongren Yu's family and Tixi Yu's family are in the same spirit, and they will certainly not sit back and watch Tixi Yu's family be bullied. The Guoji family and Tixi Yu's family in Liangyue Valley are under the rule of our Tongren Mansion, and there is a lot of chaos. From now on, it will not be difficult for the magistrate to just sit back and watch!"
Zhang Zhifu's face was like chicken blood, he gasped for a long time, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Quick! Go to Shuixi and ask Tian to mediate!"
Dai Tongzhi's face immediately fell down: "Is the magistrate telling you to go down?"
This question reminded Zhang Zhifu, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, you can go! You must explain to the Tian family how serious the situation is here. The Yu family and the Guoji family can not give me face, but they must give the Tian family Save face? You go, go!"
When Dai Tongzhi heard it, he wished to give himself a mouthful. It turned out that he was taking matters into his own hands, and his face became even uglier.
"Tian family?"
Ye Xiaotian unexpectedly remembered the Baihu girl from the Tian family that Zhan Ning'er had commented on. Fatty Zhang was going to the west to invite the Tathagata Buddha, but he didn't know whether this Tian Baihu would win or lose against General Yu, so he couldn't stay in Tongren to sit. What a pity to watch two tigress fight...
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Ye Xiaotian left, waving his sleeves, he didn't take a single cloud with him, only left Fatty Zhang a mess with fire on all sides and smoke everywhere.
Naturally, the reward offered by Zhang Zhifu was not available, Ye Xiaotian only took away about 90% of the previous year's relief silver taels, and was escorted by Tongren Prefecture to Hu County.
The chaos in Tixi escalated, and Fatty Zhang was so shocked that he ran to Shuixi to move rescuers. This matter quickly reached the ears of Yang Yinglong who was hiding in Zhan's house. Tixi's mediation.
Yang Yinglong's original plan was to control the seedlings in the 100,000 mountains. As long as this power came out of the mountain, he would be able to echo with Bozhou. .
Unexpectedly, the elder he tried his best to cultivate failed, and the position of venerable fell into Ye Xiaotian's hands inexplicably. If Yang Yinglong wants to do big things, he must be cautious in the early stage. Showing the fox's tail too early will definitely arouse the vigilance of the court and create various obstacles for him to do things.
So Yang Yinglong resolutely withdrew his hands and feet, and turned to find another way. The method he thought of was to stir up disputes among the Tongren tribes and support Yu's superior position.
Since the Tian family lost absolute control over the two places of Sizhou and Sinan, for the predators at the top of the Guizhou biological chain composed of chieftains, Sizhou and Sinan are tantamount to "land without an owner." ground".
Just like the lions have their own territories, suddenly the lions on one territory migrate far away, it is impossible for this unowned land to allow hyenas to become the highest level predators, and one day other lions will expand their territories, Including this, Yang Yinglong was the one who struck first.
To achieve this goal, Yang Yinglong must do two things: First, the scope of the conflict must not be expanded. Once the war situation becomes uncontrollable, and he cannot intervene in advance, it will cause other chieftains to come forward, or the court will take action, so he will make a wedding dress for others.
The second is to prevent people from discovering that he is the mastermind behind the chaos in Tongren. Before he raises an incident, people must not discover that Tongren Mansion has actually fallen into his hands. So he made every possible detour, did not hesitate to share the benefits, secretly bought Zhanjia, and reached a cooperation with Yu Junting, who was also ambitious.
In this way, he had to instigate conflicts while staying behind the scenes, but also had to control conflicts. He could not let the war escalate, and he could not take extreme measures to destroy a certain tribe. Instead, he had to weaken the prestige of Zhang Zhifu through a series of actions. His influence and influence prompted the chieftains who were originally vassals of the Zhang family to renounce their virtues, and finally seized power because of the family.
Only in this way can the interference of other chieftains and the court be avoided. The power of the various chieftain families was originally going up and down, but the normal process had to be smooth and silent, and it could only be achieved through the unremitting efforts of several generations, and he accelerated this process countless times.
It's hard to control the heat, it's almost half-baked, and the dishes will be mushy after a while. Now the situation is clearly out of control, but fortunately this time Yu Junting did a good job of being smart. She insisted that it was Liangyue Valley who caused the trouble, taking the lead in morality, and set the target in Tongren, and as a Sufferer, she has the initiative, how this matter develops, she can advance or retreat.
It's just that Yang Yinglong has to stop for the time being. The Tian family is not as stupid as Fatty Zhang. If he doesn't get out in time, it's hard to guarantee that he won't be found behind the scenes. Thinking of this, Yang Yinglong immediately issued a series of orders, the main content of which was to appease the Zhan family and Shi Qian's Yang family, and arrange for his own people to either stand still, or temporarily withdraw from the matter.
When everything was arranged properly, Yang Yinglong thought of Ye Xiaotian again, this shit-stirring stick, why is he everywhere? Yu Junting said that it was Ye Xiaotian who killed Yu Zhaizhu, what did he mean? Did he find out that Yu Fushun intended to kill him to take revenge, or did he have another purpose
Yang Yinglong was very worried, so he gave another order: "Tell Zhao Xin, tell him to keep an eye on Ye Xiaotian, see if he does anything else, and report to me anytime!"