Chapter 46 The House of Flying Daggers
After hearing Ye Xiaotian's words, Li Yuncong was stunned and his face changed slightly. Ye Xiaotian stared at Li Yuncong's face and carefully observed every subtle change on his face. He wanted to be sure that Li Yuncong was willing to do this for him. Even if Li Yuncong was reluctant, he could only find another way.
On the one hand, because he doesn't want to keep any future troubles, the people who help him do things must be willing. On the other hand, he doesn't want to force others to make things difficult. He is a fake and will leave sooner or later. No matter how much trouble arises here, he will pat his butt and leave. But Li Yuncong still has to live here, and cannot do whatever he wants like himself.
Li Yuncong hesitated for a moment and smiled easily: "Since he took office, what has been done reasonably and legally? But no matter what he does, he can be very pleased! Li has lived in these few months more exciting than in the past few decades. So, just say whatever instructions the adults have!"
Ye Xiaotian could see that his words were indeed from the heart, and couldn't help but smile happily and waved: "Come here..."
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Two days later, the western suburbs of Huxian.
A caravan left Huxian County and hurried away. Such a team has been very common recently.
Qi Mu used the killer move to block the post road and tried to put pressure on the Huxian government, but he did not want Ye Xiaotian to easily resolve the problem with the "cutting off the firewood from the cauldron" with one move.
Ye Xiaotian cleverly took advantage of the advantages of the local Yi and Miao peoples. They occupied the vast majority of the population here. Over time, they did not all live in the deep mountains. There were always some young people coming out and gradually integrated into the lives of the Han people.
Therefore, among the people who made a living on the post road, there were many ethnic groups from the Yi and Miao tribes. Li Bohao and Gao Ya respectively took the banner of their young chiefs. Naturally, the soldiers recruited them without bloodshed. These people accounted for one-third of the transportation force of Huxian's post road, and the situation stabilized suddenly.
Due to Ye Xiaotian's repeated attacks against Qi Mu, Qi Mu's prestige fell to the bottom. The Qi Empire, which had always been established by hegemony, collapsed quickly. After Ye Xiaotian posed a charge of murder for him and forced him to escape underground, the post road transportation on Huxian section was even more unleased.
At this time, the chief clerk Wang made a high-profile appearance. He represented the official. He invited Luo tycoon to represent the business community, Li Bohao and Gao Ya as important partners of the tycoon to come forward to accept Qi Mu's power. In this case, some of Qi Mu's subordinates turned to them, and the people who refused to surrender were quickly cleared out by them using very tough means, and thus completely took over Qi Mu's post road business.
With the strong cooperation of these partners who are either powerful, rich, or connected, the Huxian post road was quickly opened, and a large number of merchants stranded in Huxian were able to leave. Therefore, such a team that is in a hurry these days can often be seen.
The leader of this caravan was named Fan. Seeing Qi Mu sitting aside and looking around, Mr. Fan comforted him, "Brother Qi, don't worry, how much strength can the small Huxian have? Their hands can't reach so far."
Qi Mu's previous worries were right. Ye Xiaotian abolished the police in four cities in a bright future, but secretly sent many constables to change into casual clothes. You Ge was around the county town. He knew that if Qi Mu wanted to leave the city, he would have many solutions, so he simply gave up the futile squatting and changed to a patrol strategy.
However, Qi Mu has been operating Huxian for many years, and although he has been forced to escape underground by him, he still has great potential. Qi Mu quickly figured out Ye Xiaotian's purpose and formulated a detailed escape plan in a targeted manner. Ye Xiaotian's defense line outside Huxian seemed to have become a decoration for him.
Qi Mu said: "Be careful, there is no big mistake! In the past few days, I have repeatedly recalled that the reason why I fell into this place was that the madman had no routine to follow, and caught me off guard because I was so happy all these years and no longer cautious as before."
He leaned slowly on the back of the chair, closed his eyes, and said deeply: "He knew very well that my departure was only temporary. When I was ready to fight back, I would make a comeback. Therefore, I would not choose to go north, cross the long mountain road to the Central Plains, which would be of no help to me.
For the same reason, I would not consider going east, so I could only go south or west. To south is the post road, which has been controlled by the King's clerk, and he would not allow me to leave. So although there have been many teams passing through the post road recently, the inspection will be strict. Our only choice is to go west. To west, we can go to Shuixi, the governor's yamen is there, and several major chieftains are also there. As long as I find a big man to be my backer there, no one in the small Huxian will touch me again."
"I know these things, and that Crazy History also wants to get them, so his focus must be on the way to the west. Therefore, even if we have already broken through the siege, we must be cautious again and again. This guy often makes amazing moves, and I have experienced them more than once."
Manager Cai nodded and said, "Brother, don't worry, walk three miles further forward. When we reach the valley entrance, we will change clothes. The convoy turns to the post road. A few of us dress up as Yi people, pass through the small roads in the mountains, and then change cars and horses to Shuixi."
Under a low cliff, there was a forest. A vertebrate was riding on the trunk and shaking a knife to cut branches. Manager Cai looked at him coldly. Seeing his extremely rough face that was blowing on the wind and sun, and his skillful wood-cutting movements, he withdrew his keen eyes.
But not long after they passed, the vertebral husband took out a bamboo whistle from his arms, bulged his cheeks and blew it hard. Strangely, even though he had used all his strength, his face was swollen and red, but the whistle did not make any sound.
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There are not many flat land in Huxian, and the limited valleys are occupied by county towns and suburban residential areas. There are only a few plots of land in the middle, such as vegetables. Most of the farmers' fields are hillside land, and small terraced fields are opened on the hillside.
On the terraced fields, three farmers wearing bamboo hats were rolling up their legs and holding hoes to hoe the grass among the ridges. One of them looked dark in complexion, and looked like a newly grown young man, and was Ye Xiaotian disguised himself. The two were Li Yuncong and Su Xuntian. They were also dressed as farmers and worked in the fields with Ye Xiaotian. From the age point of view, they looked like a father holding two sons. It was very ordinary field scene.
Li Yuncong coughed and said, "Sir, you are hoeing seedlings."
Ye Xiaotian's face turned red. Fortunately, his face was covered with charcoal ash, which was dark enough, and he couldn't tell that it was red: "Ah! This..., let's pay the farmer some money, it's not easy to take care of the fields."
Li Yuncong turned his head and said to Su Xuntian: "Su Bantou, the grass needs to be hoed, not tiled. If you dig one by one, what will it be like for someone to crush the other person's land."
Su Xuntian stopped and said embarrassedly: "Well, I didn't expect that farming would be so troublesome."
In the distance, a little shepherd boy who was driving her sheep up the mountain to grazing suddenly ran over and waved his fists to shout at them: "The master is here!"
Su Xuntian and Li Yuncong immediately became nervous, and Su Xuntian said: "Sir, will we do it as soon as he arrives?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Don't worry, act according to my expression."
Su Xuntian looked at Ye Xiaotian's big black face and said, "Sir, should I take action after it gets dark?"
Ye Xiaotian gave him a blank look, because his face was dark and his eyes looked black and white: "You still have the heart to talk nonsense, it seems that you are not nervous at all."
Su Xuntian grinned and said, "Qi Mu is just a betrayal dog now, why are you afraid of him?"
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said, "It is better to be careful if you die without being stiff."
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Ye Xiaotian did not have enough personnel to monitor Qi Mu, even if he removed the guards of the four cities, he asked them to change into casual clothes and scattered on the important roads outside the city for their eyes and ears.
But his control of Li Bohao and Gao Ya was equivalent to mastering the two largest local connections. Just like in some closed rural areas in the Central Plains, any family could spread to the whole village in an instant. As long as they could mobilize nearly 70% of the Yi and Miao peoples, Ye Xiaotian could become a thousand-handed and thousand-eyed Guanyin, and Qi Mu could never hide under his nose.
However, no one has ever tried to use this power, and they have never cooperated with the government's actions. So although we know that Li Bohao and Gao Ya, two young chiefs and Daheng of Luo, formed the Huxian Yilu Transport trio, Qi Mu always believed that these three young men who had not grown all their hair were busy making money on the Yilu, and he never expected that Ye Xiaotian could train them to be so close to him.
Old women and young wives who farm, chop firewood, grazing, and even ride donkeys on the way to visit relatives. Everyone is Ye Xiaotian's eyes. They have unique communication methods for people in the mountains. How can Qi Mu hide under such a net of heaven and earth?
There is a road leading to the valley ahead. To the left, you will walk around the corner of the mountain, and to the right, there is a gentle slope of the mountain. Manager Cai said, "Brother Qi, we are here!"
Manager Cai asked Mafu to hold the reins and took out a large package from the carriage. Qi Mu jumped out of the carriage. Several personal guards quickly surrounded him. The bag opened. There were several sets of blue-black Yi costumes inside, and even the black Baotou wrapped on his head and the big yellow and red ear beads that the Yi people like to wear were all available.
Qi Mu immediately untied his clothes and dressed up on the spot. Several guards also wore them. Manager Cai was not busy changing his clothes, so he helped Qi Mu wear them first.
He put the cone-shaped bag on Qi Mu's head, took a string of big yellow and red ear beads, clamped them on Qi Mu's earlobe, looked at it carefully, and smiled and said, "No, Brother Qi, you dress like this, you look like a mighty and majestic Yi man."
Qi Mu was having fun in pain and grinned, but the smile pattern froze on his face as soon as it bloomed. A hint of fear appeared in his eyes, and the gloomy Crazy Dian Shi suddenly appeared!
In the valley, Ye Xiaotian walked out with his hands in his arms. The second generals of Hum and Ha, Li Yuncong and Su Yunfei followed closely, followed by more than a dozen sword-wielding constables, and at the end were the dark Minzhuang who was holding bamboo guns and vine shields. The way forward was gone!
Chapter completed!