Li Xiaofei is in charge of the newly built wineries, gambling houses, brothels, inns, warehouses and other industries in the northern suburbs of Jinling, but the plaques still bear the name of the Jinling Imperial Court.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofei didn't have a big appetite, so he actually sent 70% of his actual income to Zhu Yaoshi's inner palace, which greatly exceeded Zhu Yaoshi's surprise.

Pharmacist Zhu ordered people to check. In the past, all kinds of government-run industries in Jinling City were very clean if they could hand over 10% of the actual income. Take wineries as an example, the four newly opened wineries in the northern suburbs

, the daily sales of wine were more than 10,000 jins, but the monthly bill reported to the wine master was only 200,000 jins. The income from the 200,000 jins of wine was 50,000 guan, so Li Xiaofei handed over 35,000 guan.

The money was sent to the inner government. The remaining fifteen thousand guan was taken out and distributed to the Jiuzheng, sergeant, corporal and others who were in charge of brewing. Another five thousand guan was spent for the inner government and Duzhi Shangshu.

The remaining five thousand coins are usually used by Li Xiaofei to reward his followers and help the refugees who pass by.

The income from selling wine alone was enough for Li Xiaofei to live a wild life, not to mention that Li Xiaofei didn't need to pay for food and clothing himself. As time went by, Li Xiaofei's reputation as a polite and virtuous corporal for helping people in danger and rescuing people in distress spread.

In addition to the nouveau riche from Jinling City and businessmen who came to visit the northern suburbs, there were also many gangsters and thieves from the rivers and lakes, who even defrauded Li Xiaofei of some money.

Li Xiaofei didn't mind the scammers defrauding him of money, but when the snow fell and the construction site stopped working, a troublemaker actually came.

It was the nineteenth of the winter lunar month when this man first came. When he came up, he took out two ingots of gold and gave them to the brothel's madam as a deposit. He spent more than twenty days here eating and drinking and looking for girls.

At first, everyone didn't pay attention, thinking that this man was a rich man, so they picked out the most expensive wine and food, and invited a dozen girls to accompany him all day long, reciting poems, painting, playing piano and singing. In less than five days, these two ingots of gold were already there.

It's all spent.

The old bustard expected that the man would continue to give out gold ingots to spend money, so he served better and more dishes and personally bought the man pens, inks, paper and inkstones for his entertainment.

Unexpectedly, on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, this person stopped looking for girls and refused to serve them food. He said he wanted to stay in seclusion in his room for half a month without anyone disturbing him.

At this time, his expenditure had already reached ten yuan. The madam was a little anxious and went to collect the debt.

But this man was meditating in his room and turned a deaf ear. Fortunately, Li Xiaofei had already ordered not to embarrass these debtors, so the madam went to find Li Xiaofei.

Li Xiaofei was drinking with some merchants selling mink ginseng. The old madam went over to talk to him. Li Xiaofei thought he was another liar who was here to eat and drink, so he waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, let him go. You can go find my butler to get it."

It’s money!”

"Master Li, this man won't leave. He insists on staying in seclusion upstairs here and won't leave! I think this man is a little weird! Master Li still needs to send an official to investigate!" The old bustard was a little worried.

Li Xiaofei smiled and said: "Let's drink first. These big bosses are all coming from the north. You go down first. You can go find Master Zhou to handle those little things!"

The old madam walked away knowingly and went to see Master Zhou. Master Zhou touched his beard and said: "This man just wants to extort a sum of money. It might as well be that we treat him with courtesy first and then take the money to get him out, and then we can teach him a lesson when he is sent to the official court."

After all, Mr. Li is too tolerant and generous, and all these cats and dogs come here to eat and drink!"

After that, Master Zhou led dozens of soldiers to the brothel to capture this man.

When they arrived at the door, Mr. Zhou winked, and the madam opened the door. Mr. Zhou cleared his throat and went in: "My guest, if you have any trouble, Mr. Li will settle the debt for you. If there is no expense,

, we will give you some more silver. Don’t worry, we will escort you out! No one will make things difficult for you!"

The man was still sitting cross-legged on the bed motionless. Master Zhou came closer and said a few words. When there was no response, he waved his hand and the soldiers immediately went in to tie up the man.

"If you persist in your stubbornness, don't blame us for punishing you according to the law! Tied up!"

Master Zhou gave an ultimatum

The soldiers tied up the man quickly, but they couldn't move him.

"It's really crazy. More than a dozen of us can't even lift him!"

"Hit him, beat him until he speaks!" Master Zhou didn't believe in evil, so he asked the soldiers to take out wooden sticks and beat him.

After beating for a while, the man still didn't move. "He's been beaten to evil! He's been beaten to evil! Someone, come and get the dog's blood and urine to break his evil spell!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers surrounding this man were bounced away and fell to the ground, covering their arms and legs.

"Who dares to disturb my seclusion!" The man opened his eyes and stared angrily.

"Who are you, eating for free here and still refusing to leave?" Master Zhou asked him instead, not afraid of trouble.

"Hmph, anyone who talks about politeness and courtesy is a liar. I will give your master a piece of writing."

After saying that, he stood up, jumped up on the desk, picked up a pen, dipped in ink and wrote on the wall: "Li Xiaofei who deceives the world and steals his name! Liu Ming's singer book!"

Liu Mingge put down his pen and straightened his clothes: "If you don't go out, I will dip some red paint on your face and write a few words on it."

"Good calligraphy! Good calligraphy!" The soldiers climbed out one after another, but Master Zhou was stunned.

The twelve large characters written on the wall were clear but powerful, and the fonts were grand yet neat. They looked like blunt pens, but when viewed from the side they were sharp. Master Zhou sighed again: "Since the sage of calligraphy, Wang Xizhi,

, There are no good words in the human world. It seems that I am lucky enough to get a glimpse of this unique book today! How wonderful!"

Liu Mingge kept his word. There was no red paint at the moment, so he continued to dip his pen in ink and quickly drew two words on Master Zhou's face: "Great!"

Master Zhou was surprised when he was lifted up by Liu Mingge and placed gently at the door, and then the door was closed again.

Everyone looked at Master Zhou with laughter on his face. Master Zhou also smiled stupidly. The madam was anxious: "How long has it been and you are still laughing? Go and report it to Mr. Li!"

"No, no, no, you must not disturb this person anymore. There is an expert living here!" Master Zhou quickly waved his hand to stop the madam.

"Master Zhou, aren't you scared out of your wits? That's a girl written on your face? What does he mean? To kill our girl?" The old bustard didn't know much about literacy, so he mistook Da Miao for a girl, which led to the confusion.

Everyone came and laughed wildly.

"Go, go, go, you don't understand the affairs of men of letters. I'm going to find Mr. Li. Don't neglect the master upstairs!" Master Zhou pushed the madam away and went downstairs to find Li Xiaofei.

"These scholars are doing inhumane things, beating around the bush, and trying to show off their superiority. How can a superior person eat wine in a brothel and look for girls?" The old madam was very disdainful of Mr. Zhou and left after complaining.

When Master Zhou came to Li Xiaofei, his ink was dry. Everyone burst out laughing when they saw it: "What's going on? Haha, don't tell me, the writing is so good, it looks like a girl! It seems that this old man is also in love with love."

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"No, she's obviously a eldest girl? The old man is just different," several merchants joked.

"Mr. Zhou, what's going on? Come quickly and get some water for Mr. Zhou to wash himself." After all, Li Xiaofei still cared about his own people and did not make Master Zhou happy.

"Master Li, you can't wash it. I'll have someone cut it out when I get home. The writing is so good that I'm afraid it'll be hard to find!" Master Zhou quickly stretched out his hand to stop it.

"To be honest, I don't read much, so I really can't understand this word, but it still looks a bit blurry! Since Mr. Zhou said that a thousand pieces of gold are hard to come by, he can't lie. But why is this person writing on your face?

?" Li Xiaofei was quite honest and told the truth.

"Master Li, you have to meet this man in person. He is an expert, both civil and military, and definitely not a charlatan!" Master Zhou said very sincerely.

Li Xiaofei put down his wine glass and stood up. Master Zhou is also a person who has read many books, but he was born in a poor family and could not become a

As an official and a part-time official, there are very few people he usually looks up to. Even he thinks he is an expert. It seems that he has really met an expert.

"Guys, please excuse me. I'm going to meet this expert." Li Xiaofei clasped his fists and said goodbye to several merchants.

The host was about to leave the table, and it was inappropriate for the guests to continue eating and drinking, so they all stood up and said, "Thank you Master Li for the fine wine, delicious food, and beauties. We brothers have also had enough to eat and drink. If Master Li doesn't mind, we will

I will also accompany you to meet this master!"

Li Xiaofei took the words and said: "Okay, let's go together. You are also well-informed people. You can also help Li to support the scene!" He said that he invited them to go with him, but in fact he was afraid of these few people.

They left after eating and drinking. Li Xiaofei came to see them today. The most important purpose was to learn about the situation in Hebei from them.

The group of people followed Mr. Zhou to the brothel again. When the madam saw Li Xiaofei, she quickly knelt down and said, "Master Li, you have to be careful. That person upstairs is not easy to deal with."

"Ahem, get up, you all spread out, I'll go up alone!" Li Xiaofei asked everyone to leave and went upstairs alone.

Li Xiaofei walked to the door and wanted to knock on the door, but thinking about Master Zhou's experience on the road, he stopped and looked in at the window.

"Come in, my retreat has been disturbed by them!" Liu Mingge's voice came from the room

Li Xiaofei opened the door and went in. Everyone downstairs held their breath and watched Li Xiaofei go in.

Li Xiaofei walked in slowly and saw a middle-aged scholar sitting next to the desk. He was dressed in purple and had thick eyebrows, big eyes and a round face. He was holding a copy of the Tao Te Ching and reading it.

"Please sit down!" Liu Mingge didn't look at Li Xiaofei, but just asked Li Xiaofei to sit down.

Li Xiaofei had no choice but to sit down, and happened to see twelve big characters on the wall: "Li Xiaofei who deceives the world and steals his name! Liu Ming's singer book!"

Li Xiaofei wanted to speak, but gave up the idea after thinking about it.

Liu Mingge continued to read, completely ignoring Li Xiaofei. Li Xiaofei kept sitting and looking at Liu Mingge to see what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

It was also quiet outside the door, everyone was waiting to see what the scene would be like when Li Xiaofei arrived in person.

After half an hour, Liu Mingge put down the "Tao Te Ching" and opened his arms: "Looking at it and not seeing it is called Yi, hearing it and not being famous is called Xi, fighting at it and not being famous is called Wei. May I ask if you agree?"

"The words of the master are profound and unpredictable. Please forgive Xiaofei for not being able to understand because he has little education. Please forgive me!" Li Xiaofei really didn't understand, so he had to answer honestly.

Liu Mingge picked up the water glass on the table and threw it at the words on the wall. Then he drew his sword and swung it at the wall a few times. The words deceiving the world and stealing names became "He who knows himself will understand."

"It seems that the rumors in the world are somewhat credible. If you don't know how to pretend to understand, you will have already flown out of the door! I am Liu Mingge. I have been here for more than 20 days, just waiting for you! Look

These two ingots of gold are worth it!" Liu Mingge put the sword back into the scabbard and walked towards Li Xiaofei.

Li Xiaofei also stood up and bowed: "Mr. Liu, a worldly master, please forgive Xiaofei and them for being clumsy and neglecting me! I wonder why you are waiting for me?"

"Haha, this is not the place to talk. If Mr. Li is really serious, you can wait for me at the mass grave ten miles away at midnight tonight!" Liu Mingge finally said his request.

Li Xiaofei clasped his hands and said, "Okay, everything is as arranged by sir!"

"Remember, you can only go alone! You can go out now, I'm going to bed!" After Liu Mingge said that, he went to sit up on the bed again.

Li Xiaofei quickly exited the door, closed the door and went downstairs.

"Master Li, what are you doing inside? Why is there still the sound of drawing a sword?"

"Master Li, is he willing to leave?"
Chapter completed!