The famous Sanxiu Academy in Raozhou is located next to Sanxiu Forest. After King Wu took over half of the south of the Yangtze River, he set up academies in various places in the south of the Yangtze River to recruit students. There are more than ten academies in Raozhou City, including Sanxiu Academy.
Among them, the leader. This shows that King Wu was determined to recruit talented people to revitalize the Han Dynasty.
The motorcade passed Sanxiulin, and after walking for a while, it was not far from the Raozhou Salt Field. From a distance, we could see lanterns and torches illuminating the salt field as bright as day. The leader of the motorcade was the pockmarked man, whose surname was Li.
Mazi was good at wielding a long sword and was very skilled in martial arts. He once led a group of people to Luo Cao on the Moon Mountain near Raozhou, and he gained a great reputation in the world. At that time, Yuan soldiers encircled and suppressed him several times, but nothing could be done to him.
Later, the Ming army captured Raozhou and sent a prefect. Unexpectedly, after the prefect took office, he actually sent people to say surrender. Li Mazi was greedy for glory and wealth, so he led people down the mountain to surrender to the prefect.
Today, Li Mazi has a house, money, women, and sons in Raozhou. In just one year, he has everything that he could never imagine before. These are all gifts from the prefect. The prefect now has
He is now the Prefect of Raozhou. In Li Mazi's heart, Master Fu Yin is like a reborn parent. Without Master Fu Yin, there would be nothing for Li Mazi.
For the sake of Mr. Fu Yin, Li Mazi would rather die. To be respected by Mr. Fu Yin is a blessing that has been cultivated for several generations. Li Mazi now brings his former troops to escort Haiyan full-time, and every month he can get the favor from Mr. Fu Yin.
Where can I get one hundred taels of silver? One hundred taels of silver is unthinkable in the eyes of ordinary people. Today's first-grade court officials in the Ming Dynasty only earn more than eighty taels of silver per month. Although my job is harder
, but it is still worse than robbing families and homes before.
In the past, Li Mazi lived a cautious life, but now he transports smuggled salt with confidence and boldness. Pan Lei, the prefect of Quanzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is the cousin of Pan Ke, the prefect of Raozhou. The smuggled salt is shipped from Quanzhou along the way to the prefectures and counties. In the past,
Li Mazi also made a lot of friends in the green forest. Even if he was in an area where bandits were infested, it didn't matter. His friends on the road would always give Li Mazi some face.
The motorcade passed Sanxiulin, and after walking for a while, it was not far from the Raozhou Salt Field. From a distance, we saw lanterns and torches illuminating the salt field as bright as day. Because it was going to rain tonight, there were already several people inside the salt field.
The head and a team of coolies are waiting there to prepare for unloading.
Li Mazi urged, and the convoy rushed towards the salt field. The wooden fence gate of the salt field was opened early to wait for the convoy to enter. Strangely enough, just when these people entered the salt field, it started to drizzle.
Li Mazi couldn't help cursing. It was raining at the moment and he couldn't unload the goods. If the salt package saw rain, it would be two pounds shorter. In desperation, Li Mazi ordered the carriage to stop after entering the salt field. Everyone took shelter in the salt field shed and waited.
Unloading will be done after it rains. The carriages are all covered with tarpaulins, and everything is bundled and packed so that everything is fine.
After giving the instructions, Li Mazi followed the leaders of the salt farm, chatting and laughing, to the earthen house next to the salt farm, where wine and food had already been prepared. This was the usual practice.
Li Mazi didn't drink at all along the way, so when he arrived at the farm, he no longer felt restrained. He and others sat around the square table in the room with their heads raised, and then started eating and drinking. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, he left through the back door.
Two people came in. They were both wearing bamboo hats and raincoats. But with his eyes closed, Li Mazi knew that these two people were Mr. Ma from the Salt Affairs Department and his second-year high school student.
Master Ma entered the room and first took off his bamboo hat and raincoat, revealing a Confucian robe. Master Ma is a scholar, and scholars are poor and fastidious, so they must be dressed so neatly on such a rainy night.
Master Ma bent down and reached out to wipe off the muddy water on his robes, then took out a piece of paper from his arms and signed it.
"Hahaha, Mr. Li! This is a routine deed of goods, it has been stamped. You keep it!" Master Ma handed over the paper to sign, and Li Mazi took it, unfolded it, took a look, then folded it and put it in his arms.
This deed is money, three pieces per month. With it, you can get the money from Mr. Fu Yin, but you don't dare to lose it. After receiving the deed, Li Mazi laughed and said: "This rain won't stop for a while.
Come down, Master Ma is here just in time, let’s have a drink together. Come on, come on, I’ll fill it up for you.”
As he spoke, Li Mazi took an empty cup and a wine flask to pour some wine.
Master Ma couldn't help but frown. The wine glass Li Mazi was holding had been used by a saltworks worker next to him. How could he, a scholar, share a drink with him?
"You don't have to be polite, Mr. Li. I'll go back and report to Master Fu right now. Farewell!" Master Ma refused with his hands and turned around to put on his raincoat and put on his bamboo hat.
Li Mazi laughed loudly and said, "Master, please go slowly and I won't send you off." Although he said this, Li Mazi felt bright in his heart. Whenever he took someone else's cup to toast, Master Ma would avoid him. As time went by,
, Li Mazi used this as a trick, knowing that Master Ma loved to be clean, so he did this.
The people sitting here are all his brothers. They used to lick the blood with their own swords. No one would feel comfortable if a sour scholar came in. Therefore, every time the contract of goods was handed over, Li Mazi would see off the guests in this way.
It’s better to just try and fail.
Master Ma dressed up and once again bowed his hands to everyone in the room. Then he took his entourage and went out through the back door and went back the way he came.
The Raozhou Salt Affairs Department is not far from the salt field, so Mr. Ma always comes here on foot. But it rains tonight and the road is quite muddy, which makes Mr. Ma complain endlessly. His mother-in-law has just bought shoes and socks for him.
I'm afraid it will be rainy and dusty tonight.
As he was walking, he could vaguely see three people walking towards him. They seemed to be walking in a hurry, but they didn't even bring paper umbrellas. The three people were running with their hands on their heads. Master Ma couldn't help but sneer when he saw it, and covered it with his hands.
What's the difference between rain and fetching water with a bamboo basket? It's really ridiculous.
The three people in front of them ran closer in a moment. Unexpectedly, the moment they crossed shoulders, Mr. Ma felt his legs tighten, and then he fell to the ground. There was a "snap", and Mr. Ma fell to the ground.
In the muddy water, before Master Ma could scream, his mouth and nose were stuffed, his hands were tied and stuffed into a sack.
Seeing that something was not going well, the high school sophomore next to Master Ma drew his sword and tried to resist. However, a sharp arrow shot out of nowhere and killed him on the spot. The three people on the road were seen carrying Master Ma.
He turned around and walked away, disappearing into the night in a blink of an eye.
At this moment, more than ten masked men in black clothes appeared from the grass beside the road, each holding a crossbow and a long knife and heading straight towards the salt field...
"Come on, come on, keep drinking!" Li Mazi exchanged cups with everyone in the room and was in high spirits.
Unexpectedly, there were two loud bangs, the front and back doors were kicked open, and more than twenty men in black rushed in from outside the two doors. A man in black came to the room and said sternly: "Those who want to survive
Please sit where you are and don't move around, otherwise don't blame me for being blind."
Li Mazi was shocked when he saw these men in black, all holding long knives and wearing black scarves, but he didn't know where they came from.
Li Mazi calmed himself down and asked: "Friends on that line? Let's reciprocate."
The man in black who spoke earlier sneered: "Don't ask what we do, just follow us somewhere and you will understand." As he said this, he waved behind him, and a man in black behind him held a knife in one hand and a rope in the other.
.I saw the man in black inserting a long knife into his waist, and then came up with a rope to tie up Li Mazi.
At the moment when the rope was on his body, Li Mazi twisted his left arm and suddenly blocked his elbow. The man in black behind him unexpectedly staggered back with a heart attack. Li Mazi stood up and reached out to draw the long knife on the man in black's waist.
came out.
Holding the knife in his hand, Li Mazi stood up and rushed out of the window. Unexpectedly, there were two people outside the window holding a sack and opening the mouth of the sack, waiting there. Li Mazi happened to get into the sack himself. Outside the window
The two men then closed the mouth of the bag, and one person held a rope and tied the sack tightly in circles to prevent Li Mazi from slicing the sack with a long knife and escaping.
The man in black who took the lead in the room laughed and said: "Don't be surprised, everyone. We are only here for Li Mazi and have nothing to do with anyone else. Come on, I'll toast you all." After saying this, he took out a paper bag from his arms, unfolded it, and walked away.
He went to the table, opened the wine jug, poured the contents of the paper bag into the wine jug, then poured out the wine in the glasses of everyone present, and then refilled the glasses one by one.
All the leaders present looked at each other in confusion, and the man in black spoke again: "If you drink this wine, you will be fine. If you don't drink it, you will be killed. If you play tricks, you will be killed. I am counting to three now. If you don't drink it, don't blame me."
Wait until your hands turn black!"
The men in black around them all had fierce looks in their eyes, and the long knives in their hands were gleaming with cold light. It didn’t look like they were putting on a show. There were only three to five people in our party, and they were unarmed. There were more than 20 men in black, all of them holding long knives.
.how to resist like this.
While these leaders were hesitating, the leader of the men in black had already begun to say: "One."
Don't wait any longer, or you'll be dead! Li Mazi's skills are still under calculation, let alone these low-level foremen. Everyone here took the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp. The man in black stared at them.
Everyone threw themselves on the table, and then checked one by one. When they saw that they were all numb, they called out and led the men in black out of the room.
The rain continued to fall heavier and heavier at night. Even if you stood in the rain and shouted, your voice would not spread too far. What's more, these men in black came and went without making any sound? Even their footprints were quickly diluted by the rain.
When Li Mazi saw the light again, he was in a secret room. The secret room was not big but only two feet square. There were pitch pine torches burning on the wall, illuminating the room as bright as day. At this moment, Li Mazi had been tied up by Wu Hua Da Da.
Throwing it in a corner, Li Mazi couldn't help but wonder: 'Is he being kidnapped? Who is so blind? Am I, Li Mazi, easy to mess with?'
Just as I was thinking wildly, a person walked in outside the door. This person was dressed in crimson and luxuriously dressed. At first glance, he was not a common man.
As soon as the man in red clothes entered the door, Li Mazi couldn't help being surprised. Of course he didn't know how powerful he was before, but after being in contact with Mr. Fu Yin for a long time, he had a certain understanding of the official system. Mr. Fu Yin once said, wait
After saving enough money, he changed his clothes. The clothes he wanted to change were said to have different patterns.
Although the man who came in was wearing ordinary clothes, Li Mazi recognized that it was an official uniform. Moreover, the man who came in had a higher official rank than Mr. Fu Yin, but he didn't know what official position this man held.