I immediately returned to normal, took out a gold coin, clamped it with both fingers, and gently flicked it into the old man's ox cart.
Back on the carriage, Gengnian still had no movement. Li Xiaotian looked at the working people in the fields through the car window, and fell into deep thought.
Pianzhou.
Li Xiaotian and his party finally arrived in front of the city gate. As soon as they arrived, the soldiers guarding the city recognized that the cavalry were wearing the armor of the Kyoto Imperial Guards. They expected that the people in the carriage were of great origin, so they rushed over and said respectfully: "Dare you."
Whose adults are here?"
Li Xiaotian didn't say much, but just stretched out the official position token outside the car.
When the guard saw a house written on it, he said in surprise: "It turns out that he is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He is a little damn, and he has no idea about Mount Tai."
Li Xiaotian took back the token and said, "No obstacle, you are just fulfilling your responsibilities and abide by it. Take me to see your governor."
"Yes, sir."
After talking, the guards led Li Xiaotian and others into Pianzhou and went straight to the provincial governor's mansion.
Finally, when he arrived in front of the government office, the guards rushed into the government to report that the provincial governor was in-depth exchanges with the newly acquired concubine in the wing room. When he heard the guards say that he had something to look for, it disturbed his interest, and cursed: "You, he
/Didn't you live impatiently? I don't know what I'm doing?!"
When the guard heard this, he said tremblingly: "Sir, I don't want to disturb you either, but it's important. The Minister of Revenue suddenly visited."
The governor of this state didn't believe his ears and asked again: "Wait, who do you think you're visiting?"
The guard said again: "Minister of the Ministry of Revenue."
The four big words "State of the Ministry of Revenue" were heard, and the governor of the state immediately lost all his interest. He quickly put on his official uniform and went out to greet him.
"Cao Qing, the governor of Pianzhou Province, met with the Secretary of State, and was wrong and asked to forgive him." Cao Qing bowed and looked at the cavalry wearing the imperial guards in front of him, and couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his head.
"It's okay."
I heard two words floating out of the carriage, and then Li Xiaotian and Gengnian got off the car.
Everyone was shocked when they saw this. The young man in front of him looked only about twenty years old. At such a young age, he actually became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the First-rank Minister?
Although Cao Qing was also surprised, he closed his suspicion after seeing Geng Nian. He had the honor of going to the palace several times and recognized Geng Nian as the commander of the Imperial Guards and the personal bodyguard of the king. Therefore, there is no doubt that this young man
He is indeed the Minister of Revenue.
"Look at your state palace, it is much more luxurious than my first-rank official house in Kyoto." Li Xiaotian looked at the residence of the lord of this state. Not to mention anything else, just the huge pineapple flower in the intermediate court
Trees make people sigh.
Cao Qing swallowed, wiped off the beans on his forehead and said with a wry smile: "It's because the great master came to make the humble house shine brightly."
Li Xiaotian glanced at Cao Qing and sneered: "Yes, he can talk."
Cao Qing continued to work hard and said, "What the officials said is true."
Finally arrived at the guest hall, Li Xiaotian sat in the upper seat, sniffed the tea served by Cao Qing, and said, "It's not to be hiding, I'm just appointed by Your Majesty as Minister of Revenue. Seeing that I was young and lacked experience, Your Majesty sent me to patrol the cities of the state and to be polite.
With the people's sentiment, the Pianzhou is in Kyoto, so it is naturally the first stop of my inspection."
Cao Qing nodded repeatedly: "The official understands."
Li Xiaotian continued: "I think your state palace is not small, so you can live in all of us. What do you think, Caozhou Palace?"
"I have worked hard all the way, so how can I live in the prefecture? I have already set up a restaurant in Pianzhou that best suits the status of adults, and specially welcomes adults." Cao Qing kept flattering.
Li Xiaotian responded directly and said, "This relationship is good, so it's better to obey your orders than to be respectful."
"Then the official will take his leave first and prepare to go."
Li Xiaotian waved his hand and Cao Qing retreated.
"To put it nicely, it's inspection. In fact, isn't it just to go to various state cities to eat and drink, or to ask for it in disguise? Look at his age, he is not very young. It seems that he can't send this big Buddha away if he doesn't spend a lot of money this time.
"As soon as he went out, Cao Qing murmured and sighed, "I think he lost money and eliminated the disaster."
"General Geng, I'll trouble you about the house search tonight." After Cao Qing left, Li Xiaotian and Gengnian said.
When Geng Nian heard this, he understood it and said, "No problem."
Peony Restaurant, a luxurious place in Pianzhou.
The huge single room is filled with delicacies, all of which are carefully crafted and have a complete range of colors, fragrance and taste.
But there were only two people sitting in the room, Li Xiaotian and Cao Qing. To be honest, Li Xiaotian has never enjoyed such a big show, which seems quite a waste. But then again, if you don’t waste it, how can the scene be shown?
"Sir, why haven't you seen Commander Geng come to have a meal together?" Cao Qing suddenly asked.
"He is not hungry." Li Xiaotian said, and began to eliminate food. He gave it to big fish and big meat. After all, wasting food is equivalent to killing money.
After a great wind storm, there was only a lot of food left on the table. Li Xiaotian drank a pot of wine in one breath, let out a long breath, and burped.
Cao Qing stared at Li Xiaotian's starving ghost and reincarnated as a force-feeding person. He couldn't help but burp with Li Xiaotian, and then asked weakly: "Sir, do you want to add food?"
Li Xiaotian gave Cao Qing a blank look and said angrily: "You also want to hold me to death. I'm not a starving ghost."
Cao Qing was speechless and muttered in his heart: Yes, you are not a starving ghost, you are a starving ghost.
"By the way, how did you know Geng's leader's surname is Geng? Could it be that you know him?" Li Xiaotian asked while picking his teeth, not talking about the demeanor of a first-rank minister at all.
Cao Qing hurriedly said, "The Xiaguan has been fortunate to enter the palace several times. Commander Geng is also the commander of the Imperial Guards and is very famous, so he just knows him, so he probably doesn't know me."
Li Xiaotian said lazily and took another sip of wine, looking a little bored.
In order to ease the embarrassing atmosphere, Cao Qing said: "Xiaoguan has also prepared some fun programs for Lord Shangshu."
"Just skip the funniest program, let's just get to the topic." Li Xiaotian said straight to the point.
"It's all you're waiting for." Cao Qing thought to himself, then clapped his palms. The person who had been waiting outside the door walked in with a plate covered with red cloth. After leaving on the table, Cao
Qing Fei smiled: "Sir, this is a carefully prepared after-dinner dessert for you."
Li Xiaotian lifted the red cloth and saw that there were ten bundles of gold coins wrapped in red paper standing on the plate, and there were ten golds, which were probably more than a hundred.
At this time, a man suddenly broke in without knocking on the door. Cao Qing wanted to scold him, but when he saw that the person was his confidant, he signaled his eyes and the confidant whispered directly to Cao Qing, and Cao Qing's face was gloomy and sunny.
After a moment, the private conversation was over.
Cao Qing was so scared that he felt as if he had lost his soul. He thumped, fell to the ground and cried, "Sir, please spare my life. I am obsessed with the lard. I will never dare to do it again. Please give me a mercy.
Show mercy!”
Li Xiaotian slapped the table and shouted coldly: "The tax on the three silver coins is five times higher than the state tax. You are really brave enough to collect it, and you are not afraid of being overwhelmed. When you plunder the people's wealth and ointment,
I have thought about the present day, I am insatiable, and I have the utmost loss to die!"
Seeing that begging for mercy was useless, Cao Qing stood up, his eyes showed fierce light, and said, "Since I want to kill you all, I can only kill you. Come in!"
Cao Qing greeted him, and suddenly, a dozen good players rushed in from outside the door, holding a bright sword and surrounding Li Xiaotian.
Li Xiaotian glanced around and found that there were ordinary trainees, and there was no monk. He couldn't help but smiled sarcastically and shook his head.
"Who can kill him, a bounty of ten thousand!"
Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men.
After Cao Qing's order was finished, the thugs rushed to kill Li Xiaotian one after another.
Li Xiaotian didn't care at all. It was easier to deal with these ordinary people with a seventh level than killing a chicken.
He took a little step and waved his fists a few times. After a while, the thugs all screamed and fell to the ground as if they were swept by the autumn wind.
Cao Qing was frightened when he saw Li Xiaotian so fierce. He knew that he was an extraordinary person, so he could only show his last trump card and ask for help loudly: "Senior Kong, if you don't take action, my life will be gone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man came in with a sword.
Li Xiaotian looked at him, thirty-five, he was a cultivator, and his strength was not low, but what is certain is that he is a master of Tongmei, because he does not have the dangerous aura as the Three Dan Realm. Besides, the Three Dan Realm is in the Cultivator Realm.
He is also a small person, how could he become a sacrifice to a small state governor?
At the same time, the man surnamed Kong was also observing Li Xiaotian, and of course he also saw that Li Xiaotian was quite powerful.