After taking away the Ying thief's clothes, carrying the divine arm crossbow, armor and weapons, Brother Dajun and Yuzi led the others away.
Chu Qing was discussing the next step with Chen Laojiu.
Wen Ya had been silently paying attention to this group of people. After seeing the team of "pretending to be thieves" armed to the teeth leaving, she was inevitably curious.
After thinking about it, Wen Ya from the third tier team found Xiao Zhi from the second tier team who was also ignored.
Xiao Xiao is smarter than Wen Ya, at least he knows what Brother Dajun is doing.
Seeing Wen Ya asking, Xiao Zhi didn't think much and explained what they had just discussed.
After hearing this, Wen Ya was shocked.
"The Xu family has close friendships with the adults in several prefectures in Shangyundao. They are also well-known wealthy families in Shangyundao. If it is found out in the future and it is found out that the people of the Chu Governor are pretending to be Japanese thieves, wouldn't it be...
No...Oh, I'm so impulsive, how could I be so reckless."
Xiao Zhi looked extremely strange: "Why are you in the East China Sea more ignorant than our northern border?"
"What do you mean?"
"You don't know about Dudu?"
Wen Ya didn't react for a moment: "I know, what's wrong?"
"Then why worry."
When Wen Ya was asked this question, she was confused: "Shouldn't you be worried?"
When Xiao Zhi saw Wen Ya's silly and innocent look, he roughly understood what was going on. He thought about it and asked, "Do you know how many aristocratic families there were in the capital and various counties?"
Wen Ya shook her head: "Why do you need to know this?"
"Three hundred and fifteen, do you know how many there are now?"
Wen Ya still shook her head, wondering why Xiao Zhi said this.
Xiao Zhi's face was full of pride, as if it had something to do with him: "Now, there are less than a hundred aristocratic families, large and small, in the capital and various counties."
"More than two hundred people are missing?" Wen Ya was a little curious: "Why have they all moved away?"
"It's been moved away." Xiao Zhi laughed loudly: "Moved to the underworld."
Wen Ya's face changed slightly: "The capital is in such dire straits, how can the emperor be so violent?"
"Chu Dudu helped them move. Haha."
Wen Ya was dumbfounded: "Except...Chu...Chu Dudu except so many aristocratic families?"
"What do you think?"
"But I heard that Chu Dudu has been the commander of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion for less than two years, and he is still at the border this year..."
"Either those aristocratic families have good luck." Xiao Zhi chuckled: "It's also my luck, Xiao Zhi. If Chu Dudu didn't go to the border, how could I have the luck to follow Chu Dudu and build a career? It's precisely because of Chu Dudu
Dudu went to the border, and there were still more than a hundred families left. Otherwise, with Dudu's temperament, there might not even be fifty families left."
"Then..." Xiao Zhi swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "No one cares?"
"Why is no one taking care of it? After taking care of it, Dudu moved the whole family to the underworld. However, there were also some aristocratic families who were very thieves and ran away. All the mansions were sold and people emptied the houses and hid.
Far away."
Wen Ya: “…”
After Xiao Zhi finished speaking, he touched his stomach and felt a little hungry. He went to look for something to eat, leaving Wen Ya standing there alone, messy in the wind.
In fact, he had inquired about the rumors about Chu Qing. If he hadn't inquired, how could he have so stupidly taken the initiative to defect to him.
It's just that the information I got was very "empty". This kind of emptiness, without specific data, is just a general rumor, some living beast, the emperor's favorite minister, who has been rampant for only a few years, a tyrant who manipulates power and deceives the country, etc.
Anyway, they just do it to anyone they don't like. The imperial court and the people in Beijing are scolding each other, and the scholars also follow suit. In short, this person will not get good results.
This is normal. It was like this in ancient times. Ordinary people have lived for decades and may have left this village for a lifetime. The exchange of information is extremely lagging. The people Wen Ya is looking for are all powerful people, or at least well-informed people. And this
As a person, how can you not feel your teeth itching with hatred when you mention Chu Qing?
Logically speaking, after Wen Ya found out Chu Qing's "reputation", she had no reason to seek refuge with him, because Wen Ya also hated this kind of tyrant.
But Wen Ya's cleverness lies in this. He discovered a detail that was extremely thought-provoking.
That is this group of local powerful people, aristocratic families, and officials. When they mentioned Chu Qing, they gritted their teeth and wanted to jump into the well with Chu Qing in their arms. However, when they mentioned Chu Qing, their voices were very low, and the volume was very low.
It's as if if the volume were just a little bit louder, he would die on the spot.
Wen Ya could tell that these big shots, who were trembling even as they stomped around the East China Sea, were afraid of Chu Qing, afraid to the core of their bones.
It is precisely because of this that Wen Ya came to seek refuge with Chu Qing, wanting to test it out. If possible, he wanted to use Chu Qing and the family's fear of Chu Qing to promote some of the things he wanted to do, under the guise of Chu Qing.
Do something in the name of Qing.
But now, Wen Ya felt that she had simplified things and Chu Qing too. Something was wrong with this matter from beginning to end.
Most of the more than 300 famous aristocratic families in the capital, the center of the country, and the various lower counties were eliminated by Chu Qing?
Suddenly, Wen Ya thought of another thing, something that would make him laugh when he thought about it.
Wen Ya ran over quickly and caught up with Xiao Zhi. Wen Ya was extremely excited.
"Rumor, there is a rumor...a rumor about Beijing..." Wen Ya was so nervous that she even breathed a little: "Speaking of the Governor of Chu, no less than ten doctors and five ministers were all dismissed. Is this rumor possible?
, could it be true?”
"Of course it's fake."
Xiao Zhi touched his growling stomach and said: "The eleven doctors are real, but the assistant minister is fake."
Wen Ya took a breath of cold air.
It's scary enough to bring down more than ten doctors.
Xiao Zhi added: "There are seven ministers, not five."
Wen Ya fell into complete sluggishness.
Xiao Zhi slapped his forehead: "You said it wrong."
Wen Ya breathed a sigh of relief.
He also felt that this was too ridiculous.
Xiao Zhi corrected: "It's not that we pulled down the horses, but that they were all chopped off. Only one of them was still alive. He was captured before leaving the capital. He will be chopped off at the beginning of next spring, together with the three temple ministers and three young ministers."
"What the hell..." Wen Ya grinned: "And the temple minister?"
"Why do you think all the aristocratic families in the world have gone to the capital to serve as officials? None of the people who went there can keep up with Dudu's chops."
Speaking of this, Xiao Zhi also lowered his voice a little: "Sometimes I think that the emperor sent Dudu to the East China Sea because there were too many vacancies in the capital, and the vacancies to be filled were far less than what Dudu could do.
quick."
Wen Ya: “…”
Xiao Zhi turned around and left again, and Wen Ya's mind went blank.
He finally understood why other people looked at him and wanted to see a fool. Now, he thought the same way. He was indeed quite stupid.
