However, he couldn't say this directly, lest these bastards become unbridled and unable to control their ambitions.
"It's not impossible to suppress the bandits, but there are a few people here who can swim. If we fail to catch the bandits, they will throw us into the river to feed the fish. That's not worth it!
Da Kui, you are a good swimmer in the mountains, but when you get in the water, your doggy paddling movements are no different from those of a landlubber.
Wang Da Kui scratched his head, looking tangled: "But if we don't suppress the bandits, how can we get quick money? We can't be bandits and rob the people!"
Just as Qiao Xin was about to speak, she saw a carrier pigeon landed not far from them.
Everyone stopped talking and looked over. Shunzi's face changed. Without saying anything, he walked over and grabbed the pigeon and said to the old lady, "Old lady, it's Mr. Shi's pigeon!"
Qiao Xin was stunned: Shi Jingmo, how could you contact them at this time?
Speaking of Shi Jingmo, Qiao Xin hadn't paid attention to his news for a long time. After sending him to Nanliang, she no longer asked about him. Qiao Xin didn't expect that the child could do anything for her for the time being!
Whenever there is any situation on weekdays, Shunzi will contact him and then report to Qiao Xin!
Shi Jingmo is the handsome young man among the batch of criminal slaves that Qiao Xin asked the Wang family to buy from Nanliang last time!
The person that Hei Niu and Gu Zaixing are willing to protect at all costs, he is the half-brother of the former queen of Southern Liang. His mother is a singer and he has not been listed in the Shi family's genealogy since he was born.
Therefore, when the former queen fell, he escaped beheading, but was demoted to a criminal slave along with the servants of Shi family. He was originally going to be bought and sold, or exiled to Yazhou thousands of miles away. In the end, his fate was changed because of an idea of ​​Qiao Xin.
At that time, Qiao Xin was short of literate people and was almost going crazy. He couldn't recruit anyone, and it was too late to train people from scratch, so he turned his attention to the slaves in Nanliang who were implicated in the internal struggles of the court.
These people were all family members and stewards of officials in the past, and they always had some skills. Many aristocratic families in Dajing would buy a large number of criminal slaves, either to be the lowest servants or to be buried alive after death, in order to satisfy their unspeakable perverted minds.
Qiao Xin couldn't do such a thing. The people he asked the Wang family to bring were all trained to be capable assistants for the Qiao family in various aspects in the future. At worst, they were ordinary servants.
After all, it was a pipe dream for a criminal slave to escape from slavery in this life. It was impossible in Nanliang, and even in Dajing, they could only be turned into slaves with death indentures. The master would have to pay a large sum of money for this.
After Qiao Xin found out the identities of the people and the reasons for their crimes, he not only asked Doctor Mo to do his best to rescue them, but also helped them remove the ink on their faces after they recovered. He also went to the government office and spent a large sum of money to change their citizenship.
From then on, this group of people were truly reborn and reborn! Qiao Xin also gained a group of loyal servants.
Hei Nuo now looks after the workshop in Lao Hu Town for her. Gu Zaixing has become a famous storyteller in Yumancang, and his daughter Gulan has become a master illustrator and woodblock printmaker in a printing workshop. Occasionally, she even draws portraits of fugitives for the government office!
Only Shi Jingmo, after recovering from his injuries, insisted on going to Nanliang to be Shunzi's helper.
Shunzi gathered information for Qiao Xin among the people, and he entered the court under a changed name. Anyway, almost everyone in the capital who knew his true identity was dead!
Qiao Xin didn't know how he did it, but in just half a year, he sneaked into the palace and became one of the most favored adopted sons of Li Fuqi, the biggest eunuch leader in the Southern Liang Dynasty. Now he serves in the guard of the Zuo Shen Ce Army. This is the imperial guard that guards the capital of the Southern Liang Dynasty!
This kid's ability to climb the ladder is simply astonishing. In just half a year, he has already made it into the core department.
It is because of his existence that Shunzi's business in Nanliang is going smoothly, and he has also obtained a lot of resources for Qiao Xin.
Qiao Xin stared at the note in her hand for a long time without saying anything, and Shunzi couldn't help but ask.
"Madam, is there something wrong with Master Shi?"
"No, he did provide us with a piece of news. The Emperor of Southern Liang demoted more than 30 court officials because of the astronomical problems that occurred the other day."
The people present could not help but gasp: "More than 30 people, half of the court is empty, is the Emperor of Nanliang crazy?"
Zhang Yun sneered and said, "I heard that the Emperor of Southern Liang can no longer care about these things. He just hangs out in the inner palace all day, gets drunk at any time, or goes hunting in the royal gardens and entertains his ministers.
All the power in the palace fell into the hands of Li Fuqi, who colluded with the imperial concubine to stir up trouble. The affairs of the court were controlled by Liu Ji, the secretary of the Central Secretariat, and Zhu Zhen, the military commander. This incident was probably the result of the military commanders and the inner court colluding against the civil officials of the noble families and gaining the upper hand! "
The news that came later confirmed Zhang Yun's statement.
At the beginning of summer, a comet appeared in the sky of Southern Liang. This "ominous sign" undoubtedly made the people of the crumbling Southern Liang Empire even more panic-stricken.
What a pity that the seat in front of me is empty in the middle of the night, and I don’t ask about common people, but rather about ghosts and gods!
The Emperor of Southern Liang didn't know what to do, so he had to seek help from ghosts and gods. After the Sitianjian divined, it naturally showed a very bad omen. They even ridiculously told the emperor that he needed to kill a group of people in order to avoid disaster!
At this time, the military general Zhu Zhen suddenly came up with a vicious idea. He took the opportunity to suggest to the emperor: The reason why the court is in such a mess and is punished by God is not your fault, Your Majesty, but it is because you have been led astray by that group of gentry who can only talk but do nothing.
These people are so proud of their noble family background and their knowledge that they often look down on you. You might as well take this opportunity to discredit them!
These words touched the heart of the Emperor of Southern Liang. Born into a family of warriors, he had a natural inferiority complex, contempt and disgust for scholars.
When he was young, if civil servants were not needed to govern this land, he would have chopped off the claws of these civil servants long ago.
The emperor has endured for decades and is already old. What's wrong with being unruly for once?
Therefore, the Emperor of Southern Liang demoted more than 30 court officials, including the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Works, the Vice Minister of War, the Left and Right Prime Ministers, and ordered them to either return to their hometowns or be exiled. Those who dared to resist in court were beheaded by Zhu Zhen.
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Everyone was confused. What did these things have to do with them?
Qiao Xin explained: Shi Jingmo said that the Minister of Works was not born into a noble family. When he was young, he had presided over the construction of terraced fields in the south. He is quite capable. If we can recruit this person, it will be of great help to us in farming and reclaiming wasteland in the future.
This accident was entirely due to being implicated, and the crime does not deserve this!
"But we don't know where he is, and he has only been demoted. He might be reinstated in the future. How could he follow us?"
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