The reincarnation of transmigration is king

Stopping and walking for a whole morning, Jiang Nianbai and Luo Ming picked a small tavern next to the street when they saw the meal time.The tavern is not big, the doors and windows face the street, very bright.

I ordered two cold and two hot ones, a jar of white pear blossoms, Jiang Nianbai poured two glasses of wine, "I've been bothering you for a long time, this time I must be the host once, please, Second Prince!"

Luo Ming was not humble either, raised his glass and took a sip, and said lightly: "Master Jiang, if you have something to say, just tell me, you led me around for a whole morning, it's not that you just want me to see the customs and customs in the capital, it's as simple as that Bar."

Jiang Nianbai praised: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from the second prince, so let me ask, how does the second prince feel after watching this morning?"

Luo Ming thought for a while and said, "It's just a pretense. Nearly [-]% of the shops on this street are opened by Taipinghou Bai's family. I don't know what happened elsewhere. Then," Luo Ming paused, feeling chills down his spine, "half of the country's economic lifeline is in the hands of the Bai family, if he..."

Jiang Nianbai took Luo Ming's words, "Not only that, a lot of the other 10% was paid by the Bai family. Roughly speaking, Taipinghou accounted for at least [-]%. [-]%, this is not counting their private business. It is clearly stated in the Dongli law that private sales of salt and tea are not allowed, but as far as I know, the Bai family only made [-] taels of snowflake silver last year by privately selling tea and salt."

When Jiang Nianbai said this, he clenched the folding fan tightly in his hand, "If the Bai family takes advantage of the natural disaster and becomes ill-intentioned, hoards the goods and drives up the prices..." He looked serious, and dared not say any more, he picked up the wine glass and took a look. drink up.

Luo Ming didn't dare to imagine.Today's Dongli country seems to be calm, but in fact it is already precarious. Everyone in the country has the idea of ​​peace and happiness. No one would think of this country. There are powerful enemies outside and the prime minister's hegemony inside. Any time an external force impacts, the mountains and rivers will change dramatically.If you add that the Bai family took advantage of the chaos to collect money, then the life of the common people would really have no way out.

Luo Ming frowned. As an ordinary person, even if he didn't want to go into the muddy water, he wouldn't feel better when the background changed. It's conceivable.The reason why Jiang Nianbai told him these things was to tell him that there are some things that he cannot escape, and there is nowhere to escape.

Jiang Nianbai looked at Luo Ming's changing face and nodded. Smart people don't need to be specific, just a word, a movement, and he should be able to understand.

Luo Ming didn't speak anymore, Jiang Nianbai didn't rush, the two sat in silence, drinking cold wine.

It was noon now, there were not many pedestrians on the street, only a few vendors pushing carts were sitting listlessly leaning on the carts.

One of them sold wood carvings, and the vendor was a young man, dressed in commoner clothes and with a plain face.Sitting on the stroller next to him was a toddler, who seemed to be a father and son.

Milkman sits with a pile of carved finished products, wooden combs, boxes, all kinds of carts are piled up, surrounded by milkman, he picks up this piece from time to time, fiddles with it, and grabs another to take a bite or two , People will stop and look at him more when they see him as cute and lovable.

Seeing that there were no guests, the young man picked up a sharp knife for carving and carved patterns on a poplar box.The young man was very skillful, and after a while, the bare wooden box was carved with cloud patterns of blessings and longevity, and there was a sika deer lying on one corner, looking up sideways, with its front legs slightly arched, as if it wanted to stand up and see what was inside the box. Something good is hidden.

The man was so engrossed in carving that he didn't notice five people staggering towards the corner of the street.

Among the five people, the leader was a burly man with a black face and pockmarked skin, wearing ocher clothes and pants, with an inch-wide blue cloth belt tied around his waist, and holding a large wine gourd in his hand, he walked crookedly. come over.The few people behind him all had vicious faces, and they didn't seem to be any kind.

When the vendors along the street saw this group of people coming, they all nodded and bowed and handed over the money bags they had prepared long ago. Behind the pockmarked strong man was a thin man who looked like a stick, and took the money bags from the vendors one by one.The last three subordinates grabbed something from the vendor's cart and put it in their arms.

The five of them took their demands all the way until they reached the young man's car. The man thought that a customer was coming, so he hurriedly put down what he was doing and stood up, "You want..." He felt that something was wrong, and swallowed back the words abdomen.

Pockmarked looked at the things in his hand, "New here? Why don't you even know the rules on this street?"

The young man didn't want to cause trouble, so he hurriedly smiled, saying that it was his first day here today, and he was ignorant.

The pockmarked face was impatient, and the tall and thin man behind shouted: "This is the sixth-rank captain in the Northwest Army Camp—Master Zhu, this area is under the jurisdiction of our brothers in the Northwest Army Camp, so let's get acquainted and set up a stall here. You have to pay Mr. Liu a tael of land tax every day."

"One or two? I won't be able to sell that much money in a few days. Sir, you see that this is a small business. You are accommodating, can you give me less?" The young man was so anxious that his face was sweating, he couldn't afford it. So much money.

Where is the pockmarked face? Listening to his identification, seeing that the man didn't take out the money for a long time, his black face sank, his mouth curled up, and he shouted: "If you don't give it, you will smash it!"

The subordinates were ordered to push the young man away, and several of them kicked the cart behind the man with seven or eight feet.There was also a baby boy sitting in the car, watching his father and five people arguing with his big eyes, the pockmarked subordinate was used to being fierce, and he kicked the cart viciously when he saw the child in the car .The child rolled over and fell down, with a gash on his forehead, blood dripping all over his face, and he cried out in pain.

Seeing that the child fell hard, the young man became anxious and wanted to go up with his life.

Pockmarked face has also killed people before, how could he be afraid of a country man, knock the young man to the ground with two blows, step on his face, and pooh, "Shame on me, beat him up!"

The subordinates rushed forward, punched and kicked, and watched the man struggle a few times, and was beaten so that he lay motionless on the ground.

Seeing his father being beaten, Naiwa kept yelling: "Daddy, Daddy." He was out of breath from crying, and the miserable cry scratched everyone's hearts.

The people around were afraid of these five people, no one dared to step forward to stop them, not even dared to gather around to watch the fun, they all hid far away, or took a detour.

Seeing that the man was lying on the ground motionless, Mazi asked people to stop, walked over and picked up the baby on the ground, "This little baby is white and tender, and it is worth a few taels of silver. Sell it! Give it to the brothers." Change to a glass of wine."

The tall and thin man agreed, and reached out to pick up the milk baby.

As soon as he took it, something in front of him was wrapped in a gust of wind, and it flew towards his head. The tall and thin man couldn't dodge, his eyes were blacked out, and he screamed, "Ouch!" on the ground.

Luo Mingfei rushed forward, rolled the baby in his arms, rescued the baby, turned around and threw it to Jiang Nianbai.He didn't even talk to him, and rushed straight at the pockmarked face.

Sir, I will teach you today, there is no scum like you in the hooligan industry!

Luo Ming held the dagger in his hand, and a cold light went straight to Mazilian's neck.Pockmarked face reacted very quickly, retreated back, where could Luo Ming let him hide, pockmarked face just took a step back, Luo Ming followed, the dagger struck his chest, pockmarked face hurriedly dodged to the left, Luo Ming Ming took advantage of the momentum to fight back, and the dagger pierced hard into the right ear socket of Pockmark's face.

"what!"

With a scream like a slaughtered pig, Mazi fell to the ground covering his ears, rolling and howling on the spot, "My ears, my ears."

The tall and thin man had already been knocked unconscious by the tea bowl thrown by Luo Ming, his pockmarked face was brought down again by Luo Ming, and the faces of the other three young men turned pale with fright, and it took a long time to remember that the two put up their pockmarked faces howling. , carrying the tall and thin man who had fainted on his back, and ran away like the wind.

Everyone present was stunned. These five people had been rampant on this street for a long time. None of them dared to resist. Today, Luo Ming brought down two criminals by himself. Everyone couldn't believe it for a while.

Luo Ming hurried forward to see the young man's injuries.

This group of beasts were really ruthless, the young man was beaten beyond recognition, his head and face were bruised, his arm seemed to be dislocated, and he was pulled softly.

Well-meaning traders came over, and someone called Lang Zhong, and a group of people hurriedly took the young man to Lang Zhong's clinic.

Jiang Nianbai was holding the child in his arms, at a loss, and didn't know how to coax him, so that this soft little baby would stop crying, and he stood on one side, neither standing nor sitting, so anxious that he sweated up.

Luo Ming saw it and laughed out loud.

He thought that nothing would trouble Jiang Nianbai, but he didn't expect a baby boy to make this talented man panic.

Luo Ming hugged the baby from Jiang Nianbai's arms, let him sit in his arms, gently supported his waist with one hand, patted him twice, and coaxed softly: "Hey, let's go find Daddy. "

The child recovered now, and slowly stopped crying, staring at Luo Ming with big eyes twitching.

Luo Ming sent the child to the hospital. The man had already woken up. His injuries were serious and he would lie down for at least a few months. He couldn't move, so he had to lie down and thank Luo Ming.

Luo Ming paid the consultation fee for him, and asked someone to hire a donkey cart to take the man and the nurse back home from the city.

The man was very grateful, and Luo Ming was afraid that he would not be able to get out of bed for a while and his livelihood would be difficult, so he asked Jiang Nianbai for ten taels of silver to make money for him.

That man was also considered tough-tempered, and he didn't even groan when he was beaten like that. After taking the money Luo Ming gave him, he couldn't bear it anymore, crying and begging the baby to kowtow to his benefactor.

Luo Ming hurriedly pulled him back, comforted him well, and sent the father and son away.

Everyone watched the father and son leave, and the vendors also packed up their things and left, not daring to stay longer in this matter.A well-meaning person told Luo Ming and Jiang Nianbai, "Young Master, let's go too, and don't come to this street easily in the future."

Luo Ming knew that he was afraid that he would be retaliated by the group just now, so he responded with a smile.

Seeing that Luo Ming didn't take it seriously, the man hurriedly said, "Young master, I'm afraid they are from other places, so I don't know the origin of these people. Those people are military masters in the northwest military camp five miles away from the capital. We can't afford to offend them." Yes, not only us, even the people from Wucheng Bingmasi dare not provoke them, Master Jing Zhaoyin also turned a blind eye to them."

The man stopped talking here, and didn't dare to elaborate any more, he hurriedly packed his things and left.

The Northwest Barracks is the garrison that guards the capital. It got its name because the garrison was five miles away from the capital in the northwest direction.

Luo Ming asked Jiang Nianbai, "There is strict discipline in the army, how can you allow soldiers to blackmail the people?"

Jiang Nianbai smiled wryly, "It's a long story, these soldiers are causing trouble because the court frequently changes defenses and the military management is chaotic. Although General Liu is clean and self-sufficient, it is difficult to guarantee that his generals will not have crooked thoughts. What is involved here is not only About the Northwest Barracks."

Luo Ming rarely sees Jiang Nianbai feeling depressed, and he has a headache. There must be many conflicts of interest involved in this, and it is extremely difficult.

Luo Ming didn't ask any more questions, and left here with Jiang Nianbai.