In order to verify the guess in his heart, Wu Kang opened the fourth box directly. It was indeed the old man who had bull's nose. Seeing the whip marks on his face, he subconsciously frowned and understood the causes and consequences. The old fox cut off the bull's nose's head, not to vent his anger for himself, but to prevent him from leaking the secret of ice making.

Bull's nose is not a time traveling home. He accidentally discovered that saltpeter ice-making was used as a skill in the box and would definitely not reveal it. Even the master Chen Shuozhen couldn't do it! The whip marks on his face meant that he had been tortured. As for the reason, he could think of the calves. He asked about the method of ice-making. It seems that Lao Cui was determined to win it!

However, no matter what the purpose is, Wu Kang has to bear this love. Evil rebellion belongs to the ten evil deeds. Those three bad people are the root of disaster, and only dead people can keep the secret.

Thinking of this, he bowed again, and said half-truely: "Thank you, Mr. Cui, putting yourself in his shoes and cleaning up the mess for someone. In fact, you should prepare an extra box. If the negotiation result is not satisfactory, cut off someone's head and put it in the box!"

"Ha! Erlang was joking. My purpose was to make ice secrets." Cui Yixuan stood up and walked over to stare at him and said, "When Erlang was still in Lanxi, I sent my confidant to Wujia Village, followed the clues to deal with bad people, and grabbed the old charlatan. Unfortunately, he was very hard and no matter how he tortured, he just didn't call the secrets of making ice secrets!"

Cui Yixuan signaled him to sit down and continued, "The great benefits of making ice cannot be taken over by one person. Erlang is a smart person and knows what it means to be guilty of possessing a treasure. Looking at the whole world, there are very few people who can keep secret techniques! The Cui family behind me is one of them. Erlang should not bargain, I will give you the share of Wuzhou."

Wu Kang pondered for a long time after hearing this, but finally nodded and agreed. He made three rules with Cui Yixuan, and both parties shared the secret method of making ice, and could not leak the secret recipe. The Cui family did not interfere in Wuzhou, and Wu Kang did not interfere in the Tang Dynasty. Although he was at a loss, he had no choice but to do anything. He did not keep the strength of the secret recipe and could only rely on the Cui family. He was under the short eaves, so how could he not bow his head?

Cui Yixuan was very generous and wrote a written agreement. After the contract was signed, Wu Kang demonstrated the making of saltpeter and asked Cui Yixuan for saltpeter, two copper basins, one large and one small. The small basin was half full of water, and the small basin was placed in a large basin, and the saltpeter was placed in a large basin, and then the water was poured into the large basin to slowly increase the amount of saltpeter.

Seeing the water in the small basin freezes and the old fox with excellent qi cultivation skills, he was also shocked and tried to make ice by himself.

Wu Kang had no reservations and recycled saltpeter crystals and taught them all the precautions.

After the old fox finished recording, Wu Kang said, "Although the ice making in Wuzhou is the one who can cook without rice, it is hard to cook without starting funds. Renting a shop requires money, and buying saltpeter requires money. Mr. Cui can lend money to someone, or they can directly share it..."

Cui Yixuan waved his hand to interrupt, pondered for a moment and said, "Since I promise not to interfere in Wuzhou, I will do my best to say anything. I will instruct Wulang to prepare everything and pay it back slowly when you earn money. In addition, Erlang should not interfere in business. Doing business is not the right way. Come and be my deputy general of the army."

Wu Kang couldn't help but whisper when he heard this. He could join the army and was exempted from the deputy. He roughly understood the bureaucratic system of the early Tang Dynasty. The governor was the highest chief of a state, and there were different officials, such as the chief officers, Sima and other officials, who were called superior officials. They had no real power, and they were used to resettle idle officials.

The ones who really have real power are the judges, including Sigong, Sicang, Sihu, Judicial, Sibian, Sitian and others, who are responsible for handling all aspects of government affairs, and are led by the military officers. The Recording Officer is the actual second-in-command, and is mostly the confidant of the governor.

The officers join the army, similar to the chief of staff of the modern army, and have a great position of power. The deputy officers joining the army are not satisfactory, similar to the staff of the modern army. There is a saying that if the staff does not lead the chief, they will not fart! There is no real power, and they will be able to survive and die. Each officers join the army, there are more than a dozen deputy officers joining the army.

Wu Kang didn't want to live a life of life and did not want to do business for the rest of his life. The fourth class of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were the last ten thousand years. Although the merchants were not discriminated against in the Tang Dynasty like the Han Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, they were rich but not expensive, and had no way out.

Of course, there are exceptions in everything. The most awesome businessman in ancient times should be Wu Zhaoyi's father, Wu Shishi Teng. He was the Duke of the State during his lifetime and was named emperor after his death. Wu Kang believed that his daughter would not be as powerful as Wu Zhaoyi, so he had no intention of becoming a wealthy businessman.

As for what to do, there was actually a plan. Influenced by Mr. Wen Ruian, he wanted to be a constable and was called a bad person in the Tang Dynasty. Although he could not participate in the imperial examination, before the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was a joke, and the recommendation of celebrities was the king. If Cui Yixuan recommended to the court, he would be able to become the county magistrate immediately.

Wu Kang bowed and looked grateful, and said embarrassedly: "I thank Mr. Cui for his respect, but I am very grateful. But I don't know anything about military affairs, and I'm afraid I will miss a big deal. Mr. Cui sees this, and he is a bad person in the state yamen first and accumulates enough experience!"

Cui Yixuan looked disbelief and couldn't guess what he thought for a moment. He wanted to be a notorious bad person with a stern position. After a long time of silence, he spoke: "Let's go to Zheng Kai, the judicial officer tomorrow."

After leaving the governor's mansion, he had to take Cui Wu's carriage back due to a curfew. He talked to him about opening a store on the way and asked him to help find a suitable store. Cui Wu took a lot of money and sent Wu Kang back to the house, giving him another four guan of money.

The next day, he came to the state yamen to find Zheng Kai, the judicial officer. He joined the judicial officer and enforced the law and supervised the thieves, and forced the investigation and bribery, similar to the current secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee. He had three teams of people under his command, prison officials in charge of prisons, yamen runners in the yamen, and bad people responsible for detecting and arresting them.

Zheng Kai knew that Wu Kang was the governor and showed great enthusiasm, so he directly made him a bad coach in Wuzhou City.

He summoned all the bad guys, took him over to work in person, and handed him over the uniforms and cards.

There are thirty bad people in Wuzhou, basically around thirty years old, all of whom are tough and have special skills.

In the next half month, Wu Kang was busy every day. He took time to visit his uncle Wu Genbao and wrote documents with Ruyan at night. He orally wrote Ruyan's transcripts, introducing the living habits and dangers of the golden python, and focused on introducing the feet of the golden python. In fact, pythons all have their feet, but they have deteriorated and attached to the scales on the abdomen.

The governor Cui Yixuan learned that he sent someone to the governor's mansion. When Wu Kang opened the golden python and exposed his degenerated feet, the old guy directly climaxed. The snake had feet, one step closer to the legendary golden dragon!

At the banquet, the old guy told Wukang that news came from Chang'an that Cheng Zhijie personally brought troops to Wuzhou to escort Jin Long Xiangrui into Beijing. He also asked whether the snake's head would grow antlers, which made Wukang laugh and cry.

After dealing with these trivial matters, Wu Kang spent all his energy on winning people's hearts and invited his men to drink every day. The four guan coins given by Cui Wu were given two guans to Ruyan's family, and two guans were used to treat guests to dinner.

His subordinates also knew that he was strong in the background and obeyed his arrangements on the surface. The public security in this era was very good. They did nothing all day long, and they basically ate hard food, and they even had no choice but to eat.

As a bad coach, Wu Kang only earns 300 jin of Kaiyuan Tongbao a year, and his subordinates are about 200 jin. According to the rice price at this time, he can only buy one stone of rice with a salary a year. According to the current pace of 120 jin, which is absolutely starving to death, so bad people have black income.

At noon that day, the Jiang brothers were on duty. Both of them were stubborn men. Wu Kang had a good impression of them. When he went to the yamen to rest at noon, he invited them to have lunch tea.

After leaving the yamen, walking on the streets of Fangshi, the bustling passers-by avoided them and took the initiative to give way to both sides.

Wu Kang was amused and crying. It seemed that the bad people were rotten from head to toe in the Wuzhou area, and the people avoided them like snakes and scorpions! I planned to find a teahouse casually, but I thought about it and let it go. I guess those merchants would definitely curse their ancestors when they saw them. After thinking about it, they decided to go to my uncle's Genbao Teahouse.

Passing through a pancake stall, Jiang Erniu opened the steamer and handed it to Wu Kang. This made Wu Kang very helpless. He was a little allergic to pancakes. Every time he ate it, he could think of Wu Dalang who was little Panlu.

The Jiang brothers were eating voraciously. Wu Kang had just finished eating one, and they had already eaten two. Jiang Daniu touched his stomach and shouted to the pancake seller: "How much?"

The old man selling cakes quickly laughed, opened the steamer and took out three more, handed them to the three of them, nodded and said, "I gave it to you, I gave it to you..."

Erniu nodded with satisfaction, with a sensible expression on your face, took two from the steamer, held them in his arms, patted his butt and left.

Wu Kang looked at the old man with aches on his face, then looked at the cooked cakes in his hand, and sighed helplessly. Ruyan said that one Kaiyuan Tong Baoneng bought four, and the three of them ate and took a total of ten. So he took out three cents from his wallet, threw them next to the steamer, and walked up and caught up with the two brothers.

The old man was dumbfounded at the sight of the three cents. It was probably the first time he met a bad person who was paying for eating pancakes.

I came to Genbao Teahouse and found a seat by the door to sit down. Dr. Tea met Wu Kang, ran over to entertain me diligently, and served the best tea.

The three of them were drinking and talking, saying something irrelevant. While they were doing nothing, under the big willow tree opposite the teahouse, a man aroused Wu Kang's idea. He was about thirty years old and stood upright in the shade of the tree. He was holding a red horse in his hand, and a grass mark was inserted on the horse's head. It was a horse seller.

Many people passed by him, but none of them came forward to inquire. In fact, this is not surprising. The horses of this era are comparable to those of later BMWs, and are extremely expensive. A man's horse is fat and strong, and should be a top-notch horse, worth about 20,000 yuan, or twenty taels of silver.

My father and mother saved money and did needlework for wealthy families. They only saved 600 cents a year. If they wanted to buy this horse, they would need at least thirty years of savings, which was harder than buying a house in later generations. Those who could really afford it and were willing to buy were all wealthy families, and there were not many in Wuzhou City.

Wu Kang guessed that no one would come to buy it after waiting for ten or eight days. However, in less than a quarter of an hour, he was slapped in the face.

A young man wearing silk and satin came to the willow tree swaying. In this era, ordinary people were wearing hemp clothes, and those who could wear silk clothes were basically officials, nobles, landlords, and wealthy businessmen, who were also capable of buying horses.

Seeing that Wu Kang was very interested, the Jiang brothers looked up. Jiang Daniu said sarcastically: "This little guy is rich. Those who can buy horses these days are either rich or noble! You are so wise, Erniu, why are we not a high-ranking official?"

Jiang Erniu laughed and lowered his voice, "Yes, if you are a high-ranking official, why should we be bad people? Why should we be stung by our neighbors? Erlang, why should we go and testify and get some insurance premiums for tea?"

Wu Kang smiled but said nothing, signaling the two of them to be calm and observe the young man carefully. He kept stroking the horse, looking like he couldn't let go of his love.

It is rare for a horse seller to meet someone he really wants to buy, and he also enthusiastically introduced his horse. After bargaining for nearly a quarter of an hour, he agreed that the transaction price was 19 guan. The buyer asked the seller to go home to trade with him, which is reasonable. The money for one is about eight jin, and the price of nineteen guan is more than one hundred and fifty jin. No one carries so much money to go shopping.

The seller nodded in agreement and tightened the reins to let the buyer get on the horse. The buyer rode on the horse and pointed to the north. The seller led the horse and took him away.

Wu Kang smiled and had long suspected that the buyer had a problem! When he reached out to the way, his palms actually had calluses! In this era, only farmers who often do farm work and trainers who danced guns and rods would have calluses!

Thinking of this, he stood up and said to the Jiang brothers: "Big Niu, Er Niu, let's keep up quietly. If what we expected is not bad, we will make contributions today, and maybe we can make a small fortune!"

The Jiang brothers were skeptical and did not dare to object. Everyone in the yamen knew that the governor Cui was his backer and he had a close relationship with Cui Wulang. Anyway, he was idle and he was just shopping.

Wu Kang said hello to Dr. Cha, saying that he would send the tea money to him tomorrow. Dr. Cha did not dare to object, and nodded repeatedly with apologized and smiled.

The three left the teahouse and followed the horse quietly. After walking about half a mile, they passed by the door of a jade shop. The buyer asked the seller to stop.

After about two minutes of pause, the buyer took out two copper coins and handed them to the horse seller and said, "I want to buy a jade hairpin for my wife. You should go to the tea shed opposite to have a cup of tea, and wait until I pick up the jade hairpin before going home to withdraw the money!"

The horse seller politely refused, and the young man said with a stern face: "Don't say too much, just go if you want to go, and I will come if you go!"

The horse seller took the copper coins and was very grateful. He quickly helped the young man off the horse and saluted him. Then he took the reins to the opposite side, tied the horse to a wooden stake, found a table to ask for a bowl of tea, and sat down facing the door of the jade shop.

The young man glanced at him and turned around and entered the jade shop.

Wu Kang's smile even more, and he said it was interesting. Is this kind of routine available in the Tang Dynasty?

He said he shook his head with disdain and ordered the Jiang brothers: "When the little guy comes out, you can follow me quietly. Find a secluded place to stop him, don't talk nonsense, just control it directly. Then Erniu guarded him, and Daniu came to find someone!"

The two of them were confused when they heard it, and they didn't understand or dared to ask. They looked at each other and agreed.

About ten minutes later, a situation occurred in the teahouse. Two men walked into the teahouse slowly and deliberately chatted with the horse seller. Because they were far away, Wu Kang could not hear the conversation, but there was definitely something tricky. Sure enough, the horse seller's attention was attracted and he started chatting with the two people.

After waiting for another three minutes, the young man came out of the jade shop, glanced at the horse seller who was attracted by the attention, and quickly left along the street to the north.

The Jiang brothers found something was wrong, so they looked at Wu Kang incredibly and followed the young man quietly.

Wu Kang laughed, it seemed that this kid had succeeded. There was nothing to do next, just wait for news from Jiang Daniu. Thinking of this, he walked into the tea shed, casually found a table to sit down, and asked for a bowl of herbal tea to taste slowly.

The horse suddenly shitted and urinated, and Wu Kang was in a flash and put down the tea bowl in his hand.

When the shopkeeper saw Wu Kang frowning, he quickly picked up the tools to clean up the feces and poured them under the corner of the wall next to him. Next to the jade shop, there were two children of four or five years old who took off their pants and put them in water.

Wu Kang looked at the dirty streets, full of garbage and mule and horse manure, and the idea of ​​tidying up the cityscape lingered in his mind.

In his previous life, I had a very close classmate at the Bianjing Drinking Talent Training Base, and I was the secretary of a leader in the system. He told Wukang that the new official took office for three reasons, the first one was to burn the city's appearance, and the second one was to burn the crackdown on gangs and evil. This was the safest and best way to achieve political achievements!

The city appearance is for Shangguan to show, and ordinary people will not care about these things. The birds singing, flowers and fragrance or the smoky mist have nothing to do with them.

Take the current situation as an example. In addition to the three days off every month, governor Cui and officials from Wuzhou will walk to the state yamen. Smell the refreshing fragrance of flowers and walk on the clean streets; smell the pungent fishy smell, beware of being on the stinky dog ​​shit at all times, and feel that there is definitely a world of difference!

If I do a good job in the face project, let the leaders go to work happily and return home happily, they will definitely have a good impression of me. A comment of "can do things" is the foreshadowing of success in the future.

The fight against gangs and evil is to show the common people, and they will beat all the bullies who bully the market, the gangsters who fight, the rogues who eat scoundrels, and the gangsters who tease women. The common people will definitely applaud and will definitely praise me. If they have a good reputation, promotion and wealth will be just around the corner.

Wu Kang was having a beautiful dream and subconsciously looked around, but was slapped in the face by the cruel reality. Because the weather was hot, the tea shed was extremely prosperous, and other tables were filled with guests, and his picture was empty.

The tea stall owner's face, as well as his expression of being angry but not speaking, were telling him nakedly: You bad people are the biggest black and crazy evil in Wuzhou City!

This is a bit embarrassing. Wu Kang couldn't help but blush. Bad people are born with salt, so they are disgusted! He stood here to delay the boss's business and wanted to leave. Looking at the hot sun, he didn't want to suffer such a crime! Alas... just stay with no shame, just give me a few more cents!

Wu Kang believes that the infamous bad person is definitely a long-term project to change his appearance and change the people's views.

I glanced at the horse seller who was waiting stupidly, and thought that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. After that, I became very energetic and deal with the scam. The first step to change my mind is to start today!

(End of this chapter)
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