The name of Hedong Li Family may not be very popular among the people. Even among the Tang Dynasty families represented by seven sects and five surnames, it can only be regarded as an unknown existence.
However, anyone who knows something about the Tang Dynasty family will know one thing: the Hedong Li family is actually a branch of the Zhao County Li family among the seven sects and five surnames! And it’s one of the most important ones!
The wisdom of not putting eggs in one basket is not unique to the West. On the contrary, this principle has been known to our ancestors a long time ago.
As early as before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when a family developed to a certain scale, its patriarch would naturally transfer some family members to outsiders in the name of spreading the family branches and letting them rebuild the family.
In this way, in addition to helping each other with the main family, if the main family really encounters a big problem, with these branches there, the entire army will not be wiped out and the ancestral temple will be shattered.
"Let's eat first!"
Looking up, he saw the fat county magistrate's innocent look. Xiao Han, who woke up from his deep thoughts, suddenly said such a sentence, which almost made him miss Liu Hongji next to him.
"Eat? It's already this time, do you still want to eat?" Liu Hongji stared at him in disbelief after hearing the content of Xiao Han's words, and his saliva almost sprayed onto Xiao Han's face!
He also realized just now: If all these bizarre things in Shandong were really caused by the Li family of Zhao County! So behind these things, what kind of turmoil may be hidden!
Instigating refugees and besieging county offices is not just children's play! It’s not a game like beacon fire and princes! In fact, for the emperor, this was rebellion! It is still a rebellion of the most egregious nature!
Liu Hongji didn't believe that a family like the Seven Sects and Five Surnames, which had been passed down for thousands of years, would suddenly do such senseless and stupid things!
And now that they have done it, it means that they have an absolute plan! This plan doesn’t even involve one city or one place!
"Don't eat? Will the refugees outside leave if they don't eat?" Xiao Han stood up, stretched, and said angrily to Liu Hongji.
"Then we should send people back to Chang'an immediately to clarify the situation with His Majesty?" Liu Hongji stared at Xiao Han in disbelief.
When he thought about it, could it be that Xiao Han was intimidated by the Li family of Zhao County and wanted to be like the county magistrate?
This is not right. When he was unknown, he dared to go against the Bolingcui family. How come he kept going back the longer he lived?
"You want me to report back to Chang'an?" When Xiao Han heard this, he looked at Liu Hongji like an idiot: "Do you think His Majesty doesn't know what happened here?"
"You mean, His Majesty knows?"
"Nonsense! You don't have to think about it. In the past two years, His Majesty has been spreading his influence to Shandong and Hebei! If you don't even know about this kind of thing, then the people in Baiqi can just find a rope and a crooked-neck tree. Forget it by hanging, living is a waste anyway."
"But, if he knew, why didn't he see the army suppress it?"
Although he felt that what Xiao Han said did make some sense, Liu Hongji still did not dare to fully believe his judgment.
Because based on what he thought, if Xiao Lizi knew that the Li family in Zhao County wanted to rebel, he would definitely mobilize an army and rush to Shandong to suppress it!
Don't doubt whether His Majesty has the courage to surround the capital with seventeen guards and horses that account for 60% of the world's combat power! Not to mention a Zhaojun Li family, even if there are a few more, Liu Hongji believes that he can defeat them all in one battle!
"This is your Majesty's consideration, so you and I don't have to worry too much! Let's go for a walk and eat. After traveling such a long way, I'm really hungry!"
Ignoring Liu Hongji's confused eyes at all, Xiao Han took Liu Hongji's shoulders and pushed him out together as if nothing happened.
Behind him, except for the fat county magistrate, he was slightly better.
The county magistrate and the master both looked horrified, and their mouths were so big they could almost stuff a goose egg!
This is not to blame for their lack of concentration, it is because they listened to every word of what Xiao Han said just now!
If they can become county magistrate or master, they are certainly not stupid!
I know that if what Xiao Han said is true, then the land of Shandong will immediately fall into turmoil and war. When the time comes, where will their little Ningcheng go?
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Changxin Restaurant
This may be the only decent restaurant in Ningcheng.
But although it is said to be a building, it is actually just a two-story inn.
The lobby on the first floor is used for dining, there is a private room on the second floor, and the rest are guest rooms.
At this time, in the private room on the second floor.
Xiao Han and Liu Hongji, who had come from the county government office, were cleaning the food on the table as fast as the wind and the remaining clouds. The fat county magistrate was wiping cold sweat and pouring water and dishes for them with trembling hands.
Fortunately, he confirmed the identities of the two people in advance. Otherwise, looking at their eating faces as if they were reincarnations of starving ghosts, 80% of them would think that these two people were charlatans who came to him to cheat on food and drink!
"Phew! I'm full!"
Reluctantly putting down a clean chicken leg, Xiao Han touched his round belly and let out a long sigh of relief.
Although he brought a lot of food and dried meat with him when he came out this time, how could the dried meat be as comfortable to eat as live chicken?
Not to mention the sudden addition of dozens of prisoners, and they almost used up all their food reserves in two meals.
"Master Marquis, are you done eating? Do you want the cook to add another dish? Or slaughter another sheep and roast it?"
The fat county magistrate who was waiting on the side had long been worried about the food and drink of Xiao Han and his group!
He really doesn't have that much spare money in this poor and remote county town to leave him with empty accounts! In the end, he still has to pay for the entertainment expenses himself!
Therefore, whenever he thinks of these thirty people, thirty pot-bellied men, and thirty mouths, the fat county magistrate feels a twinge of pain in his heart! If I save all this for him, it will be enough for him to eat for more than a month!
However, the fat county magistrate did not dare to show it on his face at all. He even had to pretend to be happy and warmly greeted the waiter to kill the sheep and roast it.
"forget it!"
Fortunately, Xiao Han, who had eaten and drank enough, finally spoke up to stop the waiter from killing the sheep, which made the fat county magistrate, whose heart was in his throat, heave a sigh of relief.
But before his heart returned to his stomach, he heard Xiao Han continue to burp and say: "Keep it, keep it and kill him at night..."
"Ah..." The fat county magistrate's body went limp and he almost fell to the floor of the restaurant.
