"Take it away!" The young man said with a proud look, "As long as your granddaughter pays for it, it will be an advantage for your family."
The little old man lay on the ground, unable to resist.
Li Zhao's face was gloomy, and the more he watched, the more annoyed he became.
The entire Jiaozhou... seems to be rotten from top to bottom.
Xiaoqing and Xiaohong's faces turned pale, and their eyes were full of unbearability and worry as they looked at the girl who was snatched away.
Li Zhao took a deep breath, and just as he was about to speak, Wu Diao Temple reminded him: "Your Highness, the forces here are complicated, and one move can affect the whole body. We are new here, so it is not easy to make enemies with them."
Before coming here, Wu Diao Temple made inquiries.
If you want to live a stable life in Jiaozhou, you must first establish a good relationship with these local elites.
Even Emperor Wu's words have no effect here, the aristocratic families are the real talkers.
If you offend them, you will find it difficult to move here.
Hearing this, Li Zhao pointed to his nose and said, "Who am I?"
"You are King You!"
"Whose fiefdom is here?"
"Your!"
Li Zhao said angrily: "You commit crimes in my territory just because you don't give me the face of King You!"
He snorted coldly, walked out of the carriage, grabbed the whip from Wu Diao Si's hand, and strode towards the helpless girl.
Li Zhao never wanted to be a saint, but after all, he was born under the red flag and grew up under the red flag. He couldn't do anything when he saw this kind of thing happen.
"Let her go!" Li Zhao's voice sounded coldly.
Du Xiu had noticed this convoy a long time ago, but he didn't take it seriously.
He thought that the other party would realize his interest and leave, but he didn't expect that he would dare to meddle in his own business here?
Du Xiu had a disdainful smile on his face: "Are you talking to me?"
Li Zhao looked at Du Xiu's arrogant face and reiterated: "Let her go!"
"Haha..." Du Xiu was amused by Li Zhao's behavior. He walked up to Li Zhao and faced Li Zhao face to face, saying, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
Li Zhao slapped him. Du Xiu's ears buzzed and his cheeks hurt: "You——"
Li Zhao slapped him again.
"What the hell...ah——"
With one kick, Du Xiu was knocked over, and the whip in Li Zhao's hand was whipped down wildly.
Du Xiu's people were all stunned by Li Zhao's fast pace, and by the time they reacted, it was already too late.
Li Bin drew out his long sword and stared at Du Xiu's people coldly. No one was allowed to approach Li Zhao.
Bang bang——
Du Xiu screamed, he had made a mistake, he was used to being rampant in Jiaozhou, no one dared to do anything to him, which led him to think that the person in front of him did not dare to do anything either.
Li Zhao took the killing blow and was merciless at all.
Du Xiu fainted from the pain.
"Wake up!"
"Ah——" Du Xiu was woken up and stared at Li Zhao with resentful eyes.
"Will you let me go?"
Du Xiu didn't agree.
Li Zhao kicked him hard in the stomach. Du Xiu almost vomited, gritted his teeth and said, "Let go!"
The girl threw herself at her grandfather, and kowtowed to Li Zhao together with her grandfather.
Li Zhao let them go first, squatted next to Du Xiu, and said: "Remember, the person who beat you is called Youwang Li Zhao."
"Li Zhao!" Du Xiu gritted his teeth and stared at Li Zhao's vehicle: "If I don't kill you, I won't be named Du!"
…
Li Zhao was in a bad mood because he found that there were too many such things and there was no way he could be saved.
On the way, he met a man who was selling his son and daughter. He offered to give him food. However, after the parents asked for the food, they still insisted on selling their son and daughter.
Li Zhao didn't understand why these people still had to sell their sons and daughters after he gave them food.
Later, he learned that even if this group of people returned home, their food would not last long.
What's more important is that having food only solves an urgent need. They already have no fields, and it will be unsustainable after all.
Li Zhao was no longer excited and no longer looking forward to it. This was completely different from his imagination of becoming a local emperor.
He wanted to be a leisurely prince, but the bad things here happened one after another, and he couldn't enjoy it at ease.
I can’t live with my conscience!
Besides, this is his fiefdom.
He is the owner of this land and has the right to exercise all rights.
But his people lived such a miserable life, and this was still the so-called happy and prosperous age!
What about the people in other places?
How many people are there who can't live like just now?
"Wudiao Temple!"
"The slave is here."
"Is everyone in Jiaozhou like this?" Li Zhao couldn't help but ask.
Wu Diao Si hesitated to speak, and then said under Li Zhao's glare: "What you saw is just a short section... Jiaozhou is more chaotic than what you see."
"Is there no one to take care of it? No one to rule it?" Li Zhao asked puzzledly.
Wu Diaoji smiled bitterly and said: "There are policies from above and countermeasures from below. There are illegal things in Kyoto, not to mention that this place is more than 500 miles away from Kyoto."
"The imperial court appointed three governors of Jiaozhou...all of them 'died'!"
Li Zhao's pupils shrank, he knew that this death must be an abnormal death.
"what about now?"
"The current Jiaozhou governor is the one who has lived the longest." Wu Diaosi said helplessly.
"several years?"
"Three years!"
Li Zhao is sluggish. Three years is the longest he has lived?
Officials in the Wu Kingdom have to stay in one position for at least nine years! Three years is a long time here?
Has Jiaozhou become so dark?
How do you say something?
Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.
Li Zhao was in a very unhappy mood, not in the mood to travel around.
The roads in Jiaozhou are difficult to navigate, full of potholes and official roads.
If Li Zhao were to complain, it would be as bad as shit.
Even the dirt roads of the 1980s and 1990s in my previous life were better than this official road.
No wonder traffic was so bad in ancient times. This kind of road condition was really torturous.
In this era, except for the rich and powerful, few people travel by carriage or horseback. They all rely on the No. 11 bus to travel long distances, and the speed is not ordinary slow.
Some people have never left the village in their entire lives, let alone traveled further afield.
Only then did Li Zhao truly realize how powerful this so-called prosperous age was.
He sighed heavily, the next step was going to be big trouble.
"The entire army is on alert and march quickly!"
"yes!"
Half a month later, Li Zhao finally arrived at the fiefdom with a sore back and waist.
The whole of Jiaozhou felt like a garbage area to Li Zhao. Children and daughters were sold, fields were seized, and houses were robbed.
Such a place is still located at the transportation hub to Kyoto. The places close to Kyoto are so bad, but what about the rest of the places?
Li Zhao didn't dare to think about it.
When he arrived at the fiefdom, Li Zhao discovered how big the gap was between his ideal and reality.
He was traveling in a low profile this time, and almost no one knew his identity, but the arrival of such a large convoy would definitely attract attention.
What's more, Li Zhao also put up his own royal flag. It stands to reason that people in this realm will definitely know that King You is coming.
But the strange thing is that no one came.
It's like...an irrelevant person is coming.
In fact, Li Zhao didn't mind either. His reputation was not good to begin with, and he had seen too much darkness in Jiaozhou along the way. He had already understood that if he wanted to gain a foothold here, or even control the entire Jiaozhou, it would be extremely difficult. Big.
"Send someone to the Governor's Mansion in Jiaozhou!" Li Zhao ordered: "Ask him to arrange craftsmen for me. I want to build Prince You's Mansion here."
Because he came to Jiaozhou temporarily, there was no royal palace built in Jiaozhou in advance.
Therefore, if Li Zhao wanted to settle here, everything had to start from scratch.
Not long after, Li Zhao's people came back, looking very ugly.
"Your Highness... the governor of Jiaozhou said... he can't make the decision in this matter, so he can only... make your own arrangements."
