C196 Competition for the sweet and salty legume

The Discipline Hall was a secret organization that Xiao Letian had single-handedly set up. Part of its members came from the men recruited by the Dragon Lord, part came from the elites left behind by the heavenly powers, and the other part were the enlightened Han people from within the Ryukyu.

In Xiao Letian's heart, even though the first two groups of people made up the majority of the Discipline Hall's members, they were definitely not the main body of the Discipline Hall in the future. In another ten or eight years, the various schools in Ryukyu and the Great Qing En Yangzhong System will provide all kinds of outstanding talents unceasingly. At that time, the members who have received higher education will become the main body of the Punishment Hall.

Only when there were more people with high standards would the Torture Chamber become the ideal place for Xiao Letian to live. It was a mixture of the Central Intelligence Agency and the KGB. This was a weapon that was even scarier than an army. The future world was the world of intelligence and psychological warfare. On the surface, wars were intermittent, but the dark generals between countries never stopped.

The present Xiao Letian's torture chamber was only the rudiments of this enormous institution. He had never expected Wang Huaiyuan and the others to give him some strategic advice, but he never expected that Wang Huaiyuan's plan would give him such a huge shock.

"The Green Camp cannot keep his mouth shut, she must seal his mouth. Then, the Lord Zhou will send a letter to the Manchu dynasty government and claim Sun Sanhu as a great bandit. He will pretend to be one of the imperial guards and collude with the Green Battalion in order to seize the property of the Tanggu's business circle …"

"I know that the Purging Demons will not believe it, but now they have to believe it. Just now, news came from the city that the armed sailors from the foreigners have landed on the shore and started to guard the streets where the foreign merchants are gathering. With the help of the foreigners, everything will be easy to handle …"

Master, please don't stay here. Take the first and second company and board the boat and sail away from Tanggu. As long as you are on the sea, Purging Demons will be helpless. This group of wild boar skins are innately afraid of the sea.

"All that's left is the water mill case. We have money, we have witnesses, we'll just have to slowly grind them down with the imperial court. "How dare you reach over and chop him off …"

"Lord, don't worry. Based on our estimates, this plan is at least sixty percent feasible. But, the most important thing about everything is that we have to silence everyone. We must destroy the chain of proof in the Purging Demons's hands, and only then will our chances of survival be higher … "

Xiao Letian was dumbstruck by what he heard, he realized that the steps the Discipline Hall had taken were far greater than what he had imagined. They had originally been used as spies or assassins, but he never thought that they were already able to deduce the situation and make a preliminary judgement, or even come up with a viable plan.

"I never would have thought. Really, I would never have thought that the speed of your learning would be so fast that it would surprise me. This, this …" "It has only been a few months of hard work, and you guys can actually make such an exquisite judgement about the chaotic situation. You guys have indeed improved …"

Wang Huaiyuan didn't have time to respond to Xiao Letian's praise. He hurriedly said, "There's no time, my lord. Don't hesitate anymore. "When that time comes, I will personally take action and definitely not allow your honor's reputation to be tainted by even the slightest bit …"

"Bullshit!" Xiao Letian's face changed, "Who do you think I am? A hypocrite? I would rather be a villain than a hypocrite. Stop playing tricks on me. I, Xiao Letian, am not a feudal emperor, I don't need you to paint me white … "

Wang Huaiyuan was so anxious that beads of sweat could be seen on his forehead, "Then what should we do? Speak plainly, my lord. The sky is already bright. If I don't act now, it will all be too late … Look at this great plain. Where can hundreds of fallen soldiers escape to? "Decisive, what I need to do now is make a decision!"

The soldiers were eating the breakfast organized by Zhou Xing, but they never expected that Xiao Letian and Wang Huaiyuan would actually start arguing.

The scene was dead silent. Xiao Letian stared at the nervous Wang Huaiyuan for three minutes, until he lost his composure and burst into laughter.

"Haha, I didn't know that you would be so serious …" In your opinion, this situation is a dangerous one, but in my eyes, the road ahead is a long one … constable head Zhou, bring me a bowl of legume … "

"Eh? Sigh … "Right away!" In the blink of an eye, Zhou Xing brought two bowls of legume over and handed one bowl to Xiao Letian.

It had to be said that constable head Zhou was quite capable. Amidst the chaos last night, many of the breakfast shops did not want to open anymore, but with constable head Zhou appearing, they actually managed to gather several hundred people to enjoy breakfast in the shortest amount of time.

On the legume, its tender white skin was filled with rich fragrance of sauce, black fungus and egg silk, fragrant leek sauce, and a few drops of fragrant chili oil. This was the most common bowl of legume in the north.

"Smells good, smells really good …" Xiao Letian lifted his head and took a big bite, "Eh? Why is the legume salty? This is simply lawless and crazy, the legume actually made it into salt, shouldn't it be sweet? "

When Xiao Letian caused this trouble, everyone was stunned. A few soldiers that were drinking legume looked down at their rice bowls, unable to understand what Xiao Letian was saying no matter how hard they tried.

Wang Huaiyuan was also stunned, he did not know what the hell Xiao Letian was doing, but he could feel that Xiao Letian was trying to say something. My Lord, this sweet legume, is popular in Suhang II and Guangdong, but it's salty everywhere else! "

"Hahaha, what you say doesn't count. Let's just forget about what we said …" Brother, let me ask you, should this legume be sweet or salty? " Xiao Letian held the bowl and asked the person beside him.

Zhou Xing rolled his eyes and quickly said, "It's sweet, if Master says it's sweet, it's sweet." Immediately after, the constable head behind him and the servants also followed suit. "Sweet, the lord wants to eat sweet, I'll go get some sugar right now …"

Tie Toutuo who was munching on a big cake stood up angrily and scolded, "You ass-kissers, legume is obviously salty, if the Lord says so, you guys will flatter me, I despise you guys …"

With this commotion, the two companies of recruits began to clamor, "That's right, I've been eating legume for a lifetime and it's been salty all my life. You guys are really shameless!"

Even though they were being scolded, they couldn't just take the loss. They jumped up and shouted, "Sweet, just sweet, what's wrong with what my lord said. Besides, Lord Wang also said that I ate sweet in the Second Land of Su Hang …"

"Salty... Sweet... salty... Sweet... " The two sides of the crowd were in an uproar. However, Xiao Letian still had a small number of ass-kissing staff, and very quickly, the salty legume was in the mainstream.

Xiao Letian laughed as he watched the crowd quarrel, and drank all the legume in his hands in a daze. He patted Wang Huaiyuan's shoulder and said, "Huai Yuan, sometimes political battles are just so boring, what people argue about is not about truth and justice, they don't want an absolute standard of justice either …"

On one hand, it proves that I'm not idle. I'm not just here to have a meal, but on the other hand, the crowd will be automatically divided, and a bowl of legume will be used to separate the Scented Party and the Sweets Party. How many factions do you think there will be in the imperial court?

Xiao Letian pushed the empty bowl into Wang Huaiyuan's arms, and patted off the dust in his hands, "There is no justice or truth in the world, the truth only depends on who has the loudest voice. The fight that Sun Sanhu has instigated, seems like we are the weaker party, that can only mean that you have a shallow eye, wait until I use my skills …"

"Hehehe, I'm just afraid that Qing Dynasty won't be able to stand my methods … "Okay, go send the order, immediately post the people's notice, all the villages will be posted, the chief evildoer has been caught, I will not pursue this matter any further, let the defeated soldiers go back to the camp and stew their meat, send the charcoal, wait for father's order for them …"

Wang Huaiyuan's head was twisted like a chuanzi, he still wanted to advise them against it, but in the end Xiao Hexin and Sima Yun dragged him aside and said, "Enough, Master has made his decision, why are you blabbering on like that, Master has never let us down before?"

After two hours, the fast horses galloped around the Tanggu. The riders carried thick rolls of paper on their backs and a bucket of paste in their hands. Every time they arrived at a village, they would post a notice of safety.

"We know sire's orders, don't be afraid of all the civilians, the thieves from last night have already been killed, please go home and live peacefully, don't listen to the rumors …"

"Fellow villagers, when you see the fleeing Green Battalion, tell them personally that you have captured the Chief Evil. They were all deceived, they have no sins, tell them to hurry back to the camp …"

When the rider had finished posting the notice, he gave some instructions to get on his horse and ride to the next village.

On all the roads leading to the TIANJIN Wei, the new army had set up a card. There were notices pasted on the wooden boards, and when people approached from afar, the soldiers would shout.

"Brothers of the Green Camp, you were deceived by that bastard Sun Sanhu. That fellow had confessed everything in the prison. You have been deceived. The adults say that all evil must be done. You are all innocent and innocent … "Go back to the camp!"

Not only the land, but a large number of kang boat also appeared on the sea. Pulling into a line, they were tightly searching the cargo ships that came and went. At this time, the sea river had yet to be completely frozen. A few cargo ships could still pass by the middle of the river. This was basically the last shipment of goods by water from the new year. They would have to rely on land transportation in the future.

General Ding and the two personal guards were hidden inside a kang boat that was used to transport food. The captain used a grain bag to pile up a small hidden area for them, and the three of them huddled inside it, not daring to even breathe.

"Aiyo, these old men have worked hard. Why do they look so unfamiliar? I wonder which yamen's old man it is …"

"Go go go, take back the silver, we are not going to eat this, we are guards of the Tanggu, did you not know that we were robbers last night?" "We were the ones who killed three times in order to guarantee your safety. Now is a routine inspection. Move the food away and let us take a look inside …"

"Aiyo, my lord! Please be magnanimous! Hai He will freeze in a few days! We are really in a hurry!" "If we were to move and unload them, they would have disappeared for at least half a day. By then, the river would freeze our boat halfway, and I would really jump into the river and commit suicide …"

"Please be magnanimous, my lord. If I delay this ship's food, the lord in the capital will behead me. Wuu …." "Pitiful! My family was counting on me to support them, I kowtowed to you …"

As he spoke, the ship's deck rumbled, and the captain kowtowed as if he was knocking garlic out of his mouth. As for General Ding, who was hiding inside the grain bag, he had already taken out her family's Hundred Refinement Steel Dagger, looking like he was going to give it her all.