deltrittennovels #171 - Do they still dare to rebel?
#171 - Do they still dare to rebel?
Qingzhou City.
Yang Family Residence.
Inside the main hall.
Yang Weitu, the eldest son of the Yang family, was sitting with An Liangbi, the Vice Magistrate of Qingzhou, drinking freshly brewed tea.
Recently, Yang Weitu's mood had finally improved considerably.
Since he decisively took action, using silver to bribe the officials, big and small, in Qingzhou City, and quickly stabilized the situation.
His brothers, who had been vying for the position of family head, had finally quieted down a lot.
The people in the Yang family had also begun to gradually accept his arrangements, which could be regarded as recognizing his ability.
Yang Weitu picked up his tea, took a sip, and smiled:
"That Gao Yuan is laughable, truly thinking that just because he is the Prefect, he can suppress my Yang family? He can sit firmly in the Prefect's position only because my Yang family allows him to."
"If my Yang family doesn't want him to sit there, then he won't last a single day!"
Divine Deer Peak was the Yang family's mountain, and White Deer Manor was the Yang family's property.
Now, this place had actually been occupied by those people from the Way of Peace.
This was a humiliation that the Yang family had never suffered in Qingzhou in decades!
An Liangbi smiled slightly:
"Young Master Yang, after you eliminate the Way of Peace, your prestige will be enough to take the position of family head."
"When that time comes..."
Yang Weitu immediately patted his chest and guaranteed:
"Don't worry, you will be the Prefect of Qingzhou in the future!"
"I have already sent someone to meet with the State Duke, and the State Duke has also said that he admires you very much, he will take care of things on the Ministry of Revenue's side."
An Liangbi laughed heartily upon hearing this.
There was a hint of awkwardness in his laughter.
He was not used to Yang Weitu's direct way of speaking.
He preferred the previous head of the Yang family, Yang Jingye, who was meticulous in his work and made people feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.
But none of that mattered anymore.
As long as he could successfully ascend to the position, that was the most important thing.
At this moment, Yang Weitu clapped his hands.
A servant came in carrying a tray covered with red silk.
The tray was placed on the tea table, and Yang Weitu stretched out his hand and pushed the tray in front of An Liangbi.
"This is?"
An Liangbi asked with a slight question.
Yang Weitu said:
"In the future, I will be the family head, and you will be the Prefect, we will have more opportunities to cooperate."
"And the State Duke, who is helping us to smooth things over, also needs more silver."
"Our Yang family is in the medicinal herb business, and we have made some money recently. But once the plague subsides, how much money can we make relying on medicinal herbs?"
"Since I am the family head, the business must be bigger than what my late father did!"
"So, after a while, I want to do business in salt."
An Liangbi's eyes twitched slightly upon hearing this.
Selling private salt was a capital crime!
But since ancient times, despite numerous harsh laws, private salt smugglers in the folk have been repeatedly banned but never eliminated.
But if the Yang family wanted to sell private salt, it would definitely not be the small-scale operations of those salt smugglers.
This kind of business, without the help of the Prefect, would really be difficult to do.
An Liangbi slightly lifted the red silk on the tray and took a look.
All that was visible was a tray full of gold ingots!
An Liangbi continued to cover it with the red silk, shaking his head helplessly.
This Yang Weitu was indeed much more arrogant and ignorant than his father, Yang Jingye.
When Yang Weitu saw An Liangbi shaking his head, he thought that An Liangbi was not satisfied.
He immediately said:
"Don't worry, you will get your share in the future."
"Just help me kill all those bandits from the Way of Peace tonight!"
An Liangbi looked up at Yang Weitu in disbelief upon hearing this.
"Young Master Yang means… all of them?"
He asked uncertainly, even suspecting that he had misheard.
Yang Weitu snorted coldly:
"Of course, if we don't kill all the Way of Peace, it will be difficult to avenge my Yang family."
"I have already received news that the murderer who killed my late father was from the Way of Peace."
"I want them to be buried with my late father!"
When Yang Weitu said this, his face was full of ferocity and murderous intent.
An Liangbi couldn't help but remind him:
"But the Way of Peace now probably has no less than tens of thousands of people."
"There are even rumors that their number may have approached one hundred thousand!"
An Liangbi originally thought that Yang Weitu would dismiss the idea after he said this.
But Yang Weitu said indifferently:
"How much silver do you need to settle it, just say it!"
"My Yang family may not have anything else, but we have silver."
"I want to leave no one alive in the entire Way of Peace!"
An Liangbi couldn't help but cough lightly.
He suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Although Yang Weitu was decisive in his actions.
He was just reckless and crazy, and he was only invincible because of the power of the Yang family.
But if he encountered a strong opponent, could Yang Weitu still cope?
If the Yang family really let Yang Weitu become the family head, it might not be a good thing.
An Liangbi couldn't help but wonder if he should give up supporting Yang Weitu and choose another young master from the Yang family to support instead?
Just as An Liangbi was hesitating.
He heard Yang Weitu clap his hands.
"Clap, clap!"
With the crisp applause, a beautiful woman walked in and bowed gracefully to An Liangbi:
"This humble woman greets Lord An!"
When An Liangbi saw this woman, he quickly stood up:
"Madam Feng."
It turned out that this woman was Feng Tian's wife, the garrison commander of Qingzhou City.
When this woman saw An Liangbi bowing so formally, a look of embarrassment flashed across her face.
Yang Weitu smiled:
"So you know her."
"This woman is a rare beauty, her skin is as white as snow, as smooth as porcelain, warm in winter and cool in summer when you hold her in your arms."
“Some people say she can be called the number one beauty in Qingzhou City!”
“I also spent a great price to invite her to accompany you.”
“Today, she belongs to you. You can do whatever you want with her!”
Saying this, Yang Weitu said to the beautiful woman:
“Go and accompany Lord An.”
The woman came to An Liangbi with a smile, pulling An Liangbi to sit down.
An Liangbi hurriedly avoided her, and he looked at Yang Weitu and said:
“Young Master Yang, she is Madam Feng, the Supervising Secretary.”
Yang Weitu said nonchalantly:
“What are you afraid of?”
“He’s just a small Supervising Secretary. Even his superior, the garrison commander, is my man!”
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“Don’t worry, he won’t be able to turn the sky even if he finds out.”
“Besides, he doesn’t know anyway.”
“In this Qingzhou Prefecture officialdom, I don’t know how many officials dream of this woman, coveting her and wanting to get her.”
“Today you are the first to taste her freshness, so just enjoy yourself.”
After speaking, Yang Weitu laughed loudly.
Gold is not satisfactory?
Then the beauty should always be satisfactory, right?
Especially since she is the number one beauty in Qingzhou City, she should be worthy of your future prefect status, right?
However, a gloomy look flashed in An Liangbi’s eyes.
He looked at Yang Weitu, who was laughing loudly, and only felt that Yang Weitu was really crazy!
Tonight is precisely when we need people, especially when we need to use the army.
But he actually secretly cuckolded Feng, the Supervising Secretary, who is second only to the garrison commander in the Qingzhou City garrison!
This is the hatred of taking a wife!
If this matter is exposed, facing such a great humiliation, how can that Supervising Secretary Feng let it go?
“Send her back.”
An Liangbi said sternly.
Yang Weitu only thought that An Liangbi still couldn’t let go of the laughable aloofness of a scholar.
He patted An Liangbi and laughed:
“Don’t worry, there are no outsiders here, don’t pretend to be serious.”
“You scholars and officials, one by one, are serious on the surface, but in fact, you are all full of bad ideas. I understand!”
“If you want to completely get her in the future, and want to bring her into the An residence, then come to me, and I will definitely handle it for you.”
An Liangbi sneered.
Then he grabbed the edge of the tea table with both hands, and then suddenly lifted it with force.
“Crash!”
The entire tea table was overturned on the ground.
All the tea sets were also smashed on the ground, shattering into pieces.
The beautiful woman was also taken aback and exclaimed, covering her mouth.
Yang Weitu asked in surprise:
“What do you mean by this?”
An Liangbi walked to Yang Weitu and stared at Yang Weitu angrily:
“You ask me what I mean?”
“I also want to ask you what you mean!”
“Do you really think of those people from the Taiping Dao as a group of ordinary mud-legged people? You can easily eliminate them?”
“That Great Virtuous Teacher is highly skilled in martial arts and can also use talisman water to coerce the followers.”
“In that Taiping Dao, there are even warriors like clouds, among which there are many experts.”
“That Red Fire Sword Sect has recently been mixing with the Taiping Dao every day, and there is already a tendency to form an alliance.”
“Those tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of disaster victims outside the city are like hundreds of thousands of dynamite kegs, and the Taiping Dao only needs a spark to detonate them!”
“Tonight, if we want to coerce Gao Yuan to bow his head and want to eliminate the Taiping Dao, we must be careful and cautious in everything, and there must be no mistakes!”
“But you are good, Gao Yuan is still sitting in his seat, and the Taiping Dao has not been eliminated, but you are doing whatever you want here!”
“If your father knew under the nine springs, he would definitely not allow you to be so reckless!”
Although An Liangbi is a civil official, he usually looks gentle and refined, and cherishes words like gold.
But once he gets angry, his aura is terrifying.
His series of words were like a series of heavy punches hitting Yang Weitu.
But Yang Weitu was still arguing:
“I really don’t understand what you are afraid of?”
“No matter how crazy that Taiping Dao is, what can they do to us?”
“Behind my Yang family is the Korean consort! Behind you is the imperial court!”
“Are those ignorant people of the Taiping Dao dare to rebel?”
An Liangbi was really speechless.
At this moment, he was completely disappointed with this Yang Weitu.
He finally understood that the partner he had chosen this time was simply hopeless.
But now that things have come to this, the arrow is on the string and must be fired.
An Liangbi could not change people.
He could only give a final warning:
“You remember it for me!”
“Everything tonight will be under my command! Don’t act on your own! ”
“Otherwise, if something happens, no one will have a good time!”
After speaking, An Liangbi left with a flick of his sleeves in anger.
Yang Weitu looked at An Liangbi’s departing back, his eyes full of unwillingness.
Listen to you?
Based on what!
Who do you think you are?!
Whose silver are the officials, big and small, in this Qingzhou City taking?
If it weren’t for the Yang family, would a small assistant administrator like you be worthy of fighting Gao Yuan?
Yang Weitu only felt that his chest was full of anger and had nowhere to vent.
He turned his gaze and looked at Madam Feng beside him.
Immediately, Yang Weitu rushed up and punched and kicked Madam Feng, causing Madam Feng to scream in pain and beg for mercy.
On weekdays, Yang Weitu relied on hitting servants to vent his anger.
But now he didn’t bother to find a servant, and catching Madam Feng was just right to use her as a punching bag.
After Yang Weitu beat her for a while, he finally vented his anger.
He sat back in his chair panting, and pointed his hand to the door:
“Get out!”
“Get out of here for me right now!”
How dare Madam Feng stay, she fled in a panic.