Chapter 172 The County City Is Corrupt, and Lin Feng and the Others Are Not Welcome

After dinner, Lin Feng and the other two left the town together.

The horses of the three were all strong, so they traveled without any effort.

At dusk, a big city was already in sight.

Seeing such a big city, Lin Feng couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The wall that he could see alone was fifty miles long, and the height of the wall was about thirty meters.

The scale of Qinghe County is simply incomparable to Longyuan County.

This county city has a population of at least millions.

Zhai Chengyuan saw Lin Feng's expression and asked, "It seems that Lord Lin is here for the first time."

Lin Feng smiled and said, "Sorry to make Lord Zhai laugh."

Zhai Chengyuan waved his hand quickly, "No, no, I had the same expression as Lord Lin when I first came to the county city."

In addition to the size, Lin Feng also saw some other details.

The walls of the county city seemed a bit shabby, covered with moss, and even trees and weeds grew on many places. It looked like it had been in disrepair for a long time.

He understood what was going on as soon as he thought about it.

How could those greedy officials in the City Lord's Mansion be willing to spend money to repair the city wall?

A hundred years of peace and comfort have made these people forget what war is like. Every day, they only bully the people and drink and have fun. If they continue like this, they will be finished sooner or later.

But it is not necessarily the case. The Demon Sect may be worse.

Zhai Chengyuan clamped his feet on the horse's belly and drove the warhorse forward, "Let's go, let's go into the city.

There are many more places to have fun in the county city than in Qinghe County."

There were several guards standing at the gate of the city. It seemed that they were only responsible for maintaining order and did not check pedestrians entering the city.

It seemed that they were not afraid of bad guys entering the city.

It seems that the order in the city should be well maintained.

After entering the city, the three separated.

Zhai Chengyuan went to the City Lord's Mansion.

Lin Feng and Sun Yu went to the headquarters of the Ma Yiwei in the county city.

When Lin Feng arrived there, he learned that the generals of the Ma Yiwei from the other nine counties in Longyuan County had arrived in the afternoon. The generals of the Ma Yiwei in the county city took these people to drink.

The people at the Ma Yiwei headquarters received Lin Feng and the other two, settled their horses and found them a place to stay, and then there was no further news.

Lin Feng and Sun Yu were in a small courtyard, and Sun Yu kept looking out.

"What's going on? Shouldn't there be a welcoming banquet?"

Lin Feng probably figured out what was going on.

"Didn't that person just say that the general of the county city took the generals of the other nine counties to the restaurant in the city to drink."

"Are we late? Why didn't they ask us to drink?"

"I'm afraid it's not that we are late, but that they don't like us."

"We are new here and haven't offended these colleagues."

"Maybe our Qinghe County has been too popular, raising the performance evaluation standards of the Ma Yiwei, so we have been excluded by these colleagues."

Sun Yu understood a little, "Brother means that we are too aggressive."

"Yes, that's what he meant."

"It's not our fault. The problem has been found by us, and we can't not solve it. I'll go out and inquire to see if it's the same as what we think."

Sun Yu left the courtyard.

Lin Feng sat at the stone table in the yard and opened a little finger-sized bamboo tube given to him by Han Qianshan.

There was a kind of spice in the bamboo tube. When it was opened, the smell would spread out, which could attract the messenger skylark from the headquarters of the Jianzong Mayi Guard.

Lin Feng took out a piece of paper and a very thin pen from the bamboo tube and wrote a few words.

Then he rolled up the paper.

Chirp, at this time a skylark flew over.

Lin Feng poured some food from the bamboo tube and fed the skylark.

Put the rolled paper into the bamboo tube tied to the skylark's leg and plugged the bamboo tube with a stopper.

After eating, the skylark spread its wings and flew away.

At this time, Sun Yu, with a gloomy face, also came back.

He sat at the table and poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it with a gulp.

"Brother, you are right.

Except for the Ma Yiwei in Qinghe County, the Ma Yiwei in other counties of Longyuan County are in a difficult situation.

They have hardly received any rewards from the higher-ups, only twenty taels of silver every month.

The Ma Yiwei in some places have even joined forces with the City Lord's Mansion.

The people from the government and the City Guards also drank with the Ma Yiwei today.

It seems that we are isolated."

Lin Feng stood up and walked out, "Isolated, so be it. Come on, I'll treat you to a big meal."

The night in Longyuan County was brightly lit, and there were nine-story brothels and small stalls on the roadside.

Lin Feng saw a vendor selling candied haws, and he suddenly wanted to eat it.

Before he walked to the vendor's stall, two men in black with tigers embroidered on their bodies walked over.

One of them said, "It's time to pay the protection fee."

The vendor selling candied haws said with a bitter face, "Didn't I just pay it half a month ago?"

The man in black said, "Stop talking nonsense to me. Just pay it if I ask you to. All the vendors on this street have paid, and you are the only one left."

The vendor had no choice but to pay the protection fee.

Lin Feng walked up to the vendor and pointed at the two men in black who were leaving and asked, "Who are those two? Why are they so arrogant?"

Hearing what Lin Feng said, the vendor's face turned green.

He wanted to cover Lin Feng's mouth, but he didn't dare to, so he could only whisper, "Sir, please keep your voice down. If they hear it, it will be troublesome."

The vendor was relieved when he saw that the two men didn't turn around.

"I can see that you are from other places, otherwise how could you not know the Tiger Gang.

The Tiger Gang is protected by the four forces of the City Lord's Mansion, the City Guards, the Yamen and the Ma Yiwei. No one dares to mess with it.

Lin Feng raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure that the Ma Yiwei also protects the Tiger Gang."

"Of course, the people of Longyuan County all know about this.

Several colleagues heard that the Ma Yiwei was an organization that stood up for the people, and they went to the Ma Yiwei to report the Tiger Gang for collecting protection fees.

As a result, those people fell into the hands of the Tiger Gang the next day.

The Tiger Gang used all the tortures they could think of on those people, squeezed their money, and sold their wives and daughters to brothels.

Those people were tied up next to Caishikou and tortured for four or five days before they died. It was really tragic.

I also went to Caishikou to see it.

At that time, a beggar wanted to feed these people some water, but he was hacked to death by the Tiger Gang.

I heard that when the Ma Yiwei in the county city was first established, they also wanted to compete with the City Lord's Mansion, but they were not strong enough and were taken away. I was squeezed, and then I completely surrendered. "

Sun Yu gritted his teeth and said, "These people are too outrageous. Even if the Ma Yiwei does not stand up for the people, they cannot help the tyrants to do evil. "

"This is the protection of officials." The small vendor pointed to the lights around him, "Don't look at the prosperity of Longyuan County on the surface, but in fact, the people have been oppressed to the point of suffocation.

If I am charged protection fees again this month, let alone continuing to do business, I am afraid that my family will not even have food to eat.

I will pack up and go to Qinghe County the day after tomorrow.

I heard that General Lin of the Ma Yiwei in Qinghe County is a living Bodhisattva.

General Lin has dealt with all the gangs and ruffians on the ground in Qinghe County.

No one in Qinghe County collects protection fees, so business is much easier. "

Lin Feng felt a sense of accomplishment when he heard this. The people can still see what he did.

Lin Feng plans to move out of the Ma Yiwei in a while and find a restaurant to live in.

People with different beliefs cannot work together, and they don't like us, so why live in the Ma Yiwei.

The hemp clothes guards in the county city are not worthy of wearing this hemp clothes.

If I can become the general of the hemp clothes guards in the county city, I will definitely turn this Longyuan County around.