Chapter 20: A Word Worth a Thousand Gold

Qi Xuansu's series of actions had an immediate effect.

Just two days later, the news that "Hua Tai Sui" Gao Shide was tied up in front of the gate of the Jade Emperor Palace spread throughout the North City. The local tyrants, who were already terrified, became more cautious. Their information channels were very well-informed. They also heard about Wu Si's murder. They all understood one thing: Master Gao had messed up. Not only did he not scare people, but he also angered Master Qi. Now he slapped you in the face. What would you do?

Of course you can pretend to be a turtle, but the next step is that Master Qi will start parading in the name of increasing the intensity of propaganda to ban "Wu Shi San". The first stop is the northwest of Wuliang, passing by the front door of your house. What should you do then?

Merchants are trustworthy and have confidence. As long as their own credit and the confidence of others are still there, even if they are heavily in debt, they can still move around and maintain their reputation. Once your credit is gone, others will lose confidence in you, and all creditors will come to collect debts immediately. No matter how big the business is, it will be gone in an instant.

The same is true of Mr. Gao's majesty. If he shows weakness, he will be pushed down by everyone.

On the other hand, after Qi Xuansu occupied the high ground of morality, he formed a dominant position. The power of public tools was almost infinite, just like the heavy cavalry on the great plains, which was really invincible and unstoppable.

The local snakes also heard that there were some disapproving voices in the Imperial Capital, saying that Qi Zhushi's original intention was good, but he acted too hastily, and too much was worse than too little.

However, it was soon suppressed by Master Shi lightly. Master Shi said that in troubled times, heavy punishments should be used, and strong medicine should be used for serious illnesses. Now is a peaceful and prosperous era, the criminal law is very light, so many criminals are lawless, causing many chronic diseases to the world. In the past, the Imperial Capital Daofu did nothing and let things go, making these chronic diseases particularly serious. Therefore, if you want to cure the disease in a short time, you must use strong medicine.

The head of the palace does not speak, the chief deputy palace master does not speak, and no one else can refute.

Today's Imperial Capital Daofu is also a situation of balance among the three paths. Shi Bingyun has a long qualification, but he only serves as the second deputy palace master, similar to Li Tianlan of Jinling Daofu. The head of the palace, Li Ruoshui, was born in the Li family, but he is not a core member of the Li family. He is similar to Li Qingnu, who does not even have a generational character and has a shallow qualification. The chief deputy palace master Zhou Jiaoxian was born in Quanzhen Dao, neither up nor down, just in the middle to mediate.

Qi Xuansu is Shi Bingyun's subordinate, but he is also a disciple of Quanzhen Dao. Zhou Jiaoxian has no reason to make things difficult for Qi Xuansu. Li Ruoshui, the real person in charge of the palace, can certainly make things difficult for Qi Xuansu, but she has nothing to do with Gao Mingyin. The key is that Qi Xuansu is in the right, and if he does a good job, the Imperial Capital Daofu will also be proud of it. There is really no need to intervene in this matter.

Qi Xuansu is sitting on the Diaoyutai. As he expected, someone did go to trouble those storytellers, but was caught by the spiritual officials who were waiting for them.

The troublemakers were not from the Wucheng Bingmasi or Qingluanwei. These public officials were all shrewd. At this time, they saw that the wind was not right and immediately cut off their ties. After all, it was not the court that was investigating the administration of officials. The Dao Sect would not and could not do anything to these public officials. To put it bluntly, you are blind. You don't beat the treacherous, you don't beat the lazy, you only beat the blind. What does it have to do with us? Who will be in the same boat with you? Everyone will fly when disaster strikes, so why would they stand out at this time?

So the troublemakers were all from the Beggars' Sect. Qi Xuansu only asked the spirit officials to arrest these people and interrogate them strictly, but he was not in a hurry to take action against the Beggars' Sect.

Just then, Ke Qingqing came in and reported: "Master, a messenger just delivered a package without the sender's signature. According to convention, such packages of unknown origin are opened by spirit officials. There is only a letter and a copy of an account book inside. I roughly looked through it and found that the letter and the account book are related to a business under Gao Mingyin's name."

Qi Xuansu was not surprised, but said: "It has achieved initial results. Put it together with other evidence and settle the accounts together in the end."

"Yes." Ke Qingqing turned and left.

Wang Chongnian came in at the end: "Boss, the Gao family has finally responded. Gao Mingyin sent a message through Boss Xu of the Supervision Bureau, saying that he wants to meet with the boss privately."

Qi Xuansu did not rush to agree: "Old Wang, what do you think?"

Wang Chongnian hesitated and said: "Could it be the Hongmen Night Banquet?"

Qi Xuansu did not comment and said: "This is the Imperial Capital."

Wang Chongnian said: "If the boss decides to attend the banquet, it is better to be careful."

Qi Xuansu pondered for a moment and said: "Tell him that the meeting place is the branch of Taiping Inn by the Penglai Pond in Haosheng Southeast Square, and the meeting time is set at the end of the Shen time, just in time to appreciate the autumn waves and evening light of Penglai Pond. If you are willing to come, come, if you don't want to come, forget it, I won't force it."

Wang Chongnian took the order and left.

Not only did he have to give Gao Mingyin a reply, if Gao Mingyin agreed, he would also go to Taiping Inn to book a room. When Qi Xuansu and others first arrived in the Imperial Capital, the Imperial Capital Daofu welcomed them here.

Soon, Gao Mingyin replied that he would attend the banquet as scheduled.

In the evening, Qi Xuansu came to the branch of Taiping Inn. Zhou Lingguan originally wanted to bring a hundred Lingguans to escort him, but was rejected by Qi Xuansu. In Qi Xuansu's words, even the head of the palace didn't have such a big show when he went out. Who am I to put on such a show in the capital? People who don't know would think that it was the Qingwei Zhenren who came to the capital.

So Qi Xuansu only brought a few Taoist followers, but no Lingguans.

Under the guidance of the shopkeeper, Qi Xuansu slowly climbed up to the second floor. Before he reached the door of the private room, he saw a man standing outside the door waiting for him.

This man had gray hair on his temples and was elegant, but he was very humble. Before Qi Xuansu approached, he took the initiative to salute and said, "Meet Master Qi."

"Master Gao?" Qi Xuansu returned the salute, "I have heard of your great name for a long time."

"In front of Master Qi, I dare not be called "Master." Gao Mingyin took the initiative to extend a hand, "Master Qi, please."

This was the first time Gao Mingyin saw Qi Xuansu up close. He was very keen to smell the murderous aura on Qi Xuansu. Confucianism said that one should cultivate qi, and murderous aura is also qi. This cannot be cultivated by killing one or two people, nor can it be compared with the killing of slaves by ordinary young masters of noble families. It is also different from the iron-blooded aura of the black-clothed man who has been on the battlefield for a long time. This murderous aura is close to the aura of the grass and wild, somewhat similar to the green forest tyrants. In Taoism, there is also a special name for it, wild Taoist priests.

Wild Taoist priests belong to a type of wandering Taoist priests. Some wandering Taoist priests like to travel around, while some wandering Taoist priests are eager to help the public, but wild Taoist priests are known for being bold, unruly, and decisive. The young mage in front of him is the best among wild Taoist priests.

He knew that he had underestimated this mage Qi, and fell into a passive position, being beaten everywhere, and had almost no power to fight back. If he could do it again, he would definitely lead the people in person, and Lu Cui would consider it a loss of money to avoid disaster, and would never come to this point.

But it was too late to regret now, and he could only make up for it.

Everyone else stayed outside, only Qi Xuansu and Gao Mingyin went into the private room.

The two sat opposite each other. Qi Xuansu was not polite and opened the door and said, "I don't like to beat around the bush. Master Gao wants to see me, so he must have something to say. Please speak frankly, Master Gao."

Gao Mingyin considered his words slightly and said slowly, "My child was rude and offended the master. I hope the master will forgive me."

Qi Xuansu leaned back on the chair: "Master Gao's implication is that I am narrow-minded. Because Gao Shide offended me, I took revenge for personal reasons. Is that right?"

Gao Mingyin was silent for a moment and did not respond to this conversation. He then said, "Gao and Master Qi have no deep hatred. I have prepared a small gift to apologize to Master Qi on behalf of my son."

Qi Xuansu glanced at him and said, "Master Gao is saying that I took revenge for personal reasons just to extort money from you. Although Master Gao did not use a single dirty word, he cursed me in every sentence, and he cursed me in person. Master Gao, what did I do that made you hate me so much?"

Gao Mingyin directly stretched out a finger.

Qi Xuansu did not speak.

A big businessman of Gao Mingyin's level would certainly not offer a thousand Taiping coins. That was not to negotiate, but to provoke, so it must be ten thousand Taiping coins.

Qi Xuansu had never seen so much Taiping coins in his life. His annual salary was three thousand six hundred Taiping coins, which means that he had to save up for three years without eating or drinking to get so much Taiping coins.

Now he only needs to nod his head, show mercy, let Gao Shide and Gao Mingyin go, and he will get ten thousand Taiping coins for free.

This is not making money while standing, this is making money while sitting.

This is the benefit of power.

However, Qi Xuansu did not show any sign of being moved, but deliberately showed a bit of contempt.

Gao Shide was not surprised by this, and then added: "Worry-free coins."

One yuan of worry-free coins is equal to ten yuan of Taiping coins. Ten thousand worry-free coins are equivalent to one hundred thousand Taiping coins.

If Qi Xuansu does not get promoted to a Taoist priest, he will have to work for thirty years to save up so much money.

Qi Xuansu said slowly: "What a big deal! One hundred thousand money to buy the life of a fellow ninth-rank Taoist priest, plus a place under the green jade. How much money is this? At least two hundred thousand, right?"

Gao Mingyin smiled and said softly: "The dead cannot be resurrected. The dead are dead. How they died is not important. What is important is the living. The dead are gone, and the living are like this."

Qi Xuansu said slowly: "This reminds me of the Jiangnan case. I know a little about this case. At that time, Beichen Hall and Fengxian Hall jointly tried the case. Fang Linhou wanted to survive, so he asked his family to give the deputy hall master of Beichen Hall who was in charge of the case a 100,000 yuan official note. Fang Linhou did not expect to keep his position and the title of a real person, but only to save his life. The deputy hall master took the money and agreed to it, but during the trial, he did not give up the money. He took out the 100,000 Taiping money and handed it to Fengxiantang in the name of bribery. He even took a photo as evidence, which gave Fang Linhou the final blow. He was guilty of aggravated crimes and was executed immediately. "

Qi Xuansu looked at Gao Mingyin: "100,000 Taiping money can cost the life of a real person, and naturally it can also cost my life. I can only appreciate Mr. Gao's kindness."

Gao Mingyin no longer deliberately put on a low profile, slowly sat up, the smile on his face gradually faded, and looked directly at Qi Xuansu: "In this case, there is nothing to talk about."

Qi Xuansu still leaned on the back of the chair: "Today, we will only talk about one thing, which is about your confession of guilt."

Gao Mingyin's eyes suddenly darkened: "You want me to die."

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