Ban Xiaowei nodded, handed the post forward, and said, "We want to see Zhixian, this is our post, please help us to make a statement." ”

Although the official slandered a few words in his heart, this group of people really didn't understand the rules, and they didn't even give a door bag to hand over the sticker, if it was someone else, let alone a sticker, they would have driven people away a long time ago, but these can only be thought about in the heart of the officer, but they didn't dare to offend this group of people, so they had to take the post and said: "Wait a minute, I'll go right away." As he spoke, he took the post and ran into the gate of the county office.

After a short time, I saw the official running out of the yamen, coming to the front of everyone in a few steps, and said, "A few masters, we have an invitation to the flower hall of our lord." As he spoke, he leaned slightly on one side of his body and made a gesture of "please enter".

Wang Sheng nodded and said to the officer, "You take the ball." ”

The official led everyone into the gate, bypassed the shadow wall, and passed through the lobby and the second hall, and came to the flower hall of the county office. Generally speaking, the lobby and the second hall are the places where the county judges and offices, while the flower hall is half public and half private, and the county can entertain the boss here and also receive his own private guests. Therefore, the furnishings of the flower hall are different from the lobby and the second hall, it is completely the pattern of the living room, only to see two Taishi chairs in the middle, and there is an official in a full-body official uniform and an official hat on the left side of the Taishi chair, and the age should be between forty and fifty years old, and on the left and right sides, there are four Taishi chairs respectively, and there are two officials sitting on the left side, and they are also about the same age. There was also a man who was not wearing official uniform and looked like a scribe.

Although none of these four people knew each other, Wang Sheng could also guess one or two, and the one sitting in the middle must be the magistrate of Jiaozhou County, so he took two steps forward, bowed down, and said: "Wang Sheng, a Chinese overseas Chinese, has seen the magistrate of the county." The others also followed him and bowed to the county magistrate.

In the middle of the seat is the current Jiaozhou County magistrate Zhou Wenhuai, and the two officials on the left are Li Xingfang, the county governor of Jiaozhou County, Liu Yuan, the scribe, and the scribe is Zhou Wenhuai's master Kong Ye.

Zhou Wenhuai and the three of them stood up from their chairs and said with a smile: "You don't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”

Wang Sheng was not polite, and sat down on the first chair on the right, followed by Ban Xiaowei, Marseille, and Riddle in turn, and the missionary had no place, but stood beside Riddle. And the four fighters who were brought with them stood behind each of them.

And Zhou Wenhuai and a few others glanced at each other, and they were a little awe-inspiring in their hearts, because the seats were not randomly arranged, they were all very particular, although there were two foreigners in this group, but one foreigner sat in the unseated, and the other foreigner didn't even have a seat, and although the first three were wearing Western clothes, they were indeed all of Chinese descent from the point of view of appearance, which also showed that in this group of overseas Chinese, the status of foreigners is not high, and it should still be dominated by people of Chinese descent.

After everyone sat down, the servant brought tea again, and Zhou Wenhuai said: "I have heard for a long time that the nobles in this county are still the descendants of my China, but they have been living overseas, but they have always been in China, and now they have returned to our China, and they have taken Tianjin in the first war, and Qingdao in the second war, defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, and raised the prestige of my China, which is really deeply admired." ”

Listening to the words of the county master, Wang Sheng also put most of his heart at ease, since the other party knows the results he has achieved before, it will be easy to do, what he is most afraid of is the stunned young man who doesn't know anything, so he said: "My lord has won the award, since we are Chinese descendants, we should return to China, not to mention that it is still the last wish of the ancestors to return to the roots and return to the Middle Earth, and in front of me, the land of China is being bullied by foreign countries, how can I sit idly by, resist foreign troubles, and defend the country, it is still the responsibility of my generation, and it is really not worthy of praise from adults." ”

Zhou Wenhuai said with a smile: "Your people are loyal, and they will be famous for eternity, I don't know how many people came to this Jiaozhou County today, what are you doing?"

Wang Sheng said: "My lord, there is such a thing. So he told the story of Wangjiazhai again. Of course, he didn't tell the truth, and he also added a lot of private goods, not only expanding the crimes of the Wang family, how to danger the township and oppress the good, but also fabricating that the Wang family took the initiative to be the enemy of the People's Army, and the People's Army first endured it in every possible way, and only when it was forced to break through the Wangjiazhai and execute the Wang family, and so on. While speaking, Wang Sheng also paid attention to Zhou Wenhuai's expression. However, Zhou Wenhuai closed his eyes slightly, stroked his beard, but his expression did not change at all, this set of joy and anger was quite hot, so he couldn't tell what he was thinking in his heart.

After Wang Sheng finished speaking, Zhou Wenhuai first sank slightly, and then opened his eyes and said: "I see, I can't imagine that under the rule of this county, there are such murderous and evil people, alas, it is also the county's temporary failure to investigate, so that the Wang family is harmful to the township, it is really the fault of the county, and a few can go straight to righteousness, punish evil and promote good, and remove a big harm for the county, I really should thank a few." ”

Although I also estimated before I came, the possibility of confrontation with the traverser in Jiaozhou County is not great, but Zhou Wenhuai's words just now are completely from the position of the traverser, and the tone of the Wang family was set all of a sudden, which also surprised Wang Sheng, it seems that this guy is still very on the road, so he said: "The adult is the parent official of a county, and he manages everything every day, and occasionally neglects to overlook, which is also understandable." And these little things, originally not to disturb adults, but I heard that the Wang family still has two sons, in Jiaozhou County to spread rumors, framing us and others, with the intention of moving the government, sending troops into Wangjiazhai, fighting with our people's army, I don't know if there is such a thing. ”

When Zhou Wenhuai heard this, he couldn't help but sweat a little on his head, and hurriedly said: "There is no such thing, there is no such thing." After a pause, he said: "The second son of the Wang family is spreading rumors in Jiaozhou County, and this county has also heard about it, but these two sons have always misbehaved and are good at making false statements, how can this county be gullible, let alone send troops to suppress it, and please don't talk about these rumors lightly." ”

Wang Sheng nodded and said: "I see, my lord is really discerning, and I was worried about it in vain, but fortunately I went down to Jiaozhou, otherwise it would have almost become a misunderstanding." ”

As soon as he heard Wang Sheng talk about the misunderstanding, Zhou Wenhuai couldn't help but feel stunned, and secretly said in his heart: It's dangerous, it's dangerous. His face was still impassive: "Although you can rest assured, this county will definitely re-establish the second son of the Wang family, and will never let them spread rumors again." ”

Wang Sheng just waited for him to say this, so he said: "This is very good, and eliminating hidden dangers is good for both of us." ”

At this time, Li Xingfang, the county man who had not spoken, said: "I want to ask Mr., I don't know how long you plan to stay in Wangjiazhai?"

Wang Sheng's heart moved, and asked what this sentence meant, could it be that Zhou Wenhuai just said that the two brothers who re-established the Wang family were just perfunctory words, but planned to help the Wang brothers recapture Wangjiazhai after the People's Army left, so he said: "We still plan to hold a position in Wangjiazhai for some time, as for how long has not yet been determined, I am afraid that we will have more contacts with Jiaozhou County in the future." ”

Although the joy and anger of the three of them are quite popular, but after listening to Wang Sheng's words, they still changed color a little, after all, Wangjiazhai is less than thirty miles away from Jiaozhou County, and no one wants a big tiger squatting next to their door.

At this time, the warden Liu Yuan said: "Wangjiazhai is still a small village in the wilderness, the people are scarce and the grain is scarce, I don't know if the nobles are stationed in Wangjiazhai, whether the supply of money and grain can be helped, if there is a shortage, although the county is rich, but it can also provide one or two supports." ”

When Wang Sheng heard this, he realized that they had come to fight the autumn breeze and wanted to pay a little protection money to the People's Army, so that the People's Army would not disturb Jiaozhou City, which could be regarded as a discount to avoid disasters.

This kind of thing was a common thing in ancient China, due to the underdevelopment of transportation and information transmission, the central dynasty's limited control and protection of the locality, coupled with the low efficiency of bureaucratic operation, so in the local counties and towns of small towns, bandits, can only rely on their own strength to resist, but the county and town guard force is limited, and it is basically difficult to resist some of the more powerful robbers and bandits. Together, the rich families pooled a sum of money and gave it to the robbers in exchange for them not to plunder the county. Moreover, there is a similar set of practices for the officers and soldiers who cross the imperial court.

Jiaozhou County is rich in place, and Shandong is originally rich in robbers and bandits, so Jiaozhou has often become a key target of robbers and bandits from all walks of life, and Jiaozhou City has also prepared a special fund to send away all kinds of green forest heroes, and now it is also used for the people's army.

Understanding the other party's intentions, Wang Sheng smiled and waved his hand, and said: "We understand the kindness of several adults, but our people's army has always been strict in military discipline, and there is no crime in the autumn, which is neither like robbers, bandits, nor the army of the imperial court, so we don't need your county to provide us with support." ”

Zhou Wenhuai and the other three looked at each other, half-convinced, and did not understand what kind of medicine Wang Sheng was selling in this gourd, and what kind of army did not need to be supported? Could it be that they were planning to wash Jiaozhou City in blood and rob all the property in the city? Thinking of this, the three of them couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat behind their backs.

At this time, Wang Sheng said: "But we also have some requirements, and we hope to discuss them with a few adults." ”

Zhou Wenhuai listened, and felt a little relieved, as long as the other party made conditions, it would be a good thing, and what he was most afraid of was that the other party had no conditions. Therefore, Zhou Wenhuai said: "Mr. Wang, please speak." ”

Wang Shengdao: "We have defeated the German army and occupied Qingdao, then the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay leased by the German State before will be taken over by our People's Army, and please do not meddle in your county, in addition, the German country has already had an agreement with the imperial court to allow the construction of the Jiaoji Railway, and now the construction has started, we will continue to build this railway, I hope your county will not interfere." ”

Zhou Wenhuai and the others immediately understood that this group of overseas Chinese probably planned to replace the Germans and continue to forcibly occupy the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, and of course they did not plan to return to the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, what if the Germans fought back? Anyway, let the overseas Chinese take a look, so Zhou Wenhuai immediately said: "That is natural, the territory recovered by the noble people will naturally be taken over by the noble people, and this county will never interfere in it." However, the Jiaoji Railway is more than 700 miles long, and not all of it is in Jiaozhou County. ”

Wang Shengdao: "In other places, we naturally have to find a way, but in Jiaozhou, I hope that your county can cooperate." ”