"Everything under the subordinates is given by the Hou Ye, and please take the great cause as the priority, and the subordinates will leave 10,000 taels enough." Lu Yuan knelt on one knee with a sincere expression.

"Shang Bai, you are very good, Ben Hou didn't misunderstand you!" Ning Guohou was greatly moved, walked up to him and helped him up.

"Master Hou, please sit down, I haven't finished talking yet."

Ning Guohou laughed, strode back to the chair and sat down, and said with a smile: "That's it." ”

"Master Hou is joking." Lu Yuan smiled and said: "Li Yuan and Cao Jian are just greedy for money, and have nothing to do with Jiang Huai, only Chen Guang is the most suspicious, he colluded with the water bandits to abduct and sell women, I originally suspected that the person behind him was Jiang Huai, and he was just about to arrest him, but who knew that his whole family was wiped out." ”

After hearing about "abduction and trafficking of women", Ning Guohou's face changed slightly, but his reaction to the destruction of the whole house was indifferent.

After a while, he said in a deep voice: "Shang Bai, don't investigate this matter. ”

Lu Yuan was slightly taken aback, it seemed that the energy of the people behind this matter was even greater than he imagined, and even Ning Guohou didn't dare to provoke him.

"My subordinates understood, in fact, I also felt that something was wrong at the time, so I ordered the Chen Mansion to be sealed, and I was going to ask the Hou Ye first before making a plan."

Ning Guohou nodded and said: "Someone has reported to me about human trafficking before, and after investigation, Ben Hou found that among the people behind him was Li Jingzhong, the king of Zhao County, who was a member of Yan Wang's party, and it was not clear that Yan Wang was the mastermind behind the scenes, so Ben Hou had to turn a blind eye to this matter." ”

"My subordinates know what to do."

Lu Yuan knew that King Yan was the eldest son of the current emperor Li Jing, although he was only in his early twenties, he was brave and good at fighting, and he was extremely prestigious in the army, and he finally knew how terrible the black hand behind Chen Guang was.

"That Yufeng Zhai Li Ruozhen's identity is a little suspicious, don't touch her for the time being." Ning Guohou said again.

Lu Yuan's face changed, and Ning Guohou immediately noticed it and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The subordinates are just a little afraid, and they almost ruined the big thing of the Hou Ye!" Lu Yuan hurriedly explained.

Unexpectedly, Li Ruozhen had a secret behind him, and suddenly he remembered that Li Ruozhen had rejected him and did not want to be included as a good citizen of She County, could it be related to her identity?

"That's nothing, I'm just a little suspicious of her, not to mention that I didn't remind you before, even if you kill her, I won't blame you." Ning Guohou waved his hand.

"You are decent, you have won my heart, and I will show the court tomorrow to promote you to the sixth grade."

"Master Hou, I was promoted after only two months in office, which is not good, and She County is a lower county, and Zhengqipin is already a little non-compliant." Lu Yuan hurriedly said, he didn't want to attract too much attention, low-key development is the king.

If someone excused himself like this on weekdays, Ning Guohou would definitely be furious, but he was in a very good mood right now, and said with a smile:

"It doesn't matter, now that the two parties are fighting, the rules and regulations of the imperial court have long been chaotic, and there are many people who even jump seven or eight levels, and Ben Hou is only two levels higher than you, so what's the point?"

Since it would not attract attention, Lu Yuan naturally would not refuse anymore and knelt down to bow down.

"Thank you, Master Hou!"

Ning Guohou stroked his beard and smiled, accepted this salute, and said with a smile: "In the future, I will revise your resume to prepare for your future assassination history." ”

At this, his brow gradually furrowed.

"I don't know what worries Master Hou?" Lu Yuan asked knowingly.

"Recently, there has been news that Wang Kai is going to tell the old man, my eldest brother is in the court alone, I'm afraid we don't have much time, but if you want to bring down Jiang Huai, it is not something that can be done in a short time."

"Master Hou, I have a way." Zhuang Yi suddenly spoke.

Ning Guohou knew that he had always been resourceful, and hurriedly asked, "What way?" ”

"As long as Shang Bai Haosheng is allowed to run She County, he can apply to the imperial court to promote the county to the government, and with the boss here, the imperial court should have a great chance to pass."

Before the Tang Dynasty, there had always been only Shengzhou as the government, and as long as there were more than 60,000 households in the state, they could apply to the imperial court for promotion.

But the five dynasties period of the regime is very much, the system is different, the Southern Tang Dynasty was not established for a long time, the system is more flexible, the founding emperor Li Yu in order to encourage development, has added a system, as long as the population of the county exceeds 10,000 households, you can apply for the promotion of the county to the government, and the promotion of the state is similar to the government, but the county is the center, the county order can be exceptionally promoted to the government Yin.

In ancient times, taxes were collected on a household basis, so the population statistics were also measured by households, and generally speaking, ordinary people had about three or four people in a household.

On average, there are about eight people in a large household, so the population of 10,000 households in 10,000 counties is about 80,000.

"No, no, no, how difficult it is for Wanhu County, even if it is so prosperous, Ningguo County is only more than 6,000 households." Ning Guohou shook his head again and again.

"But at least it's easier than overthrowing Jiang Huai, as long as Shang Bai is in Shezhou Mansion, in this way, Shezhou will no longer exist, and Jiang Huai's assassination history naturally doesn't exist, and he can't hinder Hou Ye's plan to advance eastward." Zhuang Yi continued to persuade.

Ning Guohou glanced at Lu Yuan a few times, thinking of the talent he had shown, he raised a little hope, and asked, "Shang Bai, what do you think?" ”

"The subordinates will do their best to achieve the mission!"

This is much more realistic than the big pie of the history of thorns, as long as it can rise to 10,000 households, it can be upgraded from the county order to the government Yin, Lu Yuan thought to himself.

For him, there will be 5,000 soldiers after he is promoted to the government, which is the most important thing.

Ning Guohou touched his beard and muttered for a long time, and finally spoke: "Okay, you let it go, Benhou will fully support you!" ”

Lu Yuan took the opportunity to propose the appointment of Hou Kaishan as the county lieutenant and Ji Yan as the doctor of scripture, Ning Guohou did not allow it, and said that he would send someone to the assassin Yamen.

After talking a few more words, one person walked into the study quickly, and whispered something in Ning Guohou's ear.

Ning Guohou's face changed slightly, and he said apologetically: "I wanted to talk to Shang Bai for a while, but I had some personal matters to deal with." ”

"Master Hou just needs to be busy and retire first."

"Shang Bai, Ben Hou will call everyone to discuss in a few days, don't rush back to She County first, and participate together then."

Lu Yuan answered, retreated and left, and Zhuang Yi also retreated.

Out of the study, Zhuang Yi suddenly said to Lu Yuan: "Shangbai, why don't you go to my room for a drink." ”

Ning Guohou arranged a separate courtyard for him in the waiting house.

"Okay." Lu Yuan was very grateful for his proposal to ascend to the mansion and agreed.

The lintel of the small courtyard where Zhuang Yi lived was written with the words "Guan Leju", and seeing Lu Yuan stop to watch, Zhuang Yi smiled:

"Shang Bai don't want to misunderstand, how dare he compare himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi, and take this name just to remind himself from time to time and learn from the two sages."

"Brother Zicai is loyal to the master, and he is admired by his subordinates." Lu Yuan's praise came from the heart.

"Let's go in and talk."

After the two of them sat down, Zhuang Yi took a pot of wine, filled it with two glasses, and said: "Master Hou has the grace of knowing me, how can I not try my best to repay it?" ”

"Well said, I'll respect my son and brother."

Both of them didn't drink very well, and after two drinks, they stopped drinking with each other.

"Shang Bai knows why Liu Lingbo has a bad attitude towards you?" Zhuang Yi suddenly asked.

This question happened to ask what Lu Yuan was thinking, and he hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

"Shang Bai still remembers that when he was in the secret room, Hou Ye mentioned the matter of serving Wu Yue?"

How could Lu Yuan not remember that he came to this world at that time.

"Remember, does it have anything to do with this?"

"That day, Shang Bai showed a strange appearance, Hou Ye asked us afterwards, Liu Ang immediately proposed to kill you to prevent future troubles, although Hou Ye did not agree, but he was also ready to leave you in Ningguo County. It wasn't until I learned about the White Lotus Holy Maiden that I misunderstood you, so I entrusted the matter of Shezhou to you. ”

Lu Yuan was taken aback, he didn't expect that he had unknowingly walked away in the ghost gate, he thought about it carefully, and then realized that the White Lotus Holy Maiden had inadvertently done him a great favor.

"This matter is all because Liu Ang provoked it, and Hou Ye often blamed himself later." Seeing that Lu Yuan didn't speak, Zhuang Yi thought that he was resentful of Ning Guohou, so he persuaded him.

"Zicai misunderstood, how could I blame Master Hou, but I'm just a little afraid." He was not very loyal to Ning Guohou, so naturally he would not be blamed.

"There are still many sycophants like Liu Ang around Hou Ye, Shang Bai still needs to work together with me to eradicate these traitors, so that Hou Ye's big things can have hope." Zhuang Yi said solemnly.

Then he told Liu Ang about what he had slandered yesterday, and sighed: "If you hadn't just sent 200,000 taels of silver, I'm afraid that you would have been harmed by this villain." ”

Lu Yuan's heart chilled when he heard this, he couldn't imagine that he had never offended this person, he actually harmed himself once and repeatedly harmed him, and wanted to kill himself completely, he said in a deep voice:

"I watched the Hou Ye scold Liu Ang in the study just now, I think I have learned his true face, I shouldn't reuse him anymore."

"How can it be so easy, Liu Ang will please the Hou Ye the most, at most snub him for a while, and after a while, he will forgive him." Zhuang Yi smiled bitterly.

Lu Yuan was silent, searched for the memory of the original owner, and found that Zhuang Yi had given advice to Ning Guohou for many years, and helped Ning Guohou stabilize Xuan and Chang Erzhou, which was reused.

However, Liu Ang only focused on Ning Guohou's food, clothing, and daily life, and tried his best to curry favor with him, and as a result, his official position was higher than Zhuang Yi's.

He secretly warned himself that he would never reuse those who only knew how to slap horses in the future, and that he should restrain his desires and maintain the good habit of thrift.