Among Yangxiong's three disciples, Hou Ba stayed in Shu to keep filial piety for him for three years, and since Wang Long separated from the fifth Lun, he took his private followers and set foot in every place that Yangxiong had visited when he was young.

He felt the luxury of "Shu Du Fu" in the alleys of Chengdu, climbed the Minshan Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River, which everyone thought was in this era, and looked at Dujiangyan.

When Wang Long returned to Beijing, the fifth Lun had gone north, and recently he happened to go home to rest, and when he heard that the fifth Lun returned to his hometown, he was overjoyed and became the first guest to visit.

The two haven't seen each other for more than a year, and after greeting each other for a while, Wang Long heard Wu Lun complaining about his caravan, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Boyu has really been away from the Central Plains for too long, do you think it's still a year ago?" ”

"Not to mention the caravan travelers, even the envoys of the imperial court, the thieves are all robbed, some time ago, there was a big Sima Shi who went to Yuzhou to do business, and was hijacked by thieves in the left team (Yingchuan County)!"

Fifth Lun said: "And then this person was killed? ”

Wang Long shook his head: "Da Sima Shi is a six-hundred-stone official, and the thieves of the left team found out that this was actually a Beijing official, and they didn't dare to hurt him, so they even entertained him with good food and drink, and sent him back to the county in a few days." ”

So the Yuan Shi returned to Chang'an with this bizarre story and reported the matter to the emperor.

Wang Long said: "I know that Yuanshi, and when I asked about his experience, he also condemned the thieves and asked them why they rebelled. But the thieves in Yingchuan all said that they did not rebel, but because the corrupt officials levied taxes many times, they really couldn't survive, and they became thieves under the long-term drought, hunger and poverty. ”

"Yuan Shi asked about the officials they killed, and the thieves all said that they had killed by mistake in the chaos, and hoped that Yuan Shi could avenge the Holy Son of Heaven on their behalf, as long as they stopped paying taxes and forgave their sins, they would leave the mountains and forests immediately."

This is a thief hoping to recruit An, and the fifth Lun is interested: "After hearing this story, how did the court react?" ”

Wang Long said: "Your Majesty is furious and thinks that this is a deception, so he blames Sifu and Sangong below. ”

He has always had a good memory, and described to Wu Lun: "Your Majesty in the edict, he said that he started from the end of the way, and he knew that there was treachery and evil among the people. But those who are forced to become thieves due to poverty, hunger and cold, the majority of them rob in groups, and the small ones steal and rob tombs, but these two categories. ”

"But now the so-called thieves, numbering in the thousands, across states and counties, are so well-trained, they are by no means ordinary thieves, but plotting rebellion! besieging the township and county seats, and even openly looting the court envoys, killing officials and slaughtering officials, so bold, how can they be forced to prevaricate by hunger and cold? ”

"The imperial court warned the Qing doctor, the pawn, the Lian rate and the concubines to seriously discipline the good people and screen and exterminate the thieves. In the future, if anyone dares to speak up for a thief, he will be arrested and imprisoned, and the crime will be investigated! ”

Fifth Lun only felt ridiculous when he heard it, it was the traitor who did not resist, and the one who resisted was a well-trained traitor, just one word, suppress! It seems that Wang Mang is determined to be hard inside and out.

However, Zhao'an is useless, in this situation in the world, even if the rebellious peasants temporarily return to the land, they will soon be forced to rebel because they have no livelihood.

In short, the once safe journey has become full of road rage bandits, and the Fifth Clan's external exploration can only be temporarily suspended in aggrieved terms, and the scope is limited to the sixth lieutenant.

Fifth Lun decided to immediately send the more than 100 Fifth Qu Dangbai and Scholars he brought back to several miles of the clan. In the name of preventing thieves, he began to plan the training of clan soldiers, but unfortunately he could only train on a small scale separately.

Everything has disadvantages and advantages, and after a year and a half, this hemp-like thief in the world can just send clan soldiers in batches to lure monsters to practice, and the fifth Lun said secretly: "Since there is such a virtue outside, and one or two exiled prisoners have run away from the edge, the magistrate will not care, right?" ”

When the time is right, he can send a team to Xihai County to get the Eighth Jiao and even that Liu Long back. Today, his father, the Eighth Straight, was still crying in front of the Fifth Lun, saying that he had not received a letter from his son for several months, and that there was no news from the people sent by the Eighth Clan, but he didn't know whether he was on the way to the way or the way back.

After sending Wang Long away, Wu Lun didn't sleep well that night, he was woken up by the crying of children in the dockyard.

Those two "uncles" really inherited the style of the fifth tyrant, the caste was tough, not only cried loudly, but also seemed to be about an appointment, first one cried, the other immediately howled, or the two sang together, and there was no quiet time, and they just worked all night.

What's even more angry is that the fifth tyrant also hugged a sleeping baby with one hand the next day, saying that the reason why he "had nothing to do" to add these two concubines was because the fifth Lun was too capable of procrastinating and couldn't let him hold his grandson for a long time.

This is urging the fifth Lun to get married, the fifth tyrant has a long list, as the fifth clan is getting richer and stronger, many powerful people in Liewei County and even Chang'an have taken a fancy to his family, in the words of the fifth tyrant, it is......

"Countless good ladies are waiting for you to choose!"

Fifth Lun smiled and said to Fifth Domineering: "Speaking of which, my grandson has a big matter, and I want to ask my father for help." ”

"What?" The fifth tyrant bowed his head and sighed at his son.

"Please get some live geese for me, four of them!"

Of course, the fifth Lun wants to live geese, of course, it is not a stewed soup to replenish the body, and the six ceremonies of the wedding this year, the five ceremonies can be used for geese.

Hearing that the fifth Lun wanted a goose, the fifth tyrant was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed, and the fifth Lun informed his grandfather that he had asked Ma Yuan Nacai for permission in the new Qin.

"Maoling Ma?"

The fifth tyrant was even more pleasantly surprised, so excited that he almost dropped the baby in his arms.

He knows the Ma family, Ma Yuan has a friendship with the fifth Lun, and now Ma Yu has been a pastor in Yangzhou, and the horse is a member of the northern Zengshan County (Shang County), Ma wants to read the valve and read the valve, and he wants the family to have a family background, listen to the fifth Lun said, the Ma lady tutor is also good......

The fifth tyrant suddenly woke up: "No wonder Boyu had nothing to do in the past, so he sent someone to send local products to the Ma family, it turned out that he had planned it a long time ago, great goodness, and the demeanor of the old man!" ”

He immediately sent for ...... No, it's to go to Zhang Luo in person! By the way, the long list of marriages was thrown into the stove and burned.

The fifth tyrant didn't even care about their two youngest sons crying, the grain and silk stored in the warehouse had to be counted, and the bride price could be given enough when the levy was paid, so Ma's couldn't be underestimated. The wedding must be done in a big way, and the cars and horses that greet you must be prepared early, and the horses must be evenly matched! Not only the Fifth Clan has to be busy, but the rest of the clan has to be mobilized, and they are honored in this matter.

Thinking about the many things to be busy with, the fifth tyrant smiled from ear to ear, and muttered: "My family is actually married to a top scholar clan, it is really a good marriage that I never dreamed of." ”

Fifth Lun is promoted again, their family is rich, and the consciousness of the Shu family in the subconscious of the fifth tyrant is still there, and he always feels that his family is a nouveau riche.

In the past few generations and more than ten generations, who is not a nouveau riche in those so-called wealthy families?

"Father." Fifth Lun looked at the old man's happy appearance, and secretly said in his heart: "You can't count the things you didn't expect in the future!" ”

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Although the matter of asking for names is on the agenda, there is one more anxious thing, that is, the matter of the fifth Lun face saint, after all, he throws away official business and does private affairs first, and the target father is still a wanted criminal on the run, and it will not be good if he is disrespectful by someone with a heart.

Fifth Lun first reported to Chang'an Lang's office to ask for an appointment, and after waiting for another day, he received a notice that he would enter the palace tomorrow.

The next day, Wu Lun put on a brand-new crimson official uniform, with a ribbon around his waist, and wore the Ben of Lin Wei given by Wang Mang last time, and he was looking forward to today's meeting.

Although I saw Wang Mang in the Hongmen camp last year, but it was far away, and I didn't even see the appearance clearly.

The person who brought Wu Lun into the palace this time was Liu Die, the middle man of the facial features who had been photographed many times in Liu Xin's house.

"Yixiuhou, is the national teacher okay?"

Wu Lun asked carefully after meeting, far away in Xinqin, he heard the news of the prince's abolition, which was like the sky falling for the prince's father-in-law, Liu Xin, and the identity of the national teacher became very sensitive.

In addition, some time ago, the Runan native Zhi Yun Chong wrote a letter to Wang Mang to return to the Liu family of the Han family, and Wang Mang may have thoughts about Liu Xin.

But the strange thing is that Wang Mang is still very fond of Liu Die, and he is still a general with five facial features, a commander of Lang officials, and a guard in the palace.

Liu Dian said with a smile: "Adults have rarely even gone to the court recently, only cultivating their lives, not seeing outsiders, and desperately cutting the circle in their spare time." ”

Fifth Lun was a little ashamed, Liu Xin had helped him, but it was not good for both parties to visit at this juncture.

Liu Di led the way in front and took the fifth Lun into the Shoucheng room from the east gate of Canglongque, where Canglong was horizontal.

Shoucheng room, in fact, is Weiyang Palace to change its name, the former Han Dynasty a total of east and north two gates, the north gate is called Xuanwu Que, but after Wang Mang took power, he demolished a section of the city wall, and added the west and south gates.

The south is the Vermilion Bird Que, which is convenient for him to go to the south of Chang'an City to build the Ming Hall, Taixue, Piyong and the nine temples under construction.

The west is the White Tiger Que, Wang Mang has no interest in touring the mountains and rivers, but he likes the Taiye Pond in the Jianzhang Palace in the west, and often uses the covered bridge to escape the summer.

The fifth Lun looks fresh all the way, this Shoucheng room does have the style of a great palace, but the color is elegant, mainly yellow walls and black tiles, which is completely different from the red walls and green tiles of the Forbidden City in later generations.

Only when you enter Canglongque can you enter the "palace", which belongs to the periphery of the palace. There is also a palace wall inside, there are also four gates, in the past it was called the bus Sima Gate, the public secretary car must come down and walk here, now it is renamed "Wang Road Four Gates".

Entering the Wanglu Gate, it is the center of the former court, you can see from afar, a grand scale of majestic palace stands in Longshou Mountain, and the halls are arranged in order from north to south, from the hill to the foot of the mountain.

That is the front hall, now called "Wang Lu Hall".

The quaint vertical bell is erected in the palace courtyard, the hall is horizontally framed with the shape like a flying dragon, the temple beam that curves like a long rainbow, the rafters are arranged neatly, the eaves are stretched like a bird's wings, and the thick building is arranged like a galloping horse.

Fifth Lun heard Yang Xiong and Huan Tan say that in front of Wang Lu Hall, there was also Qin Shi Huang in the past, and twelve huge golden figures stood outside the main gate. But after Wang Mang came to power, he thought that this was an old thing in the Qin period and must be broken! So he took advantage of the time of repairing the White Tiger and the Vermilion Bird, and let people drag them out of the palace.

Only the deep imprint left by the twelve golden men after standing for two hundred years was left in the same place, and the fifth Lun estimated that he could not fill in the huge footprints when he lay down.

Wang Lutang is used for big things, and the separate meeting is generally arranged in the Xuanshu Hall where the emperor works.

The Xuan room is slightly smaller than Wang Lutang, but the guards are still heavily guarded, and the guards are all tiger-headed and swallow-jawed, burly and strong, wearing crowns on their vertebrae, holding halberds, and majestic and majestic.

Fifth Lun was first led to the studio on the side of the hall, which is a place waiting to be summoned, and his own etiquette official showed him the etiquette when he was to be interviewed, and Wang Mang should be a person who cares about etiquette very much.

The emperor's day is extremely busy, not to mention Wang Mang's style of doing things in person, Wu Lun waited for a while, and when Liu Dian came out again to inform him that he was going to go in, he had a sudden accident.

Outside the palace, there was a small carriage driving towards the Xuanmur Hall.

Wait, what about saying that you are not allowed to drive within the four gates of King Road?

But the car didn't stop, until it stopped next to the door of the Xuanshu Palace, and a tall woman got out of the car, her clothes were extremely plain, she was really white, and she looked like she was wearing filial piety.

When she walked, she was dignified and tactful, and the Yellow Gate and the guards on duty in the Xuanshu Hall were still very angry, but now they didn't dare to stop them, they only separated like a tide, and followed the woman from a distance, pleading in a low voice, but they couldn't stop her.

Fifth Lun was still in the corridor of the studio, and she didn't have time to take a closer look at the woman's face, so she went straight into the Xuanshu Hall and threw only a shadow.

"Obviously I came first!"

Fifth Lun shouted in his heart, he was cut into the queue like this, and he could only look at Liu Die innocently, what should he do now? Who is this woman, does Wang Mang love the concubine?

Liu Dian was also quite helpless, he didn't expect her to come at this time, so he just smiled dryly: "Don't worry, Boyu, just wait." ”

"The one who just entered is the Yellow Imperial Master!"