Li Mu often remembers that his hometown in this world is actually Ma Yi, but he always remembers Dingxiang. Even when he talked to Li Shimin, he was Dingxiang, not as good as Li Shimin, he still remembered that Li Mu's hometown was Ma Yi, and when he chased Li Kang, he was also Ma Yibo.

The reason is because Li Mu has lived in Mayi for too short a time, and it is only three days before and after, and the remaining memory of Li Mu before is like watching someone else's TV series, after all, it is not his own experience, and he has no personal feeling.

So when he returned to Mayi City again, Li Mu actually didn't feel anything. There was no such feeling that the wanderer was returning home, true and deep, it was already night, and he had only one thought in his head, hurry into the city and sleep well. But he forgot that there was an unwritten rule in the border city that the gates of the city should be closed as soon as it was dark. This is the rule left when fighting with the Turks, in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking into the city under the cover of night, and now although the Turks have been destroyed, the rules are still preserved, and there are still bandits nearby, which is not very stable.

Li Mu came to the city gate happily, but was blocked, and his mood was suddenly bad. But this rule, in fact, he knew, so he did not make trouble unreasonably, and ordered to set up camp, intending to deal with it for a night, and then enter the city tomorrow.

It's no wonder who came, Li Mu came in a hurry, Li Siwen didn't have his road marker stone over there, and he couldn't fly the pigeon to pass the book, until now Li Siwen didn't know that Li Mu was coming, and the outpost released earlier didn't enter the city notice, so if you want to say that you are blocked out, you actually deserve it.

He figured it out here, admitted it, and was fine. But there was one person who was greatly alarmed.

This person's name is Zhang Fa, and he is the local county magistrate. He has been an official here for many years, he is a talent in the imperial examination during the former Sui Yang Emperor, the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was killed by Yu Wenhua, he came to Ma Yi from Chang'an, which was still called the great cause at that time, originally according to the rules, the county order was three years, if the political performance is passable, you can be promoted to a level, no matter how bad it is, you can leave this place where birds don't. But his luck was not good, within three years, the chaos started, the Sui Dynasty was gone, who cares about his merits?

So he was in the position of the magistrate of this Mayi county, year after year, year after year. Seeing that this is a place of four wars, his county order is as stable as Mount Tai. When Li Tang took over the country, he was still a county order, and now he has been a county order for nearly 20 years.

Zhang County's ambition to show off his talents has long been smoothed out by the years. Over the years, he has seen horse bandits, Turkic cavalry, Tang Dynasty heroes, rebels at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and everyone has seen them. It's easy to say, it's just two words. Whoever calls, I will listen to whomever comes, and I will do whatever the master tells me to do. What does it mean to be loyal, he has long forgotten that as a courtier of the Great Sui Dynasty, the country is gone, and that loyalty is gone.

He did the same way with the people. He doesn't blame the people, but he doesn't have a lot of pomp and circumstance that the county order should have. But if you want to say how greedy he is, he really doesn't have much greed. It's not that he doesn't have this heart, but in a place like Mayi, what's the use of being greedy? Even if there is a cart of gold, it can't buy any good things, and the whole people can't do it with complaints.

But he is not a good official who loves the people, as a talent of the imperial examination in the previous dynasty, he thinks of himself as high, what are the people? How can you compare to my talent? But he is not a nobleman, he is still from a humble family, and he can't climb the high branches if he wants to, otherwise how could he be sent to a place like Mayi.

All in all, in short, Zhang Xianling is a very typical example, he can do it with him, he can do it without him, there is no such an official who can do anything, if he doesn't do good things, if he doesn't do bad things, he won't do things.

If nothing else, this is how he lives his life. But the twist of fate often happens at unexpected times. Zhang Xianling couldn't have imagined that in his small Mayi City, there would be a Hou Ye!

Chase the deer Hou, Li Mu!

Who is Li Mu? Zhang Xianling didn't know. Don't look at this small city, but it is also divided into the inner and outer cities, the county order, the county officials, the old men of each house, the rich and powerful businessmen, people live in the inner city, and there is an extra city wall in the inner city, even if someone breaks through the wall of the outer city, the inner city can hold on for a while. Most of the people lived in the outer city, and if the enemy invaded, these people would be the first to die.

Li Mu's family was poor before, so they naturally lived in the outer city. Zhang County Commander is the county magistrate, how could he remember a fart from the outer city?

However, this fart has become a Hou Ye, but it is different.

Master Hou, what a big official this is. If this can be knotted, maybe there is still hope in this life?

But he doesn't know Li Mu, how can he stutter? At this moment, people from the imperial court came to want to know the details of this marquis, where did Zhang Xianling know, but he was also a showman, and he had dealt with so many forces, knew how to deal with Shangguan, and found a lot of Li Mu's neighbors, one by one to teach what to say, that is, to make Li Mu a Mayi person firmly established, no matter whether he can tie it up or not, this Hou Ye must be a Mayi person.

After coping with the Qin Cha, not long after, the imperial court sent people over again to build an ancestral hall! Zhang County's order is dedicated to his work and is quite appreciated by the officials. Then came a son of Dingxiang County, who claimed to be the brother of Hou Ye, who was bold and generous, let him take care of the ancestral hall, and threw away a large box of money casually, which was enough for a thousand times.

Later, Dingxiang built a city, which became a necessary place for merchants to come and go, Zhang Xianling also moved his mind, and ran to Li Siwen to ask for help, Li Siwen remembered that he had a merit in taking care of the ancestral hall, so he let the caravan take his share when he came and went, and he made a lot of money when he came and went.

There are more and more businessmen coming and going, and there are more and more good things that money can buy, and Zhang Xianling's mind is as dead as ashes, and it also sprouts. He is almost fifty years old, and he has figured it out, and if he climbs up, he can't climb anywhere, so it is better to stay in the place of Mayi, guard this ancestral hall, this trade route, save more money for his children and grandchildren, and when he leaves office, or dies, let his children and grandchildren move to Dingxiang or Luoyang with the money, buy some land, and the fate of the next generation will change, so as not to fight again in this land of four wars, and the old and young will live in fear.

After hitting this idea, Zhang Xianling wanted to get on the line with Li Mu more and more. Just when he was helpless, he met Zhang Tianai, who returned to Zhangjiazhai. He has been a county magistrate in Mayi for more than 20 years, and he has dealings with horse bandits, after all, when there is a war, only horse bandit smuggling can have some good things, he turns a blind eye, in exchange for the filial piety of horse bandits, everyone has a better life.