Li Qing returned to the inn and gave the Zhenshan hammer he bought to Mu Kong, Mu Kong took the Zhenshan hammer, his eyes showed surprise, he waved the double hammer, and Fu Nian on the side was envious.

Li Qing naturally knew Fu Nian's thoughts, but unfortunately the axe in the blacksmith shop was not as good as the bronze axe made by the mastiff clan, so Li Qing didn't buy an axe for Fu Nian, but Li Qing assured Fu Nian that he would definitely find a good battle axe for Fu Nian.

Fu Nian hurriedly thanked him, and Mu Kong knelt down directly on one knee and bowed to Li Qing, in the mastiff clan, only Li Qing, the king, could enjoy such treatment.

Li Qing helped Mu Kong up, for the mastiff clan, Li Qing's heart was full of affection, after all, hundreds of years ago, the mastiff warriors were all born and died with Li Qing, and Li Qing did not have the slightest doubt about their loyalty.

Early the next morning, Zhang Rang sent someone to pick up Li Qing into the palace, Li Qing followed the little eunuch sent by Zhang Rang, and came to the palace of the Han Dynasty, which was the second palace that Li Qing had ever seen.

Liu Hong is a pale-faced middle-aged man, according to Liu Hong's age, Liu Hong should be in the prime of life at this time, but unfortunately the perennial wine has hollowed out Liu Hong's body, making Liu Hong weak, sitting on the dragon chair, not only does not have the slightest imperial majesty, but is like a puddle of mud.

"Your Majesty, this is Li Qing."

Zhang Rang said in Liu Hong's ear.

Liu Hong reluctantly glanced at Li Qing and said, "Father, is the money for donating officials enough?" ”

Zhang Rang looked at Li Qing, Li Qing nodded hurriedly, Zhang Rang waved his hand, outside the palace gate, two royal forest soldiers walked in carrying a large box, after opening the box, a dazzling golden light emanated from it, making Zhang Rang and Liu Hong's eyes widen.

After receiving the gold, Liu Hong asked people to prepare the holy decree seal, and casually encouraged Li Qing, and then returned to the harem because he was a little tired.

Zhang Rang came to Li Qing's side, patted Li Qing on the shoulder, and said: "Our family has said a lot of good things for you, so you can get the position of Xuzhou Assassin so smoothly, this Xuzhou is a rich place, after you take office, you have to think more about our family." ”

Li Qing didn't know what Zhang Rang meant, so he immediately promised: "Don't worry, my lord, I understand." ”

Seeing that Li Qing was so knowledgeable, Zhang Rang laughed and personally led Li Qing out of the palace.

The process of donating officials was much smoother than Li Qing imagined, Li Qing thought that Xuzhou Thorn Shi was also the highest governor of Xuzhou, and he had to be reviewed and audited, but what he didn't expect was that as long as the money was in place, the Han Dynasty didn't care about this position of Thorn History at all.

What Li Qing doesn't know is that the history of the state assassin at this time is different from the history of the state assassin during the Three Kingdoms period, the history of the state assassin at this time can only manage civil affairs, and cannot interfere in the army, and the power is much smaller than later, but Li Qing knows that after the Yellow Turban riots, the right of the Han Dynasty assassin history will be completely out of control, and each state assassin has the right to recruit soldiers and horses independently, especially after the history of the assassin was changed to a state pastor, the states directly formed a separatist force, at that time, it was the most powerful moment of the history of the assassin, and Li Qing was preparing for that time.

Li Qing has already thought clearly, if he wants not to be used as a tonic by the Hell Gate or other forces, he must become strong and establish his own power, Xuzhou is rich, as long as he manages it well for a few years, and when the Yellow Turban Rebellion breaks out, he can take the opportunity to expand his strength, and when he has soldiers and horses, no matter how strong the Hell Gate is, he can no longer knead himself at will.

The matter of coming to Luoyang has been completed, Li Qing took Mu Kong and Fu Nian to prepare to return to Xuzhou, after all, Taishan Song Lu may invade the mastiff clan at any time, Li Qing must hurry to Xuzhou, and then suppress Song Lu in the name of the government.

The three Zhang brothers passed by Li Qing, they didn't know that the owner of their tomb robbery was actually in front of their eyes, and Li Qing didn't expect that the three people who dug themselves out were actually the leaders of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the three Zhang Jiao brothers.

When leaving Luoyang and passing through the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Qing carefully looked at this well-known pass in later generations, and it was really a one-man pass, and it was impossible to open it, as long as the Tiger Prison Pass was held, Luoyang would be indestructible.

Taishan, after Song Lu suffered a fiasco, he was full of anger, he immediately issued his own Taishan order, gathered seventy-two road gangsters, of course, now there are only seventy roads left, because Dewey and Sun Ba are no longer in Mount Tai, and, although seventy tokens were issued, but not all bandits are willing to obey Song Lu's orders, in the end, only fifty road bandits came according to the order, their soldiers and horses added up to 30,000 troops, plus Song Lu still has 30,000 troops, but in more than ten days, Song Lu gathered 60,000 troops again.

Li Qing hurriedly returned to the mastiff tribe, seeing that the mastiff tribe was fine, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, he took out the seal ribbon granted by the imperial court, Sun Ba and others were overjoyed, Li Qing succeeded, as long as everyone took the seal ribbon to the Xuzhou government, they could change their identities and immediately become members of the imperial court.

Without further ado, everyone simply cleaned up and came directly to Xuzhou's administrative office, Tan County.

When they came to the county government of Tanxian County, several soldiers immediately greeted them and said: "The government is important, and idlers are not allowed to enter." ”

Li Qing immediately took out the seal ribbon and said: "This official trusts the Xuzhou Thorn History, where is the previous Thorn History?" ”

As soon as the soldiers looked at the seals, they immediately said respectfully: "The former Lord Assassin Shi learned that a new official had taken office, and he returned to Luoyang three days ago. ”

When Li Qing heard this, he was very happy, the state officials at this time were far inferior to the Beijing officials, so the former assassin would be very happy when he was transferred back to Luoyang, although he was in a state with a lot of oil and water, but compared with Luoyang, the hope of promotion was far worse.

The predecessor of the assassin is gone, Li Qing is better to rectify Xuzhou, and the power of the state assassin at this time is not too big, but after having this official body, it is much easier to deal with Song Lu.

Li Qing successfully took office here, but Sun Ba encountered some trouble on his side, it turned out that before Sun Ba, although there was no lieutenant general in Xuzhou, there had always been five captains in charge of the soldiers and horses, and Sun Ba suddenly parachuted down, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the five captains.

These five lieutenants are Cao Bao, Chen Lin, Tian Qi, Wu Guan and Wang Neng, these five people are all from the Xuzhou family, and they are used to being powerful and blessed, so they are naturally dissatisfied with the sudden downgrading of a top boss.

When Sun Ba entered the barracks and asked to inspect the soldiers and horses, none of the soldiers dared to come out of the camp tent, and in the entire school field, only five disheveled captains were watching Sun Ba's jokes.

When Sun Ba saw this situation, he didn't know what these people meant, if he was really just a foreign lieutenant general, he was really helpless when he encountered this situation, but who was Sun Ba, he was originally a border military captain, and there were 10,000 soldiers and horses under his hands, how could he be afraid of just five local snakes.

"It's just right, Ben Zhonglang General Zhengchou doesn't know how to insert his own people in, but you gave me a chance."

Sun Ba looked at the five people who were sneering at him, and some cold smiles also appeared on his face.