"Elegy, after I'm gone, I would like to ask you to help take care of the princess."

"How long will it take for Ming Heng to come back?"

"Half a month at least, as much as a month."

"Ming Heng is still worried that your princess is in danger?"

"That's not just in case! What if she doesn't fall or gets sick or something, and I'm not there? ”

"Then Mingheng isn't worried that the elegy will be like this?"

"I'm also worried, but at least you have martial arts and your body is stronger than her, I'm more worried about her than you, she's actually very weak."

"Then can't you take the elegy with you? Elegy can protect you! ”

"It's enough for me to have your senior brother, if your senior brother can't do it, what's the use of you going? Besides, you are the Oiran of Ning Xiangju, if you suddenly disappear, the old bustard of Ning Xiangju must not go crazy! ”

"Hmm... If it weren't for Ming Heng, the elegy would not be rare! ”

"Then you have to take care of it now!"

"Okay, Ming Heng has ordered this, of course the elegy can only be obedient, so let's help you take care of your princess and wife first!"

"Elegy, thank you!"

After Qin Elegy left, Zhang Xiang left the east room.

When I came to the courtyard, I saw a slave waiting with a baggage.

The girl seemed to be very happy to go out with the colt, and hurriedly came up to help him get something.

Zhang Xiang smiled and asked, "Are you all ready?" ”

"Uh-huh! The carriage was ready, the family was also ready to standby, and Li Gongzi was also waiting outside the house. The slave replied.

The master and servant went out, and Li Yanzhi, who was already waiting outside the mansion, rode a horse and gave it to him.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Xiang was simple, except for the slave and Li Yanzhi, he only brought two guards and ten family members.

Of course, Yuan Shenzi in the shadows will follow him all the way.

When the carriage passed by the streets of Pingzhou, it also met Zheng Wei, the prefect who came to see him off, and after greeting him, he left.

Rong County is a one-night trip from Pingzhou City.

At this time, Zhang Xiang was almost in a hurry, except for drinking water, eating dry food and resting a little, he basically didn't stay much.

It was only at about noon on the second day that he entered Rong County.

After a night of driving, everyone was quite tired, so Zhang Xiang asked the carriage to slow down so that everyone could recover.

In this era, the state capitals and counties were very large, except for the large cities that were developed as important places and a few large state capitals.

The scale of an ordinary state is about the same as the size of a modern county seat, and the county is actually just a large wasteland, and the place where people gather is actually a little bit, and the general large county is only tens of thousands of people, and the county has thousands of people.

The population of a place like Rong County is only about two or three thousand.

The desolation that came from the carriage all the way was finally able to feel a little vitality after entering Rong County.

At least you can see the sparse people carrying hoes and baskets on their backs.

Occasionally, children can be seen playing by the stream.

The news of Zhang Xiang's coming, the tufted government did not know, so there was no lively welcome or anything like that.

Like a businessman, he stepped into the county seat of Rongxian County.

Compared with the hundreds of thousands of Rao cities in Pingzhou, this Rong County really looks like a dilapidated village.

After driving for a while, I saw a decent restaurant.

This night, everyone ate dry food, so at this time, Zhang Xiang stopped, let everyone enter the restaurant, eat some hot meals, and by the way, let the store lead the horses to feed some fresh forage.

Seeing such a group of people, the second shopkeeper with a unique eye was extremely enthusiastic, nodding and entertaining.

After a while, a young man with a cold face and a long sword walked in outside the door.

The man glanced at Zhang Xiang's table, then walked to another empty table and asked for two dishes and a pot of wine.

The person who came was Yuan Shen who came later.

After a few more moments, three young men also walked in from outside.

After looking around, the three young men walked to Zhang Xiang and sat down at the table next to Rao.

The three young men asked for a pot of tea and chatted while drinking.

"Chang Zhong, why did you stop me from killing that official before? The government has made a lot of trouble here these days, forcing the people to hand over food, and if they don't give it, they will be arrested and put in prison, isn't this oppressing the people! ”

At first, a young man was a little indignant.

Another young man with a calm face drank tea and said indifferently: "Guangyi, what's the use of you killing that official?" Can it solve the problem? Besides, we haven't been here for a long time, and the situation is still unclear, so we can't do such an impulsive move. ”

The last young man also nodded: "Guangyi, Chang Zhong is good, now what we know is just the way of others, the actions of the government are not yet clear, and it is not too late to plan when we figure out the situation." ”

"In my opinion, the government's move is nothing more than bullying and squeezing, and now the imperial court wants to fight with Northern Liao to collect grain, that is, to make the people hand over the grain, and the government is only to give the imperial court, but it doesn't matter whether these people live or die." The young man named Guangyi seemed to be quite stubborn.

The young man named Chang Zhong said slowly: "Don't take things out of context, be affected by the remarks of others, wait a while to go to the county office, everything can be understood, if it is really the government that oppresses the people, then since the three of us are here, we must also punish the traitors and eliminate the evil." ”

"Yes, let's eat first." The last young man was more optimistic and smiled.

Listening to Sanrao's conversation, Zhang Xiang also frowned slightly, and his appetite instantly faded a lot.

Li Yanzhi pushed him and gave him a look not to think too much.

The three young men quickly left after they had their fill.

Zhang Xiang and the others had eaten almost at this time, and when they were serving tea in the second store, Zhang Xiang pulled him and asked, "Second, has something happened in the county recently?" ”

The second 'hi' and said to him: "The guest officer is a passing foot merchant!" Did the guest officer know about the imperial court's expropriation of grain? ”

"Know." Zhang Xiang nodded.

The second said: "A few days ago, the county government to collect grain because of the lack of food from the people, so sent people to the door to rob directly, but also killed an old couple, robbed all the food in their home, in recent days, because the people went to the county government to make trouble, the county government also arrested dozens of people and threw them into prison, no, today the people gathered at the door of the county government, asking the county government to release people. I have also lived in Rong County for more than ten years, and I know that the people of the county government will not do this, and they listen to the orders given by the people above the Pingzhou government, so the people of the county government can't do anything. ”

After that, these two or four looked at it, and persuaded in a voice: "Guest officer, I will give you a piece of advice, after eating, it is better to leave Rong County as soon as possible!" If they see that the guest officer is dressed as rich, they may even rob you together! ”

"Thank you!"

Zhang Xiang nodded.

After the second shop left, Zhang Xiang's face sank suddenly.

Li Yanzhi also wanted to speak and stopped.

The slave was next to him, and he was also holding his arm tightly, pursing his mouth and saying no, with a nervous face.

That expression was worried about what Zhang Xiang would do.

"Let's go!" Zhang Xiang got up.

As soon as everyone walked out of the restaurant, they saw an old woman in her seventies struggling to push a cart with a bag of grain.

The old woman had gray hair and a haggard face, and beside her, there was a girl of seven or eight years old with a dirty face who helped push her.

When she pushed it in front of them, the old woman was visibly exhausted, stumbling under her feet, and then fell directly to the ground, and the food on the cart also slipped down.

"Grandma," the girl shouted, and threw herself up to help the old woman.

But she was too strong, and she was carried and pressed by the old woman.

"Grandma, get up!" The girl cried and cried, struggling to pull again.

The old woman finally sat up, she touched the girl's cheek dotingly, and showed a smile: "Good, grandma is fine, let grandma rest." ”

The girl cried: "Grandma, we don't push, we don't push, okay..."

"Nan, grandma must send the food to the yamen, otherwise, we will all die, really, we will all die, it doesn't matter if grandma dies, but you are also, grandma is dead, who will take care of you? Your father is out at war, maybe your father will be able to eat this bag of grain! Be good, don't cry, help grandma up..."

"Nan didn't cry." The girl wiped away her tears, stopped crying, and again struggled to pull the old woman.

"Pony..."

Seeing this scene, the slave's eyes were already red, and the hand holding Zhang Xiang's arm tightened more and more.

Li Yanzhi and a family member had already run over to help the old man and the young man up, and put the bag of grain on the ground on the trolley.

The girl also thanked them sensibly.

Zhang Xiang walked over to the family and asked him to help push the bag of grain to the county office, and then to the old woman and girl, he also went to the county office, and asked them to follow him into the carriage.

At first, they were quite scared, but under the careful care of the slave, the two of them got into the carriage together.

Zhang Xiang did not take the carriage anymore, but chose a foot school

Li Yanzhi didn't dare to ride a horse anymore.

The group went directly to the county office.

After walking through two streets, I finally came to the county office.

From afar, Zhang Xiang saw at least hundreds of people gathered at the gate of the county office, and many people shouted: "Dog official..."

"Let people out..."

Wait a minute...

At the gate of the county government, an official errand was set up to resist these people who tried to rush in.

Zhang Xiang's motorcade arrived at the gate of the county government, and those people also looked at it curiously, and then unconsciously made way for them.

Zhang Xiang walked to the trolley, directly picked up the bag of grain with one hand, and then walked over.

This bag of grain is about a load or so, about a hundred catties.

For Zhang Xianglai, who already has a little internal strength of the Nine Dao Breaking Internal Strength at this moment, it is not difficult to lift it with one hand.

"Who are you?"

The official who was the leader stopped him looked at him with fierce eyes.

Zhang Xiang's tone was indifferent: "Let Master Xu Songwen and Xu come out to see me, I am Zhang Mingheng." ”

"Don't you know what you want to see?" The official glared at him fiercely.

'Bell'

One of the guards behind Zhang Xiang pulled out a knife and pointed it at him, shouting angrily: "Presumptuous." ”

As the guard of the Horse Mansion, the courage is not comparable to the guards of ordinary people, the most ordinary ones are selected from the local military camp, and when Zhao Hanyan was in the Bianjing Princess Mansion before, the guards equipped by the emperor for her were all selected from the guards in the capital, and when Zhao Hanyan came to Pingzhou, there were also many loyal ones who were brought by her, and the two guards brought by Zhang Xiang at this time were such guards.

How can the vision of such a guard be able to afford to look at the officials in such a place?

The murderous aura that burst out of his eyes alone scared this official a lot.

The official saw that Zhang Xiang's group was not simple, so he hurriedly turned around and ran into the county office.

After a while, two men in official uniforms hurriedly walked out.

The first one was Xu Songwen, the same governor of Pingzhou Prefecture, and the other was the magistrate of Rong County.

Xu Songwen was also startled when he heard the official report on Zhang Mingheng, why did the horse come?

Although the horses of Southern Chu have no power or office, as relatives of the emperor, they generally cannot interfere in local political affairs when they have nothing to do, but the special circumstances are different, such as the important task of the imperial court to collect grain.

The local emperor was granted by the imperial court to assist the local government in handling affairs, so the right in this matter is particularly great, even if it is a first-class official, at this time, he will also salute three points, which means that he is already an imperial power inspection, even if it is a prefect, he will ask for opinions on such a matter, not to mention that he is a five-grade official.

Fortunately, it was a colt, if it was Princess Gaoping, this Xu Songwen would probably be scared.

Xu Songwen and Zhixian took three steps and two steps to Zhang Xiang.

He just wanted to bend down and salute, but Zhang Xiang threw the bag of grain in his hand on Lin with a 'snap', kicking up a cloud of dust.

He said coldly: "As soon as I entered Rong County, I heard a lot of comments about the county government's affairs. ”

So, Zhang Xiang asked Li Yanzhi to bring down the old man and the young man in the carriage.

When the old woman and the girl saw the people from the government, their eyes showed deep fear, and they didn't dare to approach at all.

Zhang Xiang said: "This bag of grain was pushed by this old lady and girl step by step, they, if they don't send the grain to the yamen, they will die, Lord Xu, is this a real thing?" I really didn't expect that the prefect sent you down to do something, and it would be like this? ”

Xu Songwen broke out in a cold sweat: "But... Sir, there are many misunderstandings in this, please follow the lower officials into the county office, and the lower officials will make it clear one by one. ”

Zhang Xiang nodded, he would not feel that Xu Songwen was suspected of bullying based on the one-sided words he heard, he asked the people from the county government to send the old woman and girl and their bag of grain home, and then followed into the county office.

After Zhang Xiang and his entourage entered the county office, the people who originally came to make trouble outside, you look at me, I look at you, they all became confused.

Who is this person?

Why can the two adults of Tongzhi and Zhixian be respectful?

Don't you look that old?

Could it be that the official position is still bigger than these two?

In the crowd, three young men slowly retreated.

"Chang Zhong, isn't this the man we saw in the restaurant just now?"

"Well, I don't know where it came from?"

"Heh, look at the dress, not only the government officials but also a powerful party, a nest of snakes and rats."

"Guangyi, you can't say that, I saw that the man was angry, and he should have heard what we said in the restaurant, so he was so angry to teach this Xu Tongzhi."

"Whether he's good or bad, let's see!"

"So what do we do now?"

"Let's go back first, it seems that this matter can't be solved today, and I'll come back tomorrow to find out the news..."