Unlike Master Fang and the Qian brothers' cautious but kind conversations with each other, the visit of the prefect Li Ke and the governor Wang Gongbi is still very simple and boring, according to the original rules of officialdom, these two people are not allowed to meet casually, after all, one is equivalent to the number one in Shandong Province, and the other is the number one in the provincial capital.

The legend of ancient Chinese officialdom has clouds, three lives are unfortunate, the county is attached to Guo, three lives are evil, attached to Guo provincial city, evil is full of Ying, and Guo Jingcheng is attached.

The so-called "Zhixian attached to Guo" means that the prefect and the prefect are in the same city, so that his every move must be restrained, exhausted, and completely without the prestige of a "parental official". "Attached to Guo Provincial City" means that the prefect, the prefect, and the governor are in the same city, and the capital is attached to Guo...... Ahem, ahem, needless to say.

In this case, your boss is staring at you every day, and you can't be hard with the girl, you can't get close, you can't get far, that's it.

Originally, according to the system, Li Ke first sent a post, and then wrote a document to explain the things to be visited, and then see when the governor was free, he would naturally find time to meet him, of course, the number one in the province naturally has the bearing of a leader, and it is impossible to meet you at any time.

However, at this moment of burning eyebrows, no one dared to put on a score, Wang Gongbi packed up some letters in the study, and ordered the family to invite Li Ke in, his identity was not enough to greet Li Ke in person.

Li Ke was wearing a casual dress, like a Confucian at home, leisurely and elegant, but he looked dusty, and after entering the door, he first saluted, and seemed to be very happy: "My lord, the emperor has good news." ”

Wang Gongbi almost didn't jump up, how could there be any news, he couldn't find out about the imperial capital all along, and he sent some subordinates, but it was useless, I don't know what to say, why does Li Ke have it here?

Here, it must be explained that at that time, at the gate of Li Ke's prefect's yamen, there were indeed some "eye-catching boys", knowing that the imperial capital was coming, they went to various rich merchants or the governor's yamen to report the news, in any era, this kind of smart people who will come to things must be indispensable, and the door of those rich merchants is not difficult to enter, but this governor's yamen, in the 21st century, is equivalent to the head of a large province's leading team, how can anyone be seen?

Therefore, there are indeed people who came to curry favor with Wang Gongbi and came to the governor's yamen to report the news, but they have not found a way to come in yet, that is, Li Ke, who has been delayed for a long time, has come in.

This also reminds us that bureaucratic inefficiency can cause great harm, and although it is late, the governor's yamen can also receive the news, but it will always be thrown into the streets.

However, Wang Gongbi is also jumping out of tens of thousands of literati, dozens of years old, this bit of qi cultivation is still there, after thinking about it, he said: "Oh, I don't know what good news it is." ”

Li Ke said: "Recently, there are two Jinyi Wei boys who claim to have taken refuge in that ...... Break into the army and bring some news, now that the prince is still here, and it is very courteous, it seems that he still knows how to advance and retreat. ”

The amount of information in this sentence is not small, for the Ming officials, the perception of Li Zicheng, there are basically such a few steps, first of all, Li Zicheng has not yet become a climate, when Shangluo Mountain was beaten to only eighteen younger brothers, the thieves fled from Shangluo Mountain, the officials and troops blocked and chased after each other, and the day can be determined!

Then after recuperating in Shenglongzhai and making a comeback, that is, the thief is arrogant, stubborn, and self-defeating, and the officials and soldiers will inevitably be captured.

When Li Zicheng played the slogan of "Juntian is exempt from endowment" and shouted the slogan "Greet the king, do not pay for food," the public opinion of these scholars began to whisper, although they still hated it, but at that time, the rumor became, the Shun army bewitched the people, and the crime deserved death, but God has the virtue of a good life, but the war took turns, and there were countless casualties.

Well, when Li Zicheng took Xi'an, Luoyang, swore to the Northern Expedition, and pointed directly at the imperial capital, this kind of talk was basically much more convergent, and some "close friends" who trusted each other began to talk about what kind of baked cake songs, pushing back pictures, to argue what Li Jiqian Village where Li Zicheng was born has anything to do with the Li Jiqian 600 years ago, although Li Zicheng is a Han Chinese, and has nothing to do with the Li Jiqian family that was slaughtered, but that place can be attended by a king, and a second person can be produced if it is not even, and he knows some feng shui knowledge, and also began to study and demonstrate the existence of dragon veins.

Therefore, Li Ke called Li Zicheng's army a neutral title.

Moreover, the meaning of saying that the prince is still alive and very courteous, is naturally not that Li Ke, a small prefect, has any loyalty to the prince, but a very easy reasoning: if you can treat the prince well, you can naturally treat these former officials well.

He took the paper, looked at the ink, and confirmed that it was the best rice paper offered in the palace. ”

Li Ke said: "It's also difficult for them, and if there are well-educated people to teach one or two in the future, they can naturally walk on the right path." ”

Wang Gongbi naturally understood what this meant.

For these Ming bureaucrats, what they are most concerned about is the first and fifth articles of the "long eight articles", the first is to protect the lives and property of all the people, which is very reassuring, but the second article is not easy to say, except for the war criminals who are unrelenting and the people who have committed great crimes and are extremely angry and resist the heavenly army, all officials of the former dynasties, big and small, who do not resist with guns and do not conspire to sabotage, will not be captured, arrested, or insulted.

This is not only to reassure these officials, but also not at ease, who will stabilize the standard, the meaning of this war criminal, of course, is the act of daring to resist the army of the imperial capital, that is, the crime is extremely evil, that is, according to the statement on this list, as long as they do not raise their swords to resist at the moment when the army comes, then they can continue to be promoted and make a fortune?

The two glanced at each other, and roughly understood what the other party was thinking, these old foxes understood too well, now, these officials of the former dynasty, almost none of them really want to be martyred, they all want to keep their glory and wealth, and that's fine.

"Nice peace notice."

Li Ke listened to such a judgment, and also hurriedly flattered, "I wait for the former dynasty scholars, I don't ask for anything to go out of the new dynasty, but ask for the prince to repay the emperor's kindness, and the next to appease the people and calm the world. ”