Today's business in Deyue Building is exceptionally good, and the dozen or so tables in the lobby on the first floor are all full of drinkers, which can be said to be full.

Many of them arrived late, and when they came, there were no seats, but ordinary people are not as particular as those in large households, and when there are more people, everyone will squeeze in, and a table can always squeeze out some places and sit a few more people.

If there is really no place to go, it doesn't matter, and the person behind will squat at the door with a wine bowl to drink.

It has just been the end of the war, and so many people will have the leisure to crowd here, in addition to the crowd and the excitement, the main thing is for another thing.

"Hey, hey, have you all heard? There is a messenger in the capital who is coming to our Yongyang! ”

"Hey, who doesn't know about this now, the streets and alleys have spread!"

Someone interjected: "Why do you say that Qin Cha suddenly wants to come to our small place in Yongyang?" ”

"Needless to say, it must be Lord Lin's matter that the emperor knows, and this is Pai Qin sent to Lord Lin to call the shots."

"I think so, Lord Lin is such a good official, but let them arrest those people, how can you say that there is such a truth in the world? Can the emperor not be in a hurry when he knows? Isn't this the sending of Lord Qincha down? ”

"So, the emperor is still good, but the following officials don't have a few good things."

"These dog officials are so bad, why do you say that the emperor doesn't care?"

"Tube? How? The world is so big, I heard others say that it is tens of thousands of miles so big, I don't know how many ordinary people, and how many officials, no matter how powerful the emperor is, he is also a person, where can he care! ”

"Yes! Hey, what do you say the emperor's Jinluan Palace looks like? "Someone started to take the subject off the hook.

"Who knows? But I've heard that everything in the palace is made of gold, and even the toilet used by the emperor to untie his hands is a gold toilet. ”

"Tell me, how much gold does that get?"

"That's it, that golden toilet can't be a butt!"

"I've heard of it, too, but I don't know if it's true or not. But when the time comes, if any of you go to the capital and see the emperor, you can ask him if the golden toilet is a bad ass, and tell me when you come back. ”

"Hahaha!" The crowd burst into laughter.

"If you want me to say, these things have nothing to do with us, we are small people, as long as we live our own lives, why do we care so much?" Another said.

Bai Yuqing listened to the conversation of these drinkers on the counter, smiling without saying a word.

Before the Qincha arrived, the fact that the Qincha Lord was coming to Yongyang was already known to everyone in the city.

This is a major event that Yongyang has not had in a hundred years, and recently, the streets and alleys have been talking about this matter.

It's just that what they say has no basis, and it's basically a guess.

The people of Yongyang didn't know what the emperor and those officials and lords thought and did.

In fact, most of the time they don't care about this, the reason why they talk about these is more simply to add some spice to the boring life, make life a little more fun, that's all.

They were born and raised in Sri Lanka all their lives, and they were bound to this land to death. Like the stubble of crops in the field, they were born here, raised here, married and had children here, grew old here, and then buried back in the soil when they died.

And the government and

The imperial court is like a farmer, and the taxes to be paid to the government are like the grain produced by their moving crops, and the government only needs to come and harvest them regularly.

The government collects taxes in the same way that peasants grow grain, collecting more in good years and less in disaster years. The peasants will starve to death when the grain output is reduced in a disaster year, and the government will rebel if the government does not reduce taxes in a disaster year.

For thousands of years, it has been so; Maybe it won't change for thousands of years.

The people living in Yongyang County are already people who have seen the world compared to their relatives in the countryside.

For ordinary people living in the countryside, the outside world is completely unfamiliar.

Centered around where they were born, a few nearby villages, is their whole world. Most of them have traveled the furthest distance in their lives, that is, to buy groceries and tear a piece of cloth in the town.

Their whole lives have been spent in such a small circle. Maybe in his lifetime, he will never have the opportunity to go to the county seat dozens of miles away to take a look.

Just as some people think that the emperor used a gold hoe to work and a gold pole to carry water, they relied on hearsay and self-imagination for everything in the outside world.

They couldn't understand how such a large empire worked, and they couldn't imagine what the Emperor's Golden Luan Palace was like.

They likewise don't understand why someone can do nothing and be born with everything that these people are destined to not get.

They don't know why they get up early and work hard every day, but the family still can't even eat, so they can only starve.

They also didn't understand why the Central Plains Dao, which was so far away that they didn't know where, was affected by the disaster, and they had to fight here. I don't understand what the imperial decree has to do with them, and I don't understand why some people have to rebel when they have a good life.

They can't understand all this, so they simply don't think about it anymore, and can only attribute it to the "destiny of heaven".

Since everything is destined by God, whether it is hardship or starvation, it is fate, and everyone can only accept fate.

Their ancestors have been in the mud for thousands of years, and they and their descendants may continue to do so.

When most people honestly "accept their fate", there will occasionally be a few crops that will have their own ideas. They don't want to be tied to a certain piece of land, and they yearn to see the world beyond.

Such people can no longer be called crops, and it is more appropriate to call them weeds.

And the government also has a unified name for these people who can't produce food: anti-thieves.

Of course, most of the weeds will be removed by the farmer and thrown into the sun, and the dead will not be able to die again.

But there are also weeds that can grow, they will spread throughout the land, and their seeds will drift farther away with the wind, taking root and sprouting. Sometimes even the farmer is covered with weeds, and then they take their place and become the new farmer.

For the next period of time, the people of the city were still very curious about the upcoming Chincha, and various speculations about the Chincha were still circulating in the streets and alleys.

However, no matter what the people thought, one day not long after, the Chin Cha still came to Yongyang City.

In order to welcome the holy decree, an incense table was set up in front of the county hall.

And Lin Fan was also brought over from the county jail, and after bathing and burning incense, he waited for the arrival of the Qin Cha at the gate with Yang Yuanwang and others.

didn't let everyone wait for a long time, and the honor guard of the Qin Cha soon appeared in front of everyone.

Qin Cha is a minister in charge, looking more than forty on the outside, with a thin face and a long beard.

Without being polite to everyone, he made sure that the people who received the order had arrived, and said loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, and everyone in Yongyang listens to it." ”

Everyone knelt on the ground in an uproar, and Lin Fan and Yang Yuanwang took the lead and said, "Wait for the order!" ”

Seeing that everyone knelt down, Qin Cha began to proclaim: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and he says: I have heard that civil officials rule the world, military generals Anbang, each follow his life, and there is no one uneasy in the country." Today's Wuguan inspection made Lin Fan, Yongyang County chief bookkeeper Yang Yuanwang and others have meritorious service in guarding the land, and they should be rewarded for their meritorious service.

Lin Fan, the patrol envoy, is the first to defend the city, and now he is promoted to Shenzhou General Judge, and concurrently serves as the Shenzhou Battalion General, in charge of Shenzhou's bandit suppression, in order to make the best use of his talents.

Yang Yuanwang, the main bookkeeper, also has the merit of defending the land, and will be promoted to the position of Yongyang County Commander from now on; Remembering that his parents and family were all killed in the war, he specially gifted his father Yang Linqi as the undertaker, his mother Zhang as a widow, and his wife Liu as a widow to show his virtue.

The flag officer Zhang Yanji died in battle, and he was posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant of Zhongxian to show his loyalty.

Flag officer Yang Peng surrendered to the thief, and the crime cannot be punished; He was supposed to be connected with his clan, remembering that he was dead, and in order to show the court's leniency, he forgave his family and his subordinate soldiers the death penalty and exiled them to Lingnan.

The rest of the meritorious people will also be rewarded, and they will be loyal to their lives in the future and live up to the country's kindness.

Decree June 19, 11th year of Chongping. ”

"Commandment!" After the Qin mission announced the will, Lin Fan, who had the highest official position, received the decree on behalf of everyone to thank him.

Respectfully accepting the holy decree made of the black horn shaft, Lin Fan got up and said to Qincha: "Coming from afar, the angel is hard, and then the lower official will accompany the angel to the post house to rest." ”

The relationship between Lin Ruxian and Lin Fan has long been no secret in the Ministry of Officials, so Qin Cha knows this. And just before he was ordered to leave Beijing, a cabinet scholar, that is, his mentor, had advised him not to be too publicistic outside.

The reason why the cabinet scholars are like this is because after Lin Ruxian was promoted to the head of the household department, Zhao Huan once raised Lin Fan's question during the cabinet discussion.

At that time, Lin Ruxian had just been promoted, and His Majesty the Emperor just threw out this question at this time, and the meaning revealed in it could not be more obvious.

The cabinet members can get mixed up to such a point, and none of them are simple, and they are familiar with figuring out the holy will.

The emperor's meaning was there, no one dared to do anything against the emperor, everyone pretended to discuss for a while, and during the period, there were all kinds of praise for the son of heaven of the Zhao family, and the appointment of Lin Fan was quickly determined.

Lin Ruxian is now in the middle of the holy family, and in order to make room for him, His Majesty sent the original household servant Feng Zhang to the edict prison, and those cabinet scholars were not willing to offend him easily, so the scholar reminded his students of this matter.

What officials are most afraid of is offending people, especially those with backgrounds, and they can't be easily offended.

In the words of that cabinet scholar, it doesn't matter if you are an idiot or stupid, but if you are involved in it, I will be hated by Lin Ruxian, then I don't need others to take action, I will clean up the door myself.

There are only a few people who can roll in the officialdom and don't open their eyes after all, not to mention that this official has done his homework before he comes, he will not put any bad looks at Lin Fan.

He took Lin Fan's hand and said kindly: "Lord Lin is polite, the official hasn't congratulated Lord Lin on his ascension, Lord Lin is a young hero, and now he is Jane in the emperor's heart, and the future is limitless!" ”

"The angel has an overreputation, and the lower officials dare not be ashamed!"

The two left the county office with a smile and went to the post station.