Hearing Ma Qingze's shout, An Ning's heart jumped, and she couldn't help but have a hint of foreboding.

He turned around on the stretcher with some difficulty and asked, "I don't know what else is going on when the lord calls for humiliation?" ”

Ma Qingze was still reading the letter, and he didn't raise his head and said to An Ning: "The things mentioned in the letter are now generally clear to the official, but the official still has something unclear, so I want to ask you!" ”

An Ning could only say: "My lord, I will definitely know everything!" ”

Ma Qingze nodded, and continued expressionlessly: "Judging from the situation written in the letter, the person in charge of Yongyang County is now Lin Fan, the Wuguan inspection envoy, right?" ”

Sure enough, he still responded to what he thought in his heart, and An Ning replied stubbornly: "Yes!" ”

"But as far as this official knows, although the position of Yongyang County Commander is currently vacant and no one has taken office, there are people in Yongyang County."

"According to the practice of this dynasty, if the county commander is absent, the county magistrate of the county can temporarily take over the post of county commander and take care of the official affairs of the government office. Even if the county official is not there, the county government secretary can still be in charge, and in any case, it should not be the turn of the inspection department to inspect and make this kind of military position that is not an official of the government office to take charge. What is the reason for this, you can explain it to this official! Ma Qingze looked at him suspiciously, obviously wanting to get an explanation from An Ning.

An Ning was a little helpless, this Ma Qingze was very smart, he actually saw the problem in the letter so quickly, and keenly grasped this point. Sure enough, those who can crawl in the muddy pond of officialdom and have not been drowned are not really stupid.

But these people are too smart, and they have used all their thoughts in the officialdom drill camp, and they are already so smart that they can't see the current situation clearly and can't distinguish the priorities.

The military situation is so urgent, it has reached the point of burning eyebrows, but the first thing that comes to mind for those of them who are officials is not how to solve the bandits, but the twists and turns in the officialdom.

Even if he was a little worried about Lin Fan in his heart, An Ning still didn't dare to hide it, there were too many people who knew about this matter, and it was impossible to hide it.

As long as they send someone to investigate a little afterwards, they can understand the ins and outs of this matter, and if they lie now, they will only harm their young master.

He could only answer truthfully: "The thieves invaded the territory, and Chengtian Wufeng in Yongyang County not only did not think about defending the city, but also disregarded the lives of the people, and wanted to abandon the city and flee." The inspection made Lord Lin dissuade him in every possible way, but Lord Cheng of the county did not listen, and in the end he could only be killed! ”

"Afterwards, Lord Yang and the rest of the people asked Lord Lin to preside over the overall situation, so Lord Lin is indeed in charge of Yongyang City now!"

"Presumptuous!" Ma Qingze slapped the table suddenly, and his strength was so great that the teacups on the table were shocked and flew off the table, and the tea splashed everywhere.

"This Lin Fan is just a small inspector, he... He dared to kill Shangguan without permission, he was so bold and reckless, did he know what crime he should be guilty of? Is there still a royal law in his heart? It's really presumptuous! ”

An Ning knew that Ma Qingze would not listen, but he still wanted to explain for Lin Fan: "Joining the army, it is not a humble duty to exonerate Lord Lin, but Lord Lin is also forced to do this, and he really has to do it in order to defend the city!" ”

"Nonsense! No matter how unbearable Yongyang County is, it will also be punished by its own laws. Where is his turn to get a small inspection envoy to deal with it, he is so reckless and reckless, and he disregards the law of the court king

Place? ”

Ma Qingze was unwilling to take care of peace anymore, so he reprimanded the sergeant in charge of carrying the stretcher: "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you take him down quickly and stay here to hinder my eyes?" ”

After scolding An Ning, Ma Qingze's anger did not subside, and the surging anger in his chest made him keep pacing back and forth in the tent to relieve the irritability in his heart.

It took him a moment before he was able to control his emotions. Finally knowing that he couldn't delay military affairs, he picked up the letter that An Ning brought, and walked to the big tent of the Chinese army with a heavy heart.

And the tranquility on the road, at this time, it was more for his young master to feel a little worthless.

The young master killed Tian Wuji, undoubtedly offended a large number of people. Even if these people knew that the young master was doing this for the sake of the people, they also knew that Tian Wuxian deserved to die. But if this matter falls into the eyes of people like them, the young master will be ten thousand times more hateful and damned ten thousand times worse than that Tian Wuji.

An Ning also knew that all this was not because the young master had violated the king's law, according to the "Law of the Great Clouds", the main general would flee from the battle, and for the sake of the overall situation, the deputy general or the rest of the people had the right to kill him on the spot in an emergency. Therefore, although this matter is unconventional, as long as it is investigated, it is not a big deal.

The reason why Ma Qingze was so angry was mainly because the young master had broken the rules of officialdom. In the eyes of people like them, even the lives of the people in the city are not as important as their so-called rules.

This is not to say that Tian Wuqian can't die, in Ma Qingze's opinion, if things are really as An Ning said, that Yongyang County Cheng is extremely evil, even if he dies ten thousand times, it is not enough. It's that Tian Wuqian can't die like this, let alone die in the hands of Lin Fan.

In the eyes of people like them, they are officials, and they are destined to be above the common people, and the difference between the high and the low is like clouds and mud. Their lives are far more noble than those mud-legged people who can only roll in the fields.

Above the officialdom, there is a distinction between the upper and lower, the inferior and the orderly. These people have been conformist all their lives, and they have been welcoming in officialdom all their lives, in order to climb to higher official positions and have higher status?

All this is so that they can stand higher and look down on all living beings in the world.

In fact, Ma Qingze doesn't care about Tian Wuji's life or death, a small Yongyang County Cheng, an official is only eight grades, with no power, no power and no background.

For him, a person who will inevitably return to Beijing to take up a post in the future or become a feudal official on the ruling side, a low-level official who is destined to have a limited future and has just entered the stream cannot get into his eyes.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a county lord like Tian Wuqian is undoubtedly a big man who wants to be high in the sky, and they can only look up.

But here in him, the gap between Tian Wuqian and him is not smaller than the gap between Tian Wuqian and the common people, but he is the one standing in the sky, and in his eyes, Tian Wujian is not necessarily more important than the ordinary people.

A small person like Tian Wuji, Ma Qingze doesn't know how much he has seen, if he puts it in the past, he may not even bother to remember this name.

Therefore, what matters is not Tian Wuji's life or death, but that Lin Fan, as a subordinate, killed his top boss.

Although the "Law of the Great Clouds" said, "The Lord will flee from the battle, and the rest can be killed!" "That's the case. But since the founding of the country, this article has been more like an ornament, a taboo in officialdom, and no one has ever done this.

Imagine if

It's everyone who acts like Lin Fan, isn't that just a mess?

In this way, the order in officialdom will be broken, and who will fear their superiors. If everyone in the officialdom is in danger, and they have no sense of security, then what are they studying hard and getting ahead?

In fact, An Ning also knew that there was nothing wrong with Ma Qingze and the others thinking so.

For officialdom, rules are indeed extremely important, as the saying goes, there are no rules!

In order for everything to be long-lasting, there must be a way to bind everyone, and everyone must act according to the rules within a framework that everyone agrees on, so that the situation can be the most stable.

Take the major clans in the world as an example, they can pass on their families for hundreds of years and stand tall, and each of them is not simple. Strict family rules and upright family style are indispensable.

Often, the bigger the family background, the more rules are valued. The rules of the Lin clan are also insurmountable for the people of the Lin clan in Jiangzhou.

Therefore, even Lin Ruxian, as the patriarch, regarded An Ning as his own, and even let him go to school with Lin Fan and worship Fang Ping's disciples, which is a treatment that many children of the remote side branches of the Lin family can't get.

However, even so, the Lin family is also respectful and humble, and no matter how much An Ning is valued, he still has to salute and greet the other side branch disciples. Even when An's father and son were separated from slavery, it was difficult for Lin Ruxian to make decisions on his own, so until now An Ning is still the status of Lin's family slave.

An Ning could understand what they were thinking, but that didn't mean he would agree with these things, which were out of place now.

The rules of officialdom can restrain the officials of the court, and the rules of the big families can restrain the clansmen, but those thieves all over the world and the Manchu people in the north will not care about this, but there is nothing to restrain them.

These people are either from the end of the world, or they are called barbarians, and in the eyes of those high-ranking officials, they are never treated.

They are therefore free from these conventional things, and after they have the power to be unconstrained, they will only scoff at these things, and then kick them to a pulp by the way, and finally point to the pile of rags and laugh, mocking this seemingly gorgeous thing after it collapses, it is no different from ordinary people, and it is also a pile of broken bricks and tiles that no one cares about.

Therefore, these decayed things are naturally the golden rule that everyone abides by in the peaceful and prosperous era. But now that it is a chaotic world, and if you cling to the rules of these peaceful years, that is the way to die.

Do you have to talk to them about the rules when they put a knife on their necks?

An Ning sighed secretly, he only hoped that in the court, there would be fewer people who were so pedantic that they couldn't see the situation clearly, so that maybe the people of the world would suffer a little less.

As for Lin Fan's future career, although he was a little worried, he didn't really care too much.

Let's not say that Lin Fan's practice has a basis and is in line with the laws of the imperial court; Even with the influence of Mr. Lin in Jiangzhou in the court, there are few people in the court who can make a fuss about this matter, and the impact on Lin Fan can be said to be minimal.

At most, he will be imprisoned for a few days, and he will be ostracized by some people in the officialdom in the future. It's just that the premise of everything is that Lin Fan can defend Yongyang City and survive.