That Qi Yuanzhen was afraid that the rebels would chase after him, so he took Shi Zanshan to gallop for more than an hour under the escort of the guards before daring to slow down and take a breath. After a while, seeing the spies behind the potential brigade catching up and reporting the news to the leader of the guards, the leader nodded and leaned over to Qi Yuanzhen and said, "Lord Qi, those thieves have not sent pursuers, we are safe." Qi Yuanzhen relieved himself and ordered everyone to dismount and rest.

Qi Yuanzhen turned over and dismounted, walked to the stone pier on the side of the road and sat down, but when he looked up, he saw Shi Zanshan still lying on the horse and was in a state of disappointment, so he said: "Brother Zai, come down and rest, don't worry, those thieves can't catch up." ”

Shi Zanshan's face turned pale and said: "The lower officials are not afraid of chasing soldiers, I am worried about my wife and children who are still in the county government, if they have three long and two short, I... I have been a father in vain, and I have been a husband in vain. ”

Qi Yuanzhen rolled his eyes in his heart, when you just fled, you ran faster than Lao Tzu, why don't you worry about the safety of your wife and children, you have run out of fifty or sixty miles at this time, you regret it, and said quietly: "If Brother Zai is afraid that his wife and children will suffer, he can go back and ask the thief for his guilt, didn't you say that it was Li Shun who just led people to chase and kill us at the city gate, I remember you said that he and Wang Xiaobo have always been noble, and there must be your head for them to relieve their hatred, and they will not embarrass your wife and children." ”

Shi Zanshan naturally didn't dare, and said embarrassedly: "The two of them are indeed unscrupulous men, even if they are crazy thieves at this time, I don't think it will harm my wife and children, I still wait for the pacification division to send troops to encircle and suppress them, and then go to rescue my wife and children together." ”

Qi Yuanzhen felt disdainful for a while, and boasted to me that he was so noble and unyielding back then, and he was only willing to serve the country with his body, but it was only ten years of hard work, and he became this kind of bear who was greedy for life and afraid of death. Although I, Qi Yuanzhen, am not a good person, I can't do anything about abandoning my wife and children and only caring about running for my life, so I can't help but threaten again: "Didn't Brother Zai order someone to arrest their relatives before?" Aren't you afraid that they will give back to you, and they will not catch you and make your family angry? ”

Shi Zanshan suddenly turned pale, and exclaimed: "It's Lord Qi, you asked me to send someone to jail their family for treason, saying that this can force them to show up." "In addition, they may seek to rob them of their property.

"Brother Zai blames me, then I asked you to press their family members to the court to show the public today and force them to show up, why don't you do it? If they listen to me do this, and then arrange the men and horses in advance, and take them down in one fell swoop when they rob the Dharma Field, how will they have the opportunity to gather a crowd to rebel at night. Qi Yuan said.

Shi Zanshan snorted: "I am only a county magistrate, and I have not mentioned the approval of the Criminal Division, how dare I execute people at will." ”

"I didn't really want to cut off their heads, just to force Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun to show up. Besides, even if you really cut it, I'll go back and help you say hello to Fan Waitai, and ask the Criminal Department to make up a note. If you succeed in luring them to show up, maybe Fan Waitai will praise you for your courage. Qi Yuan shook his face.

"It's the lower officials who are confused." Shi Zanshan is kind enough to say that he has the courage to say that the people have been overwhelmed by Xia Shui and the arrest of Wang Xiaoshun and others, I really dare to send someone to cut off the heads of Wang Xiaobo's relatives in the court, they must not make a fuss, you are none of your business, hang it high, and whether my black yarn hat can be kept is a question when the time comes. After all, I shouldn't have been deluded in the first place, I listened to your bad idea to frame Wang Xiaobo, and now the people who are agitated to rebel are uprising, and I, the magistrate, must be unable to escape the blame. Thinking of this, Shi Zanshan was full of panic, and now that the matter had come to this, he had to pull Qi Yuanzhen, who was ruthless and had a hard background, to stand up to the thunder together, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be able to carry such a big pot, so he sneered: "Lord Qi, there is such a disaster in Qingcheng County, how can I return my life to the imperial court, if Your Majesty and the ministers know that it is us who stir up the people's resentment, I am afraid that they will not easily let us go." ”

"Did Brother Zai lose his mind in a panic and say such a delirium, I am the envoy of Xichuan Lubo Buyers, you are the magistrate of Qingcheng County, what does this Qingcheng County peasant rebellion have to do with me?" Qi Yuanzhen said shamelessly.

Shi Zanshan saw that Qi Yuanzhen had actually picked himself up, and he panicked: "But it was the adults who taught me to frame Wang Xiaobo and others with tricks, which led them to lead the peasant households to rebel. "You're going to have to be unlucky, too. Although this dynasty does not kill the scholars, if he loses his official, it will make him more uncomfortable than asking for Shi Zanshan's life.

Qi Yuanzhen listened to the faint threat in Shi Zanshan's words, and couldn't help but want to let his subordinates kill him, anyway, no one else except him knew that I was in Qingcheng County, and in the event of a rebellion, I could naturally clean up his death. But after thinking about it, I am running in the present tense, and the future official fortune must be prosperous, and it is time to cultivate the team, and now those officials from the imperial examination in the court are getting stronger and stronger, although they are also very polite when they see themselves, but in their hearts, they have always looked down on themselves as shadow officials, and it is difficult to recruit them into their command. At present, although this Shi Zanshan is said to be forward-looking and dull, but he was also a serious gold list and the first background back then, and the moral article will not be bad, if he is brought to the Tokyo court in the future, he can easily enter the circle of those non-commissioned officers, why not take this opportunity to take his handle, and I am afraid that he will not give up his life for me in the future.

Thinking of this, Qi Yuanzhen couldn't help but sigh that he was really running at the right time, thinking that he had finally climbed the noble high branch, from a small medical worker to a county master, I thought that I could soar, who knew that I had been suffering in Chenliu County for ten years and had not been able to go to the next level, and what was even more annoying was that although Chenliu County was a rich Gyeonggi County, the oil and water in the county were all divided by the high-ranking officials and nobles of the court, and not a single copper plate could fall into our hands, and we could only rely on that poor fortune every month, which was really desolate.

Who expected that the luck of the time could not be stopped, first guarded the clouds and saw the moon, and finally became a county magistrate, although it is a remote Yongkang County, but there is a three-wood in the hand, why not ask for it. But how do you know that you just fished some oil and water, and in a blink of an eye, the sky fell on the opportunity, and it is only you have the opportunity to seize the great opportunity, easy to fish, less than a year, we have become all the way to the Bomai service envoy, so much oil and water that you will wake up with a smile in your dreams, and you are about to seize the time to save some net worth, and by the way to build a team for the future, this stupid Shi Zanshan has thrown himself into the net again, it is really happy, according to this momentum, the entry and exit will be just around the corner.

Shi Zanshan looked at Qi Yuanzhen's fat face and suddenly showed a malicious smile, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, thinking that this Qi Yuanzhen wouldn't really want to give up, ah no... Abandon me as if you were a shoe, although I just dared to threaten him, but I heard that his backer has eyes to the sky, if he is not afraid of my coercion, what can he do if he kills me first. Thinking of this, Lord Shi's clear and old-fashioned face squeezed out a trace of flattery with great difficulty, ready to let go of the only remaining discipline, begging this Qi Yuanzhen, who seemed to him to be a selfish calculating and not a little official and virtuous, but when the words came to his mouth, Lord Shi, who thought that he was upright and not afraid of power, couldn't open his mouth. Recently, although he has been pampered by this Qi Yuanzhen, he is just taking advantage of the situation, in order to be able to enter the temple and Kuang Fu Sheji in the future, and temporarily forbear, he is going to take the position in the future, and then go back to clean up this shameless villain, but if he opens this mouth today, I am afraid that he will only be a lackey under his seat in the future, Lord Shi is full of entanglement.

Qi Yuanzhen happened to come back to his senses at this time, and when he looked up, he only saw the flattering look on Shi Zanshan's face, and he was very relieved, so he spoke first: "I have a plan, I don't know if I have a wish?" ”

Okay, you Qi Yuanzhen, this is the word brother, it seems that you really want to treat me as a lackey, Shi Zanshan is miserable in his heart, but it is better to go down the stairs than to take the initiative to ask for someone, so he hurriedly bent down and whispered: "Lord Qi has always been resourceful, and the lower officials are willing to hear about it." ”

Looking at Shi Zanshan's groveling appearance, Qi Yuanzhen's heart was even more dark, and his face was as warm as a spring breeze: "You are also a blind eye, we were ready to give Wang Xiaobo an assassination charge of assassinating the court official and attempting to rebel, and now he has really rebelled, isn't this exactly what we want?" When Fan Waitai and Guo Futai asked you, you said that Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun and others had always been dissatisfied with the imperial court, and often slandered the imperial court and even the saints, and you, as a local governor, pretended to make friends with him, in order to find out the evidence of the crime, who knew that he was becoming more and more rampant, and recently he even incited the people against the county government under the pretense of the summer tax. That Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun really harbored evil intentions, intending to assassinate you, you were not afraid of danger, although you were seriously injured, but you still commanded the officials to surround them, but these two fangs are strong in martial arts, and they escaped, so there is something behind. ”

"What if the adults on the other side ask me why I don't send someone to report in time?" Shi Zanshan was still not at ease.

"You said that you sent someone to report, but Wang Xiaobo and the others were cunning and abnormal, and set up an ambush on the road in advance to intercept the messenger. Then in less than two days, the rebels were organized to attack the county seat, which coincided with my visit in Qingcheng County, so you and I commanded the soldiers in the city to fight with the rebels inseparably, but the traitors have been plotting for a long time, although we personally supervised the battle, but after all, we were still defeated, and we were ready to sacrifice our lives for righteousness, but the people in the city thanked us for our benevolence, protected us and withdrew to the outside of the city, let us quickly go to Chengdu Mansion for help, so as to rescue them. In order for the people of Qingcheng to be saved as soon as possible, we had to go on the road with tears, and you couldn't even take care of the relatives in the city, and you were dedicated to saving the people from fire and water. Qi Yuanzhen added.

Obviously, as soon as I heard that there were rebels, I pulled my head and ran away, and in your mouth, the two of us have become good officials who almost sacrificed their lives for the people and were loved by the people, which is really upside down black and white, and shameless to the extreme, but there is no better way at the moment, Shi Zanshan had to flatter: "Sure enough, it is a good strategy, so that the lower officials are like Daigo empowerment and suddenly enlightened, Lord Qi is really wiser than Guo Jia, and he is better than Zhuge . ”

Qi Yuanzhen also felt that he was really witty, and couldn't help but smile, but he wanted to hold the frame in front of the newly accepted subordinates, so he quickly retracted his eyebrows, smiled toothily and made a tall figure, twisted his beard with one hand, and patted Shi Zanshan who was leaning in front of him on the shoulder with the other hand and said: "I still have more experience, and this is also our ability to be an official." ”

Shi Zanshan flattered and said yes, but he couldn't help but slander that this is obviously the housekeeping skill of corrupt officials like you, but who said that he had already boarded the thief ship, so he had to go with the flow. Lord Shi's last ethics also gradually disappeared with the flow, and he was a good Lord Shi who saw the benefits and the righteousness, and saw the death more guarded.