Zhao Guangyi's criteria for judging a courtier are seniority and political achievements.

Judging from these two aspects, Lu Duan's value is far less than that of Zhao Pugao.

However, Yang Qi did not need to use this measure to measure a courtier.

In terms of measuring talents, Yang Qi has more advantages than Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi needed a lot of time to measure his courtiers, but Yang Qi didn't.

The magnificent history has already helped Yang Qi measure all the courtiers who can be used.

Whoever is loyal and who is traitorous, who has the ability and who does not.

Yang Qi could easily tell.

He only needs to pick the right people for him before these people grow up, and gather them under his hands.

For example, Su Yijian, such as Kou Zhun.

Now, the person selected by Yang Qi is Lu Duan.

History's evaluation of Lu Duan is very pertinent.

'Small things are confused, big things are not confused. ’

This kind of character is destined to be a person worthy of entrustment.

What Yang Qi needs is this kind of person.

The phrase 'the prime minister has a good belly to support the boat' is an evaluation of Wang Anshi.

But Yang Qi felt that this sentence was more appropriate for Lu Duan.

The power in Yang Qi's hands is getting bigger and bigger, which is destined for him to need more people to assist.

Every time he thought of Zhao Guangyi's countless talents, Yang Qi hated itchy.

It is a great waste to put talents in the hands of Zhao Guangyi.

Yang Qi felt that as a descendant of Yan and Huang, it was necessary for him to borrow some people from Zhao Guangyi to use them.

It's just that he hasn't been able to find a chance.

When Yang Qi learned that Wang Chao, the guard of Waqiao, had taken the credit for Yang Wu, he felt that the opportunity had come.

He must take this opportunity to extort a large number of talents from the hands of the Great Song Dynasty and keep them for his own use.

Lu Duan is just the beginning.

……

"Brother Yi, think it carefully and tell me your answer tomorrow! It's getting late today, so I'll have you take you to rest. ”

In Lu Duan's trance, Yang Qi sent Lu Duan to the door, and sent someone to take Lu Duan directly to the yamen of Datong Mansion City to sleep.

From beginning to end, Yang Qi didn't give Lu Duan a chance to reject him.

Standing at the door of the Yang Mansion, looking at Lu Duan's distant back, Yang Qi instructed Peng Pai: "Send someone to take good care of Brother Yi, and according to the treatment of the Governor Quan, give him all the belongings." ”

"Isn't it a little early?"

"It's not early!"

After hesitating for a moment, Peng Pai said bluntly: "What if Lord Lu refuses to stay in the prefect's yamen? ”

Yang Qi glanced at Peng Pai and said with a smile: "None of these officials can be idle. A little trickery can get them hooked. ”

Peng Pai smiled thief, "My subordinates know what to do." ”

Yang Qi said again: "You send someone to Bianjing City again, tell the three Zaifu of the Great Song Dynasty our conditions, and see how they can accept it." ”

"My subordinates will do it."

……

Following.

Noon.

After a night in a trance, Lu Duan, who had fallen asleep until the early hours of the morning, woke up from his sleep.

Last night, he thought about how to escape from Yang Qi's clutches all night, but he didn't come up with a countermeasure.

After falling asleep, I had a nightmare.

I dreamed that I was being chased by a tiger.

No matter how he escaped, he couldn't seem to escape three feet away from the tiger.

After sobering up, Lu Duan wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat on the edge of the kang, and sighed with a wry smile, "It's really a tiger that eats people and doesn't spit out bones......"

The tiger in Lu Port refers to Yang Qi in general.

After he woke up, he subconsciously connected the tiger in his dream with Yang Qi.

"Squeak~"

The door was easily pushed open from the outside, and a handsome maid walked in through the door.

She poked her head in, knocked on Lu Duan, and her eyes smiled like a crescent moon.

"Sir, are you awake?"

The maid leaned into the room and snorted sweetly.

"Sir?"

Lu Duan was stunned, chuckled and shook his head, "I'm not your master......"

The maid owes a salute, "The tiger marquis has given the slave and maid to the master, and the slave and maid will naturally be the master's person in the future." If you don't call you master, what do you call you? ”

Lu Duan opened his mouth, not knowing how to refuse this maid that Yang Qi gave him.

After a while, he sighed, "That's it, you go and help me prepare some washing things, and I'll go to see Huhou in a while." ”

The maid smiled sweetly, bowed and said, "The slave and maid know, the slave and maid are called green willows, and the master can call the slaves and maids green willows." ”

After saying this, Midori turned and walked out of the room.

After a while, he prepared things for Lu Duan to wash.

After Lu Duan washed up briefly, he put on a dark robe and went out of the room.

He was going to go to Yang Qi to make it clear.

and was ready to strongly refuse Yang Qi's decision to leave him in the four northwestern provinces.

He didn't want to do such a thing.

But he could consider recommending other candidates to Yang Qi.

For example, Xiang Minzhong is not bad, and Wang Dan is also good.

Anyway, as long as Yang Qi didn't leave him in the northwest, the rest of the people, no matter who they were, he didn't care.

In short, he felt that there was no future for following Yang Qi.

Sooner or later, Yang Qi would be exterminated by the Zhao royal family.

He was unwilling to give Yang Qi a burial.

When he walked out of the back hall of the yamen and entered near the lobby, he heard a fierce noise.

It seems that the magistrate in the yamen is trying the case.

Lu Duan was not interested, but after taking two steps forward, he heard a heart-rending cry.

"My lord, the women have been wronged!"

"Shut up! You're a wretch. While her husband was away, she fornicated with the second king next door. After the incident, he conspired with Wang Er to murder his husband, which was really a heinous crime. Now that the human and material evidence is there, you still dare to quibble. It seems that the official will not be punished, and you will not confess.

Come on, fork it out for me, hit! ”

“……”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

“……”

"Ahh Yes! My lord...... Yes...... The women were wronged ......"

Lu Duan grinned and sneered: "Bending into a trick...... Hey...... The officials of the four northwestern provinces are this kind of goods......"

Dropping this sentence, Lu Duan would not walk outside the yamen.

"Hey......"

The green willow who followed him suddenly sighed.

Lu Duan frowned, paused, turned around and asked, "What are you sighing, am I not right?" ”

Lu Liu didn't expect Lu Duan to stop suddenly, and she almost bumped into Lu Duan's arms.

Hearing Lu Duan's questioning, Luliu hurriedly pleaded guilty, "The slave should die, the slave shouldn't be too talkative." I beg the lord to punish him. ”

Lu Duan snorted coldly, "Answer my question." ”

Lu Duan didn't care about Lu Liu's mouthy.

He just cared about the sigh of the green willow, whether there was any doubt about his words.

Green Willow had a bitter face and looked at Lu Duan timidly, "Green Willow doesn't dare to question the master's words." The reason why Green Willow sighed was because she felt that the horse widow was a little wronged......"

Lu Duan raised his eyebrows, and subconsciously asked, "What kind of injustice?" ”

After saying that, he felt too much to talk.

But since he asked, there was no reason to take it back.

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan, hurriedly lowered his head, and said in a voice smaller than a mosquito: "Before the slave maid entered the Yang Mansion as a maid, she lived next door to the second king...... The slave maid clearly remembered that Wang Er was injured during the first battle of Fuxing Guan a few years ago......"

Lu Duan said unhappily: "What did you hurt?" Don't spit out. ”

Green willow gritted his teeth and said softly: "Hurt the male root...... Therefore, the slave maid dared to conclude that the second king would never have had an affair with the widow of the horse......"

Lu Duan frowned and said, "Since you know such an important inside story, why don't you go to the lobby and avenge Widow Ma?" ”

"Slave maid...... Scared ......"

Green Willow glanced at Lu Duan timidly.

Lu Duan's brows furrowed even deeper, and he scolded coldly: "Confused! This is a major matter related to two lives, how can you not go because you are afraid. Do you know that because of you, it is very likely that the two lives that were harmed were sacrificed in vain? ”

Green Willow's face turned a little pale, and she said in a trembling voice: "But...... The slave really didn't dare to go...... The slave maid heard that this Li Tuiguan in the government was notoriously black-hearted, and no matter who testified, he would have to be punished with thirty boards first. ”

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan miserably, "Just the body of the slave and the maid, if the thirty boards go down, the slave and the maid will be beaten to death." ”

"Whoever testifies will have to be punished with 30 boards first? What is the rationale for this? ”

Lu Duan was a little annoyed.

Green Willow looked at him timidly.

Lu Duan's face was cloudy, and he listened to the screams in the lobby even more fiercely, and his brows were furrowed.

He looked at the green willow again.

He felt that there was something strange about this matter.

Green Willow is the maid who only came to serve him today, but he encountered an unjust case in the government today, and Green Willow was also involved.

Will this be a bureau?

But when I think about it, there are two lives that need to be saved.

Lu Duan struggled a little in his heart.

After hesitating for a long time, Lu Duan suddenly said, "You go and testify." With me following you, I will see who dares to beat you. ”

Green Willow shuddered all over, and said in fear: "Slave maid...... Slaves don't go ......"

Lu Duan immediately glared and said, "What are you afraid of?" I am your Huhou's guest, and you are the person next to me. If they dare to do something to you, they will offend the tiger marquis. ”

Under the coercion of Lu Duan's eyes, Lu Liu whispered timidly: "That...... That...... The slave and maid go to testify, sir, you must protect me. ”

"Don't worry! With me by your side, you'll be fine. ”

Subsequently, accompanied by Lu Duan, Green Willow arrived in the lobby.

When they get to the lobby.

The horse widow has been beaten out of shape.

The ass has blossomed, and the back is covered with blood.

Green Willow hid behind Lu Duan in fright.

Lu Duan frowned and took the green willow to the lobby.

In the lobby, Li Tuiguan sat solemnly, staring at Lu Duan and Lu Liu, and frowned: "Who are you, do you know what the crime of trespassing in the lobby is?" ”

Lu Duan stood with his hands folded and said in a cold voice: "This official passed by here, and heard that the case was being tried here. And the servant girl next to the official happened to know the inside story of the case. In order to avoid causing an unjust case, the official led the maidservant to testify. ”

"This officer?"

Li Tuiguan stood up, looked at Lu Duan carefully, and arched his hand cautiously, "Dare to ask Your Excellency?" ”

Lu Duan said indifferently: "The Great Song Hanlin waiter, the northwest patrol, and the scholar of the Jiying Palace, Lu Duan!" ”

"Great Song?"

Li Tuiguan was stunned, and suddenly grinned, and the cautious appearance on his body was swept away, "Hehe...... You, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, went to our four northwestern mansions to show prestige, did you go to the wrong place? ”

Lu Duan snorted coldly: "Playing majestic? The official didn't have that mind, the official just couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, and saw the unjust case, and the official's maidservant happened to know the inside story, so she brought it over to take a look. ”

Li Tuiguan said disdainfully: "You want to teach this official to judge the case?" ”

"I didn't dare, I just brought a witness to testify."

"Smack!"

Li Tuiguan patted the case and said loudly: "Okay! Since you said that you brought witnesses, then the judge will try the witnesses today. ”

Li Tuiguan's eyes fell on the green willow behind Lu Duan, and snorted coldly: "You are a witness? ”

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan timidly, and then under Lu Duan's encouraging eyes, he said to Li Tuiguan: "Slave...... The little woman is the witness. ”

"Humph!"

Li Tuiguan looked at the green willow coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Then do you know the rules of this official?" Anyone who testifies in court will be subject to the 30 boards of his own officials. ”

"Know...... Know! ”

"Excellent! Someone's coming! Pull it down and hit the 30 boards again. ”

Seeing that the fierce officials pounced in front of Lu Liu, Lu Liu hid behind Lu Duan in fright.

Lu Duan stepped forward and said coldly: "Li Tuiguan is handling the case like this, I'm just afraid that it doesn't comply with the rules, right?" The official has never heard of a person who is in this hall, before the witnesses are tried, and he is waiting for a heavy punishment. ”

Li Tuiguan looked at Lu Duan coldly, and said loudly: "In this Datong Mansion, this official is the rule. The official said that if he wants to fight, he will fight! No one can stop it. ”

"Someone! Call me! ”

Two fierce officials stopped Lu Duan, and two more went to pull out the green willow.

Green Willow shouted loudly in fright, "Master save me!" ”

Lu Duan roared angrily, "Bold! I see which of you dares! This official is Yang Yansi's guest. The official was going to go to Yang Yansi and ask who gave you the courage to beat the people around the official. ”

"Huhou's guest?"

Li Tuiguan frowned, and snorted coldly: "So what? You are the official of the Great Song Dynasty, and I am the official of the Northwest. If you dare to disturb my case, that is your fault, even if this matter is reasoned in front of Huhou, then I am justified. Not only will I beat her today, but I will also cure you for the sin of disturbing the court. ”

"Left, take it for me!"

The two officials directly captured Lu Duan and pressed him to the ground.

"You're a fool! Abuse lynching! ”

Lu Duan was pressed to the ground and roared angrily.

"Call me! Fight with him! ”

Li Tuiguan pointed at Lu Duan.

Lu Duan was placed on the torture bench beside Lu Liu.

"Sir! Save me! ”

Lu Liu lay on the torture bench and cried at Lu Duan.

Lu Duan was furious, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly.

But Li Tuiguan and others were indifferent.

"Smack!"

The board fell heavily on the green willow.

The green willows screamed hoarsely.

Lu Duan's eyes bulged out.

"Smack!"

“……”

"Smack!"

Twenty boards go down, and the green willow skin is opened.

Lu Duan felt that every board that hit Lu Liu's body seemed to hit his heart.

Seeing that the green willow was beaten with more air out than in, Lu Duan roared angrily.

"I want to see Yang Yansi!"