In the middle of the night, Guangling County is a cold wind again, and the whining wind blows so loudly that even the trees that have lost their leaves are rattling, like a beast lurking in the darkness is screaming.

But Lu Jin's house was warm, because a charcoal stove had been added before, which was much warmer than before. Although there is no ondol, just a wooden bed, Lu Jin, who is lying on it, does not feel cold.

It's just that he hasn't fallen asleep, although the lights and candles in the room have long been extinguished by him, but his eyes are still shining leaning on the head of the bed, and he is quietly thinking about something.

Since a few hours ago, when Lu Zhen came out of the prison, he had already looked like this. No one knows what he talked about with Zheng Fu, but just looking at his preoccupied appearance, the people below can deduce that this matter must be not small.

"In the past few years, thousands of catties of grain have been sold by them to the Tartars, as well as countless knives, guns and arrows, these guys are really bold. Now it is not dozens or hundreds of years later, the prestige of the imperial court has been greatly lost. Once this matter is found out, Xiao Mo will not have enough ten heads to cut off. Lu Jin's mouth whispered, the news he got from Zheng Fu's mouth really shocked him.

But this may also be the reason why Xiao Mo dared to do this, because he didn't think it would cause much trouble to Da Ming. Now although the Ming Dynasty does not have Taizong (that is, Zhu Di, until the Jiajing Dynasty because of its own ruling needs, Taizong's nickname was changed to Chengzu, in fact, there was no Ming Chengzu before this, passers-by pressed) when pressing the prestige of the Mongolian people, and even only a little friction on the border, but the Ming army still determined that the Mongolian people were difficult to become a climate, even if they were given food and weapons, the scattered Mongolian people could not really pose a threat to the Central Plains.

But Lu Jin knew that this was just the wishful thinking of those people! Six years later, that guy who also took the first place would lead his powerful cavalry corps to kill the Ming army that was blindfolded and still alive under the light of Taizong, and even the Son of Heaven who was personally conquered by the emperor would become his prisoner. Then came an even greater disaster, when the Tartar army reached the city of Beijing......

In fact, when he looked at this history as early as before, Lu Zhen had a question, how could the Mongolian people suddenly become so powerful? Just because of such a once-in-a-century male master, they can make them weak and become the most ferocious steppe wolves again?

Now it seems that there is also the "credit" of the Ming border army. It was their continuous generous "funding" that provided a large amount of food and weapons to the Mongols, which made the originally weak Mongol army extremely strong, and then they used these burdens from the Ming army to completely defeat the Ming army!

From Zheng Fu's account, Lu Zhen could guess that not only the garrison here in Guangling County, but also the defenders of other border towns bordering the Mongolian people must be doing similar things. For their own selfishness, they sold all the baggage distributed by the imperial court that should have been used to defend against foreign enemies to the Mongolian people!

This is the ill that has arisen over time, and people have long since relaxed their vigilance and have long since stopped taking those powerful enemies seriously.

Of course, these are too big and too far away for Lu Jin. He's just a small county magistrate, and it's not his turn to worry about it at all. He couldn't sleep this night because of his current situation.

The matter is so serious, once it is known by the people above, Xiao Mo will definitely die. This inference really made Lu Jin a little uneasy. In order to protect himself, the other party may jump off the wall in a hurry, then he is really dangerous.

Originally, Lu Zhen even had the idea of gathering some evidence and then sending someone to Datong. But now, this idea has been completely dispelled by him - with Xiao Mo's mind, will he be wary of his own life and death? If you really do that and someone intercepts you halfway, I'm afraid that the other party will kill you at all costs.

was able to bluff Xiao Mo before, precisely because Lu Zhen believed that the other party did not dare to make a desperate bet and did not dare to rebel. But if he found that he had no way out, it would be impossible for Xiao Mo and his soldiers and horses to sit still. Even if they want to die, they will also pull themselves, the initiator, to be buried with them.

Thinking of these, Lu Zhen felt his heart tighten for a while, and then he realized how serious the problem he was facing, don't look at being in the county government, in fact, it is also in danger.

"What to do? Turning over the evidence now is tantamount to suicide, but there is no way to drag it out like this. Once Xiao Mo knows his situation, he is likely to strike first. If you can't drag it out, then there is only ......" Lu Zhen thought about it upside down in his heart for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth, only to be false and wronged first, and then find an opportunity to report the other party again.

But where do you find this opportunity? This made Lu Jin's brain hurt, and he frowned again and thought hard.

Suddenly, something mentioned in an official document that he had received only yesterday jumped into his mind. Because in the past two days, he has been trying cases and fighting with people, and Lu Zhen has not paid much attention to the extra documents at hand.

But now that I think about it, there is one thing that I really overlooked. It was clearly written in that document that let him, the Guangling County Commander, go to Datong Mansion on the seventh day of the first month of next year to report on his work! As a local county order under the jurisdiction of Datong Prefecture, this is a consistent rule.

"It's a great opportunity, and it's not going to get noticed. Even Xiao Mo can't stop me from going to Datong......" Lu Zhen already secretly had an idea in his heart, and it was only then that he could settle down and fall asleep slowly.

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Thinking about making a war with Xiao Moxu, this dream came true the next day. Because on this morning, Mr. Xiao sent someone to apologize, not only that, but the person who came also took advantage of the fact that there were only the two of them in the room, and presented Lu Zhen with a silver ticket!

That's right, it's a silver ticket. At this time when it was rare to see silver, this Xiao General actually gave Lu Zhen a silver ticket worth three hundred taels, which was a silver ticket that could be redeemed at the sight of the largest silver number in Datong Mansion.

When he saw this fancy and complicated silver ticket with strange paper patterns, Lu Jin couldn't believe his eyes: "This is ......"

"Please also ask Lu County to accept the order, this is also our general heart, just an apology for yesterday's incident." The military Chinese book said very sincerely.

Lu Zhen was holding such a silver ticket, and he didn't know what to do. He could see that the other party must not only send the silver ticket to apologize, but also to buy and hand himself off, or even to stabilize himself. But with the greedy performance of the previous Lu County Order, coupled with the strategy he thought of last night, this silver ticket is really not good not to collect.

So after a moment of hesitation, Lu Zhen still smiled and put the silver ticket into his sleeve: "Thank you so much." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. As long as Lu County orders you to recognize my family as a friend, we can get closer in the future. Seeing that he had accepted the silver ticket, the clerk suddenly looked happy, and said again.

"That's nature. As long as Mr. Xiao does not blame the official for his offense yesterday, the official will naturally want to be closer to him. Lu Jin hurriedly smiled and agreed.

"Lu Xianling is really a happy person, then the past is written off, and we will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future."

"What about Zheng Fu...... Lu Zhen asked tentatively.

"This is a matter for the county government, and we naturally won't overstep our bounds." The document had obviously been instructed by Xiao Mo, and he agreed to it without hesitation.

Seeing that he answered happily, Lu Jin's face was naturally happy, but in fact, he was more vigilant in his heart. This thing is so abnormal, there is only one possibility for such a generous reaction, that is, the other party must have another trick. But now, he can only press the doubts in his heart for the time being.

After Lu Jin's solicitation and praise for a while, the clerk went to Hou Xiancheng and Shen Zhushu again, and also gave them a lot of silver taels. And said cryptically: "Let's talk about the general manager, in the future, the county government will have to rely on the two adults to take care of it, and we will not treat you badly." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." The reaction of the two was quite consistent, and they nodded with a smile and said, "Actually, we in Guangling County need Mr. Xiao to take care of it." If you weren't here, how would such a small county of ours be able to withstand the surrounding Tartar tribes? ”

"The two adults are serious, this is just the responsibility of our soldiers."

A few people were polite, and once again they were kind and happy. It's just that only they know what they have in their hearts.

And when Xiao Mo learned that the people in the county government had accepted his money, he first felt a pain in his flesh, which was nearly half of his savings, but the wealth he had accumulated by risking all kinds of dangers over the years. But soon, he became happy again, as long as he stabilized the county government and others, he would soon be able to completely uproot Lu Jin, the opponent.

"Good!" A hideous smile flashed on Xiao Mo's face: "He accepted the silver, and he will soon know how powerful it is!" I'm going to make him pay a terrible price. ”

"Boss, but we still have to guard against him that he's also playing with us." He Lao didn't dare to take it lightly, and couldn't help but remind him.

"Don't worry, I have always been on the official road to Datong, as long as he dares to move, I can know. And this man has always been greedy, this time it was only luck that prevailed, but then he was not so lucky. I'm going to let him die a miserable death! Xiao Mo snorted and announced.

Of course, all this will have to wait until the next year. Because this is already the twentieth day of the lunar month, it is already the New Year's Festival in the blink of an eye.

And this traditional festival that has been passed down by the Chinese people for thousands of years is a different taste for Lu Jin......