However, it was said that Guan Yu took the family into Taihang Mountain, followed the footprints of the mountain streams left by his predecessors, tossed and turned the mountain roads and trails, relying on the food prepared in advance, as well as wild fruits and clear water in the mountains, the family finally crossed the Taihang Mountain and arrived in Bingzhou.

After the family met the forest, they hid in the mountains, picked the trail, went out day and night, and encountered some unknown small groups of thieves blocking the road on the road, but they all died under Guan Yu's knife, and none of them survived. Occasionally, when an idler from the countryside came forward to ask, Guan Yu said that his name was Guan Yunchang, and because of the disaster in his hometown, he took his family to Jinyang, Taiyuan to join his distant relatives, so he didn't say anything.

At the end of October, Guan Yu's family finally went through hardships all the way to Liucheng County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou.

At this time, the slightly dilapidated border county town was as prosperous as the Great Han Jingshi Luoyang to Guan Yu, which made him unconsciously feel comfortable. He clenched the horse bolt in his hand, remembering Fuquan, who was only with him for a few days, and he killed the son of the old thief for a reason, hoping that this imperial relative could protect himself as he thought, and let his family worry about it even if it was not good.

Guan Yu is eight feet long, majestic and mighty, which is already eye-catching, plus the family has been hiding all the way, all of them are weathered, and they don't want ordinary people to enter the city, so they immediately attract attention when they walk to the city gate.

Liucheng is located in a border county, because it is afraid that there will be Xianbei spies to infiltrate, so it is stricter than the Central Plains county inspection.

Several gatekeepers saw Guan Yu's family at a glance, and they all looked up and down for a while, and one of them suddenly raised his spear and asked, "Red-faced man!" Hold it! Don't move! What is your name? Who's the people? Where? Take it and take a look with me. ”

Guan Yu is an outlaw, he fled all the way, how could there be a rumor, so he forced himself to calm down and hugged his fists and said: "Back to the kings, I am Guan Yunchang, I am the old official of Fu Yue, and the old mother has to return to his hometown to take care of him." I heard that Fuliucheng entered Shiben County, coinciding with the disaster in my hometown, I met Fuliucheng, and now I led my family to him. ”

The soldiers were shocked when they heard it, after Fu Quan took office, his family background had already spread in the county, and when he heard Guan Yuyue's cavalry lieutenant finish the old official, he said in a harmonious voice: "It turned out to be a friend of Fu County, and I was offended." ”

"Those who don't know are not to blame."

Of course, these soldiers are not fools, Guan Yu claims to be a former official of the ambush, but there is no rumor on his body, the so-called empty words have no evidence, and he can't let Guan Yu say what he says, and Guan Yu is a person with a Hexi accent, it is really suspicious to run thousands of miles to Youzhou, after all, it is not better for him to go to Luoyang to defect to the ambush.

It was an elderly soldier who proposed: "Fu County has ordered us to patrol outside the city now, if you are not in a hurry to wait for us to rest, how about waiting for him to return to the city?" After speaking, he pointed to the city gate, near the city gate, a dilapidated pergola, and placed a few straw mats on the ground.

Guan Yu glanced at the pergola and nodded "good". He led his horse and followed the soldiers to the pergola, and after helping his mother and wife to dismount and sit on the straw mat, he sat down himself, looking idle, and even from time to time he chatted with the guards who were sent to monitor the city beside him, and waited for Fuquan to return, which did not make people suspicious.

Fuquan is also returning from outside the city at this time, he has read so many military history books in his previous life, of course he knows the truth of being familiar with the terrain, and Xiating Township, Liucheng County also needs to be familiar with it, and at the same time investigating the case, it is because he has been in office for half a month, but he has walked around for a while, and he is more worried when he comes back.

Liucheng to the north can be described as a flat river, and the reason why Xianbei often walks this road is so. After detouring to the Great Wall of Western Liaoning, it walked from here and went straight into the hinterland of Youzhou. However, the land of Liucheng is Xianbei's road to the south of Liaoxi, and Liucheng is surrounded by the white wolf mountain, which is only more than 200 miles away in the south, and the terrain is precipitous, but for Liucheng, I have no help to Xianbei, whether it is besieged or attacked.

Of course, this is nothing, what really worries Fuquan is the Wuhuan people in the county, when he learned that the current Wuhuan Lord of Liaoxi County, his face was worried, and he remembered that there was a record of rebellion. In addition, in recent years, Xianbei has been in Koubian several times, and the Wuhuan resistance in the county has been slow, and Fuquan can't help but suspect that he has colluded with Xianbei outside the Saiwai earlier.

Fortunately, there are not many Wuhuan people near Liucheng County, only a tribe of hundreds of people, and in the nomadic county, you only need to send people to guard against it. If there is any change, notify the people of Tingxiang to evacuate, close the gate of Liucheng County, and you can also hold it, and wait for the reinforcements in the county to arrive.

Just thinking about it, a burly and resolute man beside him said: "Mingfu, the Zhang Erlang cattle stealing case was too convicted, and I want to let him go, after all, there are extenuating circumstances." ”

Fu Quan came back to his senses and nodded: "Indeed, his mother is seriously ill, and this Erlang steals cattle and sells them for money to treat his mother, which is really a great filial piety." Now that the ox has been recovered, and I have a surplus of money, I can return the money to the man who bought the ox. ”

"Mingfu is smart." The man praised his hand, his name was Tian Meng, he was born in the Haoqiang Tian clan in Liucheng, and was appointed by Fuquan as Wen Wuwu. Wen Wuwu, also known as a fair officer, is in charge of patrolling prisons and reviewing case files to prevent wrongful imprisonment.

Tian is a big surname in Youzhou, scattered between the states and counties, many people join the army, although there are not many people who have ascended to high positions in the army, but the grassroots forces in Youzhou are intertwined and cannot be underestimated. And Tian Meng was recently appointed by Fuquan as Wen Wuwu, just like Yi Du was appointed by him as Lingshi, it was a condition set by Fuquan in order to win over the local heroes. It's just that the two are a little different, Yidu is a real benefit transaction for Fuquan, and Tian Meng is the result of a compromise in order to show his attitude to Liucheng Haoqiang, after all, the Yidu family does not have a high status in Liucheng.

For Fuquan, whether it is Yi Du or Tian Meng's official appointment and dismissal, it is the inevitable result of his own appointment in exchange for the support of local heroes, which is also the unspoken rule of Eastern Han officialdom. On the one hand, these subordinates regard them as parents and monarchs, and they are very loyal and reliable, just like the former county commander of Liucheng who was promoted to other places, and his original cronies did not hesitate to resign from the post of Ling Shi to follow, on the other hand, he won over the local heroes and maintained local stability.

Since the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court gradually issued the appointment and dismissal rights of some officials in order to improve the administrative efficiency of the county and county magistrates, and at the turn of the two Han Dynasty, the new dynasty was established, and the original system of moving tombs in the late Western Han Dynasty was destroyed, making the local powerful landlords sit big, and more decentralize the right to appoint and dismiss officials, so as to maintain local stability.

The so-called relocation system refers to the fact that the government of the Western Han Dynasty knew that relying only on local officials could not completely suppress and limit the powerful forces. Therefore, in the name of the emperor's mausoleum project and the emperor's mausoleum, year after year, day after day, the emperor's mausoleum was constantly used to build the mausoleum, and the name of the mausoleum was enriched, so that the place was difficult to deal with the wealthy clans, and migrated to Guanzhong, living next to the emperor's mausoleum, and the good name was called the emperor's mausoleum, and the Son of Heaven was enshrined, effectively preventing the local Haoqiang from sitting big, which is also the reason why the Western Han Dynasty did not need to rely on Haoqiang.

In Guangwu Liu Xiu's establishment of the country, the world was rich and powerful, and the land annexation was serious, which could no longer be restricted, and it relied more on the strong and powerful in the world, so that it directly no longer restricted the strong and powerful, and at the same time, in order to appease them, the right to appoint and dismiss officials of the local county guard, county order and county magistrate was delegated. In addition, after the Eastern Han Dynasty dismissed the county soldiers, these local officials took charge of the military and political affairs, making them called Hanchen, but in fact, they were no different from the lords of a country in their own places.

Of course, if you think that the county guard, the county magistrate and the county magistrate can run rampant completely unscrupulous, because the Eastern Han government also knew that it was necessary to check and balance their rights, so the second-in-command of the group guards, Changshi, the county cheng, and the county commander, the county magistrate, and the county magistrate, were all appointed and dismissed by the central court, with the intention of restricting their rights, so that before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the local governors did not have a crisis of losing control of their rights.

Of course, Fuquan does not have the idea of fighting local tyrants and landlords, and in today's development of the two Han Dynasty, he does not rely on the powerful family and wants to be the king and hegemon, which is tantamount to whimsical, so of course he wants to win over several powerful families in Liucheng.