Ma Lu was a little startled and froze in place, but the years of business and trade brought her a sense of calmness, and before the two servants could speak, she asked herself: "Brother Ren, who are you, and why did you say such an intriguing remark, and the little woman could not understand." ”

After all, at this time, Ma Lu didn't want to cause trouble, and when he heard that person talk about breaking the law, his first reaction was that Dong Zhuo's order to want her had not been revoked here. Therefore, calling herself a little woman can be regarded as a cover for her own strength and background. In fact, in Ma Lu's heart, she didn't take the words in front of her seriously at all, she was Ma Teng's righteous daughter; Among the several forces in the northwest today, only Ma Teng's power is the strongest.

Let's ask, even if he accidentally commits something, how can he bear her?

"You ignorant woman, this is our Chen Taishou, don't you even know?" Before the person who spoke had yet to answer, the guards behind him rushed out and raised their eyebrows.

"Daring, do you know who my master is? Just a small county is too guarded, and he dares to make a mistake here! Seeing this on the side, Ma Wu stood beside Ma Lu with great dissatisfaction, and the situation was about to erupt.

Ma Lu stood behind Ma Wu, stretched out his jade hand, patted Ma Wu's shoulder gently, and whispered: "You stand aside first, don't make things bigger, after all, it's on someone else's territory." ”

When Ma Wu heard this, he was angry, gritted his teeth, and walked to the side angrily.

Chen Qun also asked the guard who had just come forward to stand back, and he walked slowly in front of Ma Lu, smiled slightly, nodded, and said politely: "Girl, under Chen Qun, Chen Changwen." But this Fang is too guarded, and Miss Fang has violated the law of the city by leading the horse into the city, and according to the law, she will be punished with twenty rods. ”

"What!" When Ma Lu heard this, his face was pale. This smiling tiger actually said that she would beat herself with twenty sticks, you must know that she has been beaten since she was a child, let alone being beaten, and even other people talking to her are polite.

When Ma Wu heard this, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he hurriedly rushed out and said indignantly: "You dog official, you look kind. I am so worried that my master is a woman, and you actually said that you would beat her with a stick! ”

Chen Qun suddenly put away his smile and said with a straight look: "It is precisely because your master is a little woman that I treat her with a smile, but this does not prove that I will not deal with her according to the law, and besides, don't talk about her." Twenty of you will be punished with the rod for each of you! Chen Qun said, pointing at Marven and Ma Wu with his hands in turn.

Between words. The surrounding people gathered more and more, they were all from Xingyang City, of course, there were also people from other places, but they all obeyed the laws of this place very much, and those who had horses deposited their horses in the horse farm at the gate of the four cities.

What a scenery Ma Lu had before, even if he escaped to the ancient city of Loulan. Those merchants in the Western Regions also respected her, and after joining Ma Teng's forces, because of Ma Chao, no one in the whole army dared to bully her. I finally wanted to go back to Luoyang this time, but I didn't expect to meet such a powerful person in Xingyang City.

She frowned slightly. is going to reason with this person, in her eyes, this is a corrupt official who wants to take the opportunity to ask for bribes, after all, when he was in Luoyang before, he was used to seeing this kind of person.

Marven saw that more and more people were gathering, and he didn't want Ma Lu to be impulsive, so he hurriedly ran forward, put his mouth next to Ma Lu's ear, and whispered: "Master, we are envoys when we come out this time, or don't make too much trouble, or explain your identity to him?" ”

Ma Lu whispered back: "What identity to explain, I don't want to!" ”

Marven was a little helpless and sighed, "Then give him some money, such a corrupt official who takes the opportunity to make profits, why should the master bother with him, if he is entangled with him, he misses the major event of the mission, but it is not worth it; Isn't the master an old friend of Zhao Yue in Luoyang? When this conversation is over, by the way, I will stab him for what this Xingyang Taishou has done, and I am afraid that he will not deal with this dog official? ”

In this time, Zhao Yue, Qin Feng, and Sun Shangxiang also noticed the abnormality here.

Qin Feng rubbed his hands and said to Zhao Yue: "Lord, when I came out this time, I really encountered something unusual, seeing that there were so many people gathered in the market in front of me, there must be something that bullied the weak, why don't we go over and take a look, it's okay to fight?" ”

Zhao Yue took Sun Shangxiang's hand and looked up at the sky, the sun on the horizon was very scorching, and the dazzling sunlight shone on the earth, although there were a few luxuriant-looking trees nearby that could provide greenery, but it still couldn't get rid of the impetuousness and boredom in people's hearts.

"Sister Xiaoxiang, what do you think?" Zhao Yue thought to herself that anyway, this time she came out to distract herself before the war, so it was better to make up for it if there was a bustle, after all, it was on her own territory, and it would probably not cause any disaster.

Sun Shangxiang shook his head and said, "Yes, hey, I like this lively scene the most." ”

So, Zhao Yue and the three of them came over like this, and Qin Feng opened the way, squeezing a way through the crowd, although the people around were very dissatisfied with this kind of behavior, but seeing Qin Feng's ruffian outfit, they could only swallow their anger.

Zhao Yue stood close to the place of the incident, and happened to be able to see several parties in the circle, the person on the left who was wearing blue clothes and was polite, Zhao Yue felt that he should be Chen Qun; Although according to the system, Chen Qun, the Taishou of Xingyang, was an official under the name of Zhao Yue, the Shou of Yin County, Henan, the two of them had not seen each other.

If you want to come to a county, in addition to Taishou, there are many county officials and miscellaneous duties, and within a county, there are as few as three or five counties, and as many as more than ten counties; There are no less than several counties within a state. If he really wants to achieve great things and occupy the state capital, the ruler has to recognize all the Taishou in each county, and Zhao Yue is estimated to be exhausted.

He still has more important power decisions to make, this kind of small official appointment and dismissal, he chose to follow the old system after occupying Henan Yin, and the idiot also proposed to be replaced, but Zhao Yue temporarily refused to prevent the idiot from taking the opportunity to promote him.

He wants to wait until he becomes big to consider these issues, of course, in the process of becoming bigger, he will also cultivate and promote internal talents, and let them be divided into different factions, and then the appointment of officials in the region will be handed over to the people of these different factions to appoint and dismiss.

Many people think that the more united the officials under a ruler, the better, but in fact, after Zhao Yue experienced it himself, he found that it was not like that at all, and the effect he wanted to achieve was actually four words:

"Checks and balances".

There is only one ultimate goal: the highest power will always be in your own hands. (To be continued.) )