Hearing Yang Zhen's identity, the two officials looked him up and down, and really felt that he was five or six points similar to his own county commander, but he still couldn't help asking: "Are you really Yang County's brother?" ”

"No matter how bold I am, I won't come to the yamen to deceive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the two of them went in to report it, and said that Yang Zhen was here, and he knew it. Yang Zhen smiled.

The two officials looked at each other, and only then did one of them enter the house to report it, while the other looked at the carriage, fearing that he had deceived people, and ran away to tell them to eat and hang.

After only a cup of tea, Yang Zhen saw his brother Yang Chen wearing a moon-white round-necked robe, and walked out with surprise on his face, followed by a young man and a middle-aged man.

He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand to Yang Chen: "Big brother, brother, I'm late!" ”

"Erlang, I didn't expect you to come to see me......" Seeing that it was his own brother, Yang Chen's face was even more happy, and he hurriedly hugged him: "Why should you be so polite between you and my brothers." Hey, why did you come here with a carriage? Yang Chen's eyes turned, and he fell on the oil-walled incense car in front of the door, slightly surprised.

When Yang Zhen was about to explain two sentences, the curtain of the car was lifted, but Luo Yueying walked down from the car gracefully, and when she saw Yang Chen, she bowed: "The folk girl Luo Yueying has seen Master Yang!" ”

"This ......" Yang Chen was stunned for a moment, then glanced at his brother with some understanding, and showed a hint of a smile. It's just that this smile fell into Yang Zhen's eyes, but there was some ambiguity in it.

And the two yacha and the two behind Yang Chen were staring blankly at Luo Yueying at the moment, and their eyes couldn't take their eyes off. Such a beauty suddenly appeared in front of him, and any man who was not strong enough would lose his mind in a short time.

Fortunately, Yang Chen's concentration was not bad, he quickly came back to his senses, and said with a false hand: "Miss Luo, please follow me to the back office and then speak." As he spoke, he coughed again, interrupting the reverie of the people: "Lao Qi, you drive the car to the side door to settle down." ”

"Yes......" one of the officials hurriedly agreed, and led the horse halter pulling the cart around the side gate of the yamen. The Yang brothers walked side by side with the other three into the main gate of the county government and walked towards the residence of the back office.

The yamen of the Ming Dynasty has been regulated since the Hongwu period, from the six yamen in the capital to the small county yamen like Zhuji, in which the pattern is almost the same, as if carved out of a mold, the only difference may be the size of the area.

When you enter the gate of the Yamen, there is a huge wall of light wall, which is also used to post some judgments and notices, and if there are any sea fishing documents in the territory, rewards and the like, you can also see them here. After bypassing the wall, it is a grand archway, but it is not the general archway of chastity, the archway of lifting people, champions and the like, and there is a name called "Zhonglian Fang". As the name suggests, it is to remind officials to be loyal to the court and be honest for officials.

After passing through the archway, you can see two pavilions on both sides, one is called "Declaration" and the other is "Jingshan". The former is used to punish evil, but any judgment made by the county government will be announced in this pavilion; The latter is used to promote goodness, where filial piety, benevolence, chastity and good deeds are preached in the county.

Walking further, you can see an imposing house, which is the lobby of the county office. But unlike the film and television works seen by later generations, where cases are tried in the lobby at every turn, in fact, officials rarely try cases here. Only when there is an extremely sensational and extremely bad case, and it is necessary to educate the people under his rule, will the county magistrate try the case here and allow the people in the county to watch. Otherwise, ordinary cases are only tried in the second hall at the back.

Bypassing the lobby and continuing forward, you will enter the courtyard again. The two sides of this courtyard are divided into two places, one is the Yin Hotel for receiving passing officials, and the other is the county government prison. And in the northeast corner of the county government compound, there is also a small land temple. It's not that there are any superstitious activities in the government to worship the father-in-law of the land, but here are a number of special handmade figurines - Taizu peeled off the skin of corrupt officials and stuffed straw into them. This is also known as peeling daylily.

Whenever an official takes office, according to the imperial court system, he needs to come to this land temple to pay respects, so as to play a warning role and enhance his sense of integrity. Of course, in the Wanli years, which have been established for two hundred years, it is difficult to say whether these things can still scare a few officials.

But because it was the second hall of the county officials' office in the past, there was such a place under the nose, and it was always the starting point of intimidation. Thinking that his brother would also be educated in this small land temple when he took office, Yang Zhen looked at Yang Chen with more pity in his eyes, and he was still where his brocade guard was.

After passing through a ritual gate, it is the second hall. There are not only public houses for the prefectural office, but also public houses for officials in the county, such as the prefectural officials, the chief bookkeeper, and the canon. In addition, the six rooms of the county officials and soldiers who are in charge of the six departments of the imperial court are also located here, and there are still many scribes and other people busy in each room at this moment.

Yang Zhen, who was walking forward, suddenly moved in his heart, turned his head to look at the public house on the other side, and caught a glimpse of a man in his forties who was looking at himself carefully. Obviously, the other party also knew his identity, so he would look at himself with this kind of speculative gaze, and when the person fell his gaze on Luo Yueying's face behind him, he also showed a somewhat obsessed look.

"Big brother, who is that?" Yang Zhen asked with a wink. He obviously felt that the other party's attitude towards him, the county magistrate, was very unkind.

"Oh, that's the county's canonical history." Yang Chen only glanced at it and introduced.

Yang Zhen didn't ask the other party why he looked like this, anyway, he had just entered the door, and there was time. After walking a few more steps, I finally came to the second hall of the prefectural office. Facing the gate of the second hall, there is also a stone tablet, which is the famous "ring stone".

On the side that Yang Zhen and they could see, there were two vigorous and powerful characters written "Ring Stone", and on the side facing the second hall, the county magistrate who was working inside could look up and see it, which was engraved with "Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment; The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to bully" 16 words, once again to carry out clean government education for officials.

Speaking of which, Zhu Hongwu really attaches great importance to the construction of official governance, and hopes to use various means to make the officials under him be fair and honest one by one, and be loyal to the country. However, people's hearts are not so easy to control, at least two hundred years after his death, nine and a half out of ten officials in the Ming Dynasty are greedy, the only difference is that they are greedy and greedy.

However, Yang Zhen and the others did not enter the second hall, but bypassed it again and went straight to the back office, which was where the county magistrate lived and stayed.

The area of the back office is not small, and there are even two cross-courtyards. Now Yang Chen only used one of them, and the other one was still empty, which made Yang Zhen make a profit.

After introducing them into a hall that served as a guest hall, Yang Chen instructed the young man, "Cherish Mo, go and make some tea." Also, ask the kitchen to prepare tonight's meal, and I want to pick up the wind for Erlang. ”

The young man hurriedly agreed, and hurried to Zhang Luo. When Yang Zhen heard his name, he was obviously stunned, it seems that his brother still hasn't forgotten the scholar Mo'er who betrayed his brother before, and actually gave the newly found scholar such a similar name.

After several people were seated, Yang Chen introduced the man in his forties to Yang Zhen and said, "Erlang, this is the master of Zhuang Hengzhuang that I hired after I came to Zhejiang. It is said that Master Shaoxing is a good helper who is indispensable to officials nowadays, and I am not immune to vulgarity. ”

"I'm ashamed that after receiving this errand from below, I haven't been able to help the proprietor do anything." Na Zhuang pinched his beard, although his mouth was very humble, but his expression was not like this.

"Then in the future, Master Lao Zhuang will help my brother a lot." Yang Zhen didn't pay attention to his self-humility, and hurriedly said a polite word.

"This Luo girl......" Yang Chen was obviously more concerned about this, so he looked at Luo Yueying again. He only felt that Luo Yueying was indeed extremely beautiful, and he was also happy for his brother's vision and ability.

Yang Zhen and Luo Yueying both saw his thoughts, the former was fine, and the latter had already blushed on his face, so he quickly gave Yang Zhen a look and asked him to explain.

Now that they have all entered the county government, Yang Zhen didn't have too many scruples, so he said: "Big brother, you may have thought about it, and the younger brother and Miss Luo have only known each other for a short time...... "As he spoke, he told him how he rescued her in the Hangzhou fire before, and how he rescued her from the robbers this time.

Although Yang Zhen hid the matter of the Cao Gang for the sake of convenience, in the ears of Yang Chen and Zhuang Heng, they still only felt thrilled, and the former thought that maybe this was a match made in heaven.

Fortunately, at this time, Ximo came in with tea, which alleviated the somewhat embarrassing atmosphere. Yang Zhen picked up the teacup and took a few sips, and when he looked at Luo Yueying, who was doing the same thing, he found that her cheeks were even redder, and she just lowered her head and was silent.

At this time, Yang Chen realized that his expression was a little wrong, so he coughed and changed the subject: "Erlang, haven't you been doing things in Hangzhou all along?" Why did you come to Zhuji this time? ”

"Well, as soon as I knew that my eldest brother was an official here, I wanted to see what I could do to help. As for the second ......" Yang Zhen said for a moment and glanced at Zhuang Heng, after all, he was still an outsider.

Zhuang Heng is also a clever person, as soon as he saw Yang Zhen's eyes, he knew that their brother had something inconvenient for him to listen to, so he got up and left under the pretext of going to see the evening's dishes.

Although Luo Yueying was still here, Yang Zhen no longer concealed it, so he told him about the investigation and handling of the theft of the silver treasury in Hangzhou, and the fact that the White Lotus Sect came to Zhuji after he found out the melons.

After these words, Yang Chen praised again and again: "Erlang is really out of breath, and he can find out these many things from some clues." But then, he couldn't help frowning: "What you mean, those White Lotus Sect disciples came to Zhuji, do they want to do something here?" ”

"I'm afraid so."

Yang Chen saw his brother nodding, but he smiled bitterly: "They are really calculating, they actually thought of coming to a small county like Zhuji to hibernate and make trouble......

Well, it seems that there have been two days of Mu You calling for support, so let's call it this Sunday!!!