When Liu Xin was galloping on his horse just now, many soldiers saw it, and Xu Huang, Dian Wei and others who got the news had already come to the front. Hearing that Liu Xin was going to leave the brigade and go to Xinye first, everyone said in unison: "Lord (eldest brother), I will go with you!" ”

These people are not only the generals under Liu Xin, but they are all experienced in a hundred battles, and there are countless enemies who have died under them, and when they stand in front of those few people, they naturally exude bursts of murderous aura, and the bodies of Chen Laohan and others have involuntarily trembled.

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "There's no need, I'll just go over by myself, you take care of your respective families, and then set off when the sun turns west." ”

Xu Huang arched his hand and said: "Lord, the last general thinks that these people are coming very strangely, so it is better to be careful." The last general is willing to lead an army forward and open the road for the Lord! ”

Liu Xin sneered: "This is your own territory, you guys should be too cautious!" ”

At this time, Fu Zhu also rushed over out of breath, and hurriedly persuaded: "Lord, there must be no mistakes at this season, let's bring a few more people." ”

Liu Xin knew that if he was not accompanied by a general, these people would not let him go on an adventure alone. He looked around and said, "Evil come, you bring a team of guards with me." Li Yan, from now on, you will be officially transferred to the Flying Tiger Guard Captain, and lead a team of people to escort these people to Xinye. ”

Although he is also a captain, there is a world of difference between the captain of the Flying Tiger and the captain of other legions. An ordinary Flying Tiger Guard, if placed in other legions, can be promoted to a lieutenant if he is lucky, and if he is placed in another legion, the captain in the Flying Tiger Guard can often be directly appointed as a general. Therefore, for Li Yan, this seemingly horizontal transfer has actually taken a big step forward.

Li Yan never thought that this kind of good luck would fall on his head, and he was suddenly at a loss with excitement, but Xu Chu saw this and shouted loudly: "What are you doing in a daze?" Don't hurry up and order troops! ”

Xu Chu is the right commander of the Flying Tiger Guard, and Li Yan was transferred to the Flying Tiger Guard to become Xu Chu's general, and Xu Chu is naturally qualified to give orders to him. After listening to Xu Chu's shouting, Li Yan woke up like a dream, hurriedly bowed down and agreed, and rushed to the station of the Flying Tiger's guards. On the other side, Dian Wei's movements were much faster than him, a team of five hundred Flying Tiger guards had been assembled, and the saddle on Liu Xin's white horse was also fully equipped.

Liu Xin raised his whip and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, go to Xinye County!" ”

The Flying Tiger guards are equipped with horses from the Western Regions, which are tall and suitable for short-distance running. Xinye County is only thirty miles away from here, and the road is extremely wide and flat, and the horses are galloping wildly, and they are coming in an instant.

Sure enough, as Liu Xin expected, this was the core area under his rule, and it was noon in the middle of summer, not to mention assassins along the way, not even passers-by had encountered one.

Liu Xin is no stranger to Xinye County. This is the gateway to the north of Xiangyang, when Liu Xin left Luoyang for Jingzhou to take office, he stayed in Xinye County for one night. It was also on that night that Cai Yong almost burned the county government office. Later, Liu Xin risked his life to save Jiao Weiqin. Now, Jiao Weiqin and Ke Tingdi have become Cai Yan's dowry, and they often play in front of Liu Xin.

In the past ten years, due to the main road to the north of Xiangyang, the special geographical location, so that Xinye County has been rapid development, the size of the county has more than doubled than in the past, there are many new houses around the city wall, the city is full of shops, and the prosperity is no less than that of the northern county.

However, Liu Xin didn't have the heart to enjoy the scenery on the street now, and he didn't get off his horse after entering the city, and the group swept through the street and went straight to the county office. On the issue of the construction of the yamen, Liu Xin has always advocated the principle of economy and simplicity. Therefore, although the tax revenue of Xinye County has increased significantly over the years, the successive county commanders have not dared to extravagantly spend Lang fees, and the county government is still in the old place, but the part of the rear government that was burned by fire has been rebuilt.

Liu Xin was familiar with the road, beat the horse until the gate of the county yamen before jumping down, casually threw the horsewhip to the guards behind him, and took Dian Wei straight to the yamen.

The two officials standing at the door were about to stop them, but they were already pressed to the ground by the guards, and their hands were tied up. Dian Wei escorted Liu Xin into the lobby, but saw that there was no one in the lobby, so he raised his feet and was about to walk to the back office, but Liu Xin stretched out his hand to stop him. It's summer now, and many people have the habit of taking a lunch break, so presumably this Xinye county magistrate is also sleeping with his head covered, and there will definitely be female dependents in the back office, so it's very inappropriate to break in like this.

Liu Xin stood still and looked around the lobby. This hall is much smaller than the hall of the state governor's mansion, with a table in the middle of the top and a Taishi chair behind it, and many water and fire sticks standing diagonally against the wall on both sides of the hall, as well as some wooden flails and shackles, as well as a large drum and a gong. Of course, the original county hall was not like this, and now this pattern is completely made by Liu Xin according to the appearance of later TV dramas.

Seeing the drum, Liu Xin suddenly had an idea, and said in a deep voice: "Evil, beat the drum!" ”

Of course, this drum was not set up to let the people cry out their grievances, but it was used to summon the three classes of officials. The drumstick was placed next to the drum rack, Dian Wei took a step forward, picked up the drumstick and struck it, and the drum sound of "dong dong dong" echoed over the county office.

As the drums sounded, the officials who were not on duty in the county ran over one after another. The Flying Tiger guards have been waiting here for a long time, come one to catch one, come to two to catch a pair, and in a blink of an eye, none of the county's officials were taken aside.

After another cup of tea, the county commander dressed neatly and walked in with confused eyes, presumably really woken up by the sound of drums in his sleep. However, this county order is good-tempered, and he didn't get angry when he was noisy, and his face was calm. It was only after entering the lobby that he found that his servants had been guarded by a group of fierce soldiers, and his face changed.

The county commander soon saw Liu Xin and Dian Wei, and hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "The lower official will meet the lord and General Dian." ”

Over the years, Liu Xin's focus has been on the army, and most of the army generals above the general can be named. But he doesn't know much about local officials, not to mention a small county order, even Taishou can't recognize all of them. Moreover, whether the county order is appointed or not is directly decided by the ministry, and Liu Xin's approval is not required, nor does it need to resign to Liu Xin, so most county orders have not seen Liu Xin.

Although Liu Xin has been to Xinye County many times, he has always come and gone in a hurry, and he has never been to the county office, this county order can actually know his Dian Wei, which makes Liu Xin quite surprised, and he can't help frowning and asking: "Do you know Liu?" ”

The county commander arched his hand and said: "When my father was dying, the main constellation rushed back to Xiangyang from Chang'an and saw my father for the last time. The kindness of the lord has always been remembered by the lower officials, and he must not forget it. ”

Liu Xin understood this. In the past ten years, he has fought in the south and the north, and countless soldiers have been killed, and the martyrs' cemetery in the southern suburbs of Xiangyang has been expanded again and again, but there is only one important person who made Liu Xin rush back from the Chang'an constellation, that is, the former Xinye County Commander and the head of the Xiangyang Kuai family. The young county magistrate in front of him turned out to be Kuai Liang's son, no wonder he recognized himself and Dian Wei.

Liu Xin nodded and said, "It turns out that you are Mr. Zirou's son." ”

The county magistrate bowed and said, "Xiaguan Kuaixiu." ”

Liu Xin's face suddenly sank, and he shouted: "Kuai Xiu, are you guilty?" ”

Kuai Xiu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Back to the lord, the lower officials have not committed a crime." ”

Liu Xin said coldly: "Kuai Xiu, as the commander of Xinye County, a parent official, you actually know the law and break the law, and do the act of robbing people's daughters. ”

Kuai Xiu looked at Liu Xin with an angry face, and then looked at the officials who were escorted aside in the lobby, and already understood that Liu Xin was definitely not joking, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Back to the lord, the lower officials have never done such a thing to lose their conscience." ”

Liu Xin snorted coldly and said, "The bitter master has already sued Liu, and they will come over to confront you soon." If you take the initiative to explain now, Liu will still be light for Mr. Zirou's sake, if you are obsessed, it will be time to blame Liu for turning his face and being ruthless! ”

The cold sweat on Kuaixiu's forehead flowed down, and he said tremblingly: "Lord Mingjian, Xiaguan, Xiaguan has indeed not done anything to rob people's daughters. ”

At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the county office. After a while, Li Yan broke in with Chen Laohan's family. In fact, Chen Laohan's family didn't know how to ride horses, but it was Li Yan and a group of guards who rode with them so quickly.

Li Yan came to Liu Xin first, gave a deep salute, and said: "The last general is ordered to escort the old and young of the Chen family here, please make it public!" ”

Liu Xin waved his hand, asked people to bring Chen Laohan's family to Kuai Xiu, and said, "Li Yan, you can introduce to Kuai County Order, who are these people." ”

This is Liu Xin testing Li Yan to see if he is careful. Fortunately, Li Yan was on the same horse with Chen Laohan on the way here, and he had already asked about the situation of Chen Laohan's family and what happened, and Liu Xin's instructions could not be difficult for him.

There are ten people in Chen Laohan's family, and there are seven people who come here, namely Chen Laohan, Chen Laohan's eldest daughter-in-law, second son, second daughter-in-law, and two grandsons and a granddaughter. According to Chen Laohan, his granddaughter was robbed into the house by Kuai Xiuqiang, and his eldest son came to ask for it, but was injured by the official and was bedridden at home, and there was a granddaughter at home to take care of the injured eldest son.

After listening to Li Yan's introduction, Kuai Xiu said with a blank face: "Back to the lord, the lower officials really don't know this family, and they haven't robbed their granddaughter. ”

Chen Laohan knelt on the ground with a "plop", and kowtowed again and again: "Lord Liu, you must be the master of the grass people." The granddaughter of the grass people must have been locked up in the back office by him, and the adults only need to send someone to search for it. ”

Liu Xin hesitated for a moment, then suddenly pointed at the officials who were being held aside, and said, "Uncle Chen, you said that your eldest son was injured by the officials, let's see, the person who injured your son can be among them?" ”