Ring stone, from the Song Dynasty, all levels of yamen will set up this stone tablet, the inscription just facing the lobby.

Let the officials be able to see these words when they ascend to the court, and play the role of warning officials, so it is called the precept stone.

Yang Chao visited the county government, but the ring stone he saw was closer to the lobby, and there was no pavilion, it was the county government of the Qing Dynasty, and the county government of the Ming Dynasty would build a pavilion on the ring stone for protection.

However, this ring stone has been passed down for hundreds of years, but the virtue of the officials has not changed at all, I am afraid that they will not look at this ring stone when they ascend to the court, and they will see trouble.

There are house doors on both sides of the lobby, after the house gate is the second hall compound, after the second hall is the third hall, after the third hall is the back hall, also called the county house, the county order and the family generally live here.

Facing is seven frames and five houses, in the middle is the living room, Yang Chao was taken to a small house in the westernmost part, it is a smaller living room, the living room outside the main living room is called the flower hall, this should be the West Flower Hall.

Inside, there was already a man in civilian clothes holding an old book reading.

This man looked like he was in his forties, and his body was thin, no different from the average scholar in the Ming Dynasty.

Menzi took Yang Chao in, bowed down and bowed: "My lord, the person has brought it." ”

This person is the county magistrate.

Yang Chao and Hu Quan also hurriedly saluted: "Xiaomin Yang Chao (Hu Quan) has seen the magistrate. ”

This magistrate is a man who likes to put on a prestige, and only after letting Yang Chao and Hu Quan bow to him did he say softly: "Get up." ”

After the two stood up, the county magistrate said, "Are you really sent by Qian Muzhai to invite me?" ”

Hu's whole body trembled, and he looked at Yang Chao in horror, he felt that Qian Muzhai didn't seem to agree to participate in their meeting just now. But Yang Chao has already played Qian Qianyi's signboard.

What Hu Quan didn't know was that Yang Chao's invitations had been written a long time ago, and they were all linked one by one, and when they arrived at the county order, they had to use the name of an old bureaucrat like Qian Qianyi to suppress them. Although Qian Qianyi didn't seem to agree in the first ring, Yang Chao still had the audacity to use Qian Qianyi's name.

Yang Chao was very calm: "Back to the adult's words, Mu Zhaigong is not the only one. ”

The county magistrate sighed and said, "Then who else?" ”

Yang Chao nodded lightly, and then he spoke eloquently.

After listening to Yang Chao's words, Jiangning County made Yang Wencong even tremble slightly.

Yang Wencong was a person in the Wanli period, but he could not be admitted to the Jinshi in the imperial examination many times, and he was almost fifty years old before he sought a position as a county commander in Jiangning, which can be described as a depressed person.

"You, what you say is true."

He suddenly pointed his finger at Yang Chao, his arm trembled slightly, and asked anxiously.

Hu Quan also trembled, he was afraid, a small person, in front of the county order, he couldn't help but be afraid, so afraid that he couldn't tell whether the county order was happy or angry.

Yang Chao looked calm: "Of course what Xiaomin said is true. Qian Muzhaigong, Zhang Tianru and many adults of Donglin Fushe will participate. ”

Qian Qianyi and Zhang Pu, representing Donglin and Fushe, are the largest political forces in the south of the Yangtze River and can go directly to Tianting. Not to mention that there are nearly ten famous people in the Donglin Restoration Society.

The grand event that these two people participated in would invite him Yang Wencong, no wonder Yang Wencong was not excited, it was really that he was unwilling for too long, and he could get in touch with these two people, and he didn't worry about his underdeveloped career.

However, Yang Chao continued to put the fierce material, and said in Yang Wencong's ear: "The purpose of Mu Zhai Gong and Tianru Gong is to seek Zhou Yu Gong - rematch!" ”

Yang Chao deliberately said the two words again.

Yang Wencong, who listened to this, suddenly fell on the chair in shock, and a stream of blood on his face suddenly surged, and it took him half a day to catch his breath.

He is an official, and he is very clear about some rumors in the officialdom, Zhang Pu is seeking his teacher Zhou Yanru again, not a day or two, obviously this is a big event, but it has never had anything to do with him Yang Wencong, I didn't expect to invite him to participate this time, wouldn't it be to discuss with him the major matter of Zhou Yanru's rematch.

So if Yanru succeeds, his career will be guaranteed, and I dare not say that he can rise to the top, at least he can be promoted to the next level. Even if it is not successful, if you can integrate into the inner circle of the Fushe and rise from the position of a minor official like the county order, it will not be difficult.

Yang Wencong is the magistrate of Jiangning, Jiangning County is in the city of Nanjing, Nanjing City has the identity of staying in the capital, Jiangning County is Gyeonggi County, the general county order is the seven-grade sesame official, but the county order of Jiangning County is the six-grade official.

If you can be promoted to one level, you will be a fifth-grade official.

The five-rank official is already a middle-level official, and it is very likely to enter the sixth department at the top, and there is hope to be a Beijing official in this life.

So Yang Wencong couldn't help but be excited, he seemed to see a window that opened his career.

"Come on, sit down!"

Yang Wencong suddenly ordered loudly, and when the subordinates outside the door heard it, they immediately ran in and moved chairs for Yang Chao.

Without waiting for the chair to be put away, Yang Wencong was already impatient to ask: "Mu Zhaigong, Zhang Tianru, and, as well as Yuxian Gong, why do you want to invite this official, no, it is to invite the lower official." ”

After moving out of Zhou Yanru, Yang Wencong didn't even dare to call him a 'local official', and became a 'lower official'.

Yang Chao shook his head and smiled: "Actually, it wasn't them who invited adults, but the villains who invited adults privately." ”

What Yang Chao said is true, asking Yang Wencong was decided by himself on a temporary basis, and it was deliberate. In this rally, it is actually inappropriate to invite officials, and Ruan Dacheng is not allowed to invite officials, firstly, he is afraid that the news will leak out, because he really can't see the position of those officials clearly, in case the news leaks, these officials can go straight to Beijing and destroy Zhou Yanru's major affairs; Second, the relationship between Nanjing officialdom and Ruan Dacheng is too bad, Nanjing officialdom is different from Beijing, and almost all of the political struggles in Nanjing officialdom are the losers of the political struggle who have been excluded, so most of them are officials from Donglin and Fushe, and inviting those people is completely to block Ruan Dacheng.

But Yang Wencong is different, Yang Wencong is a native of Guizhou, although he joined the Fushe, but his identity is restricted and he cannot enter the core. The key thing is that Yang Wencong has a good personal relationship with Ruan Dacheng, probably because he does not have a deep imprint on his identity as a reincarnator, so he doesn't care about Ruan Dacheng's eunuch identity.

Therefore, please Yang Wencong, not to be taboo by Ruan Dacheng, but also to serve Yang Chao's purpose.

Yang Chao wants to win over a powerful official like Yang Wencong, although it is only a county order, it is just right. If he tries to win over those prefects and governors through this rally, not to mention whether he can succeed or not, even if he does, it is not as easy to control as a county order, and he will be more willing to listen to Yang Chao when he does things in the future.

A big man, subconsciously, he can't look down on grass people like Yang Chao.

Sure enough, when he heard that Yang Chao had specially invited himself, Yang Wencong couldn't help but be surprised.

Yang Wencong hurriedly said: "Why is this? ”

Yang Chao smiled: "It's a trivial matter. Xiaomin happened to be entrusted by several old gentlemen to help invite Jiangnan celebrities to the meeting. Xiaomin is under the rule of Jiangning County, so he naturally wants to consider his parents in Jiangning County, Lord Yang, so he made the decision to invite adults to the meeting. Rest assured, a few old gentlemen will not blame adults. However, the parents still have to keep it a secret, the stakes are very high, and the elders don't want to be known by others. ”

Yang Wencong hurriedly said: "This is nature, this is nature!" ”

Yang Wencong is not a fool, he naturally heard that this is Yang Chao deliberately trying to win him over, but he is willing to be wooed.

At this time, the subordinate set up the chair, Yang Chao waved his hand and did not sit, but arched his hand towards Yang Wencong: "Parents will meet again, and the villain will say goodbye!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, not at all like a small person who knelt down when he just came in.

Similarly, Yang Wencong did not look like a majestic and kneeling parent official like just now, but was a little distracted.

Yang Chao had already walked out of the flower hall before he heard Yang Wencong shouting 'send-off'.

Hu Quan followed Yang Chao before and after, out of the county office, and when he arrived to the side, he gasped for breath and sat next to the stone lion in the yamen.

Yang Chao saw that Hu Quan was sweating profusely, and even his clothes were soaked.

Yang Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly, this friend is too timid, he is still a butcher, does this dare to kill pigs?

However, Yang Chao also knows that the fear of the ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty in the face of officials, even if it is just a county order, can make a common people's family ruined, and the most important thing is that the local officials of the Ming Dynasty really dare to abuse this private power and oppress the people.

Yang Chao saw Hu Quan's appearance and knew that he couldn't leave today, but his most important task today was also completed, so after explaining Hu Quan's two sentences, he went home separately.

When Yang Chao returned home, he found that he had also received an invitation.

This invitation was sent by the Xu family, and the Xu family's pawnshop was opened, and a feast was to be held.