Soon, Huan Yuan rushed to the county guard mansion overnight, and Uncle Sun Guan let Huan Yuan into the study, and the two discussed secretly in the study for half an hour, and even Uncle Sun Ping, the eldest son of Uncle Sun Guan, didn't know what the two had discussed, but when they left later, Huan Yuan left with his head held high, as if he had won some kind of luck.

After Huan Yuan left, Uncle Sun Guan repaired two hexagrams overnight, and asked Shusun Ping to send people to Shanyin and Danyang as soon as possible, and presented them to Huiji County Shou Wu Qi and Danyang Taishou Qu Yi in person, at the same time, Huan Yuan, who returned to the house, also sent a large number of family servants to Wu County, Huiji County, and Danyang County respectively.

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The royal palace, Xiangzhuang study.

Although it was already late at night, Xiang Zhuang had not slept yet, and his father Fan Zeng was also sleepy, because during the day, the sub-chariot master had just killed more than fifty people in the western suburbs of Wuzhong, and even included Zhang Wen, who openly resisted the law, and the father and son could fully imagine that the scholars in Wuzhong City and even the entire Wu County would take action.

At this juncture, both of them couldn't sleep.

Suddenly, Xiang Zhuang seemed to hear something, and he didn't look back and said, "Come out!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a short and thin figure wrapped in a black scarf walked out of the shadows behind Xiang Zhuang, and the figure looked at Xiang Zhuang and Fan Zeng deeply, and said in a deep voice: "King, old military division, half a quarter of an hour ago, a large number of family servants left Huan Mansion on fast horses, and at the same time, two fast horses left the county guard's mansion. ”

"Huan Mansion, County Guard's Mansion?" Fan Zeng said, "Are the two old owls Huan Yuan and Uncle Sun Guan?!" ”

Xiang Zhuang frowned and said, "It was expected that Huan Yuan would take action, but it was a bit unexpected that Uncle Sun Guan would also be involved in this matter. ”

"It's nothing if the uncle and grandson are involved." Fan Zeng waved his hand, and the murderous intent revealed. "For the father, it is still the same sentence, changing the law and innovating is the trend of the times and the desire of the people, whoever dares to obstruct is the mortal enemy of our Xiang family, and he will die! In Jiangdong, no matter who you are, don't be an enemy of the Xiang family. It's a tiger that you lie for the old man, it's a dragon, you also give the old man a pan! ”

Xiang Zhuang Huo Ran got up, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back for a few steps, and suddenly raised his head and shouted: "Huyan Zhengde!" ”

Huyan Zhengde, the captain of the Heavenly Wolf Captain of the Su Guarding Palace, entered in response and responded loudly with his fists clenched: "What does the king command?" ”

Xiang Zhuang said in a deep voice: "Send someone immediately, and invite Ling Yin, General Shang, Baili Military Division, and Mr. Bi Shu to the palace!" ”

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San'in County, the county guard.

After reading the letter sent by Uncle Sun Guan and Huan Yuan, Wu Qi was so angry that he had to open his hair, and roared again and again in the study: "How can this be reasonable. It's simply unreasonable, it's just a matter of comparing the Shiqing clan with the untouchables, and now he dares to kill the clan in vain, Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er is so perverse, isn't he afraid of losing people's hearts? ”

For Xiang Zhuang, Wu Qi didn't like it in the first place, but Xiang He decided to welcome Xiang Zhuang, and his uncle Sun Guan, Qu Yi and the rest of the dozen or so Shiqing all got the benefits of Xiang Zhuang and remained silent. No matter how much he objected, it was only in vain, but this did not mean that Wu Qi recognized Xiang Zhuang, in fact, Wu Qi had never had a good impression of Xiang Zhuang.

Right now. Xiang Zhuang insisted on going his own way to implement the Xintian Fu Law in Jiangdong, so that the Shiqing clan and the untouchables could be paid together, and Wu Qi had no good impression of Xiang Zhuang.

"Wu Gong, be quiet, be quiet."

Wu Qi roared loudly, and Changshi and Gongcao, who were sitting at the bottom, panicked, and hurriedly reminded Wu Qi to pay attention, and the two of them couldn't help but panic. It is necessary to know that although Wu Qi is the county guard of Huiji County and the highest magistrate of a county, this is only historical, in fact, in addition to Wu Qi, the county guard of Huiji County, there is also the county lieutenant Ding Gu who controls the garrison of a county.

This Ding Gu is a fierce general in the army, and he only has King Xiang in his eyes. has never taken the county officials in his eyes, and if the county guard's long history, gongcao, and officials are committed, if they are in the hands of Ding Gu, it is common to be beaten, scolded and whipped, and even the county guards are raised. was also openly reprimanded twice by Ding Gu in the market. ..., Wu Qi was not angry, and a complaint came to Xiang Zhuang. But there is no follow-up at all.

What especially made Wu Qi angry was that Xiang Zhuang not only did not issue an edict to punish Ding Gu, but also did not even send someone to Shanyin to investigate, which clearly showed that he was protecting his shortcomings, Ding Gu was becoming more and more arrogant, if it weren't for the fact that this guy was just a martial artist and didn't understand civil law and political affairs, I was afraid that Wu Qi would have been set up a long time ago.

Such a situation is also very common in all counties under the rule of Huiji County, and even in the entire five counties and more than 60 counties in Jiangdong, except for the two county guards of Zhou Yin and Gao Chu, the other county guards and county commanders have all been seriously restrained and monitored by the county lieutenants and county lieutenants, and with the passage of time, the contradictions between the two sides are becoming more and more acute.

In fact, this situation is also reasonable, the reason why Xiang Zhuang let Shiqing and the Shi clan serve as the county guards, county commanders and subordinate officials of the counties was all out of political compromise and a strategy that had to be adopted in order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, so he sent the fierce generals in the army to serve as county lieutenants and county lieutenants to balance the influence of Shiqing and Shi clans.

Now, with the stability of the situation around Chu and the stability of Xiang Zhuang's power, both sides of the compromise at that time became more and more intolerable to this situation, Xiang Zhuang wanted to control the counties more effectively, and Shiqing and the scholars also tried their best to get rid of the shackles of the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant in order to seek greater benefits.

Therefore, this abnormal pattern under political compromise will have to be resolved sooner or later, even if there is no change, the contradictions between Xiang Zhuang, Shiqing, and the Shi clan will break out sooner or later, and now it is just in advance.

"What's the panic?" Wu Qi snorted and said angrily, "What is there to be afraid of? ”

Changshi and Gongcao are all silent, Wu Qi is not afraid of Ding Gu, but they are afraid, that is a murderous master who does not blink.

"Don't be afraid." Wu Qi said coldly, "The old man wants to see, does he really dare to kill people?" ”

Changshi and Gong Cao looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and then got up at the same time and said to Wu Qi: "Wu Gong, I will resign from my humble position, and I will get up early tomorrow to deal with official business." ”

"Dealing with official business?" Wu Qi said coldly, "But it's not necessary." ”

"Huh? This ...... "Long history and Gong Cao looked at each other, not knowing what Wu Qi meant."

Wu Qi sneered, and said: "Now that Xiangzhuang Xiao'er's wings are hard, our Shiqing and Shi clan have no use value, so they want to kick us away, but the old man wants to take a look, if he lacks the support of our Shiqing and Shi clan, how can he govern Jiangdong and maintain a huge country with only those big soldiers under his command?" Hum! ”

Changshi and Gong Cao were stunned when they heard this, and said: "What does Gong Wu mean to say, quit?" ”

"yes, quit!" Wu Qi sneered, "From tomorrow, the old man will be sick, and all the big and small affairs of Huiji County will be handled by Ding Gu's horseman, the old man should take a look, Ding Gu's horseman may be able to govern a huge county!" After saying this, Wu Qi said again, "As for the two of you, you can take care of it yourself if you are sick or not." ”

Changshi and Gongcao glanced at each other again, and said in a loud voice: "Sheng, this disease must be born!" ”

Changshi and Gongcao are all smart people, and they have already seen that now Shiqing and the Shi clan are playing with the royal power, the only difference is that the Shi clan is in front, but Shiqing is hidden behind the scenes, but the interests of both sides are the same, and they both want to force the royal power to give in and grant the local county guard greater governing power.

It was a dangerous move to confront the royal power, and in any case, Xiang Zhuang firmly held the military power.

However, Shiqing and the Shi clan are not without the power to fight back, Xiang Zhuang is true that he holds military power, but his army can only help him fight, but not help him govern the place, if Xiang Zhuang offends Shiqing and the Shi clan, Shiqing and the Shi clan come to a collective illness, Chu is afraid that there will be a nationwide political chaos, and Xiang Zhuang will not be able to eat and go. ..., Xiang Zhuang is the king of Chu, holding a hard knife in his hand, it is indeed easy to kill a few heads.

But Shiqing and the Shi clan also hold soft knives in their hands, soft knives are used well, and sometimes they can kill, if Xiang Zhuang doesn't want the political situation in Chu to be chaotic, if he doesn't want to lose the country, he has to compromise, he has to make concessions, and this time, it will not be a compromise like last time, this time, the king of Chu must completely give in!

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Three days later, the palace of the king of Chu.

"Ha, sick?!" Xiang Zhuang threw an official letter on the case to the ground, and said angrily, "There are more than 40 counties under the rule of Wu County, Danyang, and Huiji Counties, three county guards, 46 county orders, and more than 300 subordinate officials, all of whom fell ill overnight?" Hahaha, this disease is really neat enough. ”

To be honest, Xiang Zhuang is also a little frightened now.

A guy is sick with three county guards, forty-six county orders, and more than 300 subordinate officials, this is not a joke, although there are more than 200 scholars gathered in Taixue, but after all, it is a scholar, and it is probably no problem to go down to the local government as a subordinate official, and it is difficult to be in charge of the party at once, and it is even more impossible to be competent as a county guard.

What's more, among these scholars, there are also Shiqing and the children of the scholars, and it is unknown how many people will listen to the call in the end.

Xiang Zhuang thought that he had already looked high enough at the influence of Shiqing and the Shi clan, and he didn't want to see the matter come out, but the influence of Shiqing and the Shi clan was far greater than he expected, Xiang Zhuang originally thought that there were more than 60 counties in five counties under the rule of Jiangdong, and it was great that there could be dozens of people in seven or eight counties making trouble, but he never thought that there were more than 300 officials in 46 counties making trouble!

"Uncle Sun Guan, this old owl." Fan Zengsen said, "It's still quite influential in Jiangdong. ”

"King, the top priority is to quickly think of a countermeasure." Xiang He said worriedly, "Most of the officials in the forty-six counties under the three counties have reported illness, so that the political affairs are wasted and the people are panicked, and this situation must not be left unchecked, otherwise, the money and grain taxes will not be collected, and the laws and regulations will not be implemented, which may lead to political chaos." (To be continued.) )