Put...... On the coffee table?

The sergeant thought he had misheard and looked at Xu Liang in a daze.

"Why, isn't this official clear enough?" Xu Liang shouted in a deep voice.

The sergeant immediately said angrily: "Lord Governor, this is a warrant from Lord Governor!" ”

I naturally know that this is Yang He's warrant! Xu Liang said secretly. He glanced at the sergeant lightly, then turned around and walked into the back hall. The iron head glanced at the sergeant, left a sneer, and swaggered away.

Above the hall of the governor's yamen, the sergeant who gave the order stood on the spot, looked at the empty hall of the governor's yamen, shook his hand angrily, put the warrant on the coffee table, and left in embarrassment.

Now that the face has been torn, there is no need to pretend to be polite to some people anymore. Xu Liang knew that Governor Yang had a deep prejudice against him, and Governor Yang should be both disgusted and helpless about his appointment as governor of Shaanxi.

Luo Baiguan led the people to collect military rations in various prefectures and counties under the rule of Xi'an Prefecture, and the matter was far more difficult than expected. In the warehouse of the political envoy, Luo Baiguan followed Xu Liang's instructions and led his own troops to move all the 3,000 loads of grain in the warehouse. Because of this incident, Qian Yongtai, the political envoy of Shaanxi, ran to the governor's yamen again, pounded the table and glared at him, and protested loudly.

Xu Liang didn't see Qian Yongtai, hiding in the inner courtyard of the yamen without even showing his face.

If this is the case, the situation in other states and counties is even worse. In the prefectures and counties under the rule of Xi'an, 500 quintals of grain were levied, and more than 10 quintals were levied. Luo Baiguan led his troops down for more than ten days, and only then did he collect more than 2,000 loads of military rations, plus 3,000 loads of military rations, a total of less than 6,000 loads.

Xu Liang carefully looked at the list submitted by Luo Baiguan. There was a sneer on his face.

Luo Baiguan explained: "My lord, follow your orders. The subordinates are here, and all the governors who collect less than 100 loads of grain. The names of the magistrates are all written on it. Well, that's six people in total. However, the prefect of Xi'an, Lord Qi Chu, also did his best to collect grain, and directly allocated more than 1,000 loads of grain from the treasury. ”

Xu Liang nodded and said to himself: "This Qi Chu is also a person who understands current affairs. Originally, I wanted to replace him, but now it seems that I will leave him in the prefect's position for a while longer. ”

Xu Liang called Tietou in, handed the list to Qian Tou, and instructed: "Let the people from the Tsing Yi Guard Detective Department go down and check." The hands and feet of the six magistrates on this are not clean! Sort it out. Xu Liang thought for a while and said, "Forget it before the year, let these people celebrate the New Year, and after the year, I will take these people down!" ”

Tietou said solemnly: "Yes, young master." ”

Luo Baiguan said worriedly: "My lord, there are only 6,000 loads of grain, and there are already 30,000 soldiers in General Wan's camp at the moment, and these grains will be out of food in two or three months at most." ”

"I know." Xu Liang said. "I have ordered Wu Side to transfer 4,000 loads of grain from the four military bases in Pingliang Mansion."

Luo Baiguan nodded, and said: "And the New Year is coming soon, and General Wan and General Luo are waiting for the new recruits to be paid." There are also He Huchen, and the two generals He Renlong also urged twice. ”

Xu Liang felt a headache. Rubbing his eyebrows, he said angrily: "Damn Qian Yongtai, dominate the Shaanxi Political Envoy!" The ruler asked him for money. He has a whole bunch of reasons for what is the income of this year. The expenses are high, and the years are not good...... Let's talk about it. Just don't give! ”

Seeing this, Luo Baiguan and Tietou also scolded Qian Yongtai.

Luo Baiguan said: "My lord, according to my subordinates, this money Yongtai does not give silver, except that the silver in the silver treasury is really insufficient, my lord, you will ask for 80,000 taels as soon as you open your mouth, and your subordinates estimate that Qian Yongtai really can't take it out." ”

Xu Liang sighed lightly, he also knew that Qian Yongtai's political envoy was probably not in the yamen. Don't say 80,000 taels, it is estimated that it would be good to have 10,000 taels of silver. However, Xu Liang had to open this mouth, because the number of soldiers waved by several close generals under his command was large, in addition to the 60,000 soldiers newly recruited by Wanwenshan and Luo Rucai, the soldiers and horses under He Huchen and He Renlong have also expanded a lot, adding up to nearly 20,000 people.

"Manager Luo, allocate 40,000 taels of silver from the general account of the Liang army, and send it down first." Xu Liang said helplessly.

Spending 40,000 taels of silver at once, it was still the silver he brought out from Beijing City, and Xu Liang felt a lot of pain.

A few days later, Xu Liang inspected the city defense of Chang'an, and went to the military camp in Wanwen Mountain to inspect again, because he brought the cash of white flowers, all the sergeants were very enthusiastic about Xu Liang's arrival, and the two specially selected phalanx on the school field were full of spirit when they practiced.

When he came out of the barracks, he hurried up to meet him.

"My lord, the lower officials have something to report." He Yanshi's expression was very serious, and he arched his hand and said.

Xu Liang sighed in his heart, for this steady worker, Xu Liangyin seemed to be very good, and his expression became serious at the moment, and he asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter?" ”

He Yanshi said softly: "This morning, when the officials sorted out the case files of the Prosecutor's Envoy Division, they found that the files where Commander Ma and others were intercepted and killed were missing. ”

"Gone?" Xu Liang asked in surprise, "What does it mean to be gone?" ”

In the cold winter, He Yanshi stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat and said, "The files of Commander Ma and others were originally placed in the treasury of the Inspectorate Division. But when the lower officials wanted to look through it today, they found that the cabinet that originally contained the file was empty. When the lower officials found out, they immediately questioned the person in charge of keeping the file, and the result was ......"

"How?"

He Yanshi's face was ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "That person said that it was Jinyi Wei who came and took away all the files about the case of Commander Ma and others being intercepted and killed. ”

Xu Liang was stunned, how could Jin Yiwei also get involved? Xu Liang thinks that he has a good sexual relationship with Luo Yang, the governor of Jinyi Wei, and at the same time, Duan Zhigang, the deputy Qianhu of Jinyi Wei's Xi'an Thousand Households, is also very close to him. If Jin Yiwei was involved in Commander Ma's case, Duan Zhigang should have reported to him a long time ago.

"Could it be a mistake?" Xu Liang still asked in disbelief.

He Yishi said very affirmatively, nodded and said, "It won't be wrong." Xia Guan deliberately inquired several times. Moreover, the Jinyi captain who came to pick up the file described by the person below is very likely to be a test hundred households under the Jinyi Wei Qianhu Hong Gang. Xia Guan was somewhat impressed. ”

Xu Liang's face became gloomy. For Hong Gang, the thousand-household official of the Jinyi Wei Xi'an Office, because Hong Gang was a thousand-household official who took office after Xu Liang was transferred out of Shaanxi. Xu Liang had never dealt with this person. Moreover, after Xu Liang became the governor of Shaanxi, this Hong Qianhu never visited him at the governor's yamen.

Think of it this way. This Hong Qianhu and Xu Liang should be a little estranged.

Xu Liang solemnly instructed He Yanshi: "Lord He, don't make a noise about this matter for the time being. Let's go back to the inspection envoy yamen, and secretly find out which people from the Jinyi Guard have arrived according to the inspection envoy division! ”

"Yes, Xia Guan understands. The next official retires! He nodded solemnly and left.

Xu Liang pondered for a moment, and then instructed one of the Tsing Yi guards beside him, "Go and invite Duan Qianhu here." The official invited him to tea in the teahouse in front. ”

The governor was invited, and Duan Zhigang, the deputy of the Jinyi Wei Xi'an Office, did not dare to slack off, and after getting the news, he immediately put down all the affairs at hand and hurried to see Xu Liang.

Duan Qianhu followed the Tsing Yi guard up to the second floor of the teahouse. I saw that there were no other tea customers on the second floor of the entire tea house except for a few Tsing Yi Wei. Xu Liang, the governor of Shaanxi, sat leisurely at the window, with a pot of tea and two tea bowls on the table in front of him, and the bowls were still steaming.

"I've seen the governor!" Duan Qianhu stepped forward with a smile on his face and bowed down.

Xu Liang glanced up at Duan Qianhu, pointed to the vacant seat opposite, and said, "Lord Duan is here, please sit down and taste this tea." Tastes good. ”

Duan Qianhu sat down carefully, accompanied by the tea bowl with both hands, and said with a smile: "The governor has been humiliated. In front of your elders, how dare you call yourself an adult? Your name is lowly and you have just become. ”

Xu Liang nodded secretly and chuckled: "Hmm, Zhigang." ”

"Hey. Humble in office. When Duan Zhigang heard this, he immediately got up and responded.

Xu Liang waved his hand and said, "Why are you so serious!" Sit down, sit down. ”

"Hey." Duan Zhigang responded cautiously. He sat down again, and then asked, "The governor is in a hurry to summon the lowly office." But what do you want to do? ”

Xu Liang glanced at him lightly, took a sip of tea, gently put down the tea bowl, sighed lightly, and then said faintly: "This official remembers that when this official left Shaanxi and entered Beijing, Zhigang You were the deputy thousand households of Jinyi Wei Xi'an, right?" ”

Duan Zhigang said with a smile: "Lord Governor has a really good memory. ”

Xu Liang sighed faintly, "It's almost two years now, right?" Zhigang, when do you plan to do it? ”

Duan Zhigang's face changed, his face turned red, and he said curtly: "Lord Governor smiled, his humble qualifications are mediocre, and he is very satisfied to be a deputy Qianhu." ”

Xu Liang chuckled: "No ambition! ”

"I don't dare to compare with you, Lord Governor, ......"

Xu Liang glanced at Duan Zhigang, raised his hand and said, "Drink tea." Seeing Duan Zhigang holding the tea bowl and sending it to his mouth, Xu Liang suddenly changed his words, stared at him and asked, "Do you want to be a genuine thousand households?" ”

"Poof! cough cough ......" Duan Zhigang was choked, the tea was about to choke out of his nostrils, his face turned red, he looked at Xu Liang with puffed eyes while coughing, and then looked around nervously, and waved his hand in a panic: "My lord, you can't talk nonsense!" It's not good for Hong Qianhu to hear it! ”

Xu Liang snorted lightly, looked at Duan Qianhu and shook his head slightly, stood up in disappointment and walked out, and said regretfully as he walked: "A Hong Gang scared you like this!" You, in this life, you are worthy of being a deputy thousand! Alas, the official still wanted to help you......"

Xu Liang said to himself, walking step by step towards the staircase.

Duan Zhigang was stunned, his expression changed for a while, and his heart turned a thousand times: What does Xu Liang mean by this? He's going to help me?! Thinking that I am almost forty years old this year, I will be in the position of deputy thousand households for a few more years, and when I am older, it will be difficult to make progress. In addition, the newcomer Hong Qianhu has always been displeased with his old qualified deputy Qianhu and deliberately suppressed it, it can be said that in the past two years, although Duan Zhigang is still a deputy Qianhu, his life has not been smooth! Duan Zhigang thought about it, gritted his teeth, turned around sharply to catch up with Xu Liang, bowed down to stop Xu Liang and shouted, "My lord, stay here!" ”

Xu Liang stood still and looked at Duan Zhigang with a cold face.

Duan Zhigang gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Lord Governor has taught you a lesson!" I have long been looking forward to being able to become a real thousand households of Jinyiwei! It's just that the lowly people are light and light, and no one appreciates them, so they have been stumbling in the position of deputy thousand households. As he spoke, Duan Zhigang knelt down in front of Xu Liang with a bang and said, "I am willing to ask the adults to help me!" ”

Xu Liang looked at him, clasped his hands, and said indifferently: "Zhigang, there is no problem for this official to help you." Just ......"

Xu Liang looked at Duan Zhigang meaningfully.

Duan Zhigang immediately arched his hand and said: "If the adult is willing to help me, in the future, I, Duan Zhigang, will be a knife under the adult, and I will never regret it!" ”

Xu Liang looked up to the sky and laughed, stepped forward to help Duan Zhigang cordially, patted him and said, "Zhigang get up!" With your words, this official will definitely protect your position in Xi'an! ”

When Duan Zhigang heard this, his heart was excited, and after standing up, he looked at Xu Liang eagerly.

Xu Liang beckoned, and then Duan Zhigang sat back on the tea table. After pondering for a long time, he said to Duan Zhigang faintly: "Do you know why this official decided to help you take the position?" ”

Duan Zhigang was slightly stunned, touched his head and sneered: "I know that adults are people who miss the old. As early as when the adults came to Shaanxi, they were subordinates of Xu Changqing, a former Xi'an Jinyi Qianhu. If the adults want to help the lowly duties, most of them are for the sake of Lord Xu's face. ”

Xu Liang nodded, shook his head again, and looked at Duan Zhigang stunned.

"Xu Changqing's face is only one aspect." Facing Duan Zhigang's doubts, Xu Liang said slowly: "The main reason is that this official thinks that he knows Zhigang very well and appreciates your character and ability. ”

Duan Zhigang said excitedly: "Thank you for your appreciation." ”

Xu Liang glanced at him, and then said, "There is more...... The current brocade-clothed Qianhu Hong Gang made the official feel very unhappy! ”

Duan Zhigang was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "Uh, my lord, why did Hong Qianhu offend you?" ”

Xu Liang asked rhetorically: "Don't you know?" ”

Duan Zhigang had a question mark on his face and said blankly: "What's wrong?" I don't know. ”

Facing Duan Zhigang's expression, Xu Liang was sure that Duan Zhigang was unaware of Jinyiwei's meddling in the case commanded by Ma.

Xu Liang said faintly: "That Hong Gang is secretly investigating the case of Commander Ma!" ”

"Huh?" Duan Zhigang was taken aback, looked at Xu Liang, his heart was shocked, he suddenly thought of something, his face immediately changed, and he slapped the table angrily and scolded: "Hong Gang's guy is too insidious!" What did he want to do with this! I'll just say that in the past few days, the hundreds of households in the yamen, what is the head of the banner secretly planning! It turned out to be investigating the case of Commander Ma! Saying that, Duan Zhigang looked at Xu Liang with a look of shame: "Humble duty should be damned!" Hong Gang secretly interfered in this matter, and his humble position was kept in the dark by him! ”

Xu Liang nodded and said softly, "Hong Gang knows that you have a good relationship with this official. It's only natural for him to investigate the case and avoid you. Right now, the official wants you to do something! ”

Duan Zhigang patted his chest and said loudly: "My lord, just command!" (To be continued.) )