The court rewarded Liang Jun with 50,000 taels of silver, which was well known in Pingliang City. After Xu Liang learned that the number of silver taels was counted correctly, he ordered someone to send 50,000 taels of silver directly to the Liang army's military camp, and handed it over to Luo Baiguan, the governor of the Liang army, to register it in the account.

At the same time, Wang Tiqian, the head of the third stall of the East Factory, arrived in Pingliang Mansion, and officials at all levels in Pingliang Mansion rushed to the courtyard where the prince lived to post a post to ask for a meeting.

Zhang Fengqi, the prefect of Pingliang, Lu Chengyuan, the governor of Guyuan, Shi Junsheng, the magistrate of Zhenyuan, Ye Yanqing, the commander of Anton Zhongwei, and Zhu Zijian, the son of King Han...... The list of people who rushed to visit the prince was constantly updated, and Wang Tiqian estimated that he would have to receive the gift softly.

Xu Liang is no stranger to the prince of Dongchang, but the impression is not very good, mainly because the process of working together is not very pleasant: one is that when he besieged Maling and cleared the Li family army of the fourth lady, the prince ostensibly waved the banner of siege but not attack, and secretly sent people up the mountain to contact Zhao'an, causing Qingyang to garrison He Renlong to lose a lot of people. The second is when the siege of Pingliang was lifted, when the governor of the three sides, Wu Zhiwang, mobilized the armies of all walks of life, and as a result, the prince rose halfway, abandoned the order of the convergence of the army, and privately led the army to relieve the siege of Jingzhou, so that the governor of Wu's plan to relieve the siege of Pingliang was a failure.

Through these two things, Xu Liang's evaluation of this prince is just eight words: insufficient success, more than failure. It's hard to work with this kind of person without failing.

After Huang Daozhou, the official of Pingliang, reported several important matters of the Pingliang Mansion in Xu Liang's study, he asked: "My lord, I heard that the Lord of Futai invited the prince of Dongchang and his party to a banquet in Zuixianlou tonight, and the lower official received a post to go to the banquet, I wonder if the adults also participated?" ”

Xu Liang snorted. Raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who are you going?" ”

Huang Daozhou said: "The adults of the mansion didn't elaborate, it is estimated that several adults in the Pingliang Mansion will go." ”

Xu Liang pondered for a while. Said: "The prince is a noble man from Beijing, and he is from the East Investigation Factory. It's rare to come to Pingliang Mansion once, as local officials and hosts, it is reasonable to invite the prince to a banquet, and this official will go with you tonight. ”

Huang Daozhou nodded and said, "Then the lower official will come to the mansion to meet the adults later." With that, Huang Daozhou took his leave and left.

Xu Liang then summoned the spies from the Tsing Yi Guard Detective Department into the house and instructed: "Check out, who are the people who are going to the banquet in the Drunken Immortal Building tonight?" ”

The spies heard this. The report fist left, and when it was about to get dark, the spies brought back the news that the officials who participated in the prince's dust-washing banquet tonight, in addition to several civil officials from the Pingliang Mansion, Anton Zhongwei Ye, commander Huang Ziren, and Zhu Zijian, the son of King Han, would be present.

Xu Liang learned that Prince Han and Huang Ziren would also be at the banquet, so he didn't want to go. However, I thought of the character of the prince of Dongchang. Lack of success and more than failure is just an evaluation of his ability, but all such people have very small hearts. It is easy to hold grudges, and whoever wants to offend him, he will do everything possible to take revenge.

Xu Liang hated this prince very much. If it were an ordinary person, Xu Liang would not pay attention to him at all. However, this Wang Tiqian is a person from Dongchang, and he is still the head of the third gear. The heart and eyes are very small, but the energy is quite large. Xu Liang thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better for this master not to be offended or not to be offended.

When night fell, Pingliang Tuguan Huang Dao was dressed in a navy blue robe and waited outside the door of Xu's mansion. Xu Liang got the report, so he changed his civilian clothes, took four Tsing Yi guards out of the door, joined Huang Daozhou, and walked towards the Zuixian Tower.

The Drunken Immortal Building is not far away, coming out of the Xu Mansion, turning two streets and arriving at it.

The restaurant has already let Governor Zhang's mansion charter the venue, and it is not open to the public all night, and the sign on the left side of the gate is erected on the steps, and it can be seen from afar under the light of the red lantern at the door.

The official of Pingliang Mansion, who was in charge of welcoming guests at the door of the restaurant, saw Xu Liang and Huang Daozhou coming together, and put on a smiling face and arched his hand: "Lord Xu, Lord Huang, please go upstairs." ”

Xu Liang hummed lightly, looked at the restaurant, and asked casually after climbing the steps, "Has the prince arrived?" ”

The official hurriedly made a gesture to invite him upstairs, and said with a smile: "If you go back to your lordship, the prince has arrived early, and he is talking to the lord of the mansion and the prince in the private room upstairs. When Xu Liang and Huang Dao passed through the first floor of the restaurant and went upstairs with the handrail of the stairs, the official shouted upstairs with a male duck's throat: "Pingliang Tongzhi Lord Xu, Pingliang pushes the official Lord Huang here!" ”

Xu Liang and Huang Daozhou kept walking, went straight to the second floor, and saw the front door of a large private room wide open, two young men in Tsing Yi stood by the door with their hands down, and the two were about to go in, when they suddenly heard a hearty laughter in the private room, Zhu Zijian, the prince of Han Wang, who was dressed in a brocade robe, greeted the door with a smile, and the gold-painted folding fan was unfolded, and he fanned it twice, Zhu Zijian smiled: "We have been waiting for Lord Xu for a long time, Lord Xu is the latest, and you can drink a few more glasses on the wine table later." ”

Xu Liang smiled: "It's been a long time since the son of the world! If the official knew that the prince was coming so early, he would have to leave early. Let the son of the world wait for a long time, and sin and sin. ”

Zhu Zijian laughed, nodded to Huang Daozhou again, said hello, and followed Xu Liang into the house.

The scene inside the house is different. One of the widened round tables, surrounded by a person-high red candlestick lit with red candles, illuminating the room, four red-clothed maids each held a pot of wine in their hands, their eyes flowed, ready to step forward to add wine for the adults, the main seat of the round table naturally sat on the big red python robe of the Dongchang third stall head Wang Tiqian, Pingliang prefect Zhang Fengqi and Han Wang Shizi sat left and right, Pingliang Tongzhi Lu Yifa sat under Zhang Fengqi, Han Wang Shizi sat under the seat of the prince, the other end sat Pingliang Zhixian Guo Tianxu, Guyuan Zhizhou Lu Chengyuan, Shi Junsheng of Zhenyuan Zhixian and Ye Yanqing of Anton Zhongwei, Huang Ziren and others.

Xu Liang entered the house and threw his hand again and again, haha shouted: "The lower official is late, sorry, sorry." ”

Wang Gonggong raised his head and chuckled, "Lord Xu is late, and he has to be fined three glasses of wine." ”

Xu Liang didn't care, and sat down while laughing.

When everyone arrived, the banquet began. Zhang Fengqi, the prefect of Pingliang, began to say some words to welcome the prince, and several officials also drank a few times, and when the hot and delicious food was served like a flowing table, everyone put down their reserve and drank happily.

Zhu Zijian, the prince of King Han, turned his head and chuckled at Xu Liang, "Lord Xu." In the past, this Shizi may have had some unpleasant misunderstandings with Lord Xu, and later. This son of the world has found out, these are the damn palace guards commander Zhao Yongyong. In the name of my father and the son of this world, he acted recklessly and collided with Lord Xu. As an apology, now Han Wangfu has severely punished Zhao Yongheng and driven him out of Han Wangfu. ”

"Why is that?" Xu Liang was very surprised, although he sneered in his heart, there was an embarrassed expression on his face, "Lord Han and the prince are really worried!" After thinking about it these days, this official has already figured it out. In the past, all kinds of festivals with Han Wangye and Shizi were all misunderstandings, and it would be fine if they were explained. The prince is really not worth fighting for this, cough cough, Commander Zhao also knows this person, and aside from his own prejudices, Commander Zhao is still very capable. ”

Zhu Zijian snorted coldly, with a look of rejection, "Lord Xu is too exalted of him." This dog slave is for his own selfish gain. It is really a crime to provoke the relationship between Han Wangfu and Lord Xu, and it is a crime that deserves death, and it is cheaper for this prince to drive him out of the palace. ”

Xu Liang really wanted to ask where this Zhao Commander had gone. Because since Xu Liang inadvertently discovered Zhao Yongyong, he arranged for Tsing Yiwei to find his whereabouts, but there has been no news so far. Zhao Yong seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and he couldn't see anyone. There is no body to be seen.

And Zhu Zijian, the son of King Han, surprised Xu Liang today, and Zhu Zijian wanted to release his past suspicions with Xu Liang. The intention to re-fix is too obvious.

Although Xu Liang muttered in his heart, it did not affect him and Zhu Zijian in the slightest. Both of them smiled fakely, but their tones sounded very sincere.

Dealing with it hypocritically, he only heard Anton Zhongwei's command Ye Yanqing squeezed a full glass of wine in front of the prince of Dongchang, and said flatteringly: "Father-in-law, I heard that my father-in-law came to Pingliang this time, and another important matter is to clean up the remnants of the thieves entrenched in Jingning Prefecture?" ”

"Well, that's good." Wang Gonggong smiled smugly, glanced at Xu Liang, and said: "Our family has come back to the northwest and has two important tasks for the emperor, one is to reward the soldiers of the Liang army for the emperor, and the other is to exterminate the thieves and recover Jingning Prefecture." He pointed at Xu Liang and said, "Our family is the main envoy, and Lord Xu is the deputy envoy." ”

"Wow!" Commander Ye's expression was very exaggerated, with a look of admiration, "The thieves have been ravaging Pingliang for nearly half a year, and they have not been able to completely exterminate them, and now that the prince is in charge, the lower officials believe that Jingning Prefecture will be broken in a few days." Come, the lower official toasts you, and I wish you a successful start and success! ”

"Haha, Lord Ye is in love." The princess smiled with a wrinkled face.

Commander Ye grunted twice, drank the cup, and motioned to the maid behind the table to be full, and said to the prince with emotion: "Father-in-law, the lower official is more or less a member of the court general, although the subordinate Anton Zhongwei is scarce, but he also hopes to serve the dogs and horses under the father-in-law's account, and the heart of serving the country with fists, and I hope that the father-in-law will be successful!" ”

When everyone in the private room saw Commander Ye's pretentiousness, they all stopped their cups and put their chopsticks down, looking at Commander Ye with different expressions.

Seeing this, Xu Liang secretly woke up: Today's meal is a dust-washing banquet for the prince, and it is not an appropriate occasion to show loyalty. Abnormal must be demonic, Commander Ye's pretentiousness must have a deep meaning.

Wang Gonggong waved his hand and smiled: "Alas, General Ye has this intention to serve the newspaper, so we appreciate it very much." It's just that our family heard that Anton Zhongwei has less than 2,000 troops at the moment, and most of them are newly recruited soldiers? Ahem, this time, our family is trusted by the current saint and entrusted with the important task of cleaning up the thieves, which is not a little bit of a difference...... The strength of this expedition to Jingning Prefecture is enough for the Liang army of Lord Xu. ”

Commander Ye was slightly disappointed when he heard this, and suddenly said sincerely: "Your Majesty is ashamed!" Anton Zhongwei was broken into this state in the hands of the lower officials, and the lower officials could not escape their responsibility. Since the father-in-law of Jingning Prefecture could not look down on the officers and soldiers of the guard, the lower officials were brave and willing to lead the soldiers of the Andong Zhongwei Institute to garrison Pingliang when the Liang army went out, so as to stay in the safe rear for the father-in-law, so that the father-in-law could suppress the bandits and eliminate his worries. ”

"Hmm...... It's rare that Lord Ye is loyal," the prince nodded heavily, and looked at Xu Liang again, "Then this errand to guard Pingliang City will be handed over to Lord Ye......"

Xu Liang got up abruptly and said, "It's not proper!" My father-in-law didn't know that the defense of Pingliang City had always been guarded by the soldiers of the Pingliang guerrilla camp. The soldiers of Anton's central guard are all new recruits, and they have no experience in defending the city, and the first task of Anton's central guard at the moment is to step up training. ”

"Alas, Lord Xu's words are wrong!" Commander Ye shook his head and said, his eyes staring at the prince, "There is a way to raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while." If we do not give the officers and men below the opportunity to fight in actual combat, how can we train elite soldiers in a hundred battles just by staying in the barracks and training on paper? Father-in-law, do you say yes? (To be continued......)