The person who came to Zhenyuan to read the edict was an experienced official of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Division, accompanied by the magistrate of Pingliang Prefecture. The official read out the edict in public in the hall of the Zhenyuan County Ya, and asked Xu Liang to take off the hat and official uniform of the county magistrate, and asked Xu Liang to hand over the seal of the county magistrate.

Xu Liang walked out of the lobby and entered the backyard with a calm face, where Feng Suqin, Dai Yingying, Feng Min'er and Tietou were waiting for Xu Liang with worried faces.

Feng Suqin said worriedly: "Xianggong ......"

Xu Liang raised his eyes and looked at everyone, and smiled miserably: "Ah Tie, pack up your things and prepare to move out of the county office." ”

Feng Suqin said again: "Xianggong, are you okay?" ”

Xu Liang shook his head, pretending to be relaxed, and said, "What can I do?" It's just that I don't want to be a magistrate, the rank is still there, and I'll contact my uncle in a few days, and I'll continue to be my magistrate in another place. ”

"It's good that Xianggong can think like this." Feng Suqin said.

Dai Yingying snorted coldly, pouted and said: "This court is really good and indistinguishable, Xu Liang, you fought hard to defend the city, and in the end, not only did you have no merit, but you dismissed the official." ”

Xu Liang thought of the crime that had just been used by the government, but it was actually a forced requisition of rice and grain, which caused public resentment. I can't help but think of the very famous Lou Ji grain store, and I can't help but secretly hate that a small businessman actually brought down a county magistrate, which shows that Lou Ji's power is not ordinary.

Just thinking about it, the next person came to report, and the pusher from Pingliang Mansion came.

Xu Liang greeted him out, and the pusher saw a smile on his face, revealing a cordial energy, Xu Liang secretly wondered that it was the first time he met this person, what did his attitude mean.

The two sides exchanged politeness, and the magistrate whispered: "This dismissal, Lord Xu doesn't have to mind." Lord Futai asked the lower official to bring you a message. ”

"Oh," Xu Liang's eyes moved, Hong Chengchou wanted to bring a message to himself? He looked at the official carefully, and when he saw the other party's frowning and winking, he asked, "I don't know what Lord Hong commands?" ”

"Hehe," the official chuckled, approached Xu Liang, and said: "Lord Futai has a lot of appreciation for Lord Xu, Lord Futai asked the lower officials to tell Lord Xu that the dismissal was unbearable, not only because Lord Xu requisitioned the grain of several grain merchants on the street, but more importantly, because Lord Han's courtyard was demolished, and Prince Han found Lord Governor. Ahem, King Han has lived in Pingliang for nearly a hundred years, and his prestige in Pingliang is unmatched. This time I relieved Lord Xu's authority, which was really a helpless move, but it was just a reason, and it was inconvenient to fall on paper, so Lord Xu could know about it. ”

Xu Liang didn't expect that this could also involve a prince of Fanwang, and thought that the halfway interception and killing of the guards of the Han Wangfu was unsuccessful, most likely because the guard commander Zhao Yongyong ran back to sue him, and secretly said gloomily.

Seeing that Xu Liang's face changed one after another, the pusher also said that Xu Liang was grateful in his heart after listening to the words of Governor Hong, so he hurriedly stepped forward and added another fire.

"Lord Futai also said that I want Lord Xu to be calm and don't get bored, wait patiently for a few months, and when the Han Wangfu side will no longer pursue it, Lord Futai will find a way to reinstate your official position."

Xu Liang listened to it and looked grateful: "I can't imagine that Lord Futai loves the lower officials so much, the lower officials, the lower officials are really beyond retribution." ”

Seeing Xu Liang's statement, the magistrate immediately felt that Xu Liang was very good, and he also pinched his expression at the moment, and said with deep feelings: "Yes, Futai has always been so protective of our subordinates. ”

Xu Liang also sighed and chatted again, because both sides were not familiar with each other, soon there was no topic for both sides, and the pusher was still standing on the side and had no intention of leaving. Xu Liang hurriedly asked the pusher to sit in the study for a while, and motioned to the waiting Yahuan Chun'er to give a red envelope of fifty taels of silver, and the pusher left with a spring breeze on his face.

In the afternoon of the same day, when Xu Liang was directing his subordinates to move in the backyard of the county government, Cheng Huangdao Zhou of Zhenyuan County, the new Dianshi He Cheng, and the head of the household Mao Yujie and others came over. Huang Xiancheng watched the people carrying large boxes and small boxes of things out, and hurriedly said to Xu Liang: "My lord, why do you bother? Xiaguan and He Dianshi don't live in the county government, so you should live in the county government. ”

Xu Liang shook his head and said extremely sternly: "How can this be done?!" Lord Huang, you can now be regarded as the official of Zhenyuan, according to the rules of my Ming Dynasty, you don't live in the county government but let me live as a dismissed citizen, isn't it a joke? ”

Huang Xiancheng smiled bitterly and said: "My county lord, the edict only relieved you of your position, you are still in the rank of the seventh grade, even if you are dismissed from the official, this town is also respected by your rank in the original city, you don't live in the county government, who dares to live?" ”

"Whoever loves to live will live, I won't live anyway." Xu Liangdao, and pointed to Huang Xiancheng and He Dian Shi Zhengse and said: "Also, don't call me Lord in the future, Lao Tzu is now a Xu people, not Xu Damin, remember!" ”

Huang Xiancheng stomped his feet and said, "Aren't you embarrassed to get off the official?" ”

He Cheng and Mao Yujie also followed the persuasion, Xu Liang no matter what you say, he insists on moving out. Seeing that Xu Liang insisted on this, the three of them had no choice but to give up.

Huang Xiancheng wanted to ask the officials in the county government to come over to help carry things, but Xu Liang refused.

The three of them had no choice but to withdraw from the backyard of the county government.

Tietou's new home is located in the east of Zhenyuan City, near the demolished Hanwang Courtyard, which was originally the house of a wealthy merchant in Zhenyuan, who saw the unstable situation in Shaanxi and wanted to move to the Jiangnan area to settle down, so he happily sold the house to Xu Liang.

The house occupies an extremely wide area, the main gate is next to the town of the original street, the red wall and vermilion tile, the house is continuous, a corridor divides the house into two courtyards before and after, the front yard has the main hall, the wing room, the small stone brick square, the backyard is the residence of the female dependents, a small room is built around a garden in the middle, the pavilions and water pavilions in the garden, quiet and elegant, but there is some taste of the Jiangnan people.

Being able to find such a house in Zhenyuan City, Feng Suqin and others also liked it. The plaque at the main entrance was replaced with the plaque of the Xu Mansion, and the whole family settled down.

The number of residents in Zhenyuan City is still increasing, and the news of Xu Liang's dismissal from the former county is also spreading. Many people clapped their hands after hearing this, of course, some people were upset for Xu Liang, and the people who were originally going to move their families to the town heard that Xu Zhixian, who had defended the city in the siege of thousands of thieves, was dismissed, and they couldn't make up their minds about whether to move to the town for a while.

The first trouble that Huang Xiancheng encountered in charge of Zhenyuan came immediately, more than a dozen shops that had been forcibly borrowed grain in the defense of the city came to the county government with IOUs, asking Huang Xiancheng to pay for rice or return grain.

The black and thin shopkeeper of the Lou Ji grain store also came to the door, saying that hundreds of stones of grain in Lou Ji were missing, and the county government wanted to compensate for the loss.

Zhenyuan County Ya was so poor that it was so poor that the materials for the sale of the Han Wang's Courtyard were poured into the account for more than 2,000 taels of silver, but after the war, according to Xu Liang's intentions, he cashed out some of the pension silver of the Ming army who died in the war, and reissued the two months of salary and silver money for the scribes in the county government, the poor service, and the prison guards, and now there are only more than 200 taels of silver left in the county treasury, and it is okay to pay two or three grain stores, and more than a dozen come together, where can I?

Huang Xiancheng had no choice, and apologized and apologized to the shopkeeper of more than a dozen grain stores, and only after guaranteeing that all the principal and interest would be paid off after the autumn harvest in August of the following year, he sent away more than a dozen merchants with IOUs like a plague.

In the end, the shopkeeper of the grain store downstairs was left in the lobby to pay compensation.

This unsubstantiated compensation for Huang Xiancheng could never be agreed. Mo said that Huang Xiancheng didn't know whether Xu Liang had secretly swallowed hundreds of stones of grain from Lou Ji under the pretext of an excuse, and even if Xu Liang had swallowed it privately, it was done in the name of Zhenyuan County Ya. Such a notoriety, Huang Xiancheng prides himself on being a moral gentleman, how can he be willing to carry it?

The shopkeeper of Lou Ji said left and right, and the spit said dry, Huang Xiancheng just didn't admit it. The shopkeeper of the Bisheng Lou couldn't come up with definite evidence, and the two fought in the county hall.

One said yes, the other refused to admit it, and it depends on the evidence.

The shopkeeper of Lou Ji left angrily, and before leaving, he stacked cruel words, saying that he wanted Huang Xiancheng to see the consequences of offending the Lou family.

Xu Liang listened to Huang Ziren about these things afterwards. Xu Liang was dismissed, Huang Ziren was still doing his inspection duties, and the soldiers of the nominal inspection department under his command had expanded to more than 1,600 people, of which 600 people were taken by Wanwen Mountain to the southeast of Zhenyuan City, more than 20 miles away, under the foot of Jitou Mountain, and stationed there in the name of the inspection department's drills, in case of emergency.

For a while, Xu Liang became the most idle person in Zhenyuan City. Wandering around in Zhenyuan City every day, he returned to Xu's Mansion to practice the Great Prajna Exercises, and practiced the Eight Introductory Knife Techniques hundreds of times each, and then hid in the backyard of Xu's Mansion to play chess and chat with Feng Suqin, looking like he had nothing to do all day.

The letter to Uncle Gan's uncle, Huang Weizhong, who is the political envoy of Jiangxi Province and Si Zuo, has been sent half a month ago.

On the night of his dismissal, Huang Ziren came to Xu Liang and asked about his future plans. Xu Liang thought about it for a while, and then said, "I think it's better to ask my uncle for help." Although Hong Chengchou also told people that he would find an opportunity to reinstate my official, we had just come to Zhenyuan, and we did not have a deep friendship with the Hong Governor's Mansion, so what the Hong Governor's Mansion said may not be reliable. ”

Huang Ziren listened to it and thought so. That night, Xu Liang wrote a letter and sent it out the next day.

After that, Xu Liang leisurely walked around Zhenyuan City, while patiently waiting for Huang Weizhong's reply.

On October 16, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the first light rain in more than a month fell in Zhenyuan, washing away the dust accumulated on the roof.

Xu Liang accompanied Feng Suqin and others to play backgammon in the backyard pavilion, watching the rain hitting the pond. A subordinate ran through the rain curtain with an umbrella, shouting as he ran: "Young master, there's a letter, there's a letter from my hometown!" ”

Xu Liang got up happily, waited for the man to run into the pavilion, snatched the letter in his hand, and opened it tremblingly. Feng Suqin, Dai Yingying, Feng Min'er and others also stood up nervously, surrounded Xu Liang, and stared at Xu Liang's face.

Xu Liang was still very excited at first, but gradually the excitement disappeared, replaced by a gloomy one.

"Xianggong, what does the letter say?" Feng Suqin asked softly.

Xu Liang handed the letter to Feng Suqin, walked to the pavilion by himself, slapped the railing with his hand, and looked at the fine and dense rain curtain in a daze.

The letter was written by Ge Qiao, who stayed in Jianchang. In addition to informing the expansion of Tongtianxia Logistics and Liang Ji soap cream, Ge Qiao focused on reporting a very bad news.

Lu Chengyuan, the magistrate of Jianchang County, didn't know where he heard the news, and he actually changed his intimate attitude with Sun Yiping, the prefect of Nankang, and actually impeached Wei Zhongxian, who was 9,000 years old in the dynasty, for forming a party for personal gain. Xu Liang had long heard that after the new emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, several people successively went up to impeach Gonggong Wei, with Lu Chengyuan's insidious personality, he wanted to speculate and fight for a good future, Xu Liang could also guess. However, Ge Qiao said in the letter that Lu Chengyuan's grandson also pulled himself into the water. According to the information secretly revealed to Ge Qiao by Qin Feng, the history of Jianchangdian, Lu Chengyuan said in his compromises that Jiangxi Governor Yang Bangxian built the Wei Gong Ancestral Hall on Jianchang Yunshan in order to tie up with Wei Gonggong, and Wei Gonggong formed a party for personal gain, and the plot was not treacherous, so all the people who participated in the construction of the Wei Gong Ancestral Hall were Wei Zhongxian's comrades, Governor Yang Bangxian was, Zuo Participated in politics Huang Weizhong was, Nankang Governor Sun Yiping was, what is the general judgment, and the former county Cheng Xu Liang is naturally also.