Liu Jin is 42 years old this year and has been serving as the commander and counselor of Yuzhou for three years.

Although compared to the commanders and counselors of other state capitals, three years is definitely a newcomer. But under the command of Yu Rong, the commander of Yuzhou, Liu Jin is an out-and-out old man.

As a civilian official in the military attache system, there is no fixed number of people for the position of counselor. This is mainly because some generals like to appoint a large number of counselors to help them do all kinds of miscellaneous things, but some generals like to do everything personally. Yu Rong is the representative of the former, and the number of counselors in the yamen is generally kept at 6~8.

Why is Liu Jin an old man after three years? Because since Liu Jin served as Yu Rong's commander and counselor, none of the counselors around him have worked for a year.

After three years, he was surrounded by some newcomers with less than a year of seniority, and Liu Jin naturally became an old man in the command yamen.

Summing up his experience of being a counselor for Yu Rong, Liu Jin found that there was only one thing that he had to pay attention to. That is, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't even do things you shouldn't do.

For example, once, when Yu Rong was in the yamen, he wanted to drink water, but when he picked up the water cup, he found that there was no water. After Yu Rong put down the water glass, a new counselor immediately took the initiative to pour water for Yu Rong. After pouring the water, Yu Rong drank the water, and did not praise the new counselor, but immediately dismissed the counselor.

Others don't know what's going on, but Liu Jin knows it very well.

Because when Yu Rong put down the water glass, it means that he has decided to endure it and stop drinking water. Otherwise, even if Yu Rong didn't pour water himself, he would order the counselor to pour water for himself. But after Yu Rong had already made a decision, the new counselor took it upon himself to pour water for Yu Rong, which showed that he was in danger of changing Yu Rong's decision.

Ordinary officials may not care about such trivial matters, but for Yu Rong, who has become accustomed to retribution, this is a question of line that must not be shaken.

"Liu Jin, what do you say Marriott is going to do with Yuzhou?"

Due to the need to deal with the problem of land and grain left by thousands of large households in Yuzhou, Liu Jin was too busy to return to the command envoy yamen in the past few days. As soon as he finished handing over the errand to Yu Rong, Yu Rong suddenly stopped Liu Jin and asked.

Although Liu Jin had just returned to the command envoy Yamen, and he didn't know that Marriott had returned to Yuzhou with Jiao Jie at first, out of his understanding of Yu Rong, Liu Jin still went to other Fuzhong counselors to ask what had happened recently before coming to Yu Rong to make an errand.

Knowing that Jiao Jie had returned to Yuzhou, Liu Jin went to Jiao Xuan as soon as possible to inquire carefully about the situation at that time, so that he could know what to expect when facing Yu Rong.

So when he heard Yu Rong ask, Liu Jin didn't have a stunned look on his face, but thought about it carefully and said, "Lord Hui, the situation inside is too complicated, and my subordinates don't know what Marriott's plans are." ”

"Do you also think the situation is complicated?".

Noticing that Yu Rong was not talking to himself, but had already looked at himself carefully, Liu Jin said: "The imperial court has now officially issued an order to arrest Wandahu, and Marriott also belongs to the scope of arrest. He is now appearing in Yuzhou, although it cannot be said to be malicious, but it cannot be said that he has good intentions. And with our current situation, it is not worth much to catch him or not. ”

Not the principal offender, not even an accomplice, but a mere family member of the prisoner.

Since Wan Dahu's rebellion was purely caused by Yi Ying's pollution, not to mention that there is no benefit in arresting the family of a prisoner like Marriott, because Wan Dahu has not made any further rebellion so far, and the imperial court is not very interested in arresting Wan Dahu. Compared with the net worth of tens of thousands of households, the bounty is even more pitiful, and even the arrest level is the lowest.

On the contrary, officials everywhere are frantically looting the properties left by thousands of large households in the state capitals, and Yu Rong is also one of them. …,

Of course, it's not that Yu Rong can't arrest Marriott immediately, but with Yu Rong's current identity, it is impossible for Yu Rong to bring any benefits to the family of a prisoner.

Replaced by a seven-pin county official, he may be excited to capture Marriott. But with Yu Rong now having the idea of extending a black hand to other state capitals, he has no scruples about the imperial court. If you want to curry favor with the court because of this, it is purely a snake to add to it.

is not worried about offending thousands of big households, nor is he afraid of offending the court, this is Yu Rong's biggest advantage now. And as an official, of course, he must put his own interests first.

After hesitating for a moment, Yu Rong said, "Then what do you say we should do now?" ”

"Why don't you call Marriott over first? Hear what he has planned? ”

Knowing that Yu Rong hadn't seen Marriott yet, Liu Jin also put on a tentative look. However, it was not to test Yu Rong, but to test Marriott's appearance and said: "If the interests proposed by Marriott are worthy of adult's attention, we will consider the next step." But if his purpose is only to test the truth of the adult, we don't need to take it too seriously, and he is not qualified to test the adult. ”

"Hmph, just because he dares to test the reality of Benjiang? It's really unbelievable. You go and bring Marriott to Ben now, and Ben will see what he can say to Ben. ”

Although Liu Jin didn't mean it, when he said this, Yu Rong didn't continue to ask, and directly asked Liu Jin to bring Marriott up.

As for whether to arrest Marriott, he was also left behind by Yu Rong under Liu Jin's deliberate forgetfulness. Because he really wants to arrest Marriott, Yu Rong will definitely ask Liu Jin to make some preparations before bringing Marriott.

Liu Jin knew that what he said before was all falsehood. What does it mean to think about the next step? What does it mean that you don't have to take it too seriously? This kind of clueless words may make ordinary people unwilling and make some stupid officials scold, but it is the best answer for most officials, especially in front of Yu Rong.

Implicit but not revealing is the highest level of work such as counselors and masters, because no official will really allow his subordinates to show their abilities that are higher than the first level, especially their own abilities.

In the same way, answering the boss's questions is not to help the boss answer the question, but to remind the boss that he can find the answer to the problem from a certain aspect, so that the boss feels that everything is in his control.

Even if there are not many people who rely on nepotism to become officials, they don't like to let people do everything for them, let alone officials like Yu Rong, who rely on their own strength to work hard.

When he walked out of the command envoy's yamen, Liu Jin squinted his eyes in the harsh sunlight, and began to think about what attitude to face Marriott. Not to mention that Yu Rong hadn't seen Marriott yet, Liu Jin himself deliberately avoided Marriott when he went to Jiao Xuan's camp to inquire about the news. This is not to say that Liu Jin doesn't want to make trouble for Yu Rong, but Liu Jin doesn't want to make trouble for himself.

Doing things around Yu Rong, even diligence can become a sin. In order to make the road under his feet more comfortable, Liu Jin knew that he had to be careful ...... everything.