At that moment, Xu Liang said that he wanted to mention Huang Ziren as the inspection of Zhenyuan, and the prefect Hong thought for a moment, thinking that the inspection of a county is not a particularly important official position, although the inspection department belongs to the management of the command and envoy department, but the command of Shaanxi exists in name only, except for Chang'an, Qingyang, Pingliang, Hanzhong and several large government inspection officials are still more or less in control, other small counties have been harassed by more and more chaotic thieves in the past two years, and most of the county inspection officials are vacant The provincial command and envoy department does not know at all, and there is no way to fill the vacancy.

Now that Xu Liang brought it up in person, Governor Hong thought that this was also a matter of delivering a message to the commanding envoy, so he agreed.

Just when the prefect of Hong thought that Xu Liang had negotiated the matter, Xu Liang opened his hand again: "Xiaguan, the original county of the town, is now Xiaguan and the county Cheng Huangdaozhou, the chief bookkeeper, and the canonical historian have been vacant for more than three months, and the Xiaguan wants to recommend the famous canonical history official to the Futai Lord again." ”

Governor Hong was shocked in his heart, the weight of the historian was much heavier than that of a county inspection, and he asked with a spirit of twelve points: "Who does Lord Xu want to recommend?" ”

"He Cheng, a student of Zhenyuan County, is twenty-six years old this year, dignified, full of poetry and books, can speak well, and has lived in Zhenyuan for a long time, and is familiar with the local situation. Xu Liang said slowly.

Governor Hong frowned and said: "According to the example, the history of a county must at least be born, He Cheng is a talent status, and the specifications are not enough to take on this important task." ”

Xu Liang chuckled, approached the prefect of Hong and said: "My lord, the situation in Shaanxi is far clearer than that of the lower officials, Shaanxi is located in the northwest, the people have been poor since ancient times, and there are few scholars. But this is in Shaanxi, and it is commendable that Zhenyuan County can show such a show. ”

Governor Hong still didn't let go, shook his head and said: "The specifications are still lower, and the report to the Ministry of Officials will definitely not pass." ”

Xu Liang heard this, and grinned: "There is still a situation where the official forgot to say this. He has an elder brother named He Huchen, who is currently the deputy chief soldier of Yansui. He Zongbing was loyal to the country and made great contributions to the defense side. It is not an exaggeration to congratulate the family of the chief soldier and the county. ”

Governor Hong was shocked, looked at Xu Liang deeply, nodded in a deep voice, and said, "If that's the case, you can give it a try." ”

"In this case, then please leave it to Lord Futai." Xu Liang was busy thanking him, and after chatting about business, he took the warrant from the Hong Governor's Mansion, went to the Pingliang Mansion Treasury to get some corn sweet potatoes and other things, and hired seven or eight carriages, all the way back to Zhenyuan County.

Most of the damaged city walls of Zhenyuan City have been repaired, and at the insistence of Xu Liang, the county Cheng Huangdao Zhou who cut the door has twice the number of people, and nearly 300 people are working in full swing on the city. Xu Liang's carriage kept entering the city all the way, and when he turned the corner, he saw two long queues at the entrance of the yamen, and several guards who had changed into the clothes of the inspection department were maintaining order.

Xu Liang jumped out of the carriage, waved his hand to let the carriage pulling the goods drive into the yamen first, called a soldier Yong, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, these are all people who have come to apply for our inspection department." That soldier Yong said.

When Xu Liang heard this, he remembered the recruitment strategy he had discussed with Huang Ziren that day, walked up to a man who was recruited, and asked, "This official can only take care of food and pay for recruiting soldiers from the inspection department, why do you still come to apply?" ”

Most of the men also recognized that the official in front of him was Zhenyuan Zhixian, and replied respectfully: "The little one didn't plan to receive the salary, and the land is so dry that the harvest is almost out this year, so you can mix a bowl of rice and eat." My lord, can you do without me? ”

Xu Liang smiled and said, "If you are as young and strong as you, you must be given priority." ”

The man thanked him for his kindness.

This tactic of only paying food without pay should be said to have been quite successful, and in the past three days, the number of students admitted alone has reached 1,247. In addition, there are many people who are constantly applying. When Huang Ziren came to report the results, he asked whether to continue recruiting troops, but Xu Liang vetoed it.

"We are self-preservation, and we will wait to be transferred back to Jiangxi after a period of time, and it will be difficult to explain when too many people are recruited." Xu Liang said.

Huang Ziren thought so, so he ordered the recruitment to be suspended. Gather the recruited soldiers and train them. Xu Liang brought Mao Yujie, the new head of the household in charge of the county treasury, to inspect the weapons and equipment inventory of the county armory, and with a stroke of the pen, all of them were assigned to the inspection department.

This matter soon let the county Cheng Huang Daozhou know, and Huang Xiancheng hurriedly ran to stop him: "My lord, the armory has always been a war preparation material, and it must not be used lightly. ”

When Xu Liang heard this, he rolled his eyes strangely, and said angrily: "Right now, our Zhenyuan County is a war zone, a front line, and the Equipment Inspection Department of this official is to prepare for war!" The matter has been decided, and it will have to be discussed again. ”

"However, what if Lord Pingliang sends someone to check?" Zodiac Zhou said worriedly.

"At that time, it will be said that the armory was robbed by thieves three months ago." Xu Liang said with a grin.

When Huang Xiancheng heard this, he was speechless in a daze, sighed at the end, and then went to the city head to supervise the repair of the city wall.

Xu Liang pursed his lips at the back of Huang Xiancheng, and secretly scolded the old Gu understand.

After sending Huang Xiancheng away, Xu Liang found that Mao Yujie and ordered him to go to the armory to get the supplies, pat his buttocks, and then went back to the backyard of the county government step by step.

In the shade of the trees in the backyard, Huang Ziren and Tietou were practicing knife skills under the guidance of their master Dai Yingying. Xu Liang leaned on the pillar on the side of the aisle to look. Feng Suqin happened to come out of the house with Yahuan Chun'er, and when she saw her father-in-law there, she chuckled and came over to talk.

Xu Liang and Feng Suqin were talking while watching people practice knives, when they suddenly heard a sad howl at the gate of the courtyard, which frightened everyone in the courtyard.

The howl was sad, as if someone had just lost their father. Everyone gathered together and was about to go out to see clearly, when they saw a yellow shadow running in from the gate of the courtyard, crying while running, and when they got closer, Xu Liang and the others were surprised to see that this yellow shadow was actually the county Cheng Huang Daozhou who had just gone out.

When Huang Xiancheng saw Xu Liang, he stuffed an official document in his hand into Xu Liang's hand, and cried again: "My lord, my emperor, I have returned to heaven!" ”

Xu Liang shook his hand when he heard this, and hurriedly unfolded the official document, seeing that it was transferred from the yamen of the Pingliang Prefect's Mansion, and when he saw half of it, Xu Liang looked at the sky in a daze, unable to speak. Huang Ziren took the official document from Xu Liang's hand in curiosity, and was stunned when he read it.

Emperor Xizong of the Great Ming Dynasty has died!

Several women were also shocked when they saw it.

In the courtyard, Huang Xiancheng's crying was extremely sad, tears were pouring down, crying silently, and crying higher than one. Xu Liang reacted first, and hurriedly beckoned the people to take the crying Huang Xiancheng out of the backyard. He's an old man in his forties, what's the matter with howling and crying in the place where he lives? What about crying and mourning?

"Ziren, if I'm not mistaken, our Xizong Majesty should be quite young, right?" After a long time, Xu Liang turned to look at Huang Ziren, who also looked shocked, and asked.

"Well, this year is the seventh year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, and this year should be twenty-three." Huang Ziren thought about it and said.

"Eh, what a young death." Xu Liang sighed, "I didn't expect that just a few days after we arrived in Zhenyuan, this emperor actually said that he would die." ”

"This person can't sit well on the throne, and he should die too." Huang Ziren said.

"You, why don't you have any respect for the saint?" Dai Yingying's eyes widened and she asked in surprise.

"Respect?" Xu Liang snorted lightly, pointed to the gray sky in the sky, and scolded: "He sent us to this kind of place, and he still wants us to pay him some respect?" Hmph, death is death, what does it have to do with us! ”

"But, that's an emperor!"

"My good master, what's wrong with the emperor?" Huang Ziren also said: "There is a saying, the emperor sits in turns, and he will come to my house tomorrow." Your Majesty, oh no, the first emperor just had a better life and was born in the emperor's family, otherwise, if ordinary people were born, maybe he would be worse than us. ”

Dai Yingying glared at the phoenix, and was about to refute, when she suddenly saw Xu Liang stomp his foot violently and shouted, "Oops, it's broken!" ”

"What's wrong?" The crowd exclaimed.

"This Xi Sect has died, but it will ruin our big thing!" Xu Liang said with annoyance: "Originally, my uncle promised me that he could transfer me back to Jiangxi in three months at most. Now that the emperor is hanging, then we don't know that the matter of transferring back to Jiangxi will be delayed until the Year of the Monkey. ”

"Not really, right?" Huang Ziren exclaimed.

"That's it." Xu Liang looked at everyone, counted his fingers and said hatefully: "The emperor's death is not as good as ordinary people, there are more bright halls inside." Do you want ordinary people to die and have to keep the first seven, this emperor dies, to be crowned, to mourn the whole country, to choose the site of the mausoleum, to build a mausoleum, after the first emperor is buried, the new emperor to persuade in, to choose a day to ascend the throne, to sacrifice to the temple, but also to the world, this matter is troublesome...... Uh, by the way, who is the emperor who succeeded to the throne? ”

Xu Liang looked at Huang Ziren, Huang Ziren also shook his head, and said, "I patronized the passage where the emperor died, and I didn't pay attention to the rest." ”

The official document was still in Tietou's hand, and Tietou opened it to see it clearly, and read: "Before the death of the first emperor, it was rumored to be located in His Royal Highness King Xin. ”

"Which king of faith?" Xu Liang asked.

"King Xin, Zhu Youzhen." Iron Head Road.

Xu Liang was shocked when he heard this, and he and Huang Ziren looked at each other in shock. Others may not remember Xu Liang, but Zhu Youzhen will not remember the three words Xu Liang wrongly. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, reigned for 17 years and died in Jingshan, Beijing.

Seventeen years, Xu Liang is eighteen years old this year, and in another seventeen years, it will be thirty-five years old, just after the year of establishment, according to the historical process of the previous life, when Xu Liang was thirty-five years old, the Ming Dynasty died.

I can't go on anymore!