By the end of June, the weather was getting hotter and hotter.

Contrary to the hot and dry weather, Lu Zhixian has been very happy recently.

The thing that can make Lu Zhixian feel happy, in addition to high-ranking officials and Houlu, is nothing more than seeing his old rival unlucky. And in Jianchang County, there is only one person who can make a move with Lord Lu, and there is only one person who counts it, Lord Xu Liang Xu of Jianchang County.

These days, every time I think back to the scene of the daily o'clock time, the dignified Jianchang County Cheng sat alone in a corner, no one asked and no one paid attention, and the scene of leaving the scene lonely after the meeting, Lu Zhixian felt as if he had drunk honey to the bottom of his heart.

Lu Zhixian thinks that in a series of means to deal with Xu Liang, his strategy is still remarkable, oh no, it is extremely beautiful!

With three fists and two kicks, Lord Xu, who used to call for wind and rain in Jianchang County, became a lonely person.

Only Liang Ma's patrol battalion has been downsized, except for three or four people such as Huang Ziren and Xing Zhongshan, the patrol battalion has been replaced with its own manpower from the inside out, and since then, the Jianchang County patrol battalion can be regarded as truly subordinate to the Jianchang County Yamen, and subordinate to his dignified county master!

Yan Qi, who had been hiding in the third class of the county government to act as Xu Liang's eyes, was dismissed, and he never appeared on the ground in Jianchang after that, and he probably went back to his hometown to farm in disgrace.

Although the head of the household has changed, it is also the person arranged by Lu Zhixian, and even the little scribe in the household who reported to Xu Liang was rushed back to his hometown by Lu Zhixian two days ago.

Lu Zhixian's endless tricks were used, and Xu Liangke completely stopped cooking. There is no one under him, and his subordinates don't listen to the greetings, and the inspection department Liu Inspector, who was close to him, saw that the situation was wrong, and it is said that he also cut off contact with Xu Liang, even the former fellow department, Qin Feng, Jianchang Dianshi, in the shape of this while, it seems that Qin Dianshi is also deliberately keeping a distance from him, it is said that Xu Liang once set up a banquet to invite Qin Dianshi to reminisce about the old friendship, but Qin Dianshi excused himself to push it!

It's really pitiful to be an official and do Lord Xu's job.

Alas, who made him Xu Liang not know each other.

Lu Zhixian was full of spirits and complacent, and when the county government was ordering, he looked at the points written in advance on the paper, one by one, one by one, talking about the head of the way, spitting stars flying sideways, seeing his subordinates respectfully receiving orders to retreat, not daring to hesitate at all, Lu Zhixian is quite a bit of heaven and earth, and I feel that I am the only one.

Glancing at the second master Jianchang County Cheng Xu Liang, who was sitting on the side, he hung his head and clasped his hands, looking like an outsider, tsk, it's too miserable!

After Lu Zhixian finished explaining the events of the day, all the subordinate officials bowed out of the hall and implemented the order.

The person was almost gone, and Nan Kangtong pointed to Xu Liang's disappearing back and sneered: "Lord Lu, do you see that Lord Xu looks like an old turtle walking out with his hands behind his back and shaking it step by step?" ”

Lu Zhixian was stunned for a moment, and then stroked his palms and laughed: "It's not, haha, now Xu Liang is a turtle with his head shrunk, let's pinch him like this, he knows that he will blindly shrink his head and dare not resist in the slightest." ”

He Tongju also laughed, and after laughing, he frowned slightly and said, "However, if this turtle keeps shrinking its head, we really can't do anything about him." If he has been tepid and slippery like this, so that we can't grasp the slightest handle, then what we did before will not be effective? ”

"Uh......" Lu Zhixian was reminded by him, remembering the original intention of the two of them to conspire: to pull Xu Liang off the horse. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that his side has won a decisive victory, and Xu Liang is also very pitiful and miserable...... However, despite this, Xu Liang still sat firmly in the position of Jianchang County Cheng and couldn't move his nest.

"Fuck it!" Lu Zhixian couldn't help but speak rudely.

Jiang Zhunan, the chief bookkeeper of Jianchang who went and returned to the door, just entered the lobby, and when he heard the words, he smiled and said, "Why is the county so angry?" ”

Lu Zhixian glanced at him, waved his hand to let Master Jiang sit down, and sighed: "When the official talked to Lord He about our county lord, they all said that he was born as a thousand-year-old king, and he shrank his head when he was in danger, and the shell of the king on his body was so hard that people gritted their teeth with hatred, but there was nothing they could do. ”

After thinking about it, Master Jiang roughly understood that what Lu Zhixian said about Wang Bahuzi mostly referred to the uncle behind Xu Liang, and Huang Weizhong, the political envoy who participated in politics, couldn't help laughing and said: "Why should the county be annoyed." To say that today's Lord Xu has long lost the spirit and capital to compete with the county. You see that he is now not hiding in the Xu Mansion all day long, or nesting on the Cloud Mountain, it is said that he also has a friendship with the monks in the Zhenru Temple, an old monk in the temple runs to the Xu Lord's Mansion every now and then, ushering in the send-off, and the unaware still thinks that the old monk is going to relatives. ”

"Oh, and that kind of thing?" He Tong judged the strange way, and then quipped: "Could it be that Lord Xu is not going well, so he wants to find an old monk to open the light in the mansion and touch the immortal spirit of the Buddha?" ”

"Haha," Lu Zhixian waved his hand and smiled: "I'm afraid it can't be stained with immortal qi, but it is stained with dead qi." Lord He, you don't know, on the day Lord Xu got married, the new lady fainted in the hall on the day of the visit, but the official was startled, I heard that the new lady became more and more sick later, and she couldn't even get out of bed. Alas, pity our county lord, I'm afraid that I haven't been able to get a house until now! ”

"Hahaha!"

Lu Zhixian sighed as he spoke, and He Jiang and the others laughed out loud.

"Ha, heh," Master Jiang laughed so hard that he almost didn't laugh out of his tears, he took a break and then said violently: "What's even more ridiculous is that Lord Xu doesn't know which nerve is wrong, he actually surrendered his identity and mixed with those businessmen in Jianchang City, and from time to time he held a banquet in Zhiwei Building, inviting some cloth shop owners, business house shopkeepers, and those profit-seeking businessmen talked happily during the banquet, calling them brothers, which is simply a loss of face for our scholars, and Sven is mourned!" ”

"Eh, Lord Jiang, you misunderstood our Lord Xu." He Tongju wiped the corners of his eyes and shook his head solemnly.

"Oh?" Master Jiang was shocked, and secretly asked if I was wrong again, so he said slightly embarrassedly: "Ahem, the lower official has seen the shallow book, but let the general judge laugh." ”

"Hehe," He Tong pointed to the master of Jiang, then looked at Lu Zhixian, and pretended to be serious and said: "How can Lord Xu be called brothers with those copper-smelling businessmen, the purpose of Lord Xu is to go deep into the businessmen and gain experience in doing business, so as to accumulate contacts and lay a foundation for doing business after stepping down in the future, so as not to end up in poverty and starve to death on the streets...... You say yes, Lord Lu? ”

"Lord He's analysis is very reasonable!" Lu Zhixian nodded closely, and then laughed with He Tongjuan.

Master Jiang also understood that He Tongju was making fun of Xu Liang at this time, and he also laughed at the moment.

The three of them talked and laughed for a while, and Lu Zhixian saw that Master Jiang was still holding a paper in his hand, so he asked, "Zhunan, what happened when you came back?" ”

"Oh," Jiang Zhushu listened, presented the text in his hand with both hands, and rubbed his hands to report while Lu Zhixian took it in his hand to take a closer look: "That's the case, county honor, it's been almost a month since the lower official took over the patrol battalion, and at the beginning of July, the patrol camp will pay silver, cough cough, the lower official went back to check the account book, and found that there was not much silver stored in the patrol camp account, I am afraid that it is not enough to pay off the salary, so I specially asked the county to approve some silver for emergency." ”

Lu Zhixian had finished reading the text, raised his head and asked suspiciously: "The patrol battalion has always been self-raising in the past, and has never asked the county government for silver taels, why can't this patrol battalion even pay silver as soon as you take over?" ”

"Ahem," Master Jiang's face turned red, and he explained embarrassedly: "County Zun, the silver that is only paid is naturally there, but before the downsizing of the patrol battalion, I borrowed a sum of money from the local money village in Jianchang to purchase weapons and equipment, and now the loan is about to expire, and the silver is insufficient." ”

Lu Zhixian frowned and asked in a deep voice, "How much worse?" ”

"Two thousand six hundred taels."

"How can there be so many?" Lu Zhixian exclaimed.

Master Jiang blushed, didn't dare to make a sound, and looked at Lu Zhixian with a blank eye.

Lu Zhixian was a little angry, in order to appease the troublesome patrol battalion soldiers, the county government spent nearly 5,000 taels of silver for nothing, thinking that now he had to take out another 2,600 taels from the county treasury, his heart was not very happy. But Jiang Zhunan was the one he brought out, and when he saw Master Jiang looking at him with a blank look, his heart softened, and he waved his hand in annoyance at the moment and said: "Only this once, don't take it as an example!" ”

"Eh, the lower officials know, Lord Xie Xianzun." Master Jiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this is the first time he has been paid as a patrol envoy, if he can't pay it, it will definitely leave a bad impression on his subordinates, so it will be difficult to establish his prestige.

"In a while, you will take the official's slip and go to Hufangtian, but you will just receive two thousand six hundred taels...... Oh no, take three thousand six hundred taels out. Lu Zhixian said with a deep groan.

"Huh?" Master Jiang raised his head and looked at Lu Zhixian in surprise.

Lu Zhixian glared at him, and said faintly: "The second day of the seventh month is the 60th birthday of Lord Futai Sun's father, and then the official and Lord He will go to congratulate him, and the extra 1,000 taels will be used as the gift money of the official and Lord He, but it must be recorded on the account of your patrol camp." ”

"This ...... How does this work? I can't do it, I can't do it. He Tongju was startled, got up and waved his hand to refuse.

"Eh, Lord Ho!" Lu Zhixian interrupted: "After getting along for a month, Lu has long regarded Lord He as his best friend, and for some small things, Lord He doesn't have to excuse himself." ”

"That'...... Then He Mou is disrespectful, heh" He Tong heard this, immediately changed his words, and then said to the master of Jiang: "Then there is Lord Lao Jiang." ”

"Where, where, Lord He is polite." Master Jiang arched his hand, although there was a smile on his face, but his mouth was slightly bitter.