When the quarrel sounded outside the main gate of the county office, officials from Jianchang were lighting in the lobby. Lu Zhixian spoke slowly and logically, and ran in a panic outside the door.

"Report ...... Report to the county master, it's not good, the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion came to make trouble and blocked the gate! ”

Lu Zhixian was so shocked that he almost jumped up from his chair, and then slapped the table and scolded: "Is there any royal law?" This is the county office! Then he glared at Jiang Zhunan and said viciously: "Master Jiang, go and take care of your subordinates!" ”

When Jiang Zhunan heard the report of the officials, the cold sweat on his back came down. Hearing Lu Zhixian's words, he left the lobby in a hurry and ran out in a panic.

In the lobby, Nan Kangtong looked at Lu Zhixian and quipped with a smile: "Lord Lu, the water and soil of this Jianchang are really unusual, even a small patrol battalion rushed to attack the county government!" ”

Lu Zhixian was reddish and reddish, glanced at Xu Liang, who was casual, and said: "Let Lord He smile, Lu has no way to govern the county." ”

"Eh, why should Lord Lu blame himself." He Tongju shook his head lightly, looked at Lu Zhixian quite understandingly, and said: "This official knows from far away in Nankang Mansion that this patrol battalion was created by Lord Xu, and the soldiers in the battalion are very angry with Lord Xu. Jiang Zhushu has been in office for less than a month, and it is understandable that there will be some small messes. You say yes, Lord Xu? ”

"Where did Lord He start with this?" Xu Liang was greatly surprised, and said: "Although the patrol battalion was built from the hands of the lower officials, but at the moment, Jiang Daren is the patrol envoy. ”

As he was talking, he saw Jiang Zhunan, the chief secretary of Jianchang and the patrol envoy, running in sweating profusely, and shouted towards Lu Zhixian: "County Zun, there are too many people outside!" Seeing that it can't be stopped, I have to call the inspection department to send someone! ”

Lu Zhixian was angry, pointed at Master Jiang's book and scolded loudly: "Jiang Zhunan, you are the patrol envoy!" Even you, the Shangguan, can't be even, what can the Inspection Department do? ”

Master Jiang's face turned red, and he said embarrassedly: "My lord, there are three or four hundred people surrounded outside...... Didn't dare to go out......"

Lu Zhixian glared at the only Jiang master, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and said: "Lead the way, this official wants to see which ones have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall and dare to come to the county government to make trouble!" ”

At that moment, Lu Zhixian took the lead, Jiang Zhushu followed carefully, followed by the three classes and six house owners, and a group of people went to the direction of the gate.

At this time, the gate of Jianchang County was already in a mess. I saw hundreds of disheveled men rolling up their half-open cuffs, lined up at the gate of the county government, and were confronting more than a dozen officials guarding the gate. Behind this group of men stood the cheering patrol battalion soldiers, but fortunately, although these people looked very excited, they were all bare-handed and unarmed. But in the outermost periphery, there were two groups of patrol battalion soldiers with guns and knives, and these two groups of people blocked the two streets in and out of the county government respectively, and did not stop all of them to death, just holding weapons in their hands, or sitting, leaning or standing, with a sarcastic look, coldly watching the confrontation between the other brothers and the county government.

"Stand back, stand back! Don't go any further! A squad leader on duty shouted nervously, clenched his saber in his right hand, and shouted fiercely, but his voice trembled, and his color was fierce.

"Tell your county master and Master Jiang to come out quickly and give us an explanation!"

"That's it! Lao Tzu has been working in the patrol battalion for so long, how can he say that he will be cut! ”

"I have old and young in my family, and I can live on this little money every month, and now I will cut it, and in the future, I will be a big family, and it will be difficult to drink the northwest wind!"

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"Stand back!" Seeing these soldiers making a noise, one person said a word, and gradually squeezed into the gate of the yamen, he couldn't help but be more nervous, shouted in a hoarse voice, and saw that no one paid attention to him, and said with a smile: "A few brothers from the patrol battalion, listen to me, we are just an errand boy, we don't know what the boss wants to do, give me some face, don't make trouble, I have something to say, I have already reported to the county master and Lord Jiang, don't be bored...... Hey, you're fucking squeezing in! ”

The head of the squad is trying to persuade hard, seeing that the three patrol battalion men took advantage of the gap between his words to pass through the guards, they were about to break in, turning a blind eye to their own squad leader, and couldn't help but be angry, at this time, they couldn't care about the large number of people in the patrol camp in front, if they let these three people break into the county government under their noses, then their own squad head will be mixed up, hurriedly stepped forward two steps and stretched out his hand to draw the knife, suddenly saw the three people roaring in, and hurriedly retreated, the squad leader was feeling strange, and then raised his eyes to see, It turned out that the county magistrate, Lord Lu, had arrived.

Lu Zhixian walked out of the gate of the county government with a black face, looked out, and saw that the black pressure was full of people, but he was also startled, and then looked at his eyes, and couldn't help gritting his teeth with hatred, because he looked around, and actually didn't see a general of the patrol battalion, in other words, the people besieging the county government were all small soldiers, so it can be imagined that those captains, sentinels, and generals were either frightened and did not dare to come, or, they deliberately hid behind their backs to watch jokes.

"The county master is out!" Someone shouted.

This sound suddenly shocked the men who were making a lot of noise, helping from the periphery, and watching the lively patrol camp behind them, and hundreds of eyes instantly stared at Lu Zhixian.

If it was in normal times, under such public attention, Lu Zhixian would enjoy it very much, but now, he is very uncomfortable.

"Lord Lu, you are the county master of our Jianchang, you can give a happy word to the three hundred brothers who are here today, we are doing a good job in the patrol battalion, why should we be abolished?" The person who initiated the questioning was a man in yellow standing in the crowd, dressed in a long shirt, with a white face, and a somewhat sissy voice, without the roughness of other soldiers, but like a scholar. If Xu Liang saw him, he would probably smile, Mr. Luo Baiguan, the tent of the patrol battalion.

"yes," someone immediately chimed in, "and we've got to get an explanation!" ”

"Silence!" The head of the squad on duty saw the county honorific, and then saw that Lu Zhixian was followed by a group of green-robed officials, as well as the principal of the third class and six rooms, his own top boss, and the head catcher Yan Qi also smiled at him, and suddenly his courage suddenly increased a lot, and he took a deep breath and shouted.

The crowd was quiet.

Lu Zhixian glanced at the crowd, and said in a deep voice with a dark face: "You were originally a soldier in my patrol camp, you should know the number of reason, abide by the law, so you have no king's law, besieging the county government, it is like a rebellion!" Don't go away quickly! ”

This was a bit heavy, and several men of the patrol battalion who were originally angry hesitated and retreated.

"Haha!" I only heard Luo Baiguan laugh in the crowd: "Lord Lu, don't scare people!" If the government wants to lay us off, we have to give an explanation! This matter is to make trouble in the palace hall, and we are not afraid! ”

Luo Baiguan's remark has emboldened many people.

Lu Zhixian glared at Luo Baiguan fiercely, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, this downsizing of the patrol battalion was originally done according to the rules, and the patrol battalion was established with 200 people. ”

"Downsizing is downsizing." The other party obviously came prepared, ignoring Lu Zhixian's vision of wanting to kill, he was not afraid, and shouted: "When the court recruited us at the beginning, it was said that we would be in charge of food and housing, and we would get paid on a monthly basis, but now that we have been downsized, we can't ignore the lives and deaths of our brothers in the future!" ”

When these words reached the hearts of the soldiers of the patrol battalion, the voice fell, and the echo continued.

Lu Zhixian turned his head and glared at Master Jiang, and asked, "The patrol battalion is being laid off, and there is no pension at all?" ”

Master Jiang said softly: "According to the regulations, each of the people who have been laid off will be given an extra month's salary. As he spoke, he leaned into Lu Zhixian's ear again, gritted his teeth and said: "County Zun, this person is the tent man of the patrol battalion, who looks demonic and is the best at talking nonsense. ”

"Nothing to say!" Luo Baiguan saw that Master Jiang's book was attached to Lu Zhixian's ear and bit his tongue, so he said loudly: "Lord Jiang has something to say, why don't you say it in front of the big guy!" ”

Master Jiang was so angry that he trembled, crossed Lu Zhixian, pointed at Luo Baiguan, and scolded: "Bold, presumptuous, how can this be reasonable!" You are a halfway debut account man, you don't calculate your accounts well, run this nonsense and what! ”

"Why doesn't this official care if you live or die? According to the regulations, each person who has been laid off will receive an extra month's salary in the camp! ”

"Whew!" Luo Baiguan sneered when he heard this: "What can you do with January salary?" Now the price of rice has risen, the price of white flour has risen, and it costs a penny and a half to buy a small green vegetable on the market! January salary? You are called Hanako! ”

"It's just, it's too little!"

"It's the rule!" Jiang Zhu said.

"Which rule?" Luo Baiguan scolded: "Has the county master read it, has he approved the words?" Does the prefect's yamen know? Hmph, I think this qiē is all a ghost made up by your little master book! ”

"If you are greedy for our life-saving money, you will not die well!"

"When I first took office, I thought about greedy for money, and there were few good things to be an official!"

Soon the crowd began to curse again, and Master Jiang was panting with anger. Seeing this, Lu Zhixian's face became even darker, and he frowned and ordered: "Go, let Inspector Liu bring the troops over!" ”

There was such a big thing in the county office, Liu Patrol had already arrived, began to bring twenty soldiers, rushed to the edge of the county office, saw such a big battle, rolled his eyes, and then retreated, and saw the Yamen of the inspection department on the periphery, carefully passed through the crowd to Lu Zhixian, and whispered in front of Lu Zhixian: "My lord, there are only 100 people in the inspection department, and they are all useless......

Lu Zhixian glared: "Could it be that they are making such a fuss?" ”

Inspector Liu whispered: "These were all in the hands of Lord Xu before, if you let Lord Xu come out, they will stop." ”

Lu Zhixian listened, turned his face to find Xu Liang, and looked around among the green-robed officials around him, but he didn't see Xu Liang's figure, and couldn't help asking, "Where is Xu Liang?" ”