Everyone's eyes immediately focused on Lin Yanxian. Lin Yanxian withstood everyone's gaze and walked down the stairs step by step.

One by one, the small groups were disbanded, and everyone saluted Lin Yanxian and said, "Envoy." ”

Lin Yanxian's right hand was raised: "Gentlemen, don't be polite." Have you all arrived? Liang imitates that prodigal son? ”

Liang Fang, who was named by Lin Yanxian himself, replied without blushing and without a heartbeat: "Make you, imitate here." ”

Lin Yanxian glanced at Liang Fang and nodded, it's good that this prodigal is here. In the past, he disappeared every time he arrived in a county seat, and only when he was about to set off did he reappear.

Liang Fang seems to have nothing to do, but he is actually a chicken thief. Long before Lin Yanxian had a bigger conflict with the local officials in Yuzhang County, he had already stayed at the post station honestly and stopped wandering around.

Lin Yanxian briefly counted the number of people and said, "Presumably, everyone is already clear about the news that the officials of Yuzhang County concealed the iron ore and opened the iron mine privately, right?" ”

"Yes."

A group of officials: The county soldiers of Yuzhang are ready to move, they look like they are not easy to provoke, and they want to do something, how can they not know. Lin Yuanjun, why do you love tossing so much? Sure enough, it is Jane's character in the emperor's heart, and this ability to toss can be regarded as in the same vein as the saint.

"Please don't go out in the near future, stay in the post station with peace of mind, believe me, believe in Yu Linwei, and believe in the saint! She already knows about Yuzhang, so we must keep full faith and wait patiently......"

Lv Cheng: What do I know? You believe in me so much, I don't even believe in myself!

Officials: Out? We're not stupid! You, Lin Yanxian, turned Yuzhang County upside down, how can we go out? Trust you...... You didn't give us the slightest sense of security and make us believe in you. The saint has long known about Yuzhang? No kidding, does the saint have clairvoyance and ears? , If she knew, would she still be able to let Yuzhang's officials mine his mine and use her money?

A group of officials unanimously agreed that Lu Cheng was a Pixiu, and if she got into Lu Cheng's pocket, don't think about going out.

As the Son of Heaven, but he loves money so much, it is really not the work of the Holy King......

They agreed that if Lü Cheng knew that her mine had been smuggled, then she would not have waited for any conclusive evidence to arrest her according to the laws of the Great Zhou. Evidence is never hard to find, it just depends on how strong your desire to find it is. Evidence can be made without evidence, that's not a problem.

Lu Cheng: I'm not, I'm not, I'm a good emperor in the new era who abides by the law.

Lin Yanxian gushed endlessly above, and the officials below only grasped the following three key points.

First: For the sake of the people of Yuzhang, a little grievance, you can't let Yu Linwei take them out of Yuzhang County. To be on the safe side, it is best for them to stay inside the inn and not go out.

Some officials have the following questions: Why should I be wronged for the sake of the people of Yuzhang? What is my identity, and what is the identity of the people of Yuzhang? Even the lives of all the people of Yuzhang are combined, and they are not as important as my life alone!

Second: talk about trust, let them trust Lin Yanxian, trust Yu Linwei, and trust Shengshang.

But the problem is that none of these three parties can be trusted! Starting from Kyoto to Yuzhang County, they passed through many county towns during the period, and they couldn't be clearer about Lin Yanxian's style of doing things. As far as Yuzhang is concerned, if Lin Yanxian doesn't investigate it to the end, where will they be trapped in the post station? Lin Yanxian, he is the source of trouble.

Yu Linwei's words, they can see that Yu Linwei can be regarded as elite soldiers, but let them completely hand over their lives to Yu Linwei and the martial artists, how can they get through this level in their hearts, and how can they rest assured?

Believe in the Holy One? Lu Cheng is very likely to be a big cake that Lin Yanxian painted for them. Lu Cheng is far away in Kyoto, how can she grasp the affairs of Yuzhang in real time? Can she still predict the future? And by the time Lu Cheng's order arrives in Yuzhang, I'm afraid they'll already be cold.

Lin Yanxian said a lot, but they were still very scared. Will you be able to survive to the next county seat? They're panicking. It was the first time they had been so close to death, and the first time they felt good to be alive.

The third point that Lin Yanxian talked about was that the reinforcements were on the way to come, and he hoped that they would behave themselves and not make mistakes.

Lin Yanxian is warning officials not to think about separatism and things internally. To sell them is to make a mistake, and then to lose the future. In fact, Lin Yanxian thinks that there is only the last one, he is painting cakes, and the first two are quite real.

But in fact, Lu Cheng, who didn't know anything in Kyoto, said, Lin Qing, you have painted two big cakes without knowing it.

When the officials heard Lin Yanxian's warning, they were both dissatisfied and a little weak-hearted. They had really thought about handing over Lin Yanxian and other people who were doing things to keep them safe.

But if they sell Lin Yanxian and others, they will definitely be liquidated by Lu Cheng in the future, and they have a big family, and they can't run the temple if they can't run the monk. So the road where they surrendered to the officials of Yuzhang and raised the white flag was blocked by a stone named Lü Cheng.

If you go to the dark with Lin Yanxian, according to the form, the officials of Yuzhang don't mind the fish dying and the net being broken. In the event of a war, they were powerless, and had no ability to protect themselves at all, so they could only wait for one side to win. If there is any misfortune and they are macheted by the rebels, or they are shot by stray arrows, then they will die and have to go to their ancestors sooner. They just wanted to live, but the path was blocked by a tombstone with their names written on it. It's so hard to live!

Now it seems that no matter which path you choose, you may not be able to protect yourself safely. They're in a dilemma right now. There were dead ends on both sides of the left and right, and they had no way out. They can only wait for the judgment of fate.

At this moment, a group of officials once again cursed Lin Yanxian for doing things and causing trouble. At the same time, they also want to pour a basin of cold water on their once hot-headed selves to make themselves sober. Is credit so easy to earn? Shouldn't you be wary when you look at the favorable conditions?

Alas, it's all because the promotion and salary increase are too tempting, so that in the case of people's brains being congested, they make wrong judgments and make decisions that they regret.

Deng Jin, Xue Qian, and Yue Feng stood relatively close to each other, after all, after completing a mission, that kind of emotion was different. They always have to be more familiar with each other, and people who are more familiar with each other are closer, which is also human nature.

Deng Jin was not too surprised by the shameless behavior of the officials in Yuzhang County. Magistrate? Local justice? That's it. The quality of the county order is compared, but it is not better, but worse than bad. There is a worse county order to compare, so think about the county order again, is it so bad, so bad, so unacceptable?

Deng Jin just felt that Lin Yanxian's behavior was inappropriate, just like most officials. She didn't think she was superior, after all, she was originally one of the ordinary people.

But as soon as the officials of Yuzhang threatened the people, Lin Yanxian immediately gave in, didn't he hand over his weakness to the enemy?

After the enemy knows your weakness, will he still be soft-hearted, and will he not be able to take advantage of it?

The enemy will only desperately attack Lin Yanxian's weakness.

Lin Yanxian exposed his vulnerable parts to the enemy, which was a mistake in Deng Jin's opinion, and it was a big mistake.

Deng Jin knew that Lin Yanxian's original intention might just be to protect the people of Yuzhang from harm.

But in fact, it is Lin Yanxian's behavior that is likely to bring great harm to the people of Yuzhang.

In the thinking of the officials of Yuzhang, the people of Yuzhang were useless wild vegetables, and after burning a batch, more weeds would grow in the next year. It can be said that "wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows." ”①

For the officials of Yuzhang, the people of Yuzhang are the weeds that can be seen everywhere, and they cannot be burned and useless. Originally, the people of Yuzhang were worthless.

And as a worthless weed, it is actually the safest.

And now Lin Yanxian's attitude makes the officials of Yuzhang realize that the people of Yuzhang are not weeds and are not worthless.

It was Lin Yanxian's attention to the people of Yuzhang that gave the people of Yuzhang value, and at the same time brought the people of Yuzhang a crisis equal to value.

Since the officials of Yuzhang knew that Lin Yanxian cared about the people of Yuzhang, how could they not use it to death.

Perhaps, if it was the day of the battle, as long as the people of Yuzhang honestly hid at home, and waited until the two sides divided the victory and defeat, they would be able to escape. There may have been two unlucky people who died in the war, but most of the people were safe.

But now, Lin Yanxian will encounter the attitude of the people to retreat, and let the officials of Yuzhang know that the people of Yuzhang may be a good card, a good card that can lead Lin Yanxian to cast a rat trap and make a mess.

Don't underestimate the evil of human nature, your imagination can't catch up with the evil that people do.

Deng Jin could always guess what would happen next. The two sides are at war, if the officials of Yuzhang have the upper hand, then there is nothing to say, at most they will be driven out and killed, and it is normal to become a king and lose a king.

If Lin Yanxian's side, that is, their side, occupies the top, the officials of Yuzhang will definitely make a bad move. They will not hesitate to use the people of Yuzhang as a shield and as their talisman.

The officials of Yuzhang will not hesitate to push the people of Yuzhang to go in front and push them to be cannon fodder.

At this time, the people of Yuzhang became the participants of the war, the people of Yuzhang who became the participants of the war, and the people of Yuzhang who became cannon fodder, shields, and talismans, and their fate was miserable.

At this time, the casualties of the people are the greatest.

When the officials of Yuzhang launched the people of Yuzhang as a shield, what would Lin Yanxian do? Will it retreat again and again, or will it endure the pain and kill the defenseless people of Yuzhang?

Whatever the choice, sad enough,

For the people of Yuzhang to retreat again and again, that is to disregard the lives of the Yulin guards and regard the interests of the Great Zhou as child's play. Wouldn't it be a pity that you could have won the victory, but in the end, you failed?

If you endure the pain of the defenseless warden and the indiscriminate slaughter of the people, is it not contrary to your original wish? Lin Yanxian became a joke about letting the people be benevolent. It was Lin Yanxian who was merciful to the people of Yuzhang, and it was Lin Yanxian who was cruel to the people of Yuzhang. How innocent the people of Yuzhang were, they became cannon fodder for the war between the two sides. They did not die at the end of their lives, nor did they die under the knife of the mountain bandits, but died under the knife of the Great Zhou soldiers, which is really sad and can not be sader anymore.

In fact, Ci is not in charge of the army, not only for military generals, but also for civilian officials. General Wu, who guarded Qingxia, endured heartache and ordered his archers to shoot and kill the people of Dazhou who were pushed out by the Beidi people as cannon fodder, so that Qingxia was defended and the tragedy did not expand. General Wu's decisiveness kept the tragedy out of Qingxia.

Lin Yuanjun is still too soft-hearted, but his self-righteous kindness has brought a greater crisis to the people of Yuzhang.

Deng Jin admires Lin Yanxian's dedication to the people, but she has no way to accept Lin Yanxian's seemingly benevolent, but actually cruel decision.

Deng Jin believes that the correct approach should be to ignore the threats of Yuzhang county officials. Let the officials of Yuzhang think that the people of Yuzhang are worthless weeds.

It's like a piece of jadeite that is connected to the city is in danger of being stolen, but is there a danger of being stolen if a stubborn stone can be found everywhere?

But Lin Yanxian is the envoy and the top leader of this westbound team. Deng Jin, she can only feel sorry for the people of Yuzhang in her heart. As for more, she couldn't do anything. She is soft-spoken.

Xue Qian has another opinion of Lin Yanxian's approach.

Lin Yanxian's image seems to overlap with the image of her dreams. She also wants to become an official like Lin Yanxian, dedicated to the people, upright, for the Great Zhou, for the saint to die,

Xue Qian thought that Lin Yanxian's behavior of not taking risks with the people was correct.

Who knows if the officials of Yuzhang will go crazy and take the people of Yuzhang to get angry.

She thinks that Lin Yanxian's approach is to give the people of Yuzhang another guarantee. Lin Yanxian's behavior was to tell the officials of Yuzhang that the people of Yuzhang were not nothing, at least there was still him standing behind the people of Yuzhang.

Relying on the grass of the big trees to avoid being wilted by the storm.

She thinks that Lin Yanxian's approach will make the officials of Yuzhang have scruples, and they will not slaughter the people of Yuzhang at will like slaughtering cattle and sheep. She felt that Lin Yanxian was telling the officials of Yuzhang that the reason why he painted the ground as a prison was for the people of Yuzhang.

Therefore, even for their own safety, the officials of Yuzhang will definitely treat their talismans carefully. Because they know that Lin Yanxian is just for the people of Yuzhang to draw the ground as a prison, if there is no people of Yuzhang, then Lin Yanxian can be said to leave if he wants.

Lin Yanxian can leave if he wants, which obviously meets their expectations. All they needed to do was to drag Lin Yanxian and prevent him from leaving Yuzhang County.

(1) "Grass/Farewell to the Ancient Grass" - [Tang] Bai Juyi