Entering the main hall, Wang Qiang looked up and saw Lin Haotian, without waiting to speak, his eyes turned red first, and he fell to the ground with a plop, and said with a crying voice: "Xiaguan, knock to see your lord!"

Seeing the old brother who had fought side by side with him back then, Lin Haotian also felt a lot, he leaned over and waved his hand and said: "Wang Qiang, please get up quickly......! I haven't seen it in a year or two?"

"Lord Huiyu, it's been three years......" Before speaking, Wang Qiang was already in tears.

"It's been so long. If you weren't tired of fighting and transferred places, with your ability, you would at least be a lieutenant general now!" Lin Haotian said with regret.

"Xiaguan has today, all rely on the cultivation and Longen of adults!"

Lin Haotian smiled indifferently, and then asked with concern: "Wang Qiang, how are you doing in Jiangxi?

Wang Qiang hurriedly said: "Thanks to the blessing of the lord, everything is fine in Jiangxi, but the trivial matters are complicated, which is very different from being in the army. ”

"Yes, those of us who came from the ranks always feel a headache when it comes to handling government affairs. ”

Lin Haotian nodded with feeling, and said: "Jiangxi is a major grain-producing county in my country, and I am also very pleased to see that Jiangxi is paying more and more grain year by year, this is all your credit!"

"My lord's words are serious, everything is because of my lord's blessing, my lord is in charge of the Jin country, the will of heaven should be obeyed, and the people are satisfied, my Jin country is naturally also a golden tune and the rain is smooth, and it is abundant every year, and Jiangxi County is just borrowing the light of the adult, and the lower officials dare not take credit. Wang Qiang said seriously.

Lin Haotian laughed on his back when he heard this, and said, "Wang Qiang." I see that after you became the head of the county, your eloquence got better and better, haha-"

Wang Qiang hurriedly bowed his hand.

"Tonight, I will hold a banquet in the General's Mansion to entertain the brothers who have come from afar, and you will come too!" Lin Haotian said.

"Yes, sir!"

"Well, go down first!"

Wang Qiang knelt on the ground and kowtowed again, and then withdrew from the main hall.

When he walked down the long steps and arrived at the square below, the surrounding officials flattered him one after another: "Lord Wang is worthy of being an 'old minister' who follows your lordship, and he was the first to be received by your lordship." ”

I heard the fawning of the people around me. Look at the envy on everyone's faces. Wang Qiang showed a look of relief, his head was raised high, the corners of his mouth were pursed, and he said proudly: "The age of this official may not be as old as that of your lords. But when it comes to the length of time to follow adults. It is not an exaggeration to call this official a 'veteran'. ”

"yes, yes. In the future, I will have to bother Lord Wang to take care of ......."

Next, Lin Haotian met with Xu Bai and Hou Yuan together.

These two were both captains of the First Legion. At the beginning, he was also a general with great achievements in the First Army, and now he is the county leader and county lieutenant of Yanyan County, Ningdi.

Lin Haotian is still the same, after seeing the two of them, he only talks about family life, not about government affairs, I heard that the two of them have married and had children, and there are three or four concubines, and the children have been able to run all over the ground, Lin Haotian is also happy for the two of them.

He sighed: "When the two of you married a wife and had children, I couldn't go, I really can't say it, after the dispersal of the dynasty, the two of you went to find Xiao Xuan and each received a red envelope." ”

Xu Bai and Hou Yuan were startled, both knelt on the ground, and said in unison: "The lower officials don't dare!"

"What dare you dare, you two were both generals with outstanding achievements back then, and they were also brothers who fought side by side with me on the battlefield.

Hearing this, Xu and Hou were moved to tears, and said in unison: "Your Excellency, thank you!" While speaking, the two of them kowtowed three times each in the Great Highness.

After the two of them exited the main hall, Lin Haotian met with more than a dozen people in a row.

These people are all generals in the army that he is impressed by, and later left the army for various reasons and transferred to local posts, and now they are either county leaders or county captains, all of whom are the emperors of the same place.

In the end, Lin Haotian asked Shao Lin to go out to read his will, and reward the local officials who came to participate in the court, the county head and county lieutenant were rewarded with 800 silver, and the county head and county lieutenant were rewarded with 500 silver.

Tonight, he is going to do a big thing, but he doesn't know how many people will be implicated, and I don't know how many brothers back then will make him have to kill the killer. Thinking of this, Lin Haotian's mood became more and more disturbed, and he was lying on the bed and tossing and turning.

On the evening of the same day, Lin Haotian held a banquet in the square outside the main hall of the General's Mansion.

This time, the local officials who entered the capital all came to participate, and some of the big and lower officials in the court also came, and the scene was very lively, and the noise came and went.

Local officials seized this rare opportunity to toast and curry favor with the important officials in the court, hoping to find a solid backer for themselves.

Peng Qian and Chu Lianyu gathered the most people around them, and officials from all over the country did their best to flatter and flatter, although Xiao Xuan, the imperial historian, was also an official residence, and Peng Qian and Chu Lianyu were on an equal footing, but there were few officials around him.

Everyone knows that Xiao Xuan's temper is weird, smelly and hard, if you don't please him, it may be fine, but if you try to please him, you will get into trouble for yourself.

For such people, everyone has the same mentality, they can avoid it, and the farther away they are, the better.

Most of the county heads and county captains in the Jin Kingdom are all generals in the army, and Chu Lianyu, as the head of the army and the head of the military attaché, can be said to be their old boss, and the difference can be seen through the attitude of the officials towards Chu Lianyu and Peng Qian.

For Peng Qian, people are polite in addition to compliments or compliments, and for Chu Lianyu, there is also a bit of respect and closeness in the compliments.

Just as the meeting hall was full of people, some guards sang loudly: "Your Excellency—"

With the sound of chanting, the venue immediately fell silent, and the officials hurried back to their seats, sitting upright, not daring to squint.

Soon, Lin Haotian walked into the square surrounded by a group of guards and palace maids.

Seeing that the adults were coming, all the officials left the table and knelt on the ground. Prostrate.

Lin Haotian's seat was also arranged in the square, in the middle, and he walked towards his seat while scanning the people on both sides with a smile.

After taking his seat, he waved his hand slightly and said, "Everyone, get up!"

"Master Xie!" everyone got up in unison, and then, carefully, sat down.

Lin Haotian smiled and said: "You don't have to be too restrained, everyone is not an outsider, so let's treat this banquet as a family banquet." ”

I heard that the adult's tone was relaxed and easy-going. Everyone secretly sighed in unison.

Lin Haotian looked down at the table in front of him. Then pick up the flask and pour it.

Shao Lin on the side hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to take the wine jug in his hand, but Lin Haotian waved his hand and motioned for Shao Lin to come by himself.

He poured himself a glass of wine. Hold it high. He said loudly, "You have come from afar. I've worked hard all the way, I'll give you a glass first!"

"Xiaguan and other respects!" everyone hurriedly picked up their wine glasses and raised them to Lin Haotian. Then drink the wine in the glass.

After drinking a glass of wine, Lin Haotian poured himself another glass and said: "This second cup of wine is to pay tribute to those heroes and martyrs who were born and died with us but failed to walk off the battlefield alive.

"Respect my heroic martyrs!" When everyone raised the wine glass again, many people's eyes were already red, they were in the army to fight in the south and the north, they all crawled out of the pile of dead, recalling the former comrades and brothers, but now they have been separated forever, and their hearts are inevitably sad.

Lin Haotian raised his glass for the third time and said: "This third glass of wine, I still respect you, everyone has worked hard in the local service, I respect you." ”

"My lord, I dare not be ashamed!" The people hurriedly poured a full bottle of wine and toasted a third glass with Lin Haotian.

After drinking three cups in a row, Lin Haotian's cheeks were slightly flushed, he raised his sleeves, wiped the corners of his mouth, and waved at everyone: "Everyone should eat, we can't drink all at once!" With Lin Haotian's greeting, the atmosphere of the scene immediately became lively again, with laughter and laughter.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Lin Haotian suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, frowned, and walked slowly in the aisle in the middle of the banquet.

Seeing this, people stopped talking and laughing, put down the wine glasses and chopsticks in their hands, and focused their eyes on him.

Lin Haotian walked by himself for a while, then stopped in the middle of the aisle and asked the people around: "Everyone tell me, since you became a local official, how are your political achievements?"

"Thanks to the blessing of the lord, everything is fine, and the place under the jurisdiction of the lower officials is also thriving!" The nearby officials heard Lin Haotian's question clearly and said in unison.

"Is it thriving? But that's not what I've heard!"

Hearing this, the faces of everyone present changed at the same time, and they looked at each other, and many people slowly lowered their heads.

Lin Haotian said quietly: "Someone once came to me, saying that most of the county captains and county captains in my country are now from the army, and if you want to say that you want to fight the world and fight on the battlefield, it is a first-class good hand, but you can't manage the government, let alone govern the water, soil and the people. ”

As soon as he said this, no one answered at the scene, and there was silence and silence.

Squinting slightly, Lin Haotian looked around at the people around him, and continued: "But I don't believe it, all the brothers are veterans and veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they can calmly deal with whatever kind of strong enemies and dangers they faced at the beginning, so how can they not be able to govern a county, a county, or even a city?

Hearing Lin Haotian say this, Wang Qiang's face turned red, and he suddenly stood up with righteous indignation, and said loudly: "This is someone slandering the adults, provoking the relationship between the adults and the lower officials, such a subordinate official has bad intentions, and the adult must not spare him!"

As soon as he took the lead, the other local officials also blew up, and said in a gossipy voice: "What Lord Wang said is extremely true, saying that we can't manage the government and bend the law for bribes, that's pure fart!"

"That's it! In the army, the subordinate officials and others can command thousands of troops and horses, break the formation, kill the enemy, attack the city and plunder the land, and be born and die, blood and sweat for the sake of my Dajin's country, how can it be that in the mouth of the subordinate officials, the subordinate officials will become waste and bullies when they arrive in the place? It is simply unreasonable, and it is extremely hateful!"

Listen to the invectives of the crowd. Peng Qian picked up the wine glass and took a sip quietly. It was he who proposed to Lin Haotian that it was inappropriate to transfer from a general in the army to a local post, and what Lin Haotian just said was basically what he said at that time.

Lin Haotian glanced at him with a smile without leaving a trace, and then waved his hand to everyone, signaling them to be quiet, and said: "At that time, I was also very angry, and I thought the same as you, I felt that the people I met had ulterior motives, but after thinking about it, I felt that what he said also made some sense. The brothers are all military men. If you want to say that it is your duty to strategize and dispatch troops. But governing the local government is really not what everyone is good at, and those should be done by civil officials. ”

"My lord, but I think that the lower officials and others have not managed the place well?"

"Whether the governance is good or not, the brothers here naturally know in their hearts. ”

Lin Haotian put his hands behind his back. Wander back and forth in the aisles. "I have a suggestion here. The brothers also listened attentively. Let the civilian officials do what they do, and everyone has been fighting in the army for so long, and it is time to go home and live a peaceful, stable and comfortable life. If there are brothers who now propose to return to their hometowns, the county head and the county lieutenant will receive 10,000 taels of silver, 3,000 mu of fertile land, and the county head and county lieutenant will receive 5,000 taels of silver and 1,500 mu of fertile land. I don't know, what do you brothers think?"

His words were like a bombshell exploding in everyone's hearts, and in just an instant, many people's faces turned pale.

There are already a lot of silver taels, plus 3,000 acres of fields, future generations can have no worries about food and clothing, Lin Haotian's conditions are generous enough, but for county-level officials, these benefits can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, to be the head of a county, the head of the county army, it is like sitting in a mountain of gold and silver, and now they want to return to their hometown, who can accept it?

"My lord, there is no fault for the lower officials, how can the lower officials and others give way and return to their hometowns? Your Excellency must not listen to slander!" Zhao Yu, the head of Tianyang County, knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice.

It would be better if he didn't stand up and speak, seeing him come up and shout injustice, the anger in Lin Haotian's heart suddenly burned, the corners of his mouth provoked, and he said in a cold voice: "Slander? Do these 'slanders' have wronged you? Zhao Yu, do you think you don't know about these deeds you did in Tianyang County?"

While speaking, he strode to the table, took out a wooden box from under the table, pulled off the lid, took out a stack of papers in it, walked back to Zhao Yu, and said in a deep voice: "In your place, corruption and perversion of the law is light, and I don't know how many lives are wasted?

With a bang, the papers were scattered all over the ground, Zhao Yu's kneeling body trembled, and hurriedly put away the papers scattered all over the ground one by one, and then looked down carefully, and the blood on his face instantly receded.

On the paper, the illegal deeds he did on weekdays were clearly displayed one by one, and even the specific time, place, and person were recorded in detail.

"Don't talk about other Ben Shuai, just say that the ancestral hall you built, the Rosewood Ancestral Hall, the entire ancestral hall is made of Rosewood, even if it is a gold mountain and a silver mountain, it is not as valuable as the ancestral hall at your home, you come to tell Ben Shuai, where did you get these Rosewood?"

"This ...... This ......"

"Can't you tell it, can you? Ben Shuai helped you say that when the General's Mansion was built, the imperial court requisitioned rosewood from various counties, and at that time, under the banner of the imperial court, you took such a large amount of red sandalwood in Tianyang County, and as a result, you never sent a single piece to the imperial court, and all of them were used by you to build the ancestral hall.

With Lin Haotian's order, six guards with big shoulders and round waists brought in a big guillotine knife from outside the square, this big guillotine knife has to be more than one person long, more than half a person high, the knife is a steel knife, even the base is made of bronze, weighing three or four hundred catties. When it was put in place, there was a muffled bang, and even the dust in the cracks of the floor tiles was shaken.

Seeing this big guillotine, everyone present felt a cool breeze on the back of their spines, and their scalps were numb for a while.

Peng Qian frowned secretly, the adults didn't come to invite everyone to drink and party tonight, it looked more like killing chickens and monkeys, knocking on mountains and shaking tigers, but strange, such a big thing, why didn't the adults even reveal the slightest bit of tone before?

Thinking about it, he looked at Chu Lianyu opposite, thinking that the adult might not have discussed this matter with him, but should have discussed it with Chu Lianyu. As a result, when he looked at Chu Lianyu, he found that the latter was also at a loss, and he also looked at him with questioning eyes.

Peng Qian couldn't help but gasp, and stayed for a while before subconsciously looking at Lin Haotian again.

At this time, Zhao Yu was already paralyzed by fright on the spot, he knelt on the ground, snot and tears flowed down together, walked with his knees as feet, knelt in front of Lin Haotian, and begged in a trembling voice: "My lord spare my life, my lord spare my official's life-"

"You say, did Ben Shuai wronged you?" Lin Haotian looked down at Zhao Yu who was kneeling in front of him, his face was sinking like water, and his eyes flashed with a cold and terrifying fierce light.

"No! The lord did not wronged the lower official, it was the lower official who was wrong, the lower official knew that he was wrong, the lord saw that the lower official had followed the adult for many years, and there was no merit and hard work, so spare the lower official this time!"

Zhao Yusheng burst into tears, kowtowing to the ground as he spoke, but in an instant, the flesh of his head was broken, and blood flowed all over his face.

He suddenly remembered something, his body shook, he raised his head and said urgently: "My lord, the lower official is willing to tell the old man to return to the countryside, and the lower official does not want the reward of the adult......

"It's late!" Lin Haotian's eyes darkened, slowly squatted down, looked at Zhao Yu with a face like ashes and sweat like rain, and said quietly: "Just now, Ben Shuai has given you a chance, but you don't know how to cherish it, so it's no wonder that Ben Shuai doesn't talk about the old days, and he turns his face ruthlessly!" After speaking, he patted Zhao Yu on the shoulder, then stood up, walked back to his seat, and said without looking back: "Drag it down, it's over!"

"Your Excellency...... My lord, my lord knows that I am wrong, and my lord spares my life...... Lord Chu...... Lord Chu saves his subordinates, ......"

Zhao Yu cried and cried for help, looking at Chu Lianyu with blank eyes, hoping that he could say good things for himself and plead with adults.

But how could Chu Lianyu save him? Not to mention what evidence was in the papers that the adults took out, the mere fact that he withheld the tribute without permission was a capital crime of beheading.

Chu Lianyu hung his head and was silent, and everyone present didn't even dare to breathe, and beads of sweat the size of beans dripped down their foreheads. (To be continued......)