Xu Zhiyuan was about to cry, it was the first time in his life that he was martyred and martyred so hard, can you give the old man a happy one, Xu Zhiyuan was not afraid of death, when the thief broke the city, his enthusiasm for suicide was very high, as long as the thief came out, he would show them a what is called a scholar's style and bones, what is called loyalty to the country.

But after yesterday's toss, today's trouble, Xu Zhiyuan no longer wants to die so much, he is a little scared now, afraid that tomorrow the thief will really come, and he has lost the courage to commit suicide.

So when Xu Zhiyuan finished dinner, he looked up at the guy who delivered the meal and said, "Where is the thief who asked you to come, you call him, I have something to say to him." ”

The guy who delivered the meal was cleaning up the leftover food from Xu Zhiyuan at this time and said: "Don't embarrass me, Lord Prefect, I'm just a food deliverer, I really don't know what kind of thief Kou Xiao, if you don't want to go back and talk to our shopkeeper, maybe he knows." ”

Xu Zhiyuan looked at the embarrassed young man and gritted his teeth, stomped his feet at the end, and didn't say anything to let the young man go, now embarrassed such a young man who delivered food is of no use to him at all, thinking of this Xu Zhiyuan sighed and said: "That's it, you go first." ”

"Okay, then the prefect, you rest early,"

After saying this, the guy left with the food box, and then the lady looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "Husband, are you still keeping vigil here tonight?" ”

"Guard, why not."

Xu Zhiyuan said, followed by his wife and said, "But don't guard it here anymore, go back to the back house to rest." ”

When the lady heard this, she said, "My husband has not rested, so how can I rest alone." ”

Xu Zhiyuan smiled when he heard this: "It's okay, the thieves will not come today, Mrs. can sleep peacefully." ”

"Ah, how does the husband know?"

Mrs. looked at Xu Zhiyuan puzzled, Xu Zhiyuan heard this and said angrily: "The thieves are boiling eagles, they want the old man to give in, but if he wants to be beautiful, the old man would rather die than give in!" ”

Madame looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "Husband, how do you know that they are boiling eagles?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan snorted coldly and said: "How can you hide it from me with such a measure, if they really want to kill me, why do they have to work so hard to send food to the old man, he is waiting for the old man to give in to them." ”

The lady breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this: "Husband, since they don't want to kill you, you can go back to the big bed in the back hall and sleep, and then stay up with them when you have enough sleep and enough sleep!" ”

Xu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "No, if I go back to sleep in the back hall now, won't I give in to them?" The old man will not leave, the old man has to guard the prefect's lobby, even if the outside is occupied by thieves, but as long as the old man is in this hall for a day, this hall is the official mansion of the Ming Dynasty, which represents the rule of the Ming Dynasty over this land! ”

Madame didn't understand very well, but it didn't matter, she was sleepy anyway, and when she heard that the thief didn't want to kill her husband, her tense heart was also sent, so she said: "Then the husband continues to stay up, I'll go back to sleep first." ”

Xu Zhiyuan waved his hand and said: "Go, if they don't come to see me tomorrow, you can go out to buy vegetables normally, and you can cook for me when you go back, how can the old man eat their food every day!" ”

Mrs. was even more relieved when she heard this, her husband can now let herself go out to buy vegetables, this is completely unwilling to die, and she began to compare with this group of thieves, thinking of this, Mrs. yawned and went back to the back house!

Seeing that his wife was gone, Xu Zhiyuan took the sword, looked at it and sighed, put the sword on the eucalyptus, and sat on the chair wrapped in the quilt.

The old man will never give in.

For another two days, Xu Zhiyuan was already haggard, and he continued to insist in the lobby at this time, but at this time he didn't want to die at all, and he had completely lost the courage to martyr.

This martyrdom is like a war, the emphasis is on one decline, and then exhaustion, three times it is nothing, when Wang Jiadong listened to the report of his subordinates, Mrs. Xu Zhiyuan has begun to buy vegetables and cook, he knew that this Lord Xu will not die.

Another day, Wang Jiadong followed the carpenter who changed the tables, chairs and benches for the government to the lobby of Lanzhou Mansion, and saw at a glance the tired and unkempt prefect Xu Zhiyuan, but there was no hunger and thinness.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't find Wang Jiadong at this time, at first he thought that Wang Jiadong was the leader of the carpenters, until he saw the carpenter change the furnishings in the lobby and exit the lobby, Xu Zhiyuan saw Wang Jiadong standing in the lobby without moving.

"You are?"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Wang Jiadong and asked, Wang Jiadong saw Xu Zhiyuan asking himself, so he arched his hand with a smile and said, "The junior Wang Jiadong has seen Xu Zhifu. ”

Xu Zhiyuan frowned slightly and said, "You are the thief who attacked the city, right?" ”

Wang Jiadong said with a smile: "Why did Governor Xu say this, the younger generation is an official, how can the thieves say, oh, by the way, what Governor Xu said may be the rogues who attacked the city yesterday, those rogues have been driven away by our army, and now Lanzhou Mansion is all ordinary people, and the rogues from there." ”

"Official?"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Wang Jiadong for a moment and said, "Are you an official there?" ”

Wang Jiadong smiled and arched his hand and said, "Wang Jiadong, deputy brigade commander of the Northwest Army in Xialantian." ”

Xu Zhiyuan was stunned when he heard this title: "Lantian? Are you from Lantian ? ”

Wang Jiadong smiled: "That's right. ”

Xu Zhiyuan frowned and said, "You Lantian officials, what did you do in Gansu?" ”

Wang Jiadong smiled at this time and arched his hand and said: "Governor Xu doesn't know, our Lantian County respects the chaos in Gansu, the rogue is everywhere, the people are slaughtered, and the heart is unbearable, so the formation of the Northwest Expeditionary Army, the intention is to level the Liukou, and return Gansu to a peaceful world, so that the people of Gansu can live and work in peace and contentment." ”

Xu Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, Wang Jiadong narrowed his eyes when he heard this, looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "What does Xu Zhifu have to say?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan said: "I laugh at him Li Chaosheng's wolf ambition, doesn't he just want to take advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty to annex the Ming Dynasty and expand the territory, I have to say that it seems to be compassionate to the heavens and people, and to save the people from fire and water, in fact, no matter how colorful the language is, it can't hide the fact that he Li Chaosheng is a thief of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Xu Zhiyuan said viciously, he thought that his words would sting Wang Jiadong and make Wang Jiadong crazy, but he didn't expect Wang Jiadong to be annoyed at all, and even the smile on the corner of his mouth was still bright: "There is nothing wrong with saying this, the Ming Emperor is mediocre, the hundred officials are greedy for life and afraid of death, do not think about national politics, do not care about the life and death of the people, and only know how to blindly exploit the people, resulting in difficulties in the people's lives, and can only be thieves." “

"So many times, the people of the Ming Dynasty are getting poorer and poorer, and they can't live anymore, just like a snowball, there are more and more people in need of relief in the Ming Dynasty, and there are more and more rogues, and the hundred officials of the imperial court, one by one, are so rich that they are rich, and the first assistant of the imperial court Zhou Yan Confucianism has millions of dollars, and there are 200,000 acres of fertile land in the southeast region."

"Wen Tiren's Wen family, who resigned from the government, also has more than 100,000 acres of fertile land, as for the rest of the officials' homes, the land is more than 10,000 acres, it is really Zhumen's wine and meat smell, and there are frozen bones on the road, and even your teacher Qian Qianyi, who claims to be honest, is said to have 100,000 acres of fertile land at home, and the family of a waiter of the Ministry of Rites who has been a scholar for many years is so rich, not to mention other officials, you have governed the world into what it is today, why don't we have capable people to help innocent people?"

"Xu Zhiyuan, let me ask you, when you see your colleagues spending all day drinking at home, hating to feed the dogs and using the best meat, have you ever thought about the people who died of hunger on the side of the road, have you ever thought about how they have endured this sad day?"

"Okay, okay, you are incompetent, greedy, and you can't squeeze every drop of blood out of the people, and now our county lord feels that the people are not having an easy time, and has decided to help the people live a good life, and live a good life that is not plagued by you moths, what about you? But he stood there and barked, saying that our county is a national thief of the Ming Dynasty, hahaha...... How shameless you are, it's just that you are not allowed to continue to exploit and oppress the people, just want the people to live a good life, so you speak ill of each other, and you hate to nail our county to the pillar of shame. ”

"But my great prefect, open your eyes and see, see how the people outside celebrate with crowns, how they set off firecrackers to celebrate their fall under Lantian's rule, look at their smiling faces, their tears of joy, don't you feel ashamed? You talk about the people of Li every day, you look at what you have governed the world into, and what kind of etiquette, righteousness and shame here, what kind of national thief, I tell you, we Lantian people have never been loyal to the Zhu Ming Dynasty, we are always loyal to the people of Limin. ”

"If one day the people scold us that Lantian is a national thief, then our Lantian is a national thief, but the people don't recognize it, you dog officials who eat the people and only know the fish and meat of the people, are not worthy of saying that we are national thieves, because you are national thieves!"

Wang Jiadong spoke to Xu Zhiyuan for a while, Xu Zhiyuan was stupid, and it took a long time before he said: "You, you, I, my family has never had so many apprentices, and I have never been greedy for a penny of the country." ”

Wang Jiadong said: "I know, the dignified prefect, there are only five hundred taels of extra silver at home, and you are considered incorruptible." ”

"You, how do you know?"

Xu Zhiyuan was shocked, the person in front of him was so terrifying, how could he even know about his little vault, you must know that his wife didn't know before he told his wife.

Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "Your old servant is too lame in makeup, and we caught ......"

"Huh?"

"Don't be nervous, we didn't touch him, we just let him go back to his hometown, and brought the news that you are safe."

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Wang Jiadong when he heard this: "You, what do you want to do?" ”

Wang Jiadong heard this and said: "Daming is too big, we Lantian people alone can't govern, and you are not bad in Lanzhou, except for being very naïve politically, not knowing how to develop in agriculture, not knowing how to build water conservancy in architecture, and having a collapsed lake in business, public security is equivalent to no such small problems, the rest is still very good." ”

Xu Zhiyuan's face darkened when he heard this, and he looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "What's left?" ”

Wang Jiadong thought for a while and said, "At least your heart is still good." ”

Xu Zhiyuan touched his heart, and Wang Jiadong said: "How about you do a big fight with our group of national thieves, so that the entire Lanzhou people can live the life they deserve?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan frowned, looked at the sword in his hand, Wang Jiadong also saw the sword in Xu Zhiyuan's hand and said with a smile: "Of course, you can also use the sword in your hand to wipe your neck, but I don't think anyone will care about you, an official who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court only cares about the Central Plains region at this time, you are the border of Gansu, people are unwilling to deal with it, you die or not, the court will not care, at most send a newspaper to the national officials, this is called Xu Zhiyuan's death." ”

"And then it can't stir up any waves, and in addition, we have seen through you as a person, except that your heart is not bad, it is simply useless, if you kill yourself, you will add a label of foolishness and loyalty to your head, as for the martyrdom you imagine, I don't know what you want to know, is it to defend to the death the rights of your corrupt officials and corrupt officials to exploit the people? Or is it right to use your death to tell the people of the world that you officials are right, that you exploit the people, squeeze out the people's hard-earned money, and not leave a way for the people to live? ”

"You die, anyway, your death in my place can only be exchanged for my ruthless contempt, of course, in the common people, you can't get back any good words, you have been the prefect all these years, you have indeed not harmed the people, there is no corruption and bending the law, but you have not brought a penny to the people."

"So if you die, what will the people say about you, there was once an official, incompetent is incompetent, but the person is not bad, what is your name, I can't remember it......"

"Alright, you can stop talking."

Xu Zhiyuan listened to Wang Jiadong's words, and his already strong will to martyrdom was completely gone, and at this time, he stopped speaking with a black face, and Wang Jiadong heard the words: "Promise, if you don't want to die, this is for you." ”

Xu Zhiyuan took the thing thrown by Wang Jiadong, and it looked like a small seal.

"What is this?"

Wang Jiadong said: "Lantian Zhongli long seal, you will be the Zhongli chief of Lanzhou in the future, we Lantian will take over here, and transform here, such as building water conservancy, leading the people to get rich, and we will also send officials here, and this seal in your hand is equivalent to your official seal, without him, your order can't get out of the prefect's yamen." ”

"With it, I can command the officials you send to me at will?"

Wang Jiadong said: "No, we in Lantian pay attention to things and not people, if your order is not beneficial to the people, any of the small people in Lantian can refuse you, you can do it yourself." ”

After saying that, Wang Jiadong left, regardless of whether Xu Zhiyuan agreed or not, in fact, Wang Jiadong knew that Xu Zhiyuan had no other choice.

"Okay, this matter is completed, you can write a military report when you go back, just five days later, the county is going to have a full moon, this gift, I don't know if the county is not satisfied!"