On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the situation in Shaanzhou City was somewhat turbulent. Not only is everyone sweating on the official face, but even the people in the market have tasted some rumors.

In this situation, for the first time in half a year, Jia Lian took a break from his busy official duties, took Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong, Lai Wanglaixi, and six or seven strong family members to travel.

Let's go to the grange in Sister Feng's mouth first.

Among the counties under the jurisdiction of Shaanzhou Prefecture, there is a Pingbian County, and the northwest of Pingbian County is where the Grange is located.

After noon, I finished my official business and went out, although I ran all the way, but it was still after dusk fell, and the group arrived in Pingbian County and found the outside of the grange.

The scale of Zhuangzi is not large, there is a street running through the north and south, and outside the village is the fertile field covered by snow, and there is a circle of fences around it, and then there is a circle of earth walls behind the fence, layer upon layer, protecting Zhuangzi in it.

"It is worthy of the northern frontier, and everywhere it is built as a dock fort......"

Jia Lian jumped out of the carriage and sighed.

The dock fort is said to have originated in the time of Wang Mang of the New Dynasty, when the northern land was turbulent, and the big families established the dock fort to protect themselves, and later because the existence of the dock fort can resist bandits or foreign invasions, it has been handed down, and the court has repeatedly banned it.

"That is, it is now under the name of the second master, otherwise if you cultivate like this, you will definitely have to be pulled by the local yamen for group training." Lai Wang smiled complimentarily.

Regimental training is the extra soldiers of the locality, needless to say.

In short, if you meet a good regimental training commander and pull someone to be a regimental trainer, you can also send a document to exempt that household from military service. But if you meet a black-hearted person, depending on who has more family, you can just greet the regiment for military service......

"It's not Xunzhuang, how does the local government dispatch, what to do with the beak!" Jia Lian glared at Lai Wang and spoke in an urn.

He left his official duties and went out of Shaanzhou City, but he didn't specifically help Laiwang Laixi, and used official coercion to subdue the villagers.

He had other important things to do.

This matter is nothing else, it is specifically to find Shi Kou to break the Yuling County in the north.

Don't avoid it, but Jia Lian wants to hit it, who told him to see the thief surnamed Shi is strange.

……

Laiwang didn't please him when he spoke, and he retreated to make amends, and Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong on the side saw it, and almost held back their laughter.

In the cold winter of Layue, the fence outside Zhuangzi was unguarded, and a group of people went straight in.

In front of the gate of the grange surrounded by earthen walls, Laiwang regrouped, pulled Laixi and a family, and came forward to bang on the door viciously.

When I came, I saw smoke coming from a distance, and it must be that the gatekeeper was cooking a fire.

"Blind, open the door!"

Sound comes in.

The janitor who was roasting the fire inside stumbled and almost fell to the ground, got up and approached, and asked through the door, "Who?" ”

"Humph! Listen up! ”

Laiwang straightened his waist, inhaled suddenly, and taught his breath to make a circle in his stomach, and then spit out:

"Arriving today is the Imperial Court Doctor, the Captain of the Upper Cavalry, the Emperor Celang, the Rongguo Mansion's Inheritance Lord, and the current Shaanzhou Mansion Carrying Envoy Chief, Lord Jia Lianjia!"

"Ahh

There was a panic inside the door.

The man inside turned his back to the door and shouted in panic: "Although it is night, there are not many empty houses in the village, and there are not enough to accommodate so many officials...... Please wait and go to the township! ”

Outside the door, including Jia Lian, the group of people had black lines on their foreheads.

"I can't say anything, get up!"

Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong stepped forward side by side, squeezed away mockingly, and knocked on the door again.

After a while, the explanation was clear, and I knew that the new owner of the village was coming. The man who guarded the door opened the door tremblingly, invited the group in, and then took out a gong from the nearby hut and went out into the street to summon people.

Lai Wanglai followed behind and entered sullenly.

The two of them were assigned by Sister Feng to take care of the errand of this grange, so they came to the horse first, and then they were good to be evildoers, but Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong brothers and the two of them were right, and they were ruined.

Jia Lian's carriage passed the former village, and at the end of the road in the village, there was a big garden, and a wall was built outside the garden and half enclosed, which was different.

Because of the sound of the gong, some people got up early, hung up with lamps, and opened the gate of the garden to greet them.

When he got out of the car again, Jia Lian saw an old man with a white beard standing outside, flashing out of his life, and was about to go over to talk.

Jia Lian called out to stop the two of them, and stepped forward to ask questions first.

"Get up, you're the head of the village here?"

The man was about to kneel down, but when he heard this, he hurriedly replied, "Yes, after the steward left in front of me, the people in the village elected me to be in front of him." I heard that the new master's house was coming, but I thought that I would only arrive tomorrow, but I didn't want to come at night, which was really inconsiderate. ”

"The new master?"

Jia Lian looked at Lai Wanglaixi, didn't he say that this grange had always been from Rongguo Mansion? How he gave birth to a new master's house.

Lai Wang Lai Xi shuddered, and secretly scolded the old thing for talking too much.

"Humph! Let's go inside! ”

The old farmer hurriedly agreed, went in with the carriage, and stopped by the stream introduced outside the village.

Jia Lian asked someone to stop the gong outside, because he was making trouble, and he didn't need to ask all the villagers to get up and appear.

When he entered the hall and sat down, the servants of the garden lit the lamps and brought in the fire.

So Laiwang Laixi was just about to speak, but was interrupted by Jia Lian waving his hand, teaching them to go down and do business, and check the accounts.

drove them away, and Jia Lian came to talk to the old village again.

"Say, which is the old master's house?"

The old Zhuang Tou knew that he had said the wrong thing, and was trembling, and when he heard Jia Lian's question, he gritted his teeth and had to tell the truth.

It's not a big deal.

This Zhuangzi was originally purchased by the envoy of the Ping'an Zhou Festival in the west, and the person heard that Jia Lian had come to Shaanzhou not long ago, so he transferred this Zhuangzi directly.

Because Jia Lian was running around, the people from Ping'an Zhou were received by Sister Feng, and she hid it from Jia Lian after she received the Zhuangzi.

If it weren't for Sister Feng'er to let the people in Ping'an Zhou evacuate cleanly, and Lao Zhuangtou leaked his mouth because of the sudden arrival of the group, Jia Lian really thought that this was the family business that Lao Guogong had saved at the beginning.

"That's it, you go and hand over to Laiwang Laixi, just talk in front of me, and don't be afraid that they dare to attack you......"

Too lazy to ask again, Jia Lian Yixing saw that the old village head went down.

Forget about the other festivals, he was afraid that he would not be clean after sending Zhuangzi, and asked Ning Rong and the two mansions to help him do something in Beijing.

But the peace festival makes the father and son pass on, the ancestor is the old department of Lao Ronggong, I heard that he Jia Lian came over, and it is natural to send Zhuangzi to the seat.

It's just that Sister Feng is stingy, and she still has to hide it with him and discuss it.

Could it be that there is any secret in it?

Jia Lian thought to himself for a moment, but he couldn't think of it, so he just gave up, just a little bit of Zhuangzi's own money, and asked Sister Feng when he went back.

I can't complain that he thinks so.

In the past six months, Jia Lian has had four or five hundred taels of extra money every month, and at the end of the year, he also got a share of the tax balance in Shaanzhou, which is no longer what it used to be, and it is much more generous than when he was in Kyoto.