Sun Ning inserted these henchmen into the Yuzhou army, on the one hand, he was preparing for the future, and on the other hand, he actually had the intention of testing Xiao Changyong.

Although this Marquis of Dingxi has always shown loyalty to the emperor and has no ambition to blackmail the Son of Heaven, after all, it is the hearts of the people who are separated from their stomachs, and they have to be guarded against and tested.

As a result, this time, Xiao Changyongzhen used practical actions to show Sun Ning that he really had no intention of doing anything to be self-reliant and blackmailing the king, but just to be a courtier with peace of mind.

Regarding Sun Ning's proposal to arrange Yanhu to serve in the army for training, Xiao Changyong didn't even think about it, so he agreed.

Then, only two days later, they officially entered the barracks and became the lieutenants who trained all the garrisons.

As for Guo Chong and Deng Hei, Xiao Changyong opened the door to convenience, not only promised them considerable rights, but also allocated hundreds of elite cadres to listen to the dispatch of the two to investigate and arrest suspicious people in Yuzhou.

As for Yang Xuan's arrangement, Dingxi Hou had no objections, and at that time, he removed the palace gate guards who had been originally arranged, and let the other guards obey Yang Xuan's orders.

This series of reactions made Sun Ning confirm that Xiao Changyong was a courtier who was truly loyal to him, and he had no other thoughts that he shouldn't have.

Actually, this is a reasonable thing, if he Xiao Changyong is really ambitious, I am afraid that he would have taken advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains a few years ago to stand on his own feet in the independent region of Sichuan and Shu, and he would still be able to get the turn of the Tang Sect to be a demon?

But it is precisely because of his character that the barbarian forces in the entire southwest began to rise, leaving a lot of challenges to the current Sun Ning.

After making all the internal arrangements, Sun Ning finally began to focus on how to expand outward, and this first step was naturally to find a person who best understood the situation in Sichuan and Shu and let him give advice for himself.

And this person, Sun Ning has already decided, it is the hermit outside the city named Zhuge Qingyun.

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It's late May, and it's the hot season, even in the morning, and it's hard to feel hot.

Sun Ning and his entourage of five people were turning along the official road at this time, and came to a small village with a medium population, quiet and peaceful.

Here, it is Sun Ning who asked people to inquire clearly, the village where the descendants of Zhuge Wuhou lived, called Zhuhe Village.

The descendants of Zhuge are not too big, so they are the village built by merging with the other two surnames, but because of the respect of the people of Shu for Wuhou, most of the people in the village can really call the shots.

At this time, the weather is just right, and it is also the busiest time of the day for farmers, everywhere in the village, you can see bare-backed, barefoot farmers busy in the fields, from time to time chickens, dogs, geese and ducks swaying by, it seems that the whole village is more and more vibrant, making people forget their worries at first sight.

Walking on the path leading to the interior of the village, Sun Ning nodded with a smile: "It really deserves to be a place where the descendants of famous families live, and the atmosphere is good." ”

"You're a little too subjective." Xiao Qian on the side glanced at him, shook her head disapprovingly, said, and poured another sip of wine.

This is the first time that the two have reunited since they arrived in Yuzhou, but after knowing Sun Ning's true identity, she has not changed much, and she will still make fun of him.

This kind of performance made Wei Shen and Yang Xuan, who were following behind, look sideways for a while, they couldn't imagine that this woman was so presumptuous. What surprised them even more was that His Majesty the Emperor didn't mind this at all, but instead looked very happy, with a smile on his face.

Sun Ning is indeed happy because of this, Xiao Qian can still be the same to herself, which shows that she is really interested in herself as a person, what emperor is not an emperor, compared to him Sun Ning, it is not worth mentioning at all.

But he said, "I have a basis." If you look at the stream surrounding the village, and then look at the mountain behind the village, with the scenery of the whole village, such a scene that is enough to enter the painting, doesn't it make people sigh and want to linger here? ”

"Anyway, it seems to me that everything here is similar to other villages. Let's go, let's go there and ask, it's serious to find someone. Xiao Qian said as she strode towards the group of women washing their clothes by the stream in front of her.

Sun Ning smiled bitterly, nodded at Shen Zhou, who was also smiling helplessly, before following.

This time, Shen Zhou was able to help Shen Zhou with him, and the others were more just companions.

Wei Shen was even more bitter because he was left in Liangzhou by Sun Ning before, and he cried no less than ten times in front of Sun Ning before, which made him feel really ashamed. So when I came out today, I simply brought him with me.

"Dare to ask a few sisters-in-law, this village is Zhuhe Village, is there a professor named Zhuge Qingyun?" Xiao Qian stood by the stream with a smile and asked a few women in raccoon.

These women are all older than Xiao Qian, and they are not afraid of life, looking at the five people who came to them, they first looked them up and down, and then one of them replied: "This is Zhuhe Village, and there is indeed a gentleman named Zhuge Qingyun who teaches the children in the village to learn." Why did you come to him? ”

Such an orderly response made Sun Ning's eyes light up, even the women in this village have such knowledge, and Zhuge Qingyun, as a hermit, is even more extraordinary.

Xiao Qian was also in good spirits, and said with a smile: "We admired Mr. Zhuge for his virtuous name and talent, and specially came to visit him for advice." I wonder if I can tell him where he lives. ”

These words caused a burst of laughter from all the women in raccoon, and the woman who replied just now laughed so much that she almost fell into the water with the wooden basin in her hand, and quickly took it before replying: "Can't you imagine that Qingyun still has such a wise man outside?" ”

"This sister-in-law, who are you and Mr. Zhuge ?" Sun Ning heard the hidden meaning of her words and asked curiously.

"I'm his sister-in-law, to be honest, Qingyun has nothing left to say some strange things that everyone can't understand, and then he makes some friends who don't know the origin...... Even the Mengxue handed over to him by the clan, he was always at ease, this virtuous word, he really didn't dare to take it. ”

Sun Ning was stunned, he couldn't imagine that Zhuge Qingyun was such an unobtrusive existence in the eyes of his family.

Is it because these people don't know and can't know people, or do they really think highly of people?

Sun Ning also thought for a moment, and then said: "How Mr. Zhuge is learning, you still have to meet to find out, and ask my sister-in-law to show me the way." ”

"Okay." Seeing Sun Ning insisting so much, the woman stopped laughing and pointed to the village path, "You go down the road, and when you reach the vicinity of our village ancestral hall, you can hear the sound of children reading, and he is there." ”

"Thank you." Sun Ning nodded at them, and then led a few people back to the depths along the road in the village.