Xunyang Ferry.

After the big ship left, only Ouyang Rong and Wang Junzhi were left in this dock berth.

The two turned their heads and looked at each other.

Wang Junzhi took out his handkerchief, wiped his hands, and explained with a smile:

"Brother Ziang and Brother Shuqing had a very happy conversation, and decided to give him a ride, go to Longcheng to take office, and travel to Yunmeng Daze next to him by the way."

Ouyang Rong nodded.

Wang Junzhi put away the handkerchief, smiled lightly, didn't stay long, and turned to leave.

Ouyang Rong silently watched his back go away, turned around, and glanced back at the shadow of the boat on the river in the distance.

Yan Liulang greeted him: "Ming Mansion, where are you going now......

Ouyang Rong suddenly moved, passed in front of him, and walked towards the east side of Xunyang Ferry.

There is an office of the Ship Division, which registers the ships at anchor.

Yan Liulang was slightly stunned, and immediately shut up and kept up with the pace of the Ming Mansion.

Immediately, he saw that the Ming Mansion strode into the gate of the Ship Division, and stopped at the desk of a certain young official who was on duty in the morning and yawned.

Ming Fu stretched out his palm and said calmly:

"The big ship that just left, where did it start and where did it end, and I got the formalities."

The yawning officer was stunned for a moment, and wanted to make a face, but immediately saw that behind this young man in plain clothes with a big tone, there was a blue-clothed catcher who walked out of the queue quickly, holding a bronze medal in his hand.

"Okay, two adults, wait a minute."

The little official greeted him with a smile and rummaged through the papers.

Yan Liulang didn't pay much attention to the sudden change in the attitude of the little official, and glanced sideways at the Ming Mansion standing quietly in front of the table.

His eyes are as quiet as a deep pool.

……

Xunyang Gudu, which has the reputation of the first crossing in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, was left behind.

Standing on the deck, looking at the bow of the ship with the wind and waves, Du Shuqing looked at it for a while and turned around.

He silently crossed over the excited chatter next to him, and stepped into the rear cabin.

Said to the two figures in the cabin who were playing chess:

"Yan Gong, what should I do with this house on Luming Street."

Du Shuqing spread out a bunch of keys in his hand, and Mu Ne asked.

Li Zhengyan was playing against Wei Shaoqi, staring intently at the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard, and said without raising his head:

"What else can I do?" He sighed slightly: "Let's go first." ”

"Yes."

Wei Shaoqi opened his mouth and said: "He has been a county magistrate in Longcheng, so there should be someone he knows. ”

Du Shuqing looked sideways.

Li Zhengyan nodded: "This, you should pay attention to it." ”

Du Shuqing said "um", put away the key, and left silently.

After the people left, only the two people who were playing against each other were left in the cabin.

Li Zhengyan dropped a sunspot and sighed regretfully:

"Jiangzhou does have a royal spirit, and the location is good, it's really a good place."

Wei Shaoqi said succinctly: "It is the southeast gateway to Hongzhou. ”

Li Zhengyan nodded: "Especially Jiangzhou, down the Xunyang River, you can easily reach Jinling and Yangzhou, and it is also the gateway to the two. ”

The cabin fell silent, except for the sound of "da-da-da" chess pieces falling on the board.

Li Zhengyan suddenly threw the chess pieces in his hand back into the can, stood up, and waved his hand:

"Let's go, Jiangzhou can't stay for a long time, the road is different, and you can't find it.

"I'll leave it to Toshiyuki later."

Wei Shaoqi turned a deaf ear, pointed to the chessboard and said:

"Yan Gong, sit down, this game of chess is not finished yet."

"Ahem." Li Zhengyan coughed:

"Mr. Wei and I have something to do with the stinky chess basket. If you want to play chess, I'll go out and ask Shuqing to accompany Mr. to play with you. ”

Wei Shaoqi sighed: "Yan Gong, this is not a good chess product. ”

"It's not like you don't know my chess skills."

"For example?"

"Like this."

Li Zhengyan waved his sleeves calmly, messed up the losing chessboard, and bowed his head: "Smash the board." ”

Wei Shaoqi nodded, and suddenly returned to the topic not long ago:

"Wang Lengran's generation, there is nothing to be afraid of, but there is Ouyang Lianghan in Jiangzhou, and he really can't stay for a long time, it's time to go."

"I haven't asked, what does Mr. Wei think of Ouyang Lianghan?"

Wei Shaoqi pointed to the messy square chessboard of black and white round chess pieces in front of him, and said bluntly:

"If you do righteousness, if you use wisdom, if you move like a horseman, if you are quiet."

Li Zhengyan couldn't help but turn his head and look at Mr. Wei, who had always been stingy with praise.

These four praises roughly mean that the behavior is square and regular, the resourcefulness is smooth and changeable, the work is open and closed, but the heart is calm and peaceful.

"It's so quiet."

Li Zhengyan's head recognized:

"The most rare thing is that he has 'tranquility' at a young age, and I don't know what happened to him when he belittled Dragon City, it's too un-young."

"That's right, such characters are here, and it is Wei Zhou's luck."

After a pause, Wei Shaoqi sighed:

"If it was at the end of last year, it would be good if Ouyang Lianghan could receive the order to enter Beijing and enter the Yushi Terrace, and Yan Gong and I would have been able to get to know this person earlier, and there would not be the tricky Jiangzhou today."

Li Zhengyan's face was surprised:

"Mr. Wei rarely praises characters like this."

Wei Shaoqi shook his head: "Since the change of cadre to Zhou, I have seen a lot of heroes and become famous in these years, and it is rare to meet a person who lives up to his reputation." ”

sighed with emotion: "Worthy of the master's favor, let him stay in Jiangzhou against his will." ”

Hearing the word "master" in Wei Shaoqi's admiring tone, Li Zhengyan lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Wei Shaoqi also seemed to have discovered the cold field and kept silent.

After a quiet moment, someone in the cabin sorted out the messy chessboard, as if casually asking:

"Where do I go next, Guizhou?"

"Nope." The man who smashed the chessboard with his sleeves was quiet for a while, nodded and said, "Hongzhou." ”

"Color."

……

Ouyang Rong walked out of the Ship Market Trade Division with a morning light.

Yan Liulang, who followed behind him, flipped through the book in his hand and muttered:

"It doesn't seem to be a problem, it is indeed from Jinling, passing through Longcheng and Yixian."

Ouyang Rong was noncommittal.

The two returned to the Jiangzhou lobby.

"Wait at the door."

Ouyang Rong entered the main hall, took a letter, went out and handed it to Yan Liulang, and instructed:

"Yan Liulang sent it to Diao County Cheng for me...... No, Diao County Order. ”

Yan Liulang laughed when he heard Ouyang Rong say a slip of the tongue.

"Yes, Mingfu."

Turn around and step back.

"Wait."

Ouyang Rong turned around, called out to Yan Liulang and asked:

"Wang Junzhi's side, let you keep an eye on what he has done recently, except for going to the state school to attend classes."

Yan Liulang said: "Wang Junzhi was introduced by Yue Ziang, and later participated in three elegant gatherings of the Juhua Poetry Society, and had some contact with Her Royal Highness the little princess of Xunyang Palace. ”

Ouyang Rong frowned slightly.

Yan Liulang observed his expression and asked, "Ming Mansion, what's wrong?" ”

"It's fine." Ouyang Rong shook his head.

"Ming Mansion doesn't like this person?"

"I can't tell."

Yan Liulang thought about it and hesitated:

"Ming Mansion, after all, she is Da Lang's sister, and she is not an outsider, you can also let Da Lang talk, if you have anything to say, what to admonish, it is better to clarify it with her directly."

After remembering that misunderstanding, the attitude of not getting close to the people of the wrapped child.

Ouyang Rong nodded lightly, but said no more.

There are some things, in fact, as the chief strategist of Xunyang Palace, it is not convenient for him to say.

And his attitude has always been the same:

Tolerate latecomers, and do not exclude any talented people who have never met and defected to Xunyang Palace, provided that they don't take them into the ditch.

If there is a world-shattering talent, Ouyang Rong consciously relinquishes the position of chief strategist.

Only people with low self-esteem and arrogance are jealous.

Of course, sometimes, this attitude of indisputability is the biggest contention, but it is just unconscious.

Previously, he had never said anything bad about Yue Ziang, who was extremely angry, in front of his father and son.

Driving him out of the palace was the decision of the idle father and son to avoid suspicion at that time.

And the refusal to see the extremely famous Li Zhengyan and Wei Shaoqi was also because the idle father and son were worried that they would get into trouble with this kind of surrogate.

Ouyang Rong also didn't say bad things behind his back in advance.

However, regarding the possible goals of Li Zhengyan, Wei Shaoqi and others, Ouyang Rong is actually worried and vigilant.

If the father and son really met them, Ouyang Rong would have warned them afterwards out of his duty as a strategist, but it didn't happen.

However, at the moment, Wang Junzhi's behavior of slowly approaching, Ouyang Rong is also inconvenient to say more.

In particular, he is likely to take the path of being introduced away from Bao'er.

It may just be Wang Junzhi's normal refuge behavior after staying in Jiangzhou, and it has nothing to do with Li Zhengyan and others, after all, the attraction of Xunyang Wangfu is too great.

Ouyang Rong couldn't conclude,

We can only wait and see what happens.

In fact, for Li Zhengyan and his party, not to mention the trouble of stance and guilt, he does have a good impression after contact these days.

He even sympathized with their suffering of being cut off and abandoned by the current large forces of the DPRK and China's Baoli faction.

But this is not the reason why he put the lives of his little junior sister, the female dependents of Huaiye Lane, and the Xunyang Royal Mansion like child's play.

Ouyang Rong wants to follow a certain planned road and go out firmly.

This is what he discussed with everyone when he became a "Su Fu Strategist":

Survive this period of darkness before dawn, no matter how you can't defeat it, wait for the situation in the Shendu to change, help the Lixian family return to the capital, inherit the throne of the emperor, and even regain the treasure later.

As for then again.

It was that summer afternoon, on the dragon slaying platform of the Guyue Sword Shop, Ouyang Rong and Li Dalang agreed.

He helped the family return to the capital.

And they also fed Ouyang Rong a big stage to display his ambitions.

In the process, the salary-bearers will not freeze to death.

And Ouyang Rong, who knew a certain direction in his previous life, clearly understood that there was also a prosperous era in the future, hidden behind the many chaos of the current Wei Zhou Dynasty's heroine in power.

That was the era when this young unified dynasty was at its peak in national strength.

It is also a surviving expectation in Ouyang Rong's heart.

He wanted to go to that prosperous world, to see, to touch and change something.

At the same time, Ouyang Rong, who has experienced Longcheng County, does not want this prosperous era to only become a prosperous era for a few people in the two capitals in Guannei.

Just like what he did in Dragon City, save the lonely Hong all over the prosperous world.

When he first took office as a county magistrate in Longcheng, Ouyang Rong often asked himself:

Is this hell compared to the previous life?

Yes, it's hell, yes.

But since waking up for the second time and crawling out of the Pure Land Palace, Ouyang Rong has completely broken off his hopes for the afterlife and the Pure Land, and has set his feet.

Since Infernal Hell can't be transformed into a Lotus Pure Land overnight, let it become a little better.

Before crawling out of the underground palace that day, he carved the words next to the stone carving of "Return to Come", and he still remembers it clearly:

Today, the long tassel is in hand, when will the dragon be bound?

What is a tassel?

A mouthful of "craftsmanship" is far from enough.

He also wants to get a "sword of power" that men all over the world dream of, and cut off the many shortcomings of this dynasty.

And all of this requires Ouyang Rong to wait quietly and survive this period of darkness before dawn.

From the Yingzhou Rebellion, to the construction of the center and the Big Buddha instigated by Wei, to the belittling of radical Baoli factions such as Li Zhengyan, and then to the recent Guizhou tragedy and the mutiny of the Guizhou soldiers.

In a short period of time, all kinds of incidents have been overwhelming.

Let me ask, is this Wei Zhou chaotic at the moment?

Messy, of course messy.

Is the heart of one person of the Empress Wei and the heart of tens of millions of people hateful.

Disgusting.

Ouyang Rong nodded without hesitation.

Then he has to end it in the most time-saving and labor-saving and low-intensity way.

Since the following pages of Qingshi are written between the lines of the best answer of "absolute monarchy".

Then you are dead and alive at the top, and the court is stained with blood, it's okay, don't affect the general peace and stability of the people at the bottom, just do it.

Unless it is to get fresh blood, it can't be changed at all, and you have to step on the bones of the princess in the streets.

Otherwise, it would be better for the ruling class to fight for blood than to turn the world upside down when the lower strata changed from the bottom up, and there was not one in ten people.

Time-saving, labor-saving, low intensity.

The Xunyang Wang Lixian family is the closest answer to him at the moment.

It is also the reason why Ouyang Rong chose to take it from the Lixian family when he walked out of Dragon City, and put on the identity mask of "Strategist Tanlang" to assume this responsibility.

It's just that I didn't expect that in Xunyang City, I would confess my love with my little sister.

So there is another mask of "the canteen contractor of the little sister's son".

It's just fortunate that the little junior sister, the lady of Huaiye Lane, and the Xunyang Royal Mansion are all in Xunyang City, and they are all by Ouyang Rong's side.

Personal desires and future aspirations are consistent at the moment and do not conflict for the time being.

So even if Xunyang City is a cage walking on thin ice, his heart is also stable and more and more calm.

In the main hall, Ouyang Rong sat down, calmly sorted out the case, and lowered his eyes:

"Wang Junzhi doesn't have to worry about it for the time being, Liulang, if there is a reply from Longcheng, notify me as soon as possible."

"Yes, Mingfu."

……

Three days later, Ouyang Rong received a reply from Diao County's order.

Du Shuqing and his entourage have arrived in Dragon City.

Du Shuqing stayed, and stayed in the idle Merlot Xuan that night.

Ouyang Rong silently read the letter, and wrote another letter, which told Diao County a few words and sent it back.

When he was done, he leaned back and leaned back in his chair, his face slightly relieved.

Li Zhengyan and his party finally left, and at the moment, nothing happened.

However, there is bad news right now.

About the Pagoda of Merit.

I don't know if it's expired, or if there are no key things to continue to trigger, the red good fortune in the merit pagoda suddenly disappeared.

The purple mist of the bronze bell disappeared, and the lines did not move.

Restored to normal,

After Ouyang Rong got up the morning before yesterday and found out, he couldn't help frowning,

However, when he thought that the merit was insufficient, it would be difficult to make up the seven thousand in a short period of time, and he couldn't force it, so he had to comfort himself and turn his head to get busy with business, and he didn't have time to regret it.

Ouyang Rong began to look for a way to help the soldiers of the Third Regiment of Jiangzhou Zhichong Mansion get out of trouble.

I thought about it for days.

This night, he routinely came to Xunyang Palace's night plan.

As soon as the people in the study arrived, without waiting for Ouyang Rong to speak, he suddenly took the initiative to mention the matter of Qin Heng and the soldiers of the Third Regiment.

"Tan Lang has a solution?"

Ouyang Rong's face was a little surprised: "How did my uncle know?" ”

Wei Mei smiled and said: "Xie Xian's niece said, saying that you have been thinking about this matter recently, and a few days ago I went to the flower hall to deliver pastries during the day, why did I and Qilang also see Tan Lang When you were talking about business, you were still worried and thinking about it." ”

Lixian answered: "I asked Xia Xian's niece that night, and it turned out to be a mutiny. ”

Li Da Lang blamed in a tone: "Tan Lang is really, why don't you discuss this matter with us." ”

The person holding the cat also looked sideways.

When Ouyang Rong heard this, he couldn't help but look at the little junior sister, and then at the Lixian family who cared about him.

His heart warmed slightly.

(End of chapter)