A few people hurriedly entered, all dressed in soft armor, called the jailer out, and asked in a low voice, "Why haven't you made him confess?" He does not sign the painting, how can we explain to the DPRK, this is the propaganda envoy of the DPRK! ”

"It's really no way," the jailer whispered, panting tiredly, "Look at him as a scholar, how can you bear it so much, you can't say anything, and the governors say you can't kill him......"

"Nonsense! Who will confess when he dies? As long as he confesses his guilt, it's okay to kill him! ”

"It's already cheap for him to confess, and it depends on him that he is an adopted son, if this is a parent, he would have been killed a long time ago! How can the Mu family stay, those sons have all practiced martial arts since childhood, and they are all hidden dangers! ”

"Waste, a weak scholar can't get it right!"

Mu Changzhou tried hard to listen to their words, and sure enough, as long as he confessed, he would be killed.

Suddenly, there was another movement, and it seemed that many people had run into the prison, and someone shouted: "Dudu, the Central Plains are here!" ”

Mu Changzhou suddenly opened his eyes, his breathing was short, and he was pulling the whiplash wound on his chest, which hurt his heart deeply, and he was sure that he was not dreaming.

I don't know how long it took, a group of people came outside, untied him, took a piece of clothing and covered him, and dragged him out.

The night wind was blowing, and Mu Changzhou was dragged into a prisoner car, passing through the dark streets of the city, and glimpsed the eastern corner of the city.

I don't know how many days, the county mansion is still burning, and there are fallen figures everywhere on the corners of the east of the city.

They even killed many civilians in the east of the city......

The prisoner car stopped outside the East City Gate, and several officials got down from the horse in front of him, and ran over in almost a panic: "Xuanfu envoy ......"

Mu Changzhou didn't know what he looked like now, which would make them so frightened, but he knew that they were officials sent by the Central Plains.

The leading official Zhengse spoke: "Whether or not Xuanfu killed the county prince and his family needs to be handed over to the court for trial." The DPRK and China are negotiating peace with the enemy forces on both sides, and the sage ordered the officials of Liangzhou and the governors of each state to cooperate in the fortification to prevent the enemy from committing again! ”

There was a sense of harmony around him: "Yes, yes, obey the holy commandment." ”

Mu Changzhou was carefully helped out of the prisoner cart and sent to a carriage.

Almost the moment he lay down, the person fainted.

In a daze, the fellow official kept talking, and he listened intermittently.

I only know that after the Linghu family was transferred out, I learned that Liangzhou was besieged and fought back to the city, among which Linghu Tuo was sent out in advance and rushed to the Central Plains single-handedly to move the rescuers.

When the Central Plains learned that the enemy forces were besieging the city on both sides, they hurriedly played the court.

The DPRK and China reacted quickly, and transferred officials from the nearest prefecture and county, and on the one hand arranged for peace talks with the enemy army to break the siege, and on the other hand, intervened in Liangzhou, only to learn about the affairs of the county government, and only then did he bring him out of prison.

Mu Changzhou didn't know how long he had been asleep, waking up like a dream, and kept hearing the county prince calling him, sometimes his eldest brother, sometimes San Lang and Shiro.

They all said in his ear: "Erlang, live well......"

Occasionally, he was poured a few mouthfuls of medicine, and even if he couldn't open his eyes, he would swallow hard.

Because he wants to live well, he is the only one in the county mansion.

It took a month for his injuries to heal, and he finally came to his senses and arrived in Chang'an.

He was not sent to Dali Temple, but was sent to a side hall in the palace.

When the emperor came in, he had been waiting for the attendants to freshen up and change his clothes, and he sat upright, but he still saw the emperor's shocked face.

"How did you do this?"

Mu Changzhou's face was pale, thin and out of appearance, his eyes were deep-set, his nose was more and more deep, he lowered his head slightly, and his voice was hoarse: "Please forgive your majesty for the crime of not being able to perform the full courtesy." ”

"You've been branded with a heavier sin now!" The emperor was young and handsome, and he had always been gentle, but now he was full of anger, "I received a letter from you, and I was about to issue an edict, but this happened!" Even the county government and the Xuanfu envoy dare to do it directly, this is Liangzhou! This is Hexi! ”

Mu Changzhou said: "Your Majesty may not be able to overturn the case for the minister. ”

The emperor was stunned: "All the people who came to testify were their people, and there was no outsider." ”

That's natural, after all, even the people in the east of the city were slaughtered.

Mu Changzhou closed his eyes: "As expected." ”

The emperor took two steps back and forth, and his tone had become that of his peers, and he had lost the dignity of the emperor: "Recently, there have been changes in the court, and even the ministers have moved......" He suddenly paused, didn't say anything, looked at him and said, "I can't let you be wronged, I can't let the county government disappear." ”

Mu Changzhou understands that in recent years, the emperor has been recruiting talents, in addition to the imperial examination, there is also a system, constantly selecting available people, and when the palace appoints him, he even has a feeling of hating each other.

He also wanted to serve in the DPRK as expected, but unfortunately it backfired and things changed.

"Does Your Majesty suspect that the affairs of the court are related to Liangzhou?" He asked slowly.

The emperor said: "That's just my conjecture. ”

"Then how can Your Majesty clear my grievances and uphold justice for the county government? Do you want to directly wave troops to Hexi? Mu Changzhou actually calmed down, "Unless Your Majesty wants to repeat the Tianbao Disaster, if it is really related to the courtiers, I am afraid that it will be more than that." ”

The emperor was speechless for a moment, as if he had understood: "Do you have other plans?" ”

Mu Changzhou lowered his head: "Please Your Majesty convict me." ”

The emperor was stunned: "What? ”

"Only in this way can I completely break away from the Central Plains and integrate into them." Mu Changzhou raised his head, "Your Majesty doesn't want to get rid of the real thief?" Don't want to take back the Fourteen Prefectures of Hexi? Don't want to completely eradicate the scourge of the DPRK and China? ”

The emperor was silent.

Mu Changzhou looked at the ground and said coldly, "I think." He endured the wound, bowed down in his clothes, and bowed his head, "Please condemn Your Majesty." ”

The emperor held his thin shoulder: "You will die!" ”

Mu Changzhou raised his eyes: "No, my life is very precious, never." ”

The entire county government has protected him, how can his life not be precious, how can it be easily lost......

It was getting late, and Chang'an City was as peaceful as a dream.

Mu Changzhou walked out of the city gate of this dream, wearing a thick cloth robe, with a wound that was not well seen, wearing shackles on his hands, and was escorted by two jailers, leaving the capital at night.

Someone was looking at him at the head of the city, and he looked back at the emperor in a cloak, and looked at him, and said something to the attendants who followed him.

I vaguely saw the shape of my mouth, and it seemed to be: That's the first Jinshi I appointed......

Mu Changzhou turned his head and walked slowly into the darkness.

The crime only wrote that he had come up with the head of his adoptive father and brother, but he did not directly condemn him for his rebellion.

Because he could not be convicted only by relying on the unfavorable confessions of others, it was his own confession that led to such a crime.

He was sentenced to serve as an army on the border, and he did not set off until the evening.

After all, the emperor couldn't bear it, he was stripped of his fame and sent to the army, and few people in Chang'an knew about it.

And the border land, naturally Liangzhou.

After a long few months, when I returned to Liangzhou City, I was already devastated.

The old governor is said to have died of a sudden illness, and all the governors still mourned and cried in a decent manner, and ran to the court.

The war did not stop, and the Western Turks and Tibetans came to watch under the pretext that they had discovered the changes in Liangzhou, but they attacked Liangzhou from time to time behind their backs.

When Mu Changzhou heard about this, he was already at the head of the city in the south.

As a sinner on the border, he will only be sent to the forefront as a human shield, because death is not a pity.

Outside is the Tubo soldiers and horses, and next to them is a group of reckless men in the army, defending the city on the edge of life and death, they are still idle -

"Have you heard about the county mansion? Say no, it's gone. ”

"I haven't heard of it, why haven't you?"

"I don't know, it's said that everyone who heard the rumors is gone, it seems that the whole family was killed or what, the prisoner has already been arrested, ouch Nafu, the fire has been burning for many days."

"Who, so ruthless!"

Suddenly, a voice interrupted: "Okay, don't say it, the boss said that you won't let any news about the county government be told, and if you know it, you will be killed!" ”

Everyone was silent.

Mu Changzhou grabbed the bow and stared at the movement of the Tubo soldiers and horses outside, with a sneer on his lips.

The matter of the county mansion seems to have passed, and no one cares.

The sage sent the news of his confession and sentence back to Hexi, and ordered the burial of the county prince's family, and the group of people agreed very simply, everyone said that the county prince was a pity, but they covered it up everywhere and did not allow anyone to mention it.

It doesn't matter what the result is, as long as the saint is not pursued among the people in Hexi.

As for his weak adopted son, he has successfully taken the blame for them, and he was sent under their noses, which is not clear that even the court wants him to die, who will take it seriously.

After covering it up for a long time, naturally no one remembers the county mansion anymore.

"Hey! Scholar! Suddenly, someone slapped him hard.

Mu Changzhou glanced at him, a man with a big waist and a round waist, with a beard, squatted in front of him, different from him, who was in the army, he was a serious soldier.

"At first glance, you are a scholar who looks white and thin, but you can write?" The man took out the carefully packed pen and ink from his arms, and was embarrassed, "I came out of the big tent, you help me write a letter to the family and go back, and I will help you block the front when I turn around and fight, how about it?" ”

Mu Changzhou glanced at him twice, and then swept around the other people: "Don't block it for me, I can help all of you write family letters, and I can also write your name on your underwear for you, so as not to die and collect the body with an unknown surname." ”

Immediately, everyone gathered around, and the man just now stared at him as if he didn't believe it: "So good? Write it in vain? ”

Mu Changzhou said: "As long as you work together to resist the enemy, block the invading enemy soldiers, and keep Liangzhou." ”

The man "tsk": "Then why bother, you don't know how chaotic Liangzhou is now?" A group of governors of other states are crowded here, talking about fighting the enemy with one heart, fighting all day long, even our Liangzhou team is robbed by them, they don't resist the enemy, what are we fighting for! ”

Mu Changzhou had already heard that this group of governors of other states seemed to be afraid that the DPRK and China would appoint a new governor, and they would first cooperate to resist the enemy, and they had elected a governor of the military affairs by themselves, but they were fighting openly and secretly in private.

It just so happens that the more chaotic he is, the more no one cares about him, so that he can gain a foothold as soon as possible.

He said: "Even so, don't you want to be promoted by military merit? ”

The man was angry: "I think, the centurion on our head is not a good person, he is afraid of death in battle, and he has taken some credit alone, who wants to die for him!" ”

Mu Changzhou said quietly: "If the centurion is martyred, can't he change it." ”

The man suddenly looked over: "You scholar is ruthless enough, I still treat you as a gentleman!" ”

"Being a gentleman can't give me what I want," Mu Changzhou sneered, "What you want, you have to fight for yourself." ”

The man grinned: "It's me who underestimated you!" Say, what do you think, I'll listen to you. ”

Mu Changzhou asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Hu Xiao'er."

"Okay, you will follow me in the future." Mu Changzhou looked at the others, "Follow me and keep Liangzhou, so that you can have a future." ”

Two months later, Mu Changzhou's injuries were completely healed and he had become a centurion.

At the beginning, he was promoted by the people around him to be the captain and the chief, and then he replaced the centurion, the team was chaotic, and the promotion was quick and smooth.