Hou Cheng

Lan Bingrong was looking at the shop, but he was lazy and not in a good mood.

He has been like this since he came back from attending Lord Lu Desheng's Hongmen banquet yesterday.

Lan Bingrong is a small landowner in Houcheng, with dozens of hectares of fertile land and many shops and houses. In the rich circle of Houcheng, there is also a place.

The day before, the new Houcheng County ordered Lu Desheng and Lord Lu to have a banquet for the rich landlords of Houcheng.

When they receive the post, they know it.

Before going, his wife told him to follow the crowd.

He himself is also a good idea, he will donate as much as others donate, and there will be no mistakes.

However, Lord Lu's talent is too good, and he is too good at fooling people, and he is worthy of his background in imperial history. Then he went wrong.

On that day, Lord Lu's opening remarks were that Houcheng was difficult and people's livelihood was difficult.

These rich landlords understood as soon as they heard it, and Lord Lu wanted to find them to make a relationship.

Master Lu did not force them to donate as much as they could. He gave two choices, either they looked at the points, or they lent money to the Houcheng County Ya.

The latter, Lord Lu said that he could make a note on behalf of Hou Cheng, and the interest would be given, but the interest was a bit small.

As for the use of borrowing money, Lord Lu probably said that it would be used to build Houcheng.

After that, they chose it.

The others were very vigilant, and they all thought that what Lord Lu said to them was Wang Ba's recitation, and they didn't listen to it.

At the point, I was given a small meat bun of two or three thousand taels and left.

Only he felt that Lord Lu's words were very reasonable, and he was also very clear about the development and planning of Houcheng, so he stupidly lent 20,000 taels in exchange for an IOU stamped with the order of Houcheng County.

When Lan Bingrong came out of the county office, his nemesis Geng Yuan learned that he had paid 20,000 taels and scolded him for being a fool.

Lan Bingrong returned home with an IOU of 20,000 taels, and although his wife didn't say anything, she kept sighing at him.

He was directly uncomfortable all night, tossing and turning all night, and couldn't sleep.

His wife was also made unable to sleep by him, and finally his wife said to him, forget it, this money should be grateful for Lord Lu's contribution to Hou Cheng.

As one of the few landlords and wealthy families in Houcheng, to be honest, their family is very grateful to Lord Lu.

If he hadn't turned the tide and negotiated with the Xianbei royal court, they would definitely have suffered heavy losses in the war.

It is very likely that Hou Cheng will not be able to withstand Xianbei's attack, after all, the battle in the winter of last year has just ended, and the loss to Hou Cheng is very large. Houcheng, a small broken county, could not withstand two battles a year.

They want to run away in advance, and they can't take away the fields and houses, and they can only take away some of the floating wealth, isn't it a heavy loss?

Although he was comforted, Lan Bingrong was still very heartbroken when he thought of the 20,000 taels lent out, and he couldn't lift his energy.

At this moment, the rival Geng Yuan came in with a fan shake and a round belly, "Lan Bingrong, what do you think?" How could you do such a stupid thing as borrowing 20,000 taels of silver to give to the government? ”

"If you have too much money to spend, lend it to me. Although I won't give you interest, I will pay you back the principal anyway. ”

Lan Bingrong didn't want to deal with him.

Geng Yuan continued, "You've lived for decades, won't you all live to the belly of a dog, right?" Lu County ordered that the banquet this time made it clear that he wanted to turn his fate, saying that he was borrowing, but in the end he couldn't pay it back, can you still chase Lord Lu and chase the county government? ”

In short, it is a meat bun beating a dog, and the two choices are actually just the difference in the size of the meat bun. Who wants to give the big one if they can give it to the small?

Geng Yuan didn't understand.

"You are so smart, you know that it is meat buns that beat dogs, and you also donated three thousand taels?" Lan Bingrong asked him rhetorically.

Choked, he wanted not to give, but could he really not give?

In fact, yesterday they all knew that if they went, they couldn't pull out a dime. Lu Desheng's difficulty, they have all heard of it. I heard that the nobles of Chang'an City, when feasting, if the female relatives of the Lu family are not invited, Lord Lu will not give up on their men.

He definitely doesn't have Zheng Qiao to deal with.

All the people who were invited to the banquet had already weighed in their hearts how much to donate before they went, and even the person who was so slamming the door became generous this time, donating three thousand taels. After donating, he felt like he couldn't sleep for three or four days.

But when he thought that the fool in front of him had borrowed 20,000 taels, he felt that he could do it again.

At this moment, the shopkeeper rushed in, "Boss, good news, good news!" ”

"What's the good news?"

"Our county commander has been promoted to the county guard!"

Hearing this, Lan Bingrong and Geng Yuan said in unison, "What? ”

The shopkeeper repeated it again.

Lan Bingrong stumbled into the backyard to find his wife, "Madame, ma'am!" ”

When he saw his wife, he immediately shared the good news, "Madam, Qin sent to announce the decree, Lord Lu has been promoted to the county guard of our Liaodong County because of his merits!" ”

Spending this money and getting in touch with Lord Gunshou is worth it, it's worth it!

Now the sworn enemy Geng Yuan must beat his chest and feet, regretting that his intestines are blue, hahaha-

The wife listened curiously, but she didn't expect that a fool would be a fool.

Then she thought of something and said, "You said, Lord Lu has been promoted, is he going to leave Hou Cheng and move to the county guard's mansion to live?" ”

The old heart disease has just gone, and new worries have been added.

Lan Bingrong went to the back, leaving Geng Yuan outside, and he confirmed with the shopkeeper again, "It's true?" ”

"Geng Dongjia, it's true, the county government is setting off firecrackers, and they are also throwing happy money outside."

Geng Yuan glanced at the backyard and muttered, stupid people have stupid blessings and left.

After the news of Lu Desheng's promotion to the county guard spread, the people of Houcheng were both happy and worried, happy that he was promoted to such a good official, and worried that he was going to the county guard's mansion?

He went to the county guard's mansion, is Hou Cheng the same as before again?

For a while, the people were panicked and very insecure.

Lu Songli and her people have been paying attention to the public opinion in Houcheng, and when they heard the worries of the common people, she and her father discussed this issue and decided not to move the mansion for the sake of the stability of Liaodong County.

After deciding on it, they acted in the afternoon and arranged for someone to change the plaque for the Houcheng County Ya.

Their movements were quite large, and they were cleaning, carrying ladders, and carrying plaques, which attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

"What is this doing?"

"Change the plaque, huh?"

"Why do you want to change it?"

With the sound of the people's discussion, the people who worked took off the plaque of the Houcheng County Ya and directly replaced it with a new one, and the new plaque was covered with red silk cloth, so that the words on the inscription could not be seen clearly.

Just when this crowd was boiling, Lu De came out.

"Is it Lord Lu?"

"Yes, it's Lord Lu who came out."

After Lu Desheng came out, he opened his hand to the people and pressed down, "Fathers and fellow villagers, everyone should be quiet first. ”

As his words sounded, everyone spontaneously shut up, and their eyes were focused on him.

He was wearing a regular dress today, and with a smile on his face, the people who saw him for the first time thought he was very kind.

"Presumably, everyone knows that this official is Lu Desheng, and this official also knows that everyone has been worried about whether I will leave Houcheng and go to Xiangping County Guard Mansion after I am promoted from the county commander to the county guard."

Hearing this, almost all the people present silently said in their hearts, yes, this is what they are most worried about now.

"The official will tell you now, the official has decided not to move the mansion, and this will be the county guard mansion in the future!" When Lu Desheng finished speaking, he grabbed it in his hand

The new plaque reads 'Gunkeeper's Office'.

Only then did the people react, what Lord Lu said turned out to be true, and now even the plaque of Houcheng County Ya has been replaced by the county guard's mansion!

After Lu Desheng finished speaking, he nodded to everyone and went back.

Some ordinary people reacted, and Master Lu just came out and said two words and went back, but the things they said were what they were most concerned about.

"Lord Lu really means it simply." If you have something to say, don't play so much officialdom.

"Lord Lu is very busy."

Not far from the crowd, Geng Yuan muttered, this Lan Bingrong, the luck is really good.

They went to the banquet that day and gave the rich and landlords a small bun, which would be really envious and jealous of Lan Bingrong in their hearts.

As the saying goes, the building near the water gets the moon first. I'm afraid that this Lan Bingrong has left an excellent impression on Lord Lu, what good things will happen to the government in the future, don't think about him?

Under the new plaque, the people stopped for a long time, feeling relieved, but also felt that the Houcheng County Ya, as the county guard, was not grand enough.

Just now, there were people in the crowd who had been to Xiangping and had seen the county guard's mansion, and they talked to the big guys about the grandeur of the county guard's mansion, and then looked at their little broken county office, they were too wronged by Lord Lu.

After the people left, the people below reported the general direction of public opinion of the people, and this direction was guided by the people she arranged.

Lu Songli knows very well that if they do not occupy the high ground of public opinion, they will be occupied by others.

Next, with her father's decision not to move the mansion, and the fermentation spread, the people's hearts in Houcheng and even the entire Liaodong County stabilized again.

These are all expected by her.

She and her father's decision has the flavor of 'the king dies in the society, and the son of heaven guards the country'.