Recently, there have been a lot of unfamiliar faces in Hou Cheng.

According to the city gate guard's inspection and statistics of the people entering the city, there are strangers who have come to Hou City recently.

Lu Songli knew that the vanguard of the first wave of people had arrived one after another.

Those people are not like Ji Wuyin, they have a clear goal, and they came all the way to Hou Cheng, and the time at this point is already considered fast.

Lu Songli called Xu Zheng over and told him again, "There will be a lot of outsiders coming to Houcheng recently, you can arrange more people to patrol." If there is a dispute between a foreigner and a local, you must be cautious in handling it. If you encounter something that is related to outsiders and cannot be handled well, you can go directly to Lord Guo, Mr. Xue or me. ”

Lu Songli is very optimistic about the group of people who came to Houcheng first, they are definitely not such arrogant and unreasonable people, but they want to restrain their local people, but they can't bully people and lose their favor just because they are outsiders.

Xu Zheng solemnly agreed.

Liaoxi County

Pingzhou Thorn Shi Tao has been annoyed by Lu Desheng recently.

This guy slapped his head and wanted to come out of it. The county guard mansion in Xiangping was so magnificent, he didn't wait, he had to place the county guard mansion in Houcheng, and even changed the county government directly to the county guard mansion to use.

When he knew this, he still sneered, whatever he wanted!

Unexpectedly, this guy was very shameless, and he actually took the emperor's edict allowing him to place the county guard mansion in Houcheng, and ran to the Assassin's Mansion in Liaoxi County to ask him for money?

Shi Tao naturally couldn't agree.

Lu Desheng directly pressed him with an edict, saying that the emperor agreed that he would place the county guard mansion in Houcheng, that is, he agreed to build a new county guard mansion in Houcheng, and he, the assassin of Pingzhou, should open the treasury and give him money.

If he didn't give it, he complained to the emperor, saying that he was not loyal and refused to share the worries of the king.

Shi Tao hated him to death for the way he looked like he was holding chicken feathers as an arrow.

But he had to scruple about it, Lu Desheng was the imperial history before, and his ability to admonish was famous in the dynasty, and he participated in a book, and he had to shed his skin if he didn't die.

In addition, this is the second year of the new emperor's accession to the throne. In the heart of the new emperor, he estimated that it was a mediocre history of thorns, not a courtier in his Qianlong period, who did not have the skill of the dragon, and now he has never been in the emperor's heart, or the ability is strong enough to become the pillar of the country.

If Lu Desheng participates in a book, the black gauze hat on his head will be shaky.

After thinking about it, Shi Tao felt that he didn't want to take risks, and decided to send Lu Desheng away, so he asked the big housekeeper, "What about Lu Desheng?" ”

The Great Butler: ......

"How?" Shi Tao had a bad premonition.

"Lord Lu took a small bench and sat quietly outside the Assassin's Mansion."

Shi Tao seemed to hear some fantasy, "What's wrong with him?" "Do you want to make this kind of scoundrel forced debt?

The big housekeeper was also speechless, anyway, this Lord Lu is the same meaning, I want to move the house and give money!

Shi Tao slapped the table angrily, "Is he a scoundrel?" He is a dignified Liaodong county guard, is he still shameless? "What did you think of him again?

Lu Desheng: He is shameless and asks for money.

"Did he talk nonsense or something?"

"Not yet, it's just meditation." But the big housekeeper thinks that it is not necessarily late.

Finally, Shi Tao took a deep breath, "Go, call him in." "Don't be embarrassed out there.

After Shi Tao called people in, he planned to send him away with two or three thousand taels.

Lu Desheng choked the sky, "Lord Thorn Shi, these three thousand taels can't cover the county guard's mansion, maybe only two feet high?" He also reached out and measured the height.

Lu Desheng said, if you didn't insist on taking away most of the tax revenue every time you collect taxes, leaving only a little scum for Liaodong County, why would I even ask you for the money to build a new mansion.

Now, if he can justifiably ask for money, why doesn't he come?

Although they have several channels for money in Liaodong County, there are many places to start construction now, and there are a lot of expenditures. In the words of his daughter, no matter how small the fly leg is, it is meat, and if you have the opportunity to get it, don't let it go.

Shi Tao knew that his three thousand taels was indeed a bit less, "Five thousand taels, take the silver and give it to me." ”

Lu Desheng continued to cry, "My lord, five thousand taels is not enough, five thousand taels can be covered high enough, but there is no way to put the beam on the top of the designation." How can this live? ”

"Eight thousand taels, if you can't build it again, don't cover it!"

After Lu Desheng saw that Songkou gave this number, his face was dark, and he knew that the car was going to overturn if he went any further, so he accepted it when he saw it, and asked the chief housekeeper to take him to get the money, and he wanted to go home.

The Great Butler of the Assassin's Mansion: ...... Do you want to make it so easy to summon people? I'm not familiar with you.

Shi Tao took a deep breath, lest he be angry to death, "Take him to get it!" ”

In the end, Lu Desheng got 8,000 taels of silver, and he wanted to exchange it for gold, but the account office of the Assassin's Mansion Treasury stubbornly rejected him.

Lu Desheng had no choice but to call his people in.

When he took the lead and left the Assassin's Mansion with six people carrying their burdens, the door slammed behind them.

"Your Excellency?"

Lu Desheng is very calm, this is normal treatment.

"It's okay, let's go back first!" It doesn't matter if you don't have a face, you just need to get the benefits.

Later, several other county guards, such as the county guard of Liaoxi County and the county guard of Xuantu County, learned that he had received silver from Lord Thorn Shi, and they all wrote to him for advice.

Lu Desheng knows everything about them, says everything, and does not hide it.

But it's a pity that several county guards are a little embarrassed, and they can't learn his tricks.

Liaodong County, Houcheng

After Zhan Ruoshui and his entourage entered the boundary of Liaodong, they walked slowly along the spacious official road, appreciating and savoring the customs along the way.

I have to admit that the people they met were in good spirits, better than the people they met along the way.

Sometimes Mr. James would get out of the carriage and talk to the farmers working on the roadside, asking them about this year's conscription, whether there was enough food to eat, and so on. These peasants, without exception, all admired their new county keeper.

After arriving in Houcheng, Zhan Fuzi asked his disciple to drive a carriage directly to the county guard mansion to find Lu Mingzhi, a little disciple, and he was not polite at all. Even the two people he picked up halfway said they were leaving, and they were all pulled by him.

Lu Songli was very happy when she heard that Zhan Ruoshui and his party had arrived, and ordered someone to go to the north of the city to call Lu Mingzhi back, and then came to the gate with her mother Jiang Shi to welcome the guests.

Lu Mingzhi has been soaking in the courtyard in the north of the city recently, and Lu Zhiyuan has gone in the morning and returned in the evening.

As soon as Jiang saw someone, he hurriedly greeted, "Master Zhan, all virtuous nephews, please come in." Zhan Fuzi, my lord and Mingzhi are not in the house now, and they can't greet each other, so don't blame them. We've already asked people to call Mingzhi, and I guess he'll be back in a while. ”

Zhan Fuzi had seen the Jiang family, and he bowed his head slightly at the moment and brought his disciples inside.

Jiang asked the people below to serve tea and snacks to greet them, and he and Zhan Fuzi talked with each other.

It didn't take long for Lu Mingzhi to come back quickly.

After he returned, Lu Songli and Jiang went out and gave them the flower hall so that they would not feel uncomfortable.