A few days later, in Liangzhou City, in the prefect's mansion. Xu Kangan, the governor of Liangzhou, was busy dealing with the affairs of Liuzhuang. It would be fine if it were normal matters, but it happened to be Liuzhuang.
The fire in Liuzhuang burned for three days and three nights. The fire was so powerful that no one could extinguish it. Liuzhuang, which was a hundred hectares of land, was reduced to ashes. After the fire was extinguished, Xu Kang'an, the prefect of Liangzhou, personally led people to Liuzhuang to search for Liuzhuang. , in the end no one in the village was spared.
"After the fire in Liuzhuang was extinguished, more than a hundred people were dead, their faces unrecognizable. Judging from the remaining clothes, the owner of the village Liu Piaopiao, his wife Liu Gaoshi, his son Liu Yi and hundreds of people in the village were all killed."
Looking at the report in front of him, Xu Kangan's head was buzzing. If there was a normal fire, he could use the winter weather to deal with it. In Liuzhuang, there were many reasons such as accidentally causing the fire with fire. And Mrs. Liu in Liuzhuang is the biological sister of Gao Lian, the current magistrate of Langzhou.
Others don't know it, but I know it. This Gao Lian is the popular figure in front of Fan Mou, the right prime minister of Qi Yun. If he offends him, his career will be over. For many years, I had turned a blind eye to Liuzhuang's many evil deeds in Liangzhou, and even protected him, just so that Gao Lian could put in a good word for him in front of Prime Minister Fan.
It was a good thing at this time, the noble sister died in the fire, and the Liuzhuang was burned down with the fire. Xu Kangan felt that his career was wiped out with the fire in Liuzhuang.
Just when Xu Kang'an was in a state of despair, the clerk outside the door came to report that a personal letter from Gaozhi Prefecture of Langzhou had arrived. After hearing this, Xu Kangan picked up his official robe and trotted outside the prefecture to personally greet the messenger from Gaozhi Prefecture.
Seeing that the messenger ignored him, he walked straight into the prefect's house. Being treated like this by a servant who delivered a message, Xu Kangan did not get angry. He just followed the messenger into the house obediently, carrying his official robe.
When the courier made a grand stop in the main hall, Xu Kangan stood aside and dismissed everyone. The messenger raised his head and said, "Mr. Xu, my master was very sad when he learned about Liuzhuang."
When Xu Kangan heard this, he trembled all over. The more painful Gao Lian showed, the greater the impact this matter would have on him. He quickly said: "The official has sent someone to investigate the matter strictly, and Gao Lian will definitely be informed." Sir, please give me an explanation."
When the messenger saw the letter in his arms and handed it to Xu Kang'an, he said: "Master Xu, my master wrote a letter with his own hand and ordered me to hand it to you in person. Just take a look."
Xu Kang'an hurriedly took the letter with both hands, clasped his fists towards the messenger and said, "Thank you for your hard work all the way, Mr. Messenger. Xu has prepared food and wine to support Mr. Messenger."
The messenger waved his hand and said: "No, I have to go back and report my life to the master." After saying that, he went straight out, mounted his horse, and left regardless of Xu Kang'an's efforts to stay.
Xu Kangan was a man of promise by nature. The hand holding the letter kept shaking. He staggered to the chair and sat down. After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind and opened the letter tremblingly.
"My brother Kang'an, I have learned about my sister. We have been dependent on each other since I was young. Now that my sister died tragically, my heart is broken. My brother only wishes that my sister will be buried in peace as soon as possible. Brother, Lian, Minggan. "
After reading the letter, Xu Kangan didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He sat on the Taishi chair with the letter in his hand. It wasn't until a servant came to report that there was official business in the Yamen that Xu Kang'an came back to his senses. Unable to believe his eyes, Xu Kangan read the letter back and forth several times, and carefully checked Gao Lian's seal, and then confirmed that the letter was written by Gao Lian.
In this letter, there was no mention of a strict investigation into the death of Mr. and Mrs. Liu. Xu Kangan, who has known Gao Lian's temper for many years, would never give up the murderer who burned Liuzhuang so easily. And Gao Lian's letter of "burying him in peace as soon as possible" means that all the corpses in Liuzhuang should be buried early. If so Yes, it will be impossible to investigate the case through the corpse in the future.
Xu Kangan fell into deep thought as to why Mr. Gao gave up the Liuzhuang case so easily. No matter how stupid Xu Kangan was, he still thought of this matter and did not place an additional order. With the mentality of doing more things than doing less, Xu Kangan decided to pay attention and handle the matter according to the meaning of Gao Lian's letter.
"Come here, prepare the sedan." Xu Kangan ordered.
Inside the yamen, a majestic military general wearing armor was standing in the hall. This military general was wearing brass dragon scale armor, a skirt and a trousers, with a brass tiger-shaped belly for his belly, and a jade belt wrapped with tiger skin to protect his waist. Two copper sheets are stacked to form a cloud-like shoulder thorn attached to the mantle. He wears a red tassel bag with a tiger swallowing the sky on his head, and a tiger swallowing a sword hanging from the waistline.
The general closed his eyes and said nothing, as if waiting for the Liangzhou governor.
Not long after, Xu Kangan held Wu Sha in his hand and ran into the Yamen. When he saw the general, he knelt down and said, "Xu Kangan, the prefect of Liangzhou, has met the deputy commander."
The military general opened his eyes, saw Xu Kang'an, and immediately spoke: "The last general of the Northern Territory Command, General Wan, is under the command of the deputy commander Yang Huchen, who has been ordered by General Wan to deliver the order."
Wan Jun is the general of Qiyun's northern border army, commanding the troops and horses of the northern states. Qi Yun used military force to establish the country. Although many years after the founding of the country, the official style in the court gradually became more civilized than military. However, Wanjun was like a prince in the northern border, only subject to the emperor's orders, and all civil servants and military officers in the northern counties were under his control.
Xu Kang'an changed his duties, kowtowed and said, "I don't know what the general's military orders are, but I will do my best to handle them."
Yang Huchen's majestic voice spread throughout the prefect's Yamen: "The general has been stationed in Yanbei City for many years, and the New Year's Day is approaching. Recently, the general's mother received a letter from his family, missing the general deeply, so the general sent a report to the court, and the emperor agreed. Returning to my hometown to visit relatives.”
After a pause, Yang Huchen continued: "The general loves the people as his own son, and does not want to alarm the people, nor do he want the state capitals to be extravagant, so he ordered me to pass the order first. The state capitals are not allowed to use extravagant greeting etiquette, let alone let the people go out of the city to welcome them. "
Xu Kangan hurriedly saluted and said: "I will accept your order."
After standing up, Xu Kangan bowed and saluted Yang Huchen and said: "Commander Yang, the general is our pillar of Qiyun. I just don't want to disturb the people. But this Jiefeng, other states aside, we in Liangzhou are all looking forward to the return of the general." Home, please command the envoy to report back to the general, can I, Liangzhou City, help the general to wash away his dust?"
After Xu Kang'an came to Liangzhou City as an official, he learned that Wan Jun was from Liangzhou, but he suffered from the fact that Wan Jun had guarded Yanbei City for many years and never returned to his hometown to visit relatives. This time, I finally waited until Wan Jun returned to his hometown. If I could climb into the lap of Wan Jun, the commander-in-chief of the northern border, my career would be better in the future, so I asked Yang Huchen to test whether he could accept Feng.
Unexpectedly, Yang Huchen's eyes widened. He had only obeyed military orders for many years in the army, but he didn't know about the favors of the officialdom. He shouted: "Military orders are military orders. I just said it before. You must not greet the wind with extravagant etiquette, and you must not disturb the people to greet them. Mr. Xu has not yet Do you understand?"
The black yarn on his head was almost frightened by Yang Huchen's roar. After straightening the black yarn, Xu Kang'an said tremblingly: "I understand, I will accept my order."
Yang Huchen nodded slightly and saw the Liangzhou prefect accepting the order and said, "Since Mr. Xu knows the general's intention, the general will return to Yanbei City to resume his duties."
Through Yang Huchen's gesture of delivering orders, Xu Kang'an knew that the Commander-in-Chief was not a stickler for officialdom, so he saluted and said, "Best congratulations, Commander-in-Chief."
Xu Kangan accompanied Yang Huchen to the outside of the Yamen. Yang Huchen took the whip from the Yamen servant, got on his horse and bowed his hands to Xu Kangan with a military salute and said: "General, I will go back and resume my orders now. I also ask Governor Xu to remember the military orders of the general."
Xu Kangan hurriedly put on a smile and said in reply: "I will certainly keep it in mind, and please give me the command to reassure you."
Yang Huchen didn't wait any longer, grabbed the horse's belly and headed out of the city.
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The people in the city had not seen armored soldiers riding horses in the city for many years, and they all looked curiously at the smoke and dust as Yang Huchen left the city.
"My dear, how many years have we seen soldiers riding horses in the city in Liangzhou?" an old man selling vegetables on the roadside asked the old woman beside him.
"I don't remember, but thanks to the 'Wugui General', our Liangzhou city would have been massacred by the Northern Jin Dynasty long ago." The old woman said with a smile.
"Speaking of the 'Unreturnable General', my father, the 'immortal' under him saved all the people in the city back then." The old man said with a smile.
"Uncle and aunt, your two elders said that there was an 'immortal' who saved the whole city back then?" A girl in green clothes passed by the vegetable stall where two old men were selling vegetables. When she heard the two old men talking about the 'immortal', Biyi was attracted The girl crouched down and asked the two old men.
The old woman saw that the girl had beautiful eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, and she was extremely pretty. The old woman's face was full of wrinkles, and she smiled and said: "Little girl, you look like a foreigner at first glance. We in Liangzhou have many stories to tell. During the war between Qi and Jin, the soldiers and horses of the Jin State fought all the way to us. Outside Liangzhou City."
The girl in green clothes heard the old woman talking about the past events in Liangzhou. She couldn't help but become interested, and she didn't mind the loose soil on the ground. She hurriedly bent down and sat next to the old woman. Qingling said, "Auntie, I love hearing these stories. Can you tell me in detail?"
The old woman saw that the girl looked cute, but she didn't mind that the old couple were hawkers. She smiled and said to the girl, "Baby, judging from the way you dress and talk, you must be the daughter of a rich family who sneaked out to play. If you don't mind, , then I’ll tell the girl.”
Seeing that her old man wanted to come over and listen to the story, the old woman patted the old man with her hand and said, "You haven't heard enough yet. Go sell vegetables quickly."
The old man received a slap from the old woman and said with a smile: "Didn't I marry you just because I liked hearing your stories? Why, now that I'm old, I don't want to tell them to me. I don't know who was crying back then. You just wanted to tell me..." Upon hearing this, the old woman hurriedly covered the old vegetable seller's mouth.
The girl in green clothes looked at the loving appearance of the old couple selling vegetables, and smiled like a flower. She did not disturb the loving scene of the old couple, but quietly held her chin, waiting for the old woman to tell her a story.
When the old woman saw that the girl was still waiting for her, she stopped entangled with the old man. He said to the girl: "Girl, I will tell you in detail. That night, the 'immortal' that our 'General Wugui' sat down with and the 'immortal' from the Northern Jin Dynasty fought outside our city of Liangzhou. Jin's 'immortals' couldn't resist, so they threw huge rocks as big as mountains towards our Liangzhou city."
The girl in green clothes covered her mouth in surprise and asked, "Aren't many people in Liangzhou going to die?"
The old woman said: "Isn't that right? Who would have known that the immortal who sat down as 'General Wugui' would fly outside our Liangzhou City in an instant. With one sword, he shattered the rock as big as a mountain. , saved everyone in our city."
"Really? Then where did the 'immortal' go?" The girl in green clothes asked eagerly.
"Then the 'immortal' fell from the sky, and I don't know what happened after that." After the old woman finished telling the story, she looked at the girl in green clothes with a smile.
"What a pity. I really want to see the grace of that 'immortal'." The girl in green clothes looked disappointed. After thinking for a moment, she said angrily: "But if the 'immortal' is still alive, he is also acting as an aide to help the Qi family. It’s just usurping the Zhao family’s world.”
When the old woman heard what the girl in green clothes said, she put away her smile and stood up angrily: "You baby, I saw that you like to listen to stories, so I chatted with you for a long time. If you speak for the faint king of the Zhao family, you will slander us in Liangzhou." My savior, I don’t want to talk to you any more, so please help yourself.”
