Monument Yangmen

Chapter 630
Zhao Guangyi's criteria for measuring a courtier are qualifications and political achievements.

Judging from these two aspects, Lu Duan's value is far lower than that of Zhao Pu.

However, Yang Qi didn't need to use this standard to measure a courtier.

In terms of measuring talents, Yang Qi has an advantage over Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi needs to spend a lot of time evaluating his courtiers, but Yang Qi doesn't need it.

The magnificent history has already helped Yang Qi weigh all available courtiers.

Whoever is loyal will be traitorous, whoever is capable and whoever is not.

Yang Qi can easily judge.

He just needs to choose the people who are suitable for him and win them over to him before these people grow up.

Such as Su Yijian, such as Kou Zhun.

Now, the person Yang Qi chooses is Lu Duan.

History's evaluation of Lu Duan is very pertinent.

'Be confused about small things, but not be confused about big things. '

This kind of character destined Lu Duan to be a person worthy of entrusting important tasks.

Yang Qi needs this kind of person.

"The prime minister's belly is easy to punting" is a comment on Wang Anshi.

But Yang Qi felt that this sentence was more suitable for Lu Duan.

The power in Yang Qi's hands is getting bigger and bigger, which is destined to require more people to assist him.

Every time he thinks of Zhao Guangyi's scumbag who has countless talents under his command, Yang Qi's teeth itch with hatred.

It is a great waste to put talents in Zhao Guangyi's hands.

Yang Qi felt that since he was also a descendant of Yan and Huang, it was necessary for him to borrow some people from Zhao Guangyi.

It's just that he hasn't been able to find the opportunity.

When Yang Qi learned that Wang Chao, the gatekeeper of Waqiao Gate, had falsely claimed the credit of Yang Wu, he felt that the opportunity had come.

He must take this opportunity to extort a large number of talents from Da Song and keep them for his own use.

Lu Duan is just the beginning.

……

"Brother Yi Zhi, think carefully and tell me your answer tomorrow! It's getting late today, I'll ask someone to take you to rest."

While Lu Duan was in a trance, Yang Qi sent Lu Duan to the door, and sent someone to take Lu Duan directly to the yamen of Datong Fucheng for bed.

From the beginning to the end, Yang Qi did not give Lu Duan a chance to reject him.

Standing at the gate of Yang's Mansion, looking at Lu Duanyuan's back, Yang Qi told Peng Pai: "Send someone to take good care of Brother Yi Zhi, and give him all the necessary items according to the treatment given by the Quan Zhifu."

"Is it a little early?"

"not early!"

After hesitating for a moment, Peng Pai said bluntly, "What if Mr. Lu refuses to stay in the magistrate's yamen?"

Yang Qi glanced at Peng Pai, and said with a smile: "None of these officials can sit idle. With a little trick, they can be hooked."

Peng Pai smiled wickedly, "This subordinate knows what to do."

Yang Qi said again: "Send someone to Bianjing again, and tell the three prime ministers of Song Dynasty about our conditions, and see how they accept the offer."

"This subordinate will do it."

……

The next day.

noon.

Lu Duan, who had been in a trance all night and only fell asleep in the early morning, woke up from his sleep.

Last night, he thought about how to escape Yang Qi's clutches all night, but he didn't even think of a countermeasure.

After falling asleep, I had a nightmare.

I dreamed that I was chased by a tiger.

No matter how he escaped, it seemed that he could not escape three feet from the tiger.

After waking up, Lu Duan wiped off the sweat from his forehead, sat on the edge of the kang, smiled bitterly and sighed, "It's really a tiger that eats people but doesn't spit out bones..."

The tiger in Lu Port generally refers to Yang Qi.

After he woke up, he subconsciously connected the tiger in his dream with Yang Qi.

"Squeak~"

The door was easily pushed open from the outside, and a handsome maid walked in from the door.

She poked her head in and tapped on Lu Duan, her eyes smiling like crescent moons.

"Master, are you awake?"

The maid leaned forward and entered the room, and gave a sweet sigh.

"master?"

Lu Duan was stunned, and shook his head with a chuckle, "I'm not your master..."

The servant girl bowed her body and saluted, "The Marquis Hu has already given the slave to the master, so the slave will naturally belong to the master. If I don't call you master, what should I call you?"

Lu Duan opened his mouth, not knowing how to reject the maid Yang Qi gave him.

After a long while, he sighed, "Forget it, go and help me prepare something to wash, I'm going to see Huhou later."

The servant girl smiled sweetly, leaned forward and said: "Your servant understands, my servant is called Luliu, and the master can call my servant Luliu."

After saying this, Lu Liu turned and walked out the door.

After a while, Lu Duan prepared things for washing.

After a brief wash, Lu Duan put on a black robe and left the room.

He was going to go to Yang Qi to clarify.

And he was going to strongly reject Yang Qi's plan to keep him in the four northwestern mansions.

He doesn't want to do such a thing as casting a thief.

But he can consider recommending other candidates to Yang Qi.

For example, Xiang Minzhong is good, and Wang Dan is also good.

Anyway, as long as Yang Qi doesn't leave him in the northwest, he doesn't care about the rest of them, no matter who they are.

In short, he felt that following Yang Qi had no future.

Yang Qi will be wiped out by the Zhao royal family sooner or later.

He is not willing to bury Yang Qi.

When he left the back hall of the yamen and entered near the lobby, he heard a loud noise.

It seems that the pusher in the yamen is trying the case.

Lu Duan was not interested in it, but after taking two steps forward, he heard a heart-piercing cry.

"My lord, the women are wronged!"

"Shut up! You are a nasty woman. While her husband was away, she cheated on Wang Er next door. After the incident happened, she then joined Wang Er to murder her own husband. It is a heinous crime. Now that there are all witnesses and evidence, how dare you Sophistry. It seems that the official will not move to a severe punishment, and you refuse to confess.

Come on, fork it out for me, hit! "

"..."

"Clap clap clap..."

"..."

"Ah! Ah! My lord... ah... the women are wronged..."

Lu Duan grinned, and said sarcastically: "Being beaten into a trick... Hey... the officials of the four northwestern prefectures are such kind of people..."

After leaving this sentence, Lu Duantou walked out of the yamen without hesitation.

"Hey……"

Lu Liu, who was following behind him, suddenly let out a long sigh.

Lu Duan frowned, paused, turned around and asked, "Why are you sighing, am I wrong?"

Lu Liu didn't expect that Lu Duan would stop suddenly, and she almost bumped into Lu Duan's arms.

Hearing Lu Duan's questioning, Lu Liu hurriedly pleaded guilty, "Your servant deserves to die, and your servant should not talk too much. I beg the master to punish you."

Lu Duan snorted coldly, "Answer my question."

Lu Duan didn't care about Lu Liu's talkativeness.

He just cared about whether there was any doubt about his own words in Lu Liu's sigh.

Lu Liu had a bitter face, and looked at Lu Duan timidly, "Lu Liu dare not question the master's words. The reason why Lu Liu sighed was because she felt that Widow Ma was wronged..."

Lu Duan frowned, and subconsciously asked, "What kind of injustice?"

After he finished speaking, he felt that he was talking too much.

But since he asked it out, there is no reason to take it back.

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan, hurriedly lowered her head, and said in a voice softer than a mosquito: "Before I entered the Yang Mansion as a maidservant, I lived next to that Wang Er... I clearly remember that Wang Er was here. During the Fuxingguan battle a few years ago, I was injured..."

Lu Duan said displeasedly: "What hurt you? Don't hesitate."

Lu Liu gritted her teeth, and said softly: "It hurts the penis... That's why I dare to conclude that it is absolutely impossible for that Wang Er to have an affair with Widow Ma..."

Lu Duan frowned and said, "Since you know such important inside information, why don't you go to the lobby to avenge Widow Ma's grievance?"

"Slaves... afraid..."

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan timidly.

Lu Duan frowned even deeper, and he scolded in a cold voice: "Stupid! This is a major matter that concerns the lives of two people. How can you not go because you are afraid. Do you know that because of you, it is very likely that you will be killed?" Two lives were sacrificed in vain."

Luliu's face was a little pale, and she tremblingly said: "But... I really don't dare to go... I have heard that this official Li Tui in the government office is notoriously dark-hearted, no matter who will testify , you have to suffer [-] big boards first."

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan miserably, "As far as the bones of this slave girl are concerned, if you go down thirty boards, you will beat the slave girl to death."

"No matter who goes to testify, he must first suffer [-] boards? What's the reason for this?"

Lu Duan was a little annoyed.

Lu Liu looked at him timidly.

Lu Duan's face was cloudy and uncertain. He heard the screams in the lobby getting worse, and his brows frowned.

He looked at Green Willow again.

He felt that this matter was a little strange.

Lu Liu was the servant girl who came to serve him only today, but he encountered an unjust case in the government office today, and Lu Liu was involved in it.

Will this be a game?

But the thought of two lives needing to be saved.

Lu Duan was struggling again.

After hesitating for a long time, Lu Duan suddenly said: "Go and testify. With me following you, I will see who dares to beat you."

Lu Liu shuddered all over, and said in fear: "Your maidservant...the servant girl will not go..."

Lu Duan immediately glared and said: "What are you afraid of? I am your guest of Huhou, and you are my side. If they dare to attack you, they will offend Huhou."

Under the intimidation of Lu Duan's eyes, Lu Liu timidly whispered: "Then...then...servant to testify, master, you must protect me."

"Don't worry! With me by your side, you will be fine."

Later, accompanied by Lu Duan, Lu Liu went to the lobby.

When they get to the lobby.

That horse widow has been beaten beyond human shape.

The ass has blossomed and the back is bloody.

Lu Liu hid behind Lu Duan in fright.

Lu Duan frowned, and led Lu Liu to the lobby.

In the lobby, Li Tuiguan was sitting in a serious position, staring at Lu Duan and Lu Liu, frowning and said: "Who are you, do you know what the crime is for trespassing in the lobby?"

Lu Duan stood with his hands folded, and said in a cold voice: "I passed by here and heard that a case is being tried here. And the maid beside me happened to know the inside story of this case. In order to avoid causing unjust cases, I led the maid to special Come and testify."

"My officer?"

Li Tuiguan stood up, looked at Lu Duan carefully, and cupped his hands cautiously, "May I ask you?"

Lu Duan said indifferently: "Lu Duan, a lecturer in the Hanlin of the Great Song Dynasty, an inspector in the Northwest, and a scholar of the Jiying Hall!"

"Da Song?"

Li Tuiguan was stunned, then suddenly grinned, his cautious look disappeared, "Hehe...you, an official from the Song Dynasty, went to our four northwestern prefectures to show your prestige, did you go to the wrong place? "

Lu Duan snorted coldly and said: "Playing prestige? I don't have that kind of thought. I just can't rub the sand in my eyes. I saw the unjust case, and my maid happened to know the inside story, so I brought it over to have a look."

Li Tuiguan said disdainfully: "You want to teach me to judge the case?"

"Don't dare, I just brought a witness to testify."

"Snapped!"

Li Tui took the case and said loudly: "Okay! Since you said you brought witnesses, I will try the witnesses today."

Li Tuiguan's eyes fell on Luliu who was behind Lu Duan, and he snorted coldly, "Are you the witness?"

Lu Liu looked at Lu Duan timidly, and under Lu Duan's encouraging eyes, said to Li Tuiguan: "Slave... the little girl is the witness."

"Humph!"

Li Tuiguan looked at Luliu coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Then do you know my rules? Anyone who goes to testify in the court will have to pass the [-]th board of my official."

"Know... know!"

"Very good! Come here! Pull it down and hit thirty big boards again."

Seeing the vicious servants rushing towards Lu Liu, Lu Liu hid behind Lu Duan in fright.

Lu Duan stepped forward and said in a cold voice: "Officer Li Tui handles the case like this, I'm afraid it doesn't conform to the rules? I have never heard of it. In this hall, before witnesses are tried, torture is served first. .”

Li Tuiguan looked at Lu Duan coldly, and said loudly: "In this Datong government office, I am the rule. If I say I want to fight, I will fight! No one can stop me."

"Come on! Call me!"

Two vicious yamen servants stopped Lu Duan, and two more went to drag out Lu Liu.

Luliu shouted in fright, "Master, save me!"

Lu Duan roared, "Bold! I don't think any of you dare! I am Yang Yansi's guest. I will go to Yang Yansi and ask, who gave you the courage to beat the people around me."

"Huhou's guest?"

Li Tuiguan frowned, and snorted coldly: "So what? You are an official from the Song Dynasty, and I am an official from the Northwest. If you dare to disturb my handling of the case, it is your fault. Even if this matter is brought before Huhou Reasonable, that's my reason. Not only will I beat her today, but I will also punish you for disturbing the court."

"Left and right, take it down for me!"

The two yamen servants directly captured Lu Duan and pressed them to the ground.

"You are simply lawless! Abuse of lynching!"

Lu Duan was pressed to the ground and roared angrily.

"Hit me! Hit him too!"

Li Tuiguan pointed at Lu Duan.

Lu Duan was put on the torture bench beside Lu Liu.

"Master! Help me!"

Lu Liu lay on the torture bench, crying at Lu Duan.

Lu Duan was furious, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly.

But Li Tuiguan and others were indifferent.

"Snapped!"

The board fell heavily on Luliu.

The beaten Lv Liu screamed hoarsely.

Lu Duan's eyes protruded in anger.

"Snapped!"

"..."

"Snapped!"

Twenty big boards went down, and the skin of the green willow was ripped apart.

Lu Duan felt that every blow that hit Lu Liu's body seemed to hit his heart.

Seeing that Lu Liu was beaten more air out than air in, Lu Duan roared angrily.

"I want to see Yang Yansi!"

　Thank you for the five hundred book coins from '风风天下'!Thanks to 'Wang Xu' for rewarding one hundred book coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)