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Xu Zhiyuan was about to cry. This is the first time in his life that he died for his country and so hard. Can you give this old man a good time? Xu Zhiyuan was not afraid of death. When the thieves came out, he would show them what it means to be a scholar and what it means to be loyal to the country.

But after yesterday's ups and downs and today's disturbance, Xu Zhiyuan didn't want to die that much anymore. He was a little scared now, afraid that the bandits would really come tomorrow, and he had lost the courage to commit suicide.

So when Xu Zhiyuan finished his dinner, he looked up at the boy who delivered the meal and said, "Where is the thief who asked you to come? You call him here, I have something to say to him."

The food delivery man was packing up Xu Zhiyuan's leftover food and said: "Master Zhifu, don't embarrass me, I'm just a food delivery person, I really don't know what kind of thieves are small, why don't you go back and come with us?" Tell the shopkeeper, maybe he knows."

Xu Zhiyuan gritted his teeth looking at the little boy in trouble, stomped his feet for the last time, and let the boy go without saying anything. Now embarrassing such a boy who delivers meals is of no use to him, thinking of this, Xu Zhiyuan sighed Said: "Forget it, you go first."

"Okay, the magistrate, you should go to bed early,"

After saying this, the man took the food box and left. At this moment, Madam looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "Husband, are you still on guard here tonight?"

"Keep it, why not keep it."

Xu Zhiyuan said a word, followed by looking at his wife and said: "But you should stop guarding here, go back to the back house and rest."

After hearing this, the madam said: "My husband hasn't rested yet, how can I rest alone."

After hearing this, Xu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "It's okay, the bandits will not come today, Madam can sleep peacefully."

"Ah, how does my husband know?"

Madam looked at Xu Zhiyuan puzzled, and Xu Zhiyuan said angrily after hearing this: "The bandits are trying to torture the eagle. They want the old man to submit himself, but it's a good idea. The old man would rather die than surrender!"

Madam looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "Husband, how do you know they are boiling eagles?"

Xu Zhiyuan snorted coldly and said: "How can such a measure be hidden from me? If they really want to kill me, why bother to bring food to the old man? He is waiting for the old man to succumb to them."

The madam breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words: "Husband, since they don't want to kill you, you can go back to sleep on the big bed in the back hall, and wait until you have enough sleep, and then sleep with them!"

Xu Zhiyuan shook his head and said: "No, if I go back to sleep in the back hall now, wouldn't I be surrendering to them? This old man will not leave. I will stick to the magistrate's hall, even if the outside is occupied by bandits, but as long as this old man One day in this hall, this hall is Daming's official residence, and it represents Daming's rule over this land!"

Madam didn't understand it very well, but it didn't matter, she was sleepy anyway, and when she heard that the bandits didn't want to kill her husband, her tense heart was relieved, so she said: "Then husband, continue to suffer. I'll go back to sleep first."

Xu Zhiyuan waved his hand and said: "Go, if they don't come to see me tomorrow, you can go out to buy vegetables normally, and cook for me later, how can I eat their cheap food every day!"

After hearing this, Madam felt more at ease. My husband can now let me go out to buy vegetables. I really don't want to die. I started to get serious with these thieves. Thinking of this, Madam yawned and went back to the back house!
Seeing his wife leave, Xu Zhiyuan took the sword, looked at it and sighed, put the sword on the desk, and sat on the chair wrapped in a quilt.

The old man will never give in.

It was another two days, Xu Zhiyuan was already haggard, and he continued to persevere in the lobby at this time, but at this time he did not want to die at all, and he had completely lost the courage to die for his country.

This martyrdom is like fighting a war. What is important is to decline once, then exhaust again, and it will be nothing after three times. When Wang Jiadong heard the report from his subordinates that Mrs. Xu Zhiyuan had started shopping for vegetables and cooking, he knew that this Xu The adults will not die.

Another day later, Wang Jiadong came to the lobby of Lanzhou Mansion with the carpenter who changed the tables, chairs and benches for the mansion. At a glance, he saw Xu Zhiyuan, the magistrate who was tired and unkempt, but not hungry.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't discover Wang Jiadong immediately at this time. At first he thought Wang Jiadong was the head carpenter. It wasn't until he saw the carpenter changed all the furnishings in the lobby and exited the lobby that Xu Zhiyuan saw him standing in the lobby. Wang Jiadong did not move.

"you are?"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Wang Jiadong asking questions, Wang Jiadong smiled when he saw Xu Zhiyuan questioning himself, cupped his hands and said, "The junior Wang Jiadong has met Xu Zhifu."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned slightly and said, "Are you the bandit who broke into the city?"

Wang Jiadong laughed when he heard the words: "Why did the magistrate Xu say that? The younger generation is an official. Why did he talk about thieves? Oh, yes, what Xu Zhifu said may be the rogues who broke into the city yesterday. Those rogues have been captured by us. The army drove away, and now Lanzhou is full of ordinary people, there are rogues from there."

"Official status?"

Xu Zhiyuan stared blankly at Wang Jiadong and said, "Are you an official there?"

Wang Jiadong smiled and cupped his hands and said, "I'm Wang Jiadong, deputy brigade commander of the Northwest Army in Lantian."

Xu Zhiyuan was stunned after hearing this address: "Lantian? Are you from Lantian?"

Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "That's right."

Xu Zhiyuan frowned and said, "You officials from Lantian, what are you doing in Gansu?"

At this time, Wang Jiadong smiled and cupped his hands and said: "The magistrate Xu doesn't know something. Our Lantian county lord feels that Gansu is in chaos, there are bandits everywhere, and the people are massacred. A peaceful world in Gansu allows people in Gansu to live and work in peace and contentment.”

Xu Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard these words, Wang Jiadong narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said, "What advice does Prefect Xu have?"

Xu Zhiyuan said: "I laughed at Li Chaosheng's wolfish ambition. Didn't he just want to take advantage of Daming's weakness to annex Daming and expand its territory? He insisted on talking as if he wanted to save the people from fire and water, but in fact, no matter how colorful the language is, It cannot conceal the fact that Li Chaosheng is a traitor of the Ming Dynasty."

Xu Zhiyuan said viciously, he thought his words would hurt Wang Jiadong and drive Wang Jiadong crazy, but unexpectedly, Wang Jiadong was not annoyed at all, and even the smile on the corner of his mouth was still bright: "There is nothing wrong with you saying that , the emperor of Ming Dynasty was extremely fatuous, all the officials were greedy for life and afraid of death, he didn't think about state affairs, he didn't care about the life and death of the people, he only knew how to blindly exploit the people, which made life difficult for the people, so he could only follow the thieves."

"Through this over and over again, the people of Ming Dynasty became poorer and unable to survive, just like a snowball, more and more people in Ming Dynasty needed relief, and there were more and more bandits. As for the officials of the court, one by one That is extremely rich, Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the imperial court, has a family of millions, and even has 20 mu of fertile land in the southeast region."

"Wen Tiren, who resigned from office, also has 10,000+ acres of fertile land. As for the rest of the officials, they all have more than [-] acres of land. They are really wealthy, and the roads are frozen to death. Also, even your clean teacher Qian Qianyi , It is said that the family also has [-] mu of fertile land. A servant of the Ministry of Rites who has been a scholar for many years is so rich in his family, not to mention other officials. You have governed the world into what it is today. Why don’t you favor our capable people? Help Innocent people?"

"Xu Zhiyuan, let me ask you, when you see your colleagues enjoying themselves at home and wanting to feed their dogs with the best meat, have you ever thought about the people who died of starvation on the side of the road? How do you get through this sad day."

"Okay, okay, you are incompetent, greedy, and want to drain every drop of blood from the people. Now our county officials feel that the people are having a hard time, so we decide to help the people live a good life, and live a good life without being harmed by you moths." What about you? Standing there barking like a dog, saying that our county official is a national traitor of Ming Dynasty, hahaha...how shameless you are, but you are not allowed to continue exploiting and oppressing the common people, just wanting the common people to live a better life In the past few days, you have been swearing at each other, wishing to nail our county magistrate to the pillar of shame."

"But my great magistrate, open your eyes and see how the people outside celebrate with each other, how they set off firecrackers to celebrate their transfer to Lantian rule, look at their smiling faces, they cry with joy, you Don't you feel ashamed? You talk about the common people in the world every day. Look at how you have governed the world. You still have the face to talk about propriety, integrity, shame, and national thieves. Let me tell you, we Lantian people have never We are not loyal to the Zhu Ming Dynasty, but we will always be loyal to the people of Limin."

"If one day the people call us Lantian a national thief, then our Lantian is a national thief, but the people don't recognize it. You dog officials who eat the people's salary but only know the fish and meat of the people are not worthy of calling us a national thief, because you are the national thief!"

Wang Jiadong exported to Xu Zhiyuan for a while, Xu Zhiyuan was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to say: "You, you, me, my family never had so many apprentices, and I never greedy for a penny of the country's money."

Wang Jiadong said: "I know, the dignified magistrate only has 500 taels of silver in his family, so you can be regarded as clean and honest."

"You, how do you know?"

Xu Zhiyuan was shocked. This person in front of him was too scary. How could he even know about his own small coffers? You must know that his wife didn't know before he told his wife.

Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "That old servant of yours is too lame in makeup, we caught him..."

"what?"

"Don't be nervous, we didn't touch him, let him go back to his hometown, and brought news that you are safe."

Xu Zhiyuan looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "You, what do you want to do?"

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong said: "Daming is too big. We Lantian people can't manage it alone, but you are doing well in Lanzhou. In addition to being naive in politics, you don't know how to develop agriculture and architecture. The construction of water conservancy, the business is in a mess, and the law and order are as if there are no such minor problems, but the rest is still very good.”

Xu Zhiyuan's face turned dark when he heard this, he looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "What's left?"

Wang Jiadong thought for a while and said, "At least your heart is still good."

Xu Zhiyuan touched his heart, and Wang Jiadong said: "Why don't you fight a big fight with our group of national thieves, so that the entire Lanzhou people can live a life that a superior should live?"

Xu Zhiyuan frowned, looked at the sword in his hand, Wang Jiadong also saw the sword in Xu Zhiyuan's hand and said with a smile: "Of course, you can also wipe your neck with the sword in your hand, but I don't think anyone will care about you, an official who is loyal to Daming , the imperial court only cares about the Central Plains area at this time, you in the border of Gansu, people are unwilling to talk to you, whether you die or not, the imperial court will not care, at most send a report to the whole country to tell the officials all over the country that this man named Xu Zhiyuan is dead. "

"Then you won't be able to stir up any waves. In addition, we have already seen through you as a person. You are nothing but a bad heart. If you kill yourself, you will be labeled as a foolish and loyal person on your head. As far as you can imagine I don’t know what ambition you want to declare, is it to defend to the death the right of your corrupt officials to exploit the people? Or to use your death to tell the world that you officials are right, you exploit the common people? Common people, is it right to squeeze out the hard-earned money of the common people and not leave them a way to survive?"

"You die, anyway, your death here can only exchange for my ruthless contempt. Of course, you can't exchange any good words for the common people. You have been the magistrate for these years, and you have never harmed the common people. You have not corrupted the law. But you haven't brought a penny of benefits to the common people."

"So when you die, how will the common people evaluate you? There used to be an official who was incompetent or incompetent, but he was not bad. What was his name, I can't remember..."

"Okay, you shut up."

After hearing Wang Jiadong's words, Xu Zhiyuan completely lost his not-so-strong desire to die for his country. At this moment, he put on a dark face and stopped talking. Wang Jiadong heard the words and said, "No, if you don't want to die, this is for you."

Xu Zhiyuan took what Wang Jiadong threw over, and saw that it was a small seal.

"what is this?"

Wang Jiadong said: "The seal of Lantian Zhonglichang, you will be the Zhonglichang of Lanzhou in the future. We in Lantian will take over here and make improvements here, such as building water conservancy and leading the people to become rich, and we will also send officials here, and you The seal in your hand is equivalent to your official seal, without it, your order cannot get out of the magistrate's office."

"With it, I can order the officials you send me at will?"

Wang Jiadong said: "It can't, we in Lantian pay attention to the right thing and not the person. If the order you put forward is not beneficial to the people, any ordinary person in Lantian can reject you, so you can do it yourself."

After speaking, Wang Jiadong left, regardless of Xu Zhiyuan's answer or not, in fact, Wang Jiadong knew that Xu Zhiyuan had no other choice.

"Okay, this matter is considered complete, and you can write the military report when you go back. It happens that the county lord will be full moon in five days. I don't know if the county lord is satisfied with this gift!"