The Golden County Magistrate

Chen Yan's expression suddenly became strange, and he looked her up and down.

Bai Lu felt embarrassed by his gaze, and said angrily: "What are you looking at!"

Chen Yan suddenly smiled: "Miss Bai, I really can't tell that you, as a guard, can make so much money? Can you save 10,000 taels of silver?"

Bai Lu said with a stiff face: "I have my own way, you don't need to worry about it."

Chen Yan thought about it and said: "Since we are old friends, how about this, if you save 10,000 taels, I will give you an extra five cents per month for every tael of silver!"

Bai Lu's eyes lit up: "Really?"

If so, then 10,000 taels can return 450 taels, 50 taels more than before!

Chen Yan said again: "Maybe you can get some more preferential treatment. If you can get more than 100,000 taels, I will give you another 5 wen, and you will get 50 wen for every tael!"

Bai Lu stood up excitedly: "You must keep your word!"

Chen Yan smiled and said: "We are so close friends, how can I go back on my word to you?"

Bai Lu's cheeks turned red, knowing that he was referring to the last time he fed her medicine. Indeed, from this aspect, it was simply a friendship between them.

In the past, she would have been furious, but at this moment, she was rarely angry and said: "I don't have that much money for the time being, but I have 10,000 taels. I will bring it next time I come."

She thought about this for a long time.

The sisters collected 10,000 taels of silver, and she worked hard to bring it to Qingshan County. She had made contributions and worked hard. It's not too much to earn a little more with this money?

So she asked about this matter and got the result she wanted.

Fifty taels more per month, that's 600 taels a year!

It's higher than her salary as a Fengling Guard!

Anyway, the sisters will get enough, and I'm not doing anything to let them down, so why not?

Last time, Chen Yan saw through her intention to come here to save money, but he didn't expect her to be so active, and said happily: "No problem!"

Not long after sending Bai Lu away, Qian Wu came back.

"Your Excellency is right. I have confirmed from Wu Ming that it was indeed the Xiong guy who did it!"

"Hehe, he wants to die, I'll help him! Call He Lao Da over for me!"

"Yes!"

After watching Qian Wu go, Chen Yan sneered slightly.

Xiong Jin was afraid that he would use force again, so he used this trick to make him have no reason to use force.

Unfortunately, that guy didn't understand that Chen Yan never needed to use force to deal with him.

Qingshan County is Chen Yan's base. If he can't even handle the surrounding counties, what business can he do and make a lot of money!

…

Two days later, in a manor in the west of Lianggu County.

This place is the house of a county gentry, but few people know that Xiong Jin had bought it as his own private residence.

"Your Highness, what are your plans now?"

In the house, Xiong Jin asked patiently.

Tang Shuo, who was opposite, was no longer the destitute look he once was. He was dressed in brocade clothes and had regained some of his former elegance.

Hearing Xiong Jin's question, he said vaguely: "Didn't the king say it? This matter can't be rushed!"

Tang Shuo was really surprised when Xiong Jin welcomed him here respectfully.

After the rebellion failed, he had been living in hiding, worried every day, and even basic food and clothing were difficult to guarantee.

He had also sought refuge with some princes and nobles with whom he had a shallow relationship in the past, but they either did not dare to take him in, or took him in on the surface but secretly sent people to inform on him. No one was willing to help him at all.

After the assassination plan of Tang Yun failed, he was almost in a desperate situation, but he unexpectedly met Xiong Jin!

Tang Shuo was not stupid either. He could see that although this man was just a small county magistrate, he was extremely greedy. He helped him in the hope that he could rise to prominence one day.

But the problem was that he, Xiong Jin, was only a seventh-rank county magistrate after all!

He only had a few hundred soldiers in the Nafu Camp, and they were all the lowest-ranking soldiers in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Their combat power level could only scare ordinary people.

If Xiong Jin launched a rebellion, the court would not need to send a large army. It would only need to send the Longzhou Prefecture Army to easily solve them.

Of course, Xiong Jin himself had never thought of relying on his men to rebel.

He thought that Tang Shuo's downfall was only temporary, and there must be a large number of troops hidden elsewhere, so he didn't have to do much.

As long as Tang Shuo was sent to the place where his army was, when Tang Shuo successfully overthrew the empress in the future, he could get a duke or something by relying on this merit of protecting the emperor.

But he didn't expect that Tang Shuo stayed here for so many days, except for eating, drinking and having fun every day, and took the opportunity to ask him for two maids to make trouble, and there was no other action!

Xiong Jin was very happy to serve him at first.

After a while, seeing that His Royal Highness the King of Yan never mentioned the matter of going to find his army, he couldn't help but get anxious, so he asked indirectly and asked about the matter.

Every time Tang Shuo said"It's not appropriate to go out for the time being, now that I'm in the limelight." He avoided his words.

In fact, Tang Shuo had a place to go, why would he be so miserable?

Here he can eat, drink and live well without spending a penny, and have pretty girls to accompany him, isn't it wonderful?

How high-spirited he was when he started the army!

But he was really miserable and scared during this period, and even lost Wu Handong and Bai Xiang, his last subordinates. How can he muster the courage to revive now?

Seeing that Tang Shuo was still perfunctory, Xiong Jin was secretly angry and said sternly: "Your Highness, have you forgotten that the Great Zhou is now upside down and is waiting for you to take control of the world again!"

This was the first time he was so loud. Tang Shuo was startled and muttered: "Why are you yelling so loudly? How could I not know, but now is not a good time."

Xiong Jin was angry: "Now the court army is pinned down in the north by the Jizhou uprising, and the capital is empty. If this is not a good time, then when is a good time? Your Highness, don't you actually plan to make a comeback?"

Tang Shuo's face changed slightly, and he secretly said bad.

This guy is so greedy. If he no longer has hope for me, he won't turn around and kill me and take credit for it, right?

He thought of a solution in a hurry and suddenly laughed out loud: "Lord Xiong, now I can finally trust you completely."

Xiong Jin was stunned and said in surprise: "Your Highness means..."

Tang Shuo said seriously: "Don't blame me for being cautious. If it were you, how could you believe it easily if someone suddenly came out to say that he wanted to serve the king? After all, it concerns the world, how can we be careless?"

Xiong Jin was shocked and suddenly realized: "So, Your Highness has been acting all this time?"

Tang Shuo said seriously: "Yes. It was not until now that I really believed that you really wanted to help me! You won't blame me for testing you all the time, right?"

Xiong Jin said happily: "No, no, no! Your Highness is so cautious, the great cause will be accomplished! This is a great thing, how dare I be miserable by Your Highness? What is Your Highness going to do now?"