Today's weather is sunny, but the wind and waves in Liyang County are high.

The current magistrate Qiu, a native of Guizhou, is a 32-year-old Fang Zhongju, and it will take eight years to try to win the list, and he is third from the bottom of the list. But no matter what, it is the title of the gold list, and it lives up to 30 years of hard work. After getting the Jinshi, Qiu did not have time to wait, so he asked the Ministry of Officials to make up for the actual appointment of Liyang County.

This can make Qiu Mou happy, he thought that he would only be sent to Huguang and the southwest remote places to serve as officials, but from time to time, he was appointed in the southern capital Ying Tianfu, which is a treasure land in the south of the Yangtze River.

In surprise, he received the official certificate, took the post slip, and happily went south to take office. I thought that the spring breeze was proud, the marquis of Baili County, a good life, and always had a future, but when he got to the ground, Qiu Moufang knew why this official made up for him to serve as the county magistrate of Liyang.

The reason is that the predecessor ran away before the activity was completed, and the well-informed supplementary jinshi were not willing to come to this Liyang, and in the end, Qiu, an unknown person in Guizhou, picked up the "cheap".

The term of office of the county is not fixed, the elder is up to 13 years, and the short one or two years, whether the long-term transfer depends on whether the individual has a background and creation.

If you want to have a backstage, such as Yang Lian of the Donglin Party, who couldn't take office in the county for a year, he asked the officials to be the "first honest official in the world".

If you want to be edified, such as Hai Rui, who once served as the governor of Yingtian, who is well-known in the county, he has to be transferred to Beijing to be the main officer, and then he will be out of control and leave a name in history.

But what background and creation does Qiu have?

Therefore, he has been doing it for five years, and he really can't leave or abandon it. In the first two years, I still want to wrestle with Xu Batian, forge ahead, and at least make a county a good place and not be coerced.

However, in broad daylight, his magistrate was rushed in and directly tied up in the iron field to be trained, and no one in the government and Nandu made the decision for him, so he completely settled down.

People have also become sleek, and only Xu Yuan is obedient to everything, and Xu Yuan told him to go east and never west.

This is called a good official who does not suffer immediate losses.

A mere Xu Yuan is not very scary, but the Wei State Mansion behind him, don't say that Qiu is a small county, even this Ying Tianzhi Mansion has to pout his ass, so he can compliment it.

On this day, Qiu was listening to music in the yamen, but the lord Boqiu broke in, saying that someone from the iron field reported that there was a bandit, and asked the county to immediately transfer the messengers and bow to the iron field to protect them.

Qiu Mou can't see this Qiu the most, this person is his second official, but everything is only Xu Batian, and he is a dignified official in the yamen.

However, knowing that this Qiu was Xu Batian's minion, Qiu didn't dare to attack, signaled the singer to retreat, and said quite confusedly: "How can you be a bandit?" ”

"Diao the people are in trouble, when to ask."

Qiu replied simply, and asked Qiu whether he was going or not.

"Go, go."

Qiu didn't dare to offend Qiu, nor did he dare to offend the ruthless man in the iron field, so he changed into his official uniform and went to the front hall. Needless to say, it was all Qiu's arrangement.

"There are bandits over there in the iron field, you will go with the county to take a look..."Qiu Mou said and got into the carriage, he didn't know how to ride a horse.

Qiu waved his hand at the officials, and the team immediately galloped out of the county office. On the road, dozens of inspectors and soldiers met, and two or three hundred people lined up in a long line to go out of the city and go to the iron field.

Unlike the county magistrate Qiu who sulked in the carriage, the officials were elated, because they knew that they would never run errands in vain for Master Xu.

The people couldn't help but talk about this scene, but no one knew what the yamen was doing like this.

Could it be that there are tax and food resistance in the countryside again?

Some old people speculate so.

Not to mention the nonsense of the people in the city, when Qiu led the team out of the city and halfway there, he heard a faint explosion from the official road ahead, and everyone was inexplicable.

Qiu leaned out of the carriage and looked at the sky, it was bright and clear, how could there be any dark clouds, it was not a February thunderstorm.

Seeing that the team stopped, Qiu was worried that going slowly would make Xu Yuan unhappy, so he hurriedly stepped forward to urge.

Qiu didn't squeak in the car, and continued to retract his head.

The procession went on again, but when they had gone a mile, no one dared to go.

I saw that on both sides of the official road ahead, flags were waving, officers and soldiers were like clouds, and in the middle of the official road, two or three hundred officers and soldiers with armor and weapons were undressing and disarming, and then one by one they walked to the side of the road with their heads in their hands and squatted down.

Qiu and Qiu looked at this scene, both stunned, not knowing what was happening.

The team also did not dare to go further.

About half an hour later, a number of horsemen came to me and asked who they were.

Qiu stepped forward to report his identity and asked what was happening ahead.

The other party did not answer, and the knight only threw a red pennant in front of the Liyang team.

"Whoever crosses this flag will be killed!"

The leading knight coldly glanced at Qiu and the officials behind him, and then turned his horse's head and left. When I ran to the three-way intersection in front of me, I listened to the horses' hooves, and there was dust, but there were hundreds of horses running out, all of them were red-clothed cloaks, and they were extremely majestic.

Everyone was stunned, and no one dared to cross the flag.

With their little manpower, how dare they fight with those fierce officers and soldiers!

Qiu was sitting in the car, lifting the curtain and secretly looking forward, his eyes kept rolling.

Qiu's side became more and more frightened, thinking of the previous incident of sending people to deliver news in the iron field, and he couldn't help but worry about whether these officers and soldiers went to the iron field.

Could it be that the "banditry" mentioned by the iron field refers to these officers and soldiers?

Impossible, if these officers and soldiers are bandits, how can they not attack them?

Xu is a soldier sent by Nandu...

Qiu Mou's heart was a little calm, seeing that these officers and soldiers were elite soldiers, there was no need to worry if they were really troublesome. He wanted to lead the team back immediately, because the officer and soldier would not let them pass.

On the face, Qiu still has to ask the county Qiu what he means.

"Since it is ordered by the officers and soldiers, the people of this county will return when they wait, don't miss the affairs of the officers and soldiers." Qiu said lightly in the car.

Qiu nodded, and then ordered the team to go back. But when they returned to the city, the magistrate Qiu jumped out of the car, and then ordered the city gate to be closed immediately, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

"What does this mean?" Qiu was confused by the order of the magistrate, and couldn't help asking.

"Don't ask, the owner of the hill, just follow the orders of the county."

Qiu's tone was unquestionable, in front of the officials, Qiu was inconvenient to contradict, thinking that Guancheng was not a big deal, so he signaled his subordinates to do as instructed.

The night was uneventful, and the wind and waves inside and outside the city were calm.

The next day, a Jinyi guard dressed in a flying fish suit came to knock on the door, saying that he had come to official business on the order of Wei Gonggong, the eunuch of Jiangnan Town, and asked the magistrate of Liyang to come to see them immediately.

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