Chapter 429 Xu Fengnian visits Huang Nan, and Song’s prefect is good at making a fuss. Xu Fengnian sneered, “It is also the duty of the county governor to prohibit the lewd sacrifices that are not worthy of worship in the county. Lord Song has always praised people for his thunder and decisiveness in Lingzhou. Why did he neglect his duties to Huang Nan County to worship three ghost temples, offering tablets. It is neither the heroic soul of the Northern Liang Dynasty nor the gods given by the imperial court. It is obviously contrary to the etiquette system, but one of the couplets was written by Lord Song. Could it be that Lord Song relied on his strategy to protect him, and knew that he had committed a crime and had found that Lord Song had a hobby of collecting books. He collected more than 60 orphan ancient books, which were expensive. I don’t know how much incense it had given Lord Song filial piety to him this year?”
Song Yan took a sip of tea and said, “It’s only five hundred taels, not worth mentioning. Many rare books that are greedy for the eyes are not included in their pockets, which is a pity.”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “The jurisdiction is full of lustful sacrifices, and more than 300 taels of ink are punished with both crimes, but it is a death sentence for losing one’s head. Lord Song just thought of using his own head to help the prince establish his dignity in Lingzhou.”
Song Yan is worthy of being the stinky and hard stone in the pit of Lingzhou. He actually smiled and said, “Since Your Highness came to the door with a knife, Song Yan also admitted his guilt, that’s a matter of one knife.”
Xu Fengnian put down his teacup, “You and I know it well. This time you disobey the will of the Administrator, and you are determined to surface the officialdom in Lingzhou, so that I can pay attention to you, the guy who once annoyed Xu Xiao. You have encountered a bottleneck of being an official and want to change your family to get to the next level. I also made enemies on all sides in Lingzhou, restraining my hands and feet. I urgently need one person to break the deadlock. You, the prefect of Huangnan County, who has a large official position and a little prestigious, need to “rise up” in Huangnan County, so that outsiders mistakenly think that it is the Administrator, have made up their minds to lower themselves to the General of Lingzhou. Head, then many clerks will restrain their small actions tactfully. After all, they really have to settle the accounts after the autumn. The men who have made suggestions are clean, and they can’t keep them from doing dirty work. Even if they don’t blame the public, who can’t kill the chicken to warn the monkeys? In fact, there are a few unlucky chickens to be taken out. These tricky and slick little officials are actually afraid of it. Song Yan, do you think that if I lack you, Huang Nan County will be trapped in a mud pond. Even if I go to the shore, they are still muddy. They can only run to Liangzhou to complain to Xu Xiao in shame.”
Song Yan shook his head and said, “Your Highness does not lack the means to break the deadlock, but time. After all, even if you kill randomly, you can still be convinced and dissatisfied. In the future, when the military confidants take their positions one by one, and with the mutual checks and balances between some local officials in Lingzhou and foreign scholars, the Lingzhou officialdom will be slowly tamed. But Your Highness seems to have no such cruelty and decisiveness for the time being, and you can’t wait. This point, after Your Highness came to Huangnan County to find me in person, Song Yan was even more certain.”
Seeing that Xu Fengnian did not speak, Song Yan continued to say slowly: “If I become the governor of Lingzhou, I can not only serve as a front pawn to remove dirt, but also openly appease the master of the military commander. Both sides have steps and secretly weakened them.Lord Li’s control over Lingzhou…”
Xu Fengnian interrupted the county magistrate with a smile, “The prefect overestimates himself. The governor of Lingzhou can only be Xu Beizhi, not you Song Yan, at most you are a different leader in Lingzhou. However, this prince can say something open to you. One day in the future, Xu Beizhi will become the governor of Beiliang Dao. You have hope of becoming the governor of Lingzhou. But that’s still early. Some of you have to wait, because Beiliang will not touch Lord Li, who has made no contributions. The Xu and Li families have accumulated incense for two generations. Not to mention Lord Li’s hard work, the friendship between me and Li Hanlin alone is enough to make the management worker enjoy the official, and it is better not to do anything that can be done if you can. Of course, if you, Song Yan, are really capable, with Xu Beizhi in front of you, the governor of Lingzhou will not be able to do it, but there are two governors Youliang who will be seated for me to consider. Li Yang is thirty states, let’s not talk about the alien species Xu Beizhi. If you count, how many Lord Song are less than 40 years old, you should be content. “
Song Yan’s face was gloomy and sunny.
Xu Fengnian gave a speech that made Song Yan laugh and cry. “Also, there are many officials who want to be promoted to Lingzhou. If you want to be a Song Yan, you have to send half of the books in the building to me. Many scholars have arrived in Beiliang, so I can use it to win people’s hearts. “
Without waiting for the prefect to nod, Xu Fengnian stood up and said to himself: “Damn it, no wonder so many people want to be emperors and can be so righteous when they start selling official positions and titles. “
Perhaps this self-proclaimed general of Lingzhou was too straightforward, which made Song Yan, who had been immersed in the officialdom for many years, feel fresh, and is also a little afraid that the prefect would not want to admit it. He was speechless for a moment and remained silent. The tea had already cooled down, and Song Yan was still sitting there shaking the lid of the cup.
Xu Fengnian didn’t care about such harmless rudeness. There was a secret report that Li Fuzhen had also arrived in Huangnan County. He didn’t want to meet her. At that time, both sides were embarrassed and prepared to leave this mansion that was indeed a bit sinister. Song Yan was not so arrogant that he sat on the chair and stood still. He stood up and sent it to the door. Xu Fengnian told him that he would stay in the county town until tomorrow morning. Song Yan nodded, stopped in place for a long time, walked back to the chair, and gently pressed his hand on the armrest of the iron limu chair. The manager who was refused the lead from the house was standing carefully at the door, and he couldn’t help but worry. Everyone knew that the prince of Beiliang was ridiculous and strange in his life. Now he put a hat of the general of Lingzhou on his head. God knew whether he wanted to have a legitimate operation in Lingzhou. His master should not be the first.
Song Yan patted the handrail and turned around and said, “Go to the Ye Yuanlou to sort out two thousand books, and then let General Tao send it to General Lingzhou’s mansion today. “
The manager had to say more: “Master, how to divide it?”
Song Yan looked helpless with the wound, and sighed: “Except for the more than 40 rare books collected in pineapple wooden boxes alone, the rest were moved out of the Wild Ape Tower with the best choice. ”
The manager promised, hurry upleave. Song Yan rubbed his eyebrows and smiled bitterly, “It’s so heartbreaking than marrying a daughter.”
Xu Fengnian took Xu Yanbing and Hong Shuwen on the small road in the Song Mansion. Hu Yan Guanyin did not enter the mansion and stayed in the carriage outside the mansion. The reason why Xu Fengnian chose Song Yan of Huangnan County was mainly because the prefect studied a lot, but the old scholar was very little. When Song Yan deliberately criticized Xu Xiao’s rewards and punishments in public, it was just a trick of military soldiers taking risks in the officialdom to attract Xu Xiao’s attention. It was not true that Song Yan was not familiar with the rules of the officialdom. Unfortunately, he met Xu Xiao, the “unconscious” King of Northern Liang, and threw his eyes to the blind man. Of course, Xu Fengnian also began to doubt whether Xu Xiao intended to leave the stubborn stone in Lingzhou for him to subdue.
As Xu Fengnian thought, he looked up and saw a tall maid in the mansion, dressed simply and had a long sword on his waist, and was quite unkind to her and her group. After blocking the way, she pressed the hilt of the sword and asked sternly: “Who are you? You were bad intentions on the street outside the wall, why did you break into the backyard without authorization!”
The young people in Lingzhou who do not wear armor but wear cold swords must be those ignorant playboys who are ignorant of the world. She has taught her a lesson with her lady. These tycoons who only rely on their father’s merits to be evil people, and they have no memory. This time, they broke into the county magistrate’s mansion and showed off their power.
Xu Fengnian glanced at her. Hong Shuwen was eager to try, his eyes were cold, and he was about to knock the little lady out with a scabbard. Xu Fengnian lost a wink and signaled Hong Shuwen not to cause trouble. He smiled and explained to her: “I am a guest in your house. The carriage is parked in the back alley. You have to leave now, not as the girl thought. The charge of breaking into the official house is not small. I don’t have the courage to come to the prefect’s mansion to cause trouble.”
After Xu Fengnian said that, she was going to bypass her, but she didn’t expect that she would move two steps and block the way again. Hong Shuwen rolled his eyes. This girl really doesn’t know how to write the word “death”.
The maid said stubbornly, “No, you have to report the name. I asked the manager and I can only let you go after confirming it is correct. Otherwise, if you are a thief with a bold book-stealing thief, or the thief who intends to commit a crime…”
Hong Shuwen couldn’t help but curse, “Get out!”
The maid who is not much better than Hong Shuwen is angry and wants to draw her sword to face her. However, what makes her soul scattered is that no matter how hard she uses, the long sword cannot be unsheathed, as if she was nailed to death in a sword sheath. Xu Fengnian knew that Hong Shuwen did not have this kind of Tongxuan ability, but for Xu Yanbing, who once surpassed Wang Xiu, was a trick of carving.
Xu Fengnian passed by her directly, and Xu Yanbing, who was not good at ancient well, followed closely. Hong Shuwen walked by with a narrow-minded expression of a big joke on his face. The woman who had practiced swords for many years just thought she was a ghost in the daytime and did not dare to act rashly anymore. She turned her head and looked at the three of them in a daze. She felt relieved. She was really afraid that they were lonely ghosts who died tragically in this mansion.
The maid dared not move, but someone in the mansion was still in dispersed, and the sword was like a rainbow, rushing straight towards him. Xu Fengnian frowned. Hong Shuwen was so happy that someone hit him on the edge of the knife, but with His Highness present, his move was not too harsh. He just quickly took the knife, poked the “assin” in the chest with a scabbard, and then kicked the man in the abdomen. Hong Shuwen seemed to think the man was cheaper, so he walked away quickly and stepped fiercely on the assassin’s face with one foot. Xu Fengnian had already spoken out, “It’s OK.”