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Chapter 166 Pattern
The sound of conversation came from Zaoban Gong's room.

"Have you heard?"

"Hey, the owner, Bo Jianxian, is very honest. What kind of county captain do you want?"

"Say it's a melon."

"The one surnamed Lu can get rid of it, so how can the owner, Bo, love him?"

In the corridor, Huang Shi was leading the way. He turned his head and glanced at Li Xia. Seeing the county captain's expressionless face, he bent down quickly, trotted into the classroom, and coughed twice.

"The new County Lieutenant has arrived, everyone get up."

Holding a roster in his hand, Li Xia stepped into the classroom, and saw more than a dozen men sitting or standing, chatting.

These people are Zaoli, that is, the servants of the county government, guards of honor, and guards.

They turned their heads one after another, and when they saw Li Xia, their noise of play subsided, they looked at each other without speaking, but they all showed blank expressions on their faces.

Huang Shi coughed again, and said, "This is the new Li County Captain, all of you are here to pay my respects."

Everyone stood up one after another and called out: "I have seen Captain Li."

Li Xia had a hard expression on his face, just looking at them, neither answering nor asking them to be excused.

Although he is young, he has firm eyes and stands upright. With his status as a "county lieutenant", he looks quite majestic.

All the Zaoli felt bewildered, they arched their hands and dared not let go.

Li Xia looked at it for a while, stepped forward, raised a man's hand, and patted his back again.

"Stand up straight and be refreshed."

The man stood up straight.

Li Xia didn't speak again.

For a long time, the silent atmosphere made all the slaves feel uncomfortable, and finally they all stood up straight, and made standard hand-clasping movements.

Li Xia then said: "There is no need to be too polite."

"Thank you County Lieutenant Li." The Zaolis breathed a sigh of relief and put down their hands.

Li Xia flipped through the roster in his hand and said, "Let's line up and report names one by one, starting with you."

"Yes, the villain Yang Shoufa."

Li Xia took a charcoal pen and marked it on the booklet, and said, "Be careful, where are you from? How many years have you been a Zaoli? What do you usually do?"

"A native of Paowu Village, who has been an official for six years, usually runs errands in the Yamen, and patrols with the county magistrate..."

Li Xia wrote it down and ordered the next person to sign up.

"The villain Cui left is a groom, from Sanqing Village, who raises horses for the third class..."

After a while, everyone reported their names one after another.

"18 people." Li Xia said, looking at the booklet in his hand, he said: "16 Zaoli, 12 Menzi, [-] grooms, [-] bearers and fan bearers, [-] lamp bearers, this is the quota for public officials in Zhong County. Qingfu is a county, why are there so many people?"

Huang Shi hurriedly replied: "The owner of the house, Bo, reported to Zhizhou that there are many Nanman around Yingfu County, and there are three more classes in places where they are about to fight."

"There are 40 people in the register, and there are 22 more?"

"On duty."

"Which ones are on duty, mark them to me."

Huang Shi had no choice but to mark it, Li Xia asked again, and finally said: "There are still 12 people missing, where are they?"

"This..." Huang Shiwei wondered, "The villain doesn't know."

Li Xia put down the book in his hand, walked a few steps, and asked Yang Shoufa, "Do you know Bao San?"

"Report to the county captain, the villain knows me."

"Where is he?"

"He... he's sick."

Li Xia said: "Jiang Fan is also sick?"

"This... villains don't know." Yang Shoufa lowered his head.

There was a bang sound coming from a distance, five times, it was already sunset.

Li Xia didn't make things difficult for them, and said: "Today I know everyone, and I will officially take office tomorrow, and we will get along well in the future."

After he finished speaking, he left simply.

In the class room, all the Zaoli breathed a sigh of relief, and some people looked out the door a few times.

"He's gone."

"This county lieutenant is very tense, which makes me angry,"

"It doesn't look good, it scares me to death."

"I don't know when the landlord will be able to get him away..."

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Li Xia walked out of the county office and saw Han Chengxu standing outside the door.

"Is there a problem with the accommodation arrangement?"

"Yes, Ah Lang made a good guess." Han Chengxu explained what happened, and then said, "I'm afraid that the magistrate of Najiang County or the owner of the house will give us a warning."

"Elder Han thinks how to deal with it is more appropriate?"

Han Chengxu said: "Presumably Ah Lang is in the state of strong orders in the county government today?"

Li Xia said: "Yes, if you want to be a strong order, you should show your attitude from the beginning, it's boring to repeat."

"Since you have shown your strength in official affairs, it is better to take a step back in private affairs. How about living in a posthouse?"

"Okay, let's talk after you settle down..."

Yingfu County Posthouse is located at the confluence of Fujiang River and Erjia River in the north of the city.

Li Xia and others went to the post house, but there was only one big room left. After staying in, they set up a Datong shop in the big room.

It was night, and a few people gathered around the lights, talking about their impressions of Qingfu County today.

"Speaking of which, the fierce party struggle in the Song Dynasty is evident in this residence." Han Qi'an looked at the Datong shop and said with emotion.

It was rare for Liu Jinsuo to soak his feet, so he asked, "What do you mean by today?"

"Generally speaking, Beijing officials are not worthy of residences. Local officials all have official buildings, and most of them are connected to the yamen. Therefore, the children of the official government are called 'yamen'. If the local officials have no residence, they are excluded."

"Squeeze out? Didn't Martin Gui say to arrange for us again?"

Han Qi'an said: "He won't arrange it."

"What?"

"In normal times, Kou Zhun and Ding Wei, the famous prime ministers, fought for power. Kou Zhun was demoted to Hengzhou and had nowhere to live. The people voluntarily built a house for him. Ding Wei relocated him to Leizhou, and finally Kou Zhun died in anger. Su Zhe was also demoted to Leizhou by Zhang Dun and rented a private house. Zhang Dun learned that the owner of the house was severely punished and Su Zhe was not allowed to have a place to live... Do you understand?"

"not understand."

Han Qi'an said: "Don't give me a residence, this is one of the means of fighting for power."

Liu Jinsuo was furious, got up and shouted: "Damn it! Bullying people..."

Li Xia was looking at a map with a candle, and said, "Sit down and shut up."

"Oh."

Han Chengxu sighed: "It seems that the former Lu county lieutenant was pushed away by Fang Yankai."

"I'm afraid the old trick is going to be repeated." Han Qi'an said: "Shi Jun sent Cao Liu to say, 'Please take care of the owner's book', in order to let Fang Yankai control the power of the county lieutenant, and not let Alang intervene. , The chief bookkeeper squeezed out, it's hard to handle."

"Fang Yankai handed over the soap class today, I'm afraid it's to set a trap for A Lang."

"Qiaoer." Li Xia suddenly pointed to the map, and said, "Do you remember where the Qi army in Wuliang Hetai is located?"

Han Qiaoer said: "It's not on this map, I'll draw another one for Brother Li."

"Okay, you draw..."

Li Xia stretched his body.

Han Chengxu said: "It seems that Fang Yankai is unwilling to hand over the power of county captain. How does Alang plan to deal with him?"

"I haven't thought about it." Li Xia said.

The Han family father and son were taken aback.

Li Xia said: "I think it's a good thing that there is Shi Jun in Xuzhou and Fang Yankai in Qingfu County."

"Good thing?"

"It's normal not to hand over power." Li Xia said: "If they dare to hand over a county's military equipment to someone who is 16 years old and has no official experience, it would be too irresponsible; If you hand it over, if there are more such mindless and positionless officials, the land of Shu will perish."

Han Chengxu said: "From their standpoint, it is true."

"Not only are they right, but they are all talented people. Xuzhou and Qingfu counties are well managed." Li Xia said, "I admire Shi Jun and Fang Yankai very much."

He is a young county lieutenant who admires someone who knows the state, which sounds really weird.

Liu Jinsuo really wanted to say something, but finally kept his mouth shut.

Han Chengxu said: "Shu has been able to resist the Mongolian army for 13 years. It has its own reasons. When Yu Jie was in Shu, he abolished bad governance, lightened corvees and poor taxes, and rectified military discipline, laying a good foundation."

As he spoke, he changed the subject, and said again: "But the officialdom doesn't ask about right or wrong, it only asks who is in power. Alang must not be soft-hearted."

"It's not that they are soft-hearted." Li Xia said, "I didn't regard them as opponents."

"what for?"

Li Xia asked back: "Do you think that what I want to do is to fight for power with Fang Yankai?"

"It's natural."

"It's mine, so why fight? I'm here to defeat Wuliang Hetai, not for them."

Han Qi'an asked: "Looking at the current situation, Fang Yankai is not willing to return the power to A Lang, how..."

"He has a small structure, so don't pay attention to him."

As Li Xia said, his gaze fell back to the map, and he said, "Have you found out? There is no navy in Qingfu County."

Han Chengxu and his son were taken aback again.

Neither of them could understand that when they had just arrived in Qingfu County, and the chief secretary was holding onto his power and refused to hand it back, why did Li Xia start to care about whether there was a navy?

Also, just now I said that I admire Fang Yankai, how can I say that he is small?
At this time Han Qiaoer has drawn another map.

"Brother Li, it's done."

"it is good."

Li Xia put the map together, slid his fingers across it, and said, "I really understood the whole strategy of Mongolia after I was there. I'll try to analyze it. Mr. Han can help me find out, right?"

"Ah Lang, please tell..."

(End of this chapter)