Back Off, Let Me Come

"Did I commit any evil in my previous life?"

Shen Tang wants to doubt life every day.

I can't even concentrate on my work.

Qishan came over to deliver something and happened to overhear her murmurs. He thought she was troubled by something, so he expressed concern - her lord was still a developing seedling, and as her subordinate, she had to care about her family from time to time. The master's physical and mental health cannot be changed without saying a word.

Shen Tang looked at Qi Shan with resentful eyes, and for a moment, he looked at the latter confused, and asked doubtfully: "My lord looks at Shan like this, but what's wrong with it?"

Could it be that he didn't wash thoroughly in the morning?

Disappearance?

Without waiting for Qi Shan to speculate, Shen Tang said quietly: "I'm thinking about how many years of life I have left on the Lord of Hell's list, or if I encounter a powerful enemy and am forced to a desperate situation, can I be able to help you guys?" By pretending to surrender, maybe we can fight back and turn defeat into victory... Oh, how sad..."

Qishan: "..."

He suppressed the slight trembling at the corner of his mouth, couldn't help but laugh and said helplessly: "Master, please don't make such unlucky jokes. Besides, whether they are literary scholars or others, there will inevitably be one or two specialties when there are too many people. Master is just..."

Should I say that she is just too lucky?

Or is she just too unlucky?

To be honest, Qishan has never encountered such a "luxurious" lineup that would make the lord's beauty pale when he hears it. From a certain perspective, this can be regarded as an extraordinary talent that cannot be copied.

From the side -

Doesn’t it also prove the excellence of my lord?

Shen Tang was not comforted at all and became even more emo, but she was not someone who would be defeated easily.

Hey, think of the best in everything.

Everything has pros and cons.

Jiang Sheng and the others do cost the Lord, but the value they can create is also considerable. One person can be used by several labor forces, and each person is "both internal and external", able to manage internally and fight externally. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses and complements each other.

In today's chaotic world that pays attention to status, origin, and heritage, if it weren't for the shortcomings of their scholarly ways that were too troublesome for the master to find an offer for a job, and Shen Tang was tough enough, how could it be her turn to bring them back to their nest?

It’s not that Shen Tang is belittling herself, but that her starting conditions make it difficult to find good enough and hard-working workers, let alone manage a small territory and build good relationships with several neighbors to lay a solid foundation for future development.

After so much self-comfort.

Shen Tang figured it out and stopped emo.

Reinvigorate your mood and start working at your desk.

Qishan's mission this time was to deliver food. After finishing the accounting and handover work, he would take his people back. The reservoir on the Heyin side is under construction in full swing, and the river channel has been dug for several miles. It is very busy up and down.

"Going back so soon?"

Shen Tang still wants to keep Qi Shan to work.

Qi Shan said: "If the master wants to keep someone, Shan will not mind. It's just that Wang Chao might cause trouble."

Shen Tang: "..."

He Yin now only has Gu Chi as the principal.

He smiled awkwardly when he thought that the workload of the entire Heyin County fell on him and a group of government officials. Gu Chi was kidnapped by herself after being drunk. She really annoyed him and gave up the job. She didn't care about him.

Qishan took the people away at noon.

In fact, there was one thing he didn't say.

It is true that He Yin only has Gu Chi, a scribe, in charge, but there are also foreign aids such as Qin Li. If he is really too busy and overworked, it would be a good solution to bring them over to help him. _(:з)∠)_Yes, because of their own boss style, they don't care whether they are their own people or not, as long as they can work, they can use them.

As for how Qin Li and the others cursed?

As long as you don't hear it, you can pretend not to know.

Although the Luxia County Office was recaptured, all the counties and towns outside the office were harmed by the refugees and bandits. Although Shen Tang immediately organized the opening of warehouses to provide food relief after coming over, more than half of the grass was still lost, or burned, killed, and looted. , rob homes and homes, or gather people to go into the mountains to become bandits, or follow the refugees and grass bandits to other enemies. All living beings suffer, just for one bite of food.

Shen Tang sympathized with them, but for the sake of the peaceful people, he worked with the other three families to allocate part of their troops to wipe out the bandits in Luxia County.

Propaganda and appeasement are the top priority, while strangulation and silencing are the bottom priority.

If they are willing to lay down their weapons and become ordinary people again, give them this opportunity. If they are unwilling to resist and use violence, they will be killed directly. They must not be driven to neighboring counties to harass the people in those places.

Shaochong and others naturally had no objections.

In fact, they were waiting impatiently for Shen Tang's words. They were busy with boring trivial matters all day long, and their excess energy had nowhere to vent, and their muscles and bones were too lazy. Shen Tang asked them to allocate troops to suppress the bandits, which was exactly what they wanted.

Among them, Shangnan Shaochong was the most active.

At dawn, he would rush out with his people, go over mountains and ridges, go up mountains and into rivers, and chase the bandits away on horseback. Jiang Sheng took this opportunity to advise Shen Tang and encourage people to report the bandits' whereabouts to the government. The common people who are the first to report and provide true information will receive a pound of corn as a reward from the government!

As a Luxia person, he knew very well the local customs and the village clans would protect and conceal each other. Many of the bandits were their relatives who had gone out. When they saw Shaochong and others leading troops there, they would even tip off the news.

The efficiency of suppressing bandits is not high.

After hearing this, Shen Tang felt that it was reasonable, and made modifications on this basis - depending on the scale of the bandits reported, the first commoner to report could receive different levels of rewards. The rewards are not much, but they are fatally attractive to the common people! In addition to the administrative office, all other counties and towns in Luxia County were devastated, and the grain harvested by the people in the autumn was also robbed.

Without food, many of them would not be able to survive this cold winter, and even a little bit of food is precious.

It was precious enough to betray the bandits from the same village and clan who they had tacitly helped hide before.

First, the office has also said that it will keep the secret secret and will not disclose the identity of the person who reported the secret. Secondly, this move is not to betray the same people, but to protect more good people of the same people who keep their own laws and protect them from bandits.

Through a combination of hard and soft tactics, the bandits in Luxia County disappeared within seven days. In the end, it even developed into four brave warriors competing for the task of suppressing bandits. The bandits are gone, but the mess left behind doesn't stop there.

Letters to the other three companies also received responses.

Members of the four families jointly governed Luxia County.

Until the royal court of Zheng Qiao sent a new county governor.

But everyone knew in their hearts that this was unlikely. They were busy fighting against the Pig King faction, so there was no time to care about such trivial matters. As everyone knows, someone actually noticed it, but it wasn't Zheng Qiao.

But it was Zheng Qiao’s senior brother, Yan An.

Yan An did not agree with Zheng Qiao sending troops to drive away the homeless bandits. He would either suppress them completely, or use them for his own purposes and drive them elsewhere. Not only would it harm the people in other places, it would also allow this group to expand, which would eventually lead to catastrophe.

But Zheng Qiao didn't listen.

Yan An was so angry that he didn't order anything for half a month.

"Hey, Xingning, why are you doing this?"

The outside world said that Yan An was so angry that he lost his temper with Zheng Qiao. Others said that he was heartbroken by Zheng Qiao's absurd behavior and was ready to take this opportunity to retreat. Only his wife knew that Yan An was really in poor health...

In anger, the cold wind filled his body.

He lingered on his sick bed for half a month.

At this time, Yan An seemed to have aged by more than ten years. His black and smooth black hair had become a lot grayer, and there were thin wrinkles around his eyes. His complexion was sallow, his eyes were blue and black, and his breathing was sometimes slow and sometimes rapid, which was heart-wrenching to see.

Yan An sat up with the help of his wife.

Drink today's portion of the decoction.

He suppressed the lingering bitterness on the back of his tongue, which penetrated into his heart like a thin needle, and said quietly: "Some things have to be done by others. Not for your husband, but also for others."

After hearing this, the lady said nothing, but her young eyes were stained with deeper melancholy, and she helped him put on his cloak.

The air was quiet for a long time.

Yanan suddenly let out a chuckle.

The lady looked at him doubtfully.

Yan'an said: "It's the news from Zixu."

Hearing that it was "Zixu", the madam spread her eyebrows and said, "Oh, if you can still laugh out loud now, it must be a happy event."

Yan'an lifted up the cloak that had fallen off his shoulders with some difficulty, and said, "Whether it is a happy event or not, it's hard to say." Zixu received news that the common people who were driven away by his junior brother passed by Luxia County and kicked a piece of iron. plate."

The lady thought about it carefully and was surprised: "Didn't Xingning say before that the governor of Lu County was fierce, aggressive, courageous, nepotistic, and useless? He was actually able to defend Luxia County? Let the enemy many times his own Deflated?"

Yan'an's scribe's method is quite useful.

Basically, he has found out all the famous people in various places. His wife and he have been childhood sweethearts since childhood. They are also from the same family and have a close relationship. Yan'an basically has no secrets with her. Madam naturally also knows Yanan's evaluation of those characters.

He didn't think highly of Governor Lu. If you say that people have bad taste, they will definitely fall into trouble with their relatives.

Is it possible that the situation has turned against the wind?

Yan'an said: "The man named Lu is dead."

"Dead? How do you say..."

"The man died, but he asked for help from the surrounding areas early in the morning. Shen Youli, whom her husband had never understood, actually asked for help from Xiangnan, Tianhai, and Yiru, and gathered troops to rush to Luxia. The man named Lu was on the day the city was broken. Killed, the whole family was harmed by the villain, and only two people were left alive..." Yan An was a little sad.

"Just this thing can make Xingning so happy?" Since becoming an official Zheng Qiao, she has never seen Yanan smile. The occasional smile is faint, fleeting, and so fast that it makes people feel confused, "Is it because Shen What did Young Li do again?"

Yanan told everything he knew.

In this world, the two of them cannot see through each other.

One is Zheng Qiao.

One is Shen Tang.

If junior brother Zheng Qiao is a black man inside and out, paranoid, radical, cruel and bloodthirsty, then Commander Shen is on the other extreme. If the latter is the same on the outside, it will be a great blessing for the common people, but he is worried that this is just an appearance.

There is truth beneath the surface.

The lady said, "Isn't this great?"

Yan'an sighed: "Maybe."

Seeing the inexorable tiredness on his brows, the lady asked him to lie down and rest, and stop worrying.

At the same time, the inner court of the palace.

Zheng Qiao was carefully looking at the information related to Yan'an.

The spy leader on one side looked puzzled.

Yan'an's loyalty was known to everyone in the court. Everyone is disgusted with Yan'an's foolish loyalty and stubbornness, and is so devoted to people like Zheng Qiao. At the same time, they sympathize with Yan'an for wasting all his knowledge on people like Zheng Qiao. This person is both pitiful and hateful.

But Zheng Qiao didn't seem to think so.

Seeing that the spy leader seemed to be hesitant to speak, he sneered and gently threw the report on the desk, and said softly: "If you have any questions, just ask? Could it be that you are worried that I will kill you?"

"I do have something that I don't understand - Master Yan is obviously very loyal to his lord..." The spy leader said more and more, his head lowered, for fear that Zheng Qiao would cut off his head if he got angry. Fortunately, this did not happen. Yet to happen.

He also heard Zheng Qiao sneer.

"Allegiance?"

It seemed like I heard some funny words.

He added: "You said that Yan Xingning is loyal to Gu?"

The spy leader was puzzled: "Isn't it?"

Whether it was him or other ministers, everyone believed that Yan'an was loyal to Zheng Qiao. Even though he knew that his junior brother was hopelessly dead, he never gave up on him. He cleaned up Zheng Qiao's messes time and time again, but Zheng Qiao was much more efficient at cleaning up messes than he was at repairing them. He also refused to listen to advice every once in a while, which made the situation worse and worse.

I'm afraid Zheng Qiao is the only one in the world who can't see this.

Zheng Qiao shook his head and said with a sarcastic smile: "You guys still don't understand senior brother Gu..."

The spy leader stopped talking.

I just thought to myself: [One person may see it wrong, but how can millions of eyes see it wrong? Yan'an's loyalty...does it still need to be doubted? When that lingering sick man was on the sickbed, would he have been heartbroken if he had heard these words from his junior brother? 】

Then I thought about it.

Zheng Qiao has done so many things that make Yan Xingning feel disappointed? Previously, under suspicion and threats, Yan'an's wife and daughter were allowed to visit the palace for a day. They were guests in name but actually hostages. If Yan'an hadn't reached a certain level of foolishness and loyalty, he would have rebelled long ago.

Zheng Qiao raised his hand and waved away the spy leader, then burned the memorial under the candlelight. Finally, he took out the sword from his waist and wiped it carefully. Looking at the sword body reflecting the cold white light under the candlelight, he pushed the sword back into the scabbard with a sneer.

"Loyalty?" He murmured to the candlelight, "But there are only rebellious officials and traitors in this world who want to live alone!"

"Senior brother, don't let me down."

Within two days, Zheng Qiao urgently recalled Yan'an back because of the busy affairs in the DPRK, and the latter happened to recover from his illness.

Two flowers bloom, one on each side.

After the unremitting efforts of Shen Tang and others, Luxia County was finally stabilized. Seeing that the time was almost up, Shen Tang was ready to go back. After all, she is the governor of Heyin County. The three Tianhai families have sent people to take over. The first seven governors of County Lu have already passed. It is not good for her to continue to hold on.

So she left Kang Shi and a thousand soldiers and horses.

Take the remaining people back.

Hey hey hey, in a month or two it will be the first month again.

Shen Tang is planning to hold the second Fu Kucheng New Year Games on a larger scale this time, and invites the three companies to send some "players" to compete with each other. Well, the real reason is to attract the culprits from these places to consume from their own territory.

_(:з　∠)_

On the way back, she dilly-dallyed.

The distance has been doubled.

Gu Chi and others were looking forward to it.

"Why is my lord coming back so late?"

Shen Tang whispered his plan: "Isn't this just to delay it for a few more days and let the three prostitutes work for us? As soon as I come back, they will definitely submit their resignations..."