The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Today's Dragon Boat Festival, I wish everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival.

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Xun Zhen took Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin, Gao brothers, Su brothers, Jiang Hu, Liu Deng and other 14 or 5 cronies, as well as Xuan Kang, Li Bo, Xi Zhicai, and strode into the county court. There were nearly twenty people in the group, and they showed off their might and might.

The officials in the county court looked at each other and stepped forward to greet them, but Xun Zhen didn't look sideways, and didn't even look at them. The sword and the sword are very scary, and they have no courage. Neither Ying nor blocking, they were in a dilemma, and in the end they had no choice, so they simply avoided and all hid in the corner.

The country is in the hall in the front yard. The gate of the hall is facing the gate of the official temple. When he saw Xun Zhen and the others entering majestically, he suddenly thought of a word: "The power of tigers and wolves." in the hall.

Guoshao greeted him with a smile: "In the Great Kingdom of Xiayang City, I must be the Governor of the Postal Rafter, Xunjun?"

Xun Zhen ignored him and stood at the entrance of the hall, looking around the hall. There are two or three officials in the hall, and they all wear a hundred-stone seal, which should be the county officials such as Gong Cao and Wuguan rafters. Xun Zhen ignored their laughter and said bluntly: "I came to your county today to talk to your county magistrate, county chief, and county magistrate. It's nothing to do with others, so step back!"

Guo Jie didn't expect Xun Zhen to be so disrespectful, and was stunned for a while, but he believed that he had a good plan, and he was not afraid of him asking for trouble.

Xun Zhen usually treats people with a friendly face, but this does not mean that he will not be aggressive. When he was in Xixiang, he first suppressed the thieves and revived the third clan. He had a tough side in his character, but when he took it out, it was also powerful and murderous. After the county magistrates waited to go out, he asked Guozhuo and said, "Where are the county magistrates and county magistrates?"

"They don't know that you are coming. Please sit down for a moment, Xun-jun, and I will call someone to invite them."

"Since you're not here, you don't have to come again."

Guoshao said in his heart, "What do you mean by this?"

During their brief conversation, Xi Zhicai, Li Bo, and Xuan Kang had already found their seats in the east of the hall and sat down separately. Xuan Kang pulled a table and put it in front of him, took out the paper, ink, pen and inkstone from the box he carried with him, and arranged it. Xu Zhong and Jiang Qin were at the entrance of the hall. The brothers of the Gao family were lined up in the hall, eyeing them, staring at the county officials who had just left and the little officials in the corner.

Guo Jue noticed their actions, and while talking to Xun Zhenhe, he watched secretly. Xun Zhen ignored his squinting eyes, grabbed his saber, sat down in the east, and sat on the top of Xi Zhicai, and said, "Please sit down."

Guo Shao smirked and wanted to say something. Xun Zhen repeated, "Please sit down."

In terms of guest-host etiquette, Xun Zhen is a guest, and it is right to sit on the throne of Dongxiang, but the problem is that Guo Jiuzong believes that he has a good strategy in hand, and he can't stop being a thief with a guilty conscience. As he tossed the ground, he became more and more agitated, not knowing where to sit. Is it the main seat in the hall? Is it sitting on the west side? After hesitating, he decided to lower his posture and sit west.

When he sat down, he felt even worse.

He was sitting alone in the west, and on the opposite side were Xun Zhen, Xi Zhicai, Li Bo, and Xuan Kang, who looked at him with four eyes, as if they were interrogating him. He twisted his body uneasily, glanced outside the hall, and suddenly thought of Shen Rong. ——Since Xun Zhen entered the county court, he has always been overwhelming, so he didn't remember Shen Rong until now, and immediately asked: "The next time I received a report from the doorman, I heard that the rafters were coming. I sent the county head Bo to greet him, but didn't he come?"

"Thank you for your kindness, and sent him to meet me. He is now outside the county court. . . . Don't talk about him, let's talk about you first."

"Tell me?"

"I heard that you are from Shenyang, Runan?"

"Yes." Guo Jue didn't realize that, before he knew it, the initiative of the conversation had fallen into Xun Zhen's hands.

"There is a person in your county. The surname is Huang and the first name is Xian.

"Huang Shudu is a great sage in my county. Although he is lonely, he knows his people."

"In the past, Mr. Langling, the ancestor of our clan, went to Shenyang and met Huang Shudu in the anti-travel. When Shudu was fourteen years old, my clan ancestor talked with him. , My teacher is also a model.” Then, my ancestors went to Yuan Fenggao’s place, and without waiting for Yuan Fenggao to speak, he immediately asked: 'The son has Yanzi, would you rather know it?' Yuan Fenggao said: 'Seeing my uncle'? , I hate that I have no chance to know Huang Shudu. Since you know him, please tell me what kind of person he is?"

Guo Zhuo was speechless. Huang Shudu is a great sage in Shenyang, and has not only been appreciated by Xun Shu, but also by many famous scholars such as Guo Linzong, Zhou Ziju, and Dai Shuluan. He was just a small person, and he was lucky enough to be in favor of the Runan Yuan clan, and then he was named Xiaolian, so he was able to serve as an official. Where has he seen Huang Shudu?

However, as a fellow villager of Huang Shudu, when he heard Xun Zhen's question, he was still very happy and proud. I heard some stories of Guo Linzong, Dai Shuluan, Zhou Ziju and others interacting with Huang Shudu and their comments on Huang Shudu, saying: "Mr. He left immediately and went to Huang Shudu, who was a long-term lodging, and slept in Huang Shudu's house for two nights. When people asked him why, he said: 'Shudu is like a thousand hectares of space. Measure too'."

"Oh? How can you be so famous as Guo Linzong?"

"There is a talented man in my county named Dai Liang. I wonder if Xun Jun has heard of it?"

"But after Dai Zigao?"

"Exactly, his great-grandfather Dai Zigao was good at giving, and he was chivalrous. There were often three or four hundred diners, and people at that time said: 'Dai Zigao, the great man in Guandong'. Dai Liang is different from his great-grandfather Guangyang diners. The talent is arrogant and arrogant, and the birthday is without festival. His mother likes the donkey crowing, so he often learns it for entertainment. Xie Jixiao of my county once asked him: 'Who can compare with the world?' He said: 'If I am a middle man Nichang Donglu, Da Yu came out of the Western Qiang, and walked alone in the world, who is his partner?'"

Xun Zhen said: "It's enough to be happy, and it's arrogant enough. 'Who is the only one in the world, who is the puppet', this is to see the world's talents as nothing."

"However, this person served Huang Shudu alone, and every time he saw Huang Shudu, he did not show any disgrace, and when he returned, he seemed to have lost something. As soon as his mother saw him like this, she knew that he had just met Huang Shudu, and asked him: 'Ru Fu obeys' Niu Yi'er is here to be evil'? ..., does Xun Jun know why Dai Liang's mother called Huang Shudu the Niu Yi'er?"

When Guojiu said this, he wanted to sell himself off, but seeing that Xunzhen didn't mean to ask questions at all, he stroked his beard embarrassedly, so he had to ask and answer himself, and continued: "Huang Shudu's father is a cattle doctor, Dai Liang Therefore, his mother called him Niuyi'er. Dai Liang replied: 'Liang does not see his uncle, so he does not think he is inferior; if he sees him, he is in the front, and suddenly he is behind. It is hard to measure it'.' It is Yan Hui's praise of Confucius, which shows Huang Shudu's knowledge and virtue."

He paused for a while, then said: "Zhou Ziju in my county again. Chen Zhongju sighed and said: 'If Zhou Ziju is a true ruler of the country. For example, the sword is the leader of the world'. Chen Zhongju likened him to the leader and Mo Xie. His precious sword is very rare in the world, but he also admired Huang Shudu very much, often saying: 'If I don't see Huang Shudu in the month, then my stingy heart has been reborn'."

Xun Zhen said: "Those who are saved by Huang Shu can be described as sages. It is a blessing to be able to be in the same county as him!"

Guo Jue's face was bright, and he took it seriously. He nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes! It is indeed a blessing to be in the same hometown with Uncle Huang."

Xun Zhen asked again, "I heard that there is a moonlight review in Ru County, do you know it with a single step?"

This is another pride of Runan. Guojue naturally knew that, he said: "Xu Zi of my county is very famous, good at human relations, and has a high reputation. At the age of eighteen, he was praised as 'a great man of the world', and he was as famous as Chen Zhongju, Li Yuanli, and Guo Linzong. He is especially good at knowing people and praises people in the world. Because in recent years, every time he commented on people on the first day of every month, he was named 'Yuedan Commentary'."

"Yuan Benchu ​​of Guijun, the fourth and third princes, the sons of the public clan, considers himself a hero, and at the age of 20, he served as Puyang's commander, abandoned his office and returned, and the escorts are like clouds of chariots. Said: 'Xu Zi will uphold the rule of law, how can I agree to see it'? Then I returned home by bicycle. Is there such a thing?"

Hearing Yuan Shao's name, Guo Jue was stunned for a moment. After hearing Xun Zhen's question, he reacted and said, "There is this matter."

"I heard people say: 'If you get Xu Zijiang's honor, it's like a dragon rising; if you get Xu Zijiang's relegation, it's like falling into the abyss'. It seems that this is true! Even the children of the public family like Yuan Benchu ​​treat him like this. Reverence! ..., Zhen Zai, may I ask your step, have you ever received the honor of Xu Zijiang?"

Guozhuo has no reputation in this county. He knows Xu Zijiang, but Xu Zijiang doesn't know him, so how can he get the praise of Xu Zijiang, blushing and shaking his head.

"Then ask me again, do you want to get Xu Zi to demote him?"

"Of course not!"

"In this way, I still have a sense of shame, and I can talk about today's business with my feet."

Guoshao did not know what Xunzhen meant. Li Bo got up, took out Yin Xiu's public ultimatum from his sleeve, held it in both hands, and brought it to him. He caught it and looked at Xun Zhen blankly. Xun Zhen said, "This is a handwritten letter from the ruler of the government. Please watch it with your feet."

Guozhuo opened, looked down, saw no two lines, lost his composure, looked up hurriedly, and wanted to speak. Xun Zhen raised her hand and pressed it down, and said solemnly: "Please read the public ultimatum first, and then speak before it is too late."

Guo Jue was sitting on pins and needles, and he didn't even know how he read the public slogan.

Xun Zhen looked on coldly and asked suddenly, "Is it shocking?"

These words came to Guo Jue's heart, he nodded subconsciously, was startled, wanted to shake his head again, shook his head halfway and felt inappropriate, stopped, lost his behavior, and sweated profusely. He never thought that the so-called good strategy he believed in turned out to be useless at all. Xun Zhen's eyes were so compelling that he seemed to see him clearly. He no longer had the slightest bit of composure, and the little bit of guilt when he first saw Xun Zhen turned into a panic that filled his heart. Just now when I talked about the famous people in this county, I didn't know where they flew. He fidgets and hesitates: "This, this,..."

"My step has been the mayor of Yangcheng for several years, and I have no time to pay, and I have corrupted and misbehaved. A total of more than 30 million yuan has been overcharged. The surname Liu in the county is a thief who kills people according to the law. He also received merchants and smelters wealth and goods, and received less market tax and iron tax. He also knew that the powerful and powerful families under his rule would occupy their own homes and hide their families, and they would not be held accountable. Is there something wrong?"

The country was sweating profusely. The heat from outside the hall came in waves, and the hall was sultry, and the air seemed to be stagnant. Xuankang picked up the brush and put it on the table again, making a low sound. Hearing Guoshao's ears, it was like a thunderbolt. When he loosened his hand, the public servant fell to the ground, hurriedly leaned over and picked it up again, and said, "This, this,..."

Xun Zhen coughed and said to Xu Zhong, who was guarding the door, "Jun Qing, go get those things."

Xu Zhong promised to take two people out of the official temple, and quickly turned back, each carrying four or five **** things in their hands. When the officials hiding in the corner saw it, they were horrified. Xu Zhong and others entered the hall and threw those things in front of Guo Jue. Guo Zhuo took a look, he could no longer hold his soft legs and feet, his bones were trembling, he couldn't sit on his knees, and he was paralyzed on the ground. Those were clearly heads and heads! Some closed their eyes, some opened their eyes, and their faces were covered in blood, terrifying and terrifying.

"There is a head among them, you should know it."

Xu Zhong found one from the pile of heads, held his hair in a bun, and brought it to Guo Jue's eyes. Guo Jue sat paralyzed on the ground, eyes closed tightly, not daring to look. I have pity on him, an elegant and famous person, who knows mountains, waters and beauties, and talks about customs, how has he ever seen such a terrible scene? Xun Zhen did not force him to look at it, but continued, saying, "It is the solution to Lidinghan. I was ordered by the ruler of the government to take him along the way. Who would have thought that he would have dared to resist and was killed on the spot by me, along with him. Those clans and guests in his family who dared to resist, there are a total of 12 people. All the heads are here. ... The other three heads, you may not know, your master Shen Rong must know, he was sent to monitor me The three bad boys in this county."

Guoshao's soul was frightened, his face was pale, he closed his eyes, and murmured: "Why is this, why is this."

Xun Zhen turned around and exchanged glances with Xi Zhicai, who was sitting beside him.

Xi Zhicai smiled slightly. Xun Zhen said in his heart, "It will be done!" She looked back, stared at the country, and shouted, "The black ribbon and copper seal under your feet, the six hundred stone county magistrate! Today, I am sitting and talking with the postmaster of the rafter department, but I am paralyzed on the ground. , what do you mean by not opening your eyes?"

Guo Jue pressed his hands to the ground, barely supported himself, and opened his eyes.

Xun Zhen Xun sat down, leaned forward, held down the hilt of the sword, looked directly at him, and said, "You have come to the county, embezzled in a mess, and gained tens of millions of ill-gotten wealth, which is a death sentence. The lord of the government wants me to examine the case, Nian jun Confucian scholars, fearing that they will be held up, cannot bear to expose it to the public, so they secretly use handwriting to know each other, and want the monarch to move forward and retreat. If you don’t go, the money you covet is enough to bury you.” He sat back and finally said, “That’s all for now, please think about it carefully.”

Guo Jue said in a trembling voice, "If, if you still have the seal?"

"Fujun thinks about the Confucian scholar's clothes and crown, and the master is also a famous prince. He can't bear to torture his feet. If you are willing to go, you can spare your death."

Guo Jue thought that he had no way of life, and suddenly heard that as long as he was willing to resign, he could avoid death, as if he had come back to life. : "I wish to return the seal, I wish to return the seal!"

Xuankang picked up the paper and pen on the table, gave it to him, and said, "Since you are willing to return the seal, you can write down your own sins, resign yourself from office, and write down the ruler of the government." The last official document is also. There were no cases in front of Guo Jue, so he grabbed the pen and paper, but he didn't care about changing places, he pouted his butt, and started writing on the ground. After writing, Xuankang presented it to Xun Zhen.

Xun Zhen glanced at it briefly, ordered Xuankang to put it away, slowed down his tone, and said to him earnestly: "There are many famous men and wise men in the kingdom of one step, such as Xu Zijiang and Huang Shudu, they are all outstanding scholars in the world. Although it is a small setback, if after returning home, if you can sharpen your reputation and work hard, you will not be far away. Also, you must first suffer from the will of your heart', which is what we call it. Good medicine is bitter, but good words are offensive to your ears, so please think about it with your feet."

"Yes, yes. In the future, I will definitely correct my past mistakes and sharpen my reputation." Guo Zhuo carefully avoided the head on the ground and reminded himself not to look at it. In front of Zhen's seat, he said, "Yin Shou would like to return to the postal supervisor, and I will go home now."

Xi Zhicai asked, "How are you going to go back?"

Soon after Xun Zhen entered the hall, she grasped the rhythm of the conversation, and did not give Guoshao the name of Xi Zhicai and others at all. Guojiu still didn't know who Xi Zhicai and others were, but like Shen Rong, he also guessed that they must be Xun Zhen's confidants, so Xi Zhicai asked this question even though he was dressed in white, not an official. It is also very strange, he still replied respectfully: "There are a few cars down there, ready to go home by car."

"You have been a disabled person in this county for many years, and the government has pity you and won't cure your sins. Are you still planning to take home all the money you embezzled?"

Guoshao's sweat came down again: "No, no, I don't dare to go down."

"Then how are you going to go back?"

"I'm down, I'm down,..." Luckily, Xi Zhicai forced him hard, he came out of his wits, "After school, Yuan Benchu, go home by bicycle!"

Xuankang was young, and he almost laughed out loud. He covered his mouth and thought, "Is this man scared by Xun Jun? A person who survived the crime, still learning from Yuan Benchu? Does he think he is also a prince?"

Xun Zhen and Li Bo also thought it was ridiculous, but they didn't show it because they had a palace. Xi Zhicai smiled and said, "Very good, then you can go home by bicycle." He whispered a few words to Xun Zhen. Xun Zhen immediately greeted Xu Zhong and Jiang Qin, taught them to separate a few people, escorted Guojiao to the backyard to drive, and then escorted him out of the county.