Xu Jingzong returned to the prefecture yard and went to his room for a while.

"Where is the envoy?" Chief Liao Quan came to ask for his meeting, but Xu Jingzong's followers stopped him, "The envoy is writing a memorial."

In the room, there was a statue of god on the table. Xu Jingzong knelt on the cushion, folded his hands together, and prayed in a low voice: "...I beg the gods to protect the believers, and not be burdened by the broom star. The believers will definitely offer rich offerings..."

He got up for a long time and put away the statue of the god.

"Encourt, Chief Liao asked for a visit." A minor official came to report.

Xu Jingzong turned around and coughed dryly. Wei Jixin came back, "Let him come." He narrowed his eyes slightly, "I was thinking about the future of Huazhou, but he was interrupted by this."

The little official said admiringly: "I forgot to eat and sleep for Huazhou. It is really a blessing for the people of Huazhou!"

Then the Chief Secretary Liao Quan came in and said after saluting, "Eunuch, the government's money is very deficit. Now the public chef can't even afford to buy vegetables. At noon today... everyone is afraid they can only drink porridge."

In addition to paying some of the salaries of officials, the interest on the government loan is also responsible for the expenses of the canteen in the yamen, that is, the public kitchen.

The rules of the Tang Dynasty were that government offices at all levels had their own small canteens, and everyone went to eat and chat together, and the atmosphere was harmonious and the matter was done.

Now I can’t even handle the small canteen, which shows how bad the money is.

Xu Jingzong glanced at Liao Quan, but was wondering in his heart.

He came to Huazhou to demote his post. He brought him to see the broom star, but who would have thought that his ex had left such a big hole? I think his confidant of the crown prince could only drink porridge. This is really unbearable!

"That's Liang Bo's deficit. By the way, why can't the money be recovered?"

The money-catching households are rich, and at least they can bear the money they borrowed. In other words, if they lose money due to loans, the government will just ask them to pay them all, and if they don’t pay them, they will confiscate their property.

Liao Quan said helplessly: "The two money-catching households lend money to a merchant. The two ships that the merchant transported goods sank. The envoy personally interrogated them, but in the end it was a natural disaster, so he confiscated the property of the two money-catching households. Who knew that the two people were actually owed debts outside, and their property had been almost pawned, so the money was gone."

Compared with the poor households who caught money, they still pretended to be rich outside, which would have cheated the Huazhou Prefecture Office.

"Bitch slave!" Xu Jingzong cursed and said, "What does this matter have to do with me? Go and borrow it, make the public kitchen, and I want to eat mutton for lunch."

Liao Quan was speechless and thought to himself that the dignified Huazhou Prefecture Office was going to borrow money to maintain the expenses of the public kitchen. If this was spread, I am afraid that the officials in Chang'an City would burst into laughter.

"Encourt, this face..." Liao Quan felt that face still needed.

"Face is worth it?" Xu Jingzong immediately put his majestic face away, and he was a scoundrel. "I saw Liang Bo once, and he looked like an incompetent person. He relied on flattery to become the governor of Huazhou. Now he has made a hole for me to fill it. Why?"

Everyone was shocked.

I think Liang Bo is a famous wise minister, but in Xu Jingzong's mouth, he became a treacherous minister. The key is that Xu Jingzong said that Liang Bo relied on flattery, which made people feel absurd.

It's really too much to be so sarcastic. You, Lao Xu, relied on flattery to get to power?

But the senior official was crushed to death, so Liao Quan had to go out to borrow money. After leaving the state yamen, he couldn't help but spat and cursed: "Dog official!"

Xu Jingzong's reputation had been stinking the streets decades ago. A famous treacherous minister of the Tang Dynasty was a villain who was greedy for life and death and was greedy for power. After learning that it was him who came to take over as the governor of Huazhou, Liao Quan and many people felt that the disaster in Huazhou had come.

Such treacherous officials and villains are in charge of Huazhou. The life of Huazhou officials is probably Wang Xiaoer’s New Year, and every year is worse than that!

Later, Liao Quan went to borrow money, and at least got the mutton at noon.

During lunch, all qualified people appeared in the cafeteria, and others went to make their own meals, so Xu Jingzong sat there without moving.

This was a habit left by a certain governor in the past. He said that no matter the official position, he had to go to make food by himself. It was a bit like having fun with the people, and it also meant that he lowered his identity and allowed everyone to speak freely during lunch time.

Every subsequent governor followed this habit, but Lao Xu disdained it. He felt that since he was a Shangguan, why didn't he enjoy the majesty he should have?

A minor official brought the meal respectfully, and Lao Xu nodded and started eating.

Those officials looked at him from time to time, and most of the eyes were helpless.

With such a Shangguan, we may not have hope for life.

After dinner, Liao Quan followed Xu Jingzong back. He looked at the famous treacherous minister and endured his dissatisfaction and asked: "Encourt, what about the broom star... Someone sent an envoy in Chang'an and said yes..."

He looked around and said that this was a hint: the people who sent the envoys were all big shots.

"That broom star made them panic? Why did I feel so relieved?" Xu Jingzong only felt comfortable all over, just like that... he just became loyal.

The so-called big bosses are mostly from those aristocratic families. These people are naturally rivals with the royal family. In the former Sui Dynasty, these people made Emperor Yang of Sui feel like a ray of light, and then played several big moves, all of which were aimed at these aristocratic families.

As a result, Yang Guang's major move against the aristocratic families failed, resulting in wars everywhere. Then those aristocratic families pushed the old Li family out to rebel, and finally successfully changed the dynasty.

The old Li family successfully rebelled, and the aristocratic families in Guanlong made a lot of efforts. However, after becoming a royal family, the butt of the old Li family fell tilted, and they were wondering in their hearts that the power of these aristocratic families was too huge and very dangerous, and they had to be weakened.

So both sides became opponents from teammates, and Lao Xu, as a loyal dog in the royal family, was naturally a thorn in their side.

So even if they were passing the message, they just asked Liao Quan to convey it, rather than going to find Xu Jingzong in person.

They thought Lao Xu should be powerful, but they didn't know that Lao Xu was a person with clear grudges.

Those people used to stumbling over Lao Xu, so when they learned that they were so panicked about the broom star, Lao Xu couldn't help but feel very happy.

Liao Quan had never seen any Shangguan as sarcastic as he was, and he actually said directly that I was very pleased. He said helplessly: "Yes, those people are a little worried."

Xu Jingzong said with a stern face: "What do they have to do with me if they die? Don't be too long-winded, I have my own reasons."

Liao Quan looked at the sky speechlessly, feeling that if the bigwigs of the aristocratic families heard Xu Jingzong's words, they would probably want to fly to Huazhou to strangle him to death.

Later, Lao Xu went out and went straight to the temple.

When I heard about this in the temple, I felt that it was because I valued it very much, and there was no reason to refuse. It was said that I must use boundless Buddhism to suppress the broom star. If it doesn’t work, build a tower to suppress it.

Xu Jingzong came to Yangjiawu again. The village chief Yang Zhongshun went out to greet him and said, "Jia Ping'an has been at home last night and has not gone out."

Since Xu Jingzong left yesterday, Yang Zhongshun has been watching Jia Ping'an, for fear that he will run away.

"You are very good." Old Xu nodded and went straight to the Jia family.

The old Jia family is very eye-catching. In the middle is his house. The two neighbors' houses are covered with vines, and they look a little bit strange.

"Are there any hermits on both sides?" A follower felt that the artistic conception of crawling green vines was very good, and he couldn't help but think about who was living on both sides.

Yang Zhongshun looked constipated, "The Jia family is in the middle, and the two families next door died when they raised dogs and raised chickens. The chicken flew to the roof in the middle of the night to crow..."

Damn it!

When everyone thought about the scene of rooster crowing in the middle of the night, they couldn't help but feel particularly strange.

"Later, those two families moved." Yang Zhongshun sighed.

Xu Jingzong felt a chill on his spine, so he coughed dryly, then held the Buddha statue in his palm tightly and said, "Call him out."

Yang Zhongshun shouted: "Jia Ping'an, come out!"

It was very quiet inside, and a follower whispered: "Maybe... committed suicide?"

Everyone looked at each other, and at this time, footsteps came from inside, and everyone looked at them one after another.

Jia Ping'an came out wearing a white dress.

The so-called white clothes are better than snow, and the so-called white clothes are fluttering. They seem to be elegant, but in fact they are just maroons and clothes for inferior people.

Jia Ping'an slowly came out, saluted, then looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "May I open my left and right? Students have important things to say."

He said, looking at the minor officials behind Xu Jingzong, thinking that if this plan didn't work, how could he suffer in the temple?

Xu Jingzong glanced at him and suddenly remembered the big guys who put pressure on him through Liao Quan. He said in a strange way: "Avoid them all."

In Lao Xu's opinion, it would be great if the broom star could designate the defeat of others, and all the people from the aristocratic families would be fools.

After everyone avoided it, Xu Jingzong said coldly: "What do you have to say?"

In Lao Xu's opinion, although this broom star has been studying for several years, the countryside is a countryside. What can you know? The so-called saying something is not something that is insider of the broom star.

For example, how did he become a bad guy and how did he kill the two emperors?

Everyone has a gossip, and Lao Xu is no exception, and even has some small expectations.

Let gossip come more violently!

Jia Ping'an felt that Lao Xu's expression was a bit strange, as if he was hoping for something. "Although the students were in the countryside, they had heard that someone had slandered the envoys. Those people wanted to let the envoys stay in Huazhou all their lives and not take a step into Chang'an."

Later generations did not study Lao Xu much, and most of them inherited the attitude of historians in the Tang and Song dynasties, believing that Lao Xu was a treacherous minister.

But Shen An felt that Lao Xu could see clearly that he had stood up thoroughly, which helped the emperor weaken the influence of the aristocratic families, so he offended many people. Those people were big bosses, so he naturally wanted to make him famous in various records.

Xu Jingzong frowned slightly, but in fact he felt extremely secretly happy. Many people outside were angry at him, saying that he was a treacherous minister, but here, there was a young man saying that those were slander.

But if it is this level, Lao Xu cannot stop. He said lightly: "The temple is going to build a pagoda for you, and I have been practicing for a long time."

Damn it!

What Jia Ping'an thought of was Leifeng Pagoda. Under Leifeng Pagoda was suppressing Bai Snake. So was this tower suppressing me?

He endured the absurdity and said, "If the envoy wants to return to Chang'an, he must do something in Huazhou, otherwise... those people will have reason to suppress the envoy."

This is true. Xu Jingzong did not expect that a young man could have such insight, so he looked at Jia Ping'an with a high opinion.

"But if Huazhou has six mountains, three fields and one water, it will be difficult for students to achieve some political achievements!"

Jia Ping'an listened too much to the so-called political achievements in later generations, but to put it bluntly, the Tang Dynasty was an agricultural country. If officials wanted political achievements, they had no Mao except education and encouragement to farm.

In terms of understanding political achievements, the officials of the Tang Dynasty were really far behind.

So he used this to test it. If Lao Xu was not moved, he would have to squat in the tower and turn into a male white snake.

Thinking of the ancient Buddha who was in the dark tower, the green lamp and the ancient food was vegetarian every day, the key was to be quiet, Jia Ping'an wanted to travel back directly.

He seemed calm, but he had already recited the names of all gods in his heart.

Xu Jingzong looked at him and suddenly smiled, "You are a teenager, do you know what political achievements are?"

Jia Ping'an's previous words were just like those lobbyists who said as soon as they met: "I'm here to pay tribute to you!"

The master was furious when he heard this. What? Do you think of someone as a dead person to pay tribute?

This is to say that you don’t stop talking.

Xu Jingzong was indeed that thing. Shen An was happy and said, "The so-called new official took office for three fires. Students know something here, which can help the Lord solve the problem."

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Chapter completed!