Houcheng

Lan Bingrong was looking at the shop, but he was lazy and was in a bad mood.

His condition has been like this since he returned from attending Lord Lu Desheng and Lord Lu's Hongmen Banquet yesterday.

Lan Bingrong is a small landlord in Houcheng. His family has dozens of hectares of fertile land and many shops and houses. He also has a place in the circle of wealthy people in Houcheng.

The day before yesterday, the new Houcheng County Magistrate Lü Desheng, Lu, invited a banquet for the wealthy landlords in Houcheng.

When they received the post, they knew it.

Before he left, his wife asked him to follow the crowd.

He also made a good idea. He would donate as much as others donated, and he would never make any mistakes.

However, Lord Lu was so eloquent and very good at fooling people. He was worthy of his censorship. Then he made a mistake.

That day, Lord Lu’s opening remarks were that Houcheng was in a difficult situation and people’s livelihood was so difficult.

These wealthy landlords understood as soon as they heard it. Lord Lu wanted to beg for them.

Lord Lu did not force them to donate much. He gave two choices, either they could give some, or they would lend money to Houcheng County Government.

The latter, Lord Lu said that he could make a name for Hou Cheng, and the interest would be given, but the interest was a little small.

As for the use of borrowing money, Lord Lu briefly explained that it will be used to build Houcheng.

Then they chose it.

Others were wary and thought that what Lord Lu said to them was chanting scriptures, and they didn't listen or listen.

When it came to the point, I gave a small meat bun of two or three thousand taels and left.

Only he thought Lord Lu's words were very reasonable and he was very clear about the development and planning of Houcheng. He silly borrowed 20,000 taels to exchange for a loan note covered with the Houcheng County Magistrate's stamp.

When Lan Bingrong came out of the county government, his mortal enemy Geng Yuan learned that he had paid 20,000 taels and called him a fool.

Lan Bingrong returned home with a loan note of 20,000 taels. Although his wife didn't say anything, she kept sighing at him.

He felt so uncomfortable all night, tossing and turning all night, and couldn't sleep.

His wife was also unable to sleep by him. Finally, his wife said to him, forget it, this money is to be grateful to Lord Lu for his contribution to Hou Cheng.

As one of the few landlords and wealthy families in Houcheng, to be honest, their family is very grateful to Lord Lu.

If he had not turned the tide and negotiated with the Xianbei royal court, they would have suffered heavy losses in the war.

Houcheng is likely to be unable to withstand the attacks of the Xianbei people. After all, the battle last winter just ended, which caused great losses to Houcheng. Houcheng, a small county, cannot withstand two games a year.

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They want to run away early, but they cannot take away the fields, houses and shops, and they can only take away some of their wealth. Isn’t it just a heavy loss?

Although he was comforted, Lan Bingrong was still heartbroken when he thought of the 20,000 taels he had lent out, and he couldn't get excited.

At this moment, his mortal enemy Geng Yuan shook his fan and came in with Yuanyuan's belly, "Lan Bingrong, what do you think? How could he do such a stupid thing as borrowing 20,000 taels of silver to go out to the government?

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"If you have too much money, lend it to me. Although I won't give you interest, I will at least return the capital to you."

Lan Bingrong didn't want to pay attention to him.

Geng Yuan continued, "You have lived for decades, and you won't be alive until you are a dog's belly, right? County Magistrate Lu clearly wanted to beg for alms this time, saying that it was a loan, but in the end you won't pay it back.

Can you chase Lord Lu and chase the county government?”

In short, it’s all about meat buns beating dogs. The two choices are actually just the difference in size of meat buns. Who would like to give to small ones?

Geng Yuan didn't understand.

"You are so smart. You know it's meat buns to beat dogs. You donated 3,000 taels?" Lan Bingrong asked him back.

He choked, but he didn't want to give it, but how could he really not give it?

In fact, they all knew yesterday that they could not let go if they went there. They all heard about Lu Desheng's difficulty. I heard that when the nobles in Chang'an City, if they were not invited by the women of the Lu family during the banquet, Lord Lu would do it.

He is unyielding in their men.

He is definitely not as easy as Zheng Qiao to pass on.

All the people who were invited to the banquet were already considering how much they should donate before they went there. Even the stingy people who became so generous this time, donating 3,000 taels. After donating, he felt that he had

I can't sleep for three or four days.

But when he thought of the fool in front of him who borrowed 20,000 taels, he felt that he was OK again.

At this moment, the waiter rushed in, "Boss, good news, good news!"

“What good news?”

"Our county magistrate has been promoted to county magistrate!"

Upon hearing this, Lan Bingrong and Geng Yuan said in unison, "What?"

The waiter repeated it again.

Lan Bingrong stumbled into the backyard and went to find his wife, "Madam, Madam!"

When he saw his wife, he immediately shared the good news, "Madam, the imperial envoy is here to announce the imperial edict, Lord Lu was promoted to the magistrate of our Liaodong County for his merits!"

It’s worth spending this money to get in touch with the county magistrate!

Now his mortal enemy Geng Yuan must have beaten his chest and stamped his feet, and his intestines were so regretful that he had lost his intestines, hahaha-

My wife listened strangely, but she didn't expect that the fool would be lucky.

Then she thought of something and said, "You said, Lord Lu is promoted, are you going to leave Houcheng and move to the county magistrate's mansion?"

I just got old heart disease, and I had new worries.

Lan Bingrong went back and left Geng Yuan outside. He confirmed with the waiter again, "Is it true?"

"Geng Dong's family is true. The county government is setting off firecrackers and is spreading out happy money."

Geng Yuan glanced at the backyard and muttered, "The fool is lucky and left."

After the news of Lu Desheng's promotion to county magistrate spread, the people of Houcheng were both happy and worried. What was happy was that he had such a good official promotion, and what was worried was whether he was going to county magistrate's mansion?

He went to the county magistrate's mansion, wasn't Houcheng the same as before again?

For a moment, the people were in a panic and felt very insecure.

Lu Songli and his people were always paying attention to the public opinion in Houcheng. When they heard the concerns of the people, she and her father discussed this issue and decided not to move to the palace for the sake of the stability of Liaodong County.

After a decision, they would take action in the afternoon and arrange for someone to change the plaque to Houcheng County Government.

Their people were very active, cleaning, moving ladders, and carrying plaques, which attracted the wait and see from the people around them.

"What are you doing?"

"Change the plaque?"

"Why do you need to change it?"

As the people were talking, the working people took off the plaque from Houcheng County Government and changed it to a new one. The new plaque was covered with red silk cloth, and the words on it were not clear.

Just when the crowds were crowded, Lu Desheng came out.

"Is it Lord Lü?"

"Yes, Lord Lu came out."

After Lu Desheng came out, he opened his hands to the people and pressed down, "Dear fellow villagers, let's be quiet first."

As his voice sounded, everyone spontaneously heard and their eyes were gathered on him.

He was wearing regular clothes today and had a smile on his face. The people who saw him for the first time thought he was very kind.

"I believe everyone knows that this official is Lu Desheng, and I also know that recently everyone is worried about whether I will leave Houcheng and go to Xiangping County Magistrate after I am promoted from the county magistrate to the county magistrate."

Hearing this, almost all the people present said silently in their hearts, yes, this is what they are most worried about now.

"I will tell you now that I will not move to the palace. This will be the county magistrate's palace in the future!" When Lu Desheng finished speaking, he held a hanging hanging in his hand.

The new plaque read "County Governor's Mansion" suddenly appeared.

The common people realized that what Lord Lu said was true. Now even the plaque of Houcheng County Government has been replaced with the county magistrate’s office!

After Lu Desheng finished speaking, he nodded to everyone and went back.

Some people reacted, Lord Lu just said a few words and went back, but they were all the things they said were the ones they were most concerned about.

"Mr. Lu is really concise and concise." If you have something to say, you don't make so many official accents.

"Mr. Lü is very busy."

Not far from the crowd, Geng Yuan muttered, Lan Bingrong was really lucky.

They went to the banquet that day and gave it to the rich households and landlords of Xiao Baozi. They were really envious, jealous and hated Lan Bingrong.

As the saying goes, the moon will be the first to get close to the water. This Lan Bingrong is probably leaving a very good impression on Lord Lu. If there is any good thing in the government in the future, don’t you think of him?

Under the new plaque, the people stopped for a long time and felt very at ease. They also felt that Houcheng County Government, as the county magistrate, was not grand enough.

Some people who have been to Xiangping in the crowd just now, have seen people from the county magistrate's office, and have talked about the style of the county magistrate's office to everyone, and then look at their small-slaughtered county government. It is so aggrieved that Lord Lu.

After the people left, the people below reported to Lu Songli about the general public opinion direction of the people, and this direction was exactly what she arranged for people to guide.

Lu Songli knew very well that if they did not occupy the high ground of public opinion, they would be occupied by others.

Next, as her father decided not to move to the palace and the fermentation and radiation spread, the people's hearts in Houcheng and even the entire Liaodong County were once again stable.

All these were expected by her.
Chapter completed!