Yao Xiong was shocked.

"Brother, are you an official?"

Taozi put away the documents, "Don't tell others yet, just keep guarding."

Yao Xiong nodded, but his face was extremely excited, his eyes were shining with an inexplicable light, and he actually laughed stupidly while standing at the door.

After giggling for a moment, he felt that it was inappropriate to look like this, so he quickly put on a solemn look.

Liu Taozi returned to the courtyard and handed the document to Liu Zhang.

"How is this possible?!"

Mrs. Liu Zhang was very surprised at this moment. She looked at the document in her hand repeatedly, "Why did you suddenly be promoted to an official position?"

"Did he do it?"

"It's impossible that your grandpa won't care about anything about you. He, his situation is a bit special. Whether he sends people to help you, secretly promotes you, or maliciously suppresses you, it will only harm you. The only way is to treat you as if you don't

He exists and ignores you. Only when this person is gone can you two be safe."

Taozi continued: "He has always been like this."

Liu Zhang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's not that your grandpa hates you. He also has his own reasons. Forget it, let's not mention your grandpa for now."

She looked at the letter in her hand again, "The county official has no foundation in the court. He can help you get promoted, but he can't help you get promoted from a clerk to an official. The two are completely different things."

"Although a lot of things have happened in the government and the public recently, those big shots won't care about a little wanderer like you."

"And you don't have any backers in the court."

"You have offended a lot of people, but most of them are incapable of intervening in the promotion of officials and can influence the forces involved in the promotion. The person involved in the Black Dragon case wants to deal with Mr. Gao County, and the person involved in the He family wants to deal with Lu Yao.

The object of hatred in the knight case was King Gaoyang, and the person in Gao Xun’s case was also the Duke of Gao County. The person instigated by King Gaoyang was Lu Yao.”

Listening to her mother talking about these secrets that many people in the county government didn't know about word by word, Liu Taozi finally had some surprise in her eyes.

Liu Zhang analyzed them one by one and suddenly asked: "Taozi, does the current magistrate Lu often bully you?"

"There was some discord before, but in the past few days, it has disappeared."

"That's him. He wants to control the county, but he can't do anything to you. Since he can't remove you, expel you, or harm you, he can only send you away."

"Lu Yao's surname is Bu Liugu. His family is extremely powerful. His eldest brother, Lu Xuan, was in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs during his lifetime. He has a wide network of contacts in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It is possible to promote officials to officials."

Liu Taozi nodded, "That's it."

Liu Zhang hesitated for a moment, "This is not a bad thing for you. Lu Yao will definitely not be able to escape from the next great turmoil. Cheng'an is too close to Yecheng, but Liyang is not bad. It is very peaceful."

A servant not far away suddenly came over and looked at the sky. Mrs. Liu Zhang realized something and stood up quickly.

"Tao Zi. I have to go."

She held Taozi's hand again, "Don't be impatient when doing things. Killing can stop evil, but it won't cure the root cause. Don't worry about me. I have to go on a far journey this time, and I wanted to take you with me."

"Oh, that's all. My son has grown up and has his own ambitions. As a mother, how can I stop him?"

"Taozi, you have to be more careful and eat on time. It's getting colder, so wear more clothes."

She looked at the carriage. Xiao Wu and his servants hurriedly took down many packages from the carriage.

"I made you some clothes and shoes."

Mrs. Liu Zhang spoke very fast. She talked a lot. After putting the things away, she reluctantly hugged Tao Zi once. She turned her head unnaturally to prevent Tao Zi from seeing the tears in her eyes, "Then

Then I left."

She walked into the carriage again, and Xiao Wu saluted Tao Zi again:

"Brother, don't worry about my mother, I will take good care of her!"

The servant drove the carriage and staggered out of the courtyard again. Yao Xiong watched the carriage go away in shock. As soon as he turned around, he saw Taozi standing in front of him. Yao Xiong was also startled.

"Brother Taozi, why don't you make any sound when you walk?"

"Let's go to the county government office."

Two old mulberry trees stand side by side in the county government courtyard. Their trunks are thick and strong, like watchers over the vicissitudes of life. Over the years, people have come and gone, and the years have carved many wrinkles on their skin, but they have always stood here.

, has witnessed countless declines and rises.

Under their gaze, the clerks were busy working, and people were coming in and out of the door.

Two casual officials were holding big shears and were chatting and laughing as they helped trim off the branches from the old tree. When the wind blew, the mulberry trees made a rustling sound, and the surrounding area became more peaceful with the soft sound.

The two men quickly rushed to the county government office in two pairs. They jumped off their horses and broke the original tranquility.

"Liu Youjiu!!"

Everyone saluted.

Liu Taozi asked Yao Xiong to lead the two horses back to Youyou Mansion, while he hurried towards the residence of the Prime Minister in Beiyuan County.

Lu Qubing was currently arguing with Master Qian.

Master Qian still had a cloth tied on his head at the moment. His injury was quite serious, but he couldn't care about recuperating. After all, he was the only one under the county magistrate who could do anything.

"You can use 10% of the food supply. It's not that I don't care about the situation in various places, but I just have to think more about the local situation."

"The current harvest is not much, and food prices have reached unprecedented levels. The entire Hebei Province is short of food. It's not just these neighboring counties."

Lu Qubing said seriously.

Master Qian shook his head, "Don't think that I don't know that there are not many dead people left at the gate of the city. The number of people admitted by the county has already exceeded 5,000, right? I just don't want to say more. This time

Borrowing food from neighboring counties is actually a way to deal with the refugees. With food in various places, the refugees can be resettled, and the pressure on us here will be reduced."

"I'm not stingy, nor am I willing to lend food to neighboring counties. But, how much of the loaned food will fall into the hands of the victims, and how much will be used to resettle the refugees?"

"I'm afraid it will be used to make up for the tribute grains? To protect their official positions. If there is any leftover, I don't know whose granary it is."

Master Qian smiled bitterly, "We can't ask the neighboring county to tell us how to use it, right? Can we still send people to keep an eye on them?"

The two were pulling each other, and Liu Taozi walked in quickly.

Lu Qubing was overjoyed when he saw Taozi. He immediately raised his head and his momentum became stronger, "Brother Taozi, you came just in time. Come on, sit down!"

Master Qian quickly stood up and bowed slightly to Liu Taozi, "Thank you so much, You You. The doctor Chu you sent is really amazing. I'm much better now."

Liu Taozi nodded and sat aside.

Lu Qubing quickly explained to him, "Linzhang, Wu'an, Linshui and other three counties have borrowed grain from us. This year, the harvests in various places are very bad. It seems that they can't even hand over the tribute grain. County officials

I can’t even get my salary, and the famine is very serious.”

"The county magistrate wants to lend 30% of the grain to the three counties, but I feel that if the grain is lent out, it will not be used in the proper way."

Master Qian was very helpless, "Gong Lu, if there was no signal from Qingdu Yin, how could they dare to borrow money? The county magistrate wants to pretend to be a good person? This is a last resort, why don't you understand?"

Lu Qubing was very stubborn, "Then let Yin, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, issue an order to levy An's grain for the counties!"

Master Qian wanted to say something harsh, but looking at Liu Taozi beside him, he reluctantly shut his mouth.

When Lu Qubing saw that Master Qian was no longer arguing with him, he looked at Taozi and said, "Brother Taozi, you came here in such a hurry, could something have happened?"

Liu Taozi took out the canonization book from her arms and handed it to Lu Qubing.

Seeing the familiar document, Lu Qubing took it blankly, looked at it for a few times, and then he was overjoyed, "Okay!! Could this be the work of the county official?!"

He quickly looked at Master Qian aside and said, "Haha, from now on, Taozi is no longer a clerk, but an official! You can never be dismissed again!!"

Master Qian was a little embarrassed, but there was no surprise in his eyes and he laughed calmly.

Liu Taozi looked at him, "Is this the work of the county magistrate?"

Master Qian was stunned for a moment, then a look of shock flashed in his eyes. He hesitated for a moment, and then laughed sarcastically, "I wanted to remove Duke You Yu, but it made everyone angry. Duke Lu's order couldn't even get out of the door, so...

I was thinking of finding a way to send Youyou somewhere else."

"I didn't expect it to be so fast."

"It seems Mr. Lu has done a lot of hard work."

Master Qian smiled and said nothing, but he thought to himself: Who can say otherwise? In order to send away you, the god of plague, the county magistrate spent a lot of money, even finding the colleagues and friends of his deceased brother.

I care about each other more than I care about my own children.

However, it's finally over.

Tao Zi is from Cheng'an and cannot be an official in Cheng'an. As long as he becomes an official, he has to leave his hometown and go elsewhere. This is the temple's order, and he cannot refuse.

At first, there were too many people running away from office, so the emperor placed a big stick on each county government. If any officials wanted to run away or refused to be appointed, they would be killed directly.

"Congratulations to Liu County Cheng!"

When Master Qian left, he was still smiling and congratulating.

Lu Qubing looked at Master Qian's leaving book, and suddenly he was no longer as happy as before. He looked at the documents in his hand again.

"It turns out I'm trying to drive you away."

"It's hard for them to come up with such a way."

Liu Taozi said nothing, and the two of them sat like this for a long time.

"Rongzu, after I leave, Cheng'an's affairs will be left to you."

Lu Qubing's face immediately became solemn, "Don't worry, once you leave, the traitors in this city will probably appear one after another. I will personally cut off their heads and hang them on the city gate!"

Liu Taozi was stunned and slowly looked at him, and Lu Qubing also looked at him.
To be continued...