As soon as the rider left, Chen Yingying asked, "Rizhi, who is that person? Why don't you let him go with us?"

Li Rizhi shook his head and said, "I don't know who it is, but he doesn't look like a good person. I guess he should be a spy. We may be targeted by robbers!"

Chen Yingying was startled. She looked around and saw that the official road was unobstructed. Although it was not as crowded with pedestrians, there were not many passengers coming and going. There was no such terrible scene of high mountains and dense forests, dark moon and high winds.

"This is in broad daylight, can the robbers block the road here?" Chen Yingying said anxiously: "We have been very stable all the way, why did something unexpected happen here? How do you become a local official? Rizhi, you have to scold him well!"

"Who are you scolding?"

"Who can you scold the local officials here? Who else can you scold?"

Li Rizhi frowned and said, "This place should be under the jurisdiction of Gunzhou. The governor is older than me. How dare I scold him? Let's be calm!"

Fu Guibao also said: "Yes, isn't this accident?"

The group walked forward again. After a while, they saw a small town ahead. The town was not big, only a few dozen families, and the walls were only one person high, and many places had collapsed. There was a large shed at the entrance of the town. It seemed that it was a restaurant and a teahouse. Everyone was just hungry, so they prepared to go to the shed to rest and buy some fresh food to eat.

There were a few old men in the shed, and several of them were wearing the same clothes, all of which were very old military uniforms. It seemed that these people were born in the past.

Li Rizhi entered the shed and sat on the bench. The bench was very bad. He looked at the old men and saw that their average age was almost fifty. He asked, "Several fathers, what good food do you have here?"

An old man came over and said sadly: "The meat buns have just been sold out, and now there are only brown rice and pickles left. Do you want to eat them?"

"Okay, then let's get on these!" Li Ri knew.

The old men brought the brown rice with a few pickled vegetables on each bowl of rice. I don’t know what kind of vegetable was pickled, and it looked so dark that it looked very ugly.

Chen Yingying and Fu Guibao and others were both rich and did not eat such things. They asked the servants to take dry food and asked the old men to ask for some boiled water to eat and drink slowly.

After taking a few bites, Li Rizhi felt that the taste was not so bad, but Cheng Zizai didn't care at all. After ate two big bowls, he ordered the third bowl.

After Li Rizhi ate a bowl, he stopped and asked an old man, "Brother-in-law, I see that there are many mountains here, which is the most famous mountain?"

The old man glanced at Li Rizhi and said, "Shan Tai!"

Li Rizhi nodded, answering this right, and asked again: "I mean, there are high mountains and dense forests nearby, and there are many loud horses here, right?"

"Some, many!" The old man said concisely and never said nonsense.

“Which mountain is there a loud horse?”

"Liangshan!"

Li Rizhi said oh, and it turned out that he had entered the Liangshan territory. He knew that Liangshan was not far from Mount Tai, but there was a loud horse on Liangshan, so he didn't know that.

Fu Guibao took out a silver bean from his arms, threw it on the table, and said, "Brother-in-law, don't say so little. We are travelers on the road. Ask you for the sake of safety on the road, just answer more!"

The old man picked up the silver beans and weighed them in his hand. He felt very satisfied. Then he said, "There are many horses in Liangshan and the big waters, but the horses have been making a fuss recently, so you don't have to worry, as long as you don't leave the official road, you can do it!"

After collecting the money, he finally said something more.

Chen Yingying said: "Xiangma? Does it mean a robber?"

Li Rizhi said with a nod and said, "The robbers here use ringing arrows as orders, and most of them ride horses, with bells hanging around their necks, so they are called ringing horses. This has been the case since the Han Dynasty!"

The old man smiled and said, "That was the way the strong people used to behave, but not now. In recent months, the government has been suppressing them very hard. The strong people have been forced to get anxious. When doing business, they have started to use hidden arrows. You people need to be careful, but don't be shot by the strong people with a scattered arrow and then chopped into meat filling. That's not worth it!"

Another old man next to him said, "Young man, don't listen to him scare you. Liangshan is very peaceful now. The most powerful strong man has already run away. At most, there are some little thieves, but they dare not rob you!"

Li Rizhi yelled twice, hugged the old men and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, we will see you again in the world, there will be a date later!"

The old men also yelled twice, but didn't say much, watching Li Rizhi and others leave.

After a while, an old man said, "This is something I have to put in the past. I will directly drug them. After turning it over, chop it into stuffing and make it into fresh meat steamed buns. It must be delicious. What a pity, Grandpa, I have already washed my hands with golden basin. I feel compassion, let them live a life!"

"Wash your hands in the wooden basin, can you afford a golden basin?"

Several old men sighed, all of whom let the young man go, which was really a pity. They didn't dare to take action to harm Li Rizhi and the others. It was not because of the sympathy that occurred, but because some of Li Rizhi and others just now had food, and some did not take it. Even if they were given medicine, it would be useless. It was impossible to put them all down, so they didn't take action.

The group walked a long way, and Li Ri knew: "Let's go to Gunzhou first, tell the situation here to the governor, and ask him to send troops to suppress those old men!"

Chen Yingying was shocked and asked, "They are robbers, are they, are they that kind of horse?"

"So old Xiangma? Then we can kill them by taking action!" Fu Guibao said.

"Even if they were the Xiangma Jie, they did something when they were young. At such a big age, they could drug and harm people. Those accomplices who were most likely robbers might lead to a large group of Xiangma, so they had to send troops from the state!"

Li Rizhi led them all the way and finally entered Gunzhou Prefecture City when it was dark and headed straight for the governor's mansion.

Yanzhou, also known as Lu County, is still a big prefecture on Henan Road. There are ten counties below. Bocheng County, the end of the Taishan Fengshan period, was under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, and Liangshan, which Li Rizhi had just passed, was also under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou.

When he arrived at the governor's office, Li Rizhi took out his official seal and said to the guard guard: "I am the supervisor of the Secretariat, Li Rizhi, from Chang'an, come to visit your governor. I'm sorry to go in and report it."

After hearing this, the gatekeeper nodded and asked Li Rizhi to the yamen, and kept in the main hall, then ran back and reported to the governor of Yanzhou.

The governor of Yanzhou was named Zhen Mengde. In his early sixties, he started as a junior official and entered the path of benevolence. He had no ability to be an official, but he was very lucky and always had a shortage. After rising all the way, he was promoted to the position of governor. It was a miracle in the officialdom and was admired.

Less than half a year after Zhen Mengde became a minor official, the world was not peaceful at that time, especially in Liangshan. Due to the terrain, many robbers gathered here. Zhen Mengde's boss brought people to encircle and suppress it. As a result, he was ambushed and wiped out the entire army. Only one Zhen Mengde escaped. He was sent back by his superiors to report the news.

He was the only one left, so of course he became the one with the most qualifications. After recruiting again, he became the leader. After a while, he became an official. Not long after he became a small official, his boss fell off his horse because he drank too much and broke his neck. When he died, he pushed him to death.

After a few years, the county magistrate went out of the city to understand the people's conditions, but he actually encountered a robber and was caught by the robber. The county cannot be without a county magistrate, and even an agent must have one, so he pushed him up. His qualifications cannot be a county magistrate, so he can only be temporarily replaced.

However, on the way to take office, the New County Magistrate encountered a wild beast. I don’t know what it was. Anyway, he ate the entire Xin County Magistrate’s family and was incomplete, so Zhen Mengde had to act again!

But before another new county magistrate arrived, the emperor was changed in Chang'an at this time, and the government was unstable. After the new emperor ascended the throne, in order to stabilize the situation, most of the officials from other places remained in office as long as they did not oppose him before. They did well and continued to do it, but as long as they did not cause trouble, they would continue to do it for the time being!

Zhen Mengde is the kind of person who did not do well, but he did not cause trouble, so he continued to do it, and the acting county magistrate, that is, the fake county magistrate, went to take the fake word in the front, which means fake means agent, and became the county magistrate!

Zhen Mengde said to everyone, "I am a incompetent person, I am not worthy of being a county magistrate. You should find capable people to be a county magistrate. Moreover, he is really incompetent. There are always robbers in the areas under his rule, and it is still impossible to cure them. Moreover, robbers seem to like to rob officials, and many officials passing by are killed, which is not conducive to the government's suppression of bandits."

In this way, all Yanzhou officials knew that the county where Zhen Mengd was located was a dangerous place, and it was not a good place anyway, and no one robbed him. So Zhen Mengd kept working as the county magistrate until this year, he was promoted to governor because no one wanted to be governor of Yanzhou!
Chapter completed!