After hearing the conversation between several people, Lin Yanchao could feel that Lin Qianqian was a little scared.

Lin Qianqian and Lin Yanchao said: "We'd better not take the land route?"

At this time, the slabs were blew, and Lin Yanchao glanced outside the house and shook his head at Lin Qianqian. At this time, the risk of taking the sea was ten times greater than that on land.

But the old man said to Lin Yanchao: "Little brother, this matter is absolutely true. Everyone in our prefecture knows that if the brigade had not been on the road, there would have been few people walking alone. I would like to remind you to be careful again and again."

Lin Yanchao then said, "Thank you for your kind words."

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside. Then the sound of horse hooves stopped outside the inn gate.

Everyone was surprised when they heard this. The young horses in the south were riding horses to the inn in this weather. It sounded like there were more than a dozen riders.

The merchants were not evil in their hearts. More than a dozen maritime merchants in the store secretly touched their knives.

While we were talking, as soon as the inn door opened, several officers and generals came in. Everyone did not relax their vigilance. Nowadays, officers and soldiers sometimes go along with the evil people.

There was a person next to the officer, soldier, and the shopkeeper recognized that he was the servant who came to the shop with Lin Yanchao to fight. The other party said a few words to the general, and the other party bowed directly to Lin Yanchao and said, "I don't know that the master is here, please forgive me for being in the end."

Lin Yanchao nodded and said a few words lightly.

The merchants in the room were all indescribable astonishment. Who could actually hire officers and soldiers to protect him?

Lin Yanchao ignored everyone's surprise and asked the officers and soldiers: "How far is this place from the county town?"

"There are two days left, and it's a mountain road. I beg the master Yunmo to lead his troops to guard the left and right."

"Okay, I'm here to help the general."

After Lin Yanchao agreed, he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and put it in the hand of the old man who had just reminded him, and said, "A little meaning is not worthy of respect, just use it as a way to ask for directions!"

The old man was not willing to accept it and insisted on not accepting it.

Lin Yanchao no longer insisted, so he left the house with the officers and soldiers, hired a carriage from the town and set off. After two days of travel, he arrived at Ningde County.

After arriving at the county town, Lin Yanchao knew that the officers and soldiers should not leave the trust without permission, and he was safe, so he asked them to go back and ordered Chen Jichuan to take a post to the county government to pay a visit to the main hall.

Generally speaking, Lin Yanchao just stays in the inn directly when passing by, and will not alarm the local government. In order to avoid suspicion, people will not offend Zhang Juzheng, and will not come to see him on their own initiative.

But this time, Lin Yanchao heard that a merchant was missing in the inn, and he was not very relieved. It was for the sake of his safety on the road, and such a big thing happened, so he could not keep it aside. So he was about to ask the local magistrate.

Lin Yanchao was waiting at the post station outside the city, and soon he saw the ceremonial guard of the county magistrate coming to the post station.

In the small county town, the travel of the magistrate is a big deal. The green sedan chair carried by four people came to the post station, which caused a sensation in the entire post station.

The magistrate of Ningde County was born in a donation class. Although he heard the news that the top scholar of the Ming Dynasty offended Zhang Juzheng and his life was very difficult at the moment, even if he was a sixth-rank palace official, he was not an outside official with a seventh-rank foreign official.

When the magistrate of Ningde saw Lin Yanchao, he immediately bowed and said, "I didn't know that the throne minister had missed the arrival of our county. The lower officials had already set up a banquet at the Yin Hotel to welcome the throne minister."

Lin Yanchao wanted to talk to him, so he agreed, "Okay, I'll disturb Guixian."

So Lin Yanchao and the magistrate came to the county government office together.

The magistrate held a banquet to receive the second and third masters like Lin Yanchao, the county magistrate, the second and third masters also wanted to accompany him.

Although there was a county magistrate and a lord at the banquet, the magistrate wanted to donate to prison and did not have enough ink in his stomach. He was afraid that he would not be able to answer Lin Yanchao's words during the banquet, so he invited two masters to accompany the banquet, and then drink and write poems. Some people would also respond to him.

The magistrate prepared so much, but he didn't know that nothing was useful at the banquet for a while.

The banquet started, and Lin Yanchao entered in casual clothes, but saw that everyone in the house was wearing public uniforms.

Lin Yanchao asked, "If it's not a casual banquet, how do you wear public uniforms?"

The county magistrate said, "The top scholar came from Tsinghua University and was also a noble official in Beijing. We dare not act rashly."

Lin Yanchao said: "It's okay. I returned home to visit my relatives but happened to pass by our county. Moreover, I still have something to borrow from you later."

The magistrate and others relaxed after hearing what Lin Yanchao said.

They didn't know what Lin Yanchao suddenly appeared in the county, but when they heard the word "Read more", they mistakenly thought they were here to make money, and everyone immediately relaxed.

So a few people went to the back of the house to change their clothes, and they all changed into casual clothes. The magistrate also reminded his confidant to go and get some generous Cheng Yi immediately.

Everyone took their seats back and the Changsui reported that the seat could be started. The magistrate reported to Lin Yanchao, and Lin Yanchao nodded.

So the dishes were served like flowing water. Lin Yanchao only had six people on the table, but there were almost sixty or seventy dishes. I really didn't know that this unlucky county had developed so many dishes. The magistrate kept saying that the mountains and fields were so slow that the top scholar was.

After three rounds of drinking during the meal, Lin Yanchao said straight to the point: "I heard that many missing businesses in this county have occurred. There are hundreds of people who have not heard of them for several years, but it is true?"

The magistrate was suddenly shocked after hearing Lin Yanchao's words, and the chopsticks in his hand fell on the table with a clatter. The other county magistrates and the lords all had blood-colored faces.

The magistrate next to the magistrate coughed, reminding the magistrate to lose his composure, and then asked Lin Yanchao: "Dare you ask the turtle minister, where did you hear about this?"

Lin Yanchao observed his expression and looked at the magistrate's expression, and knew that the other party was very guilty. It seemed that the case was really not small. If he said that he heard about it in the inn on the road, he would probably not be scared.

Lin Yanchao coughed and said, "At this moment, did the master think that this official happened to appear in Gui County?" After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, everyone showed a look of fear on their faces.

You should know that in the officialdom, people always deceive superiors and subordinates.

The court should learn something from local officials, and often report it from the other party, and it is often not the truth of the matter.

In order to know about this, the court usually dispatched one person from the Beijing officials to investigate. Such officials are the imperial envoy mentioned in the play.

Of course, the imperial court sent imperial envoys to the local area, and the first time was to investigate openly, and the first time was to investigate secretly. It is easy to talk about openly, but what local officials fear most is to investigate secretly.

In the opera, the imperial envoy went to the place to conceal his identity, visited privately on a private tour to understand the truth, which was just a plot in the opera.

The court will not be so troublesome, for example, the imperial envoy who was investigating went to the neighboring province where the incident happened and passed by.

For example, when the incident happened in Zhejiang, the court asked the imperial envoy to go to Fujian to take office and investigate it along the way, or the court pretended to let the imperial envoy return home in the name of resigning and visiting relatives, and then investigated it and reported the truth to the court.

At this moment, the magistrate regarded Lin Yanchao as an imperial envoy. (To be continued.)

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