Since he was not visiting in a miscellaneous manner, he handed over the official article and agreed to inspect it. Yang Hong was not too panicked. He turned his head twice, then slapped the table and said, "Brother Zhu gave me the city, because he trusted my ability. I can't see a censor coming and retreated back to Huanglong Mountain... Since that's the case, I have to welcome this censor."

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An hour later, Yang Hong and Cao Baoxiang, led a group of soldiers from Huanglong Village, and the yamen runners and officials from Baishui Yamen rushed to the streets, and there were also a large group of masoners and carpenters behind them. This strange personnel configuration made the local people confused.

Just as the people were puzzled by their appearance, Yang Hong reached out and pointed at a house next to him. A group of yamen runners rushed up. They pulled out spears and pavilions from their waists and chopped them up to one wall of the street against the house.

With one knife, there was a deep knife mark on the wooden window frame. With one shot, a hole was stabbed in the window paper.

The owner of this house was a soldier from Huanglong Mountain Village. He made great contributions and divided the house. He was resting in the house today. Suddenly, he saw that the window was pierced. When he looked out, a group of yamen runners were chopping the exterior wall of his house. He was furious: "Which stupid guy dares to break my house? I am the tenth captain of the 7th Team of the Huanglong Mountain Old Village..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the person who was directing the house was Yang Hong. His anger was suppressed and he asked blankly: "Brother Lengfeng, what are you doing?"

"I'll help you break the old house and replace it with a new one, so that it will definitely look good!" Yang Hong said.

"Oh... is this my reward for making me a contribution?" The soldier was confused.

After a while, the window was broken by several yamen runners, and the wall made of mud and stone was smashed into several pits with hammers. Yang Hong waved his hand, and a group of carpenters and masons rushed up, making it awesome. After a few seconds, the broken wall was filled with fresh mud and ash. At the same time, the entire wall was painted with dust, making it very beautiful. All the broken windows were remade with fresh wood. The window paper was also replaced with new ones.

Yang Hong was very satisfied. He waved his hand and said, "Let's go, next home..."

"Hey..." The soldier clenched his head: "I really helped me fold it and replace it with a new one, but why... I only made this wall facing the street? I should also make three other walls."

At this time, the team arrived outside the next house, and pounded and slashed again, and then all of them were filled...

Yang Hong ordered loudly: "Don't repair it too perfectly... I occasionally leave a knife mark or two for me, pretending that I have not repaired it."

"yes!"

"There is a archway standing there, cut me twice on the archway... no need to make up..."

"yes!"

"There is a long knife mark on the wooden door over there. Well...it's just like that, it looks pretty good..."

"yes!"

"By the way, go and break a tooth from the stone lion in front of the yamen. Yes, just break one tooth... and then find another pointed stone with similar stone but not exactly the same to stick it on..."

"yes!"

"By the way, I dug a dog hole in the back wall of the county government. Well... I'll fill it up after digging..."

"yes!"

"Burn the arrow tower next to the city gate, and then build it again on the burned ruins... Well. It doesn't have to be very strong, but it must look good..."

"yes!"

The entire white water was moving, and all the houses facing the street were treated similarly, first broken and then repaired... and this action was extended. The houses on both sides of the road that the inspector censor wanted to come were treated similarly. The fields on both sides of the road were also carried out the same operation, first digging up the crops in the fields and then planting them again, which looked like crops moved from elsewhere...

No one could figure out what the medicine was selling in Yang Hong's gourd... In short, with such great preparations, the days when the inspector Jinlan, the inspector, agreed to come to inspect, were getting closer day by day.

On this day, the moon is dark and the wind is high. Oh, no, it is the sunny day!

Cao Baoxiang brought a large number of officials such as yamen runners, constables, masters, and lords to the post road ten miles north of the city to welcome the inspector and the Censor. Why is it ten miles? This is the tradition of our country of Heaven. If it is not made ten miles, it will be disrespectful. If it is not made ten miles, it will be even more than ten miles.

Yang Hong was naturally in the team. He was wearing a small green hat and a simple knife around his waist, disguised as Cao Baoxiang's confidant servant.

Everyone waited for a long time, and before dawn, until noon, a fast horse finally appeared on the official road in the north. When the horse approached, the knight above shouted: "Is the one on the road ahead, the Baishui* County Magistrate Cao and his party?"

Cao Baoxiang responded hurriedly: "That's right!"

The knight said, "The Censor will arrive later...you can prepare quickly..."

Hearing this, Cao Baoxiang quickly took action, and asked his subordinates who were just lazy to sit on the side of the road to line up on the road, posing as a ten-mile long street to welcome the censor. He himself wore a formal official uniform, straightened his official hat, stood in the center of the road, and put on a reliable shape. After a while, a sedan chair appeared on the road, and two sedan chairmen carried it and walked over.

The audience must be surprised. Is this reliable from Yansui to Baishui? Of course it is not reliable! They came by a carriage, but when they arrived at the place that was about to be welcomed, they had to change it to a sedan.

When Cao Bao saw that the sedan chair came, he hurriedly went forward. After a while of official etiquette, it was gone in half an hour. Lord Jinlan walked out of the sedan chair. Cao Baoxiang's sleeves shook, and the silver that had been swayed by his generation was about to be sent. But Jinlan did not accept it... He was from the Donglin Party. Although his character might not be good, most officials of the Donglin Party do not accept bribes.

"I am hereby order from the order of the governor of the three borders, Lord Hong Chengchou, to come to Baishui to inspect the people's conditions! Please also ask Lord Cao to do his best to cooperate with me!"

"That's of course!"

Neither of them got into the sedan chair, and they acted in a manner of being close to the people and loved the people. They walked slowly on the official road. They were inspecting the people's sentiments. How could they keep sitting in the sedan chair if they didn't walk?

Jinlan looked at the fields on both sides of the road left and right, and there was something wrong with these crops... Their roots were obviously unstable, and it seemed that they were temporarily moved from another place. The original crops should have all died or had not grown at all.

I saw that the houses on both sides of the road were decorated, and the smell of fresh mud was soaked. He naturally knew that no matter where he inspected, local officials would temporarily do renovations and cleaning. This is the norm in the officialdom. It is very common. It is strange if he didn't do this. So he didn't mention this matter, but he was sharp-eyed and found that there was a not very eye-catching knife mark in the corner of the wall repaired in the room...

He secretly remembered the knife mark in his heart and did not point it out.

After walking for a while, he knew a little about what he looked outside the city, so he got on the sedan chair again and rushed into the county town. After entering the city, he got off the sedan chair and looked at it again. He saw that the buildings in the city were also redecorated, but many unintentional places showed that the city had been damaged by swords and weapons... Even the stone lion in front of the yamen had broken a tooth and was glued back.

"Mr. Cao, I heard that you were against Baishui and Zhu Ba, and defeated him and rushed to Shanxi. I want to know the details of this matter." Jin Lan said.

Cao Baoxiang quickly laughed a few times, and then said jealously about the set he wrote in his letter, "He personally led the village bravely to fight bravely and blocked the thieves outside the county town." In the end, the thieves had nowhere to talk, so they had to escape far away from the west of the mountain.

"All nonsense!" Jin Lan suddenly jumped up: "You can't hide it from my official's eyes. This city has been clearly captured by Zhu Ba..."

"Ah? No...nothing is true..." Cao Baoxiang was so scared that his face looked like a rusty.

"I saw many knife marks in the city, and there were also signs of broken walls... Humph, the arrow tower at the city gate was burned once, and now it is a rebuilt arrow tower that is not useful. The residents in the city are not the residents of the past, right? Most of them are played by farmers you don't know where to find them. They are full of rusticity at first glance, without the feeling of the city." Jin Lan said loudly: "From all these signs, this city has fallen, and the residents in the city have been massacred by thieves. Come honestly... I'm really falling, why are you okay? You can still be the county master here safely?"

"This...this..."

"Hmph, don't you say?"

"Xiaguan... say..." Cao Baoxiang cried with a snot and tears, "This city has indeed been captured by that guy Zhu Ba... It's so terrible... He killed a lot of people in the city... He also wanted to kill Xiaguan's head for public display. Xiaguan was responsible for defending the territory and did not dare to escape from the city. So he crawled out of the dog hole in the back wall of the yamen and hid in a gutter to escape... Later, after Zhu Ba robbed all the things in the city, he went to the west... Xiaguan didn't know what happened later."

"When the Censor heard that the Censor was coming to inspect, he sent someone to repair the city and then found a group of countrymen to dress up as residents in the city..." Cao Baoxiang kowtowed and said, "I beg the Censor not to impeach the Censor..."

"Hmph!" Jin Lan shook her hand and walked around the back of the yamen. Sure enough, she saw a newly repaired place on the wall. He kicked it hard, and the mud wall that had just been repaired suddenly collapsed, revealing a dog hole.

"It's true..." Jin Lan snorted coldly, "Waste!"

"The officials are not waste!" Cao Baoxiang cried, "White Shui Zhu Ba with his 8,000 troops, how can the officials with the strength of the officials? Not to mention the officials, even the governor... he is still a clever wife who can't cook without rice... Although the officials lost the city, they did not escape from the city. Even if they hid in the gutter, they were still hiding in the yin and yang of the city, and they fulfilled their responsibilities to defend the land... and forgot to investigate the matter clearly."
Chapter completed!