"Master Hou, this...this is Beicheng, so the damage is quite serious."
I don't know when, Fatty Hong finished sending the people away and trotted to Xiao Han and the others. When he saw that several people were looking at the ruins on the corner of the street, he immediately explained carefully: "Well, it's in the west of the city, or...
There are a lot of houses that are safe and sound.”
"West of the city?"
After hearing Fatty Hong's words, Xiao Han and Liu Hongji's faces, instead of showing relief, became increasingly gloomy.
Who doesn’t know that in the Tang Dynasty, the west of the city was basically the poorest, most chaotic, and worst residential address in the city!
Those who live in a place like this are all poor families in the city! It is estimated that the rebels who entered the city at the beginning were disgusted that they could not find valuable things in the west of the city, so they left it alone.
Knowing autumn when seeing a leaf, Xiao Han sighed deeply and didn't want to think about the past things anymore.
In the past, he thought it seemed a little inhumane to send those rebels to work.
But after seeing the tragic situation in Dengzhou City, Xiao Han now felt that the punishment given to those people was still too light, too light!
Don't say that you are forced to do anything, and don't say that you can't help yourself!
When they put down their hoes and choose to pick up knives to rob and slaughter other people wantonly, they have become evil people!
Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately, that's what the bald man says!
In this world, the only standard for treating evil people is to make them pay ten or a hundred times more than when they did evil!
Only in this way can we avoid past mistakes and avoid future ones, so that the evildoers will not be allowed to go free and the good people will not cry.
"Go to the county government office."
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Han no longer had the mood to continue reading, so he got on the donkey and said lightly to Fatty Hong: "Your county government has not been destroyed, right?"
"That's not true, that's not true!" Fatty Hong carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied quickly!
I don't know why, at this moment, Xiao Han actually put great pressure on him, a veteran who has been in the officialdom for many years!
This invisible pressure was even heavier than the pressure he received when he was questioned by the censor in Chang'an!
Moreover, not only Fatty Hong felt this pressure, but Master Liu and the cadres also lowered their heads and hands almost at the same time, not even daring to take a breath, and no longer looked like they had escaped before.
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Dengzhou County Government
Like many cities at this time, the county government office in Dengzhou City was also located in the very center of the city.
It may be that the Dengzhou County Magistrate originally thought that after following the Li family's successful military uprising, he might revisit his old place. Therefore, not only the county government office was safe and sound during the military disaster, but even the residential buildings near the county government office were lucky enough to escape.
Got through that calamity.
The donkey walked forward, stepping on the polished bluestone, until it brought Xiao Han to the door of the county government and then stopped.
Feeling the donkey under him stop, Xiao Han, who had been a little careless along the way, cheered up and looked towards the Yamen in front.
How should I put it? The Yamen in Dengzhou City is different from what Xiao Han imagined. It is a bit shabby and shabby.
Especially before, Xiao Han and the others had seen that magnificent city wall!
Looking at this low facade now, it feels unreal.
Why is it that the size of a county government office in a city that is really big is not much different from the county government office in Anping County?
The screen wall in front of the door is no more than one foot wide and no more than seven feet high. The paint painted on it is also badly discolored. It looks like it is sick, weak and weak, without the slightest bit of majesty to choose people to devour!
As for the archway?
If the broken door with the "Xuanhua" plaque on it was also called an archway, then Xiao Han was worried that when he passed under it, it would fall down and slap the "Xuanhua" plaque hard on his head.
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Because the scale of the county government is too small, the Dengzhou City government office in front of us does not even have a designed gate. It is just a ceremonial gate standing there alone.
Originally, Fatty Hong had ordered his men to remove the threshold of the Yimen so that Xiao Han could ride in directly on his donkey.
But Xiao Han did not do this. Seeing that the donkey stopped obediently, he got off the donkey and walked into the county government gate together with Liu Hongji, who also dismounted.
Later, when they saw Xiao Han and the others being like this, not only Master Liu's eyes lit up, but even Fatty Hong sighed softly, feeling even more admiration for this young prince.
Just from these little things, you can see that his behavior is spotless! Thanks to those people in Chang'an, it is still said that Xiao Han and Liu Hongji are two hundred and fifty! Fatty Hong feels that those people are the real two hundred and five!
How many years has this rule of civil servants getting off their horses and generals dismounting in front of the county government office have been circulating?
Even though in recent years, rituals and music have collapsed, the rules have become chaotic, and no officials remember this matter, this rule has never been abolished in writing.
It seems to have become the norm for ministers to rush to state administrative sites unscrupulously on donkeys and horses! Even the emperor only smiled casually when he heard about it and didn't bother to pay attention.
However, this is against the rules, it is against the rules!
Fatty Hong, who knew the power of the Censor, understood that these trivial things might not be worth mentioning on a daily basis, but if someone were to throw these "trivial things" out in the right place, it would not become overwhelming.
The last straw for the camel.
Entering through the Yimen, and then passing through the lobby where the case was heard, Xiao Han and his party arrived at the back house of the government office.
After arriving here, Fatty Hong hurriedly let a few people into his study, and he went out in person to find someone to make a set of banquets and deliver them to them.
It turned out that he should have gone to a restaurant with his boss.
But now there are no restaurants in the city that are open. Even if Fatty Hong showed his majesty as a county magistrate and forced the restaurants to open, they probably wouldn't be able to find anything to eat in their kitchens.
There was no other way, so Fatty Hong could only think of a way to hold a banquet at home to entertain Xiao Han and Liu Hongji who had come from afar.
When you go out, explain clearly to your servants and ask them to do it quickly!
Fatty Hong then wiped the sweat from his forehead, carefully entered "his study", and sat down at the bottom table with him.
He didn't even dare to sit down with his buttocks firmly. Half of his body was sitting on the chair, and the other side was outside the chair. His movements were very much like Zamabu.
"I just heard that you are also doing work-for-relief?"
Maybe he felt that the room was too dull, so Xiao Han, who was occupying the magpie's nest and sitting in the main seat, coughed and asked casually.
"Yes!" Seeing that Xiao Han finally spoke, not as cold as before, Fatty Hong breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied: "It will take about one or two months for the house in the city to be completely built. When it is completed,
