However, although the fiefdom is small, there are also seven counties in it.
These counties and cities are very close together, making it convenient for him to manage them.
And this Longxing County is located in the very center of the fiefdom.
It is relatively close to the other six counties here, so he led his team to this county first and prepared to live here.
At this time, everyone in the motorcade was waiting outside the city gate of Longxing County, waiting for the county magistrate and officials to come and greet them.
However, after everyone arrived at the city gate for a long time, they found that no official came to greet them.
There were only a few ragged soldiers standing at the city gate. The whole city gate looked deserted and desolate, and everyone suddenly felt a bad feeling in their hearts.
Seeing this, Mo Li quickly rode forward and came to Chu Xuanchen's carriage, "Your Majesty, what's going on? We sent an official letter to County Magistrate Fang tomorrow morning, why didn't he bring someone to greet him?"
"Yeah, what happened to this county magistrate? Our prince came to entrust the land, and he didn't even have the most basic etiquette? What on earth did he mean?" Mo Zhu said, with a layer of anger on his face.
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"It's okay, let's talk about it later." Chu Xuanchen raised his hand with a calm look on his face.
He waited to see what these officials were doing.
At this moment, the city gate in front suddenly opened slowly.
Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man wearing a blue official uniform ran over quickly with several official servants.
The man ran and shouted: "My lord, calm down, I'm late!"
With that said, he had already run to Chu Xuanchen's carriage.
Then, he looked at Chu Xuanchen carefully, and after discovering that Chu Xuanchen was wearing an indigo prince's uniform, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I am the magistrate of Longxing County, and I would like to welcome the prince."
Chu Xuanchen raised his eyes and glanced, and found that the man in front of him was very thin, with dark skin, and the official uniform on his body had several long patches.
He couldn't help but be stunned. He had never seen an official wearing patched clothes.
He said calmly: "Are you Fang Zheng?"
Fang Zheng nodded quickly, with a very honest look, "Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I just had something to do at home, so I'm late. Please calm down, Your Majesty."
"You are the only official in Longxing County? Where are the other officials?" Chu Xuanchen raised his head, full of majesty.
"That is, Magistrate Fang and His Highness Prince Li are here in person. According to the rules, you should lead the officials to greet you here. Not only did you not call the officials, you were even late. How did you do it? Didn't you bring my family to my house at all?
Does the prince take it seriously?" Mo Zhu said angrily.
Hearing this, Fang Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead in embarrassment and said: "My lord, please calm down. This is not what I mean. I... I..."
"Your Majesty, calm down, I'm late!" Fang Zheng was so anxious that he didn't know how to explain, when another man ran over to the city gate.
Chu Xuanchen looked up and found that the man was wearing gray coarse clothes.
The clothes on his body were very dirty, his trouser legs were rolled up high, and the bottom of the trouser legs were covered with mud.
He looked like a lowly guy, but he called himself "a lower official" and everyone was stunned!
Chu Xuanchen and Yun Ruoyue looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
"Xuanchen, who is this person? Why doesn't he look like an official?" Yun Ruoyue approached Chu Xuanchen and whispered.
Chu Xuanchen nodded, "It doesn't look like it to me, but I want to see what kind of tricks these people are playing."
As he said that, he looked at Fang Zheng and said in a deep voice: "County Magistrate Fang, who is he?"
Fang Zheng said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, his name is Zhou Qing. Mr. Zhou is the magistrate of our county. He is responsible for archives, documents, warehouses, grain and horses, and taxation."
"County Prime Minister?" Chu Xuanchen looked at Zhou Qing, who looked like a farmer, with eyes full of disbelief.
There was no way he could connect such a person with the county magistrate.
At this time, Zhou Qing hurriedly stepped forward and said to Chu Xuanchen: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I should have come to greet you on time, but I just had some things to deal with, so I came late. Please, Your Majesty."
Calm down your anger.”
When Mo Zhu saw that only two officials, Zhou Qing and Fang Zheng, were here, he immediately said angrily: "That's enough! How dare you neglect the prince like this? Are you the only two officials in Longxing County? Where are the others?"
"Your Majesty, we are here!" At this moment, a dozen more men came running to the city gate.
Chu Xuanchen took a closer look and found that although these men were wearing official hats, they were all wearing shabby clothes.
All of them were extremely tanned and looked weathered. They did not look like officials at all, but rather looked like homeless people on the street.
"What's going on?" Looking at this group of people, Chu Xuanchen helplessly held his forehead, feeling a little pain in his head.
"Your Majesty, they are all subordinate officials, and they are all here now!" Fang Zheng said hurriedly.
At this time, the men rushed over and hurriedly gathered around Chu Xuanchen and saluted him, "See you, Your Majesty. Your subordinate is Chief Liu of Longxing County."
"My subordinate is Zhang Dianshi."
"The lower official is the county captain."
"The lower official's name is Li Chun, and he is in charge of teaching."
"..."
After the group of men introduced themselves, Fang Zheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, that's great, all the officials are here!"
Looking at this group of noisy and unruly people, Chu Xuanchen sighed helplessly, "Magistrate Fang, are these really Longxing County officials?"
Among the people here, only Magistrate Fang is the most official, and everyone else is like a rabble.
He seriously suspected that the others were refugees pretending to be refugees.
Fang Zheng nodded firmly, "Yes, Your Majesty, our Longxing County is a bit poor, so..."
"Is poverty related to being late? That's enough. Tell me why you are all late? I need a reasonable explanation!" Chu Xuanchen said coldly, his body full of majesty.
"This..." Fang Zheng looked at Chu Xuanchen awkwardly, his face flushed with embarrassment.
At this time, Mr. Liu, who was standing behind him, said: "Your Majesty, to be honest, Magistrate Fang's clothes were accidentally torn when he was hoeing the ground just now. It took the magistrate's wife some time to help him mend his clothes.
That’s why we’re late!”
"Hoe the ground?" Chu Xuanchen looked at Yun Ruoyue and was speechless.
A dignified county magistrate actually goes to hoe the land?
It turns out that it is unheard of for an official to be late for such a reason.
It sounded like he was making it up, but seeing Fang Zheng's embarrassed look, he felt that it was true.
At this time, the county magistrate Zhou Qing said: "Your Majesty, when I was working in the fields just now, I forgot the time, so I came late!"
"My lord, it's the same for me. I don't want to neglect you. I originally wanted to come earlier, but my wife insisted that I finish planting the few rows of seedlings, saying that I wanted to take advantage of the good weather for spring plowing. I couldn't resist her, so I was late.