Chapter 21 Three Questions
After Chang Jing finished speaking, he looked at Lu Chenyang and asked provocatively, "How about it? Can you save my mother?"
Lu Chenyang nodded: "I will try my best." After a pause, he said: "I don't know if I can rescue her alive, but I promise you, I will do my best to rescue her."
Chang Jing curled her lips and said, "It's nice to talk, you officials are good at talking, and you want to use me to do things for you."
Zhao Xi looked at him coldly and said, "Watch your attitude. How can my master use you? You are injured all over, and my master has to pay for your treatment. Even if I sell you, you won't even get two ounces of meat."
Chang Jing was clearly afraid of Zhao Xi, and shrank back, not daring to speak. As the saying goes, evil will be punished by evil.
Lu Chenyang smiled and said, "Okay, take him back to apply medicine and have breakfast. He is still a child."
Changjing widened his eyes in horror and wanted to refuse instinctively, but when Zhao Xi looked at him, he suddenly didn't dare to speak.
Yan Xing said, "Your maid is much more imposing than you."
Lu Chenyang smiled and said, "Zhao Xi may have a sharp tongue but a soft heart. In fact, she has a very soft heart and is a very kind girl. You have misunderstood her."
Yan Xing: “…” Haha, it’s impossible to wake up a naughty parent who indulges his naughty child.
Yan Xing asked, "What are you going to do about the Dongyi people? You're not really going to help him rescue them, are you?"
Lu Chenyang said as a matter of course: "The Dongyi people are robbing my people. As the father and mother of Lingnan, I can't just sit back and watch. Of course I have to save them."
Yan Xing looked at him gravely: "What do you rely on?"
Lu Chenyang smiled and spoke slowly, "I thought about it last night. My current situation is very bad. The Dongyi people are trying to advance outside, and the Shen family is trying to make trouble for me inside. I am attacked from both sides."
Yan Xing nodded: "County Magistrate Lu has a correct understanding of his situation."
Lu Chenyang said, "But actually, I don't have any grudges against them. I'm just new here. Whether they are the Dongyi people or the Shen family, they don't take me seriously. They are the ones who have the real grudge, the kind that won't stop until one of them dies."
Yan Xing didn't understand.
Lu Chenyang said meaningfully, "So, I want to be a third party and reap the benefits."
"Let them fight until both sides are defeated, and then you can wait in the wings?" Yan Xing said, "That's a good idea indeed. The Shen family and the Dongyi people each have a large army, and what about you? You only have thirty escorts. You want to wait in the wings, but you don't even have the strength to take advantage of the situation. How can you rely on to be a third party?"
"The Lingnan garrison." Lu Chenyang said as a matter of course: "I am the county magistrate appointed by the emperor himself, so I naturally stand on the side of the court. The court is my strength, and the garrison is my confidence!"
Yan Xing fell silent even further. Was the garrison's appearance giving him confidence? That confidence was quite hollow. Furthermore, how could he confidently claim that the imperial court was his strength? Why had the emperor brought him to Lingnan without any sense of purpose?
Lu Chenyang seemed to read his thoughts. "But others don't know that I'm the top scholar with the highest score of the imperial examination. Who would think that the emperor doesn't value me? It's so far away, how can they go to the capital to inquire? As for the garrison troops... they're not very good right now, but don't we have you, the prince? As a major general of the Yan family army, training soldiers should be a piece of cake for you, right?"
Yan Xing thought for a moment and said, "I have three questions. First, I can indeed train troops, but why should I help you? Second, even if I am willing to help you, do you think the emperor won't send someone to watch you after exiling you to Lingnan? Oh, yes, it's unlikely that they will keep an eye on you, after all, you are not that important. But they will definitely send someone to watch me. If I help you train troops, aren't you afraid that the emperor will find out and have someone kill you? Do you really want to join the Zhenguogong Mansion? Third, you are the Lingnan County Magistrate, but you don't seem to have the power to mobilize troops? The Lingnan garrison has a commander. Can you just seize power?"
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