Xu Jing thought to himself, Luo Ying is still a little immature. The expression on his face said what he was thinking. He sighed and said, "It seems that General Luo is still determined to fight to the death. Shinian, go and call the yamen runners."
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"Wait a minute." Luo Ying thought. Everyone in the county government was on the same boat with Jiang Xuqing. The magistrate was their boss, and they wouldn't dare challenge him. Luo Ying knew that arguing with a slippery loach like Jiang Xuqing would be embarrassing. After much deliberation, he finally threw out a piece of advice. "I hope you'll stop in time, or else don't blame me for being rude."
He left right after saying the threats, without giving Xu Jing any chance to stay. He was like waving his sleeves without taking a single cloud with him.
Bai Shinian was so angry that he stamped his feet and said indignantly: "What kind of person is this? It's incomprehensible."
"Don't take him seriously. A warrior is a warrior. He can't change the world."
Luo Ying paused at the door. With her sharp hearing, she heard what Jiang Xuqing said badly about her.
Bai Shinian said: "Master is right, but what should we do if they talk nonsense?"
"Their letters of surrender are all in my hands. How could they say such nonsense?" Xu Jing said with a sinister smile, "Unless they don't want to live anymore."
So that's how it is. It seems he was threatened by the sinister and cunning Jiang Xuqing. Luo Ying pondered over it and remembered something. If Jiang Xuqing hadn't sent someone to inform him to defend the city on the eve of the war, he would have been beheaded long ago. Now that he heard that Jiang Xuqing was entangled with the Jiannu people, could it be that Jiang Xuqing had already had a close relationship with them?
If it was really as he expected, Jiang Xuqing would probably have surrendered to the enemy and betrayed his country long ago.
Luo Ying thought, no matter what, he had to investigate it carefully.
He wanted to listen again, but they had already started talking about other things.
"Shi Nian, how much money is there in the master's treasury?"
Bai Shinian, interrupted by Jiang Xuqing, successfully forgot Luo Ying's dissatisfaction with Jiang Xuqing. He said respectfully, "In reply to the master, the master's annual salary is 60 taels, plus various subsidies, which makes a total of 100 taels a year. After deducting the expenses for handling affairs and interpersonal relationships, there is still 500 taels of silver left in the account."
It's quite a bit. For a family of five, even if they worked diligently for a year, they could only earn twelve taels. No wonder everyone wanted to be an official; the official salaries were really quite high.
Xu Jing asked Bai Shinian, "How many refugees have left Muhe County in previous years?"
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