As Zhang San's good wife, Gu Xuanyan would always be the first to come out and smooth things over when encountering such a situation. However, due to some insistence, this time she became a master at pretending to be confused.

Perhaps it was because the atmosphere was too depressing. Even though his identity was embarrassing, Sun Shan still resolutely jumped into the fire pit and pulled Gao Dan out.

Even though she was very angry with the little girl Yaya, Gao Dan was a descendant of the royal family after all, so she naturally knew what was more important.

But even so, the current situation could no longer support her to continue. After hurriedly explaining the contents of the imperial edict, Gao Dan, led by Sun Shan, went to the City God Temple to settle Old Yang.

Although it had experienced several major battles, the Taiping County City God Temple was now in ruins. Because the army was busy building the cofferdam, it was difficult for them to spare some personnel to repair it.

However, for people like Mr. Yang, they can petition for the people during their lifetime and die on the battlefield, so naturally they will not pay attention to these empty rituals after their death.

With the support of the newly appointed Mr. Yang, and the killing of the chicken to scare the monkeys performed by Zhang San and Gao Dan before, after this battle, Taiping County, which had long been plagued by ghosts, finally had a chance to catch its breath.

There is no doubt that this is something that should be celebrated by everyone, but looking at the stone sculpture in front of him, Zhang San just can't feel happy at all.

There was a folk saying: "Don't say the stone man has only one eye, he can stir up the Yellow River and rebel against the whole world."

In the history textbook, just like the stories of books hidden in a fish belly and white snake being slain by a sword, this is just a method used by Han Shantong to fool the people.

But unfortunately, the rumors from another world have become the reality of this world.

After the battle at the canal ended, as the steel needle condensed from the dragon vein pierced into the Du meridian, Wu Yan's lifelong cultivation was instantly locked, and even the spiritual pollution in his body felt like it was disintegrating.

Obviously, unlike Zhong Kui's spiritual flame, the method used by Dajin to control spiritual pollution is dragon veins.

However, Wu Yan was dealt with. Just when Zhang San and Gao Dan were preparing to deal with the Gu Ge giant, the opponent's body, which was originally more than 30 meters tall, gradually began to shrink due to the loss of the guidance of Wu Yan's innate Qi.

When it shrunk to the size of an ordinary person, even its original flesh and blood tissue turned into stone, which is the one-eyed stone statue standing in front of Zhang San today.

"What are you thinking about? So absent-minded? But that's right, after all, you got a promotion, you should be happy."

Just as Zhang San had guessed before, Gao Dan, who served as the commander of Qinglong, would naturally not come to Taiping County for no reason.

Or in other words, the previous attack on the Gug giant was simply because the other party was worried that Zhang San was not good at dealing with mental pollution, so he dealt with it himself.

With Dou Su being dismissed from office, as the holder of the highest position in Jing Ye Si in Zhenjiang Prefecture, she was entrusted with extremely special imperial orders from beginning to end.

There is no need to say much about transporting the dragon vein of Zhenjiang Prefecture and transferring the clay sculpture of the City God. As for the other thing, it is the announcement of Dajin's reward to Zhang San, or the punishment for his previous crimes.

The Jin Dynasty ruled the country according to law. Although the Buddha's coming to the world and the ghost plague had their reasons and the law could not hold everyone responsible, as the main person in charge of Taiping County, Zhang San naturally could not be exempted from responsibility.

However, under the persuasion of Old Yan, in order not to damage Zhang San's spirit, Emperor Qi Ling not only did not punish him by demoting him from his post, but even provided him with a full sixty years' supply of materials for extracting the innate Qi.

No matter how you look at it, this seems to be a sign of the emperor's grace. What's surprising is that it was done to give Zhang San a warning and let him know the strictness of the Jin law.

The official position that should have been promoted to him now fell into the hands of Gu Xuanyan.

Looking at the armor with a sunflower-shaped head and a gold-coated shaft in the hands of his wife, and then looking at the "Fengtian Gaoming" written in willow leaf small seal script, Zhang San's face couldn't help but twitch.

Similar to the system of the Ming Dynasty, according to the Da Jin system, only the wives of officials above the fifth rank were eligible to be canonized with imperial edicts, while those below the fifth rank could only be entitled to imperial decrees.

What Gu Xuanyan obtained this time was the fourth-rank imperial edict brought by Gao Dan. From now on, when others address her, they can no longer just call her "Madam", but have to call Gu Xuanyan "Gongren".

Although there were many rules in ancient times, if you didn't follow them, no one would restrict you unless you were extremely unlucky.

Gu Xuanyan is different from Zhang San. After all, she is a native aborigine. For her, it is undoubtedly good news that she can obtain an official title in the court as a commoner.

But what is embarrassing is that, unlike Gu Xuanyan's fourth-rank imperial edict, as a canonized extraordinary person with the same rank as a thousand households, Zhang San's rank is the fifth rank.

There is indeed nothing wrong with it if it is taken individually, but unfortunately, he is afraid of comparison when it comes to this kind of thing.

In comparison, the Feiyu clothing bestowed later and the reward regulations that included Gu's Chamber of Commerce in the list of imperial merchants were not that important.

After all, he was a person who had the memory of being the founding monarch more than once. With Zhang San's political wisdom, he could naturally see that the reason why Emperor Qi Ling did this was purely to disgust him.

But he had to admit that he was indeed disgusted.

Seeing her husband's rather depressed expression, Gu Xuanyan temporarily suppressed his past of attracting many men and turned to comfort him.

"Sir, don't be depressed. After something like this happened, the emperor has done his best by not rewarding or punishing anyone. What's more important now is that we have to figure out what Gao Dan said when he left.

"I was ordered to transport the dragon vein, and all the aliens and garrisons along the way need to be escorted. What does she mean by this?"

Seeing Gu Xuanyan pretending to be silly and tapping the other person's cerebellum, Zhang San was willing to cooperate with her.

"What do you mean? Our Majesty wants to learn from Jiang Ziya!"

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"It's a good idea to take the bait if you're willing. But he was more honest than Taigong. At least he threw out a bait. It's just a pity that our Azure Dragon Commander hit the hook straight.

She came here with such a big fanfare, she almost put the word "trap" on her forehead, plus she recruited people to guard along the way, who with a normal mind would dare to pay attention to her?"

After all, it was a naked conspiracy. Although it didn't seem to be too dangerous and the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture that Zhang San was responsible for was very limited, it was related to the safety of her husband after all, so Gu Xuanyan had to remind him.

"Is there still a shortage of people in this world whose brains are caught in doors?"

Of course... there is no shortage! With Zhang San's experience, how could he not see the twists and turns in this? Because he had integrated three hundred years of experience before, Zhang San was originally prepared to settle down for a while, but judging from this posture, the other party was obviously not prepared to give him this opportunity.

"Okay, don't be depressed. I'll tell you a secret. I've designed a new pair of black stockings. Do you want to..."

"My lady, you misunderstood me. I am not that kind of person."

“Bang!!”

"Call me Sir, I'm your boss now... Isn't that exciting?"