Princess Consort Is No Pushover

However, although the fief is small, there are seven counties in it.

These county towns are very close together, which is convenient for him to manage.

And this Longxing County is in the very center of the fiefdom.

It is relatively close to the other six counties here, so he brought the team to this county first and planned to live here.

At this time, everyone in the convoy was waiting outside the city gate of Longxing County, waiting for the county magistrate and officials to come to welcome them.

But 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 gate of the city. The whole gate looked deserted and desolate, and everyone felt a bad feeling in their hearts.

Seeing this, Mo Li hurriedly rode forward and came to Chu Xuanchen's carriage, "My lord, what's the matter? We sent an official letter to Fang County Magistrate tomorrow, why didn't he bring anyone to greet him?"

"Yeah, what did the county magistrate do? Our prince came to fief the land, but he didn't even have the most basic etiquette? What does he mean?" Mozhu said, with a layer of anger on his face .

"It's okay, let's talk about it later." Chu Xuanchen raised his hand with a calm expression.

He waited to see what the hell these officials were doing.

At this moment, the city gate ahead suddenly opened slowly.

Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man in a blue official uniform ran over quickly with several officials.

The man ran and yelled: "My lord, calm down, the official is late!"

With that said, he had already run to Chu Xuanchen's carriage.

Then, he took a careful look at Chu Xuanchen, and found that Chu Xuanchen was wearing an indigo-colored prince's uniform, and hurriedly said, "I'm the magistrate of Longxing County, welcome to the prince."

Chu Xuanchen raised his eyes and found that the man in front of him was very thin and dark-skinned, and the official uniform on his body had several long patches.

He couldn't help being stunned, he had never seen any official who could wear patched clothes.

He said indifferently: "You are Fang Zheng?"

Fangzheng nodded quickly, with a very simple and honest look, "Yes, I am right. I'm sorry, my lord, I have something to do with my family just now, so I came late, please calm down my lord."

"You are the only official in Longxing County? Where are the other officials?" Chu Xuanchen raised his head, full of dignity.

"That's right, County Magistrate Fang, His Royal Highness Prince Li is here in person. According to the rules, you should lead the officials here to greet you. Not only did you not call the officials, but you were also late. How did you do things? Did you not call my family?" Does the prince care about it?" Mo Zhu said angrily.

Hearing this, Fangzheng wiped the sweat off his forehead in embarrassment, and said, "My lord, don't be angry, I don't mean to be an official, I'm an official... I'm an official..."

"My lord, calm down, I'm late!" Fang Zhengzheng was so anxious that he didn't know how to explain, another man ran over from the city gate.

Chu Xuanchen looked up and found that the man was wearing gray coarse clothes.

The clothes on his body were dirty, and a pair of trouser legs were rolled up high, and the bottom of the trouser legs was covered with mud.

With his appearance, he is basically a mud-legged person who has gone to the ground, but he called himself a "lower official", and everyone was stunned!

Chu Xuanchen and Yun Ruoyue looked at each other, both of them looked puzzled.

"Xuanchen, who is this person? Why doesn't he look like an official?" Yun Ruoyue approached Chu Xuanchen and whispered.

Chu Xuanchen nodded, "I don't even think it looks like it, but I want to see what tricks these people are playing."

As he spoke, he looked at Fangzheng and said in a deep voice, "Magistrate Fang, who is he?"

Fangzheng hurriedly said: "My lord, his name is Zhou Qing. Mr. Zhou is the magistrate of our county. He is in charge of archives, warehouse supplies and taxes."

"County Chancellor?" Chu Xuanchen looked at Zhou Qing, who looked like a farmer, with eyes full of disbelief.

Such a person, he has no way to connect him with the county magistrate.

At this time, Zhou Qing hurriedly stepped forward and said to Chu Xuanchen: "My lord, I'm sorry, I should have come to greet you on time, but I still have some things to deal with, so I came late, please Calm down."

Seeing that only two officials Zhou Qing and Fangzheng came, Mo Zhu immediately said angrily: "Enough! How dare you neglect the prince so much, are you the only two officials in Longxing County? What about the others?"

"My lord, we are here!" At this moment, a dozen men came running to the gate of the city.

Chu Xuanchen took a closer look and found that although these men were wearing official hats, they were all wearing shabby clothes.

They were all very tanned and their faces were weathered. They didn't look like officials at all, but rather like refugees on the street.

"What's going on here?" Looking at this group of people, Chu Xuanchen helplessly helped his forehead, feeling a bit of head pain.

"My lord, they are all subordinate officials, and now they are all here!" Fangzheng hurriedly said.

At this time, as soon as those men rushed over, they hurriedly surrounded Chu Xuanchen and saluted him, "Please refer to your lord, the next official is Master Liu of Longxing County."

"The next official is Zhang Dianshi."

"The next official is the county lieutenant."

"The next official is Li Chun, in charge of instruction."

"..."

After the group of men introduced themselves, Fangzheng hurriedly said, "My lord, that's great, all the officials are here!"

Seeing this group of noisy and unruly people, Chu Xuanchen sighed helplessly, "Magistrate Fang, are these really officials from Longxing County?"

Among the people here, only Fang County Magistrate has the most official appearance, and everyone else looks like a mob.

He seriously suspected that the others were all refugees in disguise.

Fangzheng nodded firmly, "Yes, my lord, our Longxing County is a bit poor, so..."

"Is being poor related to being late? Enough, tell me why you are all late? I need a reasonable explanation!" Chu Xuanchen said coldly, full of dignity.

"This..." Fangzheng looked at Chu Xuanchen in embarrassment, his face flushed with embarrassment.

At this time, Mr. Liu who was standing behind him said: "My lord, to be honest, just now the magistrate Fang's clothes were accidentally torn when he was hoeing the ground, and the magistrate's wife took a while to mend the clothes for him. That's why we're late!"

"Howing the ground?" Chu Xuanchen looked at Yun Ruoyue, speechless.

A majestic county magistrate actually went to hoe the ground?

It turned out that an official's lateness could be caused by such a reason, which was unheard of.

It sounded like it was made up, but seeing Fang Zheng's embarrassment, he felt it was true.

At this time, Zhou Qing, the county magistrate, said: "My lord, when I was working in the field just now, I forgot the time for a while, that's why I came late!"

"My lord, this is the same. I don't want to neglect you. I originally wanted to come earlier, but my mother-in-law insisted that I finish planting those rows of seedlings, saying that I wanted to grab the spring plowing while the weather was good. I couldn't hold her back, so I was late." !” Zhang Dianshi said helplessly.