After inquiring about what a good thing was from the accompanying soap officials, Dean Gu was ecstatic, and immediately borrowed money from Han Bo, the cousin of the ambassador of the Jiao Xiechang Salt Division, to send happy money to the accompanying soap officials, and then followed up with the small courtyard to ask the eldest master of Zhizhou to sit down for a while, and wait for him to send someone to invite the township covenant, the first chief, and the respected clan elders of each Zhuang town to come and announce the decree.

Zhang Zhigao knew that they wanted to glorify their ancestors, and they would definitely not be able to go back today, so they not only agreed, but also let them not worry, they could prepare slowly.

Dean Gu was even happier, and as soon as he got out of the courtyard, he asked his nephew, who had heard the news, to go to the town to buy some snacks to cushion his stomach, and then asked the young men who were on an errand in the yamen of the inspection department to hurry up and inform the township Yong, the first chief, and the respected clan elders in each Zhuang town.

Yu Qinghuai was busy looking for someone to drink, to buy chicken, duck and fish, and to find someone to help prepare luncheon and dinner. Wang Qianli asked his family to borrow pots and spoons, tables, chairs and benches. Li Zhiyong and Tang Guozheng took the big heads to clean the stage and threshing floor, and prepared the incense case needed to receive the order......

They were busy outside, and Han Xiufeng and Zhang Zhigao were not in a hurry, so they chatted while eating tea in the hall.

"Brother, you are promoted to vice president, the state is vacant again, I was going to help beg Futai, to see if I could let him recover, I never thought that there are so many people who want to be officials in this chaos, last night I just knew the news that you were going to be promoted, and Futai sent a person surnamed Chen to come and act." Zhang Zhigao sighed lightly, put down the teacup and said: "But Li Changjing doesn't care if he can be reinstated, he didn't want to do this official for a long time, he went to say goodbye to me as soon as he heard the news last night, and left overnight with his family, so ask me to apologize to you before leaving." ”

"He's leaving?"

"Don't leave now, wait when." Zhang Zhigao looked back at Zhang Guangcheng who was sitting on the side, and said helplessly: "Don't talk about him, even I want to return to my roots." But I'm different from him, this official can't resign or resign, I can only take one step at a time. ”

"Master Zhang, the army of the imperial court has arrived, and the bandits have been surrounded on all sides, what do you have to worry about?"

"Brother Zhixing, you have not only seen the bandits but also befriended you, others don't know how difficult it is for you not to know how difficult it is for the bandits to suppress, and you can't not know that it is not easy to recover Yangzhou. There are no outsiders here, it's not me Zhang Zhigao who says frustrating words, just those soldiers under Qi Shan, I want to recover Yangzhou, I see it! ”

"Not really!"

"You haven't been to the Qishan camp, and if you do, you know what kind of goods it is."

"What's wrong?"

"Those Qiu Ba not only had no intention of killing thieves, but were also busy eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, which not only made the camp a miasma, but also caused a lot of harm to the place. A few days ago, in order to rob a people's girl, a group of green battalion soldiers actually fought with a group of flag soldiers from Jilin, and I heard that there were also deaths, you say, can such Qiu Ba fight? ”

The Green Camp and the Eight Banners have long been abolished, and it is expected that they will not be able to fight, but I didn't expect that even the military discipline would be so lax, Han Xiufeng sighed secretly, and just didn't know what to say, Zhang Guangcheng suddenly said: "Zhixing, Xu Lequn's details are clear, I didn't expect that he not only had a ditch with the salt gang, but also took the opportunity of the imperial court to order group training in various places to gather five or six hundred smuggling salt dealers to defect to Yang Yizeng, the governor of Caoyun, and turned into Yang Yizeng's friends. ”

Han Xiufeng was surprised: "Does he have a connection with the Salt Gang?" ”

"It's Yizhen's gang of smugglers," Zhang Guangcheng nodded slightly, and continued: "The gang of smugglers you investigated in the first month came from the canal, and the one surnamed Li Zhaoshou who ran away was a member of the Cao Gang. The reason why the surname Xu borrowed a knife to kill people was because the Salt Gang and the Cao Gang had a grudge, and they usually fought with weapons, nor did they make a lot of trouble, but the leader of the Salt Gang and the leader of the Cao Gang didn't want to make a big deal out of it, and the two gangs never tore their faces. ”

"And now?"

"I don't know now, I only know that Li Zhaoshou heard that the surname Xu ruined his business, made him lose so much salt, and also lost so many people, and let out the wind for the salt gang to give an explanation. The Salt Gang naturally did not hand over people, but said that the news that Li Zhaoshou heard was all rumors deliberately released by the government, and Li Zhaoshou did not believe it. may be worried that Li Zhaoshou will retaliate, and finally promised to give an explanation to the Cao Gang. ”

"What's the explanation?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

Zhang Guangcheng smiled bitterly: "I said that there is a debtor who is wronged, the salt was intercepted by me and you, and the person was arrested by you and me, and I plan to give an explanation to the Cao Gang with your and my heads." Later, you know, the surname Xu didn't even want his life, he wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, and borrowed the knife of the old ghost Xu to put you and me to death. ”

"I knew that the surname Xu was not simple, but I didn't expect this hidden secret." Han Xiufeng was not even afraid of thieves, how could he be afraid of Xu Lequn, let alone Li Zhaoshou's defeated general, and couldn't help laughing: "This Xu Lequn, why don't you have a long memory!" He really thought that if he gathered hundreds of people and defected to Yang Yizeng, Yang Yizeng would treat him as a person, and I think he would be treated as cannon fodder. ”

"That's right, he wants to take revenge on you and me, so he has to help Yang first to prevent and block the bandits."

"What about Li Zhaoshou?"

"Li Zhaoshou don't have to worry, after escaping back from you, he actually pulled a group of splashes on the canal to rebel, saying that it was a rebellion is actually a robbery, and now it is a twist bandit that the court wants to suppress."

……

From Xu Lequn to Li Zhaoshou, from Li Zhaoshou to the battle situation, he unconsciously chatted until noon.

Dean Gu didn't dare to let the eldest master of Zhizhou and Han Xiufeng, who had been promoted to the deputy envoy of the Salt Transportation Division, wait for a long time, and some people who went to invite but had not yet arrived did not wait, checked the melons and fruits and other tributes placed on the incense table again, and ran back to the small courtyard to ask Zhang Zhigao to announce the decree.

I don't know if I don't come out, and I'm scared when I come out.

There are more than 30 Eight Immortal Tables on the threshing floor, and it is estimated that all the Eight Immortal Tables in the town have been borrowed, and the tables are full of people, the elders and relatives and friends of the Gu, Yu, Wang, and Li families, the township covenants of Hai'an and Qutang, and the Baozheng and Jiachang of each village, the respected clan elders of the nearby villages, the shopkeepers of the shops in the town, and the students of Fengshan Academy and Mingdao Academy...... In short, all the local people with heads and faces could invite were invited, and when they saw Zhang Zhigao and Han Xiufeng, they bowed down one after another.

Reading out the edict of Han Xiufeng from the top of the five grades to confer the two Huaiyun deputies, Guo Peilin should have come in person, but he was too busy with official business to take a break when he first arrived, and he was worried that sending others would see that Han Xiufeng's leg was actually not broken, so he simply asked Zhang Zhigao to do it for him.

Zhang Zhigao boarded the stage under the crowd of people, first burned incense and bowed in the direction of the capital, and then took the edict from Zhang Guangcheng's hand and read it out in a subdued manner.

With the acting state of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province and Han Xiufeng to prevent thieves and bandits, reward from the top belt of the five products, award two Huai Salt Transportation Division deputy envoys, reward one hundred and fifty taels of silver, one white jade to move one, a pair of large purses, two pairs of small purses!

Gu Xincheng, a student from Taizhou, Jiangsu, organized a group to practice and make efforts, rewarding a pair of large purses and two pairs of small purses!

With Yu Qinghuai and Wang Qianli, supervisors of Taizhou, Jiangsu, and Li Zhiyong, a child, to train the township to bravely prevent and stop bandits, and reward the top belt of the seven products!

As long as the purse is popular, it will be done, but this purse is a thing in the palace, and it is rewarded by the emperor, and this glory is not available to anyone, it can be written into the family tree and can be used in the ancestral hall for eternity!

Dean Gu was not only happy, but also really raised his eyebrows, hurriedly dusted his sleeves and respectfully bowed three times and nine kowtows. Yu Qinghuai, Wang Qianli and Li Zhiyong were also ecstatic, although they had donated the top belt before, and it was also the seventh grade, but it was donated by silver, and it was donated at two folds, and it was not even an alternate official, and now this seven-grade top belt is the emperor's Qincha, although if you don't go to the capital to surrender, you can't be an official, but you can call yourself the candidate magistrate of the seventh grade when you go out in the future!

Han Xiufeng had an injury on his leg and was unable to move, so he didn't bow three times and knock nine times, so he took the official certificate, official seal and silver and jade fingers from Zhang Zhigao from Zhang Zhigao with everyone.

Hai'an's horns have not even produced a few talents, who would have thought that so many officials could be produced at once, the audience was jubilant, and they all bowed down to congratulate.

Waiting for Han Xiufeng, Zhang Zhigao and others to step down from the stage and sit at the Eight Immortals Table at the front, Pan Er dressed up in official uniforms and took several soap subordinates from the Yunsi Yamen to the stage to read out the official document of Qin Jia from Sanpinding and two Huai salt transport envoys Guo Peilin to pull out salt and arrest private military attachés.

Pull out Yuan Datou for the salt capture of private thousands of generals, is six products!

Pull out the two Ji Daji for the salt capture of the private general, is the seventh product!

Pull out Zhang Qingyu and Tian Gui for the salt arrest of private foreign commissioners, and they are eight products!

Li Xingsheng and other four people were selected as the salt arrest and private private alternate foreign commissioner, and they were eight products.

Pull out Wang Hedong and other four people for the salt capture of private additional foreign commissions, from the nine products!

Ten people such as Ge Erxiao were recruited as candidates for the salt capture of private additional foreign commissioners, from the ninth grade!

The civil official was promoted to Han Xiufeng, and Yu Qinghuai and they just rewarded a top belt, and there was no shortage. The military attache is different, one liter has risen to more than 20, the highest grade is the sixth grade, the lowest is from the ninth grade, and half of them are local descendants who have not seen how to look at it before, the audience cheered again, and the cheers were even higher than when Zhang Zhigao read out the emperor's edict just now.

Although Guo Peilin did not come in person, the heart of the military attache of the salt fishing camp was the same, not only asked Pan Er to bring the official certificate and official seal, but also asked Pan Er to bring more than 20 official hats and 20 shirts, looking at the anxious appearance of the big heads, Han Xiufeng simply asked them to go to the barracks first to change into their coats, put on the official hats inlaid with tops, and then come out to eat and drink.

Gongs and drums shook the sky, firecrackers rang out, and the town had never been so happy, never so lively.

The fathers and elders took turns to toast Vice Master Yun and Lord Zhizhou, took turns to toast and congratulate Dean Gu and Yu Qinghuai, and then went to the two tables next to them to toast and congratulate the Qiu Ba who had just become the official of the imperial court, you respect me, I respect you, this wine has been eaten for most of the day.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, not to mention that it is difficult to be warm, Han Xiufeng is drunk, Dean Gu is drunk, Yu Qinghuai is drunk, Wang Qianli and Li Zhiyong are drunk, and the big head who just gambled and swore never to drink again in the morning is also drunk......