Just after the hour, the official boat that Guo Peilin and his entourage were riding really appeared on the river.

The last time I came from Taizhou, there were three boats, and with the addition of Han Chen, there were five boats when I set off from Hai'an, and now there are more than a dozen boats back, and I don't need to ask if the boats behind me are full of gifts from the ambassadors of the Huainan Salt Division and the governors of Tongzhou.

As soon as the boat docked, Han Xiufeng limped on crutches to greet him.

Guo Peilin smiled and scolded and pretended to be quite similar, and went ashore under the embrace of him and Han Chen, Dean Gu and Jinghua did not dare to slack off, and invariably stepped forward to meet them, Guo Peilin thanked him, and immediately climbed Fengshan accompanied by everyone.

The accompanying friends and guards went up the mountain together, and the soap li, umbrella man, and boatman were received by Gu Jinyan, so there was no need for Han Xiufeng and others to worry about it. Unexpectedly, as soon as he accompanied Guo Peilin into Fengshan Academy, Pan Er and Guo Peilin's other friends who stayed in Taizhou arrived, and as you can imagine, they had already received the letter, which was rushed to report the official business of the Yamen of the Heavenly Fortune Division.

However, no matter how busy the official business is, you have to eat, the banquet has been prepared early, and a large table full of it looks very rich, but most of them are local local dishes, and the remaining few are spicy dishes that Han Xiufeng specially asked the chef to put more sea peppers.

Hai'an couldn't find a good cook, Dean Gu and other people thought that it would be too shabby to entertain Lianghuai Salt Yun with such wine and food, but Guo Peilin saw that the spicy dish with sea pepper actually increased his appetite, and after a few glasses of wine symbolically, he proposed to serve rice, stir-fried meat with sea pepper, stewed fish with sea pepper, and ate two small bowls of rice in a row.

After eating, sending Dean Gu and the others away, Guo Peilin took the tea from Pan's second-hand and said with a smile: "If you want to eat, it is still the local vegetables in the countryside that are appetizing." Although Yangzhou has fallen, Yangzhou's extravagance is still prevalent, many chefs ran to Taizhou, those restaurants in Taizhou are all Yangzhou dishes, a piece of tofu can be cut into thousands of shreds, that is, it looks good on the table, in fact, there is something to eat. ”

"What Lord Guo said is extremely true, Xia Guan is not used to eating Huaiyang cuisine." Han Chen couldn't help but laugh.

Han Xiufeng was about to speak, Guo Peilin actually put down the teacup and said: "If you want to say that it is delicious, the dishes of Datou Roast are really good, I have eaten it a few times when I was in the capital." Now that he has become an official, it is not appropriate for him to cook again, and he can't eat if he wants, hahaha. ”

"Zhixing, the big head can cook?" Han Chen's face was incredulous.

Han Xiufeng said with a smile: "He used to cook in the guild hall, if you want to cook rice, I can burn it too, and Changsheng is not less burned, who can't do it with children from poor families." ”

"A child from a poor family, this person just can't forget his roots." Guo Peilin nodded slightly, then turned around and asked, "Changsheng, let's talk about the battle situation first." ”

"Yes." Pan Er reacted, hurriedly took out a booklet from his arms, and reported the battle situation he had heard about these days.

Lei Yicheng and the new Caoyun Governor Fuji have been preparing for a long time, and Dan Minglun, who redeemed himself, even really found a 10,000-pound cannon and transported the cannon to the city of Yangzhou, but not only did the city gate blow open, Zhang Yiguo even led two hundred villagers to kill the God of Wealth Temple, and Shuanglai had already captured the city tower of Benyimen, but because Qi Shan and Chen Jinshou did not move, the success fell short.

It is said that Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, who went to invade the capital, are about to kill the Yellow River, and Huicheng, the governor of Sichuan, who was ordered to lead troops to help, has already arrived at Shao Bo but has stopped, claiming to hold Shao Bo to prevent bandits from going north along the canal, the bandits are in the west, he is in the east, how to prevent it?

There is no news about where the bandits of the Western Expedition have killed for a while, but it is conceivable that there are few prefectures and counties in southern Anhui along the Yangtze River that should have fallen, and the bandits may have killed Jiangxi at this time......

There was no good news, Guo Peilin frowned when he heard it.

After Pan Eryu finished reporting and bowed down, Han Xiufeng put down the teacup and said, "Lord Guo, the things you assigned last time are not really a thing. ”

"Yongkuan money?" Guo Peilin asked subconsciously.

"Hmm." Han Xiufeng took out two coins from his pocket and explained: "Actually, this money was already available in the previous dynasty, this 'Yongkuan' and 'Kuanyong' are actually the Japanese era names, I didn't know at first, but then I thought of this kind of thing, those masters who are proficient in criminal names should have encountered it, so I invited the old master of Zhang Zhigao's criminal name in Taizhou Zhengtang to come over, but I didn't expect him to really know." ”

"The name of the era in Japan?" Han Chen was surprised.

"Exactly, the master said that as early as the previous dynasty's "Zhu Zhuyuan Anthology" there was a "My Wife Mirror", which contained a record of 'Yongkuan Three Years Order'. In the "Zhongshan Transmission Record" of Xu Guangqi of the previous dynasty, it was found that there was a record of 'Yongkuan Tongbao Money' in the city of Waguo. Xu Guangqi had been the superintendent of the calendar bureau in Chongzhen for three years, specializing in the revision of the Ming calendar, and what he recorded should be the truth. ”

Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "As for the 'Kannaga Tongbao' that happened to me later, it is also a coin circulating in the Japanese market. As early as the Qianlong period, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other coastal provinces have been discovered, and alarmed the Qianlong Lord, who ordered the governors of the provinces to strictly investigate, and later found that it was brought by merchant ships to and from Japan, and ordered to confiscate and destroy and strictly ordered maritime merchants to no longer take them privately. ”

"It's been there for a long time, and I've made an order, I don't even know about it, if I don't pay attention to report it directly, I won't be laughed at by those adults in the capital!" Guo Peilin said with a smile.

"Lord Guo, you read the book of sages before the title of the gold list, and after the title of the gold list, you entered the Hanlin Academy to observe politics, and you are concerned about military affairs, and you are not a master of law, so it is normal to know this. What's more, the 23rd Daoguang was the political envoy of Jiangsu Province at the time of the great general cannon cast by order, and now few people remember it, not to mention the events of more than 100 years! ”

"That's right, it's good to find out the origin, but at least it's a thought." Guo Peilin smiled, then turned around and said: "Changsheng, remember to tell Mr. Yang, please ask Mr. Yang to prepare an excerpt and report it to the capital with these coins for 400 miles." ”

"Yes."

Looking at Pan Er's cautious appearance, Han Xiufeng suddenly found that he was really doing a decent job as a patrol officer, thought about it and said: "Lord Guo, our Yunsi Yamen is not only in charge of Huainan and Huaibei salt introduction and collection, but also in charge of Jiangdu, Ganquan, Gaoyou, Baoying, Tianchang, and Taixing counties, and also supervises the anti-smuggling affairs of the above-mentioned six counties. As long as it is a case of illegal salt, those old officials who did not move to Taizhou died and fled, and those who chased to Taizhou are useless, I think you really have to hire a master who is proficient in criminal names and familiar with the place. ”

Guo Peilin didn't want to make jokes anymore, and felt that an old master with a criminal name should be hired, so he subconsciously asked: "Is there a suitable one?" ”

"Zhang Zhigao is dying, I'm afraid I won't be able to get through this time, maybe just a few days, the criminal master he hired when he came to Taizhou when he took office was proficient in criminal law precedents, and he helped Zhang Zhigao to take charge of Taizhou's criminal name over the years. As for character, I don't really know. ”

"As long as he is proficient in criminal names, he doesn't need to be allowed to do anything else."

"Then I'll let him come and see you later."

"Let him come back tomorrow, let's get down to business first."

"Okay, let's talk about the salt fishing camp first, the thousand generals, the general general, the extra thousand generals, and the additional general are all all the military attachés who were promoted by you, and the soldiers are all the Taiba coolies who were temporarily placed in the corner slope field that I reported to you before. Now that the farm work is almost done, I will wait for you to come back and choose an auspicious day for the zodiac, and send someone to call them to come to Hai'an and enter the camp. ”

"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, just tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, I'll send someone to the corner to call them later, and let them go to the threshing floor early tomorrow morning."

"Where's Xiang Yong?" Guo Peilin asked.

Han Xiufeng looked back at Han Chen, and continued: "Lord Guo, I think so, it's not difficult to recruit four or five hundred villagers at once, but if you recruit them, you have to take care of their food, and even pay them more or less." Otherwise, they will practice together with the salt fishing camp, and in the future, they will even have to go into battle together to kill the enemy, but they will neither care about food nor pay, and it will not take a long time, and it is estimated that there will be young and strong people making trouble in three or five days. ”

"Go on." Guo Peilin said with a teacup.

"So some time ago, when a young man came to join the army, I didn't confiscate any of them, but asked the Baojia Bureau and the Baozheng Jiachang to come forward and let the villages run group exercises, and sent the big heads and Ji Daji Er to the villages to lead those young and strong exercises. There is already a regiment of Xiangyong on the side of the Baojia Bureau, and there is also a regiment of Qutang and Baimi, plus the training of each village during this time, a total of more than 400. ”

Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "I think that our Yunsi will either not use troops, and when it is our turn to use troops, it will mean that not only will Yangzhou fail to recover, but the bandits will even come to attack Taizhou again." The more than 200 soldiers in the salt fishing camp and the more than 400 villagers just mentioned are definitely not enough, so I plan to send people to Jiangyan, Anfeng, Fu'an, and Jiaoxian to train a regiment, and in any case, we must gather 1,000 people. ”

Thinking that there are thousands of bandits, and if it is really the turn of the Yunsi to use troops in the future, it is really a matter of not having a thousand soldiers and horses, Guo Peilin muttered: "It's not a thousand, I think it can only be more and not less." ”

Han Chen got up and arched his hand and said: "Then recruit and train, Master Guo, Anfeng, Fu'an and Jiaoxian will hand over the three games to the lower officials, if you can't train three hundred warriors within half a year, you will ask if you win the official!" ”

"Yuzhi, it's not that the official can't trust you, but that he has a specialization in the art industry, and the matter of compiling and training Xiangyong should be left to Zhixing. Besides, your burden is not light, although those villagers who practice in various fields and villages do not need to worry about food and pay, but they can't not be rewarded at all, otherwise where does the morale come from, the food and salary must be helped, and you will be busy next. ”

"What Master Guo said is extremely true, he is an expert in training soldiers, and the subordinate officials are ashamed." Han Chen arched his hand again, smiled and sat down.

Guo Peilin nodded slightly, and asked again: "Zhixing, going to various fields to hold group exercises is not only easy to do, but also easy to say, why do you want to go to Jiangyan to do it?" ”

Han Xiufeng hurriedly explained: "There are many kilns in Jiangyan, and there are many kiln workers in the kiln who have eaten the last meal but not the next meal. Compared with the young men recruited from all over the world, those potters worked as hard as they had worked on the Taiba before. ”

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