Tong Chun was about to die just two days after he came, and he was so embarrassed that Yongxiang was so angry that his teeth itched, and he really wanted to tie him up and send him to Jinghai to serve. can think of a general who is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, and it will be a scourge to stay, so he can only endure his anger to help intercede with Han Xiufeng.

Han Xiufeng had expected that Tong Chun would not stay in Heying for a few days, put down the military book rewarded by the emperor, raised his head and said, "Since he wants to leave, we can't force him to stay." It's just that he just received one hundred and eighty taels of silver from the camp, if he returned to Beijing like this, what would Chen Chongtong think, what would Yang Debiao, Yuan Datou and Guan Pengcheng think, and how would you and I explain to Lord Wu and even the emperor? ”

Yongxiang was so angry that he almost forgot about it, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Master Han, go and tell him that if you want to leave, you can return a lot of money from the camp!" ”

"That's the only way, and then you and I just know about this matter, and it can't be spread out, it won't really shake the morale of the army."

"Humble duty understands."

"Go ahead."

"Master Xie Han."

It is said that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but now it is really a big shame to be embarrassed, the more Yongxiang wants to think about it, the more angry he is, and ordered Tong Chun, who was waiting for news outside, to hurry up and return the silver advanced to Chen Chongtong, so he returned to the rented courtyard with a gloomy face, and called his second brother Yongji, who had studied for a few years, into the study.

"Big brother, what's wrong, who upset you?"

"Who else but Tong Chun's bastard thing!" Yongxiang leaned over to open the box, took out the dense folding box from the box, pointed to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, and said coldly: "Help my brother prepare an excerpt, and the emperor's acting co-organizer Tong Chun is greedy for life and afraid of death, worried that he will be selected to serve in Jinghai, so he will retreat from the battle under the pretext of illness." If we force us to stay, it will not only damage the face of our Eight Banners, but also shake the morale of the army, so we can only ...... can only let him go back to Beijing! ”

Yongji was taken aback: "Big brother, he only wants to leave after only a few days in office?" ”

"So he lost all the faces of our Eight Banners," Yongxiang stroked the dense folding box, thought about it and said: "You can't just report the worries and not the good news, help my brother play the emperor, just say that Chen Chongyu is also a solid errand, running around to raise money, food and military funds, coming and going in the wind and rain, and sometimes he is so busy that he can't even take care of eating." ”

Thinking of the last report, Yongji couldn't help but ask, "What about Master Han?" ”

"Master Han's affairs also have to be reported, so he said that Master Han is busy with camp affairs every day, and as long as he is a little free, he will bathe and change his clothes and read the military book rewarded by the emperor. Before the wife and children arrived, they had already moved out of the government office, vacated the second hall for Chen Chongtong and others to handle business affairs, and vacated the inner house as a warehouse. ”

Yongxiang paused, and then said: "The camp affairs should also be performed, and the barracks abandoned by the emperor were sold at a price of more than 18,000 taels, but the expenses in the camp were greater, and the reimbursement of foreign guns, gunpowder and lead purchased from Shanghai was 6,400 taels. In addition, the more than 300 officers and soldiers who are serving in Jinghai will be compensated if they are killed or wounded, and 3,500 taels must be set aside for burning and burying the compensatory......"

Although Yongji has only read for five years, he has helped to write a few times and has written out that point, so he drafted it seriously according to the format of "slave Yongxiang bows to ask for saint ann" when he went out of Beijing.

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, Yongxiang has to go out to work as an errand to make money to supplement the family when he is young, unlike the two younger brothers who can go to the official school of the Eight Banners to study in the Yamen, just like a family and look at Yongji with envy while talking.

After Yongji drafted it and read it to him, confirmed that it was correct, and asked Yongji to transcribe it again, and when the ink was dry, he took out the official seal and covered it at the check-off place, folded it and put it in a dense folding box and locked it with a small lock.

Yongji knew very well that it was inconvenient for his brother to go to the post station in the city, so he took the box and asked, "Big brother, is it still six hundred miles urgent like last time?" ”

"Well, it's the same as last time." Yongxiang took out a copy of the military department survey from another box, handed it to him, and said: "Remember to wrap it up when you go out, if people ask, they will say that they will go into the city to buy something." ”

"Big brother, don't worry, I won't let people see the flaws."

"It's good to know."

……

Gu'an is only 100 miles away from the capital, no matter whether it is 600 miles expedited or not, it can be reached in two days at the latest.

Time flies, two days have passed in a blink of an eye, Zhaojiazhuang, Zhai Village, Baidi and Hejiaying and other Zhuang towns are a little far away from the ancestral field where the Yamen of the River Hall is located, and the gentry of those Zhuang towns are worried about delaying the affairs of Master Han, so they led the children of their respective villages to drive the ancestral field one day in advance.

Although the barracks had been prepared for a long time, considering that entering the camp was a major event, Chen Chongtong proposed that the gentry should simply stay in the inn in the village and let the children they bring go to the homes of the people in the village to spend the night.

One hundred and ten people came at once, and the village suddenly became lively.

As the host, Han Xiufeng could only let Chen Chongtong hold a table of banquets in advance, and when he and Yongxiang invited the gentry from afar in the lobby of the river hall, Xianfeng, who had listened to the play all afternoon, took out the key, opened a bunch of secret folding boxes sent by the eunuchs in the performance office, and took out the secret folds of the civil and military officials to review them.

A few years ago, he was awarded the deputy capital of the Yellow Banner Mongolia and the acting envoy of the Yellow Banner and the commander of the Red Banner Protector Army, and a few days ago he was awarded the former guard and the squire of the Ministry of Relocation, although he was not the Minister of Military Aircraft, but he was more holy than Peng Yunzhang and other military ministers, and he stayed aside and served as usual.

He was thinking about whether to let the eunuch remind the emperor to rest early, Xianfeng suddenly threw down his pen and said hatefully: "What an uncompetitive minion, his conscience was eaten by dogs, and he used the excuse of returning to Beijing to recuperate after only two days in office!" ”

Su Shun was startled, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry, the emperor is angry, the emperor, you must take care of the dragon body!" ”

"Take care of yourself, if everyone is like this bastard, I will have to be to death by these unscrupulous minions!"

"Your Majesty, whoever provokes you to be so angry, the slave will bring him to ......"

Without waiting for Su Shun to finish speaking, Xianfeng held Yongxiang's fold and gritted his teeth and said: "It's the Tong Chun who was introduced by the Yamen Baoju of the Eight Banners and led by Alinga a few days ago, and it has only been a few days since he took office, and I heard that Han Si was going to send officers and soldiers to serve in Jinghai in turn, so he pretended to be sick and cowered!" I thought he could be of great use, but I never thought that he was also a greedy person who was afraid of death, and he was angry. ”

Su Shun reacted and hurriedly said: "The emperor is angry, the emperor, in the eyes of a servant, this is not a bad thing." It's better for him to cower in battle at this time than to escape in the future, otherwise he will really become an incompetent and exhausted army. ”

Thinking that Su Shun hated iron and scolded those slave bastards, and then thought that there were countless bastards like Tong Chun, Xianfeng reluctantly put down the excerpt: "Spread the decree, co-organize the garrison Tong Chun, deeply favored by the emperor but did not want to serve the court, dismissed, never used!" ”

The eunuch who was waiting on the side hurriedly said, "Huh! ”

Su Shun bowed and said, "The emperor is benevolent. ”

Xianfeng thought to himself what else could he do if he was not kind, he couldn't really cut off the head of the unlucky minion, if he really punished Tong Chunming, he would have to cut off a lot of heads. For example, Yang Dianbang, the former governor of Caoyun, and Dan Minglun and Liu Liangju, the former two Huaiyan envoys, who handed over Yangzhou to Changmao last year, are unforgivable.

What is even more unbearable is that a few days ago, Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, actually went to the excerpt to ask Yang Dianbang and others to be convicted of their crimes, and let them either go to Qingjiangpu to handle the blockade, or leave the Fairy Temple to handle donations. Angry, he gave an order and scolded him, and immediately sent out.

There are too many bad things, Xianfeng took a deep breath and changed the topic: "I ordered Han Si to rectify the river camp to defend Gyeonggi, but the river camp is different from the towns of Zhili, and on the surface, it must be controlled by Zhili, but it is necessary to listen to the Ministry of War and even the Ministry of Industry." Speaking of which, there are so many bosses, but in fact, the father doesn't love his mother, and he doesn't mention the salary, and when it comes to the salary, those yamen will pass the buck to each other, and Han Si and Yongxiang don't know which yamen to ask for.

Yuting, you are now not only the imperial guard, but also the squire of the Ministry of Works, and even more so my honey envoy, so you can simply take care of the river camp together. I have time to go to Gu'an to see how Han Si and Yongxiang's soldiers are training. If the practice is acceptable, you will have to worry about helping them with a little bit of money and food. ”

Thinking that if it weren't for the long hair, he went all the way to Jinghai, and the emperor would have gone out of Beijing to do that big thing that should have been done a long time ago. And those long hairs who invaded the north to Jinghai were like the end of a strong crossbow, and it was a matter of time before they were surrounded and annihilated, and Su Shun suddenly realized that he had to prepare for the emperor to go out of Beijing. In addition, the children of the Eight Banners in the capital are not angry, and as the commander of the imperial guard and the army who shoulders the responsibility for the safety of the Son of Heaven, he naturally hopes to lead an elite army, so he hurriedly bowed down and said: "The slave obeys the order, or the slave will go early in the morning." ”

"Ming'er will go, Ming'er will go, just to see how Han Si and Yongxiang recruit troops." Thinking that he couldn't let Su Shun's eyes darken, Xianfeng simply handed him the secret fold that he would never show easily.

Su Shun respectfully took the secret fold, leaned under the lamp and looked at it carefully, then raised his head and said, "Emperor Xie, the slave has a plan in his heart." ”

"What's the number?" Xianfeng stared at him and asked.

"Your Majesty, the servants thought that if they didn't hurry up and think of raising some money and food for the river camp, Han Si and Yongxiang would have three heads and six arms, and they could only help the emperor train three or five hundred usable soldiers within half a year."

"It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, and it's hard for me to cook for them."

"The emperor has all the opportunities, how can he do everything."

"I can't take care of it, then you can help me with more thoughts."

"Being able to share the emperor's worries is a blessing for a slave."

"It's not early, you have to go to Gu'an early tomorrow morning, kneel down."

"Huh."

……

Su Shun had never seen Han Xiufeng, but he had heard Han Xiufeng more than once, and as soon as he walked out of the Old Summer Palace, he instructed his family members guarding outside the palace gate: "Xiao Dezi, you know Wu Zhaoling's family, hurry up and ask for the master's name, and say that the master has something important to discuss." ”

Xiao Dezi knows his own master best, not only does he not like to move around with those princes and ministers on weekdays, but he even scolds those princes and bastards behind his back, but he likes to associate with Han officials, especially those like Wu Zhaoling. But thinking that it was so late, I couldn't help asking, "Master, will you invite you now?" ”

"Nonsense, if you can wait until tomorrow, will it still be a thing?"

"The little one understands, the little one goes!"