Early the next morning, he sent the second and third brothers to send their nephews such as Stone and Shitu, who had not been in the city for a long time, back to their hometown. It's not that they are in the way in the city, but the decision made by Han Da after he officially took charge.

In the words of Han Da, since you want to "cultivate and read the heirloom", how can you pass it on if you just read and don't cultivate the family? I feel that I can't let the babies live too comfortably, and only by suffering a little bit can the babies know that they should study hard. And there are more and more babies in the family, and it is a big expense to study in the city where all the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar have to be bought, so it is better to let the babies go back to the private school in the village to continue studying.

Han Xiufeng felt that the gentleman who taught in the private school in the village was afraid that it would be difficult to help train the children of the Han family, and at the same time, he also thought that the county town was not a good place to study, so he simply proposed to invite a gentleman to go back to run a family school and set the family school in the Han family ancestral hall.

Han Da, who wanted to save some money, thought about it, and found that it didn't seem to save much to run a family school, but Han Xiufeng could only nod when he said so.

Unexpectedly, after the news came out, the Xu, Wang, and Chen families quietly sent away the gentleman who had been hired, planning to let all the children of the three families go to the Han family's home school to study in the future, and even Pan Er planned to send all the babies of the Pan family over.

Considering that there are too many babies to sit in the ancestral hall, Han Xiufeng specially went up the mountain to donate twenty taels of sesame oil money to Ciyun Temple before entering the city, borrowed the bamboo forest courtyard of Ciyun Temple, and asked Fei Erye to help his eldest brother Han Xiushan prepare for the "Ciyun Academy".

Unexpectedly, just after sending off the two brothers and a few nephews, Huguang guest Changjiang Zonghai came again and brought two uninvited guests.

Han Xiufeng could only let Guan Bantou, Wang Zaishan and other uncles who heard the news drink tea in the front hall first, and accompanied the two uninvited guests brought by Jiang Zonghai to the study to chat for a while.

Seeing off the three of them, Guan Bantou couldn't help but ask: "Four babies, who are the two people who came with Jiang Zonghai, why have I never seen them." ”

"It's a big deal," Han Xiufeng explained with a smile while beckoning everyone to sit: "Uncle Guan, Uncle Wang, although you haven't seen it, you must have heard of it." ”

"We've heard about it."

"And it's thunderous!"

"Who is it?" Wang Zaishan asked curiously.

"Rongchang has an Ao family of 'one door and three jinshi', Qijiang is a famous family, and those two just now are Wu Junxiang and Wu Kuixiang brothers of the Qijiang Wu family! When they came to visit, I could only treat them with courtesy. They went to the Provincial Affairs Department, and Lord Cao was treated politely. ”

Wang Zaishan was taken aback, and couldn't help muttering: "Their family is not just 'one family and three jinshi', but 'brother three jinshi'!" ”

Han Xiufeng confirmed with a smile: "Well, it's the 'Brother Sanjinshi', and it's the eldest and the third who are here today." ”

"Where's the second child?" Guan Bantou asked subconsciously.

"The second Wu Fuxiang is amazing, Daoguang fifteen years of Jinshi, after the title of the gold list, the director of the Ministry of Engineering, and then promoted to Langzhong. Xianfeng moved to Shaanxi Province for three years to supervise the imperial history, inspected Dongcheng, and then was promoted to the official department. Not only did he not come today, but he didn't even return to his hometown as usual, when his father died, he was 'moved to filial piety and loyalty', and he has been in Beijing to 'guard the system'. ”

Zhou Songshan, the warroom of the Provincial Administration, said in a deep voice: "So those two old men Wu just now returned to their hometown because of Ding Wei?" ”

"Like me, they are all worried about returning to their hometowns. The eldest Wu Junxiang is the sixteenth Jinshi of Daoguang, who has been a member of the household department and a member of the household department; The third Wu Kuixiang is a Jinshi in the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang, and after the title of the gold list, he was distributed to Shanxi, and acted as the magistrate of Yanggao, Yuanqu and other counties. In the second year of Xianfeng, because the old man died of illness, the two brothers returned to their hometowns, and it was calculated that they would be able to return to Beijing in a few months, but they didn't seem to plan to be officials anymore. ”

"They don't seem to have much to do with you."

"It's true that there is no friendship," Han Xiufeng took a sip of tea and said helplessly: "When Wu Junxiang and Wu Fuxiang were officials in Beijing, not only did they never go to the Chongqing Guild Hall, but they didn't even go to the Sichuan Guild Hall very much, they didn't regard themselves as Chongqing people, and naturally they wouldn't treat me Han Xiufeng as a fellow villager. ”

"Aren't the people of Qijiang from Chongqing, don't they forget their roots!"

As soon as Guan Bantou's voice fell, Wang Zaishan turned around and said, "Lao Guan, you don't look at them and follow them." ”

Guan Bantou suddenly reacted: "Four babies, so they are from Huguang?" ”

"It's not Huguang people, but Cantonese people, to be exact, their ancestral home is Guangdong." Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "Their father is also a scholar, Xiucai, who took the exam in his hometown in Guangdong, and later moved to Qijiang, it is said that his father was invited by several county masters to help read the papers before his death. Anyway, they are Hakka, and they usually don't walk around with the gentry of Qijiang, so naturally they won't have any friendship with me. ”

"Then what are they coming to you for?"

"They don't treat themselves as Qijiang people, they can have a family business and a wife and children are all in Qijiang, and Qijiang is next to Tongzi, Yang Yixi, Shu tailor and other bandits have not only captured Tongzi County, but even captured Loushan Pass, how many of you say they are not afraid, are they not worried?"

"I heard that you were ordered to go back to your hometown to help organize a group exercise, so I came to ask you to help go to Qijiang to handle the blockade?"

"Almost, if you want to talk about group training, they also do it at home, but there are not many Hakka people after all, if the bandits kill them, the little group courage under them must be unable to resist, so come and ask me for help."

"I don't usually burn incense, I am cramming for a while, do you plan to help with this favor?" Guan Bantou asked.

Han Xiufeng put down the teacup and said: "They want to invite me to go around Qijiang, and they want to ask me to help gather the local gentry in Qijiang and discuss the anti-blockage plan with the merchants of the eight provinces in Qijiang." ”

Thinking that the Chongqing-Guizhou official road is the main road leading to Guizhou in eastern Sichuan, Guizhou has many mountains and few places, and there is a lack of commercial goods, so it can only transport salt, cloth and other commercial goods needed for life from Ba County and other places, and the tea merchants of the eight provinces who do business in Ba County and other places also have to import tea from Guizhou, Wang Zaishan couldn't help but smile and said: "Zhixing, as long as you are willing to go, the local gentry in Qijiang will definitely be willing to give people, and their foreign merchants will also be willing to pay!" ”

"It's not a matter of whether I can recruit people or raise money and food, but it's not appropriate for me to come forward and talk about these things."

"What's inappropriate?"

"Because several ministers in the court were worried about both bandits and gentry from all over the country, especially Han officials like Zeng Guofan, who 'responded to every call', it was better for the yamen to gather the local gentry and businessmen from the eight provinces to discuss the big plan to prevent the blockade." Han Xiufeng paused, and then smiled bitterly: "Uncle Guan, Uncle Wang, this is what I told you, and it must not be spread outside." ”

"Don't worry, are we the kind of people who move stones and shoot ourselves on our feet!"

"That's right," Han Xiufeng smiled, and continued, "It's because it's inappropriate for me to come forward, so I sent them to the Provincial Bureau." ”

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PS: Migraine has scurred again, it hurts so badly, I really can't write, please take a break from work, please forgive me.