Han Xiufeng wrote a letter and asked Yu Youfu to hurry to the Tongzhi Yamen on the north bank of the Yongding River.

Wang Qianli was very excited when he saw the letter, and hurriedly asked his family to call Zhang Qingyu, and asked Zhang Qingyu to quickly gather his subordinates, pack his luggage, and take his wife and children to Nanyuan as soon as the official document of the Ministry arrived.

Although Nanyuan is not in Sijiu City, it is next to the capital, and Zhang Qingyu is as happy as Zhang Qingyu to go to Nanyuan on an errand, but after explaining to the people below, he thought about it and rushed to the North Shore Hall, chasing Wang Qianli who was asking his family to pack their luggage; "Master Wang, you are the master of the five grades, the director of Nanyuan is the same as the head of the ministries and institutes, and the master of the same knowledge does not do it, and goes to be the master of the six grades, isn't it a loss?"

Wang Qianli thought that it was a big deal for him to go and return, but he didn't expect him to ask this, and couldn't help laughing: "I am the Tongzhi on the north bank of the Yongding River of Zhengwupin, but the Tongzhi on the north bank has already been dismissed, and now he is only temporarily staying, and when the new Tongzhi arrives, he will have to move the nest to others." What's more, what is the five-grade top belt, and there are many Lang Zhong and the main ones in the third and fourth top belts in Beijing. ”

"Isn't it a loss to say that?"

"The director of Nanyuan is not only a Beijing official, but also an official vacancy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a rule, he is generally promoted by the Eight Banners pen post or filled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Wang Qianli asked rhetorically, and added: "Don't you know how difficult it is for foreign officials to return to Beijing to find a shortage, you must know that the political envoys and envoys of various provinces can only use the four-grade Jingtang or even the five-grade Jingtang to make up for it!" ”

"Foreign officials want to be demoted and reinforced?" Zhang Qingyu asked subconsciously.

"It's not that I want to be demoted and replaced, but there are too many Beijing officials, and there are only a few shortages, and I can't make up for them at all."

"What about me?"

"The fourth master said in the letter, when you get to Nanyuan, you don't have to follow me on an errand, he will ask the monk to let you practice with the Eight Banners Horse Team and the Chahar Horse Team. The monk king is different from other princes and ministers, not only appointing people on the basis of merit, but even thirsty for talent, as long as you can enter the eyes of the monk king, the monk king will naturally carry you. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Qianli's face turned straight: "The reason why the fourth master promoted me to be the head of Nanyuan is not only for my sake, but also for your sake!" After all, I don't know how many days I can do as a North Shore Tongzhi, if I lose my official position, the new Tongzhi will definitely not treat you like this with me, not to mention that I can't get food and salary, I'm afraid I won't even be able to plant those beaches. ”

"But when we go to Nanyuan, we have no food!"

"That's why the fourth master promoted me to be the head of Nanyuan, and then asked the emperor to let you follow me on an errand in Nanyuan now, as long as you are transferred, you can always have something to eat. As long as you are angry, as long as you make the monk king feel that you are of great use, the next thing will be easy to do. When the time comes, you will follow the monk king to eat fragrant and drink spicy food, and I can also do this main thing wholeheartedly. ”

The biggest official Zhang Qingyu has ever seen is Han Xiufeng, hearing Wang Qianli say this, he couldn't help but murmur: "Be on an errand with the prince, listen to the ...... sent by the prince."

"So it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"Understood, I'm going to explain it to those stinky boys."

"Let's go and explain it to them!"

……

At the same time, Han Xiufeng was in the Monk King's Mansion to report to Monk Greenqin that Zhang Qingyu and other Heying soldiers were about to come to Nanyuan with Wang Qianli on an errand.

"Because they were successively transferred, including Du Si, Qian Zong, General Manager, and Foreign Commissariat, there were only 37 people left in the river camp. Counting the 20 regiments that accompanied Xiufeng when he returned to Beijing from Hubei, there are now a total of 57 people in the entire river camp. The original thirty-seven people, some of whom had intercepted the long hair in Yangzhou, and some had gone to Jinghai to serve before; The 20 regiments who came from Hubei with Xiufeng not only assisted in suppressing the bandits in Guizhou, but also assisted in the suppression of Changmao under the city of Wuchang. ”

"Brother, are you planning to entrust them to this king?" Monk Lingqin asked with a smile.

"The prince misunderstood, they have to serve the court if they eat the food of the court, and they are not private soldiers raised by Xiufeng, so they really can't be trusted. And the matter of transferring them to Nanyuan, Xiufeng invited the emperor, and the emperor also agreed. ”

"As the saying goes, the emperor doesn't send hungry soldiers, and fifty or so people are nothing, but they are all green battalions!"

"The prince doesn't know that although they are the green battalion, their weapons are even better than the Beijing battalion. In the past few years, the branches of Houyitang have successively bought dozens of tap fire guns, which are easy to rust when they are left in the warehouse, so they are simply allocated to Heying, and now they are almost one shot. ”

With more than 50 foreign guns, it is completely possible to form a foreign gun team!

Monk Greenqin immediately became interested, put down the teacup and said: "Since this is approved by the emperor, then when they arrive in Nanyuan, let them practice with the horse team first." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

"My brother is also running an errand for the emperor, so there is no need to be polite."

……

Leave the monk's palace and take a horse-drawn carriage straight to the Chongqing Hall.

The more Xu Jiu thought about it, the more unsteady he became, and he couldn't help asking: "Fourth master, aren't you worried that the monk king only needs a gun and no people?" ”

Han Xiufeng lifted the curtain, looked at him with a smile and said: "The monk king is righteous, even if he doesn't want a gun or a person, he will help Zhang Qingyu and them find an errand and find a real shortage." ”

"But then we won't be out of guns."

"What do you want a gun for? Is Zhang Qingyu's future or guns important? Besides, the gun is gone, as long as we have silver, we can still buy it. Use fifty guns to change Zhang Qingyu and their future, this deal is not a loss. ”

"Fourth master, being able to follow you on an errand is really a blessing that they have cultivated for eight lifetimes." Feng Xiaowhip couldn't help but interject.

"They have fought with me and killed thieves, so they naturally have to take care of them when they have the opportunity." Han Xiufeng smiled, and then said: "Speaking of taking care of me, I remembered something, Xiao Whip, in the blink of an eye, you have been working in the bookstore for three years, although you have also mixed up with an official body, but in Beijing, you can only catch up with the car and run errands, obviously you can't wear official uniforms, and you can't even let your family know, do you want to change your errand and be a serious official." ”

"I want to, I dream of it, but the little one can only drive a car, and he can only play with a whip."

"Whip is also a martial art if you play it well, since you want to be an official, then come with me to Tianjin in a few days."

"Really?" Feng Xiaowhip felt like he was in a dream, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but ask: "Fourth Master, you're not joking, you're not making fun of the little one, right?" ”

"Whoever is joking with you, I will help you when I go back."

"Tell Master Eun Joon?"

"Master Enjun won't be able to stay in our 'Houyi Hall' for a few days, and he will be released soon, and the emperor will let him go back to Xinjiang or Tibet to be the leading minister. He can't take office alone, and it is impossible to use those who don't know the roots and don't know the bottom after he arrives, if you are not too far away, if you want to glorify your ancestors, you will follow Master Enjun in the future. ”

"Go so far!"

"The opportunity is rare, if you don't want to, I'll let Xiao Shandong go with Master Enjun."

Feng Xiaowhip dreamed of being a decent official, how could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and hurriedly said: "The little one is willing, the little one just said that!" ”

Talking and laughing, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, I arrived at the door of the hall.

Today is a happy event, the Hanlin Academy editor Ji Yunfei was admitted to the imperial history, although it is only a registered supplement, if you want to really do the imperial history, you have to wait for a vacancy, and you will have to wait for three or five years at the earliest. But it's not easy to get in, at least there's hope.

The Ao brothers are here, Jiang Haoxuan and Wang Zhirong are here, Wu Fuxiang is here, Wen Xiang and Rong Lu are here, and even Zhuo Lu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, has made a special trip to congratulate!

The flower hall on their right was full of laughter and poetry.

Han Xiufeng was only a shallow learner, so he was embarrassed to move forward, so he said hello and came to the backyard with Rong Lu, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and sat in the pavilion to talk about the past.

"I was going to send an invitation to my brother in a few days, but I heard Brother Bochuan say that my brother is going to Tianjin on an errand next month, and I won't send this invitation if it's not a coincidence."

"Joyful event?"

Rong Lu said with a smile: "My sister will come out of the pavilion on the sixth day of the first month of next month. ”

"This is a great event, who is my uncle?"

"Chongqi."

The names of the Manchurians are very arbitrary, so random that there are many duplicate names, such as Chonglun, there are several.

The name Chongqi Han Xiufeng was a little familiar, and he was thinking hard about where he had heard it, Rong Lu smiled proudly: "Chongqi of the Arut clan, he Ama is the former university scholar Sai Shang'a." ”

"Hey, this family affair is well-knotted, it's really a good match!"

"Let the old man laugh, Chongqi Ta Ama was martyred, the scholar was dismissed a long time ago, and now he is atonement for his sins in Chahar. If it weren't for Chongqi's good character, good appearance, and hard work, my mother wouldn't have agreed to this family business. ”

"Zhonghua, you can't say that. If you want to say that you have been dismissed, there are many civil and military ministers who have been dismissed, and maybe they will be used by the emperor one day. What's more, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the person Ama has been the first assistant for so many years anyway, and the protégé is all over the world, anyway, I think it's good to be so close. ”

"Thank you."

"There's nothing to thank you for, I'm telling you the truth." Han Xiufeng smiled and continued: "It's just that if it's not a coincidence this time, I will definitely not be able to go, but the ceremony will definitely come." ”

"You and I don't have any friendship, you don't need to be so polite."

"It should be, it should be." Han Xiufeng patted him on the arm, thought about it and asked, "Zhonghua, I remember that you have two younger sisters, who will be out of the cabinet on the sixth day of the first month of next month?" ”

"It will be the eldest sister who will come out of the cabinet next month, and the second sister's family affairs have already been decided. Thinking about it, I am ashamed, they all say that the eldest brother is like a father, and I really didn't do anything as an elder brother, it was all my mother's Zhang Luo. ”

"Who is the second aunt?" Han Xiufeng asked curiously.

"Kungang, I don't know if my brother has heard of it."

Han Xiufeng was taken aback, and couldn't help but look at him with a smile and said: "I've heard that Brother Bochuan has said more than once that the descendants of Prince Yu Duoduo are like a fake clan, and they are good at reading and handwriting, and in Brother Bochuan's words, they are rare talents in the clan." Zhonghua, Zhonghua, your mother's vision is so good, the two sisters who helped you pick are all famous families, and they are all good husbands with good talents! ”

"So I'm ashamed, if it weren't for my mother's worries, I don't know how long my sister's lifelong event would have to be delayed." Rong Lu was afraid that Han Xiufeng would think that he was climbing the heights, so he didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he suddenly changed his words: "By the way, I heard Brother Bochuan just now say that you promoted Wang Qianli to be the head of Nanyuan?" ”

"This is indeed the case, and the emperor has given permission."

"Brother Zhixing, you are a celebrity in front of the emperor, when will you help me say a few kind words and help me find an errand."

"Is it bad to be an errand boy in the Ministry of Engineering?"

"It's not that it's bad, but it's not interesting to stay, and there is nothing to do when you are the main thing, and you still have nothing to do when you are a foreigner."

The imperial court is busy suppressing thieves and quelling chaos, and is busy preventing Xiyi, how can there be silver to rule the river.

Thinking that the Ministry of Industry really has nothing to do now, and then thinking that after Enjun left, the bookstore would lack a "three shopkeepers", Han Xiufeng muttered: "Zhonghua, I can help you find an errand, it's just ...... It's just that this errand is very hard, and if you really get it, you don't want to be as idle as you are now. ”

"What errand?" Rong Lu asked eagerly.

"Be a guard and go to the palace to be on duty."

"Can you see the emperor?"

"Yes."

Thinking that he could see the emperor at least the guards of the Qianqing Gate, Rong Lu stood up excitedly: "As long as I can see the emperor, I am not afraid of hardship!" ”

"Don't worry, sit down first." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "But I can't do this alone, and it's not appropriate for me to come forward to defend it, so I'll discuss it with Brother Bochuan after eating and drinking later, and see if I can think of a way to get the best of both worlds." ”

"Okay, I listen to the two elder brothers, and I can only rely on the two elder brothers for this matter."

"It's too much to say this." Seeing Jiang Haoxuan coming over, Han Xiufeng got up and said with a smile: "Let's go, it looks like it's going to be a banquet, and I have a few glasses of respect for Brother Bowen today." ”

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and Rong Lu couldn't help but smile and said: "Yes, yes, yes, I have to toast a few more glasses." ”