Although the world is not peaceful, and there are even bandits in some places, the rules for ushering in and sending people in the officialdom have not changed.

Everywhere Han Xiufeng and his entourage went, as soon as they rested at the post station or post shop, the county magistrate led the teachings, the county lord or the lord, and the history to hear the news. Some of them brought wine and food to catch the wind and wash the dust, and some invited them to the county seat or nearby gentry's house to eat wine, and after the friendship of the landlord, they sent Cheng Yi ranging from 100 taels to 200 taels.

When passing through the city, the prefect will also set up a banquet to entertain him, and even hire a troupe to help him entertain during the banquet, and he will also send a Chengyi when he leaves. Even Xu Jiu and Zhang Xiaobao and other Tuan Yong who accompanied him had a reward, five or six hundred yuan more, and no matter how little it was, it would not be less than two hundred yuan.

Early the next morning, the local officials not only came to see him off, but even ordered the officials to escort them all the way, and they did not return until they were escorted to the junction of the two counties.

So repeatedly, it can be called walking all the way, eating all the way, and receiving all the way!

Although the regimental warriors rushed hard, but they also had energy, at first there was nowhere to put reward money to buy a blanket quickly, one was not enough to buy a few, and then there were too many blankets to really carry it, and as soon as they arrived at the place of settlement, they went straight to the money bank or silver building to exchange for silver. When he arrived in the territory of Zhili, the least earned twenty or thirty taels.

Just when they were secretly calculating how much they could earn when they rushed to the capital, Han Xiufeng ordered that he would no longer live in the post shop, not to alarm the local officials, and not to collect any more money from the local officials. The group braves felt very lost, but they thought that they had made a lot of money, but they had no complaints.

What surprised them even more was that when they finally arrived in Gu'an, which was only a hundred miles away from the capital, Han Xiufeng actually left them all in Gu'an on an errand, and let them listen to the north bank of the Yongding River in the future, with the same knowledge of Wang Qianli, and Heying Qianzong Zhang Qingyu Zhang!

Zhang Xiaobao glanced back at the lobby and asked with a bitter face: "Ninth Master, Lord Han can't be listened to when he arrives in the capital, why do you leave all of us here?" ”

"What's so bad about staying here?" Xu Jiu asked rhetorically and said with a smile: "I heard Master Liu say that Mr. Zhang Qian, who was Mr. Zhang just now, was not only a colleague but also a fellow villager, and Mr. Wang was a fellow villager like Mr. Chen Dusi and Mr. Ge Qian. They were all brought by Lord Han from Taizhou back then, and they were all old subordinates of Lord Han, so let's put it this way, it was like coming home. ”

"But ......"

"Don't be, don't be ignorant!" Xu Jiu's face was straight, and he said very seriously: "Lord Han is thinking that you are fellow villagers, and you can also do your best to run errands before reading, which makes you make a fortune along the way." Now let you stay in Heying to serve, not to treat you as a burden, but to let you find an official position, return to your hometown in the future, and glorify your ancestors. ”

"Ninth Master, are you saying that we can be officials if we stay here?" A Tuan Yong asked excitedly.

"What the hell are you doing?" Xu Jiu didn't want the people in Heying to laugh, so he pulled them aside and said in a low voice: "I heard from Master Wang just now that there were originally more than 200 brothers in Heying, and then more than 100 were transferred to Tianjin, and now there are only 30 people left, and those who were transferred away will not come back." There are more than a dozen vacancies for the general manager, foreign commissioners, and additional external commissioners, as long as you stay here and work hard, you will be able to become officials sooner or later. ”

"I can really be an official!"

"Not only can you be an official, but you can also be an official within the economic system. The commanders of the Hunan army you saw in Hubei are really incomparable with the commanders here. ”

"Great, I listen to Lord Han, Lord Han will stay here if we want to stay here!"

"I knew that Lord Han wouldn't let us stay here for no reason!"

……

In the second hall of Tongzhi Yamen on the north bank of the Yongding River, Han Xiufeng had just eaten and drunk enough, and was talking with Wang Qianli and Zhang Qingyu with Liu Shanyang.

More than two months ago, the Yongding River flooded, flooding more than 40 villages in Gu'an and Wanping counties.

If it weren't for Su Shun and his predecessor Shi Zanqing, the Tongzhi on the north bank of the Yongding River, who said at a critical moment that the North Bank Hall had not applied for the river work for two years, he, the Tongzhi on the north bank, was a clever woman who could not cook without rice, and he would have been dismissed and questioned a long time ago, instead of being dismissed and retained.

Looking at Wang Qianli's sighing appearance, Han Xiufeng comforted: "Since I can stay in office, it's not a big deal, it's a big deal to spend some money to donate to reinstate." ”

"Fourth master, it's not that I'm reluctant to give up that bit of silver, but I'm worried that there will be a flood after the donation, and I will be dismissed again!" Wang Qianli smiled bitterly.

"The imperial court does not allocate money, so what do you want to use to dredge the river, and what do you use to repair the river embankment? Whether this errand is good or not, the Ministry of Industry knows, the Yamen of the Taiwan Make-up Authority, the Shuntianfu also knows, and even the emperor knows it. It's easy to take your position, but is it difficult to change someone to do a better job than you? Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "In my opinion, don't go anywhere, just stay in Gu'an." After all, with your and mine's background, it's not necessarily better to change places than to stay here. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

As soon as Wang Qianli's voice fell, Zhang Qingyu couldn't help but say: "Fourth master, after Yongxiang was dismissed, he took the official documents of the Ministry of War and the letters of Lord Wen to transfer so many brothers from us, and now the real name of Heying is dead, even I am full of only thirty-seven people left, tell me, what is this!" ”

"I know this, the brothers who go to Tianjin should not suffer if they are taken care of by the noble lords."

"But what about my river camp?"

"Besides, didn't I bring you twenty brethren and ten spears." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "It's difficult for the imperial court, I really can't afford to raise so many soldiers, the river camp has not been abolished, and you can still be the president of Qian, it's not easy." ”

"Yes, otherwise it wouldn't have been allocated even for the river work." Thinking that there were fewer and fewer people under him, Zhang Qingyu smiled bitterly again: "I didn't expect Chen Hu to be the boss of the capital, and even Ge Erxiao became the president of the eight classics." Fourth master, I knew that it would be like this, I should have gone to Sichuan with you back then! ”

"What is there to envy, and there is nothing to regret, although Chen Hu is now in command of two battalions of soldiers, his life is not better than yours, Guizhou is full of deep mountains and old forests, and those bandits who commit rebellion are not easy to suppress." Han Xiufeng sighed lightly and said, "Besides, you are different from him, you have to stay in Gu'an to take care of your father-in-law." If you go that far, can your father-in-law rest assured? ”

It had been more than three months since he received a letter from Yun Qijun, and Wang Qianli was about to ask Han Xiufeng if there was any news of Yun Qijun and Gu Jinyan, when there was a sudden commotion outside.

As soon as everyone turned around, they saw Wang Qianli's family leading a young man in.

As soon as the young man saw Han Xiufeng, he fell to his knees with a puff and said excitedly: "Fourth master, you are really here with Master Wang!" Mr. Wang said that you will definitely settle down here in Master Wang when you arrive in Zhili, and the little one and Uncle Yu still don't believe it, I didn't expect you to be here! ”

I haven't seen him for more than two years, and Xiao Shandong has become a strong guy.

Han Xiufeng was also very happy to see him, and while motioning for him to get up, he asked with a smile: "Mr. Wang calculated that I would settle down here at Master Wang, so I asked you to come and greet him?" ”

"Well, Mr. Wang said that you should arrive at the end of the day, let the little one come over and wait, I didn't expect you to come back so quickly, and you rushed to Master Wang in front of the little one." Seeing a Confucian student who looked a little familiar sitting next to Han Xiufeng, looking at him smiling and not saying a word, Xiao Shandong was stunned, and then said happily: "Master Liu, the little one is damned, the little one is clumsy, I almost didn't recognize you, the little one will give you a greeting, and the little one will kowtow to you!" ”

"Don't don't, don't be, you're not an outsider, what a kowtow." Liu Shanyang glanced at Han Xiufeng, looked at him with a smile and asked, "Xiao Shandong, I heard that the fourth master said that your kid has married a daughter-in-law, do you have to make up for this wine and candy?" ”

"I'm afraid that Master Liu, you won't appreciate it!" Xiao Shandong grinned.

Thinking that Xiao Shandong had already married a wife and had children, Han Xiufeng couldn't help asking: "Xiao Shandong, are the pillars, big heads, iron locks and little tigers all right?" ”

Xiao Shandong hurriedly said: "Fourth master, they are all very good, Brother Zhuzi has been a thousand presidents, and he has long been out of Nanying on an errand." In the spring of this year, he and Brother Tiesuo handled two big cases together, capturing three daring snitches, two of which even dared to steal from the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Officials. ”

It was the first time Han Xiufeng heard about it, so he couldn't help but smile and asked, "Uncle Yu didn't contribute less, right?" ”

Xiao Shandong said with a smile: "I know that I can't hide it from you, in order to help Brother Zhuzi and Brother Tiesuo handle these two cases, Uncle Yu went out early and returned late every day for the past two months, and he spent more than forty taels just to buy news from those scoundrels on the street." Xiao Whip and Xiao Bao also made a lot of efforts, and greeted all the drivers in Luoma City, and until now those drivers have been helping them keep an eye out for suspicious people. ”

The pillar and the iron lock can solve the case, Liu Shanyang is not surprised at all, because the two of them worked on errands in the yamen when they were young, not to mention the help of the old Jianghu who was more than blessed.

Han Xiufeng was not surprised, and asked with a smile: "Is my sister okay?" ”

"My sister-in-law is very good, my sister-in-law is pregnant again, and I just went to find Cuihua's sister-in-law the day before yesterday." Xiao Shandong thought about it and said: "Master Enjun knows that Brother Xiaohu and you are fellow villagers, and he happens to recognize the battalion officer over there in the Old Summer Palace, so he helped say hello and transferred Xiaohu, Gu Tenon, Yuan Bao and Brother Ruguang to Nanying. Later, Mr. Wang found out, and asked Master Enjun to go to Nanying to help with it, and transferred Brother Xiaohu and them to Dazhiqiao, and took care of the streets near us. ”

Liu Shanyang couldn't help but ask: "What about the big head?" ”

"Brother Cuihua is very good else, but Cuihua's sister-in-law helped him give birth to a daughter, he was a little unhappy, and he didn't dare to say anything to Cuihua's sister-in-law, let alone show Cuihua's sister-in-law's face, so he could only go to Brother Zhuzi to drink whenever he was free. But you know the amount of alcohol he drinks, either he doesn't drink it, and he gets drunk when he drinks, and he is complained by Cuihua's sister-in-law. ”