Xiao Shandong did not bring a letter to greet him, but only a message.

Han Xiufeng knew that Wen Xiang and Wang Naizeng were in a hurry, and he was embarrassed to stay in Gu'an for a long time, and met more than 30 old brothers in Xiahe Camp, and told Zhang Xiaobao and other members of the Eastern Sichuan Regiment who had just joined the river camp, so he said goodbye to Wang Qianli and Zhang Qingyu, and took Liu Shanyang and Xu Jiu to rush to a Zhuangzi about forty miles away from the capital and located in Wanping with Xiaoshandong.

It was late at night, and when he came in, he only vaguely saw twenty or thirty families in Zhuangkou, until he walked into this mansion, which was estimated to have five or six entrances inside and outside, Han Xiufeng found that this house had just been repaired, the stone slabs on the ground were new, and several doors and windows were also newly replaced.

Xiao Shandong is obviously not the first time to come, he shouted to hurry up when he knocked on the door just now, and now he is busy asking his subordinates to hurry up and clean up the room. Wang Naizeng, who had rested, hurriedly put on his clothes and went out to greet him, reunited after a long absence, and greeted him for a while before sitting down and talking about business.

"This Zhuangzi and this house belong to Qingxian's family, and I don't know how big Zhuangzi is, but I know that the title deed says 428 acres. Zhuang Tou is a distant relative of Qingxian, and he heard that Zhuang Tou has a total of more than 30 tenants and employs more than 20 long-term workers. His family didn't come much before the disaster, and even less after the disaster, so the house was in disrepair, and I couldn't live there the first time I came. ”

Wang Naizeng beckoned Han Xiufeng to eat food, and explained: "After you left, there were more and more things, and you really couldn't put them in the bookstore, and you didn't feel at ease when you put them in other places, so Qingxian proposed to send all those things here." Later, thinking that there would be no place to stay outside the city, he repaired the house, and raised a dozen horses and nine mules here, and prepared six carts. ”

Han Xiufeng didn't expect them to get bigger and bigger in the past two years, and they quietly built a "nest" outside the city, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are the people in Zhuangzi reliable?" ”

"Reliable, those tenants and long-term workers are either descendants of Qingxian's family, or they are Zhuang families who know the roots." Wang Naizeng thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Lord Wen is worried that there are always strangers coming in and out, which will make the nearby people and even Wanping Zhixian suspicious, not only helped Zhuang Tou donate a seven-grade top belt, but also asked Zhuang Tou to come forward to hold a small group exercise, and lead the young and strong people in the village every three or five times. ”

"Is it appropriate to hold a group exercise here?" Han Xiufeng put down his chopsticks and asked.

"What's inappropriate, it's different now than before, it's being done everywhere."

"I mean, after all, this is the Zhuangzi of the Qingxian family, if he is stabbed to the emperor by someone with ill intentions, what will the emperor think?"

Wang Naizeng reacted: "We also thought about this, but later I saw that the emperor gave a light sentence to several old ministers who were convicted and imprisoned, so I thought there should be nothing wrong." ”

"Which old ministers?"

"The emperor first relieved the military of the military and the former governor of Zhili, the sin of the Nar meridian, handed it over to the governor of Zhili, Gui Liang, and sent it to the commission, and then rewarded the six-grade top belt of the Nar meridian. A few days ago, even Saishan Ah was released, and he was ordered to go to Chahar to train Mongolian soldiers. ”

Han Xiufeng had never seen either Saishan'a nor the Nar Sutra, but he had not seen the military book compiled by the Nar Sutra during his tenure as the governor of Zhili, and even trained the soldiers for several years with the "Diagram of Military Techniques" compiled by the Nar Sutra. Thinking that the reason for the conviction of the Qiying family is different from that of Saishana and Ner, once the foreigner has a problem, the emperor will naturally think of Qiying, and said solemnly: "I think it's better to be cautious in this matter, but you can't affect Qingxian because of this matter." ”

How could Wang Naizeng not know what Han Xiufeng was worried about, and said in a deep voice: "My lord is right, if you don't go back, you will let Ji Lu come forward to buy this Zhuangzi, as long as you buy it, it will have nothing to do with the Qingxian family." ”

"Bought it, Brother Yunqing, this is a Zhuangzi, not a mansion, is there so much money in the hall? Even if there is, it is to use the money of the Qingxian family to buy the Zhuangzi of the Qingxian family, what is the difference between forcibly taking and grabbing? ”

"My lord doesn't know, the silver on the public account has already been spent, and now it is the silver that Ling Mei remitted from Shanghai, a full 50,000 taels, which is enough for a while."

"The silver remitted by Yu'er is still 50,000 taels per remittance!" Han Xiufeng was taken aback.

Wang Naizeng smiled and explained: "To be exact, it is Shanghai's Lijin, Lord Han, Zhou Xingyuan, you must remember that after Xiang Shuai was martyred, his errand of setting up cards was targeted by others......

Figuring out the ins and outs, Han Xiufeng finally breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but smile when he thought about it: "Accepting and shielding the Qin prisoners, and privately swallowing the gold, one swallow is 50,000 taels, this girl is too bold!" ”

"This is called that if there is a brother, there must be a sister, or that the blue is better than the blue! Thanks to her, otherwise we would all have to drink the northwest wind. ”

"What does it mean that his brother must have his sister, and it is as if I have shielded the Qin criminals and embezzled the gold privately."

"You didn't shield the Qin criminals, but you just sent a letter to 'Selling Chicken Shuang' through the wind."

"I had to do it as a last resort!"

"Sister Ling, it's all a last resort."

"What is the last resort, Yu'er has become like this, you Wang Yunqing has made a lot of contributions!" Han Xiufeng glared at him, got up and said, "Don't eat, first read the official documents you brought, and then talk about it." ”

"Okay, I'll let them in."

……

Xiao Shandong and a subordinate carried in a whole large box of official documents, Han Xiufeng opened the box, took it out and read it one after another.

Wang Naizeng didn't want to disturb him, so he simply let Xiao Shandong stay here to serve, and then went to the front hall to talk to Liu Shanyang.

Han Xiufeng saw ten lines at a glance, and he saw them all quickly, and he read them all in less than half an hour, and asked Xiao Shandong to invite Wang Naizeng over.

Wang Naizeng thought that Han Xiufeng was going to discuss with him what the "Houyi Hall" should do in the future, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw Han Xiufeng with a gloomy face and asked, "Brother Yunqing, what did you do as a military commander?" ”

"Lord Han, where did you start talking about this?"

"How to start, I think the emperor doesn't want to see 'Houyitang', and he doesn't want to see Bochuan again, you Wang Yunqing is indispensable!"

"I ...... I didn't do anything! Wang Naizeng said with a bitter face.

The more Han Xiufeng thought about it, the more depressed he became, and pointed to the official document on the table and said: "The reason why I asked you to assist Brother Bochuan back then was not because Bochuan didn't know how to probe, sort out and verify the situation, but because Brother Bochuan didn't know how to figure out the holy will and didn't understand the bends and bends in the officialdom. It's good that after you became the head of the Armed Forces Academy, you devoted yourself to helping take care of the affairs of the hall, but you forgot that there are many things that are more important than inquiring about the situation! ”

Wang Naizeng was really a fan of the authorities, and asked with a sad face: "What is more important, please make it clear." ”

"Even if you didn't draw up all of these excerpts, you should have read them all, what is written! It's either Ye Mingchen talking nonsense with his eyes open, or Yingfo and the others are planning to do something. I only know that the situation is urgent, but there is no perfect solution, and there is not even a solution to the urgent need! ”

Han Xiufeng took a deep breath and continued, "I have done a lot of things, but I have done that thing again?" Dismantling the steam engine that was hard to do, let alone imitation, after dismantling it, it couldn't even be installed, so it could only be dismantled and sent here, a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, even if it was sent, what was the use, and the same was true for imitating new foreign guns. Several rooms have been translating for several years, and until now, they are still translating foreigners' newspapers and books on local customs. None of the really useful astronomy, geography and arithmetic have been translated.

On the contrary, Ye Mingchen, who was scolded by you every day, not only defeated the more than 200,000 'Hong soldiers' besieging Guangzhou City, cleared so many long-haired bandits, and kept Liangguang, but also had the money and food needed to help the Liangjiang and Huguang to quell the chaos. If I were the emperor, I would be promoted to the official of Ye Mingchen, I would not be treated to see the 'Houyi Hall', and I would not be willing to summon Bochuan again! ”

Wang Naizeng reacted suddenly, thought about it and said helplessly: "Lord Han, Naizeng has disappointed you, but Naizeng really racked his brains and couldn't come up with a perfect solution. ”

"Even if you can't think of it, you can't talk to death when you go up!"

Han Xiufeng pointed to the official document on the table, hated iron and said: "Whether it is war or peace, there must be an idea, even if it is ambiguous." It's good for you to know that the emperor Xiyi is going to make trouble, and Xiyi is going to provoke, but you don't know how to deal with it. only knows that things are very tricky and troublesome, but does not know how to solve the trouble, the emperor will naturally not be happy. ”

"......" Wang Naizeng was speechless, because as Han Xiufeng said, they have always reported their worries to the emperor in the past two years, but they never thought of a way to help the emperor share his worries.

"Speaking of which, I also blame me, blame me for not explaining it to you clearly at that time." Han Xiufeng sighed, got up and said, "Fortunately, the emperor just doesn't want to see Bochuan again, and he is not angry with Bochuan, and there is still room for maneuver in the matter." ”

"Dare to ask my lord, how do you maneuver?"

"If I guessed correctly, the emperor will let me continue to be the treasurer of 'Houyitang'. As for Bochuan, there should be another appointment. Before I go back to the bookstore, you have to do two things quickly, one is to ask Jilu to come forward and quickly take down this Zhuangzi, and give as much as you want, and you can't let Qingxian suffer any more; Second, they hurriedly ordered Shanghai, Xiangshan, Xin'an, and other semicolons to think of ways to see if they could buy foreign guns from the United States. ”

"What do you do when you buy foreign guns?"

"Prepare for war! England is fighting with us, and France also wants to use the Cillin lesson plan to make trouble, so we can't be unprepared. ”

"Lord Han, foreign merchants in the United States may not sell, even if they are willing to sell, our little silver is enough to buy a few foreign cannons?"

"It's not that we buy it ourselves, but to help Chonghou buy it!" Han Xiufeng thought for a while, then clenched his fists and said, "As long as you can buy it, even if Chonghou can't take out so much silver, Gui Liang, the governor of Zhili, will also think of raising money." In short, Guangdong is too far away, and we can't reach it, but Gyeonggi must not have anything to do, let alone lose, and we have to do everything we can to ensure Gyeonggi. ”

Thinking that what the emperor was most worried about was that foreigners would commit Zhili in the north, Wang Naizeng hurriedly said: "Understand, Naizeng will go back early tomorrow morning to do it." ”