There is a reason why Han Xiufeng asked Yu Youfu to go to the capital, because although he is not a Beijing official on the south bank of the Yongding River, he can't be ignorant of what happened in the court.

Huang Zhongyin and Ji Yunfei and other fellow villagers can help inquire about the news in the court, but after hearing about it, someone has to send the news to Gu'an, and Xiao Shandong is not only young but also an outsider, so it is appropriate to let Yu Youfu, who is both reliable and has spent time in the capital, go.

Everything was arranged, just when the younger sister coaxed the little guy to the front yard to play, and let Han Xiufeng and Qin'er reunite in the inner house, Su Shun, who had just finished reviewing the river camp, also rushed to the capital, and went straight to the Old Summer Palace to hand over the sign to ask to see him without even returning home.

Xianfeng was listening to the play, and as soon as he heard the report of the eunuch in the performance office, he summoned Su Shun to see him.

Su Shun was in a hurry along the way, and he didn't have time to write excerpts, and he couldn't write excerpts on horseback, so he bowed down to report what he had seen and heard about this trip.

"Select a strong man, take his simplicity and go to his slippery, take his reality and prevent his impersonation, take his mutual protection and strictly escape from ......"

"So it's all good people, all honest and reliable people?"

"Exactly," Su Shun peeked at the famous characters on the stage, and continued: "The slaves who watched those gentry send the young Zhuang into the camp are all carefully selected young and strong from the villages of Wanping, Gu'an, and Yongqing. Han Si is also a soldier who can train, and with a little training from the perspective of a slave, he can become an army. ”

"How can you train soldiers?" Xianfeng asked curiously while watching the play.

"Your Majesty, you can't believe what the slave said, in order to let the newly recruited soldiers be able to go into battle in a month, Han Si actually ordered Yongxiang and others to beat gongs and drums, set off guns and cannons outside the camp last night when the soldiers were snoring, shouting and shouting to kill, and even lit dozens of bonfires in the fields around the barracks, which scared those soldiers to ......run around the barracks."

Xianfeng asked Han Si about his good intentions, and couldn't help but look back and smile: "It's a loss in Gu'an, if you leave the capital, God knows how much chaos it will make." ”

"Yes, the emperor, even in Gu'an, the minions are pinching their sweat, after all, the camp is not a child's play, after thinking about it, the minions simply ordered Wu Tingdong and Shi Zanqing to gather more than 300 officials and young men overnight, and laid a net outside the village, and ran out more than a dozen of them."

"This Han Si was too careless in doing things, but fortunately, he didn't make a mess."

"Your Majesty, Han Si can't help it, he has a total of only a few people, and the time is so tight, he can only make this decision at an extraordinary time. The words he said and the things he did made the slave feel distressed when he thought about it, so he didn't want to stay with him for a long time, and he would return at dawn today. ”

"What did he say?" Xianfeng asked subconsciously.

"Your Majesty, he said that the reason for this decision was that he didn't want the newly recruited more than 400 soldiers to rush into battle and lose their lives in vain; The second is to help the imperial court save some money and bury silver, after all, if you really rush into battle, there will be no fewer casualties, and this burned and buried silver will naturally not be less. ”

Su Shun peeked at it, saw that the emperor was thoughtful, and continued: "The slave also knows a little about military affairs, but I have never seen a battalion officer who is as poor as Han Si, and they all say, 'We have a lot of cars and horses, and the cloth is coarse', but Han Si, as the Zhengwupin Tongzhi who commanded the river camp, not only has neither a car nor a horse, but also has no decent outfit, and the old cotton jacket on his body has been patched several times. ”

Xianfeng knew that Han Si was thrifty, but he never expected Han Si to be so poor, so he asked suspiciously: "Yuting, shouldn't he be wearing it for you?" ”

"The servant sent someone to ask Yongxiang and Yang Debiao privately, and Yongxiang and Yang Debiao said that he wears like this on weekdays, and he eats three meals a day simply," Su Shun thought for a while, and then said: "And the slave also inquired with his fellow villagers in the capital, although he has been an official for several years, he has not earned much money, and he has not even received a few taels of official salary." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Your Majesty, as far as the slave knows, he investigated the smugglers in the Hai'an patrol office, seized a batch of illicit salt, which can be sold as a regular merit salt, that time he risked his life to earn more than 5,000 taels, but the 5,000 taels of silver were not hot, and the long hair occupied Jiangning and divided the troops to invade Yangzhou, when the Yangzhou Qing army was the chief arrest of the acting Taizhou affairs Xu Ying, in order to raise money and forced him to donate a top belt from the six products, and Chen asked Yang Dianbang, who had not abandoned the city to flee for his life, to let him act as Taizhou Prefecture."

Xianfeng thought about Han Si's resume, and couldn't help laughing: "I said that he has only been acting for a few days as a nine-rank inspection, how can he act from Liupinzhou, it turns out that he was driven to the shelves!" ”

"He's really been put on the shelves!" Su Shun smiled, and continued: "He was later promoted by Guo Peilin and acted as the deputy of the two Huai Transport, but the two Huai salt affairs have been abolished, and although he is the deputy of the transport, he is also an errand for military training, and he has no oil and water. Later, he was ordered to go to Shanghai to run grain, but as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he encountered a rebellion by the party, and he was worried that the money for grain would fall into the hands of the rebellious party, so he immediately ordered someone to send the money back to the Yamen of the Yunsi Division. ”

Xianfeng reacted and couldn't help sighing: "Later, the acting governor of Songjiang Prefecture Haiphong and the superintendent of the Jiang Customs, although the supervision of the Jiang Customs is a fat shortage, but the customs affairs are controlled by foreigners because of the chaos of the party. ”

"Your Majesty." Su Shun glanced up at the stage and said with a wry smile: "Whether it is acting for inspection or acting for the two Huaiyun deputies, together with the later acting Songjiang Prefecture Haiphong Tongzhi and Jiang Customs supervision, each time he can't act for a few days, and the longest is only acting for more than half a year, so this official and incorruptible silver is naturally impossible to talk about, it can be seen that his official luck is good, but his financial luck is not good!" ”

"Really." Xianfeng nodded slightly.

So he not only was thrifty himself, but also let his subordinates be thrifty, and when the slaves returned, he and Yongxiang were gathering the whole battalion of soldiers to have a drill, and he ordered those soldiers to take off all the gowns they had just been given and put on the old clothes they wore when they entered the camp, worried that the soldiers would wear out the gowns during the drill. In short, he is really twisting a copper plate in half now. ”

"It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, it's hard for him!" Xianfeng put down the teacup, got up and said, "You just said that there is still a gap of 30,000 taels of money and food in Heying, so hurry up and help him raise enough ideas." ”

"The minion is planning to ask for a decree to be allocated from the Zhili Lijin."

"That's right," Xianfeng thought for a moment, and then said, "As for the sentry horsemen, the Chahar horse team has already been allocated to Seng Lingqin, and it is not appropriate to transfer them from Jinghai. The decree was passed on, and the military department transferred a sentry horse soldier from Heilongjiang into the river camp. ”

"Huh!" A eunuch hurriedly bowed down to receive the order.

Thinking that what he just said was all official business, Xianfeng muttered again: "Yuting, thrift is a good thing, but it is not good to be too frugal, and it is not good to eat and wear too shabby, after all, he Han Si is my courtier, and he is the official of the court of the fifth grade." When it comes to cotton clothes, there are a few things that I don't dare to wear when I give him a prize. Didn't you look distressed, you can help me do this, find a few things that he can wear and send them. ”

"Hey, the minion will do it when he goes back."

Yongxiang reported that his wife and children seemed to be going to Gu'an to reunite with him, and I went back to tell the queen that when his wife and children arrived, let the queen look at the reward for some clothes that could be used. He is already so poor that I can't bear to let his wife and children eat bran with him. ”

"The emperor is so gracious, Han Si knows that he must be grateful."

"I'm not a mean and unkind king, not just Han Si, as long as it's a solid errand, I won't hesitate to reward you!"