No matter what happens to Liangjiang, Huguang and Tianjin, which is close to the capital, the lords of the officials' department, especially those pen-and-post officials, are still the same as before. Even if Pan Er had Guo Peilin's guarantee and Director Zhang's up and down, and the official certificate of the ambassador of the Acting Jiao Xiechang Salt Division, he still waited in Beijing for more than a month.

On the contrary, Wang Qianli, who didn't want to sit and wait in Beijing, because of his merit in besieging Changmao, he was promoted by the governor of Zhili Shengbao, and he was promoted from the candidate magistrate of Zhengqipin, who was waiting for the needs of the officials, to the assistant who was in charge of the Hezhou camp affairs, and Chen Hu was also promoted to the alternate Qianzong because of his meritorious work in killing thieves.

Although the official fortune was not as smooth as Wang Qianli, who came to the capital to surrender, Pan Er did not regret his previous choice, after all, although the ambassador of the Salt Division was only a positive eighth grade, he was a positive seal official who could have the final say like the county lord, and it was not comparable to the state officials and state judges who did not count.

Because of this, he led the four brothers of the old Taiyong battalion who came to Beijing a year ago, first went to Gu'an to meet Han Xiufeng, and at Han Xiufeng's suggestion, he went straight to Tianjin, and took the sand boat to Songjiang to transport beans back to Jiangsu.

Although he vomited to death because of seasickness, it only took nine days to rush to the easternmost port of Anfengchang, and hired a small boat from the inland river to rush to the Yamen of the Anfengchang Salt Division Non-stop, and planned to hand over the letters of Ji Yunfei and Han Si and others to Han Chen and then return to Yangzhou, but he didn't expect Han Chen to smile bitterly after reading the letter: "Changsheng, you are naturally going to Yangzhou, why don't you pay the official certificate if you don't go?" But if you want to meet Master Guo first, then go to Hai'an first. ”

"Lord Guo has come to Hai'an?"

"I've only been here for a few days, and I just came back from Hai'an yesterday afternoon."

The more Pan Er thought about it, the more wrong it became, and asked eagerly: "Master Han, what happened, Master Guo has two positions, even if he is not stationed in Yangzhou, he should be stationed in Taizhou, why did he come to Hai'an?" ”

"This is a long story," Han Chen motioned to his cousin Han Bo to put away the letter, and explained helplessly: "Lord Guo no longer holds two positions, the emperor appointed Geng Chang as the two Huai salt transport envoys a few years ago, but Geng Chang was relocated to Zhili before he left Beijing. Later, he awarded Tan Tingxiang, a Jinshi in the thirteenth year of Daoguang, as the envoy of the two Huai salts, but he did not expect that he was relocated to Shandong on the way to Jiangsu. ”

"I know this, otherwise Lord Guo would not have held two positions to this day."

"It seems that you really don't know that the emperor later appointed Liang Zuozhong, a high-ranking person in Guangdong, as the envoy of the two Huai salts, and Lord Liang had already taken office half a month ago, so Lord Guo is now only acting Huaiyangdao, and it is not good to ask about the affairs of the Yamen of the Yun Division."

Pan Er was taken aback, and asked with a bitter face: "Then can I act as an ambassador?" ”

"Although Lord Guo is no longer acting as the envoy of the two Huai salt transporters, Lord Liang still has to give this face."

"That's good," Pan Er breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it and asked, "But why did Lord Guo move to Hai'an?" ”

Han Chen smiled bitterly: "First, because he tried to protect Zhang Yiguo and offended Qi Shan, Qi Shan took advantage of the lack of food and salary, and impeached Lord Guo for his ineffective work, which led to the abolition of the two Huai salt affairs, and the impeachment of our transportation department has not assisted in the grain and salary of Jiangbei so far." ”

"It's not a matter of a day or two for the two Huai salt affairs to be wasted, this can't be blamed on Lord Guo!"

"I estimate that the emperor knows in his heart, but Jiangbei Daying is really in urgent need of money and food, after all, Jiangbei Daying is not like Jiangnan Daying with Zhejiang assistance, and can only raise salaries in Jiangbei, and Jiangning Mansion has nothing to collect, so it can only rely on Xu, Huai, Yang, Tong, Haizhou and Haimen Hall. The Yizhen of Yangzhou has been suspended for a long time, Jiangdu and Ganquan have been broken, and the Qinghe and Taoyuan of Huai'an have been ravaged by bandits, and there is no hope of expropriation. The real estate and people's resources are far less than the regular endowment and grain donations in Jiangnan, and the provincial assistance cannot be on schedule. It is said that the officers and men have been in arrears for six months. ”

"So the emperor can only let that Liang Zuozhong be the salt transport envoy, and use the position of Lord Guo to calm the anger of the people?"

"I don't know if the emperor has the intention of taking the position of Lord Guo to calm the anger of the people, but I only know that the general grain station of the Jiangbei camp has been replaced, and he is still a person you can't imagine!"

"Who?" Pan Er asked subconsciously.

Han Chen said with a bitter face: "Yang Nengge." ”

"Sub-patrol Su Songtai is ready to impeach my fourth brother's Yang Nengge?"

"Well," Han Chen sighed lightly, and continued: "Yang Nengge is a sixteenth year Jinshi of Daoguang, and Xu Ying is also a sixteenth year of Jinshi of Daoguang, they are the same year, and it is said that they are still the same year as a good personal relationship." So as soon as Yang Nengge arrived, he asked Xu Ying to take charge of Taizhou affairs! ”

Pan Er didn't expect the political situation in Jiangbei to change so much and so quickly, and he cried and laughed for a while before he cried and laughed: "When Old Ghost Xu was driven away by Lord Guo last year, he ran to the gate of Tianhou Temple and scolded Lord Guo. Master Guo is big and doesn't care about him, but this beam must have been settled. There is also the one surnamed Yang, he must know the friendship between my fourth brother and Lord Guo, and he will definitely not give Lord Guo a good face. ”

"How can he know the relationship between Zhixing and Lord Guo, it is said that he has been reprimanded by the emperor because of Zhixing, otherwise how could he come to act as the political envoy of Jiang Ningbu with his background? If it weren't for Zhixing, when he was deprived of his post by Lord Xu and Gilhang'a was acting governor of Jiangsu, he could have acted as the political envoy of Jiangsu as a matter of course. ”

"They are all political envoys, what's the difference?"

"You've been to Shanghai, don't you really know if it's fake?"

"I don't know."

"Blame me for not making it clear, the emperor not only asked him to act as the political envoy of Jiangningbu, but also let him serve as the chief grain station of Jiangbei Daying. And the errand of handling Jiangbei camping money and grain is a hot potato, and if others can't do it well, he Yang Nengge can do it well? Han Chen paused, and then said: "It would be different if you were the political envoy of Jiangsu and the chief grain station of the Jiangnan camp, first, Jiangnan is rich, and the money and grain are much easier to raise, and Zhejiang is based on its own safety, and it is said that Zhejiang Province alone will give the Jiangnan camp 60,000 taels of military salaries every month!" ”

"He hates my fourth brother, so he doesn't want to see Master Guo?"

"Do you need to ask?" Han Chen sighed and said helplessly: "Jiangbei, especially near Yangzhou, lacks everything, but there is no shortage of civil and military personnel. Guo Daren's Daotai is done in name only, the Miaowan camp was snatched away by Qi Shan, and the salt fishing camp was also sent to Guazhou by Liang Zuozhong, the new Lianghuai salt transport envoy, and listened to the order of Zhan Shifu, the young Zhan Shiweng, who assisted in military affairs, and now Guo Daren is now only left with an errand to supervise the regimental training of Lixiahe Qizhou County and Tong and Hai Erzhou. ”

"Lu Daming, Liang Liu, and Liang Jiu were all sent to quell the chaos?" Pan Er asked eagerly.

"Lord Guo is not so stupid, Lu Daming and Liang Liu, Liang Jiu and other brothers of the old Taiyong battalion all followed back to Hai'an, and the soldiers recruited later were brought by Zhang Yiguo. By the way, did Zhixing talk to Zhang Yiguo in front of the emperor, he was reinstated last month, and he is still a five-rank official, and he is still serving in the army. ”

"The fourth brother didn't tell me this, Master Han, others don't know that you know, my fourth brother is not a person who wants to repay the favor."

Han Bo, who had been unable to interject, couldn't help but ask: "Brother Changsheng, how is the fourth master now?" ”

Speaking of Han Si, Pan Er sighed: "Holy Grace, I don't know how moisturizing my life is. ”

Han Chen also asked curiously, "What's Enlong?" ”

"Liu Cunhou, you must have heard of it, and you don't know how beautiful it is to be awarded the title of Yong with a civilian position. My fourth brother is also Baturu now, and the emperor not only rewarded him with a Segu Baturu Yong, but also rewarded him with a lot of books. Didn't my sister-in-law take the baby to reunite with my fourth brother, the queen mother actually knew about this and rewarded my sister-in-law with a lot of things! ”

"Really?"

"What are you lying about," Pan Er paused, and then said: "Although my fourth brother is only a battalion officer of the river camp, the river camp of the Yongding River is no different from the river mark, with three battalions on the left, center and right, with more than 1,600 soldiers, including a horse team transferred from Heilongjiang!" There is a capital division who has been a guard in the palace, and there are hundreds of military attachés such as garrison, co-organizer garrison, thousand generals, general generals, foreign commissions and additional foreign commissions! ”

"Where's the food?" Han Chen asked.

"Don't worry about food, you can't believe it, although the river camp belongs to the Yongding River, my fourth brother only listens to the emperor's dispatch, not to mention that the Tai can't ask about the camp affairs, and even the governor of Zhili has no right to ask about the river camp."

"So the River Camp is similar to the Imperial Guard!"

"Yes, yes, the river camp is really similar to the Imperial Forest Army," Pan Er couldn't help laughing: "The eight banner soldiers such as the Xishan Jianrui Battalion, the Xiaocai Battalion, and the Forward Battalion who originally guarded Gyeonggi were almost all transferred by the emperor to Jinghai to quell the chaos, and within a radius of a hundred miles from the capital, the only one who could go into battle was the River Camp led by my fourth brother." ”

"Gongwei Gyeonggi!"

"Well, the emperor just asked my fourth brother to defend Gyeonggi, so as long as my fourth brother trains wholeheartedly, he doesn't have to worry about food and salary, and he doesn't have to go to Jinghai to quell the chaos."

Thinking of Han Si, who was eating and drinking spicy food in Gyeonggi, and then thinking about his own situation, Han Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's really the Holy Grace, he is considered to be prosperous, and we don't know that we will have to survive until the Year of the Monkey to come out." ”

Pan Er realized that now was not the time to help Han Si be happy, so he immediately got up and said, "I can't stay here for a long time, I have to go to Hai'an to meet Master Guo quickly." At this point, I don't care if the ambassador of the Salt Division of the Jiao Xiechang Field can act or not, it's a big deal to stay in Hai'an to help Master Guo run a group practice. ”

Han Chen didn't expect him to think like this, and couldn't help but stand up and pat him on the arm: "That's right, the more difficult the situation, the more you and I can't be obsessed with it, not to mention whether you can act as an ambassador or not, it doesn't matter how many days I can do this errand now." In short, to plan for the worst, I would rather not do this official than give someone a handle, and be victimized by Yang Nengge and Xu Laogui. ”

"I know that as long as my fourth brother is here, there will always be a day when we turn over!"

Han Chen nodded slightly, thought about it and said with a wry smile: "Don't talk about you and me, I'm afraid that even Lord Guo will have to rely on Zhixing to take care of him in the future." ”

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