Whether it is Baozheng, Captain A, Prison Justice, or Tuanzheng, they do things that offend people, and the real eunuch family will not let their own sons and nephews do this, and most of the people who are willing to do it are brave and ruthless.

Most of the fox friends and dog friends before Pan Er have now become the supervisors or regiments of the various regiments in Cili, don't look at the prestige in the township, but in fact there is no oil and water, and it is far from being an official and a lord. I heard that Master Han was back, so he pestered Pan Er with soft grinding and hard bubbles, and asked Pan Er to help him beg Master Han to help.

Pan Er also didn't want to be acquainted with him behind his back, so he could only take them to Ciyun to meet him.

Han Xiufeng was tired of being bored, but he couldn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, not to mention that those former splashes not only did not come empty-handed, but they might really be useful in the future. At least if something happens to the people of Tsz Yun Village in Zoumagang, they can really help take care of it.

Just like that, I saw it, and I just arrived home a few days before I got home, and I haven't had time to go into the city to meet the Daotai, Futai and the county master, and the matter of helping to do the group practice has not been skimmed yet, as for going out to be an official in the future, it is a matter of the future, and it is too early to say that. Unexpectedly, just perfunctory away the gang of splashes, Cui Huanzhen and Yang Yiqing, who received the news, actually pulled Liu Shanyang together.

Han Xiufeng had seen Cui Huanzhen and Yang Yiqing when he was still in the county government, although he didn't have any friendship, but no matter what he said, he was also a man. Not to mention that he is not only friends with Liu Shanyang, but now he is also a relative.

In short, you must treat each other with courtesy.

Because of Han Dazai, he just reminisced about the old days during lunch and wine, and it was inconvenient to talk about other things.

Until he was full of food and drink, at the suggestion of Fei Erye and Duan Jiqing, he went up the mountain to visit Ciyun Temple, turned around a big circle and became tired, and invited the great monk Huiming to come to the quiet and elegant bamboo forest courtyard in front of him, and drank a few sips of tea, Cui Huanzhen and Yang Yanqing said the intention of this trip.

The more they talked, the more excited they became, and they were really indignant.

Local gentry...... To be precise, those gentry who live in the city are fighting for power and profit with the merchants of the eight provinces, which is not something that only happens now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have been fighting openly and secretly for hundreds of years.

If it had been put aside, Han Xiufeng might have followed along to denounce it. But now it's not the past, and now I really think that the open and secret battles between the Turks and the Turks are like a joke.

Under the pretext of researching which dynasty and which generation Ciyun Temple was built in, Fei Erye took Duan Jiqing to the Forest of Steles. Liu Shanyang was a little embarrassed, and secretly gave Han Xiufeng a look from time to time, as if he was saying that it was none of his business, and he didn't want to get involved in Ba County's affairs as a Jiangbei person.

"The Provincial Department allocates 450,000 taels of silver to the Bureau of Armor Protection a year for the procurement of ordnance and the recruitment of young people. It is said that raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, now Tongzi is making trouble with bandits, Mao'er Gorge and other passes leading to Tongzi to be fortified, but the Baojia Bureau is neither out of silver nor people. The county respected the partiality and believing, and actually ordered the township regiments of each class to take turns to guard. ”

"Obviously, it is the Baojia Bureau of my Ba County, and the gentry are all businessmen from eight provinces, such as Jiang Zonghai, Guan Yunzhong, Jin Hanzhang, Zhang Senling, Jiang Rong, Chu Baoshan, Zheng Guoxian, Zhixing, you can tell me how there is such a truth in the world!"

"It's not just the Baojia Bureau, it's the same as the Lijin Bureau, and it's the same gang of people, the gold drawn is from the left hand to the right hand, the ghost knows where they got the silver!"

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Han Xiufeng realized that he couldn't be silent anymore, put down the teacup and said slowly: "Two, I probably understand, let's talk about Tongzi making trouble with bandits first, and the Baojia Bureau has neither money nor people to prevent it." I'm not afraid of the two guys' jokes, something like this happened to me as soon as I came back. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Cui Huanzhang asked subconsciously.

"Didn't Cili have several regiments, the most recent one is the horse walking group, which collects the group fee from the villagers at the foot of the mountain every year, and also lets the young people in the village go to the horse walking group to practice and even patrol the streets at night. The villagers in the village complained, saying that the village contributed money and efforts, but the affairs of the village were handled by the supervisor and the regiment, so they planned to run the regiment by themselves. ”

Cui Huanzhang and Yang Yiqing were stunned, not knowing what Han Xiufeng meant.

Han Xiufeng smiled, and then said: "If you want to talk about group exercises, I also did it when I was doing inspections in Taizhou, Jiangsu, and I also convened the gentry in the town to prepare for the establishment of a protection bureau. When preparing for the establishment of the Baojia Bureau and the organization of the regimental training, the local gentry agreed with me on three chapters of the law, one of which was to only protect the territory and the people in the township, and not go out to suppress bandits and quell the chaos. That town is about 100 miles away from the state capital, and Taizhou City is also 100 miles away from Yangzhou, Changmao has captured Yangzhou, and the gentry in the town will not let the regiment practice go to Taizhou to help the officers and soldiers defend the city, let alone rush to aid Yangzhou. ”

Cui Huanzhang reacted and asked with a bitter face: "Zhixing, according to what you said, it makes sense that the Baojia Bureau will neither pay nor be blocked by people?" ”

"It's not that there is no reason, but whether it is the merchants in the city or the gentry in the countryside, they are all used to sweeping the snow in front of their doors. In other words, the Baojia Bureau that you just mentioned is located in Wumiao and is concurrently served by the Hakka Governors of the Eight Provinces, to put it bluntly, it is the Baojia Bureau of Ba County, not the Baojia Bureau of Ba County. ”

"They only help the yamen set up a card draw, and they only help the officials and soldiers to defend the city, and they don't care about things outside the city?"

"Isn't that what it is now?"

"But the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, how can there be eggs under the nest!"

"This is what the county magistrate and the government should consider, it is useless for you and me to say this."

"We said that it is naturally useless, what you said must be useful, Zhixing, you are now the minister of regimental training appointed by the emperor to return to his hometown to help organize regimental training, and you can mobilize regimental training from all over the country to Guizhou to help the officials and soldiers suppress bandits and quell chaos like Zeng Guofan in Hunan. As long as you put up the banner, will the government and the county still sit idly by like now? ”

"Zhixing, as long as you put up the banner, don't say that we are waiting for the gentry of Ba County, even the gentry of Jiangjin, Bishan and other prefectures and counties will definitely look to you!"

Liu Shanyang didn't say it and thought in his heart, if Zhixing puts up the banner, there is a chance that you will rush to handle the grain platform at that time, and then you can justifiably meddle in the Baojia Bureau or even the Lijin Bureau.

Just when Liu Shanyang was pondering how to deal with Han Xiufeng's summit, Han Xiufeng's face suddenly turned serious: "Brother Ziyun and Brother Shida, you two think things too simply. ”

"How simple is it?" Yang Yanqing asked puzzled.

"Running a group practice means that it will encroach on official power, in the second year of Xianfeng, Shaanxi Governor Zhang Xianghe played a request." Chose to hold a group exercise', the result was reprimanded by the emperor, the emperor issued an edict: the villagers are uneven, easy to gather and difficult to disperse, if there is nothing to do, let it practice firearms day and night, but also feel terrifying, it is better to practice the best law to protect the armor, the best way to prevent treachery, should be a strict magistrate, the strength of the investigation, to prevent the spies from entering, and at any time to coach the soldiers, diligent drills, so that the battalion can become a strong force, defend the people's livelihood, show calm, so that the local will not disturb the tired, must not be involved in the emperor, causing evil!

Last year, Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui Province, proposed that 'it should be done in parallel with the regimental training', but the Military Aircraft Department adhered to the intention of 'protecting the armor with the intention of 'protecting the armor' and rejected it on the grounds that Jiang 'was involved in Zhang Huang'. The emperor is even more royal approval: Ontario is a last resort to recruit bravery, and this matter can be less or less, but it is just a momentum. It shows his basic attitude towards the armed forces of grassroots society. ”

Looking at Cui Huanzhang and Yang Yiqing's thoughtful looks, Han Xiufeng continued: "Besides, the Lord Zeng Guofan mentioned by the two of you is not only impeached by many local officials and imperial historians because of the group training, but as far as I know, at the beginning of the group training in Changsha, Hunan Province, Lord Zeng almost lost his life because of the group training!" ”

Cui Huanzhang didn't expect the imperial court to have such an attitude towards running a group exercise, and couldn't help but ask with a bitter face: "Since the emperor thinks that the group training is less and less, why does he still appoint so many civil and military officials to return to his hometown to run the group training, and why do he still appoint you to go back to your hometown to help organize the group training?" ”

"The officials assigned to other countries returned to their hometowns to hold regimental training because most of the hometowns of those officials had fallen. The reason why I was assigned to go back to my hometown to help organize the group training is because there are too many group exercises in Ba County and even Chongqing Prefecture. ”

"Too much?"

"Where did our regimental training in Ba County come from, the two of you couldn't be clearer, during the Jiaqing Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect committed rebellion, and the imperial court ordered all localities to handle the regimental exercises, after the White Lotus Sect was exterminated, the regimental exercises in other places were almost all abolished, but only our regimental exercises in eastern Sichuan were not only not abolished but more and more, and there was a great tendency to fall."

Han Xiufeng took a sip of tea, and then said: "Think about it again, the township regiments of each Jia have no less fighting, and sometimes even make a fuss, why don't the successive county masters and Futai care, not only do they not care, but they even connive intentionally or unintentionally, in the final analysis, they just don't want to see the regimental training of each Jia grouped together, and if I am the county master or the Futai, I will also divide and disintegrate, and I must not let them be united." ”

Cui Huanzhang reacted, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Han Xiufeng's words made sense, after all, there were only so many green battalions in Chongqing Town, and there were only more Eight Banners stationed in the whole of Sichuan. If those township regiments were united, those individual supervisors and regiments might not listen to the greetings of the government as they do now.

"But...... But now it's not peaceful today! Yang Yiqing couldn't help but say.

"The more peaceful the more you have to guard against it, you two must have heard that there is a world in Shanghai County, Jiangsu Province that will rebel against the party, and when you just raised the flag to rebel, you captured several counties including Shanghai in one go, and most of those chaotic parties were originally group exercises." Han Xiufeng raised his arm and pointed to the south, and said meaningfully: "Tongzi is not far from us, if Tongzi's bandits collude with the traitors who are mixed with various township groups and street groups here, what will we do then?" ”

Liu Shanyang muttered: "In this way, the group training is really a double-edged sword. ”

Han Xiufeng nodded: "So the imperial court is now worried about both the bandits and the group training." ”

Cui Huanzhang asked in a low voice: "Zhixing, so the emperor sent you back to reorganize the group practice?" ”

"As long as the three of them know about this, don't spread it."

"You can rest assured that we don't dare to talk nonsense about such a confidential matter. If you think about it carefully, the training of this regiment is a bit chaotic, especially those township regiments, which are really becoming more and more unpresentable. ”

"Zhixing, since the emperor ordered you to come back to rectify the chaos of the regimental practice, the street regiments, the square regiments and the box regiments in the city must be rectified just like that! Especially those tea warriors in the Baojia Bureau, they are simply lawless! ”

went around in a circle, and they went around to the armor protection bureau again.

Han Xiufeng realized that they didn't care whether the group training was to be continued, or whether it was to be rectified or even abolished, they only cared about whether they could take back the right to participate in local affairs from the hands of the guest governors of the eight provinces, and they only cared about the fat errand of setting up a card.

Thinking that the political envoy of the Provincial Department and even Chengdu and the Yamen of the Taiwan Command were pointing to the gold of Ba County, now whoever can get the official government to the silver government will help whom, no matter what they are doing, Han Xiufeng simply got up and said: "I will go to the government to discuss, in short, no matter what the chaos is outside, I can't mess up the scattered halls of the prefectures and counties in Chongqing Prefecture, and we must not involve Zhang Huang because of Tongzi's troubles and bandits, causing trouble!" ”

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