Ji Yunfei took a five-day vacation, and there was a reason why he had to leave after only two days of being here with Han Xiufeng. He has been the same examiner of the Zhili Township Examination, and there is a student in Gu'an, and it is difficult for him to go out of Beijing to relax, and his student naturally wants to accompany him to have a good turn.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Yunju people, who lived in West Lake, hired three carriages to take their families to the ancestral home, borrowed the relationship between the house master and the new Tongzhi master is a fellow villager, respectfully respected, ordered the family to unload the three carts of gifts, and sat with them for a while, and then confessed to Han Xiufeng, and respectfully asked Ji Yunfei to move, without asking, he knew that he was going to accompany Ji Yunfei to visit Jintai City Jun, Yujing Feilong, Shuanghu Yinyue, Kuige Lianhong, Jade Belt Circulation and other Gu'an Ten Scenes.

Although Ji Yunfei didn't say anything, Han Xiufeng had already guessed that his trip to Gu'an was for this student. It is even conceivable that Yun Juren will meet again in a few days with his name card and resume, and ask him to serve in the army. Because the emperor has decreed that those who have made meritorious service in the township to raise people to run regimental training or serve in the army can be handed over to the ministry as long as there is a superintendent's guarantee (fill the vacancies in order of seniority), and if there is a great merit, they can even be used first.

As an official in Gu'an, the local gentry are indispensable to help him, so Han Xiufeng did not dislike Ji Yunfei's recommendation, and personally went out to see the two away, and asked Datou and Ji Daji to pack up and move.

"Fourth brother, sister-in-law doesn't know when she will come, why is she in a hurry to move?" The big head asked puzzled as he cleaned up.

"As a battalion officer, I have to set an example, I can't let my family live outside, I live in the yamen by myself," Han Xiufeng put the book into the box, and turned back and said: "Then Chen Chongtong and Cui Hao are all back, they still have more than a dozen scribes under them, the official documents, money and food in the camp are paid, and the military needs are reimbursed, and the official affairs to be done are piled up, and there can't be a few public houses, let alone a few warehouses." ”

"You're going to vacate this place for them?"

"Well, the second hall will be used as a public house for them, and the inner house will be used as a treasury for them."

"But ......"

"Don't do it, hurry up and clean up, they'll be here in a moment."

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived.

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, Cui Hao ran in and bowed down and said, "Yu Dong Weng, Chen Chongtong asks to see you." ”

"Myself, what do I want to see." Han Xiufeng put down the book he had just taken off the shelf, walked out of the study with Cui Hao, looked at the small door standing in the second hall leading to the inner house, and said with a smile: "Brother Yixiang, you came so fast, just now because of the delay in sending Ji Hanlin, I bother you to wait a while." ”

Chen Chongtong knew very well that he could rely on Wu Tingdong's support today, because he wanted to help Wu Tingdong manage the money and food of the river camp, and he didn't want to really offend Han Xiufeng, the top boss of the holy family, the reason why he put on a dead face yesterday was actually for Tong Chun and other military attachés to see, seeing that Han Xiufeng was not really angry, he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Master Han, the lower officials didn't mean to urge you to hurry up and vacate the place, the lower officials actually asked for a meeting. ”

"What you don't ask for, what you don't ask, but it doesn't hurt to say anything." Han Xiufeng greeted him and smiled.

Chen Chongtong looked back behind him and said with a little embarrassment: "Master Han, Tong Chun and they are afraid that they will not be able to support the whole family." Xia Guan is just an assistant in the camp affairs, and he doesn't even have an official salary, but now he not only has to support his wife and children, but also the three friends he hired before and the dozen or so bookstores you stuffed to Xia Guan a few days ago can't be ignored. ”

"Blame me, blame me, blame me for this!" Han Xiufeng patted him on the arm and said with an embarrassed expression: "Brother Yixiang, those three friends are not so much hired by you, but you hired Han Xiufeng for me, after all, they are all assisting you in handling camp affairs now, and those bookstores are even more so." ”

"Master Xie Han is sympathetic, in the final analysis, he can only blame the officials for being stupid, although he understands the reason that officials need to do it themselves, but he really can't cope with this stall without his friends and those scribes in the camp."

"The official needs to do it himself, but it doesn't mean that you have to take care of everything, as you just said, there is a lot of work in the camp, even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't be busy. In this way, you estimate how much food you will need each month, and put it into the account of the River Department, and withdraw it from the public expenses of the River Department. ”

"Xia Guan has estimated that three hundred taels per month should be enough."

"Three hundred taels is enough to do something, you can't just count others and not count yourself, and then you have to count it like Dezhong, five hundred taels a month, that's it."

Chen Chongtong didn't expect Han Xiufeng to be so easy to speak, and was about to bow down to thank him, when Han Xiufeng changed his words: "By the way, isn't there more than 10,000 taels in the public account, and I will help me report the account of purchasing foreign guns, gunpowder and lead from Shanghai later." The silver for the gun was borrowed by Guan Rishengchang at that time, and I can't remember exactly how much interest I will give, so you can ask Jueming when you go back. ”

This is official business, not to mention that a few days ago, I specially inquired, foreign guns are indeed not cheap, Chen Chongtong didn't think that his boss would make a false report, so he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Master Han, don't worry, I'll do it later." ”

"Okay, you guys are busy first, the second hall has been vacated, let your friends and those bookstores come over quickly, I'll pack up and go out through the back door, so I won't disturb you to handle the camp affairs."

"Master Han, look at what you said......"

"Brother Yixiang, I'm not joking with you, the first batch of soldiers will enter the camp the day after tomorrow, and when the soldiers arrive, if they don't have hats, gowns, knives, guns, spears or food, don't blame Xiufeng for asking you!"

"Master Han rest assured, the lower officials have been arranged, the blacksmiths of Quangu'an are all helping me build weapons day and night in the river camp, almost all the coarse cloth from several cloth houses in the city was bought by me, and I asked Bao Zheng to help distribute it yesterday afternoon, and the women of the whole village are helping me sew the number one coat in the river camp at this time!"

"If the gown is not strong, it will not be a big thing, but the swords, guns and spears must be made of fine iron for me, and they must not be shoddy!"

"Xia Guan knows that Xia Guan has not only explained it a long time ago, but has also sent people to various blacksmith shops to supervise the construction."

"I'm relieved," Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "If nothing else, those gentry who visited a few days ago will personally send the children of each village into the camp the day after tomorrow." If you don't have the help of those gentry, not to mention that it is not so easy to recruit soldiers, even if you can recruit this army, it will not be stable, so we can treat each other politely, remember to prepare two tables of banquets. ”

"The subordinate obeys."

"Okay, let's get busy. The emperor gave us ten cannons, but we don't have a gunner, and when this side is cleaned up, I will go to the capital office to find Yongxiang to discuss where to find the gunner, if you have anything here, send someone to the capital department to find me. ”

"Master Han, there should be nothing wrong with Xiaguan's side."

……

At the same time, Tong Chun was sitting in the empty garrison, watching the groom walking his horses in the yard, while listening to the chatter and complaining of the guy named Chang Sui, who was actually a creditor.

"Master Tong, the little one can see it, this lack that you finally managed to find is not only really oily, but also very dangerous! You have to hurry up and think, you can't really go to Jinghai to serve according to Master Han's instructions. It's not a child's play to go to war, there are no eyes for swords and guns, if you really die for the country, how can you let the little one go back to deal with the errand when the time comes? ”

One by one, Tong Chun was so angry that his teeth itched, but he didn't dare to attack, because although Zhang Si was just a buddy, his owner was an uncle of the Internal Affairs Office, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog.

Just as he didn't know what to say, the groom led the horse to the door and asked cautiously, "Young master, do you want to slip around twice, if you don't, the little one will lead the horse back." ”

Before I came, I thought that the river camp was the same as the Jianrui camp, and I had to prepare my own war horse armor and even weapons, and I spent more than eighty taels to buy a horse, thinking that this horse ate more than a person, and it would cost two or three taels of silver a month to buy horse materials, Tong Chun said coldly: "What is slipping, I will sell it to the master." ”

"Sold, young master, what are you riding after selling?"

"Master Han and Yongxiang don't have horses, what do you want horses to do?"

"Okay, let's take the little one and ask about the market first."

"Go ahead, as long as someone bids, you will sell it, but you can't sell it to the master at a loss."

"You know, you know, you're going."

As soon as the horseman led the horse out of the garrison office, Zhang Si muttered again: "Master Tong, as the saying goes, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, and the little one thinks it's better for you to hurry up and leave the place where this is right and wrong." The little one understands, Master Han is planning to use human life to train soldiers, whether it is an official like you, or a soldier who enters the camp in a few days, as long as he comes, he will go to the Jinghai faction one by one, and if he is unlucky, he will die, and he will only use it if he survives, think about how ruthless his heart is, he is really not in charge of the army. ”

If you don't talk about silver, Zhang Si's words really have some truth.

Tong Chun didn't want to go to Jinghai to quell the chaos, let alone die on the battlefield, so he said with a gloomy face: "You mean that you should find a reason to go back to Beijing first?" ”

"Master Tong, you are not the only civil and military official who has returned to Beijing after returning to Beijing after illness in the past two days, not to mention that the emperor may not necessarily remember you as a co-organizer, and even if he does, he will not really be guilty."

"But if you really go back like this, what will you do if you owe your lord the money?"

"Isn't it just eight hundred taels, what a big deal! When you go back, I beg your brother-in-law, and your brother-in-law will definitely help you settle this account. Zhang Si was not afraid of anything, he was afraid that Tong Chun would be sent by Han Xiufeng to calm the chaos, thinking about it and bewitching: "Even if your brother-in-law can't turn around for a while, as long as he is willing to help Tong Ye as a guarantee, my lord will not only be able to forgive, but may also help you find a fat shortage, as long as you can find a fat shortage, it is not easy to make money." ”

I know the affairs of my own family, thinking that my brother-in-law's family is not rich, if I really want to believe Zhang Si, this debt will only get heavier and heavier, but there is no better way to do it, Tong Chun can only grit his teeth and say: "It seems that I can only go back to Beijing first." ”

"Then you have to hurry," for fear that Tong Chun would regret it, Zhang Si said while the iron was hot: "Master Han is not very good at talking, you have to hurry up and ask Yongxiang, as long as Yongxiang nods, this matter of complaining about illness will be half." ”