Three days earlier, Huo Shiqi had received an order from the Admiral's Office, asking him to rush back to Yanzhou by August 13. He is the transfer envoy of Geping Daku, and he is under the jurisdiction of the Wei Mu Mansion and the Wei Mansion at the same time, so it can be said that he is half a military position and half a political position, but the Jun order of the Admiral's Mansion was directly sent to him, which is the first time since he took office. Although Jun Ling did not specifically say what called him back, but he also knew that the matter was important, that night he carefully explained the few important matters at hand, and left Ge Ping with two entourages early the next morning, all the way to hurry slowly, finally missed the day on Jun Ling, at noon on August 12, he returned to Yanzhou in the dust.

When he entered the city, although he was worried about Sang Aiai, who was already pregnant, he didn't go home, he only sent an entourage home to report the news, and found a small restaurant on the street to eat and drink casually, so he went to the Admiral's Mansion to sign in first, and by the way, he also wanted to find someone to inquire about what happened.

The Admiral's Mansion was similar to usual, except for the occasional few officials and scribes who came and went, there was basically no one to be seen, and it seemed clean and quiet. He went out of the Governor's Mansion, and he was Shang Cheng's uncle and elder, and people up and down basically knew him, smiling and nodding all the way to greet him, and he arrived at the West Cross Courtyard where Shang Cheng worked. Tian Xiaowu was on duty at the door, saw him from a distance, gave him a military salute every far away, walked to the nearest place and made a junior salute, stretched out his hand and held one of his arms.

"Get out of here!" Huo Shiqi withdrew his arm and scolded with a smile, "I'm not a person of seventy or eighty, I want you to come and be courteous!" Seeing that there was an extra silver nail on Tian Xiaowu's belt, he said, "I haven't seen you for two months, and you have risen again?" ”

Tian Xiaowu buckled his belt and smiled reservedly, and whispered, "Captain Renyong who has just been promoted." ”

Huo Shiqi knew that Tian Xiaowu and Su Zha, these soldiers were specially selected by Shang Cheng, and they were originally meant to be cultivated with them, and a few people themselves also knew how to be reasonable and could work hard, and it was reasonable for the rank to rise so quickly, so he was not very surprised. He casually encouraged Tian Xiaowu as he walked, and was about to step into the courtyard, when he looked up and saw Jiang Jian coming out of it, he hurriedly called down and asked, "What is the governor doing now?" ”

"Huo Gong has worked hard all the way." Jiang Jian bowed his hand towards Huo Shiqi, and then said, "I'm afraid the commander won't have time to see Huo Gong today." General Zhang Shao and General Sun Huan, the commander of the Chinese army, had just entered, and they were afraid that they had something to discuss in military affairs. No, the Governor asked all the officials who were waiting to be seen to come back another day. As he spoke, more than a dozen officials came out one after another, and some of them knew Huo Shiqi, all of whom smiled and bowed their hands. Huo Shiqi returned the salute one by one, and when the people dispersed, he turned around and asked Jiang Tuan: "Do you know why the commander asked me to come back?" ”

Jiang Tuan glanced at him, and the two of them walked to a secluded place in the corner of the wall, and saw that there was no one left and right, and then Jiang Tuan whispered: "It's time to send troops to the grassland." ”

"What?" Huo Shiqi's eyes narrowed in surprise.

"Huo Gong is silent!" Jiang Jian hurriedly stopped him and said, "This matter has not spread yet, except for the Wei Mansion, only Lu Bofu and Di Xu know a little about it, and they don't even know about a few yamen of the Wei Department. This time it was not to send a large army to fight, but to send some troops into the grassland to harass ......" Because Ge Pingku wanted to support the grain and grass in the direction of the town, and Huo Shiqi was named by the Governor's Mansion to participate in the operation, so he did not hide it, and told Huo Shiqi everything he knew, and finally told him again and again, "I don't know too much about the specific things." As soon as the military meeting starts tomorrow, Huo Gong will naturally know. However, Huo Gong must be cautious, this is a military priority, and it must not be spread indiscriminately. ”

Huo Shiqi nodded solemnly. He has been on errands in the Admiral's Mansion for more than half a year, and he has handled countless military and political secrets and personnel secrets, and he still knows this rule.

Jiang Jian said again: "The commander, they want to discuss military affairs, and the courtyard has been closed, so you won't be able to see it even if you can go in for a while." One by one, I'll help you sign in when you go back, you have been running all the way to the saddle horse, so just go back to the house to rest first, remember to come over to the meeting tomorrow. ”

It seems that this is the only way to do it. Huo Shiqi thought about it and agreed. He said goodbye and was about to go home, but Jiang Yan grabbed him again, smiled and said, "Say hello to Huo Gong first." You have done an amazing act of benefiting the people of the world in Yi County, and now it has reached the heavens, and sooner or later the court will have a generous reward. ”

Huo Shiqi was shocked by his words. He has been in the Yamen Soldier Department of Yixian County for more than ten years, and the officials sent only promises, and the case is in order, when did he make any surprising moves? If you really want to say that there is something terrible to do, that is, to hide the identity of Shang Cheng behind his back, since then Yanshan has one less fake monk who serves hard labor, and Da Zhao has more brave real generals, but what does this have to do with the benefit of the common people? He laughed twice to hide the suspicion and panic in his heart, and pretended not to care and said: "Old Jiang is joking with me, you don't know what happened to me in Yixian?" If it weren't for Sun Zhongshan and Qian Laosan to take care of them later, I would have been picked up by Qiao Zhun and that bastard to the point that I would have lost my fame. Thinking of the hardships he had suffered from being framed and enduring at the beginning, he couldn't help but feel bitter resentment all over his chest, his eyes almost erupted with fire, and his teeth clenched so that the unpleasant words did not burst out of his mouth.

Jiang Shu knew the grievances between him and Qiao Zhun, and also knew that Huo Shiqi had picked out Qiao Zhun's faults several times and was ready to retaliate, but he was stopped by Shang Cheng. It is said that because of this, Shang Cheng was angry at Huo Shiqi in private. Jiang Jun was not easy to mix in this matter, so he smiled and said: "This time it is Qiao Zhun's credit." "I told Qiao Zhun about promoting Huo Shiqi's improved new farming tools and new practices in Yi County." …… Patriarch Lu also said that as long as Huo Gong's method is really used, he will join hands with the governor to go to the court to ask for a knight for you. Isn't this a great event? Li Shoude Rong Ma half of his life, last year in Yandong broke through the sudden, Beizheng beheaded 900 prisoners and 2,000 prisoners in the first battle, and only knighted the founding son; Li Wei has been guarding Yanshan for nearly ten years, and it can be said that he has worked hard and made great achievements, but he is only a county ......."

Huo Shiqi could not listen to it, interrupted Jiang Wei's words and asked, "What did the commander say?" What does Jiang Kuan's words have to do with him? How could a person who had not touched a hoe for more than twenty years improve his farming tools and farming methods? Needless to say, this must have been something that the monk did when he was helping out in his family's field, and I don't know how to do it, and now it is planted on his head. This will not work!

"The governor was also very happy when he heard about it, and said that since Yixian County has seen the effect after promoting the new agricultural tools and new methods, there is no need to wait for the imperial court to try it, and after the autumn harvest grain is put into storage, he will ask the imperial court for Huo Gong." Jiang Jian looked at him with admiration and envy.

The matter came too suddenly, Huo Shiqi hurriedly couldn't figure out what Shang Cheng meant by doing this, he smiled reluctantly, and said goodbye to Jiang Yan after a few words of humility. After leaving the Admiral's Mansion, I came to the Wei Mu Mansion to see Lu Ji. Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were few affairs in the Yamen, and Lu Ji was also idle, so he left him to sit down and talk, and the two of them talked about the topic from the convenience of water transportation in Ge Pingku to the Han and Wei Kingdoms, until the topic could no longer say anything new, and Lu Ji sent him out.