The spring sun was shining outside, and many slaves and officials were busy inside and outside the Zhizhou Yamen, and many officials had come to the State Yamen one after another to attend the banquet, they talked and laughed casually, and the voice spread from the outside to the second hall, which made Lu Wenxian upset.

The boundary of Qizhou is too small, and the state city is only two miles square, and it is completely a large market town, and even the scale of many county towns is far less.

Overlooking from the head of the state city, to the southwest is the Qishan Mountain, which is full of mountains and mountains, and the Qishan Mountain Range, which is five or six hundred meters high but steep and abnormal, is surrounded by mountains, and there is only a dozen miles of Qishan Port.

There were originally a few small fishing villages there, but after being entrenched by Qishan bandits, many houses were built, and the original fishing villages were all changed owners.

To the northeast and southeast, most of them are plains, there are many fishing villages and a few small market towns, the place is very quiet, in fact, a few more military villages also promote the consumption power and commerce of Qizhou, originally this is a large island full of fishermen and vegetable farmers.

Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years later, it will gradually form a whole with Fuzhou, and now at this time, it is separated by a river, and the river is narrow, and many people swim directly to Fuzhou on the other side in summer.

Lu Wenxian was very white, his face was long, he had a few long beards on his chin, he was wearing a dark robe at home, and he was wearing a Tang scarf, and the whole person looked upset.

Lu Wenxian has been in Qizhou for several years, and he was used to everything in front of him, but now he felt that the seafood was too fishy and salty, and it made people want to vomit.

"Nan Anhou has arrived." A subordinate approached and whispered.

"Got it." Lu Wenxian agreed in a deep voice, stood up, changed a smile on his face, and walked towards the gate.

At the gate, many officials were already standing and waiting, Lu Wenxian took the lead in holding his fists and bowing, and when he saw Xu Zi dismount first, he said loudly: "The lower official knows Lu Wenxian, the military state affairs of Qizhou, and I will meet the prince." ”

"Master Lu can't do this." Xu Zi first grabbed Lu Wenxian's arm and said: "On the officialdom, only about the official position, regardless of the title, if the title is discussed, the clan can not come out to do official affairs, when the first monarch was in Qizhou, he partnered with the Marquis of Changwen, but only about the official position, not the title." ”

"Shit ......" Lu Wenxian scolded in his heart, Xu Yingbin and Chen Dujing are both marquises, of course there is no need to talk about any titles, if he takes the big one and uses the identity of Zhizhou to see Xu Zixian, I don't know what will happen.

"Please take a seat." Lu Wenxian said dryly and politely, and he could hear the unwillingness and hypocrisy in his words.

The two of them walked forward with their arms halfway, and the people around them followed, but when they kept a considerable distance, Xu Zixian stopped first and said to Lu Wenxian: "I heard that Lord Zhizhou often climbs to Shangzhai and observes pirate activities there?" ”

"There's this." Lu Wenxian said: "Since this official is a Zhijunzhou, of course, he must look at Chen Yutai's activities, in case the people of Qizhou take advantage of it, and the tragedy in Zhangzhou cannot be repeated in Qizhou." ”

"Lord Lu often goes to the upper, middle and lower Sanzhai to watch the soldiers do the exercises?"

"Hmmm......"

Lu Wenxian was a little impatient, and he didn't know what Xu Zixian meant......

"There are more than 3,000 people in the Xiang army, which seems to be a lot, and it is powerful and majestic enough when I know how to exercise, but I want to assure Lord Lu that if anyone takes these 3,000 people to crusade against pirates, it will be a good result if they can come back alive for 300."

Xu Zixian sighed deeply and said to Lu Wenxian: "The first monarch was defeated for many reasons, being stabbed in the back was one of the reasons for the defeat, but the most important thing is that the Xiang army is useless, more than 3,000 people were defeated by a drum, even if it is called Yue Zhi, Li Youde also led the Qizhou military village, and it is still a defeat to pull out to fight." ”

Lu Wenxian felt quite humiliated, his own mind was also obvious, after taking office, he often explored the terrain, studied the possibility of raiding from Qishan over the mountains, and climbed many times and found many roads that could enter the army......

In fact, as long as you pay attention, although the mountain is steep and steep, there is no mountain in this world that cannot be climbed, and it is not a cliff climbing, there are some hunters and the like on the mountain, and all kinds of sheep intestine paths are hidden in the woods and shrubs, and a little attention can find a few passages over the mountains and to the beach.

Lu Wenxian, who thought that he had found a way and trained his soldiers again, was very likely to create a miracle and achieve a lot of fame, but of course he was reluctant to Xu Zixian's arrival, thinking that he might get the credit if he was robbed.

"Before I came here, I sent someone to inquire about Lord Lu's deeds and ......the way of being an official," Xu Zixian said sincerely: "Lord Lu has a heart, treats the people with generosity and compassion, is a good intellectual, and also wants to exterminate the Qishan bandits, and his ambition is commendable." But with this Sanzhai Xiang Army, it is absolutely impossible. ”

Although he felt that what the other party said might be the truth, but being taught such a condescending lesson by a person who was half his age, Lu Yongxian inevitably had some resistance in his heart, and he said with some shame: "What does Nan Anhou mean when he says these words?" ”

"I want to reassure Lord Lu." Xu Zixian smiled faintly and said: "The matter of suppressing thieves is up to me, the important thing is that the Nan'an Water Camp is trained, and it is easier to succeed by sea and land." In terms of the Xiang army, I will train strictly, enrich the salary, retire the unqualified, and replenish the strong men, so that in a few months or even after the year, when the army can be mobilized, Lord Lu can follow me in front of the army as a Zhijunzhou, and when the time comes, you and I will be side by side, how about it? ”

"If everything is done by the prince and the marquis, this official will not be exposed to this kind of light."

"If a person eats the tenth bun and is full, the first nine will not be counted?" Xu Zixian chuckled: "In the past few years, the Qizhou place has been quiet, the Xiang army is complete, Chen Yutai has been forced to plunder a lot less on all sides, the merit of the adult is several years of hard work and thought, if the merit of the first war is determined, but the adult is excluded, I will feel unfair......"

A feeling of understanding came to his heart, and Lu Wenxian glanced at Xu Zixian beside him with a strange expression, and finally couldn't help but say: "Has the prince always been so perceptive and penetrating?" ”

"That's not what the grape trellis in the back house of the defense envoy thinks." Xu Zixian replied rather humorously, he believed that Lu Wenxian knew what it meant.

Sure enough, Lu Wenxian seemed to sigh, and then laughed.

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The standard of the banquet to welcome the defense envoy is quite high, Qizhou is a military state under the government, and Jianzhou, Tingzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Shaowujun, Xinghua Army and other high-class military states, belonging to the military state under the government, higher than the county, lower than the serious state capital.

The government is also high and low, the highest level of the government is Yanjing Mansion, that is, Jingzhao Mansion, followed by Jiangling Mansion and Fuzhou Mansion, the general status of the prefects of the major prefectures is under the pacification envoy, but the Jiangling prefect will generally hang the festival degree envoy or Guanwendian University scholar or a certain Shangshu and other positions, the real power is not under the Jiangnan East Road pacification envoy, or even above it.

The establishment of Qizhou was originally because of the defense against pirates, but in fact, the defense made it more eye-catching than Zhizhou, and Xu Zi went to the post first, at least in the eyes of the gentry and people of Qizhou, and even caused an uproar in the garrison group.

Zhizhou Lu Wenxian's welcome banquet attracted a large number of onlookers, outside the small state government, surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, when the banquet was about to end, many rumors and conversations about Xu Zixian were spread in all walks of life in Qizhou.

Prior to this, several newspapers in Fuzhou were in full swing to publicize Xu Zixian's military exploits and the elite martial arts trained by the Nan'an regiment, and then some people questioned Xu Zixian's delay in taking over and his reluctance to take action against Chen Yutai, and he was suspected of preserving his strength and raising his own respect.

Before Xu Zixian took office, quite a few gentry and people from Qizhou believed this argument, and there were many people who were dissatisfied with Xu Zixian.

However, some people later refuted it, and public opinion gradually subsided, especially the king of Qi's wording was extremely harsh, prohibiting people from discussing military and political affairs, and newspapers should not exert influence on military affairs at will, disturbing the morale of the army, and confusing public opinion.

After Xu Zixian arrived in Qizhou, when he met with subordinate officials in the prefecture yamen and defense envoys, he emphasized again and again that there was no water camp and could not talk about suppressing bandits.

At this time, many people feel that they have wronged this young prince, no matter what, there is nothing wrong with his ambition to exterminate Chen Yutai, since last year, the repair of ships and the preparation of recruiting troops have begun, if it is not for the intentional Qishan thieves, Ren Zaijingshi's credit, where can Xu Zixian go on Fujian Road? Isn't it much better to serve as a defense envoy in Jianzhou than to have the title of Tongzhi Qizhou?

In the crowd, there was a strong man with a full beard, who had been observing the situation of the state government with his arms in his arms, and at the same time listening to everyone's discussions, sometimes frowning, sometimes nodding, and sometimes showing a disdainful and sarcastic smile.

Around the time of the shift, the banquet was over, and the crowd of onlookers had already dispersed, except for some small vendors who did not leave, hoping to make another ten or eight copper coins before late at night.

The strong man left the crowd, bought a few pieces of beef pie before leaving, gnawed his hands and face full of oil, and walked like a fly, through the dark alleys, to the barking of dogs, to the foot of the city wall.

The city wall of Qizhou was rammed earth at first, and then the situation of pirates invaded the territory became more and more serious, and the political affairs hall of Chengzong ordered the Fuzhou government to allocate funds to make bricks for the city wall of Qizhou.

The circumference is two miles and one hundred and fifty steps, there are battlements and perforations, horses-faced walls, two city towers and Tibetan soldier holes, there is no urn city, it is quite simple, and there are many scattered or convex city bricks, this strong man spent a short while, his body was like an ape and wriggled on the city wall for a short time, that is, he climbed the low city wall, and then without hesitation, he went down from the other side.

In the night, the strong man rushed by, the front is stationed in the middle of the village with two battalions of soldiers, although the strong man is not afraid, but does not want to do much, so he detours from one side, the military camp at night only has the light and shadow of the arrow tower to shine, can not go far, the strong man detours outside the lixu, does not alarm anyone at all.

At the foot of Deqi Mountain, there is a road first, there is a village in the middle of the waist, when it is hundreds of meters above, the woodland is luxuriant, the shrubs are numerous, the traces of people are rare, the strong man jumps and climbs between the mountains and mountains like an ape, and then goes down the mountain again, almost without the slightest hindrance, it can be seen that this kind of climbing over the mountains and mountains is also a common thing for him.