Seeing that his son was completely standing in front of him, Huo Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps influenced by his son's words in March, Huo Wu was jealous of the three disciples in his heart.

If the brother-in-law is the chosen one, then their father-son behavior is against the sky, in case God protects his own son, then it is their father and son who are unlucky.

In the last battle of Dingyuan, my son went over and caught up with the artillery of the imperial court to quell the rebels; This time I ran to mourn and caught up with the artillery again.

If it weren't for Huo Bao's cleverness, the master of the horse village would have made a quick decision, and the Chuzhou military camp would be next to the Bozhou military camp and would also be within the range of artillery.

As long as he thought of this, Huo Wu felt a cold sweat break out on his back.

Huo Wu made up his mind this time, and he wouldn't let his son go out before he became a ding.

Otherwise, if you are a little scared, you really can't stand it.

It is difficult to raise a single seedling, even if it is beating, it is not this beating method.

But in this way, Huo Bao's scouts will have no chance to fight, and after a long time, they will be pulled by the soldiers of other generals the day after tomorrow.

To this day, Huo Wu also ranks his son before the "great cause".

It was to protect his son, but he did it alone, and he thought about Huo Bao everywhere.

Therefore, Huo Wu asked his son: "You pick a proper person to take charge of the Dongshan Gold Mine!" ”

Mining is not a one-day or two-day effort.

Kelingshui County is next to Bozhou and Chuzhou, and it is necessary to continue to keep secrets, and it is not appropriate to publicize it now.

Those who go must be trustworthy and endure loneliness.

Huo Bao thought about his subordinates, and hesitated among Huo Bao, Li Yuan, and Zhu Qiang.

These three people can all take charge of themselves.

It's just that the "pro-soldiers" in Hezhou and Luzhou have been selected, and Li Yuan, the staff officer, has no one to replace.

Otherwise, the staff battalions and staff officers who were fired at before would have become empty words.

Huo Bao is now leading the army alone, and he also has his deputy Liang Zhuang.

But Liang Zhuang is mediocre, and if there is no Huo Bao above, he can't be alone.

It seems that only Zhu Qiang can be moved.

But Zhu Qiang and Huo Bao are the same Geng, thirteen years old, even if they are clever and sensible, they are really not completely reassuring at an age.

On the contrary, it is Zhu Qiang's brother Zhu Gang, who is now Huo Bao's personal captain.

In Jinling City, Huo Bao didn't need personal soldiers.

As for the battlefield, after this experience, Huo Bao felt that within three or five years, neither his father, nor Deng Jian, Ma Zhai and others would let him go to the battlefield again.

The advent of firearms has made people fearful, and it has also made the battlefield more uncertain.

Even if Huo Bao has great power, in the end, he is a human being, not steel and iron bones, and under the power of firearms, it is not worth mentioning.

The child soldiers have three armies under their command and can go to war.

Zhu Gang, the captain of the pro-soldiers, was bound and had no chance to make contributions.

"Just Zhu Gang, be steady and obedient!"

Huo Bao made a decision.

Huo Wu nodded and responded to the matter.

The father and son of the Zhu family are the people who can be trusted by the father and son of the Huo family.

The battle of Yangzhou is imminent, and it is not appropriate for the general to enter the water.

Zhu Gang received a secret order on the same day and took 500 of his men to Lingshui County.

As for the 3,000 Chuzhou troops in Lingshui County, they will be divided into 2,000 and Zhu Gang to be stationed in the Dongshan Gold Mine, and 1,000 will be stationed in Lingshui.

Lingshui is so sensitive, the county order is not easy to use people, so he officially appointed the little brother of the owner of the horse village.

If you change to someone else as the leader, you have to weigh the pros and cons, thinking that the gold mine is a big thing, and it is not appropriate to use the people of the owner of the horse village.

But Huo Wu knew in his heart that if he really had the day when he was on guard against the owner of the horse village, then none of the others would believe it.

The owner of the horse village is also active, and he can't treat each other with sincerity, but will only drift away.

The vacant Quyang County Commander has also set a candidate.

is the top of the list to participate in this Jinling official examination, an old man.

The list of officials has not been released yet, but Master Lin has personally read the papers, and the ranking has been delineated.

Lao Juren had previously served as a clerk in the torture room in the prefect's yamen, and he was known for his name.

Although the prefect of Jinling also collected money, he also restrained himself and relied on the ability of the documents in this torture room.

When the Jinling prefect arrived in April, he scraped the land unscrupulously, and the houses and torture rooms became the hardest hit areas.

A small lawsuit by the people to tear down the wall fell into the hands of this prefect, and it was also the end of the plaintiff beating the defendant and the family being ruined.

The old torturer was unwilling to go along with it, so he retired under the pretext of being "old".

The prefect of Jinling is selling the joy of lack of sale, and he wishes that the old torture room is not a place for the uneasy paperwork, and he happily responds.

When the Chuzhou army occupied Jinling, Deng Jian took the lead in slaughtering the foreign subordinate officials in the prefect's yamen.

opened the mansion in the Taiwei Mansion, and after the official test notice was issued, he began to clean up the minions who had relied on the new prefect to act as a tiger.

The old torture room was also slandered by former colleagues.

When the soldier came to the door, the old torture room was very desperate, and even gave his wife and children a will, telling them not to make trouble, so as not to spare the family.

I didn't expect to go to the Yamen of the Jinling Prefect, and it was a normal question.

Even the prefect Song Lin personally met with the old torture room and invited him to go out of the mountain and take over the post of criminal law clerk again.

This is the Zhishi Xiao Jiuqing, such a bearing, which makes the old torturer heartbroken.

However, he still politely declined Song Lin's invitation, because he decided to participate in the official examination.

Although after passing the exam, he still started as a clerk, and he may not have the right to be more decent than the head of the prefect's yamen, but he still wants to give it a try.

has been in the officialdom for many years and has been a servant for more than 20 years, and he understands the importance of his background.

Now accepting Song Lin's invitation to serve as the palm print of the torture room again, it seems that he has a high starting point, but he will never be a descendant of the Chuzhou army, and he still has the shadow of the old Daning officials on his body.

After passing the official test, starting from a low-level official, he is the descendant of the Chuzhou army.

From an official to an official, it can't be said that this is a turning point.

The old torture room for more than 20 years, the old man, took the exam with a bunch of children and talents, and it is not surprising that he won the top spot.

When Master Lin heard that there was a vacancy in Quyang County, he picked out this person's resume and recommended it to Huo Wu.

Such an experienced veteran is a good person to stabilize the place.

It's just that there is a lesson from the past, before this person was released, Huo Wu still planned to ask the old monk to come forward and "teach a lesson" to this person.

If you don't teach, it's not good.

Knowing a mistake and making a mistake is a sin that is added to the first degree, and there is no reason for forgiveness.

Huo Wu had already decided that starting from this group of officials in Jinling, they would all be handed over to the old monks first, learn the rules of the Chuzhou army, and then send them down.

……

Although he had only been walking for more than ten days, Huo Bao noticed that Jinling City was different.

The city wall, which has collapsed for many years, has been mostly repaired.

The shops that were deserted due to the war have returned to their former glory.

"Good!"

Huo Bao followed Master Lin's side, looked at the people coming and going, and praised sincerely: "Lord Song is a capable minister, but it was overkill in Hezhou before!" ”

Master Lin touched his beard and said: "It is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family, if you are not a capable minister, you can't stay up to Xiao Jiuqing's office." ”

The poor family here is not a poor family.

After all, at this time, the real poor have no opportunity or money to be literate.

This is relative to the "high gate", which refers to the people's house that has nothing to do with it.

After saying this, Master Lin was silent.

Huo Shun went to Liaoyang in May, and it has been May so far, and there has been no news back.

Not only was Master Lin worried, but Huo Wu's father and son were also secretly anxious.

Later, a second group of people was also sent to Liaoyang, but because of the long distance, there is no news so far.

Huo Bao couldn't bear to see this, and comforted: "Sir, if there is no news, it is good news!" ”

Master Lin glanced at him and said, "Why don't you say that the old man has a face?" What do you see this time? ”

Huo Bao sneered: "It is estimated that there is a happy event in the family......"

"Humph!"

Mr. Lin glared at him, but he didn't ask what the words of Xuan Zhi and Xuan were in the bastard book, but said, "In the future, don't say anything like that...... There are no absolutes in this world, who can guarantee that things will develop exactly according to what you say, even if you are right once, but if it is not right once, it is easy for people to question and lose respect...... The other is the upward and downward effect, if you really want the people to believe in the way of eternal life, have no fear of death, and ignore respect and humility, then the way of this world will not be peaceful...... Nowadays, people's hearts are unstable, and the people are determined, but they can flourish Buddhas but not Taoism......"

Huo Bao responded.

The teachers and students walked to Wangjiang Tower.

I didn't want an upstairs box, I sat directly in the hall by the window.

Today, the prefect's yamen officials tried to release the list, and Master Lin brought Huo Bao out to listen to the words of the scholars.

"When will the list be released?"

"It's never past noon!"

"Who's at the top of the list?"

"Who else can there be, the son of Jinling Academy! Several generations of the family have been Jinshi, and they are also lifters...... Now that he is gone, who can compete with him? ”

"Not necessarily! This is a clerk's test, not a court spring...... According to the news from Hezhou, in addition to the Four Books and Five Classics involved in the examination papers, most of them were policies such as people's livelihood and water conservancy...... There are more than 1,000 people who have signed up, who knows what great power is in it! ”

“……”

Huo Bao and Master Lin glanced at each other.

I also remember the name of the son of Jinling Academy clearly, and he was the second place in the clerk exam.

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