Chapter 36: Borrowing Grain

Zeng Ziren did not return to the house after coming out of the capital command envoy, and went directly to the concubine's outer house. His concubine Yang looked at him with a sad look and hurriedly asked him why.

Young Master Zeng leaned on the side of the bed, spat on the ground, and said to the Yang family: "Don't mention it, the old man doesn't know what it is in the past two years, no matter what I do, it's not right, and what I do is not good." This is not? It was he who asked me to observe the military attachés at all levels in Chengdu, and I recommended to him the garrison of Chengdu, Xia Ang, and he suspected that the family had no merits. ”

Seeing Zeng Ziren's angry face, Yang leaned into his arms and whispered, "The master has received the benefits of the Xia garrison?" ”

Zeng Ziren glanced down at the Yang family in his arms, snorted coldly, and said, "You have a lot of eyes, what if you accept it?" Doesn't this still have to be returned to someone else? inevitably lost face, alas, I wouldn't have boasted to him if I had known. ”

Why didn't this Yang family know that his master was a gentleman, and he could really help the old commander to consider the candidates? It was obvious that the man's hands were short. She raised her head with a smile and said, "Master, the concubine has a way to get the best of both worlds." ”

After Zeng Ziren heard this, he looked at her with interest, "You? What can you do, tell me and hear it. ”

"Does the master know about the Five Grains Sect?"

"I know, I don't know when it arose, what kind of grain god to worship, a group of rabble." Zeng Ziren was a little sneering, after all, he was also the son of an official eunuch, and his father was a member of the imperial court, and he had some instinctive disgust in his bones for this kind of livelihood in the rivers and lakes.

"Does the old man know that this Five Grains Sect often gathers people to loot the grain of villages and towns on the pretext of collecting 'routine grain'?"

Zeng Ziren was very surprised, straightened up and asked, "Is there such a thing?" This Wugu Sect is too bold, right? Grain taxes can only be levied by the grain difference between the prefectures and counties, and the private sale of tax grain in villages and towns is a rebellion! ”

Yang knew that Zeng Ziren would react like this, so he hid his face and said with a smile: "Why did the master have such a big reaction. She leaned close to Zeng Ziren's ear and said mysteriously: "Aren't these 'rebellious' Diao people the merits you want?" ”

Zeng Ziren heard this: "You mean to let me take people to suppress bandits?" ”

No wonder his master was not under command to treat the adults, and Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. She still explained to Zeng Ziren with a smile on her face: "Master Yingming, when the time comes, as long as you send people to keep an eye on these villages around Chengdu County, and let Xia Garrison wait for the opportunity to move, where are those rabble opponents of the official army?" After a few battles, isn't there a merit of this summer garrison? When the time comes, the commander will not be impressed by you? ”

After hearing this, Zeng Ziren suddenly realized that if he followed her method, not only would his father treat him differently, and it would not be difficult to promise to give him a half-official position, but also Xia Ang's side would have to pay more respect to himself, which would kill two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, he excitedly hugged Yang and kissed her fiercely, praising her for her cleverness. Then he jumped out of bed, put on his robe, pushed the door and ran to the mansion, ready to immediately send people to the villages to keep an eye on them.

Yang on the embroidery bed looked at Zeng Ziren's distant back, sneered twice, and shouted at the back room: "He's gone, come out." ”

Behind the screen in the back room came a tall and thin man, dressed in a black cloth robe and a rough waxy face. It's none other than Xia Ang, the garrison general of Chengdu Mansion!

Xia Ang stepped forward from the back room, sat on the edge of the embroidery bed, hugged Yang Shi, who was only wearing a baby pink belly pocket on the upper half of the bed, and said with a smile: "You are really capable, the little young master was so frightened by you?" ”

Yang broke away from Xia Ang's hand on her shoulder, and smiled with some disdain: "I have seen a lot of this kind of little master, and it is not difficult to get him three or five." ”

As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows again, and said angrily to Xia Ang beside her: "I said that you should move quickly, it has been three months since you collected a 'case grain', and the altar owner has begun to urge me!" ”

Xia Ang had no choice but to admit: "Yes, yes, I'm already doing it as soon as possible, but you just told him to transfer me to 'suppress bandits', where can I find so many scapegoats?" You can't kill our people, can you? ”

Yang pointed to his head and said, "I said, why are you an elm head like that little master?" Will the heads of the bandits and the heads of the people be written on their faces? Will you speak on your own? ”

"Ah, yes, why didn't I think that you were smart, which village dared to delay again, let the people in the sect stir it up again, and then Lao Tzu took the official army to suppress the bandits again, I see who dares not to pay, hahaha. I said, you are so smart, it is better to wait for me to do all the commanding things, and you will give it to me. ”

Xia Ang looked at Yang with a lewd smile and said, he looked up and down, stared at Yang's exposed white and tender skin, and swallowed.

Yang fiddled with his jade onion-like fingers and said nonchalantly, "You? Oh, come back to me when you're in that seat. ”

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An Yi had already entered Chengdu County at noon, and most of the people he had calculated along the way that he could borrow food were his grandfather's former colleagues or subordinates, and now they were all serving as some military attachés under the Chengdu garrison, with more or less soldiers and horses in their hands, hoping that they could solve their urgent needs.

He made a list of people on the list, and visited the uncles he thought would be able to help him one by one. However, what he didn't expect was that instead of letting him eat a closed door, these people would make a false polite sentence and tell him that he had no food to borrow.

An Yi is also very depressed, but when you think about it, it makes sense, and it is obvious that she has been targeted. Then there is no doubt that the person who targeted him was either the political envoy Zhu Zongchen, or Zeng Ziren, who was guilty of the crime in the Qianyun Tower that night. However, what he didn't expect was that even if he offended them, as long as he acted according to the system and didn't give people authority, they wouldn't be able to do anything with him. Now it seems that he underestimated the depth of the pool of water in Chengdu County.

He looked at the names on the list, and only the last name remained, Jiang Yun, under a series of horizontal bars. This man was originally a subordinate of An Yi's grandfather. The warden of the military book of Chengdu Prefecture was later transferred to the command of the garrison general of Chengdu Prefecture, and served as the general general, and now there are more than 1,500 sergeants under his command, and in the Great Xia Dynasty, he can barely rank among the middle-level military attachés.

"No matter, let's try it!" Comfortably muttering to himself, he rode quickly towards the southwest of the county.

The courtyard of Jiang Yun's family is not large, generally speaking, it can be called a mansion in the Great Xia Dynasty, at least the size of the old man An Zhiyuan in Huayang County, like Jiang Jiang's house, which can only be called a mansion. Outside, a low fence encloses a few vegetable patches, and then the two white-walled and blue-tiled houses in the middle are all there is to the house.

"May I ask if this is Mr. Jiang's home?"

An Yi led the horse to the front of the house, knocked on the fence door,

The door of the house "squeak~" opened, and an aunt with a coarse cloth came out, and the aunt walked to the fence and asked An Yi: "Who are you looking for?" ”

An Yi smiled and arched his hand at her, and said: "I am An Yi, the regimental training envoy of Huayang County, looking for Jiang Yunjiang." ”

She looked up and down, and replied, "Oh, then you wait." ”

Not long after entering, a middle-aged man dressed in a brocade robe with a blue background, a rhinoceros patch on his chest, and soap boots on his feet walked out, and he bowed his hand to An Yi and said, "Oh, An Tuanlian has come from afar, and it is from afar." ”

An Yi smiled at him and said, "Uncle Jiang made fun of his nephew." ”

"Hurry up, please come in!" Jiang Yun opened the fence door and hurriedly invited An Yi into the house.

The contents of the room were very simple, except for an old elm table and four round stools, on which were placed a white porcelain teapot and three teacups.

Jiang Yun asked An Yi to give up, poured a glass of water for him, and An Yi hurriedly got up and took it.

"Is your father okay? How did you get here to do group training? ”

"My father is all right in Huayang County now, I was recommended by the nobles to temporarily act as a regimental training envoy, and when the border smoke suddenly rose, I wanted to do my best for the imperial court." An Yi first thanked Jiang Yun for his concern, and then replied one by one,

"I have long heard that Uncle Jiang is already the general manager of Chengdu Mansion, and he has thousands of people under his command, and he is very powerful."

Jiang Yun waved his hand at him and said with a wry smile: "Don't make fun of the old man, it's no longer me who has the final say in the camp now." ”

An Yi heard him say this, and was a little puzzled, under the rule of the guard, the head of a battalion was a thousand households; Under the rule of the green battalion, the head of the first battalion is the general, why did Jiang Yun say that she didn't count it in the battalion?

Jiang Yun seemed to see the doubts in his heart, he pointed to his official robe, and then explained: "The new deputy general is always the wife and brother of the Chengdu Mansion garrison Xia Ang, and the current camp is headed by him. Didn't you see the old man's official uniform? Even if you take a leave of absence at this house, you must wear it in real time and be there with the pass. ”

An Yi heard him say this, and he secretly screamed in his heart, but he didn't expect that although Jiang Yun now has many sergeants, according to what he said, he has basically been set aside by Xia Ang's wife and brother and has become an ornament. In this case, my idea of borrowing grain and grass is probably in vain.

He was pondering here, but he didn't think that Jiang Yun spoke first, and said to him: "The virtuous nephew came here this time, but he wants me to borrow food?" ”

An Yi nodded, and said in his heart that he didn't mention why he mentioned it first, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Jiang is really a clear-eyed person, the little nephew first arrived, but he encountered some food and salary problems. I was going to support my uncles who I once knew, and I solved the urgent need, but I didn't think that I would almost turn over this Chengdu County this afternoon, and I found everyone I could find, but I found nothing. ”

Jiang Yun picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, then smiled, and said to An Yi: "If you offend Zeng Ziren's ghost, no one dares to borrow food from you, that's reasonable." ”

"How does Uncle Jiang know?" An Yi was a little surprised, this Jiang Yun was actually clear about his situation.

Jiang Yun pointed to his eyes and said to An Yi: "Virtuous nephew, don't look at the old man, who is not confused, these eyes are still very bright." ”

An Yi said helplessly: "I heard that the old commander is a fair and honest official, but I didn't expect that it would still be the case, using his power to vent evil anger for his son." ”

Jiang Yun waved his hand when he heard this, and said with a straight face: "Virtuous nephew, I don't know what the specific situation is in the command envoy department, but am I sure that this is definitely not the old commander's doing." ”

An Yi didn't answer, he didn't expect Jiang Yun and the King of Shu to have such a high opinion of Zeng Ziren's father, the commander of Sichuan, so it seems that this old commander is really a model of an honest official who stands out from the crowd.

Jiang Yun stood up after speaking, and said to An Yi with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, although I don't have food here, there is one thing that is very surplus, I don't know if you are interested." ”