Chapter 41: The Beginning

The general Zhao, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly explained to the king of Shu: "Lord Wang, it was a small one who received a report that someone was making trouble in front of the Gongyuan, so he brought troops to investigate. ”

The King of Shu glanced at the Wang Steward and Zheng Juzhang who were kneeling on the ground. He knew the steward of the king, and he commanded the steward of the mansion of the old man Zeng, and he followed Zeng Ziren's unfilial son every day, and did some things that bullied men and women, Zheng Juzhang next to him was poor and sour, and his shoes were all broken.

An Yi got up and made a gesture towards the king of Shu, and said truthfully: "Lord Wang, the truth is that this person named Zheng Juzhang is the candidate's family owes a little silver taels to the king's steward, and the king's steward takes the family to ask him to pay back the money, otherwise he will not be allowed to enter the examination room." I sent my friend to take the exam, and I happened to pass by here, and I wanted to help, so I planned to pay off the debt and end the matter. As a result, the king's steward lion opened his mouth and was insincere, so there was a conflict, which attracted President Zhao. ”

After hearing this, the king of Shu nodded, motioned for everyone to get up first, and then he turned his head and asked the king's steward, "How much silver does he owe you?" ”

The king steward hurriedly bowed down and said, "Back to the prince's words, he.... He owes us a house... A total of seventeen taels of silver. ”

"Humph!" The King of Shu snorted heavily, and said angrily: "You are so bold, for the sake of this mere seventeen taels of silver, you dare to stop a candidate at the door, is there still a king law in your eyes?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes... Rajah... It's because we're confused, so we're leaving... That's it. As soon as the King of Shu said this, the king's steward and the others were so frightened that they knelt on the ground together, kowtowed a few times, and then hurriedly got up and disappeared from everyone's field of vision in embarrassment.

When Mr. Zhao saw this situation, he hurriedly bowed down and said to the King of Shu: "Well, that, Lord Wang, you see that since the matter has been clarified, the subordinates will still go to investigate the other places of the Gongyuan, so they will not stay here for long, and the subordinates will retire first." ”

The king of Shu nodded to him when he heard the sound, and Zhao Jiang got permission, as if relieved, and hurriedly left with his soldiers, and rushed to the southwest of the tribute courtyard.

An Yi and Jiang Ruyue bowed their hands to the King of Shu again, and thanked: "Fortunately, the prince has lifted the siege, otherwise I don't know how to end it." ”

The king of Shu waved his hand to the two of them, signaling that there was no need to be polite, and said: "This king is also inspecting the examination room as usual, and I just happened to meet you." He looked at the soldiers who were already busy at the front door of the Gongyuan, and continued: "The township test is about to begin, so you should all prepare quickly." Then he turned his horse's head and led his guards to inspect the rest of the place.

An Yi watched the King of Shu walk away, turned over and walked to Zheng Juzhang's side, looked this poor scholar up and down, and asked, "I don't know where Your Excellency is from?" ”

Zheng Juzhang stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, and bowed his hand in return: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the two sons, the students in Xia Shuangliu County, who were already poor, originally rented one acre and three points of land in Zeng's house to make a living, but as a result, my father was unfortunately injured, and my mother also died of illness, but I owed Zeng's land rent, I wanted to make a name for myself to change the family's situation, but I didn't want to be chased by them all the way to the tribute courtyard, and I made this mess, which humiliated the reputation of the scholar, and I was ashamed and ashamed." ”

An Yi heard him mention Zeng's mansion, so he asked casually: "Zeng's mansion is that Zeng Ziren's mansion in Chengdu?" ”

Zheng Juzhang replied: "Exactly, that little young master has farms and fields in all prefectures and counties in Sichuan, his father is the commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Command Envoy, and my family is an ordinary people, so I can't afford to provoke him." ”

This Zeng Ziren is really like what Zhao Lingfeng said, he is really a "living Yama", he has never heard of any good things, and he can hear his name anywhere in bad things.

Thinking like this, An Yi pulled Zheng Juzhang's dark hand stained with mud, took out a few silver ingots from his arms and put them on his hands, "I didn't bring too much when I went out today, you take these silver taels first, change the rent you owe first, and buy a few decent clothes by the way, you are in this outfit, I am afraid that they will not let you enter the examination room soon." ”

Then he pointed to Jiang Ruyue next to him, and then said: "This is my friend, surnamed Jiang Ruyue, and he is also a student of this year. ”

Zheng Juzhang didn't refuse, and Jiang Ruyue arched their hands to each other, which was considered to be acquaintance, and then took the silver in his arms, knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply to An Yi, and said gratefully: "There is nothing for a poor scholar to be grateful to his son, he only wants to smell the name of his son. ”

An Yi listened to his words and smiled, but he didn't care much, just urged him and Jiang Ruyue to enter the field quickly, don't delay the scientific expedition.

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Chengdu County

Tsangfu

"Smack!"

A bottle of enamelled porcelain antique vase was slammed to the ground, smashed to pieces.

There were a few people kneeling in front of the Taishi chair, their heads lying on the ground, letting the crumbs of the vase splash over, and they didn't dare to move for a minute. Sitting on the chair was Zeng Ziren, who was thunderous.

"You guys are such a bunch of shit! Even a poor scholar can't stop him! ”

The leader who knelt on the ground was the Wang steward who ran back to the house in embarrassment from the gate of the Gongyuan, and he said timidly: "Young Master Zeng, it's not that I can't stop it, it's the group training in Huayang County that is bad for us, and it also attracted the king of Shu, the king of Shu is there, we really don't dare to mess around." ”

When Zeng Ziren heard this name, he was even more angry, gritted his teeth and said: "This hillbilly has repeatedly spoiled me, he hasn't settled his account with him last time in Qianyun Tower, and he came to me for trouble, how can he be as ghostly as a ghost, he is everywhere!" ”

Steward Wang looked at Zeng Ziren's angry face, and hurriedly knelt forward and moved, adding fuel and vinegar: "Young master, I also heard that this comfort has a lot to do with that Gao Ying Shu Gao Miss. ”

"Whoa!"

Zeng Ziren flicked his robe, threw the tea cup on the table from the table to the ground, smashed it, and said viciously to the king's steward: "Gao Yingshu is my future daughter-in-law!" I've known her since I was a kid, and I haven't even touched a single hair of her! He is an inaccessible regimental training envoy, he is simply cowardly, and he dares to pay attention to Gao Yingshu, I will take people to surround his military camp with the fuck! ”

As he spoke, he got up angrily and was about to rush out, but Steward Wang, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly stood up and grabbed Zeng Ziren and persuaded: "Young master, calm down!" Calm down first, I have a plan to get what you want, you sit here and listen to me first. ”

I don't know when the little young master's temper comes up, if this really makes him surround the military camp of the imperial court regiment, where will the old man's face go? In the end, the blame is down, aren't they the ones who are unlucky?

Steward Wang glanced at the strong men who were kneeling on the ground, and motioned for them to withdraw first. Then he crawled into Zeng Ziren's ear with a flattering face and whispered a few words.

Zeng Ziren's original face that was shrouded in anger gradually raised a sly smile, "Good, good, good!" He pointed to the steward king beside him and praised: "It's still the steward that the king has an idea, good, good!" ”

Steward Wang smiled sneeringly, "Not only can the young master get what he wants, but also let him die comfortably without a place to be buried!" ”

"Good! Then ask Steward Wang to quickly help me arrange it, and see how I come to kill two birds with one stone. ”

When the king's steward saw that he had agreed, he bowed down and made arrangements according to the plan he had told Zeng Ziren.

Zeng Ziren was the only one left in the huge room, sitting on the Taishi chair, rubbing his hands, and muttering to himself with a lewd smile: "Gao Yingshu, I see how you escaped from the palm of the master's hand this time." ”

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Let's say that after An Yi sent Jiang Ruyue and Zheng Juzhang into the Tribute Courtyard, he rode back to the military camp in Songling Village. After Lin Muzhi and An Xin's careful rectification, the original dilapidated camp finally had the appearance of a military camp, and more than 200 brothers on Jiulong Mountain and the militia brought by Jin Mingyin also changed into the military uniforms of the Green Camp of the Great Xia Dynasty, and practiced by Lin Muzhi every day in a specially set up school field, with a little taste of the regular army.

But soon An Yi found that there seemed to be a lot more people, and there were many more fresh faces in the training team. He hurriedly beckoned to Lin Muzhi, who was practicing, and wanted to ask what was going on.

Lin Muzhi asked the brothers to continue practicing, and he ran towards Anyi.

"Brother An, what are you looking for me?"

An Yi pointed to the line and asked Lin Mudao: "Brother Lin, it seems that these living people were not brought down from Jiulong Mountain, right?" ”

Lin Muzhi nodded and said: "I was about to tell you, this morning, we came here with a lot of homeless people, saying that their village was looted by the rogues and fled homelessly, I picked some strong ones and recruited them, and handed over the others to the Zhou patriarch." ”

Bandit raids? The villages around Chengdu County are only forty miles away from the county seat, and Xia Ang's three garrison battalions plus Zhao Lingfeng's Fenwei battalion are stationed outside the city.

An Yi didn't tell Lin Muzhi about the doubts in his heart, thinking that after all, it was difficult to recruit soldiers, and it was not good to make people who wanted to join the army as refugees have scruples in their hearts because of one of their own speculations, blocking the way for the future source of soldiers.

He told Lin Muzhi that there was nothing else, just asked casually, let Lin Muzhi practice well, and let the team in his hand have stronger combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

After coming out of the barracks, An Yi immediately went to find Zhou Shibiao. Patriarch Zhou, who was already the acting patriarch of Songling Village, was checking the newly deposited grain with the account book in the granary, and when he saw An Yi coming, he hurriedly greeted him from afar.

"Your Excellency."

Zhou Shibiao made a gesture towards An Yi, and before he bowed down, he was helped up by An Yi with both hands and said: "Why should the patriarch of Zhou be polite, if you have something to do with the patriarch, I don't know if you can take a step to speak?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shibiao stretched his left hand to the side and made a "please" gesture.

"Elder Zhou, do you know that there have been bandits near Chengdu recently?" An Yi pulled Zhou Shibiao to avoid the crowd carrying grain in front of the granary, and asked him,

After listening to An Yi's words, Zhou Shibiao nodded and said, "Yes, Jiangning Village, which is not far from our village, was attacked by rogue gangsters in the morning, and it is said that there were heavy casualties. The old patriarch of Jiangning Village, Xiaomin had dealt with him and was a loyal elder, but he heard that the whole family was killed by bandits. ”