Ji Qingwen looked intently, but saw that there was indeed a vote of people in front of him, among which the leader was wearing a cyan official uniform, and a strange-shaped bird was embroidered on the complement of the official uniform - it was a seven-rank civil official. And in this small Yiwu county, there will be no second person who can wear these seven-grade official uniforms except for Yiwu Zhixian.

Ji Qingwen, the weaving admiral, is a five-grade official and a minister appointed by the emperor, compared to a small county, I don't know where it is.

However, Ji Qingwen also understood the truth that "a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake", so he quickly tidied up his clothes, took half a step forward and said to the county magistrate who came in a hurry: "It turned out that the county master was here, and he lost his welcome, and he lost his welcome." ”

Unexpectedly, Nazhi County didn't pay attention to Ji Qingwen at all, waved his hand and walked in front of him, but walked straight to Li Yuanyin, and said to the end: "Fan Jun in Xia Yiwu Zhixian County, I don't know what this Lord Jinyiwei is called?" ”

It turned out that Fan Jun saw that among the group, only Li Yuanyin wore a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife, while the rest were all dressed in civilian clothes, so he thought that Li Yuanyin was the chief officer in this group, and the others were just followers.

And when Li Yuanyin saw that Fan Jun of Yiwu Zhixian County skipped Ji Qingwen and came to pay homage to him directly, his face was immediately full of embarrassment, so he had to reply after his words: "It turned out to be Fan County's master, and the last general Jinyiwei commanded Li Yuanyin, and he came to Guixian to ......"

As soon as Fan Jun heard about Li Yuanyin's official position, he was immediately so frightened that he almost knelt on the ground, and said tremblingly: "Xia Guan has been in office for three years, although he dare not say that Yiwu County does not leave no stone untouched and does not close his house at night, but it is also orderly in the county, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. As for the matter of perverting the law for bribes and arbitrarily judging cases, the lower officials did not dare, and asked Master Li to investigate it...... Insight ......"

Li Yuanyin looked at Fan Jun begging for mercy vigorously, the expression on his face was a little stiff with embarrassment, and he hurriedly helped him up and said, "Why does Fan County Lord have to be like this?" At the end of today, I will come to Guixian County, not to inspect and handle cases, but to help this Suzhou weaving admiral Ji......"

As he spoke, Li Yuanyin pointed at Ji Qingwen.

As soon as he heard this, Fan Jun's forehead was oozed a layer of sweat under the invasion of the cold wind, and he quickly turned around and walked quickly to Ji Qingwen, bowed his head, and said: "It turned out that Lord Qin sent Ji to come, and the lower officials lost their welcome, and they lost their welcome!" "The words of Fang Cai Ji Qingwen were returned in their original form.

Ji Qingwen was snubbed just now, and suddenly became angry with a rich man, and said coldly with a stinky face: "Lord Fan's head, I can't afford it, please get up." In addition, my affairs have been completed, there is nothing to bother Lord Fan, we just go back to our own homes and eat our own meals. ”

Although Fan Jun heard Ji Qingwen's words with some ill intentions, he didn't mean to be embarrassed, so he said tentatively: "Just now, the lower official received a report that someone was fighting here, I wonder if Lord Ji saw it?" ”

The so-called "brawl" probably refers to the fact that Chen Wenzhao and Huang Degong learned from each other.

This matter was originally not big, and Ji Qingwen naturally had nothing to hide, so he said: "Yes, it is my guard, Huang Degong, who is under me, to learn martial arts with another friend of mine, everyone is an acquaintance, and it is not a 'brawl'." ”

Fan Jun nodded and said: "I see, it seems that my officials under me made up nonsense, and the officials will definitely be punished heavily when they go back." ”

He paused, suddenly changed to a more serious tone, and said, "Then presumably, Lord Ji's private recruitment here is also a false report?" ”

It turned out that this Fan Jun came over in a hurry, but the real reason was for Ji Qingwen to recruit soldiers - as a parent official in Yiwu County, it was indeed his duty to care about this matter.

However, Ji Qingwen had already recruited two hundred township warriors for the regiment, and he didn't want to entangle with Fan Jun in this matter, so he lied: "Recruitment? Who's recruiting? I don't see it, it's probably your men talking nonsense again. ”

Fan Jun said, "Isn't it? I just saw Chen Wenzhao from my county, leading a large group of people into the city...... This Chen Wenzhao turned out to be a guerrilla general in the imperial court, and it couldn't be a coincidence that he acted with so many young people, right? ”

Ji Qingwen smiled "hehe" and asked rhetorically: "I said Master Fan, are you questioning me?" That Chen Wenzhao is acting strangely, you should ask him! Ask me, how would I know? ”

His rhetorical question really stopped Fan Jun, and he didn't know how to continue the topic for a long time.

But I heard Ji Qingwen say again: "In short, this official did not recruit troops here privately, if Lord Fan doesn't believe it, this Jinyi Guard's commander Li Yuanyin can also be guaranteed." Okay, I haven't eaten lunch yet, and I'm so hungry that I'm leaving. ”

So Ji Qingwen didn't wait for Fan Jun to answer, and took a big stride towards Yiwu City, while Li Yan, Li Yuanyin and Huang Degong also followed into the county seat with smiling expressions.

After returning to the county seat, Ji Qingwen found a restaurant in Yiwu County to eat, and stayed in the slightly simple inn last night.

During this period, Li Yuanyin reminded Ji Qingwen many times that the eyeliner of several Yiwu County Yamen always followed them.

Ji Qingwen didn't care, and deliberately said loudly: "Just follow it, this is specially sent by Fan County Master to protect us, and it's a good thing to be by our side." It's just that those people have been following for most of the day, and I don't know if they are thirsty or hungry? ”

In this way, the next morning, Ji Qingwen and the others got up calmly, and after eating and drinking, they came to the place where the troops were recruited yesterday outside Yiwu City.

I saw that Chen Wenzhao had already begun to organize the team, and the soldiers recruited yesterday had almost gathered.

Seeing this, Li Yan took out the roster that he had sorted out yesterday and signed in one by one, but he counted all the 200 people with a cup of tea.

So Ji Qingwen cleared his throat and said, "Okay, everyone, let's go to Suzhou!" ”

When the people heard this, they were delighted, and immediately replied in a tumult:

"Okay!"

"Let's go!"

"Gotcha!"

But seeing Chen Wenzhao said, "Before leaving, I will teach you the first lesson." Lord Ji is our commander, and if you hear the order clearly, you should only answer the word 'yes' and not say any nonsense. If you don't hear clearly, ask in person, and your lordship will naturally explain to you, and if you don't do what you promised, you will be punished by military law. Do you all understand? ”

"Yes!" Two hundred people replied in unison.

Ji Qingwen nodded with satisfaction, and repeated what he had just said aloud: "Okay, everyone, let's go to Suzhou now!" ”

The crowd replied in unison, "Yes!" ”

Just as Chen Wenzhao was about to lead the soldiers to march in the direction of Suzhou, he suddenly heard a shout from the side of Yiwu City: "Wait! ”

Ji Qingwen turned his head to look, but it was Fan Jun of Yiwu Zhixian County who led three classes of officials with a total of sixty or seventy people, and ran up quickly.

I saw him panting and running to Ji Qingwen, and said, "Lord Ji, didn't you say yesterday that you didn't recruit soldiers privately?" So what's going on with these people? Just now, the lower officials heard Chen Wenzhao say that Lord Ji is this group of chiefs, and it is not easy for adults to deny it, right? ”

"Slapped in the face!" This was Ji Qingwen's first reaction.

Just when Ji Qingwen hesitated for a moment, he heard Fan Jun continue: "In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, there was a clear order in the imperial court, saying that many men in Yiwu were recruited, and those who died on the battlefield lived in eight or nine out of ten. The imperial court understood the suffering of the people of Yiwu, so it stopped recruiting soldiers in Yiwu. It seems a little inappropriate for Lord Ji to do this, right? ”

"Who said that Lord Ji recruited soldiers?" But I heard Li Yan interject, "Master Fan, don't forget, Lord Ji is the Weaving Admiral." The Yiwu children he recruited were all sent to Suzhou to work as weavers. ”

Li Yan was really quick and articulate, just this sentence blocked Fan Jun's stomach, and he could only order his subordinates head-on: "Come, stop all these people for this official!" ”

Li Yan saw Fan Jun's fierce and introverted appearance, and knew that he was just holding on, so he said: "Master Fan, you are very miserable in Yiwu County. Master Ji took these workers to Suzhou, and they can earn one hundred taels of silver every year, which is worth three years of earning from you. How? Do you want to block such a good way to get rich? ”

As soon as Li Yan mentioned the annual income of one hundred taels of silver, even the officials brought by Fan Jun listened to it, and they couldn't wait to go to Suzhou to work with Ji Qingwen, and they were already so envious that they threw the order just issued by Fan Zhixian out of the clouds......