At this time, he saw that the gate of the county seat was open, and Liu Guangsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, accompanied by Kou Shen, the prefect of Xi'an, and Hong Chengchou, the senator of Shaanxi Governor, walked out of the county seat quickly under the protection of countless personal guards.

It turned out that Liu Guangsheng had been stationed in Xi'an for the past few days, and only then did he hear the sound of muskets, fearing that something would happen to the rebellious people outside the city, so he ordered all the troops and went out of the city to prepare to suppress the rebellious people's uprising.

As soon as Liu Guangsheng came out of Xi'an City, he saw that Ji Qingwen had returned here, so he took a few steps forward and said sneeringly: "It turned out that Lord Qin Chaji was here, no wonder there was such a big movement!" ”

After going around for the past few days, Ji Qingwen has somewhat understood Liu Guangsheng's mood when he wanted to correct all the chaotic people on the spot in Yuzhong County, so he sincerely made a gesture to Liu Guangsheng and said, "Yes, Lord Liu, I'm back." ”

The so-called "stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person", Liu Guangsheng saw that his attitude was respectful, and naturally he was not easy to get angry at will, so he said: "Lord Ji will come back when he comes back, such a big fanfare and a gun in the sky is too loud." After the famine at the beginning of the year, the people in Xi'an have become frightened birds, and they are afraid that Lord Ji's musket will scare them. ”

Ji Qingwen hurriedly apologized, changed his words, and said, "Lord Liu, this time the lower official came back, and he also brought the will of the saint. Although we have some political disagreements, after all, we are officials in the same dynasty, and we ask that the lords can cooperate with the lower officials to follow the will. ”

As he spoke, Ji Qingwen took out the holy decree from his arms and handed it to Liu Guangsheng with both hands.

Liu Guangsheng took the holy decree and read this brief document three times, then his eyes widened and asked, "Lord Ji, is this really the emperor's will?" ”

This is nonsense, the emperor's decree with paper, ink is the best materials, the binding is also extremely perfect, outsiders just want to fake, there is no way to start......

Therefore, Liu Guangsheng didn't wait for Ji Qingwen to answer, and said with emotion: "The Holy Lord's intentions are profound, and it is not something that Weichen and others can figure out. The anti-thieves in Shaanxi were exiled, and they were actually exiled to Suzhou...... It's unheard of......"

Hong Chengchou, who was behind him, heard it and exclaimed: "What? Exile to Suzhou? What is this exile? It's clearly a blessing! What does the emperor think? ”

Liu Guangsheng glanced at his eyes and reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense, since the emperor has a will, we can only follow it." ”

As he spoke, Liu Guangsheng handed the holy decree back to Ji Qingwen and said, "Since the emperor has a clear decree, the official naturally has nothing to say. These people, please bring them to Suzhou. ”

After speaking, Liu Guangsheng had a calm face, and he flicked his sleeves and wanted to go back to Xi'an.

Ji Qingwen hurriedly grabbed Liu Guangsheng and said, "Lord Liu, the officials have already figured it out in the past few days. These chaotic people are not good news, although the emperor pardoned them, I don't think I can just cheap these people. My lord, I wonder if you have brought out a famous criminal officer with a sharper hand and foot? I'm going to tattoo gold on their faces and make them live the rest of their lives with shame......"

This sentence undoubtedly spoke to Li Guangsheng's heart, although he still held a shelf and did not want to praise Ji Qingwen, but he had ordered Hong Chengchou to call a few old executioners and wardens who were doing old errands, and walked up with knives, pens, and ink.

These rebels are not honest people, and they know that as long as their faces are engraved with gold letters, they will be looked down on wherever they go, and there will be no future in this life - but the humiliation of carving words on their faces is much better than losing their lives under the steel knives of the officers and soldiers.

So the rebels lined up as ordered, and let the government engrave gold letters on their cheeks indicating their crimes and names, and covered their hot and painful wounds, and stepped aside.

In this way, he worked until the night, and only then did he tattoo all the faces of the two thousand or so people with gold letters.

Ji Qingwen saw that the sun was not early, so he asked them to stay in Xi'an for one more night, and after early tomorrow morning, after packing up the tents, cooking utensils and personal belongings, he walked west to the bank of the Yellow River.

Among them, because Duo Jiu Gong hurt his vitality on a trip back and forth to the capital, Ji Qingwen let him recuperate in Xi'an City, and deliberately left more than 20,000 taels of silver, which were at the disposal of Duo Jiu Gong, to build water conservancy and reclaim wasteland in the west of Xi'an City, so that when there is a famine in the future, it can be buffered to some extent.

As for the person who served Ji Qingwen with him, he was changed to the youngest son of Duo Jiugong - Xiao Duozi.

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The road from Shaanxi to Shanxi, Ji Qingwen walked for the third time this year, the first two times were light cars and fast horses, and the action was very fast, but this time he dragged a team of more than 2,000 people scattered and scattered, and he walked very slowly - the original journey of three or four days took 15 days, and he just arrived at the bank of the Yellow River.

Transporting these people across the river is another big undertaking.

Ji Qingwen paid for all the ferries on the banks of the Yellow River, and it took two full days to ferry them all to Shanxi on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Among these chaotic people, many of them left Shaanxi for the first time, and they were curious everywhere they went to Shanxi, and a few couldn't help but desert when they saw the waist-high wheat seedlings in Shanxi, and wanted to flee on their own.

Unexpectedly, Chen Wenzhao was very tightly guarded, and these people had just run away a few steps, and they were caught up by the regimental training soldiers under his command and cut into two pieces with a knife.

Under such severe punishments, the rebels understood some rules, endured their temperament, and continued to go west with their heads bowed in peace.

When passing through the town of Mokou, Ji Qingwen asked Li Yan to take his new wife, Huang Degong, and his wife with him, and rushed to Suzhou to live together.

At this time, Ji Qingwen remembered the instructions of his teacher Sun Chengzong, so he asked Chen Wenzhao to recruit 300 regimental training soldiers in Shaanxi.

Chen Wenzhao still has a very strong sense of locality, and when he heard that he was going to recruit soldiers from Zhejiang to join the "Qi Army", he couldn't help but resist a little in his heart, but when he saw that it was the instruction of the old Admiral Sun Chengzong, he had nothing to say, so he could only reluctantly carry it out.

It was precisely because of his reluctance that he subconsciously raised the standard for recruiting soldiers, and it was not until the day before he left Shanxi that he would recruit three hundred.

Ji Qingwen was afraid that the two groups of soldiers from Shanxi and Zhejiang would go their separate ways and there would be any conflict, so he deliberately broke up the establishment of the two soldiers, and ordered all the 500 men and horses, regardless of their origins, qualifications, and military exploits, to be uniformly mentioned by Chen Wenzhao first, so as to avoid the situation of Zhejiang veterans bullying Shaanxi recruits.

In this way, after leaving Shanxi, he went to Henan in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

This time, Henan was not seriously affected, and the ground was quite peaceful, but now it has entered summer, and the scorching sun is scorching, and it is unbearable to travel far. Ji Qingwen was worried that more than a thousand chaotic people would not accept their wild nature, and something would go wrong in the eye-catching place of Henan in the Central Plains.

So he ordered the brigade to stop at the edge of the canal, and contacted the Cao Canal Road Yamen, which had some friendship with the weaving yamen, and arranged for 11 large ships to be transported - except for the first one for Ji Qingwen and others to live, the remaining 10 boats each arranged 50 regimental training soldiers to take care of about 200 Shaanxi rebels, and went south to the Grand Canal.

The boat traveled very smoothly, heading south day and night, but it took ten days to reach the canal wharf outside the Changmen Gate in Suzhou.

Song Yingxing and Ge Sheng, who stayed in the weaving yamen, heard the news that Ji Qingwen was about to return home, and they had already sent people to rent a venue and set up a banquet outside the gate, to catch him up and wash the dust.

But Ji Qingwen was afraid that the rebels from Shaanxi under his command would inevitably be dazzled and blindfolded when they saw the fancy world of Suzhou City, so they only had two glasses of water and wine with Song Yingxing and Ge Sheng, and then organized everyone to get off the boat and rush all the way to Songjiang Mansion.

Ji Qingwen brought such a large group of people to Songjiang, and immediately frightened Fang Yuegong, the prefect of Songjiang.

After reading the content of the holy decree and learning that more than 1,000 Shaanxi rebels were guarded by 500 regiments of elite soldiers, Fang Yuegong was still very uneasy, and sent the local guards and soldiers in Songjiang to escort him, and then he came all the way to the small fishing village where Ji Qingwen and Zheng Zhilong often exchanged silk and silver.

When the fishermen in the fishing village saw that such a large number of officers and soldiers and such a large group of prisoners suddenly came, they were all frightened and frightened, and they closed their doors one after another, and even gave up the fishing industry that they had talked about for a living.

For this reason, Ji Qingwen spent a lot of money and invited several meals to calm down the uneasy mood of these fishermen, and finally he could start the construction of a new harbor.