After Ji Qingwen persuaded Huang Degong, he spent two days in the town of Diaokou, and arranged for Li Dingguo in the Sifang Inn to study at Li Jingbai's house, and then went out of the city to the direction of Jingshi.

Originally, Ji Qingwen also planned to invite Li Yan to set off together, but Li Yan still had some trivial matters to deal with and couldn't leave immediately, so he had to decline Ji Qingwen's kindness.

However, the two of them are destined after all. Ji Qingwen walked unhurriedly for seven days, and actually met Li Yan again in Datong Mansion.

When the two met, they didn't have time to say a few words, and Li Yan brought Ji Qingwen bad news-

Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang were on the way to the county government when they were robbed by a group of people of unknown origin. Robbing the robbers is a big deal, not only the government attaches great importance to it, but even the Li family in the town of Qikou had to intervene and send the township warrior group in the town to practice and investigate everywhere. After an intensive investigation for a whole day, it became clear that it was a group of people who crossed the river from Shaanxi to rob Zhang Xianzhong and the others, and the leaders of this group were Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng!

Ji Qingwen was shocked when he heard this: he took every precaution, and in the end, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two leaders of the People's Army, finally merged in this way.

This made him feel a little weak: although he is a time-traveler who knows the direction of history in the future, to what extent can he change the course of history by himself? And seeing that the Ming Dynasty is about to enter the Chongzhen period, a storm that will sweep the entire Central Plains is about to hit, can I still be alone in this storm and be a rich man with a peaceful wife?

As soon as he thought of this, Ji Qingwen's face immediately became gloomy.

When Li Yan saw it, he thought that Ji Qingwen was angry with him, so he hurriedly apologized: "This Zhang Xianzhong offended Brother Ji so much, but let him run away under his nose, it's really a sin." But it doesn't matter, before I left the moraine, I had already instructed the head of the regimental training in the town to let him continue to look for Zhang Xianzhong's traces, and he must be arrested and brought to justice, so as to vent his anger on Brother Ji. ”

Ji Qingwen smiled bitterly: "I can't get angry and fall second." It's just that this Zhang Xianzhong is bold and has martial arts, and now he has become an outlaw, I'm afraid that he will be cornered, jump off the wall in a hurry, and make some big noise. ”

Li Yan nodded vigorously when he heard this: "It's still Brother Ji's foresight, so I'll write back and ask the town to take good precautions to prevent these petty people from making trouble." ”

Since the two met again, they traveled together, left Shanxi, entered the jurisdiction of Zhili, and went all the way to the direction of Jingshi.

Entering Zhili Province, the year is much better than Shanxi, now it is the autumn season, the mature wheat fields on both sides of the official road are like a golden ocean, with the wind and waves rolling, it is very good-looking.

When Ji Qingwen and Li Yan saw this harvest scene, their mood became very good, and they were not in a hurry to go to Beijing, but traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, so happy.

They walked and stopped, walked for two months, and toured the scenic spots in Zhili Province, but they still felt that they were not enjoyable, so they swam around Jingshiye, but they did not approach one step to the capital.

In this way, when the midwinter of November was approaching, a holy decree came out of the capital, which made Ji Qingwen and Li Yan overjoyed, and as soon as they heard the holy decree, they immediately stopped and chose a restaurant to drink.

It turned out that Emperor Chongzhen, who had not yet officially ascended to the throne, removed Wei Zhongxian from all his positions and sent him to Fengyang to guard the spiritual seat of Taizu with ten major crimes, such as "one is parallel with the emperor, two are contemptuous of the queen, three are military powers, four have no two ancestors, five grams are knighted, six are no saints, seven are indiscriminately rewarded, eight cover up the border work, nine exploit the people, and ten traffic joints" and other ten major crimes, and send them to Fengyang to guard the spiritual seat of Taizu.

This holy decree means that Wei Zhongxian, who is in power in the Apocalypse Dynasty, has come to an end before he sees the sun of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the disappearance of the eunuchs who are attached to Wei Zhongxian's evil deeds is also close at hand.

This decree was followed by another decree of no less significance.

According to this holy decree, in the first month of the following year, the new emperor will hold a ceremony to ascend to the great throne, change the yuan to "Chongzhen", and hold the Enke examination in February to collect good talents from all over the world.

Ji Qingwen heard that this holy decree was full of sorrow and joy, worry and joy - after worrying about the bad things of the eunuch party, the way that his father arranged for himself naturally would not work, and with this bit of ink in his stomach, he would never be able to win the Jinshi, and this time he entered Beijing undoubtedly made a useless trip; Happily, the eunuch party was unlucky so quickly, and the church in Xi'an City, which was nominally a living ancestral hall, must not have been successfully built, and the Ji family naturally avoided the fate of being liquidated together as a eunuch.

When Li Yan heard the news, he was only happy but not worried - it turned out that he had the desire to devote himself to fame and make a career, and now without the eunuch hat that his father wore on his head, he was able to rely on his true talent and learning, unscrupulously compete in the scientific field, and change the reputation of the district in a dignified and serious manner.

So Li Yan no longer had the heart to travel in the mountains and rivers, and urged Ji Qingwen to go to the capital and go to the capital.

On this day, the two of them came to Fucheng County, Hejian Prefecture, and missed the inn in the county town because they were greedy for a few steps.

Because of the looting by Zhang Xianzhong in the town of Qikou, Ji Qingwen was extremely careful all the way, preferring to walk less and spend more money, but also to live in a famous inn.

Today they missed the nightstay, and they did not want to walk back in the dark, and when they were anxious, they saw a small post station next to the official road in front of them.

The post station is the ancestral system of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and it is an institution specially set up to receive officials from all walks of life in order to prevent officials from attacking the locality.

Although after more than 200 years of changes, the post station system has become increasingly unpopular, and officials at all levels are increasingly reluctant to live in the post station. However, after all, the post station is a rule set by Taizu, and it is part of the Ming system, and it is guarded by special post soldiers.

Therefore, although the living conditions of the post station are not very good, they are quite safe, so Ji Qingwen and Li Yan discussed with Duo Jiugong, and decided to walk a few steps quickly to stay in the post station.

I saw that although the Fucheng Post Station was dilapidated, the scale was not very small, and there were more than 20 horses and more than a dozen cars parked at the door of the post station.

Ji Qingwen saw that this was not a small shop in the suburbs, so he was even more relieved, so he called Duo Jiugong to call the door.

Unexpectedly, the post man of Fucheng Post Station was very arrogant, and directly refused: "Where did the merchants and grass people come from, and they actually dare to come to the post station to stay?" Let's go, this official is also an official of the imperial court, do you dare to come and tease me? ”

Originally, in order to obtain subsidies and earn some silver taels, the post station would more or less make an exception to receive some merchants.

This point, the experienced Duo Jiugong of the rivers and lakes knew this, but he didn't expect this post in Fucheng to be so rigid, so he took out the road guide in his arms, handed it to the post man, and said: "My lord, my young master is not a grass people, but a person who entered Beijing to take the exam by holy decree. According to the law, it is possible to stay at the post house. ”

Na Yicheng took the guide, read it carefully, and suddenly changed his respectful face and said: "Oh, it turned out to be a lifter, disrespectful, disrespectful. However, it is not that the lower officials are deliberately making difficulties, the post station is full of guests today, and it is really difficult to receive it. ”

Duo Jiugong retracted the road guide and said, "Are you joking with us, my lord?" The villain sees that the Fucheng Post Station is so spacious, and there are only a few horses and cars at the door, I'm afraid it won't be full like this, right? ”

Yi Cheng stammered, "This...... This one...... It's really not convenient today, so you'd better find another place. With that, he turned around and was about to return to the station.

Yi Cheng shirked like this, but Ji Qingwen was guilty of being a rich man, jumped off the carriage, pointed at the Yi Cheng's nose and said, "You are not good, that is not good." Aren't we afraid that we won't pay for the accommodation! Well, here are ten taels of silver, open three rooms for us, and stay for one night, it's okay, right? ”

As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket from his bosom and shook it in front of Yicheng.

Who knew that Yi Cheng was unmoved, and said contemptuously: "This is the old man, right?" Although Xia Guan is also from a high background, he is very poor and has never seen such a big silver ticket. You still put away the silver ticket and be careful to stun the lower official! ”