Chapter 142: The Soldier Has Gone

"When things are abnormal, they are demons"

"Nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief"

Looking at Chen Qianhu's eager expression in front of him, Jiang Feng's heart suddenly beat a little drum, thinking that the reason why he chose Yantai Mountain Qianhu at that time was just that he had seen this place when he and Zhao Xiucai came to buy sea intestines, the terrain was dangerous and close to the sea.

That's why he came to this place with the commander of the Jinyi Guard, but his predecessor in front of him asked for the handover. Is there something strange about the mountains?

didn't answer clearly at the moment, just laughed a few times there, and answered the person in front of him and said:

"Lord Chen, it's Layue now, and it's approaching the end of the year, these people under my command followed me from the capital to Dengzhou Mansion with my hard work, I have to make them comfortable for the New Year, and besides, the Ministry of War will let me take office next year, and we're not in a hurry in this month, right?"

When Chen Qianhu heard these words, he wanted to argue about something, but he also found that his intention to hand over was too obvious, and he didn't say much at the moment, and he talked a few irrelevant gossips, and then he got up to say goodbye, and when he left, Chen Qianhu still left Jiang Feng a rich gift.

This can be regarded as an extremely amazing thing, whenever a new official takes office, there are always some dirty things between the predecessor and the successor, for example, the predecessor is in this position, it is comfortable to do a good job, full of oil and water, and suddenly a person who takes his position is not unwilling, and always sets up all kinds of obstacles.

When a new official takes office, the best way to show his official reputation is to investigate all kinds of loopholes in his predecessor and sweep away all the people left by his predecessor, and most civilian officials pursue all kinds of illegal matters of their predecessors, and military attachés, especially the leading officers of such barracks, pursue corruption in military salaries among themselves, whether the soldiers in the barracks are sufficient, and whether there are any deficiencies in military funds.

Before Jiang Feng took office, he was ready to be troubled and troubled by others, no one would have imagined that such a situation would occur, the predecessor of Yantai Mountain Qianhu Office was polite and eager to let him take office, but Jiang Feng had no confidence in his heart.

After sending Chen Qianhu away, Jiang Feng's subordinates were sent out to inquire about the affairs of Yantai Mountain Qianhu, who was not familiar with the place, and it would be so easy to inquire about things. When the local people heard this question, they were indifferent and directly said that they didn't know.

In the family of Tie Ding brought by Jiang Feng, although there is nothing to do now, but his own children or brothers introduced that it is very easy to live under Jiang Feng, but it requires a skill, as long as people are not lazy, as long as they are centered, at least they can eat meat every once in a while.

Look at Luo Yi, who is an orphan in Tianjin Wei, is now a small banner, and he can get fifty taels of silver a month.

These Tieding's families followed to Shandong, and it is already a great joy to be able to eat a full meal, who would have thought that there are good things to eat meat every once in a while, and each is full of energy, and the people at this time are more realistic. After coming to the capital city of Dengzhou, according to the above telling,

They will not be able to settle down for a while, and they will have to be idle in the city until January next year, and every family is very ashamed to eat idle food like this, and they are all there to pack up their tools and farm tools, and prepare for the busy spring season.

The men were busy there, the mothers-in-law were busy washing clothes, cooking and cleaning up the house, and they also went out to cheer for the house, and some of the local residents and aunts who were idle also chatted together, and there were not too many things between the women, such as a mother who was an iron ding and the wife of the landlord who rented it, and said:

"After the Chinese New Year, our family will follow Master Jiang to settle down on Yantai Mountain, alas, I don't know what kind of place that place is."

The landlord's wife replied directly:

"Yantai Mountain, I heard my man say that in this hundreds of miles away, those lawless bandits and robbers who kill people and rob money, as long as they enter the boundary of Yantai Mountain, no official dares to go in and arrest them. Old sister-in-law, you must be careful when you go to live there! ”

The mother of this iron ding was taken aback, and she didn't say much about it and told her man about it when she went back, and now the iron ding is divided into several parts, and the rotation in the sea fleet is every three months. The rest is to take turns to guard Jiang Feng's side, guard the military and so on.

At this time, after all, it was in Fucheng, and there was nothing too much to guard against, so Tie Ding had the benefit of taking turns to live at home, and Tie Ding got the news from his parents when he went home, and he was naturally very happy in his heart. But when the whole family was discussing the news.

Hearing the voice of the landlord next door beating his wife, obviously ruthless, the landlord's mother-in-law was crying loudly there, Tie Ding father and son really couldn't listen to it, and were ready to go over to persuade them, but the two of them just went out but happened to hear the landlord scolding his wife in a low voice:

"The bastard who killed a thousand knives and splashed goods, you dare to talk nonsense about Yantai Mountain here, I don't know that Xiao Er in the teahouse opposite the Yamen was chopped off at night because he said this......

The two people who had wanted to persuade immediately returned to their rooms.

The next day, Jiang Feng just knew about this matter, and there were several similar news, quite strange and coincidental, basically it was the news that the women inquired about, and sometimes the relatives chatted with each other, often not strictly, leaking a lot of news, these things are consistent in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Zhang Liang listened there, and couldn't help but be a little anxious, no matter what he did outside these times, he was tied, which made this person who was still a half-old child and was used to running rampant in Beijing quite unhappy, and when he heard these words, he immediately jumped up and shouted:

"Master, let's go back to the capital, one acre of land actually costs thirty taels of silver, this thousand households are clearly a nest of thieves, let's go back to the capital to sue first, and sweep these eight lambs."

"Bastard thing, what are you anxious about, sit there honestly, do you think we can still go back to the capital, Commander Lu is willing to let the restaurant keep some of our share, and he is already looking at the lost face of Zhang Dugong. Just go back like this, waiting to raid your house? ”

Zhang Liang didn't expect that his temper was reprimanded by Jiang Feng like this, what he was most afraid of now was his master, and immediately sat down in the chair silently, Jiang Feng sneered a few times there, and continued to speak:

"A few Jiangyang thieves are considered Mao, and we have one hundred and twenty people under our command, who have killed Tartars and cut down Japanese robbers at sea. Dealing with them is not just like chopping melons and vegetables. Damn, I said that this Chen Qianhu asked me to hand over so kindly, it turned out that he was afraid of this, but he looked like a hero, but he was a straw bale. ”

In January of the seventh year of Jiajing, Jiang Feng took Zhang Liang and ten iron dings from Dengzhou Mansion to Yantai Mountain Qianhu Office to prepare for the handover.

When I was on the road, I saw the place I bought, there was already a hired man building a fence there, and less than two miles ahead of this is Yantai Mountain, which is basically a coastal mountain range, and there is no flat land in sight. There are many stones on the mountain, Jiang Feng would rather spend more silver, and let the craftsmen use more stones when building. Now it seems that there is a rough outline.

At the very least, a low wall has been erected, but the purpose of Jiang Feng's trip is not this, just to say a few words to the overseer's iron egg there, and then lead people up the mountain immediately, and when their group of ten people was about to enter the mountain, they heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them.

Obviously, someone had already chased after them, Jiang Feng and the others turned around vigilantly, but found that they were caught up with Chen Qianhu, the town guard of Yantai Qianhu, and a few people who looked like entourage, these people clearly showed that the chase was quite hard, not only the horses were tired, but even the people were out of breath.

After Jiang Feng stopped his horse and waited for the other party to catch up, Chen Qianhu gasped for breath on the horse, and then said with a little complaint:

"Why didn't Lord Jiang say it earlier, I worked hard to chase it out here, wouldn't it be better to make an appointment with us to set off from Dengzhou Mansion City as soon as possible."

Jiang Feng, who asked this, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly asked back with wide eyes:

"Isn't Lord Chen living in a thousand households?"

If it is said that the commander has his own mansion, it is not enough, thousands of households, hundreds of households such grass-roots officers all live in the guard, this is a military law in it, in case of tension, the person who does not preside over the command will not delay the big thing, but hearing this inquiry, Chen Qianhu blushed and quickly brought this talk over.

There is a guard station on the mountain, the mountain road is quite spacious and easy to travel, on the way up the mountain, Jiang Feng and a few people around him are carefully looking at the surrounding environment, here is different from the mountains near Jingshi, most of the mountains near Jingshi are still lush, and they look green in summer.

But this Yantai Mountain looks quite different, or it is very poor mountains and bad waters, there are almost no tall trees, and all you look at here are low shrubs and bare rocks. Along the way, Chen Qianhu's words never stopped.

There is a fort on the top of Yantai Mountain, and the Thousand Households are built in the open space halfway up the mountainside, it was obviously spent too much manpower at that time, it is said that if it were not for the manpower consumption was too large, more people were wanted to be placed here, and there were houses on both sides of the open space, and there was quite a large open space in the middle, which was extremely flat, and it was obviously the school field for weekday training.

"Master Jiang, I heard that your clansmen also came with six or seven hundred people this time, and now they are still renting a house to live in Dengzhou City, look here."

As he spoke, he pointed to a house on his left, Jiang Feng looked at it, a dilapidated house, but it can be lived in after correction, which can be regarded as solving the problem for himself. But at this time, I remembered something in my heart, and asked Chen Qianhu on the side suspiciously:

"Where did the soldiers of the Thousand Households go?"