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November 20th.

Yang He followed Deng to inspect and Tian An, the chief of staff of Gao Qifeng of Zhixian County, and went to Suining City.

They took a boat from the wharf of the Inspection Division, crossed the Yellow River, and then went from the wharf trail on the south bank to Xin'anpu, and walked on the official road to Suining City.

The weather changed again that day, the sky was overcast, and the howling cold wind made people feel that they could not grasp the reins steadily, and they seemed to be frozen on their horses.

Yang He's original mount died, but there were still many horses in the village, one died, and there were twenty-two, and he still chose a jujube red war horse.

At this time he was on a horse, with soft purple feet, warm ears, a black mink cloak, a jade circlip belt, and refined leather boots on which he stepped on stirrups, all hand-sewn in cowhide, with three layers of boots nailed to the soles of the feet.

These are all gifts from Wang Qiong'e, Yang He's original cloak was torn, and the sewing was out of temperament, so he just sent a lot of clothes and put them on.

The world is not peaceful at the moment, so he naturally has to carry his horse chopping knife and Kaiyuan bow with him, as well as the flintlock handcuff, which is also inserted in the holster on the right side of his waist.

The horses were equipped with swords, bows, and shields.

Minister Yang, Chen Qiuao, Hu Employment, Zeng Youyu, and Zhang Songtao also rode horses to follow, all wearing winter felt cloaks and waist knives, and Minister Yang and Hu Employment also carried double inserts.

Earlier, Yang He went to Pizhou without taking Minister Yang there, so he was noisy and shouted, and this time he went to Suining, saying that he would follow him.

Yang He thought about it, so he took him with him.

Now that the village is safe, with a stable rear, the younger brothers and sisters don't have to take care of them all the time, just follow Yan Dezheng and them to study in the village.

There are also Qi Youxin, Zhao Zhongju, Sun Zhaodi and others are loyal, and the heads of the officers have no dissent, and now when they go out, they are indeed much more relieved than before.

Yang He and Tian An walked side by side, and Deng inspected the side and back, and said something from time to time.

Yesterday, after Tian An arrived in Xin'anzhuang, he was taken aback, he had heard that the north bank was a place full of poor mountains and bad waters, and bandits were everywhere.

I also saw that the walls of Xin'an Village were full of human heads, and the entire south wall was going to be full, all of which were the heads of Jiaoshan bandits.

It seems that the destruction of the Jiaoshan bandits spread in Suining is true, and he was originally suspicious of what Deng Patrol tried to boast about, but at this time he had to believe it.

After entering the village again, I saw hundreds of men practicing, although many of them were in rags, but they were also young and strong, and none of them were old or weak.

Deng Patrol said that the 12 villages on the north bank set up a general office to suppress bandits, and publicly recommended Yang Xianggong as the leader, and organized and trained 500 townships to protect the place, and it was indeed the case.

After these people practiced, they must have no problem suppressing bandits and defending the city.

Seeing that the village is clean and clean, men, women and children are quite energetic, it is eye-opening and I also feel that the owner of the village, Yang He, is not simple.

When he saw Yang He, he was even more surprised, this young talent had a deep temperament, a pearl in his chest, and he also knew how to do military affairs, so Tian An couldn't help but guess his life experience.

Yesterday, Yang He also warmly entertained the master and his party, of course he would not take him to eat in the canteen, but prepared a table of wine and food in the courtyard, and Tian An was quite satisfied with the reception.

He also faintly revealed the tone of this trip, and said that the county respected Yang Xianggong, and he may have intended to give him the position of Suining Lian.

At that time, Yang He was silent, and Tian An was also reserved to drink tea, but he was secretly anxious in his heart, worried that the young talent in front of him would shirk it.

In the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, local officials have no ability to organize group training, so they take Zhuang Ding to let them go, and they all push back and obstruct them.

Many people understand that troubled times are coming.

It is said that small chaos is avoided in the city, big chaos is avoided in the township, and at the juncture of troubled times, living in the county seat, it is not necessarily a good thing to have an official position on the head.

After the rise of the Liukou, the county and state towns in various places were always suffering, and many strong villages in the countryside could keep them safe, so the heroes and powerful people in Suining were afraid to avoid Suining's practice.

Moreover, Fu Zonglong's army was defeated, and the rogue was turbulent, and Gao Qifeng, the county magistrate who was originally unimpressed with the compilation of the township bravery, was also frightened and anxious, he thought about it, and thought of the new Haoqiang Yanghe who had only arrived in the county not long ago.

This person is not so complicated, and he has defeated bandits, and he is even more talented, so he is indeed a very suitable candidate.

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Tian An was worried about running in vain, but fortunately, on the second day, Yang He promised him to go to the county seat to meet the county honor.

Thinking that this trip could complete the county's entrustment, Tian An was quite happy, as a confidant around the county, he was originally a little reserved and arrogant, but at this time, his expression changed, and he was already a lot of affection.

They went to the county seat, and after arriving at Xin'anpu, they went east, walked ten miles to Yichenpu, then turned to the southeast, and passed a few shops to Suining City.

All the way over, the scene is depressed, there are plains along the road, rivers and lakes can be seen everywhere, reeds everywhere, and reed houses seen from time to time, but there are very few people.

For example, in Suzhou, where Yang He fled at that time, the abandoned villages here were one after another, and the residents on the plains moved to the mountains one after another.

Pedestrians on the road are even rarer, occasionally a few ragged villagers walking on the official road, seeing Yang He and his party, they are all busy avoiding, there is numbness in their expressions, and there is helplessness.

There are many rivers and saline-alkali lands, and I often see the white wilderness, which is covered with snow, and it is very desolate, which is fundamentally different from what I saw in Pizhou.

Suining land, there are a lot of heavily saline-alkali land, these lands, not to talk about farming, the only benefit may be that the collection of nitrate soil has extremely abundant resources.

The weather is cold and freezing, and walking in the field is really painful, and everyone sometimes will rest for a while on the way, and sometimes they will meet the soldiers who deliver official documents on the road.

They carried splints and bells, leather belts around their waists, red tassel guns, and raincoats, and ran on the official road.

In fact, the age and physical requirements of the soldiers are very high, "they must be less strong", and there are vacancies and divisions and officers must be replaced at any time, obviously these regulations are abandoned.

Seeing these paving soldiers coming, Yang He avoided the side of the official road, the so-called "Wen Ling avoided the side, and the night was also frightened by the tiger and wolf", but Master Tian and Deng Patrol were swaggering on the road, and when they saw the paving soldiers coming, they even scolded them a few words, and these paving soldiers were only submissive.

Yang He shook his head, there was only one thought in his heart, in the future, all these shops should be controlled in his hands, and these are all points of checkpoints.

If you control the shop, you control the official road.

When I arrived at the shop, this side was located on the side of the Sui River, and after crossing the river, it was not far from the county seat.

The siltation of the river here is more serious than that seen in the Yang River that day, and it is impossible to sail at all, and the banks of the river are full of mud and sand and reeds.

The Yellow River has burst many times, and the floods have rushed into the Sui River, and the river is no longer in shape.

There is a pontoon bridge on the Sui River, and when you walk to the mouth of the bridge, there will be more people, and sometimes you can see the displaced people, all with miserable faces, just shivering in the cold wind.

Seeing them, Yang He remembered the miserable situation when he fled miserably.

Now that they have a home, where is their home?

The people crossed the river, and after walking a few miles, they saw the county seat.

In the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, the Yellow River overflowed in Xin'ankou, the flood was surging, and the city wall of the county town was washed away, and the houses in the inner house were wiped out, until the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Gao Qifeng, the county magistrate, rebuilt the county seat of Suining again, which is the city in front of him.

At present, it is only a dirt city, Wednesday and four, and there are no bricks.

However, in order to waterproof, there is a polder wall built outside the city, which covers the entire county, which is equivalent to two city walls in Suining City, both of which are earthen walls.

There are several polders on each of the four polder walls, everyone enters the city from the north, the impression of the Yang River is messy, the dirt road is potholed, from time to time you can see a puddle of water, some reed houses are gathered in the east and west.

However, some shops and noodle stalls were seen in the polder wall from time to time, which added some vitality.

After entering the polder wall, Master Tian took Yang He and others into the city from the "Gongchen Gate" in the north, with a plaque of "North Gate Lock Key" on it.

The guards are also strong and strong, all lazily shrinking their hands and stomping their feet, guarding Suining City is worse than guarding Pizhou City, and these people are all unable to lift their spirits.

When he saw Master Tian, he nodded his head and greeted him, and then turned his curious eyes to Yang He and the others, guessing who this person was.

Master Tian's expression was cold, his appearance was deep and indifferent, and these people were quite afraid of him.

Led by Master Youtian, Yang He was not interested in rewarding these people, and only paid attention to the garrison of the lower city.

Although it is much worse than Pizhou City, there are also a few Buddha wolf machine guns, and even some antique bowl guns.

Everyone entered Suining City, the streets and alleys in the inner middle were low, dilapidated everywhere, and there were some shops along the streets, but the popularity was very poor, and it really could not be compared with Pizhou City.

The residents walking on the street were also unclothed, numb, and their eyes did not move at all, as if they had lost hope in life.

Yang He just shook his head, and when it came to his mental outlook, Xin'anzhuang was much stronger.

Look at the street is also a dirt road, obviously there is no money to pave the bluestone avenue, look at the road situation, the current winter is still dry and hard, if it is spring and summer......

Hu Cheng muttered later: "Rinen Guanguan, this ghost place, it's better to go to Pizhou......"

Minister Yang looked around with great interest, he had never been to the city since he arrived in Xin'anzhuang, and this was the first time he went out, and he was young and felt fresh about everything.

The county government is in the northeast of the city, and there is a constant flat at the east gate, and then the southeast of the city is the Confucian Temple and the school hall.

Soon everyone came to the county office, it seems that the county government is newly built, and it is said that the official does not repair the office, but the city wall county government was washed down by the flood and the county seat was rebuilt.

Suining County Ya is no different from other places, according to the wall, the archway, the "eight" gate, and then the instrument gate, the lobby, the second hall, the third hall and so on.

Everyone dismounted in front of the archway, there was no one on this side, only a few beggars shrank behind the wall, came to the front of the gate, the two men hurriedly greeted them, nodded and said: "Master Tian has returned to the ya?" He looked at Yang He beside Tian An with a flattering gaze.

This person is popular, Yushu is in the wind, and the most important thing is that he walks with Master Tian.

As for Inspector Deng, they didn't care very much, after all, they were not directly subordinate officials, and they just had to be polite on the surface.

Tian An nodded coldly, Yang He also looked at these men, although these people are cheap servants, their energy cannot be underestimated, for ordinary people, or complaints, or doing things, the first contact is the official who guards the door in the yamen.

For convenience, all kinds of red envelopes are inevitable, so although these people only have six taels of food and silver per year, they have all kinds of gray income, I am afraid that it is five to ten times.

Tian An turned his head and smiled at Yang He: "Yang Xianggong, please." ”

Yang He also nodded with a smile, and they walked to the county office, with their own entourage leading the horses.

Then there was a faint voice from the door to the accompanying soap li: "Grandpa, what is the origin?" ”

"If you say it, it will scare you to death, that is, to exterminate the Jiaoshan bandits."

“…… Hey, there's another strong ......"

Walking to the Yimen, there are land shrines, yashen temples, and Yin hotels on the left side, and county prisons on the right.

However, Yang He's handcuffs were kept, and because of the holster, they had been turned behind him.

Then everyone enters through the corner gate, which is the core building of the county government - the lobby, and there is also a "ring stone pavilion" in the courtyard.

I am afraid that many officials are reluctant to approach this pavilion, because there is a stone tablet in the pavilion, which reads "Erfeng Erlu, the people anoint the people." The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive".

On both sides of the lobby, there are guard of honor library, Luan frame library and other ear rooms, and there are "Dian History Hall", "Dian Curtain Hall" and other offices, there are six rooms on both sides, the left side of the officials, households, three rooms of ceremony, the right side of the soldier, the criminal, the three rooms of the worker, the grain department, the horse department and the Chengfa room, the shop chief division is also here.

Walking here, Yang He also saw a lot of officials, seeing Master Tian leading Yang He and others in, they all showed curious and inquiring looks, and many people looked up and down at Yang He, whispering.

Then there was the constant voice of greeting and flattering Master Tian.

Tian An's expression was still cold, but Inspector Deng smiled and kept greeting some familiar officials.

Tian An directly brought Yang He and others to Santang, which is also known as the "back hall", and there is a county magistrate, which is regarded as the place where the county office lives, and confidential matters are also tried here.

When he got here, Tian An asked Yang He to sit down, and then he disappeared, and then there was a door to send tea, which was regarded as the "door" of the exclusive county, serving tea and holding clothes, and there were generally two in the county.

I don't know how long I waited, the faces of Inspector Deng and Yang He who were laughing stiffened, and Minister Yang and the others also showed annoyed expressions, and then heard the sound of footsteps.

I saw Tian An walking in from behind the screen with a smiling face, respectfully accompanying a middle-aged official.

Yang He saw that the official was dressed in a seven-rank official uniform, about forty years old, his face was deep and cold, and the muscles on it seemed to be necrotic, and it was difficult to make an expression.

He walked into the house, and with his eyes, the chubby Inspector Deng beside him hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Xiaguan Deng Sheng, I have seen the county lord." ”

Zhixian Pi smiled and said, "Hehe, Wen Heng, get up." ”

Yang He also got up and saluted: "Yang He, a member of Luyi, has seen the county's old parents. ”

Minister Yang, Zhang Songtao and others standing behind him knelt down and kowtowed, they were grass people, so it was naturally impossible to treat Xiucai in the same way.

A smile appeared on Zhixian's face: "I've been looking forward to Friend Yang for a long time, please sit down." ”

At this time, officials and scholars called Confucian students "friends", called Tongsheng "little friends", and students called each other friends, of course, if the two sides were acquainted, they were called old friends.

For Yang He and other Xiucai, Xiaoyou can't be called indiscriminately, that is tantamount to insulting, because there is a suspicion of belittling them as under-schoolers.

And this official who doesn't smile is Gao Qifeng of Suining Zhi County. (To be continued.) )