Gao Shaoyuan, the chief secretary of Jinming County, is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, and is the second eldest of the Gao clan in Yanzhou, his father Gao Yunde is the brother of Gao Yunquan in the current Zhangwu Army, and his grandfather is the former Zhangwu and Baoda two towns Jiedu envoy Taishi and Zhongshu Ling Beiping County Wang Gao Wanxing. It stands to reason that with Gao Shaoyuan's background, it is not difficult to find a slightly better position in the Zhangwu Army. However, the things in the big clan can not be judged by common sense, after Gao Wanxing's death, Gao Yunde was defeated in the internal struggle for the position of the queen, and was killed by his brother Gao Yuntao and his brother Gao Yunquan. Gao Shaoyuan was still young at the time, orphans and widows were helpless, and Gao Yuntao and Gao Yunquan were forced by the pressure of the clan to cut down the grass and eradicate them all. Gao Shaoyuan was also able to grow up under the care of his widowed mother.

Because of the misfortune he suffered in his childhood, Gao Shaoyuan was relatively precocious, and he had no contact with other Gao brothers in the clan, and his life was quite hard. Until five years ago, by chance, Gao Yunquan wanted to repair the Jiedu Mansion that was burned down due to the military rebellion in the struggle with Zhou Mi to fight for the ownership of Yanzhou.

Although Gao Shaoyuan encountered loneliness and hardship, he worked hard since he was a child, studying the scriptures and history, although in order to avoid being suspicious of the children of the clan in order to avoid showing his limelight, he never participated in the scientific examination, and he did not have the fame of the exam, but he was steady and steadfast in his life and work, and he was willing to work hard in everything. It was a simple project, but it was done quite seriously in his hands, and in the end, it cost only a small amount of stone to successfully complete the reconstruction of Jiedu Mansion. Even Gao Yunquan, who was wary of him, had to admit that this cousin had done an excellent job.

Under the reward of meritorious deeds, Gao Yunquan made a private deal with the observation judge Li Bin, exchanging the vacancies of the two team leaders of the Zhangwu Army for two civilian positions, and Gao Shaoyuan was appointed as the chief secretary of Jinming County, and he did it for four or five years.

Because of his high background, although Li Bin and other civil officials have a lot of appreciation for Gao Shaoyuan, they instinctively keep a certain distance from him, and no one in the Gao family is willing to pay attention to this outlier who has neither power nor power. After coming and going, Gao Shaoyuan, who had won the office, became more and more lonely and unsociable. On weekdays, in addition to handling official duties, he supports his widowed mother at home, and his income is only enough for the daily expenses of the mother and son, and he has never even married a wife.

On this Yuan Zheng Festival, Jin Ming's county commander Cui Ying County Cheng Yin Shiying and county lieutenant Zhang Wenheng were Li Bin's protégés, and they prepared gifts early and returned to Fushi in advance before the festival, in order to congratulate Li Bin on the New Year on Yuan Zheng Day. With a wry smile, he had no other way to think of it, so he had to fold his spirit and pick up the whole burden on his shoulders. This year was busy, and an unusually dense snowfall added a lot of trouble to him, and even Chinese New Year's Eve he spent in the county, until the early morning of Yuan Zhengday, he hurriedly finished his official duties and rushed home to accompany his mother for the holiday.

finally waited for a few county officials to come back and hand over the dispatch, and Gao Shaoyuan was a little more committed. Unexpectedly, just after the first lunar month, Cui Ying invited him and showed him a letter from Qin Gu of the Ming Mansion of Fu Shi, which said that the new Luziguan patrol envoy Xuanjie Lieutenant Li * named Gao Shaoyuan to be seconded to the Fenglin Mountain Army to listen to it, but his tone was quite polite, saying that he asked Gao Shaoyuan to "help" in the past.

Cui Ying was simply, he told Gao Shaoyuan that if his family was unhappy, no one could force him to go back to the state city, Li * just sent an invitation, and it was up to him to decide whether to go or not. Even if he goes back, he is seconded on official business, and the post of chief bookkeeper of Jinming County is still reserved for him.

After discussing with his mother, Gao Shaoyuan decided to go to Fenglin Mountain to have a look, not for anything else, but for Li*'s salary of five dollars a month. As the chief bookkeeper of Jiupin County, Gao Shaoyuan's monthly salary is the same as when Li * first served as the team leader, and the monthly salary is two hanging, and the mother and son are barely making ends meet, and five hangings is a very considerable income for Gao Shaoyuan.

The weather warmed up, Gao Shaoyuan kept seeing farmers ploughing the fields on both sides of the post road on the way back to Zhoucheng, this scene he had not seen for many years, the population loss in Yanzhou was extremely serious in these years, and there were fewer and fewer farmers working in the fields. As the most basic county official, Gao Shaoyuan was also extremely worried about this problem, but on the one hand, the Zhangwu army could not stop the southward movement of the party members, and on the other hand, the county did not have spare money to recruit displaced people to reclaim the famine and replace the farmers who went out to flee the famine.

Along the way, a few people in the fields made Gao Shaoyuan's mood gradually improve, although he still didn't quite understand what it was for this Li Inspector, who was already famous in Yanzhou's nine counties, to seconded him, but the five-hanging Yuelu still made him full of expectations for this new job that was about to be acquired. His mother had never made new clothes since his father was killed, and Gao Shaoyuan decided that he must buy a decent new dress for his mother during this trip to Yanzhou.

After entering Dongcheng, Gao Shaoyuan went to the county government to meet Qin Gu, but was told that Qin Mingfu had gone out of the city to the southern suburbs to go to the camp of the Zhejia Army.

Not only Qin Gu was not there, but the county magistrate and the county master of Fushi County were not there, and after looking for a long time, I found Chen Shutong, the county lieutenant of Fushi, who was about to lead a large group of all kinds of people and others who were about to go out.

The two of them knew each other, and as soon as Chen Shutong saw Gao Shaoyuan, he hurriedly bowed his hand: "Oh, it turned out to be Brother Qizheng, when did you come?" Have you ever eaten? So and so, he ordered the kitchen to prepare the meal......"

Gao Shaoyuan looked at the dozen or so people behind him, some of them were dressed in moon-white robes and looked proudly like Confucians, and some were sloppy and slightly stronger than beggars, but most of them were carrying a small wooden box, and a bitter aroma of mugwort leaves pierced his nose, and he suddenly understood in his heart - this is a group of Langzhong who practice medicine.

He couldn't care about the strangeness in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhida doesn't have to bother, the younger brother has already eaten on the road, when will Qin Mingfu come back, the younger brother has something important to look for him......"

Chen Shutong was stunned, shook his head and said: "When I went to the Ming Mansion, I didn't say the time to come back, if the old brother sat down in the back office first, I sent someone to find the Ming Mansion." At this moment, there is something on business, I want to go up Fenglin Mountain for a walk, and when I come back in the evening, I will wash the dust with Brother Qizheng......"

When Gao Shaoyuan heard him say the word "Fenglin Mountain", his heart moved, and he couldn't help but say tentatively: "But go to the Li patrol camp?" ”

Chen Shutong smiled bitterly and said: "Exactly, today no matter what, these eleven Langzhong doctors must be sent to the camp, otherwise Qin Mingfu and even Li Guan will be looking for a certain person, Brother Qizheng, you invite you to the Houya first, and you will come back in two to three hours......

Gao Shaoyuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Coincidentally, the junior brother is also about to go to the Fenglin Mountain camp to meet this Li Inspector, if Brother Zhida doesn't think the younger brother is cumbersome, how about the same road?" ”

Chen Shutong was stunned for a moment, with a slightly surprised look on his face, hesitated for a long time, then looked back at these doctors behind him, pulled Gao Shaoyuan's sleeve to the side, and said in a low voice: "Qizheng, you probably don't know this Li Inspector, there was a fierce scene in the state city a few years ago, and even Gao Shizhong was forced to vomit blood by him, and he was an extremely ruthless character." I heard that Gao Yanei planned to harm him before, he hated the people of the Gao family the most, it is said that his command is all murderous outlaws, lawless, if you don't have something important, it's better not to hang in front of him, in case he ...... The high servant is afraid and doesn't dare to seek revenge for you......"

Gao Shaoyuan smiled: "It's okay, this time he specially seconded our army to listen to it." The waiter offended him, how can I not blame the head of this remote branch, the little brother thanks to Brother Zhida for his kindness, the time is not early, if Brother Zhida still wants to come back for dinner, we are afraid that it is time to leave......"

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After a few years, Gao Shaoyuan has not enjoyed the scenery on the banks of the Yan River for a long time, and this time when he came out of the east gate, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up. On both sides of the originally barren and uninhabited road, there were a group of simple adobe houses, and peasants in ragged clothes were busy working in front of and behind the houses, and in the distance, a slope slightly higher than the road had been leveled, but they did not know what to do.

"This is the prototype of the camp in the east of the homeless people, Qin Ming Mansion is preparing to build a camp here that is enough for more than 1,000 people to live, and take the opportunity to reclaim the surrounding abandoned slopes, which is not far from the Yanhe River, and the irrigation is relatively convenient, if it can be completed as scheduled, this year's rations may be able to increase the production by a large amount......" seemed to know what he was thinking, Chen Shutong sighed and explained.

Gao Shaoyuan nodded, but did not answer, just frowning and looking at the surrounding scene.

Walking along the road under the mountain, the terrain gradually increased, and the scattered adobe houses in his eyes gradually increased, some of them were located on the slopes in the mountain col, and the number and density of cultivators were much higher than what Gao Shaoyuan had seen all the way, Gao Shaoyuan was secretly surprised, and pointed and asked: "These are also the displaced people taken in by the Qin Ming Mansion?" ”

Chen Shutong shook his head with a smile: "No, these are military reclamation households, and they are tenants belonging to the Fenglin Mountain camp......"

"The army also recruits tenants?" Gao Shaoyuan was taken aback.

"Haha, Qizheng has just come back from another county, so it's not surprising that he doesn't know. This kind act of sheltering and recruiting displaced people as tenants of public land was originally started from the Fenglin Mountain camp, and this Li Inspector seems to be not only a good hand at leading troops, but now there are nearly 1,300 homeless people living near his old camp, which is more than the homeless camp set up by the Ming Mansion outside the east gate......

Gao Shaoyuan looked around in surprise and said with a wry smile: "How much ration do these many homeless people consume every day...... It's still the state wall cangliao, if Jin Ming had sheltered a lot of homeless people in one go, the cangli would have been eaten up a long time ago......"

Chen Shutong glanced at him, and also shook his head and smiled bitterly.

While speaking, the group had already walked halfway up the hillside, turned a loess mound in front, and there were two soldiers in armor standing on both sides of the road, one of whom was a slightly taller soldier with a sign nailed up with a wooden plank, and a few large characters were written on the sign, which was the four words "military forbidden zone".

"Stop, who's coming?" The smaller of the two soldiers shouted with a glare.

Gao Shaoyuan and Chen Shutong looked at each other, both of them were wearing pale cyan official uniforms and wearing foot-stretching heads, and the little soldier standing guard seemed to turn a blind eye, and the look on his face was full of vigilance and vigilance.

"I'm here to give you a gift, so don't you get out of the way!" Chen Shutong shouted unhappily.

"Inform the name!" The little man didn't buy it at all, and still shouted fiercely.

Seeing that Chen Shu was about to have a seizure, Gao Shaoyuan stopped him in time: "Brother Zhida, don't be discouraged, business matters are important......"

As he spoke, he dusted off the sleeves of his robe, stepped forward and said, "Up and down, please go to the camp to pay respects, Chen, the county lieutenant of Fushi, and Gao, the chief bookkeeper of Jinming County, came to pay respects......"

"Chen? Gao? The little man rolled his eyes, "Didn't you name them?" ”

"Bold ——!" Chen Shutong snorted, stepped forward and said: "Hidden for the superior, hidden for the venerable, didn't your house inspection teach you the etiquette of respect and humility?" ”

Although Gao Shaoyuan was also a little displeased, he didn't open his mouth, only looked up and down at the soldier standing guard, and turned his head to look at the tall man who was still standing in place and didn't move, but saw that this person's two eyes were still looking at the corner of the mountain road, and he didn't even sweep the corners of his eyes to his side, as if this quarrel had nothing to do with him.

Just when Gao Shaoyuan secretly claimed to be surprised, the stiff voice of the little soldier came into his ears again: "I don't understand what you said, if you refuse to identify yourself, I can't report it, retreat-"

As he spoke, the little soldier waved the wooden gun in his hand and swept it sideways, startling Chen Shutong to retreat quickly and almost fall. But seeing that the little soldier just drew a horizontal line on the ground, his face was milder at the moment, and his tone was not so stiff: "It seems that you are all people with status, I will kindly remind you, don't cross this line if you don't have the password, otherwise the secret sentry will release arrows, and it will not be good to hurt you!" ”

Gao Shaoyuan's heart became more and more interesting, and he smiled and asked, "Is this one peak on this mountain so tightly defended?" There are only two of you sentry posts on this road, isn't it a bit less? ”

The little soldier gave him a blank look, and replied stiffly: "Military secrets, no comment!" ”

Gao Shaoyuan didn't think anything of it, Chen Shutong was already annoyed: "Qizheng, let's go back, Li * asks someone, let him go to the county government to bring ......"

Gao Shaoyuan grabbed Chen Shutong: "Zhida - don't lose a big ...... because of a small one"

He arched his hand and said to the little soldier: "Go to your family to command the lord, just say that the Jinming County chief bookkeeper Gao Shaoyuan he named has arrived, he naturally knows!" ”

The little soldier looked at him, turned around and shouted, "Zhao Liang——! ”

"Whoa—" A soldier who was also dressed in infantry armor and armed with a spear suddenly emerged from among the trees, and he trotted all the way to the soldier, stood upright, and then held the spear diagonally to his chest.

The soldier who gave the order picked up the spear in the same posture, and then stepped out of his right foot in a dashing manner, turned around beautifully, and walked to the center of the official road, and the soldier named Zhao Liang who had just run over raised his left leg flat, his toes were straight, and he stepped into the original position of the soldier who gave the order, and then turned back and stood with the gun.

The little soldier said to Gao Shaoyuan: "You wait here, don't act rashly, be careful that you don't play if you are injured, I will go up and pass through-"

As he spoke, he turned and strode up the mountain road, only to dodge and disappear behind the trees that had begun to bloom.

Gao Shaoyuan shook his head with a smile, and turned back to Chen Shu: "This Li Inspector is a little stricter than his grandfather......

Chen Shutong snorted and said stupidly: "Even the etiquette and humility are abolished, what is the use of governing the army strictly?" ”

Gao Shaoyuan smiled: "Brother Zhida, don't be annoyed, since you are in the army, naturally everything must be forbidden, otherwise the army will not be an army, who let you and I come to the one acre and three points of land for this inspection?" ”

Chen Shutong said disdainfully: "I have also been to the camp of the Zhe family, and the division of a hundred battles is not as big as the rules, this Li Patrol Inspector, can he really make this small cottage into a fine willow camp?" ”

Gao Shaoyuan smiled faintly: "Since we have arrived at the Xiliu Camp, we will be less peaceful and impatient, and we must always see what this Zhou Yafu looks like, otherwise wouldn't we have come in vain?" ”

Chen Shutong suddenly laughed: "Yes, yes, this person has been to the county government several times, all of them were received by Qin Ming Mansion, although I have seen it, but I have never spoken, today I might as well learn a lesson or two, and see the military prestige of this good man who is angry and bloody......

"Oh——?" Gao Shaoyuan suddenly became interested, "Zhida has seen this inspector?" ”

"Not bad!" Chen Shutong smiled, "That yen is Zheng, I saw him once in the Li Observation Mansion, and that time he wore an official uniform, but it looked more appropriate......

"I wonder what this inspector looks like?" Gao Shaoyuan asked with interest.

"Ha, I'm half a head shorter than Qizheng, I'm thin, and I don't have the slightest sense of strength—" Chen Shutong smiled without scruples.

"Ah——?h Gao Shaoyuan suddenly smiled bitterly, this colleague really doesn't save face for his future boss.

"Which one is Mr. Gao from Jin Minglai?"

Gao Shaoyuan was taken aback by this sudden question, and when he turned around, he saw a gray-faced man wearing a military gown running down the mountain road, looking at Chen Shutong and Gao Shaoyuan while running.

Seeing this person running down, Gao Chen and the others were stunned, but the two sentries made the most direct response, standing upright, the spear was tucked away on the left side, the right hand clenched into a fist and flattened the chest to salute inward, and saluted in unison: "Your Excellency——! ”

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