Although this competition is only a competition, it also tests the difference between the Yong'an Army and other local garrison officers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are not many armies in the Ming Dynasty that can draw a person to a draw with the Guanning Army, although it is a point to stop, but as a businessman, Niu Peng saw the potential of the Yongan Army and Xiao Yi's possible career in the future.

With such an army in hand, why can't you rise to prominence?

After getting the words of the Yong'an Army soldier, he hurried to the lobby, but Xiao Yi was not in the hall, so he had to wait.

At this time, he had been waiting for more than an hour of incense, but he still didn't see Xiao Yi coming, his fat body couldn't sit still anymore, and he got up and walked back and forth in the hall anxiously.

He asked a servant girl standing respectfully on the side, "When will the Lord Guard come back?" ”

The maid glanced at Niu Peng and said softly, "Adults usually stay in this lobby until the second half of the night, and they should be going to inspect at this time." ”

Niu Peng nodded, making sure that Xiao Yi could come back, he was no longer in a hurry, and sat down again to pick up the tea on the table.

Finally, after more than an hour, when it was getting late, there was a knocking sound of armor leaves outside the door, and Niu Peng was about to fall asleep, and the tea had already been drunk.

Hearing the sound at the door, he stood up abruptly, and looked blankly at the armored generals who walked into the hall.

Xiao Yi was very excited after getting Cao Wenzhao's assurance, and he wanted to tell Huang E immediately, so he immediately asked Huang Yang to pick up Huang E to Peach Blossom Castle.

When he thought of Huang E, he couldn't wait to see her.

Huang Yang was also very happy, and took more than a dozen people to Changning Town to pick up Huang E happily.

Now that it has been decided to suppress the bandits, the aftermath must be arranged, although the gold will not be deducted in the past two years, and there are not many bandits left nearby.

However, he went to suppress the peasant army, the peasant army was like locusts, although there was no great combat effectiveness, but the number of people was always in the thousands, this time Xiao was also ready to bring the troops of the three outposts, and only a small number of Peach Blossom Fort were left behind, and the defense of Peach Blossom Fort was weak and could not relax their vigilance.

This is Xiao Yi's hometown, and he can't be sloppy.

Peach Blossom Fort has not yet built a pier guard, and a few days ago I was busy quelling the chaos and distributing salaries and fields, so I didn't have time to think about it.

The craftsmen transferred from Yong'an Fort and Changning Town have also arrived for a few days, and Xiao Yi handed over this matter to Shi Lu to do, he asked Shi Lu to run more diligently in the past two days, and make arrangements after surveying and establishing the location of the pier guard.

Shi Ludang even hugged his fists and agreed, and then left to start preparing.

And Shi Gang, Xiao also made him guilty of choosing the personnel who stayed behind and accompanied the army, Shi Gang often joked with those captains when he didn't train on weekdays, he knew the things in the army best, and it was right to leave this matter to him.

Shi Gang immediately hugged his fists and left to go to the barracks.

Xiao also instructed Liu Sheng and Wang Dayong to strengthen the nearby sentinels in the past two days, and step up training at night, and he specially said a few words to Zhou Baotai Wenyan, so that he could prepare to follow him to the state capital.

Zhou Baotai felt Xiao Yi's trust in him, with tears in his eyes, and firmly agreed.

After that, Xiao Yi went to the workshop in the fort again, and nodded and left when he saw the obvious changes in the workshop.

But when I heard the sound of tinkling in the workshop, and saw these craftsmen sweating and making knives and guns, I no longer had this idea.

The craftsmen in the workshop did not know that they had just escaped, otherwise they would have been glad for it.

Xiao also looked around the fort and found that the people were still immersed in the daytime competition, and every family had done farm work for a day, and the after-dinner gossip when they returned home was all about it.

There were already some old people on both sides of the street, they watched their children come back from the fields, and they were chatting about today's competition, and they were not afraid to see Xiao Yi, and greeted Xiao Yi with a smile.

At this time, Xiao Yi looked at the appearance of Niu Peng in front of him, Niu Peng was standing there swayingly, although he looked at himself, his eyes were dull and he had no energy.

Gu Lin and Qi Zhan behind Xiao Yi were also puzzled, glanced at each other, and both saw doubts in each other's eyes.

The maid on the side watched the reaction of Xiao Yi and the others, and also snickered on the side.

Xiao Yi didn't care about the maidservant, but just opened his mouth to ask, "This... How long has he waited? ”

The maidservant replied softly, "My lord, it's been more than two hours." ”

Xiao Yi chuckled, looked at Niu Peng's sleepy appearance, walked in front of Niu Peng and patted him lightly on the shoulder.

I saw Niu Peng suddenly come to his senses, rubbed his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Xiao Yi, and there were two generals with helmets behind Xiao Yi.

Only then did he come back to his senses, and he hurriedly lay on the ground, frightened: "Big, the adult is back, and the little one almost fell asleep..."

Xiao Yihaha laughed, sat back in his seat, and asked, "Is the proprietor of the cow here for the purpose of cultivating the cattle?" ”

Niu Peng also sat back in his chair and regained his spirits, and then he smiled and said, "Yes and no." ”

Xiao Yi sighed, what else does this Niu Peng do?

"Tell me, this official listens!"

Niu Peng gritted his teeth, seemed to have made up his mind, and said: "Don't dare, the small one is here to tell the adults a good news, the price of the cow has been negotiated, as long as five taels a head!" ”

Xiao Yi couldn't help but ask in surprise when he heard it: "Is it really only five taels?" ”

Originally, the negotiated price was seven taels and one head, which is also a normal cattle price, but Niu Peng actually only needs five taels and one head, and he has saved nearly a thousand taels of silver this time and again, which can not tolerate Xiao Yi unhappy.

Niu Peng smiled and said, "Only five taels!" But when he said this, his heart was dripping blood, more than eight hundred taels of silver, and he ran away in vain these times, but thinking of this help for the future, he was also relieved at the moment.

That night, Xiao Yi sent Niu Peng away, he looked at Niu Peng's round body, but he walked on the road with flying steps, he couldn't figure it out.

Isn't this transaction Niu Peng's big loss?

But why this guy still looks very happy, this businessman's mind is really hard to fathom, but as long as he doesn't suffer, it's fine.

Then Xiao Yi's eyes became gloomy again, everything else before leaving was a trivial matter, but there was one thing, Xiao Yi would not leave with peace of mind if he didn't handle it well.

……

In the afternoon of the same day, half an hour after Cao Wenzhao left the Taohuabao campus, Guan Ning's army rushed to Ulzhou City.

When Bai Chong'an, who was the chief of Ulzhou at the time, heard that Cao Wenzhao had entered the territory of Ulzhou, he was not worried, and he was not even ready to greet him, because he never imagined that Cao Wenzhao would actually return to Ulzhou City.

At that time, Bai Chongan was lying on the bench enjoying the service of the maidservant behind him, not to mention how comfortable, when he suddenly received a report that Cao Wenzhao's army had arrived in the city, he was so shocked that he almost didn't roll off the chair.

He couldn't believe his ears, why didn't Cao Wenzhao hurry up to suppress the bandits, what did he do here?

This Cao Wenzhao is the second rank of the deputy chief military officer of Yansui East Road, and he is the order of Chongzhen, and he is a small commander from the third grade, although he has added ethics, but he is still a subordinate in front of Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao had already arrived in the city, and he didn't even go out of the city to greet him, which was not in line with the rules at all, even if he was convicted, he had nothing to say.

At the moment, the monkey was anxious to put on the official uniform, but the house that was calm just now was a chicken flying and a dog jumping, he took the seal letter, and called someone to call Wang Zhan of Shizhizhou.

Wang Zhan was also startled when he heard Cao Wenzhao coming, although he was a civil official, he still needed to go out of the city to greet the deputy general of Qin's order.

He also hurriedly dressed up and summoned a group of civil officials, including his acquaintance Zheng Wenju and Zhou Youcheng, to go out of the city to greet him.

I happened to see a bunch of generals in front of the door, the generals were still wearing regular clothes and panicked, and the civil officials saw that the generals were all flustered before, showing a proud look waiting for something, and the military attaches saw the civil officials all smiling and saluting to let them go first.

Seeing Bai Chongan, he was followed by his cronies Li Erniu and Xu Feng, Wang Zhan smiled lightly at Bai Chongan and expressed politeness, and then hurried out the door. (To be continued.) )