The sixth day of the fourth month of the eighth year of Chongzhen

A small cyan sedan chair was carried into the gate of Qingzhou Mansion, and around this small sedan chair stood more than a dozen soldiers wearing the red mandarin duck battle jackets of the Ming army, they carried waist knives around their waists, spears in their hands, felt hats on their heads, and several soldiers also carried a strong crossbow on their backs. They were ordered to send the concubine of the Qingzhou prefect Wei Tongnian back to Qingzhou this time, and Pang Gang and others reported the good news by the way.

This time, almost all the troops of the Lingshan Guard were wiped out, and even the thousand households and deputy thousand households were also killed, which was really a shame for all the Lingshan Wei officers, so the remaining hundred generals of the Lingshan Guard almost broke their heads in order to grab the beauty difference that escorted the concubine of the Qingzhou prefect back to Qingzhou to report the good news.

None of them are stupid, and they are all thieves with small calculations in their hearts. At present, although the thousand households and deputy thousand households of Lingshanwei were all killed in battle, although they are inescapable of being blamed as subordinates, it also means that the two vacant positions are also vacant. Although the positions above the deputy thousand households in the Ming Dynasty guard are generally hereditary, but our He Qianhu who died in battle gave birth to them without a handle, and Zhao Daxian did not have an heir when he died, so the question arises, who will take over the vacant position? Obviously, it is naturally up to the commander of Qingzhou to decide. Although the appointment of military attachés at the rank of 1,000 households and above was assigned by the Ministry of War, the recommendation of the Qingzhou prefect and the commander of the capital, who were the direct superiors of the Lingshan Guard, was also very important. Therefore, in order to compete for who will send the concubine of the Qingzhou prefect back to invite merit, the errand has become a big hit, and several hundreds of households are fighting for it.

Since there was no Shangguan in charge, no one was convinced, so they almost did it, and in the end, everyone had no choice but to ask the party, that is, the little lady who was rescued, to choose by herself. Who knew that the final result surprised everyone, this delicate little lady actually chose Pang Gang, who rescued him from the tiger's mouth, as his accompanying guard.

This result made all the officers of the guard dumbfounded, although the result was very unexpected, but the officers found that it was not unacceptable after pondering in their hearts, although this kid who had just entered the military had made great contributions, but he had just arrived, and there was naturally no threat to them to compete for the position of a thousand households, so the officers also pinched their noses and accepted the result, and sent this lucky boy to send people to Qingzhou.

Pang Gang, who was smashed by this unexpected pie, also specially borrowed a brand-new mandarin duck jacket from Bin Shiqian, and handled the waist card and other things, and also asked him for more than a dozen tun soldiers such as Da Zhuang and Gou Yu as accompanying guards. Because he owed Pang Gang an adult invitation, Bin Shiqian did not embarrass Pang Gang, and happily agreed.

After entering the towering city wall of Qingzhou City, Gou Yu and others were shocked by the prosperity of Qingzhou Mansion. As one of the ancient Kyushu states in China and an important metropolitan city in Shandong Province, Qingzhou has profound historical and cultural resources, and the provincial government offices, the Confucian Temple, the Examination Institute, the Inner and Outer City God Temple, the Wu Temple and other government offices are arranged here, with a population of more than 500,000 people.

Looking at the people coming and going bluestone paving and the merchants who continue to pass by, Da Zhuang these dirt buns who have never entered the city feel that their eyes are not enough, even Pang Gang can't help but sigh the achievements of the ancients four hundred years ago, and Pang Gang in later generations has also come to Qingzhou, but in the ancient city of Qingzhou in the later generations because of many wars, the original buildings can no longer be seen, and now at first glance seeing this antique city, Pang Gang can't help but have a feeling like a dream.

"Pang Zhuangshi, Pang Zhuangshi" A weak voice came from the sedan chair next to him.

Pang Gang hurriedly probed over, "What does Madame command?" ”

The prefect's concubine was very kind to Pang Gang, the life-saving benefactor: "Please tell the sedan chair man to cross the street and turn right, enter the prefect's yamen and enter the back door, and hand this waist card to the porter, they will naturally let you in." After speaking, a small white hand stretched out from the sedan chair, and there was a waist card carved from cyan jade in the palm of his hand.

Pang Gang hurriedly took it, feeling the residual warmth on the jade plate, and thought to himself, "Damn, this little hand looks very real and good, but it's a pity that this good cabbage was arched by the pig of Wang Haozi, and the hat on the head of our prefect is only a little green." ”

With evil thoughts, our Comrade Pang Gang quickly came to the door of the Qingzhou prefect's yamen according to the instructions, and when Pang Gang put up the waist card to the two officials guarding the door with a straight face and explained his intentions, the faces of the guards obviously changed, and one of them immediately rushed inside. After a while, a large group of servants and maids came out of it and welcomed the sedan chair in, and Pang Gang and others were also taken to a side hall to serve tea.

After arriving at the side hall and sitting down, soon a few maids came forward to serve tea, and everyone originally thought that they would be entertained with delicious food and drink, but Pang Gang and the others waited for more than an hour and no one came up. It was soon past noon, and everyone's stomachs were already hungry, but no one came to greet them.

The short-tempered Li Yuan couldn't help but scolded in the side hall, "These officials are ungrateful, we worked hard to send people for him, but he was reluctant to give us even a meal, I knew it was like this, I might as well put it"

"Shut up!" Pang Gang glared at the reckless teenager and said, "Hugh is presumptuous, don't forget our identity. ”

It would be false to say that Pang Gang was not angry after suffering such treatment, but he knew that his current identity was just a small soldier, and he had no qualifications to lose his temper with others, not to mention that if he let others hear what he said just now, it would only bring unpredictable consequences to himself, so Pang just scolded Li Yuan harshly. And Li Yuan had a fear of Pang Gang after being beaten by himself, and he didn't dare to disobey Pang Gang's words along the way.

After a while, there was finally a commotion from outside, and then a group of people walked in, led by a middle-aged man wearing a red official uniform embroidered with a cloud goose on his chest, with a long beard about forty years old, and next to him also walked a military general, wearing a vermilion official uniform, with the flying leopard embroidery of the third-grade military attaché, wearing a delicate unicorn bronze medal around his waist, and his eyes were calm and soft. Behind them were four guards.

Pang Gang knew that the person wearing such clothes in Qingzhou must be the prefect of Qingzhou, Wei Tongnian, and the top boss of his top boss, and the Qingzhou Mansion commanded Song Xinghe.

Pang Gang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stood up and stepped forward to kowtow to all the adults according to the sergeant's salute. Da Zhuang and several others were also very excited, and followed closely behind Pang Gang to pay homage.

Song Xinghe said softly: "You all get up!" ”

After that, he raised his hand falsely, and Pang Gang and the others naturally took advantage of the situation.

After Song Xinghe waited for Pang Gang and the others to get up, he took a closer look at Pang Gang, and saw that although his face was white, his expression was resolute, and he looked burly and bearded, and he couldn't help but say happily: "He is worthy of being a warrior who can break the thief soldiers, and he is indeed a hero." ”

Song Xinghe was a military general and behaved elegantly. But after staying in the top position for a long time, there was naturally a majesty in his voice, and at the same time, it was accompanied by an awe-inspiring momentum, which shocked Da Zhuang, Li Yuan and others a little speechless.

Pang Gang, on the other hand, felt a familiar smell, something like the feeling he felt when he saw the leader in later generations. Secretly biting his tongue, trying to calm himself down, he secretly cheered himself up in his heart, "What are you afraid of, aren't these people just being officials for a few years, and their buddies will not be worse than them in the future." ”

After calming down and calming down, Pang Gang clasped his fists and said loudly: "My lord has an overreputation, at this time when the country is in many disasters, Pang Gang and others are the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they can only repay the country's kindness with death, even if they die on the battlefield, they are just a horse leather shroud!" ”

"Huh"

As soon as Pang Gang finished saying this, someone on the other side couldn't help but hear a soft exclamation

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