Xia Dushi shook his head and said: "I don't know yet, but it is said that it is an official who was directly sent down from the capital and has nothing to do with our Shanxi family." ”

Li Xin looked into Xia Dushi's eyes, trying to find a clue in his gaze, judging whether what he said was the truth or not all the truth. In the end, he saw the same doubt in Xia Dushi's eyes, a prefect's candidate involves all aspects, and I believe that there should be many people who lobby around like Xia Dushi.

It's a pity that those who are dizzy have forgotten that the Ming Dynasty has been using literature and military since the founding of the country, although the Shanxi Xingdu Sifu is subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and directly obeys the orders of the Ministry of War, and it is higher than the level of the Datong Prefect, but in fact, it has been clamped down in many ways, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to compete with the huge civilian group. What's more, in the Shanxi Xingdu Division, there are a very considerable number of civil officials who hold various important positions.

Li Xin remained silent, and made up his mind to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and now the only thing he needs to consider is how to send this goods away comfortably, neither offending anyone, nor promising him anything.

Qian Tai's thoughts are surprisingly similar to Li Xin's, he doesn't think that the Sanwei General Military Mansion is the best way to hug the thigh of the Dusi Mansion now, and the Tongzhi Lord is now continuing to be the vanguard and the first bird, no matter how the General Soldier sees it, it is this kind of role. He shook his head imperceptibly and signaled Li Xin not to lightly agree to the questions that Xia Du might ask, but Li Xin didn't look at him as if he hadn't seen it.

Seeing that Xia Du was a little cold, he laughed dryly twice, let out a long breath, and said, "Full of wine and food, let's go around." Qian Tai finally seized the opportunity and stopped Li Xin first.

"The chief soldier still has urgent affairs to deal with at the checkpoint in the afternoon, so the accompanying task will be handed over to the Wei Si Yamen, and the subordinate will definitely greet the general!"

Li Xin saw that Qian Tai was frequently glaring at him behind Xia Dushi's back, so he understood his intentions a little, so he got off the donkey, afraid of his brain.

"Oh, if Governor Qian didn't say it, he would have almost delayed the big thing."

Xia Dushi is also a delicate and transparent person, naturally he will not, and he has no position to force someone to pull a dignified three-grade general soldier to accompany him to a seven-grade capital.

"Lord Commander, please take care of yourself, Xia is nothing more than a formality, and you can go back to your life after seeing it."

Looking at the back of Xia Dushi going out of the gate with Qian Tai, Li Xin remembered that he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, this time he came, there must be something that he didn't say. This can be thought of with the toes, and it is nothing more than the idea of a large number of goods confiscated by the merchants.

I don't know when the monk Jiexiu stood behind Li Xin, since he arrived at Zhenyuwei, this great monk has become very low-key. I just listened to him say coldly:

"Donor Mingjian, this Qian Tai is very suspicious, and you must guard against it."

Li Xin felt quite strange, "Why did the great monk say this?" ”

"According to the news obtained from reliable sources, this guy hooked up with the Dushi surnamed Xia long before the donor came to Zhenwei, and there may be some behind-the-scenes transactions between the two."

Li Xin's eyes lit up, he first came to the door of the whole hall, slammed the door shut, and then turned back, and asked in a slightly lower voice: "So, your work has begun to play a role?" Let's talk about it, how credible is the news about Qian Tai? ”

Monk Jiexiu seems to be low-key, but in fact, he is not idle for half a minute, especially between Datong Mansion and Zhenyuwei, Li Xin previously handed over all the money at the bottom of the box to him. Therefore, the courage and responsibility of his trip to Datong are also very heavy. To put it bluntly, Li Xin is ready to let Jiexiu do intelligence work for him. If you want to gain a foothold in troubled times, in addition to wealth and military strength, there is another indispensable, that is, intelligence work, many events occur, at any time because you know the intelligence first, so as to make the most favorable decisions.

When Li Xin told him about this task, he repeatedly agreed, which shows that Li Xin has successfully changed from his initial dislike to trust. And this trip to Datong, except for contacting merchants, found nothing, but bought an important person in the capital's mansion.

"Nine times out of ten, the only thing that is uncertain now is what kind of collusion he has with the surnamed Xia. Originally, he saw that he was quite down-to-earth, thinking about whether the news was wrong, but just now seeing that he rushed to accompany Nadu alone, the poor monk was puzzled again. All in all, the donor must be on guard against this person. ”

It was the first time Li Xin had heard that Qian Tai and the Dusi Mansion had an inexplicable relationship, but he had a better and better sense of Qian Tai and his people, especially in the first few days of the first lunar month, so he wrote it down for the time being, and found an opportunity to talk to him in detail another day.

Li Xin left it as an excuse, and seeing that there was nothing to do here, he prepared to go to the military camp of No. A for training in the next subject. set up the monk Jiexiu, but he grabbed him again.

"Donor, slow!"

"What?"

"The funds are gone, can you allocate some more?"

Li Xin had a headache, and the monk Jiexiu caught up with the money, but since he had already started, he couldn't give up halfway, so he had to respond, and then asked:

"Now you have a charter?"

Monk Jiexiu smiled mysteriously.

"The donor doesn't know yet, the poor monk has collected all kinds of characters from the three religions and nine streams, and he is ready to train and then go out......"

Li Xin never asked about the details of the matter handed over to Jiexiu, and couldn't help but laugh secretly when he said this, it seems that this thing is really born to engage in intelligence work, and knows how to train a group of his own descendants, which should be equivalent to the military command training class of Lao Jiang back then. Thinking of this, I feel that the reputation of the military commander is not good, and it is appropriate to call the underground party. Then he couldn't help laughing, it is the Ming Dynasty, looking up and down the court, inside and outside the Great Wall, all parties obviously despise intelligence work.

I have been at the forefront of this aspect, and with such a secret team, I can get twice the result with half the effort. Thinking of this, a thought jumped out again, Jiexiu has rarely heard him in his ears in recent days about rebellion and self-reliance, isn't there a new errand, and his attention has been diverted? But just a moment later, Li Xin knew that he was wrong again.

"The poor monk also has a word, the accumulation of troops, the accumulation of grain two points, the latter is particularly important, Shanxi produces little grain, most of them have to be transported from other places, for the future long-term, the donor also has to make a plan......

Jiexiu's words have been calloused in his ears for a long time, not to mention that he knows it by heart. Food is important, but an elite army is even more rare. Li Xin fell down and chattered Jiexiu, and went straight to the A-line barracks after leaving the Weisi Yamen.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the barracks, I saw the old ironworker of the ironwork and two little apprentices pulling three carts to rest under the door, the carts were covered with tarpaulin, and the bulges below were full of goods. Although the old ironworker came, his eyes were very sharp, and he saw Li Xin from a distance, and quickly knelt on the ground and saluted.

The ground was covered with ice and snow, how could Li Xin let the old ironworker kneel down, and he approached in three steps and two steps to support him. He pointed to two carts full of goods and said, "How many spears have I wanted?" Are these these? ”

The old ironworker nodded slightly.

"No more, no less, exactly five hundred, although there are still five hundred left, it's just that the old man heard that the chief soldier was training and didn't have the weapons he had in hand, so he pulled all the spears that were rushed."

As he spoke, the old ironsmith grabbed the corner of the tarpaulin on the cart beside him, and exerted all his strength, only to hear a loud bang, and the tarpaulin was lifted off, revealing a brand-new spear underneath, and the shiny iron spear head glittered in the dazzling sunlight.

Li Xin was a little excited, since he came to the Ming Dynasty, whether it was in Gaoyang, or now the Zhenwei guard, there are not many people who can do something sincerely, and the old ironworker in front of him is one.

"The old man is hard, if you need anything, just go to the Weisi Yamen to get it!"

The old ironworker waved his hand repeatedly, "Enough, enough, the pig iron and charcoal sent by the adults years ago have not been used up until now." ”

The guards at the gate found that Li Xin was here, and quickly opened the door, and the old ironworker and the two apprentices pulled up the cart and slowly entered the barracks.

On the school field, the soldiers were training in full swing, and the trumpets shouted loudly, and after a few days, the basic passwords were basically shouted, but when it came to the turning, forward, and backward actions of the overall queue, which seemed to Li Xin to be extremely simple, they made a mess. As a result, when training the Minzhuang queue in Gaoyang, the trouble encountered was the same.

Li Xin later figured it out, not that the ancients were stupid, but he couldn't even understand the essentials of these movements after practicing for a few days. It's that they feel that this thing is useless, and instead of strenuous practice, it is better to be lazy and accumulate strength to practice the skill of killing the enemy. Therefore, after he learned about this reason, he immediately came up with a countermeasure.

Divide the 500 town guards in the A-brand barracks into 500-man teams, each team has a temporary team officer, and when the training queue changes, if one person makes a mistake, the entire 100-person team will be trained together, and so on. At the same time, he ordered each team to send a supervisor to supervise the mistakes of the other teams.

This move can not be described as ruthless, the most unlucky of them is Gu Shixi's hundred-man team, because Gu Shixi's hundred-man team has offended many people on weekdays, the big guys have rounded their eyes to see that his hundred-man team has made mistakes. Although Gu Shishi is extremely strong and meticulous in his actions, the team of 100 people under him is uneven.

However, in one morning's effort, his team of 100 people has been trained nearly 100 times, even if he doesn't sleep for a day and a night, I'm afraid he won't be able to finish the training. Too much additional training is secondary, mainly because I can't afford to lose this person.

Gu Shishi was very annoyed, so he said, whoever makes a mistake again, don't blame him for turning his face and ruthlessly denying people. Everyone had a sense of fear, and the effect of the training soon came out.

Li Xin entered the school field with two large carts of pikes at this time.

"Stop, stop, start firing guns!"