Chapter 22: Call Daddy!
"Eh, don't pull me, I can go by myself..."
Shi Geng pulled the king order and fled quickly.
After these two third-class city servants left, Du Mingtang put down the file in his hand, and his cold gaze swept over the six principals one by one, but he didn't speak, and finally his gaze stopped on Zuo Yucheng.
"How's the injury?"
His tone was extremely cold, far from the meaning of concern in words, and he didn't ask Zuo Yucheng how he was injured and why he was injured, but asked him if he was seriously injured, and he didn't intend to make decisions for Zuo Yucheng.
Zuo Yucheng lowered his head and clenched his fists: "It's just a small injury, and the subordinates are fine." β
The corners of Wang Dianyu's mouth provoked a touch of arc, and he snorted lightly, expressing disdain for Zuo Yucheng's words.
His cold snort was not loud, but it clearly fell into the ears of several general flags and Du Mingtang present.
The latter turned his head slightly, and glanced at this subordinate who didn't know how to accept it, his tough face, like a cold and hard sculpture, revealed the coldness of impersonal feelings, and the whole person was not angry and arrogant.
Seeing this, the rest of the general banners felt a pang in their hearts, and Guo Chao, the general banner of the fourth room, hurriedly gave Wang Dianyu a look.
The latter, instead of relenting, dared to get up.
"Envoy, if the two people who committed the following crimes just now are severely punished, how will we serve the people in the future! I don't know why the envoy let the two of them go? β
Du Mingtang didn't answer, but looked at Bai Zhijun, the general flag of the third room, and said, "After the regular meeting, you can talk to him." β
Bai Zhijun's face was respectful and he bowed slightly: "Yes." β
Wang Dianyu was stunned, he looked at Bai Zhijun with questioning eyes, and Bai Zhijun sat there with his eyebrows lowered, making his eyes flutter, and standing there a little embarrassed.
It wasn't until Guo Chao on the side reached out and pulled his belt back to his seat that he was able to get rid of the embarrassment, but there was still unwillingness on his face.
Two ants, actually have the courage to offend themselves, the most unrelieved thing for Wang Dianyu is that piece of shit, he has always loved cleanliness, and the most unbearable thing is that he is contaminated with filth, as a city servant, walking through the streets and alleys, which is not a vulgar martial artist who is used to crawling?
But he is different, when he was still a small flag officer, he led the team to patrol the streets, it was after the rain, walking, a merchant selling groceries came head-on, the road was narrow, the merchant finally avoided the city servant led by Wang Dianyu, I thought he had escaped a catastrophe, but because of the panic to avoid the splashed mud points, it happened to fall on Wang Dianyu's boots, and was dragged to the dark alley and was beaten.
A mud idea is still like this, it can be seen to what extent he hates Wang Ling and Shi Geng, and how can he let it go?
Du Mingtang always gives people the impression of doing nothing to rule the street division, which also leads to the fact that since he took office, the power of the Liufang General Banner has grown, and Wang Dianyu has the confidence to ask him for an explanation, but Du Mingtang did not answer it openly, which made Wang Dianyu have a sense of powerlessness to hit his fist on the fist, and there was nowhere to vent the fire in his heart.
"In the past, the morning meeting was just a process with you, and it was all trivial things, but today I have two important things to discuss with you......
Everyone in the room focused their eyes on Du Mingtang, their eyes were full of curiosity, as Du Mingtang said, as long as it is not a major event, this daily routine morning meeting is just a formality, on the contrary, there is a major event to discuss, and the principals of the sixth room are curious about this.
"The thieves of the Jin State have occupied Dingzhou, although we don't have to fight on the front line, but the number of displaced people in Qingzhou City has skyrocketed, and it is the duty of the Street Division to maintain the stability of Qingzhou City, but the number of displaced people is huge, in order to prevent possible chaos in the future, Liu Bu proposed to transfer people from the Qizhou Street Division, I agreed after thinking twice, and ten days later, the Qizhou Street Division sent a general flag to lead the team to Qingzhou, accompanied by more than 100 people."
When the words fell, the smart people represented by Bai Zhijun had already figured out a lot from Du Mingtang's words.
If there is a shortage of manpower, it can be mobilized from the city defense battalion or the government office, and there is no need to transfer people from the neighboring state capital.
The six people except Du Mingtang had an extra word 'Sichuan' between their eyebrows, and their expressions were serious and depressed, as if they were facing a great enemy.
One of the most important pieces of information is that this is the proposal of Liu Pingshan, the political envoy of the Northwest Province, to know that the sub-district department is independent of the local government yamen, and the two complement each other, but they are not subordinate, whether it is the state government or the sub-district department.
And this also means that the Qizhou Street Division has taken refuge in Liu Pingshan, to be precise, the one behind Liu Pingshan, and it is difficult to guarantee that the other party has no intention of taking the opportunity to embezzle the Qingzhou Street Division.
Just when they were worried about their individual and collective prospects, Du Mingtang spoke out the second thing.
"The war in the northwest is scorching, after the loss of Wuyang Pass, our army has been defeated and retreated, has retreated to the northern boundary of Qingzhou, the grain and grass allocated by the imperial court arrived in Qingzhou this month, and now bandits are rampant in Qingzhou, and the two armies are fighting for fear of loss, General Lei sent a letter to send a letter, hoping that we can assist in the transfer of the envoy and send this batch of grain and grass to the north safely, I agreed."
Since you agreed so readily, what else are you going to discuss with us?
Including Zhang Haifeng, Guo Chao, and Wang Dianyu, they muttered in their hearts at the same time.
Zhao Hailong looked puzzled.
Zuo Yucheng pondered the reason.
Only a light smile on the corner of Bai Zhijun's mouth flickered slightly, he looked at Du Mingtang who was sitting in the hall and asked, "What does the envoy mean, which jurisdiction should someone from Qizhou take over?" Who should be responsible for transporting the grain and grass? β
Everyone suddenly, the Qizhou Street Division sent more than 100 people to Qingzhou to assist in maintaining stability, it is said that it is best to break up these people and assign them to various houses to work together, but the leader is a general flag, considering that the other party will never accept the dismantling, then it can only be divided into an area and handed over to them, which means that someone has to give up a part of the territory and is responsible for assisting in the escort of grain and grass.
Deprived of territory, but also to do the drudgery of escorting grain and grass, escort prisoners to fill the army can at least be exploited, can be demoted to the army, no matter how bad it is, it is also a gentry, ruthlessly scrape, can also scrape out some oil and water, escort grain and grass is bitter and boring, safe delivery is not a big achievement, the road went wrong and caused damage to the grain and grass, that is a big crime to kill the head.
And whose head will such bad luck be?
The eyes of the five general banners looked at Zuo Yucheng who was in a panic, Zhao Hailong's eyes were pitying, and the other four were all ill-intentioned, the latter was stared at by them and turned pale, and was about to get up and speak in a hurry, but Bai Zhijun took the lead and said loudly.
"Honor, I thought the second room deserved this responsibility."
Zhang Haifeng, Wang Dianyu, and Guo Chao glanced at each other, understood each other, and smiled proudly.
When Zuo Yucheng heard this, he was very anxious, and he was about to refute it, but first heard Du Mingtang, who was in the main seat, speak: "Second room? State your reasons. β
Bai Zhijun got up and walked to the middle, bowed to Du Mingtang and hugged his fists to salute, and then looked at Zuo Yucheng, who had an ugly face, and smiled.
"I have three points to outline, now is the time to employ people, personnel transfer should not be too large, the number of people in the second room is the least, this is one."
"There are more than 100 people from Qizhou, and there is a general flag to lead the team, and there are fewer places for them, which is a waste of manpower, and there are more people who are drawn out, and I am afraid that they will have an incident and oppose the customer, I think the second room is responsible for the jurisdiction of the three streets and two cities in Dongcheng, which is enough to accommodate colleagues in Qizhou, this is two."
"This third reason ......" Bai Zhijun paused, and there was a sneering smile on his face, "Tang Xiaoqi's women don't let their eyebrows go, not only are their martial arts not weaker than men, but they also have ambitions in their hearts, and this batch of grain and grass that they assisted in escorting is related to the war in the north, and a few mountain bandits are not difficult for us Tang Xiaoqi." β
Although Tang Xiaoyu praised him a lot, who in the audience couldn't hear the sarcasm in his words.
Zuo Yucheng looked at Bai Zhijun, his eyes churning with anger.
"Bai Zhijun, you..."
"Good."
Zuo Yucheng finally had a chance to speak, he was about to scold him, who had always been frugal and gentle, but was interrupted by Du Mingtang.
The man's voice was like a heavy hammer hitting Zuo Yucheng's heart, making his face pale, a trace of sweat oozing from his forehead and back, and his pupils shrunk.
"According to what Zidu said, you go back and inform Tang Xiaoyu, and order her to draw up a travel list and hand it over to me."
Bai Zhijun, Zidu, such a change in title, it can be seen that Du Mingtang is quite satisfied with the plan he proposed.
"But! Honor! β
"Now that it's settled, there's no need to say anything else, let's disperse."
After speaking, Du Mingtang took the lead in getting up and walking out of the lobby, and the other five general flags were just about to step out of the threshold, when Zhang Haifeng, who was walking in the forefront, suddenly stopped, turned back to Zuo Yucheng's side, and deliberately showed a smug and mocking expression.
As if he was afraid that Zuo Yucheng, who was stunned at the moment, would not see it, he deliberately put his whole face next to the other party's face.
"Brother Yucheng, this time there are brothers from Lao Erfang, but don't disappoint the envoy."
Zuo Yucheng bowed his head and was silent, Zhang Haifeng pressed the palm on his shoulder, but he obviously felt that Zuo Yucheng was trembling with anger, knowing that his words had an effect, he really poked the other party's sore spot, patted Zuo Yucheng's shoulder, and left with a satisfied laugh.
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In a remote corner of the street division.
Two young men dressed in the uniforms of third-class city servants sat on the ground leaning against the wall, gasping for air.
"I said, why are you running so fast?" Wang Ling felt that his best score of 100 meters just now was still dragged by the colleague he had just met.
Shi Geng looked like he was living for the rest of his life, and said breathlessly: "You kid, you are really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, how many heads do you have, dare to be so presumptuous in the council hall?" It doesn't matter if you want to die, but it's still dragging me down, I've only been in the street division for a few days, and there are younger brothers and sisters at home waiting for me to feed, now it's okay, I offended Wang Zongqi, I'm afraid I won't have a good life in the future. β
Wang Ling was stunned for a moment, and it was only at this time that he reacted, this is not the previous life, the surname Wang just now, not the homeless person he met along the way, it is a person with real status, it doesn't matter if he is alone, but he almost affected the colleague in front of him who is as inferior as himself.
"Sorry...... I was impulsive just now. Wang Ling said with some guilt.
Shi Geng waved his hand: "You don't come to this set, you have done everything, apologize for a fart, but you and I have to be wary in the future, that Wang Dianyu and Guo Chao are both well-known and will be repaid, and in the future, the tricks will be highlighted, and try to bypass them immediately when they see them across the eight streets." β
"You don't blame me?"
"Blame, how can you not blame it? But, I can't get used to those few goods, when I haven't entered the street division, I saw them oppressing us flat-headed people, just now I saw him pick up a piece of, although I was really scared, but my heart was really happy! β
Wang Ling felt that although this person was a braggart, he could make friends.
"Huh? Just now they said that you had a conflict with that little flag in the morning, what's going on? β
Wang Ling recounted what happened in the morning as it was, and Shi was even more dumbfounded.
Listening to this, Shi Geng suddenly felt that something was wrong: "You said that you took Zhang Zhanyi's attack with one hand, and broke his wrist?" β
Wang Ling nodded sincerely: "Well, is there any problem?" β
Of course he thinks it's no problem, in the old army, although his marksmanship is not top-notch, but hand-to-hand combat is his specialty, except for a few demons from ancient martial arts families, no one is his opponent, said to be broken, in fact, it is broken, grab a person's wrist, along the palm of the hand inward to break hard, there is the effect of four or two thousand catties, with his strength, it is not difficult to break a person's wrist.
It's just that it's as simple as he thinks it is.
"That's not right, although that Zhang Zhanyi is ranked last in strength among the twelve small flag officials, he is also a seventh-grade cultivator, how can you win so easily as a third-class ninth-rate! You're not going to bluff me, are you? β
"What are you bluffing for? Now this matter is not known except for the third-class city servant who was in charge of sprinkling and sweeping in the morning, it is estimated that the entire street division knows about it, and that Zhang Zhanyi was Du... If you don't believe it, find a chance to go over and see if it's true or not, why should I lie to you? But what's the matter with the seven products you just said, can you tell me no? β
In Wang Ling's mind, he unconsciously flashed the online novels he read hiding under the covers in his previous life, and he couldn't help but feel yearning in his heart.
As for why he hid in the quilt to watch it, it was purely because the troops did not allow him to see these things, and those who were caught and punished for writing and inspecting were light, and those who refused to change their ways had to be punished.
After coming to this world, he didn't ask Lao Sun Tou if there were any cultivation methods beyond mortals in this world, such as land immortals, Jin Dan, Yuan Ying, and the like.
But he could only get a sloppy old beggar from a sloppy old beggar who looked like a fool, and replied to him, "Is your kid brainbroken?"
Now that he heard such a sensitive word as grade, Wang ordered the flame that had been extinguished by the sloppy beggar to burn again.
Shi Geng was stared at by his burning gaze, but he wondered in his heart, this person didn't know martial arts cultivation, so where did he get the strength to suppress a small flag officer?
"Then I'll talk to you." Shi Geng suddenly looked proud, straightened his waist, and patted Wang Ling's shoulder in an elder posture.
"There are two paths of cultivation in this world, one is the martial arts, the other is based on refining the body and pouring the sea of qi, the other is refining the qi, and the other is cultivating the will with qi and controlling all things as its own ......."
He is like a schoolboy who has been picked up by a teacher to endorse a book, reciting word by word the knowledge that he doesn't know from nowhere.
From Shi Geng's mouth, Wang Ling learned that there are only two cultivation systems in this world.
The first is to cultivate martial arts, refine the body externally and nourish the sea of qi inside, and pay attention to the fact that one force will drop ten times, and use force to suppress skill, commonly known as reckless. The nine grades of martial arts are the nine grades of hidden qi, the eight grades of refining the body, the seven grades of forging gods, the six grades of Yuan Wu, the five grades of Kaiyang, and the four grades of Liuhe. As for what is the name of the third grade or above, Shi didn't say anything, only shook his head and said, this is the secret of a high-level martial artist, and it cannot be easily told.
In fact, Wang Ling knew that he either didn't remember it, or he didn't know it at all, but he was embarrassed to expose him.
The second is that the Qi Refiner is more special, these people almost give up the tempering of the body, concentrate on cultivating the sea of qi, and nourish the mind with qi, until their own qi can be achieved in the air, or affect a certain kind of power of the five elements before they can be regarded as entering the hall, it is worth mentioning that there are very few people who can walk this way, and those who are not very talented cannot cultivate, because even if you can enter the hall, you may not be able to comprehend your own intentions, and it often takes more than ten years, or even decades, and you have not been able to comprehend it, and finally squandered your time in vain, and ended up with hatred.
Qi refiners are also divided into nine grades, but there are only three titles, nine to six grades are collectively called qi cultivators, five to two grades are called qi refiners, one product is unique, there is only one person in the world, and the world respects it as Tianshu.
If it is said that the martial artist walks the limit of strength, pursuing one force to reduce ten meetings, the qi refiner is the other extreme, breaking ten thousand catties by chance.
Of course, there are also some people in this world who have cultivated martial arts and qi cultivation, these people are either the top geniuses who are not one in ten thousand, or they are greedy thieves who don't know the truth that they can't chew too much, but once they are successful in cultivation, the third grade can fight the second grade.
According to him, about ten years ago, there was such a top genius who narrowly won a duel with a second-grade martial artist, which caused a lot of sensation at the time, and it was a real lesson from the past.
Wang Ling suddenly thought of two more self-related questions, and thought to himself in his heart, even Shi Geng, a low-level errand officer knows, there is no reason why a person as big as Lao Sun Tou should not know, but he asked him before but didn't say, is there any reason in it?
Another thing, was previously ignored by him, he fought alone in front of Cao's Mansion more than ten nurses, although he also ended up with a broken arm, but at that time it seemed to be wrapped in a mysterious artistic conception, so that he gained pleasure in the process of fighting with people, the more he fought, the more excited he was, the more excited he wanted to fight, and in the end, there was a violent emotion in his heart, and he wanted to vent it happily, that feeling was minimal, I thought it was affected by my past military career, but when I thought about it, it was not so, At that time, I didn't have any other superfluous emotions, only extremely pure violent war intent.
Is it a delusion? Or is it real? If it's not a delusion, then what is it that is affecting meΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Wang Ling instinctively realized that it was an extremely dangerous state, and secretly reminded himself to be careful.
It took Shi Geng almost half an hour to finally clean up the few cultivation knowledge in his stomach, if he just explained the cultivation content, he wouldn't have said it for so long, but he always pulled out some rumors from the rivers and lakes that he heard from time to time, as well as the lace scandals of some well-known heroines, Shi Geng talked about these contents, and instantly seemed to be a different person, saying it was spitting and red-faced.
Wang Ling is also a person who loves to listen to stories, and he was infected by Shi Geng's emotions, and his heart was hot when he heard it, but he didn't know whether his enthusiasm was out of his desire for cultivation or excitement about those romantic things.
"I heard you say what happened in the morning just now, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I suddenly reacted after talking to you for so long, it is said that you should indeed be cut in half, but the envoy obviously wants to protect you, so that you can end up a third-class servant of the city, we envoy Zun will not easily mix such a trivial matter, do you kid have any background?"
Facing Shi Geng's questioning eyes, Wang Ling was silent, as he said, if it weren't for the appearance of Du Mingtang, he would already be a dead man with two waists, a dispute between the people and the officials, even if the other party provoked the trouble first, but according to the law, it was still himself who was guilty in the end, and the price he paid was this life that I don't know if it should be regarded as a high price.
Even if he has long been mentally prepared for the indifference and ruthlessness of this world, he still feels unhappy, especially even Shi Geng, who is also from a humble background, feels that this is just a trivial matter, a human life, but a trivial matter, which is what he feels the most unhappy.
Wang Ling's silence fell in Shi Geng's eyes, and turned into a statement of intent to abide by the secret, he hugged Wang Ling's neck sheepishly, and while teasing Wang Ling's chin with his index finger, he said: "Talk to me, don't worry!" My mouth is the strictest, and I won't leak half a drop when I fight with others, tell me quickly, which family are you the son of? How many martial arts products are there now? β
Wang Ling slapped away his strange hand, shook off a not good-looking face, and said angrily: "I am just a beggar who has been exiled from Dingzhou here, I have no background, let alone a family, as for the grade...... I guess this is a no-brainer! β
In fact, when he said this, he was inexplicably a little weak-hearted, if he had put it before, he could cross his waist and proudly say to someone: "I'm just a beggar!" One single! β
Now he can't, after all, he can enter the street division, and it is indeed the arrangement of Lao Sun Tou and Cao Yong, plus I learned the identity of Lao Sun Tou from Cao Shuangxu's mouth yesterday, and I am really embarrassed to say that I have no background.
But if you really want to say that you have a background, I feel a little reluctant, I am indeed single, and I don't have my parents in this world, just like jumping out of thin air from a crack in a stone.
Regarding Wang Ling's denial, Shi was obviously unconvinced, he felt that Wang Ling didn't trust him, and scolded: "How can you be so unkind and unsophisticated? I've told you everything you want to know, can't you tell me what I want to know? It's fair to satisfy each other's curiosity, isn't it? β
"But I'm really not the kind of person you think, how can I say that you can believe it?" Wang Ling was a little helpless.
"Then you say, lie to me that you are a son!"
βγγγβ Wang Ling opened his mouth, he really didn't dare to say it, because of the existence of the old grandson, he didn't know if it was the so-called "background".
Shi Geng saw that he just opened his mouth and didn't speak, and his hair exploded instantly, he got up and pointed at Wang Ling's nose, and scolded in a downward posture: "Hey! You're lying to me! Didn't you treat me as a brother, call my dad to listen. β
"You want to be my brother again, and you want me to call you father, you look ugly and want to be beautiful!" Wang Ling was not to be outdone, and ridiculed each other.
"Shit! You're so old and dizzy! Lao Tzu is so handsome? What's ugly? If you don't interrupt, you either get to the bottom of it with me, or call me daddy, or I'll let you taste the power of my unique stunt 'Yin Picking'! Don't say that I bullied you with one hand, my generation of martial arts practitioners, what is important is respect! I will press you to the ground with all my strength and rub you, so that you know that I am powerful! β
In less than a cup of tea, Shi Geng lay on the ground in embarrassment, and Wang Ling sat on him, holding a weed in his mouth, hanging one hand on his chest, and patting the back of Shi Geng's head with the other.
"What a unique skill!"
"Pick up your hand!"
"It's respectful!"
Shi was beaten so much that the back of his head hurt, and he couldn't turn over after being crushed, so he could only protect the back of his head with his hands and beg for mercy: "Ouch... Stop fighting, I know it's wrong, can't I? β
"Call Daddy!"
"What do you mean by Daddy?" Shi Geng asked.
"If you call you, what kind of nonsense?"
"Daddy......"