Chapter 366: Arrival in Linzi
At the gate of the mansion, Gan Si hurriedly walked out of the mansion, ignoring the eyes of others.
"Your Excellency!" The groom, who had been waiting outside the mansion, was a little puzzled when he saw Gan Si's anxious appearance.
However, Gansi still has time to pay attention to the groom.
"Go back to the station!" As he spoke, Gan Si walked directly past the groom and got into the carriage. Seeing this, the groom knew that Gansi should be in a hurry, so he didn't dare to delay, and after Gansi sat down, he waved the rope to drive the horse.
With the carriage slowly moving towards the post station, Gan Si, who was sitting in the carriage at the moment, was like an ant on a hot pot, anxious.
"Bai Yan, he is actually Bai Yan!" Gan Si was half happy and half worried, and his mouth was dry. Just now in the county guard's mansion, Gan Si watched Bai Yan leave, and then he had been sitting in the pavilion.
Yang Lao would occasionally talk to him, but he was born in a scholar clan and had been in contact with all kinds of people since he was a child, Gan Si couldn't see where he could not tell that Yang Lao was talking to him only for the sake of Lu Jia and his face as an official, so he asked a few words.
Otherwise, an old minister of the Qin State who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is a high-ranking and powerful like Yang Lao would not have to pay attention to him at all. is also the same, Gan Si has been anxiously looking for an opportunity to leave.
Gan Si knew that now for him, compared to Yang Lao, grasping Bai Yan's connections was the most important thing.
As long as Bai Yan is willing to help him, he will have the opportunity to climb up again in Yanmen in the future. A moment later. When the carriage arrived at the post station, Gan Si didn't have time to wait for the carriage to stop, so he stepped off the carriage directly, and then returned to the dormitory to take out his pen and ink.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Gan Si finally decided to send a letter to Lu Sheng. Instead of leaning towards Lu Qi right now, Gan Si still decided to give Lu Sheng a try.
Because Gan Si knew Lu Qi's temperament, when Lu Qi was down, Gan Si was not close, and now that Lu Qi has risen, even if he intersects with Lu Qi, Lu Qi trusts him far less than Lu Sheng anyway.
So Lu Qi is a helpless choice, and Lu Sheng is the best result. Half an hour. After writing the letter, looking at the bamboo slips in his hand, Gan Si got up satisfied, walked out of the cottage and took the carriage again, and asked the groom to go to the restaurant of the Lu family, and the people from the restaurant sent the letter to Xianyang.
Lui's Restaurant. Gan Si stepped down from the carriage, came to the door of the restaurant, took out the seal to reveal his identity to the restaurant servant, and asked the servant to take him to meet the shopkeeper.
When the little guy saw that Gan Si was actually a good city, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly invited Gan Si to go in.
In the middle of the restaurant. Gan Si followed the little maid and didn't go to the second and third floors, but looking at the beauties around him, Gan Si couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart, looking at the faces of those women, Gan Si had to sigh.
Lu's restaurant is a must no matter where it is, not only the wine is sweet, but the people are more beautiful. Fortunately, he knows that business is important now, and Gan Si'an yearns patiently, so he can only wait for the opportunity to come to this restaurant again in the future to have fun.
Come to the back door of the restaurant. Before Gan Si saw the shopkeeper of the restaurant, he heard a woman's miserable cry.
"Hit! Give me a beating! If you don't fight, you can't have a long memory! Following the voice, he came from the alley to a small garden, and when Gan Si entered, he saw a man angrily pointing at a miserable woman on the ground and scolding.
The man was obviously the shopkeeper of the restaurant, and there were many men with thick ropes in the small garden, as well as many women watching in twos and threes.
"Shopkeeper, this person is Gansi Chengcheng! said that he was familiar with Lu Sheng's gentleman. The little servant glanced at the woman, and then came to the shopkeeper and said.
For the woman who was trembling a few steps away, the little maid also knew that she had just arrived, named Cen Qing.
"Chengcheng, Gansi?" The male shopkeeper's brows furrowed slightly when he was disturbed, but after hearing the words of the little guy, he heard that it was Chengcheng, so he hurriedly turned around.
The male shopkeeper glanced at Gan Si, and hurriedly bowed his hand, and his originally angry cheeks were instantly replaced with a smiling face, and the speed of this face change was jaw-dropping.
"Your Excellency knows our Lu Clan's Lu Sheng Gentleman?" The shopkeeper asked cautiously. While talking, the shopkeeper was also very curious about why this city man came here to find him.
If this Chengcheng really knew Lu Sheng, it should be clear that the current restaurant is not Lu Sheng's, but Lu Qi's.
"I am a disciple of the Gan family, and I have been friends with Lu Shengnai for many years, and now I have come to do nothing, and I have a letter and I have to bother the shopkeeper to send it to Xianyang." Gan Si said politely to the shopkeeper, with a humble and polite appearance, so that the shopkeeper could see at a glance that Gan Si's words were probably not false.
While speaking, Gan Si also took out a roll of bamboo slips from the sleeve pocket of the official's uniform and handed it to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took it with both hands.
However, when he handed over the bamboo slips, Gan Si reached out and covered the shopkeeper's hand.
"Shopkeeper, this letter is very important, please arrange for someone to send it to Xianyang as soon as possible, although Lu Sheng and Lu Qi have a disagreement, but they are brothers after all, if the shopkeeper of this letter is not at ease, you can copy it to Lu Qi, but don't leak it, otherwise this matter, Lu Sheng will never give up in the future." Gan Si looked at the shopkeeper with straight eyes and instructed softly.
After all that's said. Gan Si just collected it. What should be explained has been explained, and the rest of Gansi depends on what the shopkeeper does.
Now Gansi can't take care of so much, and the top priority is to send the letter to Xianyang as soon as possible, the sooner the better.
As long as the shopkeeper does not send the letter to Yingchuan, it will not take long for Lu Sheng to receive the letter and rush to Yanmen as soon as possible.
As for Lu Qi knowing...... Gan Si doesn't care so much, anyway, Lu Qi has already gotten so much benefit from Bai Yan, and even his current status is closely related to Bai Yan's help.
"Don't worry, sir!" The shopkeeper saw Gan Si's eyes, as the shopkeeper of the restaurant, it was naturally impossible not to hear Gan Si's meaning, and he had already made a decision after thinking for a moment.
will not betray Lu Qi, but will not offend Lu Sheng for no reason.
"There is labor!" Gan Si heard the shopkeeper's words, raised his hand and saluted, and then said goodbye and left. In the small garden, the shopkeeper looked at Gan Si's departing back, turned his head, and looked at Na Cen Qing a few steps away.
"Hit! Next time, if you dare to provoke the anger of the guests, break your legs and throw them on the street! After saying that, the shopkeeper turned and left.
When the other men heard this, they picked up a thick rope like thorns and hit Cen Qing who fell to the ground.
Suddenly, Cen Qing's face full of tears cried out in pain. At this moment, Cen Qing's eyes were full of despair, she wanted to go home!
There is no city of goodness. In the county governor's mansion, when Gan Si came to visit, when the servants of the mansion brought it to the main hall, he saw that Lu You and many children of the scholar clan were already drunk and hazy.
"Gansi is here!" Lu You's face turned red, and he saw Gan Si get up with a smile, but he stumbled and fell to the ground again.
Fortunately, after getting up with difficulty, he introduced other scholars to Gansi. Seeing this, Gan Si hurriedly saluted them one by one.
Those scholars also drank about the same, seeing Gan Si coming, perhaps it was the intuition cultivated in the restaurant since childhood, those scholars at first sight, they felt that Gan Si was a fellow practitioner, so they saluted Gan Si and did not despise it.
Born from the heart, and as a child of the scholar clan, he basically has feelings when he looks at people, especially people like Gansi.
"Why don't you see General Bai?" After Gan Si finally made a salute one by one, he was toasted a lot of wine in a row, and took the opportunity to hurriedly whisper to Lu You.
"It's something to do, and it's been dealt with!" Lu You was drunk, and his tongue was a little knotted when he spoke, but he still had a little sense to answer Gansi's question.
Gan Si nodded. Before Gan Si could say anything, at this time, seeing other people from the world coming to toast, Gan Si could only hurriedly pour himself wine, and then picked up the wine and drank it.
The backyard of the mansion. Bai Yan and Xun Shuo stood in the corridor, and behind them were Yifang, Yu He, and Hewlett-Packard.
"General!" A cronie came with a wooden plate with three seals on it. Seeing this, Bai Yan turned to look at the three of them.
"This is a temporary appointment for the three of you, and in a little while, I will need you to lead the troops north." Bai Yan said.
"Good!" Yifang faced Bai Yan's eyes, without the slightest hesitation, and nodded. has always been grateful for Bai Yan's favor, Yifang has been suppressed in his heart for too long, and has been waiting for an opportunity to repay Bai Yan.
Yifang naturally knew that Bai Yan had always wanted to let the side rider work. And now seeing that those soldiers can get together with their wives and children and live a good life, now Bai Yan doesn't treat them as slaves, and does everything for the side riders, the soldiers on the side are already willing to serve, not to mention that someone has already obtained a knighthood, so that the family can enjoy the blessings.
After experiencing the plunder, I saw that those Zhao clans still wanted to take revenge and assassinate Bai Yan because of the plunder.
All the side riders have chilled their hearts, and they no longer think about the former Zhao Kingdom. Inside the hallway. Yifang was the first to reach out and take a seal from the wooden plate.
HP, Yu and Yu glanced at each other, and they all reached out to pick up the seal, just like Yifang.
"I won't arrange for my cronies or other generals to ride on the side, and you will continue to do business as usual." Bai Yan said.
When he said this, Bai Yan's breathing actually paused slightly, but it didn't show it.
It is estimated that this decision will not be calmed down by any one person. After all, behind this sentence is the trust of tens of thousands of people.
"As usual?" When Yifang, Yu and the three of them heard Bai Yan's words, they were all stunned in place, looking at Bai Yan in disbelief.
They originally thought that even if Bai Yan used to call them, he would arrange generals, install cronies, and even let the soldiers of the Bai clan's iron cavalry come over to disrupt all the original border cavalry generals, so as to control the border cavalry.
Unexpectedly, Bai Yan told them in person that everything was as usual, just like it was at the beginning. If you don't hear it with your own ears.
The three of them couldn't believe it, this was a decision that a general dared to make.
"Will~! Checkmate! Please send an overseer, please! Yifang hesitated, and then blurted out. With the first time, the burden in his heart was much lighter, and Yifang's eyes when he looked at Bai Yan changed a little again after this sentence.
Xun Shuo, who was born into a famous family, was naturally keenly aware of this, and really admired Bai Yan in his heart.
The others dare not say. But in terms of leading troops, Bai Yan is the person Xun Shuo admires the most in his life, and even Xun Shuo himself has respect for Bai Yan.
Waiting for a pawn like this, it is rare in the world, and it is worthy of being a child of the Bai family. Who doesn't want to follow the people who have the strength to be heartfelt and convincing, this Xun Shuo is no exception, looking at Bai Yan's behavior of waiting for the army, Xun Shuo became more and more determined to serve Bai Yan's idea.
"I believe in riding." Bai Yan heard Yifang's words, and then faced the gazes of HP and Yu He.
"I won't send a prison army today, and I Bai Yan won't send a prison army in the future." Bai Yan said here, turning his head to look outside the corridor: "Once you go north this time, remember to be careful, the Xiongnu have already bought iron ore from Guo Zong, and the specific number of stirrups is unknown, you only need to contain the Xiongnu in the north, don't let the Xiongnu send troops to destroy the Yueshi, you can't wipe out the whole army, otherwise the Xiongnu will go south immediately." Bai Yan's voice fell in the corridor.
"Guo Zong?"
"It's him again!" When Yu He, Yifang, and Hewlett-Packard heard Bai Yan's first words, they felt warm in their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel grateful, but later, when they heard that Guo Zong actually gave the Xiongnu stirrups, they all widened their eyes for a while and looked at each other.
As for the power of the stirrups, they naturally knew about the battle between the side cavalry and the Bai clan's iron cavalry at the beginning. At the moment, I didn't expect that Guo Zong would secretly make stirrups for the Huns in private.
After coming back to his senses. The three of Yifang looked at Bai Yan, and then saluted Bai Yan.
"No!"
"No!" The three of them answered. The three of them are all Zhao people, and as border cavalry generals, they know better than Bai Yan the consequences of the Xiongnu going south, and when the time comes, not to mention other places, even the city where the border cavalry generals' families are located, will not be spared.
"Go down, I'll be here in the mansion in the future, waiting for your good news!" Bai Yan turned back to the three of them and said.
After the three of them saluted Bai Yanji, they turned around and left. Xun Shuo looked at the backs of the three of them leaving at this time, and then looked at Bai Yan.
"How dare you!" Xun Shuo smiled and shook his head. However, Xun Shuo knew better than anyone else in his heart, looking at the appearance and eyes of the three people just now.
Bai Yan was right! Here in Yanmen in the future, there will definitely be another brave and good iron horseman, and its number is still very terrifying.
"There is no choice, where is the Yueshi, but it is tiring for you to worry about." Bai Yan looked at Xun Shuo and said with a wry smile, not only to manage Yanmen County at the border, but also to beware of the scholars in other counties, as well as those Qin officials who were bribed, who would secretly make trouble, and there was even more in the north and Daidi eyeing each other, so he really couldn't let the Bai clan's iron cavalry go north.
More importantly, he wanted a brave side army of tens of thousands of brave side riders, not tens of thousands of unmotivated people.
The time and place in the battlefield are favorable, the time and place are favorable, it is difficult to control before the battle, only people can be consolidated by the bits and pieces of the past, so that there is an advantage in the war, and now while there is no war with the Chu State, this adventure is worth it.
"Don't worry, the Yue clan is not a smart person, don't worry!" Xun Shuo nodded and said, reassuring Bai Yan.
Before letting the Xiongnu and Yueshi stop fighting, it was because the Zhao State was about to fall, and he didn't know that the huge rich Guo Zong actually sent stirrups to the Xiongnu from other places in private.
Now that we know, we must not let the Xiongnu develop. Compared with the original persuasion of peace, it is much simpler to divide now, after all, the Yue clan and the Xiongnu are feuds, and it took countless efforts to stop the war.
Now if the Yueshi knew that the Xiongnu were already equipped with stirrups, I am afraid that they would definitely not be able to sleep, and they would definitely not let the Xiongnu develop steadily.
"Then you'll be tired, please drink!" Bai Yan looked at Xun Shuo and said with a smile. Xun Shuo brought people over when he was halfway through drinking, and Xun Shuo happened to be here in front of him, so let's go and have a few drinks together.
"Good! If you don't get drunk, you can't go home! Xun Shuo also smiled in the face of the invitation. .......... Qi country Linzi.
Outside the city gates, as dusk was approaching, five horse-drawn carriages slowly drove to the city gates. During the inspection of the city gate guard, the small window of the second carriage quietly opened a little gap, and the white snow in the carriage looked at the scene outside with a curious face through the gap.
At this moment, Bai Yingxue felt so magical and excited. This is Linzi of Qi State. It's tens of thousands of miles away from Binh Duong, and now I'm finally here.
Bai Yingxue looked at the pedestrians who were still lined up in a long line even at dusk, and couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the eldest sister would say that the territory of Qi was not as good as Qin Chu, but because there was no war in Qi all year round, there were more than 500,000 registered people in Linzi of Qi alone.
"Madam, wait for you to take Junzhu and Yingxue, go back to the mansion first, I will visit my old friends, I have not seen you for more than ten years, and I don't know if I am still in Linzi." Inside the carriage, Bai Yan turned his head to his wife and instructed.