As expected, Han Chen, the ambassador of the Salt Course Department of the Jiaoxichang, rushed over in a hurry as soon as he received the letter. Seeing that he had only brought three family members, Han Xiufeng asked anxiously: "Where are brother Yuzhi, sister-in-law and two young men?"

"At the back, I came by a fast boat!" Han Chen followed up with the signing room, and even the tea was not enough to drink, and he said with lingering fear: "Zhixing, if you hadn't sent someone to deliver a letter, I would have known nothing about the outside world. The news would not have been so closed. Isn't this happening to the New Year? I let my cousin who usually stayed in Yangzhou come back to celebrate the New Year together. I never thought that I would have almost missed the big thing!"

The county and county government offices have family members in the entire city of Fucheng. As the ambassador of the Salt Course Department, Han Chen naturally does not need to curry favor with the prefect of Yangzhou, but he cannot send his family members to Yangzhou to manage the clerks of the Yunsi Yamen, and he cannot arrange his family members to Yangzhou to inquire about the news about the Yunsi Yamen. Thinking of this, Han Xiufeng reacted: "I thought you didn't arrange for family members to stay in the Fusi Yamen."

"How could it be that it's not arranged?" Han Chen sighed lightly, stared at him and asked, "Zhixing, what are your plans?"

"Take back the family and the hard-earned little things first."

"Of course, your sister-in-law and the others will arrive at dark at the latest. Then, you can walk with your family and take care of them on the road. I mean, what should we do in the future? Do you have any regulations?"

"I don't know where the thief bandits have arrived, nor whether they will kill us. It's too early to say this, I plan to see the situation first."

"Zhixing, our salt farm is not a remote mountain with nothing. If the Taiping bandits flee into Jiangsu, they will never let Yangzhou go. If they really conquer Yangzhou, they will never let the salt farm go. In my opinion, they will have to make the worst plan!"

I have to admit that Han Chen's words make some sense.

Han Xiufeng asked with a bitter face: "Tell me about illness?"

Han Chen pondered, "Reporting to illness is a way, but is it too late to complain? Besides, what if the Taiping bandits are not killed? Although it is not easy for you and me to be an official, it is not easy to be an official! It is easy to get sick now, but it will be difficult to remember to recover from the future."

After finally becoming a Shangguan, the government office was missing. Han Xiufeng was also reluctant to let go of it if he didn't do it. After weighing it, he said meaningfully: "Then let's look at the situation first, but you can't wait and see. From now on, you have to prepare for both hands. If the thieves in Taiping really kill us, we will come out of the city to fight, and the thieves will walk back to the city to recover."

Fighting is fake, avoiding is real.

Han Chen nodded, thinking that this was a good idea, but he shook his head again: "Zhixing, although you are guarding the salt transportation, you are just a ninth-rank inspector after all. Moreover, it is your duty to summon young and strong men to fight against the bandits. Although I am just an ambassador of the eighth-rank salt department, I am not a prefectural official hall, but I am not much different from the prefectural official hall. I have the responsibility to defend the territory, and even if I die in battle, I cannot leave the corners without any deviation."

"Brother Yuzhi, as the saying goes, keep the green mountains and do not worry about burning firewood. If the battle situation is really corrupt, you and I can only serve the court if we protect our useful body first."

"But……"

"Not so many, but if the battle situation is really corrupt, only if the maintenance is useful can there be hope."

Even ants are greedy for life, let alone a living person. Thinking of the elders and the younger ones, Han Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Okay, that's all."

"Then we have to prepare early," Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said, "If the war is really corrupt, since you and I have left the city to fight, we have to look like we are fighting. The Zaoli archers and the young men must be summoned, no matter whether they are employed or not. The troops will go ahead before they move their food and grass. It is absolutely impossible to have no food. Unfortunately, I am just a ninth-rank inspector, and I have no power and cannot raise food openly."

"Yixing, you can rest assured. Although the Myokao Scenic Site is not as good as the Fu'an and Anfeng Fields, the stoves, households, and ships in the field are no less than those in a small county. As for food and grass, there are two salt charity warehouses in Myokao Scenic Site, which are enough for four or five hundred people to eat for a year." Han Chen paused and said, "If the war is really corrupt, as long as someone has food, we will have hope."

"Maybe you can use people and grain to exchange for dismissal."

"Just do it!" Han Chen thought about it more and more, and he became so worried before. When he heard Pan Er talking to his family outside, he couldn't help asking: "Zhixing, are you planning to let all of your family go back?"

"Well, let them all go back." Han Xiufeng took a sip of tea and added: "You have seen that child Shiheng. His father played for Lord Wu, the Sichuan salt tea ceremony. The Taiping bandits fled to Jiangning. Yizhen was close to Jiangning. It was too dangerous. I plan to let him go to Yizhen to pick up his sister and brother-in-law and go to Sichuan with Pan Er and others."

"Since you are a friend, you will naturally have to help you, but will you be left with no one around you?"

"No one is better, no one cares."

"There is no concern, but there are no two people who can do things!"

"At this point, I don't care about so many things. By the way, Brother Yuzhi, how many people are you going back?

"Leave four, and everyone else will go back, and your sister-in-law will have a total of twenty-two people."

"There are so many people, and it's not peaceful along the way. Only with more people can you feel at ease." Han Xiufeng didn't want to say this anymore, so he immediately changed his tone: "Brother Yu, the most urgent thing is to know yourself and your enemy, and you can't wait for the peaceful bandits to kill you. In fact, I have a family member, but I just took it after coming to Jiangsu. I plan to ask him to take two archers to Yangzhou to find out the news tomorrow morning."

"I also plan to ask my cousin to go back, Zhixing, otherwise, let your family and my cousin go to Yangzhou together, one inquiring in the city, the other in the east of the city, and also ask my cousin to wait in Taizhou. Give them some more money and send them a few more people. If there is any news, they will send them back quickly, and do not go to the inn shops, so as not to miss the situation."

“This is the best.”

...

The two were discussing, and Zhang Shiheng knocked on the door and walked in.

"Uncle Han, I'm back, my second brother said you're looking for me."

"Close the door first."

"Oh." Zhang Shiheng reacted and hurriedly turned around and closed the door.

"Shiheng, you can just know what Uncle said next, and you can't reveal a word."

"Don't worry, Uncle Han, I'm strict!"

Han Xiufeng told Han Chen that the Taiping bandits had captured the three towns of Wuhan, and was slamming down the river and slashing towards Jiangning, and then talked about his plan to let him go back and pick up his sister and husband to Sichuan to join his father. Zhang Shiheng was shocked and asked with a frown: "Uncle Han, I know you are for my own good, but what should you do if we all leave?"

"Even if you don't leave, what can you help if you stay?" Han Xiufeng asked back, picked up a letter written at noon from the table, took out a small purse, looked at him with a smile and said, "The money is ready for you, the letter is for your father. The hometown is hard to leave. If your sister and brother-in-law really don't want to go to Sichuan with you, let them go to Yangzhou to find Su Jueming, who will arrange for them to come to Hai'an."

"Uncle Han, I..."

"Don't be willful, you are not young, you must be obedient."
Chapter completed!