In the past half month, Han Xiufeng has never lived so comfortably.

When he returned from Wanfuqiao, he passed by Taizhou and did not enter the city. He rushed to Hai'an without stopping. He was pulled by Dean Gu, Yu Qinghuai, Wang Qianli and other gentry for three days and was taken to the Jiaoxichang by Han Chen to see the sea and eat seafood. Today, he came to the new home of Taiba coolies to see how they settled. It was not until Han Chen's cousin Han Bo chased him over and said that Zhou Xingyuan, who had originally planned to stay outside Yangzhou City to try his luck and Su Jueming, who had been sent to Qingjiangpu to inquire about the news, came, and returned to the Yankeshi Yamen with unfulfilled feelings.

No matter how poor Zhou Xingyuan is, he is also a juren. Moreover, he was once a magistrate. Han Chen treated him with courtesy and was sitting in the flower hall to drink tea and talk to Zhou Xingyuan. Su Jueming did not dare to be arrogant in front of the official, and stood aside honestly.

As soon as he saw Han Xiufeng, Han Chen stood up and smiled and said, "Zhixing, sit down quickly, Mr. Zhou has been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Let Brother Zhou wait for a long time, he is guilty." Han Xiufeng bowed his hand, looked at Su Jueming who wanted to speak but stopped, then sat down and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhou, Lord Qishan is not the short-lived ghost Lu Jianying. He now holds heavy troops and is in a strong sense of holy family. If you can do an errand work with Lord Qishan, it is not difficult to remember that it is not difficult. Why did you come to our remote mountain?"

"It's hard to say, it's hard to say!" Zhou Xingyuan waved his hand, looking embarrassed.

"Zhixing, Mr. Zhou came to see you so far, what are you saying?" Han Chen couldn't help but laugh and scold.

Zhou Xingyuan hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Yuzhi doesn't know anything. Zhixing and I are not only having an old friendship, but also having a friendship. There is nothing we can't say."

After hiding for so long, Han Xiufeng wanted to know the situation of the battle in Yangzhou, and even more so why the matter of retirement was not accurate, so he hurriedly said: "Brother Zhou, the horn is too far from Yangzhou, and we did not send family members there anymore. The news is very blocked. Can you tell me one or two?"

"Your heart is really big, and you don't care at all." Zhou Xingyuan looked at the curious look of the two and said clearly: "Lord Qishan and the cabinet scholar Sheng Bao, who was responsible for the camp, were stationed on both sides of the northwest of Yangzhou City. The Ministry of Justice, who was responsible for the camp, were stationed in the Fairy Temple. Chen Jinshou, a veteran who had recruited back to Xinjiang, was stationed in the area of ​​Daqiao Town, and surrounded the bandits guarding the city on three sides. Until I set out here, I didn't attack the city."

Han Chen thought that the imperial army would attack the city as soon as it arrived, and thought that Yangzhou would be recovered long ago. He asked incredible words: "Although Lord Qi has just arrived, he has not yet established a foothold as a bandit. Why didn't he attack the city? Why did he recover Yangzhou in one go?"

"As far as I know, Lord Lei and Lord Shengbao think so. They made several suggestions to "break the city with great force", but Lord Qi thought that they should be "superior". He said that the camp was first built and it was difficult to coordinate without learning the battle formation. He said that the Qing Dynasty had been peaceful for a long time, and the soldiers had no courage to kill. He planned to let the soldiers under his command intercept the spies first to strengthen their courage."

"What a stern person, it is clearly a timid battle!"

"Brother Yuzhi, you haven't seen it before. If you have seen it, you won't think so. The bandits were prepared for a long time. They built three wooden walls outside the moat and dug many traps outside the wall. There are only 10,000 soldiers under Lord Qi's command, but there are tens of thousands of bandits in the city. This city is not easy to attack." Zhou Xingyuan thought about it and looked at Han Xiufeng and said, "Brother Zhixing has fought with bandits. How difficult is bandits to deal with? Brother Zhixing knows the best."

"The bandits are not easy to deal with," Han Xiufeng nodded, thought about it and smiled bitterly, "Whether the besieged or the defenders of the city, in my opinion, they are all jealous of the rats. If Lord Qi makes up his mind to attack outside Yangzhou City, it is not without a chance of victory. If the bandits take advantage of Lord Qi's foothold and fail to leave the city to fight, it is not impossible to defeat the more than 10,000 troops of the court."

"The brave one wins when they meet on a narrow road?" Han Chen asked subconsciously.

"Well, the troops are equal, isn't it just a ruthless person?" Han Xiufeng sighed lightly, and thought about it and asked again: "Brother Zhou, the regaining of Yangzhou is the matter of the imperial envoy. We don't care or not, and we just want to know who has the final say in Jiangsu now."

"Yes, yes, this is the main thing!" Han Chen agreed deeply.

"Realistically speaking, the Governor of Liangjiang is the largest, but the new Governor of Liangjiang Yiliang is stationed in Changzhou. Even the matters in Jiangnan cannot be managed well, let alone Jiangbei. You know that the governor of Jiangsu has changed several times in the past two months. After Yang Wending was deprived of his post, the court ordered Wu Tang to be the acting, but he did not have time to take office. He could only take office with Lianying. He did not know whether he was a real or a fake disease, so he never took office. Then there was Ni Liangyao, who is now the acting acting for the Cabinet Scholar Xu Naizhao."

Zhou Xingyuan paused and then said, "As soon as Yang Dianbang ran to Qingjiangpu, he was dismissed by the court. The current governor of the canal transportation is the newly appointed Jiangsu Censor Cha Wenjing Officer."

"Sir Cha is also stationed in Qingjiangpu?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

Before Zhou Xingyuan could speak, Su Jueming, who had been afraid to interrupt, couldn't help but say, "Mr. Han, Lord Cha was urgently transferred by the court to Jiangsu as an inspector from Gansu. I met a fellow villager in Qingjiangpu station. His surname was Liu and named Liu Cunhou. He was walking in the Ministry of Justice and planned to serve under the command of the imperial envoy Xiang Rong. He had visited Lord Cha, but he didn't expect that Lord Cha not only knew you, but also asked Master Liu to send you a letter. Master Liu was in a hurry to Jiangning, and handed it to the young man together with the letter from the capital to the young man. Let the young man deliver it to you."

"I believe it, why didn't you say it earlier!"

"You are talking, but the young ones dare not speak."

"Take it now."

"oh."

Su Jueming hurriedly took out a stack of letters from the package. Han Xiufeng smiled apologetically and opened them one by one in front of everyone.

Some father-in-law asked the juren who went to Beijing to take the exam to send a letter to the club's home, including letters from Huang Zhongyin, Ji Yunfei, He Heng, letters from Manager Wen to report all matters from the club, letters from Liu Cunhou, who had never met before, and the letters from the new Jiangsu Censor General of the Capitol that Wen Jing asked Liu Cunhou to send a letter from him.

Han Chen didn't expect that Han Xiufeng had a relationship with Lord Cha, and kept holding back and said that Han Xiufeng had finished reading it before asking anxiously: "Zhixing, what did Lord Cha say in the letter?"

"This letter was not written to me by Lord Cha, but by our fellow countryman. Lord Duan of Gansu governor asked Lord Cha to send it to me," Han Xiufeng put down the letter and sighed: "Lord Duan treats me like a son and nephew. He still remembers me from far away in Gansu. When I saw him off, I specifically asked Lord Cha to take care of him after he took office."

"It turned out to be a letter from Lord Duan. Oh, I, Han Chen, said that I am also from Chongqing, but I have never been able to pay homage to Lord Duan until today."

"All of us are fellow villagers, and there will be opportunities in the future." Han Xiufeng put down the letter and said solemnly: "There is another bad news. In the letter, Mr. Gu said that the immortal from the twelfth lunar month last year, and the old man left very suddenly, without any signs in advance. Without Mr. Gu's support, I would not be like Han Xiufeng today. I only realized that he was in the old man's immortal for more than three months, and I couldn't even go to his grave to pay tribute. Thinking about it, I really felt ashamed of his spirit in heaven."

"Ambition, don't do this. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved. Not to mention that Mr. Gu, who has the kindness of knowing and meeting, has left. Even if... even if someone in his family dies, we who are officials outside will not be able to go back for a while."

"Yes, Brother Han, who can't help but let us feel sorry for our worries."

"Oh, why is this happening?" Han Xiufeng sighed and continued: "Then he sent his family to the capital and found Huang Yushi and Master Ji. He was leading the troops outside, and there was some criticism. He wanted to ask fellow townsmen in Beijing to help pay attention to the movements in the court and help with the activities."

"We are slight and are not officials in Beijing, so we can't help."

"The Censor Huang and Mr. Ji didn't want us to help Lord Xiang, but were worried about our safety. If we encounter any difficulties, we would go to Lord Xiang. Lord Xiang is a fellow villager, and he will definitely take him in."

Han Chen has been "lonely and lonely" over the years. Looking at the stack of letters on Han Xiufeng's hand, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's different to have fellow villagers and not have fellow villagers!"

"Yes, this reminds me of what Mr. Gu said before going to the capital."

"What did Mr. Gu say?"

"When you go out, you should focus on your hometown friendship first."

Zhou Xingyuan envied them very much and said sourly: "It seems that I have to look for fellow villagers, too."

"Brother Zhou, your fellow villagers are more than our fellow villagers. Not to mention the distance, there are several in Yangzhou Prefecture, such as Xu Ying, the chief inspector of the Qing army, who is from Huangpi, Hubei."

"Go to find Xu Ying, Brother Han, don't joke. You have offended others to death. He knows that you and I have a friendship, so he won't like me!"

"Brother Zhou, you can eat random food, but you can't talk randomly. I have never offended him. The one who offended him was Zhang Zhigao, Li Changjing, and the civil and military officials in Taizhou who were greedy for life and fear of death."

"Do you think Xu Ying is a fool?" Zhou Xingyuan couldn't help but smile.

Han Xiufeng couldn't help laughing, and then asked curiously: "By the way, where is Xu Ying going now, what are you busy with?"

"He went to the Fairy Temple. Not only did Lei Yicheng, who was responsible for the camp, stayed in the Fairy Temple, but he was the new Yangzhou magistrate, Jiangdu magistrate, Ganquan magistrate and Yizhen magistrate were all stationed in the Fairy Temple. As a Tongzhi of Yangzhou Prefecture, he naturally could not be too far away from the government office."

"Who is the new magistrate?"

"Fuzhulang, a student of the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner." Zhou Xingyuan paused and said with a few knowledge: "The new magistrate of Jiangdu was named Li, whose name was Huide, and his origin was from a juren; the new magistrate of Ganquan was named Xie, whose name was Xie Fanqing; Du Shisen, who was dismissed and investigated a few years ago, did not know who he had gone, and he not only reopened, but also became the magistrate of Yizhen."

"Yi Zhen was occupied by the bandits. What's the matter's magistrate?"

"Brother Han, when it comes to Yizhen, I remember something. Didn't Zhang Yiguo say that the Yizhen guard of the Taiping bandits, Huang Desheng, wanted to surrender? It was probably because he leaked the news. He reported that Huang Desheng was beheaded a few days ago. The current thief guard is named Wu and named Wu Xiaoru."

"I know this person with Huang's surname is difficult to accomplish!"

As soon as Han Xiufeng finished speaking, Zhou Xingyuan continued: "The new Jiangning governor's surname was Chen, named Chen Qimai. He was a Jinshi in the 18th year of Daoguang. He served as the governor of Zhili, stationed in Xuzhou, and handled the grain station affairs of the Jiangbei official army. Huaiyang Road was still Cao Wenzhao, and he was stationed in Jiangpu, Qingjiangpu."

As a salt official, Han Chen couldn't help asking: "Who is the new Yunsi?"

"Guo Peilin, I just took office before I came. Wasn't Yangzhou occupied by bandits? He could only move to Taizhou. The Yunsi Yamen is located in the Tianhou Palace not far from the State Yamen."

This person is the real backer, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Guo is finally here. Brother Zhou, why didn't you say it earlier!"

"Do you recognize the new Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commander?"

"It's not just recognized it, hahaha! Brother Yuzhi, with Lord Guo here, you won't be able to go from an agent to a real teacher soon. It's not difficult to be an ambassador in Fu'anchang!"

"Zhixing, do you really have friendship with Lord Guo, and you really have something to say to Lord Guo?" Han Chen asked anxiously.

"Mr. Guo and Mr. Duan were in the same year. When I was in the capital, I often went to our Chongqing Guild Hall. I also went to Mr. Guo's mansion a lot. Before the New Year, I almost came to Jiangsu with Mr. Guo to take office. There are no ones I don't recognize in his family."

"That's great, great!" That's the immediate boss of the immediate boss. Han Chen didn't want to delay for a moment, so he immediately stood up and said, "Han Bo, Guozheng, hurry up and prepare a generous gift, and prepare another thousand taels of silver. I'm going to Taizhou later!"

"Yuzhi, why are you anxious?"

"I don't know, it's nothing. I know, can I not be in a hurry when Lord Guo arrives in Taizhou? Not only will I go later, you will go too!"

"I won't go!"

"How can you not go? Who will introduce me if you don't go?"

"I'm injured and have difficulty moving. If I just go to Taizhou with you, it will be troublesome if someone finds out that he is pretending. How can I get sick and how can I go back to my hometown?"

"This is easy. I'll ask a doctor to help you with your legs with wooden boards and make two crutches for you. Anyway, it's a boat, so you don't need to walk. When you arrive in Taizhou, you will hire a sedan chair."

Thinking that it was really not good not to go to see him, Han Xiufeng smiled and said, "Okay, let Han Bo and Guozheng help me prepare a generous gift. No, prepare two, not only I want to prepare two, you also need to prepare two!"

"Who else is there for?" Han Chen asked in confusion.

"Give it to the new mansion," Han Xiufeng explained with a smile: "You have never heard of Fuzhulang, I am well-known, and he and us are half a fellow villager."

"He is full, why are he half a fellow villager with us?" Han Chen became more and more confused as he heard it.

Han Xiufeng smiled proudly and said, "Fuzhulang'a once became the Tongzhi of Jiangbei, Chongqing Prefecture. The Shicheng of the eight gates of Jiangbei Hall City was built by him when he was in charge of the Tongzhi. He donated 38,500 taels of silver from local gentry and seniors. You are in Dazu, and you donated much to Ba County when you were in your hometown. It is normal for you to not know much. I am different from you. I have been in Ba County since I was a child. Not only did I help you in the county government, but I also helped you in the Dao Office and the government government government. It is impossible not to know these things."

Han Chen suddenly realized and couldn't help asking: "After saying that, after we pay homage to Lord Guo, we will go to the Fairy Temple to pay homage to the Mansion?"

"I'm going to retire and return to my hometown anyway, so it doesn't matter whether I go or not. You are different from me. Since you want to continue to be an official here, it's better to have more friendships than to have less friendships."
Chapter completed!