After Li Chen finished speaking, he got on his horse, led the people onto the official road, turned his back to Yulin Mansion, and walked towards the front line.
Xu Wei waited for a moment, waiting for Zou Qingyuan to send someone to send the old man away, and asked a smarter subordinate to follow him to see the situation. Then Xu Wei went straight to Zou Qingyuan.
"Who are you?"
Zou Qingyuan looked at Xu Wei, who was tall and powerful, and had a powerful force around him. He knew that such a person was definitely not an ordinary refugee, so he frowned and asked.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Wei took out a waist card and threw it in front of Zou Qingyuan.
"The inner guard of the East Palace, Xu Wei."
East Palace, inner guard.
These two keywords made Zou Qingyuan tremble all over.
Although he is in the fourth rank of officialdom, under normal circumstances, the East Palace is extremely far away from him. If one day he does not take a step up to the third rank, he will serve as a minister among the six ministries in the capital, or he will hold an important position in a local province.
, there is no chance or qualification to avoid meeting the current crown prince.
Especially the word "inner guard". Not all guards can say that they are inner guards. Once an inner guard is used, he must be the confidant of the Prince of the East Palace. When the inner guard goes out to perform tasks, it is an important task personally ordered by His Highness the Crown Prince.
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Zou Qingyuan immediately said respectfully: "I wonder if this general has something wrong?"
General?
Xu Wei glanced at Zou Qingyuan with a half-smile but said, among other things, Zou Qingyuan is indeed good at calling people.
No matter how big the inner guard is, it is still just a bodyguard class. It is nothing more than a confidant of the prince. It is convenient for him to talk to the prince, so it seems important. But in the end, the inner guard is still thousands of miles away from the general.
"According to the prince's oral instructions, I summon Zou Qingyuan, the magistrate of Yulin Prefecture, and immediately go to the farewell pavilion five miles outside the city to have an audience. There must be no mistake."
After Xu Wei finished his oral instructions in a serious manner, he said to Zou Qingyuan: "Master Zou, come with me."
Zou Qingyuan's heart was beating fast. As expected, it was the prince who summoned him.
He asked almost subconsciously: "May I ask General, was His Highness always here just now?"
Xu Wei said calmly: "Master Zou, His Highness has many things to do every day and has an extremely busy schedule. It would be better not to keep His Highness waiting for a long time. What do you think?"
This is the difference between Xu Wei and Chen Tong.
If Chen Tong were here, he would definitely think about it. If he felt that answering this question would not affect His Highness's ability to meet Zou Qingyuan, he would definitely answer it. No matter what, he would at least forge a good relationship.
But Xu Wei is different. He is only responsible for completing the tasks assigned by Li Chen, and he will not take care of any other extraneous matters that arise in the process.
This stems from the difference in their personalities, but also from the difference in their positions.
Xu Wei is more like Li Chen's personal bodyguard, while Chen Tong, after all, is the commander of the Dongchang Jinyi Guards. He is in officialdom, so he naturally has to consider the aspect of interpersonal relationships.
There is no right or wrong, good or bad, only appropriateness or inappropriateness.
Zou Qingyuan reacted very quickly. There was no trace of disappointment on his face. He immediately nodded and said, "What the general said is that I can start the journey immediately."
At any rate, Zou Qingyuan still had some sense of shame and claimed to be an official rather than a subordinate. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for a fourth-grade official to call himself a subordinate in front of Xu Wei, an internal guard, just to get close to him.
Zou Qingyuan told his subordinates a few words, and then immediately followed Xu Wei on horseback to the farewell pavilion.
After a while, Zou Qingyuan dismounted from his horse a dozen meters away from the guest pavilion, walked quickly and respectfully into the pavilion, and knelt on his knees.
Chapter completed!