As expected, the Li De Prize did not escape Li Jing's grasp.
Before Huaiyu and the others were about to leave, he was escorted to the Huaiyu military camp in Weibei. He was escorted by more than a dozen people from the Li family.
The person who led the team to detain the people was actually Li Sanniang.
She was dressed in hunting attire and looked as dashing as when we first met her.
"Sanniang, dressed like this, are you going to Yanzhou?" Huaiyu said with a smile.
"You have to call me Ajie or senior sister, no matter how big or small you are." Li Sanniang is no stranger to Huaiyu, and they joke with each other in a familiar manner. She pushes the sighing uncle Li Dezhang to Huaiyu.
In front of him, "According to my uncle's order, Erlang was successfully delivered. Now it's up to you. If he runs away again, it's none of my business."
Chen Sheng stepped forward and saluted, and Li Dejiang had a smile on his face only when he saw him.
"How can a cow forcefully press its head without drinking water? How can you say that?" Li Erlang sighed to his former playmate.
Huaiyu stepped forward and hugged Mr. Li, "Welcome Li Changshi."
The position assigned to Li Dejiao is Yanzhou Town Army Commander Shi, who is under the seventh rank. Li Dejiang has the title of Sanwei, and he is also a seventh rank. However, the seventh rank of Sanwei can only be regarded as a reserve officer, and is not the same as other official positions.
It is not the same. Li Dezhong is a person like Xianyun Yehe, who has always been unwilling to officially become an official.
These three guards are all paid to teach, and they usually want to be a ranger, travel around the world, and make friends.
But since he was an official, with Li Jing's official status, the reputation of Li Danyangfang in Longxi, and Huaiyu's care, it was naturally impossible for him to start as a big soldier.
Shi, the commander of the Yanzhou Town Army, was arranged to be Su Lie's assistant.
Mrs. Zhang was worried about Li Dejiao, so she asked Sanniang to send him to the military camp in person, and also arranged for twelve Li family soldiers to serve as Li Dejiao's family soldiers.
Those were twelve cavalrymen who had fought with Li Jing and had rich battle experience. Even if they were placed in the army, they could at least serve as team leader officers.
This was the confidence of the wealthy family. Not only did they buy three handsome war horses for Li Dejiang, but they also had three pack horses, as well as twelve other veterans, including horses, swords, bows, and armor.
If it weren't for the fact that he was serving in the army, Mrs. Zhang would probably have arranged for a coachman, a horseman, a bookboy, a attendant, and even a maid and concubine to accompany him.
The two carriages full of accompanying items were staggering.
"I have delivered the people and completed the errands, so I went back home," Li Sanniang said as she left with a smile, not forgetting to say a few words that her second uncle should work peacefully and steadily in the army, strive to make contributions to Shuofang and shine on his family.
"It's a pity that I'm not a man, otherwise I would have joined the army for my second uncle."
After saying that, Li Sanniang mounted her horse happily, turned the horse's head and took the attendant maid back to Chang'an, leaving Li Dejiang looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle with a look of sadness on his face.
Huaiyu couldn't stand this guy.
He reached out and patted his shoulder, but Li Dejiang still ignored him.
"Abbot Lou Guan Qihui, he is my nephew in terms of seniority,"
Li Dejiao's arrogant head immediately lowered. He crossed his hands to Wu Huaiyu with an unnatural expression, and then bent down, "Li Dejiao, the registered disciple of Lou Guan, pays homage to his uncle."
Huaiyu reached out and patted this guy on the shoulder, "Well, after entering the military camp, we will only have to report to our superior, Li Changshi."
"Yes, Mr. Wu Shi."
Although Li Dejiang didn't think much of a governor, since he worshiped Qi Hui, the abbot of Louguan, as his master, he didn't dare to be rude to his master's uncle.
What's more, although Wu Huaiyu has never been to Lou Guan, he now has a high status in Lou Guan. Master Huaiyu is greatly respected by Lou Guan, so he naturally respects Huaiyu very much.
During the New Year, Qihui would send people from Louguan to Beijing to give gifts to Huaiyu. Qihui himself had the official rank of Jin Ziguanglu, a third-rank doctor, but he did not dare to look down on Huaiyu, his fifth-rank junior uncle.
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Wu Huaiyu's alchemy is so good that he is favored by saints.
Lou Guan also wanted to obtain the true Taoist teachings left by Xiaoyaozi from Huaiyu, and he yearned for the legendary book The Origin of Qi Ti.
Although Li Jing, the father of Huaiyu's Badde Award, is his disciple and he is called senior brother from here, his status as the great uncle of Huaiyu Pavilion Master is also real.
With great reluctance, Li Dezhai was led into the military camp by Huaiyu's arm. From then on, the handsome Li Ergong became the commander of the Yanzhou Town Army, and was put in a halter.
He was introduced to Yanzhou Governor Shi Weisiren, Yanzhou Sima Inspector, Yanzhou Town Soldier Su Lie, Yanzhou Wuyuan County Magistrate Zhang Chengde, Yanzhou Prefecture Soldier Commander Niu Jianwu, etc. Li Dejiao was still in low spirits.
After a brief meeting, Huaiyu asked everyone to disperse, leaving Li Dejiang and Chen Sheng behind.
"Erlang is not very interested in military affairs."
"It's boring to fight and kill," Li De said.
"I heard that Erlang likes Jianghu. What does Jianghu mean to Erlang?"
"There are heroes and knights from all over the world," Li De praised.
Huaiyu shook his head, "Then it seems that Erlang's Jianghu is quite simple. In my opinion, Jianghu is not just good men and knights, but also warriors, green woods, rough thieves and bandits, and even street gangsters, rogue gamblers, and traveling doctors.
Divination magicians, street vendors, smugglers, green forest heroes, etc. can all be called people of the world.
What is Jianghu?
Anyone who is outside the mainstream can be called a Jianghu.
Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and rivers and lakes are not about fighting and killing. Erlang comes from a well-known family, has a distinguished status, spends money like water on weekdays, and naturally has many people who agree with him, but eating, drinking, and calling each other brothers cannot be considered a real rivers and lakes.
The rivers and lakes are dangerous and full of grievances and hatreds. Those who are struggling in those corners and in the secular world are the people of the rivers and lakes."
Li Dejiang was surprised by Huaiyu's views on the world, but he did not agree with it. Everyone is in a different position and sees the world differently.
Mr. Li's world is different from Wu Huaiyu's, and it is also different from Chen Sheng's.
He is a young master. In fact, many of the so-called heroes and knight-errants he associates with are just arty, or they just take the opportunity to build relationships and make friends. A few of them are real people in the world.
At that time, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Chai Shao, and others also participated in the knight-errant circle of Chang'an, and were also called Chang'an young knights, but at most they were considered young knights, and were descendants of nobles and nobles.
"Erlang, I have an opportunity here that allows you to get in touch with the real world. If you are willing, you don't have to stay in a military camp you don't like, and you don't have to accept a battlefield you don't like."
The Li De Award came with interest.
"If you are willing, I would like to entrust you with an errand,"
Huaiyu proposed that Li Dexuan travel around the world and use his previous network to contact the heroes on the road from Chang'an to Yanzhou.
Even those thieves in the forest, bandits and bandits also contacted the local powerful and the children of the frontier rangers.
"What is Erlang going to do?" Li Dejiang was surprised after hearing this.
"Although the rivers and lakes are far away from the temple, they are still under the supervision of the imperial court and cannot be allowed to be free." Huaiyu did not hide his plan and recruited some people in the rivers and lakes, whether they were rogues, rogues, or bandits, so that they could be used by the court.
Those who wanted to wash their hands in the golden basin could go directly down the mountain to the military camp, or go to work in the yamen, or they could continue to maintain their original status, but they needed to be under the jurisdiction of the court, accept the court's dispatches, or act as the court's ears.
"The rivers and lakes are dangerous, and there are many people who commit crimes, such as robbery, kidnapping, extortion, murder, and arson. Many people are causing harm to one party. We need to clean them up. Erlang, you can be ordered to travel around the rivers and lakes, inquire about information, investigate the enemy's situation, contact the heroes and righteous men, and assist the court in annihilating them."
Li Dejiang was intrigued by what he heard. He was not interested in joining the army and fighting at the border, but he would be interested if he could hold a sword and fight for justice.
"Walking around the rivers and lakes, you can not only wipe out bandits, but also investigate corrupt officials and bully evil gentry, collect evidence, and then bring them to justice, so as to restore peace to the people."
"This is good," Li Dejiang applauded and clapped his legs.
He felt that he was very suitable for this.
"You really want to?"
"Yes, very willing."
"Well, from now on, you will be the second chief of our six-door Shuofang Division, and I will give you the code name Bullfight."
Flying fish is not a fish, and bullfighting is not a cow.
The flying fish is a strange beast with a fish tail that looks like a python, a dragon with two legs and a fish tail with four claws, and the bullfight is a horned dragon-like beast with a pair of curved horns.
Now he has two chiefs, Feiyu Chen Sheng, who is now responsible for selecting people from the prisoners, and then placing them next to the camp officers to monitor the training.
Bullfighting Li Dejia will be responsible for traveling around the world, contacting friends, recruiting green forest heroes, encircling and suppressing villains and thieves, and collecting intelligence on corrupt officials and bullies.
Let them develop separately.
There are no excessive requirements at the moment, so take your time and don’t rush.
Li Dejiang was very happy about this task and didn't care that the person in charge was from the eighth rank. He was happy that he didn't have to do things he didn't like and could walk around the world in another identity.
Everything is almost ready, and we have decided to set off on the second day of February when the dragon will raise its head.
With two days left before departure, Huaiyu returned to Chang'an first.
I took carts full of gifts and visited various houses I knew well. I also visited my own property and made some arrangements.
In the evening, I chatted with Fan Xianji through the small window. Huaiyu was quite reluctant to let go of him, but Fan Xuanfu was now focused on the child in her belly, but she was not at all reluctant to leave Huaiyu.
"Jiu Niang is here too."
Xuan Fu told Huai Yu while eating pickled cucumber.
Jiuniang Fan Yuzi, also known as King Kong, is actually very tall and has an oval face. She is not only good at wielding a sword, but also plays polo extremely well.
Perhaps it was because they no longer played polo and practiced martial arts that Fan Jiuniang actually won the lottery and became pregnant just before Huaiyu left Beijing.
Wu Huaiyu's fifth pregnant wife and concubine, he feels quite powerful.
"Go to Yanzhou and take the five maidens and the thirteen maids with you. Also, take Jianyi and the other twenty-four sword maids with you. They can not only serve you but also protect your safety."
Officials can take their families with them when they take office in other places. For example, the warrior Yu took his wife and daughter with him when he went to Liangzhou. Of course, he cannot take them all away, especially for senior officials. If he takes his wife, he must keep his son. If he takes his son and keeps his wife, he must keep him.
several.
Therefore, many officials, now that they are older, simply take their sons who are one or two years older, and then take concubines, or simply take concubines locally.
"Yanzhou has not been recovered yet, and there is no peace. There will be a war at any time, so I won't take them with me."
"Then there must be someone around you. If you go to Yanzhou to take concubines or buy maidservants, they are not as good as those at home. Bring a few with you, including Rouge. If you have others you like, you can bring them with you. Don't you like Hu?
Ji, my family’s music band is now from Persia, Sasanian, Byzantine, Frank, Visigoth, Avar, etc., or from the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu in the Western Regions, or from Gaochang, Qiuci, which one do you like?
Which one does Hu Ji choose?
If you like Silla maids, we have about ten of them now, so feel free to bring them with you."
Huaiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Madam, I am going to recover the frontier and serve as an official to fight in the war. What do you think I am going to do?"
"It doesn't matter if you are an official or fighting in the war. When Erlang is away, you should also pay close attention to give birth to more children for our family. If the family is prosperous, the first line must be prosperous. Look at the old patriarch, who is more than seventy years old.
I have more than thirty sons, and I am still taking concubines to have children. You should learn more."
Huaiyu laughed loudly,
"You are still laughing, but you have to be more careful and hold on tighter." Fan Xuanfu touched his belly and told Huaiyu, "If you sow more seeds, our son will have more helpers in the future. Even if he gives birth to a daughter, he can get married.
Getting married."
Huaiyu felt that Fan Xuanfu regarded the children born to his concubines as mere tools, perhaps even as a property of the Wu family, just like the family's cows and horses giving birth to calves, increasing their value and making money.
This idea is quite common nowadays. In a big family, the only ones who can really compete are the legitimate sons of the first wife, but generally, the eldest son cannot be challenged by other legitimate sons.
Under the strict patriarchal system, the status of the eldest son is as unchallengable as the status of the legitimate wife. This is even more stable than the crown prince's position as heir apparent. After all, the crown prince may be deposed by other princes in rebellion.
But in a noble family, whose second son has the ability to directly seize the legitimate son by force?
If other legitimate sons who are truly capable can make great contributions and have a higher official title than their legitimate eldest son, they will usually establish separate families. There is no talk of usurping the eldest son's legitimate eldest son's status or family property.
"Madam, I will leave Beijing in two days, and I don't know when I will come back. I will go to your house tonight..."
Before he finished speaking, Fan Xuanfu closed the small window and said, "No, it's getting late. Alang should go back and rest early. I'm sleepy, so I'll go back first."
Huaiyu looked at the closed window and sighed helplessly. This woman seemed to have changed after becoming pregnant. If this was not the Tang Dynasty, Wu Huaiyu would have even suspected that she had fallen in love with someone else.
Return to your main room.
As soon as Jian came over, "Alang, which lady should I notify to serve you?"
Huaiyu was not in the slightest mood, so he waved his hand and went to sleep.
Jianyi helped him change clothes and wash up, and at the same time reported some situations at home. The samurai Ke wanted to redeem Chu Chu, the brothel girl from Pingkangfang, but it was revealed.
Because the ransom cost one hundred and eighty guan, which was still a large amount of money, Lao Wu's salary and rewards were all managed by the Wu Liu family, and they usually only had a little pocket money.
He couldn't afford so much, and Chu Chu was in a hurry, so he had to come back to Wu Liu to get the money.
The Wu Liu family could accept Lao Wu taking concubines, and even accepting concubines as gifts from the Yang family, but she was not willing to buy prostitutes from his brothel, which was so expensive.
Is it inlaid with gold, one hundred and eighty pieces?
If converted into copper coins, it would weigh more than a thousand kilograms.
With eighteen strings, you can easily marry a 28-year-old girl from a good family. Is it no better than a girl from a brothel? With one hundred and eighty strings, you can marry ten young girls from good families.
Mrs. Wu and Liu refused to pay, so Lao Wu went to Huaiyi to get the money, but Huaiyi said that he didn't have any money either, and that the money was all under the control of Mrs. Cheng. Lao Wu couldn't bear to look for money from his eldest daughter-in-law, so he came to the courtyard to look for her.
Huaiyu, but Huaiyu was not at home, so he hesitated and finally did not have the nerve to ask the woman Huaiyu.
Huaiyu chuckled a few times, Lao Wu couldn't stand the temptation of this green tea even at his old age, and he would not be able to survive the festival.
"Tomorrow, ask your maidservant to take two hundred coins and send them to my grandma. If I, Aye, come back again to ask for money, just tell me to send the money to the county prince."
Qian Huaiyu is willing to step in for Lao Wu, but the prerequisite is that he can get the consent of the Wu Liu family. Whether he can get the consent of the Wu Liu family depends on his ability. If he can't get the consent, then don't think about other things.
The house is restless because it doesn't want to cause trouble.