You Huachao can step on a small Baihu who is in charge of the team at will, but if the other party is the governor's private person, it is very different. If the governor's private person comes down to be a Baihu, he is just here to exercise, and sooner or later he will have to
Go up. The slightest offence may lead to the governor's thunderous revenge! It's too late for such a person, You Hua Chao, to fawn over. How can he dare to be too big?
"This is Li Zhi!"
Li Zhi was about to kneel down, but You Huachao got there first.
"I'm You Huachao!" You Huachao stopped putting on the airs of Shangguan in front of Li Zhi. He took a step forward, grabbed Li Zhi's hand, and said kindly: "Guan Guan is so young, let me call you."
Dear brother, dear brother, please come inside!"
After all, Li Zhi was a young man with a thin skin. After seeing You Huachao's face-changing skills, he was a little embarrassed. He coughed, took his hand out of You Huachao's hand without leaving a trace, and said lightly: "Shangguan, this is for me.
A small courtesy for meeting someone is disrespectful!"
You Huachao was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the box hanging on the hand of Li Zhi's servant.
Li Zhi's servant quickly walked up, opened the box, and showed the satin ginseng inside to You Huachao. When You Huachao saw this great gift, the smile on his face became even brighter and he couldn't help but laugh.
After speaking out, he looked at Li Zhi with kind eyes and said loudly: "Brother Xian, you are so polite, you are so polite!"
He waved his hand and asked the entourage behind him to accept the gift. He made an invitation gesture towards Li Zhi and said, "Brother Xian, please come in!"
When Li Zhi saw You Huachao acting like this, he expected that he was also a corrupt and snobbish petty official, so he lost all intention of making friends with him. Li Zhi was too lazy to go into the Qianhu Government Office to talk nonsense with him, so he said, "I have something urgent, so I won't
I’m sorry to bother you, sir! I’ll make sure to bring some gifts to visit you next day!”
Hearing Li Zhi's words, You Huachao was a little disappointed. He also wanted to entertain Li Zhi well and make friends, so that he would be lucky when Li Zhi was promoted in the future! But after all, Li Zhi was the governor's personal servant, and that would be in the future.
How could Miao Zi, a high-ranking official, have time to make friends with Qianhu, a small defensive officer of his own? To give him a heavy gift would have already given him enough face! So when Li Zhi said he was leaving, You Hua
Chaoya was not surprised, but answered more diligently:
"It doesn't matter, I'll wait for brother Xian to come next time!" After a pause, You Huachao said again: "Brother Xian, if you are unhappy with anything in Fanjiazhuang, if you need brother Yu's help, just ask!"
After saying this, he stood there as if he wanted to watch Li Zhi leave.
Li Zhi secretly thought that the governor's BMW was really easy to use, and he helped him deal with Shangguan as soon as he got there. This You Huachao didn't look like Shangguan, he almost looked like his subordinate! Li Zhi laughed, didn't stop, and talked with him.
The servants mounted their horses and rode towards Fanjiazhuang.
It was only twenty miles from Yunfangli to Li Zhi's Fanjiazhuang. Li Zhi rode for more than half an hour to reach Fanjiazhuang.
Fanjiazhuang is two miles away from Haihe River. It is not very big. It is a long and narrow village surrounded by walls, thirty paces from east to west and one hundred and forty paces from north to south. The wall is two feet high and not covered with bricks. There is only one door open on the south side. Li Zhizhao
Two clansmen were asked to go to the village to report the news. When Li Zhi arrived at the village gate, seven or eight officials, big and small, were already standing in front of the village gate to greet him.
When Li Zhi entered the village gate, these people shouted in confusion:
"I've met the leader of the team!"
"Hello, Captain!"
These people, headed by two general bannermen of the seventh rank, greeted Li Zhi diligently. Li Zhi nodded and rode into Fanjiazhuang with the welcoming officials.
The situation inside Fanjiazhuang made Li Zhi very disappointed.
The village was very dilapidated, with garbage and feces piled everywhere on both sides of the small main road. It was summer, the temperature was very high, and the entire village was filled with a disgusting stench. Many empty houses in the village were empty.
Inhabited and maintained, the window eaves are dilapidated, bricks and tiles are missing, and grass has grown into the house. Li Zhi guessed that these empty houses were left by fleeing military households. There were few cattle and horses in the village, and the few military households also
They were very poor, all skinny and wearing shabby short clothes. They stood on both sides of the dirty road and looked at the newly appointed Li Zhi with a confused expression.
Compared with these military households, Li Zhi's ten servants looked strong and vigorous.
Li Zhi rode until he reached the Hundred Households Hall in the middle of Zhuangzi, and then jumped off his horse. In the main hall of the government hall, Li Zhi saw the previous team officer who was about to leave.
The old team officer was called Yan Yue. He was in his thirties and was about to be transferred to "Liuheli" to serve as a team officer. He just waited for Li Zhi to take over. After a short chat with Li Zhi, he left Fanjiabao
He handed Li Zhi's yellow account books and took Li Zhi to inspect various ordnance warehouses and rice granaries.
"Including craftsmen's households and military households, there are a total of 61 households in the village, with a population of 371. Among them, 211 are male, 157 are adults, and 54 are not.
.There are one hundred and sixty women, including one hundred and four strong girls and fifty-six young girls."
Li Zhi listened all the way and accepted the yellow account book. Yan Yue took Li Zhi to the school field to inspect the Zhuangzhuang soldiers.
Yan Yue asked several general banners and small banners to separately summon the soldiers. He and Li Zhi waited in an empty room next to the school ground. At first, Li Zhi didn't understand why Yan Yue hid in the broken room. Later, Li Zhi stood
After waiting for half an hour, he understood: the sun was scorching outside, and he would suffer from heatstroke if he didn't wait inside the room. Li Zhi stood in the dilapidated room with no ventilation until he was sweating, and then the soldiers slowly gathered together.
The soldiers were dressed in rags and held rusty swords and spears in their hands. Li Zhi glanced at them and estimated that there were less than thirty soldiers. And most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no fighting ability at all.
, at first glance, they were captured from military households to make up the numbers. It is estimated that most of the soldiers who made up the numbers did not receive military pay at all, so it is no wonder that they were procrastinating on the assembly order.
The two commander-in-chiefs were better dressed and stood in front of the team. However, these two officers also seemed to be lacking in martial arts. They only felt that they were eating better and were not so thin.
The only people with fighting ability in the village are probably Yan Yue's six servants. However, these servants belong to Yan Yue's private armed forces and do not belong to the village's soldiers.
Li Zhi flipped through the yellow book and asked Yan Yue: "Didn't the account say there were fifty-seven Zhuang soldiers?"
Yan Yue rolled his eyes, as if he was scolding Li Zhi in his mind for asking questions even though he knew it, and then said: "There is no escape!"
Li Zhi murmured in his heart: After so many soldiers were recruited, they could only make up less than thirty, so how serious is the actual situation of deserters? Li Zhi glanced at Yan Yue again, secretly thinking that this officer had pulled so many
I don’t know how much free money I’ve eaten even if I have extra men to make up the numbers. The monthly salary for the soldiers in Tianjin Town is twenty taels of silver, but Yan Yue spent dozens of taels of free money on just one item a month.
However, Li Zhi thought again, it is estimated that not only Yan Yue will have to eat empty pay, but Yan Yue's superiors will also have to pluck out military pay. Yan Yue may not be able to be greedy so much. Moreover, he also has to support his family. Thinking of this, Li Zhi said to Yan Yue
Asked: "How much is the monthly salary paid out every month?"
Yan Yue seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with Li Zhi's questioning. He snorted and replied: "You will know after I post it!"
Seeing his attitude, Li Zhi didn't ask any more questions.
After the handover was completed, Yan Yue clapped his hands and rode away with his servants.
