The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 20

"My aunt is a scribe in Beizhen's Jiedu Mansion. I once drank wine with your uncle at my uncle's house in Beizhen."

It turned out to be the case.

Tang Qing'an suddenly realized that Daheishan, where his uncle lived, belonged to Beizhen.

Beizhen Jiedushi is equivalent to the general soldier in history, with a slightly higher status.

For example, Wang Ziteng is the Jiedu envoy of the Beijing camp and the head of the Jiedu envoys in the world. He is different from the local Jiedu envoys. He also inherits the title, which is equivalent to the governor of the previous life.

Chen Kaiwu had long wanted to make friends with Tang Qing'an, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

His uncle and Wu Jinxiao were close to each other, so they had a good friendship and knew the situation of Jinling thousands of miles away better than anyone else.

Few people in Liaodong still remember the four major families. With the convenience of my uncle, he knows this person's background better than others.

Some people thought that he was just Wu Jinxiao's nephew, some people found out that he was Xue's heel, and some people heard that he was involved with Liaodong Dusi.

Uncle told him clearly that this person came from the route of the Jingying Jiedushi, or from the Ningguo Mansion, and the current position of one hundred households is definitely just a transitional position.

That being the case, of course Chen Kaiwu wanted to have a deep friendship with this person, maybe he could also take the opportunity to gain a relationship behind him.

"Come on, let's go in together."

People from Qianhu's family received them outside the door, and first led the two of them to an inner room, where there was a bookkeeper.

Chen Kaiwu skillfully took off the bag, and took out a handful of broken silver from it. Tang Qing'an reckoned it was five or six taels.

The bookkeeper made a note, looked up at Tang Qing'an, and seeing that he didn't move, his eyes showed doubts.

Tang Qing'an was about to explain, but Chen Kaiwu laughed, and took out another handful of broken silver, and put it in Tang Qing'an's name.

After giving Chen Kaiwu a grateful look, the Qianhu family took the two of them to the living room.

"Thank you Brother Chen, little brother, I will take the silver and return it to you when I turn around."

"Don't worry, you and I will spend more time making friends in the future, so why be polite about such a trivial matter."

Entering the hall, there are quite a lot of decorations in the room, there are already seven people sitting on both sides, chatting and drinking tea, and they all looked at the people who came in.

They were all from the hundreds of households in the former village. Chen Kaiwu greeted everyone with a smile and introduced Tang Qing'an at the same time.

It turned out to be him, and everyone suddenly realized that Tang Qing'an saluted his colleagues one by one, and everyone was very polite.

After sitting for a while, Chen Kaiwu was introducing in a low voice the human relations and sophistication of the Qianhu Institute, such as when did a certain hundred households take up their jobs and so on.

Finally another person barged in, with a full beard, burly and powerful, seeing the person clearly, everyone quieted down unanimously.

The big man turned a blind eye, found an empty seat and sat down, picked up the teacup and drank it regardless of who it was, while the Baihu next to him were speechless.

"This is Ma Xuan. This person has offended thousands of households. If we don't deal with each other, you'd better stay away from him, so as not to get angry."

It turns out that it's not surprising that this kind of behavior, Tang Qing'an nodded slightly.

All the ten hundred households arrived, and the family of one thousand households came in with a smile, "Please move forward, everyone." He led everyone to the banquet hall.

The banquet hall was relatively empty, and three square tables were set up. Qian Hu's family unexpectedly arranged the new Bai Hu at the main table. After everyone was seated, Qian Hu came in not long after, with a smile on his face.

Tang Qing'an followed the crowd and got up to greet him.

"Sit, sit, sit." Qianhu sat at the head of the main table without hesitation, raising his hand to signal, his face full of interest.

"The people in this room can only go out sideways tonight."

"Oh, my head, I can't drink much wine today." Baihu explained with a smile on the side table.

Before Qianhu could speak, Baihu next to him smiled and said, "There is only this New Year's Eve dinner all year round. You are the reason, and you have to drink today."

While a few people were chatting and laughing, girls came in with delicacies.

Turtle, clam, snail, mussel, fox, rabbit, mouse, sparrow...

When a girl was serving food, Baihu at the main table suddenly patted her on the buttocks and looked at the girl with a smile.

The girl was frightened, blushed, and whispered, "Uncle."

"I sent you to Qianhu's house, but your family is still unwilling. It took me a lot of effort to eat and drink here without any worries. Seeing you today has changed, so don't blame your uncle now."

The girl didn't answer, she lowered her head and followed the others out.

Baihu turned around and explained to everyone with a smile, "Is this girl from my house, or I sent her to work in Qianhu's house, and told her family that she will not worry about food and clothing in the future, but now she is fat."

"You've done a good job."

"This girl looks good, no wonder Qianhu likes you."

……

"Hmph, he beat his father to bed for a month, so he is such a good man." At the outermost table, the bearded man ate food without looking up, sarcastically.

The face of Baihu at the main table turned cold, and he wanted to retort, but thinking of this person's unrelenting temperament, he would definitely quarrel.

But just enduring this tone like this feels shameless.

"Come on, let's have a drink together."

Qianhu raised his wine glass without even looking at the bearded man.

"Today, everyone is invited to gather together. One thing is that we have worked together for the court for a year. Regardless of the credit, there must be hard work, so everyone encourages this, and I will reward you for the court.

Secondly, everyone must have heard about the transfer of the guards by the Liaodong capital to enter the camp. To tell you the truth, I have already received an official document from the commander of the guards to envoy Si Qian. "

Everyone changed their colors one after another, even Chen Kaiwu subconsciously clenched his fists and looked at Qianhu with all his attention.

The guards are usually stationed in the local area, and when they encounter a situation, they will send soldiers into the camp, and the same is true for hundreds of households.

According to tradition, for example, military households in the guards in Liaodong were also sent to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu and other places to serve after they were transferred.

The battalions stationed in the important areas of Shen and Liao used to be drawn from thousands of miles away, but because of the barbarians and the imperial court's repeated loss of soldiers and generals, they were unable to take into account the traditions and began to draw soldiers from the local guards.

They are far away from Shen Liao, and they thought they would be shut down in recent years, but fortunately it was not their turn, but they were afraid of something.

Seeing the dignified expressions of the hundreds of households, who no longer had the previous relaxed look, Li Biao of Qianhu also sighed.

"Head, what is the method of drawing, you tell the big guy."

"Five out of ten."

"hiss……"

Many people breathed a sigh of relief, some of them secretly rejoiced that their family had a good relationship with Qianhu, and they would not transfer themselves.

"Boss, you know the situation in my office. Zheng Ding sent out, and Yu Ding didn't have many people left." Hundreds of households pleaded.

"You are going to join the camp as a general. My list has already been submitted. How many people are missing, and the hundreds of households that have not had their turn send people to make up. Let's work together to get through this difficult time."

Those hundreds of households are as colorful as onyx, like eggplants beaten by frost.

After Qianhu finished reading his name, the joyous atmosphere before was gone, and even Qianhu's persuading everyone was listless.

Even if the hundred households who escaped the catastrophe had to send people from the transferred hundred households to make up the shortfall, no one would be happy.

Tang Qing'an's face was calm. He already knew the results of his Hundred Household Office, and Chen Ce, the Secretary of the Household Division of Liaodong Capital, had already sent him a letter to inform him.

(End of this chapter)