high official

Chapter 387
After resting for two days, Wang Xian and others left Zhengzhou, and there was a handsome young man in the team, that is the girl Long who volunteered.In fact, everyone complained about taking this woman on the road, but Wang Xian finally agreed after seeing Erhei's eagerness.

A few days later, the team left Henan and entered Shanxi.Shanxi is worthy of its name. At a glance, there are many mountain ridges. Fortunately, the official road at the foot is relatively flat, which does not affect the team's progress.

As soon as you enter Shanxi, besides the mountains, you can also feel the atmosphere here is different from other places. All the passes are under strict guard, and all counties are stepping up investigations. The arrest warrants for the White Lotus believers can be seen everywhere. It is quite surprising to see groups of men and women being escorted into the city by the officers and soldiers. This reasonable and unexpected phenomenon is quite surprising.

Finally, when we arrived at Gaoping County, when we learned that the magistrate of Zhou County who came to greet him was from Hangzhou, Wang Xian and the other party talked about their fellow countrymen, and at the same time, they asked the question in their hearts. The county is far away from here, so why is it so tense here?
"Be careful and make no big mistakes..." Zhou Zhixian said with a wry smile: "I don't know about my superiors. The White Lotus Sect is all-pervasive in my Shanxi. Which state or county doesn't have their altars and incense halls? Now in Guangling County There was a lot of trouble, and the members of the White Lotus Sect elsewhere were also greatly encouraged. If one day our White Lotus Sect followers follow Liu Zijin's example and rebel by killing officials, then we will risk our own lives, and our relatives at home will also be implicated." The county magistrate has the responsibility of guarding the land. Once the city falls, sometimes even if he dies for the country, the whole family is still in danger of being exiled!

"So that's the case." Wang Xian felt that what he said was reasonable, so he didn't go into it any further, and instead asked, "What's the situation in Guangling County now?"

"It is said that the troops of Datong and Xuanfu have trapped them in Guangling from both sides." Zhou Zhixian sighed: "But in Guangling County, apart from mountains and rivers, they can escape into Mount Heng and then Taihang Mountain at any time. It is very difficult for the army to wipe them out."

The two sighed for a while, and Wang Xian asked a few more questions about the Jin Fan, but obviously Zhou Zhixian didn't want to talk about it in depth, seeing that the friendship of fellow countrymen was nothing more than that, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut and just talk about Fengyue.

Zhou County Magistrate was also a little embarrassed, but he seemed to have a lot of scruples, so he whispered to Wang Xian when we parted: "Go back as soon as you finish your errands, Shanxi is not a place to stay for a long time." After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands and hurried away.

Wang Xian looked at his back, thoughtful.

After half a day in Gaoping County, the team suddenly saw smoke billowing in, Mo Wen said in a deep voice, "It's the brigade!"

"Be alert!" Xu Huaiqing shouted, and the well-trained soldiers quickly occupied the nearby hills, watching the approaching cavalry with all their attention.

At this time, it was already clear that the other party was dressed as an officer and army, and everyone was half relieved. The scouts stepped forward to contact the other party, and after a while brought back a military officer decorated with thousands of households. , Immediately, his expression became serious, and he knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general, Qianhu Shishi, the capital of Shanxi, has been ordered to come to meet the imperial envoy!"

"There are thousands of households." Wang Xian nodded, and asked with a smile: "I don't know which adult's life the thousand households are entrusted to?" The aura of the imperial envoy is naturally greater than that of the other party.

"Of course we are all Tailors and Fantai masters." Shishi said: "The last general was ordered to go to the provincial border to meet the mission. I didn't expect the mission to come so quickly. Forgive me."

"What's the crime for thousands of households?" Wang Xian smiled and said, "Then trouble Qianhu."

"This is what the last general should do." Shi Shi respectfully said, and ordered the brigade to turn around and guard Wang Xian going north.With the entourage of local snakes, Wang Xian's journey was much more comfortable.Everywhere they went, the local government and post houses had already prepared hot soup and hot meals for the guards, and packed up their residences.Wang Xianhe worked his brains, and naturally he had a good meal with good wine and food, and the accommodation conditions were also good.

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After dinner that day, Wu Wei went to Wang Xian's house to drink tea. Lights, more than a dozen lights were lit at the same time, making the room as bright as day!

"Tsk tsk," Xu Huaiqing stood in the middle of the room, looked up and down, left and right, and said, "Who said Shanxi is a poor place? The posthouses I live in these days are richer than the other."

"What kind of eyes do you have!" Wang Xian scolded with a smile: "I can't tell that the furnishings in the room are all new."

"Yes." Wu Wei is a man of knowledge, nodded and said: "This room is full of huanghuali furniture, and the desk is made of sandalwood. The fine porcelain bowls, as well as these vases and hanging paintings are actually antiques from the Song Dynasty.”

"Calculate, how much is the decoration of this room?" Wang Xian said to Wu Wei.

"At least 3 taels of silver." Wu Wei reckoned and said, "The most expensive is this authentic work of Su Dongpo, which is no less than [-] taels of silver in the capital."

"Which post house can use such an expensive decoration?" Wang Xian said with a smile: "It is obviously specially for us."

"Tsk tsk, this treatment," Xu Huaiqing said with a smile: "The imperial envoy is different."

"The treatment is good, but on the other hand, they guard me like thieves." Wang Xian said with a sneer, "Before Gaoping County, we can still see some real things, but after Shi Qianhu came up , we are isolated by them, we can only see what they want us to see, we can only listen to what they want us to hear, and we are still investigating a fart case like this!"

Everyone agreed, Xu Huaiqing said: "No wonder in the script, the imperial envoys have to visit privately in micro-services, my lord, how good it was for us to visit privately in micro-services?"

"You think we are acting?" Wu Wei spat.

"Imperial envoys behave according to rules. When crossing the prefectural and county borders, you must notify the local government, and the prefectural and county magistrates will come to pay respects." Mo Wen explained: "If your lord does not show up, they will immediately know that we have made small moves, and they will be subdued." Have a private interview?"

"The dramas staged are all fake?" Xu Huaiqing regretted.

"It's not always true. It depends on the situation. Sometimes we have to do something extraordinary." Wang Xian said with a smile, "But we are thousands of miles away from Taiyuan? Is it too early for me to take my clothes off now?"

"That's right, if you are caught by the government on the way, you will lose the old man." Xu Huaiqing nodded.

"By the way, where's Erhei?" Wang Xian asked.

"He is following Miss Long's ass." Xu Huaiqing laughed and said, "No matter how Miss Long rolls her eyes, he is like a dog's skin plaster, firmly stuck to her butt!"

"Hahaha..." There was a wave of laughter in the room, just laughing, Wang Xian said to everyone solemnly: "Then leave him alone. If someone blindfolds us, we can't just let it go. Although I can't go, but you are It's ok." He looked at Xian Yun and Wu Wei and said, "You two will leave the team quietly if you find a chance, and go to the tomb of King Jin before me to see if you can sneak a glimpse of Zhu Jixi. I think he can help us Point out the maze."

"Yes." The two agreed in deep voices.

"If you don't see anyone," Wang Xian said, "you can wait to join me in Taiyuan."

"Yes." The two took orders.

The others were also looking forward to Wang Xian, but they saw him waving his hands and saying, "Go to sleep!"

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Protected by guards, he was greeted and sent by the local government. The flattery Wang Xian had heard in the past ten years was not as much as he had heard along the way. It was like this, Shi Shiran, for more than ten days, came to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province. .

Taiyuan, known as Jinyang in ancient times, also known as Dragon City, occupies the shoulders of the world, the hub of the four fortresses, and the capital of Wuyuan.Its city is tall and strong, no less than the imperial capital, and it is densely populated, which is somewhat comparable to Jiangnan.

On the day Wang Xian arrived in Taiyuan, officials on the ground in Shanxi held a grand welcoming ceremony.Zhang Chun, the governor of Shanxi, Zhou Yan, the capital of Shanxi, He Zhucai, the prefect of Taiyuan, and others all greeted the imperial envoy ten miles outside the city. Amidst the sound of ceremony and music, Wang Xian accepted their big gift for the emperor, and then hurriedly returned the gift and said: "I greet you My lords."

"The superior should not be too polite," Zhou Fantai, over 60 years old, with a wrinkled face, said in Henan official dialect: "It's hard work coming from a long distance, the old man prepared a banquet in the government office to cleanse the superior."

"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders." The chief envoy is a second-rank official. Before the appearance of the governor, he was the highest governor of the local area. It is said that Wang Xian is a fifth-rank military officer. Although he has the title of imperial envoy, But he didn't dare to make a big deal in front of the other party.

The banquet was held at the governor's yamen, and most of the officials on the ground in Taiyuan had arrived, and the nobles, gentry and elders from the provincial capital also came to join in.There are more than a dozen tables filled with Eight Immortals, and there are various dishes on the table. In addition to the Yellow River carp, there are rare things such as abalone fin and sea cucumber.In addition, there is an opera troupe, performing some kind of opera, the gongs and drums are clanging, and the silk strings are leisurely, making people feel like they are in a peaceful and prosperous age.

If it was in the past, Wang Xian would be happy to enjoy it.The character of being a petty official would make him quite complacent. Unexpectedly, I would have today, drinking with Lao Tzu in a province!The gentry from Manchuria are all accompanying you below, how cool it is!

But this time, when he looked at the people in the hall, the wine pool and the meat forest, he always saw the appearance of the people who were starved and starved to the ground along the way, which made him feel unwilling to eat, and felt like sitting on pins and needles.

The local officials in Shanxi over there were all staring at him coldly. Seeing the imperial envoy's distraught look, they laughed secretly, thinking that this brat was taken aback by today's grand welcome scene.

At the end of the banquet, Zhou Fantai wanted to personally send Wang Xian to the imperial envoy, but Wang Xian firmly refused.Wang Xian said a lot, and he was very flattered today, saying that he must not kill the boy again, so Zhou Fantai had no choice but to stay and let the Taiyuan prefect send him back.

The imperial envoy prepared by the Shanxi government for him,
(End of this chapter)