A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 145
The Bao'an prefecture is not far from the ethics mansion, when Wang Dou arrived at the prefecture, the magistrate Li Zhenzhen had already led a group of officials to greet him at the door.

Wang Dou saw that Nazhizhou was in his forties, with long beards and long beards. He looked dignified. He was wearing a blue official uniform from the fifth rank, with a white pheasant patch on it.This Li Zhenzhen was in the prime of life, and from him, Wang Dou also felt a sense of arrogance, that sense of superiority as a civil servant.

Wang Dou was wearing the official uniform of the commander Tongzhi from the third rank. The official uniform was bright red, with tiger and leopard patches on it. In terms of rank, Wang Dou was much higher than Li Zhenzhen.However, the Ming Dynasty was rich in culture and military, and although Wang Dou was of high rank, in the past, Li Zhenyu would not have taken Wang Dou seriously, let alone greeted him with a banquet like today.

The main reason is that Li Zhenyu came out to greet Wang Dou when he heard that Wang Dou was appreciated by the new governor, Lu Xiangsheng, and that Mr.He smiled and greeted Wang Dou, but the sense of superiority in his bones still made people uncomfortable. Xie Yike behind Wang Dou curled his lips, but Wang Dou looked calm and chatted happily with Li Zhenzhen.

After exchanging greetings, Zhizhou introduced Wang Dou to his colleagues behind him. Wang Dou saw a large group of civil servants wearing black gauze, green official uniforms, embroidered quails or magpie patches. Most of them were ninth-rank minor officials. Or miscellaneous jobs. Strictly speaking, there is only one civil official in Baoan Prefecture, Li Zhenzhen, and the rest are officials.

Among this group of people, Wang Dou also saw several acquaintances, Baoanzhou Confucianism is the name Qi, and he looked at Wang Dou with a smile. He was very relieved that behind him were Jiang Hongsheng and Huang Riguang, the Confucianism instructors, both of whom Wang Dou had seen before.

There are also Chen Yuwen, the official of Baoan Prefecture, Li Ju, the ambassador of Beihuangcang, Qi Guan, the official, and others. Wang Dou once came to the state city to ask them to do something. Seeing that the little warrior in the past has now become the integrity officer of a city, they I feel incredible.

There is also Wang Biao of the Department of Medicine, from whom Wang Dou wanted to leave Wang Tianxue, and the skinny middle-aged man behind Deng Fu, the ambassador of Yongxingcang. Wang Dou remembered that his nickname was Deng Yijiao. That kick on Hu Dou left a deep impression on Wang Dou.

Han Chao, who was behind Wang Dou, also thought of this person, and looked at Deng Yijiao again and again, which made the deputy envoy of Yongxingcang baffled.

There is also the official Weihan of Baoan Prefecture, a strong middle-aged man. He is in charge of more than 200 people in the city.Official Han seemed to admire Wang Dou very much. Among the people behind him, two of them, one was thinner and the other was tall, looked at Wang Dou and Han Chao behind him with unbelievable eyes.

Wang Dou glanced at them and recognized the two, but they were Li Tianxu and Li Tiancheng brothers who had conflicts with him in the city before.Wang Dou glanced at them indifferently, then ignored them.Only Han Chao looked them up and down, with a sneer on his face, which made Li Tianxu even more frightened, and regretted the conflict between himself and Wang Dou and others back then.

Zhou Wei Han Daguan noticed the strangeness of Li Tianxu and Li Tiancheng brothers, he asked a few words in a low voice, and when he understood the reason of the matter, his expression turned ugly.

Daguan Han once made good friends with Yang Dongmin, the confidant of Xu Zucheng, the integrity officer of Yuanzhou City. He knew about Wang Dou's beheading of more than 280 ranks, and he also saw the armored army brought by Wang Dou yesterday. Dao had never seen such a strong army in Ming Dynasty.

The nearly 400 people that Wang Dou brought, even all the officers and soldiers of Baoanzhou City plus the people, would not be their opponents. Now that Wang Dou is the new lord of integrity, he has a high position and power, and his subordinates have a problem with him ?I really don't know how to write the word "death"!
He was already thinking quickly, how to bring Li Tianxu and the two to accompany Wang Dou and resolve this grievance.

Behind Zhizhou Li Zhenzhen, there are a group of squires from Baoan Prefecture, one of them is Li Shichen, the head of the Li family in Xinzhuang.Speaking of Li Shichen, after the retreat of the Qing soldiers, he continued to return to his Xinzhuang. In addition to his own slaves, he also encouraged the villagers of Xinzhuang to go back, although some of them had joined the Shunxiangbao military household registration .

Most of Xinzhuang's population is private households, which belong to the prefectural city. As for who owns these common people, Xu Zucheng, the integrity officer, also fought a lawsuit for Wang Dou and the prefect Li Zhenyu for a long time. In the end, a small half of Xinzhuang's population was instigated by Li Shichen. Going back made Wang Dou feel quite uncomfortable.

When Li Zhenzhen introduced Li Shichen, Li Shichen looked at Wang Dou and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a good nephew. I didn't expect that in a few years, the good nephew would be promoted to a high position of integrity. It's really unexpected."

Wang Dou also smiled: "So it's Li Shibo, it's really a coincidence to see Shibo here."

Listening to the conversation between Li Shichen and Wang Dou, Li Zhenyu felt a little strange, a man of integrity, and a scholar, how could the two meet?

He asked Li Shichen a few words, and Li Shichen said with a smile: "Your Excellency, I don't know. The student was a resident of the same castle as Mr. Wang, and Mr. Wang was a student watching him grow up. I didn't expect Mr. Wang It is really unpredictable that he was promoted to such a high position from a general army."

Li Zhenyu glanced at Wang Dou, and said with a smile: "The world is really unpredictable. Mr. Wang is young and promising, and he will definitely not be something in the pool in the future."

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Compared with the unrestrained nature of the military officer's banquet yesterday, the banquet among literati is even more boring.Li Zhenzhen entertained Wang Dou, and after some polite greetings, such nonsense as helping each other with civil and military affairs, building a state city together, and sharing worries for the sage, the literati and gentry present proposed to compose poems and lyrics, and the music and music present The prostitutes played the zither and sang on the spot, and they were all very excited. They wrote poems one after another, and composed lyrics one after another. The more they wrote, the more excited they became.

Xie Yike yawned, Han Chao was in a daze, what else could Wang Dou do but smile?
Li Zhenyu politely asked Wang Dou to compose a few poems as well, but Wang Dou knew nothing about composing poems. It is believed that 99 out of [-] traversers are not capable of composing poems.Of course Li Zhenyu didn't believe that Wang Dou, a warrior, had the talent to compose poetry.He was very fond of poetry, and composed one after another, and his ups and downs of voice attracted a lot of applause.

After finishing the poem, they talked about Lao, Zhuang, Confucius and Mencius again. Wang Dou listened carefully, but he didn't have any profound insights.

Looking at the officials chatting happily, Wang Dou fell into deep thought. After yesterday and today's banquet, Wang Dou felt deeply disappointed with the officials of Zhoucheng.Whether it is the civil servants or military generals in the city, they all have the same virtues, timid and arrogant, corrupt and greedy, but they are good at talking, but they have no corresponding ability.What Lu Xiangsheng said about the vain talkers, the ones who make promises and make promises, is probably referring to this kind of people.

The bigger the city, the more degenerate the officialdom is. All civil servants and military generals in Baoanzhou City are like this. It must be more prosperous places are even more unsightly. The Ming Dynasty has been in the world for 300 years and has experienced a brilliant civilization. It has been passed down to the present, at least in the officialdom. , this bone has been completely broken.Now there is only one eunuch in Wang Dou who has never seen him, so it must not be much better.

From Wang Dou's feelings towards Li Zhenzhen, it seems that Li Zhenzhen has certain ambitions, but he prefers empty talk rather than practical politics.

Wang Dou finally stopped listening, and concentrated on eating the dishes. Listening was meaningless. Although the officials and gentry present were polite to Wang Dou and behaved politely, there was a kind of indifference in their bones, and Wang Dou couldn't blend into their circle. , what else can you do without eating vegetables?Fortunately, the dishes in this banquet are still very rich. Looking at these delicacies, wine and dishes, one would never have imagined that there are still a large number of soldiers and civilians who are about to starve to death outside, thinking that Ming Dynasty is now a peaceful and prosperous age.

Wang Dou saw that Fu Mingqi, who was opposite him, was also eating food. Although he is a Confucian scholar, he rarely composes lyrics and composes music with everyone, and talks loudly. Seeing Wang Dou, he smiled slightly and moved to Wang Dou Beside, whispered: "Brother Wang, are you holding back? How about we go out for a walk?"

Wang Dou said with a low smile: "Old Fu should be your best at this kind of scene, why, you can't stand it anymore?"

Fu Mingqi shook his head and said: "It's too sour here, and I'm full, so I just go out to get some air."

Wang Dou pleaded guilty to Li Zhenjue, saying that he was out of respect. Li Zhenjue saw that Wang Dou only knew how to eat, and thought in his heart that Wang Dou was really a martial artist, and he was a fool, so he was full now, right?But there was a smile on his face, and he wanted a servant to go with Wang Dou.

Fu Mingqi volunteered to go out with Wang Dou, Xie Yike and several guards quickly followed behind Wang Dou.

Walking outside the lobby, a gust of cold wind blew, and Wang Doudun felt refreshed. He stretched himself a lot, and said with a smile: "Brother, you look like this, you have no official appearance. Be careful not to be seen by others." Come on, it's a shame for you."

Wang Dou said disapprovingly, "I'm just a warrior, why do I care so much?"

After taking a breath of fresh air, he felt much better, but at this moment he suddenly heard Fu Mingqi's voice: "So it's Young Madam, Miss Ji, what a coincidence."

Then the voices of two women sounded: "So it's Mr. Fu."

Wang Dou looked, but saw that Fu Mingqi had recovered his sanctimonious appearance, and saluted the two women politely.

The two women also bowed back to him.

Wang Dou looked, but it was the young madam and young lady Ji whom he had seen before, standing there prettyly, one elegant and quiet, full of the charm of a noble young lady.An incomparably charming and beautiful image of a young girl with a completely different temperament.

Seeing Wang Dou, the two daughters looked at Wang Dou in surprise, and the eyes of the young lady Ji fell on Wang Dou's command and prefect uniform. Suddenly she smiled, pointed at Wang Dou and said, "I I know, your name is Wang Dou, and you are the newly-appointed integrity officer of the prefectural city. I heard that you beheaded at [-] ranks, and outsiders say that you are three-headed and six-armed. In my opinion, you are just an ordinary person."

Her crisp laughter kept going, her bright eyes looked forward, and she was even more charming.

The young lady stood quietly beside her, just looked Wang Dou up and down.

That Miss Ji smiled and went with the young lady, Wang Dou looked at her back and thought: "This woman is inexplicable!"

(End of this chapter)