Although Zhang Ren strongly dissuaded him, Gao Pragmatic finally decided to personally visit the Bazhai area.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic is also afraid of death, especially for the more incomprehensible mysterious method of "Gu", although he is very curious, he never wants to defy the law, so he does not plan to have any direct contact with those Yao people.

But even if you don't go deep into Bazhai for field investigation, at least you can get Liuzhou Mansion. To the west of Liuzhou Mansion is the Bazhai area, and if you continue to the west through Bazhai, it is the northern part of Si'en Mansion.

If you only go to Liuzhou Mansion, Gao Pragmatic still dares to go. After all, Liuzhou Mansion has two Guangxi officials, "Deputy Envoy of Liuzhou Qingyuan Sien" and "General of Liuqing and Liuqing in Guangxi", and the two Guangxi officials are in charge, and security should be relatively guaranteed.

However, although Gao was in a hurry to go, the fact was that he still couldn't make the trip the next day. The first is that on this day, he will go through the motions, first pay a visit to Zhang Ren, and then receive a large number of Guangxi officials who came to visit him in the procuratorate. The second is that he relied on the three hundred families to travel on his own should also take a rest and make all preparations for marching in the southern region, so that he can travel.

As for the guard of honor for patrolling the imperial history, the guards and horses equipped for him in Guangxi, etc., they must also be prepared.

In the end, although Gao Shishi, who knew that Zhang was appointed soon, was anxious, he was still able to leave Guilin Mansion on the third day and hurried all the way to the southwest.

It was said that he was in a hurry, but in fact he didn't go anywhere fast, even if he gave up the sedan chair and changed to riding a horse, it was useless, because his three hundred family members had horses, and the accompanying patrol guard of honor and the five hundred guards sent by the Guangxi guards were all horseless, so they could only walk all the way.

Even if you walk, this group of people is still walking slowly, and they are very pragmatic.

This is not the end, there is more annoying, because Gao Pragmatic has to go through five inspection divisions, Tonggu City Inspection Division, Lanma Town Inspection Division, Chang'an Town Inspection Division, Pingle Town Inspection Division, Dongquan Town Inspection Division, and two county seats, Yongfu County and Liucheng County.

The five inspection divisions of these two counties are all set up by the imperial court officials, and they have just taken up their new duties as the patrol master, where do they dare to slacken, and they all regard it as a top priority. It's just that this is a characteristic of officialdom, the so-called reaching out and not hitting smiling people, high pragmatism is not popular.

Fortunately, the level of the inspection department is low, and Gao Pragmatic patrols the master, so he can stop for a while and leave, but when he was in Yongfu County and Liucheng County, because the two counties were both Jinshi, Gao Pragmatic had to give face and stayed there for one night.

Hurried and hurried, and finally arrived at Liuzhou Mansion on the third day.

On the day of Gao Shishi's arrival, Jiang Xin, the deputy envoy of the right guard of Jiang, Ni Zhonghua, the general of Liuqing, Ji Yuchun, the prefect of Liuzhou, and Rao Yanghao, the commander of Maping County, were still as usual, with a large group of subordinate officials, generals and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the suburbs of Maping County to welcome the patrol and press the big driver.

Now Gao Pragmatic has experienced some of the majesty of patrolling the imperial history, so this meeting, Gao Pragmatic is more powerful than before. No matter how the other party is full of spring breeze, or even humble, Gao Pragmatic is calm anyway, and he can occasionally show a faint smile to Jiang Xin and Ji Yuchun, even Rao Yanghao, the commander of Maping County, who is also a civil official but is a well-born person, failed to get Gao Pragmatic's "slight smile".

As for Ni Zhonghua, the general of Liu Qing, he began to sweat profusely from the first sight of the three hundred families around Gao Pragmatic, for fear that Gao Pragmatic would treat him for the crime of lax management of the army, although the more than 1,000 people he brought were carefully selected from Liu Qing's official army, but if he swung here, even people who did not know how to serve could see the gap with Gao Pragmatic.

The Gao family's entourage this time was approved by the emperor, so naturally they would not use firearms, armor, flags, or golden drums as they did in the past.

This time they came out, unified equipped with the current elite of the Northern Army only equipped with the "Longqing II" musket, equipped with the Jinghua Iron Factory's own production and use of the Yanling knife and a small number of Zhemu bows, the horses also hung with their own battle to wear a good half of the cotton armor This thing can not be worn casually, although in terms of time, it is about to enter the late autumn, but this is Liuzhou, Guangxi, cotton armor This thing will still heat people to death after wearing it for a long time.

When they accompanied them immediately, the Liuzhou soldiers were only amazed at the good treatment of the Gao family. Because in this land of Guangxi, the price of horses is not twenty or thirty taels in the north, but fifty or sixty taels of horses, one hundred taels of good horses, and the three hundred horses of the Gao family seem to be all good horses, and these three hundred war horses alone are 30,000 taels of silver Liuzhou Mansion from the first year of Wanli to the eighth year of Wanli, the field endowment handed over in the full eight years is just over 30,000 taels when converted

Hey, hey, you're here to show off your wealth

But when they got off the horse, it was not the richness that showed off, but the military discipline of the lineup.

Ni Zhonghua is also a person with veteran soldiers, and he has even fought with Yu Zongrong before, but he didn't see how this group of family members took care of all the three hundred horses with twenty or thirty people, while the other two hundred people casually lined up in two long lines on the left and right, allowing Gao Zhizhi to beat the horses through it.

Jiang Xin and others were surprised by the high pragmatism who came on horseback, although the teasing regulations that the patrol in Hongwu and Yongle years could only ride a donkey to the place according to the imperial history had long been replaced, but in fact, there were few patrols who chose to ride horses

The dignified provincial patrol pressed, and even the governor and governor said that they would participate, and it was not natural to sit in a sedan chair

What, you say grade

Haha, where did the turtle come from, talk about the grade with the patrol master, you look at the political envoy from the second grade, if the patrol lord is in a bad mood and doesn't say please sit, he has to stand honestly in front of the patrol lord and listen to the training grade

Jiang Xin is the deputy envoy of the sub-guard, this position is theoretically the official under the judge, the deputy envoy is the deputy envoy of the inspector, and the deputy envoy is sent to a certain place, and the envoy is under the supervision of the patrol, not to mention the deputy envoy, so as soon as Gao Pragmatic came over, before he got off the horse, Jiang Xin took a large group of people to greet him and bowed down.

"Xia Guan, the right side of the Jiang, Liuzhou Qingyuan, Sien, deputy envoy Jiang Xin, etc., see press Taiwan"

The officials behind him saluted in unison and said loudly, "See the stage"

Gao pragmatically said that the soldiers under your command were in formation, if only you were so neat as Shangguan.

But he said lightly, "Everyone is polite, let's be polite." As he spoke, he casually turned over and jumped off his horse, startling the officials so much that they almost didn't jump.

My patrolman, you can always take it easy, this tall horse under your crotch is not a joke, if you fall, it will be terrible

Gao Shishi came to Guangxi for less than ten days, but the patrol shelf had already been put up, and the main reason was that he was in a hurry and had no time to grind with them, so he waved his hand directly and said, "The ceremony has been withdrawn, go to the procuratorate to talk." ”

Jiang Xin and a few others know Gao Pragmatic's origin, this is no way, Gao Pragmatic's current name, even if the little minions under him are not clear, how can these officials not know so they don't feel strange when they see his somewhat arrogant appearance, but think it's normal, although the honor guard has been placed for so long, Gao Zhizhi casually glanced at it and said withdraw, but there is no way, people are qualified to be so good

Jiang Xin turned around and waved his hand, naturally someone immediately dealt with it, and he himself greeted him politely, and said, "Gao Zhizhi is dedicated to the public, and he refuses to delay at all, he is really a model for me, and the lower officials admire him very much." ”

Liu Qingshen Ni Zhonghua has no bottom line, and after running to Gao Pragmatic, he snatched the reins of Gao Pragmatic's mount, and said with a smile on his face, "The last general will give you the old horse." ”

Gao pragmatic didn't know what to say, so he could only nod his head "um" in the end.

Seeing that he agreed, Ni Zhonghua was very excited, holding the reins of Gao Pragmatic's corn-colored war horse, walking behind Gao Pragmatic's house, with a bulging belly and a chest and a slight chin raised, as if he had just returned from a big victory.