Chapter 3 Officials and Business

The three of them stood at the door of Li Qi'er's mutton shop, shaking their heads and sighing helplessly, especially Ye Qing, he never thought that he would be so unlucky, and he tragically crossed over to the Great Song Dynasty in just two months, and the situation began to fall off a cliff, not caring at all about the feelings of the 10,000 running grass and mud horses in his heart, a dazed traverser.

When he first crossed over, he was still a distant relative of Ye Heng, the prefect of Jiankang Mansion, and the younger brother of Ye Hong, the general of the Shenjin Military Department of Jiankang Mansion, but before he could react to his situation, a series of blows followed.

Tang Bangyan, a court advisor, impeached Ye Heng, the prefect of Jiankang Prefecture, and eventually the prefect was exiled to Lingnan. Jiankang Mansion fought with the Jin army, and Ye Hong, the general of the Shenjin Army, was killed.

After the war, because of Ye Heng's thigh and the relationship between the court and the law of the court, he could enjoy the grace of the court and succeed Ye Hong as the general in charge of 500 people in the Shenjin Army.

But who would have expected that the emperor who failed in the Northern Expedition would choose this time to issue an order to eliminate redundancy and reduce the number of shadow supplements for officials at all levels!

So, he crossed over to the battlefield and fought with the Jin people in a daze, and at the same time, Ye Qing, who was identified by Li Heng as "Ye Qing", became the younger brother of Ye Hong, a general of the Shenjin Army who had never met.

Under Li Heng's explanation, Ye Qing, who had "amnesia", began to dream of yellow sorghum from the second day after the war, lamenting that God treats him well, and at the same time preparing to accept the shadow of the imperial court.

When he imagined that after he crossed over, he would be promoted to a subordinate general as a team officer, and a basin of cold water suddenly fell from the sky, completely pouring Ye Qing who had crossed over to the heart.

A military order like lightning and thunder exploded above Ye Qing's head, so Ye Qing, who was originally in the Shenjin Army of Jiankang Mansion and was in charge of the fifty-person team, did not become a general in charge of five hundred people, but was ruthlessly demoted to the point where his status had already dropped to the rank of the forbidden army, and he became the lowest-level capital in the forbidden army.

Even Li Heng was implicated, and he was relegated back to Lin'an City, becoming a deputy head of the forbidden army, and assisted Ye Dutou to start idleness and idleness in Lin'an City.

But fortunately, the two people who are connected by the same fate are both Lin'an people, although they were demoted to the forbidden army, but they finally returned to their "hometown".

Standing at the door of Li Qi'er's mutton shop, a smell came out of the store, Ye Qing, who was full of thoughts, smelled the fragrance, secretly swallowed his saliva, and saw Lao Liu Tou and Li Heng, finally finding the other seven people in his army, and they were slowly walking towards him at this moment.

On the second floor of a teahouse diagonally opposite not far away, Wang Zhiwang, the squire of the military department, was standing in front of the window with a middle-aged man with a rather elegant appearance and temperament, looking at Ye Qing's side from afar.

"Are you sure it's him?" The squire of the military department glanced at Yan Hongyuan, an elegant middle-aged man next to him, and then turned his head to look at a forbidden army general behind him and asked.

"Back to my lord, it's him. Named Ye Qing, he was a distant relative of Ye Heng, the prefect of Jiankang Mansion, who couldn't beat the eight poles, Jiankang's brother died in battle, and he was originally going to take over his brother Ye Hong's position as a general, but then he didn't know why, so he was demoted back to the Lin'an Forbidden Army, and he was demoted to the head of the capital after being demoted two levels. The forbidden army was in charge of Lu Zhong's hurried reply.

The general is three levels higher than the general, and there are brigadier generals and deputy generals in the middle, and then he came to the position of Lu Zhong, the general he is in, so in the forbidden army, Lu Zhong is already a senior general with nearly 5,000 forbidden troops in his hands.

For Ye Qing, a small and unsmall capital, he naturally won't take it in his eyes, let alone take it to heart.

But at this moment, Lord Wang, the squire of the military department, asked him to come over, and then asked about Ye Qing, he was able to answer immediately, but he had already made a lot of effort and heard it from one of his team officers in advance.

And this is not the first time that Lord Wang has asked himself over like this, this kind of thing has long been known to everyone, and it is naturally a tacit understanding to cooperate.

So after he finished speaking, he saw Wang Zhiwang smile slightly, and then turned his head to the elegant middle-aged man and said, "How is it?" If it is still in the eyes of Yan Yuan, then it is him. ”

Yan Hongyuan, who was known as Yan Yuanwai, squinted his eyes and carefully glanced at Ye Qing from a distance, his face was also full of a satisfied smile, and he said to Wang Zhiwang: "Since this is the case, then there is Lord Lao Wang." ”

"Yan Yuanwai is polite, Yan Qingzhi, the only son outside Yan Yuan, is an official with Zaixia, although Ling Gongzi is not an official in the line, but as long as it is within his ability, even if there is no greeting from Ling Gongzi, he will naturally help him." Wang Zhiwang smiled with the same satisfaction, and then the two of them stretched out their hands to invite each other at the same time, and walked into the room together.

Wang Zhiwang, who walked into the tea room, looked at Lu Zhong beside him, and then took out a blank military document from his sleeve pocket, handed it to him lightly, and said, "General Lu will go down and arrange it, and let that Ye Qing come up for a while." ”

Watching Lu Zhong skillfully take the blank military documents, and after just taking a few steps outside, Wang Zhiwang suddenly said again: "By the way, General Lu personally checked the people of Ye Qing's army, if there is someone who is too old, you might as well exchange some young and strong ones for Yan Yuan." ”

"This general understands, Lord Wang can rest assured." Lu Zhong turned around and smiled, picked up the paperwork and walked downstairs.

Listening to Wang Zhiwang's empathetic instructions, Yan Hongyuan's heart, which was still there, completely relaxed.

Originally, he was worried that he spent a lot of money to hire a guard from the forbidden army, if only that one Ye Qing and the young man next to him were suitable to be guards, and the others were all veterans in their fifties and sixties, then his money would be a little more than worth the loss.

As for what Wang Zhiwang said just now, Yan Qingzhi greeted him and was an official in the same dynasty, Yan Hongyuan only regarded it as a polite remark, after all, his son was just a small county lieutenant who had just gone to Binzhou, and as a squire in the military department, how could he look at each other squarely?

But at this moment, listening to Wang Zhiwang's words, he also put a hand into his sleeve pocket very well, and while Wang Zhiwang was making tea, Yan Hongyuan took out a delicate wooden box from his sleeve pocket and handed it over, and then said in a low voice: "This is specially prepared for you, Lord Wang, the night pearl from the sea and some exotic jewelry, please also ask Lord Wang to smile." ”

"Yan Yuanwai is really polite." Wang Zhiwang said so, but his hand was naturally accepted, and the calm look on his face made Yan Hongyuan, who had been in business all his life, feel that he was a little inferior.

Then there was a thick pile of silver tickets, which Yan Hongyuan took out from another sleeve pocket, these silver tickets were naturally only a lot more than the original number, except for the silver that hired the ten forbidden soldiers, the rest was arranged by Wang Zhiwang himself. As for why he is so generous, there is naturally another purpose for him, but he also knows that this sum of money is just to increase the favor of the other party and lay a foundation for happy cooperation when he asks for him in the future.

Wang Zhiwang took the silver ticket solemnly, with a cautious and serious face, just like a Great Song Dynasty official who was concentrating on handling government affairs impartially, and he couldn't see that his behavior was speculative, using the power in his hands to accept bribes.

After carefully counting the silver tickets, Wang Zhiwang was even more calm and reasonable than just now, and took the silver tickets into his arms, but with the process of counting the silver tickets, the smiles on his face were more kind and enthusiastic than just now.

"Yan Yuanwai is really hardworking, if Ling Gongzi, who is far away in Binzhou, knows that Yan Yuanwai has to go out of the mountain in person to continue to run the family business in the house in order not to delay his career, I am afraid that my heart will be full of emotion. As a father, he can love his son like Yan Yuanwai, and at the same time think about the court and society, which is rare in my Great Song Dynasty now. Wang Zhiwang shook his head and sighed, then raised the teacup in his hand and motioned for Yan Hongyuan to taste this year's new tea.

After Yan Hongyuan drank the tea and praised Lord Wang for understanding tea and loving tea, he said with a wry smile: "Yan also has a hard time, who would have thought that he would be able to enter high school this year, and he was even selected by the imperial court, and he really embarked on a career in office, and I hope that Lord Wang will help him more in the future." ”

"It's easy to say, presumably with Ling Gongzi's talent and learning, as long as he is pragmatic to the locality, the court will naturally not treat him badly. It's just that...... Yan Yuanwai has stopped personally interfering in the management of the family business in the house in the past two years, and now he can still be familiar with the second time he goes out of the mountain? After all, the industry in the house has a great relationship with the royal family, and the emperor is the only one who cares about the fabric and porcelain in your home. These, Wang said something that he didn't like, I'm afraid that Brother Yan would inevitably ask Ling's son when the time comes, right? Wang Zhiwang looked at another stack of silver tickets and handed them over, and instantly changed the three words of Yan Yuanwai to Brother Yan very naturally.

"What Lord Wang said is that Yan has always been frail, that is, the business in Lin'an City can take care of one or two, and the things used by the royal family, Yan is fighting for this old life, and he doesn't dare to make mistakes. As for the rest of the business...... The only person Yan can rely on now is my daughter who has been restless since she was a child. Yan Hongyuan paused for a moment, looking at Wang Zhiwang who was still curious and listening, so he had to continue: "Don't hide it from Lord Wang, this time Yan asked you for help, not for me Yan to find a guard, but for my daughter to find a guard, after all, in the future, Yan will not be able to practice the Yan family's business in other places, so she can only try to let her take care of it." ”

"Oh...... Clearly, since this is the case, then I can rest assured. But then again, although business is important, Brother Yan should also pay attention to his body, don't worry, these ten forbidden soldiers, if Brother Yan is not satisfied with any of them, you can tell me directly, and I will replace it for you. Wang Zhiwang smiled and said.

Yan Hongyuan also smiled, but he believed that once these ten forbidden soldiers were in his hands, even if he was not satisfied and wanted to change, he was afraid that he would have to pay a large sum of silver.