"Lu Yin?"

Coming down from the sampan in the morning, two flood soldiers, one tall and one short, stopped Li Shi, and when he heard what they were asking for, Li Shi's face was dazed, and then he recognized that these two flood soldiers were the guards on the mine, and they had a lot to do with Lai Yipin.

From the Tianxin River, where Fengtian Village is located, to the north, you will enter the famous river in Guangdong, the Lianjiang River. The Lianjiang River flows eastward into the main stream, the Beijiang River. But the confluence of Tianxin River and Lianjiang River is a lofty mountain, to go to Yingde County, you have to go west and go upstream, turn to the Jinshan River in the north, go north for more than ten miles, and then land on the shore of Jinshandu, and then go east for thirty miles, which is Yingde County. This is the only place to go to the county seat in the southwest countryside of Yingde, and the green camp also set up flood soldiers on the Jinshandu traffic artery, and the flood guard is the general surnamed Xiao [1].

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming system was followed, and the grass people still had to lead the way when they went out. But this guide originally corresponded to the forced labor borne by the grass people. The national policy of the Ming Dynasty was that the grass people served by people, so there was a way to guide the grass people to keep them in place. After a whipping law, forced labor was converted into silver, and only the role of public security control was left in this way.

In the current Kangxi year, most of the road introduction system has become a fiction. Even if it is just one county, there are thousands of people coming and going every time, otherwise it is difficult for commercial goods to circulate. I have to go to the Li Society to open the road, and even if I can open it, it is difficult to find the soldiers at the checkpoints all the way, so except for the hotels in big cities and other important places, no one has checked the road guide anymore.

It's just that this road guidance system has not been abolished after all, and these two flood soldiers deliberately mentioned this old matter, obviously deliberately embarrassing Li Shi.

"There is no way, the origin is unknown! Go inside and search it! ”

It was clear that they often met in the mines, but the two soldiers pretended not to know him. It seems that their purpose is not only to stop Li Shi, if Li Xi still has the oxtail short knife he had before, the Xun soldiers can plant him with a charge of "breaking through the level with a blade and plotting against him". Li Bu guessed with the worst malice that if he was really dragged aside by them in the small black room, even if he didn't have a knife on his body, maybe he would be stuffed with a knife by them.

"Lai Yipin's matter is big, and you still have to accompany him to death!?"

Li Shi retreated, and said coldly, if he can't even suppress these two soldiers, what is the way to survive in this Tartar Dynasty?

As soon as he said this, the two flood soldiers were stunned.

"I advise you to settle with him as soon as possible, otherwise you will be unlucky and second, implicating your boss, be careful that even your family will be affected!"

The Xun soldiers glanced at each other, their eyes were a little suspicious, and the hand that was about to pull Li Xian stopped. Their relationship with Lai Yipin is not so close, they just use each other. If Lai Yipin really got into any big trouble, they didn't have the consciousness to jump into the pit together.

"If you recognize a few words, you dare to break random words, you are just a grass people, how can you know anything big?"

The tall soldier woke up and decided that Li Xi was alarmist and intimidated himself. The courage that the short soldier had originally lost also rose, and his hand stretched out towards Li Xian again.

"Only by knowing words can we know the big things, do you know why Lai Yipin is targeting me?"

Li Xian's waist straightened, and the short Xun soldier's hand was halfway stretched and froze.

"I'm going to the county seat to see Li Zhixian, for this big thing, it doesn't matter if you stop me, can you stop the whole village of Fengtian Village?"

Hearing this, the short man retracted his hand again, and the tall man also took a slight breath, the green battalion soldiers who worked several jobs were all old fritters, how could they not hear the real threat in Li Shi's words. And what scared them even more was that Li Yi said that he was going to see Zhi County, and it seemed that Lai Yipin had really gotten into some trouble, or that he had completely torn his face with the miners in Fengtian Village.

The tall and short Xun soldiers glanced at each other, and silently retreated to the side, not doing what Lai Yipin explained, but they were a little faced, and they really got involved in the conflict between Lai Yipin and the men in Fengtian Village, why did they bother.

Li Xian snorted and nodded at the two, indicating that they knew each other very well, and were about to leave, when a cold and low voice came from the side.

"Li Si, you threatened to raise the village to make trouble, you can't afford this crime, I don't know what big thing you are, how big it can be."

In the blink of an eye, a thin man with a tired face, as if he hadn't woken up, walked out of the room and was looking at Li Xi with playful eyes.

"Put the total!"

The two Xun soldiers respectfully saluted, and Li Xian suddenly realized that this should be Xiao Sheng, the general manager of Jinshan Xun.

Nunu chin and sent his subordinates away, Xiao Sheng looked at Li Shi: "I'm not one of those honest people under my command who has never seen the world, and I will be bluffed by your words." To be honest, Lai Yipin asked me to keep an eye on you, and I knew that he was indeed in big trouble, but ......"

He stretched out his arms lazily and hugged his arms: "He is the brother-in-law of Master Zhong, and he is also the official of the county, if the trouble is only on you, he will definitely be the winner." Even if it is a whole village of Fengtian Village, if he wants to be ruthless, he is willing to lose his blood, and with the support of Master Zhong, he can also suppress it, I am not worried that he will really be knocked down by you. ”

Xiao Sheng sighed, with a sense of bleakness that saw through the red dust, it really didn't look like an ordinary soldier who would only squeeze the villagers in Li Xian's impression, although what this guy was doing was no different.

"I, Xiao Sheng, just take my brothers to eat, the villagers below the flood pond, I try not to offend, but I can't offend people like Lai Yipin. So...... Li Si, you can be wronged and stay with me for two days. ”

Li Xian frowned, this is always a person, it seems that he has gone through a lot of things, and he acts very measuredly, if he wants to step over this person, he can't be serious.

Xiao Sheng turned his head sideways, wanting to beckon his subordinates to take Li Shi, but he heard such a sentence: "Mr. Xiao, I'm afraid you're just a foreign commissioner......"

The originally squinted eyes opened, Xiao Sheng turned his head, and saw that Li Shi's gaze was no longer scattered, and it shot straight like a knife, and his tone was a little colder: "Xiao's subordinates think that they are strict in discipline and will not publicize military affairs to the outside world. You stunned boy, don't talk about things in the army! ”

In one sentence, Li Xian had a bottom in his heart, but he felt that the heat was not enough: "Ah, did I guess wrong, or even ...... Additional outsourcing? ”

In the green battalion military system, the official general grade is not low, and the seventh grade is the so-called "economic officer", that is, a regular officer. The foreign commission is different, there are foreign commissions and foreign commissions, and in the Yongzheng era, these two levels of temporary establishment were included in the ranks of regular officers, and they were given the top of the eighth and ninth grades. And the "extra foreign commission" is not an official at all, but a soldier with a slightly higher rank than the horseman.

Xiao Sheng's eyes narrowed again, but the upward and downward gaze faintly revealed the anger in his heart, and the flesh of his face was also jumping slightly, pulling the scars under his cheeks, making his originally upright face look a little more hideous. But he couldn't determine the background and meaning of Li Shi's words, and he couldn't respond for a while.

At the moment, it is not out of the way, and there is no proofreading, Xiao Sheng naturally did not wear an official uniform, he was not only angry that he was seen in detail, according to the Manchu military system, the chief officer of the flood guard must be the general manager of the system, and in slightly more important places, the rank of the flood guard will be even higher to the garrison level. This Xiao Sheng is not a thousand-handed system, but he is presiding over such a big flood as Jinshan Xun, and I don't know how many inside things that cannot be known to outsiders.

"Xiao Jiang, don't be careful, I'm just comparing you with this flood guard, compared to the big thing I said, it's not worth mentioning at all."

Li Xian's words made Xiao Sheng feel a little relieved, but his mouth was still stiff: "Just the two official ranks, the farmers who are familiar with it know that I can see a lot of people like you, don't say it, beware of the two days of bad times!" ”

Li Shi's suspicion of his level, he did not explicitly deny it, and now this question is to confirm whether Li Xi is bluffing.

Li Shi sighed helplessly, Okay, it's not a shame to lose face anyway, it's not a shame on yourself.

Looking at the sky and deliberately avoiding Xiao Sheng's face, Li Xian said: "There is a saying in the north, I don't know if I have heard it in the south, it is called ...... Shotgun handle is always a bird......"

Xiao Sheng coughed, as if he was almost choked by his own spit, and hurriedly looked left and right to make sure that no subordinates heard it, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"You...... Know my ......"

Then he looked at Li Shi in disbelief, and before the question could be asked, Li Shi's words blocked his mouth again: "The scar on your face, fine at the top and sparse at the bottom, must be a shotgun blow-up wound." Your left eye is always squinting more than your right, so that's what you get used to seeing when you look at the crosshairs......"

As Li Shi spoke, Xiao Sheng's eyes widened.

"And those burn marks on your right hand are naturally the scars left by the arquebus."

If there is a pipe, Li Xian really wants to learn from Sherlock Holmes, although he is not a detective, but he is a reporter, a reporter has three treasures: sharp eyes, fast feet, and a sharp mouth, the first sharp eye is to look at words and look at the right person. Xiao Sheng's traces of this body are no longer obvious, and it doesn't take too much scrutiny to see that his background is a shotgunner.

Looking at Xiao Sheng, who was already stunned, Li Xian struck the last big stick: "And the shotgunners are unlikely to be promoted to the rank of economic officer, even if they are promoted for a while, they will be brushed down, so there is that saying." ”

Although Xiao Sheng covered it up very quickly, Li Xian caught a hint of red heat in the corner of his eyes, and he was also relieved, thanks to his understanding of the Manchu military system, not only knew the flood system, but also understood the rules of the green camp, and finally pierced Xiao Sheng's heart.

In the Qing Dynasty, the status of the spearmen was the lowest, and in the Kangxi Dynasty, except in special circumstances, it was generally impossible to be promoted to officer. It was only after Jiaqing that one-third of the official vacancies were allocated to the pikemen, but it was only a written system. The selection of officers in the green battalion is still selected from horsemen, archers and swordsmen, whether it is a school selection or an annual examination, the test is a cold weapon.

Li Xian saw that this Xiao Sheng was covered with traces of shotgunslingers, and it was logical to guess that he should not be a real leader.

Xiao Sheng finally adjusted his breathing, but he still couldn't help but chuckle, a sad wry smile, "The shotgun handle is finally a bird...... That's a really good thing to say, I think I'm Xiao Sheng, and I really worked as a shotgun for three years, and then as you said, I was brushed off. Now I am clinging to the friendship of my old boss and have asked for an additional outsourcing. I was called the general manager all the time, but I really thought I was the general manager again, hehe......"

Another hard-working person, Li Xian thought to himself, he really didn't mean it.

[1: The green camp of the Qing Dynasty, which held countless positions such as public security joint defense, smuggling inspection, bodyguard escort and even local errand service, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the total number was about 600,000. One-third of them are Xuntang soldiers, and they are dotted around villages below the county level and various transportation arteries, and there is the so-called deployment of "there is a flood in a hundred miles, and there are ponds in ten miles." 】