Chapter 1097: A Pot of Soup

After coming out of the eighteenth dock, Xuanbao did not return directly to Jiangnan, but went to Xinying, which was directly opposite the lotus crossing.

This new battalion was all built by the villagers of the Eighteen Docks, and the soldiers and bandits burned down their houses, just so that they had an excuse to set up a tent camp here, all of them were young and strong men, escorting more than 9,000 soldiers and bandits to build a bridge for the Xuan soldiers!

These people eat, drink, and Lazar are all on the boat, and they are not allowed to go ashore, otherwise the villagers who live on the shore can cut people to death without mercy!

As long as they are on the river, they are not afraid that they will run away, and under the boat are thousands of fin troops, and as long as there are rivers, they are the real kings, and they are not afraid of any army at all! Therefore, these soldiers and bandits dare not run, and they cannot run, so they can only honestly do hard labor.

When Xuanbao arrived, the river was very lively, and the ears were full of the wails of those soldiers and bandits! In the past few years, they have occupied the Yushan generation, and they don't know how many people they have killed and how many things they have robbed.

But the fins are ruthless, and these soldiers and bandits are really hateful, and when they arrived at the eighteenth dock, they killed people and set fires, which aroused the anger of the people, and made the villagers hate them to the core, and they are not as soft as they start!

The knives, spears and rattans they used to deal with the villagers have now become tools that the villagers have returned to them, and in an afternoon, but those who were beaten to death have hit more than 200 people, and the red blood water has been floating on the Panlong River, which looks shocking.

The women couldn't bear to look at it more, but none of them spoke. Even the most soft-hearted Wei'er and Luzhu are all turning their heads, and if they can't get used to it, they won't look at it, and they won't talk much!

They knew very well that these soldiers and bandits were all bad people full of evil, and they also knew that if they didn't stand up like this, these soldiers and bandits would not feel fear in their hearts and would not work seriously.

took Hu Desheng around the Jiangbei Industrial Camp and told the villagers who acted as supervisors a few details of the construction of the ship bridge, and Xuanbao led everyone back to Jiangnan.

This kind of work on the ship, the Fin people are more good at it than ordinary people, and they only need to explain a few things to them to pay attention to, and they can understand all the meaning of Xuanjun.

Back to Daddy Eevee, he originally wanted to leave Xuanbao and everyone for dinner, but Xuanbao politely refused! On this day, the loss of the eighteenth dock is not small, it is really not a good time to drink and have fun, Xuanbao promised, as long as the bridge is paved, even if the crossing of the river is urgent, he will come to eat a table of fish and eight flavors of the eighteenth dock!

Back at the Jiangnan barracks, it was already starry. Xuanbao didn't let Hu Desheng go back, so he stayed in the barracks to have dinner together.

Hu Desheng did not pretend to be a high refusal, this is not something he dares to refuse, a small magistrate, how many times in his life can he sit at the same table with the emperor to eat? If the emperor did not come to the lotus crossing, he would not have this kind of honor in his life!

This is a matter of honoring the ancestors, and Hu Desheng will not be so stupid as not to even cherish this kind of opportunity. Ding Baizhan joked to him: "Old, Hu, I thought you were afraid of your wife and didn't dare to stay!"

"I'll tell you the truth, just rely on this table of dishes, and I won't leave! During this time, grass has grown in my busy stomach, and there is no meat and water at all, if I don't take this opportunity to make up for it, I will really become a Buddha cultivator!" Hu Desheng looked at the table of big fish and meat and drooled, and his words made everyone laugh.

Ding Baizhan poured a bowl of wine for him, and said with a smile: "Then you can eat more, anyway, the people sent it, and fed us these wine bags and rice bags, if you don't eat a little, I can't help it!"

Hu Desheng laughed and said: "General Ding will see the outside world as soon as he says this! If you don't look at anything else, just look at the bloodshot in the eyes of you, the great general, how tired these soldiers are, and it is obvious to all! If you are not allowed to make up your body, this lotus flower will cross 50,000 people, and I will not even dare to go out of the door as a magistrate!"

Xuan Bao smiled and said to the two of them: "Hold on, when the army crosses the river, you can easily come down!"

Ding Baizhan and a group of generals arched their hands at Xuanbao and said, "The emperor can rest assured, the last general will swear to complete the military order!"

"The people also ask the emperor to rest assured, the first team has come up, the second team and the third team are all ready in the city, as long as the riverside employs people, they will rush over immediately!" Hu Desheng also looked confident.

A young lieutenant said with a smile: "Master Hu, forget those old man legions and old woman legions, as long as we don't lie down, we don't need them to get close to the river!"

Hu Desheng glared at him: "Okay, General Wang, do you look down on those people? Then let me ask you, who gave you the idea of sinking the sand flat boat? Isn't it these old men and old women? You look down on them now, isn't it time to cry your nose in a hurry?"

The general Wang's face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't hold his face when he looked at the clever young man who was exposed by Hu Desheng's words, and said with a wine bowl: "Drink and drink, I respect the elder, and I won't fight with you for this!"

"You have no face to fight! Such a big official, and you are still crying your nose in a hurry!" Hu Desheng unceremoniously exposed him again, causing the little general to turn his face when he stared, but he didn't dare to guard the emperor, but he made a handful of colleagues laugh!

The difficulty of supplying an army of 100,000 people in a small county town of 50,000 people can be imagined! It is no wonder that Hu Desheng said that he had not encountered meat for a long time! Listening to what he just said, as well as the preparatory support composed of the old man and the old woman, Xuan Bao was even more emotional, looked at Hu Desheng and said: "Master Hu, if I say that you may never leave Lotus Crossing, what will happen to you?"

Everyone suddenly fell silent, everyone was a general, of course they understood the meaning of the emperor's words. Hu Desheng is in his forties, and he is still a magistrate, if he is not exceptionally promoted, he can only be a small magistrate in a small county in his life!

"Emperor..."The first to be anxious was the little general who had just been teased by Hu Desheng, although he was still a deputy position, but he also saw that he had made a lot of military exploits, so he sat in today's position, but he didn't know how to observe words and looks, as soon as he heard that Xuanbao was ready to leave Hu Desheng in Hehuadu for the rest of his life, he immediately thought about the grievances of Hu Zhixian who was very close to him!

However, before he could say anything, he was stepped on by another lieutenant next to him, and with a sigh, he sat back on the bench.

Hu Desheng looked at Xuanbao with a smile and said: "I'll tell the emperor the truth, if I really let me stay in this little lotus ferry for the rest of my life, I will really thank Lord Longen! When I came, my wife and son also explained to me and tried my best to do things for the emperor, this is not an opportunity that everyone can have, maybe I will be favored by the emperor, and I will be able to glorify my ancestors when I am old! But when I go to Jiangbei and come back, I feel that my goal has been achieved, and I can already glorify my ancestors! I have lived and died with the emperor, who has ever had this treatment?"

"I!" A group of young generals next to him roared one by one, and Hu Desheng almost couldn't hold his breath, and said to them with a red face: "You don't count! I'm talking about the civil officials of the world, the magistrates of the world! I know that there must be, but there will never be many! There is no shortage of capable people around the emperor, and I can wear as big a hat as I have Hu Desheng, give me a big hat, and if I buckle it on my head, then I won't see the sky!"

Xuan Bao smiled slightly, nodded and said, "It's psychological, but there are also some unwillingness, right?"

Hu Desheng's face suddenly turned red, and he looked at Xuanbao with a shy face and said, "The emperor's eyes are like torches, Weichen..."

Without waiting for him to finish, Xuan Bao waved his hand and said, "Human nature." This shows that Lord Hu is still a little self-motivated, otherwise all the officials who are obedient to the will, and the Xuan Dynasty will not have a long-term hope! Lord Hu, let me make it clear, I may keep you in Hehuadu for a long time, as for whether to be a prefect, a prefect, or even the governor of Liangjiang, the main reason is not me, but you!"

"I, the emperor means..."Hu Desheng vaguely had a big opportunity in front of him, but he didn't dare to be sure, and he lost his usual composure under the excitement, and suddenly committed a big taboo!

Speculating on the holy will is the duty of the officials below, how can the emperor make everything clear!

However, after all, Xuanbao is different from Yinhu or other monarchs with a deep hierarchy, he was originally a wild child who was maintained by a hunting tiger, so he didn't care much about this kind of courtesy between monarchs and ministers, so he reminded Hu Desheng more.

"Here..." Xuanbao dipped his fingers in wine, made a line at the corner of the table, looked at Hu Desheng and said: "It's Panlongjiang, this is Donggang, and here is Leicheng, these two places are the places where I opened the sea and forbidden the sea after I pacified the Central Plains!

At first, Hu Desheng still looked at the wine stains on the table a little inexplicably, and soon, his eyes lit up, and then the whole person trembled excitedly, pointed to the bottom and said: "Your Majesty, there is still here, and there are five towns in the southwest here!"

Xuan Bao smiled bitterly, shook his head and said to Hu Desheng: "Don't be too greedy, I still have to leave a bowl of meat soup for Lianhuadu! Master Hu, can you drink such a pot of soup!"

"Hahaha!" Hu Desheng laughed loudly, patted his chest and said: "Don't say it's a pot, even if it's a pot, so what!

Hu Desheng stood up suddenly, took two steps back, and then knelt on the ground with a pop! Xuanbao was about to get him up, but Hu Desheng knelt on the ground and said: "Hu Desheng is not satisfied with a small magistrate, not that I am addicted to officials, but I want to do more real good things for the people of Hehuadu! I grew up eating the hundred family meals of this Hehuadu, and I have been an official in the Yin Dynasty all these years, and I have never been greedy or collected, and I have given up several opportunities to enter Beijing. I swore that I would let the people here live a truly good life! I thought that my vow would follow me into the coffin, but now, I know that my hope has come! Wechen thanks the emperor for giving me this opportunity, Wechen will not let the emperor down, five years... It won't take five years, and after three years, I will ask the emperor to move the lotus ferry again and see what this place looks like!"

Xuan Bao nodded, looked at him with a smile and said, "Okay, it's just three years! To be honest, I don't have a rough appearance now, but if you really use three years to transform the lotus flower into a pleasing appearance that I can see, then it is yours!"