Compared with Yan Mingjun, Li Jin's experience in his new job was even more bleak, Yan Mingjun sent a few officials to decorate him with a façade, but Li Jin didn't even receive a single soldier here. Early this morning, the four wounded soldiers were sent back, but the injuries on their bodies needed to be recuperated, and they couldn't help him for the last ten days and half a month.

Of course, Li Jin did not want to endure this kind of treatment as a passer-by, and he was a dignified general, but he did not even have a single usable soldier under his hands, what did he look like? Li Jin's top priority was to first enrich his strength, otherwise he would encounter the situation on the Baimajing dock yesterday, and no matter how brave he was, he would not be able to get rid of those Haihan minions who appeared in groups.

Although the garrison structure of Danzhou had been broken up in last year's bandit disaster and had not been rebuilt so far, Li Jin believed that since there were still people under Xiao Qian, it meant that there should still be a certain number of Ming troops in the local area, but due to the existence of the Haihan militia, the Ming army was no longer able to exercise its mission of guarding the locality, and all he had to do was to take over the command as much as possible, and then gradually regain the local military control from the Haihan people.

Naturally, it was not difficult to find out the location of the garrison army, and Li Jin originally wanted to call Yan Mingjun together, but he pounced. On his way to the south of the city, he happened to meet Yan Mingjun who came out for a private visit with his entourage.

The place in the south gate against the city wall is where the military camp of the local garrison is located, but due to the limited area of Danzhou City, this is only a camp area, not including the training ground. In the past, when the garrison wanted to conduct training, it was all pulled outside the city. Therefore, although it was the seat of the local garrison, it did not occupy a large area, and the former high-ranking officers had a place to live in the city, not in the barracks. From where they stood, they could already see the flagpole in the camp from a distance, but at this time the flagpole was bare and not hung with a flag.

Yan Mingjun was still noncommittal, and He Qi behind him had already spoken: "Two adults, the local military camp has already been requisitioned by the Haihan Mintuan, and now the barracks are not stationed in the Ming army, but the people of the Haihan Mintuan. ”

Li Jin was stunned and said, "Where does the local Ming army live now?"

He Qi replied: "The local guard army was disbanded last year and has no place to live. ”

Li Jin shook his head and said, "Impossible, wasn't there still a Qian Zong surnamed Xiao who led troops to garrison at the Baimajing Wharf before?

"This ...... The villain is not so clear. He Qi wasn't too interested in getting involved too deeply, and he really didn't know much about it, but he did know that now the people in the Danzhou Daming garrison and Haihan were simply out of the nostrils, and he didn't dare to talk about these soldiers casually behind his back.

"Let's go and see!" Li Jin didn't plan to ask anything famous from He Qi, and if he didn't look at the actual situation, he wouldn't give up lightly.

So a group of three people came to the gate of the barracks at the south gate, and sure enough, it was not the Daming guard army guarding the camp gate here, but the soldiers of the Haihan People's League wearing gray military uniforms.

As soon as the three of them approached, a militiaman stopped them: "Stop! Don't you see the sign here?"

There is indeed a sign erected next to this sentry post, which reads "Military important places, idlers are not allowed to enter". Of course, Li Jin saw it, but he didn't regard himself as an idler, and snorted: "This official is the new Danzhou staff general Li Jin, this is the new Danzhou Zhizhou Yan Mingjun Yan, don't retreat quickly!"

Li Jin's prestige did not succeed, and the militia who stopped them looked at him like idiots and said, "Don't you understand what I said? This is an important military place, and you are not allowed to trespass!"

"This official is a Danzhou general!" Li Jin couldn't help but raise his voice and shouted.

His voice didn't matter, and soon a dozen or so militiamen with loaded guns poured out from the gate of the barracks, pointing their guns at the three of them. Before Li Jin could react, He Qi shouted first: "Don't misunderstand, military masters, these two adults are just here to visit the head of the militia group, and they are not hostile!"

A militia officer walked up to Li Jin and asked indifferently, "Are you a staff general?"

Li Jin nodded inexplicably. The officer snorted coldly and said, "The general of the Ming Dynasty, what do you have to do with my Haihan militia group?

Li Jin was so choked by his words that he couldn't speak, he really wanted to have a seizure, but when he saw the muzzles of a dozen or so black holes next to him, he really didn't dare to take this risk. As a soldier, Li Jin is still knowledgeable, and the rifles used by the Haihan militia are all flintlock pistols that can be fired with a pull of the trigger, rather than the arquebus that takes several seconds from ignition to launch, so close to the distance, even if he is excellent in martial arts, he can't dodge the lead bullets shot from so many guns. And this group of lawless Haihan militia doesn't seem to be afraid to be rude to him, a Ming general.

Yan Mingjun stood up and said, "Dare to ask which director of Haihan is in charge here?"

The militia officer replied, "Our militia is not happy to call the director, what do you want to see our chief?"

Yan Mingjun said: "This official has official business to discuss, can't you? Why don't you report it quickly, you can afford to delay the matter?"

He is also worthy of being a person who has been rolling in the officialdom for more than ten years, although he is losing power at the moment, he still has an aura, and these words temporarily frightened people. The officer looked him up and down a few times before he asked someone to go back to the camp and inform his superiors.

After a while, a swarthy and sturdy officer came out to meet them: "I am the commander of the militia in Danzhou City, Yu Tiezhu, the lieutenant of the Haihan militia, what can the two adults tell me." ”

Yan Mingjun listened to his accent and was a little close to the Haihan people, but looking at his appearance and complexion, he didn't seem to look like a pure Haihan people, and he didn't know what level of officer this "lieutenant" was, so he could only clasp his fists and say at the moment: "General Yu is polite! This official wants to ask General Yu, where is the Daming garrison camp in Danzhou now?"

Yu Tiezhu's answer was also full of indifference: "Ming garrison? I have led the team into Danzhou City three months ago, and I have never heard that there is a Ming garrison in this place. If Daming has a garrison here, why do you want us to do it?"

Li Jin shouted: "Then why is there a thousand presidents surnamed Xiao, but he brought people to garrison Danzhou Bay?"

Yu Tiezhu glanced at him coldly before replying: "Mr. Xiao Qian's people are the soldiers he brought from Changhua County in the south, where he originally worked, as for where he and his men are stationed, we will not interfere in this." If you must know the answer, then you can go to Baimajing Wharf and ask Mr. Xiao Qian. ”

Yu Tiezhu's statement, Li Jin naturally didn't believe it, then Xiao Laosan was promoted after the bandit disaster is a thousand generals, then before the promotion was at best a general, with the ability to general, how can he afford to raise a group of pro-soldiers? He himself became a general, and he only brought four pro-soldiers, is it really a private soldier who does not need to spend money?

Seeing that the other party's attitude was so perfunctory, Li Jin was a little anxious: "Then my Ming garrison is gone?"

Yu Tiezhu said: "What does this have to do with my Haihan, you can make a report to your court to apply for military expenses, and then recruit!"

Li Jinxin said in his heart that if I could apply for military expenses, why would I only bring four personal soldiers to Danzhou to take up my post, and in the final analysis, isn't this because the Guangdong government can't come up with the money? As for applying to the imperial court and the Ministry of War, then there is no need to think about it, all the money of the Ministry of War is still in the bottomless pit in the northeast, and now it is difficult to calm down even the banditry that has broken out in the Central Plains, and where can we still take care of this border place in the South China Sea.

"You have no soldiers under your hands, that's not our Haihan's fault, why should you go, you are also a soldier, what is the crime of trespassing on a military place, you should know very well!" Yu Tiezhu obviously didn't want to talk too much nonsense with Li Jin, and after a few sentences of conciseness, he turned around and returned to the camp, and after taking a few steps, he also left behind a hard sentence: "If anyone wants to break into the barracks, they will be treated as pirates!"

"Yes!" the junior officer who had let Li Jin touch the nail earlier raised his hand and saluted, and replied loudly.

"You have all heard Lieutenant Yu's orders! Watch them!" After the officer gave the order, he also left on his own, not paying attention to the two Ming officials at the door at all.

Yan Mingjun and Li Jin really felt that their lungs were about to explode, although they thought that they might face all kinds of difficulties after arriving in Danzhou, but the actual experience was bleak, and it was obviously beyond their imagination. Whether it was yesterday's Zhang Xin or today's officer surnamed Yu, it is obvious that the Haihan people did not take them seriously at all, let alone have any sense of reverence for their identity. In front of the Haihan people, they seem to be no different from ordinary people.

If such a thing happens, it is impossible for them to continue to face the Haihan militia at the gate of this barracks, and the result will only be self-inflicted. Neither of them was in the mood to wander around the city anymore, so they had to go home. In addition to the four wounded soldiers in Li Jin's yamen, there was only one cook and an old janitor, so he simply followed Yan Mingjun and planned to go to his house to eat.

Yan Mingjun returned to his temporary yamen and asked the servants who guarded the door, after such a long time, no one came to visit, let alone an invitation to dinner. This was a frighteningly deserted scene for the newly appointed magistrate. I think that when he was promoted to the governor of Luodingzhou, although Luodingzhou is a small place, there are also letters of invitation from local gentry every day, and two meals a day are fully arranged, and it took more than half a month to finish that wave of wine banquets.

However, after arriving at the ghost place of Danzhou, the gap is really too big. It is clear that the local gentry have long had a clear position, and have resolutely drawn a line between them and the two outsiders.

Yan Mingjun smiled bitterly: "Brother Li, do you want to go back and ask your concierge if there is any gain?"

Li Jin shook his head and said, "You don't even have a hair here, let alone me, don't ask." If no one invites you, forget it, you and my brother eat and drink by themselves, and I will call someone to go to the restaurant to buy a table of banquets, and I will come out with the silver!"

Yan Mingjun was polite, and his subordinates ran to the door of the study to report: "Master, someone sent a famous post, saying that he was coming to visit the master." ”

"Oh? Yan Mingjun was also overjoyed when he heard this, and he came to Danzhou for two days, and finally a visitor came to the door. If he continued like this, he would really wonder if he had become transparent, and others would not be able to see his existence at all.

It wasn't a fellow official, nor the people I had seen at the banquet yesterday, but an unfamiliar name that I had never heard before. It's just that Yan Mingjun has already asked He Qi to go home from work, even if he wants to find someone to inquire at this time, there is no way.

Li Jin said: "Brother Yan, the person who came is a guest, since someone has come to the door, it is better to see it first." ”

Yan Mingjun nodded, and asked his subordinates to invite the next person to the study.

Soon Yan Mingjun met the visitor, a man about forty or fifty years old, who was not badly dressed, at least a rich gentleman or something.

"Grass people Huang Zixing, I've seen Lord Yan, Lord Li!" The person who came was very conscious, and began to salute as soon as he entered the study.

"No courtesy, no courtesy!" Yan Mingjun put his hands on his hands and said politely, and then asked: "This official just read this post, Mr. Huang is the head of the local Zhongming Academy?"

Yan Mingjun had not heard of this "Zhongming Academy" before, and he was sure that he had not heard anyone from the local cultural circles talk about this academy at yesterday's banquet. There are probably two possibilities for this, one is that this academy does not exist in zài, and the other is that this academy is not in the mainstream circle of Danzhou's cultural circles.

Of course, it is a bit far-fetched to say that it does not exist, after all, Danzhou is the cultural center of Qiongzhou Island, and there are twenty or thirty academies of all sizes, and the ones who came to the banquet yesterday were only seven or eight of the largest ones. However, even if it is a not-so-famous academy, it is a big surprise for Yan Mingjun, after all, the group of local literati who toasted him at the banquet yesterday, let alone visit today, there is not even a single person who sent a name post.

Huang Zixing responded: "Caomin does have a academy in Danzhou, but the scale is not large, and it cannot be compared with the local Bailu, Qingfeng and other big academies. ”

Yan Mingjun said: "Why should Dean Huang be humble, what he reads is a sage book, and it has nothing to do with the size of the academy. ”

Huang Zixing said: "Lord Yan has seen people, and the grass people admire it. Adults are busy with official business, so the grass people don't go around in circles. The grass people dared to ask, after coming to Danzhou, what do adults think of the local area?"

Yan Mingjun hadn't thought of a good word, and Li Jin, who was sitting next to him, took the lead in speaking: "The Haihan people cover the sky with one hand in Danzhou, breaking my Ming rules, it's just a miasma, and it's not a system!"

Yan Mingjun said in his heart that the number of people who came here has not yet been figured out, so you will express your position unscrupulously, and when the words reached the ears of the Haihan people, you and I were only afraid that we would be humiliated again by changing tricks, so we quickly raised our hands and signaled Li Jin to shut up.