"I wonder where Lord Guards heard that Lingqiu is frequently plagued by bandits?" Wang Tong asked Huang An.
Huang An smiled and asked, "Isn't it true? Or are you pretending not to know about the sound of cannons outside the city?"
Wang Tong shook his head and said: "Lingqiu is a peaceful place. I have never heard of bandits in the territory. As for the sound of cannons, it is even more impossible. I think the guard heard the sound of firecrackers set off by someone who had a happy event."
Huang An's face slowly darkened.
He didn't believe that Wang Tong, who lived in a thousand households, couldn't tell the difference between the sound of cannons and firecrackers. He was obviously trying to shirk the situation and refused to admit that there was a huge bandit in Lingqiu.
At this time, Chen Yusheng on the side said: "All the iron yards in Lingqiu are located in Dongshan. There are the most miners on the mountain. Your Excellency sent troops to Dongshan for no reason. Have you ever informed the County Magistrate?"
"It is the duty of the garrison to protect the country and the people. I have come to you two to give you a routine notice and prepare to send troops to Dongshan. Could it be that you still want to make the decision for me!" Huang An said in a stiff tone. His words were filled with a hint of anger.
He was extremely dissatisfied with the shirk from the two garrison camps.
"I don't know if there are any bandits in Dongshan that need to be suppressed. If your Excellency insists on sending troops to Dongshan, it would be better to inform the magistrate." Chen Yusheng stood up and said, "There are still things in the camp. I will take my leave."
After saying that, he left directly, regardless of whether Huang An, the guard, agreed or not.
Wang Tong also stood up and said to Huang An: "Master Guards, it's not that the subordinates are unwilling to obey your arrangements. It's actually that the camp has not been paid for a long time, and everyone below is unsettled. If we force the troops to send out troops, there may be a mutiny. Please sir." Think twice and resign."
Looking at the two people leaving, Huang An's eyes gradually became colder.
The two men obviously did not take his guard seriously and shirk his orders in every possible way.
"Sir, it seems that neither of the two Qianhu masters are willing to send troops to suppress the bandits." Huang An's personal soldier said.
Huang An said angrily: "I have eyes."
He could not mobilize the soldiers and horses of the two thousand households in the garrison. He only had dozens of soldiers brought from Tiancheng Guard around him. In name, he was a garrison, but the soldiers and horses in his hands were not as good as the one thousand soldiers below. household.
"Huang An, Huang An, where did you die? Come out and die for me!"
Upon hearing the sound, Huang An jumped up like a spring and looked for a place to hide, but there was no hiding place in the entire main hall.
He had no choice but to tell the soldiers on the side: "Quick, stop that crazy woman and tell her that I have gone out of the city to perform official duties and am not in the garrison."
As soon as he finished saying this, before the soldiers could walk out the door, a slightly fat woman walked in outside the main hall.
"Madam." The soldier shouted respectfully, then moved aside and stepped aside.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Huang An walked over bravely and said, "If you don't stay well in Tiancheng Guard, why are you here in Lingqiu?"
"You don't want me to come. Is there a little vixen hiding in the house?" The woman's face sank, and she turned to look at the guard on the side. "You often follow me, asking if there is a little vixen?"
Before the soldier could speak, Huang An said in a deep voice: "What nonsense, you little vixen. I have been busy with official duties since I came to Lingqiu to take office. There is no such mess as you mentioned."
"If I find you little vixen, let me see how I deal with you." Mrs. Huang pinched her waist and sneered at Huang An.
Huang An did not answer the question, but asked: "Who asked you to come to Lingqiu?"
"I almost forgot." Mrs. Huang said in annoyance, and then said, "Let me ask you, how did you go about your promise to my father to come to Lingqiu to open an iron yard?"
"Just for this matter?" Huang An said angrily, "Wait a moment, I haven't sorted out the matter in Lingqiu yet, so tell Lao Taishan not to worry and wait for a while."
When Mrs. Huang heard this, she became anxious and shouted: "Just wait for a while. Don't forget that your defense was funded by my father's money. Now that you are a guard, you are turning your back on me." I'm dead, no, I'm going to help my dad with the ironworks now, and you're on guard, it's just a matter of words to handle this little thing."
"I didn't say I couldn't do it." Huang An squeezed his brows together and said, "Give me some time. When Lingqiu's affairs are sorted out, it will naturally not delay Lao Taishan's opening of the iron yard."
"No." Madam Huang shouted, "Don't forget, how you became the Tiancheng Guards commander and how you became the Lingqiu Guards now. It was all my father's money to come to Lingqiu to open the iron field. You promised my dad about the matter, and if you want to go back on it now, there’s no way.”
"To make trouble, make trouble, you know how to make trouble." Huang An said angrily: "Now my words as a guard are not as effective as those of a thousand households below. I can't even cross the river with mud. How do you ask me to get an iron field for Lao Taishan?" .”
When he got angry, Mrs. Huang calmed down.
After hesitating for a moment, she said: "Aren't you a guard in Lingqiu? Apart from the county magistrate, you are the highest official in Lingqiu. If you want to speak, who would refuse to give you this face?"
"What do you know, woman!" Huang An said, "Now all the iron fields in Lingqiu are occupied by a group of bandits. They don't care who you are, big or small. If you want to get the iron fields, you must first get rid of these bandits." Get rid of the bandits."
Mrs. Huang said angrily: "Aren't you a local guard?"
"It's not that simple." Huang An said, "If they were ordinary bandits, I would have sent troops to exterminate them long ago, but this group of bandits is different. They have bribed everyone up and down Lingqiu, and the two thousand households under my command have also been bribed. You were bribed and didn't listen to my instructions at all. Do you want me to personally lead dozens of soldiers around me to suppress the bandits?"
"That's not possible." Mrs. Huang said hurriedly, "Our family has spent a lot of money to raise these soldiers, how can they be damaged easily."
Huang An said: "You go back and tell Lao Taishan to wait for a while. After I deal with the bandits in Lingqiu, it will be no problem to open not only one iron yard, but two, three, or even four iron yards." .”
Mrs. Huang said: "Since the Qianhu below do not listen to you, you will not go to Mr. Li. He has collected money from our family and is also the deputy general soldier. He cannot ignore you!"
"Nonsense." Huang An scolded.
Mrs. Huang pinched her waist and cursed: "Who is fooling around? I am here to give you advice, don't mistake your good intentions for donkey's liver and lungs."
"Okay, okay, you are kind-hearted, I am a donkey's liver and lungs!" Huang An said, "Old Taishan's matter of opening the iron yard can only be slowed down for a while."
Mrs. Huang shook her face and said, "Go and talk to Butler She about this."
"What? He came to Lingqiu too?" Huang An frowned.
Butler She is the butler next to his old Taishan. Butler She is responsible for almost everything in the Zheng family.
Mrs. Huang said: "Steward She was sent by my father to Lingqiu to open the iron yard. You can take care of the rest. If the iron yard cannot be opened, you can talk to him yourself."
"Where are the others?"
Mrs. Huang said lightly: "He is outside the gate of the garrison. If you want to see him, send someone to call him in."
When Huang An heard that the person was outside the garrison mansion, Huang An had a dark thought.
Butler She did not come directly to Lingqiu to see him, but went to Tianchengwei to bring the yellow-faced woman from his family to Lingqiu. This was obviously to force him to agree to open an iron yard.
