In the fourth year of Longqing's reign, on the seventh day of November, there was light snow and clear skies.
Gao Pragmatic, a bachelor's degree student accompanying the prince, took leave to return to his hometown to prepare for the exam and officially left Beijing today.
Outside You'an Gate, an ordinary carriage, escorted by four servants, bid farewell to a group of teenage princes from Beijing and quietly embarked on the road south to return home.
The young master Kuo Shao who came to see him off was divided into two groups. One group was in bright clothes and angry horses, and they were the sons of various distinguished families in the capital. Headed by Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, there were no less than 20 people in total; The children of high-ranking Chinese civil servants, headed by Ge Xi and Ma Zhen, were slightly smaller in number, numbering seven or eight in total.
What’s interesting is that when the two groups said goodbye, they both gave Gao Pragmatic Cheng Yi as a gift.
The number of these Chengyi varies. For example, the two young princes Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong both presented a hundred taels of Chengyi, which means they will be victorious in every battle in the examination hall; Sixty-six means great success.
But the children of civil servants are different. Some of their elders have rich eunuchs. For example, Ma Ziqiang's son Ma Zhen. His family is a wealthy family in Shaanxi on par with Zhang Siwei's family in Puzhou. However, due to the limitations of the civil service system, he has no choice but to marry Ge Xi. Like others, I offer Cheng Yi twelve taels as a token of my wishes.
Although Gao Shidu is known as a wealthy person in these two small circles, he is certainly not short of this small amount of money, but in the country of Chinese etiquette, the rules must not be broken, so he accepted it with a smile.
Unlike other time-travelers, Gao Shidu either doesn't like to interact with "ancients" or is pretentious and pretentious. After all, he is a secretary. For these social interactions, it is not a problem at all. Not only does he interact with everyone Friends who came to see them off were able to chat, laugh, and have a banquet. Just a few words to each other would make the other person smile and feel like spring breeze. Moreover, he was able to move in and out freely among the disciples of the civil and military factions, and even managed to get both parties to nod in greeting. -The so-called civil and military disciplines, it is not easy for him to achieve this.
After finally waving goodbye, Gao Pragmatic's carriage slowly left. The children of each family could finally bid farewell to the biting cold wind, get into their own carriages and rush back to the city.
On the other side, Gao Pingshi quietly opened the curtains of the carriage and asked Gao Jue outside: "Where are the knights waiting?"
Gao Jue immediately replied: "Young master, two hundred cavalrymen have arrived ten miles east of Lugou Bridge early this morning and are waiting."
Sure enough, the so-called pragmatic and simple approach is nothing more than a cover-up to deceive others. Now that he had been bitten by a snake once and was afraid of well ropes for ten years, he would inevitably encounter the old incident of being attacked by horse bandits again. This time when he returned to his hometown, he took two hundred cavalry with him just in case anything unexpected happened.
After all, this time he would have to pass near Bazhou on his way south, and he didn't have the powerful guards like Liu Xian, Liu Wei and his son around him. As for Gao Jue, although his martial arts are said to be very good, Gao Jingshi doesn't understand martial arts and has never seen Gao Jue take action. Normally, Gao Jingshi can't tell whether it's good or bad when he looks at it like this, so after thinking about it, he still thinks I think it is most reliable to bring more people.
Anyway, Gao Shidu is not short of money.
Gao pragmatic asked again: "Has the route been arranged?"
"It's all arranged." Gao Jue replied: "Today we met up with the cavalry first, then crossed the Marco Polo Bridge and rushed to Liangxiang County for lunch. In the afternoon, we drove along the Zhulu Horse Post to Zhuozhou to stay. Tomorrow we will go along the Xuanhua Horse Post. Passed through Dingxing County and rushed to Baoding to stay..."
"Wait a minute." Gao Pingshi suddenly interrupted: "This road, after passing through Dingxing County and before arriving at Baoding, is there Ansu County in the middle?"
Gao Jue was slightly startled and replied: "I want to pass through Ansu. What do you mean, young master?"
"Adjust your traveling speed and stop at Ansu County for lunch tomorrow. In addition, you can send someone to Ansu County to take my name to the county government and give it to the county magistrate Liang Wuliang Qingtong. This person is considered my senior brother. Since I passed by Ansu, it would be disrespectful to not inform him."
Gao Jue responded quickly.
In fact, Gao Jingshi didn't care about the Liangwu County Magistrate, who did not leave his name at all in later generations. It's just that Chen Ju was from Ansu County. Gao Jingshi had previously written to Liang County Magistrate to let him win over Chen Ju. Helped a little bit. Since I am passing through Ansu this time when I return to my hometown, it would be better to say hello.
Come to think of it, this Liang County Lord, who ranked more than 170th among the top three in the Jinshi Golden List in the 38th year of Jiajing, would not dare to neglect his nephew, a close minister of the prince. After all, he went to Beijing to report on his duties. When he was young, he couldn't even see Gao Gong's side, which showed his low status among Gao Gong's disciples. Having the opportunity to let him get close to her would actually give him face.
Less than an hour later, Gao Pingshi and his party met two hundred cavalrymen east of Marco Polo Bridge.
These two hundred cavalrymen were personally selected by Gao Jue. They did not seek to be top-notch in riding and sword skills, but wanted to be honest and disciplined. This is a request that Gao Jingshi personally confessed. After all, he is going to Xinzheng, which is his hometown. If he brings some gangsters with him and causes some trouble, it will be very ugly for him, Gao Shidu.
Gao Jue also took this opportunity to select two smart and reliable young cavalrymen to go south first, and rushed to Ansu County as soon as possible to inform Liang Xianzun to "pick him up".
Just as Magistrate Liang was about to go to bed that night, he saw his master and disciples coming in a hurry, saying that he had something important to do to meet with the county magistrate. He even specifically told his servants to wake him up immediately even if the magistrate had already fallen asleep.
When Liang County Master heard this, he thought it was horse bandits sneaking into the county town. He was shocked and hurried from the backyard to the front hall. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang's face was so full of smiles that when he saw his County Master, he He immediately stepped forward to say congratulations: "Congratulations to the county magistrate, a happy event is coming!"
"How can there be any happy news?" When Liang County Zun saw that it was not horse bandits attacking the city, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a depressed face: "The people below are ignorant and arrested someone who should not be arrested at all. This county I'm worried, what's the happy news?"
Master Zhang still had a smile on his face: "Don't worry, the county magistrate, the person who can solve the county magistrate's problem is here!"
Liang County Zun was startled for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Who can solve this problem for this county? Although the man named Shuai is not a big shot, the things he is involved in are not simple. This matter has nothing to do with this county. But he inexplicably wanted to file a complaint, but he was arrested in this county again! If this...if this county didn't take the right position, it would be no worse than fatal!"
Mr. Zhang laughed loudly, promoted the name in his hand, then handed it to Mr. Liang County, and said: "Your Majesty, you might as well take a look, there is this man here... Mr. County Master, you just want to take the wrong position. Students think it’s even difficult!”
Liang County Zun was surprised and quickly took the name card from Master Zhang's hand. He saw that the top box in the middle of the greeting card said, "Present to Mr. Liang Qingtong, Magistrate of Ansu County", and the signature clearly read "Xinzheng". I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you, my junior fellow student, for your high pragmatism."
"Xinzheng! Highly pragmatic!"
Liang Xianzun screamed in shock and looked at Master Zhang with his eyes wide open. His usual graceful demeanor was completely gone. He almost jumped up and shouted: "Hurry up and call someone! Get ready for the reception overnight!" and then returned. Without waiting for Master Zhang to respond, he hurriedly walked a few steps and said hurriedly: "Inform all the officials and officials in the county, as well as all the elderly squires in the county who can still breathe, that the county has issued a death order, and everyone will follow us tomorrow." Together with the county, we welcome you to attend the high school!"
