Ningwu Pass is 300 miles away from Loufan, and along the way are riverside avenues, and it takes about six or seven days to reach mules, horse and carriages.

The convoy passed Ningwu Pass and arrived at the Qianhu Station in Ninghua two days later. From a distance, the gate of the garage station built along the mountain was opened. A small official led dozens of elderly, weak and sick and disabled people to stand outside the door, greeting him with a smile on his face.

Qin Chuan called Li Dingliang over and gave a few instructions. The latter called two Guandi troops, and camels two stones of grain and thirty kilograms of meat and turned them over, and threw the grain and meat down at the door of Qianhu Station.

"This is what the 100-households reward you. Three pounds of grain and half a pound of meat per person. If anyone dares to deduct it, he will be killed without mercy when the 100-households come back."

The smile on the face of the tutor named Mo Dezai froze.

Dozens of black and thin old men and women behind him knelt down one after another, kowtowed to Qin Chuan from a distance, and kept shouting "Thank you, merciful sir."

Qin Chuan did not stop and left without looking back.

After traveling for another two days, we arrived at Jingle County.

I saw that outside the north gate of the county town, a very large row of straw sheds had been temporarily built on the open space beside the Fen River, filled with wine, meat, pasta, melons and fruits.

There were dense crowds of people standing outside the straw shed, led by a tall military general, wearing a big red embroidered official uniform with a lion-patched official uniform on his chest.

The military officer who can fight lions is at least a second-rank official.

There was a spy who had already reported that Shanxi commander Du Yingtang had prepared wine and meat in Jingle and was preparing to lead Jingle officials and villagers to welcome the triumphant return of Loufan Guandi Army.

That second-rank official should be Du Yingtang.

Next to the man was a fat man in civil servant costume. It was the magistrate He Changbao, and there were also master Chen Congzhi, a group of anchors, Dianliufang and other minor officials.

Next to it is a group of old men wearing mink coats who look either rich or noble.

Qin Chuan learned from his subordinates that the group was from the Wu family, and the leader was Wu Yongqian.

In addition to the Wu family, the county's merchants, small households, etc. also came, crowded by the river.

From afar, as soon as they saw Qinchuan’s food, the group began to beat drums and drums.

The leading group of officials also began to greet them.

Qin Chuan found it a little funny.

The Wu family almost met him not long ago, and he even tied up the four young masters and blackmailed a batch of food. He Changbao was a two-faced guy. Not long ago, he probably wanted to join in the fun and wiped out him.

Du Yingtang came to Jingle, probably to investigate his own evidence.

But now, these people have prepared good wine and meat, and are greeting themselves with a smile on their faces.

This world is so fucking strange.

After shaking his head and smiling, Qin Chuan said to the side: "Send the order, everyone will take a day off, eat his mother, drink his mother, and pack all the things they can't finish, and continue to eat on the way."

"yes."

Liu Youzhu, who was standing beside him, was very excited and quickly passed the order.

Soon, hundreds of Guandi troops burst into cheers.

"Hahahaha, congratulations to Qin Baihu for his triumphant return. Qin Baihu made great contributions in this battle, and it is just around the corner to become an official position."

Du Yingtang came first and said to Qin Chuan with a smile on his face.

Qin Chuan dismounted, neither kneeled down nor bowed, but bowed with his fists: "Qin Chuan, I have met Lord Du."

Du Yingtang thought to himself that the boy was indeed crazy, but he still smiled on his face: "Come on, the villagers have prepared the soldiers' wine and meat. Qin Baihu will quickly go to the table for wine with the soldiers, and then slowly tell me the battles outside the pass."

He Changbao also led a group of county officials to congratulate Qin Chuan, followed by the Wu family and a group of villagers' representatives, and the congratulations and flattery were heard endlessly.

Qin Chuan gave the group a face, and after making a polite approach, he led Li Dingliang and Liu Youzhu and other subordinates to walk towards the straw shed.

Because Zhao Wu and Liao Sanqin were deserters and were afraid of being recognized, they hid behind them and followed hundreds of Guandi troops to the large row of straw huts.

Qin Chuan and the two of them were sitting in the chief with Du Yingtang and He Changbao. Wu Yongqian was invited to eat with a second-rank official because he had a lot of wine, meat, grain and rice.

As soon as they entered the table, He Changbao and Wu Yongqian took turns to toasting Qin Chuan and Du Yingtang.

Qin Chuan was not worried that the other party would poison him in the wine. This place was already Jingle County, only eighty miles away from his nest. In the eyes of thousands of villagers, they were given ten courage to poison him.

After drinking for three rounds, Qin Chuan then told him how he received a secret report from Jiannu going south, how he led his troops out of seclusion to investigate, how he met Jiannu and attacked the other party one by one.

But he did not mention the Fan family, nor the food. He only said that he had fought with Jiannu for two battles, killed many heads, and captured the other party alive, one Jiala Ezhen and one Meile Zhangjing, and more than 30 Bayalas.

If he didn't mention the Fan family, the others naturally didn't dare to mention it. The hundreds of stone grain trucks were placed there, and no one dared to ask where the grain came from.

Because the commander of the Tangtang is here. If it is mentioned that the Fan family is engaged in the enemy's food and even sells iron and gunpowder, Du Yingtang will be angrily accused the Fan family of communicating with the enemy and selling the country in public, and vowed to ensure that it must be investigated to the end and eliminate the traitors in the enemy's country.

The banquet was spent in a harmonious and flattering atmosphere.

After drinking and filling the meat, He Changbao suddenly said that he had never seen what Jiannu looked like and wanted to see.

Qin Chuan then explained to Li Dingliang and Liu Youzhu a few words. After a while, they got Ashan, tied up with Batulu, who was lying on the wooden board.

As soon as they saw the two people's naked heads and the tiny tail of money rat on the back of their heads, thousands of villagers around them surrounded them and criticized them, and were amazed.

Although Batulu could not move, she was still extremely fierce. She stared at the surrounding villagers with a ferocious look on her face, and vicious insults and roars were made in her throat.

The villagers were so scared that they retreated one after another, and did not dare to approach this beast-like Jiannu.

In contrast, Ashan seemed much calmer. He was not seriously injured. He was just knocked out by a wooden board. Now his injuries have completely healed.

He knew that he had arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Twelve years ago, he defected to the Later Jin Dynasty with his family and wanted to defect to the Ming Dynasty, but was chased by the Later Jin Dynasty Bele Amin, shot a son to death, shot and led his troops to surround him. His younger brother Adahai seriously injured a general in the Later Jin Dynasty and rescued him. The two brothers fled to the border of the Ming Dynasty. Because they were not allowed to enter the pass, they were worried about their children, so they finally returned to the Later Jin Dynasty.

That rebellion was because his father led them to join the Later Jin Dynasty and joined the Inlaid Red Banner of the Great Beile Daishan. He thought he could find a way out for his clan members and travel on the battlefield to make achievements, but he was regarded as enslaved by Daishan, which was no different from the slaves of Baoyi. They could not bear it anymore and defected to the Ming Dynasty.

After returning, Nurhaci did not make things difficult for them, so he changed them to Zhenglan Banner and asked them to follow the army to attack Liaoyang. He was awarded the second-class general for his military merits.

The good times did not last long. His younger brother Adahai was convicted of death by Huang Taiji for committing consecutive crimes. Adahai fled and was chased back and beheaded. Ashan and several nephews were so angry that they led their tribe members to defect to the Ming Dynasty again.

When he arrived at the border of the Ming Dynasty, Ashan sent an envoy to negotiate with the Ming army about surrender. Unexpectedly, the Ming army actually killed his envoy and took his head to seek credit. At the end of his life, Ashan had to return to the Later Jin Dynasty again.

Huang Taiji did not make things difficult for him. In this way, he gradually became the Meile Ezhen of Zhengbai Banner by relying on his bravery in combat.

I didn't expect that I wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty twice but failed. Today I was finally able to set foot on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but I was captured alive.

It really responded to the saying that good fortune made people feel bad.

Thinking of this, Ashan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Give him a loose ties and let him sit down and have a drink."

Qin Chuan could see that this man was different from the vicious Tulush. He was a person who knew the current affairs, so he asked Li Dingliang to loosen his rope.

Ashan moved his joints, clasped his fists to Qin Chuan according to the etiquette of the Central Plains, and said, "Thank you, General Qin."

Qin Chuan smiled and said, "It's time to get to this point, so don't be too polite. Have some wine and meat to warm your body."

"Thank you, General Qin."

Ashan was not polite either. He straightened up a wine glass that had just been added to him on the table and drank the wine in the glass in one go.

Du Yingtang, He Changbao and others kept looking at him carefully, as if they were looking at a monster.

Qin Chuan turned his head and smiled at Du Yingtang, "Mr. Du, we should talk about the serious business."

Du Yingtang was slightly stunned, and the person next to him was also stunned.

Wu Yongqian stood up first and apologized to Du Yingtang: "Mr. Du, I still have some family matters to explain, so I won't be with you."

Then He Changbao also stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Du, Lord Qin, the official will go to entertain all the soldiers first. The two masters will drink first, drink first."

After the two left, only Du Yingtang, Qin Chuan, the pillars of the beams, and Ashan who was drinking by himself.

Qin Chuan put down a lamb rib in his hand and said lightly: "Mr. Du, I have sold the true slave's heads almost to the end, only 85 levels left, and the Tartars still have 160 levels. If you add one piece of these heads, you can count as one thousand stones of grain."

"But the Tulush lying on the wooden board...a living Alaezhen can be worth a thousand stones of food at least."

"As for Lord Ashan, a lively and vibrant and seemingly surrendering, Meleezhen can get two thousand stones of food at all."

"Together, a total of 4,000 stones of grain will be given to the other hand, how about it?"

Hearing his words, Du Yingtang opened his mouth and couldn't say a word.

He had long heard of the insatiable greed of Qin. He would ask for money from others whenever he had the chance and peeled off the skin when he saw him. When he saw him today, he was indeed well-known.

I thought that the Qin surnamed would ask him to help present the head captives and the war report to the capital, so that he could add his own name to the report, at least to make a contribution to the good arrangement and plan.

Unexpectedly, this guy actually asked for food from him.

Don’t he know what level of official he is?

A mere sixth-rank official asked for money from a second-rank official, which was unprecedented and no one came later.

This guy is so bold.

Qin Chuan could see that he didn't want to give food, so he smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Du, the head of the real slave can be sold at 20 taels, five taels of Tartars, and the ones in the hands of the subordinates can be sold at least 2,500 taels. Moreover, there are so many people who want it. Look, those generals, generals, governors, etc. will flock to you like flies when they see shit. This little head is not enough to sell at all."

"But Lord Du is Qin Shangguan after all, how can he let his family ignore him and take advantage of his outsiders? You said yes, Lord Du."

Du Yingtang twitched his lips and smiled awkwardly: "Qin Baihu is joking. I am honest and there are thousands of stones of food. I just want to help Qin Baihu draft a memorial, and the head and captives of the commander commander, as well as the war report and memorial report are truthfully submitted to the case of Tianzhi, the capital."

"At that time, the emperor will be very happy. The achievements of beheading hundreds of Jiannu will be enough for Qin Baihu to upgrade several levels."

"Hahaha."

Qin Chuan smiled again and said, "Mr. Du, the official dare not climb so high all at once, for fear of falling and hurting. The official just wants to get some practical benefits."

"As for Lord Du, there is not so much food... Lord can let the gentry and men donate. This is the food for the military. Jingle and Lan County have so many cautious masters who are very knowledgeable about justice. One of them donated 200 stones, twenty families are enough."

"By the way, I heard that Lord Han of the Qianhu House of Ninghua, Lord Xue of the commander of the guards of the Xiwei, and the deputy general of Shanxi who guarded the Laoying Fort. The lower officials did not know what the deputy general was named. They only knew that the above three masters had said that if the Xia Guan returned in triumph, each of them would donate 500 stones of grain to work for the army."

"Xiaguan was in a hurry to come back and had no time to visit those adults. Why don't Lord Du thank them for Qin? It would be not difficult to get the 1,500 stone of grain back and get enough 4,000 stones."

Hearing these words, Du Yingtang opened his mouth again, unable to say a word.
Chapter completed!