Chapter 563 Uninvited Guest

Compared with Yan Mingjun, Li Jin's experience in his new job was even more bleak. Yan Mingjun sent a few government servants to put up a good appearance for him, but Li Jin didn't receive even a single soldier from his side.

.Early this morning, the four injured soldiers were sent back. However, their injuries all required rest. In the past ten days and a half, they have not been able to attack him.

Of course Li Jin is not willing to endure this kind of passerby treatment. What is it like for a dignified Ming general to have no usable soldiers under his command? Li Jin's top priority is to strengthen his strength first, otherwise he will encounter the white horse yesterday.

In the situation on the well dock, no matter how brave he was personally, he still couldn't defeat those Haihan minions who appeared in groups.

Although the garrison system in Danzhou was disbanded during last year's banditry and has not been rebuilt so far, Li Jin believes that since there are still people under Mr. Xiao Qian, it means that there should still be a certain number of Ming troops in the local area.

However, due to the existence of the Haihan militia, the Ming army was no longer able to fulfill its mission of guarding the local area. What it had to do was to take over the command as soon as possible and then gradually regain local military control from the Haihan people.

Of course, it was not difficult to find out where the garrison was. Li Jin originally wanted to call Yan Mingjun to join him, but he missed the opportunity. On his way to the south of the city, he happened to meet someone who came out for a private visit with his entourage.

Yan Mingjun.

The place inside the south gate against the city wall is where the local garrison's barracks are located. However, due to the limited area of ​​Danzhou City, this is only the barracks and does not include training grounds. Normally, when the garrison needs to conduct training, it is pulled to the city.

Therefore, although it is the location of the local garrison, it does not occupy a large area, and the original senior officers have residences in the city and do not live in barracks. From where they stand, they can already see from a distance

I saw the flagpole in the camp, but at this time the flagpole was bare and no flag was hung.

Before Yan Mingjun could comment, He Qi behind him had already spoken: "Two adults, the local military camp has been requisitioned by the Haihan Militia. Now the people stationed in that barracks are not the Ming Army, but people from the Haihan Militia.

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Li Jin asked in astonishment: "Where are the local Ming troops living 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 a Mr. Qian named Xiao who led troops to garrison at Baimajing Pier before? These people must have a place to stay, right?"

"This... villain is not sure." He Qi was not interested in getting too involved, and he did not know much about this matter, but he did know that the people in the Daming garrison in Danzhou had nothing to do with Haihan.

He just vented his anger through one nostril, but he didn't dare to talk about these soldiers behind their backs.

"Let's go and take a look!" Li Jin didn't intend to ask He Qi for any clues. He wouldn't give up easily without seeing the actual situation.

So a group of three people came to the entrance of the military camp at the south gate. Sure enough, the people guarding the camp gate were not soldiers from the Ming Guards, but soldiers from the Haihan People's Regiment wearing gray military uniforms.

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

There was indeed a sign erected next to the sentry post, which said "An important military area, no idlers allowed to enter". Of course Li Jin saw it, but he did not regard himself as an idler. He snorted and said: "I am not allowed to enter."

The official is Li Jin, the new Danzhou military general, and this is the new Danzhou magistrate, Mr. Yan Mingjun, please get out of here quickly!"

Li Jin's show of authority was not successful. The militiamen who stopped them looked at him as if they were an idiot and said, "Don't you understand what I'm saying? This is an important military area and no trespassing is allowed!"

"I am Danzhou General!" Li Jin couldn't help shouting, raising his voice.

His voice didn't matter, and soon a dozen militiamen with guns and ammunition poured out from the gate of the military camp, pointing their guns at the three of them. Before Li Jin could react, He Qi shouted first: "Gentlemen, please don't do anything.

Misunderstanding, these two adults are just here to visit the leaders of the militia, there is no hostility!"

A militia officer walked up to Li Jin and asked with an indifferent look: "Are you a staff general?"

Li Jin nodded without knowing why. The officer snorted coldly and said: "What do the generals of the Ming Dynasty have to do with my Haihan militia? What qualifications do you have to command my people to retreat?"

Li Jin was so choked by his words that he couldn't speak. He really wanted to have a fit, but when he saw the muzzles of a dozen black guns next to him, he really didn't dare to take the risk. As a soldier, Li Jin still

Those who know the goods, the rifles used by the Haihan militia are all flintlock guns that can be fired with one pull of the trigger, rather than matchlock guns that take several seconds from ignition to firing. At such a close distance, even if he has excellent martial arts skills.

No one could escape the lead bullets fired from so many guns. And this group of lawless Haihan militiamen did not seem to be afraid of using violence against him, a Ming general.

Yan Mingjun stood up to smooth things over and said, "May I ask which director of Haihan is in charge here? Can you please come out and meet with me?"

The militia officer responded: "Our militia doesn't like to call the director. What do you want to see our chief?"

Yan Mingjun said: "I have official business to discuss, can't you? If you don't go and report it quickly, can you afford to delay the matter?"

He is worthy of being a man who has been in the officialdom for more than ten years. Although he has lost power, he still has his aura. These words temporarily frightened people. The officer looked at him up and down before asking people to go back to the camp to inform his superiors.

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After a while, a dark and sturdy officer came out to meet them: "I am the commander of the militia in Danzhou City, Lieutenant of the Haihan Militia, Yu Tiezhu. You two adults, if you have anything, you can tell me."

Yan Mingjun heard that his accent was somewhat close to that of the Haihan people, but looking at his appearance and skin color, he did not seem to be a pure Haihan person. And what level of officer this "lieutenant" was, he didn't even know. He could only clasp his fists at the moment

Said: "General Yu, you are polite! I would like to ask General Yu for advice. Where is the Ming garrison camp in Danzhou now?"

Yu Tiezhu's answer was also full of indifference: "The Ming garrison? Since I led the team to Danzhou City three months ago, I have never heard that there is a Ming garrison here. If the Ming Dynasty has a garrison here, how about

What are we here for?"

Li Jin shouted: "Then why does Mr. Qian, named Xiao, lead people to garrison in Danzhou Bay?"

Yu Tiezhu glanced at him coldly before replying: "General Xiao Qian's people are the soldiers he brought from Changhua County in the south, where he was originally posted. As for where he and his men are stationed, it doesn't matter where they are stationed.

We will not interfere. If you must know the answer, you can go to Baimajing Pier and ask Mr. Xiao Qian."

Li Jin naturally didn't believe Tiezhu's statement. Xiao Laosan was promoted to Qian Boss after the bandit disaster. Before he was upgraded, he was just a General Manager at best. With the ability of General Manager, how could he afford it?

A group of personal soldiers? He became a general and only brought four personal soldiers. Do you really think that raising private soldiers does not cost money?

Seeing the other party's perfunctory attitude, Li Jin became a little anxious: "Then our Ming garrison is just gone?"

Yu Tiezhu said: "What does this have to do with me, Haihan? You can report to your court to apply for military expenses, and then start recruiting!"

Li Jin thought to himself that if I could apply for military expenses, why would I bring only four soldiers to Danzhou to take up the post? In the final analysis, isn't it because the Guangdong government cannot come up with the money? As for applying to the imperial court and the Ministry of War, there is no need to think about it.

Now, all the money of the Ministry of War is still in the bottomless pit in the northeast. Now even the banditry in the Central Plains is difficult to quell, so how can we care about the borderland of the South China Sea.

"It's not our Haihan's fault that you don't have any soldiers at your disposal. Just go ahead and do what you have to do. You are also a soldier. You should be very clear about the crime of trespassing in important military areas!" Yu Tiezhu was obviously unwilling to follow Li

After talking too much nonsense, he put down a few concise sentences, then turned back to the camp. After taking a few steps, he also dropped a firm sentence: "If anyone wants to break into the military camp, they will be treated as pirates and spies!"

"Yes!" The junior officer who had previously put Li Jin in trouble raised his hand in a military salute and responded loudly.

"You have all heard Lieutenant Yu's order! Watch them!" After the officer gave the order, he left on his own, completely ignoring the two Ming officials at the door.

Yan Mingjun and Li Jin really felt like their lungs were about to explode. Although they thought they might face various difficulties after arriving in Danzhou, the actual experience was obviously more bleak than they imagined. Whether it was Zhang yesterday

The new officer is still the officer named Yu today. It is obvious that the Haihan people do not take them seriously at all, let alone have any sense of awe for their identity. In front of the Haihan people, their identities do not seem to be the same as those of ordinary people.

What a difference.

After something like this happened, it was impossible for them to continue to confront the Haihan militiamen at the gate of the military camp, otherwise they would only be humiliating themselves. Neither of them was in the mood to wander around the city anymore, so they had to go home.

.Except for four wounded soldiers, Li Jin's yamen only had a cook and an old janitor, so he simply followed Yan Mingjun and planned to go to his house to have a meal.

Yan Mingjun returned to his temporary yamen and asked the servant who was guarding the door. After such a long time, no one came to visit, let alone any dinner invitations. For a newly appointed local official, this was terrifyingly deserted.

The scene. I remember when he was promoted to the position of Tongzhi of Luoding Prefecture. Although Luoding Prefecture was a small place, local gentry and wealthy families sent invitations every day. Two meals a day were fully arranged. It took more than half a month to transfer that place.

The whole banquet was finished.

However, after arriving in the hellish place of Danzhou, the gap was really too big. It was obvious that the local gentry had a clear position and had decisively drawn a clear line between them and the two outsiders.

Yan Mingjun smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Li, do you want to go back and ask your concierge if you have gained anything?"

Li Jin shook his head and said: "You don't even have a hair here, let alone me, just don't ask. Forget it if no one invites you. It's the same for you and my brothers to eat and drink by ourselves. Later, we will ask someone to go to the restaurant to buy a banquet.

, I’ve got the money!”

Just as Yan Mingjun was waiting for a few words of courtesy, his servant ran to the door of the study and reported: "Master, someone has sent me a famous card, saying that he is coming to visit you."

"Oh? Let's take a look." Yan Mingjun was also overjoyed when he heard this. After two days in Danzhou, a visitor finally came to his door. If this continues, he will really doubt whether he has become transparent to others.

I can't see my own existence at all.

The person who came to visit was not his colleagues in the officialdom, nor the people he had seen at the banquet yesterday, but a strange name that he had never heard before. However, Yan Mingjun had already asked He Qi to go home from work, so even at this time,

There is no way to find someone to inquire.

Li Jin said: "Brother Yan, the visitor is a visitor. Since someone is coming to visit, it's better to meet him first."

Yan Mingjun nodded and asked the servants to invite the future guests to the study.

Soon Yan Mingjun saw the visitor, a man about forty or fifty years old. He looked well dressed, at least he was a wealthy gentleman.

"Huang Zixing, a common man, have met Mr. Yan and Mr. Li!" The visitor was very self-conscious and began to salute as soon as he entered the study.

"No gifts, no gifts!" Yan Mingjun said politely with his hands empty, and then asked: "I just read this post. Mr. Huang is the president of the local Zhongming Academy?"

Yan Mingjun had never heard of this "Zhongming Academy" before, and he was sure that he didn't hear people from the local cultural circles talking about this academy at yesterday's banquet. There are probably two possibilities for this.

First, this academy does not exist, and second, this academy is not currently 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. There are twenty or thirty academies, large and small. Those who came to the banquet yesterday were only seven or eight of the largest ones. But even if

It is a not-so-famous academy, and it is a big surprise for Yan Mingjun. After all, the local literati who laughed and toasted with him at the banquet yesterday, not to mention paying a visit today, not even one of them came to send a name card.

No.

Huang Zixing responded: "The grassroots did indeed have an academy in Danzhou, but it is not large in scale and cannot be compared with the local academies such as Bailu and Qingfeng."

Lord Yan Ming said: "Why should Dean Huang be so modest? What he is reading are all books by sages, and they have nothing to do with the size of the academy."

Huang Zixing said: "Master Yan has seen a lot of people, and the common people admire him. You are busy with official duties, and the common people don't talk in circles. The common people dare to ask, after coming to Danzhou, what do you think of this place?"

Before Yan Mingjun could think of his words, Li Jin, who was sitting next to him, spoke first: "The Haihan people are covering the sky in Danzhou with one hand, breaking the rules of the Ming Dynasty. It's a complete mess and unseemly!"

Yan Mingjun thought to himself that even before he could figure out the route of this person, you expressed your position unscrupulously. If these words reached the ears of the Haihan people, you and I were afraid that we would be humiliated in different ways again, so we quickly raised our hands to signal

Li Jin shut up.
Chapter completed!