Li Yanqiu said with an "um", "In any case, now is not the right time for you to return to Jiangzhou."
"But I can't worry about you, Fourth Uncle." Duan Ling said, "Why don't you let Wu Du follow you back."
Duan Ling could endure being separated from Wu Du for a few months, as long as Li Yanqiu did nothing.
Li Yanqiu shook his head slowly and replied, "After you go back, it will be Fourth Uncle's battlefield. You don't have to worry."
How can you not worry? After returning, Li Yanqiu will face Mu Kuangda and Cai Yan directly.
"Mu Kuangda brought a lot of people from Xichuan." Li Yanqiu said, "The queen is his younger sister, and there is a serious dispute between the DPRK and China. In key positions, a lot of his people have been placed, and he must be able to get the fastest three months and the slowest. In half a year, all these people will be replaced, so as not to cause changes after he is executed."
"He will definitely move." Duan Ling said, "Jun Changliu has been discovered by us, and Mu Kuangda also knows that Jun Changliu has been discovered by us."
Once Changliu-Jun appeared, it meant that Mu Kuangda's treasonous deeds were exposed.
"According to Yao Fu's news, Lord Changliu has not gone back yet." Li Yanqiu said, "Yao Fu has already set up a net, and he will not be allowed to return to Jiangzhou. Now there is no one around Mu Kuangda. Fourth uncle wants to set up one. The bureau, when the bureau is opened, you can come back.”
What bureau? Duan Ling suddenly realized something, but since Li Yanqiu didn't say it, he didn't ask any more.
He vaguely felt that Li Yanqiu wanted to solve Cai Yan and Mu Kuangda together.
"The food is cold." Li Yanqiu said, "Wu Du, let Zheng Yan warm up."
Wu Du responded and came in to withdraw the cold dishes. Li Yanqiu did not seek extravagance in life, and most of the time he just ate cold dishes.
"Fourth Uncle." Although Duan Ling didn't want to say it, he couldn't help but say, "Promise me, don't take risks."
Li Yanqiu smiled slightly and replied, "Don't worry."
After a while, Zheng Yan brought the warmed food up, and Li Yanqiu asked about Yecheng again as if he hadn't said anything.
"I heard people talking on the road." Li Yanqiu said, "You all know that you have done a good job in governing Hebei."
"It's all Mr. Fei's credit." Duan Ling replied.
Li Yanqiu said approvingly: "Being able to employ people is also a kind of ability."
Duan Ling smiled embarrassedly, and said a few words to Li Yanqiu, but he was always thinking over and over in his heart, what kind of game Li Yanqiu was planning to shovel out Mu Kuangda and Cai Yan together.
The prime minister colluded with the prince to betray? Or should the charge of forging the identity of the false prince be pushed to Mu Kuangda? The more Duan Ling thought about it, the more likely it was, and looked at Li Yanqiu.
"If you leave tomorrow, you don't have to come and say goodbye." Li Yanqiu said, "to save the fourth uncle from changing his mind temporarily and taking you back to Jiangzhou."
Duan Ling laughed, and after a while, his eyes turned red again, put down his chopsticks, stepped forward, and leaned against Li Yanqiu.
"Wu Du, stay here for a while." Li Yanqiu said, "If you're okay, just go back and rest."
Duan Ling knew that Li Yanqiu had something to say, so he went back to the room by himself.
The wind was blowing that night, and Duan Ling waited for most of the night until Wu Du came back and sat on the couch to change his boots. Then he asked Wu Du, "Have your fourth uncle asked you those words?"
"I've asked this many times before." Wu Du replied.
"What did you say today?" Duan Ling asked again.
Wu Du raised his eyes and glanced at Duan Ling, but just smiled and did not answer.
"What did you say?" Duan Ling hurriedly asked.
"Let me take care of you." Wu Du said, "It's all about living and eating."
Duan Ling nodded.
Li Yanqiu should have confessed to Lang Junxia, so next, when he returns to Yecheng, the first thing is to get in touch with Yelu Zongzhen and try his best to obtain evidence of the collusion between Mu Kuangda and Han Weiyong.
The next day, when Duan Ling got up, he went to say goodbye to Yao Fu and Li Xiao. Yao Zheng is still like that, ignoring it, I don't know if he hit a nail with Lang Junxia yesterday.
"Fourth uncle said..."
"He got up earlier than you today." Li Xiao replied, "Go back to Jiangzhou first."
"Ah?" Duan Ling did not expect that Li Yanqiu had already left.
Yao Fu left him to have breakfast and sent him out of the city in person. Before leaving, Li Xiao prepared four carts of food for Duan Ling, and had a team of Huaiyin troops escorted by a thousand people, plus Duan Ling's own men, there were nearly two thousand people.
Li Xiao sent Duan Ling outside the city, took his hand, and whispered, "Ruo'er, unless your uncle sends Zheng Yan a letter to let you go back, don't come back rashly."
Duan Ling had no mother since he was a child. Although he never said a word to Li Xiao, his aunt and nephew had a natural sense of closeness, so he couldn't help hugging Li Xiao.
"Where's Wuluohoumu?" Duan Ling asked Yao Zheng again.
"I left with my fourth uncle early in the morning." Yao Zheng replied.
Duan Ling had to get into the car, reluctantly said goodbye to the Marquis of Huaiyin family, and went back along the north road.
In the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, a round of blizzards passed, and the road in the north was blocked in many places. Fortunately, the weather has cleared up recently, but it was easier to walk. Duan Ling came to Dingjun County and recruited the remaining Hebei Army who were waiting here. It has been almost half a month since he left, and Yecheng didn't even have an army, he just didn't know what it would be like.
Qin Taki was taken back to Jiangzhou, and after returning, he had to rearrange the appointment of the Hejian City defender.
When winter came, Hebei turned into a snowy field for thousands of miles. When Yecheng appeared on the horizon, Duan Ling's first thought was to go home.
He urged Ben Xiao and rushed out of the team.
"Hey!" Wu Du hurriedly chased after him. Duan Ling slowed down a little, and the two of them galloped side by side on the snow field.
"Going home!" Duan Ling Chaowu laughed alone.
No matter how good Huaiyin is, it is someone else's home, and only here is my home. Wu Du caught up from behind, jumped onto the horse's back, flew towards Duan Ling, fell behind him, rode the sky, and rode his horse into the city with him.
"The prefect and the captain are back!"
"I have seen the prefect."
"Lord Prefect, you are back!"
Duan Ling brought a suit of snow into the house, Wu Du was shaking his cloak outside, and everyone was busy surrounding him. Lin Yunqi said, "It's so hard to wait! There are 40,000 refugees who are worried every day!"
"Anyone here again?" Duan Ling asked in surprise.
Duan Ling took all the troops away, but the people in the city were terribly afraid. With more than 40,000 refugees, it was not easy to make trouble. But with Fei Hongde there, it was a trivial matter to clean up these people.
Fei Hongde was drinking tea in the inner part of the hall, and nodded to Duan Ling lightly. Along the way, Duanling saw a peaceful atmosphere in the city, obviously nothing happened.
"Finished?" Fei Hongde asked.
"It's done." Duan Ling nodded. The officials came in without waiting for him to call.
"Ten days ago, I sent someone to transfer troops to Hejian, and General Qin left his post without permission. Now Hejian is really in chaos." Fei Hongde said.
"It's not in the way." Duan Ling said, "Wu Du will take someone to receive it later, and assign a new lieutenant."
During the days that Duan Ling was away, more than 10,000 people came to vote in the city, and the total number was close to 40,000. Fei Hongde made a small plan, and selected some people from the refugees to form a militia team, let the soldiers They reported each other, restrained each other, and divided people into three, six, and nine classes.
For a time, the refugees were all busy fighting with each other, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, so it was difficult for them to think about the outside world.
"Since the lord is back," Fei Hongde said, "you can abolish this article, blame me, and fine me a year's monthly money."
Duan Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "It's really embarrassing for Mr.
Fei Hongde deliberately sang a black face and asked Duan Ling to sing a white face. Duan Ling sent someone to announce the abolition of the temporary provisions. Anyway, now that the army is back, everything can be solved.
After Wu Du shook the snow, he came in and said, "I'll send someone to go to Hejian."
"Let's talk about it in a few days." Duan Ling replied.
"It needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Have you made up your mind about the candidate for the Hejian city guard?" Wu Du said.
"Just Sun Ting." Duan Ling said.
Sun Ting was startled, and said hurriedly, "Master Prefect, this subordinate just wants to follow you."
"It doesn't matter." Duan Ling said again, "In extraordinary times, you can stabilize Hejian for me first."
Duan Ling originally wanted to send Shuluduan to Sun Ting, but Shuluduan should not want to leave him, so he temporarily handed Hejian to Sun Ting for management, and said, "Mr. Live in the river for a while."
"It's okay." Fei Hongde replied, "If I can help, I'm naturally happy."
Wu Du said: "Then let's go over and have a look together. Anyway, the two cities are very close. We will arrive in less than a day's journey. Let's start now and arrive at night just in time."
So Duan Ling asked Lin Yunqi to draft the documents, Qin Taki left his post without permission, concealed his misfortune, fled Hejian, was captured by the military independence forces and sent to Jiangzhou for trial. Today, Sun Ting is temporarily serving as the guard of Hejian City. I was thinking about when to transfer the county magistrate back and replace it with the subordinates here to facilitate the jurisdiction.
Fei Hongde got the document and went to Hejian with Lin Yunqi to read it. Sun Ting simply packed up and set out. Duan Ling ordered people to arrange the rest and then sent them along with Fei Hongde's items. Within ten days, Fei Hongde helped him pack up and come back together.
Although Qin Taki has a certain prestige in Hejian, he has already been arrested, and there must be not many of his bandit gang left. Let Fei Hongde buy people's hearts, Duan Ling is relieved, and the problem is not big.
Outside, Shi Qi was taking stock of the things that Huaiyin had sent, and was startled. He ran in and said to Duan Ling, "Prefect, where did you loot so much gold!"
"What are you talking about?" Wu Du reprimanded, "This was originally the prefect's property!"
"How much money is in it?" Duan Ling was inconvenient on the way, so he didn't open the box.
"A full 10,000 taels of gold bars!" Shi Qi said.
Duan Ling almost knocked over the table and shouted, "What? Ten thousand taels?!"
Shi Qi turned around and went out, came in with two gold bars, knocked on it, and dinged. Duan Ling suddenly felt deja vu and was very surprised to see Wu Du.
"This is from Tongguan?" Duan Ling asked.
"It's like." Wu Du replied, "Why are you... that's all."
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Duan Ling remembered the relationship between Yao Fu and Xiliang. These dozens of boxes of gold bars were handed over to the new prefect of Tongguan when they left. Mu Kuangda should not dare to move, so Li Yanqiu sent someone to pick them up
Shi Qi led someone to count the things, but Wu Du said, "This is from the prefect, not from the official treasury. Don't mess around."
Shi Qi hurriedly knew, just to see and see the world.
Anyway, the officials of Yecheng were like Duan Ling's retainers. Except for Lin Yunqi, Duan Ling never kept Yan Di, Wang Zheng, and Shi Qi secret about the affairs of the house. After opening the box, Duan Ling distributed a gold bar to each of them and asked them to exchange them for silver. Then let Shi Qi take 80 taels of gold, send someone to catch up with Fei Hongde and Sun Ting, and let them use it in Hejian.