Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 577 Full of losses, modest benefits!
As the prelude to the Ming Dynasty's war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty kicked off, Guihua City instantly became the largest city on the grassland.

This is not only a transfer station for Ming soldiers, but also a distribution center for various materials and trade goods.

For such an important city, of course Zhu Yunxi had to send a trustworthy subordinate to rest assured.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi, who has been idle and idle, was forced by Zhu Yunxi to still work here for exercise.

However, Zhu Yunxi was only responsible for putting up a name and playing a certain monitoring role, and it was Yang Shiqi who actually did the work.

Ever since Yang Shiqi was lured into college by Zhu Yunxie, he had completely put down his thoughts about becoming an official through the imperial examination.

However, I don't know whether it is God's favor, or he should have this official luck in his destiny.

He had only been in college for less than a year before he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the emperor's grandson, and given him a shark suit, he became a lackey under the emperor's command.

Yang Shiqi cherished this opportunity very much, and tried his best to do everything that the emperor grandson explained.When the emperor's grandson inspected Guihua City, he was inseparable and waited on him.

Therefore, after the emperor's grandson left, he was directly promoted to the prefect of Guihua to manage everything inside and outside the city of Guihua.

Now if you compare the grades, Yang Shiqi is not outstanding among the prefects of Ming Dynasty.But if it compares to the vastness of the territory and the large number of people in charge, he estimates that the general chief envoy is not as powerful as him.

Because the jurisdiction of Guihua City is very large, all the Beiyuan territories that Daming had just conquered, as well as the Chagatai area that had just been merged into Daming, were temporarily under the jurisdiction of Guihua City.

As for the people, there are even more people, not counting the Beiyuan herdsmen who had defected to Daming before. There are now millions of herdsmen who have moved inland one after another.

May I ask which chief executive in the world can be so good, with more than a million empty strings under his command?

Of course, it is precisely because Guihua City is so important that the emperor's grandson will send a county king to sit in the town to prevent the local area from becoming bigger.

Yang Shiqi's pride is nothing but pride, but when he thinks that relying on the small Guihua City, he has to manage such a huge area with so many people, he is full of worries.

Because there are too few scholars under him!
There are as many killing talents as there are, but they are illiterate, so they can't help him register the households of the naturalized people, nor can they assist him in effective management.

Therefore, he urged three telegrams a day, one to the court, one to the North Palace, and one to complain to the emperor's grandson, calling for talents every day!
Yang Shiqi was busy here, but he was not as busy as he said.The reason why he was so eager to find the emperor's grandson was actually a way to set aside his own responsibilities and let the emperor's grandson send more people to share his power.

On this day, Yang Shiqi came to the telegram room again and said to the person in charge of sending the telegram.

"Does the emperor's grandson have any latest instructions?"

"Go back to the magistrate, not yet."

"By the way, magistrate, are you still looking for someone from the emperor's grandson today?"

"Go for it!"

"Don't act like we're not busy!"

The telegrapher smiled slightly when he heard the words, and then resent Yang Shiqi's telegram.

However, just as he had just finished sending it to the court, he heard a burst of beeping.

He immediately stopped sending the telegram and began to concentrate on receiving the sudden telegram signal.

The sender explained to Yang Shiqi while responding to the other party.

"Prefect Yang, the telegram from the emperor's grandson..."

"what?"

Yang Shiqi's eyes widened when he heard this, and he stared nervously at the transmitter.

In fact, he has also learned this thing, but it is not as smooth as the operator Xiao Liu's operation.

But he has a good memory, and he has long been familiar with the codes.

When Xiao Liu, the telegrapher, was quickly drawing dots on the paper, Yang Shiqi had already deciphered the code silently in his heart.

"Tell Yang Shiqi, I will send thousands of talents to assist him in planning soon."

"Prefect Yang, deciphering the telegram still needs..."

Yang Shiqi smiled and shook his head.

"No need, if my guess is correct, the grandson of the emperor said that he would send us a thousand talents!"

"is it?"

"That's great. If there are so many talented people, not only will Yang Zhifu's job be easier, but I will also be a little lazy, hahaha!"

Yang Shiqi returned a thank-you telegram to the emperor's grandson, and happily ran to Zhu Yunxi to discuss it.

Although Zhu Yunxuan was only in name, but after all, he was the lord of Guihua City in name, and as the magistrate, he still had to respect him more or less.

However, to Yang Shiqi's surprise, he searched inside and outside the city lord's mansion, but he couldn't find Zhu Yunxi!
"Where is His Royal Highness King Heng?"

"Reporting to Yang Zhifu, His Royal Highness King Heng went out early in the morning, saying that he missed his Thirteenth Uncle, and wanted to go to His Royal Highness Daiwang of Datong Mansion to talk about the past."

"This……"

Yang Shiqi frowned displeased when he heard the words, and lamented that His Highness Prince Heng was too unreliable.As a vassal king, he actually left his post without authorization and went to be a guest in other vassal lords' territories?
However, as a subordinate, he still likes such a leader who doesn't care about anything.

At the very least, this kind of leadership will not mess things up!

Yang Shiqi ordered someone to send a telegram to Zhu Yunxuan, telling him that he would no longer care about the arrival of a thousand scholars, but was busy recruiting his subordinates to recruit corvee workers to build a new official building.

Scholars are worthless in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, but they are much more valuable in the grasslands, so I dare not neglect them.

Although Yang Shiqi started to build the official building as soon as he received the telegram, when a thousand scholars arrived, he had just laid a foundation here.

Because the scholars came so fast that he had no time to build the official building.

"Students wait to meet the magistrate!"

Just as Yang Shiqi wanted to put on airs as a magistrate, he heard a suppressed sob from the crowd.

This made Yang Shiqi feel uneasy for a while, the grandson of the emperor didn't feel bitter when he came to Guihua City, so why are they unhappy?
"Everyone, although the conditions in Guihua City are not good enough, it is still a famous grassland city. The emperor's grandson even visited this place in person and personally guided the construction of Guihua City."

"It is your blessing to be able to come here to serve, to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and to serve the grandson of the emperor. Why do you have to act like a child?"

As soon as Yang Shiqi said this, many people immediately wiped away their tears and stopped crying, but there were also people who couldn't help themselves, still crying and crying in their own way.

"Who?"

"Come on!"

"Pull out that shameless guy, and I will personally give him a lecture!"

Following Yang Shiqi's order, several burly Mongolian Yuan warriors stepped forward and dragged a crying scholar out of the crowd.

"grown ups!"

"The student just misses his old mother at home, so he can't stop crying. Why are you making things difficult for the student, woo woo woo..."

When Yang Shiqi heard that the other party missed his mother, he didn't dare to be too harsh.

After all, no matter how powerful the king of Ming Dynasty is, he has to step aside when it comes to filial piety.

"What's your name?"

"Student Yu Yanzhao, from Qiantang!"

"Since you have a mother who needs to be taken care of at home, why don't you explain it to the emperor's grandson?"

"With the wiseness of the emperor's grandson, I will definitely not force you to come here to serve!"

Yu Yanzhao wiped his tears angrily when he heard the words.

"The students naturally submitted a letter to the emperor's grandson, but for some reason, the students were still included in the team to support Guihua City!"

"Uh uh?"

When Yang Shiqi heard this, he didn't dare to answer nonsense. He recently heard a chat from his classmates in the capital, saying that the emperor's grandson is very busy recently, and he is busy making babies in the harem all day long.

If the gossip the students said is true, then what happened to Yu Yanzhao might really be the negligence of His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun.

Yang Shiqi thought of this, and immediately showed a warm smile.

"Don't be angry, Yu Sheng. In fact, coming to Guihua City is a good thing."

"As long as you have worked in Guihua City for five years, you will not only get a generous salary, but you will also be automatically qualified for the examination when you return to the capital!"

"It's much better than staying in the capital and suffering. How many people can't pass the country test after a lifetime of hard work, but you just passed this hurdle!"

When the other scholars heard this, their faces immediately showed hope, but Yu Yanzhao's expression was hopeless.

Because he had no intention of officialdom, even the scholar's fame was forced by his mother to take the test.Coupled with the fact that his daughter-in-law was about to give birth, he didn't even want to leave.

While pouring chicken soup for the scholars, Yang Shiqi observed Yu Yanzhao's face, seeing that this guy didn't like oil, he immediately made a decision.

Be sure to keep this black sheep by your side!
The vast majority of scholars ate chicken soup. After drinking the chicken soup carefully prepared by Yang Shiqi, every scholar was full of longing for the future, and then went to participate in grassroots work with great ambition.

The content of their work is not complicated, that is, to register the household registration of the newly planned herdsmen, and to take a Han name by the way.

However, this is only the preliminary work. After completing the registration of the households of the Mongolian and Yuan people, they will be divided according to the level of their work ability. Ming characters and so on.

Only those with outstanding working ability will stay in Guihua City, or be stationed in various county alliances to serve as county magistrate, county lieutenant, county magistrate, etc.

Yu Yanzhao got a blessing in disguise, and stayed in Guihua City directly to work as Yang Shiqi's secretary.

Yang Shiqi got along with Yu Yanzhao for a period of time, and found that this guy is really talented, not only has a brilliant literary talent, but also wrote a good handwriting.

Therefore, I am more and more determined to keep it by my side to do things.

Yu Yanzhao is not as resistant as he was at the beginning, because he found that the City Lord's Mansion has a huge advantage, that is, sending a telegram does not cost money!

After several telegrams with his wife at home, Yu Yanzhao's mood completely stabilized, and he happily accepted all the tasks assigned by Yang Shiqi.

This day, Yang Shiqi Road was in charge of Yanzhao's house, and he was just about to order someone to cook a few dishes to reward his subordinate, when he heard a few Meng Yuan guards rushing over.

"My lord, something is wrong. People from the Alxa League are fighting. They have reached the county government office and tied up the county magistrate Wang!"

"What?"

Yang Shiqi burst into flames on the spot when he heard this.

"They want to rebel!"

"Come on, hurry up and send a telegram to His Royal Highness King Heng, asking him to come back and preside over the overall situation!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Yanzhao hurriedly took over the task, and quickly ran to the telegraph room to convey it.However, when he came back, he found that the magistrate and other people in the government office were all gone.

He searched the entire government office, only to find an old man who cleaned the courtyard.

"Old man, can you tell the prefect where you are?"

"Yu Shu'an, the magistrate is leading the people from the government office to put down the rebellion!"

"Suppress... counterinsurgency?"

"Isn't the magistrate a civil servant, why is he still in charge of countering the rebellion?"

"whispering sound!"

"Civil officials are not civil officials. In Guihua City, there is no distinction between civil and military. It's nothing to catch up with!"

"Furthermore, suppressing rebellions is still a matter. This year has only passed a few days, and our magistrate has suppressed seven or eight rebellions!"

"what?"

The more Yu Yanzhao heard it, the more frightened he became. He never thought that Guihua City was so dangerous, and there were rebellions everywhere!
Although Yu Yanzhao was so frightened that his calves trembled, but when he thought of the magistrate's kindness to him, a courage that did not belong to him rose in his heart.

"Can the old man tell you, where did the prefect and the others go to quell the chaos?"

"Oh, it's hard for me, but I vaguely heard from them that it seems to be from the Alxa League..."

"Alxa League is not far from our place. Go out the north gate and walk west along the road. It will take three to five days to arrive."

"what!"

The more Yu Yanzhao heard it, the more frightened he became. Ever since he came to Guihua City, he had never left the city.

"Thank you, old man..."

Yu Yanzhao thanked the old man, then ran to the stable to pull out a horse, and rushed out through the north gate.

Although Yu Yanzhao's heart was full of morality and persistence, he regretted it after walking along the road for less than two hours.

Because he found a very embarrassing thing, he came out in a hurry without food and water!

However, now that he has been running out all morning, if he turns back to waste time, the point is that he may not be able to get back before dark.

If he stayed overnight on the way, his body of one hundred kilograms would probably be eaten by wild wolves without even a bone left!
As a last resort, Yu Yanzhao could only bite the bullet and move forward, betting on his memory.

He had seen the documents of post stations in various places when he was helping Yang Zhifu to process official documents in the city lord's mansion. If he expected correctly, there are post stations every [-] miles on the main roads from Guihua City!
Yu Yanzhao made the right bet. He walked along the road for less than half an hour, and saw a post by the road.

He hurried forward to inquire, and when he learned that the prefect Yang had just passed with his soldiers, he felt more confident.

After replenishing food and water at the post station, Yu Yanzhao embarked on the journey again, and finally caught up with the prefect Yang's team before dark.

Yang Shiqi smiled sincerely when he saw the dusty Yu Yanzhao.

"Catch up by yourself?"

"Yes……"

"Have you ever been afraid on the road?"

"Afraid...not...not afraid..."

Yang Shiqi laughed loudly when he heard the words.

"Just be afraid, there's nothing to be ashamed of."

"The grassland is vast and endless, and it is inevitable for a person to travel alone and feel flustered."

"I'm surprised and gratified that you can catch up..."

"It's good to be taught by adults!"

Yang Shiqi patted Yu Yanzhao on the shoulder and joked with a smile.

"Unexpectedly, Brother Yu would still flatter, hahaha!"

Yu Yanzhao blushed in embarrassment when he heard the words, and wanted to defend himself, but he couldn't say anything to defend himself.

"My lord, is it dangerous for us to suppress the rebellion?"

"not dangerous!"

Just as Yu Yanzhao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, he heard Yang Shiqi add another sentence.

"Not dangerous is false!"

"There is no danger in calming the chaos. If we are not careful, we will all get involved!"

Yu Yanzhao became nervous when he heard this, and his face turned pale.

"Big...adult..."

"Since you know the danger, why do you still..."

Yang Shiqi smiled lightly when he heard the words.

"Eat the king's salary, share the worries for the king."

"The grandson of the emperor treated me well, so how can I not repay him by smashing my body to pieces?"

"Brother Yu, if you are afraid, stop here and return to Guihua City early tomorrow morning."

Although Yu Yanzhao was terrified of dying, he still said firmly.

"My... my lord, don't underestimate me, I... Although I am a weak scholar, I dare to go to the country with my lord..."

Seeing this, Yang Shiqi patted Yu Yanzhao on the shoulder encouragingly.

"Good job!"

"By the way, your daughter-in-law is about to give birth. Has the child's name been chosen yet?"

"If you are afraid... hurry up and choose the name of the child, and I will send it back with the military telegraph..."

Yu Yanzhao really believed it when he heard this, and thought about it seriously for a while.

"If you are full of losses, you will benefit from modesty."

"If I give birth to a son, I will name it Yu Qian!"

(End of this chapter)