Tiance

Bai Jincheng really hoped to have something he was familiar with in this strange world, and he was moved by Zhao Zhen's proposal, but in the end he shook his head.

"Why?" Zhao Zhen was slightly depressed.

"The purpose of Tiance Mansion is to be loyal to the emperor, patriotic and defend the Great Tang. Now that the Great Tang is gone, what should I defend?" Bai Jincheng said indifferently, "I am a soldier of the Great Tang. If there is no Great Tang, what do you want Tiance Mansion to do?"

Zhao Zhen sighed: "Is it really okay for you to miss the previous dynasty in front of me, the Great Song Emperor?"

"For you, it's the previous dynasty, but for me, that's where I was living two days ago." Bai Jincheng glanced at him and said nonchalantly, "If you think I'm disrespectful, then you You can do whatever you want."

Zhao Zhen looked at him sympathetically: "Actually, you are quite unlucky, forget it."

"But do you really stop thinking about it?" He still didn't give up. "When you defend the Great Tang, you are defending the people of the Great Tang, right? The people of the Great Song are also common people. What is the difference between them and the people of the Great Tang?"

Captain Bai raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a half-smile.

"Okay, okay, but I won't give up," Zhao Zhen sighed, "If you stay in Kaifeng Mansion for a while, maybe you will change your mind."

"Even if I change my mind, rebuilding the Tiance Mansion will not be an easy task." Bai Jincheng laughed jokingly, "You have so much money to support me? Do you know how big the Tiance Mansion is? We occupied an area outside Luoyang City. In the entire Beiman Mountain, besides the mansion, we also have a big camp and a hunting ground. The big camp alone is divided into the left and right twelve guard camps. Besides, the Tiance Mansion cannot be supported by only one person. I can be the chief instructor, and I don’t need to be a deputy commander, but who will be the secretary in charge of major and small affairs to join the army? At the beginning, our military officer Zhu Jianqiu was the military adviser. He is the tenth great-grandson of Zhuge Wuhou. Wisdom, Wei Xun Yiqiu' is talking about him. Of course, it is hard to find someone as smart as him, and a makeshift one is enough, but even if you have all these, what about the armor, weapons and horses of the soldiers? Big expense."

Zhao Zhen asked with a bitter face: "Can't we reduce the scale?"

"It's ok, but I don't want to build it." Captain Bai said resolutely.Isn't the Tiance Mansion that is loyal to the Tang Dynasty still the Tiance Mansion?The only Tiance Mansion in his heart is the one at the foot of Beiman Mountain outside Luoyang City.

Zhao Zhen had no choice but to say: "Then you stay in Kaifeng Mansion for a few more days and serve as Bao Qing's bodyguard temporarily until I find someone who can replace me, right? Just treat it as my debt to you."

As an emperor, it is really not easy for him to be so respectful to a corporal.Although he only agreed to stay for a few days last night, Bai Jincheng now thinks that he has no place to go, so he also agreed.

Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief - as long as he can stay first, the affairs of Tiance Mansion can naturally be figured out in the future.

So he ordered someone to send Bai Jincheng out of the palace.

Bai Jincheng brought Niuniu back at the gate of the palace, and then went back to Kaifeng Mansion. At first, there was nothing wrong with it, but when he got closer to Kaifeng Mansion, people began to greet him.

"This is the guard Bai from Kaifeng Mansion, right? Guard Bai will take care of you in the future!" This is a small vendor.

"Look how festive this red dress is! How energetic this armor is! What a nice young man!" This is a vegetable seller.

Captain Bai is really inexplicable—why does everyone around Kaifeng Mansion seem to know him?

When he was approaching the entrance of Kaifeng Mansion, he finally found out the reason. A few girls in Kaifeng Mansion were gossiping about him with the fruit seller at the roadside stall.

"Auntie, you have to treat our guard Bai better! My lord said it, and the officials said that we finally got a special fighter in Kaifeng Mansion, but we must keep him!"

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Bai Jincheng was speechless, Zhao Zhen and Mr. Bao are so efficient!These two must have discussed it before Zhao Zhen met him, otherwise the news would not have spread so fast!

But forget it, staying in Kaifeng mansion is not without benefits. Firstly, Niuniu is fed, and secondly, he can still wear his own armor as a guard. It must be inconvenient if he still wears that armor while walking in the Jianghu.

Back in Kaifeng Mansion, I happened to meet Master Bao, who asked him with a smile on his face: "How about Guard Bai, the people in Kaifeng Mansion are very enthusiastic, right? Our place is not a bad place, right?"

Captain Bai nodded helplessly, and told him what he promised Zhao Zhen just now.

"Then let me introduce you to the people in the mansion? After all, you will be regarded as colleagues in the future." Master Bao happily took him to know the people in the mansion, and introduced everyone's functions to him, such as Zhang Long, the four headhunters. The Zhao Hu Dynasty is Ma Han, for example, Mr. Gongsun who is also the chief bookkeeper and assistant and occasionally a part-time doctor, such as Mrs. Bao and so on.

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu Dynasty, and Ma Han were obviously very dissatisfied with Bai Jincheng's leap to become "the most capable person in Kaifeng Mansion". These four bandits who were said to have robbed Master Bao were later recruited by Master Bao. I have been headhunting for a long time, but I still have a little gangster spirit on my body.The four of them laughed and called him brothers and said they wanted to see his martial arts.

Bai Jincheng joined the army at the age of 16 during the war. Within five years, he was promoted from a small soldier who was born as a son of an official with a ruined family to a sixth-rank Lieutenant of Zhaowu. However, he had fought with swords and guns on the battlefield. How could he be afraid of them? challenge?

As a result, a tragic crushing battle took place on the small school field where the government officials and police officers in Kaifeng Mansion practiced martial arts.Lieutenant Bai danced his long spear so well that he didn't even use those moves with exaggerated sound and light effects. For example, a wave of the long spear is a "thunderbolt" of a large flame, for example, a downward strike is a "thunderbolt" Jin Guang's "Fixing the Army" and the like were useless, and a set of ordinary plum blossom marksmanship beat them all over the place.

A group of little maids screamed beside him: "The white guard is so handsome! The white guard is so powerful!" They were so excited.

A new idol in Kaifeng was born...the previous idol was Mr. Gongsun.

So in the next few days, apart from escorting Mr. Bao up and down every day, Bai Jincheng taught the arresting yamen servants martial arts in the small school grounds, and lived a very comfortable life.His household registration has also been processed, and it was done in Kaifeng Mansion, so it will be fine in one go.Master Bao gave him the same salary as the four headhunters, which is pretty high anyway.According to Mr. Bao, the salaries of officials in Song Dynasty are quite high, but Song Dynasty is actually very rich, and the treasury has a lot of money.

"But why are the officials so poor?" Bai Jincheng began to call Zhao Zhen "officials" as he went to the countryside, "Sir, you said last time that his private treasury is not rich."

Mr. Bao began to mutter with the appearance of "the government is my idol": "Because the government always uses its private treasury on the common people, but rarely uses it on itself, and I can't bear it for a year Buy a few more clothes, eat only three dishes and one soup, and have never extensively repaired the palace..."

Bai Jincheng was quite shocked, he never thought that an emperor would live such a frugal life, he couldn't help sighing: "It's really thrifty to manage the family..."

Mr. Bao said that his mouth was dry and he was drinking tea, and he spat out with a "poof", "Bai Wei, you used the wrong word, hardworking and thrifty is used to describe a woman."

Alright... Xiaowei Bai changed the word in a polite manner: "It's really virtuous and virtuous."

Mr. Bao was helpless, so he had no choice but to change the subject: "Bai Huwei, I have something to ask you for tomorrow."

"Sir, please speak."

"The last time an official was assassinated and you rescued him, it was outside the city. He went out of the city in low clothes, in fact, to meet an old lady who is not suitable to reveal his identity for the time being," Master Bao whispered, "He was pretending to be the eight sages at that time. The king's son went there, but he didn't expect to leak the news. Someone wanted to assassinate the old lady, thinking that he could find someone by following the son, but the guards of the official family found someone following them halfway, so the official family returned halfway. They didn't let them know where the old lady was. Those people wanted to catch him to extract a confession, but you bumped into him. After the officials told me that night, I dispatched people to search outside the city overnight, but they couldn't find those assassins In this way, it may be difficult for us to bring the old lady into the city. So I would like to ask you to bring someone to pick her up tomorrow, and tell the public that it is my mother. If there is an assassin attack, I hope you will take good care of her."

Bai Jincheng readily agreed.

Early the next morning, he rode Niu Niu, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu drove Madam Bao's usual carriage, and left the government office very low-key.At this time, it was still around Mao, and the sky was not yet bright. A group of people went out of the city gate, followed the route Mr. Bao said, to a small village outside the city, and found the old lady.

The old lady lived in a farmhouse with a few maids, and those maids were very vigilant. They saw Bai Jincheng took out Master Bao's handwritten letter before letting him see the old lady.The old lady looked like she had just recovered from a serious illness, and she was still blind, but she had a very good temperament and a very calm demeanor.

But after hearing the little maid read Lord Bao's letter in a low voice—the letter said, "The white guard is a trustworthy person, and he saved the official's family from the assassin's knife a few days ago"—the old lady was excited. Standing up, he asked repeatedly: "Is my emperor all right? Has he ever been injured?"

Bai Jincheng was taken aback, and asked hesitantly: "The emperor you are talking about refers to the official family?"

The old lady nodded again and again, "It's him, it's him."

But doesn't the queen mother live in the palace?Why is there another old lady who hides her identity and calls Zhao Zhen "Emperor"?

Bai Jincheng suppressed the doubts in his heart, explained to the old lady that Zhao Zhen was safe and sound, sent her and a few maids to the carriage, and quietly went back to the city.Back near the Kaifeng government office, the people began to greet warmly again: "White Guard, where are you coming from? How many oranges?"

Because Mrs. Bao always told everyone in Kaifeng Mansion, "If you are not enthusiastic, Guard Bai will leave at any time." What's important, it caused everyone to become a fan of the white guard, and sometimes it really made him overwhelmed...