In Hankou Town, the wharf is already crowded with people, and the merchant ships coming and going cannot see the head and tail on the Yangtze River, but it is breathtaking.

Originally, Hankou Wharf was extremely prosperous, as the territory of Hanyang County under Hanyang Prefecture, Hankou's fame is much greater, the so-called north is Jingshi, south is Foshan, east is Suzhou, west is Hankou, the Han slogan is called "the world gathers four gatherings" of the head, which shows the prosperity of the business road.

Of course, with the rise of the Fu Han Army, especially the support for industry and commerce, Hankou Town not only did not lose its former prosperity, but became more prosperous, of course, in order to better manage the Hankou Wharf, the Fu Han Army deliberately set up a separate Hankou Wharf Management Office to be responsible for the management of merchant ships.

There are all kinds of people on the wharf, but most of them are coolie sellers, carrying large bags every day, although it is very hard, but the daily wages are quite expensive, and if you do a good job, you can always get seven or eight taels of silver a month, so it is also a good livelihood.

It's just that in a corner at the edge of the wharf, there are a few soldiers in big hats, and they still have braids on their heads, which are completely different from the men on the side, these soldiers can't help frowning when they look at the sweaty men on the wharf, and some even have a look of disdain.

"Damn fat, it's really hateful to let me wait to stand in this pickled place." A sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked gentleman had a look of disgrief on his face, and he waved his folding fan as he spoke, completely ignoring the cold weather at the moment.

The soldier dressed in black on the side, with a sneer on his face, said in a low voice: "The thieves of Chu are just people from the countryside, how can they know how to govern a place?" I won't talk about Wuchang as far away, but every wharf in this area is full of pickles, which is really insulting....."

"That's it..... Look at the ship and the ground, and the people...... After all, he is a rural villager, and he doesn't know where righteousness lies. ”

"That's it, let's go to the imperial court......"

Everyone was gossiping, but they scolded the Fu Han Army a lot, but a man in Tsing Yi who was passing by on the side stopped and sneered: "You wait for these useless scholars, who can't pass the imperial examination, shake their lips and rumble here, and slander the Fu Han Army, which is enough to reflect the magnanimity of the Fu Han Army." If you put it in the capital, I'm afraid your head will fall to the ground soon! ”

Most of these people are unsuccessful scholars, plus some people with ulterior motives, seeing that they are being spied on, they are annoyed and angry: "Where did the barbarians come from, they dared to spy on me....... It's hateful. ”

When the man in Tsing Yi saw that the scholars were talking back, he simply stopped and opened his mouth to say, "Barbarian? My Chu people used to think that they were barbarians, but they did not accept Zhou Ye, and today the barbarians entered the Central Plains, but I didn't see you go to the capital to fight the barbarians, but instead beat a rake, I really don't know shame! ”

When the scholar in the black coat heard this, he casually bowed with his fists and said in a loud voice: "Brother Tai is a good tongue, contemptible Lin Xiufu, these are all friends who have made good friends with me, this Yixia still understands a little bit, since Brother Tai has other opinions, you might as well ask Brother Tai for advice." ”

Before the Tsing Yi man could speak, Lin Xiufu said to himself: "Although the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains as a barbarian, if you don't see it, if you enter China, then China will be; China and Yidi, then Yidi..... Shun is a person from Dongyi, and King Wen is a person from Xiyi, what did he do to harm the sainthood?

After saying something, Lin Xiufu nodded slightly proudly, and the scholars around him all praised him, but the man seemed to have heard some big jokes.

"Hmph, although you are all scholars, you don't even know the slightest bit of the subtle words of the ancestors, don't you hear that Yidi has a king, and it is not as good as Zhuxia's nothing?"

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "It's really a bit funny to distort the words of the sage in this way." Then he looked at the people on the side and said loudly: "Since ancient times, China has lived inside to control Yidi, and Yidi has lived outside to serve China, and I have never heard of Yidi living in China and ruling the world." At this time, the circulation of heavenly fortune, the Central Plains is vigorous, and among the billions of trillions, a saint is born, the Hulu is expelled, and the Chinese ...... is restored The envoys are trembling, and they are in the land of the twilight of the Qin Dynasty, and they can be honest. ”

The scholars were said to be disgraced, but when they saw that the people on the side were gathering more and more, they immediately thought about leaving. It's just that he was blocked by someone, and he couldn't advance or retreat for a while.

At this moment, a fat man in brocade clothes squeezed out of the crowd, with a somewhat flattering smile on his face, and bowed his hand to the crowd.

"Let's go...... Big guy, don't gather around here......" said and looked at the man in Tsing Yi again, "Let's disperse...... After all, these masters are young and vigorous, if there is anything wrong, take care of a few more ......"

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "These people wantonly talk about my restoration of the Han army, it is not the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, others can go, they can't go!" ”

The fat man's face was a little unsightly, and he said in a low voice: "The scientific examination system promulgated by the Fu Han Army at the beginning..... The scholars are allowed to come and go freely, and if they are not allowed to leave today, they may not look good......

The man in Tsing Yi nodded lightly, "This statement is reasonable, the Fu Han Army only allowed the scholars to enter Wuchang in order to hold the imperial examination, but now that this imperial examination has been over for a long time, these people are a little suspicious if they don't go." ”

Speaking of which, the Fu Han Army still put some effort into the spy investigation against the Qing court, especially the construction of the spy network for the shadow of the interior, which was strongly supported by the high-level of the Fu Han Army.

The fat man was a little anxious, and immediately threatened: "Please also ask Brother Tai to let go, don't meddle in things, some people and things are something you can't afford to mess with....."

The man in Tsing Yi laughed a few times, but waved his hand, only to see a few men walking out of the crowd, holding a short crossbow in their hands and facing everyone.

When the scholars saw this scene, they were almost so frightened that they peed their pants, they naturally understood that they could hold so many short crossbows in the territory of the Fu Han Army, and the big guys looked at Lin Xiufu and the fat man together, complaining in their hearts that these two people were troublesome, but they didn't want to think about how such a situation would have happened if they hadn't been open-mouthed before.

Lin Xiufu was also a little anxious at the moment, his face was full of smiles, and he looked at Tsing Yi and said, "This adult, the student has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai..... It was all an unintentional move before, and I also asked the adults to look at the face of the Lin family and bypass the students once....."

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "The Lin family? What kind of thing is the Lin family? Your father Lin Ziyan said that in order to make a living, he did not hesitate to betray the spies planted by the Qing court in Huguang, so that he had the opportunity to send you to Wuchang for the imperial examination, and now he ......"

As soon as these words came out, it caused an uproar, and those scholars looked at Lin Xiufu with a bit of disdain and disdain in their eyes, no matter which camp they were in, they were quite contemptuous of this kind of betrayal of their own spies.

The fat man's eyes froze, this kind of secret is not known to everyone, and his attitude softened a lot at the moment, and he said in a low voice: "This adult, if it is an ordinary person, it will be fine, but these people are all entrusted to the relationship of the Zheng family, and they are really a little sensitive......"

The man in Tsing Yi snorted lightly, "Shadow does things, why do you need his Zheng family to dictate?" Come, bring them all back to me, I want to see who's behind here! ”

The fat man's face couldn't help but change greatly, he knew the shadow, and he was fighting on the territory of the Fu Han Army, who didn't know the shadow and the military intelligence department? The military intelligence department is just that, after all, it is far away from them, but the shadow is almost everywhere, if you really offend them, I am afraid that it will be difficult in the future.

Seeing several men with short crossbows coming over, Lin Xiufu felt infinite fear in his heart, he looked up at the fat man, with a bit of eagerness in his eyes, but where did the fat man dare to provoke such a thing at this time, he had to turn his head, but he didn't look at it.

Lin Xiufu knew that what he just said was not only a big taboo, but even affected the entire family, if it fell into the hands of the shadow and the words, I am afraid that he would not be the only one or two people who died at that time....... Thinking of this, he took out a dagger from his sleeve and threw himself at the man in Tsing Yi.

A crossbow arrow was shot out silently, piercing Hayashi Hideo's forehead and piercing a bloody hole....... He fell to the ground, with a little regret in his eyes, but also a little relief.

A chill flashed across the face of the man in Tsing Yi, it was obvious that there were more big people behind this Lin Xiufu, if he died like this, wouldn't it be too cheap for them?

He glanced back, but found that it was not his subordinate who used the hand crossbow, but Ning Si, who held the hand crossbow with both hands, but there was not much murder on his face, but he smiled when he saw the man in Tsing Yi.

"Big brother is back?"

The man in Tsing Yi was no longer cold at this time, with a little red in his eyes, this person was none other than Ning Qianqiu, the head of the military intelligence department at the beginning, and later because of Fu Erdan's problem, he was transferred to Wuchang by Ning Yu.

In fact, Ning Yu was a little encouraged by Ning Qianqiu's seedlings at the beginning, but Ning Qianqiu's growth was a little insufficient, so there was a mistake, but it was not all Ning Qianqiu's problem. Ning Yu knew this, and the high-level officials of the Fu Han Army also knew it, so after Ning Qianqiu returned to Wuchang, after a period of mental cultivation, he re-emerged from the mountain and took up a position in the shadow.

Ning Si said respectfully: "Lord Ning, this is what the Metropolitan Governor meant, and please go to the ship." ”

Ning Qianqiu sighed softly, nodded slightly, and said to those men: "Clean up here, the trial should be tried, and the guan .......should be closed" Speaking of this, Ning Qianqiu was a little regretful after all, with the death of Lin Xiufu, I am afraid that many problems in this will be covered up.

The two of them didn't care about the situation here, so they walked towards the river, but the fat man in the same place was already trembling, of course he knew who the Metropolitan Governor was...... Today, who else is worthy of a metropolitan governor besides Ning Yu?

The people behind the fat man are nothing more than some old people of the Zheng family, who are not very powerful themselves, and they rely on some flies and dogs, although it is enough to fool most people, but in front of Ning Yu, the future prince, he and the people behind him can only be regarded as an ant at most, and they can be gently pinched to death with one finger.

When he arrived at the riverside, Ning Qianqiu followed Ning Si into a warship, and then walked through a few compartments, and after opening the curtain, he saw a steaming mutton pot, and Ning Yu was sitting behind the mutton pot, looking at Ning Qianqiu with a smile.

"Jiangnan is cold, eat some mutton to replenish your body."

Ning Qianqiu's face was a little complicated, and he sat down at the table, with a pair of dishes on it, which was prepared for him at a glance, and there was a pot of rice wine warm on the side of the table, exuding a rich aroma of wine.

Ning Yu didn't care about Ning Qianqiu, he took chopsticks and ate mutton in a big mouthful, and drank a glass of rice wine from time to time, while Ning Qianqiu looked preoccupied, and after sandwiching two chopsticks of mutton, he stopped chopsticks.

"Why did you kill Hideo Hayashi, there are obviously some people behind him....."

Ning Qianqiu suddenly saw Ning Yu, and he didn't have time to ask him when he arrived in Wuchang, nor did he ask him why he saw him, but he was a little puzzled about killing Lin Xiufu.

"It doesn't matter what Hideo Hayashi says, it's important to kill him."

Ning Yu took out a towel from the tray in the hands of the maid who was waiting on the side, wiped her face, and said softly: "There are many things that are more important than this at the moment, and a little stability is conducive to the overall situation....."

Ning Qianqiu seemed to have thought of this, and did not continue to ask, but asked in a low voice, "Big brother saw me today, is it for this person?" ”

"Naturally not, if you kill someone, you will kill it..... My original itinerary was to get off the ship tomorrow and officially return to Wuchang at that time, but I happened to meet you and wanted to see you. Now you have grown a lot more than I imagined. At least you don't lack the determination to kill and decide. ”

Ning Qianqiu's face flashed with a hint of bitterness, he poured a glass of wine, then drank it in one gulp, and sighed: "I know, after all, my talent is limited, I failed my eldest brother's cultivation at the beginning, and now I have no face to ask for more, but as long as it is for my Ning family's great cause, Qianqiu is willing to do everything......"

The great cause of the Ning family has become the common goal of all the children of the Ning family, even Ning Yu himself, now he is unconsciously completely tied to the Ning family, he can feel the obsession in the hearts of all the children of the Ning family, and he also understands this determination to dedicate everything for the obsession.

Ning Yu thought of everything he talked to with his father back then, maybe from that day on, the future of the Ning family has changed a lot, but for the Ning family at that time, everything in the future is unknown, but no matter what, Ning Yu has played an extremely key role in it, and it has also made their fate change unconsciously.

The two brothers, you have a cup and I have a cup, but I have drunk a lot of wine, although this rice wine is soft in the mouth, but the stamina is also very great, coupled with the fluctuation of Ning Yu's mood, so that the rice wine drank a lot, and the cold wind on the boat blew, and he got drunk.

"The Ning family....... Great Cause......."

In a daze, Ning Yu seemed to hear Ning Qianqiu muttering, but it was just such a sentence over and over again.