Mu Wangfu, that is, the common name of the Duke of Qianguo.

Although there is a Guizhou character in the title, he is the authentic King of Dian, and he is called by the people only because of his surname.

The ancestor of the Mu family is Mu Ying, the Marquis of Xiping, Mu Ying was the adopted son of the Taizu of the National Dynasty at the age of eight, and he became an orphan first, and he followed Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife since he was a child.

After his death, Mu Ying stayed in Yunnan with Fu Youde's southern expedition, and was posthumously crowned as the king of Qianning, the only founding minister who was posthumously crowned a prince since the Ming Dynasty, and entered the "Emperor Ming Zuxun" as a "family of relatives". His son Mu Sheng later sealed the Gongshi town of Yunnan with his level crossing, and the title has been more than 200 years.

The Mu family is very authoritative in Yunnan, the same as the prince, and occupies a large number of fields and land Xunzhuang, Wang Xingping vaguely remembers that he had seen it in the old chapters, around the sixteenth year of Wanli, the Mu family in Yunnan invaded more than 8,000 hectares of land, and these 30 years have passed, plus Qin Cixuntian I am afraid that the Qianguo Gong family has a total of nearly 20,000 hectares of land in the capital of Yunnan Prefecture, and this alone has been much more than the registered military tun in Guizhou Province.

Mu Shi also divided the Xuntian into dozens of hundreds of villages, entrusted with the family cronies to manage the village, in the eyes of the people of Yunnan Zhuang is like the imperial court, Mu Fu Pian sent down the Yunnan Tu chieftains to go out of the village to welcome, non-incense washing dare not open, the Tao is the order, the complete emperor of the soil.

It is precisely because of the relationship between the Mu family and the Heavenly Family that although the imperial court has issued many edicts to check the fields and soils of the Xun Qi in various places since Shizong, Yunnan can always be exempted from surveying. Regardless of whether the local government is impeached or the household officials hand in the seal, in the end, the emperor will use the sentence 'Nian Bian Town's ministers, so treat them sincerely, and he will be self-motivated and live up to his kindness.' 'To perfunctory past, even if there is a real evidence of lawlessness, the left is just a punishment, a reproach, and a reprimand.

Although the Mu clan had a lot of contributions to the development of Yunnan in the early years, it became more and more unbearable in recent generations.

Today's Qianguo Duke Mu Changzuo, his father Mu Chaobi relied on bullying his brother and sister-in-law, orphans and widows to seize the title, and the arbitrary death of the two nephews who successively attacked the lord also had a lot to do with him, and later imprisoned his sister-in-law for adultery and gave birth to a son.

However, even so, the emperor did not punish him with the death penalty, but only forbade him to live in the original town and die of old age, all for the sake of 'preserving the old body of the whole court'. The Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty was harsh and suspicious of officials and people, but he was extremely tolerant of his 'family', whether it was a prince or a prospective prince.

It is precisely because of the emperor's attitude that Mu Changzuo became even more unscrupulous after his attack, not only bribing directly to Zhang Juzheng's desk, but also being even more happy to see the matter of his subordinates luring them to invest in the mixed occupation of people's land. All this became even more intensified after the Ming court issued an edict to the Mu family again in the third year of Wanli, reiterating that all officials of the Yunnan government should obey the orders of the Duke of Qianguo.

Mu Jiashi town Yunnan, the Duke of Qianguo in addition to the Duke of Yunnan has also led the Yunnan General Military Officer, has always pressed the local three divisions to concentrate the military and political power, and even used the privilege of holding the transfer of troops in his hand to 'send people into Beijing to serve the movement of the division', quite the meaning of later generations of local people sent to Beijing to intercept visits.

The Mu clan is increasingly domineering on the authoritarian side of Yunnan, and Wang Xingping has heard many of these things for a long time.

In the early years, Yang Yinqiu, the deputy envoy of Yunnan according to the judge, met Mu Changzuo and did not have time to avoid the road, and as a result, the Duke of Qianguo ordered someone to directly reprimand Yang Jinshi's husband, and the matter was finally caused by Yang Yinqiu to the court to set off a big storm.

It was also rumored that there were 20 pure envoys in the palace of the Qianguo Kingdom, which was twice as large as an ordinary prince, which was really an arrogance.

Later, Wu Ding, the former governor of Yunnan, couldn't bear it anymore, and announced the previous impeachment of the Mu clan and the emperor's edict to let Mu Changzuo be cautious and change the province to be in charge, but he also sent people to forcibly expose it.

Xiao Liu said that it was the Mu family who injured Mr. Liu, which couldn't help but make Wang Xingping frown secretly, when he heard the three words Mu Wangfu, he almost didn't think about it and assigned the responsibility to the other party, in recent years in Yunnan, the reputation of the Mu family is really a little unbearable.

He heard Liu Rust dictate the ins and outs of the whole thing again, and finally became clear, it turned out that this grievance had already been settled since the copper mine in Dongchuan Mansion was opened, and it was a businessman named Li Shiyi who found Liu Rust and claimed that he was the family of the Duke of Qianguo, and wanted Liu Rust to dedicate the copper mine to the Mu family. Liu Ru is a person who does not eat oil and salt, how could he listen to him, and he humiliated the man without agreeing and blew it away.

Since then, he has been in the mine with peace of mind, and he has not returned to Guizhou for half a year, and gradually forgot about it.

As a result, when he received the news that Wang Xingping had returned to Guiyang, he hurriedly handed over the mine to his confidants to take care of, and he took the people and a few old men from the Rong Institute to pull thousands of catties of coarse copper all the way back through Yunnan.

Unexpectedly, the luck was really bad, when the water ferry charter boat in Qujing Mansion happened to bump into the opponent, and that person was really the family of Mufu, he saw Liu Rust and his party without saying a word, so he invited Huopai to bring the soldiers and the nearby Zhuang Ding to detain the convoy and all the people, saying that the copper material is a military thing, and Liu Rust smuggled military funds to be suspected of Tongyi.

The local government did not intervene in this matter, but it also did not want to provoke the Mu family, so Liu Ru and his party have been detained in a Mu Xunzhuang in the north of Nanning County (note: Qujing Fucheng is attached to Guo County). Liu Rust was tortured, but he had to pretend to flatter, and the man seemed to have heard of Wang Xingping's name, so he softened his tone and let him come back to report the news, but he did not let go of the dedication.

Fortunately, the copper mine is on the ground of Dongchuan Mansion, although it is only separated from Yunnan by one boundary, but the Mu family can't manage it, and the government of Sichuan does not do much on weekdays, but at this time it has become a good thing, otherwise if it is in central Yunnan, where is it still used, it is directly accepted without bothering to think of a name.

Knowing what happened, Wang Xingping finally relaxed a little.

In any case, although Liu Ru seemed to have been injured by some prisoners, and his life was not affected, the goods and subordinates who were seized were to be recovered, but there was one thing that made him not very happy.

"How could the people of Mu Wangfu detain Xue Liu and Ma Zhong?"

Liao Si rushed back to the Jierong Institute before the autumn harvest, and Xue Liu and Ma Zhong naturally became the only capable people around Liu Rust.

This is common sense, it is said that Liu Rust is the leader outside, if they are all detained, they should use one of their henchmen to return the letter, but I didn't think that Liu Rust was released. He didn't suspect that there was something wrong with Liu Ru's words, but he simply felt that this thing was weird.

Liu Ru understood what Wang Xingping meant, and said: "When the person surnamed Li brought people here, Brother Xue and Brother Ma Zhong fought back with them and injured several Zhuang Ding, because they took revenge on the two brothers when they imprisoned us in the village, that is, they did not kill the killer because of the name of the owner. ”

I see, this makes sense, Wang Xing said calmly, "The two of them didn't report the name of Guiyang Wei?" ”

"I reported it, but the one surnamed Li said that this is the ground in Yunnan, and the military household of Guiyang Wei will be added to the crime if he violates the law in other places."

Wang Xingping's face became gloomy when he heard this, and after a long time, he sighed and said: "It's good that you don't hurt your life, you can recuperate with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about the affairs of the iron factory now that Mr. Song is in charge, and as for minting money, you are not in a hurry at this time." ”

He couldn't hear a trace of anger when he said this, but somehow Liu Ru felt the killing intent from the young proprietor's gaze.

However, for Wang Xingping, it is indeed reassuring, and most of this matter is that this slave wants to ask the master for credit, relying on his pride. However, it is worrying that although the people in charge of the Mu Mansion can't manage such 'small things', most of them will also protect them after the incident comes out, but as far as he knows, although the following political secretary of Yunnan has been unable to overpower the Mu family, the local officials will not be willing to be the lackeys of the Qianguo family, so until now, people are still imprisoned in the Mu family instead of being taken into the official.

At least on the bright side, Qujingfu's attitude is quite neutral, and it belongs to turning a blind eye.

"The owner, you might as well ask the Minister of Fu Jun to come forward and write a letter in this matter, and there should be a kindness."

Hearing Liu Ru's unwillingness in his words, Wang Xingping half comforted and half asked, "Do you think this matter can be good?" ”

"Uh......" Liu Rust was speechless for a while.

Wang Xingping motioned to Liu Ru not to get up, "You listen to my peace of mind, but there is one thing I want you to do." ”

"Boss, please."

"Draw a detailed picture of the situation in the village, this matter should not be difficult for you." Wang Xingping said that the drawings Liu Ru naturally understood what he meant, and he did learn a lot from this young master these days by his side, but why did he draw this drawing? Liu Ru's heart seemed to sense something.

Wang Xing calmed down and said to several confidants: "I hope that all gentlemen will be tight-lipped about today's affairs." ”

Naturally, everyone agreed.

Back in the study, there was only Wei Qianlan by his side, Wang Xing calmed down and sorted out the matter again, and he already had a countermeasure in his heart.

It's still a good thing to say, this time he took advantage of the matter, just to take advantage of this to fight a dozen of Mu's arrogance in Yunnan, and it will be the back garden in his mind in the future, and now he is bullied and naturally can't just forget it.

Having said that, if Zhang Heming is willing to come forward, this matter will naturally be easy to solve, but it is not the result that Wang Xingping wants, it is too cheap to be slapped and pay for a sweet date, according to his mind, if he can't uproot the jujube tree, it will be a loss.

How to do this is how to do it, only he personally manages it.

He glanced around the room, and saw that Wei Qilan was still cleaning up the table, perhaps because she saw that there was no one else in the room, and she looked a little speechless when she didn't stop talking.

"Lan Niang has something to say."

Wei Qianlan pursed her lips, "Childe wants to save people by himself?" ”

She had already guessed when she heard Wang Xingping ask Liu Ru to draw the drawings in Xunzhuang, and her title to Wang Xingping had gradually changed from a young master to a current son over time, and the subtle meaning could only be understood.

"What? Do you think there's something wrong? ”

"The Mu family is extremely powerful in Yunnan, and if the son is strong, I am afraid that it will cause a catastrophe." Wang Xingping rarely saw Wei Qilan's somewhat disgusted tone, since she was rescued at the beginning, she has now recovered more and more of a girl's agility.

"And what do you mean ......?"

Wei Qilan thought for a while and said, "If Childe must go, take me with you." ”

"Take you?"

The laughing girl nodded and snorted, with a little cuteness in her firmness, which changed the atmosphere, "I haven't reported the kindness of the son, this time it's not that Sixth Brother Xue and they are also trapped there, my hometown is in Pu'an Pingyi, next to the ground of Qujing, and I have been to Jiaoshuidu with my father a few times in the past, so I can help a little." ”

Wang Xingping's gaze at Wei Qilan became a little strange at this time, the girl in front of him was already slim and generous, and her figure also had the unique grace of being a high-ranking official, to be honest, he had moved the mind of taking this woman into the house several times, but the thought came up and suppressed him again. I don't know if I don't have confidence in my too young body or because I'm imprisoned by the moral concept of modern people, after all, this girl is not yet an adult.

He was silent for a moment and said, "It's rare that you can think like this, but you have to listen to my orders along the way, and you can't act on your own." ”

Unexpectedly, Wang Xingping agreed so easily, Wei Qilan was surprised and worried, "I don't know what foolproof plan Gongzi can think of?" ”

"Don't worry, I will only do this business with the Qianguo family."

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