"What?"

The steward in the Qianguo Mansion is still quite reliable, and it is not a big deal, so it should not come to him.

The steward considered the words, "It's the Zhuangzhong grain depot that has run out of water." ”

"Scare?" Lao Guocheng was drinking tea with his head buried in it, and when he heard this, he raised his head, and asked with a grin between his eyebrows, "Is Guan Zhuang so bold now?" I'm afraid I'll have to be disciplined and disciplined. ”

When I heard this, the first thing that came to my mind was that the person in charge of the village was guarding himself and playing the trick of burning the warehouse with a fire dragon.

The old steward said: "It shouldn't be Yu Zichun's doing, this time he also burned a messenger sent by his grandfather." ”

"Who died?" Mu Changzuo's expression changed slightly.

"Li Shiyi of Guangnan Wei."

"Is that him?" But Mu Changzuo reacted again, "Since you are dead, why do you say that Zhuang Shang didn't do it himself?" ”

"Because there is still a secret in this matter, Li Shiyi previously privately detained several military households in Guizhou and locked them up in Zhuangshang, and those people disappeared after this accident."

As soon as he said this, Mu Changzuo also had to pay attention to it, "Who knows about this matter?" ”

"Grandpa, don't worry, Zhuang Ding doesn't know much about the inside story, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense, the only thing to worry about is Qujing Mansion, Li Qianhu had reported to the official before, but the official did not accept it."

"Stupid, it's not worrying to die." Mu Changzuo's hand pinched the teacup fiercely, and the blue and white porcelain from Jingdezhen seemed to be crushed in his hand, which really made the steward look frightened, "Where did those military households who ran away come from?" ”

"I don't know, I just know that the main family seems to be surnamed Wang."

At this time, a cry suddenly interrupted the question, "Is the eldest brother making trouble?" What about the sons of the world? ”

Mu Changzuo frowned, his great-grandson had just turned one year old, but Lao Tzu was away from home all day, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, although the Mu family was in a high position in Yunnan, but after all, there was a court above, and how many pairs of eyes were staring at the local officials, and too many outrageous things could not be done. Especially when he knows that this grandson likes to bully men and women and make trouble, this is not a good way to do it, and he just leaves some handles for people to catch.

"The son of the world is in Liuying these days."

At the beginning of the year when Mu Ying was in Yunnan, he built another industry on the shore of the Green Lake, and built the willow camp in imitation of Zhou Yafu's fine willow camp in the Han Dynasty, which is now Mu Qiyuan's daily living place.

Mu Changzuo's brows furrowed when he heard this, and his good mood when he just came back from attending the cultural conference in Guangxi was gone. The war in Liaodong is tight, and the imperial court has rarely become serious about local food and salary, and he has not been on good terms with the political secretary, so he has been acting extremely cautiously recently. But only this grandson is not worry-free, there are often all kinds of market news about Mu Qiyuan into his ears, but they are not good words, Mu has Mu Rui's example in front, no matter what, he can't toss indiscriminately, at least there can be no more meaningless toss, in vain let outsiders have the truth to participate in the impeachment, and it will inevitably lead to some disasters.

After all, the emperor's protection is also because he has been hoodwinked, which Mu Changzuo himself knows, the eunuch Lu and the major lords in the palace and the relatives in Beijing have not received less money from him, so they can maintain it, but if they are blindly stupid, they will really give their own hereditary title and can't get by.

Thinking of this, he sharply instructed the steward: "Tomorrow morning, you will bring someone to bring him back for me, these days are not allowed to make trouble outside, just take care of the grandchildren at home, even if you take advantage of this time to lick a man at home, it is better than messing around outside." ”

The steward took the promise, but the head was one and two big, and the royal family affairs were easy for him to put his beak, so he thought about how to dispose of this hot potato properly while walking.

…………

When the Duke of Qianguo attacked, there was a different style in the willow garden.

More than half of the popular courtesans in Kunming County are now in this garden, and there are also small singers brought back from Nanjing, the little grandfather and his gang of outlaws are still spent here, how can there be the shadow of the young son and his family in his head under the mess of cups and plates, and even the drunken speaking accent Mu Qiyuan is deliberately imitating Nandu.

Although his ancestors are Anhui Dingyuan, but that is how many generations ago, living in Yunnan for a long time, plus the house slaves are mostly local, his accent will inevitably take Yunnan Township to talk, every year to Nanjing to worship the ancestors behind the inevitable ridicule by the local nobles He is not unaware, and now this nondescript accent has become his superiority.

But even though he was drunk and dreamed of death every day, he still had some pursuits in playing, and in the midst of singing and dancing, Little Master Mu still remembered the interesting things arranged during the day.

"The identity of the kid surnamed Wang has been clarified?"

"It's been investigated, but this son really has a great background, guess who sent him to send the envoy?"

"Guess the, when did you donkey learn to speak so sourly?"

The family hurriedly slapped their mouths, "I didn't expect that the boy from the Wang family was actually sent by Qianfu Zhang Heming, and I don't know what he said to Shen Xianggong, but he was indeed left to eat." ”

"I'm getting more and more interested in that little lady in this way, have you thought of a way?"

"Villain ......"

"Don't talk nonsense, let it go if you have a fart."

"The villain thinks about it, I'm afraid I can only rob it, but it's not good to do it in the city, so I can only wait for them to follow them from a distance when they return to Guiyang, but neither the military household nor Zhuang Ding can use it."

This cronie also understands that Mu Qiyuan doesn't care about street talk, but he has to care, since the prince asks each other, most of this errand falls on him. But after all, this is the abduction of a woman from a good family, the other party seems to have some background, the sergeant or Zhuang Ding is undoubtedly saying that this is the order of the Mu family, Mu Qiyuan is not afraid, he is still hanging the title of the chief military officer of the governor, how can he not climb his head, and in the end, it is still their subordinates who are behind the blame, so Meng Lang must not act.

"You don't have to arrest anyone?" Mu Qiyuan's words were sarcastic, but his hand did not stop and hugged a courtesan and rubbed it around.

The cronie hurriedly led the conversation out, "Little grandfather forgot? Hasn't Duan Jinzhong, the tushe in Yunlong Prefecture (now Yunlong County), been in the house recently, why not let his people accept a name? ”

Yunlongzhou is in the west of Dali Mansion, close to the Lancang River, the Mu family is in charge of a provincial military power, and the affairs of Dali Mansion are naturally managed.

After a while, the Tushe cronies were passed on, in their forties, with a broad face and dark skin and a fierce appearance, and it was the most powerful Tumu named Duan Yongji under Duan Jinzhong.

"Hasn't your master always wanted to be justified, help me do this, and if he attacked Yunlong Zhizhou and killed Duan Jialong, he could end it on his behalf." Mu Qiyuan got straight to the point.

Duan Jinzhong is the Tushe of Yunlong Prefecture, and it is also the local Tuzhizhou Duan clan, the ancestor of the Duan family is Duan Jianwei, the founding general of the Nanzhao State, and his family was a guide in the Hongwu years to help the Ming army to calm the rebellion of Dali and Yuan Right Cheng Puyan Du, because of the meritorious attack of this Yunlong Prefecture Tuzhizhou.

Since the first generation of Duan Bao has gone through the tenth generation, to the tenth generation of Duan Jialong, his uncle Duan Jinzhong coveted the position of Zhizhou, Wanli forty-three years took advantage of the old nest slaves under him to occupy the Zhizhou Division, Duan Jinzhong just took the opportunity to kill the nephew on the way to escape. But although the person was killed, this position was not obtained, and he was still guilty of killing the local officials, and the way of the government could not be followed, so Duan Jinzhong thought about it and sent his cronies to the side of the Duke of Qianguo to find a way to get out.

These natives don't have a bottom line for doing things, but they can give it a try, and the local officials' families on the other side can get rid of it if they really want to make a mistake, and the government can't find their own mistakes, and more importantly, the people around Mu Qiyuan can also avoid being implicated.

The little grandfather came up at this time, and when he saw that Duan Yongji was still a little hesitant, he said again: "Doesn't your master still want to share some profits from the five wells, if this matter is done beautifully, it is not impossible for this son to say two more good words in front of my grandfather." ”

That Yongji's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Five wells is the general name of the five salt divisions in the northeast of Yunlong Prefecture, in the sixteenth year of Hongwu (1383 AD), the imperial court set up the five wells salt division under the jurisdiction of Nuodeng Well, Shanjing, Shijing, Dajing, Shundang Well five salt well divisions, plus the Jianchuan Prefecture Mishajing Salt Division of Heqing Military and Civil Mansion and the Lanzhou Well Salt Division of Lijiang Military and Civil Mansion have a total of seven salt divisions, and the Jiajing period added Shimen, Tianer, Jinquan (note: now Baofeng) three wells. The land under the jurisdiction of Wujing has prosperous traffic and commerce, which is the most important place in Yunlong Prefecture, and it is also a place where Dali can be counted.

In the past year, the Wujing Lifting Division had nearly 40,000 taels of salt transmission class, which was naturally a piece of fat, and in the forty-second year of Wanli, Zhou Jiamo abolished the lifting division for the unification of the matter, and this fat meat became more and more memorable.

Although the promotion division was withdrawn, the Wujing Inspection Division was not canceled, so the Mu family, who held the military power, could naturally share in it, and it was not a random deception.

And for the local magistrates, not to mention controlling the salt division, even if it is just a few salt wells that are distributed to a certain salt division, it is a great thing. It is necessary to know that the refined salt produced by the five wells is extremely pure, and it is mostly supplied to Yongchang Mansion and other places, especially the production of Nuodeng well in the five wells, and the people of Baoshan and Tengyue eat their products regardless of the Tuhan, which is called 'Nuo salt', and even directly sold to Myanmar and other countries, so if you can master the amount of salt, you are undoubtedly mastering a strategic resource, not only the economy can be expected, but also often have more bargaining chips in the battle for the earth.

So the deal was quickly negotiated, Duan Yongji also brought a lot of people who dared to die in Kunming, there were always seven or eight, he naturally didn't have a problem doing such a 'little thing', as long as the little grandfather gave him Wang Xingping's information, and when they left the city and fell far behind, the ground of this Yunnan Mansion was not a place to go to Qingjing.

…………

Wang Xingping, who had just returned to the inn, sneezed for no reason, not realizing that someone was about to attack him.

Mu Qiyuan's covetousness for Wei Qilan had long been forgotten by him, and in his opinion, the 'interest' of this kind of gentleman would not last long, as long as Lan Niang didn't show up too much in the city in the next few days.

He had a very good conversation with Shen Xiangjun today, and the set of "Mengxi Written Talks" prepared earlier has brought them closer, which was published by Shen Xianggong himself fifteen years ago, and he didn't ask in detail what the relationship between Shen Zuowei and Shen Kuo was, but this move did win Shen Xianggong's further favor, and it became the proper meaning of the topic to talk about the study of things with Shen Fujun.

He came to Yunnan for several purposes, one is to inspect the business environment, the second is to endorse the mining business, and the third is to see if it can absorb the population, after all, because of the Mu family Xunzhuang, there are many fugitive military households here, and he has already inquired about the location of the human city in Kunming County, and it seems that Yunnan will not be very good next year, and it is the time to absorb a large number of people here.

It is the second place to give Mu an eye medicine, and there are not many Shen Zuo without him, but Master Shen can give the green light for the first three things, which is beyond Wang Xingping's expectations, and he always feels that it is worth it.

In this way, after a few days in Kunming, he contacted several businesses successively, especially those that could catch up with Nanyang countries such as Annan in Myanmar, so that he was satisfied and ready to embark on the return journey, after all, Guiyang still has a lot of things to do waiting for him.

Rented a carriage and horses to get out of the city, at noon all the way through the Banqiao Station in front of the valley, because Wang Xingping planned to rush to the Yilong Fort of Mumisu in one day, the carriage did not stop, straight through the rabbit pass and Qiao Shui Township, if his memory is good, this road is the future Kunming International Airport, and at this time it is still a ravine under the cover of a dense forest, and the road travel is gradually less after winter.

Duan Yongji and his subordinates hurriedly followed the scene behind the carriage for a long time, they didn't dare to start on the road before, and they had the courage to come up when they arrived here, but something unexpected still happened.

"Say, when did they get off the bus?" A scar-faced fierce man slammed a dagger in front of the coachman.

Where had the coachman seen such a fierce god, he was already frightened, and said tremblingly: "Good man Rongyu, they got off the car at Banqiaoyi, and only taught the villain to go to Yilong Fort according to the original road." ”

He also saw that this group of people were carrying sharp blades, and it was obvious that they were not good, so he hurriedly begged for mercy, "That son has given Sichuan Zi to the villain first, and the little human rights have been given to a few heroes, and I hope that the heroes——"

When the word 'spare my life' finally could not be spoken, the coachman's neck was cut cleanly, and blood sprayed straight up the treetops, and the man went limp.

Duan Yongji saw the scar man doing this, and his heart was impatient, "Luo Ben you ......"

He was just going to rob people, and he wasn't a baby in the nest (note: slave) who said he would kill it, after all, Yunnan Mansion was also the best district in central Yunnan, and it was not good to kill people indiscriminately, so he shouldn't have brought this person with him if he knew it.

"Donkey, who knows if this coachman is in the same group as them, I didn't see that a few of us were all tricked by this dog's little dead eight, and I really underestimated this guy." The scarface man called Luo Ben wiped the blood from the knife and took out the silver in the coachman's hand, but he still cursed.

Strange things suddenly happened-

A sonorous voice suddenly came from the forest next to the road, "Originally, it was just a misunderstanding, but I didn't expect you to dare to kill!" ”

Everyone looked up, but when they saw a young man standing under a few water pine trees, less than fifty steps away, the young man was looking at this side expressionlessly, just looking at this person's appearance and dressing, Duan Yongji's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

"Take this man's ——!"

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