For the next half a day, Wang Xingping locked himself in the secret room in the mansion and did not come out until after dark, and then went to the study for dinner.

He did a lot of things during this half day, all by telegraph.

First of all, he sent a telegram to the detachment of the Senate to aid Guiyang who was still in Duyun Mansion, telling them to hurry up and rush to Guiyang as soon as possible, and he needed the assistance of the detachment in something.

Secondly, he also sent a telegram to Fu Xiaofei, who had arrived in Tianjin, and entrusted him and Su Zhen from Tianjin Station to do a few things.

Thirdly, he also sent a request for assistance to Hu Barong in Shanghai through Labuan Island, and Hu was the only naturalized citizen who was now alone outside the country to be equipped with a radio station, which was also the result of Hu's hard work and special study.

After doing all this, he sighed softly to himself, "It's a pity that Yang Jinshi died a little early." ”

He is talking about Yang Yinqiu, who was humiliated by Mu Changzuo more than ten years ago, speaking of which, this old Mr. Yang is still the descendant of the famous minister Yang Shiqi, and it is precisely because of this identity that his affairs caused an uproar in the court, so that the emperor had to come forward to issue an edict to blame Mu Changzuo, it can be said that these two people are enemies.

And Yang Yinqiu also has a double identity is the predecessor of Guo Zizhang's sons and daughters, and the second daughter married Guo Zizhang's fourth man Guo Kongling as his wife, when he and Guo Xianggong pacified Yang Yinglong's rebellion, he was transferred from Yunnan to the Guizhou Left Prison Army, and made a lot of contributions, and the people in Guizhou are also widely kind.

Although Yang Yinqiu has been deceased for 18 years, his second son is also a Jinshi, and now he is in charge of the Yangzhou Mansion, it is the Zhaiyun Mr. Yang Jiazuo who had a relationship with Wang Xingping in Beijing that day, and this person is considered to be a member of the same department as Ma Shiying, and he is also related to Guizhou.

Regarding the relationship between them, she still listened to Song Yingxing talk on the way back, but she didn't expect it to come in handy today.

In fact, he wanted Hu Barong to ask to see Master Yang in the name of Ma Shiying and Song Yingxing, and talk about the matter here, believing that with the hatred of insulting his father, once it is confirmed that the matter is generally correct, Master Yang will not be stingy with a piece of music, even if it is just rumors, it will not be much risk.

And this thing itself is not fiction, the identity of Ma Shiying and Song Yingxing Hu Barong can naturally say the truth, so that the only time that is difficult to explain because of the telegram can be ambiguous, after all, Liu Rust and others were imprisoned many days ago, as long as you want to think that there is news from Yunnan from the beginning, no one will be suspicious. And how to bring the topic to this during the ordinary meeting, I believe that Hu Barong's wisdom will not be difficult, he has heard of Hu Dongzhu's performance at the Brunei public trial meeting that year.

As for Wang Zunde in the capital, needless to say, this uncle is now also the supervisor of the imperial history of Yunnan Province, and Li Kezhuo's line can also be used, in a sense, his side may have a greater effect, both of which can be effective without too much care.

In addition, there is another person is Zhou Jiamo, Zhou Jiamo has been promoted to the Ministry of Industry a few months ago since the governor of Guangdong was transferred to Nanjing to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and now he has just arrived in Beijing. When Fu Xiaofei was in Guangdong, he had a relationship with this old man Zhou, and this line had to be said by Mr. Fu himself, and he didn't need to say much, just bring a few words about Yunnan between chats.

Zhou Jiamo was very deep with Mu Changzuo when he was governor of Yunnan in the past, and the book called it 'a big thief, a mountain of crimes', it should be a lot of yin qi, if he can support Yang Jiazuo and Wang Zunde for each other, the momentum of the Beijing division will also be created.

And Xu Guangqi will naturally be included in it, and these people are talking about the Qianguo family at the same time, believing that the government and the opposition can set off a lot of storms, and they will solve their worries about Wang Xingping's rescue operation.

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Two days later, in the morning, the Senate's detachment finally arrived in Guiyang, which also greatly increased Wang Xingping's confidence in winning this battle.

The detachment consisted of ten people, and in addition to Chen Zhijiang, there was also Hou Zhiben, a veteran who was particularly familiar with metallurgy and chemical industry, and he came to Guizhou for the mining of cinnabar ore and the refining of mercury. Chen Zhijiang's public identity is a non-first talent in Sanshui County, and Hou Zhiben claims to be from an iron smelting in Foshan.

The veteran in charge of military security is Long Dengyun - this is a Yi nationality, Yi name Najiwusa, and it is also a special arrangement of the Senate considering the situation here, his identity is the dart head of the Wantong Dart Bureau, and he was specially invited by Wang Xingping from Guangdong to come to this shop. There is also a veteran, Li Kang, who is more responsible for logistics and communication support, and his identity is a bookkeeper sent here by Guangzhou Wantong.

The remaining six people are all natives from the Wantong Dart Bureau, but they are also extremely reliable people, all of them are naturalized people who work with them, one of them surnamed Ma is from Qiongzhou, according to Chen Zhijiang, the identity has a great background for Wang Xingping to use, and the remaining five are also the key objects of investigation of bad people.

The detachment brought not only some instruments and tools, but also a lot of special weapons, all of which were developed to deal with darts and perform stealth missions, many of which were not even driven by gunpowder, but such as pulley crossbows made of alloys were far from being able to be built by technology at this time, and even had anesthetic guns and some nerve agents.

In addition to the six naturalized people on the side of the Guizhou Aid Detachment, Long Dengyun and Li Kang accompanied the team, Wang Xingping transferred Liao Si from Jierong Fort as a guide, plus Shang Bao and Ding Yi and other four people on his side and Wei Qilan, a total of fifteen action teams were temporarily put together.

He settled everything at home one by one, and introduced Chen Zhijiang and Hou Zhiben to Ye Dajiao, instructed Ding Deshui to practice diligently, and did not forget to go to Zhang Heming to ask for a business trip by the way before leaving, but did not reveal the true purpose of the trip to Yunnan.

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Seven days later, at noon, a caravan of tea horses came to the Nanpan River.

This group of people and horses is no different from the ordinary tea and horse merchants who come and go here, the only difference is that although the leader looks a little sloppy, he looks unusually young, this caravan is none other than Wang Xingping and his party, who have been hurrying for days.

Seven days ago, after the team was assembled, it took four days to rush to the Pingyi Institute, and then crossed Yunnan and spent three days carefully traveling to Nanning County, and the party did not go to Qujing Fucheng, but found a small rural inn in Qiaojiawan in the northwest of Nanning County (note: one of the headwaters of the Nanpan River).

The innkeeper's surname is Liu, and he seems to have never seen so many customers for a long time, so he was busy greeting, and he didn't forget to ask about business in a hurry, "How many guest officials are going to Lin'an Mansion to sell tea?" ”

Lin'an Mansion is also the Jianshui Prefecture of later generations, Yunnan is the most prosperous place of commerce, there is the largest Beiba market in Yunnan, the shell coins flowing into the Nanyang countries are there to trade gold with local merchants, so all kinds of commercial markets in Lin'an Mansion City are also lined up one after another, and the tea and horse trade is naturally prosperous.

It is the general existence of this financial center, which is called small Nanjing by the Yunnan people, and most of the tea and horse merchants from Guizhou go south along the Nanpan River after arriving in Qujing, and can be reached by land on the Lemeng River. Some of the goods, such as timber, would go down the Nanpan River and all the way south to the Pearl River to reach Guangzhou, while others would cross the Yuan and Qirong rivers with caravans into Annam, Nanzhang and Siam.

But Wang Xingping would not say this, he took off a sack from a horse and handed it to the shopkeeper, "I can't go to Lin'an when the capital is less, so I want to find a nearby merchant to exchange some grain and return to Pu'an. These rights are today's store money and food money, and the extra money is to reward you for your hard work. ”

The shopkeeper weighed the bag a little, and there were seventy or eighty sobeizi in the sack, which deserved five coins of silver, and it was naturally more than enough to cover today's expenses, after all, the price here in Yunnan was not high, and the store was naturally full of joy.

The so-called Shangtun is the tuntian specially opened up by the border merchants in various provinces, and the annual grain production is included in the local government in exchange for salt and then traded in the belly, which is the retention of the Kaizhong system. Guizhou because the land is not fertile and the land is barren, so there are very few people who specialize in cultivating Shangtun in it, but there are a lot of people here in Yunnan, one is that the land itself is fertile, and the other is that central Yunnan already produces salt, especially the black and white salt wells between Chuxiong and Yunnan, the number is very large and the halogen is also very good, and Shangtun is more than elsewhere.

"It turns out that a few guest officers came from Pu'an, it's okay, although the tea and rice in the country shop are rough, but the business is still done, a few people settle down first, and I will go to find a reliable economy later." The shopkeeper accepted Bei Zi and smiled.

Liao Si interrupted the shopkeeper's flattery, "Arrange some meals first, grandpa is already so hungry that his chest is pressed against his back." ”

"Then I'll arrange it right away, by the way, our store has a few fresh chicken firs picked this morning, can you use some?"

This made Wang Xingping very interested, I have long heard that Yunnan people like to eat fungi in ancient times, whether it is the memory of later generations or the current generation to read the travelogues of the officials of Eun Yunnan have heard of it, but the store served it is boiled, not the oil chicken fir of later generations, although the taste is still delicious, which makes him feel that it may be a new business while shouting delicious, and when he returns to Guiyang in the future, he can greatly develop such resources.

After eating and resting for a while, the store really attracted a thin black man.

"This is Ruan Economy here, and several guest officials can entrust him with business matters."

It turns out that this person specializes in all kinds of grocery economy here, and grain and tea are also large quantities.

"Villain Ruan Qiong, seeing that you are doing some dental business here, I heard that Shopkeeper Liu said that a few people want to buy grain?"

"It doesn't sound like a local with your accent." Wang Xingping keenly discovered this detail.

"The guest has good ears, the villain's ancestors are from Maitreya, and the mother is from Annan, so her accent is heavier."

"I see, it's okay, we just want to find some merchants nearby to exchange tea for some grain, I don't know if Ruan Economy has a familiar business?"

"Shangtun is not close to the left, but ......" Ruan Qiong was a little embarrassed when she heard it, but then she said again, "There is a place in Xunzhuang, which is the property of Mu Wangfu. ”

"Oh? How far is it from here? Can the transaction be repaid? ”

"It's not far, it's fifteen miles west of this place, after the three-fork fort, from Nanning Station to the north is the Mu family's Xunzhuang, that Guan Zhuang is a Zhang Zhi, and the business is naturally easy to say, but a man is only willing to accept cash and don't want to be a shellfish."

Hearing this, Wang Xingping first pretended to let Ruan Qiong see the tea goods he brought, and agreed to go to the village early the next morning.

At dawn the next day, Ruan Qiong really came to wait outside the store early, and the group walked for almost two hours before they saw a military fort, not far from the fort is a post station, in the north of the post station and the military fort, sandwiched between the three mounds is the Mu family's Xunzhuang, looking at it as if there are more than ten acres of land.

Ruan Qiong looked at the sky and said, "Li Dongzhu is here for a while, I'll go find a dealer and ask him where the housekeeper is, and then go to Nanning Post for lunch and then ask for a meeting." ”

Wang Xingping did not tell the shopkeeper and Ruan Qiong his real name, but used a pseudonym of Li Desheng, so Ruan Qiong asked this question. He remained silent and said, "Let's take a look first, but I'm not in a hurry to find someone." ”

A remote post station such as Nanningyi also provides food to outsiders, but it is necessary to give extra money, and as a result, after lunch, this look walks around these fields for nearly an hour, these fields are widely distributed, and there is no fence to cut off, and only occasionally you can see some boundary markers at the edge of the field. After the autumn harvest, it was difficult to see people in the field, Wang Xingping was led by Ruan Qiong, and from time to time he pointed to the east and asked the west, where is the courtyard of Guan Zhuang? Where is the barn where the grain is stored? As a result, when everything was inquired, he gave Ruan Qiong three coins of silver, which was counted as the foot money for a trip for nothing, but he had no intention of trading anymore.

After that, Wang Xingping and Ruan Qiong went back to the small inn together, and as soon as he came back, he settled accounts with the shopkeeper, and secretly arranged for Long Dengyun and Li Kang to take six team members to go back to the outside of the three-way fort across the post road to investigate the situation in the village.

After he and Liao Si and the others packed up, they also learned from Long Dengyun, and they first walked along the Xiaoxiang River to Fucheng for a while, and when there was no one around, they left the official road and went around to Sanchakou Fort.

By the time Wang Xingping and the others arrived, the sky had already been darkened, and they saw a little light after the breakthrough from a distance, and Long Dengyun and the others had already assembled.

"How? Have you found Xue Liu and the two of them? ”

"There is a dungeon in the southeast of Guan Zhuang's courtyard, and most of the people are in it, but we can't confirm it without the spectrum of your two men, but we just see that the aura is a little decayed."

Wang Xingping thought about it for a moment and said, "How sure are you?" ”

"If your people don't follow...... Ten percent. Long Dengyun chuckled. What do you think? Do you want to do it? ”

"!" The answer was not heard because of the slightest dissatisfaction with the previous joke, and after only a moment of silence, Wang Xingping replied sonorously.

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