Nan'an Courtyard is very lively.

The gate and the side door of the courtyard are open, and there are hundreds of tables of flowing water seats, whether it is an official soldier, or a businessman, or an official household, or a fisherman on the river, as long as he comes to congratulate him, he is qualified to enter the banquet and drink, the wine and food are all on the table, the people who congratulate him send congratulatory gifts with their own financial resources, and there are big businessmen who send antique utensils to play, or celebrity calligraphy and painting, and the price is very expensive. In the past, Xu Zi would not accept these expensive gifts at first, and when he was happy, he had to be sent by someone, but he had to register it and send it back with a considerable gift in the future.

As for ordinary businessmen and ordinary people, there are hundreds of copper coins, if the family is ordinary, the palace has a word first, or a few copper coins, or a fist, and say a few words of congratulations, but also welcome to come for His Royal Highness, the princess congratulates, and the palace is also extremely welcome.

This made a large number of gentry and common people rush in, some of them are gluttonous, bring a few big money to eat meat and drink sprinkling, but most of them are really congratulatory, grateful, smiling relatives, friends, come to the courtyard here for the king of Zhongshan to congratulate. The people in the town, most of them are familiar with Xu Zixian, of course, Xu Zixian does not necessarily remember someone, most of them are in the town to say hello, or nod slightly, even so, it is also the old neighbors, although these people are small people, but they have the psychology of gratitude and recognition, the palace is open to the door, of course, everyone came together, and they were happy.

In the courtyard, at least thousands of people have poured in, but fortunately, the place is spacious, from the courtyard of the front hall, to the martial arts arena, to the various halls, wings, and wine tables are set everywhere, and there are hundreds of people in the official household who are the chefs or the masters, and they are not afraid to deal with such a scene.

In the lively atmosphere, the whole courtyard is full of laughter, and the sound of firecrackers and cheers outside the courtyard can be regarded as a contrast.

Chen Wen? After entering, he took Xiaomei's hand, laughed and laughed, and the two sat in the back house and laughed and chatted.

The two girls also met when they were young, but at that time the juniors were still younger, in addition to following the eldest brother Xu Zixian like a fart, they went to the Chen family and Chen Wen? Play and laugh.

The past seems to be just yesterday, when the two families were quite close in Qizhou, Chen Wen? Talking poems with my little sister, listening to stories, appreciating flowers, swinging, and in a flash, one has just married a wife and becomes a princess, and the other has also made a marriage contract, and you can get married in two years.

"From now on, I will leave the matter of the inner house to the third sister." Xiaomei is still called according to the old days, to Chen Wen? said with a smile: "The eldest brother always said that he wanted to ask me to go through the training, but now it's okay, I've finished the training, and it's up to the third sister to look at it." ”

"In the future, second sister, you must be Wei Yanke's virtuous helper." Chen Wen? You're not welcome, I took the letter from the inner house handed over by my little sister, the money and grain dispatch of the inner house is to be printed, and there are also one or two hundred people in the inner house, as well as a large number of related industries, and hundreds of subordinate personnel, plus often use the money and food of the inner house to reward foreign officials and soldiers, and the expenses must be recorded in the account, and they must not be sloppy.

Therefore, the wife in charge of the mansion is no less than the financial director of a large company in later generations, and the identity of the hostess, if she is half of the head of the family of a large group, it is not an exaggeration.

The little sister's face was slightly red, but there was not much shame between her eyebrows.

The marriage with Wei Yi is said to be the eldest brother like a father, and it was the elder brother Xu Zi who decided it first, but in fact, Xu Zi first let go of Ren Xiaomei to choose it herself

"The eldest brother just came in, and he seems to have a solemn face?"

"It's a big deal." Chen Wen? Of course, I won't hide it from my little sister, and when Xu Zi first explained it in the morning, I told my little sister 1510.

"No wonder the eldest brother returned to Nan'an ahead of schedule." Xiaomei felt a little uneasy in her heart, what was happening at the moment was indeed extraordinary, and it might even turn the road in Fujian upside down.

The little sister said: "The eldest brother returned in a hurry, is he going to use soldiers?" ”

"Mingda wants to fully withdraw to the Eastern Domain, oh, and move the warehouse of the merchant house to Qizhou, where the port and wharf will be built." Chen Wen? Shake your head gently.

"No matter what." Chen Wen? He said softly: "Mingda will choose the most correct way, which can not only make the Zhongshan Mansion go to the next level, but also not cause the people of Fujian Road to suffer more." ”

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"If there is no objection from everyone." Xu Zixian said: "This is the end of this meeting, convey to the cabinet, the workshop, the household, the division and Cao, all departments must fully cooperate, the task of the military room is extremely heavy, in the short term, the newly trained soldiers and their families will be moved to the Eastern Domain, and from Penghu, the Eastern Domain will mobilize the fleet of sailors and boats, as well as the relevant garrison soldiers and horses, to move to Qizhou to garrison. ”

Chen Zuocai said: "Before Qizhou Port, we tacitly handed it back to the pacification envoy, and Lin Shuaichen will not have any objection to this arrangement?" ”

Fang Shaoqun laughed on the side: "Together, Lin Douyao must be anxious. Previously, he was hesitant to cooperate with us, reluctant to hold the power in his hands. Now that we are willing to garrison in Qizhou, we can assist Fuzhou or Zhangzhou at any time, and also protect the eastern part of the Xinghua Army, he is too late to be happy, how can he be dissatisfied? It will not be hindered. On the other side of King Zhao, the main energy is to mobilize troops and horses, and before the situation becomes uncontrollable, defeat Li Kaiming and obtain the power to build a festival and open the mansion, and he will not take the initiative to provoke us at this time. ”

"That's right." Xu Zixian smiled slightly, retreated and enterprising, it is such a little advantage, he does not stay in Fuzhou to make a stumbling block for King Zhao, and fight for power, it is too late for King Zhao to be happy, although the port of Qizhou is important, but it is nothing compared to the general trend.

Zhongshan Wangfu is the most efficient, the tone of the meeting is certain, and then the division from the Cao Ji file to send a document, and then the cabinet of the cardinal room issued instructions to the ministries, and then the barracks, workshops, household houses and other departments will work together, Li Yi will preside over the overall situation, send personnel, Kong He sent money and food, send officials to work with him, and then the money is in place, the craftsmen and the people are complete, and then develop and build, the officials go to Qizhou to divide the area, resettle the people, and establish the port and the construction project on the shore.

As for the main island of Qizhou, it can also inform the local officials that with the power of the Zhongshan Palace, it is enough to make the newly appointed Li Anyuan of Zhiqizhou fully cooperate, and even if its defense envoy has not yet taken office, it should be in the midst of the conflict between Lin Douyao's faction and King Zhao, this candidate, Xu Zixian will unceremoniously take it over and add it to a certain official of the Zhongshan Palace.

Even the candidate Xu Zixian has already considered, that is, to protect Wei Yizhi Penghu County, and also the defense envoy of Qizhou, to Qizhou to Penghu is near, but dozens of nautical miles, when the sky is high and the sun is clear, the Penghu Islands can be clearly seen on the high mountains of Qizhou, and the high mountains of Qizhou can also be seen from Penghu, which is close to each other, and Qizhou was originally a strategic place, Wei Yixin made military achievements, and the imperial court should be rewarded.

Wei Yi also holds this position, as a nail for the Zhongshan Wangfu forces to reach out to the local area of Fujian Road, presumably he will do quite competently, and he will definitely be competent.

Penghu's performance after the pirates came, before and after, shows that Wei Yi is not only an outstanding son of an official gentry family, but also under the influence of Xu Zixian, his concept of governing government and skills are very different from ordinary bureaucrats.

As a friend, plus the Wei family is tied to the chariot of the Zhongshan Palace, and then has the identity of in-laws, Wei Yi will of course be recognized by the gentry family on Fujian Road, after all, the Wei family is born in it, and it will also be recognized by the Zhongshan Palace, it has the dual identity of Xu Zixian's friend and brother-in-law, even if it is Li Yi, when he meets Wei Yi, he is also very polite, and many other officials are also very identified with Wei Yi's identity and ability.

From noon to evening, more than 10,000 people went to the banquet, which was very lively, but there was no chaos.

Seeing this, Fang Shaoqun said with a smile: "If the second young lady is a man, she should be a big help to the king." ”

The banquet in front of her also showed extraordinary mobilization and organizational skills, which were not ordinary people could preside, and Xiaomei had also presided over many major events in the Eastern Domain, so she had this ability.

Xu Zixian laughed and said: "I, the groom, have never had a banquet with him, but he is hiding in the back house, I can't talk too much, I want to go to the front yard to drink and talk with my father, and the rest of the things will be handed over to you." ”

He was chic and calm, and decided that the major events of Fujian Road in the next few months had been decided, although there would be losses, but the comprehensive pros and cons were still the best decision now, so Xu Zixian's mind had settled down, and he strode forward, but he went to the front yard to greet the guests who came to the banquet.

Lin Shaozong and Gao Shilai came, Li Shouli and others hurriedly followed, and the guards were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and at the same time, they also had to block the wine for the king.

Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan, Zhang Huchen and others nodded to Fang Shaoqun, Chen Zuocai and others, both sides hugged their fists and said goodbye, the big event was coming, they didn't have time and mood to go to the banquet and drink.

The generals moved very fast, and when it was dark, many soldiers along the banks of the Min River began to move in the direction of Fuzhou with torches.

Although the miners and the newly recruited militia had been trained for less than ten days, these days were all training queues and passwords, and under the promotion of military attachés at all levels, the order of the army of thousands of people was still generally neat, each squad played two torches, and the rest of the soldiers carried tarpaulins and bedding, and there were no weapons on their waists or hands...... These new soldiers are not yet qualified to carry weapons. Their military robes were distributed, and the first batch of cotton cloth newly made by the Eastern Domain was not taken out for sale, but all made into military robes.

The same gray short robe, with a leather belt around the waist, although it is a new army, it is also quite military. Then hang daggers, purses containing bits and pieces, kettles, and small bottles of salt, etc., are placed in the same position, when marching, as far as possible neatly lined up, from a distance to watch, this army is neatly slaughtered, winding like a fire dragon, along the bank of the Min River towards the front of the rapid forward.

Many people just came out of the courtyard of Zhongshan Palace, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were all stunned.

The sudden transfer of the newly recruited government army made the people who were immersed in the happy event feel a little abnormal, and the incident happened suddenly, including Lin Dingyi, Yang Shizhi, Wei Jiuzhen, Chen Duzhu and Xu Yanda, many representatives of the local gentry and wealthy businessmen, all gathered together, but they looked at each other, and they didn't know what the intention of the Zhongshan Mansion was.

And the king of Zhongshan was newly married, but it was also inconvenient to inquire, and everyone was anxious.

Fortunately, after midnight, Gao Huairen rode in, and after saluting everyone, he told everyone that Zhao Wangfu had colluded with Li Kaiming, and Li Kaiming had erected a flag in Jianzhou.

"This one is broken." Chen Duzhu has traveled the most places, has the most knowledge, in Beijing, Jiangling, familiar with local people, seems to be a broker of the gentry family who runs everywhere and opens up business routes for the family, but in fact, he has traveled all over the north and northwest roads, and is quite familiar with Jinghu North Road, South Road, including Guangnan East Road, West Road, Yunnan Road, Guizhou Road and other places, and also knows that everywhere is actually an unerupted volcano containing anger, as long as a little spark falls, it will immediately cause a fire!

As for Fujian Road, originally under the support of prosperous industrial and commercial trade, although the people were poor, they were still on the food and clothing line, and there would be no large-scale rebellion, but under Wang Yue's nonsense, the people had accumulated a lot of anger.

If there is no strong person to guide him, after Wang Yue leaves office, the newly appointed magistrate will do something to care for the people's livelihood, and his anger will subside.

And at this time, there is a prestigious and powerful giant like Li Kaiming who is in Jianzhou, this is not a little spark, but on the crater, and he directly lit a fire again!

Its erupting state was simply irrepressible at the beginning of the fire!

"King Zhao is confused, Li Gu should be killed." Chen Duzhu's face was ashen, and he said in a deep voice: "How do they know what the leader of the rogue is. I still want to control people, if I expect it to be true, the people they sent over are already on the road to Huangquan at this time! ”

"Zhu Lao is right." Gao Huairen said with a smile: "Li Kaiming's office is in an iron yard in Jianchang, less than two hundred miles away from us, we have inquired, more than 100 people from Fuzhou were shot by Li Kaiming's order, and the corpses were thrown into the bottom of the valley from the mountain road, and these people died early." ”

"What does Li Kaiming want to do now?" Lin Dingyi said worriedly: "When the army leaves, is it to temporarily avoid its edge?" ”

"Yes." Gao Huairen said calmly: "Our Highness has been worried about the situation in Jianzhou, so we arranged for people to find out the news over there......"

"Oh," Lin Dingyi said according to his own understanding, "It's a dark stake." ”

"Well, that's right." Gao Huairen stroked his chin and beard, and said calmly: "The incident is very serious, Li Kaiming has the help of the military resources of the Zhao Palace, and his strength is not something that we can resist now." Even if the army of the Eastern Domain is mobilized, it will take time. The army rushed to the battlefield in a hurry, and it was bound to fail. And the thieves will soon exceed 100,000 people, or even 200,000 people, Your Highness considers that Nan'an, Shuikou, and Gukou will be difficult to keep. The army went to Qizhou first, built a port camp there, and settled the merchants and people of the towns near Jianzhou to go to Qizhou and the Eastern Domain, and take refuge for a while. Some people who went to Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou to take refuge with relatives listened to their convenience. As for the proprietors, the big treasurers, you can temporarily live in Qizhou for a while, on the port location, Qizhou is better than Nan'an, this is the meaning of His Royal Highness, how to make a decision, of course, by the proprietors themselves. ”

The meaning of Zhongshan Wangfu is obvious, the army goes first, to Qizhou to build defenses, build houses and ports, and prepare for a large number of people to flee to Qizhou, in addition, Nan'an abandons the defense, it is estimated that it will be damaged in the war, and the reconstruction is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is better to transfer the current business foundation to Qizhou, speaking of which, the prosperity of the towns in Nan'an is pinned on the transfer from Jianzhou to Fuzhou, and when the war is raging, the towns of Nan'an have lost their usefulness and will be destroyed in the war. Even if the Qingming is repeated, it will be transshipped by land and the Minjiang River, because the prosperity brought about by the civil strife in Jianzhou cannot be sustained.

And the transfer to Qizhou is equivalent to controlling the trade of Jianzhou, Xinghua Army, Shao Wujun and Fuzhou and other places, and if it is well managed, even if it can't catch up with Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, it is still much stronger than ordinary trade ports.

Chen Duzhu, Wei Jiuzhen, and Xu Yanda glanced at each other, and Chen Duzhu immediately said: "My Chen family and Zhongshan Wangfu have become in-laws, of course, everything is based on His Royal Highness." ”

"The same is true of my Xu family."

"My Wei family will also move Nan'an Foundation and even the commercial houses in Fuzhou to Qizhou."

The incident happened suddenly, since Nan'an couldn't defend it, of course, it was to take advantage of the situation to get Qizhou again, and in terms of geographical conditions, Qizhou Port was indeed much stronger than Nan'an Town.

Lin Dingyi, Yang Shizhi and others also said: "Previously, we opened a commercial bank in Nan'an, which was also a helpless move, at that time, Chen Yutai was entrenched in Qizhou, and now if the Zhongshan Wangfu moves the townspeople and the government army to Qizhou, of course we will follow." ”

"Very good." Gao Huairen nodded and said: "If this is the case, the Chamber of Commerce should hold a meeting earlier, and encourage the business bank to bring their families, or go to Qizhou, or go to the Eastern Domain, and my Zhongshan Mansion will help, if you go elsewhere, you will also listen to yourself." ”

Many businessmen were silent, although they had made up their minds to follow the Zhongshan Palace, because in today's world, King Zhao, the father of the Son of Heaven, Wang Du, colluded with Liukou, and did not hesitate to cause trouble on Fujian Road for his own selfishness, Lin Douyao was brave and incompetent, and most of the rest of the dignitaries and nobles were also like this.

Looking at it, there is only King Zhongshan who believes in it, so how can there be any other choice than to follow him?

After the chaos was all over, after Li Kaiming gathered more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, Fuzhou may not be able to stay, and many people are thoughtful, and now it is better to go to Qizhou than to go to the Eastern Domain.

The worst result is that the southeast is not protected, but the Eastern Domain must also hold on, the Liukou do not know how to fight in the water, and there are no boats, and the Eastern Domain is likely to be the last peaceful blessed land.

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"You have to separate when you just get married." Xu Zixian was quite sorry for Chen Wen? said: "I'm really sorry. ”

Chen Wen? Yanran smiled and said: "The concubine chooses a strange man in the world, a great husband, not an incompetent and mediocre person who has left the boudoir and is reluctant to give up his home. ”

Xu Zixian knew that this was the words of the woman in front of him to comfort herself, but in fact, the women were also quite conflicted, they wanted men to be productive and capable, and they also wanted men to be by their side at any time. The girl in front of her obviously had just cried in the morning, and her eyes were red, but a good woman was able to restrain her emotions and push the man to where they should be.

After early morning, the news of the chaos in Jianzhou had spread in Nan'an.

At the same time, local officials such as Jianchang Zhixian and Minhou Zhixian received information, and in order to keep their official positions, they would definitely report it quickly.

The messenger from Jianzhou with a small flag on his back ran on the way, and five or six times in one morning passed the horse, which made the news released by the Zhongshan Wangfu further confirmed, and the entire Nan'an to Shuikou and Gukou places were already in a panic.

While people were undecided, the Zhongshan palace had already begun to mobilize ships to Nan'an.

Ling-1 was anchored near Fuzhou, tracing upstream, and had already sailed to the port of Nan'an Town in one morning.

Chen Wen?, Xiaomei and other female dependents in the house, plus the families of generals, officials, and ordinary soldiers, the first batch of about 500 people who left by boat, these people did not go to the port of Qizhou, but returned directly to the Eastern Domain.

Xu Zi rode a horse first to take Xiaomei and Chen Wen? Sent to the port, Lin Dingyi, Yang Shizhi and others also rushed to see them off when they heard the news.

At this time, the sky has entered autumn, and a light rain falls in the afternoon, many people have not been prepared, and the cold rain is poured on people, feeling a cold, and it is also particularly sad.

In front of everyone, Chen Wen? just glanced at Xu Zixian a few more times with affectionate eyes, but he saluted everyone generously, and then under the escort of the government army led by Jin Baoyi, hundreds of people boarded the ship one after another, and when they reached the open sea, there would be two warships rushing over to escort them.

Under the slanting wind and drizzle, the Ling-1 raised the mainsail, the sailors shouted their trumpets, and worked the deck naked, the big ship was full of busy figures, and many officials leaned on the railing of the ship, waving goodbye to relatives and friends on the shore.

When the news first reached Nan'an, many people were still skeptical, but when the news spread again when the news spread again when the king of Zhongshan saw the newly married princess and the lord of Weng away, the whole town was immersed in bitter rain.

Yesterday was still sunny and shining, but today it is autumn wind and autumn rain, and the changes are so great that everyone is at a loss.

By the end of the evening, when it was getting dark, the news that the staff of Zhao Wangfu had colluded with Li Kaiming in an attempt to cause trouble on the Fujian Road also spread among the towns.

In the midst of everyone's scolding, the news gradually spread to the city of Fuzhou.