"I'm going to save my father and my brother!" Xia Yan is categorical, it seems that the heroine style who was on the big ship has returned a lot. The gentle and graceful appearance of the character is still a bit of a hot and fiery taste.

"You calm down first, it seems that Jiannu is about to enter the customs, and the imperial court must go to Zhuozhou as soon as possible to ask your uncle to preside over the overall situation, and your father may have already left Zhuozhou to return by then. If you are really worried, you can write to them, but if you just want to come to Jiannu, you will not necessarily be able to break through and loot. But you still have to remind your uncle and let him remind the court that Jiannu may have come from Qiangziling and Qingshan Pass. ”

"......" Hearing this, Xia Yan was silent, yes, he also cares too much about his father and brother, the news of the Qing army's breakthrough is not necessarily, even if it is true, his uncle will definitely arrange his father and brothers before leading the troops to fight the enemy. Xia Yan, who hesitated slightly, immediately raised her head and looked at Yang Hongzhang very seriously, but there was a bit of pleading in her tone, and her eyes began to moisten, "Brother Shilin, can you accompany me to Zhuozhou?" ”

Yang Hongzhang didn't answer immediately, Mrs. Yang spoke when she saw this, in her eyes, this Xia Yan was her daughter-in-law, how could she be so pitiful. She looked at Yang Hongzhang and said, "Lin'er, Yanzi is a filial child, she didn't come to accompany her mother during the time you weren't at home." It's almost a family, and Zhuozhou is so far away, so you can go for her. ”

Yang Hongzhang glanced at his mother, and said in his heart, how do you think that Xia Yan is your daughter and I have become a son-in-law, otherwise how could you be so lively, you must know where there may be a war!

Yang Hongzhang was thinking about how to take a large team of people through the many checkpoints of this era to quickly arrive in Beizhili, when a family member hurriedly came in and whispered a few words in Yang Hongzhang's ear, Yang Hongzhang was stunned for a moment. Because this famous family Ding said that the governor of Zhejiang came and asked him to go. Although the Yang family is also a big family in Hangzhou, it will definitely not be able to enter the eyes of the second-grade civil governor of the city. Unless his eldest brother Jinshi is at home, it is still possible.

The father went to Shaoxing because of business matters, Yang Hongzhang and the old lady and Xia Yan briefly talked and took Yang Sheng and others to the gate full of suspicion, but saw several messengers from the yamen waiting. When I stepped forward to ask, it was the governor of Zhejiang, Huang Daozhou, who was invited, and the person who came didn't know what was going on, but said that the lord was already waiting at the governor's yamen. Yang Hongzhang didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly prepared a carriage and took a few family members and hurried towards the governor's yamen.

When they arrived at the governor's yamen, Yang Sheng and the others were not allowed to enter, and Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to follow the messenger all the way to hurry. Soon I walked through the lobby to the inner hall. Yang Hongzhang raised his head slightly and saw a middle-aged man in his fifties sitting directly above, his official robe was still on his body, but there was a golden rooster on his chest, so he didn't have to think much about this was the governor of Zhejiang. Yang Hongzhang hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Student Yang Hongzhang has seen Lord Butang, I don't know what the Lord summoned me?" ”

Although Yang Hongzhang was removed from his fame, he still has a certain advantage in his identity as a scholar in this era, and the governor is also a civil official, so Yang Hongzhang naturally regards himself as a student. If Yang Hongzhang's father comes, he calls himself a grass citizen, and he may have to bow down.

Huang Daozhou squinted his eyes and looked at Yang Hongzhang carefully, kept looking, kept looking, but didn't speak, which made Yang Hongzhang, who was a man of two lives, a little unaccustomed. He gave up the idea of continuing to look at Huang Daozhou, bowed his head slightly, and made a posture of lowering his eyebrows and obeying orders.

After a long time, Huang Daozhou finally spoke: "You are the Yang Hongzhang who dared to lead the sailors to a naval battle with the red-haired devil and won the victory?" Yes, yes, it's really heroic! ”

"Lord Butang has praised it falsely, those are all rumors, fighting with pirates is just for self-preservation, and it is just a fluke to be able to escape the blockade of the pirates." Yang Hongzhang looked at Huang Daozhou, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and was even more puzzled, now that it was dark, it was impossible for the dignified governor to find a businessman like him to chat about those trivial things at sea.

Sure enough, after seeing Yang Hongzhang's self-humility, Huang Daozhou didn't say anything more, but beckoned a messenger to come over and pick up a letter and hand it to Yang Hongzhang. Yang Hongzhang took it with a puzzled expression, glanced at Huang Daozhou, and then read it carefully. It's just that as soon as he read the beginning, he immediately turned his gaze to the end of the letter, which said Zhang Caidu's head. It's this old boy again, this is clearly a report letter, Zhang Cai, as the leader of Jiangnan scholars, reported that businessman Yang Hongzhang secretly stored dead soldiers, secretly hid armor, bows and crossbows and even muskets, and intended to rebel! Yang Hongzhang broke out in a cold sweat while watching! Yang Hongzhang quietly glanced at Huang Daozhou in the hall with his eyes, and the guy kept squinting his eyes to look at himself again.

Yang Hongzhang secretly calculated in his heart, Zhang Cai's intention to suppress himself was known to passers-by, but Yang Hongzhang didn't believe that Zhang Cai would do this, because if it was a report, it should be reported to the Hangzhou prefect After all, the prefect of Hangzhou has been in Hangzhou for three years, and he is a student of Wen Tiren, the leader of the Zhejiang Party in the DPRK, and the governor Huang Daozhou has just come to Zhejiang, and he is a member of the Donglin Party, and this kind of thing can just send a student to come forward, and the leader of the Fushe can go into battle shirtless, and also use the governor? Yang Hongzhang heard that when the governor took office, he invited Jiangnan celebrities, but it seemed that he had a disagreement with Zhang Caizheng and had an awkward quarrel on the spot.

However, Huang Daozhou did not hand over the report letter to the Hangzhou prefect to deal with it, nor did he directly send someone to take him to prison, which means that Huang Daozhou may also think that the content of Zhang Cai's report is false or not written by Zhang Cai at all. Or, although the government is also suspicious, Huang Daozhou does not want to arrest him immediately. So what does he mean, is it because he returned from the sea trade smoothly this time, he thinks that he has earned a lot, and there is no filial piety. This is not right, the Yang family is still in charge of his own father, and it should be his father who deals with officials. Even if he came with gold and silver jewelry, he couldn't accept it.

"Please be clear, the student was wronged, and the student also wanted to gain fame and serve the court in the cold window for ten years, but he offended people by speaking out righteously. In order to make a living, he had to follow his father to start a small business. If you want to say that there are occasional people who go to sea privately, but if you want to say that you secretly store dead soldiers and secretly hide swords, you will never dare. Besides, my Yang family has been blessed by the imperial court, coupled with the maintenance of Lord Butang, it has been thriving in the past few years, and Zhejiang is also a place where the four seas are leveling, so why should students seek their own death? Zhang Cai's report letter was very vicious, and Yang Hongzhang naturally couldn't admit it. But we can't admit it at all, after all, the law does not blame the public for such a thing as going to sea for trade, and there are not a few people who have boats at home in Zhejiang and often go to sea. Even if the governor's yamen wants to go online, at most it will be mainly fined and confiscated.

Huang Daozhou still squinted his eyes, a hint of an imperceptible smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and then he stood up and slapped the shocking wood down: "Bold Yang Hongzhang, don't you think that Huang is deaf and blind?" Zhang Cainai Jiangnan celebrities, how could he wronged you, the son of a businessman? ”

Huang Daozhou bypassed the wide case and walked towards Yang Hongzhang. Huang Daozhou, who was born in a fifty-year-old literati, took every step sonorously and powerfully, perhaps he deliberately, anyway, every time he took a step, Yang Hongzhang's heart would be inexplicably tightened.

"Please be aware of it!" Yang Hongzhang was not sure what the governor was going to do, so he had to pretend to be neither humble nor arrogant and arched his hand towards Huang Daozhou.

"Hmph, if this governor really investigates, can you bear the consequences? If it is connected to your eldest brother Yang Hongnian, how innocent is the second brother Yang Hongcheng? Huang Daozhou had already come to Yang Hongzhang's side while speaking, Yang Hongzhang looked carefully, obviously the governor did not have a murderous look on his face, or that he did not come here tonight to investigate himself.

Yang Hongzhang thought for a while, and then clenched his fists again: "The student is stupid, please make it clear to the adult!" Although the student has no merit, he has also read the sages for several years, and if there is something that the adult needs the student to do, just tell him not to do it. ”

Huang Daozhou frowned at first, and then laughed with a snort: "It seems that the world has misunderstood me." What is said about the third child of the Yang family, who is upright and iron-clad, is just a little straightforward. I think that the scholar who did not hesitate to gamble on his fame for the sake of others is now so sophisticated and slippery. It's been a year, it's only been a year. Huang Daozhou looked distressed, as if he was sorry because Yang Hongzhang did not follow the right path, but soon his face turned cloudy and clear, "But it's okay, only this kind of Yang Hongzhang is what this governor needs, okay, Huang will not hide it from you." Now there is an atonement for the merits. You've listened well......"

After listening, Yang Hongzhang completely understood why the dignified governor of Zhejiang had to discuss Zhang Cai's report letter with him at night. In other words, regardless of whether there is a report letter from Zhang Cai or not, the current situation Huang Daozhou needs Yang Hongzhang's help, and if he doesn't agree, he will investigate it!

It turned out that Yang Hongzhang just returned to Hangzhou a few days, there were a large number of Japanese invaders, although the Ming Dynasty will suffer from the attack of the Japanese invaders every year, but this time it seems that the Japanese invaders come more and more violently, they landed from Nanzhili, avoiding the Songjiang and Suzhou two mansions along the banks of the Yangtze River continue to plunder the villagers, the Jiangnan area is the richest and prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, so the harvest is quite rich, and when the Yangtze River Naval Division and the general of the Nanzhili town guard lead the troops to meet them, they will always go ashore for the first time, because the Nanzhili guards have more soldiers, Therefore, the garrison general decided that the Yangtze River Naval Division would block the Yangtze River, and the guards would spread out along the Yangtze River line to arrange defenses, and after a few hard battles, the Japanese invaders turned around and went south, westward, part of them entered Taihu Lake, and some of them continued to go south to invade Huzhou and Jiaxing. Zhejiang commanded Long Xiangtian to lead troops to encircle and suppress, but the rivers south of the Yangtze River were crisscrossed, and most of the guards were infantry, so many times they crossed shoulders with the Japanese invaders. Several times the Japanese invaded the county seat, and the county almost fell, and when the reinforcements of the guards arrived, the Japanese either fled from the river or hid in the sea. Now Huzhou and Jiaxing are completely erosive. Huang Daozhou, as the newly appointed governor, did not have the support of the Zhejiang Party and the literati of the Fushe Society. This situation made him restless.

Huang Daozhou used the topic to play, and it may even be that there is only one purpose in fabricating the report letter, that is, to let Yang Hongzhang lead his own people to participate in the suppression of bandits, which can be said to be exhausted. Once he encountered the Japanese at sea and Yang Hongzhang won, the sea blocked the way back for the Japanese and would inevitably cause panic among the Japanese and the Japanese in this way, so that Zhejiang and Nanzhili could calmly transfer troops and gradually eliminate the Japanese invaders. If Yang Hongzhang is defeated, Zhejiang will remove a hidden danger, and there is no need to worry about Zhang Cai and others reporting that they are harboring. can even take this opportunity to confiscate all Yang Hongzhang's ships and guns, and even the rich family property of the Yang family......

Yang Hongzhang walked out of the governor's yamen with a black face, he knew that his galleon returning to Hangzhou like this might be a bit of a bad influence, but he didn't expect that Huang Daozhou, who had conflicts with Zhang Cai and others before, actually used such a lame reason to force him to comply. If it weren't for Yang Hongzhang finally bringing out the relationship between Lu Xiangsheng and Xia Yan, Huang Daozhou wouldn't even want to give him a basic bow, crossbow, knife and gun. It is clear that he wants to confirm the crime of hiding swords and bows and crossbows. It is said that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the governor obviously did not intend to treat Yang Hongzhang as a friend, or that he was not qualified to deal with Zhang Cai with Huang Daozhou.

After coming out of the governor's yamen, Yang Hongzhang did not go home directly, but came to the annex prepared by the Yang family for those Western missionaries, and told several important people about the environment he might face in the future. The missionaries admired Yang Hongzhang's naval combat ability along the way, and as soon as they returned to Hangzhou, they heard that they were requisitioned by the imperial court to suppress bandits, so they naturally thought about it according to Yang Hongzhang's script. In particular, a few of the guys who made flintlock pistols and artillery were extremely excited when they heard that there was going to be a war. Yang Hongzhang could only comfort them with kind words, so that they would be a little patient, and soon set up a special ordnance research institute and a firearms research institute in Hangzhou or Beijing, and they would be experts and professors at that time.