In the warm breeze of Yangzhou City, the towering Jingshan Pavilion is still full of cigarette smoke and purple gas.

"Lingwai is no longer owned by the imperial court?。。"

Huainan Jiedu, who had silkworm eyebrows and silver eyes, sighed at Gao Yue, who fled back from Guangzhou

"But what does it have to do with me? Now I'm just a dry bone that is hated by the princes of the court. ”

"In addition to Xun Dan asking, how dare he go beyond the line in front of Zhou (Bao) Zhenhai (Zhedong Jiedu Envoy), Liu Yisheng (Zhexi Jiedu Envoy), Cui Ningguo (Xuanshu Observation Envoy)."

"Uncle...

Gao Yue pleaded heavily, he naturally knew that this uncle, who was dedicated to cultivating immortals, had some resentment and hatred for the court in his heart.

At the beginning, this Gao Linggong was loyal to the king in Zhenhai Jiedu, and the grass thieves who crossed the road in the south were beaten by wolves and rats, and the thieves alone were tens of thousands, but they also committed the taboo of some villains in the court, and they were afraid that he would take advantage of this to ask for the credit of the thieves to be too difficult to control, and on the grounds of guarding the wealth and wealth of the southeast, he was forcibly restrained from pursuing over the Great Yuling.

Later, he asked himself to arrange troops to prepare for the grass thieves to go outside the ridge, but he received an edict to be transferred to the Huainan Jiedu envoy, and he had to return to the north to cross the river with a lack of success; Then the imperial court reappointed others to deploy the defense line against the thieves outside the ridge, but it did not give this old marshal any opportunity to intervene and take credit, and his intentions were already obvious.

If it weren't for the fact that he had installed a close confidant Liang Zan as the Wenzhou Economic Strategy Envoy before leaving, and under the banner of supporting and helping Zheng Kui, the Fujian Observation Envoy, he had gained a firm foothold in southern Zhejiang, but I was afraid that even the news from Guangfu would not be easily obtained. Despite this, it is still for the current Zhenhai Festival to make Zhou Bao faintly jealous; You must know that this is a figure who came out of the same forbidden army family as Gao Linggong and was known as a brother in his early years.

"Don't say more, I'll give you a new errand."

Gao Yu said without hesitation.

"Let's go down and get 100,000 dollars and settle down."

Gao Yue could only leave this gorgeous pavilion with cigarette smoke like a fairyland, and some of them had not gone far in the attached garden before they heard someone calling.

"Brother Ziming... Let's stay."

But Liang Zaimou, a Lingnan celebrity who returned from the same company, can be regarded as a friend who has lived and died together.

"Brother Liang, I've done my best. It's just that Uncle He... ”

The higher and deeper, there is an unspeakable hidden way.

"But it doesn't hurt to get it, the county king has it. the concerns and difficulties of those in office"

Liang Zaimou didn't care.

"But there's still something to be done in my generation."

"You mean."

Gao Yue couldn't help but be shocked.

"At the beginning, Liang (saving) Jingluo didn't give a certain 500 pieces of silk, 1,000 yuan."

Liang Zaimou was not without pride.

"It's as useful as it gets..."

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And on the spring view tower in the inner city of Guangfu, looking at the figures of the patrol team running on the streets,

As the mastermind of some things, Mr. Hugh consciously regretted and lost a little, and he took the initiative to ask to stay instead of traveling north with the Great General's Mansion, just to gamble on such a breath and get into a certain monk, wanting to see what his follow-up methods were.

But he didn't expect that because of this, he had no intention of cutting off and burying the last bit of fire and effort left in this city by those loyal and righteous people who still cherished the court.

This monk is too vicious, and after taking over the authority of governance and defense in Guangzhou for a short time, he began to drastically rectify those private underground forces; This will greatly cut off the roots and space for them to be loyal and righteous.

He first used the share of maritime trade and material supply as a bargaining chip, coerced and lured those experienced maritime merchant clans and the heads of the Xingdong Guild of all industries in the city, so that they had to put aside their involvement even if they would not cooperate; In a different way, he took those bearded sons who had been in the market all the year round as his minions and eyes and ears, and suddenly let him quickly open up the situation in a short period of time.

First of all, the unlucky ones are those who are stubbornly existing in the cracks of the city even during the occupation of the rebels, and the thieves and scoundrels who exist tenaciously in the cracks of the city; Except for a small number of people whose heads passed the street trial and were hung on the head of the city as an example, most of the rest who failed to escape became hard labor in the sand digging field on the edge of the Xiangjiang River outside the city.

And then. It is the large and small associations and gangs that are headed by the township party and mutual assistance among the poor groups at the bottom of the society, such as coolies, porters, and boatmen; Although the Left-behind Division did not ban all of them in a blanket manner, it also reorganized and eliminated these poor groups; For example, relatively concise new rules were formulated for them, and some group leaders and company leaders who were corrected and exposed for bad deeds were punished; Replace some people with clean backgrounds and more obedient and who have stayed behind to cooperate with some daily actions.

In the end, it was the turn of all kinds of people who lived in the black gray area under the lights of Guangfu to beg for a living: mainly composed of smugglers, salt barons, fugitives, outlaws and evil teenagers who were not welcomed by the government in the past; Compared with the first two, although their number is limited, they are also the most feared and daunting existence in Guangfu City and even in the underground world.

Most of them rely on those wealthy families and wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou. Do some shady deeds, and get the corresponding support and support; To be alive is simply an agent of an underground force that has been bred in captivity; But after losing the support and support from their former owners and employers, in terms of information and finances, their performance is much worse than the first two.

Even before the rebels could do it directly, they soon broke out several fierce fights and infighting under the pressure of internal and external troubles, because of the differences in interests and retreats; In the end, under the representative of a salt lord named Lin Zhong who was elected, hundreds of heads with different origins and case records were presented as a vote; Not only did he obtain the symbolic identity whitewashing of the "horse bones of a thousand gold market", but also obtained the qualification of a distributor who openly sold salt on the territory under the rebels.

Therefore, the four major calamities that had been notorious for many years in Guangfu in the past had been eliminated in the blink of an eye in his hands; As for the remaining big trouble, it is the famous Fanren Gang; However, it is the descendants of the Fanren who have been smuggling across the eastern territory of the province along with the foreign maritime merchants over the generations, most of whom have no household registration status and are lazy and cruel, and the bottom line of doing all kinds of evil is much lower than that of the local Tang people.

However, when the rebels entered Guangzhou before, the indiscriminate massacre of Fanhu and others was tantamount to disintegrating the foundation and soil for the continued existence of these Fanren gangs in disguise; And the mixed-race bearded sons, who were originally part of the members and alternates, did not hesitate to sell them to the rebels because they had a better way out and future. So in a short period of time, this major problem will not exist.

However, after these three fires were burned one after another, for those who were still attached to the court and had been dormant for a long time, in order to observe the after-effects or to respond to the situation, it was inevitable that some of them would become more and more sad and could no longer continue to stay out of the matter, and they were forced out one by one from the helpers who provided help.

Although he couldn't help but indirectly help a few times in it; But he also succeeded in attracting the sense of smell of the newly recruited lackeys in the left-behind division to the people around him.

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In the building complex on the east side of the General's Mansion/Left-behind Division, under the courtyard corridor with oily wood floors, there is a moment of silence in the fragrance of birds and flowers.

On the desk of the dresser in the corridor, there are half-turned books and case files, as well as a plate of delicate refreshments; And the graceful maid Qingluo is also combing the hair of the big doll-like small pendant, and the slender hands shuttle back and forth to gradually comb the girl's hair like a waterfall, and gradually comb it into someone's favorite double ponytail style.

"Sister Aluo, did you ever have a family in the world?"

The small pendant that was fiddled with many styles and sat in front of the bronze mirror suddenly asked.

"Maybe there is, but it's all vaguely forgotten."

Qingluo's hand did not stop, but she sighed slightly.

"Because the slave is fashionable and young, many things are no longer remembered. Even if there are biological parents alive, they are already slaves and gone."

"Speaking of which, the slave is a little envious of the little calamus."

Speaking of this, Qingluo involuntarily touched an object, and frowned.

"At least I can know who my parents are, and how much I have enjoyed my family. Even if it's a temporary disaster.,There's a white sister who always takes care of it.。。 In the future, I can't guarantee that there will always be a time to get together. ”

"But it's Sister Meng's auspicious words. I hope they can still remember that there is still me in the world. ”

The small pendant is a little depressed.

However, what she was thinking about in her heart was another thing, an unfortunate thief daughter to those she once knew was better than if she was dead, and there was no such person in the world, but it was a pity that she was dragged down and delayed, although she was not her own, but she was better than her sister since she was a child.

Moreover, even the few precious memories of her early years, after seeing and experiencing so many things with her own eyes, inevitably changed and confused and no longer had much meaning.

Then at this moment, she couldn't help but think of the words that the nanny had complained about in the past; The women who came out of these courtyards were the most ingenious in competing for favor, and the most adept at using the pitiful relationship in front of men to exclude others, because if they were not careful, they would fall in love with them.

Then he was shocked and felt sorry for himself, could it be that he had become accustomed to and began to care about the days when he stayed by this person's side.

(End of chapter)