The grand ceremony finally came to an end.

When the exhausted Zhu Pingjin returned to the carrier door with weak hands and sore feet, he was immediately stopped by his wife in full costume. Behind his wife, under His Majesty Dan in the Carrier Gate, Princess Taiping and the concubines of the Shu Domain, Zheng Anmin's wife, Sun Hong's wife and the officials of the palace, Liu Hongting, Tan Fang, and thousands of eunuchs and palace maids of the Shu Mansion were all standing in line in the square inside the carrier.

My wife's face is not good-looking. She was very unhappy that she didn't have a chance to participate in such high-profile things as sitting in the Taihe Hall and going to Tiananmen Square. When she saw Zhu Pingjin, she neither congratulated nor blessed, just swung her chin and hummed softly, asking Li Sixian to kneel and worship, but she floated to Zhu Pingjian's side, grabbed his hand tightly, and accepted the kneeling of many women with Zhu Pingjian. Zhu Pingjin noticed that when the women knelt down, his wife deliberately stretched out her right hand and waved it from back to front, so that the bright yellow three-foot landing sleeves naturally drooped and swayed, a full martial arts fan.

His wife knew so much about etiquette, so Zhu Pingjin endured it very sadly.

Luo Yuhong proposed yesterday that when Zhu Pingjin boarded the carrier hall, she should sit next to her; When Zhu Pingjin appeared in the Duanli Gate Tower, she should also appear beside her. In this way, the girls in the square will focus on her instead of her husband. And his wife also whimsically proposed that after Zhu Pingjin's speech at Duanlimen, she would sit in his chariot with Zhu Pingjin, escorted by a large group of cavalry, drive across the Jinshui Bridge, first run back and forth on the royal road, and then turn around the Shu Wangfu twice counterclockwise from east to west. In this way, she has a chance to resemble Audrey. Hepburn, like him, waved nobly and gracefully to the cheering crowd.

Zhu Pingjin firmly rejected his wife's rude request. The reason is that the two are not married yet, so Luo Yuhong does not have the name of the princess; Even if they are married, the Zhu family does not allow their daughter-in-law to go out to meet foreign officials. If Luo Yuhong rashly accepted the visit of the imperial court as a people's daughter, then the impeachment chapter would fly to the capital like snowflakes the next day.

In response to Zhu Pingjin's objection, Luo Yuhong proposed a compromise solution: she could sit behind him in the carrier hall, covered by a translucent curtain in the middle. She emphasized that she had seen in the TV series that the emperor sat in front and the woman sat in the back. Zhu Pingjin sneered, that is called hanging the curtain and listening to politics. In front is the emperor, and in the back is the queen mother. The two who are not married sit in front of each other, which TV series has this plot? Luo Yuhong couldn't answer, and she was unwilling, so she went to her dog-headed military advisor Liu Hongting to give an idea.

It is estimated that Liu Hongting's bad idea is this: since you can't be majestic in front of foreign officials, then you can be majestic in the palace, and it can be regarded as a unified Liuhe!

……

Getting rid of his wife's entanglement, Zhu Pingjin called Cao Sanbao with a gloomy face, got on the horse and rushed to the Shizi Mansion. The Shizifu now has no office function, only a living function. Ask things there, it's better to keep it secret.

Who knew that after walking a few steps, her wife caught up with him in a sedan chair.

Luo Yuhong called out the sedan chair and waved away all the personnel, including Cao Sanbao.

"You want to take the opportunity to interrogate Cao Sanbao?" Zhu Pingjin's wife asked.

"My mother was killed in Qingcheng Mountain and didn't come back. I can't even attend the ceremony! I think there's a problem! Be sure to ask! ”

"Cao Sanbao will be handed over to me for trial." Luo Yuhong said lightly, but her tone revealed irresistible firmness.

"This old eunuch is my mother's diehard. If you don't have a name, he won't necessarily listen to you. Zhu Pingjin found a reason to shirk.

"You are now the head of the Shu Palace, you can give an order that he must listen to me." Luo Yuhong suggested, "If he doesn't say it, I'll be tortured!" The ten tortures of the Manchus, you know. ”

"I can't imagine that you, a woman, can look at ...... Those things! ”

"Searched from your computer's system files! You can see it, but I can't see it? How about it, do you want me to find a few palace maids to celebrate for you tonight and have a night of singing? ”

"That's good! The eunuch is yours. Zhu Pingjin ignored his wife's teasing and made up his mind, but instructed again: "He is a good person, don't hurt him." The ancients did not see those who were loyal to their mothers and rebelled against their sons! ”

"Got it! It's rambling again! You mean, your mother's is all yours, yours is still yours, and in the end it's all mine! ”

In front of Zhu Pingjian, whose jaw dropped in shock, Luo Yuhong smiled proudly and arranged: "You can't be idle today, you want to see another person." He gave me a poodle and a pearl of the night. I got up last night to watch, and the pearl will really shine that night! ”

Zhu Pingjin rarely got angry in front of his wife: "You dare to accept anything!" Send the dog away! In case that dog has rabies, there is not even a vaccine in this day and age! We are now public figures, we have to test for poison when we eat, and we have to stand guard when we sleep! How can you be so careless! ”

"Okay, send it away!" Luo Yuhong admitted that her husband's words made sense, "Can I take the pearl that night?" ”

"Take it, as long as you like. Hey, who's going to take the lady route? ”

"An old man surnamed Jiang! Brother Yun has a letter, he said that this person is talented, and he recommends that you meet him. ”

"Oh, I know that." Zhu Pingjin took the letter and explained to Cao Sanbao, and then re-mounted his horse and ran towards the Jinde Hall in Zunyi Gate.

……

Return to Thuan Khanh Province.

On that day, Du Zhifu and Jiangding Town of Shunqing Mansion were reminded by Lin Yan in Duweilou, so they repeated their old tricks and blocked Luo Jingyun and his party heading to Xinzheng Dam at the intersection of Shunqing Mansion and Qingju Ferry.

Luo Jingyun understood what had happened and felt that it was very important for the Shu Mansion that Governor Du proposed the matter. But things are too big for him to call the shots.

Shunqing Mansion is the northern Sichuan Prefecture, a whole ten counties, and the amount of tax and grain is also very large. If the Shu Wangfu intervenes, the stakes are great. So according to the request of Du Zhifu, he wrote a letter of introduction for Jiang Ding Town and asked him to transfer it to his sister. In this way, neither party to the incident left evidence of the magistrate's friendship with the vassal king.

Jiang Dingzhen rushed to Chengdu Mansion and happened to meet the funeral of King Shu, so he gave the salute in the name of the Nanchong criminal officer, and specified that these gifts and letters would be given to Miss Luo. The letter had Luo Jingyun's signature, and the eunuch who received the letter did not dare to delay, so the matter arrived at Zhu Pingjin.

Zhu Pingjin changed into his regular clothes and met Jiang Dingzhen in the main hall of the Jinde Palace. Facing Jiang Dingzhen lying on the ground, Zhu Pingjin didn't speak for a long time.

"Since Mr. Jiang is called a criminal official, can this son be heard?" Zhu Pingjin finally opened his mouth.

"The criminal officer was transferred from the Fujian Senate to the East Sichuan Province, just because he strictly carried out the anti-pay inspector, offended Wang Yingxiong's brother Wang Yingxi and other gentry families. Therefore, he returned to Nanchong County. ”

"What's the charge?"

"Corruption." Jiang Dingzhen's heart was pounding.

"The Jiang Mansion of Kuizhou Mansion is your home?" The vastness of Jiangfu is well known to everyone in Kuizhou City.

"Don't dare to hide it, exactly." It's all about this, does it matter if you admit it or not?

"The son said, his body is upright, and he will not be ordered; His body is not right, although he does not obey orders. Mr. Jiang's saint, what do you mean by this, can you teach me? ”

Jiang Dingzhen didn't expect that this young man would give him a heavy blow when he came up, and it seemed that it would be difficult to get through.

Jiang Ding Zhen bowed to the chief: "The criminal official has a loss of morality, and he does not dare to call himself a saint!" ”

"It's never too late to make amends! Don't do it anymore when you send a woman to a jewel! As long as Governor Du and Mr. Jiang do good deeds to protect the country and the people, there will naturally be everyone to help. ”

A glimmer of light appeared in the haze. Jiang Dingzhen quickly understood what Zhu Pingjin meant, and hurriedly kowtowed:

"The criminal officer returned to his hometown and invited him to the Du Governor's Mansion, and he didn't ask for anything else. Just because of the Shunqing mansion, the taxes are too heavy, and the people are not happy, so they ask to see the son. The criminal official Wen Shizi ascended the palace in the morning to carry it and admonished the hundred officials in Sichuan. Reducing rents and burdens, preventing and controlling plagues, encouraging land reclamation, dredging rivers, promoting agricultural machinery, and storing grain are all good deeds for the benefit of the country and the people; Clearing out the thieves and recovering the state and county is even more to inherit the will of heaven and comfort the people! ……”

The morning's speech has not yet been made public, and Jiang Dingzhen, as a criminal official, is not qualified to worship. But he got the news so quickly, and he grasped it so accurately, which not only showed that he was extremely concerned about the movements of the palace, but also showed that he had eyes and ears in the province.

“…… If the policy of the prince of the world can be fully implemented in Shunqing, it will definitely make the people ......"

The fact that the officials are circling around the main issues shows that they have some ideas of their own, but it is not easy to say them.

Jiang Dingzhen didn't say anything, Zhu Pingjin had no choice but to ask: "Although Shunqing Mansion is famous in northern Sichuan, it is actually in the middle of Sichuan, and it is the heart of my Shu land." With a large population, it is said that it is rich, so why is it said that taxes are too heavy? Du Zhifu has been Shunqing for a long time, and Mr. Jiang is the elder of Sangzi, the reason for which may as well be boldly said! ”

The prince doesn't like to listen to falsehood, Jiang Dingzhen quickly made a conclusion in his heart, and this prince is not a young man who can be bullied. In this case, Jiang Dingzhen can't take care of it much. What Governor Du entrusted was only superficial, and the realization of his personal demands was the main purpose of his visit.

"If you ask, the minister doesn't dare not answer!" Jiang Ding Town goodbye.

"Mr. Jiang, please get up. Throne! Serve tea! ”

Jiang Dingzhen gushed endlessly, traying out what he knew.

Originally, in addition to the common reasons such as natural disasters and the refusal of the gentry to pay, there were three special reasons: banditry, lack of soldiers, and silk prices.

Bandits are naturally local tyrants.

But weren't the tyrants blocked in Boryeong Mansion, why were there so many bandits in Shunqing Mansion behind Boryeong Mansion? It turned out that the bandits plundered from Bashan to the south, not from east to west, but from north to south, and they had several main southbound passages.

It is a passage to Guangyuan and Sword Pavilion through Baizhang Pass. But there are Baizhang Pass, Chaotian Pass, Ningqiang Prefecture, Zhaohua County and other states and counties on this passage, which is the main passage to prevent Qin thieves from entering Sichuan, and a large number of officers and troops have gathered nearby, not only the main force of the Sichuan army, but also the fierce Qin army, so the local tyrants generally do not go west.

Passing through Bazhou to Cangxi, Langzhong, and the south is also the main route for the local tyrants to plunder, but this road also has a large number of officers and troops.

The Chu army of Sichuan adjutant general Zhang Zuokai retreated in the three counties of Cangxi, Langzhong, and Nannan. Especially Langzhong County, which is the city of Baoning, is a key area for the official army to defend. The name of Zhang Zuokai's unit is Chu Army, but because Zhang Zuokai himself is a Sichuan person, and since Chongzhen's thirteenth year of sacrifice of thieves into Sichuan, Zhang Zuokai's troops have been supplemented with a large number of Sichuan soldiers, so this army has gradually been localized. They regard the three counties of Langzhong, Nanfang, and Cangxi as their basic territory, and if the local rioters enter these three counties, Zhang Zuokai will most likely fight back fiercely, which is the main reason why the three counties have been able to hold on so far.

It is also a road to go from Bashan to plunder Xing'an Prefecture in Shaanxi and Dazhou in Kuizhou Prefecture in Sichuan. On this road, there are Mo Chongwen of the Chu army and Wen Ruzhen of the Sichuan army, Mo Chongwen is a fierce general, and he often attacks when he sees a thief, and both sides have suffered heavy casualties. Mo Chongwen is an official soldier, and there are supplies of soldiers and food, but the local tyrants are grabbing a meal and eating a meal, and if they don't rush it, they are only hungry, so the local tyrants often choose to avoid the Chu army.

The favorite raiding route of the local tyrants was not to the west, not to the southwest, nor to the east, but to the south along the canal river channel under the cover of the north-south Huaying Mountains. Once you enter the boundary of Guang'an Prefecture, you will leave the Daba Mountain Area, which is already a vast hilly area. So they immediately divided their troops and plundered the vast areas near the state capital, Qu County, Dazhu County, Linshui County, and even Pengzhou and Yingshan counties in Guang'an Prefecture.

“…… Only Yilong County, lonely in the north of the house. Baoning doesn't care, Shunqing can't control it, so it's the most difficult. As a result, there are two states and five counties in my Shunqing Prefecture that are not at peace, and how can I pay taxes on time! Jiang Dingzhen said with a long sigh.

It turns out that Huaying Mountain, where the old woman with two guns fights guerrillas, is a special highway for the robbery of local tyrants!

Zhu Pingjin's head suddenly grew bigger.

He instructed Li Sixian: "Please invite Mr. Shu, Mr. Cheng, Mr. Sun, Liu Mingsheng, and all the staff officers of the General Staff to come to discuss the matter after dinner." Lunch: Mr. Jiang rice cakes and shortbreads. Mr. Jiang waited in front of the house in the morning, and he was hungry early. ”