While the Kong family was busy closing the door to deal with the two unscrupulous sons who put the family in danger, Lu Zhen had already returned to Qufu County with Qiu Changyuan. However, the carriages that went out with him did not stop here, but left the county seat directly, escorted by more than a dozen brocade guards.

Of course, Qiu Changyuan was also quite curious about this, but after seeing that Lu Zhen didn't want to explain, he endured it. It's just that after returning to the second hall, he praised him a lot, and bluntly said that the governor was really clever in his means, and as soon as he appeared, he had forced the Kong family, who had always been tough and arrogant, to bow his head and admit defeat.

In the face of these statements, Lu Zhen just smiled, and waited for the other party to say almost before waving his hand and said: "Qiu County Order, this kind of flattery is boring if you talk too much." This official was just caught off guard by killing them, and at the same time, it was indeed the flaws of the Kong family itself. Now that the Kong family is still in compliance, I won't stay for long. ”

"Yes, yes, Xia Guan understands." Qiu Changyuan hurriedly agreed, and at the same time, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, but in front of Lu Jin, he didn't know what to say.

His reaction naturally fell into Lu Jin's eyes, and he smiled: "Are you worried that if the Kong family settles accounts after the official leaves, what will happen if you are troubled?" ”

"Positive...... Precisely. Since Lu Zhen himself said it, Qiu Changyuan didn't hide it, and made a bitter face: "The lower official is not as good as the ability and identity of the governor, once the Kong family hates the lower official, free up his hand, I am only afraid of ......"

Lu Zhen glanced at him and said with a smile: "You can rest assured at this point, since this official is involved in this matter, and you have cooperated more and made a contribution to this matter, I will not let you ignore it." I can tell you clearly that now the Kong family no longer dares to be as unscrupulous as before, and after the opening of the sea has improved, this official will also play a role, and then Qiu County will also be among the meritorious ministers. ”

"Thank you, my lordship, I am grateful." As soon as he heard that Lu Zhen was going to show his merits to the imperial court, Qiu Changyuan's spirit was lifted, and he got up very excitedly and thanked him. As a seven-rank county magistrate like him, it is not easy to get promoted, either he has to be promoted by the backers of the DPRK and the central government, or he has to have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. And such an opportunity to be recognized and commended by the governor of a province may not be encountered in decades.

"Qiu County's order doesn't have to be polite, this is what you deserve. As long as the official opens the sea, I dare not say that it is not easy for you to be transferred out of such a third-class small county and become the county commander of the upper county, or the second of the prefecture. Lu Zhen helped the other party up, patted him on the shoulder with his hand, and said as if encouraging.

This scene actually looks a little funny, and the young Lu Zhen is like an old man encouraging Qiu Changyuan, who is twice his age. However, the latter did not mean to be uncomfortable at all, but was grateful.

Since he joined the office, life has been quite aggrieved, and there is almost no hope of coming out. Now that he has such a high-status governor to promote and cultivate himself, he is naturally ecstatic. As for age or something, it's nothing in officialdom at all.

After saying words of encouragement to the other party for a while, Lu Jincai instructed again: "By the way, this time the Kong family has promised those big families to return the grain to them, and your county government should also be more attentive in this matter, at least let those big families receive your favor, so that things can be easier in the future." ”

Qiu Changyuan hurriedly responded again, but then, he frowned: "Lord Governor, it's not that the lower officials don't believe your arrangement, but this time the Kong family was indeed hit by fire, can they still take out so much food?" In addition, there has been no bumper harvest in Shandong this year, and it is not easy to get hundreds of thousands of catties of grain. ”

"You just have to rest assured about this, this official has already prepared. This is another thing that the official wants to entrust to you, and it should not be a few days before a grain ship arrives. When the time comes, your county government will help me keep an eye on it, and be sure to let the Kong family eat these grains at the market price, but don't let the merchants who send grain from thousands of miles suffer a loss. Lu Jinzheng said.

Hearing that he had such an arrangement, Qiu Changyuan was stunned again. Why did the governor have expected such an accident, so he even ordered the food?

Immediately, an idea came to his mind. Before, I thought that the fire in the Kong family was an accident, but now it seems that everything should be secretly arranged by the young governor in front of him. Knowing this, he looked at Lu Jin's eyes with a little more awe, and even shuddered.

"What, does the Qiu County Order have anything to say?" Lu Zhen turned his head and glanced at the other party.

Qiu Changyuan hurriedly shook his head: "No, Xiaguan will definitely act according to the will of the adult, and will not let this grain transaction have any accidents." ”

"That's for the best. Okay, presumably you are tired in front of Kong's house today, so go back and rest. Early tomorrow morning, the official will leave Qufu. ”

Seeing Lu Zhen talking like this, Qiu Changyuan quickly got up, and after saluting, he slowly withdrew from the door. After this conversation, his awe of Lu Zhen became bigger and bigger. When he walked out of the door and let out a long sigh of relief, he suddenly realized that his back was already wet with sweat, which showed how much pressure the governor had put on him.

And Lu Jin, after sending him away, also slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and said secretly in his heart: "After this incident, there must be no more mistakes in the overall situation of opening the sea, right?" After seeing the performance and results of the Kong family, others should know how to choose and choose. ”

To be honest, he really didn't want to fight with the wealthy families in these places, because it was too much effort and too tiring. Even though he was victorious in the end, it took far more effort than the official duties of opening the sea......

Early the next morning, Lu Zhen quietly left Qufu County, as he said before.

As when he came, only Qiu Changyuan, the county order, and some people in the county order knew about his departure, as for the people in the city, they didn't know at all, and it was hard to say whether the Kong family knew it or not.

At least judging from the chaos within the Kong family now, it is impossible for them to care about this matter at all.

Because just the day before, after this big change, the two heirs of the Kong family were ordered by the head of the family to die in front of the ancestral hall, and then the head of the family, Kong Yanjin, suddenly fell down because of exhaustion, and he was very ill.

Although in the past, the Kong family beat and killed people with a rod for various things, but the fact that two children of the Confucian family, especially one of them was Kong Chengqing, the eldest son of Kong Yanjin, still surprised the people of Qufu who learned the news. People couldn't guess what mystery was hidden in this, and the only thing they could think of was that this thing must have something to do with the governor who suddenly appeared before and then quietly left.

And after learning that the Kong family had such an accident, the most worried were those big families, they were afraid that if they made such a fuss, the things they promised themselves would come to an end, and some people had even begun to meet secretly, thinking about how to join forces to make a scene again.

At this moment, more than a dozen large ships loaded with heavy grain suddenly came down the Surabaya River and docked at the wharf not far from Qufu City.

When the news came, the people of the city were amazed. You have to know how many years, there has not been so much grain sold to Qufu County, why did people suddenly send it to the door as if they had known that someone would buy these hundreds of thousands of catties of grain?

In this regard, ordinary people only talked about a few words, but it was a great shock to the people inside the Kong family. This time, everyone has understood that this is completely a serial conspiracy against their own family. Not only did he mess up his own family, but he even wanted to take a large amount of silver money from the Kong family.

"Master, what do you mean...... Just ignore them and let them run this trip in vain. In front of Kong Yanjin's sickbed, Kong Run reported in a whisper.

The sick Kong Yanjin immediately sank his face and said in a deep voice: "They are all mice-eyed guys." This time, my Kong family is completely planted, can I save a sum of money to turn defeat into victory? No, this will only put my Kong family in a worse situation. On that day, Lu Zhen had already publicized in front of many people that my Kong family would buy grain and pay compensation, and if we reversed course at this time, what would the people of the world think of us? Moreover, will those big families be willing? ”

"Then according to the master's meaning, is he buying these grains?"

"If we buy it, as long as the price is not too high, we will buy it all, and then quickly return the grain to those big households. Only in this way can we rebuild the prestige of our Confucian family in Qufu. You go and tell them that it's not terrible to suffer a loss, as long as you can learn from it, it's not too bad. The terrible thing is that after suffering a loss, we still refuse to admit it, and in the end, we will make more and more mistakes for the sake of face, so that we will suffer even greater losses in the future. ”

"But in this case, wouldn't it be cheaper for Lu Jin?"

"This Lu Zhen is young and ruthless, so it's better for our Kong family not to provoke him. Go, old man is tired......" After saying so many words, Kong Yanjin waved his hand at the henchman butler.

Kong Run responded in a low voice, turned around and sighed silently, and then left. He knew that after this incident, the Confucian family would inevitably be greatly damaged, and I am afraid that without the efforts of two or three generations, it would be impossible to call Bainuo as before. Fortunately, the foundation of the Kong family is still there, and their reputation has not been greatly affected, so they still have a chance to revive their family.

Two days later, the Kong family really paid a lot of money to buy all the grain on the more than ten grain ships, and then returned the grain to those big households, so that they could be relieved.

When all this is done, the turmoil surrounding the Kong family has completely passed, and Lu Jin's strategy of opening the sea has finally entered a new stage......

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Well, I suddenly found that this paragraph has not been written yet, so yesterday's chapter name is not the end, this chapter is 。。。。。