When the little leader saw his boss come out, he didn't even dare to say it, so he hurriedly handed over the silver to the officer.

The officer looked at Wang Xian and asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

"Master Huijun, we are from Leizhou, and we are trafficking some salt and snow sugar to Fuzhou!"

"Why don't you take the sea route?"

"Master Jun, you don't understand this, we are transporting salt and snow sugar, and it will be over when we cross the water by sea!"

The officer looked at the team and saw that there was nothing special, and what Wang Xian said was right, after all, there were five or six caravans here every day, and what he said was about the same.

Wang Xian saw that the officer had written it, and hurriedly took out a hundred taels of silver tickets, and said, "This general, these are a little meaning, meet for the first time and make friends!" ”

The officer couldn't read, but he still recognized the one hundred on the silver ticket, and when he saw Wang Xian's generous hand, he smiled and said: "You rabbit can speak, okay, you go over!" ”

Wang Xian hurriedly beckoned his men to load the goods, and then left the sentry post. After passing through the sentry pass, you will enter the Manchu control area, which is completely different from the Guangdong side, some small villages are completely deserted, there are ruins everywhere, and the people in the village do not know whether they have run away or been killed. Only in some counties are there some people who are angry.

The first county seat in Fujian was Zhao'an County, the capital of Zhangzhou, which was extremely dilapidated, with a gap in the city wall and a collapse of the north gate, probably when the Qing army attacked the city.

Wang Xian did not bring anyone into Zhao'an County, he did not come to Fujian to do business, and he had important things to do in Fuzhou, so he hurried through Zhao'an County.

After passing through Zhao'an County, you will arrive at Zhangzhou Mansion, which is quite popular. Wang Xian handled the goods brought here at a low price, and then bought more than a dozen horses and went north out of Zhangzhou.

Originally, I should go to Fuzhou to go to Quanzhou, but Quanzhou Anping is the base camp of the Zheng family, although Zheng Zhilong surrendered, but his son is still entrenched in Kinmen, the Ming army on the island is strong with the water division, and often goes ashore to attack the Qing army, so Quanzhou has become a battlefield. If you want to go to Fuzhou, you have to go north to Yanping Fu, and then go down the Min River to Fuzhou.

Wang Xian's 100 people were all soldiers, and even Tong Tuchang was not a thin scholar, so Wang Xian planned not to go all the way to the town, avoid the Manchu outposts, and strive to reach Fuzhou as soon as possible.

Half of Wang Xian's men were soldiers, and the others were also veterans of Jinyiwei's case-handling in the past, and they had a lot of experience in the field.

Fuzhou is still prosperous here, thanks to Zheng Zhilong's blessing, after his surrender, the Qing army easily crossed the Xianxia Pass on the border of Fujian and Zhejiang, and occupied Fuzhou without blood, and the people of Fuzhou did not suffer any harm.

However, after the Qing army retreated and handed over the actual control of Fujian to Li Chengdong, the common people of Fuzhou were unlucky. Most of Li Chengdong's 80,000 troops were Gao Jie's subordinates back then, all of whom were born in rogues, and these guys came to Fuzhou to naturally rob and rob, and waited until Tong Guonai, the governor of Fujian in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, took office, and Li Chengdong did not rein in, and Tong Guonai's arrival did not know that it was a blessing or misfortune for the common people.

The first thing Tong Guonai did when he took office was to drive out all the residents of Fuzhou's northern city and hand over the houses of a large number of wealthy families to the newly arrived garrison Eight Banners. The second thing is to greatly reduce the power in Li Chengdong's hands, Li Chengdong now does not have the record of pacifying Fujian and Zhejiang in later generations, and he has no fart in front of Tong Guonai, so he obediently handed over the city defense of Fuzhou and moved the army outside Fuzhou himself.

Wang Xian did not enter the city with his people, but came to Houguan Town, which was twenty miles away from Fuzhou, which was the hiding place of Jinyiwei who arrived in advance.

Coming to a farm outside Houguan Town, Wang Xian saw that there was no one around, and stepped forward to knock on the door.

Fuzhou has just been occupied by the Manchus, and the Manchus follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial power is not lower than the county, that is, there is basically no control over the countryside, so Houguan Town is safe here. This is simply impossible in Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan controlled the township completely copied the Qin Dynasty period of the Baojia continuous sitting system, the eight to ten households into a Baojia, three to five Baojia for a pavilion chief, the pavilion chief also served as the local inspection department of the inspection, this is the official civil servant of the imperial court, three taels per month. If you don't report or report late, the male in the armor will be punished, and the degree of punishment will be punished according to the loss.

Zhu Hongsan also did this for a reason, one controlled the vast countryside, and the second restricted the movement of people. Because the business of the Dongguan factory is very prosperous now, and the wages of the workers are still very high, the local farmers are attracted and go to Dongguan to work in large numbers, making a lot of land in the countryside wasted. Now that the world is in turmoil, food is strength, how can Zhu Hongsan tolerate the emergence of wasteland, so he formulated this policy.

The people in the farm heard a knock on the door and asked, "Who?" ”

"Friends from Guangdong, looking for your master Hou!"

"Master Li has gone to Guangdong!"

"Master Zhang's horse gives birth to a foal!"

The person in the door heard the correct answer, opened the door and looked, it was Wang Xian, who stepped forward and said: "You are here, come in!" ”

Wang Xianren and others entered the farm, and someone inside took away the horses to feed, and entertained the people who came to rest and drink water, Wang Xian and Tong Tuchang followed the people who opened the door to the backyard hall.

There were three people sitting in the hall, a middle-aged man in his thirties in the middle, and two young men in their twenties sitting on either side. When these three people saw Wang Xian entering the house, they quickly got up and saluted, "Lord Wang is here, please take a seat!" ”

Wang Xian nodded and sat in the first seat, Tong Tuchang sat down, and the other three sat separately.

Wang Xian said to Tong Tuchang: "Lord Tong, these three people are all Jinyiwei's people, the first one is Hou Zhen of the Thousand Households in Fuzhou, and those two young people are one of the hundred households under me, one is called Xue Yue and the other is called Ding Wei!" ”

Tong Tuchang hurriedly got up to salute, and the three of them also got up to salute back.

Wang Xian continued: "This is Lord Tong from Guangzhou, he is responsible for contacting Li Chengdong and persuading Li Chengdong to surrender!" ”

Hou Zhen's faces changed, the order they received was to rescue Princess Yuyang, this order was difficult enough, but there was still hope to achieve it. But I didn't expect that the order brought by Wang Xian changed and became to persuade Li Chengdong to surrender, which was completely impossible.

Hou Zhen asked: "Lord Tong, this order is impossible to complete, not to mention that Li Chengdong is very treacherous, even what he did in Guangzhou he can't surrender!" ”

Tong Tuchang also knew that the task was very difficult, but if there was difficulty, he couldn't say it in front of these people, after all, Tong Tuchang was now a civil official, and he didn't like these brocade guards by nature.

"If it can't be done, you have to do it, this is the order of His Majesty the Emperor!"

As soon as Hou Zhen and the other three heard that this was the emperor's order, they all shut up and stopped talking.

Wang Xian looked at the cold scene, and said: "Okay, no matter what difficulties there are, we must complete the emperor's order, otherwise can you remember the family law of Jinyiwei?" ”

When Hou Zhen heard Wang Xian say this, they remembered the internal means of punishing traitors in Jinyiwei, and they couldn't help but be covered in cold sweat, and they all stood up and expressed their determination to complete the task and not embarrass the commander!

Seeing that his subordinates were subdued, Wang Xian said to Tong Tuchang: "Lord Tong, the commander orders us to listen to you, you tell us what we should do!" ”

Tong Tuchang thought about what to do on the way here, and when he heard Wang Xian ask, he was not pretentious, and said: "Our first task is to find out the situation in Fuzhou City, the relationship between Li Chengdong and the Manchu governor, and the residence of Li Chengdong and his son Li Yuanyin!" ”

Hou Zhen, a ground-sitting cannon from Fujian, said: "I know this, I have been here in Fuzhou for many years. Li Chengdong originally occupied a mansion in Beicheng, but with the entry of the Manchu Eight Banners into Fuzhou and the construction of Mancheng in Beicheng, Li Chengdong was taken to Beicheng at the beginning of the year, and now he and his son Li Yuanyin live in Dongcheng! As for the relationship with the governor, let's think about it, you used to live well, and a group of people drove you away, you can't resist yet, can you be in a good mood? ”

Tong Tuchang nodded and said, "Please order Lord Wang to go down and let the brothers go into the city to collect information about Li Chengdong and the Manchurians, and they want anything, even if Li Chengdong's subordinates are jealous of the Manchurians." Also, please ask Lord Hou to arrange for me to enter the Li Mansion, I want to meet Princess Yuyang! ”

After hearing this, Wang Xian immediately ordered Xue Yue and Ding Wei to take a few people each to the city to inquire about the news starting tomorrow, and ordered Hou Zhen to arrange contact with Princess Yuyang.

Tong Tuchang saw that his request was met, and he also knew that these Jinyi guards still had something to say, so he stood up and said that he was tired of traveling, so he went down to rest first and left room for Wang Xian and them.

Seeing Tong Tuchang go out to rest, Xue Yue stood up and said, "Big brother, is it really the emperor's order to make peace with Li Chengdong?" ”

Wang Xian stood up and scolded, "Xue Yue, what did I say just now?" Do not question the orders of the emperor! ”

Xue Yue was so frightened that he was sweating, and hurriedly said, "Big brother, I'm abrupt!" ”

Wang Xian looked at Xue Yue and Ding Wei, these two were his old brothers after all, and they couldn't be too cruel to them.

"Three, I know that this task is a bit difficult, but the commander also understands everyone, our main task is to rescue Princess Yuyang, as for persuading Li Chengdong to surrender to Tong Tuchang, everyone has merit, if it doesn't work, we don't have anything to do, you know!"

Hearing Wang Xian say this, the three of them all smiled, after all, there was still some hope for rescuing Princess Yuyang, and it was impossible to persuade Li Chengdong to surrender.

After relieving the three of them, Wang Xian said: "Don't think that rescuing the princess is simple, although we bring a lot of people, it is okay to fight alone, and it is not good to fight hard with the army at all." Starting tomorrow, you will take people to the city to inquire about the news, and you must find out all the news in Li Chengdong's house, even if he goes to the toilet several times a day, I have to know, do you understand? ”

The three of them quickly stood up and said, "Obey your lordship's orders!" ”