"What are you going to do? Something is coming at me! ”

With Li Hongyu's order, the rope on the Peugeot woman was untied, and a guard picked her up and ran out of the door, which made the strong young man's emotions suddenly become excited, and he struggled to prevent the Peugeot woman from being taken away. August 1 Chinese ≤.

"The official just said, take your mother down to have a safe birth, do you want to die with one corpse and two lives?"

Seeing this, Li Hongyu looked at the sturdy young man and shouted in a deep voice, "How did you become a husband, I don't even know if my wife is pregnant!" ”

"I ......"

The sturdy young man was speechless when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer, maybe Li Hongyu's words had an effect, and he had stopped struggling and became quiet.

"Do you know whose ship this is?" Li Hongyu didn't want to go around in circles with the middle-aged man anymore, so he looked at him expressionlessly and asked.

"Even the officials of the government have rushed over to the dock to stand guard, they must be the officials of the imperial court."

I don't know why, the middle-aged man felt that the young guard in front of him gave him a strange feeling, he didn't have time to think about what was wrong now, and replied coldly when he heard the words, "Anyway, there are no good people in the court, if you kill them, you will kill them, and you should eliminate harm for the people." ”

"The official just said, if you can tell the official about the corruption and brutality he has done, the official will let you go, what do you think?"

Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, and then looked at the middle-aged man and said, "The official can tell you that this ship belongs to the official." ”

"Your ship?" The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, and a look of surprise appeared on his face, could it be that this young man in front of him was the son of a senior member of the court who was going to serve in the local government?

Because Li Hongyu was low-key in his southward journey this time, and the officials of the state capitals along the canal were worried about accidents and concealed Li Hongyu's identity, the people along the way did not know who the officials on the boat were, but the only thing that was certain was that they must be the senior members of the court, otherwise there would be such a big battle.

Of course, the middle-aged man would definitely not have imagined that the young man in front of him was a scholar of Zuo Chunfang University in Daming, and thought that he was the son of an official eunuch who had gone to serve abroad.

"You...... Are you a Lee scholar? ”

Just when the middle-aged man was secretly pondering Li Hongyu's identity, the sturdy young man kneeling beside him suddenly reacted, and couldn't help but look at Li Hongyu with a look of astonishment, and asked tentatively.

Although the sturdy young man had never seen Li Hongyu, he had heard that Li Hongyu was young and handsome and heroic, considering that the government had put on an appearance like a great enemy to protect the dock, he couldn't help but think of Li Hongyu, who was an out-and-out court official.

"Scholar Lee!" The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Li Hongyu in surprise, could it be that they hit Li Hongyu's ship this time.

"I want to know what corrupt and brutal things this official has done?" Li Hongyu did not deny the speculation of the sturdy young man, sat back in his seat and looked at the middle-aged man quietly and asked.

"You...... Are you really a Scholar Lee? The middle-aged man came back to his senses when he heard this, and looked at Li Hongyu in disbelief, unable to believe all this in front of him for a while.

"What, could it be that this official would make such a joke?" Li Hongyu did not answer, but asked in a deep voice.

"Little ...... The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and almost made a big mistake, looking at Li University scholar Haihan. When the middle-aged man heard this, his face suddenly showed a look of annoyance, and he hurriedly touched his head to the ground and said, and the sturdy young man on the side immediately gave Li Hongyu this big salute.

Unlike other officials of the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongyu has a very high reputation among the people, which is not only related to his defeat of the Houjin in two consecutive battles outside the Guanxi, but also to the fact that he contributed to the close relationship with the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty at a young age.

Because Li Hongyu only held positions in the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu, the two out-and-out Qingshui Yamen in the eyes of the people, and then established the Customs Department from scratch, plus he has only been in the official career for a few years.

As a result, he did not even have the opportunity to be corrupt, let alone govern at the local level, so there was no way to talk about brutality to the people, so the people knew that he was a good and clean official.

The middle-aged man naturally couldn't cite an example of Li Hongyu's corruption and brutality, and he was ashamed of this, knowing that this was Li Hongyu's boat, he would definitely not have ventured to come.

"Why are you assassinating tonight?" Seeing this, Li Hongyu couldn't help but feel a sense of relief in his heart, it seemed that his reputation among the people was not bad, and then asked in a deep voice.

"Hui scholar, the villain is a member of the White Lotus Sect, and the leader of the Xu sect is a confidant, the Xu sect was killed in the capital last year, and the villain decided to kill the high-ranking corrupt officials of the court in order to avenge it, and it is also to stimulate the morale of the people."

The middle-aged man hesitated when he heard this, then raised his head, looked at Li Hongyu and said solemnly, "The villain knows that the scholar is a good official, but the villain acted without inquiring clearly, and almost caused a big disaster, and I am willing to be punished by the scholar." ”

"White Lotus Sect!" Li Hongyu's brows furrowed slightly, he knew that the "Xu Sect Leader" in the middle-aged man's mouth was referring to Xu Hongru, the leader of the rebellious White Lotus Sect who was captured by Han Yi.

The White Lotus Sect, also known as the "Wenxiang Sect", was founded by Wang Sen, a leather worker in Luanzhou, and Xu Hongru was a disciple of Wang Sen.

Since the establishment of the White Lotus Sect, Xun spread in Sichuan Province such as Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, and soon became the largest secret religious organization in the Ming Dynasty at that time.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, Wang Sen was imprisoned for the betrayal of his disciples, and the White Lotus Sect was divided into two branches, one led by Xu Hongru to operate in Shandong, and the other led by Wang Sen's son Wang Haoxian and his other disciple Yu Hongzhi to operate in Kaiyi and Jingzhou in Hebei.

Xu Hongru rebelled in Caozhou in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and the momentum was huge, and the number of members involved in the uprising once reached more than 100,000.

I have to say that Xu Hongru led the rebellion this time to shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to have opened the curtain of the rebellion of the people everywhere at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After learning that Xu Hongru had moved, the White Lotus Sect in several places responded one after another, and for a time the Ming Dynasty was full of smoke, so that the imperial court had to send heavy troops to encircle and suppress, and even important ministers of the court like Han Yi were sent to suppress it, which shows the far-reaching impact of the incident.

It's a pity that because Xu Hongru's White Lotus Sect members are all composed of ordinary people, including men, women, and children, the real number of troops who can fight is actually only 10,000 or 20,000, and they have not received military training, although they are quite brave in fighting on the battlefield, but they were eventually exterminated by the official army.

Li Hongyu has never met Xu Hongru, but this person can move such a large-scale rebellion, and he is indeed a powerful figure.

"There are thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty, even if you kill one, it will soon be filled by the second one, and you will be dealt a more severe blow to your White Lotus Sect."

Li Hongyu naturally disagreed with the middle-aged man's move to kill an official, so he looked at the middle-aged man with a serious expression and asked, "There will be countless deaths and injuries at that time, do you think this approach is worth it?" ”

"The court is not benevolent, the people are not happy, if I don't wait to resist, I can only be trapped and starve to death, anyway, the left and right are a death, how can we let the court know that we are powerful, so that the court will not dare to ignore us and other small people."

The middle-aged man's expression suddenly became a little sad and indignant when he heard this, and then he asked Li Hongyu, "Scholar, did you ever care about life and death when you fought with Jiannu outside the Guanwai?" ”

"This official knows that you and others must have their own hardships in rebellion, and this official has seen too many lives and deaths in the past few years, so he doesn't want to see bloodshed anymore."

Seeing the resolute attitude of the middle-aged man, Li Hongyu knew that he couldn't listen to what the middle-aged man said now, so he pondered for a while and said, "Now that the Ming Dynasty is in an eventful time, this official sees that you are not the kind of treacherous person, so he decided to give you a chance, hoping that you can induce the people after you go back, and don't do anything out of the ordinary again." ”

"You must have heard that last year, the situation in the officialdom of the capital was chaotic, and many court officials died, so the emperor is ready to get rid of the old evils and implement new levies, and at the beginning of the year, he has decreed to exempt the people of the world from taxes, and the life of the people will only get better and better in the future."

Saying that, Li Hongyu looked at the middle-aged man with a serious expression and said, "If you really wait for the good of the people, you should find a way for them to live, this official feels that rebellion is the next step, unless they are forced to a dead end, they should not talk about this matter lightly, and they will definitely be ruined at that time!" ”

"Scholar, are you going to let us go?" The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, he never expected Li Hongyu to do this, you must know that they are here to assassinate Li Hongyu tonight, if he hadn't been caught by the guards, maybe Li Hongyu would have died.

"If I kill you, there will only be a few more lonely souls in this world, but if you can save the lives of more people, this official is still willing to see more people living in the world, after all, they are all my people of the Ming Dynasty."

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at the middle-aged man solemnly and said, "This official can tell you that with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, if you rebel, there is only one way to die, and how to let those people live is your responsibility." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man suddenly fell silent, secretly savoring Li Hongyu's words, Li Hongyu was right, how to make the people of the White Lotus Sect live is their responsibility, although it is easy to rebel, it is the most unbearable way.

"Untie them."

Seeing this, Li Hongyu waved his hand to the guards on the side, and then said to the middle-aged man, "Go and see your daughter, if something happens to her, she will be a corpse and two lives, how can you be at peace with your conscience at that time?" ”

The middle-aged man came back to his senses when he heard this, and a look of surprise couldn't help but appear on his face, but he didn't expect Li Hongyu to be able to guess the identity of the iconic woman.

"Thank you, Scholar!" However, the middle-aged man was relieved afterwards, how could Li Hongyu become the young master of the Ming Dynasty if he didn't even have this ability?

Li Hongyu shook his head when he heard this, and then walked away, hoping that the middle-aged man could understand his painstaking efforts, and stop letting the White Lotus Sect people under his command make senseless sacrifices, and now rebellion is really looking for death.

As for how he guessed the relationship between the Peugeot woman and the middle-aged man, the reason is very simple, because the Peugeot woman has a close relationship with the middle-aged man, and the strong young man and the middle-aged man have no similarity, so Li Hongyu naturally has to guess that the Peugeot woman is the daughter of the middle-aged man.

As a result, the relationship between the two was really guessed by him, just as the middle-aged man thought, Li Hongyu still has this ability.

(End of chapter)