From a distance, this Qing official is dressed in a cyan nine python five-claw supplement, a patch on his chest, a slim peacock on the rust, wearing a bamboo cone hat, a dazzling sapphire on the top of the hat is very conspicuous, and there is a colorful peacock feather inserted underneath, which is impressively from the color grade of the third grade. Looking at the appearance again, this person is about fifty years old, with a thin horse face, high and convex cheekbones on both sides, set off a pair of deep-set fine eyes, wrinkles on the face, gray temples, two handfuls of mustaches on the lips are meticulously combed, and a waist-length braid is dragged behind his head, and his face is ruddy, revealing a spring breeze of triumphant joy.

The white sails on the ship were raised high, full of wind, and the boat took advantage of the wind to move quickly, and in an instant it approached the shore where Wang Huan and the others were.

There is a small wharf on the shore, very small, so small that even the trestle bridge is very short, probably built by fishermen, used to berth small boats, usually also used for fishing boats, such a small wharf, everywhere on Hongze Lake, the high reeds around it grow wildly, hide this wharf in the middle, do not look carefully, it is not easy to find.

Ma Quan, who was standing at the bow of the ship, leaned towards the conspicuous black smoke command fleet, the ship was large and the dock was small, Ma Quan turned his face and said politely to the Qing Dynasty officials standing beside him: "Inspector, the trestle is narrow, please order the fleet to dock in a horizontal row in order to load goods." ”

This Qing official is the deputy official of the former Ming Dynasty General Cao Yun Yamen, commonly known as the Cao Yun Governor Yamen, Cao Yun inspected Li Wancai. In April this year, the Qing soldiers went south, and captured Huai'an in the blink of an eye with the momentum of destroying the ancient and decaying, the Ming Dynasty officials fled south in a hurry, and the Caoyun Governor Tian Yang took the lead in running the fastest, leaving the huge Caoyun Governor Yamen regardless of it, a group of large and small officials had no leader, and the fleeing ran away, Li Wancai moved a step slower, and when he wanted to slip away, the Qing soldiers had already entered the city, and he also made a quick decision, and immediately led the whole family to kneel on the side of the road in plain clothes, followed by some officials who wanted to mix in the Qing Dynasty, and became the first batch of officials to welcome Prince Yu Duoduo, As a result, the Qing army had a lot of positions in their hands, and what they lacked was manpower, and officials like Li Wancai, who were familiar with the business, were immediately retained, and the officials lived in their original positions, and they also vaguely promised that if they did a good job, they would be promoted, and the position of the governor of Caoyun was still vacant.

Li Wancai was pleasantly surprised, he was full of strength, and without waiting for the Qing court to order, he shaved his hair, kept braids, and confessed his loyalty and enthusiasm. During this time, he was busy, Zhang Luo quickly restored the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun, and the Manchurian nobles in BJ City were still waiting for the Jiangnan good rice to be offered, but they must not be delayed.

While he was busy, there was an official document from Prince Yu's subordinate Zuo Lingtuhai, saying that there was a batch of important materials to urgently go north, and twenty boats needed to be requisitioned. The person who came had the official document of the Qing army, which was clear and correct, Li Wancai hurriedly mobilized the ship and followed the person on board.

As soon as Li Wancai heard Ma Quan say this, he immediately turned around and ordered to go down, and there was a set of operations below, and soon, twenty boats were next to each other, densely approaching the narrow wharf.

"Actually, Master Li, you are so busy with such a thing, you don't need to come here in person." While waiting for the bow of the ship to land, Ma Quan said politely to Li Wancai.

"Where's the word!" Although Li Wancai didn't take Ma Quan, the messenger who ran errands, in his eyes, he valued Tu Hai, the leader, and he inquired very clearly, Tu Hai was the person of Duoduo with the white flag, who was Duoduo, that was Prince Yu of the Qing Dynasty, the brother of the current regent Dolgon, and the relationship was so good that he wore an iron rod of pants, if he could have a little relationship with Duoduo, his future would be bright. Thinking of this, Li Wancai smiled all over his face, and said righteously: "This is an errand arranged by Prince Yu, we are slaves, we have to do it with all our hearts, and we can't make any mistakes." ”

"That's that, that's." Ma Quan made a look of admiration, patted his ass, and said: "Lord Li really did his best for the Qing Dynasty, and he deserves to be a model for my generation, and I will definitely report to Lord Zuo Ling one by one." ”

He didn't say the second half of the idiom, and he had to wait until he died.

"Where's Tuhai-sama? Quickly introduce me to an introduction. Li Wancai said anxiously, looking at the shore with his feet, the springboard had not been set up at this time, otherwise he would have jumped ashore in one step.

Ma Quan hurriedly said: "Lord Li be careful, the shore is slippery, beware of falling into the water, my family is on the shore." ”

The sailors were quick and steady with their hands and feet, a few artemisia were supported for a while, and the bow of the ship was "tied" with a sound, and they leaned on the trestle, Li Wancai did not wait for the gangplank to be hit, and he rushed up with an arrow step, and his movements were vigorous, and he could not see that he was a fifty-year-old man at all.

Wang Huan and Li Tingyu on the shore had already seen it on the shore, Ma Quan was the messenger who was released in advance after the two discussed, and the official document he carried was actually by Li Yan sneaked into the military tent in Tuhai on the first night of his departure from Yangzhou, and secretly stamped the seal letter on a fake official document that had already been prepared, and then put the seal back as it was.

This set of fake people and fake texts was originally full of loopholes, as long as the Qing court official document circulation procedure is slightly complete and mature, it will be exposed under a test, the loss is that the Qing army marched south too fast this time, and the establishment speed of the rear government ruling body could not keep up with the pace of the army, Huai'an was still in a mess at this time, all the procedures were simple, and Wang Huan expected this detail, so he boldly came up with this fake and real strategy, in fact, there is another point, which is beyond Wang Huan's expectations, that is, Li Wancai's official fan, with the insight of this officialdom old man, In fact, he can also see through this kind of chaotic order, but this person is bent on stammering Duoduo, lost his mind, and yells to please a good impression, so he ran out without looking at the official document carefully, and Wang Huan's bold move was successfully implemented.

At this moment, as soon as Li Wancai jumped ashore, Wang Huan just greeted him, held Li Wancai's hand, shook it tightly, and said, "My lord has worked hard." ”

He didn't know Li Wancai, but he was happy in his heart and shook it easily.

Li Wancai didn't know Wang Huan either, and he didn't know anything about the modern etiquette of shaking hands, so he was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Wang Huanxi shook his face with a smile, his brain twitched, and he realized in his heart that he had lost his temper, and hurriedly let go of his hand, opened his body sideways, nodded and showed Li Tingyu behind him: "This is my lord!" ”

Li Wancai was inexplicably grabbed by a bald head and shook his hand for a long time, and after half coming back to his senses, he realized that Tu Hai was definitely not this monk-like guy, and was about to have a seizure, Li Tingyu came over.

Li Tingyu is tall and strong, with wide faces and wide ears, tiger eyes and mighty eyes, every beard on his face is domineering, and even the fake braid hanging from the back of his head seems to be much more energetic. Equipped with a Qing army collar iron armor scavenged from Tuhai, and a treasure knife hanging from his waist, his whole body exudes a momentum of not being angry and self-threatening. Li Wancai has a common problem that Ming Dynasty officials are used to being frightened by the Qing army, and when he sees the bannerman, he is three points shorter, although he is a civil official from the third grade, but in front of the Manchu nobles, that fart is not counted, at most it is just a high-level dog. At this time, although he was only facing a small leader, he felt cold all over his body as if he had seen Duoduo himself, and he couldn't help but bow down.

In the face of the great gift of the three-grade civil official, Li Tingyu, who had been in the eunuch field of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, subconsciously moved his shoulders and wanted to return the gift, but when he saw Wang Huan with a look, he immediately understood, stopped his movements, waved his hand casually, and said in a rough voice: "Excuse me, are you?" ”

Li Wancai hurriedly got up and said: "Xiaguan Caoyun Governor Yamen inspected Li Wancai, and on the order of the prince of Yu, twenty Cao boats were deployed to listen to the order. ”

The Sanpin civil official actually claimed to be a subordinate official in front of a leader, which was only done when the Ming Dynasty demoted an official to face the Eight Banners officers. But after hearing this, Wang Huan and Li Tingyu's hearts jumped at the same time, Caoyun patrolled? It was a high-ranking official from Sanpin, and he actually came to send a ship to himself at this time, and this battle was not small. The two of them glanced at Ma Quan in unison, meaning that you just need to bring the boat, why did you bring such an official.

Ma Quan met the eyes of the two, just smiled bitterly, and didn't dare to make a sound. Li Wancai wants to come with him by himself, what can he do?

Li Tingyu glanced at Wang Huan again, and when he saw that the little monk was not moving, he winked at himself, stretched out a hand, and shook it gently, meaning don't be afraid, just follow the plan.

Li Tingyu sighed secretly: Damn, Lao Tzu is really addicted to being a play. So he straightened his waist, shook the braid at the back of his head, and was about to pretend, but his eyes instantly widened, and he exclaimed: "Lord Li, are you a flag man?" ”

Li Wancai bent down and got up, his head swinged, and the braids behind him were also exposed, Li Tingyu saw it in his eyes, so he exclaimed, this Li Wancai obviously heard that his name was Han, how could he have braids?

Wang Huan was also a little surprised, at this time, not long after the Qing troops entered the customs, in order to stabilize the situation in the country, collect people's hearts, and lay the foundation for the seizure of Kyushu, Dolgon was forced to modify the order that forced the Han people to shave their hair and change their clothes when they first entered the customs, and changed it to a relaxed policy that non-Manchus could not shave their hair, so basically no one in the country shaved their hair and kept braids.

Li Wancai heard Li Tingyu's exclamation, but he became proud, thinking that his loyalty had finally been noticed by the cronies of Prince Yu, and immediately smiled and said: "Master Tu, this braided hair of the lower official was shaved and braided by himself, I think I have been founded in the Qing Dynasty for many years, and the habit of keeping braids has long been introduced to the Guannei, and the lower official is called the imperial court official, but he is actually the emperor's retainer, how can he not recognize the family law of the ancestors?" Therefore, in order to show the loyalty of the lower officials, he shaved his own hair. ”

These words were said leisurely, without any shame at all, but full of joy and enthusiasm, and he almost screamed at Li Tingyu.

Li Tingyu was dumbfounded, Wang Huan's face was hot, and the two of them thought at the same time: talent, this is a talent, what are Qin Hui, Lian Zining and the like, this is the real top traitor, the fighter among traitors!