There is nothing important about the letter from Xue Fu, the letter is full of words of concern for Xiao Jin, all of them are always looking forward to returning to their hometown as soon as possible to marry Miss Xue, Xiao Jin also understands that he is also in his early twenties, if Miss Xue remembers well, she should also be twenty, in this era, she is considered an older girl.

But he can't go back for a while, Wu Sangui may send troops to attack at any time, if he is not there for half a month, he can already imagine the ending.

Go back and ask Zheng Banqiao to write a letter home and send it back to report safety.

Looking at the southeast with his hands behind his back, thinking of Miss Xue, and thinking of wishing that your heart is like my heart, Xiao Jin was very melancholy, worried about the movements of Shun'an Mansion, and worried about Wu Sangui's attitude towards himself.

If Wu Sangui is desperate for the development of all the developments at this time, it will inevitably make Shun'an Mansion quickly take Linxian County, from the geographical point of view, what Wu Sangui will be keen on operating the southern part of Guizhou, is because it is only two days away from Dali, Yunnan, into Guizhou, Sichuan, as far as Gansu and Shaanxi, here is the only way. Not only is Wu Sangui's good flag, but the young Kangxi is also a good eye.

Xiao Jin remembered a famous person in history, Wang Fucheng of Shaanxi, this person was the most important chess piece in Wu Sanguiqi's plate, and it can be said that he was a real henchman, holding an army of seventy or eighty thousand, and he had been lurking secretly for many years, but he didn't expect that at the last critical moment, he sat on the shore and watched the tiger fight, and finally saw that Wu Sangui couldn't hold on, helped Kangxi, and went south to destroy Wu Sangui himself.

"My lord, the Shun'an Mansion sent someone to deliver a letter and a gift box." Xiao Jian came to Xiao Jin's side with something and said.

"Oh? Open it up and take a look? Xiao Jin sat down in the middle of the hall.

Xiao Jian opened the gift box after hearing this, but he had just opened it and the smell of blood came to his nose, Xiao Jin opened his eyes wide, and what he saw was Yao Zhaonian's head! Xiao Jian immediately closed the lid, "My lord, it's Yao Zhaonian's head." ”

Xiao Jin himself had already seen it, and looked at the gift box that had closed the lid in surprise, how could this not surprise him, he didn't expect to beat Yao Zhaonian away yesterday, and today the head is back!

"Bring me the letter and read it."

Outside the letter, it was written that Xiao Jin, the magistrate of Linxian County, was personally opened. Xiao Jin glanced at ten lines, roughly looked at it, the letter meant that Yao Zhaonian led troops to attack Linxian County before it was Yao Zhaonian's own private idea, without the consent of the government, Yao Zhaonian was bold, corrupt and perverted the law, and refused to obey the law, dared to impeach Lord Qincha, the prefect had already beheaded Yao Zhaonian after learning the news, and sent the head, hoping that the county lord would truthfully inform the saint.

After the prince learned that the lord came to your land, he was very pleased with the bold suppression of illegal officials, and hoped that the lord could see the details, eliminate the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and return the people to the bright and prosperous world, and invite the lord to come to Dali to be a guest in the palace. The letter was finally signed by the prefect Wang Pingzhi.

Xiao Jin was stunned after reading it, he had expected all kinds of situations, but he didn't expect it to be such a situation, is this what Wu Sangui meant by compromising with the imperial court?

It's so obvious, after Ji Xiaolan came back in the evening, he also said, "Wu Sangui is not prepared, even Liu Yong can know the movements of the soldiers and horses in the imperial court, with Wu Sangui's middle power in the imperial court, I think it is clearer than we should know." ”

Zheng Banqiao also nodded, "I should be a little afraid that the imperial court will make the first move." ”

"If Wu Sangui doesn't go to Beijing next month, it is estimated that the situation will change dramatically." Ji Xiaolan said.

"He can't go, he may not come back, it's better to give it a go." Xiao Jin affirmed.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Ji Xiaolan said, "Since the situation is like this now, why don't we wait for the emperor to reply, and then help Wu Sangui say two good words, so that the situation can ease down a little bit, and also buy us more time." ”

Xiao Jin disagreed, "When I first saw the letter, I thought the same thing, and then I thought about it, the best situation is that we don't interfere, the emperor now trusts us, and we now rely on the emperor's trust to do things, and the label on the body is also the imperial court, and there are governors and governors on it, it's not so simple." ”

"If we lose this trust, it will be really difficult for us to gain a foothold, and if we lose the emperor's trust, I believe that Wu Sangui will definitely be eager to destroy us."

"Well, it's still adults who have opinions."

"Since Wang Pingzhi and King Pingxi want to take the initiative to show goodwill and ease the situation, he thinks that it is better to let his nephew go, which can be regarded as giving Wang Pingzhi a favor and sending a signal to King Pingxi." Ji Xiaolan arched her hand.

"I really don't want to let him go, I actually scolded me on the street." Xiao Jin said angrily.

"Adults, only by being informal, can we achieve great things." Zheng Banqiao Road.

Xiao Jin looked at Xiao Jiandao, "How have you been looting in the city these days?" "What is lacking now is silver, and how can you make muskets without silver, and you must know that the cost of muskets is very expensive.

Ji Xiaolan and the craftsmen roughly calculated in the workshop in the afternoon that the cost of a musket would be at least four hundred taels of silver, and if the test was successful, it might be reduced if it was slightly improved. But it will not be less than three hundred and fifty taels, which is not a small amount, one thousand is three hundred and fifty thousand two hundred silver, you know, at this time, the annual income of the imperial court is only more than six million silver.

If you equip a 10,000-strong army, it will be an astronomical amount, Xiao Jin is not in the mood to calculate, these are not counting ammunition or anything.

"Lord Hui, a total of 20,000 taels, about 1,200 taels of grain. Some merchants did not have the money to give a lot of cloth and tea. All the lowly positions were accepted. Xiao Jian replied.

"That's it, 20,000 taels is enough for something. Are all the criminals in the city arrested? ”

Everyone looked at Xiao Jin speechlessly, in fact, Xiao Jin himself had no idea, he was given 100,000 pieces of silver by Soltu at the beginning, and he couldn't look down on these small money, especially after knowing that a musket cost 400 taels of silver, the price concept in his mind now is that how many guns can be made with these money, 400,000 can make 1,000 guns, 4 million can make 10,000 guns, simple and crude.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were not right when they looked at them, he coughed awkwardly and said, "You can put it away, you can't be cheap, this bastard, Xiao Jian, you go find more charges and force him to pay some silver, he said that he has a manor under my rule, well, this manor must be the people's fat and people's ointment." ”

Xiao Jian said speechlessly, "It's better to leave this matter to Wang Er, it seems to be an old acquaintance." ”

"It's okay, let him take you, remember, this thing is not a good bird, a bad stomach, how much can he spit out."

Xiao Jian really didn't want to go, you can let him kill people and set fire to fight, you let him do this fine work, he is really not in the mood and patience, especially when he sees some family members crying, it makes him upset.

I had no choice but to go out and find Wang Er, Wang Eryi heard that he was going to find the nephew of the Wang Governor's Mansion, and said a little timidly, "My lord, this is Lord Wang's nephew, I'm afraid it's not good, if you want me to say it's better to let it go as soon as possible." ”

"You have so many words, this is what the adults ordered, there must be a reason for him, you just need to say what he has done."

"Yes, yes, I don't dare to say." Wang Er is embarrassed.

"If there's a fart, let it go, if it's slow, I won't listen, let the adults come to you in person." Xiao Jian said impatiently.

"Don't, I said, I'm afraid that if I say it, my nephew will die, and I'm afraid that the adult will be embarrassed, so it's not easy to do."

Xiao Jian saw that what he said was serious, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, just say it." ”

"At the beginning of the previous year, this nephew of Lord Wang bought a manor thirty miles west of our county, and Mrs. Wang's mother was the old mother of their village."