"Chen Zhizhou heard that he has been an official here for more than three years, and he has won the hearts of the people, so he must know a lot about the grass and trees and customs of Hezhou, right?" Wang Huan pointed his hand to a chair on the right: "Chen Zhizhou, sit down and talk." [No pop-ups. 】”

Chen Kun hurriedly thanked him, sat on the edge of the chair for half of the P shares, cleared his throat and replied cautiously: "Mr. Wang has won the award, and the lower officials have been sent by the Ministry of Officials since Chongzhen for 14 years, and an edict has been sent to Hezhou, and he has deeply felt the emperor's holy grace, and he has not dared to slack off in his conscientious work for three years. ”

Wang Huan took a sip of tea and asked casually, as if casually: "In this case, does Lord Chen know how many prisoners are assigned to the border in this state?" ”

Chen Kun was stunned, he thought that Wang Huan would ask some questions about Hezhou's household registration, property and cultivated land, etc., which are also the issues that warlords and generals should be concerned about after occupying the territory. Last year, Zeng Ying took the state from Zhang Xianzhong, and Chen Kun returned here from Huguang with the official army, and the first thing he did was to be ordered to check the head of the household.

But this young chief soldier actually asked himself about the criminal officer first, which was too unexpected, and the series of answers prepared in Chen Kun's mind in advance were suddenly useless, and he thought about it in astonishment before replying: "This, please forgive the chief soldier, and the subordinate has to order the subordinate officials to check to know." However, Hezhou is not a place of nine borders, nor is it a place of barbarism and bitter cold, and it has never been a place for criminal officials to be distributed, and only in recent years some convicts who have escaped from the places occupied by traitors have nowhere to go, and they do not dare to return to their hometowns on their own, so the number of them will not be very large. ”

Wang Huan smiled and said, "Since this is the case, it is even better, in fact, Lord Chen doesn't have to bother to find it, the criminal official I am looking for has a big name, and I will know it as soon as I ask." ”

Chen Kun's heart moved, he was secretly a little surprised, the expression on his face stiffened, and he said hesitantly: "This, this, well, I don't know who the chief soldier is looking for?" If the subordinate knows his whereabouts, he must report it to the lord. ”

Wang Huan kept smiling, and looked at Chen Kun lightly with harmless eyes, but Chen Kun's heart jumped when he saw it, and he was wandering only to hear Wang Huan say: "What I was going to find was Lord Chen's own family, the governor of the military and horses of the five provinces back then, who almost killed Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the carriage gorge and other seventy-two anti-kings, Chen Qiyu and Governor Chen, who was famous all over the world, I don't know if Lord Chen Kun knows his whereabouts?" ”

Chen Kun's body was suddenly like a lightning strike, his whole body was stiff, his trembling strands trembled, although the weather was not hot in autumn, he was sweating profusely as if he was in Fuxia, his eyes looked at Wang Huan fixedly, his eyes were empty and colorless, as if he had seen a ghost.

There was silence in the lobby.

Not to mention Chen Kun, even Meng Zhiyu, who was sitting on the side, was surprised, glanced at Wang Huan, and then at Chen Kun, dazed and surprised: Chen Qiyu is in Hezhou? How did Wang Huan know? How could Chen Qiyu be in Hezhou? Didn't he advocate discussing and recruiting peace with Li Zicheng because of the first battle of the Carriage Gorge, and turned a refreshing victory that could have annihilated the thieves into a farce, and for this reason, he also framed many court officials who opposed Zhao'an, and as a result, Li Zicheng and other thieves rebelled again as soon as they got out of the Carriage Gorge and picked up their weapons, which made Emperor Chongzhen Long Yan furious, and was impeached by hundreds of officials, and he came down from the high position of the governor of the five provinces, and was sent to Yunnan to garrison the border?

Wang Huan still looked at Chen Kun with a smile and waited.

He already knew that Chen Kun was the younger generation of Chen Qiyu's clan, and he had always revered Chen Qiyu, when Emperor Chongzhen threw the teacup on the imperial case and ordered Chen Qiyu to be exiled, Chen Kun was still a lifter, and Chen Qiyu himself knew that because of the matter of recruiting peace with the thieves, there were too many people who were offended, and he must have been killed when he arrived in Yunnan, so he dragged his feet on the road, and when he arrived in Hezhou, he said that he was sick and couldn't leave, and lived in seclusion here. It is convenient to live here for a long time.

As soon as Wang Huan's Kuizhou army occupied Hezhou, he offered this information to the people in the public gate, so Wang Huan was able to ask Chen Kun directly, which shocked Chen Kun.

Chen Qiyu, a fierce man in the late Ming Dynasty, when he was the governor of Shaanxi, he was able to destroy countless peasant army leaders who made the Ming Dynasty more or less able to change the color of the Ming Dynasty, and the leader of the thieves who died under his knife was not one hundred but also ninety, and the whole territory of Shaanxi was safe, Li Zicheng and other heroes fled to Huguang, Henan in order to avoid him, it can be seen that this person's ability is strong, and Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and other famous generals are not inferior.

But this person has outstanding ability, and his shortcomings are also outstanding, the biggest problem is that his ears are soft, hesitant and repeated, under the repeated persuasion of a group of subordinates who accepted bribes from Li Zicheng, he even ignored the capricious temperament of the thief, and hastily decided to recruit An, so that his reputation would be ruined.

Treat the fierce people, Wang Huan is very respectful, in this era, just rely on himself and a group of stone pillar natives, it is difficult to succeed, a good man three gangs, the reason why the emperors of the past dynasties can achieve hegemony, in addition to relying on themselves, a group of fierce men is indispensable, the memory of the late Ming Dynasty famous generals can ministers, at this moment have either taken refuge in the Qing Dynasty, such as Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, or still in the peasant army camp, such as Li Dingguo, Li Guo, or in the Southern Ming ******Dynasty, such as Zheng Chenggong, plug Yinxi, It is possible to be moved by the words of his little Kuizhou general soldier, except for a criminal like Chen Qiyu, he can no longer find it.

So to persuade Chen Qiyu to go out of the mountain, Wang Huan was very sincere.

But Chen Kun didn't know what Wang Huan thought, at the moment the sweat was raining down, the embarrassment was abnormal, and the guilty ministers in the territory stayed and did not report or drive away, but they were suspected of harboring, but it was a serious crime, and once they were discovered, they would be exiled, but this was a secondary reason, the real reason for Chen Kun's heart was that he was worried about Chen Qiyu's safety.

Chen Qiyu made a lot of small moves at that time in order to achieve the purpose of recruiting peace, dismissed many officials, sentenced many people, and some officials even died in prison, and the sea of people who wanted to kill him went away, who knows which way this Kuizhou general soldier is, and whether it will be unfavorable to Chen Qiyu, Chen Kun does not know.

So he muttered stupidly, and said indifferently: "The lower official doesn't know." ”

Wang Huan seemed to have known that Chen Kun would say this, sighed and got up, walked towards the backyard of the state government, and said to himself: "I heard that the backyard of the Hezhou state government is very exquisite, with many strange stone gardens, and an elegant courtyard. ”

Chen Kun jumped up like an electric shock, and rushed to Wang Huan's body, Chen Xiang and Ma Wannian's faces changed, and they rushed to cross between Wang Huan and Chen Kun, looking at him fiercely.

Wang Huan still kept smiling and said leisurely: "What? Lord Chen is not welcome? ”

Chen Kun's face darkened, looking at Wang Huan's words and deeds, most of the fact that Chen Qiyu lived in the courtyard behind his yamen had been known to him, and in the face of the wolf-like Kuizhou generals, he couldn't stop it, even Zeng Ying was cleaned up, what could a Zhizhou without the power of Fu J do?

But the admiration and love for Chen Qiyu made the green tendons on the forehead of this white-skinned civil official in his thirties burst out, and he bent his neck to block the moon door leading from the front office to the backyard, and shouted in a rough voice: "General Bing Wang, Governor Chen has long been cut and demoted by the emperor, and driven away from his home, but now he is just a common people, he has nothing else to ask for, there is no quarrel with the world, he has suffered all the crimes, please show mercy to the subordinates of the chief soldier, don't embarrass him, if the chief soldier is looking for revenge on behalf of others, Chen Kun is willing to take his place as a substitute and accept it for him, this is a good skin, At the disposal of adults! ”

As he spoke, Chen Kun took off his official hat, unbuttoned his clothes, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

This time, Wang Huan was stupid, Chen Xiang and Ma Wannian also looked at each other, Chen Kun came to play like this, which made the scene very embarrassing.

Wang Huan couldn't cry or laugh, shook his head with a wry smile, and was about to signal Chen Xiang to help Chen Kun up, but when he heard Chen Kun behind him, a sigh full of infinite vicissitudes came up, and a calm and majestic voice came softly: "Chen Kun get up, a good man has gold under his knees, but he kneels to the father of heaven and earth, how can he be so cheap?" ”

With the sound of talking, a thin black old man in a cyan robe and a square scarf appeared by the moon gate and gently pulled up Chen Kun, who was swollen on his forehead.

Wang Huan's eyes lit up, the main lord has arrived!

(End of chapter)