Li Shutai's words were a little insincere, his father Li Yongfang married the granddaughter of the Qing Dynasty Taizu Nurhachi, one of the four great Baylor daughters of Abatai, and he himself married the daughter of the Taizu's brother Shuerhaqi. Now he has nine brothers, in addition to him has become a scholar and the governor of Liangguang, there is also a third brother Gangtai who is an official to the general army of Xuanfu, and the fifth brother Bayan of Renzheng Lanqi Gushan Ezhen, and the rest of the brothers are also in important positions, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a noble.

Besides, looking at the eight banners of the Han Army, which family can marry a woman from the Aixin Jueluo family with a father and son? Therefore, his Li family is not part of the Eight Families, and who dares to claim that his family is the Eight Families!

Everyone in the hall, except for Hong Shiming, was a subordinate of Li Shutai, so they naturally did not slander the governor for his humility, but complimented the Li family's merits.

Hong Shiming is also vulgar, and quietly said two words about his father Hong Chengchou's praise of Li Jingtai on weekdays, which suddenly made Li Shutai feel accomplished and very face-saving, you must know that there are not many people in this world who can be praised by Hong Chengchou.

"Regardless of whether the imperial court really wants to transfer me to Fujian and Zhejiang, as a courtier, I must always obey the order, and there are also two remnants of the Haikou Zheng clan and the king of Nanming Lu in Fujian and Zhejiang to harass the mainland, the law and order is not quiet, and the people's livelihood is also withering, not as easy as here in Guangdong, I have a long way to go."

Li Shutai was moved, and suddenly heard a military attaché's stomach screaming, and he was busy thinking that everyone was waiting for him in the flower hall, and he was afraid that he hadn't eaten, so he hurriedly ordered to go down and let the kitchen bring wine and food.

"The imperial court has not yet made an official decree, so you don't have to worry too much, in case it is a false rumor." Zuo Qing persuaded.

"It's not groundless. Hong Jingluo can mention this matter in my letter, but it is probably not fake. ”

Li Shutai also wants to open it now, in case the imperial court really transfers him to Fujian and Zhejiang. He went to it, so why bother about it.

"In fact, I have nothing to worry about here in Guangdong, although Xinhui is occupied by the Ming army, but Chen Qice is not Li Dingguo, and he wants to use Xinhui to attack my Guangzhou City, I think he is more difficult than ascending to the sky. In the first battle of Sanjiangkou in Layue last year, the Ming army was very unbearable. The only pity is that I was buried in Xinhui's elite soldiers in the green battalion. ”

Thinking that the elite soldiers of the Green Battalion that he had finally reorganized and pulled out were buried by Shang Zhixin, as many as seven or eight thousand people. Li Shutai was in pain, and he hated Shang Zhixin's incompetence even more, if it weren't for the loss of so many backbone elite soldiers in Xinhui by the Guangdong Green Battalion. How could the Taiping army occupy Xiangshan and capture Zengcheng in a blink of an eye.

Li Qifeng, the governor of Guangdong who Zuo Qing originally followed, was forced to leave Guangdong by Shang Kexi, so he had no good impression of Shang Kexi, and he also knew that his governor-general was the second feudal lord who did not deal with Guangzhou City openly and secretly, and was also sent by the imperial court to monitor the second feudal domain. Therefore, there is no need to hide anything in front of him. Then he said quietly: "The prince of Pingnan is a self-proclaimed general, and it is good to suffer a little setback. ”

Hong Shiming is an outsider, although his father Hong Chengchou is good friends with Li Shutai, but he also has a relationship with Shang Kexi, and on the surface, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao are still under the command of Hong Chengchou, so he is not good at saying anything to the Shang family.

Several other military attachés of the Green Battalion were all drawn from the ranks by Li Shutai, and they were also used by Li Shutai to resist the generals under the command of Hengping and Jing Erfan, so naturally they would not stand on Shang Kexi's side. And they are also bullied very much by the generals under the command of the Second Domain, which will listen to Zuo Qing's words. Immediately, one by one, they began to ridicule.

Li Guibao was also unscrupulous, seeing that everyone was talking energetically, and his master had no intention of stopping it, he also shouted: "What kind of general, I don't think it's as good as the kid of the Geng family." ”

didn't want him to say this but provoked the master's anger, Li Shutai slapped the case and shouted angrily: "Dog slave, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"Minions don't dare!"

Li Guibao was awakened and understood that this was not something he could say.

Hong Shiming only didn't see him, Zuo Qing and the others glanced at each other, but they were silent.

At this time, the subordinates had already come up with wine and food, and Li Shutai ordered the people to avoid the wine and food, and raised his hand to signal everyone to eat. Although he had already eaten at Hahamu, but today Hong Chengchou's son was there, so he also put down the governor's shelf and talked with everyone while eating.

During the banquet, everyone was interested in not mentioning what had just happened, and what they talked about was official business, Zuo Qing complained to Li Shutai, saying that it was because of the construction of the city that caused the deficit of the feudal treasury, and now there was no silver in the account, but the two feudal clans and the Manchurian Eight Banners kept sending people to ask for silver from the feudal treasury, which made him so worried that he couldn't sleep these days.

"I know about the affairs of the domain, you deal with it first, I will explain this matter to the court, and ask the court to allocate some silver."

Li Shutai slapped the board, and Zuo Qing couldn't say anything more. Several military attachés of the Green Battalion also reported to Li Shutai on the affairs of the camp, and they talked about touching a small half a pillar of incense before agreeing on them one by one.

Hong Shiming waited until Li Shutai's subordinates finished playing to him before he brought up the matter of the Guangdong Township Test.

Since the occupation of Guangzhou, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always wanted to open a township to try to admit Guangdong scholars into the Qing Dynasty as officials, but it was delayed because of Li Chengdong's anyway and Li Dingguo's second attack on Guangdong. After Li Shutai took office as governor of Liangguang last year, he decided to take charge of the matter of opening a science and technology in Guangdong to take up the matter of recruiting scholars in Guangdong, and for this reason he appealed to the Qing court to hold the first township examination in Guangdong this year, and then sent the scholars to Beijing to participate in the examination of grace, so as to show the preferential treatment of the Qing Dynasty to the scholars in Guangdong and to dismantle the foundation of the Southern Ming Dynasty's rule in Guangdong.

The Qing court agreed to the Guangdong Township Examination after receiving Li Shuotai's performance, and because the Imperial Examination was the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, Shunzhi ordered the Ministry of Rites to send personnel to Guangzhou to negotiate with the local government to hold specific friendships. When discussing the candidates for the south, the Manhan Hall official of the Ministry of Rites selected Hong Shiming, who was only appointed as the head of the Ministry of Rites last year, so it was a disguised sale of Hong Chengchou who was good for Hunan. As long as the Guangdong Township Examination is held smoothly, Hong Shiming will definitely be able to take advantage of this credit to be promoted to the next level after returning to Beijing.

Hong Shiming spoke in detail, Li Shutai also listened carefully, and from time to time asked Zuo Qing Governor Fu what preparations had been made, and when he learned that everything was fine, Li Shutai was very happy, and swept away the annoyance that someone in the court wanted to move himself to Fujian and Zhejiang, and he did not refuse everyone's persuasion to drink.

When the wine was drunk, a military attache of the green battalion talked about the battle of Xinhui again, saying that if it was not the prince of Pingnan who commanded the army at that time, but a good general, then the battle of Xinhui would never have been fought like that.

What this person said made Li Shutai a little distracted, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly patted the back of the chair and laughed out loud: "Speaking of good generals, how did I forget Wu Liuqi!" This person is a military general, and his martial arts are first-class, if he wins, won't he have this good general? (To be continued.) )