The biggest wealthy family in Xuzhuang, Hengli Town, is the Zhao family whose ancestors have passed the list in the Chenghua years, and the Zhao family has produced two sons and sons during the Wanli and Tianqi years, which can be called a good story for a while. In the year www.biquge.info of Jia Shennian, the Zhao family took the initiative to shave their hair and braids, and helped the Qing army to arrest anti-Qing righteous people in Kunshan and Jiading, so the Zhao family became difficult after Dingwu restored the capital.

Last year, the Zhao family bore the brunt of the arrears, and was pursued for 34 years of taxes from the first year of Chongzhen to the present, which directly emptied most of the Zhao family's family funds. I heard that Zhao Ruiping committed suicide by biting his tongue because he could not bear the punishment in the Nandu prison, but the Zhao family has not received a notice from the government so far, let alone seen Zhao Ruiping's body, so whether the old family is dead or alive has become the biggest unsolved case of the Zhao family.

The Zhao family was paid off, and the head of the family did not know whether to live or die, and the Zhao family fell overnight. Half of the Zhao family's land was confiscated as arrears and returned to the government, and the remaining half was forcibly sold by the government at a low price to the former tenants.

Now the Zhao family is in charge of Zhao Ruiping's sister-in-law Zhao Xiangwei, who has a reputation for being a talent, but he was just dismissed a year ago. Zhao Xiangwei went to the county to reason with the school official, but the school official said that it was the meaning of the house, who made your father Zhao Ruiping capture back then, and now he is resisting taxes. The scholar said that he only dismissed your talent and fame, which is considered lucky, and you must know that there are hundreds of people in Songjiang who have been dismissed and exiled to Annan.

The academic official asked Zhao Xiangwei to stay at home honestly, don't come to the county again, this time the court has moved the real character, Bangyan and Tanhualang have been dismissed a few, you little show of talent and fame, don't do it. You can't think about it, and then cause a big disaster for the Zhao family.

The innocent family property was taken away, his father was imprisoned, and he was stripped of his reputation, how willing Zhao Xiangwei was in his heart. But this official mansion from the bottom to the top, it is all the only order of the king of Qi, and the soldiers who pay off the debt are like wolves and tigers, who dares to be the master of his grievances. In desperation, Zhao Xiangwei could only go home and wait for news, and he didn't expect anything else, just hoping that the government could release his father back. With his father here, even if the former tenants of the family divided his land, they would never be able to ride to the head of the Zhao family.

However, more than half a year has passed, but there is no news of my father, there are a lot of rumors, and Zhao Xiangwei doesn't know how to deal with it. Just after the New Year's Day, a distant relative in Suzhou Mansion came to tell Zhao Xiangwei that his father Zhao Ruiping had actually died in prison in Nandu. The reason why the government did not inform the Zhao family was because there were too many people who died in prison, and the government couldn't pay attention to it at all, or didn't want to pay attention to it at all.

The news of his father's death completely crushed Zhao Xiangwei, and he had no hope. The distant relative told him that the Taiping army had acted perversely in Jiangnan and wantonly persecuted the gentry and scholars, which had already aroused the anger of the heavens and the people. Don't look at the calm now, in fact, secretly Jiangnan Danfan has some insight and some backbone, and he is secretly colluding, just waiting for the opportunity to move and unite to drive away the Taiping Kou.

Zhao Xiangwei wanted to avenge his father, but he was not brainless, and his distant relatives said that he was very suspicious, because there is an old saying that "Xiucai rebels, and it will not be done in ten years", and now the military and political power in Jiangnan is controlled by the Taiping Army. At this time, the distant relative did not hide from Zhao Xiangwei, saying that although the Qing Dynasty retreated to the north, it never forgot to recover Jiangnan. Zhao Xiangwei is such a smart person, as soon as he heard this, he understood that his distant relatives, who had never been to the door before, were Manchurians.

The words of the distant relative moved Zhao Xiangwei, and the reason why the Zhao family has the current disaster is completely the revenge of the Taiping Army, because the Zhao family had helped the Qing Dynasty back then. Therefore, if the Zhao family wants to go back to the past and regain their own industries and fields, they must help the Qing Dynasty counterattack Jiangnan. Otherwise, the Taiping army will be in one day, and the Zhao family will never come out. Distant relatives were well-informed, and he clearly told Zhao Xiangwei that there was a new rule in the Taiping Army, and all those involved in the "general capture case" were not allowed to take the imperial examination. This means that even if Zhao Xiangwei doesn't want to go home and give birth, doesn't want to avenge his father, and just wants An An to be a Shunmin of the Ming Dynasty, his Zhao family will not want to have any "glorious ancestors" from now on.

Cutting off the road to the imperial examination is worse than killing parents!

After a long night of suffering, Zhao Xiangwei finally made a decision that he was afraid of, that is, with his distant relatives, he served the Qing Dynasty and fought to the end with the hundreds of people of the Zhao family and the Taiping Army.

On the second day of the Lantern Festival, the distant relative quietly arrived at the Zhao family with a Manchurian bigwig, and since then, the Zhao family has become a secret contact point for Manchurian Xizuo in Hengli. No one in the outside world knows about this, and Zhao Xiangwei didn't even dare to tell his wife about the news that his father Zhao Ruiping had died, except for revealing it to his two younger brothers.

As soon as it was late that day, Zhao Xiangwei went alone to a courtyard in the east of the house that he had not lived in for several years.

There is someone in the courtyard, it is the Manchurian big man that Zhao Xiangwei said. This person is the Zhao family who came last night, Zhao Xiangwei didn't know his name, only that his distant relatives called this person "Lord Mingzhu".

Lord Mingzhu is the "Nalan Brother" who was bumped into by Yu Baien in Huating Xilin Temple, a native of Manchurian Zhenghuangqi, whose full name is Nalan Mingzhu, his grandfather was the commander of Yehebu, and his aunt and grandmother were Meng Gu Zhezhe who was taken as a concubine by Emperor Nurhachi of the Qing Dynasty, and this Meng Gu Zhezhe is the biological mother of Emperor Hong Taizong of the Qing Dynasty. In other words, Hong Tai and Mingzhu's father are cousins. Mingzhu himself is also married to the daughter of Prince Azig of England. The uncle of Emperor Kangxi, who ascended the throne in Beijing.

Mingzhu had sneaked to Jiangnan in July last year on the orders of Emperor Shunzhi, and in the past few months he had been active in Songjiang and Suzhou, and had been in private contact with many gentry and landlords who were dissatisfied with the Taiping army's debts. Some of the Jiangnan gentry who fled to the north with their families also contributed to help Mingzhu, and even under Mingzhu's organization, these gentry and landlords who fled to the north also organized a group training, preparing to cooperate with the Qing army to kill their hometown once the Jiangnan was in turmoil. Mingzhu gave this regiment a very apt name -- "Homecoming Regiment".

When Zhao Xiangwei arrived outside the courtyard, two black shadows approached, and after seeing that it was him, the black shadows quickly flashed to a dark corner. Zhao Xiangwei was not surprised by this, he knew that these two people were the guards who had been closely protecting Lord Mingzhu. I heard that these two guards are both third-class guards in the Qing Palace, and Lord Mingzhu himself is a first-class guard.

The first-class guard is a great official position in the Qing Dynasty, although it is a guard, but once it is released, it is a big man who can be a local governor. Lord Mingzhu is only in his twenties now, he is young and promising, if he makes great contributions in Jiangnan this time, maybe he will become an important minister in the court after he goes back.

Zhao Xiangwei had no doubt that the Qing Dynasty would be able to cross the river again. Lord Mingzhu understood what he said, and he also understood that for more than a year, although the Taiping Army defeated the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty on the battlefield, it lost the hearts of the people. In order to extort floating money, what the Taiping Army did was similar to Li Zicheng's thieves back then. Since ancient times, the gentry has been the foundation of governance, but also the core of governance.

Whoever wins the hearts and minds of the people wins the world!

The thief Xiucai is perverse, the Jiangnan gentry dare to be angry and dare not speak, one day, they will rise up and attack, so that he will not die a good death!

Thinking of Lord Mingzhu's guidance to himself, and thinking of what kind of Manchurian pillar he was holding after the Qing Dynasty restored the unification of the world in the future, Zhao Xiangwei couldn't help but be a little excited, he gently pushed open the courtyard door and came to Lord Mingzhu who was reading the "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty".

Nalan Mingzhu likes to collect ancient books, and is a rare book collector among the magnates of the Eight Banners of Manzhou. In addition to this activity in Jiangnan, he also did not forget to collect ancient books. The "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" in his hand was bought by him at a great price. There is also half of the "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" that he copied on the table, the font is upright, the writing is smooth, and it is not good at first glance. Zhao Xiangwei noticed that Lord Mingzhu's manuscript was printed with the words "Cave Yan Zhai", and secretly said that this might be the inscription of Lord Mingzhu.

"Sit."

Nalan Mingzhu put down the "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" and nodded to Zhao Xiangwei with a smile. He was very satisfied with Zhao Xiangwei, and in the past few months, Zhao Xiangwei not only provided him with a place to settle down and contact him, but also helped him collect a lot of information about the Songjiang Taiping Army garrison, which was very useful.

Seeing that Zhao Xiangwei's face was a little hesitant, Mingzhu asked him, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Zhao Xiangwei hesitated for a moment, and said: "The bamboo poles that the adults want the villain to buy are all complete, but I don't know when the adults will use them?" ”

"Don't worry, although everything is ready, there is still a debt of east wind." Mingzhu smiled and shook her head.

"But I don't know when the east wind will come?"

Zhao Xiangwei was eager to know when the grand occasion of the Jiangnan gentry who Lord Mingzhu had said before would come, and he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and wanted to join this big event as soon as possible.

Mingzhu glanced at Zhao Xiangwei, smiled slightly, and did not answer him, but chanted a word softly.

"The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and blows down, and the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are full of fragrance. The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night. The moth snow willow is golden, and the smile is full of dark fragrance. The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dim. ”

This is Xin Qiji's "Qingyu Case", Zhao Xiangwei didn't understand why Lord Mingzhu chanted this word, and he couldn't figure it out. Mingzhu didn't explain to him, but only made a smile there, his face was full of color, which made Zhao Xiangwei admire him as a celestial.

"I understand your thoughts, don't worry, that day will come eventually." Mingzhu got up, patted Zhao Xiangwei's shoulder gently, looked at the stars in the north, and said lightly: "Good intentions, I will not live up to your Zhao family, and Daqing will not fail your Zhao family." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Zhao Xiangwei got up excitedly, wanting to bow down to the pearl lord in front of him, who was a round younger than himself. There was a slight sound at the courtyard gate, and then a figure walked over. This person Zhao Xiangwei didn't know, so he walked straight to Mingzhu's side, bowed down and said, "The news has leaked, Ma Dalong and they launched it in advance." ”