Three thousand taels of snowflakes of silver were in the six wooden boxes.

Li Qingshan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he took a step forward, and was about to speak, but his brother Li Mingshan grabbed him.

"What does Yu Gongzi mean by this?"

"I said, you can't let your brothers go hungry and do things for me."

"Yu Gongzi said with a smile, we are full of calculations, we can gather more than 1,000 people, no matter how more than 1,000 people eat, they can't eat 3,000 taels of silver, not to mention dealing with Liu Zeqing, we will only look for those brothers who are righteous and good enough, at most 500 people."

Li Mingshan held down his brother, he said this, paused slightly, and then said sincerely: "Our brother has always admired Yu Gongzi, and if he can serve Gongzi, he will not hesitate to give up his surname." We will keep one box of these silver, which is considered to be given to us by Yu Gongzi, and please bring back the rest of the boxes as they are. ”

He was so half-pushed, which made Yu Guozhen stunned. Glancing at Li Mingshan deeply, Yu Guozhen smiled and said, "What does Brother Qingshan mean?" ”

I don't quite understand what my brother means, but they are compatriots and have a tacit understanding with each other, Li Qingshan laughed: "What Mingshan said, what Mingshan said." ”

"In that case, then I'm not welcome, this box will be left with you, and the other five boxes, I will also trouble bringing them back, so I will temporarily store them here." Yu Guozhen said: "Qingshan, Mingshan, this matter will be handed over to the two of you, I have to go back to Ji'nan to arrange, let's see you later!" ”

He no longer called Brother Qingshan and Brother Mingshan, but called him by his name, which seemed rude, but Li Mingshan was full of smiles instead. After sending Yu Guozhen away, Li Qingshan had something on his mind, asked Liang Min and the others to greet Qi Niu and his party, and pulled his brother to a secluded room: "Second brother, why do you want to refuse when Gongzi Yu gives you a reward?" ”

"Brother, didn't you hear what Yu Gongzi meant, he obviously wanted to recruit you and me at first, but then he said that he wanted to deal with Liu Zeqing, you and I were a little hesitant, so he turned the solicitation into an invitation. If we really agreed to accept Yu Gongzi's silver, then we and Yu Gongzi would just hire us, and Yu Gongzi would regard us as outsiders, and all the things he said about overseas inheritance would be done. On the contrary, we only received part of the reward, but we expressed our intention to serve Yu Gongzi, so that even if Yu Gongzi looked down on our skills, at least we had a good fate, so that Yu Gongzi owed our brother a favor! ”

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice: "You listened to what Yu Gongzi said, his overseas foundation is a country, placed in our Ming Dynasty, Yu Gongzi is the founder of the country, let him owe our brother a favor, what a rare opportunity!" ”

Li Qingshan nodded again and again when he heard this, and looked at his brother with a slightly different gaze: "Mingshan, you still know things, brother, I am confused." ”

"But Yu Gongzi is really extraordinary, and the three thousand taels of silver are still left to us. Big brother, this is a godsend, we have to hurry up, and it will be good to work for Yu Gongzi! ”

The two of them agreed to recruit people and send out sentries everywhere to scout the officers and pedestrians.

Just as their side was in full swing, in the southern city of Ji'an, the streets and alleys were covered with coarsely printed paper overnight. On all the papers, the content may be different, but there is only one center, which is the crimes of Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong.

"Liu, the general soldier of the east of the mountain, likes to promote the weaving of the play, and forces the people to sacrifice ......"

"Under the rule of Liu, the general soldier of Shandong's east, there is a person who is peaceful......"

This article is very concise, and many of it is in the vernacular, so it can be read with a little text. What Liu Zongbing likes to fight crickets, causing the sons of the people to become crickets for fun; Under his rule, Xi Fangping's father died unjustly, and he was punished when he complained to others, and he had to go to the Yin Si to tell him; He was greedy and unkind, and in less than 100 days as the chief military officer, he killed dozens of people, ate people's hearts, and fed apes with human brains. Some of these charges are true and false, and Liu Zeqing is extremely famous, so many people have heard of the true part of it. In this way, those fakes have also become true, and for a while, the entire Jinan Mansion is full of Liu Zeqing's rumors.

Liu Zeqing naturally heard it, he was furious at first, and then understood that this should be the act of Yu Guozhen, who had never seen him!

"The thief deceives people too much!" He kicked over his case, he had endured the humiliation, but this little thief still made this move!

The case was rolling on the ground, but the anger in Liu Zeqing's heart did not subside, in his anger, he almost wanted to lead the troops to find Zhang Bingwen again, but at this moment, he heard someone report: "Zhang Buzheng asked Liu Zongbing to meet!" ”

"Zhang Bingwen still has the face to invite me?" Liu Zeqing scolded: "This old thief connived at Yu Xiaopu, ruined my reputation, and had the face to invite me? ”

He said so in his mouth, but he secretly muttered in his heart, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers under his rule, of which more than 5,000 soldiers can be combated, and this time he brought 2,000 into Ji'Nanfu, if he really turned his face, with these two thousand soldiers, he couldn't protect him!

"Zhang Buzheng also said that Liu Zongbing must misunderstand him, so there is a letter to order the little official to present to Liu Zongbing." The little official sent by Zhang Bingwen heard him scolding, and his heart sank, he originally thought that he was just here to pass on a message, but he didn't know that he found that these two officials had a contradiction. This flying paper all over the city is said to be the work of Zhang Buzheng's dispatch?

He presented the letter to Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers, if it wasn't for the southern city of Ji', he was not sent by Zhang Bingwen, Liu Zeqing might have killed him on the spot. It was easy to hold back the killing intent in his heart, Liu Zeqing opened the letter and found that the letter was written in cursive.

"What!"

He stood up suddenly.

The letter did not say what happened last night, but what the letter said was about Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong's east: Yan Jizu previously said that he had gone to Qu'fu to pay homage to the Confucian Temple, but just two days ago, Yan Jizu left Qufu, took Yan'zhou, and rushed to Caozhou!

There was nothing else said in the letter, but Liu Zeqing felt drenched in cold sweat.

"Could it be...... The paper pasted on the outside was not done by Yu Guozhen, but ...... Is it the governor's intention to attack me? ”

Liu Zeqing is a person with a cunning and murderous surname, so he is suspicious. He originally thought that Yu Guozhen spread his rumors, but Zhang Bingwen's letter made him suspicious, the reason is very simple, Yu Guozhen's rumors had no effect on him at all, it was nothing more than a bad reputation, and he was in the political department of Shandong's Dongbu Province, and he had no reputation at all.

But if Yan Jizu did it, the meaning is different, which can be seen as Yan Jizu's public opinion preparation in order to win him. All his evil deeds before, Donglin saved him, but if he has a very bad reputation, he is Donglin, and I am afraid that he can only draw a line with him.

"You go back and reply to Zhang Gong, just say that I have understood, and I will go and ask him for guilt later!" Liu Zeqing said.

After the little official left, Liu Zeqing got up and walked around the room twice, and then ordered: "Go to the governor's mansion to inquire, what the hell is Governor Yan doing!" ”

He was extremely depressed, he stayed in Jinancheng for a few days, but his attention was always focused on Zhang Bingwen and Yu Guozhen, why did he forget this biggest official in Shandong's east! When I wanted to go to him to test the tone, I should have found out what Yan Jizu was going to do!

At this time, he didn't expect that he would also inquire, but the governor yamen sent him away with a word of worship to the Confucian Temple. Of course, he didn't know that even if he had offered some silver bribes, more silver had already been stuffed into the governor's yamen.

The mood of waiting is always a torment. With his eyes closed, Liu Zeqing leaned back in his chair, feeling unsteady in his heart. It was not that he had not been impeached before, but at that time, the Donglin family in the court always protected him intentionally or unintentionally, or defended him with a concert, or suppressed those impeachments. But this time, he felt a little uneasy, would Donglin still shelter him?

Judging from Zhang Bingwen's previous attitude, it seems that he will still shelter him, but Liu Zeqing is not sure, after all, his grievances with Yu Guozhen have not been completely resolved.

Just as he was thinking about it, the person sent out to inquire about the news came back to report, looking panicked: "Oh no, no, Governor Yan has already received a secret order from the imperial court to arrest the master!" ”

Liu Zeqing's eyes froze.

"Speak slowly, speak slowly." His own breathing became extremely rapid, but he said in his mouth.

"The villain went to the governor's mansion according to the master's order, and met a steward in the mansion, who received fifty taels of silver from the villain and leaked the news. However, it was Governor Yan who impeached the old man and Li Maofang for colluding with each other and embezzling military salaries together. The court issued a secret decree and allowed him to deal with it cheaply, so he wanted to find an opportunity to make trouble, but he thought of Qufu and found an excuse to summon the lord to take it, and heard that the lord came to Ji'nan Mansion, so he went directly to Caozhou ......"

If it were an ordinary moment, Liu Zeqing would not believe such a statement, for no other reason, it was too coincidental. But today's incident had made him completely suspicious and lost the ability to judge calmly, so he suddenly stood up.

"Caozhou...... He's trying to cut off my roots! ”

Yan Jizu is the governor of the military gate, and when he arrives in Caozhou, he can strip Liu Zeqing's military power with just one order, and confiscate Liu Zeqing's cronies among the generals, if so, he Liu Zeqing will have no power to fight back!

Liu Zeqing walked around the room with his hands behind his back again, sweat trickling down his forehead, and now the situation is obvious, even if Zhang Bingwen does not collude with Yan Jizu, he has inadvertently become his accomplice and trapped himself in Ji'nan City! Maybe among them, Yu Guozhen also made a lot of efforts, that guy was originally a man who would be repaid, but now it seems that he still underestimated him!

For now, the only way is to quickly return to Caozhou, which is his lair, as long as he is there, his sergeants will still listen to him. Yan Jizu is here, and if he kills him, he can become the second Kong Youde if he is the most poor!

And when the time comes, you can also threaten that Yan Jishe and Zhang Bingwen were bribed by Yu Guozhen, bent the law for personal gain, and forced themselves to rebel, and they just didn't end well, and they had to cause them trouble!

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Zeqing wiped the sweat on his head, and said with a miserable smile: "Since this is the case, come here, prepare a guard of honor for me, I will go to pay homage to Buzheng!" ”

After a while, the honor guard composed of more than 200 people blew and blew and marched towards the political secretary, and at the same time, at the back gate, nearly 200 horsemen divided into two groups and quietly left Ji'nan Mansion.

(To be continued)