"Then how do you say you can prove the truth of this matter?" Zhao Guohua stared at Du Dana and asked. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Looking at him, Du Dana said: "Unless Xie Yundong is brought here and he personally tells the matter, can it be proved that this matter is indeed committed by us, otherwise, I will not accept it until I die." ”

Zhao Guohua said: "Okay, let you wait for death to be convinced." Saying that, he said loudly: "Where is Ma Huan?" ”。

"The end will be here." Ma Huan walked out in response.

Glancing at him, Zhao Guohua said, "Has Xie Yundong ever been escorted?" ”

"Governor Yudu, then Xie Yundong was remanded in the camp of our army in other places, and the last general thought that as long as there were these two bandit leaders, he could testify against the traitor's poisonous scheme, so he did not take him with him."

Zhao Guohua said dissatisfiedly, "You, you don't do things carefully, and you have a demerit." ”

"Yes. The last general will definitely pay attention to things in the future. Ma Huan apologized.

Turning his head and looking at the county commander Wu Liangcheng and Qi Zhushu, Cen County Cheng, Zhao Guohua said: "The matter of the Wu Yuanwai family involves Yang Song, Du Dana, Miao Tianran, Liu An and other four people, in view of the power and relationship of these four people in Fuliang County, in order to avoid other things from happening, the general decided to take these four people to our army and detain them, and a few adults will not disagree, right?" ”

"This ......," the county commander Wu Liangcheng hesitated and groaned

"Poof! Poof! The four of them knelt on the ground, Yang Song kowtowed and said: "My lord, we are good citizens, and we will not do such bad things, please don't believe the words of the bandit leader." ”

"My lord, we are the squires of Fuliang County, even if we are guilty, we should not be interfered by foreign soldiers." Du Dana said as he kowtowed.

"My lord, you are a fifth-grade civil official, he is a fourth-grade military attaché, martial arts is not as good as literature, you can't listen to this surnamed Zhao." Qianhu Liu An said provocatively.

Yang Song and the other four were frightened by the cruelty of Zhao Guohua's methods to rectify the bandit leaders just now, for fear of being escorted to the barracks to be tortured, relying on their usual filial piety to Wu Liangcheng, hoping that Wu Liangcheng would come forward to protect themselves.

After listening to the words of several people, Wu Liangcheng looked at Zhao Guohua and said tentatively: "General Zhao, although the bandit leader confessed that these people colluded with the bandits to plot against the soldiers, but the gangsters who were contacted in the center have not been escorted here, and it is difficult to prove this matter, so can we give this official a face and not detain them for the time being?" ”

After thinking silently for a while, Zhao Guohua said: "In this way, the bitter master is a family outside the soldiers, ask them to ask the members of the army, if the members promise to let them go, I will not pursue the matter." ”

As soon as these words came out, Yang Song and the other four people were stunned for a moment, and it was really a very embarrassing thing to ask them to ask Wu Jincai at this time, but in order not to suffer from the flesh and skin, the four of them still walked in front of Wu Jincai, and knelt on the ground with "poof, puff, puff", Yang Song kowtowed and said: "Brother Wu, you have gone around the little brother, the past is all my fault, and I will definitely change it in the future." ”

"Brother Wu, you have a lot of adults, just let your brother go." Du Dana knelt on the ground, raised his head and said goodbye.

"Brother Wu, say something, don't you really want to let us go." Miao Tianran said

Qianhu Liu An kowtowed and said: "Wu Yuanwai, I was wrong, I really shouldn't have beaten Miss Wu's idea, you just raise your noble hand and let go of the lower official." ”

Listening to the pleading voices of these people, looking at the embarrassed statues of them kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to themselves, Wu Jincai's heart was more comfortable than drinking a few cups of iced sour plum soup on dog days, and the hatred in his heart dissipated a little. But thinking of Zhao Guohua's instructions, he still kept a straight face.

Seeing that Wu Jincai was silent, Yang Song and the other four had to continue to kneel on the ground and plead.

"Brother Wu, just let them go, everyone is a well-known figure in Fuliang County, as long as they admit their mistakes, let them go." Boss Fan, a silk merchant, helped plead.

Wu Liangcheng also said: "Outside the army, for the sake of the official's face, you can let them go, the official promised you that he will deal with them strictly in the future." ”

Wu Jincai pretended to glance at Zhao Guohua casually, and saw that he nodded lightly, so he pretended to be unwilling and said: "Well, for the sake of Lord Wu and Boss Fan's face, I promised to let the four of them go temporarily, but I couldn't find a buyer for the porcelain worth 500,000 taels of silver that I was deceived and burned, who will bear these losses?" ”

"Brother Wu, although we didn't do this, but the bandit leader has to say that we did it, and we can't argue with it, so let's sell your porcelain to me, and the four of us will bear your losses, you think it's okay?" Yang Song said. Stealing chickens doesn't eat rice, although Yang Song feels uncomfortable, he has to bow his head and give in.

"Yes, yes, yes. We are willing to bear the loss of Brother Wu. Du Dana also agreed.

Miao Tianran and Liu An also nodded and agreed to bear Wu Jincai's losses.

The porcelain was also sold to Yang Song, and the loss was recovered, Wu Jincai was very happy, so he said: "Since you say so, I promise to hand you over to Lord Wu to dispose of." ”

"Brother Xie Wu. Brother Xie Wu, Xie Wu is outside. Seeing that Wu Jincai finally agreed to let him go, Yang Song, Du Dana and others hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him.

Seeing that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved, Zhao Guohua and the county commander Wu Liang were very happy.

"Restaurant, serve. Serve the wine. Zhao Guohua said loudly.

A few days later, Wu Jincai's robbed porcelain was pulled back under the escort of a thousand elite soldiers, under the witness of the county commander Wu Liangcheng and the Qi chief bookkeeper Cen County Cheng and some Fuliang squires and merchants, Yang Song and other four people were forced to accept Wu Jincai's porcelain, and handed over a silver ticket of 500,000 taels of silver, and that night, under the guidance of Zhao Guohua, Wu Jincai entered the county government and visited the county commander Wu Liangcheng, so a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver entered Wu Liangcheng's pocket.

"It's easy for the soldiers to go outside, and the official will not be far away. In the future, if you have something to do, you can come to the officer, and the officer will definitely satisfy the staff. Wu Liangcheng enthusiastically sent Wu Jincai out of the county gate.

Looking at his distant back and touching the silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver in his pocket, Wu Liangcheng smiled with satisfaction.

A few days later, according to Zhao Guohua's instructions, Wu Jincai secretly found some beef and sheep bones to crush, mixed them in kaolin according to different proportions, and arranged for the kiln to be fired in small quantities.

Bone china is really not easy to burn, and even burned several times without success, so Zhao Guohua asked Wu Jincai to stop burning bone china for a short time, and the Liang family father and son found another kiln to carry out trial production.

"Outside the army, don't be discouraged, this bone china is not easy to burn, but once it is fired, your porcelain factory will be the best, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for you to become famous." Zhao Guohua smiled and comforted Wu Jincai.

Wu Jincai said with a smile: "Little old man listens to the general, and the general will do what he says." ”

Although his porcelain factory didn't even burn the bone china a few times, Wu Jincai didn't have any unhappiness. Because Zhao Guohua not only saved his son, but also rectified Yang Song and others, recovered the loss of the porcelain field, and made the Wu family make a lot of money.

After a few days of delay in Fuliang, Zhao Guohua left 200 soldiers to guard the Wujia porcelain field, and the rest of the men and horses let Ma Huan take them back, and after Ma Huan left, Zhao Guohua took Niu Huan and a dozen or so guards to Fujian.

In October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the vanguard troops of Li Zicheng, Guo Tianxing and other departments came to a place thirty miles away from Ningqiang County.

Ningqiang is now Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, belongs to the jurisdiction of Hanzhong City, is the throat of Shaanxi to Sichuan, it connects Qingchuan County of Sichuan Province in the west, Wudu County and Kang County of Gansu Province in the north, known as the reputation of "one foot on three provinces", Qingmuchuan Ancient Town of Ningqiang County is an ancient town in the westernmost part of Shaanxi Province. 227 kilometers to the west is Jiuzhaigou, 136 kilometers away from the county seat, the total area of the town is 208 square kilometers.

The ancient town of Aokichuan has been the throat of Qinshu since ancient times, an important border trade town where merchants gather, and it is also a place where soldiers must fight. During the Three Kingdoms period, Deng Ai attacked Shu and led his troops to the south through the Aoki River, and only after breaking through the Aoki River could he enter Sichuan.

Because of this, the yamen of Ningqiang County is placed in Qingmuchuan Town, where there are 10,000 officers and soldiers, and there are steep peaks on both sides of the tall city wall.

On the mountain peak in the distance, hiding in the bushes and looking at the well-defended city gate, Li Zicheng frowned and did not say a word.

"These shitty days, the gate is pretty tight." Zhang Dashou scolded in a low voice.

"Let's go. Go back, I'll let Tian Jianxiu touch the situation and then talk about it. With that, Li Zicheng went back with a few people.

Aoki Town because of the extremely important terrain, in order to prevent Li Zicheng from running to Sichuan, Sun Chuanting sent a staff named Hao Ming to guard the town, this Hao Ming is serious in his work, strong in martial arts, since he came to Ningqiang County to guard, he has not dared to relax, every day in the city head of the town, guarding the city soldiers to check the passing merchants and pedestrians.

Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi, the three of them pretended to be merchants, drove a carriage, and walked towards the city gate with silk and cloth.

"Stop. What for? Where did you come from and where are you going? A stout black-faced officer in his thirties blocked the way, looked at the three of them and asked, still holding the handle of the waist knife in his hand.

Because he felt that these three people were a little suspicious, especially two of them had a killing aura on them, as if they were people who had been in battle for a long time.

"This official. The small one is a silk cloth merchant, and the business has been in a depression recently, so I brought some samples to Sichuan to find a big buyer, please make it convenient. Tian Jianxiu nodded and said, taking the opportunity to stuff five taels of silver into the hands of the hundred households.

Tian Jianxiu is benevolent and has the style of a Confucian general, and now he is pretending to be a silk cloth merchant, but there are not many flaws.

looked at him, checked the silver in his hand, and let go of the hand holding the handle of the knife of the general officer, pointed at Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi and said, "What are these two people doing?" How does it look like a rogue. ”