Outside Xiangyang City, he was forced back by that vivid shadow pattern, although Shao Fang said that he had to leave immediately when he saw the opportunity, he did not transfer to Nanyang like his two entourages, but also went to Jiangling. Of course, it was Zhang Juzheng's hometown, he didn't rush into the city, and of course it was even more impossible to bump into Wang Fulin, who was ordered by Wang Daokun to visit Zhang's house. He boarded the boat directly at the pier and headed south to Zhenjiang, and then arrived in his hometown of Danyang. Because he was looking for the old boat on the dock who was the most afraid of death and dared to walk at night, when he arrived at Danyang's house, he was half a month earlier than Wang Fulin.

Even if it was such a fast journey, it was because since he entered Nanzhili, he would definitely stay overnight at the Dacheng Wharf, and he would also instruct the sailors who had been recruited to the Shao family with preferential treatment to disembark, and at the same time inquire about some news, he also spread some rumors based on those news, otherwise he would have arrived a day or two earlier.

Now that he has returned to Danyang's own land, he no longer has to worry about the usefulness of Lei Jigu's sea fishing documents. After all, his reputation as a hero in the southeast is not covered, and there are quite a few people in the government, not to mention that now Gao Gong is still the first assistant, and the magistrates are not all stunned young people like Lei Jigu. However, the two entourages who had gone separately from him had never returned, which also cast a haze over his heart. At this moment, holding the letter sent by the housekeeper he had deliberately befriended in the Jingshi Gao Mansion, his brows were unconsciously twisted.

I thought that he took the bait of the compound phase to meet Xu Jie, but in fact, he just wanted to meet Xu Jie. After all, being able to endure for so many years in the court where Yan Song covered the sky with one hand, and finally overthrew him in one fell swoop, this can be said to be a legend. However. Xu Jiexing may be tired of being in power for many years. Maybe I think I'm getting old. may also think that Zhang Juzheng in the court did not believe in his words at all, and even seemed careless when they met. In contrast, Gao Gong's sincerity and courage touched him extraordinarily. So now, the once glorious Huating Xu clan has long since declined, and has been replaced by a powerful Gao Shoufu.

But not long ago, Gao Gong had just done something he didn't expect. Gao Gong stabbed Zhang Juzheng for accepting a generous gift of 3,000 taels of silver from Xu Jie's son. But after being stabbed in person, he did not make it public, suppress Zhang Juzheng's reputation, or drive him out of the cabinet, but privately admonished Zhang Juzheng, and returned the whistleblower to his hometown, and threw it to the local official in the name of false accusation.

What is this? It would be completely foolish to open up the net to political opponents! Gao Gong is good at everything, but it's too easy to listen to other people's rhetoric!

"Master, Ngawang and the two of them are back!"

Hear this. Shao Fang's heart suddenly perked, and he hurriedly called someone in. Wait until two dusty retinues step into the room and salute. He immediately asked, "What accidents did you encounter along the way?" ”

"Master, the land route is not easy to walk, Henan is not very peaceful, and we are afraid that Lei Jigu will send out sea fishing documents indiscriminately, so we came back in a big circle. When I entered Nanzhili, the road was still not very smooth, and there were often small groups of thieves or bandits passing by. ”

The entourage named Ah Wang spoke first, and seeing that Shao Fang did not interrupt him, he continued, "I heard that the Taihu giant thief Boss Ge has been unscrupulous in his recent case, and the official governments of Su and Chang have all raised their rewards, which is enough for a thousand gold, and his subordinates have been wiped out very badly. Over the years, he has plagued many merchants in the southeast, and even large households have been kidnapped and extorted by him, and he has offended too many people to gain a foothold. It is said that he planned to go to the sea to Nanyang with more than a dozen of his henchmen, and made a big ticket before leaving. ”

Shao Fang can now be said to be both black and white. The reason why he refused to keep a low profile was precisely because he had spent a lot of money for Gao Gong, and of course he hoped for something in return. Gao Gong is a strong person, of course, it is impossible to match him with favoritism, so he can only rely on this layer of relationship to spread out by himself. As for those Jiangyang thieves and mountain bandits on the underworld, he can all say two sentences with the fate he formed by walking in his early years. Therefore, Danyang Shaw is like a transfer station between black and white, and all kinds of news can be summarized.

"Find someone who is clean and uninvolved, and give a letter to Boss Ge." Shao Fang paused when he said this, hesitated for a while, and then continued, "If you want to be a big ticket, it is better to go to Huizhou than to be in the land of Suchang Huaiyang." Where are the richest merchants in this southeastern land, of course, Hui merchants! Although most of them stay in Yangzhou in groups, they can't leave their hometown roots. How much money does Huizhou have? A county order followed those grain merchants to dump grain, and they could bury tens of thousands of gold in the county government, and planned to bring them back to their hometowns when their term of office expired, not to mention those Hui merchants who had a net worth of hundreds of thousands or even millions at every turn? ”

Ngawang and the other attendant glanced at each other, and they all understood why Shao Fang wanted to let such a rumor go out. The previous trip to Huguang was really unlucky, they had been walking around the rivers and lakes for so long, and it was the first time they had suffered such a big loss. Lei Jigu's plague god who doesn't eat oil and salt is fine, but it will be planted in the hands of a half-grown teenager, how can they swallow this breath?

"Don't worry, master, Ah Cai and I will do it."

"Hmm. In addition, while Boss Ge was informed, he also let some rumors go out in other places. For example, the few but capable Wufeng thieves, those people talk about brotherly righteousness, maybe Boss Bigge's gang will use it. ”

Ngawang agreed repeatedly, and was about to retire, when he suddenly thought of another thing he heard in Zhenjiang, and hurriedly stood up again: "By the way, there is another thing I don't know if I want to tell the master." Xinchang that Lu Gongzi happened to visit friends in Zhenjiang Mansion, and I heard that he first lived in the people in cloth clothes, and mixed with the old farmers in the countryside for a while, but he was still recognized, so he changed his clothes and visited relatives and friends everywhere, and now he is gone. ”

Xinchang Lu Gongzi...... Could it be Lu Guangwu, who is known as the warrior of the world?

As a Danyang sitting tiger, Shao Fang has always attached great importance to this kind of strong dragon in transit, not to mention that the Xinchang Lu family is not shallower than the Danyang Shao family, and the Lu brothers are famous in the southeast. After living in seclusion in Xinchang for many years, such a person suddenly started walking around outside again, could it be that what happened?

Come to think of it. He had no choice but to order: "Send people to squeak everywhere in Danyang." Pay attention to the person surnamed Lu. I don't want Lu Guangwu to appear in front of me. Only then did I know that this person had arrived in Danyang! ”

In other words, if Lu Guangwu doesn't come to Danyang, then let him do whatever he wants, he can't provoke this person with a strong family background and both civil and military skills!

In just a few days, Shao Fang got a report from the bottom that Boss Ge had already sent the news to him, and it was said that someone saw a few boats going ashore on the side of Taihu Lake. Perhaps the thief who wanted to take his brother into retreat had already set out to make his last vote. As for the Wufeng Thieves, it is said that they also moved. Not only that, there are some famous people on the underworld, especially the groups of people who made a fuss in Nanzhili before, and some of them went to Huizhou.

In response to this, he laughed at this, and then ordered Ngawang and Ah Cai, who were in charge of it, to clean up the beginning and tail, and send those involved far to the south.

However. Lu Guangwu, who he asked people to inquire, did not appear on the ground in Danyang. It seems that he just walked around Zhenjiang in the past, and now he has gone far. Even so, Shao Fang still didn't dare to take it lightly, and asked people to tell the rest inns everywhere to still act carefully. But what he didn't expect was that his son-in-law Shen Yingkui came from Changzhou that day, but he brought news of Lu Guangwu.

"You mean, Lu Guangwu actually went to see you and stayed in your house for three days?"

Seeing Shao Fang's stunned face, Shen Yingkui smiled and said, "Father-in-law doesn't believe it? To say that I myself feel that it is really flattering that Xinchang Lu Gongzi actually knows me, a small student of the house. Lu Gongzi said that he heard that I was both civil and military, so he came to visit me, and he didn't have any predecessors at all, and he also pulled me to try swordsmanship and martial arts, and at the end he also pointed me out a lot, which really benefited me a lot. When he heard that I had come to see my father-in-law, he had planned to come with him, but when he heard that an old farmer in the suburbs could lift a cart with his bare hands, he took his entourage to verify it with his own eyes. ”

Lu Guangwu: What is this for? Heroes all over the world?

Shao Fang really felt that her whole person was a little confused, and in the end, it could only be attributed to the fact that Lu Guangwu had money and leisure and didn't want to be an official, so he was full and traveled the world. So, hearing Shen Yingkui talking with great interest about how to learn from Lu Guangwu, how to gossip about the heroes of the world, and how to talk about scriptures and historical articles, he had to remind a few words in the end.

"Ying Kui, Lu Guangwu said that he refused to go out, and even ignored Hu Zongxian's recommendation back then, but in the final analysis, it was Yan Song who was in power at that time, and everyone had to bow his head, so he could only do this if he didn't want to bow his head. Later, Xu Jie was in power, and he had a relationship with Hu Zongxian, so naturally he couldn't use it, so he simply broke the jar and broke it. ”

"But you're different." He ended with these four words, but he said with great expectations, "You are a student of the government, and you can be regarded as a good person in the official face of Changzhou government, as long as you can pass the examination, no matter whether you can pass the Jinshi examination or not, I will ensure that you have a bright future!" ”

Shen Yingkui suddenly smiled bitterly. He knew that his father-in-law was utilitarian, and he said that "if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about it", and if you don't say it well, you think too highly of yourself. He also knew that Shao Fang was for his own good, so he could only listen with a smile, and in the end, he was really a little impatient, so he said to him: "By the way, the Su Tuiguan of Changzhou Mansion told me that Zhang Jiayin, the new governor of Yingtian, has just taken office and intends to rectify the atmosphere of Nanzhili. In the past few days, Changzhou Mansion has caught a lot of small thieves, and Su Tuiguan said that the new official took office with three fires, and he couldn't catch this big thief, so he could only use these thieves to deal with Governor Zhang's anger. ”

"Zhang Jiayin is the first to be used by the old man, if it weren't for his old man, Zhang Jiayin would be a political envoy in his life. Not only him, but also one of the three people in Nanzhili's patrol according to the imperial history, that Cai Yingyang has not been in office for a few months, and three people have fallen under his hands, and now he is going to the branch patrol road of Ningchi Taidao. If I'm not mistaken, this son has a hot ass, and the first two didn't end well. Cai Yingyang also came down for the anti-corruption policy of Gao Ge Lao, and for more than a year, there have been at least three or four corrupt officials investigated and punished in various places every month, which is a big deal! ”

Shao Fang commented on the characters like a big man in the court, but he didn't notice Shen Yingkui's disapproving face. People can do whatever they want, just make like-minded friends as they want, and they are not court officials, so what are you doing with your leisure heart? (To be continued......)