In the spring of the 54th year of the New Dynasty, Xu Ruyu sent a recall letter to Xu Boying and Ziyangqiu, who were stranded in Quanzhou.

As the lieutenant of Nanmin County, Zongzheng Ji Wang recalled the cold eyes of Qingliu when he submitted the paperwork, and his heart palpitated slightly.

Zong Zheng's eyes were condensed in the air, wearing the breeze blowing through the room, like ripples on the spring water, from her graceful and beautiful face, there was no inner fluctuation.

In the past 27 years, Houlu, a high-ranking official in Southern Fujian, could not keep him, and his peerless appearance could not be retained.

Zongzheng Ji Wang didn't notice Zongzheng Ningshuang's distraction, and said to himself: "The valve is not in Quanzhou, the county lord gave me an idea." ”

Zong Zheng Ning Shuang sighed and said, "Does Xu Ruyu really regard Nan Min as nothing? If Quanzhou doesn't let people go, what unexpected move will he make? ”

"Xu Boying's status is respectful, Shao Haitang is not as good as it, if we forcibly detain it, it is really difficult to predict how Xu Ruyu will react. However, the Xiaowei battalion has been transferred to the border between Zhangtai and Longyan, and there are signs of a large army gathering in Wuling Mountain. However, Wenling City still has 30,000 elites stationed on Puji Island, these 30,000 elites not only threaten the eastern part of Qingjiang Prefecture, but also because Wenling and Zhangtai are only separated by Wuling Mountain, these 30,000 elites can cross the sea and attack Zhangtai within a day with the help of Shuiying warships. There are only 5,000 people in the Xiaowei battalion, and there will be nothing with the 1,000 remnants of Zhangtai? ”

"Since there is nothing to worry about, why hasn't the third brother returned to Quanzhou?" Zong Zheng Ningshuang sighed lightly, "Their father and son are not easy to speculate, otherwise Gongliang Youqin would not have folded in his hands twice." Xu Boying and Ziyangqiu came to Nanmin in July last year to discuss the tea and horse business, I don't think there is any malice, whether to let Xu Boying go or stay, you already have an idea in your heart, but you came over to ask my opinion, but it is convenient to put the responsibility on me when there is a mistake in the future. What you have done, I am a woman who cannot fathom you. ”

Zongzheng Ji Wang's face was stunned, and he said: "The valve is not in Quanzhou, and no one can do the things in Quanzhou." Xu Boying's attitude was quite resolute, and he said that he was going to leave Quanzhou and go north, and it was too late to ask for the opinion of the valve, so he came to the county lord, Ji Wang took on such a big responsibility. ”

"Nan Min is not my Zongzheng family covering the sky with one hand, but also the Yan family, what do they say?"

Zongzheng Ji Wang glanced at her hesitantly, and said hesitantly: "At the beginning of the month, Xu Ruyu suddenly visited the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion, and after that, the day after the news was transmitted back to Quanzhou, Yan Qingyi went back to Putian to recuperate. I went to Yan's Mansion to ask, and they all said that Yan Qingyi was not in Quanzhou, and my sectarian could make the decision in everything. However, Zhang Yishan, who has always been good friends with the Yan family, came over to say something about the two exchanges, and it seems that the Yan family also means this. After a slight hesitation, he said the words from the bottom of his heart, "Since Xu Ruyu appointed Zheng Menghuai to preside over the affairs of Zhangtai, it shows that the Qingyan Army and the Nanmin family have no room to turn around, and the Yan family has nothing to do with it, and now he is not allowed to protect himself." ”

Zong Zheng Ningshuang chuckled: "There is no room for turning around with Xu Ruyu, I'm afraid it's only our Zongzheng family." Xu Ruyu's tough attitude made other families anxious to clear up the relationship, and the Yan family was not afraid of Xu Ruyu, but of the third brother. ”

Zongzheng Ji Wang was slightly stunned, and then he understood.

At the beginning, in order to prevent Xu Ruyu from colluding with the family forces in Zhangtai, a policy was set to lure bandits and drive the people, but it was not to turn Zhangtai into a scorched earth.

When Xu Boying and Ziyang entered Southern Fujian in autumn, everyone speculated that Xu Ruyu's purpose was most likely to seek a way to jointly deal with the Puji bandits, rather than to fight with the Zongzheng family for control of Southern Fujian. But how many of the Southern Min families can dissociate themselves from Puji Island? Regardless of the lucrative overseas trade that passed through Puji Island, the luxury goods enjoyed by each family were all transshipped from Puji Island. Xu Ru foolishly intends to reopen the tea and horse trade route, and the Nanmin family does not need to use the unsightly route of Puji Island, if the Gongliang Youqin is really destroyed, the merchant ships of the Zongzheng family can naturally arrive in Yongyang to enter the trade in a dignified manner.

However, worried that the Zhangtai family would be too inclined to Xu Ruyu, they decided to lure the Puji bandits to invade Zhangtai, Wuling and other places, and drove the people in these places to the south of Zhangzhou, so that Xu Ruyu had nothing to gain in Zhangtai.

No one would have thought that the valve could be so determined to turn Zhangtai into a scorched earth and push the Nanmin family into a position completely opposed to Xu Ruyu. is completely different from when he first entered Qingjiang Mansion, Xu Ruyu was not only not intimidated by the scorched earth of Zhangtai, but also resolutely sent troops directly into Zhangtai.

After the Qingyan Army entered Zhangtai, it first cleared out the pirates in Wuling and Zhangtai, and attracted people from all over the country to move to Zhangtai and Wuling with the move of allocating fields. The people of Southern Fujian are worried about the bandits in Zhangtai, but Wuling, which is located in the back and abdomen of Zhangtai, is relatively much safer. This is Xu Xing more than 20 years ago for Xu Ruyu laid the foundation of contacts, the people of Southern Fujian confidence in Xu Ruyu is obviously much stronger than other families, not only ordinary tenant farmers to move north, in order to get their own land in Wuling, Zhangtai, recently the Quanzhou family of the vassals have also escaped. Xu Ruyu was able to influence the people of Quanzhou and other places so quickly, and it is thought that he had formed a certain scale of intelligence network in various parts of southern Fujian.

The nearly 100,000 displaced people stranded between Zhangzhou City and Yongjiabao also stopped moving south because of Xu Ruyu, and waited for Yan Xun to open the way north to Wuling. What's more, he took the road back to Wuling from the steep and majestic Yunling. Xu Ruyu visited the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion alone to warn Yan Xun not to send troops to stop the people who ventured north in the Yunling Mountains.

The main mountain range of Yunling is located between Nanning and Jingjun, and the mountain system between Zhangzhou and Quanzhou is just its branch, but this branch is much higher than the Lingshan Mountain in Southern Fujian, and has become a military insurmountable obstacle. The Sanmiao people are mainly distributed in the Yunling Mountains between Nanmin and Jingjun, and only tens of thousands of Sanmiao tribes survive in the mountain system between Nanmin and Nanmin.

The Yunling Mountains between Southern Fujian and Nanning are obstructive and dangerous, and the original Fujian Zhongshan in the northern part of Southern Fujian is comparable, and it is possible to encounter the Sanmiao people who are quite hostile to the Han people. The displaced people who can use Yunling to go north to Wuling can have geometry, Yan Xun would not have been distracted by this, and the most elite Qingjiang cavalry battalion in Qingjiang has been operating in the south of Wuling, so it is even more impossible for Yan Xun to send a small group of soldiers to Yunling to intercept and kill the people who moved north.

Xu Ruyu and Zheng Menghuai's sudden appearance in the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion caused Yan Xun was incomprehensible to outsiders, and the idea of besieging and killing Xu Ruyu was born and extinguished in Yan Xun's heart, and when Xu Ruyu drifted away, Yan Xun found that his robe was soaked with sweat, and remembered that he and Zheng Menghuai and others were discussed by Southern Fujian Confucian students as the Four Masters of Southern Fujian, and couldn't help but feel depressed.

Zongzheng Xunda and Zongzheng Ningshuang discussed the question of Xu Boying and Ziyangqiu's stay in the palace of Nanmin County, and Yan Xun and Yan Qingyi also discussed the matter in a private residence in northern Quanzhou.

Yan Qingyi was quite surprised by Yan Xun's secret return to Quanzhou, Xu Ruyu's appearance in the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion was enough to make Zongzheng Xunda feel a stumbling block, if he was told by Zongzheng's eyes that Yan Xun secretly returned to Quanzhou, wouldn't he be even more suspicious.

Do you know that Xu Ruyu's intention in appearing in the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion is not this?

Yan Qingyi frowned lightly and said, "Zixun, you came back recklessly." ”

Yan Xun was slightly stunned, and after a while, he said angrily: "My position as a lieutenant is not worthy of the name, I don't go to the Zhangzhou military camp for several months, and no one comes to ask questions, and it doesn't matter if I leave for two days." What's more, at this time, ten months have passed since Xu Ruyu appeared in the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion. ”

"Do you know that Xu Ruyu issued an urgent recall letter to Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu in Quanzhou, this is a copy of the recall letter, just handed out from the county king's mansion, you can take a look."

Yan Xun reads "... If you can drown him and not do his duty, even if you are splashed with blood in five steps, you will go here to humiliate ......", I was shocked, this recall letter was a private letter between Xu Ruyu and Xu Boying, but the fierceness of the words was beyond everyone's expectations.

Yan Xun said hesitantly: "This recall letter doesn't seem to be Xu Ruyu's original intention, the rumored Xu Ruyu in the world is quite elegant and handsome, comparable to Xu Xing back then?" ”

"Didn't you just meet Xu Ruyu, why did you still tell me about Xu Ruyu in the world's concept? Zheng Menghuai experienced the scourge of annihilation, what kind of appearance did he look like? ”

Zheng Menghuai just stared at him silently, but Xu Ruyu was as calm as rumored, and there was no urgency to be in the enemy's situation, and it was his calmness that made him dare not easily order to besiege him.

Yan Xun said to himself like a dream: "The rumors are not exaggerated, so I suspect that this letter is not from Xu Ruyu's original intention." I heard that Xu Ruyu's royal majesty is not very rigorous, when Xu Ruyu is not in Qingjiang Mansion and Yongyang Mansion, Mei Tierui, Shao Haitang and others can use his name to deal with urgent affairs, this letter can be sent directly by Qingjiang, and the tone of the private letter is not to let us understand that it is Xu Ruyu's original intention. Perhaps Xu Ruyu's hostility towards the Southern Fujian family is not as strong as the one described in this letter...... "It's just that the last sentence is not confident."

"It's just wishful thinking, Xu Ruyu appointed Zheng Menghuai, and Nanmin and Xu Ruyu have no room to turn around. You and I know the details of Nan Min best, known as 70,000 strong troops, how many are left who can really compete with the Central Plains heroes? ”

Southern Fujian has Wuling Mountain, Yunling and isolated from the outside world, not worried about the invasion of strong enemies, and because Southern Fujian was still a wild land a hundred years ago, the economy and agriculture are far inferior to the mainland, and the natural armament is also relaxed. The power of the Zongzheng family to gather the strength of one county has not been able to solve the bandit problem that has plagued for decades, which shows that the strength of Southern Fujian is far from being comparable with other counties.

Xu Ruyu's ability to win the support of the Baiyi clan is the most unexpected in the world, but this is the key factor for Xu Ruyu's rise in Qingjiang. At this time, Wuling Mountain is no longer a heavenly obstacle to Xu Ruyu, but a steep stronghold overlooking the land of Southern Fujian, which makes Zongzheng Xunda and Yan Qingyi panic and uneasy from then on.

The impression of Xu Xing's invincible use of troops has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of the people of Southern Fujian, and the fact that Xu Ruyu rose like a comet intensified the shock in the hearts of the people of Southern Fujian, so he came up with a scorched earth strategy, wanting to make Xu Ruyu abandon Southern Fujian and go north to compete with the Central Plains Heroes. In Yan Qingyi's heart, he couldn't agree with Xu Xing and Xu Ruyu's beliefs, and he even thought that Xu Xing's refusal to be the governor of Fengzhu Mansion back then had greater ambitions.

Yan Xun didn't notice Yan Qingyi's distraction, and said to himself: "Xu Ruyu has always been tolerant, but the eldest brother is too worried......"

"Tolerance is not the turn of the Zongzheng family and my Yan family, if you expect Xu Ruyu to be tolerant to my Yan family after controlling Southern Fujian, I advise you to dispel such thoughts as soon as possible. The most famous general in the Qingyan Army is not Ming Xi, not Liang Bao, not Mi Yusheng, but the general Wei Yu, Xu Ruyu in order to better control the Yongyang regime, Liang Bao does not use, Ming Xi does not use, Mi Yusheng does not need, but Wei Yu is transferred to Yongyang as the commander of the Jinghai Sea Battalion, it can be seen that he is very the bones, 'no matter what coercion, the first evil must be investigated', our Yan family is the first evil in his eyes, what can you hope for? ”

"But what does the eldest brother mean to put Xu Boying and the others back?"

Yan Qingyi shook his head and said: "Xu Boying is really in Quanzhou with blood splashed five steps, and what happened in Yizhou City back then may be repeated, if you want to kill Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu, it should not be my Yan family." ”

Yi Zhouwu was assassinated by Xu Ruyu in his lair, and Yi Zhouwu himself was already a grandmaster-level master, and his deep impression was so deep that the world could not forget it in just a few years. Although the two armies fought against each other, and it was taboo for warriors to assassinate each other's generals, the Yi clan and Xu Ruyu had a hatred for killing their father, and the world not only criticized him, but also praised his success.

Yan Xun suddenly realized that Xu Ruyu's appearance in the Zhangzhou Governor's Mansion was just a gesture to the family of Southern Fujian, and if Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu were killed in Quanzhou as envoys, he had the determination and ability to make the family of Southern Fujian pay the corresponding price.

Thinking of this, Yan Xun was in a cold sweat, and when he saw the look on the eldest brother's face that you finally understood, he suddenly felt ashamed and muttered, "Xiao Xun has been taught." ”

Yan Qingyi said: "The fifty elites escorted by Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu were originally Xu Ruyu's personal guards, and they were drawn from the Qingjiang cavalry camp. Unless the army is called, it is really impossible to leave their surnames behind. ”

"Is it really hard to let them return smoothly?"

"If you can weaken Xu Ruyu's vigilance and let them return, Xu Ruyu doesn't have the ability to scatter beans into soldiers after all, I want to see how he gets a foothold in Zhangtai?" Yan Qingyi remembered something and asked, "Is there anything abnormal in Zhangzhou?" ”

"What can happen, or those 100,000 homeless people are a headache. Yongjiabao first closed the fort to prevent the displaced people from moving south, and later after Xu Ruyu recruited the displaced people in Wuling to reclaim the famine, Yongjiabao was also afraid that Xu Ruyu would sit big, so he opened the passage of Yongjiabao to the south, but these displaced people were unwilling to leave as if they were evil, and they were stranded between Yongjiabao and Zhangzhou City. There are also some homeless people who want to go north through the Yunling Mountains, and there are only a dozen people who can pass through. ”

Yan Qingyi thought for a while, and said: "There are few people who can pass through now, but let those displaced people find a way out in the Yunling Mountains, they will move north in large numbers, and Xu Ruyu may also use this passage to make a surprise attack to the south of Zhangzhou, you don't have to be careless." ”

Yan Xun thought that there was indeed this possibility, and his face was gloomy, it seemed that Yan Qingyi had a little disdain in his eyes, only Zheng Menghuai had real material among the four heroes of Southern Fujian back then, after all, he was his own brother, he couldn't bear to be sarcastic, and said softly: "We must come up with a way to resettle the displaced people as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble for the displaced people." ”

"I don't have real power in Zhangzhou, and Zhangzhou is not the Zhangzhou of my Yan family, so it's useless to think about it......"

"The head on your neck is your own." After saying this, Yan Qingyi also felt abruptly stern, and said in a slow tone: "Since you are back, go and see the county lord, so as not to be suspicious of the sect ruler." ”

Yan Xun's pale face showed a painful expression, and said, "How could she ever regard me as her husband? ”

Yan Xun was originally the concubine of the former head of the Yan family, and it was already a luxury to be able to join the Zongzong political family, but he was still hoping for something else, so he couldn't help but let Yan Qingyi's face appear hesitant, and he restrained himself and reprimanded softly: "What you did in Zhangzhou is too presumptuous, where does the county lord's face exist?" The most powerful character in Southern Fujian is not Zongzheng Xunda, nor is it me Yan Qingyi, and this woman, the scorched earth strategy is that she came up with it, do you think she can still have an old relationship with Xu Xingnian? ”

"Ahh Yan Xun stood in fright, and suddenly hit the corner of the table, and when the table was about to tilt, Yan Qingyi held it down, and even the tea in the tea did not overflow.

Yan Qingyi said softly: "You are the third person who knows the secret of this, Zongzheng Xunda is the position of the county king, and the county lord has the right to regent, but it was not announced to the public at that time, and most of the policies that Nanmin has done over the years are due to her instructions." ”

Yan Xun sat back in his seat in a daze, and seemed to be deaf to Yan Qingyi's words.

After Xu Xing's death in Bayang, Zong Zheng broke off her last thoughts, and the sudden anger made her have the intention of destroying Xu Xing's achievements during his lifetime.

Yan Xun felt a chill down his spine, but he couldn't reveal this idea to his eldest brother.

Yan Qingyi looked at Yan Xun's frightened expression, and didn't think of going anywhere else, and chuckled: "Although the regime of Southern Fujian has made her a woman, she has no objection to being a brother, the county lord does not come to the stage, and there is no threat to Zongzheng Xunda's status, so Zongzheng Xunda obeys her words, and you have not noticed it at all for more than 20 years?" How did you become a husband? ”

Yan Xun said in horror: "Xu Boying's whereabouts can't be decided by her, she will kill the killer?" ”

"Why?" Yan Qingyi felt very abrupt.

Yan Xun said dejectedly: "She just wants to destroy everything Xu Xing left behind, not for the interests of the Zongzheng family or our Yan family." ”

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