Zheng Menghuai said: "Li Gonglin is Li Yuanji's younger brother, good at left-handed swords, but not left-handed, right-handed paintbrush, good at figures, flowers and birds, Xu Gong praised his "Plum Stone Creek Painting" very much, but he was only twelve years old when he painted that painting. ”

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "Li Gonglin will be able to frighten people when he uses his right-handed sword, my father mentioned it to me, only said that he was a prodigy in Southern Fujian, and encouraged me with his things." ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "The mountains and rocks and peaks he is painting now, the big axe is chopping, the cliff is solid, and the right hand is a long weapon such as a halberd and a knife, but he has always served as a civil official, and he has no long weapon with him." ”

Zheng Menghuai had such an opinion about him in his heart, and he praised him in his heart, and he also heard the meaning of his words, and said to Xu Ruyu: "Li Gonglin was too famous when he was young, and he had a gap with Li Guangji. Longquan is only afraid that he has received the news at this time, and we should only ignore the subtleties and treat Li Gonglin normally, and you really want to pity Li Gonglin's talent, and wait until the situation in Southern Fujian stabilizes. ”

Xu Ru smiled and said nothing, turned his head sideways to Luo Boyuan and asked, ""The Elegant Collection of the West Garden" is Li Gonglin's work? ”

Luo Boyuan nodded, feeling strange in his heart: Xu Ruyu did not know the origin of Li Gonglin, but now he could tell one of his less famous works.

Xu Ru smiled and said: "You Li once had a copy on hand, but I accidentally put water stains on it, and she frowned for a long time. If Li Gonglin is really useful, I can't bend him, but I have to ask him for a painting first. ”

Along the way, although Zheng Menghuai talked about the Nanmin family, along the way, Zheng Menghuai still chose some people to focus on him, and after a while, he arrived at the palace of Nanmin County.

Xu Ruyu stood on the long street, looking up at the two big ancient seals written on his forehead: "King Min".

Zongzheng became the first family of Southern Fujian is a matter of a hundred years, the new dynasty was founded, Zong Zhengqi led the Southern Fujian families to respect the inner court, canonized as the king of Fujian, and the two ancient seals on the flat forehead are still given by Gaozu.

Xu Ruyu said softly: "I picked it." Stepping over the knee-high iron and wood threshold, the glory of a hundred years of Southern Fujian suddenly passed in front of his eyes, and his father was outside this threshold to the then King of Southern Fujian to state the level of banditry, and the mother was standing inside the threshold, looking at his father curiously.

Xu Ruyu came back to his senses and saw that the court was crowded with people, bowing to him together.

Xu Ruyu only felt that he was stunned for a while, and replied with half a salute, which was regarded as a tribute to these fathers and deacons, and paused for a while before he spoke: "Princes, please come to the hall to discuss matters." ”

About to enter the inner hall, Xu Ruyu stopped and said to Zheng Menghuai: "Zheng Gong went to invite Jingyun's father into the inner hall. ”

Zhao Jingyun said in fear: "The Zhao family can't bear it. ”

Xu Ruyu glanced at him, smiled, didn't say anything, and stepped straight into the inner hall.

The Zhao family can only be regarded as a third-rate family in Southern Fujian, if there is no relationship with Zhao Jingyun, there is no position of the Zhao family in the lobby, Xu Ruyu asked Zheng Menghuai to personally invite his father to enter the inner hall to discuss matters, which made Zhao Jingyun feel frightened and grateful.

He Jiongyi, Dong Shuda, Jing Hao, Li Gonglin, and Qin Zeduan followed Xu Ruyu's side, looking at each other for a long time, but they still couldn't remember which family the young general on Xu Ruyu's side belonged to, and when Zheng Menghuai led Zhao Jingyun's father in, only He Jiongyi recognized that person was Zhao Kuan, the head of the Zhao family in Quanzhou.

Zhao Kuan is over fifty years old, his sideburns are gray, his crown hair is neat, there is almost no jumping silk, and his silk shirt is like a water leak without a trace of creases, it can be seen that he is cautious and subtle.

Xu Ruyu stood up and said, "Zhao Gong rushed from Futian to the city overnight to teach Yu Ruyu, and he was tired from the journey. ”

Zhao Kuan didn't dare to accept the salute, owed, and waited for Xu Ruyu to sit back in his place, then straightened up and said: "The old man just wants to experience the grand event in person, and it is an honor to be summoned by General Meng Qingfeng." ”

"I invite you to come here, just to participate in the grand event, Zhao Gong is familiar with Quanzhou affairs, you foolish please go to the inner hall to discuss, don't be strange."

He Jiongyi saw the smile in the corner of Zhao Kuan's eyes, and thought: The Zhao family belongs to the kind of low-end family, and it does not have much impact on the political situation in Quanzhou.

He Jiongyi hung his head slightly, and looked at other people's expressions out of the corner of his eyes, Dong Shuda, Li Gonglin and others also had doubts on their faces, knowing that they had the same guess in their hearts, but it was certain that the Zhao family would get an absolute opportunity for development, thinking of this, looking at Zhao Kuan's eyes was mixed with a little envy.

Zheng Menghuai invited Zhao Kuan into the inner hall from the lobby, and everyone's envious eyes were more obvious than He Jiongyi's, Zheng Menghuai quietly stood on Xu Ruyu's left hand, carefully comparing the reactions of He Jiongyi and others.

Using the local forces that are eager to rise to break the original balance of power, Li Gonglin laughed secretly, the Zhao family is afraid that it will be a topic for everyone in the lobby because Zhao Jingyun has received such preferential treatment, Xu Ruyu's next step is probably to go down to "Zhao Xianwen", and include the outstanding children of the Southern Fujian family into the middle of the Yanzhong, in that way, the power of the Southern Fujian family is actually closely linked to the fate of the Qingyan Army, which seems to be a gentle approach, but it is more effective and popular.

Li Gonglin looked at Xu Ruyu's thin side face with the corner of his eye, and thought: He is only twenty-two years old this year, even with the assistance of handsome men like Shao Haitang and Zheng Menghuai, he also has a talent and surname that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

Xu Ru turned his head as if he was aware of it, and looked at Li Gonglin, with slightly narrow cheeks, handsome and plump, three long beards, and a green shirt, his eyes were as calm as water.

Xu Ruyu said: "My father once commented on the heroes of Southern Fujian with Ru Yu and praised Li Gong, but my father has been away from Southern Fujian for almost 30 years, and Ru Yu has to consult Li Gong. ”

Rao is Li Gonglin's heart is like an ancient well, and after listening to Xu Ruyu's words, he will also make waves. Li Gonglin leaned sideways and owed slightly, and said: "The young heroes of Southern Fujian, there are two people standing in adults. ”

Xu Ruyu looked at Luo Boyuan and Zhao Jingyun, who were separated on the left and right, chuckled, pointed at Zhao Jingyun and said, "If Zongzheng Xunda can reuse Jingyun, Ruyu may not have the opportunity to meet with the princes here. ”

Luo Boyuan did not serve in Southern Fujian, but his reputation was great, as if he was the leader of the young generation, Li Gonglin mentioned Zhao Jingyun just to see that Xu Ruyu was quite important to him, and he just pushed the boat down the river, but there was no such person as Zhao Jingyun in his impression.

Seeing that everyone was surprised by Xu Ruyu's evaluation of Zhao Jingyun, Luo Boyuan's heart finally waved, but the disdain in his eyes couldn't hide a trace of unwillingness.

Many of them were young and engaged in traveling, using their family power and their own talents to seek good fortune, and then seeking official positions after gaining a good reputation, but it was much simpler than the children of a low-end family like themselves who completely relied on their own ability to promote step by step.

Xu Ruyu said that such words were not completely praising himself, Zhao Jingyun said calmly: "The adult is too famous, the adult enters the Southern Fujian is in accordance with the sky, and Zongzheng Xunda can be blocked for a while, and the time will not be long." If Junjie of Southern Fujian crosses the carp of the river, and the adult enters Southern Fujian, Junxian will be willing to gather under the command of the adult. ”

Xu Ruyu looked at Tu Wenyong and said: "You will draft a letter of seeking talents, and all Mao talents are different, regardless of vulgarity, pan-driving, regardless of high and poor families, they are all in this list." His gaze slowly swept over He Jiongyi and the others, and said, "The princes should have the responsibility of recommendation, don't forget." ”

He Jiongyi and others agreed repeatedly, but they speculated in their hearts: Xu Ruyu is committed to letting new interest groups emerge in Southern Fujian to break the existing equilibrium, and he is afraid that the "Junxian" he recommends will be included in the list of "not acceptable".

Zhao Jingyun saw Li Gonglin looking at himself, pretending not to know, turning around to look at the other side, but saw Luo Boyuan looking at him with disdain, and avoided Luo Boyuan's gaze disapprovingly, and like Zheng Menghuai, he carefully looked at the expressions of everyone in the hall.

Li Gonglin knew that Zhao Jingyun had joined Xu Ruyu on the way south of the Qingyan Army, and at this time, he went in and out with him, so he knew that his ability was unusual, and Xu Ruyu's evaluation at this time was not against his will.

On the third day of the Qingyan Army's attack on Quanzhou, when it was still more than 200 miles away from Quanzhou, the Nanmin family was also aware, but they all chose to remain silent. If it weren't for this, no matter how weak Quanzhou's military intelligence reconnaissance was, it would not have been until the Qingyan Army was less than thirty miles away from the city before realizing the abnormality. However, the whereabouts of the Qingyan Army were discovered earlier, and there was no substantial help to Quanzhou City, and the largest number of troops that the Zongzheng family could call on in Quanzhou was the Quanzhou Water Army, but nearly half of the Quanzhou Water Army and the Chengxiang Yong in Quanzhou City were mastered by the dissidents of Zongzheng Xunda.

Even though he knew that the Southern Fujian family would eventually turn his back on Zongzheng Xunda, but he couldn't get through in advance, Xu Ruyu went deep alone, but it took a lot of determination. To make the decision to attack Quanzhou, it is not only necessary to thoroughly control the overall situation, but also to be quite courageous.

However, last year, in order to prevent Xu Ruyu's forces from entering northern Fujian, Zongzheng Xunda adopted a scorched earth strategy, although he had a temporary plan and severely defeated the power of the Zhangtai family, but the negative impact made the Zongzheng family face the disaster of annihilation today.

Maybe Xu Ruyu is really as Zhao Jingyun said, "go with the sky", Zongzheng Xunda can be blocked for a while, but not for a long time.

is different from what Li Gonglin thought, He Jiongyi is most concerned about what kind of policy Xu Ruyu will adopt in Southern Fujian at this time. Compared with the rumors of other county governments, the Nanmin family believes that "County Policy" is from Xu Xing. He Jiongyi and several people gathered together late at night to discuss the "County Policy", knowing that the Qingyan Army would not stop in Quanzhou for long, and there were still 40,000 Southern Fujian Guards in northern Fujian and 40,000 Puji bandits entangled with the Qingyan Army, and Xu Ruyu would rely on local forces to control the situation in Quanzhou; The other families will also receive the news of the Qingyan Army's attack on Quanzhou, and their choice depends on the promise Xu Ruyu made tonight.

He Jiongyi carefully chose the words and said: "It goes without saying that the adults enter the Southern Min and follow the sky, but in order to avoid other places being taken by Zongzheng Xunda, it is better to send out this text of rebellion and appeasement as soon as possible." ”

Xu Ruyu's gaze quickly swept over everyone and stopped at He Jiongyi's face.

He Zhou and Ding Mianchen joined forces to resist the bandits in Longyan, and the He clan had to be clearer in their attitude on this matter.

Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "The Southern Fujian Guards have always been drawn from the family, will the Southern Fujian family be overwhelmed by this?" ”

He Jiongyi saw Xu Ruyu go straight to the point, and thought: I am afraid that this is Xu Ruyu's bottom limit, but it is not unexpected, but the private soldiers of the family have the difference between the children of the family and the vassals of the people, He Jiongyi hesitated for a long time, and he didn't know whether to bring it up at this time.

Zheng Menghuai saw the hesitation in He Jiongyi's eyes, and said: "The clan colluded with Puji, the crime is unforgivable, and the clan's private land will be used to prepare for the war and share the burden for all families, if there is any shortage, it will be made up in Zhangzhou." There is a difference between the private soldiers of Southern Fujian and the private soldiers of Yongyang, after the battle of the East China Sea, the private soldiers are mostly supplemented from the displaced people, while the most elite of the private soldiers of Southern Fujian are the children of the family, and the rest are selected from the vassals. The new army of Southern Fujian will mainly be brave and brave, and the children of the family can apply for generals. ”

Zhangzhou will be the area where the Southern Fujian troops are stationed, and the private property of the Zongzheng clan will go into the Qingyan Military Treasury. The best of the children of the family can apply for the general's position, and the vassals and their families must be separated from the control of the family.

He Jiongyi quickly caught the point from Zheng Menghuai's gentle tone.

Dong Shuda, Jing Hao, Li Gonglin, and Qin Zeduan were all hesitant.

Zhao Kuan did not have this sharing, after the end of the Battle of Southern Fujian, the gains of the Zhao clan must be far greater than the losses.

Xu Ru was speechless for a while, turned his head sideways and said to Zheng Menghuai: "More than 100 years ago, although Southern Fujian was a remote hometown with mountains and seas, but Quanzhou was a meeting of wealthy businessmen, Quanzhou Port thousands of boats racing, the glory of thousands of sails was not seen today, my father took Nanning and went down to Quanzhou, that is, to see the ruins, and later my father presided over government affairs in Yongyang, and many policies were implemented in Quanzhou in the middle of the old dynasty. ”

Zheng Menghuai was slightly stunned, and then his words said: "Quanzhou Hainan Airlines has three routes, and the northeast route will pass through Wenling and Yongyang to the north; The southeast route, passing through Penghu and Liuqiu Islands, leads to the island countries of the southeast ocean; The southwest route, passing through Yi'an, Nanning's Longchuan, Qiongzhou Island, and leading to Jiaozhi and other places, after two heavy setbacks, the Puji bandits were no longer able to affect the sea areas south of Penghu and Liuqiu Island, and the southeast and southwest routes of Quanzhou Hainan Airlines were in fact safe. ”

He Jiongyi saw Xu Ruyu looking at him and said, "Zheng Gong is familiar with the affairs of Southern Fujian, and what he says will not be bad. ”

Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "As far as I know, Quanzhou Hainan Airlines has not been cut off. Most of the time the sea area of the northeast route and the southeast route was controlled by the pirate bandits in the eastern ocean, so the pirate trade prevailed, while the southwest route, because of the bad relations with the Yue family in Nanning, only a few families with good relations with the Yue family secretly engaged in private trade. ”

He Jiongyi saw that Xu Ruyu's gaze was still on his face, and his heart became worried.

The world criticized the "county policy", but the Yue family in Nanning remained silent. If Yue Feixue and Xu Ruyu really have any tacit understanding, maybe Xu Ruyu knows exactly how many sea ships the He family has.

Xu Ruyu took a fancy to the panic in He Jiongyi's eyes, turned his gaze away, and continued: "The scale of pirate trade and private voyages is only as large as Baiyi in the heyday of Quanzhou in the old dynasty, and it is far from enough to restore the tea and horse trade route. Instead of discussing how to abolish the private army, the princes should discuss how to restore the Quanzhou Maritime Airlines and the Tea and Horse Trade Road. ”

To restore Quanzhou's maritime navigation, it is necessary to greatly contain and eliminate the Puji forces, and to restore the tea and horse trade route, it is necessary to connect with Qingjiang. Xu Ruyu will not give up the family's request to cancel the private soldiers, and the conversation is just to ask the Nanmin family to look farther.

Since the Zongzheng clan ruled Southern Fujian, except for the Yan family, other families no longer have the power to monopolize a city, even if they have private soldiers, they have no strength to divide the localities, and although the abolition of private soldiers deprives the family of military rights, it has not dealt a big blow to the power of the Southern Fujian family. He Jiongyi and others hesitated at this time, just to gain bargaining chips for the next political negotiations.

Xu Ruyu raised his eyes slightly, and said: "Quanzhou goes up along the Fujian River, bypasses the southern foot of the Fujian Mountains, passes through Yongjiabao, Zhangzhou City, Wuling City, Qingfeng Gorge and enters Wuling Mountain, along the Lishui River into the Qingjiang River, and enters the river, reaching everywhere. Therefore, from Quanzhou to Qingfeng Gorge, it is necessary to set up prefectures and counties, namely Quanzhou Mansion, Yongjia Mansion, Dongyang Mansion, and other prefectures and counties. Quanzhou Prefecture includes all of Quanzhou-eup and the northeastern part of Min-eup. ”

The three regions that implement the prefecture and county system, Yongjia Mansion and Zhangzhou are actually the northern Fujian region currently controlled by the Qingyan Army, Quanzhou Mansion was originally the jurisdiction of the Zongzheng clan, and now it is also occupied by Xu Ruyu's troops, Xu Ruyu implemented the prefecture and county system in the area directly controlled by the Qingyan Army, and did not infringe on the interests of other families, He Jiongyi and others could not speak out against it, but their faces were never hesitant.

Quanzhou goes up along the Min River, bypassing the southern foot of the Minzhong Mountains, passing through Yongjiabao, Zhangzhou City, Wuling City to Qingfeng Gorge is actually the axis area of Southern Fujian, as long as the Qingyan Army firmly controls this line, it controls the entire Southern Fujian County. If the Quanzhou HNA and Tea Horse Trade resumes, this axis will have greater control.

As long as the situation in Southern Fujian is stable, Xu Ruyu will migrate to Zhangzhou and Yongjia on a large scale, and as long as the population of Southern Fujian recovers to 3 million, the population on the central axis directly controlled by Xu Ruyu will account for half. The military power is also in the hands of Xu Ruyu, if Xu Ruyu wants to implement the "Prefecture and County System" elsewhere at that time, the Southern Fujian family will no longer have the strength to obstruct it.

Zheng Menghuai saw that everyone was undecided, and chuckled: "Yongyang has a system of political affairs hall deliberations, why don't we go to the lobby and discuss with the princes?" ”

The prefectural and county system encroaches the most on the interests of families above the dock level such as the He family and the Jing family, and the small and medium-sized families are very likely to get a channel to rise after the change of ownership in Southern Fujian, how could He Jiongyi and others agree to go to the lobby to decide?

Most of the people in the lobby are the local small and medium-sized family heads in Quanzhou, their family interests were greatly encouraged during the period of the Zongzheng rule, and the prefecture and county system restored their interests to a certain extent.

By the time the rebellion was agreed, the sky was already bright. Tu Wenyong, He Jiongyi and others walked out of the hall door with the agreed scripture grass, Xu Ruyu looked at the golden light pouring in from the hidden hall door, and his eyes were also vivid.

Xu Ruyu kneaded his neck muscles and said to Jimo Mingxi: "The news of Quanzhou will spread all over Southern Fujian tomorrow night, Ao Fang and Zhou Shilong should now meet the scout troops of Yan Qingyi's department, you can lead the army north at noon to relieve the siege of Yongjiabao." After relieving the siege of Yongjiabao, let Wei Yan lead 1,500 elites, including the Qingjiang cavalry battalion, to operate between the southeast foot of the Minzhong Mountains and the Minshui to eliminate the Southern Fujian guards who had escaped from the Hutun Gorge. ”

The Southern Fujian guards trapped in the Tiger Swallow Gorge had to evacuate all of them, and they could only pass through the three passages of Yongjiabao, Zhangzhou City, and Tiger Swallow Gorge, but a small group of elites could cross the steep and precipitous Fujian Mountains.

Jimo Mingxi nodded and said: "Putian's Yi'anyi is connected to Nanning, and the Zongzheng and Yan clans have not weak forces there, even if the Zhaofu Wenwen is effective, but it can't help us control Yi'anyi, can we send Quanzhou Shuiying warships to block the Minshui waterway, and limit the remnants of Zongzheng Xunda's forces to Yi'an as much as possible." ”

Xu Ruyu glanced at Luo Boyuan, couldn't see any changes on his face, and said, "I will talk to Shanyang about this matter." He stood up, walked out of the hall door, stood in the golden light, looked southeast, and said, "I'm most worried about being there." ”

Zhao Jingyun said: "My lord is worried that Zongzheng Xunda will flee to Liuda to seek secession, if that is the case, the Eastern Ocean will go out all the way to Haikou." ”

"Fengzhu Mansion has more than 100,000 people, more than 10,000 guards, 3,000 water troops, Zongzheng Xunda fled there, and there is no way to talk about the recovery of Quanzhou HNA. Zheng Menghuai stepped out of the threshold, stood beside Xu Ruyu, and said softly, "Let me cross the sea." ”

Xu Ruyu turned around, stared at Zheng Menghuai's resolute face, nodded slowly, and said: "As long as Fengzhu Mansion is not controlled by Zongzheng Xunda and is not self-reliant, any requirements on the island can be discussed." ”

Because of his father's efforts, Liuqiu Island was brought under the jurisdiction of Nanmin County, and Xu Ruyu did not want Liuqiu Island to become a gathering place for bandits again or be divided by the family forces because of himself.

Zheng Menghuai went alone to persuade the forces on the island, which was also a helpless move after there were no soldiers to send.

According to the results agreed by everyone, 4,000 Qingyan troops will be temporarily stationed in Quanzhou City, and 10,000 private soldiers of local families in Quanzhou will be requisitioned within ten days to form a new guard army in Southern Fujian.

Xu Ruyu will also stay in Quanzhou City until the end of the Battle of Southern Fujian, and Ban Zhaolin, Tu Wenyong, Zhao Jingyun and others will also stay in Quanzhou City.

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