Garbi, Hu Qiheng, and Li Wei did not get straight to the point, but instead pulled up the routine, and after a long while, Goshha introduced a middle-aged military general into the back hall.

"This is Yue ......"

Seeing that this military general was burly and had a calm temperament, Garbi secretly said that this person really had the style of a general.

Hu Qiheng introduced: "Yue Chaolong, the younger brother of Yue Shenglong, the governor of Sichuan, has just been transferred to the uncle of Yue Zhongqi, the deputy general of the Chinese army in Sichuan. ”

This person came in a hurry, covered in dust, with spurs on his boots, and rattled with the action of bowing: "Mark the town pole before the camp capital Yue Chaolong salutes all the officials!" But there is a send, to go to the soup and the fire, and it is not unremitting! ”

Garbi smiled and raised his hand to help: "Nian Qianyao really favors your Yue family, he transferred a nephew and an uncle." ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Hu Qiheng and Li Wei glanced at each other, and said that Nian Qianyao had indeed done too conspicuously, and everyone had left Hunan, leaving Hu Qiheng as a civil official, and he also transferred this Yue Chaolong from Sichuan to intervene, and actually regarded Hunan as his own territory.

However, Nian Qianyao is the descendant of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, in the matter of dealing with Li Shi, Yinzhen has to work together with Yinzhen, who has received the general's seal, and naturally wants to fully support Yinzhen through Nian Qianyao.

Yue Chaolong has long been accustomed to the situation of his brother and nephew when others see him, he has just been transferred from Sichuan to Hunan, and before his ass is hot, he was summoned to Changsha, and he was puzzled.

The general sent Garbi to Hunan, and I heard that it was just to prepare for the grain crop, but in fact, it was to fight the autumn wind. Hunan is not eight poles away from the northwest, even if it is necessary to use the province of Tibet, Hunan is also separated by a Sichuan, it is enough to raise some grain and rice support, there is no need to send cronies in charge.

Originally, Yue Chaolong thought that the Fourteenth Prince had too long hands, but this Garbi summoned himself urgently, and things didn't seem to be so simple.

"Yue Dusi, from today onwards, you will be the general under the general's account. I, Garbi, want to take you, and all of you here, to pacify the enemy on both sides for the general and clear a wide passage! ”

Listening to Yue Chaolong's words, Gal Bi's words were still cloudy, and Li Wei smiled unfathomably at him.

"Before the general arrives, let's hide in the shadow and act conveniently."

As soon as the words fell, the Hunan "Gang of Four" with Garbi as the core, Li Wei, Hu Qiheng, and Yue Chaolong, who were in charge of the military and political affairs, was formally established. Garbi was trusted by Kangxi and sent him to assist Yinzhen, Li Wei was Yinzhen's henchmen, Hu Qiheng and Yue Chaolong were Nian Qianyao's right-hand men, this Gang of Four, behind it was Kangxi, Yinzhen, Yinzhen, Li Guangdi and others at the same time on the southern rebellion.

The governor of Huguang, Manpi, focused on Hubei, and Hunan was only restructured last year. The Hunan Gang of Four controlled the military and political backbone without any hindrance, and a strong aura of conspiracy rose from the back hall of the governor's yamen and gradually dispersed to the whole of Hunan.

Garbi said: "The Hunan policy set by the general is the emperor's determination at the top, and the plan of the scholar Li Guangdi is below. Now that the northwest is in turmoil, Li Xi also feels that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and he is marching towards Guangxi, stupid! Let's stab him in the waist and eye from Hunan! ”

Li Weidao: "The younger brother travels back and forth between the north and the south, and he also has a force that is difficult for others to detect, and when he penetrates his front waist from Hunan, the little brother will also give him a knife in the back waist." ”

Hu Qiheng said: "The emperor strictly ordered the governor not to directly take charge of the state and county people, but the lower officials are only Taoists, and the Nian adults previously instructed the lower officials to coordinate the state and county people's bravery, as long as they can get the general to protect them with money and food, 100,000 people dare not speak, 30,000 people are brave, and they can gather that month." ”

Yue Chaolong said: "Since you are a brave people, you can no longer be limited by the imperial court system, and you can use all the firecrackers!" ”

Hu Qiheng nodded: "The state and county blacksmiths are making their own fast guns for the use of the people, and the lower officials have to explain to the young adults, not only are they not accountable, but they are secretly contributing to it." ”

Garbi laughed: "Let's be four people and three knives, Li Xi is finished!" ”

Li Wei was careful and reminded everyone: "These three knives must be hidden in the dark, otherwise it will be difficult to show results." Under Hu Daotai's rule of the prefectures and counties, all matters related to the military affairs of the people could no longer be reported to the governor's yamen. We will discuss it, but if there is no need to borrow the Yamen of the Hunan Governor, it will no longer be official......"

Garbi gave a thumbs up, praising Li Wei for thinking thoroughly, what their Gang of Four planned, people came from the people under the rule of Hu Qiheng, although the wealth came from Hunan, but in the name of supporting the general's military quarters, it was not obvious that it was dedicated to Hunan, these two sides have been tightly covered, Li Wei covered up from the decision-making, their Gang of Four is a set of teams that read hard in Hunan, and it is difficult for local officials in Hunan to know the inside, and Li Xi in the south should be even more confused, not knowing what kind of enemy he is facing.

After the secret discussion, Li Wei went out of the governor's yamen, and a man greeted him, and Li Wei recognized that this was the Changsha prefect's side.

"Master Li, you still have to go back to the inn, your residence has been empty before. The prefect knew that you were coming, so he deliberately explained that he would clean up and stop, and sent servants to wait, just waiting for you to move in. ”

Li Wei smiled slightly, he was waiting for the people from Changsha Mansion. Earlier, Nian Qianyao killed Wang Bin, the prefect of Changsha, and the new prefect was Shen Ji, the elder brother of Shen Zhu, a native of Yinzhen. This Hunan is handled by Nian Qianyao, and it is almost Yinzhen's territory, not only does it work smoothly, but also the treatment is comfortable.

It's just that...... Now that the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen has won the position of general, where is the future of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen?

Sitting in the sedan chair, Li Wei's mind sank with the sedan chair, and then was lifted up by the sedan chair man. He wholeheartedly followed Yinzhen, who gave him a rich and noble future, and solved the fateful enemy of Li Xi in the south.

"Explain to the governor's yamen, if someone who claims to be surnamed Zhou and Gan comes to vote for me, let them wait at the Changsha Mansion."

Lifting the sedan curtain, Li Wei explained to his entourage.

Guangzhou Tianwang Mansion, Li Xi only felt a chill in his back, and this cold wind came from the north, and he was still thinking in his heart, the woman's intuition really worked, and now when he thought of Hunan, he also felt panicked in his heart.

This is not a feeling out of thin air, the Qing court has already decided to make a decision in the northwest, and Yinghua has also decided to make a policy in Guangxi and Yunnan, but the movements in Hunan are no longer indifferent, and the usual intelligence work is still going on. In addition to intensifying the supervision of the Guangdong Iron Mill, Li Xi also casually instructed Yu Hanyi to let him find out the situation in Hunan by inspecting the illegal affairs of the Guangdong Iron Mill.

This matter couldn't be easier, Yu Hanyi got involved in the inside line through the smugglers who were caught at the checkpoint, and dug up the news after a trip to business, and Li Xian was taken aback by this news.

Hunan's Chenzhou, Yongzhou, Hengzhou, and Guiyang Zhili Prefecture, under the rule of the prefecture and county, Zhengda formed a large group of people, and made muskets, yes, muskets instead of bird guns. But they don't have good iron, and it is difficult to build a flintlock machine with complex structure and high material requirements, so they try their best to get it from Guangdong.

Yinghua vigorously develops industry and commerce, and trade within the country is free, but there are strict controls on the outside world. Wrought iron is not regulated, but crude steel, finished ordnance products and related parts are. However, due to the grim situation before, Li Shi promoted the province's iron mills to make gun barrels, and parts such as flintlock machines were also subcontracted on a large scale.

Li Xian had been mentally prepared for this, but this outflow was so densely concentrated in Hunan, if it was said that Nian Qianyao was still in Hunan, but he was clearly gone. And Yinghua has never exerted any pressure on Hunan, and he is very incomprehensible to the arms boom set off by the people of the prefecture and county.

Yu Hanyi couldn't understand it, so without waiting for Li Xian's order, he turned to Shang Jun for help to understand the internal reasons for such a movement. Shang Jun started from the study room of the Ya in Yizhang County, Hunan, and traced all the way, and finally found that the people's military boom in these provinces was behind the Hengyong Chengui sub-patrol guard Hu Qiheng was secretly promoting, and this Hu Qiheng was Nian Qianyao's staff before, and after Nian Qianyao was transferred to the governor of Sichuan, Hu Qiheng still stayed in Hunan.

"Hu Qiheng ......"

Li Xi only felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember what big things this guy had done, and he didn't see much of this guy's intentions. He is a Taoist, and he doesn't want to follow suit, no, it should be to set a precedent for the Manchu Qing Dynasty and pull up the Xiangyong of later generations to crusade against him Li Shi, right? The reason why Xiang Yong was able to become an army was that he was authorized by the Qing court to recognize his status, and secondly, he raised money and food by himself, and he could not cross these two thresholds by relying on just one Taoist and several prefectures.

However, thinking of the current situation of his own family, Li Xi felt a chill on his back. The Yulin Army has passed Pingle, Guangxi, and is attacking Yangshuo. Long Xiang's army went out of Guangdong, Zhang Hanwan sprinkled joy, and rushed to the city of Si'en Mansion in half a month, and now it should be bombarding the city, if it goes well, it should turn south and recover Nanning Mansion.

The mobile forces of the Guangxi Green Battalion were killed and wounded in the Battle of Wuzhou, and the original tenacious and unbroken people's hearts were also broken.

In front of Fujian, Shi Shibiao has been sitting in Quanzhou, is combing Yin Tebu gathered tens of thousands of green battalions, in order to eliminate this enemy army, Xiao Sheng unified the navy and the Eagle Yang Army, put forward a plan, but also to attack instead of defending, once the plan is implemented, the situation is disrupted, and it is difficult to return to defend the hinterland.

If there was really a big move in the direction of Hunan, Li Xi would be too passive, and in addition to worrying, Li Xi summoned the three major intelligence leaders and personally deployed to find out what evil things were hidden in Hunan. The name Hu Qiheng is unfamiliar, but this name is like a vine, which always makes him feel that there are more familiar names hanging behind him.

As soon as Li Xian's mind moved, the intelligence department also immediately moved, and in mid-April, several other names entered Li Xian's ears.

"Li Wei!"

The first thing that made Li Wei frown was this name, Shang Jun first touched the news of Li Wei's return to Hunan through the inner line buried in the Changsha Mansion, and it was only five or six days before Li Wei lived in his old mansion in Changsha City.

"Garbi!?"

Then Li Xi was shocked by this name again, this guy became the general of Dingxi a few years later, and took on the heavy responsibility of entering Tibet from Sichuan to pacify Lingling Dundobu, and was a person who was extremely favored by Kangxi. Such a person, who deigned to come to Hunan to prepare for the grain crop, according to the explanation of the greedy trip to fight the autumn wind, is really a bit far-fetched.

Luo Tangyuan's military intelligence department was also distracted by this matter, and then he discovered a vision. Shaozhou is the town mark of Yongzhou, Hunan, this part of the green battalion was crippled as early as the battle of Shaozhou, and the general soldiers were also held accountable and imprisoned, and the reconstruction has been mired in the court and the local dispute. But in the past few days, Yue Chaolong, who had just been transferred to Xiangxi Town, was urgently transferred to Yongzhou Town, and led the Yongzhou Town Standard Battalion with the title of Du Si, and is currently the highest-ranking general in Yongzhou Town.

"Yue Zhongqi is gone, his uncle is here, there is a conspiracy ......"

Since then, the Hunan "Gang of Four" has been clearly presented in front of Li Shi's eyes, and it has also made Li Shi smell an incomparably strong conspiracy atmosphere.

"What are these guys going to do?"

Li Shi frowned, feeling that a dark battle had begun.

"It's not difficult to figure out this matter, just unseal the cocoon."

Luo Tangyuan spoke, he had already prepared.

(To be continued)