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Meizhou, Guangdong, Dapu County, here and Yongding County in Fujian Province are only separated by a Tingjiang River.

At this time, it has entered the end of December, and there are still a few days before the New Year, and at this juncture, every household is busy with New Year's goods, and there is no one working in the fields, so the market is very lively. It gives people the feeling that they are not affected by Wu Sangui's army, and they don't even have the slightest sense of war.

In Dapu County, the mountain range is north-south, high in all sides, low in the middle, undulating mountains, thousands of rocks and ravines, criss-crossed. It is almost entirely mountainous, with less than one-tenth of the arable land, but it is a famous tea and ceramics county. It is located in the subtropics, close to the South China Sea, surrounded by high mountains, with low mountains and hills in the middle, which is slightly like an uneven basin. Under the influence of the alternating monsoon, it has the characteristics of subtropical monsoon climate, that is, the four seasons are mild, the rain and heat are together, and the summer is long and the winter is short. At the same time, the monsoon, topography and topography make the county have the climatic characteristics of an intermountain basin. The perennially foggy climate makes the tea produced here quite high, no worse than some famous teas.

In addition, it is located in Longyan Mansion, Fujian, and it is not far from the starting point town, no, it should be called the starting point county now, and the population of more than 100,000 can no longer be called the town, Geng Jingzhong has just upgraded the starting point town to the starting point county. The roads in Fujian are very well built, and they are 108,000 miles stronger than those in Guangdong. Dapu County is so close to Yongding County, which can be said to have taken a big advantage. In previous years, after the large-scale development of the nickel mine in the town of Fengshi, the road here became more and more wide. The goods produced in Dapu County can be shipped out very lightly. Winding around a little. Sent to Moon Harbor.

Of course, the businessmen in Fujian are also very smart, and they go directly to Dapu County to buy directly, and the starting point town is the transit station. The local landlords in Dapu County are not bad, and in order to obtain the opportunity to enter the Yuegang transaction, some Fujian businessmen have also been allowed to enter the acquisition, so that the things that both sides benefit from are of course very smooth. Therefore. Dapu County has frequent exchanges with Longyan and Zhangzhou.

It is already true that in every place there is a landlord who dominates one side. But people are good and bad, and this place is the same. Like the little whirlwind Chai Jin in the Water Margin, people are still descendants of the royal family, and they really dominate the party, but they are anxious for justice and righteousness, and treat the people of Zhuangke well. Of course. The biggest in this aspect of the Water Margin is still Song Jiang, look at the name of the family: timely rain! Dapu County also has a strong one. The surname is Zhu, and the name is Dafu. He really didn't feel sorry for his surname, he was really fatter than a pig, less than six feet tall, but more than 200 pounds, and he would pant for breath if he took two more steps.

At this moment, on the road in the direction of Chashan in the northwest of the county, there is a small sedan chair with four people, hugging more than ten followers before and after, walking proudly. Needless to say, sitting in the sedan chair, of course, his surname is also Zhu, and he is a young man named Zhu Sheng, who is the second son of Zhu Dafu. He inherited his father's genes, and although he was not as fat as his father, it was not too much, so the small sedan chair of the two could not lift him, and the sedan chair of four people was suitable.

Don't look at the fat people, but they are still a person, which also makes the Zhu family from an ordinary local landlord to a formal squire in one fell swoop. He is just thirty years old, and he is not an official, but he likes to do business, especially after cooperating with Yuegang, the Zhu family's industry has doubled continuously under his management. Now more than half of the tea plantations in the entire Dapu County are under the name of the Zhu family. Although it is said that each of these families is the eldest son to inherit the family business, but his eldest brother dares to fight with him, and he has no ability, so he acquiesces that this family business belongs to him. In fact, most of the Zhu family's industry is indeed under Zhu Sheng's name.

The status of businessmen in this era is still not high, not to mention that Guangdong is not as good as Fujian, and Shang Ke Xizhixin is not so preferential to businessmen. In order to stabilize his family's position in Dapu County, it took a lot of effort and a lot of money to take Shang Zhixin's path to help one of his cousins to the position of the county governor of Dapu County. Although he does not have the right of Wu Sangui to send "Western Election Officials", he can install such petty officials below the seventh rank through the governor of Guangdong. The price is not low!

With this layer of guanxi, the benefits are obvious, in case of major events, the magistrate of Dapu County will also send someone to invite Zhu Dafu or Zhu Sheng to discuss, and the servants below are even more respectful, and they are all long and short in Zhu. Therefore, in this Dapu County, his Zhu family is the sky, and after a long time, his temper has grown unconsciously, and the other sons of the Zhu family have gradually stopped taking the grassroots officials seriously.

But Zhu Sheng has studied in the end, and he has been promoted to a person, and he has been mixed in Guangzhou Mansion for a few years, and his knowledge has broadened a lot. Of course, he knows that this attitude of his father and brother is not a good thing, although his family has already dominated Dapu County, but if he has a good relationship with local officials, he can also save a lot of trouble, otherwise, people will secretly make stumbling blocks, and you will not feel good. What's more, officialdom, isn't it all people who raise people?

He came back from talking about a business in Yuegang, quarreled with his father Zhu Dafu again, and ran to the tea garden to relax in anger, and checked the situation by the way. No, it took two days outside to come back. He had already received the news that Wu Sangui raised troops to rebel, but he felt that Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong would not rebel, especially the nearest Geng Jingzhong, whose family business is so big, and there are so many incomes every day, where he is willing to fall out with the imperial court, and there is no money to make after a fall out! What's more, it seems that Fujian's army is less than Guangdong's, where does the king of Jingnan have the courage to rebel!

There are really not a few people who think like this, and there are many people in Fujian who think so. Therefore, Dapu County was not in a hurry at all, but under Shang Kexi's order, some countermeasures were taken slightly, and nothing else was left. Zhu Sheng felt that even if Wu Sangui was capable, he would not be able to fight here for a while. Besides, it's a poor and remote place here, and the road is not passable, how can Wu Sangui come here?

Zhu Sheng was still thinking about whether Wu Sangui's rebellion would have any impact on their side of business, when he suddenly heard someone by the sedan window: "Young master, look, there are a lot of troops here. ”

Zhu Sheng was stunned, hurriedly lifted the sedan curtain, and looked out. Sure enough, seeing the dust ahead, there was a faint army heading in the direction of Dapu County. Zhu Sheng couldn't help but be startled, this is the army from there, is it difficult to be a robber? Are they going to attack the county seat? Wu Sangui's people? No, it's right next to Fujian, don't you say?

Thinking of this, Zhu Sheng didn't feel a tight heart, and hurriedly got out of the bridge and said, "Quick, run, find a place to hide, but don't be caught by them." ”

Before a few followers could react, one of them said, "Young master, what about this sedan chair?" ”

Zhu Sheng stomped his feet and said, "When is it, you still think about the sedan chair!" Don't want it, don't want it, throw it aside, run away. ”

Sure enough, before the group had run more than a hundred steps, they heard a shout from behind them: "Stop, don't run." ”

Immediately after that, he only heard a few sounds of "horn, horn", Zhu Sheng was not a person who had never seen the world, he could still hear the sound of the musket, but he knew that the musket had a very close range, so he still ran lifelessly. However, when a few of the family members heard the noise, they immediately squatted down and stopped running forward. Muskets are generally equipped with the army, and it seems that these people are not bandits, but is it Wu Sangui's or Geng Jingzhong's army? A few people squatted down, but a few of them were so frightened that they didn't even dare to turn their heads, and they just cared about running. They were all locals, familiar with the road, turned left and right, and they didn't know how long they had been running, and when they heard that there seemed to be no sound behind them, and when they looked back, they were knocked to the ground by a gun.

Zhu Sheng still often runs outside in the end, his physique is still very good, although he is fat, but he runs very fast, picks a small path, and really gets rid of the pursuers behind. But if you look around, there is only one person left. The family next to him was quite tall, and he also gasped at this moment: "Young master, what should we do now?" Go straight back to Waizhuang to hide or"

Zhu Sheng took a few breaths, his breathing calmed down a little, thought about it, and said: "Let's wait first, rest for a while, and then let's make a detour into the county seat, this army seems to be attacking the county seat, and the county defense is okay, but they have few people, and they can't be defeated." It's different in Waizhuang, they can't beat the county, they must loot everywhere, let's go to Waizhuang to die? ”

By the time Zhu Sheng and the others arrived at the county seat, it was already half an hour later, and they took a detour to enter the city from the east gate, and as soon as they entered the city, they saw their cousin Zhu Da preparing to defend the city.

"Second brother, how did you become like this! It won't be the rebels who met King Jingnan! As soon as Zhu Da saw Zhu Sheng, he asked urgently.

"How do you know it's King Jingnan's army?" Zhu Sheng asked in surprise.

"Hey, over at the north gate, the county magistrate Wang is estimated to have closed the city gate, and I am also preparing to close it. It is said that the rebels who came to attack were all in that strange military uniform, which was not only found by King Jingnan's troops. However, there were very few rebels coming, it seemed that there were only about 200 people, so they only shouted outside the city gate for the county order to surrender, but they did not attack the city yet. Hmph, just 200 people want to take the county seat, although our county is a little smaller, but it's not just 200 people to take it, it's too underestimate us! Zhu Da said disdainfully. (To be continued......)

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