As soon as the obedient officer thought about the joints of his head clearly, he immediately dragged Zhongli Zhong guerrilla, released a sentinel boat into the water, and took the sentinel boat to the Yan family's fast boat.

As soon as he got on the boat, the good officer first asked, is the old butler there, He Ma Xiang hurriedly led him to the cabin, saw the old butler, asked the old butler to ask for the letter, the old butler looked stunned, slowly took out the letter and handed it over.

After opening the letter, I looked at it carefully, and the good official's face turned white and blue, and as soon as his hand tightened, he crumpled the letter into a ball, damn it, it was so.

The old housekeeper Yan Gan was stunned, and asked cautiously, "Zheng Xianggong, is this ...... What's wrong? ”

After a few breaths, the obedient officer calmed himself down, but the erect tendons on both sides of his neck from time to time proved that he was still angry.

"Old housekeeper, please rest assured, Uncle Yan, I will save you." The obedient official didn't explain, after speaking, he turned around and left, and the old housekeeper chased him out, "Zheng Xianggong, this letter ......"

"Whether you believe it or not, it's all the same." The good officer stretched out his hand and tore the letter to shreds, and as soon as he let go, he fluttered like a butterfly in the sea breeze, and he tugged at the vest sewn with fox skin on his body, and walked quickly to the sentry boat, and the big man hurriedly followed.

After a while, Zhongli saw this Brother Zheng Xian coming from the sentry boat with a black face, and greeted him and asked, "How is it?" ”

The obedient official smiled bitterly, "It's a joke for my brother, and I always say that I am always praised for what I am high, but I didn't expect it to be planted on this unpopular means." "If he had seen it earlier, he wouldn't have waded into this troubled water anyway, although the silver is good, it is no better than the family reunion and harmony, but now that he is on the thief ship, then no matter what, he has to fight.

Saving others is also saving yourself, and once the evidence is conclusive, no matter how famous a person is, he will not be able to escape.

"Huh? Sure enough, he wants to frame the Yan family? Zhongli asked, although he came to protect the Yan family's fast boat, but in the end he paid attention to the interests of Governor Cai Taicai, if it was not violated, the Yan family would throw it away, but it was still a night pot, and it was just to find another one, the three-legged toad in the world was not easy to find, but the two-legged people were all over the street, and they partnered with the governor of Zhejiang to do business, and it was even more difficult for countless people to do it.

The obedient official smiled bitterly, "So that my brother knows that this matter is not just the Yan family, the key is that the people behind it seem to want to accuse me." ”

Zhong Li frowned, you know, the one who dares to go against the governor of Zhejiang is currently Li Shaonan, the political secretary of Zhejiang, this is a high-ranking official from the second grade, how can he start with Zheng Guofan?

"The letter is interlaced with hidden words, and my name is named, if someone suddenly comes out when negotiating with pirates and captures me on the spot, I guess the charge of fornicating with the pirates is inevitable, I guess it will be inevitable, I tore up the letter, but who knows what other means people have." The obedient official's face was a little bitter, this kind of force majeure is indeed something he can't do at present, you must know that he is still two or three days away from being fourteen years old! No matter how much hope you have, no matter how famous you are, fighting with the chief civil affairs officer of a province is obviously at a disadvantage.

Hissing gasped, Zhongli said, "Can't you just take yourself out?" This is the one who fights with the governor but the political envoy Li Bu! ”

The obedient official smiled bitterly, why didn't he want to, knowing that the ship would sink, and still sitting on it, it would be not loyalty but a fool, but the problem is that he has already sat on it, and it is just enough to sit on it, if he didn't talk about any affection at that time, and didn't greed for the 25,000 taels of silver, he would have died at home, and it would be fine, but now he has gone to sea.

You know, one has a heart and one has no intention, people really want to accuse him, you said that you have never fornicated with the Japanese cowards, why do you want to go to sea with the Yan family? In other words, the moment he went to sea, he was already tightly tied to the Yan family.

Zhongli frowned, his fists clenched, his knuckles rattling, "How good is this, how you have offended others, and they want to put you to death like this." ”

Sighing, he vaguely ran through the whole thing, the political secretary Li Bu wanted to deal with the Yan family, and by the way, he killed two birds with one stone, "At the beginning, I took the Yan family's sea ship from Tianjin to Ningbo, and there was a conflict with Hou Xiaobai Hou Tiju of Ningbo City at the port of Ningbo, and that Hou Tiju wanted to marry the young lady of the Yan family to fill the house......"

As soon as he told him what had happened, Zhongli understood, "Picking up grass and beating rabbits is a good means." ”

The so-called grass to beat rabbits, this is a Henan folk proverb, in autumn and winter, use a rake to collect dead grass on the ground, at this time suddenly a rabbit sprang out, obviously, this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

Obviously, this is by far the biggest trouble that a good official has encountered, and he can't hide from it, unless the time can be turned back a few days ago.

"Big brother, it's the younger brother who has caused you, I'd better go to live on the Yan family's boat! Presumably, in the next day or two, the other party will send someone over......"

Zhongli interrupted him, "What are you talking about?" Brother, I was also famous for my righteousness on the green forest road back then, and now I am also a master of a thousand households, is it that I am living more and more? Besides, it's not a big deal, if this chief executive wants to accuse you, he has to get it on the spot! ”

Zheng Guofan was grateful for his righteousness, and his eyes were a little red, "What my brother said is that the younger brother said the wrong thing, but it is not necessarily, as long as the Yan family falls, when the time comes, why can't you ask for it under the three woods, there are two bites from the Yan family, I am not an adulteration and a fornication is also an adultery, after all, I am close to the Yan family, and this is not unknown in Ningbo." ”

Hearing him say this, Zhong Li's eyes flashed with fierce light, he looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Or, just ...... the Yan family" He said, making a downward cutting movement with one hand, "This sea is vast, it is not unusual for the Yan family's ships to encounter wind and waves, there are a quarter of these warships under my direct subordinates, and the rest, fed with silver, will never say it, officialdom practice, hide from the top and bottom." ”

The best way for people not to speak is really to make people become dead, Zhongli was originally from Lulin Dao, and after becoming an official, he didn't know how many times he suppressed bandits, and his hands were more bloody, not to mention that the Yan family was in his eyes, and to be honest, he was just waiting to be slaughtered. As for the huge fleet, so many people are watching, this problem is just Erer, just like Zhongli said, hide it from the top or not, even in the later life, there are more such things as covering the lid, and the people below all know it, but those people above just don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they are simply countless.

This idea really works, in fact, it is the same as the death of the eyewitnesses in the police and gangster films in later generations, but the people of the Yan family turned around and took a bite, which is also a guess, although this guess may be very large, but it didn't happen in the end, not to mention that Yan Dazhang and the good official also have some affection, if you change the killing decisively, maybe you will do it, but the good official still has a bottom line after all.

Therefore, the good official did not speak, but shook his head.

Zhongli sighed, knowing that this idea was probably not accepted, most of the scholars had the ability, but their hearts were not ruthless enough, and their hands were not hot enough.

Looking at his expression, the obedient official deliberately smiled in order to adjust the atmosphere, "Did my brother say in my heart that Xiucai's rebellion will not succeed for three years, and it will be difficult to achieve great things if his heart is not ruthless enough and his hands are not spicy enough." ”

Hehe laughed twice, Zhongli touched the beard on his lips and said, "You look at it indifferently, aren't you afraid of affecting your family." ”

"I'm afraid, but there are some things that I really can't do, once I do it, my bottom line is gone, and people can't be called people." Good officials and people in two lives, some truths are very clear, today you can kill the Yan family for your own family, then tomorrow, will you kill anyone who threatens you, if it is your relatives who threaten you!

The killing is decisive, it is easy to say, just like the great tortoise Tokugawa Ieyasu, after the destruction of Toyotomi Hideyori, even the child born to Hideyori and his granddaughter Chihime, that is, his grandson, who was only eight years old, was also beheaded with Rokujo Kawara. Just because his grandson is of Toyotomi blood, it will cause trouble for him to rule the Tokugawa family.

A good official born in a peaceful and prosperous era did not have this kind of decisiveness in any case.

"Brother, I'll do it for you, so I won't dirty your hands." Zhongli still felt that the dead who couldn't speak were the most reliable people, not to mention that after destroying the Yan family, there were more than 200,000 taels of silver, as for the five hundred Fran cannons, would those pirates dare not return them to him? It's the other way around, Lao Tzu's big fleet will not destroy them.

"Brother, no." The obedient official grabbed Zhongli, Zhongli looked at him, and said: "Brother, listen to me, but a businessman, like a pig and a dog, if you kill it, you will kill it, and I will share your tenth of the silver, and everyone will be happy, wouldn't it be good." ”

You know, after saving the Yan family, the 200,000 cash silver can go into the pirate's pocket, and it has nothing to do with their Daming Navy at all, 200,000, Zhongli is also tempted, not to mention that there is a good official, that is to say, the Yan family threatened the person he thought was a brother, this excuse, that is righteousness, if there is no excuse, I will kill you, I can't help but say it in my heart, after all, everyone has a bottom line, no one can kill whoever they want, even if the Yan family has a lot of silver, he Zhongli is not a bandit before, It was the guerrilla general of the imperial court's five grades, deputy thousand households.

Now that I have an excuse, it's like a box full of temptation has been opened, and righteousness is in hand, I'm not killing people indiscriminately, I'm talking about righteousness to save my brother, not to mention that there is a lot of silver, why not? The cost of a 2,000-material Daifuku ship is only 40,000 taels of silver.

Little by little, he pulled his hand out of the palm of the obedient official, Zhongli's murderous intent became more and more intense, there are enough excuses, and there are enough benefits, if you don't do this business, it will be stupid, just like the famous saying of later generations, freedom! How many sins are false in your name.

(To be continued)