Chapter 204: Impact
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Using Geng Jingzhong's most elite cronies and guards to clean up a helpless scholar, and also a corrupt official who was hollowed out by wine, Geng Jingzhong himself felt a little overkill. But there is no way, there are these people around me, and I can't immediately transfer the soldiers from Fujian.
Gu Ping and the six people didn't have to say anything, they simply sent Wu Pingfeng to the West Heaven to repent of their sins, and a wicked person like him, it is estimated that the Buddha will not want to see him, and the chances of sending him to hell and handing it over to the King of the Earth are greater. Although Wu Pingfeng took out a box of gold, silver and jewelry, he still couldn't save his life, of course, that small box of gold, silver and jewelry Gu Ping and a few people of course laughed at it, and there were ten thousand taels of silver, don't do it in vain. Such a small box can be carried away with one hand!
Geng Jingzhong slept soundly at night, and he didn't think that Gu Ping and the others would go wrong. These people around him are all elite warriors who have been on the battlefield for a long time and have undergone strict training, and they can not only fight on the battlefield, but also serve as guards and assassins. He slept until dawn, and he didn't even have a dream in between.
"Shizi!" As soon as he got up in the morning, Gu Ping's guards were waiting at the door, and when they saw Geng Jingzhong open the door, they greeted him in unison.
"Uncle Gu got up so early, you came back late last night!" Geng Jingzhong yawned and said. As he spoke, the guards on the side brought a basin of water over to wash Geng Jingzhong.
"Shizi, all the things you ordered have been done, we can leave for home today!" Gu Ping reported truthfully. I did come back late last night. It's been nearly four days since I got back to my room. That is, it is more than twelve o'clock in the night. Several people slept for less than six hours. It was bright again, and the habit of the guards was that they would wake up automatically as soon as the morning dawned, so they began to guard outside early. During this period, Geng Jingzhong wrote a letter to Wu Sangui yesterday afternoon, and Gu Ping also sent two guards to return to the Pingxi Palace, asking to hand it over to Wu Sangui in person.
"There's nothing going on!" Geng Jingzhong wiped his face twice with a wet towel, then wrung it out and wiped it twice and asked.
"I guess the people from the prefect's yamen are still asleep. I don't think I have noticed any anomalies in the house yet. I can't say, when we get out of Guilin, no one will find out. Gu Ping rolled his eyes and said. That Wu Pingfeng slept in the room of his third concubine, and his concubine was so enchanting, even if he slept until three poles in the morning, no one would dare to call him in the room.
"That's good, I don't want to make a fuss. In this way, let's not stop, hurry up and hurry, I haven't seen much scenery along the way, and I'm all angry! These corrupt officials are everywhere. It's not worth getting angry with them! It's good to go back to Fujian early, and go down to eat. Let's go after eating! Geng Jingzhong washed his face, pouted, and then took the lead to lead the guards downstairs.
At this time, the prefect's yamen, every day, at six o'clock in the morning, Wu Pingfeng had to get up on time, which was his habit, and he even got up very early with the people in this mansion. But today is already the beginning of the hour, and Mrs. Wu has not gotten up for a long time. The little guy who was knocked out last night was too timid, and when he woke up, he struggled to sneak back to his room, as if he didn't know anything, otherwise the house would have found out that something had happened to their master earlier.
Wu Pingfeng's third aunt was too weak in physique, and she was knocked unconscious and didn't wake up until just now, but as soon as she woke up, she saw Wu Pingfeng next to her with her eyes open, and she was suddenly frightened and screamed loudly.
"Something's wrong!" Hearing the screams, I thought it was a little strange, but the subordinates who didn't dare to go in and wake up their master rushed in one after another. As soon as they entered the room, what attracted them was not the beautiful third aunt who was disheveled, but the prefect who was lying on the bed, his head hooked to the side of the bed, and blood was flowing all over the ground. Right next to the corpse, five bright red characters were written on the white wall, "Wumaling Revenge", which was very dazzling.
"Come on, my lord was assassinated by bandits!" Rao is subordinates are all quite tall men, seeing such a dead person, his heart is still quite hairy, and the little timid suddenly shuddered and shouted to the outside. The little guy who led the way and was knocked unconscious last night was directly scared and fainted.
The prefect of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was the highest governor of the "prefecture" of the local administrative region, and he was a four-grade official, which was equivalent to the mayor of the prefecture-level city. What's more, Guilin is also the capital of Guangxi Province, and this prefect is the mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee of the provincial capital. Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangxi, who received the report, quickly led his soldiers into the prefect's yamen to check the situation. When I saw the five big characters on the wall, I was immediately angry. Jin Guangzu didn't think about anything else at all, because although the bandits who had cleared Wumaling had killed a lot of bandits, they had not been able to do their best, and now they only thought that these bandits were here to take revenge.
The Qing Dynasty followed the system of the Ming Dynasty and set up Guangxi as a province, and in the first year of Shunzhi, that is, the year when the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the governor of Guangxi was set up and stationed in Guilin. According to historical records, it was not until the ninth year of Yongzheng that the rank of temperance of the provincial soldiers and horses was added, and the temperance of the provincial soldiers and horses was ordered. Although Jin Guangzu can't command the soldiers and horses of the whole province at this moment, as a feudal official, he can still mobilize a part of the army to suppress bandits.
If Geng Jingzhong saw Jin Guangzu, he would be able to recognize him immediately. This guy has been a political envoy to Fujian for several years, and he was the governor of Guangxi who just entered four years ago. And in the history of later generations, this guy will be promoted to the governor of Liangguang at the end of this year. It is recorded in the history books that after Wu Sangui raised the banner against the Qing Dynasty, Jin Guangzu was immediately lured to surrender, but soon because he was excluded, he turned to Shang Zhixin and conspired to re-surrender the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi ordered him to make meritorious service and then led his troops to turn around and attack Yunnan. And his final outcome was that he was impeached and dismissed from his post and returned to the flag, becoming an ordinary ordinary person.
In terms of ability, Jin Guangzu is not bad, at this moment, when he saw the "provocative words" of the Wumaling bandits, the three corpse gods who were really angry jumped violently, and immediately ordered: "Quickly invite the Guangxi Admiral Ma Yuanjunmen to come over, I want him to give me an explanation!" ”
The governor of Guangxi directly obeyed the orders of the governor, and was also controlled by the governor of Guangxi, and had jurisdiction over the army but no right to dispatch. The defense of Guilin is also under the jurisdiction of the governor of Guangxi, and he Ma Yuan is also to blame for such a big thing. After asking from above, both of them were going to be unlucky. Now the only way is to redeem the merits and immediately send troops to completely exterminate the bandits on Wumaling. This is not enough, at least the bandits around Guilin have been wiped out, and it is estimated that Kangxi's anger can be calmed.
Besides, this Wu Pingfeng is still Wu Sangui's clansman, and he should be his nephew, and now that something happened in Guangxi, maybe Wu Sangui will also be blamed. For Jin Guangzu and Ma Yuan, they are really sitting at home, and disaster comes from the sky! Geng Jingzhong doesn't have to worry about these things, killing this corrupt official is just a bad breath for himself and the people of Guilin, and Gu Ping's marriage to the bandits in Wumaling in Guilin can be regarded as a stroke of genius, not only not to cause trouble for himself, but also to use the hands of the Guangxi government to clear out the surrounding bandits, and return the people of Guangxi to a bright sky, killing two birds with one stone!
None of the bandits who gathered in the mountains and forests could engage in production, and they all survived by robbing and kidnapping tickets. is the Liangshan hero who wrote in the Water Margin and acted for the sky, and basically relied on robbing large households and government treasury to maintain huge expenses. The bandits in Guangxi are also rampant, especially the bandits in Wumaling, which are the largest bandits outside Guilin, and they can also be ranked in Guangxi.
More than a month ago, Jin Guangzu was angry that the bandits in Wumaling were robbing everywhere during the typhoon, so he and Wu Pingfeng organized officers and soldiers to go to encircle and suppress them and break through the stockade in Wumaling. However, the Wumaling bandits fled from the back mountain one step earlier, and although they killed many people, they were not able to do their best. This time, no matter what, it is estimated that he will order the officers and soldiers to kill until all the bandits are destroyed, otherwise he really has no way to explain to the court.
Guilin has made such a big commotion, and the Wumaling bandits who are more than ten kilometers away still don't know about it, and if they learn that someone has planted the blame on them, they don't know what kind of expression will appear on their faces. At this moment, Geng Jingzhong and his party, who were the culprits, had already left Guilin Mansion and were about to enter the border of Chenzhou, Hunan Province in the northeast direction.
On the next journey, Geng Jingzhong also lost the desire to see the scenery, and the group bought another sixty horses at the border of Chenzhou, pretending to be horse dealers, and one person and three horses quickly marched towards Fuzhou. Without distractions, the speed of the road was greatly improved, and in only seven days, they successively passed through Chenzhou in Hunan and Zhenzhou in Jiangxi, and set foot on the land of Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian. As soon as you enter Fujian, the gap between several places is revealed, and the main passages in Fujian have been built, and the roads connect the various traffic arteries.
Returning to their own territory in Fujian, the guards also relaxed a lot. Geng Jingzhong also stopped riding a horse, and he had been riding on horseback for so many days, and the bones all over his body were scattered, and when he entered the Tingzhou Mansion, he was immediately replaced by a luxury four-wheeled carriage. This thing is now available in all provinces of Fujian, and it is very popular with dignitaries and nobles. The four-wheeled carriage is more spacious and more comfortable than the original two-wheeled carriage, and now the road surface is good, and there is no bumpy feeling when sitting on it. Wealthy families travel, even if it is not their own carriage, they will rent a four-wheeled carriage from the carriage rental office of the road administration company, so it will save face if they run out.
The road is good, and it is convenient to walk. It will take six or seven days to return to Fuzhou, and after riding in a spacious carriage, I can finally have a good rest. By the way, I will take advantage of the time of these few days to think about the next development plan. (To be continued......)
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