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Twenty years ago, there were two salt farms on the seashore twenty kilometers away, and they were not far from each other. The northern part belongs to the Lu family, and the southern part belongs to the Guo family. Comparatively speaking, the scale of the salt works of the Lujia in the north is larger. Twenty years ago, it was not long after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, and it was less than three years since they captured Fujian.

The Lu family was lucky, their backers, Lin Tianqing, the former prefect of Zhangzhou, and Ke Yongsheng, the commander of Zhangzhou Wei, were both sensitive and took refuge in the Qing court at the fastest speed, while Xue Maochen, the commander of Zhangzhou Wei, the biggest backer of the Guo family, was very loyal to the Ming Dynasty and led his troops to resist the Qing army. Although the Guo family has some other small backers and relationships, they are still far worse than the Lu family. Of course, the Lu family and the backers behind him will not let go of the opportunity to annex the Guo family, the wealth of an equally century-old family is very attractive, not to mention that there is a cornucopia-like salt pan next to it.

Although the Guo family lost its biggest backer, the Lu family and others still had some strength to eat the Guo family at once, so they continued to try various ways to weaken the Guo family in the next year. Most of the confiscated Guo family property fell into the hands of the Lu family and the people behind him. and then use this huge amount of money to build a relationship, and the official fortune has been prosperous over the years. He has become the governor of Hunan and the squire of the Ministry of Works. Although the Guo family knew that the Lu family and others had bad intentions. A number of measures have been taken. But because they were closely watched by the Lu family and others, they all failed, and in the end, it is said that only one little son escaped with the help of the old housekeeper and disappeared for twenty years.

Even now, speaking of which, the biggest backers of the Lu family are still Lin Tianqing and Ke Yongsheng, although only Ke Yongsheng is an official in the capital, but I can't tell when Lin Tianqing will be transferred back to the capital. You must know that Lin Tianqing has achieved the high position of governor of Yunnan two years ago, although he has now been demoted by one level and has become the political envoy of Yunnan. But still from the second grade of the official. This Lin Tianqing is also a talent, and there is a famous saying in later generations: "Only Chu is talented; "Yu Si is sheng" is what he said. He is a close confidant of the famous first traitor Hong Chengchou in the late Ming Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou, the word Yanyan, the name Hengjiu, just died two years ago, nicknamed Xianggong, he is also a native of Fujian, his hometown is Nan'an Yingdu, Quanzhou, Fujian. He was a scholar in the forty-fourth year of Wanli of Mingshenzong, tired of officials to Shaanxi to participate in politics, Chongzhen officials to the military department of Shangshu, Jiliao governor. After the defeat in the Battle of Songjin, he was captured by the Qing Dynasty, and later surrendered to become a Han scholar of the Qing Dynasty. Officials to the Taifu, Taibao, Young Master, Prince Taishi. If you want to talk about Hong Chengchou's ability, it is leveraged, that is, Huang Taiji had some pretentiousness before he subdued him.

At that time, Huang Taiji wanted to subdue Hong Chengchou in order to compete for the deer in the future, so he ordered to escort Hong Chengchou back to Beijing with courtesy, and execute the captured and unyielding governor Qiu Minyang and others, which was to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys. The eloquent Hong Chengchou was naturally not fooled, he didn't want to sell himself so cheaply. When he arrived at the house arrest in Deshengjing, Hong Chengchou wore his feet and did not say a word - he also did this on purpose, he wanted to test Huang Taiji's attitude in order to bargain.

When Fan Wencheng came to persuade him to surrender, Hong Chengchou gave full play to his acting talent and roared loudly just to die quickly, but Fan Wencheng remained silent. It wasn't until Fan Wencheng was able to politely discuss national affairs with him that a piece of swallow mud on the beam fell on Hong Chengchou's clothes. Hong Chengchou saw that the opportunity had come, and while answering, he brushed off the swallow mud very carefully, brushing and brushing, as if he was afraid of staining his clothes. Fan Wencheng saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, and replied to Huang Taiji and said: "Hong Chengchou will definitely not die." And if he cherished his clothes so much, how much more of his life? ”

In fact, Hong Chengchou wanted to surrender at that time, but he couldn't say it, so he took this opportunity to show his heart and increase his weight. So later, there was a Qing history manuscript in the "self-looking, unraveling the imperial mink fur coat and saying: 'Mr. has no cold? Cheng Chou stared at it for a long time and sighed: "The true lord of the world! It is written, "Prostrate and surrender." Hong Chengchou has been in the officialdom for decades, and the way to be an official is naturally ripe. Judging from his ability to boldly abandon his principles at critical moments, he is a first-class master in thick black science. From this scandalous drama, it is obvious that Mr. Hong does not intend to defend justice with his life.

After surrendering, Hong Chengchou quickly expressed his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty and actively offered advice for the Qing Dynasty to annex the Ming Dynasty. After learning that King Li Zicheng conquered Beijing and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain, Hong Chengchou immediately advocated to the regent Dolgon to enter the customs immediately, and formulated the national policy that the first task of the Qing army after entering the customs was to pursue and suppress Li Zicheng and other peasant armies, and the second was to eliminate the forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty; After the Qing army entered the customs, Hong Chengchou's Jianyì was issued as an edict to the public inside and outside; Hong Chengchou used his charisma to bring his protégé's old capital under the banner of the Qing regime.

In response to Emperor Shunzhi's behavior of only believing in lamas and not respecting Confucius and Mencius, Hong Chengchou made Shunzhi understand the necessity of uniting Han scholars and laid the foundation for the comprehensive merger of the Manchu and Han landlord classes. The three Southern Ming regimes were even more collapsed by Hong Chengchou himself: Hong Chengchou persuaded Zheng Zhilong, the local real power faction in Fujian, that is, Zheng Chenggong's father, and Zhu Yujian, the longwu emperor who led zhì quite accomplished, fled in a panic, and was killed in Tingzhou with the Qing army; As for the Yongli regime, Hong Chengchou recruited Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, Sun Kewang, the king of Qin in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and completely laid the foundation for the Qing army to comprehensively sweep away Yungui. Without Hong Chengchou's plan, it would have been difficult for the Qing Dynasty to eliminate the last hope of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Great Western Army led by General Li Dingguo (Sun Kewang's younger brother). From this point of view, Hong Chengchou can not be a second person in the founding credit of the Han officials of the Qing Dynasty, and his credit is still above the king of Wu Sangui who "rushed to the crown and was angry for the red face"!

Lin Tianqing is Hong Chengchou's protégé, the Qing soldiers entered Fujian, he immediately found Hong Chengchou, took refuge in the Qing court, and after obtaining a large fortune of the Guo family, he went up and down, and only two years later, he was promoted to the position of governor of Hubei. The Lu family has also been smooth sailing over the years because of its stable backing. Rapid development. to the capabilities of the Ministry of Intelligence. It's not hard to find this information. But now the big backers of the Lu family are not in Fujian, and as soon as Hong Chengchou died, Lin Tianqing didn't do much, so the action team just got rid of the Lu family in the name of the return of the Guo family's son-in-law for revenge.

In this way, no one will suspect that it was Geng Jingzhong's order. It's not that Geng Jingzhong is cowering and can't do anything, but now he can try not to move in the mainland or Fujian himself without making big moves, and make the impact as small as possible. It's best if there is no movement. And overseas, even if the Mawei Navy is in turmoil, as long as the imperial court does not have real evidence, it will just not hear it. It's a stressful time, so it's better not to make a bird.

"Now that you understand, let's go with peace of mind! At least you're still a ghost. Saying that, Captain Qin made a gesture to cut it down.

At this time, the head of the Lu family could no longer maintain the speechless majesty of Fit, and knelt down with a puff and cried bitterly and begged loudly: "Virtuous nephew, the Guo and Lu families are also world friends, and I had no choice but to do what happened back then." At that time, the prefect Lord Lin and the commander General Ke both took a fancy to your family's property and coerced me to suppress your family's business. You must know that your store's shop is closed by their order, and the outside sales line is also blocked by them, I really have to do something sorry for your Guo family, and I also ask the virtuous nephew to let go of the Lu family in the past, I am willing to compensate the virtuous nephew, you can take whatever you like! ”

Not to mention that Captain Qin's identity is fake, even if the real little son of the Guo family does not die and comes back for revenge, he will not let him go. According to the task, the action team can call it a day at this time, Captain Qin is not ready to talk nonsense, and he is about to fall again with his knife.

"Stop!" An angry roar came from behind Captain Qin. When Captain Qin turned around, he found that the civil official behind him had straightened up, stepped forward and asked him in a deep voice: "Who are you, you still dare to do such a plundering thing in my Fujian, are you not afraid that the Jingnan Royal Mansion will send troops to attack your cottage?" "Just now, this official stayed in the hall and didn't need to come out, but seeing that the head of the Lu family hadn't come back for a long time, and he heard something wrong outside, he came out to take a look.

Captain Qin squinted at him and said coldly, "Who are you?" ”

The civil official said proudly: "This mansion is the prefect of Zhangzhou Prefecture. ”

Captain Qin nodded indifferently and said casually, "This matter has nothing to do with you. "The prefect of Zhangzhou Mansion is also an official of the imperial court, and the task of the action team is only to get rid of the principal of the Lu family, and it has nothing to do with anyone else, let alone hurt this prefect. If something really happened to a prefect like this, the commotion would be really big.

When the prefect of Zhangzhou heard this, his face was immediately red with anger, and his neck was thick, and he couldn't help but attack on the spot. He is the dignified prefect of Zhangzhou Mansion, on the ground of Zhangzhou, who dares not to give him face? The entire Zhangzhou Mansion is respected by him. When others saw him, they had to respectfully call him "Fuzun", instead of calling an adult casually. What is Fuzun? Only the lord of a mansion can be called a mansion! Especially in the past few years, there has not been a group of bandits left in Fujian, and even pirates no longer dare to plunder along the coast, and those who have just emerged will be wiped out by the Mawei Army, so he is not afraid of these bandits in front of him, thinking that with a three-inch tongue, he can drink them back, who knows that people don't bird him at all!

Instead of respectfully calling the Mansion Zun, Captain Qin even owed a perfunctory call to an adult, but said casually like sending an irrelevant person: "This matter has nothing to do with you." "I don't take him seriously at all! In the eyes of Captain Qin and the members of the action team, he is a real passerby. Civil officials love face the most, how can he stand being humiliated like this?

"Presumptuous, do you really want to be obsessed? If the prince's army comes, I'm afraid it will be too late to regret it! If you leave now, the power of this mansion should be ignored, otherwise" When the prefect of Zhangzhou wanted to continue, Captain Qin had already colored the team members around the prefect. The team member not far from the prefect had a knife, and the prefect of Zhangzhou also fell to the ground with a pop. This time, the whole world is quiet!

In the time they had delayed, the other team members had already slipped out of the main members of the Lu family, and the three sons of the Lu family master, the three younger brothers and six nephews of the Lu family master were all gathered together. At this moment, several screams rang out outside.

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

At the same time, there was a flurry of gunfire.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Then someone shouted: "Where did you come from...... mongrel" The voice stopped abruptly, as if his neck was cut in an instant, and he didn't know what was going on. The head of the Lu family was immediately overjoyed, he heard that it was their family's guards who found out that something was wrong and rushed over. The Lu family's guard equipment is not bad, the salt merchants are rich, and many of them are equipped with firecrackers, but they can't be compared with the firecrackers of the Mawei Army. With them rushing back, this remnant of the Guo family should not be so arrogant, and his own life can basically be saved.

Unexpectedly, after a burst of gunfire, there was no movement again. Although these guards had a lot of muskets, they couldn't hit anyone at all, and the soldiers of the Sixty Action Team outside, each armed with a crossbow, after a lot of training, shot accurately, basically one arrow at a time, and soon put down hundreds of people. Everyone was puzzled, and a team member ran in outside and reported to Captain Qin: "Big brother, it's the escort of the Lu family, two hundred people came, half of them were killed by us, and the others dispersed." The leader has been killed by us. ”

"Well, the brothers are all good! Go back and talk about the reward for meritorious deeds! Now, kill them for me! (To be continued......)