The original Pingnan palace has not been repaired after the fire, Zhu Yongxing simply let people set up a stage in the open space, and built a simple box, as well as a stepped stand for the common people. Every weekend, the Pingnan Palace, well, now changed to the same paradise, it is open to the public on a limited basis. Zhu Yongxing paid for the performance, invited some opera troupes to perform, officials and ordinary people can come to enjoy, the limit of the people is 400 people, get tickets in advance, until the people are full.

In this way, under the banner of having fun with the people, he also found a place for his family members such as Mengzhu and Long'er to have a place to relax. After listening to it twice, Mengzhu and Long'er became interested, and took out their private money to hire people to buy materials, and added a roof to the stage and ordinary stands, so that they could perform in the rain.

It is a rare thing for the official family to pay for the people to watch the play, not to mention that it is the first person in the current court - His Royal Highness Minwangmin. This move has received rave reviews from the people, and the people are proud to have heard the big drama "invited by His Royal Highness Min". Some people also said convincing words after they went back, saying that they had seen the true face of His Royal Highness Min and the two princesses who were as beautiful as immortals.

In fact, Zhu Yongxing doesn't like this kind of slow-paced entertainment, and occasionally accompanies his wife to listen for a while, either being asked to leave by his subordinates, or leaving under an excuse. It's just that when Zhu Yongxing was there, Mengzhu and Long'er were even more interested, serving happily on the left and on the right.

Now Zhu Yongxing has returned to the palace, came to the confidential room in front of the palace, and sat in his office. There was indeed something wrong, Gu Yinghui and others quickly stepped up and arrived in Guangzhou. According to Zhu Yongxing's requirements and the rules of the Intelligence Bureau, he will report immediately, and there will be no weekend off. The chief officer, Ye Hu, immediately sent someone to invite Zhu Yongxing, and he took Gu Yinghui and others to wait here.

"Gu Yinghui-" Zhu Yongxing has a very good memory, directly called out his name, and said with a smile: "It's been two years, it's good to come back safely, and you did a good job in the north." This operation is even more hard work! ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, my subordinates are ashamed." Gu Yinghui bowed deeply, and her face showed excitement.

"No need to be polite, sit down and talk." Zhu Yongxing waved his hand, looked down at the relevant text brought back by Gu Yinghui. He also whispered in his mouth, "The Qing court is still the same, and it hasn't grown much!" Well, many southern scholars have abandoned the exam, which is a change in people's hearts; The yellow flag is going to be replaced, and no one can make it anymore, Sony, why don't you come out......"

Ye Hu and Gu Yinghui held the fragrant tea served by the waiter. Drinking and waiting, silent. This is Zhu Yongxing's habit of picking out the doubts in the text, and then asking them one by one.

After drinking two cups of tea, Zhu Yongxing raised his head, smiled faintly, and began to inquire in detail one by one. The duty clerk next to it is like a flying pen, and the record is complete.

One question and one answer. Before you know it, a long time has passed. Gu Yinghui sweated on his forehead, thinking that his work in the north was carried out quite well, and he was well prepared this time, but Zhu Yongxing asked carefully and on the point, which made him feel a little clumsy.

Fortunately, Zhu Yongxing stopped at the right time. said to himself: "It's still not hot, the Qing court still has troops to adjust in Xuanfu and Shanhaiguan." Well, if you light another fire in Shandong, it is estimated that you will be able to mobilize it all, right? ”

Ye Hu pondered for a moment and said cautiously: "Although the Jingshi still has the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade. However, the Qing court would not be lightly transferred. Even if it is transferred, there will be troops to supplement the Beijing division. If Shandong is in turmoil, the Qing court will be clumsy in the north and south, and it will be difficult to deal with it. It's just that His Royal Highness summoned him the day before yesterday, and Yu Qi's people have a lot of habits in the rivers and lakes, and the Shandong Station of the Intelligence Bureau also reflected this. ”

"It still depends on whether Yu Qi has appeal among the people in Shandong, if you only rely on those people in the rivers and lakes-" Zhu Yongxing shook his head, "It's good to find out the news, but it's not good to fight in battle." ”

This time, together with Gu Yinghui and others, there were several backbones sent by Shandong Haoqiang Yuqi, who rushed to Guangzhou on horseback after they landed in Fuzhou, a few days faster than Gu Yinghui and others. Originally, Zhu Yongxing deliberately conceded to the Seven Incidents, and responded with the north and south, making it difficult for the Qing court to deal with it. But after seeing these guys with strong habits in the rivers and lakes, he hesitated again.

If Yu Qi is only regarded as a disposable chess piece, it naturally doesn't matter, but Zhu Yongxing doesn't want to deal a heavy blow to the anti-Qing forces in Shandong because of this idea, so that he will lose his help in the Northern Expedition in the future.

"That's right." Zhu Yongxing suddenly looked at Gu Yinghui and asked: "On the list of personnel for this operation, there is a pair of Shandong brothers and sisters, are they familiar with the situation in Shandong, and do they know about the reputation of the seven people in the people?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, they fled from Shandong to Beijing, and they were originally from Jiaodong, so they may know something." Gu Yinghui hesitated a little and said, "It's just that they are a little rude and unliterate, and they don't understand etiquette, so I'm afraid they will bump into His Highness." ”

"Lone is just talking about the scenery of Shandong, and what is there that does not collide." Zhu Yongxing smiled disapprerovingly: "Send someone to call them, how to deal with Shandong, it is difficult for the lonely committee to deal with it, listen more and ask more, it is always useful." ”

Ye Hu nodded at Gu Yinghui, and said to Zhu Yongxing: "Dare to ask His Highness to summon a few guards to protect him, or change places." ”

"A little too careful, right?" Zhu Yongxing was unimpressed.

"Your Highness's golden body can't tolerate half a difference." Ye Hu stubbornly insisted.

"Well, I'll just listen to you. As for the place, you don't need to change it! Zhu Yongxing smiled bitterly and accepted the advice.

……………

After entering Guangzhou, Li Maolin's brothers were first placed in the post station by Gu Yinghui, and he had to report to the intelligence bureau first, and then report on his work.

After settling down at the post station, Li Yingmei took her brother out to have a look. Because she saw that her brother's love was not high, she wanted to use other things to distract her attention and distract herself by the way.

Li Maolin naturally knew his sister's kindness, looking at her apologetic eyes, knowing that if she didn't agree, I was afraid that she would be even more unhappy, so he forced a smile and walked out of the post house with his sister and wandered around the streets.

It has been a year since the recovery of Guangzhou, and it is open to sea trade, so it is naturally no more amazing than Yunnan Province, which is inland, with inconvenient transportation and recovery. Although the Li brothers and sisters were not familiar with the roads, they only walked around the streets around the post house, but compared to the withering of the north and the poverty of the people, they were also extremely surprised. Even the brother and sister saw the Xiyi people swaggering through the market, and their eyes almost fell to the ground.

And one year is enough time for people in the Guangfu District to regrow their hair, which makes Li Maolin, who is wrapped in a cloth on his head, very ashamed of himself. The big man actually cringed a little. And Gu Yinghui left in a hurry, and forgot to leave some money for the two, the broken silver and copper plates brought from the north could not be spent, and from time to time they smelled the fragrance wafting from nowhere, and the brothers felt even more hungry in their stomachs, and hurried back to the post house. I'd like to have a free dinner first.

"Where did you two go?" At the door of the post house, a subordinate of Gu Yinghui, who was sweating profusely, came up and complained, "Quick, come with me, Your Highness wants to see you." ”

Ah, Li Maolin's brothers and sisters were taken aback, and for a while they were stunned and stupid.

"Ahhhhhh Gu Yinghui's subordinates impatiently pointed to the carriage next to them. "Get in the car, get in the car, you really don't know which blessing you have cultivated in your life, and you can be summoned by His Highness. That, Master Gu can say, seeing His Highness is honest, don't bump into His Highness. If it's like last time, Master Gu will have to be involved by you again......"

Along. The staff of this intelligence bureau did not stop talking, babbling about etiquette. Talking about precautions. Li Maolin's brother and sister nodded vigorously, trying to remember it desperately, but their nervous brains couldn't turn a little, as if they were in a dream. In this way, he arrived at the place in a daze, handed over his weapons in a daze, and was searched in a daze. In a daze, he entered Zhu Yongxing's spacious office.

"I haven't met His Highness Chitose yet." Gu Yinghui reminded the confused brother and sister a little helplessly.

"Grass, grass people meet Your Highness." Li Maolin's body was shocked, and he hurriedly knelt down and bowed, "Your Highness Chitose, Chitose." Chichitose. ”

Li Yingmei also knelt down, just kowtowed, but was so nervous that she couldn't speak.

"Excuse me, give me a seat." Zhu Yongxing gave a brief order, and then teased Gu Yinghui with a smile: "I'm nervous, it must be that the people you sent didn't explain clearly, but scared them." ”

"Your Royal Highness is famous, and it is said in the north that you have three heads and six arms, and the god of war descends to earth, and they are afraid." Gu Yinghui was joking, and she also replied complimentally, turned to the brother and sister and said, "Get up, Your Highness should reply well if you ask something." ”

The brother and sister kowtowed again, and then stood up crampedly, followed the position of Gu Yinghui's fingers, and carefully sat down on half of their bodies, bowing their heads and waiting for questions.

Zhu Yongxing got used to it, but he was also helpless. The neighbors around him are okay, those who see him for the first time, not to mention the ordinary people, even the officials who are about to take up their posts, all look trembling. This feudal hierarchical concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is by no means something that he can change if he has to be casual and friendly.

"Well, there's nothing else." Zhu Yongxing pondered for a moment and said, "I just want to ask you about the situation in Shandong, and also, do you know Yu Qi in Shandong?" If you know, tell me about your impression of him. ”

Li Maolin's head turned slightly, not knowing whether he was thinking or wanting to see his sister.

"First of all, let's talk about the suffering in Shandong and how you fled to Beijing." Gu Yinghui nodded on the side: "Your Highness Kuanren, tell the truth, don't be afraid." ”

After another pause, Li Maolin spoke in a whisper, and slowly became clearer and clearer.

After the rulers of the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to satisfy the greed of the Manchurian nobles for land and encircle the soldiers of the Eight Banners, they sent officials to stake land, and there were three climaxes successively. The enclosure lasted for decades, mainly in Zhili, and a small part in Taiyuan and Luzhou in Shanxi, and Dezhou and Xuzhou in Shandong. This barbaric looting has left more than a million people bankrupt, unemployed, and displaced.

The Manchurian aristocracy and the village leaders who took care of their affairs even forced the peasants who had lost their land to serve as slaves in the name of surrender. Those who were forced to surrender, they were unwilling to be slaves, and fled one after another. A large number of slaves brought by Manchurian officers and soldiers from outside the customs were unwilling to endure the oppression, and they were homesick and fled in large numbers after entering the customs with the Qing army. As a result, the Qing court promulgated a strict "fugitive law".

Enclosing land, surrendering, fleeing, occupying houses, shaving hair, and changing clothes were the six most harmful malpractices in the early Qing Dynasty. Although Zhu Yongxing and others knew, they couldn't help but hate Li Maolin's story.

"If you are so tyrannical, you can also rule the world with a shy face?" Zhu Yongxing let out a long sigh, deeply indignant at the deep pain of history and the injustice of heaven.

"Your Highness should accept the order of heaven, and should relieve the people from hanging upside down as soon as possible, and destroy the cruel and unscrupulous Tartars." Ye Hu arched his hand and said.

Gu Yinghui nodded in agreement, and then asked Li Maolin's brothers and sisters: "By the way, what about Yu Qi, do you understand?" ”

"Yu Qi, the famous Shandong Haoqiang." Li Maolin was a little disdainful. said: "More than ten years ago, Yu Qi once erected a rebel flag in Ziyaya Mountain in Jiaodong and conquered Ninghai Prefecture. But it was an anticlimactic, and the Manchu Qing gave a commander, and then surrendered again. ”

"So what is his reputation among the people? Is it that the people of Shandong like him or not? Zhu Yongxing tried his best to ask in easy-to-understand words.

Li Maolin thought for a while and said, "He recruited a lot of people from the rivers and lakes. He also opened martial arts halls and casinos in various parts of Jiaodong, and there were many things that bullied the weak and oppressed the good. ”

"Did he do it, or did his apprentices and friends do it?" Gu Yinghui asked.

"Then, the grass people don't know." Li Maolin really didn't know much about it, and he didn't dare to be sure.

The good and the bad are uneven and difficult to manage. Zhu Yongxing finally came to a final conclusion and bowed his head in deep thought. The room is also quiet.

Grunt, a strange sound was heard clearly in the silence. Zhu Yongxing glanced up in amazement, and his gaze stopped at Li Yingmei's body. But when I saw that the girl's head was so low that it was about to touch her legs, the roots of her ears were almost red.

"It's about to be dinner, let's eat here before leaving!" Zhu Yongxing couldn't hold back a smile and said, "It's urgent, but I made you hungry and reply." ”

Li Maolin was also a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart that this girl was always in trouble. This belly is not called early or late, but it must be called in front of His Highness. It's really-

Li Yingmei was so embarrassed that she was nervous and excited about His Highness's summons, but now she had no thoughts and just wanted to leave early.

Gu Yinghui smiled bitterly, it was too unexpected. This Li Yingmei has to make something wrong when she speaks. How can this silence make people speechless?

Ye Hu smiled slightly, diverted the topic, and said: "Two days ago, the people from Shandong always talked about how their martial arts were and how Yu's boxing was, and I heard that your brothers and sisters are also practicing families. What do you have to say? ”

Li Maolin thought for a while and said, "I've seen it." Xu is that person can't practice at home, and wants to smash the field, but he hasn't even beaten his sister. But there were so many people in the martial arts hall that I couldn't afford to provoke my sister, so we left overnight. ”

"What kind of kung fu are you practicing?" Zhu Yongxing asked casually, waiting for the food to come up.

"Caomin's practice is to check boxing, this, pay attention to the strength and strength, and the momentum is coherent." Li Maolin talked about martial arts, and spoke more fluently, "The grass people have also practiced big guns, can also ride horses, and can also see the eyes." ”

"That, Li Yingmei, what are you good at?" Zhu Yongxing expressed some interest in the hungry Shandong girl, perhaps casually, wanting to reduce the girl's embarrassment.

When Li Yingmei heard herself, she raised her head stupidly and looked straight at Zhu Yongxing, but this was very rude and bold, so anxious that Li Maolin even made her eyes.

"Can you see clearly?" Zhu Yongxing smiled disapprerovingly, "See if Gu has three heads and six arms, is it a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and is his eyes as big as a copper bell?" ”

Li Yingmei saw Zhu Yongxing's kind expression, and her heart was also a little relieved, and she lowered her head and said sneeringly: "It is rumored that His Royal Highness Chitose is blessed by God, pinching his fingers can be regarded as yin and yang, and he can predict the prophet, which is more powerful than Zhuge Liang." It's not enough to say that it's scary. ”

"Hehe, that's how you talk, it's not so scary." Zhu Yongxing said with a smile: "You are also a child of the rivers and lakes, you have a free and generous temperament, so you have your own heart, don't learn from others." Lonely not only said the same thing to you, but also to the subordinate officials, in the big dye vat of officialdom, if you bend your face, lose your edges and corners, and only look at the face of the official, you will become a muddy mess. In Lone's view, how can such an official be of great use? ”

"Your Highness is wise, and your subordinates should keep it in mind." Ye Hu and Gu Yinghui's faces were straight, and they stood up and saluted respectfully.

"You two are fine." Zhu Yongxing stretched out his hand and nodded, and praised: "Solid work, conscientiousness, loneliness is seen in the eyes and remembered in the heart." ”

"It's the duty of subordinates." Ye Hu's heart warmed and he bowed again.

If it is rewarded according to merit, the officials of Ye Hu and other intelligence bureau personnel are not what they are now. But the Intelligence Bureau is a special department, Zhu Yongxing also used this to sue Ye Hu and others, don't just look at the present, he has not forgotten the merits of these people, and it is a matter of time before he is rewarded.

Zhu Yongxing stretched out his hand and pressed it, motioned for Ye Hu and Gu Yinghui to sit down, and then stretched out his hand to point at Li Maolin's brothers and sisters, and said, "Gu has said so much, you two quickly sit down!" Such a big person, just sitting on the side, is he tired? If you want to talk about respect, you don't work on this surface. Obey in person, scold and dig behind your back? ”

"The grass people, the grass people have only respect for His Royal Highness Chitose in their hearts." Li Maolin sat down a little more firmly.

Li Yingmei sat down seriously, exhaled a long breath, looked up curiously at Zhu Yongxing, and met Zhu Yongxing's smiling face.

"Shandong girl, good." Zhu Yongxing stretched out his hand and nodded, and teased: "If the officers and soldiers in the army know that the Shandong girl is good-looking and generous, I am afraid that they will rush to fight Shandong, so that they can marry a Shandong daughter-in-law." ”

Ye Hu and Gu Yinghui laughed playfully, but Li Yingmei blushed with shame, but she couldn't help but secretly look at this different big official.

……………

It was already dark, and after a light meal, the Li brothers and sisters were taken away, but Ye Hu and Gu Yinghui stayed and accepted Zhu Yongxing's new arrangement.

"Shandong's intelligence work should also be strengthened, and it should make good use of its advantages over the seven departments." Zhu Yongxing took a sip of fragrant tea and said slowly: "There are three religions and six streams, and it is estimated that it is not possible to fight, but it is good to listen to the news." ”

"Yu Qi's reputation in Shandong doesn't seem to be very good, and maybe it's because of his subordinates." Ye Hu thought for a while and said, "If he raises an uprising, I'm afraid it won't have enough influence." (To be continued......)