"What's the panic?" Han Liu's spirits suddenly perked up, he stood up with a "brush", and said sharply, "Don't mess up!" - Brother, you play and press quickly, in case someone refuses to join and cause trouble-with me, you can't suffer! ”

Liu Tiecheng glanced blankly at the people in the hall, moved his bloodless lips, and commanded weakly: "Brothers, all ...... Put down the knife and gun - it's all up to my sister! Almost at the same time, dozens of guards at the back door of the hall swarmed out and surrounded Kangxi in the center.

"Wu Dan," Kangxi smiled reservedly, waved his hand and ordered, "You go out and see whose soldier it is." ”

"Chirp ......" Wu Dan promised not to move, there were dozens of bandits inside and outside the hall, how could he "go out"? Gao Shiqi understood in his heart, and said with a smile: "It's better for the slave to go and take a look." With that, he lifted his robe and walked away, and for a moment the courtyard in the hall was as silent as an ancient tomb.

When the time moved, Gao Shiqi came in with a four-grade military attache with a confused face, and the military attache saw Wu Dan at a glance, he was originally on an errand in the Shanpu camp, and said with a smile: "Master Qian, you are always here!" ”

"You kid is shouting nonsense, my name is Wu Dan now!" Wu Dan said coldly, "Long live the master, of course I'm here!" ”

Hooray! When today, Zi Kangxi is actually here! Like five thunderbolts, all the uninformed people opened their mouths in horror, their eyes widened, and they froze on the ground like a wood carved clay sculpture, and only Kangxi shook the folding fan in a chic manner.

"See the Holy Driver!"

Gao Shiqi raised his voice and shouted, and he knelt down first.

This sound woke up all the officers and soldiers and bandits, and Liu Tiexiang, who had been made distracted, was shocked by electricity, fell to the ground in the hall with a burst of dizziness, and turned over and knelt again, just kowtowing regardless of one. Suo Etu, Mingzhu, Jin Fu, Chen Huang, Han Liu's family and a large number of swordsmen rang their horses, and the black crows knelt on the ground.

"Liu Tiecheng." Kangxi glanced at everyone comfortably, slowly paced to the middle of the hall, stood in front of Liu Tiecheng who was lying on the ground, and said, "You have committed a punishable crime, and if you meet me, you can be regarded as a blessed person." Since ancient times, there has been no joke, and I have promised to appease you, and there is no reason to talk back. I sent you to Gubeikou, served in front of the ancient army, and then atoned for your sins after you have merit! ”

Liu Tiecheng didn't understand etiquette, staring at him and not knowing how to reply. Gao Shiqi gestured behind Kangxi, and he hurriedly kowtowed, and said nondescriptly: "Thank you, Long live the Son of Heaven!" From now on, these hundreds of our brothers are all old people, and they will work hard in the water and fire, so that they can get a wife and a rich and noble ......"

After Liu Tiecheng and the others withdrew, Kangxi beckoned Chen Huang to come and said with a smile: "I was going to discuss river affairs with you tonight, and I didn't want to kill Liu Tiecheng halfway." There's no time to dwell on. I see that you are not amazing, but you are very good at learning, and I will first teach you the four grades of the Taoist, and you are still in the Jin Fumu, so you can do it well, and I will have my own district in the future. Then he said: "Drive!" ”

After the Duanyang Festival in May, Ge Li, the governor of Liangjiang, received a message from Jin Fu, saying that Kangxi's southern tour arrived in Nanjing on the seventh day of the first lunar month. As the governor, he did not dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly ordered people to pave the road and guard the guards, and led the civil and military generals of the city to the reception hall ten miles away early in the morning to greet him.

At the right time, the celebrant eunuch He Zhu'er came with twenty eunuchs to report that the holy car would arrive immediately, and ordered all officials to kneel and pick up. Suddenly, the twenty-four cannons hung with bright yellow and colorful silk on both sides of the royal road roared sky-high, and the brocade bands trained in advance raised their bells and drums in unison. In the rumbling cannon, Kangxi was supported by Suo Etu and Mingzhu to get off the imperial chariot, step up to the loess platform, stand facing south, and accept the dust dance of civil and military officials with a smile.

"Minion Gregory Knock Long Live St. Ann!" After the performance was over, Ge Li knelt forward, kowtowed and said, "Please, I don't know which palace the master is lucky to drive?" ”

Kangxi ignored it, and searched among the brilliant officials with his eyes, because he saw that Guo Xiu was also there, so he turned around and asked Suo Etu: "Why is Guo Xiu also here?" Suo Etu hurriedly bowed down and replied: "He came last month, and he was an errand for the Dali Temple faction. Kangxi nodded, paced in front of Jackie Chan, stretched out his hand to pull it up, and said with a smile: "Yu Zhenjia, I crossed the Qingjiang River, and the people there are discussing to build a shrine for you, your official reputation is not bad!" ”

"This matter has been heard by the minions." Yu Chengchan hurriedly said, "What kind of virtue does a slave have, I don't dare to do it." He has given his mother a book to discourage this unhelpful move. ”

Kangxi smiled: "It's not necessarily a useless move. Your mother is very virtuous, she can't stand the daily welcome of scholars, people, officials and businessmen in Qingjiang, she is troublesome, she has come to Nanjing, and I also asked the guards to send Cheng Yi! After that, he nodded to the officials, then turned around and came back, and smiled at Ge Li: "You are much thinner than before, why are you suffering like this?" Anyway, be careful! ”

Although the words were said very peacefully, there were bones in them, Ge Li couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly said: "The slave is an old man, he has a bad appetite in the past few years, he can't eat, and he has this kind of dog and horse disease, and it is rare to have a wide heart and a fat body - the saint should feel that it is not suitable to live in the palace, and it is also very convenient to move to the governor's yamen." ”

"I live in Wei Dongting Mansion." Kangxi said, "Do you know that the palace is still under Yang Qilong's gun, not to mention your small governor's palace?" I'm afraid that Wei Dongting's private house will have less trouble! Hearing this, the sweat on Ge Li's head immediately seeped out, and he was about to kowtow to reply, when Kangxi said again: "You don't have to ask for guilt, I have already seen your guilt." Soon there will be an edict for you. - Kneel down! Then he ordered him to drive into the city.

Yu Chenglong returned all the way back to Nanjing Daoya, remembering the scene when he was met by Kangxi, and he couldn't tell what it was like, he only felt that everything was boiling, and he was restless when he was lying down and sitting. When I picked up the pen to make a poem, I felt that my mind was chaotic and I couldn't write a good sentence. When he was stunned, his family member Yu Lu came in and said, "Master, Lord Yushi Guo Xiu is here to worship!" ”

Yu Chenglong hurriedly collected his mind and said: "Please!" When he was about to go out to greet him with a hat, Guo Xiu had already strode in and said with a smile: "Zhenjia, I'm here to say good news to you!" Yu Chenglong gave up his seat and said: "You also learn this set, it's unbearable." It is the duty of an official not to be greedy, and it is only because there are many corrupt officials that those who are not greedy are commended. When I think about it, it's a little chilling to be ashamed. Yu Lu knew that the owner appreciated Guo Xiu very much on weekdays, so he brewed two cups of Jackie Chan's treasured pre-rain tea and served them.

Guo Xiu tasted the tea, looked at the dish map hanging on the wall, pondered for a long time, and said with a smile: "Having said that, it is still enviable and respectable to be so loved and gracious by the saints. I just saw Wei Dongting and heard that the Holy Lord intended to appoint you as the governor of Jiangnan. In any case, it is always good for the people! Yu Chenglong smiled and said: "Where is this word?" I have never been promoted like this, and I can't afford it. ”

"Exceptional!" Guo Xiu laughed, "Compared to Mingzhu, a third-class guard uses Zuodu Yushi; Compared with Gao Shiqi, seven moves a day; What kind of exception are you? I am so happy, the court has another good minister, and the people have a clean official. ”

As soon as he said this, Yu Chenglong also believed it a little, and he didn't squeak after sipping tea for a long time, and then sighed: "It's hard to go straight!" If it weren't for the Lord's Holy Wisdom, fools like you and me would have been chopped up on the chopping board. ”

"I'm not quiet in my heart today, and I really want to talk to you." Guo Xiu also sighed, "According to what I have seen from reading history, the current emperor is really the master of the world. Speaking of conscience, I underestimated the emperor because I had the realm of Huayi in my heart. After a few years of watching the Lord act, I was not willing to sink, and I really wanted to do something with all my might. "Oh?" Yu Chengchan smiled, "You are guilty of criticism, you are indispensable in the history books, what else do you have to do?" After thinking about it, he added, "Besides, now that the Lord is wise and virtuous, what do you have to do?" ”

Guo Xiu sneered and said: "This is only half true: the lord is true, but the minister may not!" I don't ramble, not as deep as you. Let's tell you the truth: I thought the Lord was surrounded by a crowd! ”

This sentence was too heavy, Yu Chenglong was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't speak for a while. But I heard Guo Xiukan say: "Suo Etu made evil deeds, only sold more than 300 officials in the ministry, and got no less than a few million taels of stolen silver, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, except for Li Guangdi, a pseudo-Taoist, one does not believe in it, and one does not rely on it; Mingzhu and Gao Shiqi originally walked into Beijing like a child, you go to their house to see, they are both rich and rival countries, squandering gold and silver like dung, and the annual salary is only more than 180 taels, where did he get so much money? There is only one Xiong Cizhi left, who only knows how to protect himself and bury himself in teaching the prince, and now he doesn't even ask about government affairs! What can such a person teach the prince to be? So whenever he came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to give a lecture, I, Guo, retreated and never listened! The more Guo Xiu spoke, the more angry he became, and his face turned red, "...... The more benevolent and generous the lord is, the more strict his subordinates should be with themselves, and they have become more and more unscrupulous in recent years! Emperor Tang Ming first brightly followed the darkness, first there was the rule of Kaiyuan, and then there was the Tianbao Rebellion, the past did not forget the teacher of the future, I sometimes think about it, I really feel heartbroken! ”

Yu Chengchan listened silently, and the original joyful and excited thoughts in his heart were washed away. But he is a person with a mental skill, not as enthusiastic as Guo Xiu, who does it regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one. While pondering, he said, "What you say is not unreasonable, I hear that you want to do it a little bit. Brother, listen to me, except for Gao Shiqi, the rest of the people are all meritorious in the administration of the lord and the peace of the 'three feudatories'. said that there are no good people in the study, then even the emperor is not good, have you thought about this matter? ”

Guo Xiu gasped, he really hadn't thought about it, and said that everyone in the study was a "rat generation", what else could Kangxi have to say about it?

"In order to fight mice without hurting the vase, you can only come one by one," Yu Jackie Chan looked out the window with deep eyes, "It is the responsibility of my generation to stir up turbidity and promote the Qing, if you want to do such a thing today, who else will I be?" Guo Xiu listened to Jackie Chan's voice, and seemed to be ready to make a shot, thinking about Suo and Ming's protégés and former officials all over the world, and the huge bureaucratic network, it is really frightening. Guo Xiu gritted his teeth and thought for a while, and said: "The two of us will fold their names, and we will first pour down the thief Mingzhu!" Yu Chenglong shook his head and said: "Looking at the historical books, no matter whether the Ming monarch is a black monarch, a power traitor like Mingzhu who has been in business for more than ten years has never been involved. This has to be done slowly, and he sees the worst deeds that he is most likely to crush. I take the lead, you also go to the book, and the courtiers rush to participate in the impeachment. If the Lord is holy and wise, he will always take him away! ”

The two of them were talking about entering Hong Kong, when they suddenly saw Yu Lu coming in from outside and said, "Master, the Wei Mansion sent someone to send a decree to ask the master to meet the emperor!" Yu Chenglong hurriedly got up and replied respectfully: "Yes." He shook Guo Xiu's hand with one hand and said, "Brother Guo, if you go to the book together, the lord will be suspicious." I'll do it first in Nanjing, you go back to Beijing to make some preparations, one book can't be ten books, one year can't do it next year, you can't live up to the emperor's kindness. "Let's go away. Guo Xiu has been watching Yu Jackie Chan go out of the second door, and Fang ordered the sedan chair to go back to the post station.

Wei Dongting's private residence is located in Qingren Lane, eight miles away from Yu Jackie Chan's Daotai Mansion. Arrived at the mouth of Qingren Lane, Yu Chenglong got off the sedan chair, only to find that Qingren Lane had been completely demolished, widened more than one zhang, a powder wall at the entrance of the street was two miles long, the whole system was newly built, the partition wall overlooked, the green trees inside were swaying, and there were pavilions and pavilions in several places. It turned out that Wei Dongting borrowed 500,000 taels of silver to build construction projects in preparation for the emperor's southern tour. Yu Chenglong was secretly sighing in surprise, and Su Lun, the guard waiting in front of the stone fang, had already seen it, and hurriedly beckoned: "Lord Yu, there is a message to ask you just now, please come in!" ”

Yu Chenglong followed Su Lun straight to the door of the instrument, because he saw the governor Ge Li kneeling at the door of the study, so he asked Su Lun: "The master is in the study?" ”

"No," said Su Lun, smiling, "the master has sent a decree that he has been kneeling here for more than half an hour. He smashed the errand of his master's southern tour, and today he sent a book of what kind of self-cultivation and immortality, which annoyed the emperor - isn't that Lord Ming and Master Suo here? What is the will of us? When Jackie Chan looked at it, he saw Suo Etu and Mingzhu coming out of the Moon Cave Gate of the South Garden one after the other, and only nodded slightly to Jackie Chan, so he walked straight to Ge Li.

"Ge Li," said Suo Etu, with a gloomy face, unhurriedly, "I have a message to ask you. ”

Ge Li kowtowed uneasily, and said with a smile: "Slave Ge Li listens to the holy oracle. ”

"The traitor Yang Qilong set up cannons in the palace at Mochou Lake and Baishadu, intending to rebel. You claimed that the firearms in the camp under the Governor's Office had not been lost, and that there was no account to be found in the list of firearms battalion equipment today. "I ask you, how do you know that the cannon is not lost?" ”

Ge Li's face was as pale as paper, but he quickly calmed down and replied softly: "The Jiangnan battalion has a total of twenty-four cannons, and because of the limited number, the servants have always managed it personally, so they have not made an account and entered the book. It's always the slave who has the heart of negligence and can't do it well, this is the sin, ask the master to blame him severely! Suo Etu breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "I ask you by order, the southern tour is such a big event, you intend to build the palace under the mouth of the traitor." After the incident, he wrote an apology, blindly prevaricated, and did not take the blame to resign from the governor, and locked up the guilt. When I came to Nanjing, you dared to use the book of demons and evil to read me, with the intention of pleasing sycophants and blinding my Tiancong! Why are you so shameless? Hearing the holy oracle's tone so severe, the cold sweat on his head had already flowed, and he didn't dare to raise his head when he bowed his head, and replied in a trembling voice: "The slave Tian is shameless, and there is a way to lose people's morality. The lord asked this, what else did the slave have to say, and he always asked the emperor to decree that he should be punished strictly! ”

"Gregory listens!" Mingzhu had no expression on his face, slowly unfolded the Huang Feng edict, and preached loudly: "Ge Li is the governor, the official of the opening of the government and the feudal territory, he should be meticulous, honest, and loyal to his duties, in order to repay the country's grace. He was ordered to prepare for the southern tour, neglected and recklessly, and appointed bandits, resulting in the success of the traitors and thieves. I am not a sin, and the member is shameless, and there is no fear of guilt, which is really obtuse. With Grali's dismissal, he was sent to Yan'an to serve in front of the army to observe the after-effects. Chin this! ”

"Minister...... Shane! Gorry bowed his head deeply. Mingzhu accepted Ge Li's top order, changed his face and smiled and picked up Ge Li, and said: "On the road of the eunuch, honor and disgrace are common things, and Ge Gong doesn't have to worry too much. Yan'an Mansion is located in the northwest grain road to the important place, the Lord told you to go, there will be a grace edict in the near future, as long as you do a good job, it is not difficult to recover - don't be so depressed, go, go to the front and ask Huchen to get a banquet wine, I will give you a meal! Suo Etu walked a few steps with Mingzhu and Ge Li, and when he turned around, he saw Yu Chengchan standing in a daze, and hurriedly said: "Zhenjia, you still haven't gone in?" The master is waiting to see you in the Pillow Pavilion! ”

Yu Chenglong nodded with a reluctant smile, and today he opened his eyes, he saw the city of "Xiangchen". He didn't know Suo Etu's thoughts, but Mingzhu had always suppressed and found fault with Ge Li in every way, and people with clear eyes were bright-eyed. Gregory was the most thoughtful, but his soothing words were warm and lovely. Can you fight this scheming? Thinking about it, he followed Su Lun and walked towards the South Garden.