Li Fuchen's tall body stood by the dock of Guichi Port, facing the rolling Yangtze River, but he couldn't take his eyes off a wooden boat that was slowly leaving, and his eyes were a little moist.

Although this living Lu Bu is romantic, and there are too many pets and outer rooms to count, Kong Sizhen can definitely be regarded as one of his favorite women, although this "living Lu Bu" himself is from a humble background, but he likes to rely on his good skin and famous reputation to seduce the beauties on the upper echelons. When he was a royal guard by Shunzhi's side, he hooked up with the daughters of those Eight Banner nobles, and Kong Sizhen was one of the best. The two are also very fateful, not only gave birth to a son, but also were able to renew their relationship after many years and became a husband and wife for a few years.

I didn't expect that now I would end my fate today, and I won't see each other again!

The wooden boat that Kong Sizhen was riding still disappeared from Li Fuchen's sight.

He sighed softly, then slowly turned around, looking at a tall young man who looked seven or eight points similar to Li Yat-sen and Sun Jiqing, and seemed to be a brother at first glance, he tried to squeeze out a little smile, and said: "Zhongzheng, your third brother is gone, from now on, you are the third child in the family again!" Although you are not a concubine, the eldest and second are very optimistic. The second child also changed your name, his name is Zhongshan, and your name is Zhongzheng, which shows that he attaches great importance to you, and you must not disappoint him. ”

It turned out that this was really Li Zhongshan's own brother, originally named Wang Zhongzhen, the third in the family, five years younger than Li Zhongshan, only twenty years old this year, and was originally the eldest of Li Fuchen's group of concubines. But after Li Jiqing entered the door, he changed from the third to the fourth. But for him, the third and fourth are no different. Because he was not favored in the first place, he has always been holding his tail and being a "little third son" in a down-to-earth manner.

Fortunately, Li Fuchen will not teach his son martial arts and the art of war just because he is a concubine. As long as his son can learn, he will definitely teach him that little ability.

Of course, if this physical fitness is not up to standard, he can't be a cavalry general, and Li Fuchen is not willing to work hard, so his chubby eldest son Li Jizhen didn't practice martial arts much.

And Li Zhongzheng's physique, like his father Li Fuchen, follows Li Zhongshan, has great length and strength, is especially suitable for martial arts, and is willing to endure hardships to practice

Therefore, among Li Fuchen's sons, his martial arts are the highest, even stronger than Li Zhongshan.

In addition, his military studies are also good, and he talks about the "martial champion" in the first phase of Wutang. After graduation, he has been following Li Fuchen to fight in the east and west, under the cultivation of Lu Bu, in just a few years, he has served as an infantry army general, infantry battalion general, cavalry battalion general, and brigade to join the army, and he has performed well in each post, and has participated in actual combat, and has risen step by step.

For this kind of brother who is diligent, not bad, and has a lot of responsibility, Li Yat-sen of course attaches great importance to him, and simply brought him with him when he changed his name. He was also given a "Zhong" character, which is said to be because he was upright and upright, like a good person, so he was given the name "Zhongzheng".

Regarding his father's entrustment, Li Zhongzheng of course replied with a sincere face: "Please rest assured that father, the child will not disappoint the eldest brother." At this point, he asked another question, "Father, why did you suddenly say this to your child?"

Does the father want the child to go to the second brother? ”

Li Fuchen nodded and said, "Now Sun Jiqing is likely to have arrived at the Gui Navy. He is the envoy of the Gui Navy, and the Gui Navy respects him, so there will soon be chaos in Guangxi. And Wu Sangui will definitely have a follow-up move, so his father can't stay in Jiangnan, he has to go through Jiangxi and go all the way to Guangdong, but it's not easy to break through Jiangxi, so my father wants to take you on a trip to Jiangbei and go to your second brother to discuss countermeasures. ”

"Father, are you going to ask your second brother for reinforcements?" Li Zhongzheng asked.

"No reinforcements." Li Fuchen shook his head, "He doesn't have many elite soldiers of his own, only the Huaixi Army is acceptable, if he gives it to me again, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop Wu Sangui's onslaught." ”

"And what does Father want?"

"Ask for money! Ask for silver! Li Fuchen taught his son, "If the troops are not enough, we must be panicked on the side of Jieshu if we use the silver, we don't have time to attack the city, so we just bluff and publicize the marriage of the Li and Wu families; While smashing with silver, as long as it is not the descendant of Jieshu, it will definitely be smashed down by us with silver. So we'll have to go to the dick and ask for more! ”

"The child got it!" Li Zhongzheng smiled, "Then how much do we want?" ”

Li Fuchen said: "If you want silver, of course, the more the better, if you can't spend it, you can save it for your father, but it can't be less than one million taels, otherwise it may not be enough."

After asking for the money, you stay with your second brother to protect him. You must protect your second brother!

Remember, you can't let him charge indiscriminately, let alone be assassinated by villains! Even if you risk your own life, you have to save his life!

It's not that your life is worthless, but once he makes people harm, our family will inevitably prosper and decline, do you understand? ”

"Got it!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "The child must protect the second brother thoroughly!" ”

"And. Although your second brother must know, we still have to remind him, ten, ten, don't reveal that Sun Jiqing is going to raise troops in Guangxi! Now we can't show weakness, we must show strength! ”

"Understood!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "First, we want to show strength, and second, we want to use silver bullets to smash!" ”

"Yes, that's it!" Li Fuchen said, "It's almost, let's get on the boat too!" ”

Li Fuchen and Li Zhongzheng, father and son, met Li Zhongshan in Anqing, the capital of present-day Anhui Province.

Li Yat-sen's return to Nanjing was not in a hurry, and he inspected the defense affairs of various localities, the organization of local governments, and parliamentary councils.

Well, the situation can only be said to be unsatisfactory!

First of all, the situation of defense deployment in various parts of Anhui is not very ideal. Huaixi Red Turbans followed Li Zhongshan to fight a lot of beautiful battles, and they were the main force of the "General Shangluo" who failed to enter Luoyang this time!

Since there were strong troops in hand, the governor of Anhui, Lu Liuliang, and the governor of Anhui, Li Shiying (Li Fuchen's old subordinate), did not spend too much on the defense of the city—of course, the money and food were not very sufficient. The governor of Anhui, Yamen, still has to go all out to support Li Fuchen's battle in southern Anhui!

Secondly, the organization of the local people's political power and the people's parliament in Anhui is not very good. The main reason is that there are no Chinese people and soldiers.

Only the people's political power and the people's parliament in Fengyang Mansion, Yingzhou Mansion, Chuzhou, and Sizhou in the old area of Huaixi began to be engaged. These two prefectures and two prefectures are the hometowns of Huaixi soldiers, and a large number of villages have actually been "nationalized".

With a large number of Chinese people and scholars' homes as the foundation, the people's political power and the people's discussion of politics can of course be promoted.

However, the countrymen and scholars of these two prefectures and two states gave Li Zhongshan a headache - these people want to distribute land! I also want to solve the floods of the Huai River and the Yellow River as soon as possible!

These two things can actually be combined. Because the population density on both sides of the Huai River is not large, and there is still a large amount of land abandoned due to flooding. If the flooding of the Huai River and the Yellow River can be alleviated, these lands can be distributed to the people of Huaixi.

But how should the Yellow River and the Huai River be governed? And how much does it cost?

"Ziyuan, have you thought of how to govern the Huai River and the Yellow River? Huang and Huai governance has been stopped for four years. The people in Huaixi are dying in a hurry, and they are afraid that when a big flood will come, their hometown will be flooded. ”

In the yamen of the Anhui governor in Anqing, Li Zhongshan, who was waiting for his father Li Fuchen to come to meet, took advantage of his free time to discuss with Jin Fu, the head of the river, about the management of the Huai River and the Yellow River.

Jin Fu's yamen is not in Anhui, but in Huai'an, at the confluence of the Huai River, the Yellow River, and the canal - that is the most fundamental reason why the Huai River and the Yellow River plague the Huaibei and Huainan regions!

When Li Yat-sen returned to Anhui, this Jin Fu was inspecting the embankment in Sizhou, and after Li Yat-sen's order to summon him was delivered, he immediately rushed to Anqing, and the day after arriving in Anqing, he was announced to the governor's yamen to see General Li.

"General, those Huaixi people are in a hurry. If the Huai River and the Yellow River are not done well in the past two years, they will have to flood once once, because there has been no major flooding for several years! Jin Fu explained, "Because since the Yellow River took over the Huai River, the sediment of the Yellow River has been constantly washed into the lower reaches of the Huai River, because the water surface of the lower reaches of the Huai River is open, the water flow is gentle, and the sediment is easy to precipitate, and the river channel is naturally constantly raised." Over time, there will be a situation where the lower reaches of the Huai River are higher than the middle reaches, which is the so-called siltation! Once the river is silted up, it will be difficult for the river to be discharged into the sea, and it will naturally become flooded. In the past, the response was to continuously raise the embankments and gradually turn the Huai River into an overhanging river like the Yellow River. But the flow of the Huai River is not comparable to that of the Yellow River, so."

"What's that solution?" Seeing Jin Fu spitting and spitting, Li Zhongshan simply asked, "Is it okay to open another channel of the Yellow River into the sea?" ”

Jin Fu didn't expect Li Zhongshan to come up with such a solution, so he was stunned for a moment, and then provoked his thumb brother and said, "General Shengming!" This is a one-and-done solution, but in order to open a new channel into the sea, it must be passed through the canal. Moreover, the Yellow River and the canal cannot be connected, otherwise the sediment of the Yellow River will rush into the canal, or the canal will be blocked again in a few years. Moreover, the canal also leads to the Huai River, and the sediment can flow into the Huai River through the canal. ”

"Then stop the Huaibei Caoyun!" Li Zhongshan is categorical.

"It's okay to suspend the luck right now," Jin Fu pondered, "but what will happen after the world is unified in the future?" How was the imperial court going to deliver grain to Beijing? ”

"Isn't it okay to ship by sea?" Li Zhongshan patted his thigh and said, "This matter is settled. Purple wall, how much does such a project cost? ”

That's it? That's too sloppy, isn't it?

Jin Fu was stunned and stunned, in fact, Breaking Cao Baohuai is not an immortal trick, and the old river people know it.

But if you know, you know, but no one dares to put it forward - because whoever proposes it is the mortal enemy of the river yamen, the Caoyun yamen, and countless Caogong workers on the canal!

First, the Yellow River and the Huai River are in good order, and there is no need to spend money to maintain them every year in the future, and the Northern Canal will be treated all at once, and there will be no money to govern it in the future, what should the river yamen do? Not to mention oil and water, whether to drive it or not is a question!

Second, Cao Yun is broken by more than half! Can the Caoyun Yamen agree? Can the Caogong who eats Caoyun rice agree?

Although the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty does not include the north, and the river yamen and the Caoyun yamen have been set up, and there are many Caogong workers on the Huai River. They may not be able to eat the oil and water of the north now, but what about in the future?

In addition, the transportation of Huaibei was actually not interrupted.

However, Jin Fu did not dare to say "no" directly to the general now - he only became the chief under the promotion of Li Zhongshan.

"General, this project has to be calculated and surveyed carefully to get the total price, and the lower officials can't know now."

"Good! Then go to calculate and survey as soon as possible," Li Zhongshan instructed, "give you three months, and you must come up with a construction plan and a project cost budget." He paused, and then said, "Shigaki, you know what? Both the Guangdong Lecture Hall and the Nanjing Lecture Hall have special engineering sections. How to dig a mound wall is the knowledge of the martial arts! ”

The meaning of this is very clear - do it well, or I'll fire you!

It's just a matter of digging a river, you don't have to!

Jin Fu, who felt the pressure, nodded again and again: "Xiaguan knows, Xiaguan will definitely complete it within three months!" ”

"General, the old lady of Nanwang and the third prince are here!"

As soon as Jin Fu left, one of Li Zhongshan's guards, a young officer who had just graduated from the Nanjing Lecture and Martial Arts Hall this year, a Huaixi disciple named Luo Zhuguo, hurriedly came in.

"What?" Li Zhongshan stood up from behind the public case suddenly, and was about to go to the pistol in a hurry-isn't the third prince Sun Jiqing? Why did he come with Li Fuchen?

But before he could load his flintlock pistol, Li Fuchen's laughter had already come: "Second brother, you're back, and your third brother Zhongzheng and I are thinking about you!" ”

The third brother is in the middle?

A big bald head immediately appeared in Li Zhongshan's mind - when Li Zhongzheng had just graduated from the Guangdong Lecture and Martial Arts Hall and was a staff officer beside Li Fuchen, he was a big bald head, and he had been bald for a long time.

So Li Zhongshan later called him "bald", and later he gave him the name of "bald".

"Father, how did Ji Xing become the third child?" Li Zhongshan hurriedly put away the pistol, turned his head to look at the door, and sure enough, he saw Li Fuchen and Li Zhongzheng with the word "Ji Xing" - this kid is no longer bald, his hair has grown a lot, and he has combed a small bun.

"What Jixing? He's called Shuxing now! Li Fuchen said, "And he has always been the third, but he was the fourth for a short time when the wild seed came back." ”

Li Fuchen's name for his son is the eldest Boxing, the third uncle, and the fourth season, Li Zhongshan should have been called Zhongxing, but Wu Sangui gave him a Shikai, so the name Zhongxing was gone.

Because when Li Fuchen gave Li Zhongzheng a name, Li Jiqing happened to return, so Li Zhongzheng was demoted by one place, from the third to the fourth, and now he has risen back.

There's no one else to do that.

Li Zhongshan had no choice but to salute Li Fuchen first, and then arched his hand to his brother and said "congratulations" - he was promoted, of course it was a happy event! Now he is the third sister-in-law of the Li family.

If the Li family gets an extra title, then he can make up for it!

After greeting each other, the father and son sat down separately.

"Father, auspicious celebration."

After sitting down, Li Zhongshan followed Li Fuchen again.

Li Fuchen glanced at Luo Zhuguo and several other guards.

Li Yat-sen waved at them and told them all to retreat outside the courtyard.

"Jiqing is not my son anymore!" Li Fuchen said with some sadness, "Second brother, why don't you kill him?" ”

What? Kill?

Li Yat-sen said in his heart: That's your own son! Tiger poison doesn't eat children, you are more poisonous than a tiger!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan shook his head and said, "Father, he is my sibling, how can I bear to harm him?" Moreover, it was Wu Shuangyu who led the troops to rescue Princess Jiading at that time. ”

"Wu Shuangyu? Is he so righteous? Li Fuchen was so surprised.

"It's not that he's angry," Li Zhongshan shook his head, "It's me who kidnapped the grandson of the Great Zhou, and he has to go!" ”

"That Sun Yanling is"

"He killed!" Li Fuchen said, "But it must be counted on my head!" ”

"Second brother, in fact, Sun Yanling's death has not been counted on your head yet." Li Zhongzheng suddenly interjected, "According to the information we have, the Great Zhou Imperial Court did not announce Sun Yanling's death. ”

This Wu Sangui is also a wonderful person - he can't announce that Sun Yanling was killed by Li Zhongshan.

Because Li Yat-sen wants to kill Sun Yanling, then Da Zhou and Da Ming are afraid that they will immediately tear their faces and start a war - how can the Ming general lead so many people into the hinterland of Da Zhou to kill the county prince of Da Zhou?

So he simply concealed Sun Yanling's death - just assume that he was still alive! Isn't it just a cut off a head, and you can't live without a head?

Li Fuchen said worriedly: "It's not that Wu Sangui is kind, but he wants to paralyze our second child, and this Sun Jiqing will most likely go to Guangxi to raise troops against us."

My father is worried that your eldest brother will not be able to resist it, so that the fundamental land of Guangdong will be lost, so he is ready to enter Jiangxi as soon as possible and fight all the way through Guangdong. ”

"Father, that's great." Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "I'm also worried that Guangdong will be attacked by Sun Jiqing and Wu Sangui."

If you can lead the new army of Guangdong to come to the rescue, then it will be foolproof. ”

Li Fuchen shook his head, "It's not so easy to go back...... Jieshu has a heavy army in Jiangxi. King Zhong's army fought for so long, but it didn't take down a small Jiujiang Mansion. Being a father is not three heads and six arms, and I am afraid that he may not be sure. ”

Li Zhongshan didn't understand what Li Fuchen meant, so he turned his head to look at his "new third brother".

"Second brother," Li Zhongzheng said, "you might as well give your father a little more military expenses, so that he can use the silver to open the way and buy it all the way to Guangdong." ”

"This ......"

Li Yat-sen said in his heart: The general's family has no surplus food!

"How much do you need?"

Li Fuchen stretched out two fingers and said with a smile: "Not much, not much, give two million." ”

(End of chapter)