In Jinling City, the scorching sun was hanging high, scorching the land of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. The accumulated water left by the rain a few days ago had long been evaporated, and there was no trace of the rain on the ground.

Jinling is too hot in midsummer. Even the naughtiest half-boys are lazy and unable to lift themselves up. Adults are hiding in groups of three or five, hiding in the shade to enjoy the cool summer. There are not many pedestrians on the busy roads in the past. The neatly arranged big willow trees on both sides of the road, and the willow branches hang down weakly, and only cicadas lying on the trees are still fighting desperately.

At this moment, the gate of Jinling City slowly opened, and from a distance, a few soldiers holding flags were looking at the way. Slowly, getting closer and closer, more and more people were. The people hiding in the shade to enjoy the shade, leaning their heads from the shade and looking at the Qing soldiers curiously.

"It's a war, I don't know where it's going to fight again!"

The old farmer under the willow tree on the side of the road grabbed the reins of the buffalo in his hand, lowered his head and ran away from the side of the road. Jinling has not been peaceful these years. If it blocked the way of Master Bing, there would be no good results.

This group of people and horses formed a long snake formation, set out from Jinling and headed south. By the time the rear army completely walked out of Jinling, it was almost dusk.

Now Jiangxi is the main battlefield for the battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties, where all the troops fought fiercely. In addition, the Qing soldiers in the local area have been transferred by Hong Chengchou.

He left Shandong General Ke Yongsheng and his 4,000 troops guarding Jinling, and the others followed the army south.

Hong Chengchou came to Jiangnan and was appointed by Dorgon after he opposed the opposition. In the Qing court, there was a lot of opposition. In this way, Dorgon's pressure also increased. Suzhou and Hangzhou were lost and Boluo died in battle. These all needed a victory to cover up. However, Ajige and Duoduo's troops were withdrawn to the north, and the Qing court in the south was in a tight position.

During this period, Dorgon and his Qing court made many tricks, and few of them made the right decisions. But the blame was that the luck of the Qing court was so good. They caught up with the internal struggle between King Lu and King Tang, and swept across Jiangnan almost without any effort.

But this time, because of the extra Hou Xuanyan who flapped his wings, their luck ended here.

In Suzhou City, Gu Youde, the richest man in Suzhou, held a banquet to invite officials from Shaoxing for his son-in-law. Although the Gu family is rich enough to rival the country, they were not qualified to be an organizing member, so that all the civil and military officials in Suzhou could be accompanied by the people. However, since Hou Xuanyan claimed to the public that he was the Gu family's son-in-law, the status of this merchant family has undergone a drastic change.

Gu Youde and others were dressed up in great costumes, which was even more solemn than worshiping ancestors. In addition to Gu Shouzheng, who was with Hou Xuanyan, other male relatives were greeting guests early.

Although Shaoxing is full of treacherous people, it is a country captured by a group of rebels who spontaneously resisted the Qing Dynasty's hair shaving order. In the small regime of King Lu, there are actually many talents. These are the people who are going to have a banquet today.

Zheng Zunqian, Qian Sule, and Sun Jiaji were all leaders of the rebel army. In fact, Xiong Rulin, who was hung on the top of the city, was also one of them. However, this man strongly opposed surrendering to Longwu and even advocated counterattacking Fuzhou. His little achievements were negligible compared to this charge.

Xiong Rulin has been a gentry from east Zhejiang for generations, and after becoming an official, he loved the people as much as his son and did not violate any crime. He may be able to protect thousands of people as a good official, but provoking civil strife and allowing the Qing Dynasty to take advantage of the situation would kill tens of millions of people.

I don’t know how much financial and manpower were spent on the Nanming, allowing the Tartars to enjoy their success and enslave the entire Central Plains for two hundred years. In the face of national crisis, it is not the time to look at a person’s character. In Hou Xuanyan’s mind, you are the reincarnation of a saint and a moral model. As long as what you do will benefit the Qing Dynasty, you should die of sin. Xiong Rulin’s personal morality is not a loss. He is a good person known to everyone from far and wide, but Hou Xuanyan never minds and uses the most vicious means to kill a “good person”.

The opposite of Xiong Rulin is another person on the table today, Zhu Dadian.

Zhu Dadian's ancestors were all poor peasants. In that turbulent era, he was one of the group with the best political components. When he was a child, his family was so poor that he jingled. After he grew up and became a high-ranking official, Zhu Dadian devoted his life to corruption. His first half of his life could be summarized in one sentence, "Go to the stage and make a fuss."

It is this corrupt official who hates ghosts. If Hou Xuanyan had not emerged from nowhere, his life trajectory would be like this:

The Qing soldiers crossed the river to capture Shaoxing, and were ordered to guard Jinhua Zhu Dadian to disperse all his family wealth, recruited rural soldiers, and led his troops to defend Wucheng, causing the Qing soldiers to attack the city for nearly three months without obtaining it. Finally, there was no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside. After a newly built wall was blasted by artillery fire from the concentrated Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers burned into the city in large numbers, but Zhu Dadian still resisted stubbornly. It was not until most of the soldiers died in battle that Zhu Dadian calmly summoned his family and thirty-two staff members, sitting around the gunpowder depot of the military command headquarters, Jinhua Bayong Tower, and lit all the explosives to sacrifice his life.

This is not counting. Even if a corrupt official is rare, it cannot be said to be unique. However, the whole family of this corrupt official is patriotic, which is a matter of family education and family tradition.

The five sons and one grandson were martyred with Zhu Dadian. Before that, his eldest grandson Zhu Yu was killed on the way to break through the siege and seek help. Zhu Dadian's eldest daughter-in-law Zhang's first son was captured in Jinhua City. He and his wife, concubines, He and the second daughter-in-law Chen, third daughter-in-law Jiang, fourth daughter-in-law Lai, and fifth daughter-in-law Wang were also led to their children and grandchildren and jumped into the well when they were captured in Jinhua City. Even Zhu Dadian's daughter, who had already been married to Ni Ruxue, a wife in Shimen Village, Jinhua, had hanged himself to death after seeing the thick smoke in Jinhua City and hearing the news of his father's death. Zhu Dadian's family was martyred by 22 people, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, were all martyred in the Battle of Jinhua.

The deaths in eastern Zhejiang are so fierce that there is no such thing as a grand ceremony.

Gu Youde welcomed them into the Gu family one by one. Hou Xuanyan had already sat in the top of the head, and he would meet and have a long talk.

This time, the entire eastern Zhejiang region was included in the foundation. He has gone from a famous governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to a real governor of the country.

At this time, his father-in-law Gu Shouye led a big belly official in and routinely introduced: "This is Zhu Dadian, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War."

The Left Minister of War was Zhu Dadian's official position during the reign of Emperor Hongguang of Xiaofu. Because the regime of King Lu was not recognized, most of the people who came today were called official positions at that time.

Hou Xuanyan quickly stood up and looked at the humble fat man in front of him. He was over 60 years old and was considered old in the Ming Dynasty. He looked good in maintenance and was in good spirits.
Chapter completed!