However, it was said that Shaoyao, the daughter-in-law of Fujian Governor Huang Wengang's family, recognized Mrs. Zeng and went back to the post house alone, knelt down on her knees and said to her master, "I just found Fuu's house and saw her." Huang Wengang frowned. Shaoyao lowered his head.
He said, "There is a naughty boy who said that he arranged Fu Rui's life experience. The teacher surnamed Yang is familiar with the naughty boy. I believe him, not the slave." Huang Wengang still hoped that Mrs. Yang was really his slave.
Then he became a little looser. Shaoyao said again, "I know that there are many people in our house, and the master does not care about a small hibiscus. What matters is the master's face." Huang Wengang took a breath. Shaoyao then fell silent.
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Huang Wengang thought about it for a long time, waved her out, and called his staff Master Zhang to come in and tell him the matter. Master Zhang said: "Whether that woman is Fuu or not, I can no longer say yes to Mr. Jia now."
"If it's her, why not?"
Mr. Zhang said: "If it was her, she probably gained weight and my wife didn't recognize it. Since my wife didn't recognize her on the spot, if she said she recognized her later, Mr. Jia would just think that we were blackmailing them. This matter is not the master's fault."
In pursuit of escaped slaves, Taiwan and Fujian are facing each other." Nai sighed, "Although Jia Lian is just a prefect, he is the son-in-law of Wang Ziteng. Look at the policemen on the streets, all of them are carrying Western guns.
Gun. If we fall out, we won't get any benefits."
Huang Wengang said: "A wife of a policeman has nothing to do with Jia Lian."
Master Zhang said: "They have put lies on the Zeng family in Luzhou. For the sake of Prince Lu and Concubine Ning, Jia Lian must hope that this matter is true."
Huang Wengang frowned and said, "We can't let it go. If we get her, Jia Lian will be more restrained and accept the escaped slaves."
Master Zhang shook his head and said: "It was Mr. Jia's decision to accept the escaped slaves in order to replenish the population of Taiwan. How can it be done just because of a daughter-in-law?"
Huang Wengang said: "Since he refused to admit his death and took in escaped slaves, he is still a person who cares about his face after all."
Master Zhang said: "Then he will probably fight to death and deny that the person is from our house, unless the wife recognizes it herself." Huang Wengang just frowned, Master Zhang hurriedly whispered, "Doesn't she still have my wife?
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Huang Wengang was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "I don't even bother using someone's parents as a hostage."
Master Zhang said: "She's just a slave, she's not a parent." Huang Wengang still hesitated, Master Zhang said again, "That daughter-in-law was originally a slave of the master's family, and she was usurped by someone under Mr. Jia. It's not a lie.
Master, even if I can't force Mr. Jia to restrain himself, I'll always slap him in the face."
Huang Wengang thought for a long time, and finally waved his hand and said: "Even if she is a slave parent, it will hinder my reputation. Besides, I am not sure whether she is Fu Rui or not. What if I admit the wrong person?"
Master Zhang tried to persuade him for another long time, but he refused and angrily gave up. He turned around and told Shaoyao, "Master refuses." Shaoyao could only grit his teeth secretly.
After all, Huang Wengang did not make a fuss about Zeng anymore, and went back after arguing with Jia Lian for two days.
On this day, Huang Wengang abandoned his boat and landed ashore. Zheng Chaoer, the general in charge of Fujian Province, led his men to greet him and asked impatiently: "Sir, how are you going here?"
Huang Wengang waved his hand and said, "Mo mention, Jia Lian is a scoundrel." He said briefly, shook his head, and was helpless.
After hearing this, Zheng Chao'er said angrily: "I simply don't take my lord seriously! Your lord is his superior."
Huang Wengang sighed: "Since he came, I didn't expect him to take me seriously. After all, he is the eldest grandson of Rongguo Mansion, and he only comes here to avoid trouble. Therefore, I have not cared about him in the past few years since he came.
Unexpectedly, he pushed further and became more and more wanton. But now that the world is in chaos, no one can control him. I saw that his Chengtian Mansion was neatly built, and the streets were full of new things. However, as soon as he left the city, the ground was deserted.
, there’s not even an easy road.”
Zheng Chaoer said: "He is a dandy, how can he become an official? But now there are many people coming from Fujian. How do they support them?"
Huang Wengang said: "I heard from people in the post office that there are typhoons all year round in Taiwan, and the grain grown by Baba is gone when the wind blows. Jia Lian went to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Siam to buy a lot of grain and rice to feed the people. This people's heart
The thinking is not bad, it’s just that I don’t have the ability.”
Zheng Chaoer thought for a while and said: "My lord, now that the matter has come to this, we have no choice. Sir, look -" he pointed to the boat channel on the pier, "these are ships carrying people across the sea. Since we are in Taiwan, we have to rely on
Instead of using Rongguo Mansion's money to support the people, it is better to let them stay in Fujian. There are also typhoons in Fujian, but there are not as many as on the island."
Huang Wengang said: "Ordinary people are ignorant. When they hear that land is available, they rush there in a swarm. They are not willing to listen to others."
Zheng Chaoer said: "Having said that, you have to tell them that you are not right? Why bother? We have no one to farm, and they encountered a typhoon again."
Huang Wengang sighed, "Let's give it a try." Then he ordered Master Zhang to prepare a notice and put up notices throughout Fujian to inform the people, saying that there were many typhoons in Taiwan and the harvest was extremely poor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his list was posted, it was amazing. In the blink of an eye, the number of people crossing the sea tripled! It turns out that many people didn't know that land could be obtained by reclaiming wasteland in Taiwan, but now the governor knows it all with this list. Chapter
The master hurriedly came to see Huang Wengang and said, "Sir, this matter cannot be delayed any longer. We must find a way to seal the ferry so that no one can pass by."
Huang Wengang ran out of ideas for a moment and was so anxious that he looked around. But at this moment, a steward came back and said: "Many of the tenants we usually employ in our government are no longer willing to rent land, saying that they are going to Taiwan to open up wasteland. I have already reduced the rent.
They all refused to stay.”
Huang Wengang rolled up his sleeves angrily and said: "It's okay if you don't rent it, rent it to others! Just let them go to Taiwan and starve to death!"
The steward said: "Master, it's hard to find tenants now. Every family has reduced their rent, but they still can't find anyone willing to farm. Now we have to take some boys from the house to farm in the village, but what they usually do is
I don’t know how hard it is to endure the work of serving others.”
Huang Wengang said: "They are slaves. They can do whatever they are told. There is no way for them to pick and choose."
The steward hurriedly said "yes". Then many young and strong laborers were selected from the Huang Mansion, including night watchmen, dog keepers, and those who moved things and carried sedan chairs. They were all sent to the village to do farm work and make up for the lack of tenants.
These people have been born and raised in the city, and they feel that they are servants of the governor's family and are nobler than ordinary people. How can they suffer so much? They are unwilling in every possible way. The stewards in the village beat and scolded them, and they were not allowed to eat.
We tried every means to deal with them, but within half a month some people escaped. If one person escaped, another would escape, and more than ten of them escaped within a few days! Although a few were captured and beaten to death, the rest still remained the same.
He wanted to escape, but the steward had no choice but to find some shackles. He took them off when he went to the fields and put them on after finishing his work. Even so, the clever boy still managed to break the shackles and escape.
The steward was so anxious that he had to go back to the city to look for Huang Wengang. He said with a mournful face: "Master, if the Taiwanese government doesn't take back its promise to take in the escaped slaves, I'm afraid that all of them will escape in two years! It's useless to kill them.
, they have hope! Once people have hope, they can’t restrain themselves.”
How could Huang Wengang do anything? He was so annoyed that he waved his hand and kicked him out. After walking around the room for a long time, he sent someone to invite Mr. Zhang to discuss it. Mr. Zhang thought to himself: "Now there are only two."
"explain!"
"Master Zheng, please send troops to guard the dock. No one will be allowed to board the ship without leading the way." Master Zhang said, "Although we can't stop the ordinary people who have no land, we can always stop the escaped slaves."
“Then who will plant the land in Fujian?”
Master Zhang said: "Some families farm their own land; those who usually rent it to tenants, or those who have slaves at home, can ask their slaves to farm. Those who don't have slaves will have to reduce the rent. We will stop the escaped slaves first."
Huang Wengang thought for a while and asked, "Where's the other one?"
Master Zhang said: "We must kill Jia Lian's majesty. Master, the daughter-in-law who escaped from our house married the one who was the leader of their police... If she is willing to return to the house by herself, she will bring shame to Jia Lian."
Huang Wengang was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what he meant, but still hesitated. Master Zhang said, "This matter has nothing to do with me, it is the work of a villain."
Huang Wengang sighed: "That's all, just do it." Master Zhang bowed and accepted the order.
On the other side, not long after Huang Wengang left Taiwan, Yang Song got married to Mrs. Zeng, and she had just returned from her honeymoon in Qiongzhou. On this day, Mrs. Zeng got off work from the embroidery workshop, and her disciple told her: "Master Zeng, I have you.
Mrs. Zeng thanked him, took the letter and looked at it. She was so frightened that she fell to the ground. The letter was from the steward of the Huang Mansion, asking her to tell Jia Lian, the prefect of Taiwan, her identity and to return to the government obediently.
Choose another good man as a match. If she does not return within a month, her father, mother, siblings will not be able to survive, and they will be beaten to death in front of the family to set an example.
In less than half an hour, Yang Song entered Lin Daiyu's office with the letter in hand and said: "Master Lin, General Xu Mo, please lead a group of troops to Fujian to rescue my father-in-law and mother-in-law."
Most of the construction work in Daiyu's hands has been handed over to Xichun, but the sign of the Ministry of Construction is still hanging on the door. Now she and Gong Kun are in charge of the overall situation. She looked at the message: "One sentry is never enough. Fujian
Dozens of docks were sealed on the other side. At first, only escaped slaves were stopped, but now even ordinary people are not allowed to cross the sea. Several boats of stowaways have capsized, and we are still discussing how to deal with it." So he ordered people to invite Jia Conggong.
Kun, Jarvis, Wu Xiaoxi, Cheng Chi and others came over and said to Yang Song, "Brother Yang will send someone back to tell my sister-in-law that you probably won't go back for dinner today." Yang Song nodded and sent a soldier back.
Send a message.
Not long after, everyone gathered together. Lin Daiyu first asked everyone to read the letter, and then said: "Now that the matter has come to this, it can't be done without fighting."
Cheng Chi said: "Brother Yang and I led a night raid on Huang Wengang's house to rescue people."
Daiyu said: "Treating the symptoms but not the root cause. If we only save Sister Yang's parents, Brother Yang can save them all by himself." She turned around and pointed at the map of Fujian and said, "Now the two places are competing for population. It is a dead end. There will be no two."
Quan. We must have a battle with Fujian, and we must strike first to gain strength."
Jia Cong raised his hand and said: "Right now we are busy with production and it is inconvenient to start a war. According to my wishes, beheading will be fine."
Daiyu shook her head and said: "You killed Huang Wengang and Zheng Chaoer, and naturally someone else from Fujian will come to take charge."
Jia Cong laughed and said: "Although Mr. Huang is not an honest official, he is still worthy of merit. Mr. Zheng is more and more a general, how can he kill them? What I mean is, whoever forces them to seal the ferry will be killed.
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Daiyu said: "I don't have enough time to accompany them to move left and right, and there is no need to provoke a big battle. What Cong'er said is that Huang Wengang and Zheng Chaoer are both good." Then she asked Cheng Chi, "I want these two.
Is it possible for General Cheng to catch him alive, personally?"
Cheng Chi said: "It's not difficult."
Jia Cong said: "If we only arrest two people, it would be the cheapest to ask Uncle Yang and Fourth Sister Chen to go there. There is no need to use a special battalion."
Daiyu said: "We have to use the special battalion this time. If we ask two martial arts masters to capture them, they will only mistakenly think that they have neglected their precautions and let the first-rate assassins succeed by chance. Let us send troops over in an upright manner and destroy them.
Only if you are lucky can you accept it."
Yang Song said: "It's just my father-in-law and mother-in-law..."
Daiyu smiled calmly: "Brother Yang, don't worry. Since the Huang family wants to coerce Sister Yang, they won't do anything to them. Besides, Huang Wengang is not sure whether Sister Yang is a member of their family. If he is really sure,
I asked the Huang family to trade them for Huang Wengang."
Yang Song thought for a while: "I'm still worried."
Jia Cong said: "In that case, the troops are divided into two groups. Brother Yang goes to rescue his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and brother Cheng Chi leads the troops to attack Fujian in earnest to capture Huang Wengang. Well - Zheng Chaoer will not capture him."
Daiyu asked: "Why?"
Jia Cong said: "The prime minister is sending troops this time to show off his force. It is enough to capture the one with the highest official rank. Now there are so many soldiers in Fujian Port doing random things, which has disrupted our Taiwan government's ability to conduct serious business, so we have to use force as a last resort."
We have to leave someone stable to negotiate with us, right? We are reasonable people."
Daiyu smiled and said, "It makes sense. In that case, it's better to just take Huang Wengang and leave Zheng Chaoer to negotiate." Then she added, "Jarvis also has to send troops."
Jarvis cupped his fists and said, "Please give me your orders, Prime Minister."
Daiyu said: "Please ask General Jia to lead his troops on a tour, visit Ningde, Nanping, Sanming, Longyan, Zhangzhou, and finally return to the island from Quanzhou."
Wu Xiaoxi smiled and said: "What kind of magistrate is there? Can you hold it in your hand and weigh it for a few days before putting it back?"
Daiyu said: "No. Since it is a show of force, just show it in a circle. Don't scare the ordinary officials below Huang Wengang."
Gong Kun said: "Tan Mo, the governor of Zhangzhou, is a well-known corrupt official. Can we take the opportunity to get rid of him?"
Daiyu said: "This kind of person can be dealt with by Chen Ruijin or Yang Erbo after the matter subsides. General Jia is determined not to touch him, as it will ruin my major affairs."
Jia Cong said "Ouch", causing everyone to turn around to look. He snapped at the case and said, "I suddenly had an idea! Since there are so many corrupt officials, Lu Lin can come in handy!"
Daiyu frowned and said, "When will you be able to correct your problem of just thinking about it? Let's talk about it tomorrow. We are discussing sending troops now." Jia Cong made a face. Then she picked up her pen and wrote on the map of Fujian.
After drawing two lines, one going straight to Fuzhou and the other going around several places in Fujian, he asked Cheng Chi and Jarvis, "Both generals must understand?"
The second general stood up and clasped his fists and said, "The last general understands."
Daiyu nodded: "I will go with General Jia."
Everyone was startled, and Jia Cong asked first: "What are you going to do, sister?"
Lin Daiyu smiled sweetly: "Is there an opportunity for actual combat? How long will it take if I don't practice the formation?" (..)