Lord of the House

Vol 3 Chapter 104: Arrival (2)

Lin Fu and Zhao Qinmin accompanied Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting to talk in the front hall of the thatched cottage. Li Zhuo was very interested in water transportation by sea, and Lin Fu naturally spoke freely. Gu Wuchen planned to make Jiangdong County's supply of water to Yanjing reach the same level after the harvest of autumn grain this year. 1,200,000 stone, we must be prepared to take the sea route to prevent the blockage of the inland waterway.

Lin Fu sent someone to bring the news of Li Zhuo’s arrival at the Hekou back to the city. Yang Pu led the arresting cavalry and the Jianrui Battalion of the garrison to take over the defense of the Hekou. Knowing that Jiangning officials would come later, Lin Fu was also inconvenienced. A banquet was prepared for Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting in the thatched cottage, and Liu Yueer prepared some refreshments to send.

At first, they were accompanied in the front hall of the thatched cottage, and waited for officials such as Jiangning Governor Wang Xueshan, Jiangdong Inspector Jia Pengyu, Anzai Deputy Gu Wuchen, the left and right servants of the Jiangning Military Department, Jiangning Youdu Censor, Jiangdong Admiral Zuo Shangrong and other officials, or car or sedan chair. Or the horses came to the estuary one after another in a mess, and there was no place for Lin Bing to stay and talk in the front hall of the thatched cottage, and he couldn't hide on the prison island.

The Jiangning garrison town’s Jianrui Camp was guarded by the Hekou. The lights on the corner tower were bright like a full moon. Many recruiters, refugees from military households, and children from Dongyang’s native village were all ordered to return to the surrounding house. They were not allowed to wander outside. , noisy, but there are a lot of entourages and followers of various officials, and their tempers and postures are very large. Xiao Wu and the others could only swallow their voices and serve them wholeheartedly.

The yamen officials in Jiangning Prefecture all planned the meeting with Li Zhuo's car trip. When it was dark, they heard news that Li Zhuo, who had come to take over as Jiangning's garrison general, and Gao Zongting, a famous scholar in western Zhejiang, appeared at the mouth of Jinchuan River at dusk. It was verified by the inspector and envoy that he lost his mind and rules for a while.

Apart from the surrounding houses, shacks and thatched cottages where the refugees lived, there was also no building that could temporarily accommodate officials. Everyone did not know whether they wanted to welcome Li Zhuo into the city that night, or put him in another place outside the city. place. The nearest official post is located in Moling County, 60 miles away, or Chaotian Post on the north bank of Chaotian Dang; Quyang Town is very close, and there are luxurious inns, but it is also inconsistent to settle Li Zhuo in Quyang Town. Besides, it was necessary to strengthen the guard of Quyang Town suddenly after entering the dark, and drive out irrelevant personnel, which also disturbed the public a little. The main officials in Jiangning City decided to go out of the city first to greet him. Whether or not he should enter the city tonight depends on Li Zhuo's intentions, and also sent someone to Quyang Town to make arrangements first, so as not to panic.

Lin Fu was sitting on the soil ridge outside the thatched cottage, Xiaoman and Liu Yueer sat next to him, and took Xiaoman's words: "I'm not happy to serve those lustful officials..." Throw it to Lin Jingzhong to do it.

"Does this count as a dove occupying a magpie's nest?" Liu Yue'er asked.

"...I'm afraid people still don't like this thatched shack." Lin Bie said with a smile.

"People don't like it, I just like it," Xiaoman put his arms around Lin Bie's arm innocently and asked him, "Do you think the thatched shack is good?"

"What's good or not, it doesn't matter whether it's a thatched shack or Qionglou Yuyu, you have to be there for both of you," Lin Fu said with a smile.

"What is the saying, why haven't I heard this poem?" Xiaoman stared at Lin Fu's face seriously and asked, but Liu Yue'er thought about the affection conveyed in Lin Fu's words, lowered her head, and felt slightly hot His pretty face was buried in his knees, but his body was close to Lin Bie's strong waist.

"What kind of poetry is not poetry, I'm talking nonsense..." Lin Fu talked nonsense and put Xiaoman away, thinking to himself: "Is the saying "this place is my hometown" yet to come out? Perhaps it is not widely spread, and with his literary and historical level, he does not know where this sentence came from.

Under the lights of the corner tower, Lin Bie looked at the busy traffic inside the fence, and the crowd was noisy, thinking that the only big bosses in Jiangning City were Wang Tian, ​​the envoy of Xuanfu, and Qin Chengbo, the garrison general of Jiangning, who did not appear. Li Zhuo was here to replace Jiangning's garrison general, so Qin Chengbo would not go out of the city to meet Li Zhuo enthusiastically. Besides, in terms of honorary titles, Qin Chengbo was even more prominent than Li Zhuo, but he did not stop Jiangning's military officers. Officials and the generals of the garrison came to Hekou to meet Li Zhuo; after all, in terms of prestige, Qin Chengbo knew that Li Zhuo was too far behind. There is no overlap in power and duties between Jiangdong's Xuanfu Envoy and Jiangning's garrison general's residence. Wang Tian, ​​the Xuanfu envoy, will naturally not be in a hurry to come to see him at the moment. Although Jiang Ning's garrison general can't control the Admiral's mansion in normal times, after all, he has the name of wartime temperance. After arriving in Jiangning, the Admiral Zuo Shangrong of Jiangdong County, who had never met Lin Fu, also brought the vice-general of the Admiral's mansion out of the city to greet him. Looking at this setup, the standard of greeting is much higher than when Gu Wuchen first arrived in Jiangning.

Hearing that Li Zhuo would enter the city tonight, Lin Fu breathed a sigh of relief. The small temple could not accommodate the great Bodhisattva. Li Zhuozhen had to stay in the Hekou for one more day, and the Hekou would have to be under martial law for one more day, which was very inconvenient. Watching Li Zhuo walk out of the cottage surrounded by the stars and the moon, Lin Fu also stood up and patted his butt, and said to the two women, "I have to go over to nod and bow..." In his eyes, this little ninth-rank scholar, Li Zhuo was about to go, and Lin Fu had to go forward to send him off. He was not qualified to get too close. He nodded and bowed behind everyone, watching Li Zhuo ride first.

When Li Zhuo stepped on the bridle of the horse and was about to leave, his eyes swept over and stopped for a moment on Lin Fu's face, then turned to look at the corner tower in the distance. go. The six hundred elite horsemen from the Jianrui Camp then left the camp. Hundreds of lanterns illuminated the carriage and horse sidewalks that had just been tamped down like a dragon. The officials who came to the river mouth to meet them also followed them back to the city with their entourage or horses, sedan chairs or carriages in a disorderly manner, dragging the team longer and more scattered.

Gu Wuchen left at the end. He came in a carriage. Before getting on the carriage, he called Lin Fu to him and asked him, "What did Li Zhuo talk about with you before nightfall?"

Lin Bie peeped at Gu Wuchen's expression, and he couldn't figure out what he meant by asking this question, and he didn't know what Zhao Qinmin said to him in private, so Xiaoyi said: "I didn't say much, Li Du Xu is After passing through the river mouth, I asked some questions about prison island, and if I could answer truthfully, I answered truthfully."

"Well," Gu Wuchen sat in the carriage, Yang Pu lifted the curtain for him, his face was hidden in a deep shadow, even more people could not see the expression on his face, after a while, I heard him sit In the shadows, he said, "It should be three or five days since Li Zhuo arrived in Jiangning. Don't let this sentence leak into the ears of others. No matter who he is, Li Zhuo is the person recommended by Chen Xinbo. Don't forget this... …”

Lin Fiezhi felt a chill running up his back, and he hurriedly replied, "I know..."

"That's fine, I'll go into the city first, and depending on the situation, I won't be able to stop after midnight in the inn; come over for dinner tomorrow, we haven't had a glass of wine together for a few days." Gu Wuchen said these words and fell. The curtain of the car, followed the brigade into the city.

Watching the winding procession dragging by for two or three miles long, countless wind lanterns stretched out under the night sky, like a fire dragon, Lin Bie stood in front of the fence, and Gu Wuchen's command when he was about to leave still made him feel chilled. . He glanced at Zhao Qinmin, clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Zhao, you are tired too, go back to rest early..." He thought that he should have said something to Gu Wuchen in private.

Zhao Qinmin said goodbye and left, and Lin Fu also stood by far away and waited for his two daughters to return to the cottage.

"Are you thinking of something on your mind?" Xiaoman couldn't help but ask when he walked back to the thatched cottage.

"Uh," Lin Bie was taken aback, looked up at Xiaoman, and asked, "Is it so obvious?"

Not only Xiaoman, but also Liu Yueer nodded in agreement.

"There is nothing else, just sigh about the struggle between the government and the opposition." Lin Fu said, thinking that his worried appearance might also fall into Zhao Qinmin's eyes.

When She Feihu deliberately befriended this side, Gu Wuchen didn't say anything; not to mention whether Li Zhuo's appearance at the Hekou today was intentional or unintentional, Lin Fudu was careful not to overdo it, but Gu Wuchen was extremely vigilant, after all, it was damned Partisanship.

During the Shejia Rebellion, the East Min town army was down or defeated in three months, and the DPRK and China urgently dispatched troops from Zhejiang and Jiangxi to fight in Fujian. As an envoy, he led the troops of the Jiangxi provinces to fight in Fujian, and all the troops were defeated~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Only Li Zhuo stabilized the battle situation all the way in Shaowu. In the following years, with the support of Chen Xinbo again, Li Zhuo led the war in East Fujian with the titles and identities of the East Fujian Governor, the Xuanfu Envoy, the Jiangning Military Minister, and the East Fujian Governor. The rebellion oppressed back to Jin'an, Jiaocheng, and Quanzhou, until the She family returned to submit.

The defeat of Chentangyi on the northern line last winter cost hundreds of thousands of troops. Thousands of miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people in the Jibei defense area fell into the hands of the Donghu people. The Western Qin Party was to blame. Almost all the officials of the Western Qin Party in the ministries and academies were swept away. It was against this background that the Chu Party came to power, but the leader of the Western Qin Party, Chen Xinbo, was still in the position, and the sage seems to be in no hurry to replace it with the Chu Party. Chen Xinbo.

Li Zhuo's rise in the southeast is due to Chen Xinbo; many people believe that after Chen Tangyi's fiasco, Chen Xinbo was able to keep his position because of Li Zhuo - at least that's what the Chu party thinks.

After the battle of Chentangyi, there were only a handful of famous officials and generals who could put high hopes on the government and the opposition to turn the tide on the northern front. Li Zhuo was ranked first. The most important thing was that Li Zhuo had been in the southeast battlefield for nearly ten years. The elites under his command are able to fight well, and they are also a large-scale elite town army with high hopes.

Perhaps the current sage, perhaps the Chu Party believes that only by keeping Chen Xinbo on the phase, can they calmly recruit the elites from East Fujian to enrich the northern line. Of course, when the Chu Party thought that everything was laid out calmly, it would probably no longer tolerate Chen Xinbo's continued stay in the phase. On the contrary, it would do everything possible to bring Chen Xinbo down, so that the Western Qin Party would not be able to revive completely.

In Gu Wuchen's eyes, Li Zhuo is also the enemy of the Chu Party.

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