Cutting 1719

Chapter 310
In Hankou Town, the wharf is already full of people. The merchant ships passing by on the Yangtze River can’t see their heads and tails, but it’s amazing.

Originally, Hankou Wharf was extremely prosperous, but as a territory of Hanyang County under Hanyang Prefecture, Hankou’s reputation is much greater. The so-called Beijing Normal University in the north, Foshan in the south, Suzhou in the east, and Hankou in the west. , which shows the prosperity of business.

Of course, with the rise of the Fuhan Army, especially the increasing support for industry and commerce, Hankou Town has not lost its former prosperity, but has become more prosperous. Of course, in order to better manage the Hankou Wharf, the Fuhan Army A Hankou Wharf Management Office was specially set up at Hankou Wharf to be responsible for the management of merchant ships.

There are all kinds of people on the pier, but most of them are coolies. They carry big bags every day. Seven or eight taels of silver, so it can be regarded as a good livelihood.

It's just that in a corner on the edge of the pier, there are a few scholars wearing cloaks and braids on their heads, which are completely different from the men on the side. These scholars are watching the people on the pier sweating The men couldn't help but frowned, and some even showed disdain.

"Damn fat man, let me wait in this dirty place, it's really hateful." A scholar with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks had a look of resentment on his face, and he waved his folding fan while talking, completely ignoring It's cold right now.

The scholar in a black cloak on the side had a sneer on his face, and said in a low voice: "Chu Ni thieves are just people in the countryside, how do they know how to govern a place? I won't talk about Wuchang in the distance, but This mere wharf has been governed to the ground, it is really a disgrace to the gentlemen."

"That's right. Look at the boat, the ground, and those people. After all, they are rural people who don't know the meaning of righteousness."

"That's right, let's vote for the imperial court."

Everyone was chattering, but they scolded the Fuhan Army a lot, but a man in Tsing Yi who was passing by heard it, but stopped, and sneered: "Wait for these useless scholars, you can't pass the exam. The imperial examinations are shaking their lips and tongues here, slandering the Fuhan army, which is enough to show the generosity of the Fuhan army. If it is placed in the capital, your heads may fall to the ground immediately!"

What he said was that the scholars who scolded were a little embarrassed. Most of these people were scholars who failed the rankings, plus some people with ulterior motives. Spying on me is disgusting."

The man in Tsing Yi stopped when he saw the scholars backtalking, and opened his mouth and said, "Barbarians? I used to consider myself a barbarian in Chu, but I didn't accept Zhou Ye. Today, the barbarians invaded the Central Plains, but I didn't see you go to the capital to beat up the barbarians. Instead, you beat them up." , really shameless!"

Hearing this, the scholar in a black cloak saluted casually with his fists, and said in a loud voice, "Brother is a good tonguer, my humble Lin Xiufu, these are all friends of the same way that I made friends with. I still understand a little bit, since Xiongtai has other opinions, I might as well ask Xiongtai for advice."

Before the man in Tsing Yi could open his mouth, Lin Xiufu said to himself: "Although the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains as a barbarian, if you don't see it, if the barbarians enter China, it will be China; The people of the barbarians, King Wen is a man of the western barbarians, how has he ever harmed the holiness?
After finishing his speech, Lin Xiufu nodded slightly proudly, and the scholars around him all praised him one after another, but the man seemed to have heard some big jokes,

"Hmph, although you are all scholars, you don't even understand the subtle words and righteousness of the sages. Don't you know that having a king in Yi and Di is not as good as having none in Xia?"

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "It's a bit funny to distort the words of the sages like this." Then he looked at the people on the side and said loudly: "Since ancient times, the Chinese have lived inside to control the barbarians, and the barbarians have lived outside to serve the people." In China, it has never been heard that barbarians lived in China to rule the world. At this time, the fate of the heavens is cycled, the Central Plains is full of energy, and among the billions of trillions, a saint will be born to drive out the barbarians and restore the Chinese disciples so that you and others tremble. The land, sincerity can be honored."

The scholars were disheartened by what they said, but when they saw more and more common people gathering, they wanted to leave immediately.It's just that someone blocked the way, and he couldn't advance or retreat for a while.

At this moment, a fat man in brocade clothes squeezed out from the crowd, with a flattering smile on his face, he bowed to the crowd.

"Let's go away. Big guy, don't hang around here." Then he looked at the man in Tsing Yi, "Let's go away. After all, these masters are young and energetic. If there is anything wrong, please bear with me. a bit."

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "These people wantonly talk about my Fu Han Army. Could it be that they are full of remnants of the Qing Dynasty? Others can leave, but they cannot!"

The fat man's face turned ugly, and he said in a low voice, "The scientific examination system promulgated by the Han army back then allowed the scholars to come and go freely. If we don't let them go today, it might not look good."

The man in Tsing Yi nodded slightly, "That's reasonable. The Fuhan Army only allowed scholars to enter Wuchang in order to hold the imperial examination. But now that the imperial examination has been over for a long time, it is a bit suspicious for these people to linger."

Speaking of which, the Fuhan Army has put in a lot of effort in spying on the Qing court. In particular, the shadow's internal spy network construction has received strong support from the Fuhan Army's senior officials. Compared with Jin Yiwei, but the actual behavior of Ying Ying is quite different from that of Jin Yiwei.

The fat man was a little anxious, and immediately threatened: "Please let me go, brother, don't meddle in other people's business, there are some people and things that you can't afford to mess with."

The man in Tsing Yi laughed a few times, but waved his hands, only to see several men walking out from the crowd, holding short crossbows in their hands and pointing at them.

Seeing this scene, the scholars almost peed their pants in fright. They naturally understood who were holding so many short crossbows on the territory of the Fuhan Army, so the big guys all looked at Lin Xiufu and Fatty complained in their hearts that these two people were troublesome, but they didn't want to think about how such a situation would have happened if they hadn't been outspoken before.

Lin Xiufu was also a little anxious at the moment. With a smile on his face, he looked at the man in Tsing Yi and said, "My lord, it was unintentional for the students to have eyes and ignorance of Mount Tai. Please take the sake of the Lin family's sake and bypass it." student once."

The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "The Lin family? What is the Lin family? In order to survive, your father, Lin Ziyan, did not hesitate to betray the Qing government's spies in Huguang in order to have the opportunity to send you to Wuchang for the imperial examination. Now hehe"

As soon as this remark came out, it caused an uproar. Those scholars looked at Lin Xiufu with a bit of contempt and disdain in their eyes. contemptuous.

The fat man's eyes were fixed. Not everyone knows this kind of secret, and his attitude softened a lot. He whispered: "My lord, it's fine if you are an ordinary person, but these people are all entrusted by the Zheng family's relationship." , is really a little sensitive.”

The man in Tsing Yi snorted softly, "Shadow is doing things, why should his Zheng family dictate? Somebody, bring these people back to me. I want to see who is behind here!"

Fatty's complexion couldn't help but change drastically, he knows the shadow, he hangs around in the territory of the Fuhan army, who doesn't know the shadow and the military intelligence department?That's all for the Military Intelligence Department. After all, they are far away from them, but shadows are almost everywhere. If they really offend them, I am afraid that life will be difficult in the future.

Seeing several men with short crossbows approaching, Lin Xiufu felt infinite fear in his heart. He looked up at the fat man with a bit of longing in his eyes, but how could the fat man dare to provoke such a thing at this time, so he had to He turned his head, but didn't even look at it.

Lin Xiufu knew that what he said just now was not only a big taboo, but could even affect the whole family. If it fell into the hands of the shadow and left behind the words, the people who died at that time would probably not only be He was one or two. Thinking of this, he took out a dagger from his sleeve and rushed towards the man in Tsing Yi.

A crossbow arrow was shot out silently, pierced Lin Xiufu's forehead hard, and pierced a blood hole. He fell to the ground, with a little regret in his eyes, but also a sense of peace of mind.

There was a chill on the face of the man in Tsing Yi. It was obvious that there were more important people behind Lin Xiufu. If he died like this, wouldn't it be too cheap for them?
He looked back, but found that it was not his subordinate who was using the hand crossbow, but Ning Si. He held the hand crossbow with both hands flat, but there was not much murderous look on his face. Instead, he smiled when he saw the man in Tsing Yi.

"Brother is back?"

The man in Tsing Yi was no longer as cold as before, and his eye circles were red. This person was none other than Ning Qianqiu, who was in charge of the Military Intelligence Department at the time. Later, because of Fu Erdan's problems, Ning Yu was transferred to Wuchang.

In fact, at the beginning, Ning Yu was a bit counterproductive to Ning Qianqiu, but Ning Qianqiu's growth was not enough, so there were mistakes, but not all of Ning Qianqiu's problems.Ning Yu knew this, and so did the senior officials of the Fuhan Army, so after Ning Qianqiu returned to Wuchang, after a period of self-cultivation, he came out of the mountain again to assume the position in the shadow.

Ning Si respectfully said: "Lord Ning, this is the meaning of the governor, please go to the boat for a while."

Ning Qianqiu sighed softly, nodded slightly, and said to those men: "Clean up here, those who should be tried, and those who should be shut down." Speaking of this, Ning Qianqiu felt a little regretful after all, after Lin Xiufu died , I am afraid that many problems in it will be covered up.

The two of them didn't care about the situation here at the moment, so they walked towards the river, but the fat man at the same place was already fighting with each other. Of course he knew who the governor was. In today's world, besides Ning Yu, who else can afford to speak up? Governor?

The people behind the fat man are nothing more than some old men of the Zheng family, who don't gain much power themselves, relying on some small things, although it is enough to fool most people, but in front of Ning Yu, the future prince, he and the back A person can only be regarded as an ant at most, and can be easily crushed to death with one finger.

When they arrived at the riverside, Ning Qianqiu followed Ning Si into a warship, and then walked through several compartments. After opening the curtain, he saw a pot of steaming mutton pot, and Ning Yu was sitting in the pot From behind, she looked at Ning Qianqiu with a smile on her face.

"It's cold in the south of the Yangtze River, eat some mutton to nourish your body."

Ning Qianqiu's complexion was a bit complicated, and he sat at the table with a set of dishes on it, which looked like it was prepared for him, and there was a jug of rice wine warming beside the table, exuding a strong aroma of wine.

Ning Yu didn't care about Ning Qianqiu either, he ate the mutton with his chopsticks and drank a glass of rice wine from time to time, while Ning Qianqiu looked preoccupied, and stopped chopsticks after picking up two chopsticks of mutton.

"Why did you kill Lin Xiufu, there are obviously some people behind him"

When Ning Qianqiu saw Ning Yu suddenly, she didn't have time to ask him when he arrived in Wuchang, nor did he ask him why he saw him. Instead, he was a little puzzled about killing Lin Xiufu.

"It's not important what Lin Xiufu said, but killing him is important."

Ning Yu took out a towel from the tray of the maid who was waiting on the side, wiped his face, and said softly: "There are many things that are more important than this right now, and stability is good for the overall situation."

Ning Qianqiu seemed to have thought of this, and did not continue to ask, but asked in a low voice: "Brother, is it because of this person that you saw me today?"

"Of course not. If someone kills you, you kill them. My original schedule was to disembark tomorrow, and then I will officially return to Wuchang. I just happened to meet you, so I wanted to see you. Now you have grown up more than I imagined. A lot. At least you don't lack the determination to kill and cut."

A trace of bitterness flashed across Ning Qianqiu's face. He poured a glass of wine, drank it in one gulp, and sighed: "I know, after all, I have limited talents. I failed my elder brother's cultivation at the beginning, and now I have no face to ask for more, but as long as I It is for the great cause of my Ning family, Qianqiu is willing to do everything."

The great cause of the Ning family has become the common goal of all the children of the Ning family. Even Ning Yu himself is now completely tied to the Ning family without knowing it. He can feel the obsession in the hearts of all the children of the Ning family, and also Understand this determination to sacrifice everything for obsession.

Ning Yu thought about everything he talked to his father back then. Perhaps since that day, the future of the Ning family has undergone great changes, but for the Ning family at that time, everything in the future was unknown, but no matter what How to put it, Ning Yu played an extremely critical role in it, which also made their fate change unknowingly.

The two brothers drink a glass of wine, but they drank a lot of wine. Although the rice wine is soft in the mouth, it has a great stamina. In addition, Ning Yu's mood fluctuates, so that he drank a lot of rice wine. When the cold wind on the boat blows, Then he was drunk.

"Ning Family. Daye"

In a daze, Ning Yu seemed to hear Ning Qianqiu muttering, but it was just this sentence that was repeated over and over again.

(End of this chapter)