Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 320 Big Boss, Hurry Up! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Li Fuchen's tall body stood by the pier of Guichi Port, facing the rolling Yangtze River, just staring intently at a slowly leaving wooden boat, his eyes were a little moist.

Although this "living Lu Bu" has a romantic nature and has too many pets inside and outside, Kong Sizhen is definitely one of his favorite women. Although this "living Lu Bu" comes from a humble background, he likes to rely on his good skin He is famous for his bravery, and seduces the beauties from the upper class.Back then when he was an imperial guard beside Shunzhi, he often hooked up with the daughters of noble families of the Eight Banners, and Kong Sizhen was one of the best.The two are also very destined, not only gave birth to a son, but also continued their relationship many years later, and became husband and wife for several years.

I didn't expect that today's farewell is over now, maybe we will never see each other again!

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

He sighed softly, then turned around slowly, and looked at a tall young man who looked almost like Li Zhongshan and Sun Jiqing, who at first glance seemed to be brothers, and tried his best to squeeze out With a bit of a smile, he said: "Zhongzheng, your third brother has left, and from now on, you are the third child in the family again! Although you are not a direct descendant, the boss and the second child are very optimistic about you. The second child will return to you Changed his name, his name is Zhongshan, and your name Zhongzheng shows how much he attaches importance to you, so you must not let him down."

It turned out that this was really Li Zhongshan's brother, originally called Wang Zhongzhen, the third eldest in the family, five years younger than Li Zhongshan, only 20 years old this year, and was originally the oldest among Li Fuchen's group of bastards.But after Li Jiqing came in, he changed from the third child to the fourth child.But to him, the third and fourth are no different.Because he was not to be favored in the first place, he has always kept his tail between his legs, and has always been a "little third son" in a down-to-earth manner.

Fortunately, Li Fuchen would not stop teaching his son the art of war just because he was a concubine. As long as his son can learn it, he will definitely teach him all his skills.

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

And Li Zhongzheng's physique is the same as his father Li Fuchen's, he is like Li Zhongshan, he is tall and strong, especially suitable for martial arts, and he is willing to endure hardships to practice
Therefore, among Li Fuchen's sons, his martial arts is the highest, even better than Li Zhongshan.

In addition, his art of war is also good, and he was the "Wu Zhuang Scholar" in the first session of the lecture hall.After graduating, he has been following Li Fuchen's expeditions. Under the cultivation of Huo Lu Bu, in just a few years, he has served as an infantry officer, an infantry battalion general, a cavalry battalion general, and a brigade soldier, and he has performed well in every position. That's right, they have all participated in actual combat, and they have risen up step by step.

For this kind of brother who is diligent, capable, and responsible, Li Zhongshan of course attaches great importance to him, so he simply took him with him when he changed his name.He was also given a "Zhong" generation. It is said that he was named "Zhongzheng" because he looked upright and looked like a good person.
Regarding his father's entrustment, Li Zhongzheng replied sincerely, "Father, please rest assured that the boy will not let the elder brother down." He asked another question, "Father, why did you suddenly tell the boy this word?
Does the father want the child to go to the second brother's side? "

Li Fuchen nodded and said: "Sun Jiqing has probably arrived at Gui Haijun now. He is the Jiedu envoy of Gui Haijun, and Gui Haijun respects him, so there will be chaos in Guangxi soon. And Wu Sangui must There will be another trick, so my father can't stay in Jiangnan anymore, he has to go through Jiangxi, all the way to Guangdong, but it's not easy to go through Jiangxi, so my father wants to take you to Jiangbei together, Go to your second brother to discuss countermeasures."

"Father, are you going to ask Second Brother for reinforcements?" Li Zhongzheng asked.

"Don't ask for reinforcements." Li Fuchen shook his head, "He doesn't have many elite soldiers, only the Huaixi army is good. If you give them to me, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop Wu Sangui's onslaught."

"What does father want?"

"I want money! I want silver!" Li Fuchen taught his son, "If we don't have enough troops, we will use money to raise money. People will panic at Jieshu's side. We don't have time to attack the city, so we just bluff and publicize the marriage of Li and Wu. It’s a matter; if you are not a direct descendant of Jie Shu, you will be able to be smashed by us with money. So we have to go to the second child to ask for more!”

"My son knows!" Li Zhongzheng smiled, "Then how much do we want?"

Li Fuchen said: "If you want money, of course, the more the better, you can save it for your father if you can't spend it all, but it can't be less than 100 million taels, otherwise it may not be enough.

After asking for money, you stay with your second brother to protect him. You must keep your second brother!
Remember, you can't let him charge indiscriminately, let alone let him be assassinated by villains!Even if you risk your own life, you have to keep his life!

It's not that your life is worthless, but that once he is killed, our family will inevitably flourish and decline, do you understand? "

"Understood!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "My boy must protect my second brother well!"

"Also. Although your second brother must know, we still have to remind him, please, please, don't reveal that Sun Jiqing is about to raise troops in Guangxi! Now we must not show weakness, we must show powerful!"

"Understood!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "Let's first show strength, and second, use silver bullets to smash it!"

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

Li Fuchen, Li Zhongzheng and his son met Li Zhongshan in Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province today.

Li Zhongshan did not rush back to Nanjing. He inspected the defense, local governments, and political councils of various places while walking.

As for the situation, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory!

First of all, the deployment of defense in various parts of Anhui is not very ideal. The Huaixi Red Turban fought many beautiful battles with Li Zhongshan, and they were also the main force of the "General Shangluo" who failed to enter Luoyang this time!

Now that there are strong soldiers in hand, Anhui Governor Lu Liuliang and Anhui Admiral Li Shiying (Li Fuchen's old subordinate) did not spend too much on city defense-of course, there is not enough money and food.The Anhui governor's yamen has to go all out to support Li Fuchen's battle in southern Anhui!
Secondly, the organization of the Guoren regime and the Guoren Council in Anhui is not doing very well. The main reason is that there are not many Guoren and Guoshi.

Only the Chinese government and the National People's Political Council in Fengyang Mansion, Yingzhou Mansion, Chuzhou, and Sizhou in the old Huaixi area began to be established.These two prefectures and prefectures are the hometowns of Huaixi soldiers, and a large number of villages have actually been "nationalized".

With a large number of nationals and families of national scholars as the foundation, the government of the countrymen and the discussion of politics by the people of the country can of course be advanced.

However, the people and scholars of the two prefectures and states caused Li Zhongshan a headache-these people wanted to distribute the land!I also want to solve the floods of the Huaihe 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 Huaihe River is not high, and there are still a lot of land that has been abandoned due to flooding.If the floods of the Huaihe River and the Yellow River can be alleviated, these lands can be distributed to the Huaixi people.

But how to control the Yellow River and Huaihe River?How much will it cost again?
"Ziyuan, have you thought about how to control the Huaihe River and the Yellow River? The management of the Yellow River and the Yellow River has been suspended for four years. The people in Huaixi are dying of anxiety. They are afraid that when a flood comes, their hometown will be destroyed. flooded."

In the Anhui governor's yamen in Anqing, Li Zhongshan, who was waiting for his father Li Fuchen to come to meet him, was discussing with Jin Fu, the river channel manager, about harnessing the Huaihe River and the Yellow River in his free time.

Jin Fu's yamen is not in Anhui, but in Huai'an, where the Huaihe River, the Yellow River, and the Canal meet - that is the most fundamental reason why the Huaihe River and the Yellow River have harmed the Huaibei and Huainan areas!

When Li Zhongshan returned to Anhui, this Jin Fu was inspecting the dam in Sizhou. After Li Zhongshan summoned his order, he rushed to Anqing immediately. On the second day after arriving in Anqing, he was announced to the governor's office See you, General Li.

"General, those Huaixi people are quite reasonable in their anxiety. The Huai River and the Yellow River may flood once in the past two years, because there has been no major flood for several years!" Jin Fu explained, "Because the Yellow River won Since the Huaihe River, the sediment of the Yellow River has been rushing into the lower reaches of the Huaihe River. Because the water surface of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River is open, the water flow is gentle, and the sediment is easy to settle, the river is naturally raised. Over time, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River will be higher than the middle reaches. This is the so-called silting! Once the river channel is silted up, it will be difficult for the river water to discharge into the sea, and it will naturally flood. In the past, the way to deal with it was to keep raising the embankments, and gradually turn the Huaihe River into a suspended river like the Yellow River. But the Huaihe River The water flow is not comparable to that of the Yellow River, so."

"What's the solution?" Seeing Jin Fu hesitating, Li Zhongshan simply asked, "Is it okay to open another Yellow River into the sea?"

Jin Fu didn't expect Li Zhongshan to come up with such a solution. He was taken aback for a moment, and then he provoked Thumbs up and said, "General Shengming! This is a once-and-for-all solution, but if you want to open a new channel into the sea, you have to pass through the canal channel." And the channel of the Yellow River and the canal cannot be connected, otherwise the sediment from the Yellow River will rush into the canal, and the canal will be blocked again in a few years. Moreover, the canal also connects to the Huaihe River, so the sediment can also flow into the Huaihe River through the canal."

"Then stop the water transportation in Huaibei!" Li Zhongshan said firmly.

"Right now, we can suspend water transportation," Jin Fu thought about it, "but what will happen after the world is unified in the future? How will the imperial court deliver food to Beijing?"

"Isn't it enough to ship by sea?" Li Zhongshan slapped his thigh and said, "That's the deal. Ziyuan, how much will such a project cost?"

Ok, deal?Isn't this too hasty?
Jin Fu was stunned again and again. In fact, cutting off the Cao and protecting the Huaihe River is not a fairy trick, and the old rivers all know it.

But if you know it, you know it, but no one dares to raise it—because whoever proposes it will be the sworn enemy of the river yamen, the water transport yamen, and the countless waterworkers on the canal!
As a result, the Yellow River and Huaihe River have been well managed, and there will be no need to spend money every year to maintain them in the future. The northern canal will be put to death at once, and there will be no money to manage in the future. What about the river government?Not to mention oil and water, whether to drive it or not is a question!
Secondly, more than half of the water transportation has been cut off!Can the Water Transport Yamen agree?Can the waterworkers who eat water transport meals agree?
Although the area under the jurisdiction of Daming does not include the north, and the river government and water transport government have already been set up, and there are many water workers on the Huaihe River. They may not be able to eat the oil and water in the north now, but what about in the future?

In addition, the water transportation in Huaibei has not actually been interrupted.
But Jin Fu didn't dare to say "no" directly to the general now - he became the general manager only after Li Zhongshan's promotion.

"General, this project has to be calculated and surveyed carefully to arrive at the total price. The officials have no way of knowing now."

"Okay! Then go to the calculation and survey as soon as possible," Li Zhongshan ordered, "I will give you three months, and you must come up with the construction plan and project cost budget." He paused, and then said, "Ziyuan, you know Is it? Both Guangdong Jiangwu Hall and Nanjing Jiangwu Hall have special engineering departments. How to dig soil and build walls is the knowledge of Jiangwu Hall!"

The meaning of this is very clear-work hard, or you will be fired!
It's just digging a river, it's not up to you!
Feeling the pressure, Jin Fu nodded again and again: "I know, I will finish it within three months!"

"General, Grandpa Nan Wang and the third son are here!"

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

"What?" Li Zhongshan suddenly stood up from behind the case, and was about to pistol in a hurry—isn't the third son Sun Jiqing?Why did he come with Li Fuchen?
But before he could load his flintlock gun, Li Fuchen's laughter came: "Second brother, you are back, and your third brother Zhongzheng and I are thinking of you!"

The third brother Zhongzheng?

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

So Li Zhongshan later called him "bald head", and later he gave him a name "for bald heads".

"Father, how did Ji Xing become the third child?" Li Zhongshan quickly put away his pistol, turned his head to look at the door, and sure enough, he saw Li Fuchen and Li Zhongzheng, whose name was "Jixing"—this kid was no longer bald, but had long hair. There was a lot, and a small bun was combed.

"What Ji Xing? His name is Shu Xing now!" Li Fuchen said, "And he has always been the third child, but he was the fourth child for a short time when that bastard came back."

The names Li Fuchen gave his sons were Da Da Bo Xing, Lao San Shu Xing, and Lao Si Xing. Li Zhongshan should have been called Zhong Xing, but Wu Sangui gave him Shi Kai, so the name Zhong Xing disappeared.

Because when Li Fuchen gave Li Zhongzheng his name, Li Jiqing happened to return, so Li Zhongzheng was demoted one place, from the third to the fourth, and now he is promoted back.

No one does this anymore.

Li Zhongshan had no choice but to salute Li Fuchen first, then bowed his hands to his brother, and said "Congratulations"-he was promoted, of course it is a happy event!Now he is under the three eldest sons of the Li family.

If the Li family gets an extra title, then he can make it up!
After saying hello, the father and son sat down separately.

"Father, auspiciously celebrate him."

After sitting down, Li Zhongshan followed Li Fuchen to type again.

Li Fuchen glanced at Luo Zhuguo and the other guards.

Li Zhongshan waved at them and told them all to retreat outside the yard.

"Ji Qing is not my son anymore!" Li Fuchen said sadly, "Second brother, why don't you kill him?"

What?kill?

Li Zhongshan said in his heart: That is your own son!The poison of a tiger does not eat its children, you are more poisonous than a tiger!
Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan shook his head and said, "Father, he is my brother, how could I bear to harm him? Besides, it was Wu Shuangyu who led the troops to rescue Princess Jiading at that time."

"Wu Shuangyu? He is so loyal?" Li Fuchen was too surprised.

"It's not because of his loyalty," Li Zhongshan shook his head, "I hijacked the great grandson of Zhou, and he had to go!"

"Then Sun Yanling is"

"He killed it!" Li Fuchen said, "But it must be blamed on me!"

"Second brother, in fact, Sun Yanling's death is not your responsibility." Li Zhongzheng interrupted suddenly, "According to the information we have, the Great Zhou court did not announce Sun Yanling's death."

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

Because Li Zhongshan wanted to kill Sun Yanling, then Da Zhou and Da Ming would have to face off and go to war right away—General Da Ming led so many people into the hinterland of Da Zhou and killed the Duke of Da Zhou, how could this be possible?

So he simply concealed the news of Sun Yanling's death—just pretend that he is still alive!Isn't it just beheading? Can't live without a head?

Li Fuchen said worriedly: "It's not that Wu Sangui has a good heart, but that he wants to numb our second child, this Sun Jiqing will probably go to Guangxi to raise troops against us.

My father was worried that your eldest brother would not be able to resist, and that the foundation of Guangdong would be lost, so he planned to march into Jiangxi as soon as possible and fight all the way to Guangdong. "

"Father, this is great." Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "I am also worried about being attacked by Sun Jiqing and Wu Sangui in Guangdong.

If you can lead the Guangdong new army back to aid, then you will be safe. "

Li Fuchen shook his head, "It's not so easy to go back...Jie Shu has a large army in Jiangxi. King Zhong's army has been fighting for so long, but they haven't taken down a small Jiujiang Mansion. Being a father is not superhuman, and I'm afraid it may not be the case. confident."

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 father a little more military expenses, so that he can use the money to clear the way and buy all the way to Guangdong."

"This one……"

Li Zhongshan thought to himself: The general's family has no food left!

"How much do you need?"

Li Fuchen stretched out two fingers and said with a smile: "Not much, not much, give me 200 million."

(End of this chapter)