As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

Earlier, Hua Manlou felt that nothing was right. Under such circumstances, how could he go ashore without preparing anything?So the 'He Qing' and 'Hao Liangcai' who followed him, as well as a group of high-ranking military officers, were basically played by thieves—who made the world have no pictures?

Moreover, the difference between the Tianjin Navy and the ordinary army is that after the restructuring of Huamanlou, military officers at the battalion and company level, such as the garrison and the capital, gradually took over the task of commanding the troops, while the guerrillas and generals did not have to take the lead in the charge. Instead, he has become a complete commander, so the Tianjin Navy will not mess up even if Hua Manlou and Geng Tiancheng are not in the fleet.

Knowing this, Geng Tiancheng replied: "Yes, but I have to ask other people to drink less."

Hua Manlou nodded, and Geng Tiancheng also used the excuse of Xiaojie to go out.

The welcome banquet continued, and the atmosphere was the same happy and harmonious. The difference was that it was more difficult for Yin Bowen's party to persuade them to drink, and Huamanlou's party would occasionally steal and play tricks on drinking.

When the moon was on the top of the willow branches, there was a sudden chaos outside. Someone shouted something, and there was a chaos immediately.

"What's the situation!" Yin Bowen frowned and shouted.

Someone stumbled in and ran in: "My lord! Where is my lord? The pirates are here!"

There was a sudden silence on the scene, followed by chaos.

"Come on, come on!"

"Prepare the sedan chair, prepare the sedan chair quickly!"

"Third brother! Greeting brothers, copy the guy to the top of the city!"

The gentry started calling for their servants, the civil servants called for someone to come, and the military officers ran around the restaurant endlessly, calling for the soldiers to guard the restaurant, but...

No matter how you look at the performances of this group of people, it seems that they are deliberately creating chaos - the officers and soldiers of the navy wanted to gather as soon as possible, but they were blocked by this group of people and couldn't get together.

And Yin Bowen, who was beside Huamanlou, held him tremblingly, and said in a trembling voice: "Uncle, the Japanese pirates... What should I do if the Japanese pirates are here..."

For his acting skills, Hua Manlou gave him full marks.

"quiet!"

Geng Tianding roared and kicked over the table, then drew his knife and shouted: "Everyone stand where they are, don't move!"

No matter what Geng Tianding said, he was a military general who had been in battle. This aura made everyone stiff in an instant.

Hua Manlou got up and took two steps forward calmly, looked around and said, "I said before, the Japanese pirates are nothing but mediocre, why are you panicking?"

Yin Bowen came over and said tremblingly: "Uncle... Uncle, the navy said that it has to be fought, you... you should go and have a look... can you take a look?"

Hua Manlou looked at him with a smile all over his face and said, "Why don't you go and take a look, Mr. Fu Zun? Let you also see the combat power of our Tianjin navy."

Yin Bowen stared at Hua Manlou with wide eyes: "I...I..."

With a hiccup, the guy slammed straight over.

"My lord!"

"Fu Zun!"

"Quick, quickly send the Fuzun to the inner hall!"

Several people rushed to lift Yin Bowen up, but Suzhou Tongzhi, Dinghai County Magistrate and others hurriedly rushed to Huamanlou: "Uncle, you... why don't you go and have a look?"

Hua Manlou smiled slightly: "Okay."

At this moment, Huamanlou guessed all Yin Bowen's operations.

389. Reconciliation due to profit

Just after leaving Dinghai City, Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Brother Geng, do you think this group of people will wait for the news of my death in the restaurant, or will they go back to their respective houses and find their respective mothers?"

Geng Tiancheng looked disdainful: "Is it likely to be waiting? I won't die if I wait, these beasts are afraid that they will have trouble sleeping and eating."

Hua Manlou shrugged: "Who said it wasn't?"

Qi Wanrong, who was changing horses, came up to him: "What kind of charades are you playing? What's dead or alive?"

Seeing her approaching, Geng Tiancheng hurriedly stepped aside.

Hua Manlou glanced at Qi Wanrong, and said with a smile, "Oh, ahead of us... Well, judging from the terrain, it should be near Changgang Mountain, eight miles away, and there is a large group of people waiting for us to throw ourselves into the trap."

Qi Wanrong's eyes widened: "What?"

Hua Manlou chuckled: "Are you scared? I told you not to come out, you have to follow..."

Qi Wanrong grabbed Hua Manlou's hand: "No, how did you know?"

Hua Manlou squeezed her hand and said with a smile: "Where should I start? It's a bit messy, wait for me to explain it in a way you can understand."

Qi Wanrong: "...Why do I feel that your implication is that I am too stupid?"

"You think too much." Hua Manlou did not change his face: "First of all, when we were in Suzhou, we received an urgent report that there were Japanese pirates infested in Ningbo Prefecture, so we set off in a hurry without thinking about anything, until we were approaching. It was only when we were in Ningbo that we began to suspect the purpose of these pirates."

"Then let's just think that they are just a bunch of rogues who went ashore just to grab the eggs of ordinary people. Anyway, according to them, the pirates are only staying for a short time." Hua Manlou continued: "Then the problem comes, that's it. A group of Japanese pirates, as for scaring a senior official of the fourth rank, a magistrate, to faint?"

Qi Wanrong suddenly asked: "Is he pretending to be dizzy?"

Hua Manlou was speechless for a while before saying: "...Niece, don't suddenly realize the obvious things. You see, there are not only two thousand households in Dinghai, but also a Xuanwuwei hundred households, so in theory Even ordinary people wouldn’t be so frightened when they heard the Japanese pirates came ashore, let alone the magistrate?”

"Besides the magistrate, other civil and military officials and even the country gentry felt terrified when they heard that the Japanese pirates came ashore..." Hua Manlou wanted to laugh a little: "We came from Jiading, then think about it, now What would happen if you shouted in Jiading that Japanese pirates are coming?"

Qi Wanrong tilted her head: "Eighty percent...all the common people will climb the city wall to fight the Japanese pirates with their lives, right?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "That's right. Even though it was the result of beheading more than 100 Japanese pirates, even in the past, there were many ordinary people who carried hoes and fought desperately against Japanese pirates. Then you don't think their performance Is it a little too exaggerated? Whether it is the attitude of this group of people towards us or the attitude when they heard that the Japanese pirates came, they are all too exaggerated."

Qi Wanrong nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I am embarrassed by the compliments of those female relatives. But what can this explain?"

Hua Manlou sneered and said: "It can only show that they don't know how cruel the real pirates are, and they don't know how the common people react when they encounter them, so they can't grasp the speed at all. Didn't I always say that knowledge and action are one? , They don’t know how to do it? Then it can be inferred from this point that there may be no Japanese pirates in Ningbo Mansion, or..."

"A family of officials and bandits!"

"Children can be taught." Hua Manlou nodded and said, "It's just speculation at this point, and then we have to find some arguments, for example..."

I said earlier that Qi Wanrong is not stupid, after Huamanlou's on-demand broadcast, can she still not understand the reason?So she immediately said: "Everyone is cooperating with the prefect, does this mean that everyone has participated in this matter?"

Hua Manlou nodded and said, "That's right. Then you guess, why did they form a monolith?"

Qi Wanrong thought for a while, and then said: "Shipping?"

"Smart." Hua Manlou praised, and then sighed: "So, that's the thing about interests. There are natural contradictions between civil servants and military officials, and it is difficult for the government and Japanese pirates to coexist. But if There are huge benefits that combine the interests of all people, so many things are not so complicated. And in this area, what else can make these people monolithic besides shipping?"

The benefits of smuggling by sea are huge. It is not difficult to understand that the magistrate's yamen, Weisuo, Xuanwuwei, local wealthy families and even inspectors are involved. As for the Japanese pirates...

Japanese pirates are people who live at sea. Compared with harassing and looting along the coast, it is easier to survive and make more profits by guarding the caravan to do the lucrative trade, right?

What's more, if you can organize a huge caravan, can't you organize a private armed force?

That's why Hua Manlou felt that either there were no Japanese pirates in Ningbo Mansion at all, or these Japanese pirates were employed by the magistrate's yamen, there was no third possibility.

In fact, Lao Liu reminded him of this matter when he hosted Hua Man Lou that day, and also told him not to touch Kai Hai in a hurry, but who ever wanted Hua Man Lou to not want to be troublesome, but people came to provoke him What?

But having said that, even if Hua Manlou doesn't want to provoke others, his arrival will easily break certain balances... Rather, the balance has been broken, and the first to bear the brunt is the Weisuo. Guan Haiwei is impressively inside.

At that time, Commander Guanhaiwei directly took the money to retire, he didn't even ask for land, and I heard that this guy disappeared without a trace the next day - it seems that he was smarter and knew that he was involved too much, so he moved his family overnight, Or he was killed by the same party, who let him out first?

And more importantly, if Huamanlou led the navy to guard the coast non-stop, and completely changed the guard post into a navy, then the smuggling of these people would definitely be blocked.

Not to mention that after being discovered, the source of income will continue to be cut off. The crime of smuggling alone is enough for everyone to search their homes and kill them. Then Yin Bowen's smuggling group has only two ways to go: either pull flowers and enter the game together, or Or just kill him.

It seems that Yin Bowen chose the second path based on Wang Jin's lessons learned: People die and the government rests. If Huamanlou dies, who cares about the southeast?

So Hua Manlou was quite speechless: Mr. Wang has done too many unconscionable things so I can't spare him, but Yin Fuzun, you always just make a fortune, you see how good it is for everyone to make a fortune together, I can't say it back You can pull the emperor in, but why are you playing tricks?

"So how did you find out about these things?" Qi Wanrong's words interrupted Hua Manlou's depression.

"It's actually quite simple." Hua Manlou looked at the hills in front of him and smacked his lips: "Today's welcome banquet is very inexplicable. How can there be any reason to call the general more than [-] miles away during a war? And it's so Warm invitation, I am a little embarrassed to invite..."

Dinghai City is 26 miles away from Cen Port, where the navy docked. At that time, Hua Manlou felt that something was wrong when he heard it. This is the reason why he only brought Geng Tiancheng and not He Qing and Hao Liangcai. In the vicinity, all the generals were called to a banquet, this...

It's really unreasonable.

Qi Wanrong also felt that this was unreasonable, she said with a black line: "Since you know that things are weird, why do you still rush here?"

"How can you catch a tiger if you don't enter the tiger's lair? How can I figure out these things if I don't come with such a strong evil wind?" Hua Manlou laughed and said, "I told you that he might use it in the car." Is it a dirty trick, now it looks like it should."

"as expected?"

"Think about it, we just finished fighting a wave of Japanese pirates, and we still won a complete victory. The news has already spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. In this case, the Japanese pirates have to wait and see for a while anyway, right?"

Qi Wanrong thought for a while: "If I were a Japanese pirate, I probably wouldn't jump out at this time, and I wouldn't attack the navy...Huh?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Understood? We were attacked by Japanese pirates on the first night of our arrival. Is it a coincidence or are these Japanese pirates acting recklessly?"

"Neither, this is obviously designed by someone!" Qi Wanrong realized instantly: "If the general is transferred from the army, the group of dragons without a leader will be in chaos when they are attacked... This official is so hateful, for his own self-interest. Ruined the navy?"

"Under normal circumstances, of course it is." Hua Manlou squinted his eyes and sighed, "And don't get angry, this matter... blocking people's money is like killing their parents. You see, this is all revenge for killing your father." Now, it’s okay for people to use some tricks, right? Now you know why I said there was an ambush ahead, right?”

Qi Wanrong gritted her teeth and said: "Good trick, if it is given to ordinary people, they will rush back in panic when they hear that the army is under attack, and they will definitely not notice the ambush on the road if they are in a hurry. If you didn't notice this, we will surely die here today!"

Hua Manlou nodded and said: "The premise is that I didn't find out. I just invited Yin Bowen just now to try him out, to see if he really set up an ambush on the road, but the one who pretended to be dizzy... Hey, it's so embarrassing Oh, I was so embarrassed that I almost used my toes to get out of three rooms and two halls on the spot, and those people from Ningbo Tongzhi hurriedly told me to go back quickly, which is quite embarrassing. That expression... Emma, ​​is so spot on. "

Even though the situation was urgent at this time, Qi Wanrong couldn't help laughing when she heard Hua Manlou's witty words, but then she punched Hua Manlou twice with her small fist, and said angrily, "You're still talking nonsense at any time!"

Hua Manlou reined in his horse and stood still: "Otherwise there's nothing else to do, why can't we just pounce on him and get beaten?"

Qi Wanrong looked at Huamanlou in astonishment, but soon understood: "You must have arrangements, so let me just say why Song Jie isn't in front of you."

Hua Manlou sighed and said, "I really feel that there is nothing to do, because even if we understand Yin Bowen's routine now, we still have nothing to do with him."

Qi Wanrong's eyes widened: "Why?"

"Evidence." Hua Manlou said depressedly: "Didn't you find out? All the conjectures are consistent, but we just don't have any evidence. This is why Yin Bowen has no fear. And if he really killed him It is not easy for us, the imperial court to hold him accountable."

"But if the pirates are caught..."

"Then they are Japanese pirates after all, who will believe what the Japanese pirates say?"

(Dazhang, have you worked hard enough today?)

390. Calculate

A certain elementary school student who died wherever he went said: There is always only one truth.

But in reality, not everyone cares about the truth.

If Huamanlou really died in Zhoushan, then not only Yin Bowen, but also the magistrate's yamen, local gentry, guards, and Xuanwuwei will become the group of people who cover up the truth with their own hands.

Hua Manlou could even think of how to write the memorial for Yin Bowen: Uncle Xishan said that Japanese pirates are like chickens and dogs. On that day, he summoned civil, military and country gentry from Ningbo to a banquet in Dinghai. In a panic, he hurried to Cengang, but was attacked on the way...

Is it rare in history that he misses the opportunity to fight because of drunkenness and dies?This is the script that Yin Bowen arranged for Huamanlou.

If he did it too much, maybe he would frame him as Uncle Hua for calling so many people together just to extort some money for peace or something, and if he didn't give money, he wouldn't fight Japanese pirates...

Just plain nasty.

So will the DPRK and China send people to investigate?

Certainly, but no matter who comes, they won't be able to find out any problems. If you have the ability, you can catch the pirates and ask who killed Uncle Hua one by one.

What's more, besides Huamanlou, all the people present are stakeholders, but the Huamanlou party is dead, so who is willing to tirelessly find out the truth for a dead person who offends all the prominent figures in Ningbo Mansion?

"Then what should we do?" After thinking through everything, Qi Wanrong trembled with anger.

Originally Miss Qi was quite self-aware about herself, she felt that what she had done was enough of a jerk: every day when she had nothing to do, she would show off her might on the Jingshi Street, smashing a Xuanwuwei Thousand Households from time to time or finding fault with them and fighting with them, or hunting Occasionally broke into the farmland of the squire's family and destroyed some seedlings...

Anyway, this kind of nonsense is too much to write down, and the censor impeaches Ying Guogong at every turn, saying that he is not strict in teaching daughters, so since Qi Wanrong was seven years old, Qi has not received a penny or even a salary from the court. They were punished until ten years later...

Qi Wanrong originally thought that being true had already lowered the average morality of Dazhao, but after coming to the southeast this time, she suddenly found that compared with this group of local officials, what she did was nothing. same, this...

So do you want to open the eyes of those blind censors in the capital?

Hua Manlou jumped off the horse, squinted at the dark hills in the distance, and said, "Let's break his trap first, let's see if we can catch something. And if I'm right, Yin If the blog post fails to achieve one plan, it will make another plan, the more you can do, the more mistakes you will make, and it is time to settle accounts with him."

"Then what about now?" Qi Wanrong was still angry.

"Wait." Hua Manlou found a big rock by the side of the road, sat on it, and said, "I heard the sound of gunfire just now, and I guess Song Jie's side is about to start, so sit here and think about words." Son, think about whether you can get something out of Yin Bowen's mouth for a while."

After a pause, Hua Manlou turned his head to look at Su Jiu'er who had been following behind her, and said, "By the way, can I ask you to do something?"

……

A little bit forward in time, Cen Gang.

In the flagship command cabin, He Qingduan sat in front of the table and closed his eyes to rest.

He was also waiting, waiting for Hua Manlou's prediction to come true.

It was getting dark, and a full moon was slowly rising from the sea level. Just when He Qing was about to go out to check the situation, he heard someone shouting, "There is a boat coming!"