Chapter 55 Water Pirates
On April 29, at the door of Lu Zihong's main hall, Guangzhou magistrate Lu Yixuan hurriedly swung his official sleeves, and walked towards the main hall where Lu Zihong was.
When Lu Zihong's servants four and five saw that the governor came, they ran forward and rushed to the backyard to report the news.
"Dad! The master is here!"
Lu Zihong was warm in his concubine's room. When he heard the servant's message, he couldn't react and rushed into the main hall in panic.
There is a large plaque with red gold and green ground in the entrance of the main hall, with three large characters written on it, which is "Ronglu Hall". When you enter the door, you will see a snow-white screen wall. In front of the screen wall is a large red sandalwood carved dragon and wood table. On the wooden table is a three-foot-high green bronze tripod, which is suspended and a large painting of the ink dragon. On one side is a "Golden Yi" and a "glass sea" is placed on the other side.
These two ornaments were newly placed on by Lu Zihong.
The prefect Lu Yixuan didn't even look at the two new ornaments, and just walked into the main hall in a hurry.
After passing through the screen wall, there were two 16 nanmu chairs on the ground. There was another couplet, which was an ebony couplet, inlaid with silver-engraved handwriting, which read: gentle, kind, respectful, frugal, kind, kind, courtesy, wise and trustworthy.
Lu Zihong, who has been robbing other people's property all day long, hangs "gentle, kind, respect, frugality" in the main hall, which is also one of the jokes in Guangzhou City.
Lu Yixuan stood in the middle of the main hall with a dark face, and did not sit down, but shouted loudly: "Let Lu Zihong come out!"
Before Lu Yixuan finished speaking, Lu Zihong ran in from the backyard in disarray. When he came in, he kowtowed to Lu Yixuan and sang loudly: "I don't know if my uncle is here today, he will be in a farewell welcome."
Lu Yixuan shouted, "What are you welcome? I ask you, how far have you attacked the spring soft chair business of the Qin family on Hongliu Street?"
Lu Zihong was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Did I try him?"
Lu Yixuan asked, "Have you tried him?"
Lu Zihong said, "I first asked someone to beat his blacksmith, but he didn't say anything. Then I went to smash his signboard, but he still didn't say anything. A few days ago, I took people to smash his shop, smashed several pairs of spring soft chairs, destroyed his shop decoration, and made him unable to open a store."
Lu Yixuan took a breath when he heard Lu Zihong's words.
Lu Zihong looked at Lu Yixuan's face and asked embarrassedly: "Uncle, what's wrong? Qin Zhao is a small citizen in Xiangshan County. He has become famous because of the bombing of a group of bandits. I don't think he has any background. I bullied him so much that he couldn't open a store, but he still didn't say a word, obviously he was helpless."
Lu Yixuan sneered and said, "Qin Zhao didn't say a word, but he asked the Zheng family to speak for him!"
Lu Zihong was stunned: "Zheng family? Quanzhou Zheng family?"
Lu Yixuan did not answer his nephew's question and asked again: "Did you humiliate him in public? Why did Zheng Sen come forward so anxiously for him?"
Lu Zihong said helplessly: "Uncle, isn't Zheng Sen so anxious for money? The store sells more than 20 soft chairs a day, and one is more than 6 taels of profit. The one he closed the store and lost 150 taels of silver a day."
Lu Yixuan's face became even more angry when he heard this. He had heard of the spring soft chair before, but he didn't expect that the profit of the transaction was so large.
He gritted his teeth and said, "So it's such a hot business. What a Fujian Zheng family! He reached out to Guangzhou!"
"Uncle, what did the Zheng family say?"
"What do you say? You dog bones! What is important about what you say these days? Zheng Cheng Sen, the fourth son of Zheng Zhilong, met me and said that the Qin Spring Soft Chair Store is an industry under his name and he has shares, so he asked me to stop."
Lu Zihong laughed and said, "Uncle! If the new king of my son died for the country today, the provinces are in chaos. The Zheng family has become a great official in Fujian, known as the Fujian general. This hand still needs to be extended to me in Guangdong and interfere with the business of my Guangdong Guangzhou Prefecture?"
Lu Yixuan sneered and said, "I thought so too when I saw him in the yamen."
Lu Zihong was stunned and asked, "Did uncle change his thoughts later?"
Lu Yixuan cursed loudly: "Bone of the thief! Do you know, because you smashed the Zheng family's soft chair shop, I am now being put in mid-air and cannot get down. The three thousand thieves from the Zheng family came directly from Nanhai County and attacked Guangzhou Prefecture in a swagger."
Lu Zihong suddenly became stupid.
"What?"
"Zheng family thieves attack Guangzhou?"
Lu Yixuan cursed loudly: "What if it's not a water thief? The Zheng family is the general of Fujian in the court, known as the Fujian general, but in fact they are a group of water thieves and robbers. They have been gathering at sea for many years, and what they do is not rely on swords and soldiers to speak? They guard Fujian like an iron barrel, and they can't insert needles or splash water. Do you think he is relying on his official position?"
"Of course they rely on the water pirates under their command. These soldiers wear military uniforms and are the soldiers of the court, and take off their military uniforms and are the pirates at the sea. They are officers and soldiers when dealing with other water pirates. When dealing with the government, they are pirates at the sea, and they are whistle and gather unruly."
Lu Zihong suddenly burst into cold sweat.
"I don't believe that Zheng Sen really dares to attack Guangzhou City!"
Lu Yixuan was furious and slapped Lu Zihong in the face, making a crisp "pop".
Lu Zihong covered his face and complained: "Uncle, you hit me again!"
"Dog Bones! What you did have brought your uncle to the volcano. Do you actually want to bet that the Zheng family dare not attack the city?"
"Dog Bones, I tell you that if the Zheng family's soldiers take off their uniforms, they will be pirates. Their leaders followed the command of the Zheng family and were privately soldiers and bandits. They were all used to robbing the pirates of the good people and sea merchants at sea, and they dared to rob anything. Putting their heads on the head is like it's your own, and what city dares not attack?"
"Zheng Sen has thirty ships of pirates under his command. Zheng Sen is a businessman in Guangzhou. In fact, Zheng Sen is the leader of a pirate. Especially with several ships of Japanese pirates under his command, he claims to be a "Ronin" from Japan. He has no king or law. He kills people if he says he wants to kill people, and kills officials if he says he wants to kill officials."
Lu Zihong touched his cheeks that were beaten red and said in panic: "Uncle! What should I do now? Now that we have smashed the Qin family's shop, everyone in Guangzhou City sees it. If we suddenly give in because the Zheng family's troops attacked, everyone in Guangzhou City knows that I am afraid of the Zheng family."
"This retreat is a thousand miles away, uncle. I'm afraid that those businesses that offer their shares to us will go to the Zheng family to move to Zheng Sen to deliver money and goods."
Lu Yixuan bit his lip and kept paced around the room.
The problem now is that the emperor has committed suicide to his country, and the soldiers in various places are in chaos. Zheng Sen carried three thousand thieves to the city of Guangzhou, but the combat effectiveness of the garrison in Guangzhou was not worth mentioning. The Guangdong general was stationed in Chaozhou and had to wait for the Guangdong general's troops to come from Chaozhou to rescue the ground. I really didn't know that I had to wait until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month.
Moreover, the Guangdong General was not stupid. You can see at a glance that these thieves were obedient to the Zheng family. It is really hard to predict whether the Guangdong General was willing to defeat the Zheng family of Fujian General.
Most of them are unwilling to make things difficult for the Zheng family.
After thinking about it, Lu Yixuan couldn't think of any way to reconcile with the Zheng family in a decent way.
If the Zheng family cannot reconcile with the Zheng family, if Lu Yixuan is asked to admit defeat to the Zheng family in the end, then Lu Yixuan's official position in Guangzhou will surely plummet. A large number of businessmen will kick the Lu family away and rush to the Zheng family to let the Zheng family be their protective umbrella.
Then how can the Lu family plunder in the future?
"evil creature!"
The more Lu Yixuan thought about it, the more angry he became. He swung his fist and smashed it on Lu Zihong's head.
Lu Zihong fell to the ground with his head in his arms, wailing and moaning, as if he was beaten to death.
The master who followed Lu Yixuan next to him saw that Lu Yixuan was almost angry and asked carefully: "Master, now is not the time to get angry. Why should we deal with the Zheng family? I heard that Zheng Sen and his family secretly left the city the night before yesterday. Now he is probably already commanding in the water thief camp!"
Lu Yixuan cursed: "You guy! You bully people too much!"
It was obvious that the Lu family bullied people first, but the Zheng family had no choice but to fight back. Lu Yixuan is now full of the victim's way of thinking.
Chapter completed!