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Chapter 357 Fuzhou

When the little boss saw his boss coming out, he said he didn't dare and quickly handed over the money to the officer.

The officer looked at Wang Xian and asked, "Where did you come from?"

"Back to Jun Ye, we are from Leizhou and we are selling some salt and snow sugar to Fuzhou!"

"Why don't you walk on the sea?"

"June, you don't understand this anymore. We transported salt and snow sugar. After passing by the sea, the water will be over!"

The officer looked at the team and saw that it was nothing special. Wang Xian said it was right. After all, there were five or six caravans here every day, and they were almost the same.

Seeing the officer's letter, Wang Xian quickly took out a hundred taels of silver notes and said, "This general, these are a little bit of a joke. I'll make friends when I meet for the first time!"

The officer didn't recognize the words, but he still recognized the hundred on the silver note. When he saw Wang Xian's move was generous, he smiled and said, "You rabbit can speak, okay, you go over!"

Wang Xian quickly called his subordinates to load the goods and then left the sentry gate. After passing the sentry gate, he entered the Qing Dynasty's controlled area. This place was completely different from that in Guangdong. Some small villages were completely deserted and ruins were everywhere. People in the village didn't know whether they had run away or were killed. Only some county towns were angry.

The first county town in Fujian was Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou Prefecture. It was extremely ruined. The city wall broke a gap and the north city gate collapsed. It was probably the Qing army's siege.

Wang Xian did not bring anyone into Zhao'an County. He was not from Fujian to do business, so he had important things to go to Fuzhou, so he quickly rushed through Zhao'an County.

After passing Zhao'an County, we arrived at Zhangzhou Prefecture, which was quite popular. Wang Xian dealt with the goods he brought here at a low price, then bought more than a dozen horses, and left Zhangzhou to head north.

Originally, I should have gone to Quanzhou to go to Quanzhou, but Anping in Quanzhou was the base camp of the Zheng family. Although Zheng Zhilong surrendered, his son was still entrenched in Kinmen. The Ming army on the island often went ashore to attack the Qing army with the strength of the navy, so Quanzhou became a battlefield. To go to Fuzhou, you have to go north to Yanping Prefecture, and then go to Fuzhou in Shunminjiang.

Wang Xian was all soldiers, and even Tong Tuchang was not a thin scholar, so Wang Xian was going to avoid the Qing Dynasty's sentry and strive to arrive in Fuzhou as soon as possible.

Half of the people Wang Xian led were military soldiers, and the others were former veterans of the Jinyiwei case handling case. They had a lot of experience in the field. After leaving Zhangzhou, they hid in the morning and walked at night, and finally arrived in Fuzhou on June 11th.

Fuzhou is still prosperous, and it depends on Zheng Zhilong's blessing. After his surrender, the Qing army easily crossed Xianxia Pass on the Fujian-Zhejiang border and occupied Fuzhou without bloodshed. The people of Fuzhou did not suffer any harm.

However, after the Qing army retreated and handed over the actual control of Fujian to Li Chengdong, the people of Fuzhou were in trouble. Most of Li Chengdong's 80,000 troops were Gao Jie's subordinates, all from bandits. These guys came to Fuzhou naturally robbed them. They waited until Tong Guonai, the governor of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, took office, and Li Chengdong was restrained. Tong Guonai's arrival was not known to be a blessing for the people.

The first thing Tong Guonai did when he took office was to drive away all the residents of Fuzhou North City and hand over the houses of a large number of wealthy families to the newly-garrisoned Eight Banners. The second thing was to reduce the rights in Li Chengdong's hands. Li Chengdong now does not have the achievements of pacifying Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi like later generations, and he did not have any nonsense in front of Tong Guonai. He obediently handed over the city defense of Fuzhou and moved his army outside Fuzhou City.

Wang Xian and his men did not enter the city, but came to Houguan Town, twenty miles away from Fuzhou, where the Jinyiwei hidden point arrived in advance.

When he arrived at a farm outside Houguan Town, Wang Xian saw that there were no people around him and went forward to knock on the village door.

Fuzhou was just occupied by the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty followed the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial power did not fall into counties, which means there was basically no control over the countryside, so Houguan Town was safe. This was simply impossible in Guangdong. Zhu Hongsan controlled the townships and towns completely copied the Baojia system of the Qin Dynasty, and composed eight to ten households into one Baojia, and three to five Baojia were a pavilion chief. The pavilion chief also served as the inspector of the local inspection department. This was a formal civil servant of the court, with a monthly salary of three taels. Every Baojia found that a suspicious person came to the village and had to report to the pavilion chief immediately. If the male student in the Baojia was not reported or reported late, the degree of punishment would be punished according to the loss. He would whip three whips lightly, and all the people would be enslaved to conquer the house. Therefore, strangers could not be caught in the rural areas of Guangdong. Everyone had a household registration and every household would have a Baojia.

Zhu Hongsan did this for a reason. One controls the vast rural areas and the second is to limit the population movement. Because the factory business in Dongguan is very prosperous now and the workers' wages are still high, local farmers are attracted to work in Dongguan, causing a lot of wasteland in the countryside. Now the world is in chaos, and food is strength. How could Zhu Hongsan tolerate the emergence of wasteland? So he formulated this policy.

The person in the farm heard someone knocking on the door and asked, "Who?"

"Friends from Guangdong, look for your Master Hou!"

"Mr. Li is going to Guangdong!"

"The horse from Mr. Zhang's family gave birth to a foal!"

These few words are not in line with the culture of the latter being the incision agreed by the Jinyiwei. When the person in the door heard the correct answer, he opened the door and looked at it. It was Wang Xian, who stepped forward and said, "You are here, come in quickly!"

Wang Xianren and others entered the farm. Someone took away horses to feed them and invited the people to rest and drink water. Wang Xian and Tong Tuchang followed the people who opened the door to the lobby of the backyard.

There were three people sitting in the hall, in the middle was a middle-aged man in his thirties, and two young men in his twenties sat on both sides. When the three people saw Wang Xian enter the house, they quickly stood up and bowed and said, "Mr. Wang is here, please sit!"

Wang Xian nodded and sat in the first seat. Tong Tuchang sat down, and the other three sat down separately.

Wang Xian said to Tong Tuchang: "Mr. Tong, these three people are from the Jinyiwei. The first one is Hou Zhen, the Qianhu, the Qianhu, the Qianhu, the Qianhu, the Qianhu, the Qianhu, was tested by the Qianhu in Fuzhou. Those two young people are my Baihu, one is Xue Yue and the other is Ding Wei!"

Tong Tuchang quickly stood up to greet him, and the three of them also stood up to return the greeting.

Wang Xian continued: "This is Lord Tong from Guangzhou. He is responsible for contacting Li Chengdong and persuaded Li Chengdong to surrender!"

Hou Zhen and the other two changed their faces. The order they received was to rescue Princess Yuyang. This order was difficult enough, but there was still hope to achieve it. However, unexpectedly, the order brought by Wang Xian changed and became persuading Li Chengdong to surrender. This was completely impossible.

Hou Zhen, a teacher, asked: "Mr. Tong, this order is impossible to complete. Not to mention that Li Chengdong is very clever, he cannot surrender even if he does something in Guangzhou!"

Tong Tuchang also knew that the task was difficult, but he could not say it in front of these people if he had difficulties. After all, Tong Tuchang is now a civil servant and he was born with dislike these Jinyiwei.

"We have to do it even if it is impossible to complete. This is the order of His Majesty the Emperor!"

When Hou Zhen and the other three heard that this was the emperor's order, they kept silent.

Wang Xian looked at it and said, "Okay, no matter what difficulties we have, we must complete the emperor's orders, otherwise do you remember the family rules of the Jinyiwei?"

When Hou Zhen and the other two heard Wang Xian say this, they remembered the methods of punishing traitors within the Jinyiwei. They couldn't help but sweat coldly. They stood up and expressed their determination to complete the task resolutely and not embarrass the commander!

Seeing his subordinates being suppressed, Wang Xian said to Tong Tuchang: "Sir Tong, the commander orders us to listen to you. Tell me what we should do!"

Tong Tuchang was thinking about what to do on the way here. At this time, he heard Wang Xian ask, but he didn't pretend to behave and said: "Our primary task is to find out the situation in Fuzhou City, the relationship between Li Chengdong and the governor of the Qing Dynasty, and the residence of Li Chengdong and his son Li Yuanyin!"

Hou Zhen, a Fujian-based cannon, said: "I know this. I have been here in Fuzhou for many years. Li Chengdong originally occupied a mansion in the North City, but as the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty entered Fuzhou, building a city in the North City, Li Chengdong went to the North City at the beginning of the year. Now he and his son Li Yuanyin live in the East City! As for the relationship with the governor, think about it, you originally lived well, and a group of people drove you away. You can't resist, can you feel better?"

Tong Tuchang nodded and said, "Please order Mr. Wang to let the brothers go to the city to collect information about Li Chengdong and Manchus. You need everything, even if Li Chengdong's subordinates compete with the Manchus and are jealous. Also, please ask Lord Hou to arrange for me to enter the Li Mansion. I want to meet Princess Yuyang!"

After hearing this, Wang Xian immediately ordered Xue Yue and Ding Wei to take a few people to the city to inquire about the news tomorrow and ordered Hou Zhen to arrange contact with Princess Yuyang.

When Tong Tuchang saw that his request was met, he also knew that these Jinyiwei had something to say. He stood up and said that he was exhausted from the road. He went down to rest first and left room for Wang Xian and the others.

Seeing Tong Tuchang go out to rest, Xue Yue stood up and said, "Brother, is it really the emperor's order to talk to Li Chengdong?"

Wang Xianlilied his eyes and cursed: "Xue Yue, what did I say just now? Don't question the emperor's orders!"

Xue Yue was so scared that she was sweating all over and quickly bowed and said, "Brother, I'm abrupt!"

Wang Xian looked at Xue Yue and Ding Wei. After all, these two were their own brothers and could not be too cruel to them.

"Three, I know this task is a bit difficult, but the commander also understands everyone. Our main task is to rescue Princess Yuyang. As for the persuasion of Li Chengdong and Tong Tuchang to do it, everyone will have their contributions. If it fails, we will have nothing to do, do you know!"

Hearing Wang Xian say this, the three of them smiled. After all, there is still some hope to rescue Princess Yuyang, and it is impossible to persuade Li Chengdong to surrender.

After reassuring the three of them, Wang Xian said, "Don't think it's simple to rescue the princess. Although we have many people, fighting alone is OK. Fighting hard with the army is not OK. Tomorrow you will take people to the city to find out the news. You must find out all the news from Li Chengdong's mansion. Even if he goes to the toilet a few times a day, do you understand?"
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