Dashun Yongchang

Gao Xiaozan stood up again and said: "The officials of the Statistics Department searched the Xiaoqinhuai River very thoroughly, but after I inquired before I came here, I found that Yangzhou City loses at least dozens to hundreds of children every year. The number of orphans sold is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of children in China.

If the Statistics Department finds orphans and stops, what about other lost children?Therefore, I hope that the Marshal's Mansion will preside over a large-scale search of the whole city.Catch all those kidnappers and human traffickers, so that everyone can feel at ease. "

After thinking for a while, Li Zicheng said: "What He Zeng said is good. After all, our army is outsiders. If we ask our army to find these kidnappers and human traffickers, it may be difficult to distinguish them from ordinary people. You need to find and report the target yourself, and our army can only help you arrest the target person and interrogate them. Can the council preside over the city-wide search?"

The councilors were all looking left and right, and no one dared to stand up and answer Li Zicheng's question. This kind of presiding over a city-wide search would definitely offend people. They really didn't want to offend people, and the leading figures among the councilors happened to be absent. So no one is willing to come out and call the shots.

Seeing the cowardly look of these councilors, the citizens present were immediately disappointed. Several scholars suggested to Li Zicheng again: "The council seems incapable of presiding over the search, and please Your Majesty to make the decision."

Seeing this, Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and then said: "In this case, I can send someone to host, but in order to avoid misunderstandings between the army and the people, I also need some liaison persons to communicate between the army and the residents.

In this way, you elect 25 representatives yourself, and then the council selects 25 councilors to divide the city into 25 districts.I will send 25 troops to you, and you will gather volunteers yourself, and then conduct a thorough investigation by district.

All suspicious persons are escorted to the barracks outside the west gate for interrogation. In order to prevent those kidnappers from wandering around, I propose to implement a curfew for three to five days starting today, and then lift the curfew until the search is completed. Do you have any comments? "

Before a few congressmen spoke, thousands of citizens behind them applauded enthusiastically. It was obvious that Li Zicheng's proposal had been approved by the citizens.

Li Zicheng nodded slightly to the crowd outside the door, then stretched out his hand and pressed it in the air to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "In order to prevent people from releasing criminals privately or indulging criminals, I will send reporters from Dashun Times to follow and report on everything. case, and promptly announce the case in the newspaper. In addition, I will select some of you to serve as jurors to participate in the trial of those criminals. Whether they are guilty or not, you have the final say..."

Li Zicheng's proposal once again won the cheers of the citizens. At this time, their anger finally dissipated a lot, and they turned to sincerely shouting long live to Li Zicheng.At this moment, these citizens simply abandoned the local gentry they had supported and expected in the past.

Li Zicheng instructed Li Laiheng to select those reliable young men from the guards to carry out the task of searching the whole city. At this time, only one-third of the guards around Li Zicheng were old subordinates, and the remaining two-thirds were soldiers. It was young people, these young people were either from the Haier Army, or from the protons of the generals who surrendered to the Ming Army. For example, Li Chengdong's three adopted sons: Li Yuanyin, Li Jianjie, and Zhang Yue all joined Li Zicheng's guards.

Watching the citizens come down the mountain surrounded by the congressmen again, Gao Doushu, who was standing next to Li Zicheng, finally couldn't help asking him, "Aren't you afraid of chaos in the city when His Majesty entrusts the power to these people? Such a thing It should be handed over to the government, and the government can only establish the coercion of the law and make the people respect the law after adjudicating such a case."

Li Zicheng smiled lightly and said: "Didn't the government know about such a case in the past? Without the protection of some people in the government, how could those kidnappers dare to abduct children from wealthy families in the city so boldly? They sold them in the city ?

Mr. Gao can't understand. Although it seems that there is no difference between the children in the city and the countryside, the children from poor families are yellow and thin and can't be sold at a good price. Only those families with some savings can have healthy and intelligent children. Yes, because there is no deficiency in nature or nurture.

But for such a family, children are very precious, and it is impossible for them to sell their children.Therefore, only children from such families need to be abducted.Take the case to the government?I think it's just a few flies at most, and those behind the scenes can't be found out. After a few years, everything in Yangzhou City will go back to business as usual. "

Gao Doushu glanced at Li Zicheng in surprise. Although he came to Yangzhou, he didn't come to defect to the other party, but came because he hoped to see the prince.In his mind, the thieves are nothing more than a group of fools and lunatics who don't know the righteousness. If the peasants rebel and can become the emperor, the world will be messed up. Who will farm the land honestly in the future?What the sage said, the sky does not change and the way does not change, this sentence is wrong.

Looking at the blue sky dotted with white clouds outside the door, Li Zicheng couldn't help but said leisurely: "The sky listens to the people, and the sky sees to the people. I think: the sky is man, and man is the sky. Therefore, the power of the people is entrusted to the people. The people, what will happen? The people are not three-year-old children, who don’t know how to keep warm or hunger. It’s the high-ranking adults who have always disturbed the world, so what does it have to do with the people?”

Gao Doushu froze for a moment, only to realize that he seemed to have been taught a lesson by Li Zicheng.As a Jinshi who has read the Four Books and Five Classics, he was educated by a peasant who had never studied, which made Gao Doushu quite at a loss.However, he thought about what Li Zicheng said, and finally bowed respectfully to the other party and said: "Your Majesty can say that people are like heaven, and the ministers are really ashamed."

Li Zicheng turned his head to look at him and said, "Cihong will arrive tomorrow, Mr. Gao can rest well today..."

"Tomorrow the Zigong of the prince and Emperor Daxing will arrive. How long are you going to delay? Is it possible that you want to let the prince respect Fufan in front of Emperor Daxing? The actions of such rebellious officials and thieves, a certain Don't do it."

In the small courtyard where the Southern Metropolis envoy lived, Ruan Dacheng unceremoniously lowered his face and persecuted Zhou Bi for the last time.Pang Tianshou, who was sitting beside him, just closed his eyes and rested his mind, as if he didn't dare to be interested in what happened outside. Zhou Biao's mind was completely blank, and he didn't know how to answer Ruan Dacheng's questioning.

Ruan Dacheng, who disappeared for a few days and came back, completely sided with the prince, which turned this negotiation into an infighting among several people in Nandu.Pang Tianshou, who was still scruples at the beginning, lost interest in speaking after hearing that Gao Jie's troops had surrendered, while Zhou Biao really didn't want to take any responsibility. Before he got the promise from the prince, how could he represent the Donglin Party unconditionally? Surrender to the prince?The crown prince might accept him, but those Donglin colleagues might regard him as a traitor.

According to the opinions of those Donglin colleagues in Nandu, the prince should first admit that they had no choice but to support Fu Fan's ascension to the throne, and secondly, the prince should go to Nandu first to discuss the matter of ascension.In this way, the Donglin Party members could not only wash away their previous political mistakes, but also free the prince from Li Zicheng's control, and the Donglin Party once again dominated the court.

But now Ruan Dacheng's behavior is completely unreasonable. As the hero of Fu Fan's strategy, how could he jump on the prince's boat so quickly?Doesn't this mean that Donglin is one step behind the eunuchs?Zhou Biao really didn't know what to do.

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Under Ruan Dacheng's constant pressure, looking at the silent Pang Tianshou, Zhou Biao, who felt alone and unable to support himself, couldn't help but shirk and said: "Ruan Yuanhai, if you can bear the responsibility, then you are the master, why bother here?" Word."

Ruan Dacheng was waiting for Zhou Biao to say these words. As a former member of the Donglin Party, he was well aware of Donglin's ills. Although these people are upright, even torture can't make them succumb, but these people They are a group of people who refuse to take responsibility.It is more difficult for them to make a decision than to let them die.

Why is this so?Because the Donglin Party started by finding faults for others, no matter what you do, there will always be faults for others, and only those who don’t do things have faults.Li Sancai, the general of Donglin, was full of vigor when picking on other people's faults, but when he did something in the local area, it was his turn to be attacked by political opponents.

Just as the Donglin party members attacked the eunuch party for extorting local mining taxes, the eunuch party also said that Li Sancai embezzled Huang Muxiu's own mansion in the Xiusan Palace. It is a bit too much to repair the garden with imperial wood. After all, there are only 22 imperial woods used in the three main halls.

In short, starting from the Tianqi Dynasty, under the influence of party struggles, no one among the political factions in the DPRK is willing to do things, because doing things is to give people an excuse, and if you don’t do things, you can get promoted step by step.The members of the Donglin Party even regard this kind of political promotion of moral perfection as their own political philosophy. Even if the members of the party have a little moral flaw, they will be attacked by the group.This is also the root cause of Ruan Dacheng's inability to clear himself up.

After reaching an agreement with Li Zicheng, Ruan Dacheng gave up the idea of ​​fighting against the prince. Before that, he had to fight against the prince because their faction had no way out.The Donglin party members could also reach a reconciliation with the prince by tracing back the origin of supporting Emperor Taichang, and they could also communicate with the prince through Chen Mingxia, but he and Ma Shiying, the Dingce faction who recommended King Fu, could not find a way to reach a reconciliation with the prince.

Until Ruan Dacheng got in touch with Li Zicheng and realized that Li Zicheng didn't care so much about who was the emperor of Ming Dynasty, but only cared about whether the materials in the south of the Yangtze River could be supplied to him, Ruan Dacheng immediately changed his position and took refuge in Dashun.

With Li Zicheng's support, Ruan Dacheng naturally wouldn't worry that he couldn't bear the responsibility, especially after the four towns in Jiangbei surrendered to the Marshal's Mansion, he didn't care much about the Donglin Party members and Fushe personnel in Jiangnan.In his opinion, he has found a new way out for those heroes of the King of Fortune, which is to get closer to Li Zicheng, and then use the power of Dashun to suppress those Jiangnan gentry leaders. Even if these people turn to the prince, there is nothing to worry about.

Hearing what Zhou Biao said, Ruan Dacheng immediately said in a big way: "Since Zhou Langzhong said so, I dare not back down, so I will take responsibility for today's matter. I don't know what Eunuch Pang thinks?"

Pang Tianshou glanced at Ruan Dacheng, then at Zhou Biao, and said without hesitation: "The miscellaneous family is the emperor's servant, how dare you criticize the emperor's family affairs. You are the representatives of foreign court ministers, you can do whatever you want. "

Ruan Dacheng immediately laughed and said, "Okay, then I'll let someone invite Lu Fan and the others to come, everyone settle the matter, and then prepare to welcome Emperor Daxing and the crown prince tomorrow."

Zhou Bi looked at the triumphant Ruan Dacheng, his heart was at a loss, and he didn't know if he did something wrong.But after Pang Tianshou also expressed his opinion, he did not dare to speak back after all.

When Zhu Yihai was invited back, it was already dark, and he was very dissatisfied with this and said: "These rebellious officials and thieves are doing nothing. They didn't know the whereabouts of the crown prince and other princes before. It's barely enough to support Fufan." The reason. Knowing that the crown prince is still alive, they still want to continue to support Fufan as the country. These people dare to call themselves loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty..."

Regarding King Lu's complaints, Zhou Zhong and Chen Mingxia could only pretend that they didn't hear them. Although they were on the prince's side, there are still a lot of relatives and friends who support Fufan at the moment. Treat him as a traitor, otherwise who would support the prince after crossing the river?

In Li Sicheng's heart, he could only disapprove. During the negotiations these days, he could see that everyone was fooling others.They didn't have much loyalty to the prince at all. What they considered was the changes in their own interests after the emperor's replacement.

For example, King Lu was so active because Fufan's ascension to the throne was of no benefit to him. On the contrary, if the crown prince ascended the throne, he would now be a hero who made decisions on the side of the crown prince.As for the others, their ideas are similar. They support or not support the crown prince, and what they consider is the impact of the crown prince's enthronement on themselves, rather than the benefits of the crown prince's enthronement to Daming.

After seeing the faces of these upper-class people, Li Sicheng suddenly felt that although the generals of the Peasant Army were a little rough, they were straightforward anyway, and their actions were far more sincere than these upper-class people.If this Daming continues like this, it can be seen that it is really hopeless, and there is no need to save it.

Representatives with different thoughts gathered together again. Although it was completely dark outside, the room was still as bright as daylight with the dozen or so candles lit in the hall.This time the negotiation was much smoother, only Ruan Dacheng spoke on the Nandu side, Chen Mingxia and Li Sicheng mainly spoke on the Prince's side, and almost everyone else remained silent.

With less interference from different opinions, the two sides quickly reached a basic agreement.Nandu agrees that Emperor Hongguang abdicates, and the crown prince agrees that Fufan will continue to supervise the country; Nandu agrees that the crown prince Zhu Cihong is the heir to the throne, followed by King Ding and Yongwang. The crown prince recognizes that the current court in Nandu is legal...

When these issues that had already been agreed upon were reached, the negotiations left three main issues: When will the crown prince ascend the throne?When will the prince be in charge?Who will protect the prince's safety?

Chen Mingxia and Zhou Zhong believed that when Emperor Hongguang abdicated, the prince would be able to ascend the throne, and the prince should naturally be in charge after becoming emperor, and the prince's safety would be protected by the current prince's guards.

Ruan Dacheng believed that the prince's ascension to the throne should be a grand event, so the prince should ascend the throne after arriving in Nanjing, instead of ascending the throne outside Nanjing.As for whether the prince will be in charge immediately after he ascends the throne, it should also be left to the vassal of Jianguo and the cabinet ministers to decide, which is not something they can decide.As for the safety of the crown prince, he also hoped to select children from good families in Nanjing to enrich the crown prince's guards.

In short, the representatives sent by the prince hoped to take over the power of the Nanjing court immediately, but Ruan Dacheng hoped that there would be a buffer period for the transfer of power.On these issues, even Zhou Biao, who was not in the same position as Ruan Dacheng, tactfully expressed his support. Obviously, the princelings' eager desire for power had already damaged the interests of the Jiangnan gentry.

Seeing that the negotiation was about to reach a stalemate again, Li Sicheng proposed to everyone: "Then first exclude these three issues, and wait until the crown prince arrives in Yangzhou, and leave it to the crown prince and His Majesty to decide. As for other issues, we can first Initially sign the agreement. If the entire negotiation breaks down because of a few issues, then the Marshal's Mansion will not bear such responsibility, you can figure it out yourself."

Li Sicheng's threat finally made the negotiators calm down. After discussing for nearly half an hour, they finally agreed with Li Sicheng's suggestion, excluding the three issues that could not reach an agreement, and signing other agreements first.

When Li Sicheng picked up the still ink-stained agreement to examine carefully, Yangzhou city also ushered in the first sleepless night.The curfew is really a very new thing for Yangzhou city.Before the Chongzhen Dynasty, Yangzhou people didn't even know what a curfew was. After all, after the Renxuan, these economically developed cities in the south no longer have a ban on going to the streets at night.

In those days when Gao Jiebing besieged Yangzhou, the citizens of Yangzhou imposed a curfew for several nights in order to protect themselves, but the curfew was not strict, but you were not allowed to run around the city at night, and it was still possible to walk around the neighborhood in front of your house.

But on the night of October 1644th of the lunar calendar in 25, Yangzhou City ushered in the first curfew controlled by the army.The whole city is divided into [-] blocks of different sizes, and no one is allowed to go out except soldiers and volunteers wearing flags.This kind of strict control measures immediately plunged this city rich in nightlife into a deserted state.

Although many citizens feel bored, they are used to going out to play at night, and they are very impatient with the current state of confinement.However, for many women in families, they are very satisfied with the situation where their husbands are locked at home and cannot go out.

For others, however, the night was a bit of a trepidation.For example, the family of Ma Sili in the official house of Jiangdu County, four brothers, father and son, stayed at home and could not go out. They stayed in a small room to discuss countermeasures like ants in a hot pot.

The second child kept asking his father and elder brother: "There are at least seven or eight brothels in Xiaoqinhuai who contacted me, and now they have all been arrested by the Marshal's Mansion. What if they find me?" manage?"

The eldest Ma Sili sat next to his father and smoked a pipe without saying a word, while the youngest beside him said sarcasticly, "What is little Qinhuai's side? The real trouble is Qin Huazi's side, as I said earlier, What is there to associate with a beggar leader? This kind of person has the most vicious heart. He has so many beggars with missing arms and legs. Are they really born with deficiencies? If Qin Huazi is found, our family's life will definitely be ruined by him. "

The second child even wiped the sweat from his head with a guilty face, and said to the boss: "Boss, why can't you break up with Qin Huazi? At least say something."

Ma Sili took out the pipe from his mouth, looked at his father and the two brothers, and then said in a low voice: "The daughter of Li Feng in the ceremony room was photographed by Qin Huazi."

Before the two brothers could understand, the gray-haired old father looked at him with wide eyes and said, "You ordered it?"

Ma Sili said with a dull expression: "I just said that when I was drunk, but Li Feng's daughter disappeared the next day. It happened to be Qiuzheng at that time. The adults didn't like it, so I was allowed to be in the position. In the end, Qin Huazi came to show my merits to me, and the matter was irreversible..."

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Li Wei, whom Ma Sili was talking about, was also troubled at the moment, because his wife, Mrs. Chen, had started to make trouble again.Since the disappearance of his seven-year-old second daughter two years ago, his wife has been suspicious. She always felt that someone outside was trying to harm her. She questioned the people who came to the door thoroughly, which made some of his colleagues in the county government dare not come to the door.

However, Li Yan could only coax his wife and dared not provoke her too much, because he himself felt that his enemy should have done this, otherwise he would not have done it so cleanly that even he, a member of the yamen, would not be able to find him A little wind.During that time, he had inquired about all the well-known kidnappers and human traffickers in Yangzhou City, but in the end he found nothing. This was obviously something that enemies could do.

In order to find out the whereabouts of her daughter, the wife almost went insane, even with him at the time, she couldn't even take care of business, and was almost punished by the county lord.Although the master later found out about the accident at his home, he was lenient to him, but he was also transferred to the ceremony room as an idler, and let him, a popular man in the county government, stand aside.

However, Li Wei, who was originally competitive, became calm after losing his daughter. He felt that this was his own retribution, so he didn't feel bad about sitting on the bench.It's just that whenever his wife starts to get angry, he only feels heartache.

When the moon climbed to the mid-heaven, Mrs. Chen finally regained some sense, stopped crying and sat up from the bed. Li Yan, who was sitting by the window, immediately got up and asked her, "Do you want to eat something?" Something? I asked Huang Ma to simmer a pot of porridge on the charcoal stove, it should still be hot, I'll bring it to you."

Chen just looked at him and asked: "Today the Marshal's Mansion is searching the Little Qinhuai River, have you gone to see it?"

After a few seconds of silence, Li Wei said: "I asked Brother Peng to inquire. If there is any news, he will come and tell me."

Mrs. Chen asked in a daze: "Why don't you go and find out by yourself? Can someone else find out about A Ruan's whereabouts? Have you forgotten about A Ruan?"

Li Yan: "If you don't want to eat, go to bed early, I will go to the study next door to rest."

When Li Yan walked to the door, Chen said quietly behind him: "Ah Ruan, even your father has forgotten you, only A Niang will not forget you, A Niang will definitely find you..."

Li Wei stood at the door and paused for a moment. After all, he opened the door and walked out without saying anything.In fact, there was something he didn't want to say out loud, because he didn't dare to inquire about the news himself because he was afraid.

In the dark room, Li Yan was lying on the small bed with his clothes on. He didn't know when he fell asleep. When he was awakened by a knock on the door, he realized that it was dawn.Hearing the sound of Huang Ma yelling to open the door, Li Wei also got up and straightened his clothes, wanting to see who would knock on the door at this time.

When he walked to the main room in front, he happened to see Peng Laowu walking in with two soldiers.Li Wei’s house is a typical Jiangnan dwelling. There is a courtyard in the front hall of the backyard, and there is a patio between the hall and the main entrance. The land in Yangzhou is precious, and there are no small courtyards.However, there is a sweet water well in the courtyard of Li Wei's house, which is already surpassed by ordinary people.

When he saw Peng Lao Wu, Li Wei's feet actually felt a little soft, but he still forced himself to ask calmly: "Old Wu, what's the matter with bringing the two military masters here so early?"

Peng Laowu's eyes were bloodshot, obviously he stayed up late last night, he glanced at Li Yan, lowered his head and said, "Brother Li, calm down, I brought them here just to ask, they may not be nieces..."

Li Yan's heart was suddenly empty, he reached out and grabbed the door frame, interrupted the nagging Peng Laowu, and lowered his voice: "What's the matter, your sister-in-law hasn't woken up yet?"

Peng Laowu immediately shut his mouth and looked at the soldiers beside him. He saw a 25-year-old young soldier standing up. He gave Li Yan a pitiful look, then took out a white sweat towel from his pocket, and opened the sweat towel. A cotton handkerchief embroidered with flowers was exposed behind the towel, and he held it up and asked Li Wei, "That's right, we got this cotton handkerchief during the interrogation yesterday, do you know this handkerchief?"

The sun slanted down from the sky above the patio and hit the handkerchief in the soldier's hand. Li Wei felt his mind was blurred and completely lost his ability to distinguish.The soldier held it up for a while, seeing Li Yan's probe but being speechless, he couldn't help saying: "You can come over and hold it in your hand to watch, instead of standing there to watch..."

Li Yan nodded nervously to the soldier, as if he was walking to the edge of the patio. At this time, someone ran out from behind him, and then rushed to the soldier, grabbed the handkerchief, looked at it carefully, and turned it over again. I went over to look at it, and then nervously grabbed the soldier's hand and asked, "It belongs to my family, it's my family's Ruan's handkerchief, on which I embroidered her name and this flower..."

The soldier was startled at first, and wanted to break the hand of the woman with disheveled hair. At this time, Li Wei hurried over and said, "This is my wife. She has a heart attack after losing her daughter."

Only then did the soldier relax, and cautiously said to Li Yan: "That's right, this handkerchief was given to us by a trafficked girl. She told us that she was locked up in a place when she was kidnapped. There are many children abducted like her, and one of them secretly gave her this handkerchief, giving her the opportunity to give it to Li Dianli's house on Lanyuan Street, saying that her father would take them together. rescued."

Chen suddenly woke up and asked the soldier, "Yes, this is Li Dianli's house. Where is my daughter? Where is the child who met my daughter? Take me to meet her..."

Li Yan finally came back to his senses, hugged his wife tightly and comforted him: "I will take care of the rest with the military master. You can rest at home. Huang Ma, you help her go in and rest."

After a lot of tossing, Mrs. Chen finally believed her husband and followed Mrs. Chen into the inner room.After making sure his wife had entered the inner room, Li Yan stood in front of the soldier and asked in a low voice, "When did my daughter give her the handkerchief?"

Seeing that Li Yan grasped the key point of the question, the soldier gave him a glance of admiration, and said just now, "It was last summer."

Hearing this answer, Li Yan knew that his daughter was in danger. He took a deep breath, and asked in hope, "Then, did my daughter say where she is?"

The soldier said with some regret: "The girl who was rescued was not from the city, and she didn't know the place where she was held. We asked other people, and we couldn't find anyone who met your daughter, so we didn't find the place where she was held. The only thing we can confirm now are two clues, that place seems to be next to the winery, and the girl heard someone call Qin Huazi..."

Li Yan subconsciously looked up at the soldier and asked, "You said she heard someone calling Qin Huazi?"

The soldier replied subconsciously: "Yes, do you know who Qin Huazi is?"

Li Yan gritted his teeth and said, "By Qin Huazi from the distillery, I know one, so I'll go to the county government to recruit people..."

But the soldier interrupted him and said, "That's not necessary. You just need to tell us the location, and we can send people over here. Tell me where that Qin Huazi lives..."

An hour later, Li Wei led the officers of the Shun Army and Yi Yong to surround the Qin's distillery. Because of the high price of rice, the distillery did not start work, but there were still more than [-] servants living in the distillery. Some people tried to resist when they rushed in, but what they encountered this time was not an ordinary government servant but an army. Therefore, after being stabbed to death with a long spear by volunteers, the rest dropped their weapons and surrendered.

With a team of skilled officials like Li Wei leading the search, they quickly found out the secret passage of the winery, and walked into a small courtyard surrounded by four walls through the secret passage. Immediately, everyone became angry because of the secret hidden here. It is a group of children who were cut off by Caisheng.

Some officials couldn't help but said: "Anyone who harvests life and cuts off people will be executed in a hurry, and the property will be cut off to the family of the deceased. Although the wife, son and cohabiting family members don't know about it, they will be resettled for two thousand miles. Beheaded for the servants. No wonder Just now those people outside saw the officers and soldiers and wanted to resist, and they would die if they were caught."

Li Yan's face was very ugly, because he did not find his daughter among these children, which made him relieved but even more angry.The nearby neighbors learned that there was a hiding place for harvesting and harvesting, and they all came to thank Shun Jun who sent troops, and reported to Shun Jun that Qin Huazi had gone out early in the morning, saying that he was going to discuss a big business.

After interrogating Qin Huazi's accomplices with torture, Li Wei, with blood on his hands, walked up to the Shunjun officer who led the team and said: "Master Li, the question has come out, the person who has been taking care of them is the horse from Jiangdu County's official house." Secretary."

Li Rong glanced at the blood on his body, then asked calmly: "Then go to the county government."

Li Wei thought for a while and said: "I know that Ma Sili has several houses and shops outside. If Qin Huazi goes to find Ma Sili, he will definitely meet outside the county government office. I would like to ask Mr. Li to give me a hand. Teams to search these places."

Li Rong thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Forget it, since things like harvesting and cutting have happened, this is a big case. I have 50 people with you. I hope you can catch Qin Huazi as soon as possible. As for the county government Over there, I can go there..."

Watching Li Yan lead the people away, Li Rong thought about it and sent someone to deliver a message to Li Laiheng.Li Laiheng, who was checking last night's search with He Duiji, Ma Zhifu, and Jiangdu County at the magistrate's yamen, heard the news, and immediately yelled at the officials of Yangzhou City: "This is the Yangzhou City you manage? It's so vicious. You guys have been operating in the city for so long, and you don’t know anything about it, you’re just a bunch of idiots.”

Ma Minglu, Tang Laihe and other Yangzhou officials were reprimanded by Li Laiheng. Not only did they not feel angry, but they all showed expressions of disbelief. Some people couldn't help asking: "Could it be a mistake? How could there be a Such a villain?"

Li Laiheng replied viciously: "Except for the culprit who was not caught, everyone else was caught. Can those children still cheat? Also, there are people in Jiangdu County who are in contact with these villains. I must report this case to Your Majesty." report…"

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Zhu Cihong and his elder sister, Princess Kunxing boarded the wharf of Baohu Lake. Zhu Yihai, King of Lu, Chen Mingxia, Zhou Zhong, and Huang Jiarui, the scholars of Wenhua Palace, led a group of officials and representatives of the gentry to visit him immediately.

Along the way, Zhu Cihong had ceremonial conversations with officials and gentry from all over the place, and he became proficient at this time, and he was no longer the proud son of heaven who was at a loss when he left the palace half a year ago.

Emotionally, he is closer to Lu Wang Zhu Yihai, but in terms of etiquette, he pays more attention to Chen Mingxia, Zhou Zhong, and Huang Jiarui, because he has now begun to understand that although he is the largest in the palace, he is the largest outside the palace. After that, it was these officials who had the final say, and the emperor they recognized was the real emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The representatives of the Yangzhou officials and gentry who came to welcome the prince naturally did not know what the price was for the prince's maturity today. Seeing the prince who treated people in an orderly manner, they only felt that the orthodox heir to the throne seemed to be more reliable than Fufan .

After the scene was finished, Zhu Yihai said to Zhu Cihuang: "Your Majesty has ordered that everyone in the Wenhua Palace can temporarily stay in the Mingzhen Temple in the north of the city. As for His Highness, you can enter the Shouzhi Garden in the north of the city. Your Highness can settle down for a rest today, and wait until tomorrow." Then go to Daming Temple to pay respects."

Zhu Cihong glanced at the people in front of him, shook his head and said, "I can't help with the matter of settling the residence, so I won't make trouble. I haven't learned from His Majesty for a long time, so I should go to see His Majesty to listen to his teachings first." Yes. If you don’t have anything else to do, feel free, Mr. Chen, arrange the daily affairs of the gentlemen of the Cultural Hall for me, and let’s talk about other matters when I return from Daming Temple.”

Hearing the prince's reply, the officials and gentry on the pier didn't know what to say for a while, but King Lu quickly agreed: "Your Highness is right. If that's the case, Xiao Fan will accompany His Highness up the mountain together. It happens that Xiao Fan also has The matter is ready to be reported to His Majesty."

At this time, suddenly a person jumped out from the crowd, knelt down in front of the prince and began to cry bitterly.Zhu Cihong shrank back subconsciously, avoiding the other party's attempt to hug her calf.