Cyber Daming

"On the first day of June in the twelfth year of Jiaqi, Zhang Fengyue, the chief minister of the cabinet, announced at the court meeting that under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, and with the concerted efforts and efforts of officials at all levels of the imperial court, the 'Jiaqi New Deal' has been implemented after half a year of trial implementation. The major criminal areas have been fully implemented and initial results have been achieved. Zhang Shoufu said that the implementation of this new policy will not only effectively improve the difficult and backward living standards in the criminal areas, but also bring a large number of young and strong laborers into the mainland to devote themselves to the construction of the empire. , will also promote the local economy to achieve a new round of vigorous development."

"The cabinet announced that it will continue to adhere to the new policy idea of ​​'under the sky, it is the king's land; to lead the land, it is the king's ministers', and formulate and promulgate a series of more targeted and universally beneficial policies. We will adopt government decrees and measures to speed up the process of 'localizing the criminal areas and making the guilty people transparent'."

"At the same time, this issue of Dibao also specifically interviews the Japanese district official representatives who have performed the most outstandingly in the initial success of the New Deal. They are Liu Dian, the propaganda envoy of Edo Castle in the Japanese district, and Yang Baize, the fellow magistrate of Inuyama Castle in the Japanese district. "

"Finally, Xu Haichao, the propaganda envoy of the Japanese District, who is also on the list of commendations from the Ministry of Personnel, said that he will continue to lead all officials in the Japanese District to implement various measures of the 'Jiaqi New Deal' and focus on the people's new thinking and life in the Japanese District. With the two new reforms, we strive to successfully transform the Japanese area into Yingzhou Prefecture before the arrival of New Year next year, and actively integrate into the jurisdiction of the Fujian Chief Envoy."

"The above is the entire content of this issue of Dibao."

The clear and sonorous male voice slowly stopped, and the last scene of the scene was fixed on the other party's unsmiling face with Chinese characters.

The desk screen hanging under the car roof emits a faint white light, shining on the center of Lu Yuzhang's frowning brows.

"It seems that Chief Zhang's new policy has successfully taken the first step."

Lu Yuzhang, who was leaning on the back seat, lowered his head and gently rubbed his eyebrows, murmuring to himself.

Although there is not a single word with a slightly tough tone in the entire Di Bao from beginning to end, it looks peaceful, as if the implementation of the New Deal is welcomed by the people in the criminal area.

However, as a member of the second-class Lu family in Confucianism, although Lu Yuzhang did not know the specific price paid by the New Donglin Party for this, he could already tell it from some casualty reports that he had access to and circulated within Confucianism. There was a strong smell of blood.

If someone were to reach out and pry open this cluster of flowers, they would probably be frightened and horrified by the dense bones buried underneath.

However, these are not things that Lu Yuzhang, a fourth-rank counselor in Fenghua Prefecture of Liaodong Province, should consider.

Right now, he has his own troubles to deal with.

"Master, the golden horse has arrived."

The groom in charge of driving spoke softly, interrupting Lu Yuzhang's contemplation.

Located on the edge of the northern district of Fenghua Prefecture, the 'Jinma Daizhao' is the most luxurious private club built in the entire Fenghua area. It has the functions of a wine shop, an inn, and a casino. At the same time, it is also the primary banquet place where all dignitaries with status in Fenghua Mansion are welcomed and sent.

There is no other reason, because the proprietor behind this guild hall is the prefect of Fenghua Prefecture.

The building in front of you is only five feet high. It is different from the gentle architectural style in the Jiangnan area of ​​the empire. Every plant and tree here is carefully designed by Mo Xu craftsmen. The whole body of the guild hall is made of huge masonry structure, with a crouching tiger on the wall in front of the door. Walking on the dragon, with mountains on its back and water on its back, the exterior wall upwards from the second floor is composed of glass curtain walls, and the wandering light interweaves into a golden horse with its head raised and its hooves raised, its neck neighing.

"Golden Horse is looking forward to the imperial edict in the next year, planning Wenyuan, and the spirit of Ling Yun has not diminished."

The cursive font of pen and dragon and snake emerges in the background of ink mountains and rivers, fully displaying the rough and bold water and soil customs of Liaodong.

Lu Yuzhang, who had been involved in Fenghua's officialdom for many years, was already a frequent visitor here. After getting off the car, he went straight to the wine shop on the second floor.

Different from those low-end nightclubs in Fenghua City, Jinma Daizhao's wine shop does not have those deafening absurd music, but plays Liaodong shengpipe music called "Northern Shifan".

There is no dance floor inside the wine shop for the crowd to dance wildly. Instead, there are extremely private boxes.

"Master Lu, please come with me."

As soon as Lu Yuzhang walked out of the sedan elevator door, a well-dressed maid greeted him politely and led him to a box located in the southwest corner.

"Yu Zhang is a little late, please forgive me. There are really too many trivial official duties recently. Many young and middle-aged people from the criminal area were assigned to Fenghua Mansion. It was not a big deal at first, but the prefect did not care about these things. People took it seriously and forcibly placed the resettlement task on me. I had to talk a lot these days, and then I reluctantly got the owners of those companies to accept them, so I came late.

Lu Yuzhang pushed the door open and tucked the messy hair behind his ears while smiling and explaining to the man and woman who were already waiting in the box.

Compared with Lu Yuzhang, who was covered in dust, this man and woman were even more wealthy and well-dressed.

A man with slightly gray temples and a round face with a kind expression, his name is Lu Quan, and he is the foreign affairs steward of the Lu family, the only first-class family in Liaodong.

Another woman with a beautiful appearance but a cold face is Xiu Yue, the personal maid of Lu Clan Master Lu Siyi. Although she was not given the surname Lu like Lu Quan, because of the unique meaning of the word "personal", she was qualified to sit next to Lu Quan at this moment.

"Mr. Lu, you are too polite. You are the biological brother of our Young Madam Lu family, that is, the brother-in-law of Young Master Siyi. According to the rules, you are also our master. As servants, we should wait as long as we want. Yes." Lu Quan said to Lu Yuzhang with a smile after he sat down.

Xiuyue, who was supposed to be closer to Lu Yuzhang, glanced at him coldly, then ignored him.

"Mr. Quan, I can't bear to say that. Looking at the entire Liaodong region, who doesn't know that you are the old man's right-hand man and a minister of the Lu family? Even the prefects of the cities in Liaodong will scream when they see you. Mr. Quan, I, Lu Yuzhang, am just a small official who has benefited from my in-laws. How dare I make a mistake in front of you? If you really treat me as a junior, just call me Yuzhang."

Lu Yuzhang said humbly, and the 'old man' he mentioned was none other than Lu Ning, the governor in charge of Liaodong and the head of the first-class Lu clan.

"Then I will boldly call you Master Yuzhang."

Lu Quan was quite pleased with Lu Yuzhang's compliment, and the Lu family never stopped showing "filial piety" to him during the holidays, so the resentment in his heart caused by waiting disappeared immediately.

"I wonder if Young Master Yuzhang has something extremely important this time. I can't explain it in Huangliang's dream of the Lu family, but he actually asked Young Master Siyi to send Xiuyue and me to Fenghua overnight?"

As Lu Quan spoke, he deliberately turned his head and glanced at Xiu Yue, who was sitting next to him.

You must know that although he and Xiuyue are both servants of the Lu family, they are loyal to different masters. Lu Quan is the confidant of the clan leader Lu Ning, while Xiu Yue is someone close to Lu Siyi.

Although Lu Ning and Lu Siyi have a father-son relationship, in today's Ming Empire, the blood relationship between father and son is no longer as close as it was in the pre-Zhong Ming Dynasty. If he wasn't worried about the family's decline due to heirs fighting for power, then Lu Ning could have had as many children as he wanted.

Lu Quan came to Fenghua to meet Lu Yuzhang today. It was Lu Siyi's arrangement relayed by Xiu Yue. The implicit meaning expressed in it is naturally that he does not want Lu Quan to know about the matter, but wants to help Lu Yuzhang solve the troubles he faces at the level of a servant.

On the way to Fenghua, Lu Quan didn't ask a single word from beginning to end, and didn't choose to speak until now.

This timing was also very appropriate. On the one hand, if the trouble Lu Yuzhang encountered was very difficult, he could refuse it in front of Lu Yuzhang to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings caused by too many words.

On the other hand, Xiuyue can also show his respect for Lu Siyi, so that the future head of the Lu clan will not feel that he is relying on his old age and selling off his old age, so he will not be dissatisfied.

"Don't worry, Mr. Quan, this matter has nothing to do with the young master. I asked you to come to Fenghua for the sake of the young lady. So if you can help, I will help, and if you can't, I will not make it difficult for you."

Xiuyue looked directly at Lu Yuzhang across from her and said in a cold tone: "Master Lu, what Master Siyi promised you has been accomplished. Next, you can talk to Mr. Quan yourself, and I will not participate."

After saying this, the woman stood up directly. When he was about to go out, he suddenly stopped and turned back to look at Lu Yuzhang coldly.

"Master Lu, Master Siyi asked me to give you a message. It is fate that we can become in-laws. I hope you will act more safely in the future and don't make it difficult for him, your brother-in-law, and don't make it difficult for your sister."

After Xiu Yue said that, she opened the door and left without caring about the ugly look on Lu Yuzhang's face behind her.

"Master Siyi is still too doting on these servants, so much so that they forget their own identity and are confused about their position."

Lu Quan smiled and reassured: "Young Master Yuzhang, please don't take it to heart. I will report to the master later and improve the training process of the Lu Family Property Pavilion, so that the concept of how to respect the master will be imprinted in the minds of these slaves." Be deeper."

"If Mr. Quan does this, then I will really hurt my sister-in-law."

Lu Yuzhang smiled bitterly and waved his hands: "I got into this kind of trouble this time, which made Master Siyi come out to help me clean up the mess. As a close friend of Master Siyi, Miss Xiuyue should be so angry. Mr. Quan, please Don’t blame him.”

Lu Quan squinted his eyes and asked slowly: "Then what kind of trouble is it that Master Yuzhang can't solve even for you? Do you need to find the old slave through Master Siyi?"

Lu Yuzhang sighed and said, "I wonder, Mr. Quan, if you know that the Lu family has a son named Lu Chengjiang?"

"I know, the former deputy Qianhu of the Japanese area."

Before the marriage between the Lu and Lu families, the Lu family had already sent people to investigate the details of the Lu family, so Lu Quan remembered some of the more important figures in the Lu family very clearly.

"I heard that the Lu family braved a lot of rumors within the Xindonglin Party and gritted their teeth and promised that Su Ce would take good care of all the family members of Jinyiwei from the Japanese area in Liaodong and the injured and retired veterans who returned home. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Qianhu. It is a pity that this young master Lu was not very lucky and died in the Japanese area in his prime."

"It's not that Lu Chengjiang is unlucky, he's seeking his own death and deserves to die!"

Lu Yuzhang's face was gloomy and he said in a ferocious voice: "How much contempt and insults did the Lu family secretly bear when they helped him sit in that position? In the end, this good-for-nothing was just a piece of mud that couldn't be held up to the wall, and he dared to stand under Su Ce's nose. Playing power tricks that cannot be put on the table. His own death is not a big deal, but it has made the Lu family notorious, and the early investment has been in vain, and there is no harvest from this new deal!"

"Although what Young Master Lu did is not advisable, he is already dead after all, so what else can be wrong?"

Mr. Quan looked at Lu Yuzhang in front of him, whose expression turned from anger to shame. His heart suddenly sank. He frowned and said, "Master Yuzhang, you don't want to tell me that something happened to the family members of the Jinyiwei?"

"I don't dare to deceive Mr. Quan, yes."

Lu Yuzhang faced Lu Quansen's cold gaze and moved his body forward on the chair until his buttocks sat on the edge of the chair. Then he said bravely: "After Lu Chengjiang became the Deputy Qianhu of the Japanese District, he took advantage of his position. , secretly embezzled a lot of the pension money of Jin Yiwei from Liaodong, as well as the living expenses of his family."

Lu Quan's voice was sarcastic: "This Young Master Lu really has a big appetite. How dare he eat the money earned by licking blood from someone else's knife? Or is it that the Lu family has declined to such an extent that he needs to do such dirty things?" To subsidize the family?”

"The Lu family only found out about the immoral things Lu Chengjiang did after his death. They had no knowledge before that. Don't worry, Mr. Quan." Lu Yuzhang said anxiously, slapping his chest.

When Lu Quan heard this, the gloom between his brows eased slightly, but he seemed to suddenly remember something. He fixed his eyes on Lu Yuzhang, who was smiling apologetically, and asked, "Isn't that right? If it's just greed for money, then how can the Lu family get it?" Once you know the truth, you can go back with double the subsidy. Now that the culprit has been eliminated, the Lu family shouldn't be so afraid of the surviving Japanese guards, right? Master Yuzhang, are you hiding something from this old slave?"

Lu Yuzhang swallowed his saliva and said in a difficult tone: "Although there is no connection between Huangliang Dreamland and the mainland in the Japanese area, and those Jinyi guards in the Japanese area cannot return to the mainland of the empire at will without the order of Beizhen Fusi, Lu Chengjiang in order to ensure that their family members can He kept his mouth shut and gave them all the seal of Confucianism. No distinction was made between men, women, old or young."

Wow

The tea bowl on the table suddenly overturned, and the tea poured down all over the floor, and a few drops even hit Lu Yuzhang's face.

Lu Quan took a deep breath, put the palm on the coffee table back to his knees, and asked calmly: ""As far as I know, Lu Chengjiang should be in Zonghengxian, how could he put his seal on others? "

"Someone from the Lu family can help him."

"who?"

"Already killed."

"Where are those branded Jinyiwei family members now?"

"It's all taken care of."

"Has it been dealt with? Well done! There is obviously still some room for improvement, but your Lu family really doesn't leave you any way out." Lu Quan gritted his teeth and said angrily: "So you asked Siyi today The young master came forward because he was afraid that the fleeing solo Wu Xu would be brought to the door if the matter was exposed, so he wanted to ask for help?"

"This matter is indeed something the Lu family did wrong, but as long as you, Mr. Quan, are willing to help, you can do whatever you want."

"Master Yuzhang thinks too highly of me, Lu Quan."

Lu Quan stood up suddenly, looked down at Lu Yuzhang, and said coldly: "You know what happened in the Japanese area, and I know it too. A person who can make Su Ce sacrifice his life to help him get promoted can still successfully get out of that fatal situation alive. You, the majestic young master of the Lu family, cannot afford to offend the lone martial artist, and I, Lu Quan, a little domestic slave, cannot afford to offend him even more."

"I can't handle this matter. I will return to Liaozhou Lu clan to apologize to Master Siyi and take my leave."

"You can't afford to mess with me, but Governor Lu must be able to deal with it, right?"

Listening to the faint voice behind him, Lu Quan's figure who had already walked to the door suddenly stopped, and a cold murderous aura came out of his body.

"Lu Yuzhang, if you have the idea of ​​diverting misfortune to the east, I advise you to give up now. If you offend that lone martial artist, the Lu family may still be able to inherit the genes. But if you offend the Lu family, the Lu family will instantly become The whole family will die, and there will be no chickens or dogs left!"