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Xing Fang had no choice but to shake his head.

In the flower hall, Liu Zongmin kept feeding with chopsticks, while the blind man beside him was sweating profusely.

Because of Zhu Youjian's habit, it is now popular to eat chili peppers in Nanjing, but Nanjing people can't eat too spicy, so they add a little bit to the dishes for seasoning, but this is enough to satisfy the blind man.

The blind man has no hands, so he can only rely on Liu Zongmin to feed him, and Liu Zongmin has no legs, so the blind man is his feet.

Chen Yuanyuan and Xing Fang walked in, Liu Zongmin stopped and said excitedly, "Yuanyuan, I, I just came to see you. Let's go now."

Chen Yuanyuan's eyes turned red, and she hurriedly said, "You guys will live here, this is my brother."

Liu Zongmin hurriedly kowtowed to Xing Fang: "The villain Liu Zongmin kowtows to the lord."

The rebellious, arrogant and unruly Liu Zongmin had completely disappeared. Now he looks like an honest old farmer on the Loess Plateau, with a vicissitudes of face and a broken body.Chen Yuanyuan couldn't compare him with the previous General Quan at all.

Chen Yuanyuan's eyes turned red, and tears rolled down her eyes.She remembered that Liu Zongmin had told her that he wanted to marry her back to northern Shaanxi.This time for three and a half years, Liu Zongmin has really become an old man from northern Shaanxi.

"Liu, Brother Liu, just rest assured." Xing Fang didn't know what to call Liu Zongmin, and it seemed that he couldn't call him any good.

"No, no, I don't dare to disturb the adults. The villain will leave now." Liu Zongmin glanced at Chen Yuanyuan again, and his eyes no longer had that kind of affection.

Liu Zongmin already knew in his heart the distance between him and Chen Yuanyuan in this life, and he hadn't been able to win the hearts of the beauties when he was most likely, let alone now.At least he had heard that Chen Yuanyuan was the current imperial concubine when he came to Nanjing.

It would be nice to have another look, but dare to think about it?

"Blind man, let's go." Liu Zongmin yelled, and the blind man immediately groped to put Liu Zongmin on his back, and his movements were quite agile.

"The emperor is here!" At this moment, there was a sudden singing from outside the door, and then two teams of Jin Yiwei rushed in quickly.In the blink of an eye, Jin Yiwei surrounded the courtyard, inside and out.

The blind man panicked, and kept changing his footsteps behind Liu Zongmin's back, obviously wanting to defend himself.Although he is blind, he has good ears.He had already heard the footsteps of masters outside.

Xing Fang quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, even though he was the emperor's brother-in-law in the eyes of outsiders, in fact he hadn't seen the emperor's true face.Chen Yuanyuan looked very calm, with an expression of indifference.

On the contrary, Liu Zongmin was calm. He patted the blind man on the shoulder to signal the blind man to put him down, then sat on the chair calmly and looked outside.The blind man was so panicked that he wanted to stand in front of Liu Zongmin, lest someone would harm Liu Zongmin.

Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen made great strides. Surprisingly, both of them were dressed in ordinary black clothes and both wore their original masks.

When they reached the door, Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen stepped aside, and Mrs. Gao appeared from behind.

"Brother Zong Min, is it really you?" Mrs. Gao shouted with surprise and excitement.

Liu Zongmin couldn't pretend any longer, sobbed immediately, and the blind man also froze, squatting beside the chair and crying loudly.

"Uncle, go and help us prepare the best dishes and the strongest wine." Zhu Youjian took off his mask and said to Xing Fang.

"Uh! Hey." Xing Fang was taken aback for a moment, but then happily got up and ran away.

Zhu Youjian's big uncle is tantamount to directly emphasizing his identity to his love rival, and he is not suppressing people as an emperor.All the people present are fine people, so they can understand it naturally.

"Brother Zongmin, who made you do this?" Madam Gao cried while looking at Liu Zongmin's legs.

"Who else could it be? That bastard Wu Sangui is worse. He tortured us for two full years. Finally, he threw us to the suburbs of Beijing before going to Shaanxi." The blind man cursed viciously.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian glanced at Ji Biao, and said in a low voice, "Go get Jin Shengtan and ask him to bring the best pen."

Ji Biao immediately understood and left.

If Liu Zongmin and Zhu Youjian were enemies, if Liu Zongmin hadn't saved Zhu Youjian at the last moment, Zhu Youjian would have been driven far away even if he didn't kill him.

But most people sympathize with the weak in their hearts, and Liu Zongmin's current appearance is completely worthy of sympathy.Therefore, Zhu Youjian hired Mrs. Gao as an intermediary to ease the relationship between the two parties, so as not to be too embarrassing.

This is the case for most of the high-level officials of Chuangjun and Xijun. They fought against Daming in the country, but they can basically take care of the overall situation when they encounter Jinbing.They are different from Wu Sangui and his ilk, and they care about national righteousness in their bones.

"I respect General Liu. General Liu is my savior in the capital!" Madam Gao smiled with satisfaction as soon as Zhu Youjian said.If the emperor could even tolerate Liu Zongmin, the others would have nothing to worry about.

And Liu Zongmin was taken aback, Zhu Youjian deliberately called a piece of stone a capital, obviously trying to cover up.However, the matter has passed, and Liu Zongmin's enemy is not Zhu Youjian, and he has to rely on Zhu Youjian if he wants to take revenge.

"My minister Liu Zongmin thanked the emperor, and begged the emperor to make decisions for my minister and eradicate the traitor Wu Sangui!" Liu Zongmin was not stupid, on the contrary he was very smart.A fool can't be General Quan, he immediately knew his role.

Then Liu Zongmin and the blind man began to tell Wu Sangui all kinds of things. In the next room, Jin Shengtan was writing hard with several scholars.

Only Chen Yuanyuan returned to the palace with a pale face after sitting halfway. It was the first time she heard that Wu Sangui was such a villain.This is far from the Wu Sangui she met back then, completely different.

When Chen Yuanyuan saw Liu Zongmin's broken leg and blind eyes, her heart trembled unceasingly.The little comfort she had obtained in the temple during the day was gone, on the contrary, a deeper sense of guilt was planted in her heart.

Chen Yuanyuan had a premonition that no matter which side Zhu Youjian and Wu Sangui win, she will inevitably suffer a negative mark in history.

Her heart fell into the abyss, and Hongyan could not escape the infamy of disaster.

Chapter 438: Asset Ownership

Starting from the second day, Da Ming Daily published a large-scale article for five consecutive days, a national hero who awakened at the most critical moment and bravely fought the traitor Wu Sangui and the Hou Jin coalition forces.

Ever since, Liu Zongmin became a household name.Moreover, the entire Jiangnan people also knew the cause and effect of Wu Sangui's treason. The newspaper explained in detail the fact that Wu Sangui led gold soldiers into the customs and massacred the people of the country.

At this time, Chuangjun was no longer a thief, nor the chief culprit who captured the capital, but a hero who entered the capital to rescue him.This is also Zhu Youjian's intention to distort history, because there are many peasant troops in his current court.

In fact, Da Ming Daily is only deliberately downplaying the truth, not covering it up.But the image of Wu Sangui's big traitor is vivid on the paper.

Following Wu Sangui is the fact that Hou Fangyu defected to Zuo Menggeng and dug the Yellow River twice.All the scholars in Jiangnan also knew that Hou Fangyu was also a traitor.

And Li Xiangjun went from being crowded to being crowded, and people couldn't avoid it.

"Pa..." Since the first piece of dog shit hit the far door, it is estimated that the door is almost full of dogs.

Everything outside is mocking her dreams and persistence over the past two years. It turns out that what she defends is shit that everyone despises.

"No, they must have made a mistake. Mr. Hou is not that kind of person. He is a modest gentleman, a role model for everyone. He is not a traitor who betrays his country and seeks glory."

Li Xiangjun howled, and her heart was also crushed.Compared to Chen Yuanyuan who cared about her own reputation, Li Xiangjun cared more about her man's reputation.They are all people influenced by Confucian morality, and their men almost all take this Confucian thought very lightly.

"Miss, are we going to move?" Li Xiangjun's maid asked.

"Let's go to the north of the city." Li Xiangjun ordered.

"The north of the city is too dirty, let's go..." The servant girl wondered if Li Xiangjun had said something wrong, but she detested those who ran to the pier to carry big bags.

The north of the city is Jiang'an, which is naturally a slum, which is the place Li Xiangjun hates the most, and she never bothered to go to that kind of place before.

But this time Li Xiangjun figured it out, she no longer wants to do those things of eavesdropping on news and gossiping.Li Xiangjun wanted to do something practical, otherwise she was afraid that she would be driven crazy.

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"How big is Haimao?" Zhu Youjian looked at Jiu'er and asked.

Jiu'er went to the coast and traveled all over Fujian and Guangdong. The purpose was to find out the scale of Ming's foreign trade and do a census of appearance.

The Zheng family is the largest maritime merchant in Ming Dynasty, but this does not mean that only the Zheng family is doing maritime trade.Official ones along the coast of Guangdong, or smuggled ones, naturally some people will take risks for profit.Otherwise, how could there be so many pirates.