The fourteenth blessing of the koi carp in the Qing Dynasty

"Are you also here to persuade us?" The little girl back then has now become the veritable second leader of the Cao Gang.

Yinzhen nodded, he looked at the young man next to him, the young man was three points similar to Lu Siniang, he should be her brother Lu Yizhong. "Today, I am not here as Prince Yong, but as a friend. I know that both of you are good people who care about the common people. You have no choice but to take this road."

The Cao Gang is actually a water bandit. He believes that the brothers and sisters of the Lu family also know that there are many people among them who have killed people in the village. He knows that Yinzhen has just ascended the throne before he has time. , Water bandits carried out encirclement and suppression.With the nature of the brothers and sisters of the Lu family, they will definitely not watch their brothers die, and they will definitely resist when the time comes.

To be honest, the characters of these two people are not bad, and they can be regarded as friends. Yinzhen doesn't want them to die.

"Now how does the new emperor believe that you all see it? Many of the new emperor's measures are for the people wholeheartedly. He will be a good emperor who loves the people. You yourself said that if you go against the court for a long time, what good will you gain? "

"You should have seen the salt sold by the imperial court this year. How does it compare with yours? I can tell you that there are still many salts like this in the imperial court. Even if there is a price war, you are no match. The imperial court can afford it. What about you? "

"There's nothing wrong with putting the salt transportation under the name of the imperial court? You should also know the terms and conditions. How many people are in the Cao Gang, and whether there are any violators. You know best. When the time comes, these people from the imperial court will naturally help control them, wouldn't it be good?"

Yinzhen felt that he hadn't talked as much in a year as he did today, and he had to talk all he wanted to convince the brothers and sisters of the Lu family.Well, when I get back, I'll go to the Fourteenth Brother's place for a bite to eat.

The imperial chef in the palace was replaced by the chef in the fourteenth younger brother's mansion, and those who did not replace him also taught a lot of delicious recipes. Today's palace banquets are much more delicious than they were back then.Like the tenth brother, he wished he could live in the palace every day.

Shouldn't he be like his tenth brother, a rascal, once he goes back?

Lu Yizhong also investigated Yinzhen, and knew that he is the elder brother of the current emperor, he is rigorous and not well-received in the court, but the people have a good heart, and he is a rare person who is willing to do things for the people.

He was thinking about the authenticity of Yinzhen's words, and Lu Siniang was a little anxious, "Is the imperial court really going to take action against Cao Gang?"

Yin Zhen returned to his senses, his face was expressionless, "You should be clear that although the bandits have a last resort, most of them are burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes. The people hate these things deeply, and the court cannot let them go."

The banditry is cunning. In the past, they were worried about sacrificing too many soldiers. Now almost everyone in the imperial army has a firecracker. They also have ships, all of which are equipped with cannons. They are fearless in water and land battles.Besides, the Eight Banners soldiers have been strictly trained, and now all of them are brave and good at fighting, which is not comparable to what they used to be.It is hard to say that now a soldier can beat the three previous selves.

He personally tried those soldiers and had a deep understanding of their combat effectiveness.Not to mention the Cao Gang, other bandits can have a few such masters, even if there are, one can't do it, and the two can always be cleared up.

What he didn't tell the brothers and sisters of the Lu family was that before coming here, the emperor had already discussed with the ministers to attack the cottages in the Qing Dynasty in the coming year. All will pay for their lives.

He has a good impression of the Lu family brothers, and he doesn't hope to see them in the vegetable market next year. By then, he really doesn't know how to save them.

Knowing that the two of them had to think hard, Yinzhen did not force them when he wanted to.

After Yinzhen left, Lu Siniang looked at her brother and asked silently.Lu Yizhong rubbed his beard with hesitation in his eyes. Seriously, if Chaotang really just wanted them to have a name and would not interfere with their internal affairs, but just set a price for their products, he would be able to accept it.

The Cao Gang is well-known in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the Ministry of Commerce system came out, someone sent this. Lu Yizhong saw it. He thought the imperial court system was very good. It regulated businesses and prevented some profiteers from buying and selling at high prices.It's just that they gangs are used to being free, and some people worried that this was a royal conspiracy, so he didn't agree.

If things are really as the fourth elder brother said, he suspects that the royal family has found a new salt mine, and it is impossible for the imperial court to have more salt than the salt gang.In addition, official salt is indeed much finer than private salt, and he also suspects that the technology of the imperial court is also more advanced than their Cao Gang, so the Cao Gang really has no advantage.

Thinking of this, Lu Yizhong summoned the senior officials of the Cao Gang to come to discuss, but he didn't expect that just after he started, someone yelled, "What are you talking about for my brother, I think you are for yourself. The brothers in the gang saw it. The man from the imperial court came very close. Why are you planning to use Cao Gang to pave the way for your sister?"

"You fart, me, I just took him around with good intentions, but it's not as dirty as you think." Under Lu Yizhong's gaze, Lu Siniang shut her mouth, her face turned red, others thought it was anger, only Lu Yizhong knew She is guilty.

But at this time, it is impossible for Lu Yizhong to dismantle the girl's platform. "I asked Si Niang to take him around. Why do you have any objections? The court wants us to be named, can we really resist? My original intention was to let Si Niang take him around and show us how we are. The strength of the gang makes the opponent afraid."

"Even if we really have to cooperate with the imperial court in the end, we must take the initiative in our hands. Let him see the power of our Cao Gang so that he can make a price at that time." Lu Yi said nonsense, and Lu Siniang became more and more angry. guilty conscience.

"It's good that the big boss doesn't mean that, Si Niang, the people in the court are so cunning, I think that man is not young, don't be fooled by him when you are young." The person who spoke was the fourth boss of the Cao Gang, It is said that he is the fourth master, but in fact he has no less power than Lu Yizhong, and he is the leader among those who oppose it.

The Sidang family has always admired Lu Siniang. This is something that the Cao Gang knows, but Lu Siniang has no affection for him at all.Lu Siniang bumped into this man who robbed civilian girls several times, and just said that he likes him, Lu Siniang just felt disgusted.

Lu Yizhong's face darkened, "What nonsense are you talking about, I'm the only girl, Prince Yong's son is older than Siniang, how could I let Siniang be with him."

The fourth master frowned, Prince Yong, he is still a prince.

Seeing his expression, Lu Yi knew it was bad, and he secretly scolded himself for his fast talk.This fourth family is hostile to the imperial court, Prince Yong will not end well if he falls into his hands.

Lv Siniang sneered and said: "My surname is Zheng, I advise you not to make bad ideas. You and our Cao Gang are still the same as a few years ago? Just say a few years ago, so what, it's not like being beaten by the court. You can do it for your own selfishness." Don't trouble the brothers, let me tell you the truth, that Prince Yong said that he came this time with a team of foreign guns. I don't need to talk about the power of the firecrackers. Is it possible that you really plan to let the brothers take it? Life to fill?"

No one is afraid of death, and so are desperadoes. Many people retreated when they heard the firecracker.

The fourth master kept all this in his eyes, and he said with a smile: "Si Niang is joking, as the master of the house, I have to think about the lives of my brothers. But since you said he was carrying a firecracker, is it possible that he intends to forcefully let him go?" Let's surrender?" The fourth master took advantage of the loophole in Lu Siniang's words, and gave her the title of 'robber'.

"You" Lv Siniang scolded angrily, it's a pity that she is a girl who can live up to the fourth head of the family.

Lu Yizhong couldn't see his younger sister being wronged and said immediately: "Could it be that the fourth master has forgotten what happened a few years ago? Or is it that the fourth master wants to use this opportunity to avenge his father?" The father of the fourth master was one of the people who participated in the assassination of Prince Yong. Among those who were beheaded by the court.

Back then, Prince Yong almost died in the Cao Gang, now that he came to discuss matters with the Cao Gang, what's wrong with bringing more people to ensure his safety?The one surnamed Zheng was too good at pretending. He wanted to deal with those people back then but was saved by the one surnamed Zheng.He was worried that the Cao Gang would be disbanded if the trouble continued, so he relented and let it go.

Now he regrets more than once for not being tougher back then.

When the meeting was over, he summoned Lu Siniang. Seeing her brother's serious expression, Lu Siniang felt a little guilty.Lu Yizhong sighed, his mother gave birth to their brother Seventh Brother, and finally got such a baby bump.His mother was very old when she gave birth to her fourth mother, and passed away within a few years, and their brothers took care of them both as father and mother.

He was very nervous, if it hadn't been mentioned by the surname Zheng, he would have almost forgotten that Si Niang was old enough to start a family. "Si Niang, we are Han people. Man and Han don't marry, you, you..." He wanted his sister to be happy, but that was Prince Yong. Not to mention that there were countless wives and concubines in the mansion, even if this Man and Han didn't marry, they were doomed to no results.

Lu Siniang's expression was gloomy, and she showed a smile that was uglier than Ku, "Seventh brother, I know what you said, and I didn't intend to have anything to do with him, but I will be attracted to him unconsciously." She sat on the chair The eyes were blank, "We are reckless, and we have met many officials, most of whom oppress the people. It is the first time I have seen a royal family like Prince Yong who is willing to stand up for the people."

"At the beginning, I was just curious. As a prince, why is he different from other officials. I wanted to understand him, and I fell into it unconsciously."Then she took a deep breath, "But don't worry, Seventh Brother, who am I, Lu Siniang, how can I make a fool of others. If I want to marry, I will marry a man who stands above heaven and earth, and the other party must be only me."

"Seventh brother, do you know? The current emperor has only the queen and the prince since he got married. I heard that the emperor's sons have only allowed one Fujin."

After the emperor ascended the throne, along with his political achievements, there was also a love story between him and the queen. She once asked Prince Yong if the emperor really only had the queen, and she got an affirmative answer.According to Prince Yong, the relationship between the emperor and the queen is very good, and the emperor did not say that he would put on airs to the queen when he ascended the throne, and the family still lived as before.

Although Lv Siniang has a good impression of Prince Yong, she knows in her heart that the two are not suitable. Prince Yong will not abandon his wife for her. Besides, if Prince Yong really did this, she will look down on her even more. "Seventh brother, don't worry I won't have anything to do with him." The young Mu Ai, she only regarded it as a dream, not to mention that Prince Yong didn't know what she thought about him.

The most he said to himself was 'I remember my daughter likes this, my daughter likes that, you can try it. '

Only then did Lu Yizhong feel relieved, and then he felt a little distressed, "Brother, let someone drive him back." First, he was afraid that his sister would get deeper and deeper, and feelings are not things that you can control just by saying you can control them.Secondly, the group of people headed by the Fourth Family may not really give up. If something happens to Prince Yong with them, they may not be able to bear the royal family's anger.

Again and again, can the royal family let them go?

Lu Siniang bit her lip, then nodded.She is the one who clearly distinguishes the seriousness from the seriousness, that person in charge of the fourth family has a lot of tricks, so it's better to remind her.Their Cao Gang really couldn't stand the second encirclement and suppression by the imperial court.

She decided to go there in person, just to put an end to her hazy feelings.

I was surprised to see Lu Siniang Yinzhen at the post station, "What? Your seventh brother has figured it out?" The two met yesterday, and now that Lu Siniang is here, besides Lu Yizhong's figured it out, he doesn't know why.

Lu Siniang shook her head, "The fourth head of the Cao Gang knows about you. He is very disgusted with the Cao Gang's cooperation with the Qing court. Half of the Cao Gang is headed by him. My brother doesn't want the Cao Gang to split up. He doesn't agree with it. I will agree. My brother asked me to tell you that the Sidang family is more insidious, and I advise you to take your people out of here quickly."

Yinzhen was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the brothers and sisters of the Lu family were still restrained by others, not that they were the masters of the Cao Gang, but he thought that after the events of the past few years, the two of them had completely controlled the Cao Gang.

What Lu Siniang said was clearly saying that if the fourth master did not agree, her brother would not agree.He cupped his hands, "Thank you, Miss Lu, for the advance notice. In this case, the king will go back, but I want to persuade the girl, the emperor intends to establish a peaceful and prosperous world, and people like you should plan ahead."

Whether it is the fourteenth brother or Hongxuan who is now the prince, none of them are easy to get along with, especially Hongxuan, who is so smiling that even he can't see through him.He doesn't think the Lu family can fight against such a person, and besides, as a royal family, he supports the fourteenth brother. If the two sides meet on the battlefield in the future, he will not be able to release the water.

"The fourth leader of the Cao Gang?" Yinzhen looked at the people surrounding him, not surprised at all. He walked outside with Lv Siniang these days, and inquired a lot of news. This fourth leader was among the scope of their key inquiries. Inside.

Let's put it this way, since Lu Siniang mentioned the fourth master yesterday, he knew that he would meet the fourth master sooner or later, so he made preparations early.

Sidang's family was not surprised that Yinzhen knew him, he smiled and said: "Prince of the Tartars, I heard that you are still the real brother of the current emperor, and the dog emperor actually sent you to our Cao Gang. I think your brotherhood is nothing more than that." From the point of view of the Sidang family, whoever has a good relationship with the emperor is not enjoying delicious food and drink in the capital, and being sent out to work, especially this kind of thankless work, must be at odds with the emperor.

Maybe the emperor is secretly waiting for him to kill someone.

Originally thought that his words would change the face of the prince opposite, but who knew that the other party just gave him a cold look.

"For the sake of the brothers and sisters of the Lu family, it's too late for you to retreat now." What he said was just to save face, in fact, everyone knew that they would not retreat.

These should be the lackeys of the four masters, and they can be regarded as cancerous tumors of the Cao Gang. His taking down these people can be regarded as helping the brothers and sisters of the Lu family to clean up the house.

Sidangjia sneered, he chose the place specially, even if something happened to the Prince of Tartar, no one would think of Cao Gang. "Come on," thanking Lu Siniang for the news, today he specially recruited some civilians to shield them from the guns.

Yin Zhen watched them surround them coldly, "Don't show mercy to Zai Zai, pay attention to the common people."

"Zha..." These people have been waiting for Prince Yong's order. Before coming, the emperor said that they will be rewarded for their merits when they go back. If Prince Yong didn't give the order, they would have rushed over.

Seeing that they used ordinary people to block guns, everyone did not take out the firecrackers, but raised their knives.Yinzhen didn't look on coldly, he directly confronted the fourth master.

Si Dangjia was a frail scholar, he had never seen a leader taking the lead, he panicked, and hurriedly called someone to stop Yinzhen.

It's a pity that he overestimated his own people and murmured about the troops brought by Yinzhen. Even without the use of firearms, they could take down all of them within two hours.

"Stop, Zheng, you are so brave, you dare to disobey my brother's order." As soon as the battle ended, Lu Siniang's scolding came from the other side.She also heard that the Sidang family had brought people out, so she knew something was wrong and hurriedly brought people to the rescue.How did she know that in her eyes, the calculating fourth family would be taken down by Yinzhen's people.

Seeing Sidangjia and others being crushed under the sword, Lu Siniang was a little embarrassed.

Yinzhen pointed to the people who had just been untied behind him, "Miss Lu, these are all caught by the fourth master to block the gun. I know that the girl's brother and sister care about the brotherhood, but how innocent are the people? Today, the king has no choice but to feel sorry for the girl. .” If it was said that Yinzhen planned to let the Cao Gang take advantage of the brothers and sisters of the Lu family before, he withdrew his idea after seeing the fourth master.

There may be good people in the Cao Gang, but there are also many people like Sidangjia.

Sensing Yinzhen's murderous intentions, the Sidang family hurriedly said: "Si Niang saved me, I know I was wrong, I did this for the Cao Gang and for you. My lord, you probably don't know, my lord, she likes you, and I love you." I'm also worried that you left suddenly, Si Niang."

"Shut up, what nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Siniang scolded anxiously, and she explained to Yinzhen, "Don't blame the prince, he has harassed me many times, it may be that I have gotten close to the prince recently, which made him misunderstand. There is only respect, and there is no personal love between children."

Yinzhen nodded, "Miss Lu is kind-hearted, I really appreciate the pride of your brothers and sisters, I once said that you are about the same age as my youngest son, to be honest, I have always treated the girl as a nephew. "

Nephew?

Lu Siniang's expression turned ugly for a moment, but then she pretended to be relaxed, "That's great, I'm also worried that the prince will misunderstand because of this villain." Worried about what the fourth master would say, she said coldly, "The fourth master Trying to provoke a war between the Cao Gang and the imperial court, today I will replace my brother to clear the door for the Cao Gang."

As she spoke, she drew her sword and walked towards the fourth master, "Si Niang, Si Niang, you" before she finished speaking, her head fell to the ground.

Lu Siniang said to the rest of the people: "You have done a lot of evil with the Fourth Master, and now you dare to openly kidnap the people. Our Cao Gang will never allow such a black sheep to appear. Since you like to follow him, let's go on the road together."

As she said that, she winked at her own people, and everyone in the Cao Gang who followed her also had a bad look on their faces.The rules of the Cao Gang do not allow people to be harmed, and this group of people blatantly violated the rules and should indeed be killed.

Seeing the other party deal with these people neatly, Yin Zhen was relieved.If the other party cared about the brotherhood and let them go, he would probably be disappointed with the brothers and sisters of the Lu family.After returning to Beijing, I'm afraid that he will immediately play the game and let the imperial court send a large army to suppress it.

He nodded to Lu Siniang, "Miss Lu, please take me to say hello to Mr. Lu, and I hope he will think carefully about going to the imperial court and commercial department. I will leave." After finishing speaking, he took his people away .

Lu Siniang looked at his back and turned back after a long time.

It's good to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

He didn't know that after she turned around, Yinzhen stopped.He's not a fool, how could he fail to see what this girl was thinking, but he knew in his heart that it was impossible for the two of them, and he didn't want to hurt this sassy girl, so he just pretended to be confused.

I only hope that she can really let go and find a young man worthy of her entrustment as soon as possible.