On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the imperial envoy of Jinan Prefecture headed. Liu Yong, wearing a gray city cloth robe, sat on the chair of the Grand Master in the study. His adopted son Liu Xipeng, who was standing beside him, was taking apart an urgent letter from his hometown in Zhucheng.

This letter was sent by a member of the North Navy Intelligence Bureau to secretly deliver it to Chahe Villa in Zhucheng five days ago. The envelope reads "Shi'an Gongdaoqi" and the signature is "Weiyang's Wuxue Jiao Litang". Litang is the word Jiao Xun.

The Liu family was angry and afraid of the sender's unscrupulous behavior of coming to Jinan. However, they did not dare to detain the other party and sent it to the government, nor did they dare to hide the letter from them or not, so they had to let them go home to worship their ancestors. Liu Xipeng, who had not yet sat in his butt, quickly sent the letter to Jinan. This person was Liu Yong's adopted son. Because Liu Yong had no son, he adopted one of his brothers Liu Chi.

You should know that the Northern Navy's troops have now entered the Wulong River line, just across the Sun River from Laiyang County. After crossing two mountains and walking more than 400 miles, Zhucheng is here. However, they have large iron ships and gunboats. If they really want to fight, they will definitely not have to worry about it. They landed from the mouth of Chaohe River in the southern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula, penetrated more than 100 miles northward, and then crossed Jiujian Mountain.

Why did Jiao Xun write a letter to Liu Yong?

It is said that in the 44th year of Qianlong's reign, Jiao Xun, 16, participated in the Boy Examination, and Liu Yong was the Jiangsu Academy of Political Science at that time. Later, Jiao Xun successfully entered the official school. Because of his solid foundation in mathematics and outstanding grades, he was appreciated by Liu Yong. He was also guided by the other party and started learning classics from "Mao Shi". From this point of view, Liu Yong and Jiao Xun were also considered to have a master-disciple relationship.

Jiao Xun actually had this idea very early, but he did not know that the Qing court sent Liu Yong to Shandong to send an imperial envoy to the teacher that year and persuaded him. He told Zhao Xin about this idea. Although Zhao Xin did not agree, he still agreed to let the people from the Intelligence Bureau be responsible for the transmission.

In Zhao Xin's view, although the Liu family in Chahe Villa is not a big landlord, they are also known as honest and frugal, and have the ability to respond to the whole Shandong people, they are a vine tightly wrapped around the big tree of the Qing Dynasty, and are a natural mortal enemy of Beihai Town.

The Liu clan of Zhucheng moved from Xuzhou to Shandong in the mid-Ming Dynasty. For more than a hundred years, they lived by farming and belonged to the lower class of society. It was not until the Tianqi period that someone was reincarnated as "Zhusheng", which was considered to have embarked on the road to imperial examinations.

From the ninth year of Shunzhi to the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the Liu family produced 32 Juren, 11 genuine Jinshi, and as many as 8 officials above the third rank in the past 140 years. In particular, Liu Yong's father Liu Tongxun, who served as the Grand Secretary of the Dongge and the Ministry of Rites in the 26th year of Qianlong, and later became the head minister of military affairs, and was called "the true prime minister" by Emperor Qianlong. At this point, the Liu family finally became a Han official family who was famous throughout the country, comparable to the Zhang family in Tongcheng and was famous.

In addition, since the Han people moved out of Beijing in the sixth year of Shunzhi, there were only two Han ministers who were rewarded by the emperor to live in Beijing; one was the Zhang Tingyu family in Huguo Temple, and the other was the Liu family in Lushi Hutong. Now, with Liu Yong being promoted to a cabinet bachelor and leading his army out of Shandong, the Liu family has reached a peak.

Jiao Xun wrote a letter to such a person, except for being able to disgust the other person in his heart, and Zhao Xin even felt that he was still talking about whether he could be disgusted.

When Liu Xipeng was watching Liu Yong, he opened the hot paint on the envelope, took out the letter paper and glanced at it, and he immediately changed his expression and said softly: "My father, most of the letters are rebellious and arrogant words. Jiao Litang's intentions are really sinister!"

"read."

"this......"

"read!"

Compared with the time when Zhao Xin met at Chaoyin Temple in Dagukou a few years ago, Liu Yong's face had almost no change. The hair behind his head was more white, and his bronze square face and cheeks were much more sunken. At this moment, he half-squinted his eyes and stared at the snowy scene outside the window, which was a bit like a stork foraging on the snowy river beach, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

In fact, at this time, Liu Yong recalled the young scholar he met in Yangzhou more than ten years ago. He would pay special attention to those young people who were poor and still studied hard. In his mind, Jiao Xun was a very talented young man, and he also served his mother very filial. How could such a person betray the court and surrender to Zhao Xin, an ignorant thief?

"Shi'an Gong'an wrote a letter: I'm just running a letter, and I'm going to lose my current letter. I heard that the public is conquering Shandong, but Xun thought about it, and he was still sighing. Moreover, Xun was weak and was not a wood or stone. Now I know the great righteousness and hope that the public will accept it.

The world is the world of China. Only the Qing Dynasty stole the troubles when the land of China was sinking, and then took advantage of the difficulties and occupied the Central Plains, poisoning all the people with family members; raising their ugly people, eating the people, and having a generous salary and high officials, and taking the right to rebel. In the past, the kings unified and governed the four barbarians, and the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, and first said respect and refusal; the Five Barbarians chaotic summer, and then passed on and destroyed; the Yuan Dynasty was in a perverse manner, and it was destroyed for a hundred years. Now, the saints descended from the sky of the North Sea led the heroes to expand the land for thousands of miles, resolved the upside down of people's livelihood, opened the people's wisdom, promoted the people's rights, and restored the country, and it was very late. It is true that the way of heaven is good, and it should be a response.

Gong was familiar with history and Han Dynasty, and was well-versed in the internal classics. He knew that those who could take advantage of it but could not resist were the current situation. Gong and his father and son were honest in the East Province for generations. He lived in an open and well-versed place in the Eastern Province for generations. He was well-versed in his studies and had a talent for farming and studying. In the past, Liu Wenzheng was honest and conservative, and his reputation spread to the country. Shi'an Gong was honest and honest, and he was not a powerful person. Everyone in the world obeyed the public's products, and even compared them with Bao Xiaosu. Now the times have changed, and the Northern Navy has been destroyed and destroyed. Although the Qing Dynasty has not been long, even though the Duke tried his best, he had no help. The owner of the deserted garden changed and there was no support. If he had the heart to love the world, what should he choose at this time?

Relying on the kindness of Duke and Xun, he dared to express his heart and speak in a shameless way. What is the case? Fortunately, I issued an imperial edict. After more than ten days of falling, my disciple Xun said in panic."

After Liu Xipeng finished reading, the study room fell into death silence, and he could only hear the monotonous and boring "Ka" word "Ka" walking. After a while, Liu Yong said to himself: "Jiao Litang, do you want to write me such a letter of persuasion to surrender. Do you want to thorn in my heart, or do you want to use this to discard my friendship with the emperor and the emperor? It's ridiculous!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! His voice was loud or small, and the guards standing guard outside the door would definitely hear it. After that, he took the letter paper from Liu Xipeng's hand, grabbed it into a ball and threw it into the charcoal brazier in front of him. In a blink of an eye, the two letter papers were burned into ashes by flames, burning nothing left.

"You write a letter to Chahe for me and tell them that if the pirates in North China dare to come again, they will take it and send it to the official!"

Liu Xipeng was stunned for a moment, and was about to say something else when he saw Liu Yong staring at the door with his triangular eyes. He was shocked and then bowed and said, "Yes, father."

"You go down first." Liu Yong sighed in his heart. This adopted son is really stupid! If his nephew Liu Yuzhi was here, he would definitely understand what he meant.

"yes."

After sending his adopted son away, Liu Yong lit a bag of cigarettes and started to smoke. In fact, Zhao Xin was still wrong. Although Liu Yong burned the letter immediately after reading it, his heart was already in a mess. Jiao Xun's letter completely disrupted his mood that had finally calmed down during the Chinese New Year.

Yes, the deserted garden changed its owner and had no support around the trees. A large group of people from the Qing Dynasty could run to Gurkha, but they were already seventy-three. Should they also climb up the snowy plateau, cross many mountains, and become a lonely ghost outside the territory?

Of course, it was absolutely impossible to let him defect to Beihai Town. His father and son were deeply favored by the emperors of the three generations of Qing Dynasty. When Qianlong personally visited Liu Tongxun in the Lushi Hutong, he was unable to enter because his door was narrow and he even exposed the top of the sedan chair. Such treatment was never seen in Han officials.

What's more, since he met Zhao Xin at the Chujiao Station and learned that his wife was the only descendant of the Shen family in the "Yizhulou Poetry" case, Liu Yong knew that it would never be possible to let go between him and Beihai Town. In fact, this was also the reason why Qianlong was relieved to send him to Shandong. Other Han officials would surrender, but Liu Yong would never be able to.

In fact, it is not just a case of "Yizhulou Poem", Yan Dayong's "Matamata Collection" case, and Yin Baoshan's "Xiuting Cao" case, which are all caused by him.

The case of "Matamata Collection" is nothing but Yan Dayong died, and the rest were exiled, but there would have been more people in the case of "Yizhulou Poetry". If the court had not been busy dealing with the Xu family's affairs from top to bottom at that time, and the momentum was enough to achieve the purpose of rectifying the style of Jiangnan and practicing banned books, the young scholar Yin Baoshan family would have been unable to escape.

At the age of 39 and 57, Liu Yong served as Jiangsu academician twice. With the credit of literary inquisition, he finally became the governor of a province, and then returned to Beijing to enter the center of the Qing court. From then on, all the people in the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River hated him to death!

Think about who are the scholars who defected to Beihai Town? Seven out of the eight people are from the Yangzhou School, and the remaining one is from the Wu School.

Unlike Liu Tongxun, Liu Yong was a person who liked to figure out Qianlong's thoughts, and his judgment was quite accurate. When he keenly realized that Qianlong wanted to use literary inquisition to rectify the style of scholars, he immediately spared no effort to expose the relevant literary inquisition cases; he often exaggerated himself, and he completely lost his father's impartial and upright attitude towards doing things.

Although Liu Tongxun spared no effort in investigating Hu Zhongzao's "Jianmosheng Poetry Collection" case, it was not a simple literary inquisition, but a court struggle. In order to suppress Ortai and Zhang Tingyu's parties and eliminate the common and unconventional differences in the court, Qianlong started from "Jianmosheng Poetry Collection" to extending it to corruption and bribery. You should know that Hu Zhongzao was Ortai's disciple, and E Chang was Ortai's nephew.

So Zhao Xin and Cao Peng scolded him at all. There is no need to do too much morals. One thing is enough to make a fortune.

Liu Yong himself was not afraid of death. He studied Buddhism for many years and was proficient in Mahayana Buddhism. He especially studied the "Lingyun Sutra". He had a thorough understanding of the two paths of Confucianism and Buddhism. He had long seen through life and death. He said that he wanted to live and die and would leave as long as he wanted. As for whether the three concubines were upholding their pride or remarrying, they would go with them.

But what should I do with the Liu clan in Zhucheng? What about the hundreds of people! My nephew Liu Fuzhi is the most favored in the next generation. Moreover, because his father died early, he was raised by him since childhood. Now he is already a Shujishi from the Hanlin Academy. Could it be that he also followed him to Gurkha?

Now Qianlong, who was in his eighties, became more and more in love with the bank. At this time, he still held the throne and refused to let go. He was reluctant to let go of the Summer Palace, which was built with exhausted human and material resources in the world, and still stood firm and stood firm in the capital, struggling to die, and even agreed to Zhao Xin's conditions to exchange Khalkha for Gurkha, so as to seek a glimmer of hope for the Manchus.

The question is, will Zhao Xin give this opportunity? Based on Liu Yong's understanding of Zhao Xin, this guy will sooner or later send troops to Tibet. At present, everyone in the court, including Fu Kang'an, knows that this is a trick to drive a tiger and swallow the wolf, but he still has to grit his teeth and swallow the bitter fruit.

Since the Northern Navy captured the entire Khalkha territory, Liu Yong had already seen that Zhao Xin's wings had been formed. He would be able to enter the pass with just a little time. The tyranny of the imperial court is unstoppable, let alone the withering talents in the court, even if Fu Heng and Zhao Hui are alive, they can't beat them at all.

Since he arrived in Jinan in early August last year, Liu Yong knew that he did not have the two tricks of his father Liu Tongxun, so he handed over the task of leading the army to Lavandorji and Fucha Mingliang. However, before he understood the intention of Beihai Town to send troops to Shandong, he ordered the two to strictly, as long as the opponent's troops did not cross Dengzhou Prefecture, he would not be allowed to exchange fire without authorization.

Tens of thousands of Qing troops were pressing over and entered the Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture to defend. The problem was that Mingliang, who had experience in fighting with the Northern Navy, knew very well that even if he had doubled, it would be difficult to resist the Northern Navy's cannons, let alone the Green Camp he led was weak in combat power.

From a military perspective, Shandong's terrain is relatively gentle and there are many traffic channels; although the Jiaodong area is densely packed, it will freeze in winter. If the Northern Navy continues to fight westward, it will be flat after leaving the mountainous area of ​​Shandong, and the Qing army has no danger to defend.

In the next four months, Liu Yong ordered Shandong prefectures to compile and train village warriors, promulgated the "Group Training Charter", and forced the strong men to send them to Jinan prefecture for training, while also visited the prefectures and talked with those officials and the gentry, asking them to donate food and wages to the army.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Fortunately, after the Northern Navy captured the four counties of Jiaodong with a rapid and fierce offensive, it stopped east of Qingyang River and Sun River; while the Qing army stabilized the defense line at the Aishan, Zuojiao Mountain, Wulong River, Changshui River, Taozhang River, and Dagu River, and built large-scale fortifications to set up fort checkpoints.

After learning the news, Qianlong and the civil and military officials of the court finally let go half of their hearts. It seemed that Beihai Town was short of people again. Okay, as long as you no longer fight westward, all the population of Dengzhou Prefecture will be taken away.

However, Liu Yong didn't think so. Judging from the Northern Hai Army's actions of issuing a notice on the people's safety in four counties, setting up a military control committee to take over the local area, and sending a "work team" to the countryside, they will definitely not leave this time!

For nine years, he couldn't understand many things about Beihai Town, nor could he understand them. Not only him, but the people in the court did not understand. How did Zhao Xin feed those millions of people? Why can each acre of land under Beihai Town achieve a horrific harvest of 500 or even 800 kilograms? How did his strange objects be made? Where did his subordinates such as Liu Sheng, Deng Fei, Chen Qingsong, Hong Tao come from?

If you want to talk about what kind of magic Zhao Xin knew, everyone would definitely not believe in Neo-Confucianism like Liu Yong. But after all the hardships, the spies obtained high-yield wheat seeds from Ningguta at the cost of blood, why did they not achieve such a high yield when they were planted in Shengjing? Moreover, during the wheat growth of the "Beihai Town Farm", they would sprinkle some white powder into the ground. Although the spies tried their best to get some, after taking them back to the capital, except for the taste of a little astringent and salty, no one could tell what it was.

Liu Yong is now sitting next to the warm charcoal stove, thinking about it one by one, and his heart is shivering one by one.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think that if Beihai Town can enter the world in the future, wouldn't it be possible for the whole world to grow that kind of high-yield food, and no one will be hungry again! Even if it encounters a famine, the people will save themselves with the food they have saved. This is something that has never been done in all dynasties!

Not to mention anything else, just without any hunger, Zhao Xin could surpass all the emperors since Zulong, and his achievements were catching up with the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Not to mention that he had also built a huge territory in the north. Moreover, according to secret reports from Guangdong and Guangxi, Beihai Town also occupied several tracts in Nanyang, and even obtained Tongdeng and Lang San from paper on the condition of supporting the Nguyen tribe in Guangnan.

Liu Yong really couldn't understand, how should Zhao Xin take care of such a large area? Isn't he afraid of dying?

You should know that the imperial court has already been in the north, south, east and west, and it is extremely difficult to manage it. It is often not easy to take care of this and that land in the Western Regions. The land in the Western Regions has been fought for more than a hundred years. The imperial court has been exiled and garrisoned troops and farmed, and it has been finally consolidated.

From Fu Kang'an's entry into Tibet this time, it can be seen that it takes a month for his letters to be sent to the capital. Even if there is anything wrong with him, the capital is beyond reach, so he can only pass the time.

I’m so confused! How to contact Beihai Town and find a way out for the Liu clan in Zhucheng?

Liu Yong began to sift through the children of the clan one by one. He had to be meticulous and had to do things with steadily. He must not let outsiders notice it. At present, from the court to the people, countless eyes are staring at him, staring at the Liu family in Zhucheng, and staring at Chahe Villa. If you are not careful, you will be a disaster!

He drank tea cup after cup, smoked cigarettes bag after bag, and sat down from the afternoon until the time of the lights. When Liu Xipeng came to ask him to move to the flower hall for dinner, he was shocked to see the other person. Less than two hours later, the 73-year-old Liu Yong had a tired face and his eyes were deeply entangled.

"Father, do you have supper? Why don't I bring it to you?"

Liu Yongqi huo huo huo huoed his back, took a sip of tea, and stroked his feverish forehead, saying, "No, I'll go over."

Liu Xipeng took off the washed white cotton cloak from the clothes hanger, put it on it for Liu Yong, and then took out the hat for him to put it on. Then he went out of the study with Liu Yong. Standing in the corridor, the snowflakes dancing wildly were still falling from the sky endlessly. Liu Yong raised his head and looked at the dark and gloomy sky, and sighed indecisively.
Chapter completed!