Nanzhili, Changzhou Prefecture, Yixing County.

Yixing is located on the west bank of Taihu Lake, which is the origin of purple clay pots and the famous pottery capital of China.

Yixing is full of humanities and prosperous culture, and has given birth to four champions, ten prime ministers and a large number of famous ministers in history, and Lu Xiangsheng is one of them.

The Lu family is a scholarly family in Yixing, and attaches great importance to cultivating the scholars in the clan, after generations of Bai Ding, the ancestral tomb of the Lu family finally smoked, and the descendants of Lu Xiang were promoted to the middle school jinshi, and the official fortune was prosperous in the future.

Lu Xiangsheng was the head of the household department at the beginning, promoted to the staff of the foreign lang, tired of moving to the daimyo prefect, Chongzhen two years of his own change, he recruited 10,000 soldiers and horses, into Beijing to assist in the defense, and later promoted to the right to participate in the government and deputy envoy, the Tianxiong Army is he rectified the Daimyo, Guangping, Shunde three prefectures when the military build.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng was promoted because of his outstanding political achievements and conduct, and was promoted to be an envoy; Since the sixth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng participated in the suppression of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other rogues and made meritorious contributions, and was promoted to the right deputy capital of Yushi, the prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces, and the governor of Huguang.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng defeated Zhang Xianzhong; In the eighth year of Chongzhen, he defeated Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng peasant army, and was promoted to the left servant of the military department and the governor of Xuanda, and Chongzhen served as the secretary of the military department for eleven years.

After Chongzhen's 12th year of Qing soldiers out of the customs, Lu Xiangsheng bid farewell to Zhu Cihong and returned to his hometown Ding Wei, and recently encountered a strike by businessmen and students, and he came forward to lobby and advocate the restoration of the market.

However, when disaster came, the businessmen suddenly pointed the finger at their Lu family, and rumors said that the Lu family and others colluded with the Taihu Lake bandits to harm the village sages.

Then it was the beginning of the nightmare, a large number of instigated villagers and green-skinned villains who took the opportunity to make trouble everywhere began to gather in the Lu Mansion, shouting and scolding every day, and finally developed to the point that as soon as the Lu clan people went to the street, they encountered a series of difficulties, beatings and abuse.

Lu Xiangsheng's eldest son, Lu Yizai, who was only thirteen years old, was besieged by several green skins and almost broke his leg, but fortunately escaped with the help of sensible neighbors.

The local government watched coldly, and did not take Lu Xiangsheng, who was at home, in the slightest, and allowed Diao Min to besiege Lu Mansion.

After this blow, Lu Xiangsheng still straightened his waist, his face was still full of stubbornness, and he said categorically to his clansmen: "There is nothing wrong with the crown prince's new policy, any innovation will touch the interests of some people, and after experiencing criticism, although my Lu family is close to Donglin people, I can't speak with a clear conscience!" ”

The Lu family has an excellent family education, and in history, the Qing soldiers went south, and there were more than 100 martyrs in the Lu family.

Lu Xiangsheng's eldest son Lu Yizai and second son Lu Yiqian both nodded heavily when they heard this, I heard that the crown prince is only one or two years older than him, and he has already done so many great things, and he must take him as a model and learn to be strong!

Shortly after Lu Xiangsheng's words fell, a stone flew into Lu's mansion and smashed a piece of rubble on the house.

Lu Xiangsheng's wife, Wang, walked out of the hall, looked at the two children worriedly, and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Master, let's send Zai and Yiqian to the Tianwu Army garrison in Changzhou Mansion." ”

Lu Xiangsheng is quite upright in terms of women, and did not take concubines as frequently as officials in the late Ming Dynasty, his wife Wang died early, and Wang accepted a concubine Chen for him before his death, in addition to Chen, Lu Xiangsheng only continued to string Wang's family, and had a wife and a concubine.

When Lu Xiangsheng was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a shout from outside the house: "Kill the internal thieves who colluded with the Taihu Lake bandits!" ”

Outside the Lu Mansion, the black pressure was surrounded by green-skinned scoundrels, and they shouted: "Rush in and beat to death the thieves who colluded with the Taihu Lake bandits!" ”

In the midst of cheers, dozens of stones and bricks smashed into the Lu Mansion, many green skins desperately knocked on the gate of the Lu Mansion, and some were ready to climb over the wall to enter.

In the distance of the crowd, several officials watched the behavior of these green skins boredly, without the slightest intention of dissuasion.

In the Lu Mansion, everyone in the Lu family was panicked, Lu Xiang was promoted to an official and honest, and the family did not hire a family to take care of the home, once the people from the outside rushed in, I am afraid that the end would be very miserable.

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at the heavy combat knife on the weapon rack in the courtyard, and finally sighed, and gave up the idea of lifting a knife to cut people.

Just when the Lu Mansion was panicking, a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded outside the mansion, followed by a scream, and the situation outside was very chaotic.

After a while, the gate of the Lu Mansion was suddenly opened inexplicably after a few sounds, and a group of armor soldiers with bright armor and muskets hurriedly walked towards the courtyard.

Seeing that this group of officers and soldiers was filled with an indescribable cold atmosphere, Lu Xiangsheng's wife Wang screamed in surprise and protected her two sons behind.

Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward and asked, "But the soldiers of the Tianwu Army?" ”

He had fought side by side with the Tianwu Army, and he could see at a glance that this group of armor soldiers was the standard of the Tianwu Army, but he didn't know their intentions, after all, the actions of the officers and soldiers of Changzhou Mansion had already chilled him.

The leader of the armor was in his thirties, and he didn't look like a martial artist, he came quickly, gave Lu Xiangsheng a deep salute, and said: "The last general, Sun Hedou, the head of the Tianwu military camp, has seen Lord Lu!" ”

Sun Hedou is Sun Heding's younger brother, and the three brothers of Sun Heding, although they dare not disobey their father's will and become officials, they are also a little unwilling to be so silent.

Sun Yuanhua is a well-rounded scientist, the three of them each inherited some of Sun Yuanhua's skills, Sun Heding is good at making firearms, the second Sun Hedou is inherited Sun Yuanhua's art of war, and also has some martial arts, and the third Sun Hejing mainly delves into mathematics, geometry and other aspects of knowledge.

Sun Hedou entered the Huangming Military Academy a few years ago for further study, and now Sun Yuanhua was rehabilitated by Zhu Cihong, and he also took this opportunity to enter the Tianwu Army and became the battalion commander in charge of a battalion of 400 people.

Lu Xiangsheng was surprised and delighted, and said: "It turned out to be General Sun, Lu Mou thanks General Sun for his help!" ”

Sun Hedou hurriedly said: "The last general doesn't dare to be, please rest assured, Lord Lu, the Tianwu Army was ordered to quell the chaos, and the Changzhou Mansion will soon settle down." ”

While the two were talking, they only heard another shouting sound outside the house, obviously the troublemakers brought in the rescuers, Sun Hedou hurriedly retreated, and continued to lead people to surround and kill the troublemakers.

As soon as he left the house, Sun Hedou saw a large group of people running on the street, all of them with fierce faces and sticks in hand.

Sun Hedou raised his eyebrows and waved his hand, and immediately the hundred and ten Tianwu Army soldiers around him all smiled and took out a grenade from the belt behind him.

Sun Hedou likes to play with firearms the most, and he loves grenades, and after graduating from the Huangming Military Academy, he has never had the opportunity to go to the battlefield to actually operate it, and he can't let go of the opportunity today.

He pulled out a grenade and lit the rope with a flick of the torch in his hand.

Looking at the sizzling sound and the flames, Sun Hedou looked very nervous, and at the same time looked forward to it, seeing that the lead rope was almost burning, he threw it into the green skin crowd who came to find a field.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the smoke rose from the thick air, and the steel balls and broken iron in the grenade instantly exploded in all directions, and a large piece of the crowd immediately rolled down.

After the first grenade exploded, the remnants of the Tianwu Army also threw the guys in their hands together, a series of explosions sounded, the scene was full of flesh and blood, and a large number of troublemakers who were ready to besiege fell to the ground and howled, and the rest were frightened and scattered.

Lu Fuzhong heard such a big movement outside, and hurriedly came out to take a look, as soon as he came out of the house, a strong smell of blood came, only to see corpses and moaning green skins all over the ground.

The scene in front of them had a great impact on Lu Xiangsheng's two young sons, who hid behind Lu Xiangsheng with pale faces, not daring to look directly.

Lu Xiangsheng sighed secretly, the Tianwu Army was sharpened from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and it was very ruthless to the Tartars, and it was not merciful to these chaotic people.

Lu Xiangsheng did not incarnate a saint to preach, he knew very well that the prestige and execution of the regime were based on the deterrence of violence, and if the crown prince wanted to make drastic reforms, he must deter Xiaoxiao with a thunderous iron fist, otherwise everything would be empty talk.

(End of chapter)