Liu Sheng smiled dryly: "It's nothing, it's nothing, we're just curious." Lord Wu is in the capital and is well-informed, we just want to confirm it. Not...... This solemn and solemn style, Lord Wu should have heard of it. Governor Shen and I also had a few more words in private and talked about this matter. If you are really solemnly transferred to the political hall as an official, and then worship as a deputy minister, I am afraid that it will ......"

Liu Sheng smiled and said nothing.

Wu Chunlai said coldly: "I'm afraid of what? ”

Liu Sheng said softly: "I'm afraid...... to make Lu Xiang unhappy. Yan Zhengsu is not a person who can be controlled, and we are very worried about this. ”

Wu Chunlai sneered: "It's not the turn of the two of you to worry." ”

Liu Sheng said: "I didn't mean that, I waited for the sake of Lu Xiang." The relationship between Yan Zhengsu and Liang Wangye seems to be very good, and Liang Wangye and Yang Shumi also have a lot of friendship. Lin Bonian, the deputy envoy of the Third Division who returned to Hangzhou last time, was the second uncle of this Lin Jue, and Lin Jue was the guest of the Liang Palace. Yan Zhengsu and Fang Dunru are close friends, and Lin Jue's teacher is Fang Dunru. This blockbuster is strung together, and when Yan Zhengsu becomes the deputy minister, it will be all strung together from the political hall to the Privy Council to the three divisions and yamen. Isn't Lord Wu aware of it? Lu Xiang should be able to detect these things. ”

Wu Chunlai looked at Liu Sheng and Shen Fang in a daze for a long time, and suddenly burst out laughing, pointing at Liu Sheng's nose and laughing.

"Lord Liu, you're very worried. What are you two discussing in private? It is not your duty to speak of these things. If the court knows that the two of them are talking about the relationship between the court and the people, and they don't have them, the officials of the Yushitai will not allow you to live in peace. ”

Liu Sheng said: "Lord Wu, it is precisely because we have respect for Lu Xiang and respect Lord Wu that we think about these things more. Lu Xianggong is loyal to the country and open-minded, and he will not think about some trivial matters, but we can't see these things without reminding us. I'll put it bluntly. Lord Shen and I are willing to work for Lu Xiang, and we will never allow the formation of friends in the DPRK and China and the government for the sake of trouble. This is also the painstaking efforts of the two of us to be loyal to the Holy Lord and the imperial court. Seeing that this faction of party friends is about to take shape, the two of us can no longer turn a blind eye. Lord Wu, if the two of us can enter Beijing as officials, we can do our best to support and defend it, and we will not teach our friends to blackmail the public. That's what Lord Shen and I have always wanted to say to Lord Wu. ”

Liu Sheng finally said his purpose, he wanted to join Lu Zhongtian with Shen Fang and work for Lu Zhongtian. The condition is that they also want to be transferred to the capital and enter the central organization as officials. It's a deal.

Wu Chunlai looked at the two quietly, and a smile slowly appeared on his face.

"Please go back, you guys will be Qichen tomorrow morning."

"Lord Wu, then this matter ......" Liu Sheng thought that Wu Chunlai was rejecting his request, and hurriedly asked.

Wu Chunlai said with a smile: "The two of you go back and settle down in government affairs. As for other things...... After I return to Beijing, I will make my own decision. It's best for the two of you to do a few good things that the people applaud when you go back, and write a report to them. ”

How could Liu Sheng and Shen Fang not understand the meaning of his words, and asked the two of them to go back to do a few good things in government affairs to report to them, which was to use this as an excuse to transfer them to Beijing. The two were overjoyed, thanked them again and again, and said goodbye.

After Wu Chunlai saw the two leave, he sat down at the table again, picked up a pen and dipped it in some ink, and wrote and drew on a blank piece of paper. Soon after, several names were written on the paper, connected by lines, and the relationship between them was written. stared at the relationship diagram of the connection between the names of the people for a long time, and was stunned.

"My lord, Hangzhou General Judge Zhang Yi asks to see you." A dark shadow came in to report.

"Zhang Yi? What did he do? It's so late. Wu Chunlai was stunned.

"Zhang Tongju has already come, and the two prefects are here just now, and he has been waiting in front. I'm just here to see you. ”

"Oh." Wu Chunlai nodded.

"See him? My lord. The Shadow asked.

Wu Chunlai stared at Yan Zhengsu's name on the paper, stretched out his pen and wrote a word under Yan Zhengsu, and another black line was connected to the empty place, and the name Zhang Jun was written in the empty space, looked at it for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "See, of course see." Invite him in and order tea to be served. It looks like I won't be able to sleep well tonight. ”

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The bright moon is slanting to the west, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon on August 15 illuminates the vast world, and I don't know how many people are looking at the moon tonight, and their thoughts are like a tide. The same bright moon witnessed the hustle and bustle of Hangzhou City tonight, and also illuminated other people under heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are the same ice wheel, and under the same moon, different people live and experience different experiences.

Thousands of miles away in the north, more than 600 miles southwest of Bianliang, Tokyo, it belongs to the mountains and ravines in the north of Namyang County, which is under the jurisdiction of Dengju, Gyeonggi Province. A woman was also sitting on a rock at the top of a mountain, looking at the full moon sinking in the west.

The autumn night in the deep mountains of the north is already very cold, and near the early morning, it is even more frosty and dew, and the cold is pressing. The woman's sleeves and buns were already wet, and there was even a faint layer of hoarfrost between the ends of her hair. However, she didn't seem to realize that she had been sitting here for hours. From the time the moon rose in the east, she sat here and watched the moon slowly set to the west. Looking at this full moon, thinking of people thousands of miles away, my mind is full of emotions, and I can't help myself.

This woman is Gao Muqing, a few months ago, Gao Muqing took Liang Qi and more than 500 brothers who escaped from the cottage on Guishan Island all the way to the north, experienced several bloody battles, broke through the siege and interception of officers and soldiers and arrived here. This is the Funiu Mountains in Dengju, Gyeonggi-do. Only after entering this Funiu Mountain can he be regarded as completely getting rid of the attack of the officers and soldiers.

Funiu Mountain is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains. Although it is a remnant vein, it has nearly 100 large and small peaks, with a radius of nearly 400 miles. The mountains are distributed from northwest to southeast, spanning the Hanshui Huai River, like a barrier, separating Gyeonggi and southwest Beijing. The mountains in this mountain are high and dense, the peaks are dangerous and the streams are deep, the high cliffs and caves, the waterfalls and valleys, the terrain is extremely complex, and it is an excellent place to live.

Although there are many alpine woodlands like this, there are actually many places in Dazhou, and it is not difficult to find a mountain forest to live in and build a village. However, for Gao Muqing and others, the reason why they chose to come to Funiu Mountain to start over had other considerations.

The first point is that this place of Funiu Mountain has been a place where the heroes of the green forest gather since ancient times, and there are dozens of cottages of all sizes where the heroes of the Central Plains green forests have fallen into the grass. When Guo Rong defeated the heroes of the world and established the Great Zhou, the remnants of a regularized army that were finally defeated were driven into Funiu Mountain. Since then, this soldier has become the origin of dozens of cottages large and small in Funiu Mountain. More than 100 years later, they have split and converged to form the current situation. Although they are all cottages with average strength now, many cottages do not agree with the Great Zhou Dynasty from the bones, so they are a group of real outlaws.

Therefore, Gao Muqing and others chose to come to Funiu Mountain because it was the best base to resist the atmosphere of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Over the past 100 years, some means and facilities have been formed to systematically resist the imperial court, including the transformation of the terrain, and the construction of many passes, making it difficult for officers and soldiers to enter the mountains to suppress bandits. There are only a few hundred people left in the cottage of Guishan Island, and this number is no longer enough to resist the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court. Therefore, coming to Funiu Mountain, with the help of the power of the cottages, is the best choice to save yourself.

The second reason for coming to Funiu Mountain is that Funiu Mountain is only six or seven hundred miles away from Bianliang and is located in the southwest of Gyeonggi Province. The nearest place in the northern foothills of the mountain range is not even five hundred miles away from Bianliang. This is like a knife in the vital part of the imperial court, a tumor in Gyeonggi Province, and the attack is the most disgusting.

If there is a bandit rising far away from thousands of rivers and mountains, the Great Zhou court and the Great Zhou emperor in the capital may not be able to empathize with it, and may not be able to feel threatened. But Funiu Mountain is so close, if you do something in Gyeonggi Province, it will obviously make the people in Bianliang City panic.

The cottage on Guishan Island was destroyed, and the imperial court rushed to kill and chase and intercept it, in this case, it was difficult to find a place to set up camp in a good time. The imperial court refused to give them time to breathe, and they must have exterminated them everywhere they went. Therefore, in order to ensure survival, it is necessary to find a place where you can immediately shelter and settle down. Funiu Mountain is obviously such a good place, with a good atmosphere of rebellion against the government, and the officers and soldiers do not dare to come in easily to encircle and suppress.

However, Funiu Mountain is not a foothold that comes to stand on it, there are fish and dragons mixed here, and each cottage occupies its own mountain. When the officers and soldiers are not coming, everyone wants to fight for more territory, annex more cottages, and expand their own strength. It is obviously impossible for outsiders to come here and carve out a piece of their territory. But for Gao Muqing's people on Guishan Island, there is a unique advantage, that is, there are people in Funiu Mountain who are willing to accept them into the gang.

The area of Pheasant Ridge and Tiger Roaring Gorge in the southeast of Funiu Mountain and the highest peak on the east side, Shiren Mountain, is occupied by a cottage, and the owner of the village is named Zuo Zongdao. This person used to work on Guishan Island many years ago, and gathered on Guishan Island with the owner of Gao Laozhai, and later for some reason Zuo Zongdao asked to leave the Guishan Island cottage. The style of the owner of the old village has always been to get together if he doesn't get together, and he doesn't force it. When Zuo Zongdao left, the owner of Gao Laozhai also summoned a group of brothers to see off the wine, and Zuo Zongdao left the cottage and did not know where to go.

It wasn't until five or six years after losing contact that Zuo Zongdao sent someone to send a letter to the owner of Gao Laozhai, and at that time everyone on Guishan Island knew that Zuo Zongdao had become famous in Funiu Mountain and became one of the owners of several large cottages in Funiu Mountain. Since then, the contact between the two sides has not been interrupted, and Zuo Zongdao once took him in because of the favor of the old village owner, and he did not make it difficult when he left, and he respected the old village master very much. Every year, people are also sent to send some mountain goods and furs from Funiu Mountain to pay homage. Gao Muqing remembered that one year when he celebrated his birthday, Zuo Zongdao gave a snow-white mink fur as a gift to Gao Muqing, who was only a teenager at the time. Although Gao Muqing had never seen Zuo Zongdao, he remembered it clearly.

A few months ago, after the accident on Guishan Island, when Gao Muqing and the others were desperate, they received a letter from Zuo Zongdao, inviting them to live in his cottage in Funiu Mountain. At the time, this was tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow. With Zuo Zongdao's cottage as a place to live, too many dangers and hardships are avoided, and you can immediately gain a firm foothold. So after discussion, Gao Muqing and others decided to come to Funiu Mountain to settle down.

This factor of Zuo Zongdao is the third and most important reason why Gao Muqing led the people of Guishan Island to come to Funiu Mountain. For Gao Muqing, the current situation is beyond her ability. She couldn't lead the remaining hundreds of people to regroup, and Zuo Zongdao's invitation at this time undoubtedly made her breathe a sigh of relief.

After arriving at Funiu Mountain, Zuo Zongdao was also warm and thoughtful, not only did not ask Gao Muqing and others to join his cottage under his command, but instead vacated the Pheasant Ridge site in the north for Gao Muqing and others to establish a foothold in the cottage. This reassured many Guishan Island brothers who were a little worried and worried. In terms of the supply of food and materials, Zuo Zongdao also gave a lot of support. In this way, Gao Muqing and hundreds of others quickly settled down. In the following month, one after another, the separated brothers and family members of Guishan Island came from thousands of miles to get together. In a short period of time, nearly 2,000 people have been gathered, most of whom are ordinary people who once lived on Guishan Island.