"What kind of person does Grandpa Lu think he is today?" Lian Shanxiang asked directly.

Lu Jiude replied without hesitation: "It is the Lord of Wisdom and Wisdom. ”

"Then who is Zheng Yiguan?"

Lu Jiude hesitated and said, "People who are skilled in human feelings and thoughtful. ”

Lian Shanxiang looked at Lu Jiude and said slowly: "With Zheng Yiguan's means, giving such a heavy gift to my father-in-law, how can I just ask you to do this little thing." He must want to find out the news in the palace through his father-in-law, with His Majesty's intelligence, it may not be okay for his father-in-law to report the news once or twice, but after a long time, His Majesty will not know anything? How should my father-in-law deal with himself then? ”

Lu Jiude, who was originally confused by gold, was shocked, and suddenly became conscious. He saluted Lian Shanxiang with a fist and said: "Thank you for reminding the hundred households, our family almost made a big mistake, and in the future, the hundred households will have something to do, but please command, Jiude will be rewarded." ”

Seeing that Lu Jiude accepted his persuasion, even Shanxiang breathed a sigh of relief. Since the establishment of the factory guard, Jinyi Guard and the internal supervisor have had to support each other to survive. The inner eunuch needs to understand the movements of the courtiers through the Jin Yiwei, and the Jin Yiwei needs to understand the emperor's mind through the inner guard.

The internal supervisor and the Jinyi guard are not connected with each other, but can get the trust of the emperor and hold the power of the factory guard, and the Ming Dynasty is about a Lu Bing.

Although Lian Shanxiang was favored by Chongzhen by chance, he had a shallow foundation, but he did not have this way to hand over to the ministers. As a Jinyi guard who works for the emperor, if he can't understand the emperor's mind and mess up the things that the emperor explained, the dismissal and distribution will already be considered a good ending.

Although Lian Shanxiang looks down on the pursuit of fame and fortune, based on the principle of self-preservation, he also needs to find a way to understand Chongzhen's thoughts. Although the 17-year-old Chongzhen seems to be more stable now, at this age when the teenager jumps out, no one can guarantee that Chongzhen will always be so stable.

And Lu Jiude's appearance was to give a pillow to the sleepy Lian Shanxiang. Lu Jiude, who is young and has not yet made a career, and Lian Shanxiang, who has spent most of his life, can be regarded as being born in the Xinwang Mansion, and they were assigned the first major task by Chongzhen together, so it can be said that the two are a little close to each other emotionally.

Then on this trip, Lian Shanxiang planned to get close to Lu Jiude, hoping to get a way in the palace. Therefore, there were some things that he deliberately did not avoid, and let Lu Jiude know some about the content of his mission to show friendship.

Lian Shanxiang's actions finally paid off, and Lu Jiude openly confessed to him this time that Zheng Yiguan had bribed him. Between this question and answer, the two silently reached a tacit understanding of advancing and retreating together.

Lian Shanxiang pushed back the leather bag in his hand and said to Lu Jiude: "Then please return this bag of gold to my father-in-law." The coming days are long, and the father-in-law's good future is not something that can be bought with a hundred taels of gold. ”

Lu Jiude just thought for a moment, then made a pile of two skins, and then pushed them to Lian Shanxiang, and said: "Otherwise, I already understand the meaning of the hundred households, but this money cannot be returned." First, this group of pirates has not yet returned to the court, Zheng Yiguan is not only showing goodwill, but also tempting to see if the court is really willing to keep its promises, and if I don't accept it, it will make them suspicious; Second, before leaving Beijing, His Majesty was consulting the books of Shanshan Mountains and Rivers Water Conservancy, and seemed to intend to develop water conservancy, but suffered from insufficient national use. These golds are but a few things in their hands, and if they are given to your majesty, they can be used for all the people. In this way, you and I can also cultivate some yin virtues, wouldn't it be beautiful? ”

Lian Shanxiang's eyes lit up, and he immediately said with a slight smile: "Sure enough, my father-in-law is thoughtful, and Lian is ashamed." ”

With the money sent by Zheng Yiguan, I went to shoot Chongzhen's sycophant. This kind of good deed of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, even Shanxiang will naturally not object. And Lu Jiude simply handed over all the gold to Lian Shanxiang, because the two Jinyi guards had a higher force, and they could rest assured.

Of course, it was more that Lu Jiude was afraid that if the gold was placed by his side, he would not be tempted to do something unwise. Lian Shanxiang nodded at Lu Jiude, carried two bags of gold, and walked out of Lu Jiude's bedroom easily.

However, Zheng Yiguan's visit was only the beginning, and when it was getting late, Pan Bizheng came to visit Lu Jiude on behalf of Fujian maritime merchants and asked for four places in the list of ten people. And what was paid was a ticket of 3,000 taels and a 1,000 taels of Deyu money and rice shop, with which Lu Jiude could exchange the silver on the ticket or grain of the same value in Fuzhou or Nanjing.

In the next few days, Lu Jiude finally knew that this group of pirates was not the poor and unfed as he imagined, so he went to sea to become thieves. Although only Zheng Yiguan and Pan Bizheng sent more than 1,000 taels of silver, the rest of the pirate leaders basically sent more than 100 taels and less than 500 taels.

Finally, Lu Jiude knew the severity, and after receiving the property of a few people, he knew that it was impossible to delay. He quickly circled the list of ten people and handed it to Zheng Zhilong, and then under the pretext of going to see the situation of the Dutch living on the island of Taiwan on behalf of His Majesty, he asked Zheng Zhilong for a boat to go south to Anping.

Regarding Lu Jiude and others fleeing in the wilderness, Zheng Zhilong was unimpressed. He looked at the list, and Lu Jiude met most of his requirements, except for one Zheng Cai. Zheng Zhilong made people stare at the courtyard where Lu Jiude and the others lived every day, and naturally knew that Zheng Cai not only made a huge amount of money, but also deliberately befriended Lu Jiude, so he won Lu Jiude's favor.

Zheng Zhilong could only let go of this for the time being, although Lu Jiude was about to leave, accompanied by Zheng Cai, and went south to Anping as an interpreter. However, in the name of protecting the safety of the angels, Zheng Zhilong asked his younger brother Zheng Zhihu to take 20 people as the entourage of Lu Jiude and others.

Zheng Zhilong wanted to enhance his relationship with Lu Jiude, but he didn't want Zheng Cai and Lu Jiude to get too close.

Dayuan and the port are about half a day's voyage apart, but the location of the port is much better than that of the port.

At the southern foot of Dayuan Bay stands an earthen fort, which the Dutch called the city of Orange, but now renamed the city of Geranza. After being defeated by the Ming army at Penghu three years earlier, the Dutch made a private agreement with the governor of Fujian that the Dutch would abandon Penghu but would settle in Taiwan.

Of course, Lu Jiude knew that Chongzhen was very dissatisfied after learning about this agreement, thinking that the governor at that time simply did not know what to say, Taiwan was the barrier of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, allowing the Dutch to take root here, and the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty had become the meat of the Dutch's mouth, and they could take a bite whenever they wanted.