Jinan, Shandong Governor's Office.

Shandong Governor Yu Dacheng, holding the letter from Wang Daochun that he had just received, looked melancholy.

The letter said that the Dengzhou general Kong Youde rebelled and attacked Wuqiao County yesterday morning and asked to send troops to quell the rebellion. Yu Dacheng felt that this should be true. He had dealt with Wang Daochun. Wang Daochun was a relatively upright person, but because of this, he felt uncomfortable.

Wu Qiao is not in Shandong's territory, and he doesn't care about his own business no matter what. However, Wang Daochun said in his letter that the rebels are likely to fight back to Shandong, and he still has a general understanding of the military strength of Shandong. He is not the opponent of the Dengzhou soldiers at all. The most important thing is that Yu Dacheng does not know how to command the war.

Yu Dacheng was a very special person. His ability to climb to the position of governor of Shandong was related to a great war, which was the "Jisi Change" in the second year of Chongzhen. His identity at that time was also related to the war. The Ministry of War was the Langzhong of Fangshi, who was responsible for handling military maps of various provinces. Even so, he still did not know how to command the war.

At that time, Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned by Chongzhen, and Yu Dacheng accurately judged that Zu Dashou would rebel. Sure enough, three days later, Zu Dashou led his army to evacuate Beijing. At this time, Huang Taiji was still besieging Beijing. This behavior was no different from rebellion. Chongzhen asked Zu Dashou to return to his army, but Chongzhen's imperial edict was not easy to use, so Zu Dashou still ran to Ningyuan.

Later, Yu Dacheng fooled Yuan Chonghuan and asked Yuan Chonghuan in prison to write a letter to Zu Dashou. Zu Dashou stopped his troops and waited for a while. At this time, Zu Dashou was almost running back to Jinzhou. With Sun Chengzong's resumption, Zu Dashou led his army back to Beijing and continued to fight.

Therefore, Yu Dacheng is good at power and not military affairs. He was appreciated by the senior officials of the cabinet and promoted him. Until now, the governor of Shandong, he lived a very comfortable life, but now he was disturbed by this letter and he lost all his good mood in the morning.

Yu Dacheng was also struggling with how to deal with this matter, whether to really let Fubiao camp encircle and suppress it, or recruit the rebels, or ignore them if they didn't enter Shandong?

After struggling for a long time, Yu Dacheng finally made up his mind to adopt the ostrich strategy. When this matter has never happened, it would not be too late to deal with it if it really turned into a big deal.

Ask the servant to get paper and pen, and then reply to Wang Daochun, asking him to investigate clearly first. It is not surprising that the Liao soldiers are so arrogant and illegal, and they have conflicts with the locals or even kill people. It is likely that it is just a simple little thing, and it is rumored to be rebellious. Such a major thing needs to be investigated clearly and made decisions.

If it is just a trivial matter, it doesn't have to be ignored. What should be done? That's the matter of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai. If there is a mutiny and the rebels do not enter Shandong, there is no need to worry about it. That's the matter of the Hejian prefect.

If the rioters enter Shandong, Wang Daochun will be responsible for recruiting and pacifying them. He, a Shandong inspector, has this right. As for the extermination, there is no need. Most mutinies in the past few days are to make money. Those rioters will be settled and then deal with the leaders. There is no need to make a big deal. After all, they have to rely on them to fight the Tartars.

After sending the letter, Yu Dacheng breathed a sigh of relief. He saw that it was normal to deal with this matter in this way. Most of the mutinies in other places were handled in this way before.

After dealing with it, Yu Dacheng thought that this matter had never been done and enjoyed life leisurely.

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Li Tianjing finally took his family away, and even his two nephews and servants who were originally staying in the old house. He didn't plan to leave so soon, mainly because Kong Youde's words touched him a lot, and he couldn't wait to go to the capital to find Mr. Xu.

As for the responsibilities of the right governor of Henan, he was too lazy to take care of it now. After all, there was also a governor of Henan, a left governor of Henan, and a censor of Henan. It was nothing to do if they were missing himself.

Kong Youde was also very satisfied. After all, Li Tianjing was here, and he was still a little embarrassed to conquer the wealthy family. After all, Wu Qiao was Li Tianjing's hometown, and he was in trouble in front of others. He was indifferent to his thoughts. He could let go of his hands and feet when he left.

He was thinking about how Zhang Dong and this errand were doing. Yesterday he saw them going out of the city. It was said that they were going to copy the richest family in Wuqiao. I don’t know how much it could be copied, so I should be back now.

Just as he was thinking, Zhang Donghe and Qin Zhiyuan came back. When they saw Kong Youde, they knelt down and said, "Report to the general, the subordinates have no choice but to do what the general told him."

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"Return to the general, my subordinates discussed with Master Qin yesterday and decided to copy the richest household in Wuqiao first. My subordinates thought they could collect tens of thousands of taels of silver, but they didn't expect that in the end, more than 800 taels of silver were found. My subordinates failed to complete the general's responsibilities, so please punish them." After Zhang Donghe said that, he knocked to the ground.

Kong Youdeye was a little angry. His personal soldiers searched the county government and could find more than 3,000 taels in Bi Ziyin's room. The wealthiest family in Wuqiao was less than 1,000? I'm afraid that Zhang Donghe and Qin Zhiyuan had embezzled the money and came back to fool him.

"Qin Zhiyuan, tell me what's going on."

Qin Zhiyuan told the story in detail. After they rushed to Fanzhuang yesterday afternoon, they sent people to guard the intersection around Fanzhuang first, and then found the most impressive Fan Mansion. During the process of entering, they were resisted by more than a dozen guards, but the solution was still smoothly.

Then he found the head of the Fan Mansion - Fan Yongnian. Unexpectedly, the old man relied on his own as an official and cursed Zhang Donghe and others. Zhang Donghe couldn't help but kill the old man with one knife, and then found the Fan Mansion's housekeeper and threatened him to tell the place where he deposited the money.

As a result, only five hundred taels were found. Zhang Donghe was so angry that he chopped off one of the butler's arms. The butler told him that there was some silver hidden in the hidden room. Everyone found more than three hundred taels from the butler's room. Zhang Donghe felt that it was impossible to have only such a small amount, but the butler could not find the rest of the money, but was still cut to death by Zhang Donghe. Zhang Donghe felt that such a small amount of money could not be paid.

I searched the entire Fan Mansion and thought that some wealthy families like to cast silver into silver troughs and silver balls that were hundreds of kilograms, and hid them in the cellar. Even if the thief comes, they can't move them away. Maybe the silver from the Fan Mansion is buried underground. So I dug the entire Fan Mansion, and the depth of the digging was about five feet, but I couldn't find the silver anymore. The total amount of the silver was less than a thousand taels.

"Qin Zhiyuan, you said that the Fan Mansion is the richest family in Wuqiao. Why do you think so?" Kong Youde narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Qin Zhiyuan.
Chapter completed!