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Chapter 9 Suspicious Clouds at the Wharf

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    Sure enough, as Liu Xuanchu said, three days later, on September 19th, Wu Sangui met Feng Xiang again on Wuhua Mountain, agreed that Feng Xiang would go to Beijing to meet with His Majesty as usual, and then explained the current situation to Feng Xiang, asking Feng Xiang to be in Beijing as usual.  On the way to Beijing, they took a detour to Guangdong to persuade Shang Kexi and his son, and let Shang Kexi and his son submit a petition to the Qing court to ask for an increase in salary, which relieved the pressure on Wu Sangui's side, and added an important bargaining chip to Wu Sangui in negotiating with the court on the allocation of military salary.  Feng Xiang, who was prepared in his heart, agreed without hesitation, and patted his chest to promise to complete the task.  Wu Sangui was overjoyed when he heard the words, first he highly praised Feng Xiang's loyalty, promised to give Feng Xiang some short-term benefits, and then gave Feng Xiang fifty catties of sand as the activity fund, then sent Liu Xuanchu and Wu Yingqi to personally deliver the letter  Xiang down the mountain.

    On September 20th, according to Wu Sangui's order, Feng Xiang set off directly from Kunming City, detoured to Guangdong to meet another old traitor Shang Kexi and his son.  When parting, Liu Xuanchu who came to see him off in person not only repeatedly told Feng Xiang to be careful, but also gave Feng Xiang an official document issued by Wu Sangui himself, and also sent twenty royal guards to protect Feng Xiang.  At the same time, Liu Xuanchu also directly told Feng Xiang in secret, "In addition to protecting you, these twenty palace guards also have another task to monitor you. You should know how to do it yourself. But you can also rest assured, as long as you treat the prince  Loyalty, if a teacher speaks for you in the palace, they dare not make things difficult for you casually." Feng Xiang solemnly agreed, and said goodbye to Liu Xuanchu with tears.

    Going from Kunming to Guangzhou must pass through Guangxi. Unlike Wu Sangui, who controls Yunnan and Guizhou alone, the situation in Guangxi, which is also a vassal, is much more complicated. The first is that the veteran traitor Kong Youde has been defeated by the Han mob Li Dingguo in Guilin. His wife  None of the sons escaped, only Kong Sizhen, a daughter who was said to have an affair with Emperor Shunzhi of the Tartars, survived, but because she was a young woman, she was unable to control Guangxi at all.  Later, Line Guoan, a veteran of Kong Youde's department, made great contributions in forcing Li Dingguo out of Guangxi, and was named Admiral of Guangxi by the Manchu Qing court.  But at the beginning of the sixth year of Kangxi, which Feng Xiang traveled to, Lin Guoan begged to be appointed because of his old age, and the gang of wolves and tigers under the veteran traitor Kong Youde suddenly started to move again.

    Kong Youde's gang of wolves and tigers are eyeing the control of Kong Youde's fief Guangxi, and among them, there are four forces who are qualified to inherit and have the strength to inherit Kong Youde's political legacy.  Ma Xiong, Kong Youde's veteran brothers Dai Liangchen and Wang Yongnian, the third son of Lan Guoan, Lan Yuxuan, who is quite popular in the army, and finally Kong Sizhen's husband Sun Yanling and Sun Yanling's brother Sun Yanji, all of the four forces are qualified to inherit Kong Youde  At the same time, no one has the certainty of winning. For this reason, they have been fighting openly and secretly, making Guangxi a miasma and chaos.  But none of the first three forces expected that the current rulers of the Manchu Qing court were so politically wise that they broke the rules and issued an order to allow Kong Youde's only daughter, Kong Sizhen, to take control of the fief in Guangxi.  Unconvinced and can't find any reason to object.  Sun Yanling, who was engaged to Kong Sizhen since childhood, happily rushed to Beijing to take his wife back as his master, and then dreamed of taking over power from his wife and becoming the real and unknown king of Guangxi.  But it is a pity that Kong Sizhen, who grew up beside the old witch of Xiaozhuang and was loyal to the Qing court, would let Sun Yanling get his wish?

    In view of these complicated situations in Guangxi, Liu Xuanchu's guidance and recognition of his own shortcomings and his shoulders made Fengxiang act more cautiously. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, Feng Xiang and his party arrived at Luoping County, which borders Yunnan and Guangxi.  He immediately ordered the twenty accompanying guards of Pingxi Palace to put on plain clothes, pretend to be drug dealers with himself, and enter Guangxi with several carts of Gastrodia elata, Eucommia and other drugs.  Regarding this order, Erlang and Kong Fanlin, the head of the guards of the West Prince's Mansion, were very puzzled. Kong Fanlin, who had a fairly good attitude, asked Feng Xiang cautiously: "Master Lu, we don't need this, do we? Master Lu, you are the first time  When you are an official, you must not know that the customs clearance official document issued by the prince can pass through the world, basically except for the Imperial Palace, no matter which checkpoint you reach, no one will dare to stop you."

    "Brother Kong misunderstood, I'm not afraid that the official document issued by the prince will not work." Feng Xiang shook his head and patiently explained: "This time, I took a detour to Guangdong to run an errand for the prince under the sign of going to Beijing to see you.  For example, when I enter Beijing, I see that I should take the road of Guizhou and Hunan, and then board a boat in Hunan, go down the Yangtze River, and finally turn into the canal and go straight to Beijing. In this way, if I enter Guangxi with an open identity, I will definitely attract the local government  Suspicion, missed the important matter of the prince. So for the sake of prudence, it is better for us to pretend to be businessmen." Kong Fanlin and other guards felt that Feng Xiang's words were reasonable, so they followed suit.

    Feng Xiang's caution seems to have played a role.??Famous?  Feng Xiang was very dissatisfied about being almost regarded as a wanted criminal and passed the customs easily, but there was no trouble at all. Feng Xiang didn't bother to make troubles, led Xiao Erlang and other family members to the pier, hired two cargo ships, and set off on board  But when boarding the ship and setting off, Feng Xiang, who was looking out from the cabin, felt that something was wrong. The Qing soldiers who had been searching the merchants on the pier just now stopped checking, and the soldiers scattered all over the pier also  The assembly began, and it seemed that the team was about to return to the camp.

    "Things are wrong." Feng Xiang frowned.  Xiao Erlang next to him asked curiously: "Master, what's wrong?"

    "Erlang, did you see that?" Feng Xiang pointed to the pier and said, "The troops on the pier were originally under strict inspection, but as soon as we boarded the ship, those soldiers began to gather together. What does this mean?"

    "What does it represent?" Erlang asked foolishly.  Feng Xiang was furious, he gave Erlang a chestnut on his head, and cursed in a low voice: "Idiot! How could I have such a stupid servant like you? The army was withdrawn as soon as we boarded the ship. Doesn't this mean that this  An army is likely to be directed at us?"

    "Aiming at us? Why?" Erlang covered his head and asked in amazement: "We didn't do anything wrong? Why did they come at us?"

    "How do I know?" Feng Xiang asked back angrily, and recalling the situation just now carefully, Feng Xiang felt that the situation was not right¡ªwhy didn't the general of the Guangxi army just let Xiao Erlang see the portrait on the arrest warrant?  Who is that pictured on the arrest warrant?  Also, why did the boss call him, and why did he let him pass so easily?  Recalling this point, Feng Xiang thought of something again, although the boss put him on the boat directly, but when he boarded the boat, he accidentally looked back, the boss seemed to be looking at him, and when he found himself turning around, he immediately  Turn your face away, very much as if you have been observing yourself.

    If it was the previous Feng Xiang, Feng Xiang would definitely not take these small problems to heart, but after receiving Liu Xuanchu's guidance in Kunming City, Feng Xiang has already realized his weakness in character, and is determined to work hard to correct it.  So after thinking about it for a while, and looking at the rough map of Guangxi brought by Kong Fanlin and other guards for a while, Feng Xiang made up his mind, discussed with Erlang, Kong Fanlin and the others: "Well, let's be careful, our ship will probably be gone tonight.  If we can reach Jiuzhou, then you two and I will take five or six people to disembark and take the land route of Baise to Guangdong, and the rest will continue to take the water route, and then we will meet up in Deqing in Guangdong."

    "Lord Lu, do you need to be so troublesome?" Kong Fanlin asked suspiciously: "In any case, we are all from the King of Pingxi, although the brothers Lan Yuxuan, Ma Xiong, Dai Liangchen and Sun Yanling from Guangxi are not from the prince.  The subordinates can also be regarded as colleagues of the prince, can they still be disadvantageous to us?"

    Feng Xiang was also a little hesitant, but the doubts he discovered just now still lingered in Feng Xiang's heart, so after thinking about it for a while, Feng Xiang said in a low voice: "Maybe it's not necessary, and people in Guangxi may not dare  It is not good for the prince. However, when he left Kunming, Mr. Liu Xuanchu once told his officials that the situation in Guangxi is complicated. The four forces, Ma Xiong, Yuxuan, Dai Liangchen and Sun Yanling, have been fighting openly and secretly for the actual control of Guangxi.  It must be dark, and there is no guarantee that none of them will have the idea of ??dealing with the prince to please the court. We shoulder the important task of contacting the prince and the Nanwang, and there is no room for any mistakes. What happened on the pier just now is so strange, so I  In my opinion, it is better to be a little troublesome, but also to be careful." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com
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