The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 218 Chuanlu interception ([-])

Ji Mingluan finally figured it out.

"I am going to report this matter to the emperor. At the beginning, I didn't believe in the Chinese pinyin. But I felt that Jia Min's work was reliable, so I made some considerations and investigations, and finally let me I am very shocked, this matter is indeed feasible. If it can be promoted, it must be a grand event, it can be said that the merits of the present age will benefit the future."

"In the past two days, the envoys of the vassal state were also very surprised when they saw the Hanyu Pinyin, and they praised our outstanding people. They also wanted to pray to the Holy One to reward them with the Hanyu Pinyin plan and go back to educate the people. Therefore, the minister thought Ask the Holy One about it."

"Say."

"I want to do an experiment, recruit some boys, and use this Chinese pinyin to enlighten and verify. At the same time, I started to compile a dictionary. This is a very important matter, and the emperor must personally preside over it. After the dictionary is compiled, it will be named after the current year. It is called "Yuanheng Dictionary", and it has to be ordered by the emperor before it can be issued to the world."

"Well, this matter is also feasible. I'm reluctant to bear this name. It's just that I take care of everything every day. You have to take care of the specific affairs. The chief editor will be in charge of you."

Don't you just want this name, why are you still reluctant?Come on, the editor-in-chief belongs to me, and it can be regarded as a big profit.

"The minister leads the order."

"What do you think about Jia Min's imperial examination?"

What do I think?In the end, it was hand-picked by you. Did I say it worked?But since you asked, I have to say it.Huaiyuan gave me such a big credit for Hanyu Pinyin, so I have to say a few words for him.

"Jia Min humiliated his opponent in the competition arena and acted impulsively. It was really unseemly. When the minister was picking him up, he was also quite hesitant."

"However, this person is indeed talented. What's more rare is that he has both civil and military skills. Besides, he was repeatedly plotted against that day, so his actions were a bit extreme."

"The division of civil and martial arts in the imperial examination is of course a helpless move, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, literary cannot be martial, and military cannot be literary. The court needs people who have both civil and military skills. Therefore, I think Jia Min is a rare talent. Fortunately, he is still young. , after being honed in the future, it is likely to become a usable talent."

"Okay, I understand what you mean, let's go down."

"My minister retire."

Ji Mingluan came out of the Forbidden City. On the Jinshui Bridge, he met envoys from Siam, Jiaozhi and other feudal states.It turned out that they came to meet the emperor and asked for the Chinese pinyin to be rewarded to them.

Ji Mingluan left, and Emperor Yuanheng picked up Jia Min's test paper again.

Jia's son, you have some skills.It's nothing if I nominate you as the number one scholar, but you have offended too many people.You dare to put my little Changan in a cage, hehe...

If the tiger doesn't show its power, you will treat me as a sick cat.

Lu Bawang is now 40 years old, but he has been a bandit for 30 years.

That's right, 30 years.He was a bandit when he was ten years old.

His banditry belongs to his ancestors.From his great-grandfather's area, he was a bandit.

When he was ten years old, his mother died, and he was led by his father to the bandit's lair on the mountain.After going up the mountain, the first thing his father asked him to do was to kill a meat ticket.

A ten-year-old child is naturally unwilling to kill people casually.However, if he didn't kill someone, his father would kill him, so in the end King Lu killed the meat ticket.

For five or six days, King Lu was very scared.Worried that officers and soldiers will come to wipe them out.The officers and soldiers did come, and during this campaign, King Lu's father was shot to death by random arrows.

Oddly enough, he doesn't feel sorry for his father.Instead, he felt that his father deserved to die. If his father hadn't taken him to the mountain and forced him to kill someone, he wouldn't have become a bandit.He can still play with those little friends at home.

However, he later discovered that these thoughts of his were a little naive.It wasn't until he saw many family members of bandits being exiled and sold as slaves that he understood his father's original intentions.

From this time on, he began to be a bandit with peace of mind, and determined to regard banditry as his lifelong career.

He wanted to be a great bandit, a bandit so frightening at the mention of his name.

When he was 20 years old, he finally achieved this goal, and he became a bandit leader with more than 50 people on the hill.

However, at that time, he was still active in Zhili near the Bashang grassland.

Although that place was relatively remote and easy to hide, it was a poor village and there was not much oil and water to fish for. Therefore, he brought his troops to Wulong Mountain.

It is close to the imperial capital, and it is a rich place. It is more cost-effective to do a business than to do a few votes in the Bashang area.

If there is too much business, it is inevitable that officers and soldiers will be called to encircle and suppress.During an encirclement and suppression operation, King Lu got acquainted with Ma Qiming, the defender of Changping Prefecture.

That time, it was Ma Qiming who led the troops to encircle and suppress them.It's just that Ma Qiming was greedy for merit, and acted alone, but was captured alive by Lu Bawang.

King Lu originally planned to kill Ma Qiming, but when Ma Qiming knelt down and begged him for mercy, he changed his mind.I think this person can become my partner in the future.So, after negotiating the conditions, he let Ma Qiming go.

The two have since embarked on a 20-year relationship.

King Lu provided information about other bandits to Ma Qiming, so Ma Qiming wiped out many bandits one after another.In just a few years, Ma Qiming wiped out all the bandits on the hills around the imperial capital.

Because of his repeated military exploits, Ma Qiming kept getting promoted, and finally he was promoted to the position of Deputy Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp.

Lu Bawang also gained a lot from the cooperation between the two.After incorporating the remnants of other hilltops, he became the only hilltop that survived around the imperial capital, and his strength became stronger and stronger. At the peak, he had more than 500 brothers under his command.

Being a bandit is risky, but risking is not what you live for.People live to live a good life, eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day, gamble when they want to gamble, and find women when they want to find women.

So King Lu began his life of pleasure.In order to make his enjoyment life longer, he even bought many family businesses.

More than 2000 mu of good farmland in Zhili, and more than a dozen shops in the imperial capital are all his property.

Of course, for a successful man, concubines are indispensable.

However, concubines are sometimes harmful.It was because once I stayed at my concubine's house for a few days and got wind of walking, so I asked the new Changping prefecture guard Chen Jiayin to be caught.

Fortunately, he found Ma Qiming in time and escaped from Chen Jiayin.

Lu Bawang is actually a very shrewd person.He knew that the favor he let go of Ma Qiming at the beginning could not be used for a lifetime.Therefore, in the later days, he was also very knowledgeable.Always carefully maintain the relationship with Ma Qiming.

Ma Qiming always had a share of the money from the mountains that were wiped out.In the days that followed, Lu Bawang would always send a generous gift to Ma Qiming every year and festival.

In general, Lu Bawang has a good impression of Ma Qiming.In his opinion, Ma Qiming is a rather particular person who does things after receiving money.

However, Chen Jiayin is no good.Although he has been merciful to him these years, he is determined not to give him money.

Therefore, Bawang Lu was unwilling to associate with Chen Jiayin.

Although bandits are also known as bandits, they sometimes operate on the mountain, but most of the time, they don't stay on the mountain.

Most of the time, they hide in the crowd.

They may be a farmer who is plowing the fields, a salesman walking in the countryside, a shop assistant or even a shopkeeper, a soldier of Wucheng Bingmasi, or a servant of a certain big family.

It could be your neighbor, it could even be the husband of some peasant woman and the son of some father.

In normal times, they are no different from ordinary people, only when they act, will they reveal their ferocious nature.

The Cyclamen Restaurant in Dashilan, the imperial capital, is a relatively high-end restaurant in this area.Business is booming every day.Because it is relatively close to the Forbidden City, many dignitaries and dignitaries often come here to eat and drink.

The shopkeeper of Cyclamen Restaurant is very young, only this year.His father is a kind and middle-aged man. Every time he meets some regular customers who come to the store, he will warmly greet him and often serve tea and water to the customers.

When I saw the children in the neighborhood, I would often give them some candy to eat.When you meet beggars, you will also give them leftovers.

Therefore, the left and right neighbors have a good impression of him.

Today, this very kind person received a guest in a private room of the Cyclamen Restaurant.

This guest is Chen Jiayin, the defender of Changping Prefecture.After finishing the food and wine, Chen Jiayin left after drinking a cup of tea.

Chen Jiayin left, and the young shopkeeper came in.

"Father, what business do you have to do?"

"This ticket is free, and you can make money at a loss. Go ahead and call the old kite."

After a while, the old kite came back.

"Go and find out the route from Rongguo Mansion and Yeduju to the Forbidden City. If you intercept and kill someone on the way, see where you can strike."

The old kite agreed and went out.Came to the backyard of Cyclamen and pulled up the dung truck.

Seeing the old kite pulling the dung cart away, the neighbors knew that the old kite was going to collect dung in the streets and alleys of the city again.

Old Yaozi is at least over 50 years old and has no children. He wandered here two years ago. The kind owner of the restaurant Cyclamen took him in and provided him with a mansion in the backyard. Old Yaozi helped the restaurant to run. Some odd jobs can be regarded as rewarding the boss.

Of course, this is just the impression of the outside world.In fact, the old kite is the most capable assistant of the kind middle-aged man.

This kind middle-aged man is the King Lu who makes many people fearful.

The shopkeeper of Cyclamen is his son Lu Longsheng.

This time, they took over a free deal from Chen Jiayin, the garrison of Changping Prefecture: they killed a concubine in Rongguo Mansion, his name was Jia Min.

(End of this chapter)