"Yes." Li Kaifu was still a little surprised, how did Zhang Rui know that he would have fire marks on his body. So, he took out the fire certificate from his sleeve pocket and gave it to Zhang Rui.
This fire seal is really convenient to use. Zhang Rui just pulled out the cover, blew a few strong breaths with his mouth and lit it up. Later, Zhang Rui burned the letter in front of Kaifu Li.
"I think this is the first time General Li has come to Zhilian Mountain!" Zhang Rui handed the fire certificate back to Li Kaifu and said
"Yes, I didn't expect this place to look like this. It's different from what I imagined. Now it seems to be quite big. I think it will become a different scene in a while!" Kaifu Li replied.
"If you don't come to attack here, we will probably be able to build a county seat soon!" Zhang Rui said sadly.
"There is nothing we can do about this. Sometimes His Majesty's decisions are not for us ministers to decide." Li Kaifu comforted Zhang Rui and said.
"Yeah, what's the use of me telling you this?" Zhang Rui said to Kaifu Li as if he was talking to himself, which made people feel a little sympathetic.
"Actually, think about how much of a crime I have committed? Does it have to be like this? How innocent are the people at the foot of the mountain? Thinking about it now, I finally understand how Gu Yaonian in Changzhou, Suzhou felt when he was in the 13th year of Qianlong's reign!"
Li Kaifu didn't dare to discuss court matters, but he was a little interested in what Zhang Rui said later, so he asked: "Who is that Gu Yaonian? What happened?"
"This has to start with the price of grain that year. During the spring and summer, the price of rice in Suzhou soared. Gu Yaonian was a hawker and really couldn't afford rice."
"So Gu Yaonian wore thin clothes and tied his arms. He stuck a piece of paper on his body with eight big characters written on it: Without money to buy rice, the poor will have a hard time. Kneel down at the gate of the government office to petition the government to provide food at a fair price."
"As a result, the government thought he was a troublemaker and ordered him to be punished. The people who were watching couldn't bear it, so they rescued him. Later, the matter was sent to your holy master by Liubaili. You know he How did you reply?"
"How did you reply?" After hearing Zhang Rui's question, Kaifu Li subconsciously said it. However, he seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and looked around to see if anyone was around.
Zhang Rui seemed not to see anything wrong with him and continued:
"Your Majesty believes that the people gathering to resist the officials is the most damaging thing to the law. Then he replied in the memorial: Immediately kill him with a stick as a warning to others, and never let it go lightly. In the end, Gu Yaonian and the people who rescued him were all executed. Search, arrest, and commit fraud one by one." Note 1
"Ah, why?" Xu Shi found that there was really no one around, just him and Zhang Rui. Kaifu Li also let down his guard a little and asked
"I don't know about this. I should ask your sages. Maybe he thinks he wants slaves who have no complaints. Is a slave a good slave if he dares to speak out?" Zhang Rui said casually.
"Impossible, you must have slandered my sage. No wonder the sage thinks you are a traitor." Li Kaifu heard this and immediately retorted.
Zhang Rui didn't feel angry when he heard what Li Kaifu said. He just said calmly: "Yes, I've 'slandered' your sage. Your Lord Qianlong is an extraordinary saint. How can you put down us untouchables?"
"So what if Gu Yaonian prayed for the people back then, but he ended up being killed in battle and was smeared as a troublemaker who caused trouble and killed others. But your sage is the sage master who regulates grain prices."
"Who knows what is right and wrong? Who cares?"
After listening to this, Kaifu Li just stood there angrily and said nothing.
"Okay, I won't tell you more. You don't want to hear it anymore, saying that I slandered your master. Oh, no, you are not even his slave." Zhang Rui said indifferently.
When Kaifu Li heard this, he immediately became unhappy: "What does it mean to be a slave? Even if I really can't be considered a slave, you can't tell me. Can you be considered a slave of his old man?"
Zhang Rui saw that Kaifu Li was about to speak, and quickly waved his hand to stop him: "You don't have to say anything. If you are brave enough, you can ask your Governor Yang Yingju. He must know about this case."
"Okay, I want to see how you, a traitor, 'slandered' our Qing Shengming Emperor." Li Kaifu answered Zhang Rui like a quarrel,
In fact, when Kaifu Li heard Zhang Rui say that Yang Yingju knew about this, he already believed it, but he didn't believe it was the case, so he replied to Zhang Rui angrily.
"I bet General Li hasn't visited our Zhilian Mountain yet?" Zhang Rui instantly changed the subject.
Kaifu Li saw that Zhang Rui was already changing the subject and was no longer dwelling on what had just happened. After all, this place has always been his Zhang Rui's territory, and he is always the one who suffers if there is any trouble.
"Yes, I was welcomed here by Manager Liu just after I arrived at Zhilian Mountain."
"That's it! Then why don't you go down the mountain and enjoy the scenery here? Otherwise, if I were killed by you, this place would probably be a different scene." Zhang Rui suggested
Kaifu Li had no unnecessary expression on what Zhang Rui said, because he knew what Zhang Rui said was right. But is he really willing to let me go down the mountain? This poses an extraordinary risk to the subsequent encirclement and suppression of Zhilianshan.
"You really want me to go down the mountain?" Kaifu Li replied with some disbelief.
"Why don't you want to? I'm not afraid of you coming to encircle and suppress you. If you can't be wiped out outside, even the mountain won't be preserved. You can just go to the foot of the mountain!" Zhang Rui said generously, and then went out Arrived outside the meeting hall.
Just in time, a small patrol team came over at this time. Zhang Rui then called to one of his squadron members and a young team member and asked them to take Kaifu Li down the mountain and bring him back when it was time to eat.
So, Kaifu Li followed the two team members down the mountain.
"What do you think of Sixth Brother?" Li Kaifu chatted with several team members on the way down the mountain.
"Brother Six? He must be a good person. If it weren't for him, my brothers and sisters wouldn't be able to eat a full meal of white rice until now." The young team member said relaxedly after hearing what Li Kaifu said.
"Oh, what do you say? What do you call this little brother, and what do you call the brother next to him?" Li Kaifu looked at the young team member and asked
The team member looked at the leader but did not stop him. Maybe it was because he was not allowed to talk during patrol. After all, he was young and not used to being lonely. So at this moment, he couldn't wait to talk more, and if he praised Sixth Brother, he would just say it if he could.
"It turned out that I didn't have a name, and I was ranked fourteenth in the village. But I climbed trees quickly, so everyone called me Zhong Monkey. Now our team leader named me Zhong Baoguo. By the way, this is our team leader, Li Aiming ." Zhong Baoguo pointed his finger at Li Aiming and said to Li Kaifu
"Zhong Baoguo, Li Aimin (not a typo). Well, this is a good name. It doesn't sound like the name of a rebel." Li Kaifu nodded and thought to himself, then he jokingly said to Zhong Baoguo: "Brother Zhong Baoguo, what do you know? Is it a country?”
"I don't know. How can I, a young man who plows the fields, know this? But I know that the place where Brother Six is present must be the country." Zhong Baoguo said proudly, looking at Li Aiming and wondering if he was holding a team meeting. Praise yourself every time.
Note 1: Information from Baidu and Sohu. If you want to know more, you can enter relevant keywords to search. I won’t write too much in this chapter to avoid being unable to keep up with the plot.
