Chapter 55 The five daggers and the coral tree sent Fuming away

Fu Ming'a arrived as soon as he said it.It turned out that Seng Gelinqin was very suspicious of Zeng Guofan's report that Li Xiucheng and Hong Renda had been executed on the spot and that there was no gold and silver in Jinling City.He thought it was Zeng Guofan who was deceiving the court. It is very likely that Li Xiucheng was not caught at all, and the property in Jinling City was definitely embezzled by his brothers and the officers and men of the Hunan Army.He asked Fu Ming'a to find out the truth of these two incidents by inspecting the destruction of Jiangning's Mancheng City, severely suppress the arrogance of the Zeng brothers and the Hunan Army, and express an unknown grievance for the Manchurian Banner soldiers.

Zeng Guofan didn't care about Li Xiucheng.Li Xiucheng was detained for twenty days.There are many people who have seen it, and Gordon, a foreigner, can testify.On the day of his execution, there were more than 10,000 spectators along the way, not to mention his own written confession.No matter how tricky Fu Ming is, he can't deny this fact, and the matter of property in Jinling City is likely to go wrong. "Don't be afraid of him, what is a little Fu Ming! It's not just relying on the power of others, relying on Seng Gelinqin's influence." Zeng Guoquan looked indifferent. "Jinling City is the world of Jiziying, how can he be allowed to make trouble here. Tomorrow my eldest brother will pick him up at the pier in Xiaguan, and he will say that I am sick in bed and cannot welcome him in person. The day after tomorrow, I will hold a banquet for him in the false servant's mansion. Wash the dust. Then I'll show him some color."

"Old Jiu, although Fu Ming is only a general of Jiangning, he can reach the heavens, so he must not be underestimated." Zeng Guofan was worried about his younger brother's recklessness. "Brother, please don't worry, I want him to leave Jinling happily, and calm down this turmoil." With these words, Zeng Guofan felt relieved. The next day, Zeng Guofan boarded Fuming Abo's big boat on the Xiaguan River with Li Xiucheng's personal statement.A Fu Ming turned over Li Xiucheng's confession, and Zeng Guofan described the scene of the execution of Li Xiucheng and Hong Renda, and specially carried Gordon out. Sure enough, A Fu Ming no longer had any doubts about the capture of Li Xiucheng.Zeng Guofan and Fu Ming'a went ashore together, and personally accompanied him to inspect Mancheng in the east of the city.It was originally the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, and later served as the garrison of the Jiangning bannermen. After this bloody battle, the whole city has disappeared.Zeng Guofan readily promised Fu Ming'a that he would immediately allocate huge sums of money to repair Jiangning Mancheng first, and then Jingkou Banner Camp. After the houses were built, he asked the imperial court to send personnel from the capital's banner soldiers, and the old system must be restored.Fu Ming'a was very satisfied with this.In the evening of the next day, Zeng Guoquan hosted a banquet in the residence of the former royal servant, and Fu Ming'a happily attended.

In the evening, Fu Ming'a put on a dazzling unicorn patch gown, rode a tall Mongolian horse, and brought a few goshhas with him, and came to the original servant's mansion with great pomp.But seeing the deserted outside the door, the three doors were tightly closed, and there was no sign of receiving distinguished guests.Fu Ming was surprised.Ghoshha bluntly beat the gate with his fist, and only after a long time did he see an old porter with dizzy eyes come out, wearing a patched coarse cloth, which was dirty and dark, as if it hadn't been washed for decades. "General Fu is here, why are you so negligent?" Ghoshha reprimanded dissatisfied.The old concierge smiled, but was not angry.Ghoshha realized that he hadn't heard clearly, so he said it again. "Sir, please say it again loudly." Ghoshha said it again impatiently.

"Ah, Mr. Fu is here. I don't remember Jiuye's treat tonight. Damn it." The old concierge suddenly realized.Fu Ming'a, who grew up in Beijing, spoke a strong Xiangxiang dialect, and barely understood a single word.Then hurriedly ran in to report, and after a while the door opened wide, Zeng Guoquan appeared behind the door with a few people: "General Fu, offend, offend! The concierge made a mistake, I have already scolded him." "Jiu Shuai is polite." Fu Ming'a clasped his fists, his expression not very happy. The two entered the hall side by side, and sat down separately.Zeng Guoquan apologized again: "The concierge is confused, a lot of impoliteness."

"Jiu Shuai, I think your concierge should be replaced." Fu Ming'a solemnly suggested. "Yes, but he can't do other things." Zeng Guoquan expressed a great regret. "Why does your family need this kind of person? Send him two dollars, and the expenses will be settled." Fu Ming was surprised that a Jinling city had been taken down, but an old concierge couldn't deal with it. "General Fu spoke so eloquently!" Zeng Guoquan leaned back in his chair, his face dark and haggard. "He brought his two sons from the countryside of Heyetang to join Jiziying. He followed me and fought hundreds of battles. His exploits, big and small, could fill a whole room. He deafened his ears, and when he hit Jinling, three ribs were broken by a stone. Two sons, one died in Ji'an and the other died in Chao County. I can pay him casually for such a meritorious person? From then on, until the lieutenant general, he didn’t take an extra copper coin. All his salary had to be counted to him, which was always more than four to five thousand taels of silver. How could I get it? So knowing that he couldn’t do anything, I could only support him. .”

When Fu Ming heard these words, he felt uncomfortable, and responded vaguely: "If that's the case, you can't just spend it casually." A personal soldier stepped forward and whispered a few words into Zeng Guoquan's ear.Zeng Guoquan stood up, stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation, and said to Fu Ming'a: "Please, General Fu, the banquet in the West Flower Hall has been set." Under Zeng Guoquan's guidance, Fu Ming'a went to the West Flower Hall.I saw that ten tables of banquets had been set up in the hall, two seats were vacant above the chairman, and the other nine seats were already full. Seeing them coming, they stood up together.Zeng Guoquan introduced to Fu Ming'a with a smile on his face: "These are all meritorious generals who attacked Jinling City. It is their honor to have the honor to accompany the general."

Fu Minga smiled and greeted those who had stood up, and asked them to sit down.Seeing these people with silly smiles on their faces, wearing outdated clothes, and most of them wearing straw sandals on their feet, as if they were temporarily summoned to hold a military meeting during a long-distance march, Fu Ming thought to himself: Such a group of peasants A rustic bumpkin who was also the first general to attack Jinling?Zeng Guoquan asked Fu Mingah to sit at the guest table.Seeing that the table is full of rough porcelain clay bowls, and the food in them is just ordinary home-cooked dishes, without any delicacies from mountains and seas, he feels his appetite greatly diminished.As soon as Zeng Guoquan raised his wine glass and said "please", the companions at the nine tables couldn't wait to eat and drink, as if they had been hungry for days.Reluctantly, Fu Ming raised his wine glass and took a sip. He was surprised to find that the wine in the glass was unusually clear and mellow. After drinking it, he was full of comfort, and couldn't help but blurt out praise: "Good wine! Jiu Shuai, where did you get this wine? "

"This wine is unusual." Zeng Guoquan smiled, with a strange and mysterious color hidden in his eyes. "It is said that there are countless gold and silver treasures piled up in the Changmao Tianwang Palace, but there is nothing. But it is not true to say that there is no wealth at all. We also got two treasures." Fu Ming's eyes widened Yes, revealing the brilliance of great interest. "The first treasure is a big jar of wine." "It seems that the wine I drank is from this jar." Fu Ming said with a smile. "Exactly. Does the general know the origin of this wine?"

Fu Ming shook his head. "When I first got this jar of wine, no one knew how valuable it was. After opening the jar, the room was filled with a strange fragrance. Li Chendian ordered the lid to be closed quickly, and no one was allowed to move it. Later, I asked more than ten people around Hong Chief Only Huang Sanmei who was born in 2000 knew the origin of the wine." Zeng Guoquan said this with high spirits, then stopped suddenly, picked up the wine glass, took a shallow sip, and savored it carefully.Fu Ming also took a sip of the sample, looked at Zeng Guoquan, and beckoned him to speak quickly. "It turns out that when Chang Mao first entered Jinling, he dug up ten jars of wine when he was building the fake Heavenly King's Palace. A seal was added to each jar of wine, with the words 'Hongguang first year' written on it."

"This jar of wine has been buried in the soil for more than two hundred years!" Fu Ming was surprised. "Hong Chief loves fine wine the most, so he took all the ten jars of wine for himself, and drank nine of the ten jars. This is the last jar." "Ah, no wonder the wine tastes so mellow!" Fu Mingah sighed. "I originally wanted to seal it up and present it to the emperor, but when I see General Fu coming today, I might as well open it and finish the drink." Zeng Guoquan smiled heartily.The people in the other nine seats shouted: "We are all thanks to General Fu!" Fu Ming was very happy, the unhappiness when he first entered the mansion and the unhappiness caused by the rough porcelain clay bowl were all washed away by this fine wine.He happily raised his wine glass and said loudly: "This general has been honored by all of you who conquered Jinling. It is a great joy in my life to be able to drink this fine wine!" All the people at the banquet at the ten tables laughed heartily and began to drink and chew vigorously.Fu Ming asked Zeng Guoquan with a smile: "Two treasures, Jiushuai only said one, and there is another one?" "Is there one more thing?" Zeng Guoquan sneered, "Let's talk about it after dinner. Come on, let's have a drink first!" The two raised their wine glasses and clinked together, and drank upside down in one gulp.When the wine was half full, Peng Yuju left the table and came to Fu Ming'a, bowed, and said: "There are no musicians in the army, and you can't cheer for the general. Most of the people sitting here are warriors, and they don't know how to drink. Let's give the general a punch and make the general smile!" Fu Ming said happily: "Okay! Boxing and sword dancing are the true qualities of a soldier. General Peng, I want to see your true skills!" "The last general will show his shame!" Peng Yuju posed in the middle of the hall, moved his hands and feet a few times, and then rolled and jumped in front of everyone, sometimes the golden rooster was independent, sometimes the spirit ape climbed a tree, sometimes the sea explored for pearls, and sometimes deep mountains captured Tiger.In the excitement of the fight, he simply took off his shirt, revealing his ink peony tattoo. "Good!" "Good!" The hall applauded.Fu Ming picked up a glass of wine, walked to Peng Yuju's side from the table, and said with a smile: "The general is superb in martial arts, and I will feast my eyes. I respect this glass of wine for the general." And do. "Brother Xingnan, it's too lonely to fight alone, let me fight with you!" "Okay!" The whole hall applauded again.Liu Lianjie also took off his clothes, revealing his snow-white body, and fought with Peng Yuju face to face.Liu Lianjie is practicing the Wu family boxing, which is soft and hides strength, and the cotton is covered with gold, which is in contrast to Peng Yuju's northern boxing.In the hall, the two are strong and soft, attacking and defending. Suddenly, Peng Yuju's heels swayed, and he fell to the ground, his face pale and foaming at the mouth, everyone was surprised.Liu Lianjie was about to bend down to help him up, when suddenly Peng Yuju kicked Liu Lianjie's chest.Liu Lianjie clasped his chest with both hands and fell to the ground, unconscious for a while.Seeing that the two of them were fighting for real, everyone stood up one after another, and some said: "Forget it, don't fight anymore, it was just for fun, how could you be so cruel?" After a while, Liu Lianjie got up from the ground and went crazy. She rushed towards Peng Yuju as if, hugged his waist tightly with both hands, biting his shoulders fiercely with two rows of saw-like teeth, causing Peng Yuju to yelp in pain. "Crack!" Zeng Guoquan slapped the table with one hand, and the cups and plates jumped up: "Bastard, are you going to lose face in front of General Fu? Stop it!" Peng and Liu let go of their hands immediately. "Jiu Shuai, Liu Lianjie is not human, he kicked my lower body." Peng Yuju said, covering her lower body with her hands, the hall burst into laughter, and Fu Ming'a laughed so much that he spit out wine. Zeng Guoquan stopped laughing and asked Liu Lianjie, "Why did you do this?" "I want to teach him a lesson!" Liu Lianjie said arrogantly, "He spread rumors everywhere and viciously attacked me, saying that I picked up a pearl in Tianwang Palace and failed to turn it in. In fact, since I entered the city until today, I haven't even seen a pearl. See you." "Xingnan, why did you slander Nanyun?" Zeng Guoquan asked Peng Yuju sharply. "Jiu Shuai!" Peng Yuju shouted, "He was the one who slandered me first, saying that I found a gold ingot weighing two taels in the Heavenly King's Palace. It's so fucking bloody, I haven't seen a single gold ingot so far. " "Crack!" Zeng Guoquan slapped the table again, startling Fu Ming who was beside him, "It's all your subordinates who are making rumors and attacking each other. No wonder there are rumors about Jinling City. All the gold, silver and jewels in the store were swallowed up by my family. Everyone, now that General Fu Ming'a is here, you all confess in front of General Fu how much gold and silver each of you has obtained! " "I didn't find a tael of silver!" "Whoever hides gold is either a human or a beast!" "Who is blinded by the sight of jewels;" "Whoever touches the treasure is broken!" Nearly a hundred battalion officers of the Jizi Camp, 80% drunk, staggered and yelled loudly, and the hall was in chaos. "Everyone, stop arguing! General Fu also knows that you have worked hard in attacking the city, and you didn't get any extra money. These two bastards, Peng Yuju and Liu Lianjie, scolded themselves, causing everyone to bear the notoriety. Come on!" Zeng Guoquan yelled loudly, "Push these two bastards out for me and kill them!" Everyone was stunned.Fuming hurriedly said: "Nine Marshals, don't be like this, don't be like this!" Xiao Fusi and others also shouted: "Nine Marshals, calm down!" "Okay, I will spare your lives for the sake of General Fu." Zeng Guoquan turned his head and ordered to the soldiers beside him, "Take two daggers and lead two dogs out!" Everyone wondered what new tricks this murderous Jiushuai was going to play.Both the dagger and the dog have arrived.Zeng Guoquan stood up and announced loudly: "Peng Yuju and Liu Lianjie, you two should have been executed for destroying the reputation of Jiziying. It seems that General Fu will spare you the death penalty. Now I will give each of you a dagger, each of you a dog, and follow me." Go to the lawn by the back door, and after the dog runs past the willow tree, each of you will throw out the dagger in your hand. Whoever stabs the dog to death, I will reward you with a glass of wine; if you do not hit the dog, I will punish you with twenty army sticks!" This is really a rare reward and punishment!Everyone cheered, and Fu Ming also praised Zeng Guoquan's idea in his heart for being weird and interesting, but he didn't really believe that these two local generals could have such abilities. Everyone came to the back lawn.Peng and Liu each held a dagger and led a dog, standing fifty steps away from the willow tree. Behind each dog was a soldier holding a whip.Zeng Guoquan gave an order, and the two soldiers raised their whips and lashed at the dog. The two dogs barked wildly and flew forward like arrows.Just passing the willow tree, Peng Yuju had sharp eyes and quick hands, and the dagger flew out of his hand, neither slanted nor forward, hit the dog's head, the dog twitched twice on the ground, and stopped moving.At this moment, the other one lay in a pool of blood without even kicking a foot, with a dagger firmly stuck in the top of its head.Everyone applauded and laughed wildly. "Damn it, if you falsely accuse me of taking the pearl again, this dog will be your end!" Liu Lianjie turned his face to the side and scolded fiercely. "Son of a bitch, if you tell me that I took the ingot, this dog will end up with you too!" Peng Yuju also turned her face sideways, and replied sternly. Fu Ming'a, who was standing aside, was startled suddenly, as terrified as if these two daggers were pierced into his heart. Back in the hall again, the generals of the Jizi Camp became more drunk, but Fu Ming was very preoccupied, looking at the food and drink in front of him, he couldn't eat any more.Seeing this, Zeng Guoquan secretly rejoiced. "General Fu, another treasure, don't you want to see it? "Oh, oh!" Fu Ming seemed to have woken up, "Well, as long as the Jiushuai is willing to take it out, of course I would be happy to open my eyes." "Come on, take the baby out!" As soon as Zeng Guoquan finished speaking, eight young soldiers brought out a large yellow dragon sedan chair. "Is this the sedan chair that Chang Mao is sitting in?" Fu Ming asked. "Yes." Zeng Guoquan replied, and ordered the soldiers: "Take off the sedan chair cover!" Four soldiers stepped forward, each standing at a corner, shouted, and lifted the sedan chair cover over their heads.A bright red suddenly appeared in front of Fu Ming'a's eyes, and when he looked at it carefully, it turned out to be a very large and rare coral tree.I saw the tree was four or five feet high, and the branches and branches were handed over. It was full of circumference, and it was as red as blood.Seeing this foreign body, Ah Fu Ming was astonished as if he was in the Dragon Palace! "General Fu, I got this from Hongnixi Garden. I wanted to keep it for myself, but my brother is frugal by nature and doesn't like rare things. He definitely can't tolerate this thing, so I dare not keep it. General Fu is the first person after the city is broken. An important member of the imperial court who came to the city to give condolences, this coral tree, it can be considered as a thank you to the general from all the soldiers of my Jizi camp!" "Such a treasure, I don't dare to accept it, I dare not accept it!" Fu Ming was so frightened that he got up and declined. "Zhu Hongzhang!" Zeng Guoquan shouted. "Here!" Zhu Hongzhang left the table and came to the hall. "You take a hundred brothers from Huanziying to escort this coral tree to General Fu's ship, there must be no mistakes!" "Yes!" Zhu Hongzhang turned his face and ordered, "Brothers, carry it to Xiaguan!" Seeing this scene, Fu Ming became silent. Early the next morning, Fu Ming took the red coral tree and left Jinling City quietly, and rushed to Jining Prefecture in Shandong Province. When he met Seng Gelinqin, he said to him very sincerely: "The gold and silver in Jinling City are like mountains. If the wealth is like a sea, it is purely non-existent, and the humble staff carefully investigated and asked the old and old elders, but it is said that there is no such thing. Please tell the empress dowager and the emperor that there is no need to pursue it, so as not to anger the Hunan army and cause trouble. "