The most powerful patriarch in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 91
"Flying Tiger? I've never heard of this character, what's his background?" Gan Hui asked with some doubts.

All these years of wandering, Gan Hui, a respectable person in Fujian, knows it, but he has never heard of a flying tiger.

Chen Qi smiled wryly, and began to explain his thoughts.

It turns out that Flying Tiger is Xu Cheng, a thousand households of Plum Blossoms. During the plague, he avenged his personal revenge and killed a squire who had offended him. With his subordinates, he turned himself into the King of the Mountain and called himself the Flying Tiger.

When Chen Qi was following him, he was attacked by a secret sentinel left by Xu Cheng. Fortunately, he was skilled enough to avoid the vital points and fled back to Xingping Village with injuries.

Gan Hui gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, this Xu Cheng, I will take his head."

Lu Changle said with some vigilance: "Plum Blossom Institute? It's very close here, Uncle Seven, how many people are there with the surname Xu?"

"Xu Cheng claims to have 1 horses. According to my estimate, the number is less than 2000. Most of them are ordinary people who are coerced by him. Those who are really capable of fighting are only about 500 people. By the way, there are more than ten horses. "

"Uncle Qi, besides this Xu Cheng, is there any other news?"

Recently, he was either busy using the medical shed to expand the influence of the Lu family in Fuzhou, or he was busy training the rural protection team. Now, Lu Changle can say that he has a black eye on the outside world.

"Chaotic, very chaotic." Chen Qi shook his head and said, "There are bandits pretending to be officers and soldiers, and there are officers and soldiers pretending to be bandits. According to the information I got, hundreds of forces have sprung up in Fujian. In addition to the Flying Tiger who just stood on the top of the mountain, there are more than a dozen influential bandits such as the Earth-Drilling Dragon, the Three-Eyed King, the Blue-faced Wolf, and the Mountain Wind. Oh, it's miserable."

"Didn't Zheng Zhilong leave Zheng Zhibao to guard? Just let the bandits harm the people like this?" Gan Hui said disappointedly.

During the years when he surrendered to Daming, in order to win people's hearts, Zheng Zhilong still did some practical and good deeds,
Repair bridges and repair roads, subsidize orphanages, etc.

Maritime trade has brought huge profits to Zheng Zhilong, and the exploitation of the local people is less serious. Gan Hui has a good impression of him.

"Hey, Zheng Zhibao? He was a pirate who did all kinds of evil. Most of the people Zheng Zhilong withdrew were his confidantes. The soldiers who stayed in Fujian felt abandoned. They either refused to obey orders, or committed crimes in the name of fighting the epidemic."

"Zheng Zhibao wanted to take care of it at the beginning. He killed more than a dozen generals, and was rebounded by the generals at the bottom. In order to prevent accidents and prevent Zheng's foundation from being impacted, he shrank the troops he could mobilize to Nan'an, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou. It looks like we will kill back after the epidemic is over."

"Zheng Zhibao is moody, cruel and easy to kill, and he will kill if he is against him. In Quanzhou City, ordinary people will be killed if they feel unwell. The walls of Quanzhou are covered with dead bodies. Many people call Zheng Zhibao the Four Kings of Hades."

Gan Hui nodded and said: "Zheng Zhibao is brutal and easy to kill. He likes to torture prisoners. If Zheng Zhilong suppresses him, he will restrain himself a little. Once Zheng Zhilong leaves, there will be no people in Fujian who can restrain him, and the people of Quanzhou will be very difficult."

Lu Changle took a chance and asked, "Uncle Qi, how is Xiaoyue Island? Have all those people retired?"

Fan Sanbo and Fan Chengyin were killed by himself, and the shopkeepers and clerks of Fan's firm also fled in batches.

When the Five Ghost Group withdrew, they didn't evacuate the people from Jiuchongtian, and they don't know how it is now.

Fan Sanbiao and Jiu Chongtian, who took the lead in hijacking the float that day, were both Lu Changle's serious worries.

"I heard that Xiaoyue Island was plagued by pimple plague. Even the doctor invited to go died on it, and no one dared to go. One day in the middle of the night, two kerosene boats from the Fujian Navy came, sprayed kerosene on the island, and dispatched artillery bombardment. , Xiaoyue Island is so bright that it can be seen from ten miles away, I sneaked up to see it, and everything that could be burned was burned, and there was nothing left, there were corpses everywhere, it was too miserable."

Gan Hui curled his lips and said, "It's all a secret job sent by Jianlu. It's fine if he's dead, so he doesn't need to be used by others."

Originally a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, they were taken captive by Jianlu, brainwashed since childhood, and turned against their own compatriots,
Gan Hui hated and sympathized with them.

Lu Changle asked some more about the outside situation, and seeing that Chen Qi was a little tired, he asked him to recuperate well, and then left with Gan Hui.

"Uncle Hui, are you homesick?" Lu Changle couldn't help asking when he noticed that Gan Hui was looking in the direction of Zhangzhou from time to time after he left the house.

"The plague is so fierce, I don't know what's going on at home, Brother Liu hasn't come back, so nothing will happen on the way, right?"

When monitoring Fan's firm, Gan Hui enlisted the help of two sworn brothers, one was Chen Qi and the other was Liu Rufeng,
Knowing that there was a plague, Gan Hui couldn't go home, so he asked his good brother Liu Rufeng to help deliver a warning letter.

Seeing that Chen Qi was injured, he began to worry about Liu Rufeng.

Don't let anything happen on the road.

Lu Changle comforted: "Uncle Hui, didn't you ask someone to send Qingwen soup back? Don't worry, nothing will happen. As for Uncle Feng, he is very skilled in martial arts, so he will definitely be fine."

"I hope so." Gan Hui sighed and said helplessly.

"When~~"

While speaking, I suddenly heard a thick and melodious bell,

It was the sound from the copper bell of Lu's ancestral hall,

Lu Changle's expression changed, he and Gan Hui looked at each other, neither of them said anything, and ran towards the ancestral hall.

The bell in the ancestral hall, except for the New Year's prayer and ancestor worship, is only ringing when there are major events.
One ring, to call for an emergency meeting of the patriarchs, patriarchs, and heads of the houses.

When Lu Changle returned to the ancestral hall at the fastest speed, Second Uncle, Qing Erye, Fatty Uncle and others were talking around a man covered in blood.

Seeing Lu Changle, Second Master Qing said anxiously: "Patriarch, you came just in time, the Min'an Wang family sent Wang Jiajun to ask for help, saying that the Flying Tigers are attacking Min'an Town, I hope our Fuzhou Lu family can come to rescue. "

Seeing Lu Changle, the man covered in blood struggled to his knees, kowtowed his head three times before saying anything: "Patriarch Lu, the Flying Tigers raided Min'an Town, and they asked for 5 taels of silver and [-] shi of grain!" , but also agree that they send people into the town to pick up [-] beauties and take them away, otherwise they will bleed into Min'an Town"

"It's easy to talk about money and food. Who would be willing to let them take away their daughter-in-law? If they didn't agree, Fei Tianhu frantically ordered an attack. The clansman suffered heavy casualties. The patriarch sent us out to ask for reinforcements. On the way, we encountered Fei Tianhu's ambush. Brothers, in order to cover I'm all dead"

"The patriarch said, please patriarch Lu, because of the good relationship between the two clans of Lu and Wang, give our Wang family a hand, and there will be rich rewards in the future."

"The head of the Lu family is still the head trainer of the Fuzhou militia, and Min'an Town also belongs to Fuzhou. I also ask the head trainer Lu to show kindness."

After finishing speaking, Wang Jiajun kowtowed again and again.

Lu Changle quickly grabbed him: "Brother Wang, you don't need to salute anymore, how many people are there in the Flying Tigers? What weapons are there?"

Flying Tiger, it's him again, who injured Chen Qi earlier, and now ran to Min'an Town to burn, kill and loot,

Who would have thought that a plum blossom with thousands of households who lived on the imperial salary and defended the country would become a mountain king who burned, killed and looted.

"The number of people is about 2000, and there are about 500 people wearing cotton armor," Wang Jiajun quickly replied.

Lu Jinyuan on the side frowned and said, "Mian'an Town is a big town with a population of no less than [-], and the Wang family of the Min family has a population of several thousand. Defense should not be a problem."

People who live by the sea, in order to prevent pirates, practice martial arts since childhood, and also work hard on defense,
When building houses in Xingping Village, the houses were consciously connected into pieces. If necessary, the houses could be used as protective walls.
Shurong Village on the other side of the river has a lot of money and wealth, and a fire prevention canal around the village was dug in the center of the village. When there is a crisis, the fire prevention canal also becomes a village protection canal.

Wang Jiajun said with a look of fear: "The Flying Tiger who killed tens of millions, still has three Flang cannons in his hand, and fired cannons at us. The patriarch saw that he couldn't stop him, so he took us to the back mountain."

Afraid that Lu Changle would be afraid, Wang Jiajun hurriedly added: "Don't worry, Chief Lu, the Feitian Tiger doesn't seem to have enough gunpowder, and it won't fire after firing more than ten cannons. The situation is urgent, and I don't know how long it can last. Please ask Chief Lu Get out as soon as possible, otherwise."

Speaking of the latter, Wang Jiajun was sobbing.

Lu Changle stood up, looked at the clan elders and heads of the houses present, and asked in a deep voice: "If you have any ideas or opinions, you can put them forward."

This matter involves too much, and Lu Changle is not easy to talk about it.
If you really want to rescue, you must also get the support of the clan elders and the heads of the houses.

Second Uncle, Lu Jinyuan, Fat Uncle, Lu Jinqing and others looked at each other, and finally said in unison with tacit understanding: "It's all up to the patriarch."

After Lu Changle became the patriarch, his achievements are obvious to all.
There is a patriarch with such outstanding ability, so why bother, just listen to him directly.

Under Wang Aijun's pleading eyes, Lu Changle clenched his fist and swung it vigorously, saying firmly: "The two clans of Lu and Wang are in the same clothes and strips of water, and they are as close as brothers. Brothers are in trouble, so there is nothing to say, help!"

(End of this chapter)