Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 454 Search
After Lu Yangge arrived in Anshui, he stayed in the house.

Except for getting the news that the queen was seriously ill, and burning paper money and ingots for her before going out, Lu Yange never left the yard again.

Hearing that the princess sent someone to inquire about General Zhou, the magistrate of Anshui couldn't help but stroked his beard.

For example, in Anshui, a poor place where the birds don't shit, how could noble people come here? It turned out that it was because of General Zhou Yangzhou.

General Zhou is no ordinary person, even the people in this remote small county are very familiar with General Zhou Yangzhou.

In the past ten years, General Zhou has conquered the north and the south, and recovered a lot of territory for the great merchants.

What impressed the common people the most about General Zhou was not his bravery and good fighting skills, but that General Zhou was already in his 30s and could hold grandchildren, and he hadn't even married a wife yet.

Not to mention the wealth and wealth of the Hou Mansion, but General Zhou has been fighting in the north and south all year round, and he doesn't know how many treasures he has in his hands.

No wives, no concubines, only know how to fight.

According to folklore, General Zhou suffered from a hidden disease and was inhumane.Some people also said that General Zhou was injured on the battlefield, and he was afraid that marrying a wife would drag his wife down, so it was better not to marry.

Anyway, General Zhou is still very famous in the hearts of ordinary people.

The county magistrate of Anshui would have his goatee bald by him, so he could only figure out that the princess probably had a close relationship with General Zhou, otherwise she wouldn't have traveled all the way to this poor place to find someone.

On the contrary, the county magistrate's wife who heard the gossip had more ideas: "Master, you said that this princess and General Zhou..."

"what?"

The magistrate of Anshui was looking at the broken beard in his hand with regret, but he couldn't hear what the old wife said.

"I say……"

The county magistrate's wife put her two thumbs together and raised her eyebrows slightly, "Are these two a pair?"

The magistrate of Anshui trembled in fright: "Don't talk nonsense, it will kill your head."

"What kind of head is lost, there is no one else here."

The county magistrate's wife sat down at the side, moved the chair under her to the magistrate's side, and said in a low voice, "If the princess has nothing to do with General Zhou, the princess will have a good life, but she will go to our small place to suffer? "

It seems reasonable.

"Besides, don't they all say that General Zhou was injured, I think so, this may be true." The more the county magistrate's wife said, the more excited she became.

Seeing her master staring at her with wide eyes, the county magistrate's wife smiled even brighter, "Look, General Zhou was born in a famous family, so his status is not bad."

The county magistrate nodded, it was indeed not bad.

"Then do you think this general is worthy of a princess?"

That must be worthy of it. Although Princess Changle is a princess, she is not of real royal blood.General Zhou matched her, she was a real man, a beautiful woman and a beautiful couple.

Seeing that her master did not object, the county magistrate's wife continued: "Think about it, this general and princess are a perfect match, why don't the two marry one and the other?"

The county magistrate subconsciously asked, "Why?"

The county magistrate's wife clapped her hands together: "Of course General Zhou was injured. He was afraid of delaying the princess, so he refused to marry a wife."

The county magistrate asked puzzledly, "What does that have to do with the princess?"

"Oh, you fool." The county magistrate's wife was almost pissed off by her master's elm head. "One doesn't marry in her thirties, and the other doesn't marry in her late thirties. If these two people have nothing to do with each other, I don’t even believe it.”

"It must be that the princess and the general fell in love early on. General Zhou went through life and death for the princess and worked hard for the Great Shang Dynasty. Originally, the two were supposed to become a pair of immortal couples that everyone envied, but who would have expected that General Zhou would lose his life in a battle. This , how do you let him open his mouth to marry the princess? Even if he is married, is this beautiful little wife left as a widow?"

"General Zhou's character is really worth mentioning. If he has a problem, he won't harm others. Who would have thought that the princess would show her true affection to General Zhou, otherwise she wouldn't be unmarried until now! Hey, what a hard-fated couple." I don’t know if General Zhou is still alive, if General Zhou...uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…"

The county magistrate covered his wife's mouth and scolded in a low voice: "You have a mouth like this, don't you know what it means to say that misfortune comes from your mouth?"

Regardless of whether General Zhou is related to the princess or not, what he has to do now is to find General Zhou with the princess.

In life, you need to see people. In death, you need to see corpses.

If General Zhou can be found, he, the county magistrate, might be able to make a move, if not!
The magistrate of Anshui didn't dare to think about it. Whether his black hat can be kept this time depends on whether General Zhou can come back alive!
In order to find the missing General Zhou, the Anshui county government office has not been idle all the time, and those squad leaders and government servants don't know how many pairs of shoes they ran through.

Originally, the longer the time, the less hope of finding it.

If Lu Yange doesn't come, this matter will be dealt with in the end.

But now the princess is here, with hundreds of guards, and as soon as the princess arrives in Anshui County, she sends someone to send 5000 taels of snowflake silver.

There are no more than 5000 magistrates in the Anshui county government, large and small, and the county magistrates. For the 100 taels of snowflake silver, each person will be divided into [-] taels, and there will be more than half left.

Seeing that the county magistrate was so frightened that he refused to accept the money, the person who sent the money said, as long as anyone in the county government who participated in the search for General Zhou before, regardless of their position or ability, they would give a reward of ten taels of silver per person.

After that, those who continue to look for General Zhou will be rewarded with five taels of silver per person per month.For the rest, all the local people are able to help, one person and two liang per month.There are major clues provided, one clue and five liang.If anyone can find General Zhou, he will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.

As soon as the news came out, the officials of the county government were not to say overjoyed, and almost all the able-bodied people in the entire Anshui county were mobilized.Even the young and strong people around got the news and came to collect the money and searched everywhere every day.

This is a lot of money, as long as you go to the county government to register and look for General Zhou every day, no matter whether you get any useful information or not, two taels of silver a month is fine.

Anshui County is poor, and the people have never even seen silver.A family of more than ten people, working all year round, can eat half full, and the whole family has two cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold, so they are living a good life.

If there are still a hundred copper coins left over a year, then they will definitely be among the best in the village.

Now as long as the young and strong in the family go to help find someone, one person will get two taels of silver a month, and a family with five or six young and strong will get more than ten taels of silver.

How can this make people unmoved?

Even the old and weak women and children were dispatched one after another. Although they didn't get two taels of silver, if they really found any clues, it would be a reward of five taels of silver.

The entire Anshui County, including the surrounding counties, was almost alarmed.

Everyone has only one purpose, to find General Zhou, even if he can't get 1000 taels of silver, it would be good to get two taels of silver a month.

Of course, it would be even better if he could find General Zhou first and get a reward of 1000 taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)