The Jing Dynasty army, which crossed the river to Qingyuan together, only repaired for two days, and then dispersed in two ways.

Xiao Yuan's lead marched through the state and county to Jianyang with great momentum, while on the other side, Xiao Hong quietly traveled from the Xilan River to the same destination.

According to the agreement reached after negotiations between the two sides, the attached Yun Jinfan became an independent army. Half of the expedition team that was taken away by the big red boss was incorporated into Xiao Hong's left battalion, and the defense of Qingyuan was jointly undertaken by the Jing Dynasty rear army and Yun Jinfan.

Of course, Yun Jinfan, who is a habitual thief, also left a small hand to Toucheng Jingchao. If they really encounter the danger of being dismantled and eaten, they still have a hidden army lying on both sides of the Tuojiang River to cut off the river transportation threat to protect themselves.

Zhou Manyin, who was physically weak, stayed in Qingyuan City, but she had no good impression of Xiao Tan, the coach of the Jing Dynasty, who also stayed in Qingyuan.

Similarly, Xiao Tan had a good conversation with Gao Yi and the others, and he was okay with the few male generals left behind by Yun Jinfan, but he was only obviously polite and disdainful to the restless and self-defending women.

Maybe men feel that they have done a good job, but delicate women can still see clearly and hate each other, which is naturally inevitable.

So after sending Hongmei, Zhou Manyin didn't say hello to these foreign men she didn't want to pay attention to, and directly returned to the small courtyard studio in a low-key and quiet manner, and refocused on her Ge Huang Tianqing. However, after a while, news also came in, saying that Xiao Tan, who had sent the expedition team, pulled out the horse's head for the first time, and first followed Gao Yi into Qingyuan Gaofu as a guest.

I don't know if going to the Gao family like this will make the conditions that have been negotiated yesterday come up with new tricks again before sorting out and reporting to Luo Jing.

Zhou Manyin frowned, then stretched his wrist hovering in the air, and seriously traced a clump of wood hibiscus under the window.

Soaked in the fragrance of hundreds of years of books, Qingyuan Gaofu, the family banquet guests and hosts are happy.

Although Xiao Tan is considered to be calm and serious among the brothers. But Gao Yi is dozens of years older after all, and he used to be a jinshi and a magistrate, and he returned to his hometown until he was appointed as a waiter. Xiao Tan deliberately made friends again, and naturally it didn't take long for Gao Yi to understand Xiao Tan's attitude towards Yun Jinfan.

Gao Yi properly let go of a heart hanging in the air.

Qingyuan is stuck at the mouth of the river. From north to south, the news is relatively well-informed. The sixth prince of the emerging royal family Xiao Clan, Xiao Hong, the king of Yan who also came to Jiangnan this time, and his wife was the daughter of the Zhou family in Huocheng, Gao Yi knew it. It's just that in the negotiations in the first two days, the other party didn't call it broken, and he could only endure it in his chest and not mention it.

During the Taiye period, the Zhou family in Huocheng is said to have encountered several bandit attacks among the clan, and began to gather the tenant farmers and displaced people to toss up group exercises, and many large clans in counties and towns have followed suit. It's just that at that time, officials at all levels in Qingyuan had a good relationship with the Gao family. The Gao family was accustomed to Qingliu and directly practiced swords and soldiers against the children of the family, and they were a little unable to pull down, so they delayed the best opportunity for the family to take advantage of the chaos to develop.

When the Quartet soldiers approached the city, Qingyuan City, which had always been drunk on the port, was panicked from its comfort. The original Chen Dynasty guard of Qingyuan City was beheaded by the bandits, and the remnants of the soldiers were scattered, and the teams of all parties who said that they were good neighbors and came to help looked unkind.

Zhou Chen of the Huocheng Zhou family also came with people.

Originally, the Gao family in Qingyuan and the Zhou family in Huocheng were married for two generations because of his nephew Gao Gong. But in the end, the relatives became enemies. Because of a little weakness, Gao Yi sent the letter of assistance to Yun Jinfan, who looked better, at the suggestion of his relatives.

But how could he have thought that after Yun Jinfan was stationed in Qingyuan. Someone in the Gao family recognized the former Gao family's daughter-in-law Zhou Manyin at a glance.

"Lord Gao means that the Yin Monk in Yun Jinfan is actually your Gao clan daughter-in-law? My sixth brother's wife's cousin? Although it was just when Gao Yi told the past. Xiao Tan already felt a little weird, but when the old man on the other side revealed the mystery, his usually rigid face still revealed a hint of wonder in surprise.

Gao Yi hurriedly nodded yes.

Xiao Tan's head lowered a little, hiding his thoughts that he couldn't be safe and calm for a moment. He inevitably complained to the departing sixth brother Xiao Hong, if it was based on this, the relationship between Xiao Hong and Yun Jinfan would not be as shallow as he said. It can even be said that Yun Jinfan was one of Xiao Liu's wife forces.

Why did you come here? Thinking about it again, being forced by several women yesterday to agree to the conditions, Xiao Tan's heart was even more uncomfortable.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu hasn't heard from King Yan before?" , Gao Yi couldn't help but sigh: "The old man misunderstood that Yun Jinfan was originally an ambush soldier buried in the south of the Yangtze River by His Majesty's cave candle. Therefore, in the first two days, I didn't dare to add a word at all. ”

"No matter where Yun Jinfan comes from. After all, they have all been attached to the imperial court. Next, this king stationed in Qingyuan during this period of time asked Lai Yigong to help him and take the defense of the city into his hands. Xiao Tan settled down, smiled and brought the topic back to the present.

The Jing Dynasty army and Yun Jinfan jointly managed Qingyuan City, which was an old method that the Xiao family was accustomed to, and it was tried and tested.

At the beginning, Jing Guogong's fief was confined to Yunzhou, and it was impossible for the local soldiers alone, as well as the border soldiers and fugitives who had been abducted from Youyan, to rush to the Central Plains. But now Xiao Rui, who is sitting on the throne of the emperor, has been relying on it since he was a child, and he still has the same temperament when he is an adult. Whenever they form an alliance with a place, they mix the old and the new.

It's like a basin of sand mixed with clear water, no matter how the old master of the army treats the soldiers, the Xiao family's army will always pry the corner of the wall, and after muddying the water, he will get his own interests.

For example, the He family in Luzhou back then was put on the chariot by Emperor Jing who married and entered the Central Plains together.

But now when it comes to the Luzhou Army, who would think that it is the He family soldiers? The original Luzhou army has been dismantled and diluted again and again, and it is now mixed all over the place, and it is no longer possible to distinguish them. He Kun, the head of the He family, got Ning Guogong's empty hat and stayed in Luojing City, with only two or three thousand pro-troops left in his hands, but he didn't dare to go to the door even if his granddaughter was angry in the East Palace.

The same goes for Yun Jinfan! No matter what kind of relationship they have with the sixth brother. The current division into two is the beginning, and the next division will become more and more detailed as the war develops.

His top priority was to pull over the few generals who Yun Jinfan had left in Qingyuan City, and then digest the powerful forces in Jiangnan bit by bit according to the instructions of his father and brother before sending troops.

It's just that compared to targeting other local armies in the past, it seems that it is difficult to find a breakthrough to split Yun Jinfan.

Xiao Tan thought to himself, added a trace of smile lines to his face, and asked the old man who seemed to be squinting on the side in a low voice. "This king heard that Lin Yue, the main general of Yun Jinfan who stayed in Qingyuan, seems to have some special relationship with the big red master?"

"This ......", Gao Yi suddenly opened his eyes, looked around with an embarrassed face, and replied with a voice in his voice: "A few years ago, it was rumored that Yun Jinfan's big red master was a prostitute with countless royal men, and many of the men under his command had a relationship with him. There was even a time when Jiangnan was popular for a while to avoid the fire of Honggu...... But later, when Yun Jinfan entered Qingyuan City, the old man did not find anything wrong with the big red master and his subordinates. ”

If it's true, Hongmei is a no-go slut. No matter how rare Gao Yi is with Yun Jinfan's troops, he will not take his children and grandchildren to Huang in front of the beautiful man. If you marry a girl, you will endure it in troubled times, but if you marry someone, it will ruin the reputation of the Gao family, and the gains outweigh the losses.

"That's fine! This king has the intention to be a matchmaker for them, but he is afraid that he will break up the mandarin ducks. After listening to Gao Yi's explanation, Xiao Tan's face became even warmer. If Hongmei really has a love affair with her right-hand men, it would be inconvenient to split the team in this way, but now as long as the Ming Dynasty is in the middle. Let the rear think of the appropriate candidates to marry each other, which is a good way to divide Yun Jinfan.

"Duke Yi, if this king marries those young women to meritorious soldiers in the army, it should be better for the confluence of the north and the south, right?"

"That's nature! As soon as he saw the mighty army of our dynasty that day, the old man had the idea of marrying his granddaughter to a good man in the north! Gao Yi's eyes lit up suddenly.

If it weren't for the reserve of a literati, he would have almost called his granddaughter out to see if His Royal Highness the King of Chu liked it.

"But the women are still entangled in marrying themselves. If you want them to accept this kindness, you have to talk about the big boss first. Or find a suitable person to be her son-in-law first. ”

"Why do you need to look for it! It's ready-made! ”。 Gao Yi pretended to stroke his beard deeply, leaned on Xiao Tan's ear and whispered a few words.

Gao Yi said that on the rainy day when he first arrived in Qingyuan, the meeting between the sixth brother Xiao Hong and the big red master outside the barracks had actually been reported to Xiao Tan by the guards.

Xiao Tan, who pretended to listen carefully to the gossip, couldn't help but flash a cold light from the corners of his eyes and pierced Gao Yi's old face. The old man in front of him was right to report the news, but he privately sent people to keep an eye on the behavior of the army. Xiao Tan couldn't help but mind.

Previously, Yun Jinfan's matters were all contacted by the sixth brother, and he may have just explained a few words to the Hongda master before the negotiation. Women are narrow-minded, and sometimes it is normal to stop the groundwork. Seeing that today's division of troops set off, the woman was calm and clear against the sixth brother, and it was very natural to ......"

"The prince doesn't know! The old man is after listening to the reciprocation. remembered an old incident in Qingyuan when Taiye was ten years old. In April and May of that year, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and King Yan would come to Qingyuan, and at that time, it was Guo Wei Guo who was responsible for the transshipment of the northern ship and the defense of the navy. He invited the prince to a banquet in Yuhualin, and the old man was also a guest for the seat......"

Xiao Hong's murder at the Spring Banquet was said again by Gao Yi.

Although he didn't know the past, Xiao Tan, who had helped settle Guo Wei's son Guo Jingcheng in Yunzhou, believed it at once.

"On the day that the crown prince and His Royal Highness King Yan were sent across the river, Yun Jinfan sent troops to rush the Qingyuan water camp, and the leader was the big red master." , Gao Yi shook his head and smiled: "Back then, we were kept in the dark and said that it was Guo Dacai who drew the Spring Palace of the popular master and provoked revenge, but now that I think about it, maybe the beauty is angry for the hero." ”

April and May of the 10th year of Taiye? The time coincides with the journey of the eldest brother and the sixth brother returning to Yunzhou, but the private affairs of the two sisters-in-law of the Xiao family are generally only reported to their father in private, and they will not let their concubines know too many details.

If this is said, the bond between Xiao Hong and Yun Jinfan will be even deeper. However, Xiao Hong's inaction when he arrived in Qingyuan was simply putting Yun Jinfan's interests above the Xiao family. In Beijing, it was obviously concealed by the eldest brother, the crown prince Xiao Ze, and forcibly let the first battle of the southbound army not take advantage.

Xiao Tan's face was not obvious, but the left hand resting on the case had unconsciously tightened into a fist.

"Your Highness, if that woman from Yun Jinfan really has an old relationship with the sixth master, it is better to let them cross the clear road. To be honest, women should be husbands and children in the backyard, how can there be any reason to hold on to military power. If they really follow their conditions and seal a female general in Jiangnan, the rules of thousands of years will be completely destroyed! ”

Gao Yi couldn't help but feel sad as he spoke, and a few cloudy old tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.

There is already a Mrs. Liang Guo who is Xiao Hong's grandfather in Yanzhou, and there is another woman in Jiangnan who has an unknown relationship with him...... Xiao Tan, who was surrounded by the old man's sad voice, unconsciously thought more far-reaching.

No matter what position you take, if you don't want to fight each other, it's a good thing to force a potentially threatening woman into the backyard.

Xiao Tan settled down and asked, "I don't know if there is any fire avoidance map with Honggu painted by Guo Jingcheng back then?" Since Honggu and Xiao Hong were both related to Guo Jingcheng's spring paintings, he naturally wanted to pick up some evidence to clarify the old things he didn't know.

Gao Yi frowned suddenly, "Yun Jinfan has been in Jiangnan for a few years, openly and secretly, and has cleared ...... several times."

"Bring it to the king!" , Xiao Tan snorted coldly, and his fist slammed into the seat.

Gao Yi hurriedly got up, saying that he was going to the backyard to look for it.

The fat old man with gray hair gasped and turned a corridor but instead of entering the moon gate in the backyard, he turned into a nondescript hut.

The dark room was lit with a candle, Gao Yi only said one word, and the man who was sitting behind the bookcase and couldn't see his face clearly picked up a stack of picture albums that had been prepared long ago from under the table and pushed them in front of him.

The bones of the hands resting on the book-bound packages are clearly jointed and carry the thin calluses of a literati's pen, the nails are neatly trimmed, and the skin is pale but not losing the firmness of a young man. (To be continued......)