When Zhang Huangyan was still wondering which soldiers and horses this was, the soldiers who went to search in the cabin had already come out and said to Wu Bei: "Wu Bei, all the people on the ship are here." Wu Shoubei nodded and said: "Since they are people on the ship of the Qin Mission, they can't be regarded as ordinary people, and they are all escorted back." He said to the person who had just gone to search: "Zuo Jiangchuan, you lead the people of your flag to drive the boat to Padang Wharf." Zuo Jiangchuan said: "Wu Shoubei rest assured, I will definitely keep these two ships and sail into Padang steadily." ”

Then the Wu garrison beckoned everyone to get off the boat, and at this time, the people who had gone to chase the Qing soldiers had also returned, and saw the Wu garrison escorting so many people's families off the boat, and walked over and said: "Wu Erchang, have you forgotten military law?" Why are you still grabbing the people, and let them go soon. At this time, Huang Laosi and the others heard that they couldn't arrest the people, and suddenly everyone shouted: "General, let us go, we are the common people, please." Someone else shouted: "Heroes, we are all ordinary people, you can't arrest us." ”

That Wu Erchang turned his head and shouted: "What kind of noise, if you dare to shout nonsense, all of them will be killed on the spot." Then he turned his head and said: "Huangfuyuan, I didn't arrest the people indiscriminately, these are the families of the Qing court, you see I just caught them from the official ship." As he spoke, he pointed to the official ship by the river. The man named Huang Fuyuan looked at the Qincha official ship that had just left the dock and said: "It's good if you don't arrest indiscriminately, don't be the first to die in military law after the whole army is our Guogong's person, and the Guogong's face is not good-looking." ”

Wu Erchang was not angry, and while commanding the group of people on the boat to escort away, he said: "Of course I know this, since the reorganization of the army, the people under the former Guogong and Hou Ye have all riveted their strength, and if they want to come out, they are all afraid of losing face to their families, I will definitely not do anything to disgrace Guogong, if that is the case, I don't need Guogong to speak, and I don't need to use the military law team that is waiting for me, I will wipe my neck with a knife." Huang Fuyuan said: "It's good to know, although there is still some estrangement between the families, it is much better than before, and I am no longer afraid of someone stabbing me in the back." ”

Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi walked together, followed by several people from Anqing to send Zhang Huangyan. Everyone listened to Huang Fuyuan and Wu Erchang talking, and they all had the feeling that they were no longer in the Ming Dynasty and not in the Qing Dynasty, as if they were floating in the sky, and they didn't know where in the clouds.

Zhang Huangyan said cautiously: "May I ask this general, who is your father-in-law, and who is this Pingjiao?" Why haven't I heard it before. This prince of the country listens to the command of the Hou Ye, which is also an unprecedented thing in ancient and modern times. Wang Xi also said: "Yes, looking at the general's armor and clothing, we can't even tell that the general is the soldiers and horses of the He family." ”

When Wu Erchang heard Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi's inquiry, he just raised his head and ignored the two, until it was the person named Huangfuyuan, glanced at Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi and said, "Who are you two people, and what are you doing here." Wu Erchang said to Huang Fuyuan: "You tell them how to do more, and send them back to be punished as coolies, so that they can atone for their actions." Huangfuyuan glared at Wu Erchang and said: "You go to maintain your team, and ask the people who are willing to go with us, and tell them that now the Qing soldiers stationed here have been killed, and if the Qing soldiers come again, they will slaughter the city to vent their anger." Go ahead. ”

Wu Erchang was about to say more, and when he saw the panic of the people on the street, he sighed and went over to organize the soldiers to propagandize. Huang Fuyuan said to Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi at this time: "The two of you are smiling, seeing that the two of you are also scholars, and their bearing is extraordinary, it should be Qincha." Wang Xi sighed: "You have it in your eyes, why did you become a thief?" ”

Huang Fuyuan didn't answer, but just smiled and said: "Our Guogong is General Yuan Zongdi Yuan, the Duke of Yasukuni," Zhang Huangyan was shocked: "What, you are the army of the Duke of Yasukuni?" Why don't you see you raising your banner? This is not only a matter of hearing gold, but it is a taboo in military law to press the flag, not to raise the flag, and not to accept the flag. ”

Huang Fuyuan said strangely: "Do you know our Guogong?" Who are you? He actually understands military law. At this time, the people behind Zhang Huangyan also heard it, these people were the army of the Ming Dynasty, and they hurriedly said: "General, he is Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty's military department, you have arrested the wrong person." Huang Fuyuan was also taken aback, he used to be just a small hundred households, where he knew what Shangshu was not Shangshu, but when he heard that it was a big official of the Ming Dynasty, he hurriedly said: "You are really the Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty?" Then how are you on the ship of the Tartar? ”

Zhang Huangyan couldn't say clearly for a while: "This matter is a long story, by the way, who are you talking about?" Why haven't I heard of it before? Your military law and military exploits are not the military law of the Ming Dynasty. What's going on? Zhang Huangyan asked this question, Huang Fuyuan was also big, and said: "My lord, I can't tell you this question for a while, this Pingyu Hou is said to be the descendant of our Ming Xiangwang lineage, who fled from Huguang Xiangyang Mansion to Sichuan, and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty on the Baoning side." To say that this royal family is different, they actually built the Baoning Mansion from scratch, and now the road for the Qing soldiers to enter Sichuan from Shaanxi is said to be blocked. Wang Xi exclaimed: "Didn't you say that it was a group of chaotic people? Why did it become an incident in the former Ming clan? And last month, didn't it say that only Jianmen Pass was occupied, and Guangyuan was still in the hands of Li Gongzhu, who was still guarding it, why did it suddenly become a road into Sichuan and all blocked? ”

Huang Fuyuan listened to this person's words and looked towards the Qing court everywhere, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a person from the Ming Dynasty, and couldn't help but doubt Zhang Huangyan's identity. Zhang Huangyan knew that he had misunderstood when he saw Huang Fuyuan's expression, and said: "His name is Wang Xi, and he is an authentic Tartar Qincha. I got on the boat with them because of something that went wrong. I am really Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Huang Fuyuan didn't believe it at this time, and said, "Whether you are or not, let's go back first." So Huang Fuyuan didn't pay attention to Zhang Huangyan and the others, and Zhang Huangyan also knew that he couldn't ask anything now, so he didn't say anything anymore and walked with the team.

When the people of Niukou heard that the Qing soldiers were coming to slaughter the city, they were coaxed and deceived by Wu Erchang and said that ninety percent of the people followed Wu Erchang and others, and the Qing soldiers were also taken prisoner. This team of more than 1,000 people shuttled through the mountains, Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi walked such a road, and the road was miserable, but fortunately, on the fifth day, it seemed to have reached the final place, and there were more sentry points, and then everyone was imprisoned in a school field, and the Qing soldiers were taken to the other side.

Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi looked around, there were soldiers walking back and forth everywhere, many of these soldiers didn't seem to know each other, and they were only identified by the flags, but the flags were not distinguished by the generals, only the words A, B, and C, and the two A-number flags were different. From time to time, the sound of soldiers training could be heard from inside the school grounds. After a while, Huang Fuyuan brought a literati in his forties over, and Zhang Huangyan didn't know what the identity of this person was.

I saw that the person came to Zhang Huangyan under the guidance of Huang Fuyuan, looked at this Zhang Huangyan carefully, and then said, "Are you Zhang Cangshui?" Zhang Huangyan listened to the clueless sentence, and was also a little confused, and said Mu Ran: "It's Zhang Huangyan below, I don't know who Your Excellency is?" The Wen said: "In Xia Hong Yuao, he is now the right attendant of the Ming Dynasty Military Department to supervise Kuidong." Zhang Huangyan saw that there was finally a person who could speak, and hurriedly said: "The original Lord Hong has finally come to a person who can speak and communicate." What's going on? I don't know each other when I see these soldiers? Hong Yuao interrupted: "Don't talk about this first, do you have any physical evidence that can prove that you are Zhang Huangyan?" ”

Zhang Huangyan knew that people didn't believe in him yet, so he hurriedly took out his seal letter and official body from his underwear and handed them over to Hong Yuao. Hong Yuao took Zhang Huangyan's official body and seal letter and carefully checked it over and over again, and it took a long time before he said to Zhang Huangyan in surprise: "Lord Zhang, you are really Lord Zhang, please come out quickly." Then he looked at Wang Xi and said, "You are the Qin Cha of the Qing Court?" Wang Xi also said indifferently at this time: "Exactly"

Hong Yuao said to Huang Fuyuan: "How can he say that he is also a person with status, let him go with me, and the Hou Ye may also have to ask questions at that time." Huang Fuyuan saw Hong Yuao asking himself, and hurriedly said: "Lord Hong, please take it, Lord Hou and Guogong have said that as long as it is Lord Hong, all dignitaries will be allowed to go." Hong Yuao said to Huang Fuyuan: "Then thank you." ”

Then Hong Yuao led Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi to the outside of the school, and Zhang Huangyan looked at Wang Laosi and others who were imprisoned, as well as a few righteous people who were in his own hands, and said to Huang Fuyuan: "Don't deal with the people on the Qincha ship first. Huang Fuyuan said: "Okay, Master Zhang explained it, of course I will write it down." ”

Then Zhang Huangyan and Hong Yuao walked to the county government together, Zhang Huangyan inquired with Hong Yuao and learned that this was already Dachang County, Kuidong Prefecture, Sichuan, which used to be the garrison of Qihou Hezhen, but now it is planned to garrison more than 600 troops here. The three of them came to the county office, and the county government officer had already sent tea.

Zhang Huangyan saw everyone sitting down, so he asked impatiently: "Lord Hong, this Kuidong is really quite strange, I actually heard that Hou Ye commanded the Guogong, why did this Baoning come out with a royal family again?" Don't start a clan dispute. Hong Yuao said with a smile: "Lord Zhang is too worried, and now this Pingyuhou also said that if the world really needs him to carry it, he will not shirk, but now the emperor is just Xixing, so now Pingyuhou is just a Hou Ye, but in order to resist the great cause of the Qing Dynasty, Pingyuhou called on everyone to join forces as a family, reorganize the army, and unify the order." Prepare for better anti-clearing. ”

Zhang Huangyan said worriedly: "Wouldn't it be like this to give a military order so that this person will be in charge of the whole army, and I am afraid that it will be when the time comes." Zhang Huangyan didn't finish speaking, but Hong Yuao understood what he meant. Hong Yuao said: "If a few years ago, I would have had Master Zhang's worries, but now I don't worry about this. ”

Wang Xi heard the distraction on the side and said: "Only by issuing an order can the order be unified, which is a good thing for the army." Hong Yuao also said: "Yes, the current situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty is not optimistic, if we still care about these, I am afraid it will not be a big deal." Zhang Huangyan sighed: "Lord Hong is really the minister of the imperial court, and everything is based on the overall situation. Hong Yuao shook his head and said: "This is not what I came up with" Zhang Huangyan was surprised: "Who can make this suggestion?" Hong Yuao said: "It was our Pingyu Hou, who proposed this plan at that time, Wen'an Zhiwen Supervisor and Anhui Duke Liu Tichun and others had already agreed when they were in Baoning, but Linguo Gong and Jingguo Gong did not agree. Our Pingyu Hou said, whether you agree with it or not today, my army will be reorganized, and after the reorganization, his army will not just be consumed in Baoning, and when the army is rested, he will go to Chengdu, and then western Sichuan and southern Sichuan, and completely drive Li Guoying out of Sichuan, if there is any family that hinders him from resisting the Qing Dynasty, he will not be polite. However, if everyone can join forces and one family, they can go south to seize Duyun Mansion in Guizhou at that time, and if the troops are sufficient, they will continue to go south to seize Qingyuan Mansion, Sien Mansion, and Nanning Mansion in Guangxi, in order to be able to block all the troops of the Qing court attacking Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest. ”

Zhang Huangyan was shocked when he heard this: "This Pinghou is so big, and he will eat hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers when he opens his mouth." But what about the imperial court? Hong Yuao said: "The tone is big, but it is unrealistic. When our emperor retreated to Tengyue in Kunming, he prevented the decision of the King of Jin to burn grain and grass, resulting in a large amount of grain and grass falling into the hands of the Qing army. Zhang Huangyan said angrily: "This is simply an enemy, how can the emperor do such a ridiculous thing." Wang Xi sighed: "In this way, the army in the southwest of the Qing Dynasty has no worries about military rations." ”

Hong Yuao said: "When this matter was announced, Ping Yuhou said to everyone, 'The matter has happened, we are beyond the reach of the whip, we can't change it, but we can change ourselves, let us grow stronger, at least let the Qing army return to the army, how can the pressure on the court be reduced.'" You can also go to western Sichuan and enter Yunnan to go to King Qin. Zhang Huangyan nodded and said, "This is right. ”

Hong Yuao said: "It's really because of this, in addition to the barrenness of Kuidong, Pingyuhou is willing to help Kuidong, so the two princes agreed under the persuasion of everyone. So there is a saying that Hou Ye commanded the country. ”

Zhang Huangyan then understood, and asked again: "I heard that after this whole army, the Han people don't remember their merits?" What's going on here? Hong Yuao was also puzzled: "What Han people don't remember merit, I don't know" Zhang Huangyan said what Wu Erchang said on the boat that day, Hong Yuao smiled: "You heard it wrong, what he said is that the heads of Han people don't remember merit, which is also formulated by Ping Yuhou, he said: 'The same Han people, Even if the enemy gives him a whole corpse', only the head of the Tartar is used to remember the merit, and the Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion are directly recorded by the guards of each main general to the small banner where they are located, and then confirmed to the head, so the military merits of the Han people do not need to cut off the head. The men in the army didn't understand, so it was rumored that the Han people didn't remember their merits. Zhang Huangyan suddenly realized: "I also said how can there be such a strange military law, I see." ”