Pang Tianshou is extremely powerful in the palace, and it is really easy to send someone to steal something for the royal use. However, as soon as the things were handed over to Ma Jixiang, before they could get out of the city, they were blocked back by Bai Wenxuan, who rushed over.

"Chen Bai Wenxuan, knock to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

During the Daxi period, Bai Wenxuan, the general of the Qin Palace, was the general under the four princes of Sun, Li, Liu, and Ai in the Daxi regime, and could be called the same as Feng Shuangli, Wang Ziqi and others. When Sun Kewang established his dominant position within the Great Western Army, Bai Wenxuan became the deputy commander of Sun Kewang's headquarters and the front army.

He was the most confidant general of Sun Kewang, and this time he left the army and hurried over, and Emperor Yongli was also quite frightened. But the white anthology, seeing the Yongli Emperor, stepped forward is a salute, respectfully so that people can't find the slightest fault, and the look on his face is also full of awe of the imperial power.

"Aiqing is exempt."

On the dragon chair, Emperor Yongli stretched out his hand to signal, and Bai Wenxuan stood up with sincere fear and listened to the inquiry of the Son of Heaven: "I know that Aiqing has always been busy with military affairs, and here today, is there something important?" ”

This is undoubtedly the thing that Emperor Yongli is most concerned about at the moment, and his eyes are fixed on the Qin Wangfu cronies in front of him, who walks a little lame, but is strong and strong, and has a bit of a muscular military general.

However, this general, who probably looked very domineering, heard the words but was saluted, and immediately bowed to Emperor Yongli and said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, His Royal Highness the King of Qin heard that the Anlong Mansion is simple, so he specially sent Weichen to greet him and respectfully invite His Majesty to Guiyang." ”

"This ......"

It is an indisputable fact that Anlong Mansion is simple, even if it is compared with the Qin Mansion in Guiyang, it is ridiculous to compare it with an ordinary county government. However, it was His Royal Highness the King of Qin who put the Yongli Imperial Court under house arrest at that time, but anyone with normal logical thinking ability would not believe that Sun Kewang only knew about this until now.

This is undoubtedly a clear excuse, made up without any new ideas, and even insulting the intelligence of the listener. However, the situation is stronger than people, and Emperor Yongli is also speechless about this, just this one "this" word he spit out, and he doesn't have the courage to continue to say anything.

Just as Emperor Yongli was squeaking and whining, Bai Wenxuan bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, everything has its own arrangement by the ministers". With that, the other man respectfully withdrew. Only the Yongli Emperor Wuzi was left there, not knowing what to say, and a great question welled up in his heart, as well as the deep fear that accompanied this question.

"Lord of the country, are you going to let the emperor Lao'er take the throne?"

The most powerful in Anlong Mansion in recent years has never been the great tomorrow in the Thousand Households, Fan Yingxu, the prefect of Anlong, and Zhang Yingke, the prime minister of Titang, are both Sun Kewang's cronies, even if Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou wanted to climb Sun Kewang's Gao Zhi'er at the beginning, they also relied on the whiskers of the two to get the opportunity. These two people are here, in order to take care of the Yongli court, especially the emperor and queen, they have made a book at this time to "one member of the emperor and one mouthful of the queen".

Since he is a close confidant, he is naturally well aware of Sun Kewang's usurpation ambitions. Seeing that such a high-level general as Bai Wenxuan was here in person, the first thing they thought of was that Sun Kewang decided to be the emperor, and the most important step to become the emperor was to get the current great tomorrow to Guiyang, build a Zen platform, and do a full set of etiquette.

As cronies, the two are naturally looking forward to the opportunity day and night to rise and go further. However, when asked here, Bai Wenxuan directly denied it: "No, it was Xifu who led the army to kill, and it seems that there is a suspicion of seizing the Son of Heaven, so the lord of the country specially ordered me to meet him." ”

Xifu, of course, has to be Li Dingguo. It turned out that Li Dingguo's army went straight from Wuzhou to Guilin, which was actually just a trick - to use the mobilization of the Qing army to disturb Sun Kewang's thinking. Subsequently, Li Dingguo left Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the Governor's University, and several important generals to lead the main force to continue to confront the Qing army in Guilin, and his people led the elite of the headquarters to rush directly to Liuzhou Mansion by boat with the help of water and land transportation, and then went west to Anlong Mansion.

It's a pity that Sun and Li are one, and there are each other's people and horses within each side, and they can't be cleaned at all. When Li Dingguo personally led the elite south, Sun Kewang quickly got the news, and hurriedly sent Liu Zhenguo and Guan Youcai to lead the army to Tianzhou Mansion to intercept it, and even ordered "all the places that Dingguo must pass through are burned with grain to prevent it from returning." As a result, who knew that Li Dingguo had a very high prestige within the Great Western Army, and only sent a front horse to paging: "Xifu is coming!" Liu and the corporal of the Guan Department knelt down on both sides of the road to greet them. Later, he pretended: "If there is no fear, I am also a brother of the King of Qin, and I will talk to each other with the words of a small person, and there is no other person now." If we return to the camp, we will send Lao Ru "20,000 taels of silver to the labor army, and I will collect all this interception force."

As a result, the door of Tianzhou Mansion was opened, and things changed so quickly that Sun Kewang had to send Bai Wenxuan to rob him. Bai Wenxuan is a real powerful general, and his status in the Qin Palace's palace is no longer comparable to Fan Yingxu and Zhang Yingke. As soon as Bai Wenxuan arrived here, it brought such exciting news, and the two of them immediately obeyed Bai Wenxuan's orders and began to deploy the relevant matters of the transfer.

For the next month or so, Bai Wenxuan prepared for the evacuation step by step, and was very busy every day. However, the Son of Yongli, and even the big family of the royal family, have always been in the Thousand Households, and there has been no sign of half of the nest.

As time went by, Li Dingguo's troops were getting closer and closer, Bai Wenxuan's side was not in a hurry, and Sun Kewang was not a eunuch on his side, but he was so anxious that his eyebrows were already burned. So, Sun Kewang, who couldn't bear it anymore, hurriedly sent his cronies Ye Yingzhen to urge him.

The name Ye Yingzhen sounds like it is the same generation as Fan Yingxu and Zhang Yingke. As Sun Kewang's cronies, he naturally rushed to Anlong as soon as possible. When he arrived here, he immediately led troops into the palace, and as a result, from the Empress Dowager Ma to the palace maids and eunuchs in the Yongli Palace, they all cried and refused to leave anything. And Bai Wenxuan told Ye Yingzhen that there were few poor people in Anlong, and it was not easy to recruit people, so there was really no way to start for a while. In the past two months, Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou, who had the opportunity to make great contributions, were completely marginalized and could only sit back and watch the situation change.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, Anlong Mansion still had no intention of moving, but Li Dingguo's army was the first to arrive not far away. At this moment, Anlong Mansion is still under the control of the Qin Domain, from Bai Wenxuan, to Liu Zhenguo, who fled back from Tianzhou, to Ye Yingzhen, who came from Guiyang, and even the original landlord Fan Yingxu and Zhang Yingke, all of whom are Sun Kewang's cronies. Li Dingguo did not come this time to conquer the city, but to meet them, and he was afraid that they would jump off the wall in a hurry, if they harmed the life of the Son of Heaven and completely saddled the infamy of killing the king, then whether it was Sun Kewang or the rest of the Great Western Army, there would be no place to turn over.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to send Yang Xiang, the general of the Propaganda Staff, to Anlong Mansion to inform the Yongli Emperor in advance in order to cooperate. As a result, Yang Xiang was captured by Liu Zhenguo's army at the Bantun River, fifty miles away from Anlong, and escorted to Bai Wenxuan, who was in charge of the hijacking affairs here, to await trial.

"What is your purpose in coming here?"

Bai Wenxuan sat in the big tent, Yang Xiang claimed to be on behalf of Sun Kewang to ask to see Bai Wenxuan, and when he saw Bai Wenxuan himself, Yang Xiang bowed, and then replied: "The last general will announce the general Yang Xiang, and the lord of the country will come to supervise the Daofu Prefecture and County to prepare grain and grass, so as to wait for the arrival of the lord." With that, Yang Xiang immediately took out a piece of dragon card paper from his armor.

"This is a certificate that the lord of the country has sent the last general to come to prepare grain and grass."

The lord of the country is the Qin Palace, and even the figures within the Great Western Army who tend to Sun Kewang's side are the exclusive honorific title for His Royal Highness the King of Qin. This title, as an acting school, Yang Xiang can be said to be more respectful. However, Bai Wenxuan was originally a heavy general of the Qin Domain, and he was very familiar with the generals under the Qin Palace, and he had never heard of such a character as Yang Xiang, but he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a guy with such a name under Li Dingguo, who had always been known for his cleverness.

took the dragon card, Bai Wenxuan looked at it several times in front of Liu Zhenguo, Ye Yingzhen and others. Seeing that Yang Xiang had already seen a few beads of sweat coming out of his forehead, he nodded solemnly, indicating that he should indeed be assigned by Sun Kewang. Not only did he respond to Yang Xiang's excuse, but he also ordered his subordinates to prepare food and drink, and let them move freely in Anlong Mansion.

Yang Xiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but he still couldn't help but think about it more. However, the most important thing at the moment is to get the errand done, seeing this, he patiently used the wine and food, he went out of Bai Wenxuan's line, and after a few circles in the city, he arrived at the palace to meet the Yongli Emperor.

With Bai Wenxuan's permission, the army guarding the gate will certainly not stop him. Seeing Emperor Yongli, Yang Xiang hinted at waving back left and right, and only after there was no one around, did he take out a letter from the back of his armor. On it, the seven words "vassal Li Dingguo's performance" immediately appeared in front of Emperor Yongli's eyes, and his heart was suddenly shocked. Opening the dense sparse, Li Dingguo's vigorous brushstrokes jumped onto the paper.

"The ministers are now commanding the troops to meet them, and they will not be in the future, and they will play Wan'an in advance, and don't listen to the traitors and move against the grain."

It's just twenty-five words, but it's stamped with the seal of "Pinghan's Minister" given by Yongli when he sent someone to lead Li Dingguo into the guard, and he was relieved.

Mi Shu was sent to Yongli, and Yang Xiang changed his clothes and went out of the city to return to Li Dingguo's army. At this time, Li Dingguo's army was already encamped, and they were also waiting for Yang Xiang's news to arrive.

The generals under his command are still in the ministries, and only Li Dingguo and his cronies Jin Gongzhi are talking in the tent.

"If General Yang can bring back the edict and the king will approach the city, the defenders in the city will be unable to fight."

As a close confidant of Li Dingguo, Jin Gongzhi has a high status in the army. All this did not fall into a trough until Guo Zhiqi's plot against Chen Kai, but with Chen Kai's victory in Shaozhou Mansion, the speculation that Chen Kai privately co-opted Li Dingguo's staff was self-defeating, and the suspicion of Jin Gongzhi also disappeared in Li Dingguo's smoke. Even because of the guilt caused by the doubt here, Li Dingguo's trust in him was even greater than before.

In recent years, if Jin Gongzhi had nothing to do on weekdays, he often explained stories such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to Li Dingguo, in which he inevitably instilled the idea of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness through the praise of Liu Guanzhang's loyalty and his contempt for Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao's usurpation of the Han heart. Perhaps because of his natural loyalty, Li Dingguo has absorbed this knowledge very well. In addition to the heart of loyalty, the story and the edict are also fresh in my memory.

"There is no need for an edict, as long as General Yang can enter the city, find out the truth and truth, and hand over the secret to the emperor."

With the "battle" in Tianzhou, Li Dingguo has a deeper understanding of the people's hearts and minds, and he also has greater confidence in recovering Anlong.

Originally, Zhang Xianzhong died in Sichuan, and the Great Western Army was leaderless, so it was only by uniting that it entered Yunnan and occupied this piece of land to recuperate. However, since the Lianming Dynasty resisted the Qing Dynasty, and even before that, Sun Kewang has been tirelessly seeking the expansion of power. If it's just within their group, the problem is that Sun Kewang is always thinking about the usurpation of the dynasty, which is no longer as simple as a personal grudge between him and Sun Kewang.

Yu Gong, Yongli is now the co-owner of the Ming army, the banner of the Ming Dynasty, if Yongli dies, the feudal towns will definitely support more emperors in order to support great merit, the original situation will inevitably deteriorate rapidly with the outbreak of the civil war, only the Manchu Qing can take advantage; In private, although he and Sun Kewang are almost cut off from their robes, but in the final analysis, they are both from the Great Western Army, if Yongli dies in the hands of Sun Kewang, then there will inevitably be a civil war between the Great Western Army system and other Ming armies, and his selfishness in the hope of helping the Ming Dynasty to wash away the thief's name over the years will be completely useless.

On the one hand, he blurted out in his heart that he scolded Sun Kewang's wolf ambition, and on the other hand, with the Zheng Group as an ally behind him, Li Dingguo finally led his army westward to welcome the Yongli Holy Driver under the urgency of Mr. Eighteen's prison and the support of civil officials such as Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai.

At this moment, the two of them chatted without a word in the big tent, which inevitably hurt Yongli, and now all they can do is wait for Yang Xiang's news. The hard work paid off, and a few hours later, Yang Xiang, who hurried back, brought the expected and arguably the best news back to Li Dingguo, so that they all counted it on the four big characters of providence.

After receiving the news, Li Dingguo entered the final stage of preparation. However, that night, Ye Yingzhen heard that Li Dingguo's army was not far from Anlong, so he took the soldiers who accompanied him into the palace in uniform and asked the Yongli family to set off immediately and ride to Guiyang.

For a while, "the crying in the palace resounded inside and outside", and the small Anlong Mansion became restless on such an early spring night. Here, Ye Yingzhen commanded the generals of the department to pull and drag the Yongli Emperor's family out of thousands of households. Soon, Bai Wenxuan, who hurried to hear the news, did not arrive, the voice arrived first, and Ye Yingzhen and his subordinates were immediately stunned on the spot.

"Are you crazy?!"

Immediately afterwards, Bai Wenxuan pulled Ye Yingzhen to the side and whispered to him: "The lord of the country is afraid that Anxi will return to the Qing Dynasty, so the driver is afraid of falling into the unexpected." Things must be slowed down, if it is pressed to this point, the jade leaves and golden branches of the court will not be my life. In case of an accident, what if you can let it be responsible? Today, I will explore, if Anxi Guotong Qing soldiers come, it is not too late to move. If it is Anxi who returns the army, and he is a family, how can I be persecuted and take our own crimes! ”

Bai Wenxuan said it well, but it was not the same thing as what Ye Yingzhen had said before he came to Sun Kewang. However, Ye Yingzhen is only a hundred households, even if he is trusted by Sun Kewang, he is far inferior to Bai Wenxuan in the Qin Domain. What's more, Bai Wenxuan himself is still Sun Kewang's confidant general, and he knows far more inside stories than him. Seeing this, he had no choice but to leave Bai Wenxuan and withdraw from the palace with his subordinates.

In the early morning of the twenty-second day of the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, the fog was filled, and the dark tide inside Anlong Mansion was surging, and it was only because Bai Wenxuan suppressed it that he failed to make a farce that forced the Son of Heaven to run away.

However, in the fog, dozens of horsemen suddenly arrived at the city and shouted around the city: "The soldiers of Xifu are here!" Ye Yingzhen knew that he was not Li Dingguo's opponent, and he had offended the holy driver a few days ago, and hurriedly fled to Guiyang with the hijacked soldiers and horses.

Soon, Li Dingguo's army arrived at Anlong, and the army was encamped under the leadership of the generals, and Li Dingguo himself entered the city to meet him.

"I have known Qing for a long time, and I hate to see each other late."

Yongli had reason to be excited, originally he was still hesitating whether to use Ma Jixiang and others, and then Bai Wenxuan and Ye Yingzhen came one after another, and the possibility that Sun Kewang was about to kill the monarch was getting bigger and bigger in his heart. At this time, even if he wanted to send someone to lure Li Dingguo into the guard, it was already too late, and the internal and external communications were cut off, so he couldn't get out of the city at all. Now, Li Dingguo led the army to come, remembering that he was still worried about the idea that the Mandate of Heaven no longer favored the Zhu family, and suddenly felt that it was his own nonsense. In addition to rejoicing, excitement is inevitable.

Yongli is like this, and so is Li Dingguo. Loyalty was personally recognized by the Son of Heaven, and Li Dingguo burst into tears even though he was so excited that he replied to Yongli: "The minister is grateful to His Majesty, and he wants to take two Yue to welcome Luanyu, but not only does he not fulfill the wishes of his ministers, but also renews His Majesty's worries, and he will be unable to redeem himself until he dies." ”

The monarch and the minister get along, and they are moved. However, the practical problem still exists, Li Dingguo came with the elite of his headquarters this time, but there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Sun Kewang has more than 100,000 troops in Guizhou, Yunnan and southern Huguang, and the gap between the two sides is too large, even if there is an additional Zheng group behind it, it is far from quenching the thirst.

In today's situation, Sun Kewang originally narrowed the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but now that the Son of Heaven has fallen into the hands of Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang will want to recapture it, and the army will return, even if Li Dingguo has a thousand means, it is a very dangerous thing. Besides, now that the emperor is here, the danger is not borne by him alone.

"Your Majesty, An Long can't stay for a long time, he should move somewhere else."

"What Aiqing said is very true, but where should I go now?"

Li Dingguo didn't want to stay in Anlong Mansion and wait for Sun Kewang, so why not Yongli. With this tacit understanding between the monarch and the minister, the rest of the things will be much easier.

Before leaving, Chen Fujun gave Weichen a bag and asked him to welcome the holy car and open it again. Now, the time has come. ”

Chen Fujun, Emperor Yongli naturally understood that he was referring to Chen Kai. He had heard the name too many times in his career, and no matter what anyone said about him, no matter what his arguments were, but there was one thing, and that was that on top of his intelligence, anyone would have a surprisingly high opinion of him. And what Chen Kai has done over the years is precisely the best endorsement of these evaluations.

Hearing this, Emperor Yongli nodded, he actually wanted to see what kind of character Chen Kai was. So, Li Dingguo took out the bag from his arms, untied the knot that had not been untied for half a year because of his promise, and exposed a small note inside.

"Seize Yunnan to divide the power of the Qin Domain!"