The nineteenth year of the founding of the Great Qin, September 13.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty Congress, there is a song and dance, especially the Zuo General's Mansion is the most lively.

Today, General Zuo, who was guarding the meeting, was entertaining distinguished guests, and in the hall of the General's Mansion, there were three main tables placed side by side.

At the main table in the middle sat a young couple, the man was short and mediocre. The woman is tall and beautiful, with a kind of ice and snow temperament. This pair of people is General Zuo Wang Ningzhi and the general's wife Xie Daoyun; The main table on the right is also made of a man and a woman, the man is middle-aged, and the woman is even older, it seems to be a mother and son; As for the main table on the left, there was a middle-aged man wearing a red dragon robe and an imperial crown on his head.

Under the main table on three sides, there were countless civil and military officials and people from the family family, all of whom looked so jubilant.

"Today is a big day, there are three joys!" Wang Ningzhi took the lead in delivering a speech.

"First joy, my uncle Xie An and brother-in-law Xie Xuan defeated the Qin Dynasty in Shouyang and killed countless Qin soldiers! Our country has been solid since then; The second joy, Lord Zhu Xu, the secretary of the violent Qin Dynasty, has great righteousness in his heart and rejoins the arms of the Great Jin; The third joy, Emperor Daliang came to our country in person, and he is willing to form an alliance with my country forever to fight against the tyrannical Qin! ”

All the guests had obviously rehearsed in advance, and at this moment they got up and shouted in unison: "Long live the Great Jin, long live Your Majesty, fight against the tyrannical Qin, and return my rivers and mountains!" ”

"Come, everybody, and drink this cup to your heart's content!" As soon as everyone sat down, Wang Ningzhi picked up the wine glass again.

Everyone got up helplessly, raised their wine glasses and drank: "General Xie Zuo!" ”

After drinking, Wang Ningzhi clapped his hands, and a singer entered the hall to dance, and everyone also sat down again, laughing and talking with each other.

Xie Daoyun whispered beside him: "Now that the war is still going on, the husband should not neglect military affairs, and the singing and dancing need to be done in moderation." ”

Wang Ning waved his hand, and said indifferently: "The Qin Emperor has been defeated, what else can the Qin Dynasty toss, I will be in the hinterland, and there are 20,000 elite guards, what are you afraid of." ”

As soon as the words changed, he looked at the mother and son on the main table on the right and said: "Brother Zhu gave up the title of Shangshu of the Qin Dynasty, and this war provided our army with the military information of the Qin army, and falsely claimed the edict of the Qin Emperor, coaxing hundreds of thousands of Qin troops to die, and made great contributions to our country, and the younger brother really admired." In the name of Brother Zhu's loyalty, he should be able to catch up with Guan Yunchang! ”

"General Zuo praised it falsely, my old Zhu family has been a Jin minister for generations, and he should be loyal to the Great Jin. It's just that Xiangyang fell back then, and he had no choice but to make a mistake with the Qin Dynasty, and now he has returned to the country, and he just hopes that His Majesty will not be guilty, and he will be satisfied. It turned out that this middle-aged man was Zhu Xu, the Duzhi Shangshu who had defected to the enemy in Qianqin, and the old woman on the side was his mother Han.

Wang Ningzhi laughed and said: "Brother Zhu is relieved, Your Majesty is not a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong." To tell the truth, His Majesty's will has arrived, and Brother Zhu will be promoted to General Long Xiang, Langya internal history, and the old lady will give another million gold for a product. Brother Zhu is going to rise to prominence in the future! ”

Zhu Xu was happy in his heart, he and his mother were not really loyal to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, otherwise when Qin captured Xiangyang that year, the mother and son would have been martyred directly, so why surrender. This rebellion against Qin and Jin is really with the idea of seeking wealth and danger. He surrendered to his ministers with a metro, and it was already capped when he achieved Shangshu in the former Qin, and it was difficult to go further. Moreover, he is well versed in politics, and now that the Qin Dynasty is at war, it is okay, once it succeeds in unifying the world, the open and secret struggle between the large and small forces in the DPRK and China will become more and more intense. He had a bad reputation, and he was a subordinate, so it was easy to be attacked and annihilated by that time. Instead of this, it is better to take the risk of helping the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once it is successful, not only can you get a good reputation of loyalty and righteousness, but also get a higher official position.

Sure enough, it was only a few days after returning to China, and the reward of the Jin Dynasty came down! Zhu Xu only felt that his heart was full of joy, and he said flutteringly at the moment: "Zhu Mou is only a small merit, but His Majesty treats him so kindly, it is really the emperor's grace!" "The Han family has become a first-class fate, which she didn't get mixed with in Qianqin. She also smiled, and kept chanting beside her: "The emperor's grace is magnificent, the emperor's grace is magnificent." ”

Don't look at this Han Shi at the moment, she looks at her kind eyebrows, but she is actually a ruthless person, and people who are familiar with her privately call her an old witch. When she was in Xiangyang, this woman disregarded the lives of the people and forcibly recruited civilians to build the city of Mrs. Lady, which can be called cruel.

After a few more greetings, Wang Ningzhi turned to the dragon-robed man at the main table on the left, and said, "I Jiangdong water and soil, can Emperor Daliang adapt to it?" ”

The man nodded like a chicken and said, "Adapt, I am very satisfied, and I want to thank the Jin Dynasty for their help!" ”

This man's identity is also very particular, his name is Zhang Tianxi, and he is the Guiyi Marquis of the former Qin. He also had an identity before the thirteenth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the former Liang Emperor. When this person was the emperor, he was cowardly and incompetent, and when he saw that the former Qin was powerful, he directly cut the emperor's name and took the initiative to call himself a minister, and turned into the Guiyi Marquis of the former Qin. It's just that although this person is nominally a minister, he is unwilling to give up the power in his hands, refuses to leave Liangzhou to go to Chang'an to meet the Qin Emperor, and wants to be the uncrowned king of Liangzhou. In the end, Emperor Qin sent troops to Liangzhou to arrest him back to Chang'an for questioning on the grounds that he was "impure in his courtiership", and after this incident, Zhang Tianxi held a grudge against the former Qin.

This time the Qin Emperor went on his southern expedition, Zhang Tianxi also accompanied him as a minister, and hit it off with Zhu Xu, who also had bad intentions, on the way, so Zhu Xu's mother and son picked him up by the way when they fled. After the three of them arrived in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were escorted away from the front line as soon as possible, came to the safer Huiji in the rear, and waited to go to Jiankang to meet the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after a while.

Wang Ningzhi said with a smile: "Your Majesty has known about the situation of Emperor Da Liang, and expressed great sympathy and is willing to help Emperor Da Liang restore the country. In the future, Emperor Da Liang will live in our country first, and at the same time repair books to the former ministers of the Liang Dynasty, so that they can choose the opportunity to start an incident in Liangzhou and respond to our country. ”

Of course, with Wang Ningzhi's IQ, he couldn't think of such a clever plan, these were indeed the wills of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Yao himself, and Wang Ningzhi just read it. After all, it has been less than ten years since Qianliang destroyed the country, and there are still some old and young leftovers, and if Zhang Tianxi's chess piece is used well, it can pose a serious threat to the rule of Northwest Qin.

Zhang Tianxi was naturally not qualified to object, and hurriedly responded: "Very good, very good, I will listen to the arrangements of the Jin Dynasty." ”

Pity him, he is still happy, proud of restoring the emperor's honorific title, and he has never realized that there is no substantial difference between him being the "Great Liang Emperor" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Yihou of Angelica in the former Qin. The guests in the venue were also very knowledgeable, and they sent compliments to Zhu Xu's mother and son and Zhang Tianxi one after another, where did they enjoy such treatment when they were officials in the former Qin as ministers, and they suddenly smiled one by one, but they were afraid that they would forget their surnames.

In addition to chatting with Zhu Xu and Zhang Tianxi, Wang Ningzhi only cared about drinking and having fun, without the slightest awareness of "the general guarding the side should always be sober", during which Xie Daoyun reminded him many times not to be greedy for cups, he also turned a deaf ear, and when he was tired of hearing it, he took Zhang Tianxi as a shield: "Emperor Daliang is the respect of ten thousand times, and he wants to drink with his husband to appreciate his face, how can he refrain from his husband?" ”

was so straightforward that Xie Daoyun was so choked that he couldn't speak. Although this Zhang Tianxi is not the emperor of his country, he has even died a long time ago. But he can't stand the fact that the Eastern Jin Dynasty wants to use him now, no matter what, he has to maintain courtesy and respect for the emperor on the surface. Wang Ningzhi took Zhang Tianxi to talk about it, but Xie Daoyun really couldn't continue to persuade him, so he had to turn his head and sulk on the side.

At this time, I heard a herald from outside to report: "Report to General Zuo, the spies have sent news that there is a Qin army twenty miles outside the city of Huiji!" ”

"Ahh What do you say... Qin Bing! How did Qin Bing get to Huiji, could it be that Shouyang was lost again? Wang Ningzhi screamed, cold sweat swept down, and he suddenly woke up with a sense of alcohol.

The guests and singers present were no better, although the Eastern Jin Dynasty had just won the Battle of Weishui, but the shadow and fear that the former Qin had pressed on the head of the Eastern Jin Dynasty for decades could not be erased in a short time with a great victory. Suddenly, there was chaos in the hall, and Zhang Tianxi ran to Zhu Xu's side even more verbosely, took his hand and said in a panic: "Zhu Shangshu, didn't you say that it was foolproof, how could there be a Qin army here?" Isn't it that the imperial court wants to arrest Benhou and go back with you to ask for guilt? ”

Zhang Tianxi was frightened, and he didn't dare to call himself me, and suddenly he was a Benhou again. Zhu Xu was also afraid, he had entered the former Qin and Eastern Jin Dynasty at the same time, and knew better than anyone how great the gap between the national strength of the two countries was. Even if the Eastern Jin Dynasty won the battle of Weishui, Zhu Xu was still uneasy, and when he heard that the Qin army was coming, he was full of thoughts about what kind of punishment he would receive if he was captured back to Great Qin. Where do you dare to take responsibility for Zhang Tianxi, he immediately sneered and shook off Zhang Tianxi's hand, and said: "The lower officials have never bewitched Hou Ye, it is Hou Ye himself who has to come to the Jin Kingdom, if the court really wants to ask for guilt, Hou Ye will ask for more blessings." ”

The only one who remained sober in the audience was Xie Daoyun, a talented woman who was famous for future generations because of the sentence "If the catkins rise because of the wind", she is quite a bit of a woman. She was not in a hurry and asked the herald: "Can you find out how many people are in this Qin army?" ”

The herald said: "About eight hundred, it seems that it has just been a long journey. ”

After a little analysis, Xie Daoyun stretched his brows and said, "It should be a small group of Qin Dynasty routs who fled around the border and came here, so don't panic." If there is a real change on the front line, there will be more than just a few hundred people. ”

In this way, everyone felt that it made sense, and they didn't panic for a while.

Zhu Xu took Zhang Tianxi's hand and said: "Emperor Da Liang rest assured, if the violent Qin really dares to attack, I will keep Emperor Da Liang safe." ”

Zhang Tianxi nodded: "Actually, even if Qin Bing really comes, I am not afraid." I am the Son of Heaven, who dares to hurt me! ”

At this time, Xie Daoyun said to Wang Ning: "The husband can send a good general to lead thousands of soldiers and horses out of the city to encircle and suppress the Qin army." ”

Many generals in the field heard that the enemy army was only 800, and they all had the idea of making merit, and for a time countless generals came out and said: "The last general is invited to fight!" ”

At this time, he saw Wang Ningzhi waving his hand to rebuke the generals, and said in a loud voice with a red face: "Today is a day of great joy, and the soldiers rarely have a holiday, how can they work well." I have been practicing in the Heavenly Master since I was a child, and there are also one or two ways to go, just Qin soldiers, I asked the ghosts and gods to be destroyed. ”

Wang Ningzhi is worried about how to take a ride on the reward of meritorious deeds in the battle of Weishui, and now that the opportunity is in front of him, how to let others share the profits. I have to say that Wang Ningzhi is still very confident in his Taoism, and he firmly believes that the ghost soldiers he summoned can deal with only eight hundred Qin soldiers.

"Husband, how can you be so nonsense about military affairs!" Xie Daoyun frowned beside him. Due to the limitations of the times, there are almost no people who don't believe in ghosts and gods at all in this era, not to mention the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where the Heavenly Master Dao prevailed. It's not that Xie Daoyun doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but she simply thinks that her husband is unreliable, and even if she really has the skill to summon ghosts and gods, it is not something that someone like her husband can use.

Wang Ningzhi's eyes widened suddenly, and he refuted slightly angrily: "You still believe that you can't be a husband?" He also ordered the generals: "This general has made up his mind, and you will quickly order the troops not to move, open the city gates, and see how this general can make the ghost soldiers break the enemy!" ”

Zhang Tianxi and Zhu Xu first arrived, but they didn't know the details of Wang Ning, but they only said that this General Zuo was really a capable person with great skills, and he was still applauding happily at the moment.