"Wu Yingxiong, who are you and my Sun Tingling? As a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, how can I, Sun Tingling, be in the same league as a chaotic minister and thief like you? Sun Tingling smashed the wine glass in his hand, and roared at Wu Yuanming angrily with a blue face. That appearance really has the expression of a loyal and filial son of the Qing Dynasty. Wu Yuanming was not in a hurry or annoyed, and continued to play with the wine glass, and suddenly laughed, "Hahahaha...... what a Qing courtier!" Loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty! Pillars of the Qing Dynasty! Hahahaha......! As soon as Wu Yuanming took the lead, Yao Qisheng, Li Xiongfei and Shi Shilun also laughed, and Shi Shilun also pointed at Sun Tingling, as if he had seen a very interesting thing.

"What are you laughing at?" Sun Tingling asked with a straight face. Wu Yuanming was waiting for his words, put down the wine glass and sneered: "What we laugh at is that you regard yourself as a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, but the court may not treat you as a courtier. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Although Sun Tingling vaguely guessed what Wu Yingxiong was going to say next, he couldn't help but ask. Wu Yuanming smiled at Shi Shilun and said with a smile: "Brother Tingling, why do you pretend to be confused and deceive yourself? Even children know about those things of yours, so why do you want to ask me again? In this way, Shilun, you tell Brother Tingling how he was wronged by the Mantars. ”

"Yes." Shi Shilun, who was only a teenager but was extremely clever by Yao Qisheng, agreed, first gave his hand to Sun Tingling with sophistication, and then said: "Shilun is not talented, first recite a seven-word quatrain of Wu Meicun, a great talent in the world, and ask Brother Tingling to correct it." After that, Shi Shilun recited aloud: "If you hire Momei and do not enter the palace, you will wait for the old man to be empty; The moon falls on the flag and the pine tree is cold, and he is in the Zhaoling guard. ”

"What does that mean?" Don't look at Sun Tingling, who looks like a flower group, but he is a second flute in poetry and songs, and he only knows the fur, so he naturally doesn't understand the meaning of this poem. Shi Shilun pretended to be surprised and said, "Brother Tingling, you really don't understand the meaning of this poem? The person described in this poem is Brother Tingling's unpassed wife Kong Sizhen Gege! In the ninth year of Shunzhi, Sigege was sent to Beijing when he was only eleven years old, and was immediately named the imperial concubine of the East Palace, but because he was too young, he did not officially marry the former emperor - this is the meaning of hiring Momei and not entering the palace. At that time, Wu Dacai was forcibly recruited as an official by the Manchu Tartars, and served as the eunuch of the country in the Tartar court, and witnessed this incident with his own eyes, so this poem was born. ”

"Yes, I also know about this, and later the emperor died, and I got engaged to Sigege when I was a child, and the ancestor of the Empress Dowager pointed out Sizhen to me as his wife, what's so strange about this?" Sun Tingling asked suspiciously. Shi Shilun smiled, "This is nothing strange, but the next sentence is strange - wait for the old lord Enkong, this poem seems to say that by the time Sigege grows up, Emperor Shunzhi has already collapsed, but the word 'En' is used very strangely?" It is the Empress Dowager who is the concubine of the East Palace, and she has not officially married? What happened to Emperor Guan Shunzhi? But what does the word 'en' want to express? ”

"Expressing what?" Sun Tingling had a bad premonition in his heart, and hurriedly asked. Shi Shilun pretended to be confused and said: "When I read this poem, I was also puzzled by the word 'grace', and then once I entered the palace with my father to participate in the ceremony of the national prince prison - Jia Yan is the thunderbolt Shi Lang, overheard the emperor turning over the brand to choose a concubine to sleep, I suddenly realized, it turned out that the word 'grace' - is about grace and happiness!" ”

"The kid is talking nonsense, if it weren't for your father's face, I would have slapped you to death!" Sun Tingling was so angry that he almost turned his face on the spot, but considering that Shi Shilun's father, Haili Shi Lang, was a figure he couldn't provoke, he still forcibly held back. Shi Shilun put away his laughter, and said with a serious face: "Is the little brother talking nonsense, what kind of person is Shunzhi, general, you should know better than the little brother in your heart, in the Yangzhou massacre that happened in Yangzhou, Shunzhi once ordered to select one hundred and seven beautiful girls from the captives to pay tribute, except for a small number of those girls who were given to the Tartar princes by Shunzhi, most of the others were missing after entering the palace, and there has been no news so far." Shunzhi fell in love with his younger brother Bomu Bogol's Fujin Dong E, ** caused Dong E's to become pregnant, and was later accepted as the imperial concubine, and Bomu Bogol also died in an unknown manner. Shunzhi can even do his own brother's wife, not to mention Sigege, who has been canonized as the imperial concubine of the East Palace? Brother Tingling, Sigege's appearance is not under Dong E's family! ”

"Hu ...... Sling the bull! You...... You're just guessing! Sun Tingling was still stubborn, saying that he would not accept the fact that his fiancée had been tarnished by Shunzhi. This will change Wu Yuanming spoke, Wu Yuanming sneered: "Brother Tingling, you are right, we can't see the things in the palace with our own eyes, we can only guess out of thin air, but why did Sigege become like this later?" Isn't this a manifestation of the self-abandonment of the four grids? There is another thing I can tell you clearly, the Tartar Emperor who tarnished the innocence of Sigege is not the only one in Shunzhi, and now this Kangxi Emperor has also insulted your fiancée! ”

"Nonsense!" Sun Tingling roared hoarsely, and Wu Yuanming sneered: "This is what I saw with my own eyes, believe it or not." Wu Yuanming quickly told Sun Tingling what happened in the Shangu shop that day, and said at the end: "Brother Tingling, how those Tartar lackeys insulted you on the dock today, you have personally experienced it, and I think you know the meaning of their words." Although the truth is cruel, I still have to tell you that your fiancée, Kong Sizhen Gege, has become a tool in the hands of the Tartar Emperor, a tool to envelop his subordinates' lackeys with beauty! ”

"Woo......." Although Sun Tingling had been mentally prepared, but when the facts were put in front of him, he couldn't bear such a heavy blow, so he covered his face and cried. Wu Yuanming struck while the iron was hot and said: "Brother Tingling, it is precisely because of this fact that the Tartar Emperor is wary of you in every way, although you are named as the general of Guangxi, but the military power of Guangxi is actually in the hands of Dai Liangchen, Wang Yongnian and Ma Xiong, you are completely an empty shelf, as long as you move a little, the three of them can make you break your body into thousands of pieces with a finger at will, are you willing to live in such a precarious environment forever?" The hatred of taking a wife is equivalent to the hatred of killing your father, do you really want to wear this green hat and carry the name of a turtle for the rest of your life? ”

"I, I don't want to, but what can I do?" Sun Tingling said with a sob. Wu Yuanming smiled and stretched out his right hand to Sun Tingling, and said with a smile: "Abandon the darkness and join the light, and serve under my father, my father will help you clean up Dai Liangchen, Wang Yongnian and Ma Xiong, help you control Guangxi, and open up the communication lines between Yunnan and Guizhou and Fujian and Guangdong!" When the great success is completed in the future, you can avenge your wife's revenge, and you can leave a legacy for eternity and seal the king's territory, how wonderful? ”

"King Pingxi wants to rebel, and I have long seen this." Sun Tingling hesitated and said: "But King Pingxi only has fifty or sixty thousand horses in his hands, and half of them will be disarmed this year, is it possible to have such a few men and horses?" ”

"How could it be?" Wu Yuanming sneered: "Let's not say that there are Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi in the south of Tartar, *** and Chahar in the west, and Zheng Jing in Taiwan in the east. My father's men and horses are indeed only 30,000, but the men of Yungui school age have to receive military training every year in the agricultural season, and every ordinary soldier in the army is trained according to the standard of the commander, and the commander is trained according to the standard of the commander, and the commander of the post is the standard of the battalion officer, and so on. ”

"Expand the army tenfold! I understand, I used to wonder why King Pingxi was so strict with army training, and I always thought that King Pingxi just wanted the army to be more elite, so there was still this reason! Sun Tingling suddenly realized, patted his head and exclaimed. Wu Yuanming sneered: "Yes, this is my father's cleverness!" When the Tartars entered the customs, the entire Tartars were full of eight banners but 200,000 horses, and they still won the world, and there were at least 300,000 after my father expanded the army, such an elite army plus the troops of Fujian, Guangdong, *** and Zheng Jing - by the way, now you have to add your Guangxi, and I am afraid that I can't kill the Tartars completely? Restore the Han family? ”

"Brother Tingling, as long as you sign this document now, I guarantee that you can at least get the position of the king of Linjiang in the future, and part of Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi will all be your territory." Wu Yuanming put a letter written in advance in front of Sun Tingling. Wu Yuanming's words were actually big and empty, and he might not be able to convince Sun Tingling, who was usually a little smart, but now Sun Tingling was being insulted by the donkey and others, Kong Sizhen's betrayal and Wu Yuanming's agitation and was very emotional, and he didn't think too much about it, so he signed and drew on the letter that he was loyal to Wu Sangui and all the eighteen generations of women of Kangxi's ancestors, and handed it to Wu Yuanming with both hands, "Son, Sun Tingling knows that after signing this letter, Sun Tingling's life will be handed over to the prince of Pingxi, Tingling just wants to say one word, Hopefully I didn't make the wrong choice. ”

"Brother Tingling, how could you choose the wrong one? It won't be long before you will be a real Guangxi general, and in a few years, you will be the national hero of our Han people. Wu Yuanming smiled and dried the letter, handed it to Li Xiongfei to put it away, and handed Sun Tingling a glass of wine, "Brother Tingling, for our great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, a drink!" ”

"." Sun Tingling didn't know whether he was excited or nervous, his wrist trembled and touched a glass with Wu Yuanming, and then smashed the wine glass to pieces, and asked loudly: "Shizi, you say, what should we do now?" Is it to go back to Yunnan with you to seek the support of the prince of Pingxi? Or go to Guangxi to launch a mutiny, slaughter Dai Liangchen's rabbit cubs, and snatch the military power first? ”

"To launch a mutiny, you must have the cooperation of middle-level generals who are loyal to you, you have to take your time, you need to have a capable strategist to plan for you, and you also need a lot of silver and gold to support, these can be provided to you by my father, you don't have to rush." Being able to control the soldiers and horses in Guangxi with silver, this transaction is undoubtedly very cost-effective, so Wu Yuanming's promise is not an empty promise that he usually likes to use, but a plan that he really intends to implement. Wu Yuanming said solemnly: "But there is an urgent matter that we must do at the moment, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi and Lu Liuliang, the three leaders of the Jiangnan literary circle, were caught by the Tartars, we have to find a way to rescue them, as long as we can win them to fall to us, then the public opinion in the world will be beneficial to us, not to mention, we can also get the support of a large number of scholars, and we can completely solve the dilemma of the lack of civil officials and the lack of internal talents, and behind these scholars, there are also Shilin and landlords all over the world!" ”

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After joining forces with Sun Tingling, Wu Yuanming's strength has increased greatly, and there are already more than 30 soldiers available, Sun Tingling himself also has a bit of martial arts, and together with Li Xiongfei, he has become Wu Yuanming's right-hand man, but this bit of manpower is obviously not enough to storm Yangzhou Prison, so Wu Yuanming can still only use outwitting means. After a little calculation, Wu Yuanming first gave Sun Tingling more than 20 people as Wu Sangui's nephew and the special envoy of King Pingxi, all of whom were made official titles and rewarded with a bunch of empty titles - anyway, the official position will also come from Sun Tingling's army in the future, and he was given a certain amount of cash reward, which increased the loyalty of these people to the greatest extent. Then he sent people to inquire about the situation of Yangzhou Prison, and sent Sun Tingling as an official to inquire about the exact time when Gu Yanwu and others were escorted to Jiangning and left Yangzhou City.

In the evening, Wu Lu, who went to inquire about the situation of the prison, came back first with information, put a sketch in front of Wu Yuanming, and explained: "Shizi, I spent money to buy an old jailer of Yangzhou Prison, according to his description, I drew a sketch of Yangzhou Prison, made an elevation and drew the location of the drainage ditch, as well as the observed deployment of troops, I also marked it on it. ”

"Very well, you have grown a lot." Wu Yuanming praised Wu Lu, and then studied the sketch with Yao Qisheng. The area of Yangzhou prison occupies a large area, the height of the courtyard wall is more than four zhang, it is difficult to climb into the wall, and the only entrance and exit is only the main entrance of the prison with two doors inside and outside; Outside, there is a compound with a length and width of more than 300 paces, and on both sides of the courtyard are barracks guarded by Qing soldiers, and on the front side is a house; There is also a general gate in the cell where the prisoners are held, and there are more than 100 large and small prison cells, all of which are bluestone walls, and the terrain of the entire cell is not so much a prison as a garrison fortress, and it is very difficult to attack and outwit it.

"When I went to investigate the situation, I happened to meet a pickpocket who had just been released from inside, and I asked him about the location of Mr. Gu Yanwu's detention, which should be in this cell." Wu Lu pointed to a prison cell with a red circle on the innermost side of the sketch and said, "There were originally more than 150 guards in Yangzhou Prison, but now the donkeys have arranged all the 500 people they brought to the prison to guard, and all the original cooks in the prison have been replaced by army men, and there used to be a well in the courtyard, but now it is also abandoned, and the water used is all directly picked from the canal." ”

"It's Wu Ciyou's arrangement again, but we don't know how we go to prison now, and we can't do it by poisoning or sweating in the well." Wu Yuanming shook his head and said. Yao Qisheng pointed to one of the sketches and said: "There is hope to go in, the drainage ditch of the prison!" Wu Lu's eyes lit up, and he nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, that place can be entered, I heard the old jailer who instructed me to draw a sketch said that when he was in Yangzhou on the tenth day, he escaped by burrowing into that ditch." Now the exit is blocked by iron rods, but with enough time and tools, we can sawn the iron rods. ”

"Although there is hope to get in, there are too many guards and Tartar troops to do it." Wu Yuanming frowned and muttered, "It would be nice if there was a way to make the guarding army drink the water from the well, we just need to put some medicine in the well, and then it will be much easier." ”

"Either we poison the canal and scare the Tartar army into drinking the water from the river." Shi Shilun proposed. Wu Yuanming glanced at Shi Shilun, who was smiling innocently, and said in his heart that my junior brother was really taught badly by my godfather, shook his head and said: "Impossible, the water volume in the canal is too large, and the amount of poison is too large, where can we go up there to get so many poisons?" Unless....... Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked Wu Shou and Wu Fu, who were waiting on the side, "Where is Zhu Fangdan?" ”

"He's in a girl's room." Wu Fu replied honestly. Wu Yuanming ordered: "Quick, you two brothers go and call him over, and if he refuses to come out, drag him over." ”

"Yes." Wu Shou and Wu Fu agreed to go out, and after a while, Zhu Fangdan, who was still stained with rouge lipstick marks on his face, was dragged to Wu Yuanming's room by the two brothers, and Wu Yuanming immediately asked with a face: "Zhu Fangdan, since you are the first miracle doctor in the world, then let me ask you, do you have a way to spread cholera in the canal and make people who drink canal water suffer from cholera?" ”

"Cholera? Son, you are so lacking in virtue! Yao Qisheng immediately understood his godson's plan, and said with a smile: "However, this is like my godson who is always called Huazi." ”

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At the same time, Wu Ciyou, who was recuperating from his injuries, also called Li Yuliang to the front, took Li Yuliang's hand, and put a pre-written note in front of Li Yuliang, which read: "Yun Niang, I have something to ask you, please don't refuse." Li Yuliang showed a smile on his gloomy thin face, clasped Wu Ciyou's hand and said softly: "Mr. Wu, Yun Niang has long been determined to follow you to the ends of the earth, and is willing to do everything for you, what do you want to say please?" ”

Wu Ciyou, who had expected Li Yuliang to answer like this, smiled, and took out a note that was also written in advance, "Because this matter is very important, and the means of acting are harmful, I have to ask you, please don't refuse." Li Yuliang's face sank again, knowing that Wu Ciyou was going to send her to do dirty things again, after hesitating for a long time, Li Yuliang finally nodded and said, "Okay, I will promise you everything." ”

Wu Ciyou breathed a sigh of relief, and handed Li Yuliang two folded pieces of paper, Li Yuliang unfolded it, and saw that the note read: "I and Donkey and Nan Huairen are injured and want to be treated in Yangzhou for a period of time, Jiangsu Governor Zhu Guozhi is a person who likes to flatter, and Donkey and Nan Huairen are both close ministers of the Son of Heaven, as long as they stay in Yangzhou for a day, Zhu Guozhi will not leave Yangzhou for a day, and Gu Yanwu and other prisoners will not be sent to Jiangning for a day, and we are still not a bad deal." ”

Seeing that at this time, the first page had been written, Li Yuliang turned the second page again, and saw Wu Ciyou writing in a delicate handwriting: "Even if Chen Jinnan's poison should also be solved, I am worried that he will come to the prison to rescue Gu Yanwu and others, so I ask you to disguise yourself as a scholar who was imprisoned because of the literary prison, go undercover to the cell where Gu Yanwu and others are imprisoned, gain their trust, and inquire whether they have any contact with the outside world." Once there is an accident, kill Gu Yanwu and the three of them immediately! ”

"This ......." Although he had expected Wu Ciyou to send her to do dirty things again, he didn't expect things to be so dirty, and Li Yuliang couldn't help but hesitate for a while. Wu Ciyou also expected her to have this reaction, clenched her hand, and handed the last piece of paper to Li Yuliang, which read: "Yun Niang, I know this matter is despicable, but Gu Yanwu and the three are the leaders of the Jiangnan literary circle, if they are corrected by the imperial court, they can play a role in killing chickens and monkeys for the Jiangnan literati." But if they fall into the hands of the thieves, with their fame and appeal, they will inevitably be a big trouble for the imperial court. Yun Niang, this is a big matter, Brother Wu has to beg you, as long as we do this, I will also repay the emperor's kindness, and I can go to the mountains and forests with you hand in hand, and never ask about the world. ”

After reading the last note, Li Yuliang didn't speak for a long time, but tears were already flashing in the corners of his eyes. But Wu Ciyou cried more than her, his eyes were full of tears, he looked at Li Yuliang affectionately, his eyes were full of pleading, Li Yuliang's heart softened for a while, and finally relented: "Okay, Yun Niang is based on Mr. Wu's arrangement." ”