As soon as Xing Shengping talked about how to deal with the aftermath, Liu Yongxi knew that he had already gotten on the thief ship and had no way to get off the ship, and said unceremoniously: "Since we are sharing worries for the court and protecting the country, do we still need to consider the aftermath?" ”

Whether it is Xing Shengping, Li Xiangjun, and Jin'er, they all feel that Liu Yongxi has an indescribable heroic spirit, that is, this heroic spirit allows Liu Yongxi to lead more than a dozen family members to create achievements that are almost equal to Cao Jiang's sincerity and Liu Kongzhao's achievements within a few months.

Xing Shengping felt that he couldn't be as calm as Liu Yongxi, and now he was still calculating the gains and losses: "Uncle Sincerity, although we are sharing worries for the court and protecting the country, we can't run in vain?" Huai'an has Dongpingbo Liu Zeqing, and Shouzhou has Guangchangbo Liu Liangzuo, did you also recruit a lot of soldiers before you went south? ”

Liu Yongxi glanced at Li Xiangjun: "Thanks to Sister Xiangjun, I brought seven hundred soldiers to the south, and Sister Xiangjun called out and recruited seven hundred soldiers for me!"

Xing Shengping didn't dare to look at Li Xiangjun more, but said honestly: "Okay, I also ask Sister Xiangjun to help me recruit seven hundred soldiers, so that our Xing camp just has three thousand soldiers!"

Xing Shengping always felt unstable when he had 2,300 soldiers in his hands, but when this number became 3,000, he suddenly calmed down: "With 3,000 soldiers, we can completely share the worries of the court and protect the country!"

He felt that he could have a vote with Liu Yongxi, and if this vote was completed, all the problems he faced in front of him would not be a problem.

Zuo Maodi hasn't slept well in the past few days, not only did he wake up several times at night, but he even slept for a while last night almost at dawn.

Although Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu, who were traveling with them, had already found several famous doctors to prescribe medicine to Zuo Maodi, Zuo Maodi knew that his illness was purely a heart disease, and the medicine stone was of no use at all: "Although the hearts of the people in Shandong are available, the imperial court only cares about the peace of Jianghuai, and the people are self-serving, and the town and town are not without inheritance." The Qing people passed on the responsibility of the county to gradually obey the dedication, and there is nothing more painful than this......"

Not only Shandong, but also Henan, the imperial court had no enterprising spirit, and allowed the Qing people to devour Shandong and Henan step by step, but the biggest headache for Zuo Maodi was the northern envoy to negotiate peace.

Speaking from the heart, Zuo Maodi was completely unwilling to negotiate peace with the Qing people, but Chen Hongfan, who was originally determined by the imperial court, was too unbearable, and everyone was worried that he would become the second Qin Hui, so Zuo Maodi had to take on the responsibility of leading the delegation to the north to negotiate peace in the name of "dying in Beijing with his mother, and willing to go north with Chen Hongfan", although he was one of the few ministers in the court who realized that the peace negotiations would inevitably fail and that the Qing people were the great enemies of the Hongguang small court.

Although Emperor Hongguang and the ministry both explained that the bottom line of the negotiation was "bounded by the two Huai", the cabinet minister Gao Hongtu was from Shandong like him, so when he parted, he specially explained that "Shandong's hundred and two mountains and rivers must not be abandoned, and they must be the last resort, and they should be the boundary between the rivers", and asked to take the old Yellow River as the boundary as the bottom line of negotiations.

And the auxiliary minister Ma Shiying even thinks that "the other master is still young, and the emperor is an uncle and nephew", thinking that Emperor Shunzhi is only six or seven years old, and he should strive for Emperor Hongguang as his uncle and Emperor Shunzhi as his nephew, so as to fight for more dignity for the imperial court, but Zuo Maodi feels that although Ma Shiying's suggestion is valuable, it is simply a castle in the air to strive for such conditions with the strength of the imperial court.

However, everyone felt that their opinion was the most correct, and as a result, Zuo Maodi, the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department and the right servant of the Imperial History, who presided over the peace, did not know what his responsibilities were.

Although the name given to him by the imperial court was "Manager Hebei, contact the Kwantung Military Affairs", so he once fantasized about negotiating peace with the Qing people after passing through Shandong, but Shi Kefa, the governor of Jiangbei, urged him to hurry north: "Manager, Gu Wen'er; Tonghe, the edict also. The public should go quickly, and do not stay!"

In this case, Zuo Maodi didn't sleep well every day, and the more he took the calming medicine, the more complicated the situation became, and he looked at the displaced people on both sides of the canal and didn't know what to do!

"Brother and Middle, Brother ......"

A hurried shout woke up the dizzy Zuo Maodi, who realized that he didn't know when he actually took a nap, and several senior members of the Northern Mission, Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu, were all around him: "What's the matter?" It shouldn't have been to Shandong yet, right? Is there any good news from Shandong? ”

Zuo Maodi is a native of Laiyang, Shandong, and he is most concerned about this homeland.

Now the imperial court has been urging him to go to Beijing as soon as possible to negotiate peace with the Qing people instead of starting to recover Shandong, so he will be burned in all directions, so he knows that there are still hundreds of miles away from Shandong, but as soon as he wakes up, he is worried about the news of his homeland.

And Chen Hongfan, the governor who advocated peace, had an unusually ugly look: "We were blocked!"

Only then did Zuo Maodi notice that both sides of the canal were heavily armed horse infantry, and there were several elite warships blocking the way in front, Chen Hongfan even reminded Zuo Maodi: "The back road is also blocked by the Caojiang Water Division!"

the river sailor? This is Liu Kongzhao's centaurs?

Liu Kongzhao is only in charge of the river and the patrol of the river, and has jurisdiction over the defense line of the Qianli River from Jiujiang to Zhenjiang, and the Xiajiang from Zhenjiang to Haikou is no longer under Liu Kongzhao's jurisdiction, not to mention that this is on the canal, and it has nothing to do with Liu Kongzhao at all.

But when he heard that Liu Kongzhao was a martial artist on the other side, Zuo Maodi suddenly became confident: "Is the opposite side a sincere uncle Liu Fuyang?" I'm an old friend of him, so we might as well meet him!"

Ma Shaoyu, the young secretary of Taifu Temple, said with a straight face: "It is Liu Yongxi, the son of sincerity and the chief soldier of Linhuai Town, who said that he is here to protect Cao!"

Before Ma Shaoyu finished speaking, he heard someone on the other side say loudly: "Liu Yongxi, the chief military officer of Linhuai Town, and Xing Shengping, the garrison, are here to meet Zuo Shibo for the sake of the imperial court, and I hope that Zuo Shibo and his little nephew will meet each other!"

As soon as they heard "sharing worries for the court and protecting the country", Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu's expressions became ugly, and Chen Hongfan said very frankly: "Bah, what is protecting the country, isn't it just for this batch of gold, silver and satin, this doesn't take the court in your eyes at all!"

But Zuo Maodi's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he saw infinite hope in the dark night, and he said loudly: "It turned out to be Yongxi's nephew, please invite Yongxi's nephew to the ship!"

Although Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu have their own little abacus, Zuo Maodi has absolute authority as the head of the entire Northern Mission, so a quarter of an hour later, Liu Yongxi took Xing Shengping and Li Xiangjun in men's clothes to board Zuo Maodi's boat: "Little nephew Liu Yongxi has seen Zuo Shibo!"

It's just that as soon as Liu Yongxi's voice fell, Chen Hongfan had already opened his mouth to question him: "General Liu Bing, do you still have the imperial court in your eyes?" ”