It is the turn of spring and summer, the south of the Yangtze River at this time is the most tranquil time, the night just closes, the sky hangs a round of clear and clean silver basin early, will melt the moonlight to the earth, the ancient city of Changsha is completely shrouded in an elegant atmosphere at this time, the occasional sound on the street is far away in this quiet night.

The guards of the yamen of the five provinces, dressed in the robes of the soldiers of the green battalion, walked back and forth, and the red tassels of the spear swayed as he walked.

In the governor's yamen, under the flickering oil lamp, Hong Chengchou, who was known as the "first official of the Qing Dynasty" because of the military affairs of the governor's five provinces, Nan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan, was looking at the newspaper in front of him and frowning and contemplating. His brows were sometimes furrowed, sometimes relaxed, and between those eyebrows, there was a full sadness on his face.

Looking at the garden under the moonlight outside the window, Hong Chengchou couldn't sleep for a long time.

Fan Wencheng is dead!

The death of a Wenchen is actually not a big deal, but the problem is that Fan Wencheng suddenly "died of a violent illness", before that, there was no news at all, and suddenly, he was infected with a violent illness, how not to make people suspicious.

What made Hong Chengchou unable to sleep even more was that Fan Wencheng only had a "Wenhe" behind him, and there were even officials who were beheaded by the emperor because of their opposition to this accusation.

Fan Wencheng's death, I'm afraid it's not that simple!

Hong Chengchou silently thought in his heart, as the governor of the five provinces, he naturally knew that the turmoil in the DPRK in the recent period of time also knew the undercurrent in the DPRK. As for the "Secret History of Concubine Zhuang", it also circulated in Changsha and also appeared on his desk.

Originally, he was dismissive of the "Secret History of Concubine Zhuang", but now, in the face of Fan Wencheng's sudden violent illness and death, his whole person can no longer be as calm as before.

Concubine Zhuang personally lobbied......

In the past, for Hong Chengchou, this was his glory, but now, Concubine Zhuang was in prison and personally lobbied, but it became a life-threatening talisman!

The emperor didn't listen to Fan Wencheng's explanation, how could he listen to his Hong Chengchou's explanation?

Thinking of the "Secret History of Concubine Zhuang", Concubine Zhuang lobbied him Hong Chengchou, the extremely fragrant temptation and obscene behavior in prison, and the obscene things that seduced her body many times afterwards. Hong Chengchou only felt that a burst of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, so that at the turn of spring and summer, he still felt like he was in an ice cellar, and the whole person was completely immersed in a panic that he had never felt before.

If there was no Fan Wencheng's sudden violent illness and death, I am afraid Hong Chengchou would never be as panicked as he is now, but with Fan Wencheng's sudden violent illness and death, coupled with the emperor's "Wenhe" behavior, Hong Chengchou's whole heart was panicked......

"If the emperor decrees that he will return to the court, what should he do then?"

Like Hong Chengchou in an ice cellar, now he only feels that the spring and summer in Changsha seem to be a little colder than in Kanto, so cold that he can't feel the slightest temperature.

What now?

For Hong Chengchou, who has been in the officialdom for decades, he naturally knows that if the emperor makes up his mind to maintain the reputation of the queen mother this time, and then take her life, his life will really be difficult to protect.

What's next?

Once upon a time, for Hong Chengchou, his greatest hope was to exterminate the Yongli small court, so as to become the founding father of the Great Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, and wash away the traitor stigma on his body, but now for him, the emperor's actions made him have to find a way to protect himself.

"If not......"

That idea just emerged, Hong Chengchou hurriedly dispelled this idea, for him, who is known as the "first traitor in the world", he is still unknown if he can save his life if he returns to the Ming Dynasty anyway and returns to the Ming Dynasty, but one thing is for sure is that among the five provinces, everyone will not follow him anyway, and when the time comes, the five provinces will be turbulent after all.

Even if he takes a step back, the localities, officials and troops of the five provinces will follow him and submit to the Ming Dynasty anyway. If Daming settles accounts with him in the future, how should he deal with it?

However, if you don't want to protect yourself, how can you save your life under the anger of the emperor?

At this time, Hong Chengchou's whole person seemed to be in an ice cellar, he closed his eyes and pondered, thinking, thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of him.

For the whole night, Hong Chengchou never slept until the next day, when the sky was bright, he was still in front of the bookcase, sitting on a circle chair, staring into the distance with swollen eyes, and his pale face seemed to remind others how heavy the mood of this five provincial strategy had been in the past night.

For a whole day, Hong Chengchou never saw a guest, nor did he work, of course, he naturally did not claim to be sick, but "busy with affairs", and turned away all the people, for a whole day, he did not enter a drop of water, for the whole person completely immersed in panic and anxiety, life seems to have returned to that year again, back to that critical time.

Now, what to do?

In the middle of the night, in the highest yamen of Changsha City, Hong Chengchou, who had not been out of the house for a day, was quietly thinking......

"My lord, Mr. Koan has come to pay a visit."

Just then, someone came in to report it.

Mr. Ann? Guo Duxian?

Hearing this name, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be stunned, when he entered Changsha, he had established the policy of "today's urgent business, the first thing is to clean up the people's hearts", and he will win the gentry as a breakthrough to clean up the people's hearts and improve the situation, and Guo Duxian, the Jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, Chongzhen patrolled Jiangxi for 15 years, and Yong lasted for a long time with the military department Shangshu, which is the person he intends to recruit. And when Guo Duxian was an official in the ministry, Hong Chengchou was imprisoned. He rescued him in many ways, tried his best to defend him, and asked for an exoneration. Hong Chengchou deeply perceives the grace of encounters and regards him as a teacher. After Hong Chengchou arrived in Changsha, he made a special trip to Taohuajiang to visit, and he was very respectful, and Guo Duxian sat in the hall and pretended to squint. Hong Chengchou was shocked and asked, "When will you get eye disease", Guo Duxian replied: I was blind when I met you. Hong Chengluo repaid the kindness of the past acquaintance and gave him money, but Du Xian did not accept it. He also asked his son to be an overseer, but he declined. However, Guo Duxian insisted on refusing his summons, and later played with his son to supervise the army, which was also insisted on by him.

Later, if it were not for the Tao Runai case, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Huguang gentry, he did not hesitate to use the special means of releasing all the Hunan gentry exposed by the anti-Qing activities and beheading the informant Pan Zhengxian. Of course, it was not his personal benevolence or whim, but it was determined by the strategic situation at the time. After this case, "most of the old gentry in Hunan were tied up, and the rich people poured their homes into their homes." "The gentry involved were numerous and had a wide range of influence, and in order to narrow the scope of the attack, he tried his best to win the support of all parties, so he did not hesitate to take special measures to deal with the matter. But everyone in the world knows that it is Guo Duxian's personal lobbying, if it were not for Guo Duxian's lobbying, how could he have adopted "such an extreme method as beheading the informant" to win the hearts of the people?

"How did he get here?"

When Hong Chengchou was thinking about it, Guo Duxian, who was wearing a Taoist robe, had already come in. After Huguang was captured, in order to resist the order to shave his hair, he tied his hair into the Yiyang Fuqiu Guan Monk, called the stubborn Taoist, and called some Mr. An.

"Xiaguan has seen some Mr. An!"

After a few years, Guo Duxian seems to be getting older, but Hong Chengchou can feel that his spirit is much better than the last time he interceded for Tao Runai and other thousands of Huguang gentry, which is no wonder, after all, at that time, luck was in the Qing Dynasty but not in the Ming Dynasty, and now, the situation is confusing and difficult to see through, but the Ming Dynasty is based on Jiangnan, but it always makes Guo Duxian a Ming widow very happy.

"I've seen the elders of the two dynasties!"

Guo Duxian is still as he was back then, and his words are still mocking, and this "veteran of the two dynasties" is undoubtedly pointing out Hong Chengchou's identity.

"Xiaguan ......"

The other party's reminder made Hong Chengchou look very embarrassed, almost every time, whenever he lobbied these remnants for the use of the Qing Dynasty, their sarcasm would always strengthen his mind to exterminate the Yongli small court, in his opinion, only in this way can the orthodox status of the Qing Dynasty be established, and only in this way can he change the fact that he is a traitor.

But now, the change in the current situation made Hong Chengchou's mind seem chaotic, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

"I heard that Mr. An's been cultivating in Yiyang recently, why do you have time to come to Changsha?"

Hong Chengchou, who didn't want to have a verbal dispute with him, looked at Guo Duxian and asked suspiciously. And guessed his intention, why did he come to Changsha at this time?

"Although the stubborn Tao is cultivated in the Taoist temple, it also hears about the things of the world."

Picking up the teacup, Guo Duxian, who called himself a "stubborn man" and said that his heart was like a stubborn stone and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, took a sip of tea, and suddenly said with a straight face.

"This world is in turmoil, and Guo wants to ask the elders of the two dynasties to give a good strategy to avoid risks."

"Where did Mr. Ann say that?"

Hong Chengchou asked in surprise.

"Do you think Guo is alarmist, hum, the world is already in turmoil, don't you see it?"

Guo Duxian looked at Hong Chengchou and said calmly.

"The fall of the Yongli Puppet Dynasty is imminent, and the Jiangnan pirates are even more three-legged inside, and when they return to the southwest, how can their momentum last long?"

Hong Chengchou replied calmly, all of them looked unmoved, now he only thought that this Guo Duxian was here to lobby him, hum, if he Guo Duxian thought that he could easily convince himself with just this sentence, he would be too underestimated by himself. How can the situation in this world be as good as they imagined? They may not know the situation in the southwest, but as a guide to the five provinces, how can he not know that now the Yongli small court has avoided Burma, not to mention the fence, and it is controlled by the Burmese people. How can this last?

Shaking his head, Guo Duxian glanced at Hong Chengchou and said calmly.

"Guo is here today, not to save Er, but to repay the grace of thousands of gentry in Huguang when he returned the original Guo case!"