Almost at the same time as the army of the Western Expedition began, Cui Jie, who was in Qinzhou, also issued an edict from the Son of Heaven, denouncing Cui Yi and calling on the courtiers of the world to rise up and fight against him.

Zhiying is very strange, the edict of the Son of Heaven at this time is still worth a few dollars, he should send the edict of the Son of Heaven as soon as he escapes from the capital, so that there will be people who can't figure out the situation to help him beat his younger brother, now Cui Yidu has sat on the throne, half a year has passed, who still takes him as the "first emperor" seriously?

Of course, there is more than one person who has this question, in fact, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are confused, but only Changsun Tai knows the reason.

It turned out that Cui Jie was too anxious when he escaped, not to mention the queen, he didn't even bring the queen mother, the Rong family was furious when he learned about it, and wanted to sweep the valuable things in the palace to catch up, but it was too late, Cui Yi and Zhong Yuanshan copied the two breads, and they had blocked the nine doors of the capital, and the Rong family became a turtle in the urn.

As the queen mother's mother, the Rong family naturally has a lot of strength, but the emperor's masters have run away, and the remaining queen mother has no right to give orders, a man resisted bravely to the end, or surrendered in frustration, and the Rong family was also placed under house arrest in the Yanshou Palace, leaving only a personal maid to serve, according to the lowest female in the palace to give Yueyin, no one is allowed to visit.

Qinzhou Mu Bao Yide's ex-wife is from the Rong family, and if she wants to sell face, she also sells it to the Rong family, Cui Jie, a runaway emperor, only 20,000 people in his hands, lack of clothes and food, how can Bao Yide put him in his eyes, so when Cui Jie arrived at the gate of Qinzhou Mansion exhausted, he ate the first closed door soup in his life.

Bao Yide asked Cui Jie to hand over the 20,000 forbidden troops in his hands, and after breaking up, he was incorporated into the Qinzhou Army, and then he was allowed to enter the city.

But the soldiers rushed all the way, and the little food had already been eaten, except for him, the "emperor", the rest of the people had already begun to pay out of their own pockets to buy food in the villages and towns they passed along the way, if he couldn't find a place to live, these people who finally followed him were afraid that they would also leave one after another because they could not see the future, and then they would really have no power to return to heaven.

So in this helpless situation, Cui Jie had to grit his teeth and agree to Bao Yide's request, and more than 20,000 people finally had a place to rest temporarily.

It was the end of August, the people of Qinzhou were busy harvesting rice, and Cui Jie proposed several times to counterattack the capital, but Bao Yide refused on the grounds of lack of food.

By this time, Cui Jie was already a veritable commander of the light pole, the people who followed him and supported him, the Queen Mother, was thrown in the palace by him, and the eldest grandson Tai's family was left behind by him when the food was not enough, and most of the other ministers were controlled before they had time to escape, and only Guo Mao followed him to Qinzhou.

On the day of the fall of the capital, Guo Mao happened to enter the palace to ask for peace, so he went with him, he knew that he was different from Shan Jian, even if he surrendered Cui Yi, he would not be reused, and there was no other way than to follow Cui Jie, so although the two had a cold war for a year, they still tried their best to give advice to Cui Jie along the way.

It's a pity that Cui Jie at this time has already torn people's faces, abandoning his wife and children, not even his own mother, and he won't want to behave towards the people below like before, the chasing soldiers are reluctant, everyone is restless day and night, Cui Jie's temper is getting more and more irritable, and he can't listen to his opinion at all.

On the way to flee west, Guo Mao suggested that he take advantage of the rugged terrain of Fengzhou, ambush and kill a horse gun, with 20,000 people on hand, he is the emperor, as long as he wins a battle, someone will raise a banner and follow him to counterattack back.

But this suggestion was rejected, Cui Jie thought that 20,000 people were his last combat strength, and no matter what, there could be no more losses, although the terrain in Fengzhou was complicated, but who could guarantee that Dai Zhibei, who was chasing after him, would definitely win? After all, it's because of cowardice.

When the Qinzhou army was confiscated, Bao Yide dragged and refused to move, and Guo Mao suggested that he give Bao Yide an official position of at least three grades. In fact, in the land of Qinzhou Tianfu, there is no shortage of food to fight, Bao Yide is nothing more than waiting for the emperor's promise, as long as Cui Jie's conditions satisfy him, of course he is willing to be the hero of this protection.

But this suggestion was rejected again, and this time Cui Jie didn't even bother to tell him the reason, and directly threw him out of the door with a book.

Guo Mao looked up to the sky and sighed, knowing that the master was already stunned, and he couldn't put down the high emperor's shelf at this step, and he was bound to die, so he didn't go to him anymore to ask for suspicion.

Cui Jie's heart is arrogant, he has not suffered any setbacks since he was a child, in the face of such a huge blow, the whole person is almost distorted, and after arguing with Bao Yide for half a year, Bao Yide finally became impatient, and after harvesting winter wheat in the spring, he wanted to send a crusade letter to the capital, rectifying the army and preparing for war.

And Cui Yi and Zhiying, who were in the capital, received the lame letter, and directly regarded it as a daily music, ridiculed it, and threw it into the stove to burn.

The Qinzhou army and Dai Ping, Yang Qiong led the Western Expeditionary Army in Fengzhou short hand, the two sides fought several battles, all of which were damaged to varying degrees, but the terrain of Qinzhou was closed, there were few wars since ancient times, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was far inferior to the Western Expeditionary Army, and it was defeated after just two months, Bao Yide was captured, Dai Pingyuan reorganized the Qinzhou army, and ordered Yang Qiong to lead 10,000 people into the Qinzhou Mansion, and Cui Jie's head must be cut off.

This time, Cui Jie was stunned, and he didn't care about any face, so he hurriedly ran to Guo Mao's residence to ask for advice.

Guo Mao knew that the general trend was gone, so he first said that he also lacked skills, and then Cui Jie's eyes were red and he knelt down, and Guo Mao reluctantly gave a suggestion.

"At the beginning, King Wu was exiled to Yanzhou as a vassal king, and he was still able to regroup and return to the Central Plains.

Cui Jie knelt in front of him and asked eagerly, "Sir, what is the chance of winning this plan?" ”

Guo Mao sighed again and again: "When the emperor transferred the Liangzhou army to Maquanguan, General Han did not catch up with the killing of Huer Hana, in order to atone for the crime, he led the troops to attack Yanzhou, and Bai Yingchun attacked on both sides, and finally lost in the hands of the eldest grandson Zhiying, the Liangzhou army was defeated and fled, how many troops exist, it is really difficult to say." ”

Cui Jie grabbed the hem of his clothes and pleaded loudly, "Sir! Please Sir think of a way to save me no matter what! When I return to the capital and regain the throne, I will make Mr. Feng the prime minister, under one person, above ten thousand people! The glory and wealth of future generations are inexhaustible! Sir, you must help me! ”

Guo Mao knew in his heart that with Cui Jie's temperament, kneeling today was already a great shame, once he regained the throne one day, he would definitely die, but since he chose to be loyal to him, he could only try his best to plan for him.

"The emperor gets up first, this matter must be considered in the long run," Guo Mao helped him up from the ground, "King Wu spent three years from Yanzhou to the Central Plains, he must understand the truth of raising tigers, the emperor must hurry up and go north and occupy Liangzhou first, otherwise once the western expeditionary army besieges the city, or blocks the road to the north, it will be too late at that time." ”

Cui Jie woke up like a dream, and immediately went back to pack his things with great gratitude, Guo Mao looked at the broken thatched hut where he lived, sighed again, collected a few clothes that could still be worn, led the horse when he came, and waited for him at the gate of the city.

20,000 forbidden troops were swallowed by Bao Yide, Cui Jie had less than 200 personal guards around him, escorted them out of Qinzhou Mansion, went north along the mountain road, crossed villages and towns and did not dare to enter, three meals can only be maintained by grass roots and bark, Cui Jie has always been pampered, and after drinking raw water for a few days, he suffered from diarrhea, and he couldn't even ride a horse, so he could only ask someone to carry it on a stretcher.

When Yang Qiong arrived at Qinzhou Mansion, the building was empty, Dai Ping tortured Bao Yide, but he couldn't ask Cui Jie's whereabouts, so he had no choice but to collect troops and return to Beijing.

didn't catch Cui Jie, Cui Yi was naturally unhappy with the boss, but this couldn't be blamed on Dai Ping and Yang Qiong, so they had to be rewarded and reassigned someone to take over Qinzhou, and at the same time strictly ordered all localities to pay close attention to all the passing teams, and be sure to find Cui Jie.

However, a month has passed, and Cui Jie seems to have evaporated from the world, and there is no news. Where else can he go but Qinzhou? The 20,000 forbidden troops have all confessed, according to Bao Yide's confession, there are less than 200 people left around Cui Jie, where can he escape?

It all shows that the gun is easy to dodge and the arrow is difficult to defend, Cui Jie disappeared so quietly, who knows if he will come out and stab him in the future, and if he can't catch him for a day, Cui Yi will be upset for a day.

"Maybe my dad will know." Zhiying said while helping him tie his hair and wear a crown, "Qinzhou is bordered by Liangzhou in the north and Yizhou in the south, but there are only these two places to go, Liangzhou is remote but vast, and there are large grasslands in the territory for hunting, although the conditions are difficult, but if you can unite the countries of Western Xinjiang, it is not impossible to return to the Central Plains; On the contrary, Yizhou is high and densely forested, and the terrain is closed, if he wants to spend the rest of his life in peace, Yizhou is the best. The key depends on the person who is following the first emperor, who is giving him advice, this person's personality and the weight of his speech in front of the first emperor directly determine which direction they will go. ”

Cui Yi didn't sleep well last night, yawning all day at the moment, Xiaoqiu brought ginseng tea, he took a sip casually, rubbed his eyes and said: "Then go and ask him, when I confined him in Jingzhe Hall in the name of recuperation, half a year has passed, and any illness should be cured, if he is willing to say, willing to bow his head, let him out, and live with your mother and your sister in another courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing, although he is also under supervision, at least the family can be reunited, if he is still that strong-tempered ......"

Zhiying straightened his crown and said with a smile: "The literati are high, my father is probably still unwilling to bow his head, not only does he refuse to bow his head, maybe he will think that the emperor is angry and wants to promote him." ”

Cui Yi snorted coldly: "This old man doesn't cultivate, if it weren't for the fact that he gave birth to you and raised you for sixteen years, I would have let people drag him out and the car would have cracked." Then he hurried to the court.

After he left, Zhiying sat on the soft couch in a daze, and Xiaoqiu asked worriedly: "Niangniang, are you not feeling well, I see that your face is not very good, why don't you send the imperial doctor to ask you for a pulse?" ”

Zhiying first said that he didn't need it, but then after thinking about it, he said, "Go and ask the imperial doctor who has seen my father in the past six months." ”