Chongzhen was full of confidence, and he was determined to decide with Houjin, he summoned Lu Xiangsheng to the palace to discuss, and the two of them did not walk out of the Wenhua Hall for a whole day. Wu Chengen was not able to wait in the house this time, and was left outside the hall to guard the door, and no one was allowed to come to disturb him.

There is a lot of fanfare on the part of the Beijing Division, and there are frequent deployments of troops in various places, and they are busy. And Zhu Yousong, the blessed king of Nanjing, is also active in private, the north is full of natural and man-made disasters at the moment, the imperial court is even more self-conscious, and Houjin is eyeing behind, and his fate has long been hanging by a thread.

And the vassal kings in the south also began to secretly establish their own forces, and they would not send troops to save the safety of the Jingshi at all.

When the Fu King Zhu Yousong heard that the Jin army had come again, he said with a sneer: "The Jingshi may be finished this time, do you think this king should test that Mao Wenlong at this time?" ”

The supporters of King Fu include Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing of the four towns in Jiangbei, all four of whom have good strength in the south, and their subordinates are even more generals.

Gao Jie stepped forward with a smile and said, "King Fu, if you just test it a little, there should be no problem." But don't say it bluntly to that Mao Wenlong, if you let him know our thoughts, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate. ”

Huang Degong also said at this time: "What Brother Gao said is extremely true, Mao Wenlong is in the north, and now he can be regarded as the most powerful person, and any of his actions may affect our layout all along, so please think twice before acting." ”

King Fu's face was calm and waveless, and no one knew what was going on in his heart? After a short silence, King Fu looked at Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, and saw that the two of them also looked in agreement with Gao Jie, and King Fu immediately knew it.

He laughed and said: "Maybe this king is really in a hurry, okay, this time I listen to you, just test Mao Wenlong's wishes slightly." ”

After that, King Fu wrote a letter in front of the four people, handed it to the four people to read, and after making sure that there was no problem, he ordered someone to send it to Mao Wenlong.

Since King Fu was ordered by Chongzhen last time to cooperate with the imperial court to send troops to Xuzhou, he has learned about the changes in Xuzhou and has begun to understand Mao Wenlong. But when he got to know Mao Wenlong better, he had the intention of soliciting him.

It's a pity that Mao Wenlong's development was beyond his expectations, and when Li Zicheng's troops fell into Shanxi, he had already taken the opportunity to take Shaanxi. Mao Wenlong now owns Henan and Shaanxi, and the Dongjiang Army is even more known as having millions of people.

King Fu wanted to make a move at this time, it was obviously too late, and Mao Wenlong's strength was far beyond his control. Therefore, after consulting with the most trusted Gao Jie and others, they unanimously felt that they should now form an alliance with Mao Wenlong, instead of soliciting them.

Mao Wenlong has had nothing to do recently, and the affairs in the army are completely handed over to Chen Jisheng and them to take care of. As for the rest of the things, they are completely handed over to the old man Hong Chengchou, and he himself has become an idle person, except for accompanying Chen Lan every day, it is Hong Ziyan.

But he didn't really have nothing to do, recently he has been mysteriously taking Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan to recruit nearly 100 skilled needlework women in the city, and then mysteriously in the backyard I don't know what to do.

Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou don't know how many times they have persuaded Mao Wenlong, don't stay in the backyard if you have nothing to do, you can go outside or show your face in the army, and inspect it.

However, Mao Wenlong didn't pay attention to the persuasion of the two at all, and still threw himself into the backyard, sometimes not seeing him for a few days.

Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou were quite helpless in this regard, and wanted to find out what Mao Wenlong was doing from Chen Lan or Zi Yan's mouths several times. But neither of them said anything, and they couldn't ask anything.

Today, a Dongjiang army sent things from Yexian County from outside Maofu, and there were a hundred people escorting an iron bump.

After Mao Wenlong learned about it, he happily rushed out to check, and then he laughed and ordered someone to move the things to the backyard, and after that, he didn't see Mao Wenlong out of the backyard for three consecutive days.

Just when Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou felt that they couldn't let Mao Wenlong go on like this anymore and were about to break into the backyard, Mao Wenlong reappeared.

"You're here, just in time, come in with me and show you something magical." Mao Wenlong mysteriously invited Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou into the backyard.

The two originally planned to come to find out what Mao Wenlong was doing, but when they saw him take the initiative to invite, of course they would not be polite, and after the two exchanged glances, they strode into the courtyard.

Nearly 100 women doing needlework had already left the scene at this time, and only Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan were left in the courtyard, as well as four little girls. In addition to the people, the entire space of the yard was occupied by a huge guy.

Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou looked at the hot air balloon in the yard, they didn't know what it was, and their faces were full of astonishment on the spot!

Mao Wenlong smiled and introduced: "I named this thing 'Flying Ball'. ”

"Flying Ball ......" Chen Jisheng and Hong Chengchou once again walked face to face, not knowing what Mao Wenlong was talking about.

Looking at the misty expressions of the two of them, Mao Wenlong was not interested in selling any more guanzi, but explained directly: "As long as this flying ball is ignited, it can fly into the sky, and the truth in it is similar to that of the ancestors' Kong Ming lanterns......"

Without waiting for Mao Wenlong to finish speaking, Hong Chengchou immediately asked with a cold face: "Could it be that the general soldier has been ignoring business these days, just to be this huge Kong Ming lantern." ”

Chen Jisheng also wanted to follow Hong Chengchou's words and say two sentences about Mao Wenlong, but when he saw Mao Wenlong, he suddenly took back the words that came to his mouth.

Hong Chengchou said that Mao Wenlong's is not, there is no problem at all, after all, he now has another identity, that is Mao Wenlong's father-in-law, with this relationship, even if Hong Chengchou says it more heavily, there is no problem at all.

Thinking about Chen Jisheng himself, it seems that there is no bargaining chip to say that Mao Wenlong is not, once Mao Wenlong is mad, he just assured that the first unlucky one will definitely be himself.

Chen Jisheng came to his senses in time, and then didn't dare to say more, and quietly waited for the development of the situation.

Mao Wenlong didn't care at all in the face of Hong Chengchou's accusation, he personally walked to the hot air balloon, took out the fire fold and unscrewed the switch of the fire oil, and then lit it without hesitation.

The stove specially built by Wang Datie began to hiss, and with Mao Wenlong's continuous twisting of the switch, the fire became more and more ferocious. At this time, the huge oilcloth of the hot air balloon began to slowly inflate, and then it swayed and floated into the air.