Liu Nan won't care if this bureau is even counted in by Dolgon!

It's better if the Eight Banners are dead!

As long as the list of traitors is not listed, Yang Qing, who is waiting for the liquidation, is replaced by the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army controlled by the same gentry, even if he wants to resist, it is Dolgon's business. He can keep the north, and after the great loss of strength, he is nothing more obedient, if he was not taught to be a man in Shandong last time, he would not have accepted the tax package system so happily! He can't keep the north, the northern gentry are too big to welcome the king, and even clean the Eight Banners for the king's precursor, it is said that the princes and nobles of the Eight Banners have more or less accumulated the starting family business over the years, which is suitable to follow to grab a wave.

In the final analysis, the northern gentry were also forced.

If it weren't for Yang Qing's frenzied traitor who always pressed on his head, they wouldn't want to raise Dolgon's group of people who eat white food!

It's not impossible!

These people who eat white food can at least fight, and the 200,000 Eight Banners can block Yang Qing for them, otherwise with the crime of traitor, one by one they will have to fight with thousands of knives like Sun Zhiqi. But the current situation is that the Eight Banners can't stop Yang Qing, if you don't take the opportunity to fight to solve this demon, it is estimated that you will really have to wash your neck next year, waiting for him to come to the door to go under the knife. The last Northern Expedition was obviously Yang Qing released water and did not continue to attack, but this time it will not be, Shandong's sweet potatoes have been widely promoted, and even the mountainous areas have eaten sweet potato noodles and pancakes.

He no longer has to carry large quantities of food relief.

Moreover, both the canal and the sea have been straightened out, and the supplies that have been hoarded in various parts of the front line for three years are fully capable of hitting the northern capital.

Next year at most.

The northern gentry saw this very clearly, too.

They only have this year, and if they can't solve Yang Qing this year, or if they don't mess up the south and make Yang Qing powerless to go out, then after the canal thaws next spring, their doomsday can start counting down. They have to fight, this can also be said to be the last chance for all those anti-Yang forces to save themselves, if this time it succeeds, then the rain will disperse immediately, if it fails......

Then all that remains is to wait for death.

I really have to wait to die.

No one can stop the flat push of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

And at this time, the expectations of the people in the north for the Ming army can be said to be piercing, as long as Yang Qing starts the Northern Expedition, the entire north will fall into a frenzy of rebellion in an instant, just like back then. Any resistance is almost futile, and all the gentry in the north, except for those who are purely used for dreaming of their own, but have a little sense, understand this. At this time, even some generals of the Eight Banners Han Army and North Korea were secretly contacting the Ming Army to strive for leniency, and even Jiang Xuan, the king of Pingxi, was turning a blind eye to Jinyiwei's actions in his territory!

Even he is like this, why should he expect those other Han and Korean generals?

This is the reality in the North.

This was the last stand of the northern gentry.

Liu Nan, who got the covenant, didn't dare to delay, and then set off to return, and Ding Qixiang was still with him, and in order to ensure a safe exit from the city, they still went to find Commissioner Yan. The latter told them before that they would stay in Huoqiu for two days, and then continue to go to Yangzhou, since this is the case, they will find him to go out of the city with them and go to Yangzhou first. Judging from the previous inspection all the way, it is very dangerous to take this thing the same way, it is better to go to Yangzhou and then to Songjiang, where Mao Qiling is responsible for contacting the Dutch to return by sea, so that even if it is caught by the sailor on the Bohai Sea, this thing will be easily destroyed......

This is important.

So they returned to the inn.

Commissioner Yan was overjoyed to welcome them back......

Well, actually, that word is not enough to describe.

It can be said that with the pie in the sky, even this old spy had a little uncontrollable surprise, Yan Wu welcomed them and took them out of Huoqiu City smoothly. Just after Mao Qiling, who was personally inspecting at the city gate, left satisfied, this guy who deceived the feelings of Ding Qixiang and the two showed his true colors......

"Brother Yan, what do you mean by this?"

Ding Qixiang looked at the two so-called Commissioner Yan entourage who grabbed his arms in amazement.

"You must have something good on you at this point, right?"

Yan Wu said as he put his arms around his neck.

"Brother brought some private goods, but he only picked them up when he got Yangzhou, Brother Yan rest assured, we are brothers, how can we have it alone, brother is ready to share it with Brother Yan when the time comes."

Ding Qixiang said with a smile.

It was customary for these members of Li Zicheng's trading company to bring private goods from this side, especially those luxury goods, jewelry, pocket watches, and even mirrors that Li Zicheng forbade ordinary trading companies to operate, but were very popular on the black market. As life becomes more and more stable, their internal luxury has recovered a little, after all, they are full of warmth and desire, and after the old bandits have eaten and drunk, they have also begun to learn to pay attention to the quality of life, which Gong Dingyu is still indispensable. Maybe he feels a little indebted to him, Li Zicheng still respects him very much, he is leading the old bandits to transform into the ruling class, even a big old man like Liu Zongmin knows that it's okay to catch a few Hu girls and appreciate Hu Le. But these luxury goods are monopolized by the trading companies designated by Li Zicheng and are expensive, and the black market where these buyers bring goods is much cheaper, which also makes Li Zicheng's efforts to control the consumption of luxury goods in vain.

Ding Qixiang obviously hadn't guessed Yan Wu's true identity, but he just thought that the latter guessed that he was going to pick up the goods and wanted to knock on a deal.

"I don't believe it!"

Yan Wu said with a smile.

"Brother Yan, you and I have to go together, how dare my brother lie to you, besides, I just have this bit of luggage, even if I hide it, how much can I hide!"

Ding Qixiang said.

At this time, the brocade guards were already rummaging through his luggage.

"Lie or not, I won't know until I search it!"

Yan Wu began to undress him as he spoke, while several other brocade guards controlled Liu Yu and began to pick off his clothes, and soon the two of them were stripped of only their pants, and they stood there trembling in the cold wind of late autumn. A brocade guard who controlled Ding Qixiang stared at him maliciously, obviously this guy was more interested in Xiao Ding's fine skin and tender meat, Xiao Ding and Liu Yi wanted to cry and look at them one by one to check their clothes.

But they didn't get anything.

"Pick up their boots, Ho Ji, you search their pants!"

Yan Wu said.

"Brother Yan......"

Ding Qixiang screamed in fright.

The man next to him began to search his body with a strange smile, and Xiao Ding screamed in horror by his hand as if he had crawled into a snake and scorpion, while several brocade guards quickly picked up their boots. Yan Wu took Liu Nan's boots and pinched them a few times, and immediately tried to find a sandwich, and then he cut a little hole and took out the covenant wrapped in oil paper from it......

"Brother Ding, you are very dishonest!"

He said with a smile.

Ding Qixiang had already guessed his identity, and his face immediately darkened a lot.

However, Liu Yu still didn't guess.

"Yan, Brother Yan, the contemptible person is indeed an envoy who went south to form an alliance with the Ming Emperor on the order of the regent of the Qing Dynasty, but this matter is also beneficial to your lord, since Brother Yan knows, it is better to take the two of us to Chang'an and hand them over to your lord!"

He said.

Yan Wu unceremoniously gave him a slap in the face.

"Dog traitor, the people of my Qin clan are also men of the Han family, how can I be with Jiannu! Tie them up, gag their mouths again, and escort them to Fengyang to report to the town guard's mansion! ”

He then lashed out.

The scene of Jinyiwei designing the pit emperor was obviously a bit inappropriate, but the patriotic merchants of the Qin Domain, out of hatred for the traitors, angrily took it down and sent it to the government after discovering that there were Jiannu traitors pretending to be their peers......

This drama will do it.

The unlucky Ding and Liu were tied up in this way, along with two entourages, and were stuffed into the boat that had been waiting on the shore of Fenghu Lake for a long time by the Jinyi guard, and then went straight down the river to Zhengyang Pass. At Zhengyang Guan, Yan Wu sent his men to ride horses to Fengyang, where they sent a message to Nanjing with a communication tower, while he took the prisoners on a boat and continued down the Huai River.

The next day.

"Duke Chu, take it, Yan Wu reported that they have taken Ding Qixiang and are sending it to Fengyang along the Huai River, and with Ding Qixiang is Liu Nan, the messenger of Jiannu, the son of Liu Hanru, the former governor of Sichuan, and they also found a special thing on these two people."

Xu Ping said with an excited smile.

"What a good thing, it can't be an alliance between Your Majesty and Dolgon, right?"

Yang Qing said with interest.

"Chu Gong is really like a god, they are carrying the covenant between His Majesty and Dolgon, and they already have Dolgon's signature and seal on it, it should be Liu Yang who came with this thing, which means that they have been in contact before. Dorgon agreed, drafted the covenant for signature, and then sent it to Hoqiu, and our majesty has also signed, sealed, and even put his fingerprint on the covenant. According to their covenant, the Ming and Qing dynasties became brotherly states, and the half of Shandong we recaptured was given to Jiannu, and Dolgon's 200,000 Eight Banners were waiting for His Majesty's order to go south at any time. Duke Chu, this treason is confirmed, no matter how he counts, he can't run away with a charge of treason, you give the order, and your subordinates will arrest him! ”

Xu Ping said.

"He's taken this step after all!"

Yang Qing sighed with some embarrassment.

It's not that he forced it, to be precise, there is an element of framing!

"What is he going to do with me?"

Then he asked.

"That Liu Yan's bones are very soft, Yan Wu didn't do much to ask on the boat, according to their plan, Dolgon first attacked the Yellow River line, creating the illusion that they were attacking south. In the name of personally conquering and resisting Jiannu, His Majesty summoned the troops of Li Zhanggui and the three families to participate in the holy decree, and forced us to let them come and then send His Majesty's troops to Nanjing. If we don't let go, Your Majesty will accuse you with a holy decree, and the scholars and scholars of Nanjing and the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will work together to create chaos and force you to submit. ”

Xu Ping said.

Liu Nan did quickly confess under Yan Wu's means.

He had even recruited how this holy decree was signed, but Yan Wu was very sensible and did not report this part of the record, after all, reporting it would definitely give the boss a headache, so he simply did not report it, anyway, it was enough to have a covenant. As for Ding Qixiang, he is still relatively tough, and he has not recruited anything so far, but the conditions on the ship are poor, Yan Wu is purely for the purpose of inviting merit and not really interrogating, and the wolf's den is their final destination. As for Ding Kuichu's real plan to kill Yang Qing, even Ding Qixiang didn't know, only the three core members of their gang knew, anyway, how to act with those Japanese slaves, and they didn't need to rely on others at all, just digging a cellar underground to bury gunpowder.

"What innocence!"

Yang Qing said.

This plan is indeed a bit too naïve, of course, if he knew that these people had prepared a hundred catties of gunpowder for him, he probably wouldn't have commented like this.

"Duke Chu?"

Xu Ping reminded him if it was time to arrest.

"Don't worry, give Yan Wu an order, let him take someone to Fengyang, don't dock on the way, this matter will continue to be kept secret, and wait for the people from Fengyang Station to contact them after arriving at Linhuai Pass. Then give an order to Fengyang Station and let them take over the covenant, but Yan Wu sent Fengyang Town to guard the mansion, and sent it with great fanfare, saying that they were the meticulous work of Jiannu. Then send an order to Huoqiu's side, from today onwards, no one is allowed to enter Huoqiu City again, but do not openly block it, it must be blocked outside the city gate, but all officials and scholars who try to sneak into Huoqiu, or ask to enter the city under various names, especially those of the Yingjia Club and the Datong Society, will all be seized and transferred to Xinyang Station. After receiving Yan Wu's report, the Fengyang Town Guard Mansion continued to transfer the two of them to Nanjing in public and with great fanfare, walking slower, so that the news could spread more widely, but to spread the news that they had nothing to do, they waited until Nanjing was transferred to Beiya for disposal. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Chu Gong, this is fishing?"

Xu Ping said.

"Yes, there is such a good bait, why not catch a few fish!"

Yang Qing said.

Of course he wants to fish, the most valuable thing for him is the covenant, this thing is enough, these two people are not important, Zhu Cihong's name and handprint on the covenant solve all the problems. But it is impossible for those emperors' allies to know that there is such a thing, like Qu Shiyun and Zhang Guowei, it is impossible for Wenchen to allow the emperor to do this, but they know what Ding Qixiang and Liu Wei mean.

Seeing that these two people were together, and they were still coming out of Huoqiu, these people immediately guessed what the emperor had done, and these two people were escorted to Nanjing with great fanfare......

What will these people do?

Is it to send a message to the emperor? Or do you want to kill them while they don't confess? Or did you cleverly jump out and draw a line with the emperor?

It's worth looking forward to!

Then close Huoqiu City, only allowed to go out of the city and not allowed to enter, arrange ambushes on the periphery to wait for the rabbits, come one by one to catch one, the emperor can't know anything inside, continue to think that Ding and Liu are going north smoothly to give the covenant to Dolgon, how can they not harvest a wave after playing for half a month. You can even let the two of them last a little longer in Beiya, and continue to hold on for half a month, one month is enough to catch all the fish that can be hooked, and then take out the covenant and report it directly to the Four People's Assembly to play righteous annihilation.

What happened a month before that?

That's my eldest brother, I've been struggling painfully, I'm struggling painfully between public and private, righteousness and personal feelings! My heart is broken!