Walking out of the Gu family hall, Hou Xuanyan was anxious to return to the yamen, and this matter was imminent.

Hong Chengchou's army is not worried, but he can't completely ignore it, after all, 100,000 Qing soldiers are pressing the border, and it is difficult to guarantee that no one will have different intentions.

His carriage had already returned to the house on its own, and the groom only thought that he was going to walk back to the Hou Mansion, and did not stop. Hou Xuanyan wanted to tell the left and right to go to the Gu family to ask for a carriage, but there happened to be a beautiful and gorgeous frame parked at the door.

"I requisitioned this car, who is in the car?"

The groom recognized his aunt and hurriedly said, "My lord, there is the third young grandmother in the car, I'm afraid..."

The curtain of the car was gently opened, revealing a delicate melon seed face with a charming and natural nature, and the hidden anger in his eyes was obviously angry, but it gave Hou Xuan an illusion of pity.

"Haha, it turned out to be a little aunt, I don't know where this is going?" Hou Xuanyan was also embarrassed for a while, but he didn't expect to grab a car casually and grab this sensitive person.

"I'm going to Hanshan Temple to make a vow, if my uncle is in a hurry to use the car, I might as well go to the house to find another one." At this time, the carriage was very private, equivalent to half a boudoir, how could it be borrowed from others casually. Bai Yuying was originally a young lady from an official eunuch's family, and when she married into the Gu family's businessman's family, she was already a little arrogant in her heart. It's a pity that his high-ranking official father later committed an accident and was demoted to the people, so he reined in his temperament. At present, this little white-faced aunt is relying on his official authority to rob his own carriage, in her opinion, this is clearly teasing herself.

Hou Xuanyan really didn't have those thoughts, he was going to give up, but when he heard this, he stepped forward and said: "So that the little aunt can know that the evil monks of Hanshan Temple have done a lot of evil, and they are a group of thieves and strongmen, and they have been burned to death by me." In this case, I am in a hurry here, so I will borrow your car for use first, and I will send it back to you afterwards. "After that, I will lift the curtain and drill in.

Bai Yuying was so frightened that her face was pale, for fear that her high-ranking and powerful uncle would do something out of the ordinary, so she hurriedly dodged the carriage. In her heart, this uncle is already a very dangerous person, and in Bai Yuying's opinion, the monks of Hanshan Temple are all dignified monks with treasures, and they were burned alive by him. In fact, it is such a stunner, who has grown up in the covetousness of others since he was a child, so he will have such a vigilance. Hou Xuanyan said that he is not a wolf-hearted and dog-hearted, even if it is true, he will not do evil at the gate of others.

Hou Xuan evolved into the carriage and felt that something was wrong, the car was full of fragrance and decorated with all kinds of girlish accessories. It seems that he is indeed Meng Lang, but the overall situation is important, and he doesn't care too much.

Hong Yixun also climbed into the carriage, crowded into it, approached Hou Xuanyan and said, "Big brother, this little aunt of yours, if you can't tell the truth, you will be tired." ”

Hou Xuanyan was full of business taxes, and he didn't take it to heart when he heard this, and asked casually: "What's so greasy?" ”

She said that she went to the temple to make a vow, but there was no incense on the car, and her face was covered with gouache and rouge, and even the car was fragrant. If you go to the Buddha to make a vow, do you dress up to show the Buddha? And since she made a wish in Hanshan Temple, how could she not see that the monks in the temple had been replaced. I think she is probably going to meet her concubine, otherwise she will say it directly, why lie, the eldest brother is not familiar with her. ”

Hou Xuanyan smiled dumbly, if these peach-colored gossips were normal, he would still listen to them with relish, but now how can he think about them.

Suddenly, Hou Xuanyan had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he squinted his eyes and looked at Hong Yiyun carefully. Hong Yixun's face was full of confusion, and he craned his neck and said, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

The more Hou Xuanyan looked, the more he felt that Hong Yixun was suitable for intelligence work, he was bold and careful, strong in martial arts, and resourceful and decisive. With such a talent, Hou Xuanyan really wanted to say to him: "Dongchang needs a talent like you." ”

In contrast, Xu Yuanbao has a reckless personality and dares to do anything. Such a person can only stay by his side and charge for himself. Hou Xuanyan didn't doubt it at all, as long as he opened his mouth and let him kill the emperor, he would dare to go down with a stick.

His heavy collection of commercial taxes will definitely fight with all kinds of businessmen in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and an intelligence force is indispensable.

"Yiyun, after you go back, go to each battalion and select smart and strong soldiers, who must be innocent and have never been traitors. I will write you an order to let the officers of each battalion cooperate with you, and you must gather 300 men in three days and prepare to go south with me to Zhejiang. ”

Hong was a little cloudy, nodded his head, and calculated in his heart. He and Hou Xuanyan have a good heart, and they don't need to say that they already know the intentions of the eldest brother.

When he came to the governor's yamen, Hou Xuan acted as someone to call Zhu Dadian and Yan Yingyuan to the yamen. The two of them came to Hou Xuanyan's room one after the other.

Zhu Dadian was thinking about it on the road when he came, and since he came to Suzhou, he found that Hou Xuanyan looked up to him. Such a person has climbed from the bottom to today's high position, and he must have a heart with seven tricks. He thought that he had a bad reputation, and that he had no political achievements to boast of, and wondered why the young governor was so impressed with him. What's even more strange is that the colleagues in Shaoxing have been entrusted with important tasks, and they have not yet landed.

It's no wonder he thinks so, you must know that Zhu Dadian's glorious moment was only revealed in the last desperate performance of his life.

Defending the city alone for three months, if the city wall was not destroyed by the artillery of the Qing soldiers, he could have held it for a long time.

"Lord Zhu, General Yan, please come in quickly." Hou Xuanyan saw that the two of them came at the same time, and stood up to greet them.

Two people saw at the same time, in the center of the room, a large sand table. Overlooking the ups and downs above, it is obvious that it is the landform outside the city of Gusu, and it seems that the governor called himself here for the defense of Suzhou.

Hou Xuanyan didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Hong Chengchou's army has arrived in Changzhou Mansion, although I don't know why it is a little slower than we expected, but it is not allowed to be careless. I'm calling you both here today just to ask what you think. ”

Zhu Dadian just arrived, and he didn't want to show his edge too much, so he stretched out his hand and motioned to Yan Yingyuan to say first. Yan Yingyuan didn't have decades of immersion in the sea of Huan, he was just a petty official, standing upright in front of the sand table and said: "Taihu Wu Yi has agreed to submit to us, and his subordinates are extremely good at water warfare. I think that blindly defending the city will easily make the army and the people lose confidence, so it is better to ambush this group of tired divisions in Taihu Lake. ”

Zhu Dadian stared at the sand table and shook his head secretly.

Hou Xuanyan looked in his eyes and asked, "What do you think of Lord Zhu?" ”

Zhu Dadian smiled, saluted and said: "Commander, Suzhou City is extremely strong, there is a lot of grain in the city, and now there are Wujiang and Kunshan Gongwei. The Qing soldiers had been smooth sailing before, and they had already had the heart to underestimate the enemy, and Hong Chengchou came from afar, and he was bound to get an order to let him take Suzhou. As a Han minister, he holds the greatest power in the Jiangnan area of the Qing court, how can others not be blushing. In this way, he must be eager to capture Suzhou to prove himself. We might as well take advantage of his eagerness to lead him to the city of Suzhou and complete his work in one battle. When the time comes, Taihu Wu Yi will be a strange soldier. ”

Hou Xuanyan closed his eyes and pondered, the Taihu ambush could only hurt its fur, not move its muscles and bones, but it was a big win. If Zhu Dadian's method is successful, he will be able to eat them all in one bite. But the difficulty has also doubled.

"Damn, if you want to do it, do it!" Hou Xuanyan slapped the table and shook the sand table, as if the mountains and rivers above were really shaken by his palm.