Changyang Palace's guess is exactly the same as Zhu Zhihan's.

Under the oblique light of the dusk sunset, the county king's mansion looked even more gloomy and dilapidated. If this is not in the bustling city, but in the wilderness, Zhu Zhihan will treat the Tangtang County Mansion as a lonely temple with no incense. The car drove through the broken mud wall and stepped to the cracked wooden door, Zhu Zhihan suddenly felt that the carriage behind him was a perfect match for the image of this county king's mansion.

There were no soldiers in front of the palace to interrogate, and no eunuchs to welcome guests. Zhu Shupei pushed open the door of the mansion and led Zhu Zhihan into the county king's mansion. The two sides of the main hall have been converted into vegetable patches, leaving only a gravel road in the middle. A young man is bent down to weed and plant seedlings in the vegetable field, and a young woman is helping with a bamboo basket.

When the young man heard the door, he straightened up, and when he saw Zhu Shupei leading the guests in, he smiled kindly. He wiped his thick hand on the apron around his waist, and walked cautiously along the path between the ridges. When she saw an outsider, the woman avoided her.

Zhu Shupei seemed to be very familiar with the master, so he shouted loudly from a distance: "Shugui, look at me to welcome you today with a distinguished guest from afar!" ”

When he got closer, Zhu Shupei dodged away and revealed Zhu Zhihan behind the side: "Shu Clan, Auxiliary Lieutenant Zhu Zhihan!" Come on the orders of the prince of Shu! I wonder if the King of Changyang is also there? ”

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Even if it belonged to the unlucky Liao Domain, the serious county palace still retained a bit of its former majesty. When Zhu Zhihan met Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang, there was an old eunuch who sang the salute. After they sat down, two more childish little eunuchs and little palace maids served tea.

Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang, was a middle-aged man, in his early thirties, dressed in a half-worn dragon robe around the perimeter, and was bookish. His younger brother Zhu Shugui was twenty-four years old, a general of the Auxiliary Kingdom, and he looked different from his brother, a tall young man with a full sense of speech. After greeting each other, Zhu Zhihan first presented the gifts prepared by the prince Zhu Pingjin for this trip: a set of silver banknotes and two brocades. When Zhu Zhihan explained that this silver banknote booklet could be exchanged for an equal amount of silver at face value, Zhu Shuya, Zhu Shugui and Zhu Shupei all widened their eyes. They immediately asked where they could get the money.

"The grandson of the clan is here to open a money bank! When the bank opens, the money can be cashed out immediately! Zhu Zhihan replied loudly.

Zhu Zhihan said, his trip was mainly to send silver to the king of Huayang, and to visit the various clans along the way, and strive to achieve commercial goals such as opening a money bank. With Qianzhuang, it is not only convenient for Shu and Jingzhou to make money, but also has a greater benefit: even if the two thieves come, the clan has nothing to fear. When the time comes, put the money in the bank, clap your hands and leave!

For the clan of the king, abandoning the country and leaving is not a trivial matter. Zhu Zhihan then added fuel and vinegar to the defeat of the official army on the battlefield, and tried to scare one to death on the spot.

"Virtuous nephew!" As soon as Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang, opened his mouth, he increased Zhu Zhihan's rank by one level. "Those who know it are old news!" Zhu Shuya turned her head and called her younger brother Zhu Shugui, asking him to tell Zhu Zhihan about the latest situation in the Central Plains Huguang battlefield.

It turned out that after Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue's Qin soldiers, Sichuan soldiers, and Baoding soldiers were defeated, the thieves immediately took advantage of the situation to sweep through the nearby prefectures and counties in southern Henan and central Henan, and are now moving towards Yuzhou (now Fangcheng) and Ye County, the north gate of Nanyang Prefecture.

Liu Guoneng, the deputy general of Beiwudu in Ye County, was a thief who surrendered to the imperial court in the eleventh year of Chongzhen. Liu Guoneng resisted stubbornly for several days and committed suicide when the city was broken. A FEW DAYS AGO, AN URGENT LETTER FROM ZHU YUMO, THE KING OF TANG IN NANYANG PROVINCE, AND THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, WHO WAS AS FIERCE AS A TIGER AND LIU GUANGZUO, FOR HELP, HAD BEEN SENT TO SONG YIHE, THE GOVERNOR OF HUGUANG, WHO WAS STATIONED IN CHENGTIAN, AND CHEN RUIMO (MO), THE GOVERNOR OF YUAN, WHO WAS STATIONED IN JINGZHOU.

But the official government of Huguang showed no signs of sending troops to rescue at all, and Ding Qirui, the supervisor who was encircling and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong, did not issue a letter asking Huguang to send troops. As the main force of Huguang, most of the left army was scattered between Yunyang and Xiangyang, only caring about Latin to grab grain; The other department, under the personal leadership of Zuo Liangyu, marched north from Xinyang to Yuncheng (now Luohe). Seeing that the thieves were powerful, Zuo Liangyu stuck to the fortified city to protect himself. broke into the sky and died, but he didn't dare to take a step out of the city.

I heard that the imperial court was about to appoint Wang Qiaonian, the former governor of Shaanxi, as the new governor of Shaanxi, and ordered him to quickly mobilize the northwest border army, go east out of Tongguan, and fight the thieves in the north and south with Zuo Liangyu. It's just that if Shaanxi reinforcements arrive, the time will be at least until February next year, so Nanyang Mansion may not be able to keep it.

"Nanyang Mansion belongs to Henan, if the Tang King is killed, there will naturally be Henan officials to take the blame, what kind of family is the Huguang Mansion?" Zhu Shugui's indignant voice filled the entire palace, "But these rat-eyed villains, don't you know that once Nanyang Mansion is lost, the next one is Kaifeng Mansion; As soon as Kaifeng Mansion is lost, the next one is Xiangyang Mansion; If Xiangyang Mansion loses again, won't the entire Huguang be saved? ”

The situation is better for the encirclement and suppression of the thieves. After the defeat of the thief Xinyang, he fled to Yingshan and Huocheng mountains, and joined forces with the five battalions of the Revolution and the Left that were entrenched here. Ding Qirui didn't dare to fight the thieves, but he couldn't do nothing, so he ate peaches and picked soft ones, mobilized the Chu army and the Huai army and the Beijing army of Nanzhili, and attacked the thieves and the five battalions of Ge and Zuo from the east and west, and it is said that the progress is relatively smooth.

King Jing, sealed in Qizhou, is at the foot of the Yinghuo Mountains. For a period of time, there was a lot of rumors in Qizhou, and King Jing had already laid the burden and was ready to flee. The magistrates, fearing that they would run away, shut the gates of the city every day. During this time, the situation improved, and King Jing didn't want to run away, so the magistrate opened the city gate.

After listening to a lot of the latest news about the current situation, Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang, spoke again: "Virtuous nephew, since Shu Shizi said that this Jingzhou city will definitely suffer from the disaster of fire, does he have a basis?" ”

"On the basis of this, General Fang Cai Fuguo has already spoken." Zhu Zhihan said with a smile, "Once Nanyang Mansion is lost, the next one is Kaifeng Mansion; As soon as Kaifeng Mansion is lost, the next one is Huguang. Shizi Dao, the key is Kaifeng Mansion. Kaifeng Mansion is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, containing the whole army of thieves. If Nanyang loses it, the thief will definitely go back to open the seal. But the imperial court will not just watch the thieves wreak havoc, and those courtiers will definitely force Governor Wang and Governor Ding to send troops to rescue. When they send troops, they will draw out the Qin and Chu armies. In that way, a decisive battle between officials and thieves will be formed in the Central Plains. It's hard to predict the outcome of this decisive battle......"

Zhu Zhihan shook his head as he spoke, indicating that he was not optimistic about the outcome of the decisive battle: "If you can't win the decisive battle, you will repeat the end of Fu Du's road." Kaifeng is a lonely city, how can it be alone? At that time, the whole army of thieves went south, how could the remnants of the left army resist? ”

"Now the left army has accepted a lot of thieves into the gang, and it has become like a thief. Expecting them to fight the thieves, I don't see it! Zhu Shugui said loudly. It seems that he, like most of the clan officials and ordinary people in Huguang, has no good impression of the left army, which is good at robbery.

"The city of Kaifeng is thick and the walls are thick, and the king of Zhou is deeply popular with the people, and there are more generals such as Chen Yongfu who dare to fight. Even if there is a lonely city, it is not so easy to break into the thieves. Zhu Shuya, the king of Changyang, waved his hand.

"Changyang Wang Mingjian: It is indeed not so easy for thieves to seize Kaifeng. But even if there are famous generals in the town, Kaifeng Mansion will inevitably fall! Zhu Zhihan said with a smile.

At this time, the other three people present were not calm. Because in everyone's minds, the conclusion that Kaifeng is difficult to protect is lost. They all asked Zhu Zhihan why he was so sure. Zhu Zhihan said that he had only read miscellaneous books such as the Three Kingdoms, and he actually knew nothing about the art of war. Facing the three people full of doubts, he explained with a smile:

Before leaving, the prince summoned him again. The prince repeatedly told his grandson: Tell the Huguang clan that if the thieves take Kaifeng, they will not delay for a day. The money can be deposited in Huitong Qian Zhuang and transferred to Sichuan, and the Zongren immediately went up the river, and it was safe after passing the Kuimen. If they set off too late, they had to flee across the river to Hunan. Hunan has no danger to defend, let alone soldiers. If the thieves can't give up after them, whether they can escape or not, they can only resign themselves to fate! ”

Zhu Shupei reminded Zhu Zhihan: "Why did Kaifeng Mansion fall? You haven't said it yet! ”

"Shizi Dao: Kaifeng, a city without grain, and a place of death, how can it last for a long time?"

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It didn't take much time for Zhu Zhihan to successfully reach a verbal consensus with the King of Changyang on behalf of the Shu Prince's Mansion.

The continuing deterioration of the external situation is only one of the triggers for the smooth progress of the talks. The fundamental reason is that Zhu Zhihan did not take a copper plate from the hands of the King of Changyang and the Liao clan, nor did he put them in a dangerous situation of law and morality. On the contrary, Zhu Zhihan rented a whole row of empty houses and empty courtyards at the east gate of the Changyang County Palace, as the business premises of the Jingzhou branch of Huitong Qianzhuang, which would bring a few hundred taels of silver to the Changyang Palace every year.

opened a money bank, so naturally you still have to use people. Zhu Zhihan promised that the Jingzhou branch of Huitong Qianzhuang would be based on the recommendation of the Jingzhou clan and select the best from the clan to be the manager, manager and partner of the clan. In addition, the Shu Wangfu will also open a few more stores in Jingzhou to sell Sichuan's native products and handicraft products, and employees can be recruited from the Jingzhou clan.

The two brothers, Zhu Shuya and Zhu Shugui, promised Zhu Zhihan and conveyed his intention to come today and Shu Shizi's kind reminder to all the clans of the Liao Domain. Since Zhu Zhihan still has to go to Wuchang to visit the King of Chu, and the Liao clan is also managed by His Royal Highness the King of Chu. Then they can also repair a book and let Zhu Zhihan take it with them. In the end, the two brothers cautiously stated to Zhu Zhihan that the prince of Shu was willing to accept these distressed clans in Chu in times of danger because of the affection of the same root and the same clan. In the future, if something happens, they will definitely run to Sichuan, not Hunan!

Things were so well discussed, and the host and guest were happy. When dinner time came, Zhu Shuya and Zhu Shugui invited Zhu Zhihan to dinner. Zhu Zhihan agreed, Zhu Shugui immediately put on an apron on the main hall and went down to the vegetable field to fold vegetables, while Princess Changyang took her concubines to the kitchen. Not long after, a vegan banquet was placed in front of Zhu Zhihan. Fortunately, Lu San brought wine from Sichuan, and this banquet in the county king's mansion had some atmosphere of a big meal.

Twilight was dreary. After three rounds of drinking, everyone was a little drunk.

Zhu Zhihan drank wine, opened the chatterbox, and set up a dragon gate array during the banquet. The prince Zhu Pingjin became the protagonist of his boasting. At the beginning of the year, the prince went out to patrol the village and was trapped, so he happened to borrow the Tianquan Tusi soldiers to break 100,000 thieves in the Jiangkou and behead tens of thousands.

"The former Han Xin laid an ambush array on ten sides, and for a while, he sang Chu songs, which defeated the Chu army of a hundred battles and won a hundred battles, and even sang the head of the Chu overlord; Zhuge Kongming laid out an empty city plan, and with the sound of the piano, he played away the old treacherous and cunning Sima Yi. The power of the son of the world, the great wisdom of the ancients! ”

Maybe Zhu Zhihan has blown it a little too far. The three Zhu of the Liao Domain looked at each other, half-convinced.

"Don't believe me?" Zhu Zhihan first drank the contents of the cup, lit up the bottom of the cup, and then pulled out a newspaper from his sleeve, which turned out to be a special issue of "Fuxing Daily" for the prince to take charge of the palace. The newspaper was half-folded, revealing a large head wearing a crown.

"The prince sat in the palace on September 16, and the grandson of the clan set off from Chengdu in late September. Before leaving, the grandson got confidential news! ”

Seeing that the three people at the table were attracted by their own topics, Zhu Zhihan announced loudly: "On the day when the prince sat in the palace, our Shu army defeated tens of thousands of thieves in Changping Mountain in northern Sichuan with less than a thousand troops, and the chief of the thieves shook the sky!" Capture the second whistle Yang Bingyin! The prince ordered that the two thieves and giant chieftains be passed on to the whole Sichuan to deter the unsubordinate! It also makes thousands of heads piled up for the Beijing view, and the soil is sealed for the mound, and the martial arts are forever displayed! ”

Could it be that the prince of Shu is leading a strong army?

Zhu Zhihan's drunken gaffe was like a bolt of lightning, illuminating all the darkness in the hearts of the three clans of the Liao Domain, and solving all the doubts.

Soldiers of the vassal kings!

This is the sword of Damocles on the head of the king of the Ming Dynasty!

But before he could ask in detail, the three Zhu of the Liao Domain saw Zhu Zhihan's entourage leader rushing into the banquet hall with a big sword. He brought an astonishing news: there were thousands of people outside the mansion, surrounding the Changyang Palace!

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