After Tong Tuchang and Li Yuanbai finished discussing, Li Yuanbai said apologetically: "Master Dong, there is really no way, I can only go out for a while to wronged you and bring a hood!" ”

Tong Tuchang knew the methods of these Jianghu Dao Sects, which was afraid that his stronghold would be exposed.

"No problem, please rest assured Lord Li Xiang, your business is on me!"

When I came out and came in, there were several big men carrying three people around the alley. When he lifted the mask, Tong Tuchang found that he was still standing in front of the Zhao family's old store.

Seeing that there were no suspicious characters around, Tong Tuchang led Zhao Da Zhao Er back to his carriage, and Tong Tuchang asked, "Can you remember the road?" ”

Zhao Da said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, I have been trained in this area, and I can find their place with my eyes closed!" ”

Tong Tuchang nodded and said, "Okay!" Remember the address and have a chance to use it later! ”

After coming out of the Zheng family's stronghold, Tong Tuchang was very depressed, not that he was worried about how much food and salt he gave the Zheng family, he didn't want to do it for them at all, Tong Tuchang was depressed about the Great Western Army's defection to Emperor Yongli.

Although Tong Tuchang guessed in Li Yuanbai's words that the Great Western Army has not defected to Yongli now, this matter should be inseparable. The Great Western Army is now being chased and beaten by Hauge in the ass, and has run to Yunnan, where rabbits don't poop, and is now in great need of external forces to help them. At this time, the Yongli Emperor of Guangxi still occupied half of Guangxi, Huguang and other vast places, and the surface strength was stronger than that of Zhu Hongsan of Guangdong, so it was natural for the Great Western Army to defect to the Yongli Emperor.

In this era, the strength of a warlord also depends on how much territory he occupies, how many soldiers he has, and so on. Although Zhu Hongsan's new army is the best in East Asia in terms of combat effectiveness, its number is too small, only 100,000, and Zhu Hongsan's territory is only Guangdong Province. This kind of strength is a small rural landlord in the eyes of those old hats of Nanming, who have never seen modern wars, and it is completely incomparable with the more than 200,000 troops of Emperor Yongli. Even the number of the Zheng family is more than that of Zhu Hongsan, and the Zheng family now has nearly 200,000 troops.

Looking for the eldest brother naturally has to find a strong one, so it is understandable that the Zheng family and the Great Western Army will find Emperor Yongli.

In fact, this point of view is also very marketable in Zhu Hongsan's team, and this is also the reason why the local gentry in Guangdong did not support Zhu Hongsan in the past. You, Zhu Hongsan, want to recover the Ming Dynasty with tens of thousands of people in one province? Do you think you are Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shimin? Even the god of war Li Shimin has hundreds of thousands of troops under him, so these stinky old men in Guangdong look down on Zhu Hongsan very much.

Of course, this view has changed with Chen Zizhuang's defection to Zhu Hongsan, but he is not optimistic that Zhu Hongsan is still the mainstream of the local gentry in Guangdong.

In fact, Tong Tuchang also had this idea in his heart, he had seen the combat effectiveness of the new army in Zhaoqing, but it was a hard injury that you could fight the number of people. Everyone is wearing hundreds of thousands of armor, how can you fight tens of thousands of people? When he was in Guangdong, Tong Tuchang also tactfully expressed his views with his uncle Tong Yangjia, but was scolded by Tong Yangjia.

Tong Yangjia told him that he had too much to do with Zhu Hongsan, and no matter who he took refuge in, he would be unlucky. The Tong family is different from the Ma family, even if Zhu Hongsan fails, his Ma family can still use the old days in Shilin to make ends meet, at least it will not be a problem to save his life. But he Tong Yangjia is different, when he was in power, he excluded dissidents and the party was the same, Tong Yangjia did not have the popularity of the Ma family, if he lost power, it would be full of evil. Therefore, Tong Yangjia warned Tong Tuchang not to have any other things on his mind at any time, and his Tong family could only hang himself on Zhu Hongsan's crooked neck tree.

At first, Tong Tuchang also thought so, but when he came to Fujian and saw Tong Guonai and other Tong family members living a happy life, he Tong Tuchang also had a little bit of mental activity.

What if I take refuge in Tong Guonai? Once this idea is generated, it takes root like a seed. The more Tong Tuchang thought about it, the more he felt that this method was good.

His uncle can't take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he is in a high position in Guangdong, and he is at most a governor on the Manchu side. But he is different, if there is Tong Guonai's recommendation, he can be on the next step, as for what national hatred and family hatred are beautiful, it is not a matter in front of money and status.

Tong Tuchang made up his mind for a while, and went to the governor's yamen to explain to Tong Guonai, and explained his mission to Fujian to him in detail.

"Zhao Da, let's go to the governor's yamen!" Tong Tuchang, who had made up his mind, leaned out of the car and said to Zhao Da, who was driving the car.

"My lord, aren't we going back to the store?"

"Yes, it's still early, let's do these things together." Tong Tuchang has decided to be a second or fifth boy, so naturally the sooner the better.

Zhao Da didn't suspect anything, he was originally scheduled to go to the governor's yamen in the afternoon, since the adults want to go now, let's go.

Zhao Da and Zhao Er drove the carriage through half of Fuzhou City and came to the governor's yamen in Beicheng.

Tong Tuchang got out of the car far away and said to Zhao Da: "Zhao Da, you are waiting for me here, I can come out late today, and I may live in the city!" ”

Zhao Da and Zhao Er didn't doubt it, nodded in agreement, bolted the carriage and waited on the side.

Watching the Zhao brothers squatting on the side of the street, waiting for themselves. Tong Tuchang gritted his teeth and said in his heart: I'm sorry brother, I really have no future with Zhu Hongsan, it seems that I can only take refuge in the Manchu Dynasty. It's just a pity that they left their wife, two concubines, two sons and one daughter in Guangdong, and with Zhu Hongsan's cruel methods, their best destination is to exile Luzon, and their son is very likely to be killed. But it can't be controlled, the wife is gone, you can find it again, the son can be reborn, and everything will be there as long as you are alive.

When he came to the yamen, Tong Tuchang took out his waist card, handed it to the soldiers guarding the door, and said: "I am the secret agent of the governor, and I have important information to report to the lord, please pass through!" ”

The soldier saw that it was the highest level of waist card, so he didn't dare to delay, and hurried in to report it.

Tong Guonai was also waiting for Tong Tuchang to arrive at this time, he was too eager to get the latest news from Li Chengdong's mansion, so when he heard that Tong Tuchang was coming, he hurriedly asked someone to bring him in.

Tong Tuchang came to the door of the study and saw Tong Guonai sitting in the room. Tong Tuchang took a deep breath, since he wants to be an anti-bone boy, he has to look like one.

Tong Tuchang entered the room and knelt down, "My lord, my subordinates have important information to report!" ”

Tong Tuchang was just about to reveal his identity and discernment, but he didn't expect Tong Guonai to speak first.

"Uncle Clan, hurry up, I have important military information to tell you."

After Tong Guonai finished speaking, he took out the military report of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangnan, and handed it to Tong Tuchang to watch. This thing is classified now, but it won't be half a month before the city knows about it, so there is no need to hide anything from Tong Tuchang.

Tong Tuchang was shocked when he saw the result. In his heart, he called it a fluke, but fortunately, Tong Guonai interrupted himself just now, if he told his secret mission first, it would be too late to regret it.

Tong Guonai looked at Tong Tuchang with fright, and thought that he was frightened by the situation in Jiangxi.

Tong Guonai was afraid that Tong Tuchang would be frightened and retreated, so he hurriedly comforted him, "Uncle Clan, don't worry, there are less than 20,000 people in Jiangxi Jin Shenghuan, 30,000 people in Jiujiang in the Qing Dynasty, and 100,000 people in Changsha from Tan Tai, the general of Zhengnan, and Jin Shenghuan can be eliminated with a complete wave of his hand." ”

Tong Tuchang doesn't think so, he is a middle-level official in Guangdong, but his uncle is the prime minister, so Tong Tuchang still has some understanding of Zhu Hongsan's arrangement in Jiangxi.

Now Jin Shenghuan has succeeded anyway, although the number is not large, but there are 70,000 or 80,000 people who were captured before in Ganzhou, plus 10,000 people of the new army. Tan Tai's 100,000 people really can't please him.

However, in the end, it was Fujian that made Tong Tuchang dispel the idea of rebellion, and Hong Chengchou's military newspaper ordered officials everywhere to pay attention to the movements of the new annexed army, and if there was any change, they could cut it first. Now Li Chengdong is already dissatisfied with Tong Guonai, and with this military order, Li Chengdong can do it anyway. In this way, Zhu Hongsan of Guangdong, Emperor Bushenwu not only occupied Guangdong, but also Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong, plus the armies of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong, who also had hundreds of thousands of armor, and immediately became the most powerful warlord in the whole of South China. In addition, Fujian is the closest to eastern Zhejiang, and Jiangxi is located in the upper reaches of Nanzhili, so if troops are sent from these two provinces, there is a great hope that the old capital will be restored.

If Emperor Shenwu occupies Nanjing, it will immediately be a big boost, and the great merit of "returning to the old capital" can completely offset the problem of Emperor Shenwu's bloodline. In this way, Emperor Shenwu will surpass Yongli in terms of legal principles, strength and prestige, and when the time comes, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty have great hopes of success.

Thinking that he almost took the wrong path just now, Tong Tuchang wiped a cold sweat and said in his heart: It's so hanging! This is really the blessing of His Majesty Emperor Shenwu, and he didn't let Tong do anything wrong.

Tong Guonai looked at Tong Tuchang and wiped his sweat, thinking that he was frightened by the news from Jiangxi.

"Uncle clan, don't worry, as long as you have certain news, we will introduce Li Chengdong into the mansion, and then kill him, and Fujian will be safe and sound. Yes, Uncle Clan just said that he has something to say, what is the important military situation? ”

Now that Tong Tuchang is still taking refuge in the Manchu Dynasty, Tong Tuchang's eyes rolled and said: "My lord, in the past few days, I have found that there are many newcomers in Li Chengdong's mansion, all of whom have accents from Kinmen and Zhangzhou. I followed them out of the house and found their foothold in the saltwater lane of Nancheng, so I specially rushed to report to the governor! ”

Tong Tuchang thought very simply, now that he is sitting back on Emperor Shenwu's side, he has to think about Emperor Shenwu. The Zheng family in Kinmen has always been at odds with Emperor Shenwu, so it is better to use the hand of the Manchu governor to clear the Zheng family's power in Fuzhou City this time.

Tong Guonai frowned when he heard that Li Chengdong was still in contact with the Zheng family, if Li Chengdong was the second threat, then the Zheng family in Fujian was the first threat.

The Zheng family has been rooted in Fujian for more than 20 years, and its strength is intertwined, just two months ago Zheng Chenggong led 50,000 people to attack Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, although they were repelled by the local defenders, but the threat of Fujian's coastal area is real.