Just when He Tengjiao's father and son were discussing the need to stand on their own feet in Sichuan, Zhu Hongsan, who was outside Changsha City, was also meeting an important guest, that is, the Hunan governor of the Yongli Imperial Court, Du Yinxi.

Du Yinxi was born in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, his hometown is Yixing, Jiangsu, Chongzhen ten years of Jinshi, and Ma Mingyuan is the same year.

Gu Yinxi was highly evaluated in later generations, and was rated as one of the three most outstanding politicians in the Southern Ming Dynasty by Gu Cheng, who wrote the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the other two were Chen Zilong and Zhang Huangyan. Chen Zilong is good at politics, Zhang Huangyan is good at military, and what Gu Yinxi is best at is strategy.

In that year, Li Zicheng died in Jiugong Mountain, Tongcheng County, Hubei, and the rest of the 300,000 people were led by Mrs. Gao, Li Jin, and Gao Yi to lead the troops to Changde Prefecture in Lizhou. Due to the lack of materials, the Dashun army took the initiative to ask for cooperation with He Tengjiao to resist the Qing Dynasty, but He Tengjiao was extremely hostile to the peasant army, and later because of the weakness, he was forced to reach a "joint venture" agreement with the Dashun army, but he made it difficult to divide the Dashun army everywhere, and was bent on squeezing them out of Hunan and then quickly.

And the strategic vision of Gu Yinxi is undoubtedly much higher than He Tengjiao, he knows that the situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty was already crumbling at that time, and it was necessary to cooperate with the peasant army in order to maintain the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, when he learned that the various units of the Dashun army were gathered in the Jingchu area, he personally rushed to the camp of the Dashun army in Jingzhou to negotiate the alliance.

At that time, rumors were flying, and it was rumored that Li Jin, Gao Yigong and others were demon kings who killed people without blinking, and everyone sweated for the light danger of blocking Yinxi. Plug Yinxi himself thinks that this trip is uncertain. Before leaving, he summoned his subordinates and said: "There is no day of destruction, I am willing to go naked and gather his people for the country." If it is done, it will be the spirit of the sect; Otherwise, the day of a certain ordination also. ”

After arriving at the garrison and meeting with the peasant generals, he made a generous statement, strongly advocating a joint resistance against the Qing Dynasty and repaying the country with death. Gu Yinxi took advantage of the situation to propose to Li Jin: "Since everyone serves the country with one heart, they are brothers, why not follow the ceremony of the ancients to worship their mother?" Please see Mrs. Gao".

After Li Jin's adoptive mother, Mrs. Gao, saw Plug Yinxi and instructed Li Jin: "Plug Gong, heaven and man, you must not live up to his hard work." Li Jin was very happy, and left him for a banquet at that time, Yin Xi politely declined, crying and said: "The two capitals have not yet been recovered, and the people are very poor, is this the time for the people and ministers to feast and listen to music?" Li Jin sighed for this, and immediately withdrew the feast, and from then on, Li Jin and others obeyed the moderation of plugging Yinxi.

Emperor Longwu was very happy when he heard the news, and promoted Du Yinxi to the right attendant of the military department and the imperial history of the capital, and wrote a letter to comfort him. Awarded Li Jin as the left army in front of the imperial camp, a meritorious service for the right army, and hung the seal of the dragon and tiger generals, sealed the liehou, gave the brocade name red heart, a meritorious name must be correct, called the battalion for the loyal battalion, and the Gao family for the lady of Zhenyi. Since then, on the Huguang battlefield, a new situation has been created in which the Southern Ming Dynasty and the peasant army jointly resist the Qing Dynasty.

After joining forces with the loyal battalion, in order to implement the strategic deployment of Emperor Longwu, Du Yinxi suggested that He Tengjiao go north to intercept the Qing army, and he led his troops to besiege Jingzhou to restore Hubei. At that time, Jingzhou City could not be attacked for a long time, and the official Zhao Zhenfang suggested that the city should be irrigated with water, and Jingzhou could be taken quickly, and Du Yinxi sighed: "This is indeed a good plan, but I restored the territory for the imperial court, and came under the banner of saving the people from fire and water. Besides, if there is any superintendent in the east to intercept the Qing army, the defenders in the city have no food and grass, and there is no rescue outside, so it will definitely not last. ”

Unexpectedly, He Tengjiao's troops collapsed without a fight under Yueyang City, and the Qing army drove as if it had entered a no-man's land. The besieged Ming army was caught off guard and broke the siege and left, and the plug Yinxi also fell off his horse and folded his arm on the way to retreat. The ghost must have a known name Han Pass, where is the home hanging in the wasteland? The three watchmen turned into thousands of years of blood, and thousands of miles of people were sad. Looking south at the tombs, Zhongshan is pitiful and pitiful. ”

At this time, Yinxi was newly defeated, seeing that Zhongxing's plan came to naught, and he was depressed, and the poem was more about Nanming's internal weakness and incompetence. I'm afraid there is also a hint of confusion about the future.

Plug Yinxi is a generous person, and he only seeks to do things with a pure heart for the public, never sticking to the old clichés, and is not afraid of gossip. He was one of the few outstanding politicians in Nanming at that time, and he was able to abandon his views and selfishness. According to the changes in the situation at that time, the strategic plan of uniting with Dashun and the Great Western Army to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty was proposed. It has effectively strengthened its own strength and improved the situation of resistance to the Qing Dynasty. His political vision is far higher than that of many important ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

However, Gu Yinxi's hard work could not get the understanding of those colleagues who were short-sighted, only knew their private plans, and "defended against good and evil". Because of his enthusiasm for cooperating with the Dashun Army, many people were jealous and afraid of Du Yinxi, and even suspected that he had other ambitions. Even He Tengjiao and Qu Shiyun were suspicious of Plug Yinxi, and they were restricted everywhere.

Zhu Hongsan knew that because Nanming had this blockage Yinxi, he would have extended his life for more than ten years, or he would have perished long ago. So Zhu Hongsan was very interested in this plug Yinxi, and he wanted to see this plug Yinxi as soon as he came to Changsha.

How do you know that after seeing Zhu Yinxi, this guy is very unfriendly to Zhu Hongsan's demeanor, and he is not the previous ministers of Zhu Youlang, such as Lu Daqi, Qu Shiyun, etc., when he saw Zhu Hongsan, he scolded Chu Shun. This plug Yinxi looks down on Zhu Hongsan, right! It's just to look down on.

Zhu Hongsan used to be a clan, he never went out of Wuchang County when he was a child, and he didn't remember the sin of blocking Yinxi, I don't know why he looked down on himself?

"Are you the governor of Hunan appointed by Zhu Youlang?"

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he knew that Du Yinxi didn't speak at all, and directly closed his eyes and waited for death.

It was the first time Zhu Hongsan had encountered such a thing, and asked again: "Are you blocking Yinxi?" Why ignore me? ”

At this time, Du Yinxi opened his mouth and said: "You are not worthy of being the emperor at all!" ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Zhu Hongsan was stunned, some people scolded him for being shameless and cruel before, of course, the most scolded was greedy for money and lustful, but it was the first time that someone said that he was not worthy of being the emperor. You must know that it is Zhu Youlang's die-hard Qu Shiyun, and he must also admire himself for being much stronger than Zhu Youlang in the role of being the emperor. Now that he was scolded by the opposite plug Yinxi as unworthy of being the emperor, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be a little interested.

"Oh? You haven't seen me before, why do you say that I don't deserve to be this emperor? ”

"Back then, the King of Chu, you opened the gate of Changsha? And lie that the rogues are coming? ”

Zhu Hongsan listened to Gu Yinxi's question and recalled, after all, more than ten years have passed, and Zhu Hongsan can't remember it clearly.

Zhu Hongsan quickly remembered that he coveted Zhu Youjia's beauty back then, went into the city to kill her whole family and occupied her, as if he opened the city gate when he went out of the city, and let his subordinates shout that the rogue was coming.

"It seems that there is such a thing!"

"That's right! Back then, the old man was the prefect of Changsha! Back then, you opened the city gate for no reason and shouted that the rogues were coming, do you know how much impact it had on Changsha? Hundreds of people died under the trampling that night, and there were also splashes who took the opportunity to set fire to rob and burn half of Changsha, and finally because of your personal desires, thousands of people died in Changsha City! The kings of the ancients were cruel and lustful, but none of them who did not love their subjects ended well, so the old man said that you are not worthy of being the emperor! ”

Plug Yinxi's words are very serious, and this has already directly scolded Zhu Hongsan for not having a good end in the future. Li Chengen and Yao Qisheng, who were beside Zhu Hongsan, knew how ruthless this master was, and couldn't help but sweat for the plug Yinxi in front of him.

How do you know that Zhu Hongsan just smiled when he heard what Gu Yinxi said, and he didn't get angry: "I have fought all my life and killed countless people, where do I remember how many people died in Changsha?" I don't care how many people died in Changsha, and whether those people died or not had anything to do with me? ”

Plug Yinxi used to see all hypocrites, one by one on the surface for the country and the people, but behind the scenes they did all the things that harmed the country and the people. But after all, those people still have face, and they know that they still have to maintain it on the surface. Like this Shenwu Emperor Zhu Hongsan, he directly said that he was a real villain. Plugging Yinxi was speechless for a while, and Zhu Hongsan choked without words.

Seeing that Du Yinxi's face turned pale, Zhu Hongsan then asked: "Du Yinxi, since you want to be a famous minister for the country and the people, then I ask you, are you loyal to the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Du Yinxi waved in the direction of Nanjing Xiaoling: "This is natural, the old man is a Ming man in life, and a Ming ghost in death!" ”

"That's good, I am now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, are you loyal to me?"

Plug Yinxi didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so shameless, and directly used righteousness to force him to submit. You must know that Zhu Hongsan was in Nanjing to worship the filial piety mausoleum, and also found Zhu Yuanzhang's handwriting, although everyone knew that the handwriting must be fake, but now Zhu Hongsan is powerful, and the fake is also true, so that Zhu Hongsan has an advantage in legal theory. In the past, Zhu Youlang objected to Zhu Hongsan only saying that his bloodline was not correct, but he didn't dare to mention the matter of worshipping the filial piety tomb.

Now that Zhu Hongsan has taken out this matter, Du Yinxi has nothing to say, although he is also a person in the officialdom, his face is not thick enough to open his eyes and say nonsense.

Plug Yinxi held back for a long time and said: "Now my emperor is still alive!" ”

Zhu Hongsan heard what Du Yinxi said, picked up Jinyiwei's secret report and handed it to Du Yinxi: "Look at it, at this time, the news from the secret agent of Yunnan Jinyiwei is that your emperor Zhu Youlang has been placed under house arrest by Sun Kewang, and now he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!" ”

Du Yinxi took it and looked at it, just as Zhu Hongsan said, he was stunned for a while and didn't know what to do.

Seeing Gu Yinxi's appearance, Zhu Hongsan said: "You saw it! Now there is only one emperor left in the Ming Dynasty, and he is still the emperor recognized by the edict of Taizu, plugging Yinxi, do you want to rebel against the Ming Dynasty? Do you want to be the unfaithful and unrighteous? ”

Du Yinxi was locked up by He Tengjiao a year ago, and he didn't know the news of Zhu Youlang, and now he was very disappointed when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, after all, it was a little uncomfortable for him to surrender to a tyrant now.