When Lu Daqi heard that Zhu Hongsan was going to deal with his wife and children like this, he angrily pointed at him and said angrily: "This faint gentleman, old man. . . The old man will not spare him if he is a ghost! ”

In fact, Zhu Hongsan didn't say these words, but according to Zhu Hongsan's personality, Lu Daqi immediately believed that Zhu Hongsan said it, and he was angry and ignored the scars on his body, and stood up in the cell and scolded Zhu Hongsan.

Chen Zizhuang saw that Lu Daqi was angry, and then said: "Brother Ruo, once you die, you can make a note in the history books, but it will hurt the people of Yungui, Guangxi!" ”

"Jisheng, what do they have to do with the old man's death?"

"Brother Ruo, most of the magistrates in Yungui, Guangxi are members of your Donglin Party, and many of them are protégés of you and Qu Shiyun, you are loyal to King Gui as a teacher, and your students will naturally follow suit! What kind of character does Emperor Shenwu have, you also know that your students will definitely resist fiercely in order to learn from you, and it will not be the people of Li who will suffer at that time? ”

Although Lu Daqi also engaged in party strife and ganged up to slander political opponents, he was still a good official. Now I hear Chen Zizhuang say that the people of Li in Yungui, Guangxi, want to be angry because they are angry by the Shenwu Emperor, and they naturally can't bear it in their hearts.

Chen Zizhuang saw that Lu Daqi's heart was relaxed, and then said: "Brother Ruo, His Majesty the Emperor has promised that as long as you go out of the mountain, I will not let you go to Guilin to meet King Gui, but go to Yunnan to govern, doesn't this matter to you?" ”

Lu Daqi thought for a while and said, "I'll think about it first!" ”

"Brother Ruo, what else are you thinking about, when I came, I heard that His Majesty had issued a holy decree to let Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, attack Yunnan, what kind of person Li Chengdong is You also know, a martial artist from a rogue background, how can you expect him to treat the people well with such a person? If you agree one day later, the people of Yunnan will suffer one more day! ”

Chen Zizhuang saw that Lu Daqi bowed his head and did not speak, and then persuaded: "Brother Ruo, are you still ready to die for King Gui?" Look at you, Ding Kuichu in the court is in charge of the government, and you and Qu Qitian Kong have a loyalty to serve the country, but what is the result? King Gui is indecisive, he doesn't have an idea at all, and He Tengjiao and Yin Duxi are also in trouble, obviously you have more than 600,000 troops, but you can't unite as one, and you can't make a lot of power. ”

"Brother Ruo, look at Sichuan, obviously the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been repelled to several prefectures in northern Sichuan, but what about you? The various large and small forces in Sichuan have already divided themselves, and you have appointed governors, governors, and other high-ranking officials. What followed was a struggle for power and profit, the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty was put aside, and the civil and military generals were keen to fight a civil war. And you obey the sponsorship of the governors and the general soldiers, and give the generals and officials to the knights. This stupid practice of blindly buying people's hearts with officials has further aggravated the division and subversion of the Sichuan warlords. As a result, no one cared about the Manchu Qing in northern Sichuan, and there were battles in which Yang Zhan attacked and killed Ma Yingxuan and was defeated by Wang Xiang; the battle between Wang Xiang and the Leather Bear; Yuan Tao and Wu Dading defeated Yang Zhan and captured the battle of Jiading; Yu Da * Hai, Li Zhanchun and others attacked and killed Zhu Rongfan. What else can you do in that Yongli court? ”

Lu Daqi didn't expect Chen Zizhuang to know so much about his side, what Chen Zizhuang said was really a truth, originally the strength of the Yongli Imperial Court was above the Shenwu Imperial Court, but in the past two years, most of the strength has been consumed by internal friction.

Although Lu Daqi also agreed with what Chen Zizhuang said, he sneered at each other: "Isn't it the same for your Shenwu Imperial Court?" Didn't you Chen Jisheng also be dismissed and go home? ”

Chen Zizhuang heard Lu Daqi talk about his embarrassment, and his old face turned red.

"Brother Ruo, although we are also in constant party disputes, but we have the wise Shenwu Emperor, although His Majesty does not read, but he is born wise, as early as the eighth year of Chongzhen predicted the chaos in the world, this is the early preparation, this occupies the time! Now Emperor Shenwu occupies the rich Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong, with a population of 30 or 40 million, and countless money and grain, which is geographically advantageous! What's more, Emperor Shenwu rushed in front of King Gui and returned to the old capital to worship the filial piety tomb, causing the world to shake, this is human! With these three points, isn't Brother Ruo ready to abandon the darkness and turn to the light? ”

Lu Daqi listened to Chen Zizhuang and lowered his head and pondered for a while, now that Emperor Shenwu has become a general trend, it is no longer something that Emperor Yongli can deal with, in this case, it is better to borrow a donkey from the slope to join Emperor Shenwu.

Lu Daqi raised his head and said to Chen Zizhuang: "Jisheng, I promise you to assist this faint monarch, but I want to meet this faint monarch!" ”

Chen Zizhuang knew Lu Daqi's temper, and was afraid that he would scold his mother directly when he saw Zhu Hongsan in anger, so why did he bother so much to save him?

"Brother Ruo, since you promised to assist and maintain respect when you see Emperor Shenwu, can you promise me?"

"Okay, the old man promises you!"

Chen Zizhuang couldn't take Lu Daqi out of prison and went to the temporary palace in Guangzhou to meet Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Chen Zizhuang to persuade Lu Daqi so quickly, and he was very happy in his heart, so he hurriedly let people pass it on.

Zhu Hongsan saw Lu Daqi walking into the house with scars all over his body, and pretended to be angry and stood up and scolded: "Why did these Jinyi guards' killers beat Mr. Lu like this? Lee Seung-eun! Lee Seung-eun! ”

Lao Li hurriedly walked over and asked, "What does the emperor command?" ”

"You go to Jinyiwei to take a look, it was that bastard who beat Mr. Lu like this with a heavy hand, give me twenty boards!"

When Lu Daqi saw Zhu Hongsan acting here, he looked down on him very much in his heart, and said: "King Chu, there is no need to punish Jinyiwei, the old man is to blame, and he can't complain about others!" ”

Zhu Hongsan saw that his plan to buy people's hearts was unsuccessful, so he laughed twice and waved his hand to let Li Chengen retreat.

"Mr. Lu has suffered, and I have appointed Mr. Lu as the governor of Yunnan to take Yunnan for me! Can Mr. Lu agree? ”

"King Chu, please promise the old man two things first, if the king of Chu agrees, the old man's life is the king of Chu, if the king of Chu does not agree, the old man will die here!"

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Lu Daqi to still have conditions, and glanced at Chen Zizhuang, what do you mean? Why did you still figure out the conditions?

Chen Zizhuang said on the side: "Brother Ruo, what conditions come and listen, if you don't violate the law of your ancestors, I believe Your Majesty can agree!" ”

"Okay, King Chu, the first condition is to ask King Chu to spare Emperor Yongli's life in the future, after all, Emperor Yongli is also a member of the Ming clan, so let him be a vassal king?"

Zhu Hongsan heard that this was the condition, and he was going to catch Zhu Youlang and kill him directly, but now Lu Daqi let him keep Zhu Youlang alive, which is really difficult. However, Zhu Hongsan is easy to do when he thinks about it, and when the time comes, just order his subordinates to deal with it secretly, just like Zhu Yuanzhang killed Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, who said that Zhu Yuanzhang did something wrong, and the rules of this world are that the prince is a prince and a thief.

"Okay, no problem, I promise you, Zhu Youlang will go to Hengyang to be his Gui King in the future, and the silver land is the same as that of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Mr. Lu is satisfied!"

Lu Daqi didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so generous, nodded and said: "Okay, the second is that I want the old man to go to Yunnan, but the old man wants to supervise Yungui, and he also has the right to act cheaply!" ”

Now the command of the entire South China is in the hands of Feng Ziyong, and Feng Ziyong's official position is to supervise Liangguang and Yungui, and Lu Daqi will share half of Feng Ziyong's rights as soon as he comes. Lu Daqi said this to embarrass Zhu Hongsan and see if he has this bearing.

How do you know that Zhu Hongsan laughed, didn't hesitate at all, and said directly: "Yes, I will make an order, order Mr. Lu to supervise Yungui, and officials below the fourth rank can cut first and then play, and control all Yungui's soldiers and horses!" "You must know that Zhu Hongsan's army in Guangdong is 100,000 people, this is not those men, women, old and weak wow-gang members, these 100,000 people are real strong men, in the battle of Shahe, less than 10,000 people dared to face Li Chengdong's tens of thousands of horses. Now handing over these strong troops to Lu Daqi made Chen Zizhuang a little sideways.

Chen Zizhuang knew that the emperor had always held the army under his command very tightly, Feng Ziyong said that he was a good supervisor, but he did not have the right to command Zhou Yu's new army, and now the emperor handed over all the troops to Lu Daqi, this trust is not ordinary.

Lu Daqi didn't know the command structure of Zhu Hongsan's army, but he was also surprised by Zhu Hongsan's generosity, he didn't expect that this King of Chu was really a character, and he didn't need to use people without suspicion. Lu Daqi thought that there were many parties in the Yongli court, that is, he took Li Dingguo out of Guangdong, and the emperor also sent a supervisor in the army.

Thinking of this, Lu Daqi sighed, not to mention anything else, as far as Zhu Hongsan's bearing is concerned, he is stronger than Zhu Youlang, it seems that this world really belongs to Zhu Hongsan.

The emperor agreed to his two conditions, and Lu Daqi was not pretentious, kneeling down on his knees and saying Long live Your Majesty!

Zhu Hongsan hurriedly picked up Lu Daqi: "Mr. Lu, please get up, just now the king issued a military order, tomorrow Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, will take the army to Yungui, Mr. Lu can't rest, go down and prepare to go on the expedition with Li Chengdong tomorrow!" ”

Lu Daqi nodded and followed the eunuch out to prepare.

Zhu Hong's calculation was to divide the army in his hands into two waves. The cold weapon army was led by Li Chengdong, and went directly to Yunnan through Wuzhou Mansion and Si'en Mansion to occupy Li Dingguo's nest first. He took three divisions of the army to Huaiji, passed through Pingle Mansion and went directly to capture Guilin Mansion, directly leaving Zhu Youlang with no way to escape, and striving to end the war between Guangxi and Guangxi in a short time, after all, the north is his main goal.

The next day, Lü Daqi took Li Chengdong and 35,000 cold weapons troops, plus 20,000 elite troops selected from Li Dingguo's defeated army, a total of 55,000 troops, left Guangzhou and went north to Wuzhou.

Zhu Hongsan stayed in Guangzhou for another four days, and after receiving supplies from Nanjing, he left Feng, who had been divided half of his rights, to take care of his family, and he took three divisions of 45,000 men to the north and entered Guangxi along the route of Li Dingguo's retreat.