Back in the inner hall, Liu Xian was still unsatisfied, and immediately wrote a handwritten letter and sent someone to Yang Lin, who had already returned to Pengzhou, overnight.

At this time, Yang Lin was not only worried about maintaining local rule, but also worried about other surrounding forces about what was about to move.

Set up an ambush and defeat the local tyrants, captured Yao Huang's leader Yao Tiandong shook in all directions, Yao Huang's second leader Huang Long rushed to retreat to Bazhou, Yao Huang San's Yuan Tao led his troops to launch Guiren County and Zengkou County, although the threat of Yao Huang was temporarily lifted and a large amount of territory was expanded, but the situation is still not optimistic.

In the upper reaches of the Jialing River, Zhang Dingguo, the general of the Great West Expedition, and Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan, were stationed in Guangyuanzhou, and Zhang Nengqi, the general of the Great West Dingbei, was stationed in Baoning Mansion, and he could lead his troops down the river to capture Pengzhou at any time and open up the passage of the Jialing River.

In Shunqing Mansion in the lower reaches of the Jialing River, although the rebellion of Li Yiyi, the head of the Ministry of Rites from Qu County, disrupted the process of Ma Yuanli, the general of the Great Western Zuo, to attack the entire territory of Shunqing, after defeating the Li Yi Department of the Great Western Army, Ma Yuanli once again aimed the spearhead of the attack at Yang Lin.

As we analyzed, the four waterways are crisscrossed, but the most important is the Yangtze River waterway, the Minjiang River waterway and the Jialing River waterway, Pengzhou is located between Shunqing Mansion and Baoning Mansion, connecting the north and south, and ensuring the food and salary of the waterway in northern Sichuan.

After the ambush defeated Yao Huang, completely exposing the strength of the volunteers, fearing that the Great Western Army would retaliate frantically, after expelling Yuan Tao and restoring the rule of Guiren County and Zengkou County, Yang Lin immediately decided to leave Yang Wei to guard Zengkou County and Guiren County, and leave Long Zhijiao to guard Yingshan County, and personally led the Escort Division, the First Division, and the Cavalry Bureau to withdraw to Pengzhou.

But as time continues to change, the situation becomes more and more unfavorable to the volunteers, mainly in the following ways;

The volunteers occupied Zengkou County and Guiren County, completely dividing the two routes, and in order to break the blockade, Huanglong Yuan Tao was planning day and night, hoping to break the blockade.

The victory of the Volunteers attracted the attention of the Great Western Army, and on the tenth day of Yang Lin's return to Pengzhou, Ma Yuanli sent an envoy to the Great West, asking for a meeting by name.

The envoy was Jiang Dingzhen, who had just been appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Xianzhong's son Zhang Guangcai, and Shunqing Gatekeeper Yin Chengqi accompanied, and everyone entered the Zhizhou Yamen and sat down.

Because Yang Lin has not yet returned to the Great Western Army, it is impossible to put incense on the table and read the holy decree as on TV.

Jiang Dingzhen and Zhang Guangcai sat on the left, Yang Lin sat on the right, everyone sat down in turn, poured tea and drank a sip, Jiang Dingzhen came out and said: "The general is a scholar in northern Sichuan, and he is only a poor scholar after studying hard for more than ten years.

Since his debut, the general has been even more intolerable to corruption in the Ming Dynasty, and has been imprisoned twice a year.

The general is like this, and the people of the world are all like this, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, clever and robbing, rich families with fine clothes and jade food, singing every night, and the poor people have almost no place to stand.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is dead, its emperor has long been hanged under the old locust tree. My emperor inherited the mandate of heaven, under the An Li people, since entering Sichuan, the people of the states and counties have returned to their hearts, and in less than a few months, the whole Sichuan has surrendered, and the prosperity of the soldiers has never been there.

The general was born, both civil and military, for the government to benefit the people of one side of the party has long had a good name, for the general Ji Yanming many times to break the Yao loess tyrant, the general insight should be far above others, do not belong to my emperor, with the general's talent will be treated by my lord, fame and fortune will be known in the shadow of the wife. ”

Yang Lin was slightly stunned, looked at Jiangding Town on the left, and couldn't help but secretly admire. Before he was persuaded to surrender, he used the other party's experience to arouse hatred for Daming, and then clearly told the other party that Daming was dead, Zhang Xianzhong was the Son of Heaven who was destined to return, and persuaded him to return to the Great Western Army for the sake of the future.

But Jiang Dingzhen didn't know that Yang Lin was a crossing clan, he already knew the direction of history, and he didn't feel the deity deeply, and now he heard him say this, although he agreed with it on the surface, he didn't think so in his heart.

Looking at the other party, Yang Lin arched his hand and said: "The Ming officials are not corrupt, and the people's livelihood is hard, which is far beyond the reach of pen and ink.

Xuanben cloth, hard reading in the cold window, wanted to benefit the people for the official side, but as Mr. just said, the Ming officialdom was corrupt and was demoted to a deputy list for no reason, and he joined the army in desperation.

Since he became an official, Xuan has taken the local Li people as his mind, punished corrupt officials, implemented new policies, and lightly punished the meager endowment, so that the villagers had a place to live and live. ”

Yang Lin is in power, Zhang Guangcai has heard about it from time to time, and now when he hears it, he solemnly says: "What General Yang did is the same as my father's emperor." General Yang punished corrupt officials and corrupt officials, benefited the people for the sake of the government, and was loved by the people.

My father, like a general, was forced by the Ming Dynasty, desperate and held high the banner of righteousness, and ruled the world for more than ten years, so that he controlled Xichuan, and everything he did was to do the right thing for heaven, all to punish corrupt officials, and to benefit the people.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is dead, the prosperity of my Daxi military power has not been in the past, and the generals wanted to attack Pengzhou and attack from the north and south, but the general heard about the sage of the general, and persuaded the party to go to your department to surrender many times, hoping that the general could comply with the will of heaven and return to my Daxiyi. ”

Yang Lin seemed quite moved, stood up and bowed his hand to express his gratitude and said: "Thank you to the general for speaking up, as Mr. Jiang and General Zhang said, now Emperor Chongzhen is dead, and recently it has been rumored that the barbarian Qing Tartars have entered the customs, occupying Beizhili, Shandong and other places, and the king Li Zicheng controls the land of Shaanxi and Henan, and the eight generations of kings enter Sichuan, the world is disturbed, it is difficult to meet the Ming Lord, Xuanben is a person from Pengzhou, in this troubled times, I just want to protect the country and the people, and I want to live in the troubled times. ”

When Zhang Guangcai heard this, he was so angry that his beard stood up, and suddenly his eyes turned and he said sarcastically: "If you go around one after another today, the general has not met the Ming Lord, and now the Barbarian Tartar has entered the customs, does the general think that the Barbarian Tartar Khan is the Lord of the World?"

There is also the blind man Li Zicheng, who only stayed in Beijing for more than 20 days before being driven out of the capital by the barbarian Qing Tartars, wouldn't the general think that Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was the lord of the Ming? ”

Yang Lin laughed and said: "The general is running on the Xiayi, and the barbarian Qing Tartars have entered the pass many times, kidnapped my people, and killed my people, and their brutality is no different from that of the Mongolian Tartars, isn't it my master of China?"

Chuang Wang Li Zicheng is known as the righteous army, entered Beijing less than a month was expelled from the capital, although now entrenched in Shaanxi and Henan, but to survive, is not the master of the Ming also. ”

When Zhang Guangcai heard this, he smiled and said: "The general claimed that he had not met the Ming Lord, my old Zhang thought that the general thought that the barbarian Qing Tartar Khan, and the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng, was the Ming Lord, and now I heard the general answer like this, my old Zhang felt strange."

Fang is today, and it can be compared with my father and emperor, but since the general thinks that these two people are not the Ming Lords, do you think that the toad Tianzi in Nanjing is the Ming Lord?"

The Toad Son of Heaven refers to the Little Fortune King Zhu Yousong, who is known as the Toad Son of Heaven because of his overweight body. Seeing the continuous denial of the barbarian Qing Tartar Khan and the king Li Zicheng, Zhang Guangcai was quite annoyed, so he asked.

Yang Lin laughed, and said quite calmly: "If King Xiaofu is in the peaceful and prosperous world, he may be able to sit firmly in the world, but now that the world is full of heroes, King Xiaofu wants to become a democracy that everyone follows, hehehe." ”

Everyone followed with a burst of ridicule, and Zhang Guangcai arched his hand and said: "Since the Tartar Khan, King Li Zicheng, and King Xiaofu are not the masters, it can be seen that my father and the emperor will definitely inherit the mandate of heaven and be the master of the people in the world." ”

Yang Lin smiled and arched his hand: "The prosperity of the eight generations of kings, we know it, but if you want to become the master, you need to inherit the mandate of heaven and calm the hearts of the people." ”

Zhang Guangcai blinked his eyes and looked puzzled, looked at Yang Lin and said: "You scholars talk around and around, which is quite difficult to understand, my father and emperor inherited the mandate of heaven and calmed the hearts of the people, how can you say that you don't seem to understand what you don't understand?" ”

Yang Lin smiled, got up and came to the middle of the lobby, looked at everyone and said: "As the saying goes, the destiny of heaven is unpredictable, and those who follow it prosper and those who rebel perish."

Now the barbarian Qing Tartars into the Central Plains, in the past my Chinese dynasty change that is our Han internal affairs, now the barbarian Qing Tartars into the Kou Middle Earth, its ambition should not be under Kublai Khan, foreign people into the Kou, the Great West Ming Dashun is the internal dynasty of China, is a state of brothers, when the same enemy, jointly expelled the Tartars, this is the wish of my Han billions of people, who is willing to lead my Han compatriots to expel the Tartars to restore China, just like the Hong Wuye that day, is the mandate of heaven, is the destiny of heaven. ”

When Zhang Guangcai heard this, he couldn't refute it after thinking about it, and nodded and acquiesced: "The general is really a clever arguer, although such a mandate of heaven is strong, it is not completely unreasonable, and the general has the right to approve it."

The general claimed that it was the mandate of heaven to expel the Tartars and restore China in the present world, so how can we calm the hearts of the people? ”

Yang Lin arched his hand and continued: "When the eight generations of kings attacked the CD provincial city that day, and Long Wenguang dug up the Dujiangyan water to irrigate the CD plain, my own garrison Genting City, the scene was so tragic that I still have lingering palpitations when I think about it.

Now the eight generations of kings have been called the king of Sichuan, when it is not like the Ming Dynasty that the general just criticized to poison Sichuan, when the benefit of a while, stabilize the people's hearts, if the eight generations of kings to the people of Sichuan as the mind, then it will be able to stabilize the hearts of the people of Sichuan, for the people of Sichuan to support also. ”

Hearing Yang Lin say this, Zhang Guangcai smiled and said proudly: "Father and Emperor Xingren are teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and they are doing the right thing for heaven, so why not think of stabilizing the people's hearts and thinking of the people in Sichuan."

Since entering Sichuan, we have exterminated corrupt officials and slaughtered the five beetles that were criticized by the common people. Since the occupation of the CD, my father announced that he would be exempted from pay for three years, and selected scholars to fill official positions in Sichuan. ”

Yang Lin frowned, and arched his hand: "General Zhang, if the CD Plain did not suffer a disaster, the eight generations of kings should be grateful as a Sichuan person, when Pixian County ordered Zhao Jiawei to dig Dujiangyan, thousands of miles of fertile soil, the Sichuan Essence CD Plain has already been dilapidated, six or seven out of ten of the crops in the field have been destroyed, the people are miserable, and the local hunger is everywhere.

The reduction of food and wages by the eight kings is just a move to reassure the people, but if you want to calm the people's hearts, it is absolutely impossible. ”

Zhang Guangcai was stunned in his heart, and arched his hand: "The general has a high view, let people be taught, my emperor thinks that the general can't calm the people's hearts, dare to ask the general, how can my emperor really stabilize the people's hearts?" ”

Yang Lin bent over and said: "General, the essence of Sichuan is in CD, and the root of CD is in Dujiangyan, and now Zhao Jiawei and others have dug Dujiangyan, and the thousands of miles of fertile soil CD Plain have become a thousand miles of Ze country, and the people are miserable."

If the eight generations of kings take Li Min as their mind, they should rebuild Dujiangyan and shelter refugees, so that they will not spend several years of effort to rebuild the country of Sichuan Tianfu, and then the people will be grateful for the kindness of the eight kings. ”

Zhang Guangcai scratched his ears and cheeks, shook his head and said: "Yang Lin, if you return to your father, you can play all this." ”

Next to Li Shikai arched his hand and said: "General Zhang, this is our general's decision, if Zhang Gong is really the true son of heaven, if the eight generations of kings really inherit the will of heaven and respond to the will of the people, the eight generations of kings should hold high the banner of expelling the Tartars and restoring China, and the eight generations of kings should rebuild Dujiangyan." ”

Hearing Li Shikai say this, although Zhang Guangcai nodded his head again and again, he was still reluctant, hoping that Yang Lin would promise to return to the Great Western Army on the spot, and use this to admonish the eight kings.

Yang Lin took a procrastination strategy, and finally swore an oath, so he gave up.

Jiang Dingzhen, Zhang Guangcai, Yin Chengqi and his party were sent out of the city gate, and when they left the city gate, Yang Lin bowed again and again, hoping to bring the original words.