The generals walked out of Haoge's huge gold-domed tent, and while walking, they talked about He Zhen's rebellion, and everyone had a solemn expression and a low tone, and they all felt that He Zhen's sudden rebellion at this time was a big constraint on Haoge's strategy of recovering Sichuan, and this war was probably going to drag on for some time.

No one noticed that on the side of the road in the camp, among the group of Nikans who were busy forking grass and feeding the horses, one of them was listening attentively to their discussion with his ears pricked up.

When the crowd walked away, this Nikan threw away the pitchfork in his hand and shouted: "Oops, my stomach hurts, I want to!" Running away, the other Nikans laughed helplessly and scolded: "Lazy people have a lot of and urine, Zhang Lao Er is really worthy of this sentence." ”

Zhang Lao Er held his stomach and walked around in the camp, entered the Han army camp tent, and found Chen Xiang, who was wrapped in a towel and covered in mud in a Han army shop team that was digging a well.

When Chen Xiang saw Zhang Laoer's expression, he knew that something was wrong, so he looked for a way to step aside and met Zhang Laoer, who told him the news he heard in a low voice, which made Chen Xiang stunned.

"He Zhen is the other way around? Is this guy's conscience gone? How many times has this been reversed, and is it endless? Chen Xiang lowered his voice and said in surprise.

Zhang Lao Er also said: "Who said it wasn't? It's been less than a month since this guy took refuge in the Tartars, and the grass on the wall hasn't been so fast, so he has to fight with the thieves back then. ”

Chen Xiang condensed and muttered: "This news is very important, and it must be reported to the adults immediately." ”

Zhang Lao Er looked sad, shook his head and said, "But how to send it?" Master Ma dug up the road, this trick is too amazing, but it blocked the Tartars, but we are also blocked here, a few days ago the Tartars sent people to detour to Yinping The information is still in my hands, I can't send it, I am in a hurry. ”

Chen Xiang saw that he was worried, but he laughed, and said in a loud voice: "Don't worry, Lord Wang studied under Daxian and has the art of unpredictable prophets, these two things, he has already told me when I left his side to go north." ”

"What?" Zhang Laoer's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "Lord Wang has long known that He Zhen will rebel, and he also knows that the Qing soldiers are going to make a detour to Yinping?" ”

Chen Xiang hurriedly covered his mouth and looked around vigilantly, fortunately, this is a remote place, it is a place where materials are stacked, there are big carts on both sides, no one pays attention, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Silence! Do you think this is our Kuizhou territory? Chen Xiang reprimanded in a low voice: "If you are so careless, how can you be a secret agent?" ”

Zhang Laoer's face turned red, and he admitted his mistake repeatedly, Chen Xiangcai did not continue to scold, and said: "No wonder you are surprised, when my adult said this, I also couldn't believe it, at that time, the Qing soldiers were still far away in the north, Zhang Xianzhong was still a monstrous army, and the adults said these two things, and anyone who heard them would not believe it, but the adults were not very sure that these two things would happen, but they just said that if these two things happened, they would send a signal to him, and he would take corresponding countermeasures when he saw the signal." ”

"Signal?" Zhang Lao Er was even more confused, and his expression became more and more stunned: "What signal?" The adult is far away in Chengdu, hundreds of miles away from us, what signal can he see? ”

Chen Xiangbai glanced at him and said: "I didn't say that I wanted the adults to see it, but I wanted the defenders of the Sword Pavilion to see it, and if Master Ma saw it in the Sword Pavilion, he could notify the adults." ”

Zhang Lao Er explained: "Even so, Master Ma's Sword Pavilion is also ten miles away from us, and the road is impassable, what signal is sent?" ”

Chen Xiang looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one, he took out a papier-mâché lantern from his arms, raised it, and said, "That's it, Kong Ming lantern." ”

He unfolded the lanterns folded into a thin layer and erected them, and the hollow Kong Ming lantern appeared in front of Zhang Laoer's eyes, but the paper used for this lantern was black, which was different.

"My lord said, if the Tartars really send troops to go to Yinping, they will release the black lanterns, if He Zhen really turns against the Tartars, they will release the white lanterns, and if the two things happen together, the two lanterns will be put together." Chen Xiang explained: "There are nearly 100 of these two kinds of lanterns, all of which are hidden in my place, and when the wind is in the right direction in the past two days, we will take a look at the air and release it on the mountain. ”

Zhang Lao Er's mouth opened wide, his eyes were stunned, he couldn't have imagined that he would use this method to transmit information from a distance, and Wang Huan's magical material is like a god, it is comparable to the fortune-telling half-immortal in front of the City God Temple, for the half-immortal, except for the thumbs up, he can't find any other way to express his admiration and shock in his heart.

Zhang Lao Er and Chen Xiang didn't know that Wang Huan was not a half-immortal, but as a traveler in later generations, of course he knew the historical events of He Zhen's rebellion and Li Guohan's walk to Yinping, but he was not sure whether his crossing would affect the occurrence of these histories, so he handed it over to Chen Xiang Kong Ming Lantern to facilitate the urgent transmission of information in the case of the road being cut off, and now it really came in handy, but in this way, Wang Huan's image of being tall and omnipotent and omniscient was covered with a layer of mysterious immortal energy.

So in the afternoon two days later, the south wind blew in the sky, the wind was very strong, very suitable for flying kites, on the top of a high mountain outside Guangyuan City, suddenly floated up hundreds of black, black, white and white Kong Ming lanterns, although it was daylight, but it was also extremely conspicuous, in the clear and clear weather, you can see this spectacular scene from afar.

Of course, the Qing soldiers also saw it, but the lantern was already raised, and the arrows could not get close, so they could only look curiously at the lanterns in the sky that were slowly drifting southward.

Hauge and other generals either saw with their own eyes, or listened to the reports of their subordinates, and learned that there were many strange lanterns floating in the air, although they knew that there must be fraud, but they were helpless, and sent troops to the mountain to arrest the people who put the lanterns, and the flag soldiers climbed on the rugged and steep mountain for a long time, and when they reached the top of the mountain, they did not even see a single human hair, and they still fell and injured a few people when they went down the mountain.

Ma Xintian, who closed the sword gate, saw the Kong Ming lantern of the brigade floating in the wind half an hour later, the black and white collocation was very conspicuous, and Ma Xintian was also instructed by Wang Huan to immediately send the news over the black and white lantern to Chengdu.

At this time, Chengdu has fallen into the hands of Wang Huan for nearly a month, the city has a new look, the Kuizhou army posted a notice on the next day, announcing the policy of exempting the land for one year, for the original Daxi regime to do things in the government should be a service officer, willing to be attached, all can be retained, and even as an official, as long as the net worth is innocent, there is no blood in the hands, you can also go to the general army yamen for the record, after the verification is clear, you can be hired on the basis of merit, still an official.

Wang Huan transferred Meng Zhiyu from Chongqing Mansion, and the big Ming Governor's Mansion who hugged Wang Huan's thigh brought over a large number of officials, and took over the civil affairs of Chengdu that was rotten and numb, and re-established all kinds of yamen affairs in accordance with Wang Huan's regulations, and operated the Sichuan Political Envoy Division, and restored the vitality of central Sichuan in an orderly manner.

As for the remnants of the thieves in various states and counties, there are still not a few, and even some counties and prefectures are still in the hands of officials and generals loyal to Daxi, for these places, Wang Huan's forces are limited, and he is temporarily unable to vigorously attack, such as Yuan Tao of Fucheng, who was a fierce general who was a lonely city rival to Haoge in history, has become a powerful rival to Wang Huan at this moment, but Wang Huan is still unable to go to the conquest.

But this is not difficult for Wang Huan, the treasure that Li Yan got was counted overnight, and its quantity really surprised Wang Huan, who was well-informed and wealthy, and the scale of the gold and silver sea on the ship was breathtaking, and the scribes who counted it used trembling hands to point out all kinds of gold ingots, pearls and jade plus silver ingots converted into silver taels, which was 30 million taels of silver, which was equal to the financial income of four or five years during the Yongle period of the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty!

Wang Huan, whose waist bag was about to burst, immediately gave a hanging red, but where there is a large western army will surrender the city, the Kuizhou army is not to blame in the past, as long as the soldiers and horses are handed over, they can be retained as officials, but if they are obsessed and stubborn resistant, everyone in the world will be punished, there are those who kill the stubborn thieves, ordinary soldiers have five dollars of silver per head, one or two small leaders, and one or two for the head of the general, and the head will be given a hundred taels of silver.

This trick can be seen to work quickly, the people of all states and counties see the soldiers of the Great Western Army and their eyes shine, as if they see a walking ingot, if a single soldier of the Great Western Army goes out, it is likely that he will not be able to go back, I don't know that in the corner of the wall will be made by someone, cut off the head and go to Chengdu to receive the reward.

As a result, the powerful people in various places have raised the banner of rebellion, to be a good minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the prefectures and counties that are still under the control of the remnants of the Great Western Army have rioted to varying degrees, and the strength of the Great Western Army is different, some places have more people and some places have fewer people, and the places with few people are quickly driven to the end and belong to Wang Huan's territory, and even some of the Great Western Army will be frightened by the general trend of burning the prairie like wildfire on the grassland, and take the initiative to surrender, which has intensified the speed of the Kuizhou Army to control Sichuan.

After a period of bloody turmoil, the entire Sichuan south of Jianmen Pass, except for a few places controlled by diehards, all fell into Wang Huan's control, after consulting Wang Huan, Meng Zhiyu quickly sent a large number of officials to various places as officials, and established a local yamen loyal to Wang Huan at a very fast speed, recruited regiments to practice self-protection, and laid the foundation for consolidating the rule of the Kuizhou army.

These officials, who used to be familiar with Meng Zhiyu's subordinates, were originally not into the stream, and the one with the highest fame was only a person, if it was placed in the Ming officialdom, it would be extremely difficult to become the prefect for a lifetime, and now the Kuizhou army is in a hurry to employ people, and they are not eclectic to reduce talents, and the officials have been promoted, and they have become the magistrates of the prefectures, and some of them have outstanding abilities and even sat on the throne of the five-grade prefect, and the crows flew on the branches and became phoenixes.

In this way, it attracted more scholars to join the Kuizhou army, and although the Kuizhou army was a warlord, after all, it was under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, occupied the orthodoxy, and was an official under Wang Huan.

Wang Huan set the rules, first, he was an official in a different place, and he was not allowed to be an official in the local state or county; Second, the children of the gate valve family should be carefully selected, and people from the same family should not hire more than five people in the same year; Third, the poor are preferred.

These rules prevent Wang Huan from being overshadowed by the gate lord family by cultivating a large number of officials to control the actual implementation of the Kuizhou army and elevate Wang Huan in the early stage of Wang Huan's power expansion.

These things made Wang Huan's mind dizzy, and when everything came to an end, Ma Xintian's urgent letter arrived, and there was one sentence in the letter: A large number of black and white Kong Ming lanterns floated in the sky above the sword gate.

Wang Huan immediately threw everything to Meng Zhiyu, left Chengdu with six thousand white-robed soldiers, and set off towards the Sword Pavilion.