Two days later, in Chengdu Mansion, the capital of the Great Western Kingdom, Li Dingguo, the king of Anxi, was resting and studying in his palace, enjoying the rare tranquility in the first month, but he was urgently summoned by the Da Nei lieutenant who came in a hurry, saying that Emperor Yongchang had something important to see him in a hurry. [No pop-ups. 】

Li Dingguo was a little surprised, because the day before yesterday he went to the palace to see Zhang Xianzhong, presented a New Year's gift, and really knelt on the ground to do the great gift of his son to meet Lao Tzu, at that time Zhang Xianzhong hugged a few concubines of Xinna was very happy, and drank a wine with a group of righteous sons with great interest, and rewarded a lot of valuable treasures, there was nothing at that time, it was only two days, how could there be something important to summon in a hurry?

Muttering in his heart, Li Dingguo hurriedly followed the lieutenant out of the house, the palace was on the edge of the palace, and he didn't even have to ride a horse, and a few people went to the palace at a trot.

Zhang Xianzhong's palace, is rebuilt on the basis of the Ming Shu Palace, the big pattern has not changed, and there is no ability to change, Li Dingguo is familiar with the road, under the leadership of the lieutenant, all the way unimpeded by the carrier door into the palace, through the wide palace square, from the side through the carrier hall, the Duanli hall, to Zhang Xianzhong on weekdays to deal with political affairs review and fold of the Zhaoming Palace.

Zhaoming Hall is wide and towering, more than ten Nanmu giant pillars surrounded by three people support the tall beams, can accommodate thousands of people to set up a banquet without being narrow, a big dragon case is placed in the middle of the bed, a carved dragon soft couch is placed behind the dragon case, the bright yellow silk is spread on it, the dragon case is placed with the four treasures of the study, the white jade paperweight and the like, the huge gold inlaid jade seal, is placed in the corner of the dragon case.

Zhang Xianzhong leaned on the soft couch, his sallow face was covered with haze, his eyebrows were tightly wrinkled together, his usual brutal look changed into a thoughtful look, a letterhead was opened, and he put it on the dragon case casually, the letter paper was in Zhang Xianzhong's hand, and a pair of fierce eyes stared at the letter, as if he was going to eat the thin paper.

Li Dingguo thought that the letter must be the so-called big event, and when he swept his eyes, he saw that in addition to himself, there were many people standing in the hall, standing on both sides of the soft couch in two shifts.

Standing on the left is Pingdong Wang Sun Kewang, Funan King Liu Wenxiu, Dingbei King Ai Nengqi, several people are the same as themselves, they are the most trusted and valued sons of Zhang Xianzhong, in charge of military power, each supervising dozens of battalions of soldiers and horses, among which Pingdong Wang Sun Kewang is the most favored, serving as a supervisor of the army, controlling all the armies of Daxi.

Standing on the right is the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Great Western Kingdom, including Wang Zhaolin, the left prime minister, Yan Ximing, the right prime minister, Shangshu Wang Guolin, Jiang Dingzhen, Gong Wanjing and others, as well as several governors of the five military governors, Wang Shangli, Feng Shuangli, Zhang Hualong, etc.

Li Dingguo's heart was upset, so many big people gathered together, as neat as the previous dynasty, what big things happened? He hurriedly walked a few steps, arrived in front of the Delong case, and knelt down to Zhang Xianzhong to see the king.

Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand casually and said, "Excuse me!" You get up first, hopefully, Dingguo is late, you tell him what's going on. ”

Sun Kewang stood up and bowed to agree, Li Dingguo thanked him, got up and stood to the side with Sun Kewang and the others. Among the four, Sun Kewang is the oldest, faintly has the taste of the head of the four, usually self-respecting, reserved and steady; Liu Wenxiu is the second oldest of the four brothers, who is simple and kind, and does not strive for fame and fortune; The third child is Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi is the youngest, but twenty-four years old, with a fierce personality like fire, with the courage of ten thousand people, the most righteous spirit, and Li Dingguo is particularly friendly.

Seeing that Li Dingguo was late, Ai Nengqi winked at him and asked quietly, "Third brother, why did you come?" Father is angry! ”

Li Dingguo was stunned, looked at Zhang Xianzhong, who was frowning and thinking on the soft couch, and said softly: "What's going on?" ”

Ai Nengqi didn't have time to answer, so Sun Kewang turned his head sideways and replied in a deep voice: "Third child, there is a big event in the north." ”

Li Dingguo had just returned from the Baoning Mansion in the north to exterminate the rebel landlords' armed forces, and he was stunned when he heard it, and then exclaimed: "What's the matter? Has someone made it back? ”

Sun Kewang shook his head and said solemnly: "A few rich lords rebelled to the point that it is nothing, so as not to make my father so angry, it is He Zhen who has surrendered!" ”

Li Dingguo's heart "sighed", his face changed greatly, He Zhen is a general of the Ming Dynasty, quite strategic, and then surrendered to Li Zicheng, sealed the general army of Hanzhong, and the area of Hanzhong. After Li Zicheng was driven away from Xi'an by the Qing Ying prince Azig, he stayed in Hanzhong, neither surrendered to the Qing Dynasty nor took refuge in Daxi, relying on the steep geography of Hanzhong has been stiff, not relying on both sides, Zhang Xianzhong attacked him twice, but returned in vain, causing a big disaster. This man has now actually descended.

"Down?" Li Dingguo repeated, his words confused.

Sun Kewang said: "It's not that we have descended, but that we have descended the Tartars!" ”

Li Dingguo frowned: "The Tartar killed Li Zicheng, and he also lowered the Tartar, so disloyal and unjust, why did it take so long to descend?" His father surrendered to him three or four times, and promised him a high-ranking official, but he was unmoved, and killed the messenger, what benefit did the Tartar give him? ”

Sun Kewang snorted and said: "I don't know what he gave, but he has indeed surrendered, and he has also dedicated Hanzhong, and the Tartar Jialazhang Jing He Luohui has already entered the Hanzhong Mansion, stabilized his foothold, and invited troops to Beijing, and the Tartar into Sichuan is in front of him!" ”

Li Dingguo's heart tightened, and the chill all over his body surged from the soles of his feet to his head, he had seen the Tartar soldiers, and he was completely different from the Ming army.

After thinking about it, Li Dingguo's courage in his bones rose again, and he said hatefully: "That's okay, the Tartars occupy the north, and we are the Han people, and the country is here, sooner or later, we will wave our troops to the north, and the Tartars will be long and short, I want to see if the Tartars have three heads and six arms." ”

Ai Nengqi listened to it on the side, smashed his mouth and was about to say something, but Sun Kewang opened his mouth to steal the conversation: "The third brother is right, my father just said this, but the Tartar is hateful, and when he wins Hanzhong, he wants to surrender us, and his father is angry about this." ”

After Ai Nengqi finished speaking, he hurriedly said: "Third brother, the letter in my father's hand is the letter of surrender from the Tartars, and several Tartar officials are waiting outside the main hall. ”

Li Dingguo then remembered that when he came in just now, he saw several people wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms with a rat's tail on the back of their heads standing outside the hall, and they thought it was strange at that time, it turned out to be envoys.

Ai Nengqi was tall, his face was raw, and he said viciously: "If you want me to say, directly cut down those messengers, chop up the corpses into several pieces and send them back, so that the Tartars also know that Daxi Guo is not Li Zicheng's Dashun, and he is not so easy to bully, if you want to start a war, just come, kill him and bleed like a river!" ”

Sun Ke glanced at him, and said to Li Dingguo: "If it is only He Zhen who has surrendered, my father will not be so worried, although Hanzhong is dangerous, but the Tartar soldiers have not arrived, take Hanzhong before the Tartars, we can still take the lead, as long as we win Hanzhong, in the future, we can peep into Guanzhong from the Xiegu Valley or the Meridian Valley, and the Tartars cannot be prevented." ”

"However, before and after the letter of persuasion from the Tartars, there was also an urgent military report from Liu Jinzhong." Sun Kewang stared at Zhang Xianzhong on the soft couch, frowned and said: "Liu Jinzhong said, Tongchuan Prefecture in the south, found traces of the Ming army, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered in Longquan Mountain, and Liu Jinzhong confronted S Hong, originally this Ming army is not to worry about, my four brothers can be pacified by any one of them, but at this time there is something in the north, so my father is worried." ”

When the two of them said this, they heard Zhang Xianzhong on the soft couch sit up straight, throw the letter paper in his hand casually, and asked: "The matter is clear to all Aiqing, if you have any ideas, tell me." ”

The hall suddenly fell silent, the people on the left and right sides either lowered their heads in contemplation, or bit each other's ears, after a while, out of the crowd on the right came out of a white-bearded thin old man in civil official attire, bowing and standing in front of the dragon case, it was Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of the left.

Wang Zhaolin was originally a person who had no ambition in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was only promoted at the age of forty, and the palace test was hopeless, and he waited in line for several years in the Ministry of Officials to be a small county magistrate in Shaanxi. Shaanxi is a nest of rebellion, ten counties and ten rebellions, and the county order will either abandon the official or be beheaded in the yamen, but Wang Zhaolin is a native of Shaanxi, and there is no other way than to take office, otherwise the ten-year cold window will be in vain. Just a few days after sitting in the position of the county magistrate, Zhang Xianzhong came to the door with someone, Wang Zhaolin was frightened, his heart stomped on his feet, and he voted for Zhang Xianzhong, because he had a bit of literary talent, and he was very popular with civil affairs, and he was very important in the great western country where literati were scarce, and after the founding of the country, he became the prime minister.

This person's psychology is a little dark, originally full of economy is not used by the Ming court, was sent to Shaanxi to cast a thief's nest, his heart is extremely unbalanced, in a distorted mentality, slowly began to kill, Zhang Xianzhong Dabei Temple slaughtered the idea of the scholar, is his handwriting.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Pu said to Emperor Taizong in the Song Dynasty: China is safe, and the people are self-serving. If the deceased husband wants to go outside, he must first settle inside. The minister thought that it was, and this was also applicable when put in front of him. Wang Zhaolin said unhurriedly: "At the beginning of the founding of my great west, the country was not stable, the dragon vein of the Ming court was not endless, and it was still partial to the southeast, and there were no two lords in the world. And the Tartar is just a barbarian ear in the northeast, you don't see since ancient times, whether it is Mengyuan or Jinguo, there are almost no people who set up a dynasty in the Central Plains, because of the power of my Han scattered all over the world, the barbarians are not the people who want to have gold and silver property, and they will naturally return after plundering, so there is no need to worry. ”

"What Prime Minister Zuo said is very true." Another person stood up on the right side, echoing and said: "Although the Tartars are hateful, but since the Ming Dynasty has seen it for many years, every time they enter the Kou, they will return after plundering, and they will not stay for long. ”

This person is younger than Wang Zhaolin, but he is a fat man, with a white face and no beard, and he is the right prime minister.

As soon as these two people came out, the remaining Shangshu immediately followed suit, and they all echoed it, agreeing to go south first to stabilize Tongchuan, and the Tartars in the north just guarded against it, so there was no need to provoke them.

Li Dingguo's heart was on fire when he heard it, he understood the small abacus of these civil servants, north of Hanzhong, thousands of miles of red land, the destruction caused by years of war almost made the Guanzhong area a no-man's land, the displaced people wandered around, the fields were barren and the cities were dilapidated, and life was difficult, although Sichuan has also suffered disasters in recent years, but it is much better than Shaanxi, Wang Zhaolin is afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will go north and go to Guanzhong where Shuzhong is so comfortable.

Zhang Xianzhong listened, did not express his position, his face was indifferent, and he did not say that it was good, nor did he say that it was bad.

Li Dingguo couldn't bear it, and was about to stand up and speak, but saw Sun Kewang walk out first.

"Father, the sons and daughters think that what the adults said is inappropriate."

Zhang Xianzhong touched his chin, and was thinking about it, when he heard the sound and looked up, and when he saw that it was Sun Kewang, he immediately smiled and said slowly: "Oh? What do I think? ”

Sun Kewang stood straight, the tiger was mighty, the momentum was the best person, one person stood in the hall and pressed a few Wenchen to a head shorter, he raised his head and said: "Father, the Ming army and my Great Western Army have no calculations, almost no victory, those soldiers and generals have a few taels of ability, we are clear, even if there are tens of thousands of Ming troops in Tongchuan Prefecture, Erchen thinks it is not enough to worry, only one general can lead 10,000 soldiers to the enemy!" ”

"Good! Yes, you have to have this kind of bearing for a general! Zhang Xianzhong patted the case and praised: "You continue." ”

"On the contrary, the Tartars entered from outside the Guan, first occupied Beijing, and then slaughtered Nanjing, thousands of miles of fertile land fell into their hands, hundreds of thousands of Jurchens moved into the Guannei, the ambition of the wolf son is obvious, father, this is not to grab a handful and leave, but to establish a country and change the yuan!" Sun Kewang talked eloquently, and the more he talked, the more excited he became: "Houjin has been in trouble since Nurhachi, after decades of history, he has already figured out the reality of the Guannei, Huang Taiji appointed Han people as officials, and acted with Han family etiquette, if it wasn't for the Han family, what did he learn this set for?" And Renyun: Jurchen is invincible. It shows the prosperity of the Tartars' combat power, and even the old opponent of the father's emperor, King Li Zicheng, was killed by * death, so the sons thought that the Ming military in the south was small, and the Tartars in the north were big, and if they were not careful, Daxi would destroy the country! ”

As soon as his words fell, Liu Wenxiu flashed behind him, standing side by side with Sun Kewang, bowing and saying in a high voice: "What King Pingdong said, everything is reasonable, and his sons seconded it!" ”

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi hurriedly followed, stood on the side of the two, and said in unison: "Erchen also seconded the proposal!" ”

The two gangs of people have very different attitudes, standing on both sides of the dragon case.

Wang Zhaolin and the others were embarrassed, and wanted to say something more, but it was inconvenient for the four righteous sons to say anything more, otherwise they would inevitably quarrel, and the ministers would not dare to offend the four princes of Daxi.

As for the remaining governors in the main hall, they stood aside peacefully, watching the excitement, and kept their mouths shut and did not speak, in fact, they had already seen this kind of thing, and from Zhang Xianzhong's different attitudes towards the people on both sides, he had already had a plan in his heart.

Sure enough, Zhang Xianzhong saw the four capable sons standing together with one heart, and they agreed on the same opinion, a smile appeared on his yellow face, his expression became happy, and he stroked his palms and smiled: "Okay, my sons are all with me, and I said it well, the Ming army is just a dirt and a dog, and sending a general is enough to calm it, and the Tartars from Hanzhong are the big trouble." ”

Speaking of Hanzhong, Zhang Xianzhong's face changed, and he said hatefully: "I hate that He Zhen, I sincerely recruited him, this rabbit cub ignored it, and took refuge in the Tartars, although King Chuang and I have some disagreements, but after all, the righteous army family, I still have the heart to avenge King Chuang, He Zhen, the dog, actually admits the thief as the master, do you want this cheekiness?" ”

He was originally born in a reckless manner, and his words were not slippery, and there were many slang and swear words between his words, which everyone was accustomed to, but they didn't care much about it, but they felt that it was more pleasing to the ear.

Zhang Xianzhong slapped the dragon case, tore a few handfuls of Qing Dynasty surrender letters to shreds, threw shredded paper into the sky, and fell all over the sky, he stood in the flying confetti and shouted angrily: "I have made up my mind, and the Qing family listens to the order!" ”

The people in the temple hurriedly knelt down together and shouted long live.

"Order the king of Anxi to lead the sixteen battalions of soldiers and horses in the headquarters, go to Tongchuan on the same day, kill the enemy, pass through Chongqing and other state capitals, make their own decisions about military affairs, and take the restoration of the enemy as the top priority, there must be no mistake!"

Li Dingguo paused his head and said loudly: "The son of the minister takes the order!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong was high on top, and said: "The rest of the Qing family, leave the left and right ministers to guard Chengdu, and the others will rectify the military horses, and when the winter snow melts away after the moon and the road is easy, the whole army will go north and kill the Tartars!" ”

(End of chapter)