As Zhang Jun explained the situation outside, Chen Wen couldn't help frowning.

It is not yet March, and even if it is March, it will take time for the news of Lu Jianguo's going to Jianguo to reach the southwest. It stands to reason that the Ming court military department in Zhejiang during this period can only be personally appointed by Lu Jianguo, and there are many such examples, such as Wang Yi, Wang Jiang, Feng Jingdi, and even Li Changxiang and Zhang Huangyan, whom he has never seen, these people he has the impression of seeing or hearing of them, but he has never heard of this Cao Shilang, and he has not even the slightest impression of it.

Could it be a recent appointment?

Or is it not an official under the banner of Lu Jianguo, but a member of the Yongli Heavenly Son or some other Ming clan who intends to be supreme?

Moreover, when they walked outside the gate of the big camp, they made a lot of noise without being reported, and even if they were genuine, they were not good characters. No matter what the situation is, Chen Wen always has to meet to be sure, but it's just ......

"Please, well, sir take a break in the other tents. After Ben Shuai has finished the matter, he will have another interview. ”

"Obedience." After that, Zhang Jun strode out of the big tent, said a few words to the officer waiting outside the big tent, and then asked the officer to ask for a greeting.

Outside the gate, Cao Conglong and the two servants were already waiting a little impatiently, especially Cao Conglong.

At the end of last year, Chen Wen captured Jinhua Mansion, repelled the Qing army's encirclement and suppression, and Wang Jiang was unexpectedly captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty The news reached Haitan, and the monarchs and ministers of the Lu Jian State who survived the Battle of Zhoushan decided to send Cao Conglong, the right attendant of the military department, to Jinhua with a letter of reward, with the intention of instigating Chen Wen to lead a large army to attack Taizhou, so that the Lu Jian State, which was protected by Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, could get rid of the current predicament, re-enter Zhejiang, and lead the entire Zhejiang to resist the Qing Dynasty.

This plan was formulated by the civil official group within the court of the Lu Jianguo. In their opinion, as long as Lu Jianguo can land in Taizhou, a new round of anti-Qing wave will break out in Zhejiang, and the existence of Chen Wen, Wang Yi's general, can also effectively contain Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, who is not on good terms with Wang Yi, so that the pattern of using literature to control military force can be re-formed.

In fact, at the beginning of the plan, the new cabinet chief assistant Shen Chenquan originally planned to come in person. However, Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, who had reservations about this, vetoed it on the grounds that "Yuan Fu needs to stay in the court and cannot be moved lightly", while Zhang Huangyan, who was the favorite of Lu Jianguo himself, had already gone to Xiamen to try to persuade Zheng Chenggong to obey the orders of King Lu of Jianguo, so that he could not make the trip.

Shen Chenquan not to mention, Zhang Huangyan once set up a cottage in Siming Mountain to resist the Qing Dynasty, and fought side by side with Wang Yi, although Chen Wen had entered Zhoushan before he arrived in Dalanshan, but he had a nodding friendship with the officials of the original Dalanshan, and it was easier to carry out the work. Ben is a fantastic candidate. However, at that time, Zhang Huangyan had already set off for the Zhongzuo Institute, and if he could persuade Zheng Chenggong, it would be easier to get out of the predicament, so he had to come by Cao Conglong, who was also a squire in the military department.

After going through storms and waves all the way, after landing from Taizhou, he relied on the familiarity of the people with the road to arrive at this moment, but it has been almost two months since this journey, and the situation in Lu Jianguo is still unknown. On the way, I listened to the small talk of the sentries, mentioning that just now there was an envoy from Chen Jin, the governor of Manchu Qing and Zhejiang, who had been taken back to the camp.

Could it be that Chen Wen plans to learn from Wang Jiang to descend to the Qing Dynasty? This is not yet certain, but since Chen Jin has sent an envoy to come. will definitely come with Wang Jiang's handwritten letter to persuade him to surrender, and the relationship between Chen Wen and Wang Jiang is quite harmonious according to the Li brothers who went to Tiantai Mountain to proclaim the edict.

With the identity of the right attendant of the military department, he tried to persuade the sentries to take him directly to Chen Wen, but the sentries were unmoved. Until outside the gate of the camp, the anxious Cao Conglong directly reprimanded him as a squire in the military department. As a result, when the officer guarding the gate heard that he was a soldier of the military department, he remained as unmoved as the sentries, and only entered the camp to report the news after he reprimanded him for not making noise in the barracks.

The moment the officers entered the camp, the soldiers guarding the gate and the sentries who accompanied them blocked their way with weapons in their hands. The two servants protected Cao Conglong behind them, but the trembling of their bodies betrayed their fears deeply.

Cao Conglong didn't understand why an army that was still under the command of the civilian officials of the prison army last year would now have no respect for civilian officials, but he didn't know. Chen Wen has been a maverick from the beginning of military training, so Wang Yi almost never interfered in the military affairs of the old Nantang battalion, and later Wang Jiang did not interfere in military affairs at all when he was governor of Zhejiang, for fear that it would damage state affairs. In addition, the current civil and military forces here have reversed, which has directly and indirectly affected the mentality of the soldiers.

Cao Conglong, who didn't know about this, had to make up the problem as a sergeant who disdained Wang Jiang to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and he was prejudiced against civilian officials, so he also relaxed a little.

The officers guarding the gate soon returned, but not only did they have to wait in the camp with one of Chen Wen's own soldiers, but they also called him a gentleman, not an official position. The two servants were relieved to hear that the Ming army did not embarrass them, but Cao Conglong saw another possibility.

Could it be that Chen Wen really planned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, or did he plan to follow other clans as the orthodoxy of the Emperor Ming, so he would not recognize his identity as a squire of the military department?

A series of misunderstandings caused by the urgency caused by the situation prompted Cao Conglong to follow the pro-soldier to approach the Chinese army's tent without warning, and without warning, he broke away from the guidance of the pro-soldier who led the way in front and ran directly to the Chinese army's tent.

The pro-soldier who led the way just turned his head again to lead the way, but he heard the footsteps behind him hurrying, and turned around to see that he was going straight to the Chinese army's tent......

Chen Wen in the big tent of the Chinese army planned to end the Manchu persuasion as soon as possible after signaling Zhang Jun to bring Cao Conglong into the camp, but he had just said two words about the scene, and before he could introduce the main topic, he and the generals in the tent saw a civil official wearing a scarlet official robe and embroidered with a peacock patch rushing over.

Zhang Jun, who was standing at the door, saw Cao Conglong running over. Immediately the sword was unsheathed, and so did the other soldiers around him. The metal texture of the blade shone in the sun, and Cao Conglong hurriedly stopped his steps when he ran closer, but before he could catch his breath, he shouted loudly: "Chen Dashuai wants to surrender to the Tartars, why don't you refuse to admit the identity of this official?" ”

These words said what Cao Conglong thought in his heart. But in Chen Wen's ears, it was clear that he was extremely angry, thinking of the fancy methods used by civil officials to pour dirty water on military generals in this era, only to see him shoot the case and reprimand loudly: "Pull this madman down to Ben Shuai." However, before the words were disposed of, I thought that the identity of this person was still doubtful, so I had to change the second half of the sentence that had not yet been exported to "locked up".

When the anti-pacifying soldiers who arrived kidnapped Cao Conglong, who was scolding with a certain heart of death, Chen Wencai, who was still angry, sat down again and continued what he had just said to the messenger.

And tell Wang Jiang that everyone has their own ambitions. He was willing to be a dog for the Tartars, but Ben Shuai was unwilling. The boy of my Han family would rather die standing than live on his knees. Since he is not a person of the same heart and comrades, then from today onwards, he will cut off his robe and break his righteousness, and he will not get along with each other in old age and death, it is as simple as that. With that, Chen Wen drew his sword and cut off a corner of his official uniform and threw it at the messenger.

The messenger's face turned pale as the corner of the robe landed. Chen Wen smiled and said in a mocking tone, "Your Excellency doesn't need to be afraid. Ben Shuai also wants to use your mouth to convey the words to Chen Jin and Wang Jiang, so naturally he will not kill you, so that he will not even turn white in fright. ”

Hearing this, the envoy had time to explain, only to hear that the generals under Chen Wen in the big tent of the Chinese army had already burst into laughter, and the big tent was full of contempt and discrimination against the enemy. It seems to have the posture of breaking through the big tent.

Knowing that the required effect had been achieved, Chen Wen naturally did not intend to continue to embarrass the envoy, but just asked him to go back and tell Chen Jin that it was a waste of time to use the trick of persuasion to surrender on him, and in the end, he told Chen Jin bluntly.

"Go back and ask Governor Chen to bathe and cleanse his head. When the autumn was high and the horses were fat, Ben Shuai personally led the army and Governor Chen to hunt in Quzhou! ”

Sending someone to send the messenger away, Chen Wen threw Chen Jin's handwriting aside, picked up Wang Jiang's letter again, and asked Zhang Jun to take Wang Jiang's previous handwriting and read it carefully, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after confirming what he was thinking.

It was only at this time that Chen Wen remembered that there was such a thing as Cao Conglong, changed into a new set of official uniforms, and asked Zhang Jun to bring Cao Conglong.

Seeing Cao Conglong enter the big tent with the standard expression of a martyr when he was about to be righteous, but the pacification soldiers who escorted this person seemed to be like a follower, Chen Wenzhen didn't know whether he was angry or funny.

So, he had no choice but to ask: "Your Excellency claims to be the right attendant of the military department, but you have an official seal on your body, or there is something that can prove your identity, even the clan has impersonated it these years, but the empty vernacular Ben Shuai does not believe it." ”

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Cao Conglong sneered: "Chen Dashuai plans to borrow the head of this official as a vote, so you will take it with Your Excellency, just don't omit the name of this official." After that, I saw Cao take out the official seal letter from Long's arms and throw it on the ground.

The three words of the name letter were secretly sarcastic, how could Chen Wen not know, but he just planned to verify his identity for fear of misleading the matter, so he had to bear it for the time being and ignore it.

Seeing that the official had fallen to the ground with the seal, Zhang Jun had to pick it up and verify it with several of Chen Wen's staff before nodding to Chen Wen.

After taking the official seal letter and looking at it, Chen Wen had to sigh, the official seal letter was indeed true, and then he asked a few more questions, observing that Cao Conglong did not seem to be a fake, so he had to get up and walk to him and hand the official seal letter back to him.

"Don't blame Cao Shilang, before Ben Shuai went south, he heard someone in Tianjin Wei mention that someone in Sichuan pretended to be the prince of Chu Domain, in a vain attempt to deceive the prince and steal the artifact, there are still people in the clan who dare to pretend, Ben Shuai has to act cautiously, please forgive me."

What Chen Wen said was the Zhu Rongfan Rebellion that occurred in Sichuan, and with the speed of communication in this era, Cao Conglong, who was in Zhejiang, naturally did not know, and he did not bother to believe Chen Wen's "truthfulness". It's just that seeing that Chen Wen has confirmed his identity and put on an apologetic posture, Cao Conglong suppressed the anger in his heart, and had to say that the moment is indeed as unpredictable as Chen Wen said, and it is a good thing to be cautious, and he will not mind.

The two sides met again, and Chen Wen, who had already had a premonition, asked: "Dare to ask Cao Shilang why he came to Jinhua?" ”

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Cao Conglong's expression immediately became serious, and when he coughed lightly, the two servants who were cowering and hiding on the side had no choice but to step forward, and took out the sword of the Holy Decree Monk Fang in front of Chen Wen and his subordinates.

At this moment, I only listened to Cao Conglong: "The chief military officer of Dalanshan, hang the seal of the general, the governor of the left army, the governor of the left army, and the hereditary commander of Zhejiang, Chen Wen, take the order!" (To be continued.) )