Xu Yingyuan was embarrassed, but Chen Jian did not look down on the people in Guangdong like Mu Tianbo, Fu Gang and others that day, but nodded deeply and said: "The situation is critical now, since the saint has promised to marry, it is nothing for you to pick up Her Royal Highness the princess back to Guangdong, otherwise if His Royal Highness has any accidents, the face of the Duke of Yue will not look good." Well, it's an ordinary people's house, and the daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door has to be rescued if she is in trouble, and she is a dignified countryman. ”

"That's exactly what we mean!"

Xu Yingyuan meant to Chen Jian's confidant, but he didn't know that although Chen Jian was an uncle, he actually didn't know a single big character, and he followed the rebellion of the Western King when he was a child. In Chen Jian's opinion, since this princess was ordered by the emperor to allow Zhou Shixiang, the Duke of Yue, it is normal for his subordinates to pick up this duchess who has not passed through the door. The others didn't think much about it, so they said rashly: "The holy car is in the city of tranquility, and you go over to pick up people." ”

I didn't want Xu Yingyuan to cough dryly, and his face was embarrassed: "Uncle doesn't know, the saint doesn't agree with me to pick up people." ”

"Disagree?" Chen Jian was stunned and felt strange, "Since the Holy Lord doesn't agree with you to pick up people, why do you still have to pick up people?" ”

Xu Yingyuan looked at him and said in a deep voice: "It was because the Holy Lord did not agree to release people that I decided to pick them up." But there is something in the words.

"You guys?"

Xu Yingyuan understood, he glanced at the Taiping Army men with knives and guns behind Xu Yingyuan, and suddenly laughed, admiring very much: "I dare to think and dare to do, worthy of being the Duke of Yue, there is a kind!" However, there is Jin Tongwu on the side of the holy driver, and the thousands of soldiers under him are all old soldiers of the King of Jin, who are quite capable of fighting, and he wants to snatch people out of their hands, which is a bit difficult to do. ”

"It's just hard to do, so I waited until I decided to do it." Xu Yingyuan smiled and asked Chen Jian very sincerely: "I don't know if my uncle has any good ways to help me?" ”

Chen Jian laughed and said: "I'm having a headache and I'm afraid it's a little bad to go to the Duke of Guangdong empty-handed, and if I don't get it right, I'll be left out in the cold and sit on the cold bench, but now I don't have a headache To be honest, this Yunnan can't be saved, and it's also dangerous to drive over there, and it's also a nest to go to Sichuan, it's better to go to Guangdong to do this with your father-in-law, I'll help you, and I have to get a certificate of nomination to be a bandit, and my vote is to send relatives to your father-in-law for thousands of miles." ”

Hearing that Chen Jian was willing to help and was willing to go to Guangdong, Xu Yingyuan was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him. Guo Shao was a little unconvinced, and secretly said that Chen Jian was only five or six people, and it was difficult to protect himself, how could he help them rob the princess. Chen Jian saw his question, chuckled, and said, "The King of Jin ordered me to take and take away my military power, but if I go back, my soldiers will still listen to me." ”

Ding Yong on the side also nodded and said: "Where are the soldiers of our Shu Wangfu really willing to listen to that Jin Tongwu, Jin Tongwu deceived us before, and suddenly made it difficult to take us down, and the people below are still in the dark." If we really go back, our soldiers can still help him Jin Tongwu deal with us! It's all right, the brothers did it! ”

The other generals and colonels of the Shu Wangfu didn't have a word, if it weren't for the people of the Taiping Army to save them, they would still have lives? Now that Chen Jian has decided to take them to join the Taiping Army, they will naturally take the matter of robbing the princess.

"Without further ado, you will go to peace with me."

Chen Jian said that he would do it, and immediately asked Xu Yingyuan and them to divide a few horses, and the group hurried to Anning City. On the way, he ran into a large group of officials who ran out of Anning, several of whom Chen Jian knew, but they were Wan Niance, the head of the household department, Liu Mi, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Qian Bangqi of Zuo Du's imperial history.

The household servant, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and the imperial history of Zuo Du are one of the six departments and nine qing, and they are real important ministers of the imperial court, but they don't stay in Anning and drive, but they go out of the city to do something. And these officials not only ran out by themselves, but also ran with their relatives, and some even took off their official robes and changed into ordinary people's clothes.

Wan Niance, the head of the household, was also shocked when he saw Guangping Bo Chen Jian, thinking that this person was not escorted out of the city by the person named King Jin, why did he come back in a blink of an eye.

"Lord Wan, what happened, why did you all run out?" Chen Jianyu immediately asked.

"Uncle, don't call me any more adults, I won't do this official."

Wan Niance felt bitter in his heart, sighed and stepped forward to tell the truth: "Originally, we thought that the holy car was going to Sichuan, but half an hour ago, the holy lord suddenly told everyone to retreat to western Yunnan, and everyone felt that retreating to western Yunnan was a dead end, and they were disappointed in the imperial court, so they didn't want to be this official anymore." Thinking that while the Qing army had not yet come, everyone should find a hiding place to take refuge. ”

Liu Qin and other officials also stepped forward to complain about their dissatisfaction and despair with the imperial court's trip to western Yunnan, some scolded Ma Jixiang's generation for bewitching the holy driver, and some scolded the king of Jin for being so confused, and actually agreed to go to western Yunnan.

In the noise, Xu Yingyuan suddenly said loudly to the officials: "My lords, the soldiers are in chaos, and it is not a matter for you to run like this, don't say that the soldiers are clear, even some bandits and strongmen can take your lives." ”

What Xu Yingyuan said is true, don't look at the officials in front of you are all important ministers of the imperial court, but they are all weak scholars, not to mention strongmen, even an old farmer with a hoe can stone them to death with a hoe, so they will definitely not be able to run like this.

Wan Niance didn't know Xu Yingyuan, looked at Chen Jian with inquiring eyes, and asked, "Guangping Bo, who is this?" ”

Chen Jian was stunned, and then remembered that he didn't know the names of these Yue Guogong's subordinates, so he hurriedly asked in a low voice, and then said to Wan Niance and the others: "This is the Guangdong Newspaper Envoy, Lord Xu Yingyuan under the Yue Guogong." ”

"The people of Yue Guogong?"

Only then did the officials remember that Guangdong had sent two envoys to Kunming before, and some officials who had seen Guangdong's envoys from afar secretly said no wonder they looked so familiar.

"What Lord Xu said is the truth, but since we have decided not to be officials, we can no longer go to western Yunnan with the holy car, we have to find a place to hide, otherwise we can't stay in peace and wait for the Qing soldiers to come." Zuo Du Yu Shi Qian Bang said.

Other officials are also gossiping, saying that there is really no way, otherwise who would want to flee out of the city like this. So far, it's a step at a time, and if you really run into bandits, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Chen Jian frowned, and he didn't know how to persuade these officials to go back, but they all decided not to be officials, and what to do when they went back. I watched them flee like the people, but I didn't know how many of them would survive.

Xu Yingyuan said: "You are all well-educated people and pillars of the imperial court, so abandoning the official position is really a loss for my Ming Dynasty." ”

"What do you mean?"

"In the following meaning, you may wish to go to Guangdong, my family has more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and recently defeated the army led by Prince Jian Jidu, and there is nothing to do in Guangdong.

"This"

The household servant Wan Niance was very moved, but he was a little embarrassed: "Guangdong is thousands of miles away from Yunnan, and I can't go even if I want to." ”

Xu Yingyuan said: "If you can trust me, you can return to Guangdong with us." ”

Wan Niance nodded and said, "Lord Xu, wait a minute, I'll discuss it with your colleagues." ”

Xu Yingyuan smiled and said, "Lord Wan, please." ”

After Wan Niance told Xu Yingyuan's meaning to a group of officials, many officials immediately echoed it, and some refused to go, and in the end, about 40 officials were willing to go to Guangdong. Xu Yingyuan asked Guo Shao to lead a group of people to temporarily settle them in a village a few miles away on the side of the road, and then come to meet them after they grabbed the princess.

Guo Shao was puzzled by Xu Yingyuan's acceptance of these officials, and asked him, "Brother Xu, what are you taking them for?" ”

"If the marshal wants to support the new monarch, he must always talk about orthodoxy, talk about the name, and the shelf of the court must also be built, if these important ministers of the Yongli court go to Guangdong, do you say that the new monarch is orthodox or not?"

"Orthodoxy is orthodoxy, but these people are too cumbersome, how can we take them back to Guangdong? There are Qing troops in Guangxi, so you can't take these people to break through. ”

"Who said you were going to Guangxi?" Xu Yingyuan shook his head and said: "I was instructed by the marshal before I came, let's go to Annan on the return trip, and then take a sea boat back to Guangdong." ”

"Go Annan?"

Guo Shao thought about it and did not object again, Annan was a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and it was natural that he would not have to go through Guangxi with the Qing army when he returned to Guangdong from Annan, so he did not have to worry about security.

After leaving Guo Shao to settle this group of officials who abandoned their official positions from Anning, Xu Yingyuan, Chen Jian, and Liang Shuanghu continued to rush towards Anning. On the way, he met Zhang Zuochen, the secretary of the ministry, Shao Zhan, Wang Jiao and others. Zhang Zuochen is originally from Guangdong, and after listening to Xu Yingyuan's persuasion, he naturally has no opinion, Wang Jiao and other officials are also desperate, seeing that the officials and Shangshu all agree to go to Guangdong, and there are people from the Taiping Army to take care of them, naturally they have no opinions.

The closer they got to Anning, the more officials Xu Yingyuan and they contained, in addition to the official secretary, there were two important ministers, Sun Shun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Cheng Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. After some persuasion, coaxing and deception, and faint threats, Guo Shao's side actually contained nearly 1,000 Yongli court officials and their families, and became a Yongli court official containment team.

The number of officials who abandoned their officials and fled to the city was extremely frightening, and the number of important ministers was even more shocking, but what was even more shocking was that at this moment, the city of tranquility was already in a mess - the emperor had been robbed

There is another section to end the plot of Yunnan, and the eyes turn back to Guangxi. Some book friends say that the bones of the depiction of Yongli and the King of Jin are too dark, here I want to say that although the Yongli Emperor died, but his performance in the more than ten years before his death can be described as a mess, and it is definitely not the work of the human monarch. If history re-chooses an emperor to replace Yongli's performance in those ten years, I believe it will definitely be several times better than Yongli.

As for the King of Jin, the bones respect him, and always think that the King of Jin is the national hero of my Han people, but some weaknesses of the King of Jin and some things that are not very good in the last two years are needless to say, they are all directly described according to history, and there is no artistic processing component.

No one is perfect.

Today's update ends. (To be continued.) )