"Little Wang Yuele, I was ordered to meet ...... Great Qing Taishi. ”

Hearing Yue Le's slightly choked voice for the second time, Ao Bai, who was in a gloomy state of sadness, finally came back to his senses, quickly wiped away the cloudy old tears on his face, cleared his throat, and replied: "Prince An doesn't need to be polite, please get up quickly." Come, set up a seat for Prince An. ”

"Master Xie." Yue Le agreed to get up, but he didn't sit down, but just asked tentatively: "Taishi, today you suddenly summoned Xiao Wang over, could it be for the emperor's release of Wu Yingxiong published in the newspaper of today's palace?" ”

Ao Bai's expression darkened again, and after hesitating for a moment, Ao Bai finally nodded, admitting that it was indeed because of this matter that Yue Le was urgently summoned, and asked again: "Lord An, you are the prince, and you are the emperor's cousin, and you have the most contact with the emperor. ”

"Taishi, don't you want to ask, does Xiao Wang have the emperor's secret decree in his hand?" Yue Le asked tentatively.

"Of course not." Ao Bai shook his head decisively, and said in a deep voice: "Lord An, the old man is blunt, with the emperor's suspicion of you over the years, even if there is a secret decree, it will not be promulgated in your hands." Especially for the old man's secret decree, the emperor will only issue it to Leerjin, to Rabu, to Jieshu, and even to Tuhai, and will definitely not issue it to your hands - the old man knows our emperor too well. ”

"Master Xie is considerate, that's exactly the case." Yue Le's heart suddenly swelled with a warm current, or Ao Bai understands himself, Xiao Mazi and Xiao Mazi's father has been like a thief and a robber to himself for so many years, forcing himself to be a man with his tail between his legs, and he can't go out of the gate in the capital, how can he entrust himself with such a confidential matter as dealing with Ao Bai? Moved, Yue Le hurriedly asked again: "Then I don't know what the Taishi wants to ask, Xiao Wang must know everything, and he will say everything." ”

"It's for the best." Ao Bai showed a smile, and hurriedly asked: "Lord An, the old man asked you, between your correspondence with the emperor, did the emperor ever reveal the meaning of making peace with Wu Sangui's old thief in private?" Or did it reveal the intention of appeasing Wu Sangui's old thief? ”

"Nope!" Yue Le flatly denied it, and replied categorically: "Xiao Wang can swear to the sky, the emperor has never mentioned such a word in his correspondence with Xiao Wang!" ”

"Is that so?" Ao Bai's brows furrowed, he tapped his fingers on the table, and said to himself: "Could it be that the emperor saw that the war was unfavorable, so he temporarily decided to reserve a way back, and buried the foreshadowing of negotiating peace with Wu Sangui's old thief?" Or is the emperor also deeply guarded against you, and deliberately does not show the slightest tone in front of you? ”

"Taishi doesn't have to worry so much." Yue Le comforted: "According to Xiao Wang, there is another possibility in this matter, that is, the emperor remembers that Wu Yingxiong is his own uncle, or because Wu Yingxiong is loyal to the Qing court and refuses to betray the court and abscond out of Beijing, so he will release Wu Yingxiong from prison and reward him for his official position." Or the emperor wants to set a benchmark so that the Yungui generals and officials can understand that as long as they are loyal to the Qing court, the emperor can not blame the past, so that our army can appease the enemy army and appease the people. ”

"Our emperor, is he such a magnanimous person?" Ao Bai asked rhetorically.

Yue Le was speechless, Xiao Mazi was wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, black and suspicious, vicious and cunning, just because Wu Yingxiong refused to obey Wu Sangui's order to escape from Yanjing, he spared him from death, such a possible surname is too small to be pitiful. As for using the release of Wu Yingxiong to make a fuss and appease the generals of the Yungui rebel army, there was not a word mentioned in the newspaper, and such a good opportunity to show grace was unwilling to take advantage of it, which is enough to prove that Xiao Mazi did not have the good intentions of An.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yue Le had to give up his hand again and said: "Taishi, the emperor's intentions are really unpredictable, according to Xiao Wang, instead of being suspicious and suspicious to shake the morale of the army and discourage morale, it is better to directly go to the table to oppose the emperor's move, and ask the emperor to re-imprison Wu Yingxiong or directly behead him to calm the army's heart." In this way, even if the emperor does not allow it, we can understand the emperor's intentions, and then adapt to the situation and formulate countermeasures. ”

Ao Bai hesitated, nodded reluctantly for a moment, and said: "Then let's do it, but the old man doesn't want to be on this table, so he bothers Prince An to fold it for the old man, state the interests to the emperor, and ask the emperor to put Wu Yingxiong back in prison, so as to test the emperor's true intentions?" ”

"The Taishi commanded, Xiao Wang dared to disobey his orders?" Yue Le agreed, and asked cautiously: "However, Taishi is the commander of the whole army, and it is bound to be more effective to take this performance in person, why do you want Xiao Wang, the deputy, to come forward?" ”

Ao Bai hesitated again, and only said slowly after a while: "The emperor has always been jealous of the old man, and the prevention of the old man is even above the prevention of the three feudatories. So this matter can only be done by working hard for the prince. ”

Thinking of the-for-tat confrontation between Xiao Mazi and Ao Bai in the court's political decision-making a few years ago, as well as the rumors that Xiao Mazi hated Ao Bai, Yue Le quickly understood Ao Bai's painstaking efforts, and replied with his head down: "Xiao Wang understands, Taishi rest assured, Xiao Wang will be on this table overnight." ”

"It's hard work, lord." Ao Bai nodded, and said slowly: "In the next period of time, I hope that Prince An will be more attentive and help the old man deal with the affairs of the army." The old man can assert that within three days, the morale of the army in our army will inevitably be in turmoil, and many generals and magnates will be separated from the old man. ”

"There are already people who have deviated from you, or Tuhai, your deputy who has received your great favor." Yue Le sighed secretly in his heart, and at the same time secretly hated in his heart - he, the cousin emperor, was really extraordinarily stupid, at such a fatal moment when the two armies were facing each other, he actually did the act of releasing the eldest son of the commander of the enemy army, what did he do if he didn't shake the morale of the army?

"Don't worry, Xiao Wang will do his best." Yue Le reluctantly agreed. After thinking about it for a while, Yue Le gritted his teeth and made up his mind to say: "Taishi, Xiao Wang has a deep understanding of your loyalty to the emperor and the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, and he also admires it incomparably. So even if the secret is leaked, Xiao Wang has to remind the Taishi to prevent the villain from secretly casting cold arrows for his own glory and wealth - as far as Xiao Wang knows, just by the side of the Taishi, he has been secretly planted with fine eyeliner! ”

"Someone planted thin eyeliner next to the old man?" Ao Bai didn't show the slightest look of surprise, but asked lightly: "It's Zhou Peigong, right?" ”

"How can the master conclude that it is him?" Yue Le was taken aback.

"What qualifications does a small slave who is a slave of guilt who is assigned to the frontier to fill the army be so valued by Xiong Cixu and Kong Sizhen, and specially ask the emperor to pardon him and acquit him?" Ao Bai said calmly: "Even if Kong Sizhen is surnamed Merry, covets Zhou Peigong's male sex, and plans to rescue his lover, why does Xiong Cixu, who is also a guest under Kong Sizhen's skirt, still want to reconcile?" So as early as when Zhou Peigong said to meet the old man, the old man had already concluded that he must be sent by the imperial party to insert the eyeliner to the old man's side, and use his own talents to please the old man, so as to sneak into the old man's side to spy on the spy! ”

"In that case, why did the Taishi keep him in the shogunate and let him help with the military affairs?" Yue Le asked in surprise.

"First, because Zhou Peigong is indeed talented, he can provide some help to the old man." Ao Bai replied slowly: "Second, the old man also wants to tell the emperor through his mouth that the old man raised the army to march south, and he was open-minded, not for himself, but for the country, and for the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji." Let the emperor rest assured that he will not do stupid things, shake the morale of the army, strain morale, and destroy the old man's plan to break the enemy. ”

"Master ......." Yue Le was so moved that he knelt on his knees, his forehead was on the ground, tears welled up, and he couldn't say a word anymore while sobbing. Ao Bai stared at Yue Le, who was also extremely suspicious and guarded by Xiao Mazi, and did not speak, just beside the corner of his eye, and unconsciously slipped two tears..................

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Yue Le was grateful for his loyalty, and that night he really kept his promise to Xiao Mazi, and stated his interests to Xiao Mazi and asked Wu Yingxiong to be reincarcerated in prison, so as to stabilize the morale of the army, but Huangzhou is thousands of miles away from the capital, and it is naturally not a matter of time for the chapter to come and go, and it is necessary to wait patiently for a reply. And in the next few days, the main force of the Qing army was unfortunately worshiped by Ao Bai and Yue Leyan, and rumors spread in the army, all saying that Xiao Mazi had made peace with Wu Sangui in private, and was ready to kill Ao Bai to thank the world and resolve the current southwest soldiers.

Compared with the ordinary soldiers who are not highly educated and have limited communication and can only rely on the news of the roadside society to understand the movements of the Qing court, the mite Qing generals and the prince Baylor, who directly grasp the 'accurate' news, do not say anything on the surface, but privately contact each other and exchange news, and they are suspicious and suspicious, worried that they will be branded as the Aobai henchmen, and in the future they will be designated as the death of the Aobai henchmen without a place to bury, and the army is panicked and demoralized. Ao Bai and Yue Le saw it in their eyes, anxious in their hearts, but they were helpless - who called Xiao Mazi so uncompetitive that he actually made such a stupid move as releasing Wu Yingxiong?

Just when the main force of the Qing army was in turmoil because of the first issue of Di Bao, Wu Sangui's army, Wang Shaobo and Hong Xiguan, who were sent to Hunan by Lu Fatzi on business, made a detour to Tongren Mansion, and finally returned to Zhenyuan City, where Gao Dejie's army was currently retreating. As soon as they met, Uncle Wang was about to salute Fat Lu, but Fat Man Lu rushed forward, grabbed Uncle Wang's hand and laughed, "Brother Young Uncle is really talented, just a newspaper from the palace, it actually made the more than 200,000 soldiers full of dogs panic, the morale of the army was in turmoil, and the morale almost collapsed. ”

"Owner, has it worked?" Wang Shaobo asked in surprise.

"Of course." Lu Fatzi smiled proudly: "Our meticulous work and eyeliner in Sizhou and Huangzhou have come to report, and they all say that the Mangou army has been rumors all over the past few days, and the army is in turmoil. ”

"Tell me, tell me, how did you do that?" Fat Lu asked eagerly again.

"Back to the owner, it's like this." Wang Shaobo introduced: "On the 18th day of March, the Mangou Imperial Court sent the Dibao to Yuezhou for reprinting and distribution, and General Hong sneaked into the printing office to steal a sample, and the students quickly replaced one of the paragraphs with the content of the owner's explanation, and reprinted 200 copies in the private printing office, and then asked General Hong and them to catch up with the Mangou Post Envoy, and used the Mangou Maiden to rest and spend the night at the Taoyuan Post Station in Changde Mansion, and exchanged the 200 copies of the Di Bao he carried. Thanks to the prince and the owner's Hongfu, everything went extremely smoothly and did not alarm anyone. ”

"Good, good, good." Fat Lu nodded again and again, and said: "I will give the prince a performance today, ask for credit for you and Xiguan, young uncle, and ask the prince to reward you." ”

"The proprietor must not do this, the students really dare not take credit." Wang Shaobo said modestly: "The content of the Di Bao replacement is carefully fabricated by the owner, and it is General Hong who takes the risk to replace the Di Bao and the pirate Di Bao. ”

"Don't be modest, without your reminder, I can think of such a brilliant trick?" Lu Fatzi waved his hand and said with a smile: "From ancient times to the present, when the two armies were fighting, no one had ever thought of using the method of replacing the forged Di Bao to hit the enemy's military heart. ”

"It's still the owner's cleverness." Wang Shaobo shook his head and said with great admiration: "Falsifying the news of the emperor's release of the prince seems to be inconsequential and understated, but in fact, it just happened to hit the key point of the discord between the monarch and the ministers of Mangou. ”

Tian shamelessly praised each other for a long time, and Fat Lu hurriedly pulled Wang Shaobo to the desk, took out a secret decree and a forged blank secret decree, and said: "Young uncle, come on, the iron must take advantage of the heat, and take advantage of the chaos of the dog army, we have to hurry up and implement the second step." You see, this secret decree was borrowed from the prince by me, and it is the handwriting of the Mangou Emperor, you look at his handwriting, can you imitate it? I have prepared a blank fake secret decree and a fake jade seal, if you are sure to imitate the handwriting of the Mangou Emperor, give me the decree immediately. ”

Wang Shaobo took Xiao Mazi's handwritten decree and looked at it for a long time, nodded and said: "Don't worry, the Mangou Emperor's penmanship is definitely not clever, and it is not difficult to imitate, and the students can conclude that the Mangou Emperor does not have any anti-counterfeiting habits of hiding ink or deliberately lacking strokes when writing, and the students are sure to imitate it." ”

"Good." Lu Fatzi, who didn't know anything about calligraphy, applauded, and said quickly: "Then you can pick up the pen now, and in the tone of the Emperor Mangou, give a secret decree to Leerjin, the king of Mangou Shuncheng, let Leerjin find an opportunity to get rid of the Mangou Quanquan and eliminate the Aobai party, and then take over the military power of the Mangou Southern Expedition with this will, and give him the right to cut first and then play and be arbitrary on behalf of the sky, and make peace with our prince." ”

"The owner is going to open a gap from the full dog Leerjin?" Wang Shaobo asked curiously.

Lu Fatzi nodded and explained: "There are two reasons, one is that Leerjin is stationed in Sizhou, and he is directly facing our army, which is convenient for communication. The second is that Le Erjin's talent is average, far easier to deal with than Yue Le, Tuhai and Jieshu, who are full of dogs, and it is better to open a gap from him. ”

"Okay, the student will first type a draft for the owner to see, and then copy it in imitation of the handwriting of the Mangou Emperor." Wang Shaobo agreed. Lu Fatzi was very satisfied, and also nodded in agreement, while asking the dog-headed master Wang Shaobo to fabricate a fake holy decree, while thinking about how to get in touch with Le Erjin and put this fake holy decree into his hands.

"Directly hand over the false holy decree to Le Erjin, how big is the possible surname of Le Erjin?" Lu Fatzi pondered in his heart, "Send someone to pretend to be a messenger and enter the Leerjin camp to deliver the decree?" Although the grasp is a little bigger, it is too dangerous, and a slight flaw is a place of death, where to find such a suitable candidate? Well, it seems that it is easiest to let this holy decree accidentally fall into the hands of Aobai, but what should be done to let Aobai inadvertently get this holy decree? ”

When he was thinking hard, Xiao Erlang, the loyal lackey of Lu Fatzi, suddenly came in from outside the door, holding a letter in his hand, and said very nervously: "Young master, someone threw a letter into our yard, I don't know who did it, and it was written that young master, you personally received it." ”

"And this?" Lu Fatzi hurriedly took the letter from Xiao Erlang's hand, and when he opened it and took a closer look, he saw that the letter turned out to be written by Yue Le, the prince of Mites Qing, who had a relationship with him, and the content was also very simple.

"Home delivery? God help me! Although it was not very clear what Yue Le's purpose was for meeting him for a while, after reading this letter, Lu Fatzi was still happy to jump three feet high, and hurriedly ordered: "Young uncle, stop writing, quickly, change the name of the person receiving the order to Yue Le, the prince of Mangouan, and the other contents remain the same." ”

"Change it to Yue Le?" Wang Shaobo was stunned and hurriedly said: "Owner, if the student remembers correctly, when you commented on the enemy generals, you repeatedly emphasized that among the enemy army, the most dangerous Mangou general is the most difficult to deal with, and he is also the most calm and wise, shrewd and capable, and has the most overall situation. Is it possible for you to succeed in your deal? ”

"It's because Yue Le is the most difficult, calm and wise, shrewd and capable, and has the most overall situation." Fat Lu slapped his palm on the table and said categorically: "So this time, starting from him, we have the greatest certainty of the success of our strategy!" ”

"What's the reasoning?" Wang Shaobo was confused by Lu Fatzi's contradictory words, why is Yue Le the most shrewd and capable, calm and wise, but the easiest to trick?

(To be continued)