"Ladies and gentlemen, General Wu, please open the conditions, as long as your conditions are reasonable, my prince will definitely agree. Chen Renjie's attitude was very sincere, and he asked a few Wu clan leaders with a helpless expression: "What are we going to do so that you can believe that our prince has no ambition to usurp the throne?" I believe that our prince will not usurp this Great Zhou Dynasty? ”

Chen Renjie's words completely stopped Wu Guogui and Wu Yingjing and a group of other people, not to mention Wu Yingjing, Wu Yingchang brothers and Wu Guozheng who only like to pick up knives and cut people, even Wu Guogui and Liu Zhifu, who have a certain level of education, also frowned, and didn't know what conditions to put forward, so that Lu Fatzi could prove that he had no ambition to usurp the throne, let alone what Lu Fatzi should do, so that they could believe in Lu Fatzi's ambition for the Wu clan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, why don't you speak?" Chen Renjie smiled and smiled at Wu Guogui: "President General, in fact, as early as when the envoy left Yanjing, the prince of my family had already expected that you would not be able to answer this question, and he understood the reason why you could not answer this question earlier. ”

"What is the reason?" Wu Guogui asked in surprise.

"It's a very simple reason, just two words - selfishness!" Chen Renjie raised two fingers and said categorically at Wu Guogui: "President General, you are because of selfishness, and General Wu is also because of selfishness, so you will suspect that our prince intends to usurp the throne of the Great Zhou, and you don't know what our prince should do, so you believe that our prince has no ambition to usurp the throne!" ”

"Lao Tzu is selfish?" Wu Guogui began to be angry.

"Absolutely! And it's not small! Chen Renjie replied loudly: "Our prince has sent envoys to contact the general several times, asking the general to implement the edict of Emperor Gao of the Great Zhou Dynasty, obey the orders of our prince, and accept the reorganization of our army, but you have all rejected it, and you have also accused the king of Yue for trying to usurp the throne - general, are you really so suspicious of Prince Lu because you are loyal to Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Great Zhou?" No! General, you are afraid, afraid of being deprived of military power and losing power by Prince Lu, and even more afraid of being unloaded and killed by Prince Lu, so you can find such a shameless excuse! ”

"Shameless excuses?!" Wu Guogui jumped up and roared: "Do you have the courage to say it again, Lao Tzu is shameless? ”

"Isn't it?" Chen Renjie asked rhetorically without fear, "General, if you are really loyal to Emperor Taizu, then why don't you follow Emperor Taizu's edict and obey King Lu's orders?" Even if you really suspect that Prince Lu is trying to usurp the throne in a certain dynasty, you can also obey the will of Emperor Honghua and join the Honghua army to kill the thief in your mind! But you didn't do it, neither followed the edict of the previous emperor, nor obeyed the will of the present, but chose to support the army in Huguang and respect yourself, what is the purpose, in addition to wanting to keep the powerful position of the general, what else can you be the emperor of the soil in Huguang and Henan? ”

"Lao Tzu is to eradicate Guo Zhuangtu's dog thief and eradicate Lu Yifeng, a little rabbit cub!" Wu Guogui yelled.

"General, please don't say it so nicely, okay?" Chen Renjie replied loudly: "In your current situation, how can you eradicate Guo Zhuangtu's dog thief?" Knowing that he couldn't do it, he took the surnames of tens of thousands of Great Zhou soldiers to do child's play, so that hundreds of thousands of Jingxiang people were in a sea of misery, and the day was precarious, and the people were not happy! Whether you want to repay Emperor Taizu's great kindness, or do you want to support the army and respect yourself, and be the soil emperor of Huguang, you know it in your heart! ”

"Dare to be a dog thief, to insult my brother like this?" Wu Guozheng was annoyed and angry, pulled out his knife and shouted: "Don't think that you were sent by Lu Yifeng, we won't dare to kill you!" ”

"Third General, you're not a good thing either! These are the original words of Prince Lu! Chen Renjie roared louder, and pointed at Wu Yingjing and Wu Yingchang brothers and shouted: "You two generals Wu are also selfish and selfish!" This is also the original words of Prince Lu! As a member of the Wu clan, you openly rebelled against the Honghua Imperial Court because you were afraid of losing your glory, wealth, and power, and even more afraid that Guo Zhuangtu would kill the Wu clan by rebels! To avenge the second prince and annihilate the power of the Qing monarch, it is just an excuse for you to fight for power and profit, a fig leaf! ”

"All of you!" The more Chen Renjie spoke, the more excited he became, and he circled Wu Guogui and the others with his hand, and said loudly: "The reason why you refuse to follow the edict of the previous emperor, and why you suspect that Prince Lu is trying to usurp the throne, is also because of your selfish intentions and treating others with yourself, so you are so suspicious of Prince Lu!" You are afraid that after Prince Lu unifies the world, the regent will take power and take away your glory, wealth, and power, and you are even more afraid that Prince Lu will follow Guo Zhuang's plan to kill you all in order to usurp the throne! ”

"It's because of your selfishness, so you'd rather hide in Huguang, an acre of three-points of land, to be your soil emperor, and your soil prince, rather than obey the heavens, live up to the great favor of the emperor, and don't save the people of Li from the dire situation, take the Great Zhou army to submit to King Lu, join hands with King Lu to eradicate Guo Zhuangtu's traitors as soon as possible, and let the Great Zhou court dominate the country as soon as possible!"

The generals of the Wu clan who were present all pulled out their knives, glared at Chen Renjie viciously and panted, their faces were blue and white for a while, but none of them had the face to use the knife, Wu Guogui was also so angry that his forehead was bruised, pointing at Chen Renjie's nose and yelling: "You said these words yourself?" Or did Lu Yifeng teach you as a child? ”

"Of course, it was Prince Lu who asked the envoy to say so." Chen Renjie was not stupid, he quickly put the blame on Lu Fatzi, and said loudly: "Old General Wu Guogui, you don't need to be angry, and our Lord Lu doesn't mean to blame you, after all, people are not sages, everyone has more or less selfish intentions, and Prince Lu doesn't blame you." Lu Wang Ye also said, as long as the old general you can rein in the precipice, get lost, follow the example of the old general Ma Bao and General Wang Pingfan, lead the Great Zhou army to join the army of King Yue, and accept the reorganization and command of King Lu, then the previous matter, Prince Lu can not care, old general, you are still our father-in-law of Prince Lu! ”

"What if Lao Tzu doesn't?" Wu Guogui blushed and asked rhetorically, word by word.

"Then it can't be helped." Chen Renjie spread his hands and said slowly: "Lord Lu, you can also justifiably announce that the old general you are rebellious to the Great Zhou and send troops to fight against you, which can be regarded as a famous division." Lu Wangye's original words, he didn't want to be the old general your enemy from the bottom of his heart, but the emperor's edict had an order, ordering Lu Wangye to crusade against all the Great Zhou rebels, and to take life and death, all of which were decided by Lu Wangwei on behalf of the emperor. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Renjie hurriedly added, "And there is another point, our Lord Lu has never been afraid of fighting the old general you on the battlefield, and we have never worried about forcing the old general you to Guo Zhuangtu's side, because after you join Guo Zhuangtu's rebels, you will immediately find out what a stupid choice you made!" A traitor like Guo Zhuangtu, if you join forces with him, one plus one will be less than one! ”

"Peng" made a loud noise, and Wu Guogui, who was extremely angry, kicked over the table in front of him and roared: "Little rabbit cub dares to threaten Lao Tzu? Let him come! Lao Tzu doesn't want a helper, as long as Lao Tzu still has a breath, the little rabbit cub doesn't want to step into Huguang! ”

"General, have you thought it through?" Chen Renjie said in a deep voice: "If you are really determined to start a war with our prince, then you are a rebel of the Great Zhou, and you will come to the Nine Springs in the future, what face do you have to meet the Emperor Taizu Gao of the Great Zhou?" Have you ever considered how many Great Zhou soldiers will be killed on the battlefield if you make this decision, and how many loyal and good generals of the Great Zhou will be burdened with the infamy of rebellion? How many of Emperor Taizu's relatives and nephews will die innocently and tragically because of your will? Are you worthy of Emperor Taizu by doing this? ”

"Lao Tzu thinks it very clearly!" Wu Guogui shouted: "Lao Tzu did this to repay the great kindness of the emperor and eradicate the real national thief of the Great Zhou!" Come on, take this messenger of Lu Yifeng's child, and beat me ...... with a stick. ”

"Father! No, no! ”

A delicate female voice with a crying voice suddenly came from the back hall, and then a beautiful woman with tears on her face rushed out of the back hall, rushed to Wu Guogui and knelt down on her knees, crying and said: "Father, no, don't, my daughter begs you, you can't do it, you can't ......." He is your son-in-law and mine...... Xianggong. ”

"Princess?!" Chen Renjie was first stunned, and then hurriedly knelt down at Wu Xiaosu on both knees, kowtowed and said: "Chen Renjie, who is a member of the palace of the Great Zhou Yue Palace, knocks on the princess of Yue, and the princess is a thousand years old. ”

"Lord Chen, please get up." Wu Xiaosu turned his head, his pretty face was full of tears, and he choked up and asked, "Lord Chen, is he okay?" ”

"Back to the princess, the prince is very good." Chen Renjie replied: "When the lowly post was leaving, the prince had an entrustment, if the lowly post can be lucky enough to see the princess Niangniang, let the lowly post must play the mother, the prince he is thinking about you every day, but the old general Wu blocked, so the prince sent people to greet the mother several times, but failed, but please rest assured, no matter what method the prince uses, he will definitely take you back." ”

After listening to Chen Renjie's original words about Lu Fatzi, Wu Xiaosu, who had been with Lu Fatzi for less than half a month after four years of marriage, inevitably cried loudly, his heart was like a knife, and Wu Guogui was quite sad in his heart on the side, and he was also very sorry for his daughter, but when he thought of his son-in-law's various evil surnames and arrogance, Wu Guogui was angry again, and shouted at his daughter with a hard heart: "What are you doing here?" Go back to your room, get out! ”

"No!" Wu Xiaosu, who has a gentle surname, rarely disobeyed Yan's father once, knelt next to Wu Guogui in two steps, pulled Wu Guogui's sleeve and cried so much that he pleaded: "Father, my daughter begs you, don't go to war with Yifeng, he is your son-in-law, and his daughter's father-in-law, they are all daughters' relatives, you go to war, no matter who wins and who loses, who lives and who dies, the daughter ......, and the daughter can't live." ”

"Shut up! What do you know? Wu Guogui roared with a straight face: "Is that Lu Yifeng's child going to war with his father, can his father still be afraid of him?" ”

"Old General Wu, you can't say that." Chen Renjie hurriedly protested: "Our prince didn't want to start a war with you, but just hoped that you would lead the Great Zhou army of Huguang to join the army of the king of Yue and join forces to conquer Guo Zhuangtu's rebels. ”

Saying that, Chen Renjie bowed deeply to Wu Guogui again, and said very sincerely: "Old General Wu, the words conveyed by the little envoy for Prince Lu may be disrespectful and offensive, but our prince really has no choice, Guo Zhuangtu Xiaoer colluded with our Great Zhou Taizu Emperor Gao's sworn enemy Pingnan Wangfu, connived at Shang Zhixin Xiao'er to make waves on the battlefield in Guangdong, brutally killing countless soldiers and civilians of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Guo Zhuangtu Xiao'er sent reinforcements from Hunan to Guangdong to help Shang Zhixin Xiao'er abuse, our prince in order to encircle Wei to save Zhao, As soon as possible, General Han Daren's team was put into the Biyuan battlefield, forcing Guo Zhuangtu to return to the division, and sharing the pressure on the Guangdong battlefield. ”

Wu Guogui snorted loudly, his face was still pale, but he no longer scolded and scolded. Seeing that Wu Guogui seemed to be a little loose, Chen Renjie hurriedly said: "Old general, if it weren't for the fact that your defense area happened to be stuck at the junction of Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang, the two traitors of Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang, our army would be able to receive the best effect of a snake hitting seven inches from now on, in fact, our prince didn't want to force the old general, and he was willing to keep the status quo like this, at this point, I hope the old general can understand our prince's hardship." ”

Wu Guogui continued not to speak with a stinky face, and Tao Jizhi, the general of the Wu army who was not a member of the Wu clan who had not spoken in the hall, suddenly spoke, and said for Chen Renjie: "Brother Guogui, Yifeng's words are reasonable, Han Daren's team sent troops from our defense area to crusade against Guo Zhuangtu's rebels, and the effect is much better than a detour from Anhui, which can cut off the connection between Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang's two thieves at once, and can also force Guo Zhuangtu to stop the traitors from the Guangdong battlefield. It can even indirectly support our friendly troops on the Liangguang battlefield - General Zu Zeqing, but he was caught between Shang Zhixin Xiao'er and Guo Zhuangtu's traitors, if we don't help Yifeng force Guo Zhuangtu back from the Liangguang battlefield, the old general's situation will not be good. ”

"Shang Kexi Lao'er is the former emperor's sworn enemy, and General Zu Zeqing is the cousin of the former emperor." Yang Laijia, another general who is not a member of the Wu clan, also said: "If the old general Zu is defeated because he can't get reinforcements, Guo Zhuangtu's rebel thief and Shang Kexi's father and son will not let him go, as well as the family of the old general and the Great Zhou soldiers under the old general, I am afraid they will not be able to escape the poisonous hands, and the general of the Geng army, Bai Xianzhong, and the Great Zhou soldiers of Chaozhou are a lesson from the past." ”

"Can I understand these truths?" Wu Guogui finally spoke, and said distressedly: "Do you think that I want to bear the eternal infamy of disobeying Emperor Taizu's edict? But have you ever thought about it, if I led the Great Zhou army in Huguang and merged into the Yue Wangfu, and Lu Yifeng's little rabbit cub suddenly had a different heart and plotted to usurp the throne and establish himself as the emperor, then what else would our Great Zhou army do to stop his misdeeds, and what to use to crusade against him, a new traitor? ! ”

"Regarding this, our prince has a way." Chen Renjie suddenly interjected, smiled and said: "Old General Wu, General Wu, and General Great Zhou, our prince knows that you can't think of a way, let us prove that he will never seek a dynasty to usurp the throne, so our prince himself has come up with a good way to prove that he will not seek a dynasty to usurp the throne, and he will definitely welcome Emperor Honghua back to Yanjing and build a capital in Yanjing to be the emperor." ”

"What can he do?" Wu Guogui finally began to be moved, and hurriedly asked: "That little rabbit cub, what method is used to ensure that he will not usurp the throne and become the emperor?" ”

"On the second day of the first lunar month of this year, our prince met with two generals, Wu Zhen and Wang Jizhen, at the Desheng Gate in Yanjing." Chen Renjie said slowly: "At that time, in order to make Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen, the two great Zhou generals, believe that our prince will not usurp the throne and become the emperor, our prince once swore a poisonous oath in front of them, unless the Desheng Gate collapses by itself, otherwise our prince will never have two hearts, if our prince violates the oath, the sky will be disgusted, the earth will be disgusted, and he will die under the sword!" ”

"Today, the prince asked the little envoy to reiterate this oath again, unless the Desheng Gate collapses by itself and the Temple of Heaven cracks and gushes water, the prince will never usurp the throne and become the emperor! If you violate this oath, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and there will be no place to die! ”

"Fart!" Wu Guogui's nose was almost crooked, and he yelled: "The little rabbit cub lets his mother's stinky fart, such an oath, Lao Tzu can send a hundred a day!" Wang Fuchen and Wang Pingfan, two fools, believe it, but Lao Tzu doesn't believe it! ”

"Old general, what are you anxious about, the little envoy hasn't finished his words yet?" Chen Renjie smiled and said: "Our prince also said that in order to prove that his oath is free, after the old general, you lead the Great Zhou army of Huguang and merge into the army of the king of Yue, our prince will appoint you as the governor of Fengtai, lead the army to garrison Fengtai, and supervise our prince for heaven and for Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Great Zhou, and supervise whether our prince fulfills his oath." ”

"Admiral Fengtai?" Wu Guogui's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart: "If this is the case, Lao Tzu really doesn't have to worry about the little rabbit cub not being a father, if he dares to give birth to two hearts, Lao Tzu wants his dog's life, just a gesture!" ”

"Lu Yifeng really said that?" Wu Guozheng, Wu Yingjing and Wu Yingchang, the three Wu clan relatives, were also greatly moved, and asked together: "If we are merged into the Yue Wang Army, will he really crown General Wu Guogui as the Governor of Fengtai?" ”

"General Wu can go to Yanjing first to take up the post of Admiral of Fengtai, and then the generals will lead the team to merge into our army." Chen Renjie replied sincerely: "This is also what Prince Lu said. ”

The Wu clan relatives and the Huguang generals looked at each other, exchanged glances, and were very moved together, saying that in order to prove that he did not intend to rob the old Wu family, Lu Fatzi was able to hand over the first important post of Gyeonggi defense to the Wu clan, which is enough to prove that Lu Fatzi really has no intention of usurping the throne -- after all, since ancient times, no powerful minister who tried to usurp the throne dared to hand over the defense of Gyeonggi to outsiders.

"Old General Wu, this is the last limit for our prince." Chen Renjie said to Wu Guogui again: "Old General Wu, in fact, the situation of your army, our prince is very clear, from last year to now, a year and a half, the Great Zhou soldiers of Huguang have only received a total of nine months of military salary, and at the same time, because the camp of Ji Ji Mountain was destroyed by the thieves of the Xia State, the firearms of the Huguang Zhou army have basically run out, and it is not very difficult for our prince to take Huguang by force. Our prince just doesn't want to fight a civil war, and he doesn't want the Great Zhou soldiers to kill each other, so he took the initiative to make such a condition, if the old general still doesn't agree, or still wants to make an inch, our prince has done his duty, and he has to say sorry to you. ”

Wu Guogui and the Huguang generals were silent, Wu Xiaosu looked at Wu Guogui with tears in his eyes, his tearful eyes were full of pleading, Wu Guogui not only felt sorry for his beloved daughter, but also considered that the current situation of Huguang Wu Jun really could not be too tough, after thinking about it again, Wu Guogui finally gritted his teeth and asked the generals: "Brothers, all the Great Zhou soldiers, do you believe me?" Do you suspect that I fell to that rabbit cub's son-in-law and helped him usurp the throne? ”

"Of course I do." Hu Guangzhong replied neatly, and Wu Yingjing, the nephew of Wu Lao Han Jian, also said: "Brother Guogui, you have an idea, if you are the kind of person who covets glory and wealth, with your identity and status, as long as you move your mouth by the way, you will have as much glory and wealth as you want!" But you've never done that, we don't believe who you believe? ”

"That's good!" Wu Guogui nodded vigorously, gritted his teeth and said: "Since you brothers believe me, then I will go to Yanjing and personally supervise Lu Yifeng's little rabbit cub to swear in front of the spirit of the first emperor, and also make him the commander of Fengtai!" If he fulfills his promise, you will lead the Huguang army to merge into the Yue Palace! If he is treacherous and repents of his word, you don't care about my life or death, and take your brothers to fight with Lu Yifeng's little rabbit cub! ”

"Obey the general's orders!" Hu Guangzhong will hug their fists together and agree, and Wu Xiaosu is crying with joy.

…………………… Wu Guogui was finally moved by the nonsense of Chen Renjie, the gold medal diplomatic liar of the Fat Man Army, and decided to rush to the capital with his family to meet Lu Fatzi, supervise Lu Fatzi to swear never to usurp the throne before Wu Laohan's annihilation, and at the same time serve as the Fat Man's Army Fengtai Commander, presiding over the Gyeonggi Defense to supervise Lu Fatzi's fulfillment of his oath for Wu Laohan's annihilation. But what Wu Guogui never dreamed of was that when he was still packing up and arranging the defense of Huguang after he left, Chen Liar had secretly contacted the Fat Man Army in Changde City according to Lu Fatzi's request, and asked the Fat Man Army to spread the news of the fraud to the capital, and after Lu Fatzi received the news, the first order turned out to be...... "Immediately!" Lu Fatzi patted the Pinghuang Tuanlong case and shouted: "Immediately send an order to Li Xiongfei in Jiujiang with an expedited 800 li, and let Li Xiongfei spread the news that Wu Guogui entered Beijing to negotiate the merger into our army, and we must let Xia Guoxiang know the cause and effect of this matter as soon as possible!" ”

"Lord Wang, are you crazy?" Yao Qisheng exclaimed: "It was not easy for us to let General Wu Guogui go north to negotiate, how can you let Xia Guoxiang know the news?" What if Prime Minister Xia makes trouble from it? ”

"What I want is for Prime Minister Xia to make trouble from it! Huguang Wu Jun was stuck in his throat, and he didn't dare not make trouble! Lu Fatzi waved his hand and said with a cruel smile: "Huguang Wu Jun also has seventy or eighty thousand people, and there are a large number of Wu clan relatives, all of them have been absorbed, isn't it a huge hidden danger?" I want Xia Guoxiang and Guo Zhuangtu to quickly split them and push those stubborn Wu clan relatives to our opposite! I only need Tao Jizhi, Liu Zhifu and Yang Laijia, who are not Wu clan generals, Wu Yingjing and Wu Yingchang, the irons of the old Wu family, what am I going to do? Trouble yourself?! ”

Yao Qisheng, Zhu Fangdan and the others were dumbfounded, and only after a while did they wipe a cold sweat together, and said respectfully: "Lord Shengming." ”

"Let's talk about it." Lu Fatzi instructed again: "Let's discuss, what should we do to make the Wu clan in Huguang suspect that Wu Guogui has betrayed the old Wu family, and is ready to put my son-in-law on the throne and help Xia Guoxiang and Guo Zhuangtu behind their backs?" ”

(To be continued)