"Quick, quick, make the carriage faster!"

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, on an official road built along the Grand Canal from south to north, four horses are galloping through a black four-wheeled carriage.

Two passengers sat side by side in the carriage, and one of them, a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman, thought that the car was running too slowly, and kept shouting loudly. This person has two beards, a brocade robe, and his eyes are very different, and at a glance he knows that Lu Dao is not an ordinary person, he is Cao Fengxiang, the 19th generation head of the Cao family in Taigu.

"Brother Yiqian, do you need to be in such a hurry? The carriage was about to fly. Sitting next to Cao Fengxiang was Zhao Hongyou, a former Qing Ju from Shanxi who led the Jin gentry's petition, he had been turned all the way upside down, and his bones were about to fall apart.

"Can you not be in a hurry! The head is going to be gone! Cao Fengxiang gritted his teeth and said.

Their Taigu Cao family originated at the intersection of the former Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and the ancestor Cao Sanxi did business in Liaodong, and then entered the customs with the Qing soldiers to provide military supplies for the Qing soldiers, and made a fortune. However, Cao Sanxi's net worth and influence are not as good as the Eight Great Emperors, so he is not included in "The Legend of the Traitor", but on the side of the Ming Dynasty, he must be an extremely unpopular figure. Therefore, the Cao family's business name in the northeast (the northeast is the focus of the Taigu Cao family's business) was completely confiscated after the Ming army restored Liao. The Cao family's clansmen in the northeast were also classified as Han army banners, and after the war, they were punished as prisoners and forced labor, and after two and a half years, a quarter of them died of unbearable labor.

This time, Cao Fengxiang followed the Jin gentry petition group to the south of Yingtianfu, in addition to the serious petition, he was also active in the four places, wanting to find a new backer in the Ming court, so that the Cao family's career could develop unharmed in the new dynasty.

Under a lot of silver dollars to open the way. Cao Fengxiang really found some way. But it's not a big deal. are all secretaries, adjutants and other characters who can pass the words up, and even caught up with Maria. Clementina's henchwoman, Aledle. But just when things seemed to be about to turn around, those corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty suddenly changed their minds and returned all the gifts they received! Cao Fengxiang, who had been dealing with Manchu officials for half his life, realized that the situation was not good, and then Emperor Zhu officially rejected the petition of the Shanxi gentry. As the "mouthpiece of the emperor", the "Ta Kung Pao" also published the story of the "Eight Great Emperor Merchants" betraying the country to seek glory for several days, and also implied that such businessmen still exist!

Things have come to this point, how can Cao Fengxiang still not see the situation clearly? Emperor Zhu is going to use the Jin Shang to kill the gentry and powerful people in the whole world!

"Brother Yiqian, is it really that serious?" Zhao Hongyou still didn't believe it, "No, right...... The emperor really wants to move you and me. Can you and I leave Yingtianfu City? ”

"Of course it's not Yingtian moving us!" Cao Fengxiang smiled bitterly, "We came to Yingtian to petition on behalf of the Shanxi gentry, how can he move us?" ”

"Then you are ......"

"But the emperor won't let us Shanxi people go, he asked Miao Peilin to be this murderous knife!"

Zhao Hongyou was stunned for a moment, he and Qi Suzao originally wanted to use an excuse to petition Zhu Jishi to clean up the Miao Domain, and let Zhu Miao eat the dog. How did he become a Shanxi gentry to bite Miao Peilin now? This Miao Peilin is not a reasonable master, if it falls into his hands, it would be better to fall into the hands of Jinyiwei! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

"How so? How so...... Miao Peilin is a feudal town! He, an emperor, is not worried about rebellion in the feudal town......"

Cao Fengxiang sighed when he heard this: "Haven't figured it out yet? Now the emperor Lao Tzu wants to fight the gentry! The gentry of the world are dissatisfied with his new policy, and he has long wanted to make an example of the chickens! We in Shanxi just jumped out this time, if we don't treat us as chickens, who else can we take? ”

"That'...... How's that good? Zhao Hongyou almost collapsed in his seat. He's just a person who has passed the eight-strand article exam, how can he not be six gods and no master when he encounters such a thing?

"What else can I do? Hurry back and discuss with Lord Qi. Whether it's a rebellion, an escape, or sit back and wait for death, listen to Lord Qi's words! As he spoke, Cao Fengxiang sighed again, "I hope it's still too late!" ”

He knew that there was a telegraph in Ludao, although the telegraph line had not yet reached Taiyuan, but Baoding, the capital of Beizhili, had a telegraph office! When he left Yingtianfu, he also sent a telegram to the Cao family's business in Baoding, asking the Cao family to send the money and personnel to Suiyuan quickly, but I don't know if Lu Dao can catch up with Miao Peilin before he gets Emperor Zhu's telegram.

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry, can't let that Mongolian run away!"

"The emperor said, if you can't catch the living, you can also die! Can't let them run......"

Somewhere in the Mongolian steppe, a pursuit battle is being staged at the moment. On the pursuing side, everyone was wearing yellow cotton armor, holding a spear, and carrying a foreign gun. Yi Xin's pro-leader is the elite of the Yellow Flag Horse Team.

But it was a group of Mongol knights, only a dozen men, no armor, let alone spears, but one man and two horses. Among them, there was a brightly dressed woman, with a red Mongolian military horse under her crotch, and walking ahead of everyone was the future princess of Zhu Jishi, the county lord of the Tushetu Khan Department. It was probably the first time she had encountered such an accident, and Oyuntana had already lost her face, with a shocked and angry expression on her face, and she looked back at the pursuers from time to time.

"Master, don't worry, they can't catch up, when it comes to running horses, no one can compare to us Mongolians on the grassland!"

One of the Mongolian men who was guarding Oyuntana as she ran away shouted and comforted her.

"Humph! I'm not worried about the dogs catching up! They only know that Lu Dao is fighting horses, but they don't know that Lu Dao wants to save horsepower, and they wear such heavy cotton armor and hold spears, which is not too heavy! ”

Oyuntana responded unintentionally, of course she didn't worry about the pursuers, their Mongol fighting skills had been lost for hundreds of years, but the ability to escape and run horses was still the best in the world! Aren't the "three skills of men" of the Mongolians horse running, wrestling, and archery? However, in Mongolia, there are very few people who are proficient in these three skills at the same time, because wrestling and archery require physical strength, and they are generally big guys. But running a horse is different, the bigger the rider will put a heavier burden on the horse, and the horse will naturally not be able to run. So now the Mongols who are escorting Oyuntana on the way are all thin people, and Oyuntana herself is not heavy, and they are all lightly armed, not carrying armor and spears at all, only food, horse bows and Colt pistols given by Zeng Guofan. And Yi Xin's personal guards are all big guys, wearing armor, carrying spears, and looking like they want to fight in the field, they are really not afraid of exhausting the horses to death.

Moreover, horse racing is not just blindly accelerating, it is necessary to make reasonable use of the horse's physical strength, in most cases it is "walking the horse", which is compared to the long force. A Mongolian horse can often walk at a fast pace for a whole day, and if you blindly beat the horse to accelerate, you will be tired to death in a few hours. Now Yixin's guards were riding horses like this, and although they barely caught up, they were already at the end of their crossbows, and the horses were running slower than walking.

Oyuntana's real concern now is that she is trapped in Cullen's father, Cheringerzi. Yi Xin's army suddenly surrounded the palace of Tushetu Khan the night before, and at the same time several other khanates, the Yellow Temple of Jebtsundamba, and the prison mansion of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there were many guards in each province, and there were tens of thousands of people together, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle in Kulen. The fiercest battle was in the area of the Ming Dynasty, where the Han people were not familiar with the Mongolian steppe, and there was no hope of breaking through, so they could only defend it. However, they have a powerful bomb that causes a lot of trouble for Yi Xin's army. Oyuntana and they had a chance to break through - it was not difficult to break through from Kulen City, because the city wall of Kulen was a ring of wooden fences, and many places were still broken, so it was not necessary to block a few gates to trap people in the city. When the fierce battle reached the night, all the royal palaces began to break through one after another, and they really broke out of the darkness of the night, but Oyuntana and her father Cheringerji were separated in the process of breaking through, and not only did they see the shadow of Chellingerji at the pre-agreed meeting place, but also met Yixin's pursuers. (To be continued......)