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"Hmm!" Shi Kefa nodded reservedly, and his gaze casually glanced over the dancing girl in the hall: "Brother Xu, let me ask you a question, do you think Lord Xiong is right or wrong in recruiting an thief?" ”

Xu Hecheng is not a fool, Shi Kefa calls Li Zicheng a thief, how can he not hear what the other party means. He sneered secretly www.biquge.info pretending to be cautious: "Lord Xiong is an important minister of the country, and his appeasement of thieves is also for the country, so he dares to comment on it!" ”

"Huh!" Shi Kefa smiled: "Brother Xu, you are a sincere person, how can I accuse Lord Xiong of recruiting peace?" At the beginning, he was right to appease the thieves, the country was in a difficult situation at home and abroad, so it was natural to have to settle the outside first, but at this time and at that time. Now that the East has been pacified, and the country's military strength is at its peak, how can such wicked people like thieves be rich and glorious, and they will live forever, what is the reason of heaven? Where is the heart of the world? ”

Shi Kefa's voice became louder and louder, and the officials on both sides who were watching the singing and dancing also heard it, and nodded their heads one after another, feeling like they were related. An official said in a loud voice: "What Da Sima said is very true, the thieves captured the central capital and dug the tomb of the emperor's ancestors, it is really an unprecedented giant thief, if he is not executed inch by inch, how can he deter the world's vain people?" ”

Xu Hecheng's eyes looked at the official, only to see his white face and long beard, and his appearance looked quite powerful, but he didn't know him, Shi Kefa saw this and introduced him in a low voice: "This is the new Governor of Lufeng, Ma Yaocao Ma Shiying!" ”

"Hmm!" Xu Hecheng nodded. Seeing Xu Hecheng's gaze, the official smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass and walked in front of Xu Hecheng, and said with a smile: "Lord Xu, there are nine elite soldiers in the world, and beyond the nine sides, there will be thousands of Yiding under your command, and you must kill the thieves!" Speaking of this, he drank all the wine in the cup, and pointed the empty cup at Xu Hecheng, his eyes full of earnestness.

"Lord Xu, Master Ma, you have to drink this glass of wine!" Shi Kefa said with a smile on the side, he was the most official among the people present tonight, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the officials around him also stood up to persuade him. Xu Hecheng looked at the eunuchs who came over in front of him, with an embarrassed smile on his face, he wanted to hold a Hongmen banquet to wipe out all these people today, but these officials were counting on themselves to clean up Li Zicheng, are these people too stupid or the world is too ridiculous?

Just when Xu Hecheng was embarrassed, there was a sudden quarrel downstairs, as if someone was shouting loudly, everyone just wanted to look down from the window, suddenly there was a terrible scream, and then there was a heavy footsteps on the stairs, only to see Du Gu rushed up with more than a dozen ironclad guards, holding a bloody head in his hand, he walked in front of Xu Hecheng, threw the head to the ground, bowed down and said: "My lord, everything is ready!" ”

"This, whose head is this!" Shi Kefa was the first to recover from his stunned state, and pointed to the head on the ground and scolded Du Gu sharply. Du Gu ignored it, walked behind Xu Hecheng, stood with his sword, and more than a dozen ironclad guards who came up with him drew their swords out of their sheaths and stood on the periphery. The candlelight shone on the snow-bright sword, and the cold light overflowed, and everyone in the field saw it, and couldn't help but be silent, and several timid legs and stomachs were already trembling, and they couldn't even stand firmly.

"Lord Xu, these people are your subordinates? What the hell is going on? Shi Kefa finally reacted, like Xu Hecheng shouted. Xu Hecheng looked at the head on the ground a little embarrassed and asked, "General Du, what's going on with this head on the ground?" ”

"Tell your lordship, this person has the courage to block the way of our waiting, and the last general will behead him to deter the group!" Du Gu said in a deep voice.

"Well, take this head away, all of you are reasonable people, there is no need to come up with such a thing!" Xu Hecheng said in a deep voice, Du Gu responded, and threw the head up to the window. Xu Hecheng smiled at everyone: "Actually, tonight, I invite you to come here in addition to admiring the moon, there is another thing!" ”

At this time, Shi Kefa's face became more and more ugly, and he was not afraid of the sword-wielding ironclad guards behind him, and said sharply: "Another thing? Xu Hecheng, if you have something to say, just say it, don't go around the corner! ”

"Everyone!" Xu Hecheng's face was pale, Fang Cai's smile was swept away, he took out a silk book from his arms, and recited it in a four-hundred-six, maybe the words were too ancient, Xu Hecheng's cultural level was also average, he read intermittently, and everyone listened to it scatteredly, and in the end Xu Hecheng really couldn't read it anymore, so he simply put the silk book in a volume and said loudly: "All in all, there are traitors around the Son of Heaven, and Fang Cai wronged the loyal minister Yang Shoufu and sent him to prison." The Duke of Yue decided to raise troops to enter Beijing, and the Qing monarch was on the side, and it was difficult for Yasukuni. You are all important ministers of the country, please join the proposal! ”

There was a sudden silence in the room, and everyone looked at each other, almost unable to believe their ears. Although the officials who stayed in the capital could not get so close to the political core as their colleagues in Beijing, they were also out of the three-round scientific examination for ten years, so they naturally understood what Xu Hecheng meant by the Qingjun side and the Yasukuni disaster, but the content was too unbelievable. After a few minutes, a voice suddenly appeared in the crowd: "Lord Xu, aren't you crazy?" How can such words come from the mouths of our ministers? ”

At this time, Xu Hecheng had completely stabilized his emotions, he heard the voice, he didn't speak, just sneered, Du Gu behind him stepped forward and shouted: "Just today, the army of Yue Guogong has crossed Songting Pass and is approaching Jingshi. If you don't second, you're a thief! Speaking of this, he pulled out his waist knife and slashed it, and there were still a few drops of residual blood on the knife that had not yet coagulated, and everyone couldn't help but shudder in their eyes and couldn't speak.

"Everyone!" Xu Hecheng's voice became softer: "I won't hide it from you, just now, the army under my command has entered Nanjing City, Zhenjiang has also been taken, and Caoyun has been cut off. Another army also landed from Tianjin Wei and took Tongzhou by itself, you are all people who understand, you should understand what this means? Speaking of this, he put the silk book on a few cases, and clicked on the blank space at the back: "Sign your name here, and you will all be meritorious heroes!" ”

"Xu Hecheng, you dare to rebel!" Shi Kefa shouted.

"Shi Shangshu, it's Jing Nan!" Xu Hecheng corrected in a deep voice.

"Yang Wenwan is a traitor, Liu Cheng is a traitor's lackey, you follow the traitor's lackey, there will be no good end!" Shi Kefa pointed at Xu Hecheng and scolded, and rushed forward to hit the other party. But how could Xu Hecheng let him catch it, he pushed Shi Kefa away with a horizontal right arm, and said in a deep voice: "General Du, you take Master Shi down and take care of it!" ”

"Yes!" Du Gu responded, and with a wave of his arm, two guards with big shoulders and round waists stepped forward to grab Shi Kefa and dragged him down, Shi Kefa scolded non-stop, and as the voice faded away, it was obvious that he was taken away. Xu Hecheng sneered, took out a brush from the guard's hand, dipped it on the inkstone, and asked, "Is there any adult who is willing to be the first to sign and second?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, they didn't have the courage to scold Xu Hecheng in person like Shi Kefa, nor did they dare to sign in front of everyone. Xu Hecheng frowned, and just as he was about to say something more, a person suddenly walked out, but it was Ma Shiying, who had just spoken, he took the brush from Xu Hecheng's hand, and asked with a smile: "Lord Xu, can you leave if you sign it?" ”

"Not bad! But you can't leave the city yet! ”

"As long as I can go back!" Ma Shiying smiled and wrote his name on the brocade book, and said with a smile: "It's not a way to stay here all the time!" ”

"Master Ma is really a person who understands current affairs!" Xu Hecheng said with a smile: "Come on, send Master Ma to a resting place!" Then he shook the brush in his hand at the rest of the people and smiled, "Is there anyone else who wants to sign it?" ”

On the Qinhuai River, in the boat.

"If so, how can you be sure that this is Xu Hecheng's Hongmen Banquet?" Mao Xiang asked suspiciously, Liu Ru, who was sitting at the stern of the boat and nervously looking at the Wuding Bridge in the distance.

"Brother Bijiang, now I don't have time to explain to you, please believe me!" Liu Ru turned around, her face full of anxiety: "Now we have to get out of the city as soon as possible, I hope it's still too late!" ”

Dong Xiaowan said: "Out of the city? Sister Liu, but the city gate has long been closed at this time, right? ”

"I'm going to give it a try, and it's time to grab it now!" Liu Ru nervously turned around and shouted to the boatman: "Captain, hurry up, I'll give you more money later!" ”

"Great!" When the captain heard that he was overjoyed, he immediately quickened the force of shaking the ship, and everyone immediately felt that the speed of the ship had increased. Mao Xiang sat on the boat a little bored, and asked Liu Rushi in a half-joking tone: "If it is true, if it is really as you said, Xu Hecheng is rebelling, what are you going to do after you leave the city?" Go to Jingshi to sue him? ”

"No, I'll go to Fujian after I leave the city!"

"Fujian, what are you doing over there?"

Liu Ru turned around, his face was already full of frost: "Xu Hecheng is Liu Cheng's person, since he has done it here, the Jingshi side must have been surrounded by Liu Cheng's army, and it is useless for me to go there." The only one who has a fighting soldier in the south of the Ming Dynasty is Zheng Zhilong Zheng, and his boat master is very powerful, he can come by sea, I have an old acquaintance with him, and he will definitely agree to me. ”

"Zheng Zhilong? The pirate leader? Mao Xiang suddenly laughed: "If you think too much, I still have a lot of men and horses between Jianghuai and Jianghuai, and there are also a lot of soldiers and horses in Huguang upstream, can't you still deal with Xu Hecheng's soldiers and horses?" Even if Liu Cheng really started an army as you said, with the Xuan army and the Guan Ning army, can he still fight under the Jingshi City? ”

"Brother Bijiang!" Chen Zilong, who had been silent, finally spoke: "You haven't seen Xu Hecheng's soldiers, and the other soldiers are completely different things, Zheng Zhilong can still rely on the boat master to deal with him, like Huguang and Jianghuai's soldiers are probably not his opponents!" ”

While he was talking, the boat was already not far from the Dinghuai Gate, Liu Ru suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, looked to the shore, and saw a team of white-tasseled ironclad knights galloping from the Dinghuai Gate not far away. Her knees couldn't help but weaken, so she knelt down, and Dong Xiaowan on the side hurriedly reached out to support her, and asked urgently, "Sister Liu, what's wrong with you?" You okay? ”

"It's over!" Liu Ru turned around, her fair face was already full of tears, she reached out to hug Dong Xiaowan, and cried in the other party's arms: "Daming is about to end!" ”

Tongzhou Wharf.

The water of the canal lapped against the stone steps, making a rattling sound, and several porters had just finished work, sitting lazily on the stone steps, watching the sunset, sweating, and gossiping casually.

"Brother Wang, what will my sister-in-law cook for you when you go back tonight?" A sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy asked while grinning like a young man sitting on the stone steps two steps below him, while clutching the fleas on his body.

"What to eat? What else can you eat during this solar term? Braised eggplant, spread cakes, porridge, oh, there should be some small fish! The young man was quite burly, with thick shoulders and thick arms, and was wiping the sweat from his face.

"That's a good idea!" As soon as the young man heard this, his eyes lit up: "Braised eggplant, small fish, stall cake and some sauce, Qila, Seventh brother, you are living a better life than the rich man's house in the countryside!" ”

"That's it!" The young man laughed proudly: "As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, let's call relying on the river to eat the river." Look at this canal, the emperors and officials in Beijing eat from this river, whatever you want, we can mix a round belly. The emperor doesn't care about other things, he can't care if the things in this canal can't be transported, but no matter how many things he has, he can't run to the palace with long legs, so we have to unload them from the boat and carry them up, and then they can be transported to the palace. We're all going to starve to death, who's going to carry something for him? Speaking of this, the young man patted the young man's arm: "Boy, in a few years, when your body and bones have grown, you can also eat stewed eggplants, small fish, and stall cakes every day!" ”

"Huh!" The boy nodded excitedly, imagining a bright future when he ate stewed eggplants, small fish, and spread cakes, and the whole person seemed to have a little more strength, he looked at the muscular body of his companion with envious eyes, and just wanted to say something. Suddenly, he heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and when he looked at the place where the sound came from, he saw more than a dozen cavalry running over here, and he hurriedly grabbed his companion: "Seventh brother, a few people who eat food have come over!" ”

"Food?" Wang Qi looked in the direction of the young man's finger, those knights came quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that those knights were dressed as Han people, and the back was all braided, with murderous appearance, he couldn't help but be secretly frightened, hurriedly stood up, and said in a low voice: "The situation is not right, let's go quickly!" ”