"Xinghua, it's okay for you to be fine, but it's too worrying for us." Shi Kefa stepped forward and said, and Ren Minyu on the side also nodded frequently.

Luo Jian turned around and helped the old lady off the boat, Liu Lan helped Mrs. Shi to get off the boat, Shi Kefa saw it, and stepped forward to help the old lady in a few steps.

"Mother, madam, why are you here?" Shi Kefa asked.

"Your mansion is no longer safe, and when I went to pick up the old lady yesterday, there were already people staring at the mansion. Take the old lady and lady to Yangzhou, and your family can be reunited. Luo Jian said.

When Shi Kefa heard this, his brows were locked, and he didn't know what to think.

"Xinghua, is Ma Yaocao involved in this matter?" It took a long time for Shi Kefa to ask.

"That's not true, it's Li Zhan, Liu Kongzhao and Zhu Guobi who did it." Luo Jian told Shi Kefa what had happened again.

"If Ma Yaocao is also involved in this matter, it will make me look down on him." When Shi Kefa heard this, his heart felt a little better.

"Even if Ma Shiying didn't do this, I don't think he has much potential, he only thinks about peace talks and doesn't want to prepare for war, but Brother Luo has left him with the problem now." Liu Lan said on the side.

At this time, Ma Shiying did become a mouse in the bellows, and he was angry at both ends.

Luo Jian threw off the two conditions and left, Feng Quan and Ji Bilong refused to negotiate peacefully, and the matter froze.

Ma Shiying was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and personally went to the post house to say countless good things to Feng Quan and Kupilon, so that the two agreed to send someone back to Beijing to ask Dolgon for instructions.

Not long after Ma Shiying left, Liu Kongzhao and Zhu Guobi also went to the post house, found Feng Quan, and clearly expressed their intention to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The words of being released back and brought back by the captives scared the two of them into a sleepless night, and the two discussed for a long time early in the morning, feeling that only by taking refuge in the Manchurians could they save their lives, so they rushed to Feng Quan and Ji Bilong to surrender.

Shi Kefa took his family back to Yangzhou to settle down, and Liu Zhaoji also returned to the station with a regiment and a special brigade.

Luo Jian and Liu Lan took the two palace maids to Guazhou, and Xiao Liu's affairs have not yet been explained.

When he arrived at Liu Weimin's courtyard, Xiao Liu walked out in a white coat after the guards reported.

Luo Jian pulled Xiao Liu aside and said: "Liu Lan is too busy thinking about your affairs and has no time to think about personal problems, this time I brought back two palace maids from Nanjing who were sent by the previous emperor, I heard that they are also the daughters of large families, they have all studied, and I will arrange for you to be an assistant first, if you get along, you can talk about it, and if you don't get along, don't force others." ”

Xiao Liu asked in surprise: "Chief, why is there such a thing?" ”

"You are not too young, you can also have a family, it is much better to have someone to take care of you, let me make it clear first, if both of them take a fancy to you, you are married, I have no opinion, if people are unwilling, you can't do anything lacking in virtue." Luo Jian said with some seriousness.

"Chief, this... This is causing me trouble, how can I have time to take care of this now? Xiao Liu's face turned red and he was a little embarrassed.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, let Liu Lan introduce you in the past." Luo Jian scolded with a smile.

Luo Jian dragged Xiao Liu to Liu Lan and the others, the two palace maids looked at Liu Weimin curiously, Liu Lan had already said what she meant to passers-by, and the two palace maids understood.

"Stinky boy, come here, let me introduce you, this is Li Yue, from Jiangyin, this is Liu Cui'e, from Hangzhou, the two girls will be your assistants first, you can't bully them." Liu Lan said with a smile.

Li Yue is the bold girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, at this time secretly looked at Liu Weimin with big eyes, wondering why he was wearing a "filial piety clothes", but there was no sadness on his face.

Liu Cui'e is about the same age, but at the moment she is blushing, her head is lowered, and she doesn't dare to look at people at all.

Liu Weimin was generous, went back to the house and took out a few books, and said to the two girls: "You have both read books, right?" After reading these books first, come to me as an assistant, girls are careful, and they are more secure than men in experiments. ”

"You both don't have your feet tied, do you?" Liu Weimin asked again.

At this time, Li Yue also lowered her head with a red face, which was an extremely sensitive and shy topic for girls at this time.

"No, Brother Luo, in the future, this bad habit of binding feet in Yangzhou will have to be eliminated, it is too harmful." Liu Lan said beside her.

"You have to take the lead, women's liberation has a long way to go!" Luo Jian said.

"I said you two don't be so shy, we are all equal here, if Xiao Liu dares to bully you, you tell me, I'll clean him up!" Liu Lan saw that the two girls were shy to answer, and she was really a little helpless.

Luo Jian saw that there was something wrong with the expressions of the two girls, and said very seriously: "Don't make a mistake, the two girls are here to study, work, and do things, not to give you to Xiao Liu, you have to be clear about this!" ”

"You are all free, if you don't want to work here, you can go home now, there is no problem with us, we have caravans here to Hangzhou and Jiangyin, I can let them take you home." Liu Weimin also said beside him.

Seeing that the two girls didn't speak, Luo Jian had no choice but to say: "Then you stay here and learn first, Xiao Liu will arrange them, and we will go back to Yangzhou." ”

Luo Jian and Liu Lan left with a group of guards, Liu Weimin found someone to arrange a room for the two girls, and at this time Li Yue quietly pulled Liu Cui'e and said, "Is what they said true?" Can we go home? ”

"I don't want to go back to that home, my father sent me to the palace in order to please the official, I think the people here are very good, and no one bullies us, why don't you stay here first?"

"I miss my mother, but I think it's good here, and I will have the opportunity to go home again in the future, and I heard that Miss said that these books are useful, and we have to study hard." Li Yue said with the book in her hand raised.

After a while, Liu Weimin came back and took the two of them to the arranged room, and said, "You have to take care of yourself, I don't have a maid or servant here, and I also take care of myself." ”

Li Yue saw that Liu Weimin was very approachable, and did not let herself feel afraid, so she boldly pointed to Liu Weimin's white coat and asked, "It seems that no one has passed away, why do you wear 'filial piety clothes'?" ”

"Haha, this is not filial piety, this is our work clothes, with white is dirty things to see most clearly on the white clothes, our working environment is very demanding, there can be no dirty things, just wear it when working, put it on the outside." Liu Weimin explained with a smile.

"Didn't we come to serve you? So what's that for? Li Yue obviously didn't understand Liu Lan's intentions, and always thought that she was sent to serve Liu Weimin.

"Work assistant, just help me do something, I'm too busy, and then you will slowly understand, you read these books first, I still have something to do, you clean up the house, I'll go first." Liu Weimin is not very good at dealing with girls, so he ran away after speaking.

The two girls cleaned up the room and lay down on the table to read the book.

As soon as Luo Jian and Liu Lan arrived outside the gate of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, they heard many people talking inside.

"It's Apricot's voice!" Liu Lan said as she ran towards the courtyard.

"Sister! Apricot is back. A group of people in the courtyard also saw Liulan, and Xing'er rushed out of the crowd and threw herself into Liulan's arms.

"Sister, Xing'er misses you!" Apricot said with a sob.

Liu Lan held Xing'er and looked carefully, her voice was a little choked.

"Well, I've grown up a lot, but I've lost some weight, and it's good to come back."

Luo Jian strode into the courtyard, and when Xing'er saw it, she stepped forward and bowed, and said, "Xing'er has seen the Grand Dudu." ”

Lu Wei walked out of the group of people, stepped forward and bowed to Luo Jian and clasped his fists to salute, and said very guiltily: "Metropolitan Governor, Lu Wei is incompetent, and he has failed to be entrusted by the Metropolitan Governor. ”

"Hehe, I can't blame you, I didn't expect the Manchu court to focus on Hunan." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"Governor, Mrs. Gao, they have also arrived." Lu Wei pointed to a group of people and said.

"Oh, show me around!"

Lu Wei walked in front of a group of people with Luo Jian.

Most of the dozens of people are dressed as female generals and soldiers, many of them are still wearing armor, and there is a woman in the middle, who is about thirty years old, with a headscarf on her head, and she is dressed very neatly, but her appearance is ordinary, presumably it is Mrs. Gao.

said to Mrs. Gao in the middle: "Mrs. Gao, this is the Duke of Wei Guo and the Governor of Huaiyang." ”

"Welcome Mrs. Gao to Yangzhou, I welcome you on behalf of Inspector Shi!" Luo Jian enthusiastically stepped forward and clasped his fists in salute.

"The surviving Gao Guiying has seen Wei Guogong." Mrs. Gao also clasped her fists and saluted.

"Dadu Dudu, this is the sister of the Red Lady." Xing'er ran to the side of the red lady and introduced Luo Jian.

Luo Jian looked at the red lady, the red lady was not wearing red clothes today, but she was fully armored, carrying a long sword at her waist, looking very heroic, and her eyebrows were somewhat similar to Mrs. Xing, it seems that the rumors that the two are sisters are true.

"Women heroes, red faces don't let you have eyebrows, Luo Jian has already heard of it, welcome to Yangzhou!" Luo Jian also hugged his fists and greeted him.

Luo Jian's enthusiasm dispelled many of Mrs. Gao's doubts, and the red lady returned the salute with her fists, but she still looked at Luo Jian with a cautious eye.

Luo Jian led everyone into the hall and sat down, and Lu Wei told Luo Jian about the experience along the way.

It turned out that after Mrs. Gao and others were scattered by the Qing soldiers in Pingjiang, they broke out of the encirclement of the Qing soldiers with the help of the grenades of more than a dozen people brought by Lu Wei.

After escaping, Mrs. Gao and others were extremely confused about where to go, Xing'er resolutely asked Mrs. Gao and others to go to Yangzhou, but Mrs. Gao was very suspicious, after all, the court did not explicitly appease the Dashun army, and if they didn't get it in Yangzhou, they would throw themselves into the net.

Later, after Lu Wei's repeated assurances, this group of people reluctantly agreed to come to Yangzhou, and it can be said that they went through a lot of hardships all the way before they detoured from Jiangxi to Yangzhou.

"It's a pity that the heroes of the Chuang Wang generation died young, otherwise the Dashun army would not have become a plate of scattered sand, if it is integrated, it should be able to fight with the Qing soldiers." Luo Jian said, this is a kind word, since the defeat of the Dashun army at Shanhaiguan, most of the Qing soldiers were defeated at the touch of a button, and the Dashun army did not make major rectifications, and its combat effectiveness was still very low.

"Grandpa Guo, my Dashun is really not the destiny of heaven? Is this world really the Qing Dynasty? Mrs. Gao asked sadly.

"If we don't come, this world will be Manchu, and now that we are here, this world will be the people of the world." Luo Jian said confidently.

The red lady stared at Luo Jian with a pair of beautiful eyes, thinking carefully about the meaning of his words, and wondered if this master was here to protect the Ming Dynasty?

"Grandpa Guo, where did I lose Dashun?" Mrs. Gao asked again.

"There are many reasons for the defeat of the Dashun army, from the military strategy point of view, I think the main reason is that the leaders of the Dashun army did not recognize the strategic opponents, and the seriousness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs was insufficient.

Luo Jian used to discuss this issue with others on the Internet, and he also had his own experience, but now when he said this, everyone nodded frequently.

"Politically speaking, after King Chuang's move, he did not have his own program for a long time, that is to say, there was no stable policy, and it was not until General Li Yan joined that it changed, so King Chuang also got the support of most of the people at the bottom, which allowed King Chuang to invade Beijing. However, the Dashun Army's policy of 'exempting land from taxation' was not thoroughly implemented, and this policy existed in name only from the time General Li Yan was excluded and later killed. ”

Hearing Luo Jian mention Li Yan, the look on the red lady's face was both sad and proud.

"In terms of talents, most of the people who started with King Chuang were farmers, I don't mean to look down on farmers, and the peasants' thinking is very limited, and only a few scholars, like Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and the like, are not like strategists, but like gods, and Li Shanchang and Liu Ji when Ming Taizu were not at the same level at all. Without the support of intellectuals, the Dashun army has always acted at a low level, and if it were not for the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, the Dashun army would definitely not be able to defeat the city of Beijing. ”

After listening to Luo Jian's words, Mrs. Gao didn't understand it a little, the red lady may have spent more time with Li Yan, and her understanding is more profound, Lu Wei has been in the Dashun Army for a few months, which can be described as empathy.

"Although the defeat of the Dashun army is composed of accidental events, if Wu Sangui did not lead the Qing troops into the pass, if King Chuang was not killed, maybe the Dashun army may continue for a while, but the defeat is inevitable. There is no unified program, there are not enough talents, and there is no strict discipline, I think this is the fundamental reason for the failure of the Dashun army. ”