Gao Zhongming scolded dissatisfiedly: "You know a fart, can those cats, dogs, and four cats in the city be compared to the nobles on our sedan chair?" You don't play tricks on me, and you carry you well. The palanquin man hurriedly nodded in agreement, and stopped talking to him.

Finally came to the front of the peach blossom nunnery at the mountainside, everyone got off the sedan chair to take a closer look at this famous temple ancient temple, it was really a good place to go, only to see a field with more than 20 square meters paved with bluestone slabs in front of the mountain gate, both sides were filled with all kinds of flowers and trees, behind the gate of the nunnery was a heavy courtyard, the whole peach blossom nunnery was surrounded by mountain peach blossoms, it seemed very quiet and quiet. Ying'e hurriedly stepped forward and saluted the mountain gate sincerely.

This is the Qiannun Shitai with a group of disciples slowly out of the inside to greet him, pull this Qiannun Shitai looks more than fifty years old, with a monk's hat on his bare head, wearing a brown robe, looking amiable and amiable, smiled and saluted Lou Mingchun and Er Zhu Caihuang, and said: "Your nobles come to Xiao'an today to make the poor Ni Peng shine, forgive me for being distracted, please here." "It seems that this nun also reads people talking, and learned that the family members of Prime Minister Qi Wang Gaohuan are going to come to his nunnery to burn incense and pray for blessings, the old nun was excited and didn't sleep well all night, and when she got up in the morning, she repeatedly told her disciples to pay attention to their words and deeds today, and be sure to take care of the distinguished guests.

Lou Mingchun, Cai Huang and other female relatives returned the salute one after another, and Lou Mingchun said: "What did the master say, we disturbed the masters Qingxiu." Immediately followed Ganni and others into the nunnery, at this time there were no idle people in the peach blossom nunnery, and the other noble ladies were all moved elsewhere, and the common people were stopped at the door and not allowed to come in for the time being.

Come to the main hall in front of the Guanyin Master seat, Lou Mingchun and Cai Huang, Ying'e and others worship sincerely, the momentum of this hall is magnificent, Guanyin statue plastic golden body. The tents on both sides are curled up, the two Dharma scriptures are placed on the side, the nuns chant endlessly, and the incense in front of the hall is vigorous. Even Gao Zhongming couldn't help but lean over to worship when he saw it. Ying'e whispered words in her mouth, and when she arrived here, she felt like she was looking for the warmth of home, which was a good place for Qing Xiu.

The visit is complete. Lou Mingchun got up and walked to Mrs. Qiannu's side, took out a cover of 1,000 taels of silver tickets and said, "Mrs. Master, we didn't write a good tribute to the Bodhisattva in a hurry today, this bit of silver should only be the sesame oil money that is usually offered." Ganni took the silver ticket with a smile, handed it to the deacon behind him, and said to Lou Mingchun: "The nobles will naturally be blessed by the Buddha if they are dedicated to the Buddha. This Qianni also knows the identity and status of Lou Mingchun and others, so he is personally accompanying him everywhere.

Ganni led them out of the main hall. Along the way, I consulted other Buddha halls and scripture pavilions, and finally came to the meditation room where I practiced, and said: "There are special monks here to serve here, if necessary, just summon, the poor nuns will not disturb the nobles to practice, and will retire first." Lou Mingchun and the others hurriedly returned the salute, and Gani went to the front courtyard hall surrounded by a group of disciples.

Not to mention that this nunnery monk temple is really a good place for meditation, and the meditation room is a large shop on one side and a living room on the other. Sandalwood was lit inside, and the chanting of monks and nuns in the temple was accompanied. It looks very solemn and sacred, but also elegant, Ying'e couldn't bear it for a long time, took off her shoes and sat on the Chase bunk, crossed her legs and began to close her eyes and chant the scriptures.

Gao Zhongming led people to guard the door and courtyard, and even sent a few people behind the meditation room to be secret sentinels. He was really scared by the people of the Loose Pavilion.

In Wuyang, Southern Yanzhou, Hou Jing enjoyed singing, dancing and wine in his palace, and his subordinate officers and staff raised their glasses to celebrate. This scene of drunken life and death reminds people of the old saying: A merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flowers in the backyard across the river. Although not far from the Huai River is the Huainan region of Nanliang, which is on the frontier of war, it does not affect Hou Jing's pursuit of a better life at all.

Hou Jing was born as a horseman in his early years, and his ancestral home was in Huaishuo, one of the six towns. He Batsheng, Sun Teng and others have a bit of a relationship, but because this person has no culture, and he was born with a disability (he was born with polio, he was born with long and short feet), so no one looked up to him when he was young, but this person has a smart brain and is witty, and he can learn anything as soon as he learns it. You said that her legs and feet were not good, but he was good at riding and archery, and because of this, he repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and defected to Er Zhurong as an errand and gradually made his fortune.

Later, Er Zhurong died tragically and Gao Huan took over his world, Hou Jing expressed his submission on the surface, but he has been fighting with Gao Huan in his heart, Gao Huan is also hindered by the external environment of Yuwentai and Nanliang, so he did not move him, but just "arranged" him to the Huainan area, saying that it was a border but actually exile.

Hou Jing naturally knew what Gao Huan meant, so he simply broke the jar and broke it, set up camp in Huainan to develop his own power, and even colluded with Xiao Yan of Nanliang in private, otherwise why did Hou Jing stay still in the previous Shandong incident, Gao Huan actually had a clear heart, and he didn't want to debunk it so as not to embarrass everyone.

However, Hou Jing has only been in Huainan for more than two years to make the local people miserable, Nanliang harassment from time to time, coupled with the Huai River water in the spring and autumn surge caused the grain harvest of the people of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Huai River Basin, Hou Jing not only did not sympathize with the people's feelings and even ordered to increase the rent, put the hat on Gao Huan's head, saying that it was a red-headed document issued by the central government to require this, and the people of the Huai River Basin hated Gao Huan at that time.

After Gao Huan learned the news, he decided to send Murong Heng and He Batsheng to the local disaster relief, a large amount of grain was transmitted from Luoyang to the Lianghuai River Valley, Murong Heng and He Batsheng watched a large number of people along the way, and fled with their families, very heartbroken. wrote everything he saw and heard into an excerpt and sent it to Gao Huan, Gao Huan was also furious when he knew it, that is, he had already made up his mind to find an opportunity to deal with Hou Jing Group.

said that he wanted to deal with him, but this bandit-like warlord was really not so easy to solve, and if he moved, he would have to move his whole body, and the entire Huainan region would fall into chaos, and Nanliang would also be very likely to come in and fish in troubled waters, which is what Gao Huan's group did not want to see.

The food for disaster relief came, but Hou Jing did not distribute many ways to the victims, but from top to bottom layers of corruption and exploitation, this song and dance drinking party is a celebration banquet to celebrate everyone's corruption together, of course, Yu Shi He Basheng and Murong Heng must not be present, otherwise how can Hou Jing mix. But as the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and there are also a few loving and sympathetic patriotic generals under Hou Jing who are unwilling to follow him, so they took the initiative to find He Batsheng and Murong Heng to reveal all the inside things he knew to them. Wait until you return to Yecheng and discuss with Gao Huan.

Hou Jing has a dog-headed military advisor named Song Zixian under him, this person is really pus on the soles of his feet and has sores on his head, which is very bad. All the bad ideas were come up with by this grandson, and he even held a draft in the Huainan area in order to please Hou Jing in the name of the emperor's recruitment of palace maids, and at first he was able to catch some people's daughters, and later as long as there were daughters in the family, the common people married their daughters in private. There are even single men in the area. Don't marry your daughter with a bride price, and some of them even accept two wives overnight, which has become a joke in the whole of Yuzhou for a while.

Gao Huan ordered Hou Jing to severely punish Song Zixian after knowing this, where was Hou Jing willing to be obedient and obedient? pretended to fine Song Zixian a hundred taels of silver and found someone to be punished for him, but Gao Huan still knew about it, and immediately sent five official documents to Hou Jing to hand over Song Zixian, but he insisted on pressing down all the official letters and ignored Gao Huan completely, and Gao Huan even issued a death notice to Song Zixian.

So basically everyone in the Gao Huan Group knows that it is already a semi-open break with the Hou Jing Group, but the two sides have not yet torn the last layer of window paper. Pierce the last layer of film. As the saying goes, the time is not good, and the opportunity is not lucky. Neither side is yet ready to tear their faces.

Take this disaster relief as an example, it was Gao Huan who contributed money and efforts, and Hou Jing not only did not help, but also took the opportunity to embezzle. This was simply unbearable, the secret letters that sued him and his subordinates were filled with two baskets, and He Batsheng asked Murong Heng mysteriously: "Is it useful for us to write so much?" Anyway, sooner or later, Hou Jing's gang will be attacked. Murong Heng said confidently: "Let's do what we should do now, as for the future, what if the king also needs some evidence to prove Hou Jing's collaboration with the enemy and betrayed the country?" At least these things we do will be useful in the future. He Batsheng nodded, and continued to transcribe his subordinates' recitals.

Hou Jing also guessed the purpose of Murong Heng and the others' trip. He had already begun to secretly contact Xiao Yan, planning to lead his troops to surrender to Cheng. Why don't you go to Yuwentai. The reason is very simple, Yuwentai fought with him as early as the Ge Rong era, knew his style of acting, knew his wolf ambitions, and later switched to Er Zhurong and was wary of him for a long time. When he entered the customs, he still wanted to follow, but was stopped by Er Zhurong.

Therefore, Yuwentai's Guanzhong must not go. However, Xiao Yan of Southern Liang can consider that the national strength of Southern Liang is relatively weak, and he needs a fierce general like Hou Jing to lead his troops to surrender, which is like a tiger for Xiao Yan. Therefore, Xiao Yan attached great importance to Hou Jing's initiative and dedication, and even accepted him to Nanliang despite the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers.

Song Zixian's idea for Hou Jing was to bargain back and forth between Gao Huan and Xiao Yan. If Gao Huan can make him the king of Huainan, he will not take refuge in Nanliang and continue to follow Gao Huan, if Gao Huan really wants to destroy the Hou Jing Group, then he will decisively turn the entire Huainan into an enemy-occupied area, and take the opportunity to negotiate the price with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan has long coveted the rich Huainan region, otherwise there would be no Chen Xianda's Shandong incident. However, due to the limited national strength, it was impossible to compete with the powerful Gao Huan of the Central Plains for a long time, and from the fifth year of Xiao Yan's succession to the throne to the present, many Northern Expeditions of the Southern Liang ended in failure. This became a piece of his heart.

Gao Huan didn't want to play tricks with Hou Jing, so he ordered Murong Heng and He Batsheng to return to Yecheng immediately to report on their work, and then urged Gao Aocao and Murong Shaozong to oversee Luoyang, Gao Yue and Li Erhu to garrison Huaiyang, Xuzhou, and see that this momentum was decisive to have a showdown with Hou Jing. Hou Jing saw that the situation was not good, and decisively started a war against Gao Huan first, the so-called first strike is strong, and all the local officials of Huainan who are pro-Gao Huan's faction are beheaded and confiscated their homes.

On the third day after Hou Jing's move, Murong Shaozong and Gao Yue's army went south to Huainan, attacking Chen Liuxuyang from the east and west, and Hou Jing's tens of thousands of horses were like frightened birds, and they crossed the river and fled to Nanliang in a controlled and step-by-step manner.

Xiao Yan sent Zhu Yi, a scholar from Jiankang, to Zhong to meet Hou Jing, Hou Jing commanded 30,000 horses to cross the river first, leaving Song Zixian and other generals to block the pursuers on the north bank. Hou Jing and Zhu Yi met in Zhongli, the two of them exchanged heartfelt feelings like long-lost brothers, the scene was very touching for a while, and then Zhu Yi took out Xiao Yan's holy decree and told him in detail about the emperor's intentions, asking him to temporarily garrison troops in Zhongli to prevent Gao Huan's retaliatory attack. Hou Jingle is the king in the Zhongli area, and the grain and grass are supplied by Xiao Yan, so there is no need to worry at all, as for rookies like Murong Shaozong and Gao Yue, Hou Jingju has not taken the two of them into account at all in his more than ten years of campaigning.

Song Zixian and Hou Jing had the same idea, with Hou Jing's resourcefulness, he could completely defeat Murong Shaozong and Gao Yue, even if Gao Huan came in person, he was not afraid, because there was Xiao Yan's support behind him.

This Zhu Yi is honest about this is Nanliang's curse, not that he encouraged Xiao Yan to accept Hou Jing, how could Xiao Yan be starved to death in the palace in the future, but at this time, whether it is Zhu Yi or Xiao Yan, especially Zhu Yi, a Chinese scholar can pull a powerful person like Hou Jing for Nanliang, he can simply leave his name in history, but he is indeed a celebrity, but his reputation is not very good. (To be continued.) )