[I see, around the competent candidate for the crown prince, there must be a Taiping army lurking?] ]

[Isn't that the cleanest thing around me?] - Well, if this guy of yours is also a meticulous work of the Taiping Army, I really don't know what to do......]

[Hey, when is it, and are you still in the mood to laugh?] If I were the Taiping Army's meticulous work, would it be so miserable as for the initial mixing? ]

[Hehe, isn't it just a joke in the bitterness......]

[Divide the occasion, Your Majesty!] ]

Under Geng Zhi's stunned gaze, Li Shou and Xie An communicated privately with their eyes, and the tacit understanding was simply appalling.

"Your Majesty? Mr. Xie? Geng Nan called out with a strange expression.

As if noticing Geng Nan's stunned expression, Xie An coughed and asked in a deep voice, "Lord Geng, right?" - Master Geng just said that he was one of the six divine generals of the Taiping Army, [Tianshu Divine General]? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, the criminal minister was only forced to threaten his life in his early years, and he was confused for a while, so he was committed to the thief, and he never rebelled against my heart of Da Zhou, this heart can learn from the sun and the moon, I hope Your Majesty and Lord Xie will learn from it!" Geng Nan defended with an anxious expression.

Raising his hand to interrupt Geng Nan's words, Xie An Zhengse said, "Leave this matter aside for the time being, the government wants to know what kind of status the six god generals in Geng Da's mouth are in the Taiping Army!" ”

Hearing Xie An's question, Geng Nan didn't dare to hide it, and hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, Lord Xie, as far as the criminal minister knows, the highest status in the Taiping army is [princess], and it is said that she is a descendant of the former Tang royal family. This person's identity must be no stranger to Master Xie...... This person's surname is Chen Mingying, his background is unknown, and his martial arts are superb, and it is said that the [Six Divine Generals] was selected by this person. And [Commander-in-Chief] below is my [Six Divine Generals], these six gods will be called [Tianshu], [Tianxuan], [Tianji], [Tianquan], [Yuheng], [Shaoguang], a total of six people, each of the six gods will have about 10,000 Taiping Army believers under his command to drive, compare my Great Zhou official position. Almost as many as the local lieutenants, commanders, and generals......"

"Ten thousand?" Glancing at Li Shou, Xie An frowned and asked, "So, you also have about 10,000 Taiping Army believers under your command to drive?" ”

"At first, it was like this, but then it ......" Geng Nan shook his head repeatedly. explained, "Lord Xie didn't know, the criminal wanted to draw a line with the Taiping Army rebel party a few years ago, and when the high-level officials of the Taiping Army ordered the criminal minister to lurk in my Great Zhou as a detailed work, the criminal minister tried every means to kill the more than 100 people who accompanied him, and he never had any contact with the Taiping Army again. The rebel side of the Taiping Army is somewhat suspicious, and will no longer easily follow the orders of the criminals......"

"In other words, you, the six god generals of the Taiping Army, can be said to be in name but not real at the moment?" Xie An asked with a chuckle.

Geng Nan nodded. With a loyal look on his face, he said righteously, "Yes! ——The criminal minister is also my big Zhou Erlang, how can he live up to the emperor's grace. Lightweight thieves? ”

Xie An shook his head when he heard this, looked at Geng Nan and said with a smile. "Not necessarily, right? - If Lord Geng is really loyal to my Great Zhou, why do you want to hide this matter until now? - Lord Geng could have told the court about this a long time ago, didn't he? ”

"This ......" Geng Nan smiled bitterly when he heard this, shook his head and said, "It's not a secret, Lord Xie, the criminal minister had the intention to report this matter to the court earlier, but the Taiping army rebels are all over the world, and there are many minions...... Unbeknownst to you, the Taiping Army's punishment of traitors is extremely severe and harsh, and once it is verified, not only will they be killed, but they will also be tortured in all kinds of ways before they die......"

Looking at the look of fear in Geng Nan's eyes, Xie Anxin nodded secretly, and then said in a deep voice, "In that case, why does Lord Geng dare to take a huge risk to tell His Majesty and the Mansion about this matter?" ”

"This ......" Geng Nan hesitated when he heard this, and after thinking about it for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's just say it, when the prince Li Wei rebelled a few days ago, Geng Nan confronted Chen Bei, the third commander of the Taiping Army, at that time, although this person spared Geng's life, he had already judged the criminal minister to be a traitor to the Taiping Army, and said that someone would come to take Geng's life in the future......" As he spoke, he told Xie An what Chen Bei said that night.

I see......

Is it a test? The killing of [the former Tianshu Divine General] Geng Nan was used as a test for the new [Tianshu Divine General]......

Alas, sure enough, the eldest brother is not as harmless as he was when he was with himself, Xiao Wu, and Liang Qiugong......

Xie Anxin smiled bitterly, because he had been a brother and brother with Chen Bei for a long time, he almost forgot that his eldest brother, who was the leader of the rebel party of the Taiping Army, the two battles of Hanhan Valley Pass and Chang'an, I don't know how many Great Zhou soldiers were stained with blood.

Privately, Chen Bei is affectionate and righteous, which is undeniable, but in the public sense, he is also a thug and a rebel, and he is one of the key figures who plunged the Great Zhou into war.

Here Xie Anxin was thinking about his eldest brother Chen Bei with a lot of confusion, but Geng Nan over there would be a mistake, thinking that Xie An was still suspicious of him when he was silent, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Lord Xie, the criminal minister revealed the truth to His Majesty and Lord Xie this time, and I dare not say that it is not for the sake of his own net worth, but the criminal minister has no intention of helping the rebel party in the slightest, and has always wanted to draw a clear line with the rebel party for several years, but the Taiping Army is strong in the traitorous party, so the criminal minister does not dare to reveal it, for fear of being killed...... And now, since the Taiping army knows that the criminal minister has rebelled, and the horizontal and vertical is death, even if the criminal minister is dead, he must report this matter to His Majesty and the court...... "Speaking of this, he once again bowed to the ground, looking like he was at the disposal of others.

"What do you think?" Glancing at Geng Nan, Li Shou asked Xie Andao in a low voice.

I saw Xie An take a deep look at Geng Nan, who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a low voice, "Words...... It's not like a fake, but this person is not a loyal person, most of them have seen their deeds exposed, and have been regarded as a traitor by the Taiping army, so they have taken refuge in us......"

Li Shouxin nodded approvingly, and then lowered his voice and said, "Having said that, this person is not in the same stream as the Taiping Army's traitorous party, and it can be regarded as having my Da Zhou in his heart, and it is more worth employing people now." This person is one of the worshippers of the Northern Army, and he is quite skilled in martial arts, and he also knows a lot about the Taiping Army......"

As if he heard the meaning of Li Shou's words, Xie An thought for a while and nodded slowly.

Seeing this, Li Shou smiled slightly, took a few steps forward, helped Geng Nan with a face, and said with a smile. "Master Geng, please get up, Master Geng is loyal and patriotic, and does not abuse the Taiping Army to rebel against the party, I am very happy......"

"Don't dare, don't dare to ......" Seeing that Li Shou, who was the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, came to help him in person, Geng Nan showed a look of panic and joy. Yiyan stood up and bowed repeatedly.

Exchanging a look with Xie An, Li Shou smiled and reassured, "Master Geng, don't worry, I'm not an ignorant person, how can I not know loyalty?" - That's it, the past. I am not guilty of the past, as long as Master Geng continues to be loyal to my Great Zhou in the future, I will continue to be loyal to me, and I will not hesitate to reward! ”

Geng Nan's face was overjoyed when he heard this. Bow to the ground and bow, "Thank you Your Majesty for your grace, the guilty minister is not very afraid!" ——In the future, the criminal ministers should be loyal to my Great Zhou and His Majesty. If there are two hearts, heaven and man will poke together! ”

To know. The reason why Geng Nan took the risk to join Li Shou and Xie An was nothing more than that he was cornered by Chen Bei, and the crown prince Li Wei and the fifth prince Li Cheng fell one after another.

And this, Xie An obviously saw a little bit, otherwise, he would not agree to Li Shou's move to subdue Geng Nan, after all, the martial arts enshrined by Geng Nan and other northern armies are really not low, if they have any other plans, once they make trouble in the future, Xie An will not care about it, at least Li Shou's safety is worth discussing.

After some polite and scene talks, Li Shou and Xie An asked Geng Nan in detail about all kinds of information about the Taiping Army, it may be that the words of the two made Geng Nan seem to have taken a moment of reassurance, therefore, Geng Nan did not hide it, and told Xie An and Li Shou everything he knew, only to hear that the two were shocked.

That's pretty impressive......

Hearing Geng Nan's story, Xie Anxin was like a stormy wave.

knew that before this, Xie An had always mistakenly thought that the Taiping Army was just a weak anti-Da Zhou organization, and it was no wonder that Chen Bei, who was the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army, had personally made a temporary cameo appearance in the Chang'an rebels and sat in Hanhan Guguan?

In Xie An's opinion, if the third-generation coach wants to go out in person, how powerful can this Taiping rebel be?

However, now listening to Geng Nan's words, he realized that the power of the Taiping Army rooted in the Great Zhou Dynasty was far beyond his imagination, and the various classes within the organization were clearly distinguished, disciplined, and even extremely standardized in terms of secrecy. Even if Li Shou's court caught one or two Taiping Army's meticulous works, it would only cut off that one, and it would not damage the huge intelligence network of the Taiping Army's rebel party.

Headache......

It seems that it is indeed necessary to have a good talk with Fei Guo......

Xie An frowned and pondered.

If you want to recruit Fei Guo to come over for questioning, in fact, this matter is very simple, but Xie An is reluctant to ruin Fei Guo's talent as a general.

You must know that although Liao Li, Ma Dan and others were also rebels on the Chang'an side at first, they did not have the intention of rebelling against the Great Zhou, and the most fundamental reason for this incident was nothing more than that the Taiping Army secretly instigated the merchants in the Nanyang area to raise the price of rice, causing public resentment, thus making Liao Li and Ma Dan step by step into a bad situation of confrontation with the Great Zhou court.

But the Taiping Army is different, the original purpose of the Taiping Army was to overthrow the Great Zhou Dynasty and restore the Southern Tang Dynasty, not some so-called cornered, and as a member of the Taiping Army, once Fei Guo's true identity is revealed, it is not difficult to guess that he will be rejected by Su Xin, Li Jing, and even Liao Li, Ma Dan and other generals.

Although they are both rebel generals, the meanings they represent are completely different.

Therefore, Xie An finally gave up the idea of immediately inviting Fei Guo to interrogate, and planned to take advantage of the great opportunity for him to marry the daughters and the generals to come to congratulate him, and have a good talk with Fei Guo in private, so that as long as Xie An didn't say it, Fei Guo could maintain his status and good relationship with the generals.

Of course, the premise is that the country cooperates.

On the nineteenth day of the first month of the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Li Shou, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty who officially succeeded to the throne, changed the name of the year to [the first year of Jingzhi], and granted amnesty to the world.

On the same day, Xie An married Liang Qiuwu, the daughter of the Liangqiu family of Donggong Mansion, and the eldest grandson Xiangyu, the daughter of the eldest grandson family. and Jin Ling'er, as for Yiyi, this gentle and lovely little Nizi has always insisted that she can't be on an equal footing with her young lady Liang Qiuwu, so she politely rejected Xie An's kindness and insisted on being a concubine.

Seeing that Yiyi, who is usually gentle and obedient, is so resolute in this matter, Xie An is not too reluctant, anyway, in his opinion, whether it is a wife, a concubine, or a concubine, she is his beloved woman. He categorically does not favor one over the other.

It is worth mentioning that when Xie An's quasi-father-in-law, Sun Jing, heard that Xie An was going to marry a woman named Jin Ling'er in addition to Liang Qiuwu and his daughter eldest Sun Xiangyu, this senior member of the court was really angry, until he finally heard that his daughter eldest Sun Xiangyu also approved of the matter. That's when he stopped.

I have to say, don't look at Changsun Jing angrily scolding Changsun Xiangyu all day long, this is not good, that is not good, in fact, he still cares about his daughter very much.

Since the master of ceremonies of this wedding was personally presided over by Li Shou, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the wedding only officially began.

As Xie An's good buddy. After Li Shouchen finished the morning dynasty at three o'clock, he changed into the imperial robe, took the queen Wang and the crown prince Li Sheng, and rushed to Xie An's mansion in a hurry. Then, let Queen Wang and her son rest in Xie An's mansion, and he drove more than ten carriages and hundreds of people to welcome the bride with Xie An.

The first is the Liangqiu family in the East Gongfu. Greet Liang Qiu Wu and Yi Yi's master and servant, and then the eldest grandson's family. greeted the eldest grandson Xiangyu, as for Jin Ling'er, because she was not from Jijing, she was placed in the upper north wing of Xie An's mansion, which saved Li Shou and Xie An from having to go on one more trip.

After being so busy for an hour, Xie An welcomed the four wives in bright red wedding robes to his mansion and his study in the north wing.

It stands to reason that Xie An should welcome the four girls to their respective rooms in the north wing, after all, it is a real happy room, but well, because Xie An is going to summon Fei Guo and talk to him about the Taiping Army, so Xie An welcomed the women into his study.

After all, Fei Guo's martial arts are not bad, in order to avoid extraneous branches, Xie An needs to use the martial arts of Liangqiu Dance and Jin Ling'er, lest that kid from Fei Guo flee in panic because his deeds are revealed.

But I have to say that when the four wives sat on the bed in the study with red cloth on their heads, it was really pleasing to the eye, which made Xie An feel a burst of unprecedented joy.

Of course, if the women can pull their faces and sleep with Xie An tonight, it will obviously be even more Xie An's ape, but unfortunately, this kind of beautiful thing Xie An can only fantasize about, at least among the four daughters, the other three wives except Yi Yi will definitely not approve of it.

After welcoming the bride, Xie An's remaining task is to receive relatives and friends who came to congratulate, I have to say that he and Li Shou alone are really not enough to deal with so many guests, so Xie An temporarily called Gou Gong, Ding Qiu, Qian Xi, Zhou Yi and others to help, and even Li Shou's former confidant and staff, Wang Dan, who is about to become a servant of the ministry, also invited over, but despite this, there is still a shortage of manpower.

Fortunately, Su Xin, Li Jing, Fei Guo, Qi Hao, Ma Dan, Liao Li and others who are currently on duty in the Jizhou Army came early, and under Xie An's words, the generals suddenly changed from guests to receive the guests blocked in front of Xie An's mansion.

It is undeniable that Xie An's marriage is actually the most grand event in Jijing over the years in addition to the Zen ceremony, and the celebrities and ministers of Jijing who came to congratulate abound, don't look at the mansion that the fifth son of the emperor Li Cheng gave to Xie An The reception hall is extremely spacious, but it is still full of guests who come to congratulate, it can be said that it is full, and even, in the end, even the hall can not sit down, Xie An temporarily called the kitchen to add a wedding banquet, and set up seats in the courtyard outside the main hall.

Because it was the marriage of Xie An, the future secretary of the criminal department of the Great Zhou court, and the Great Zhou Emperor Li Shou personally presided over it, but all the famous people in Jijing rushed to Xie An's mansion to congratulate him, so that in the end, although Xie An only sent three hundred invitations, there were as many as five or six hundred people who came to congratulate them, and the highest rank among them was undoubtedly Liangqiu Gong, Yin Gong, Kong and other old people, and the most noble turn was the third son of the emperor [King of Qin] Li Shen, the sixth son of the emperor [King of Han] Li Xiao, and the seventh son of the emperor [King of Chu] Li Yan, as well as the eighth son of the emperor, [the king of the eight sages] Li Xian.

Secondly, Xie An's father-in-law, Sun Jing and his wife, Xie An's teacher, Ruan Shaozhou, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and his wife, Weiwei Temple Qing Xun Zheng and his wife, etc., and even Guanglu Temple Qingqin also brought his son and nephew Qiu to the banquet to congratulate him.

Among Xie An's cronies, Di Bu, the head of the prison of the Great Prison Temple, and Wei Mofei, the commander of the Fusi Division of Beizhen, arrived one by one.

And what made Xie An quite happy and surprised was that Lu Song, the Duke of Nanguo, also came to congratulate the three generals of the Southern Army, and there was a female guest who made Xie An feel entangled, the daughter-in-law of the Nangong Mansion, Su Wan, a woman who still makes Xie An unforgettable.

Of course, there were also uninvited guests among them, such as Xixiang Hou Hanyi, one of the four towns.

I have to say that when Xixiang Marquis Han Yi congratulated Xie An, his expression was very strange, obviously, he had probably recognized that the new celebrity in the court named Xie An in front of him was the down-and-out person who was hungry and cold a year ago and begged for birthday food in front of his Xigong Mansion.

However, when it comes to who makes Xie An the most nervous among the guests, it is obviously Li Xian, the eighth son of the emperor and the king of the eight sages......

"I really didn't expect His Highness Xian to come......"

As if seeing Xie An's thoughts, Li Xian glanced at Li Shen and the other three princes in the distance, and said lightly, "Xie Shaoqing, rest assured, on the big day of your lady's eldest grandson's family, Xiao Wang will never do anything embarrassing to Xie Shaoqing...... Ah, it's just today, today, Xiao Wang is still the former Li Xian! ”

"What does His Highness Xian mean by this?" Xie An could feel the deep meaning in Li Xian's words.

Li Xian smiled slightly, patted Xie An on the shoulder, glanced at him as if meaningfully, and then walked towards Li Shen's table with his confidant Ji Hong.

"Wait for this morning, Xie Shaoqing will wait and see!"

Is it early today?

Looking at Li Xian's distant back, Xie An could feel that something might happen in the early dynasty today.

Finally ready, ready to make a move?

Or do you simply don't want to cause any trouble before Xiangyu marries herself, so as not to change the marriage date?

Speculating in his heart, Xie An secretly shook his head.

In the past, he couldn't see through this prince named Li Xian, but now, he still can't see through it.