The stalemate between the two Huai for nearly half a year was broken by a series of victories by Lu Xiangsheng, which was great news for the imperial court, and the opposition forces in the city of Nanjing, which had already died down, were afraid that they were about to move, and Li Xin realized that he must return to Nanjing as soon as possible, before the situation was not out of control by those blades with other intentions. After all, Mi Yan has shallow qualifications, and he may be able to hold up the scene in the Three Guards, but in front of those old men in the Nanjing Political Hall, he can't take the stage at all.

In the evening of the same day, Lu Jiu actually brought people to Hangzhou in person, and he galloped all the way to change horses, which made Li Xin immediately realize the urgency of the problem.

"But something happened in Nanjing?"

The injuries on Lu Jiu's body were already healed, but his face was still slightly pale, and it was obvious that his body had not returned to its full state.

"Thirteenth brother, hurry up and go back, Zhang Fangyan has been moving frequently in the past few days, and a few old guys in the political hall have an ambiguous attitude, and there is a lot of discussion in the city.

Seeing Lu Jiu, who was coming in a hurry, Li Xin changed his plan to step up his journey back to Nanjing.

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, you can't stop it, just let them make trouble."

"Brother Thirteen!"

Lu Jiu, who looked worried, couldn't help but shout again, he couldn't understand why the thirteenth brother didn't ask about it.

"Ahem......" Because of his emotion, Lu Jiu coughed rarely, the wound on his body involved the lungs, although the trauma was healed, but the sequelae could not be healed overnight. Li Xin saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but worry about it, for fear that he would repeat the injury again because of the bumps along the way, so he said that he would not let him delay in the hall, but called Lang Zhong to carefully diagnose him, and only when he confirmed that there was no major problem, he was relieved.

"Hurry up and rest in the room prepared for you, and we'll talk about it tomorrow!"

Lu Jiu didn't convince the thirteenth brother where he was willing to rest, if it weren't for the fact that the situation in Nanjing City was deteriorating, how could he have come to Hangzhou overnight?

"When is it going to rest? If you don't go back to Nanjing, the good situation will be buried! ”

What Lu Jiu meant was that Li Xin and he returned to Nanjing overnight to catch those suspicious old guys off guard. Therefore, when he saw Li Xinyou, he even asked him to rest first, which made him anxious.

"Mi Yan can't control the situation alone, Gao Hongtu and Zheng Sanjun are unreliable, if ......"

Li Xin smiled.

"Let them make a fuss, as long as the Three Guards are not chaotic, with a few old men, they will not be able to climb the sky. Now is not the time for us to first arrive, and only relying on Shilin Qingyi to influence public opinion can crush the Three Guards to death...... When we were strong, we couldn't tell friend or foe for a while, but now with this twist, it's just a good time to see who is the grass on the wall and who is unreliable! ”

Lu Jiu was skeptical of Li Xin's words, but Li Xin never said empty words, since he said that those people couldn't go to the sky, maybe they really couldn't go to the sky.

"Brother Thirteen is really not going back to Nanjing?"

"Of course I want to go back, not only to go back, but also to go back with great fanfare."

Under Li Xin's repeated urging, Lu Jiu finally rested under the guidance of the miscellaneous servants. However, Li Xin couldn't rest, he had more important things to do.

"Let's go, go to the New Army barracks!"

Li Xin took more than a dozen personal soldiers around him and left Hangzhou City overnight and went straight to the camp in the west of the city.

Although the camp in the west of the city was only built for three months, it was much larger than the camp in Nanjing, including 50,000 new troops, 20,000 soldiers, and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Although Gao Zhenfu and Fan Youming are capable characters, they can only contribute to the good wind, and once they encounter difficult problems, they may not be consistent.

Niu Jinsong heard that the general came to the barracks overnight, and immediately took a group of cronies to welcome out of the barracks, Li Xin stopped his fanfare, committed suicide into the barracks, and said as he walked: "It's late, don't disturb the soldiers, I'm here to say a few things, and I'll leave after speaking!" ”

Judging from Li Xin's hurried expression and hurried tone, Niu Jinsong intuitively felt that something big must have happened.

After arriving at the Chinese military tent, Niu Jinsong sent out all the cronies and generals, and ordered: "Without the general's order, no one is allowed to approach the Chinese military tent within ten steps!" ”

After the order was given, the soldiers on duty at night suddenly agreed and stood guard with neat steps.

The new army was just beginning to take shape, and Li Xin did not doubt their combat effectiveness, and the only thing he was worried about was that the new army was short in the days when it was formed, and his sense of identity with the Three Guards Army had reached an ideal level.

"There may be a sudden change in the situation recently, and after I leave, you will immediately transfer 5,000 men and horses to Jiaxing and Huzhou for the exercise under the pretext of the exercise. 10,000 horses marched to Shaoxing. ”

After hearing this, Niu Jinsong's eyes lit up, and he had been in the barracks all day these days, but he didn't get bored.

"Is there anyone who wants to make trouble? Bring the troops to kill them! ”

Li Xin stood with his hands in his hands and said slowly: "The chaos is not in Zhejiang, but in the imperial court!" ”

"The Imperial Court? Bird court! Now that the world is in turmoil, who cares about the emperor? ”

Seeing that Li Xin suddenly mentioned the imperial court, Niu Jin Songman was full of disdain and disdain, and counted down two sentences of Zhu Youzhen, who was far away in Beijing. The news of Lu Xiangsheng's decisive victory in Lianghuai has reached Hangzhou, and it is believed that it will soon spread, but he does not think that anyone dares to openly oppose the general, after all, there are 50,000 new troops in their hands, and no one dares to blow up unless they eat the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, or their brains are kicked by a donkey.

However, this also made Niu Jinsong understand the reason why Li Xin asked him to pull out the new army in the name of the exercise and order the provinces.

"General, I have a sentence that has been held in my heart for a long time, and today I have come out......"

Niu Jinsong's face changed suddenly, and he asked seriously: "Is this bullshit court still worth our rescue?" Not to mention that we are all forced to live by the bullshit court, if it weren't for the general, most of us would have gone to the thieves. The general was born and died for the imperial court, how did the imperial court treat the general? Digging pits and traps in front of us all the time, it seems that we are more ...... than that Li thief and Manchu Tartar."

At this point, Niu Jinsong seemed to be unable to speak, and the conversation changed again.

"What does this bullshit court do to protect him? The general might as well be the emperor himself, and our brothers are all determined to follow you! ”

After speaking, Niu Jinsong stared at Li Xin with bright eyes, looking forward to his reply.

Li Xin originally went to the New Army to explain the task, but he didn't expect that he was "forced into the palace" by this bull egg. He didn't have the idea of serving the country loyally in his bones, and what he did in the past was more out of the Ming complex in his previous life. However, this complex has almost been consumed by this day in the suspicion and strifeting of the important ministers.

In fact, there are not a few high-ranking officers in the Three Guards who hold Niu Jinsong's attitude, such as Lu Jiu, who is even better than Niu Jinsong. However, Li Xin did not allow this trend of thought to spread in the army, for only one reason, that is, if he abandoned the banner of the Ming Dynasty and stood on his own, he and the Three Guards would immediately become the public enemies of the world, and the civil and military generals who stood on his side in the past might also leave him.

To put it more bluntly, if we rebel and stand on our own feet now, we will lose more practical benefits than just getting a false name. In fact, it was precisely with the banner of the Ming Dynasty that Li Xin was able to integrate several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River in half a year. What we need to do now is to consolidate the achievements of the past six months, instead of intensifying the contradictions and smashing them into pieces.

Therefore, Li Xin will not only not abandon this stormy Ming court, but will also show his position of firmly erecting the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the disapproval in Li Xin's eyes, Niu Jinsong was faintly disappointed, and couldn't help but ask: "Does the general have to wait until those old and important ministers cut off our back road, and then...

Li Xin was silent for a moment and suddenly asked: "If Ben Shuai is self-reliant, how many people in these provinces do you think will stand up against the Three Guards and be enemies of the Three Guards in Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Liangguang, and Huguang?"

"Those dog officials are afraid of what he will do, who dares to oppose it, send troops to suppress it, kill the dog officials, and the people's lives will be a little better!"

Niu Jinsong's face showed a fierce expression, his reflection was unexpected by Li Xin, but it was also reasonable. What kind of people who don't hate this dazed and chaotic world, and don't hate the corrupt officials all over the world?

It's just that if you kill all the officials in the world, will the people's lives be better? I am afraid that the problem is far from being so simple, and the resentful people, who have lost their restraints, will become mobs, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and in the end they will be even more sinister than those corrupt officials who know how to exploit them.

For example, the thieves of Zhang Li's generation, they killed people and did evil, which was simply outrageous. Even if the Fu King of Luoyang is extravagant, should he be killed for his sin and let others eat it? This is not what Li Xin wants, if the current Three Guards declare their independence, and then kill all those who oppose themselves and the Three Guards, then what is the difference between him Li Xin and Zhang Li's generation?

Of course, in addition, Li Xin has a more pragmatic reason, as long as he is attached to the banner of Daming for the time being, he and the interests of the Three Guards will be maximized. Just as Ming Taizu "accumulated grain and slowly became the king", burying one's head in development is the last word, and it is stupid to squeeze out his head and fight for fame before the general trend of the world is still clear.

"What else do you know besides killing you?"

Li Xin's face suddenly changed, and his cold reprimand blocked Niu Jinsong's words back. Then he said bitterly: "It's not that Ben Shuai doesn't want to, but he can't, because the time hasn't come yet!" In the future, Hugh will be so reckless. ”