In the inner hall of the palace, Xiao Yungui said happily: "We might as well go all the way to the east of the river and kill to Jinling, the rear of the Qing army is attacked, and we will definitely draw troops to the east to help, so that the pressure on Changsha will be weakened." ”

Hong Yun'er looked at Xiao Yungui with some surprise and said, "When did you become so brave and selfless?" ”

Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said with a wicked smile: "If I say this, the King of the East will agree to me leading the army on an expedition, and if we go to Jinling, we can have our own territory, separate from the center of the Heavenly Kingdom, and make our own decisions much more enjoyable." ”

Hong Yun'er nodded and said: "This is also true, along the east of the river to Jinling, you can refer to the march route of the Taiping Army in history." Then he shook his head and said: "No, if you want to fight Jinling, the King of Heaven and the King of the East will suspect that you have a heart of disobedience." ”

Xiao Yungui groaned: "Then let's fight Yuezhou first, wait until we reach Yuezhou, and then suddenly lead the people eastward and take Jinling directly. ”

While talking, Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing brought the pasta, and Xiao Yungui was really hungry when he was in a hurry, so he devoured it.

After eating two bites, he only heard a noise and noise outside the mansion, and there were many women's voices of warblers, Xiao Yungui asked strangely: "What's going on outside?" Why are there so many women's voices? ”

Hong Yun'er, Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing's faces turned slightly red, followed by anger and disdain, Hong Yun'er snorted heavily, and said very angrily: "It's angry to say it, these days, all kinds of military horses have been fighting outside tiringly, but the king of heaven and the king of the east let the folk women gather in the north school field to listen to the reasoning, in fact, they are selecting beauties to enter the palace of the king of heaven and the palace of the east king, two batches of women have been selected in the past few days, there are about hundreds of people, it's not enough, and they have to choose again today, it's really shameless!" ”

The chopsticks in Xiao Yungui's hand stopped in mid-air, and he was secretly angry in his heart, his mother's good deeds are not called brothers, they are really not enough buddies. But this year flashed by, and then I felt faintly uneasy in my heart, before I laid down an acre and three points of land, the king of heaven and the king of the east were busy with beauty pageants, is this appropriate? Tens of thousands of soldiers in front are fighting bloodily, but they are enjoying gentleness in the back, won't this chill the hearts of the army? If the people of the city want to sacrifice their daughters and sisters, won't the people's hearts be greatly damaged?

Hong Yun'er then said hatefully: "I also asked me to take the women's battalion soldiers and horses to gather the folk women, so I didn't go to do this dirty thing, the king of heaven sent Su Sanniang to go, I went to the king of heaven and the king of the east for a long time, and persuaded them to take back their lives, but they were thrown out, which is really angry." If I can follow you, I will go with you immediately with the Splendid Camp, I don't want to stay here and be angry! ”

Xiao Yungui gulped down and responded vaguely, he didn't plan to say anything to Hong Yun'er, he would be burned when he talked about this matter, and he couldn't fall into his prestige in front of Hong Yun'er's three daughters, if he said something and didn't do it, it would be bad, so he didn't say anything at all, just waited to see the East King and ask him to understand.

After eating, Xiao Yungui went straight to the East Palace. When I arrived outside the East Palace, I saw that the East Hall was heavily guarded, and there were eight cannons at the door, which was very powerful. When the guards of the east hall saw the arrival of the king of the west, they hurriedly ordered someone to go in to report it, and after a while, Zeng Shuiyuan, who had his own book in the east hall, came out to greet him.

"King Xi came back in a hurry, and he didn't prepare to greet him, please forgive me." Zeng Shuiyuan stepped forward to bow and salute.

Xiao Yungui waved his hand and said: "The military situation is like fire, let's go to see the East King first, and you don't have to worry about these false courtesies." ”

The dust came to the lobby of the East Palace, where the original family of Changsha was the residence of He Ming, and now it has become the mansion of the East Palace, which is also very generous.

There are dozens of tables in the lobby, the civil and military generals in the east hall are all in the hall, Yang Xiuqing's big table is placed in the center, and the shore is full of various documents, because his literacy is limited, and many documents are read and written on behalf of others.

Seeing King Xi striding in, the civil and military forces in the hall all got up to salute, Yang Xiuqing was overjoyed when he saw him coming back, and ordered everyone to continue to deal with military and political affairs, and took Xiao Yungui's hand to the study alone to talk.

In the study, after Yang Xiuqing ordered someone to serve tea, he hurriedly asked, "You came back first?" ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "The army is still behind, the younger brother will come back first after receiving the edict, is the North Road Qing Demon very rampant?" ”

Yang Xiuqing's face was still cold, and he said slowly: "Zhang Liangji is now gathering more than 6,000 troops, occupying the north bank of the Liuyang River, holding on, encroaching step by step, and has the intention of developing in Liuyang, he must want to recover Liuyang and gradually connect with the Liling Qing Demon in the south." And the follow-up Jiangbei Qing demon reinforcements are still coming one after another, I heard that Hubei Governor Shuangfu will lead 3,000 troops to Xiangyin in the near future, and now the North Road is completely blocked, and the situation is not optimistic. ”

Xiao Yungui was already confident, and hurriedly said: "Fourth brother, since the Qing Demon is approaching Changsha, the North Road Breaking the enemy can't fight hard with the Qing Demon, otherwise it will be like the Battle of Yong'an, and it will become a camp battle with the Qing Demon to seize the danger, we have limited money and food, and in the end we will not be able to defeat the Qing Demon, so we have to let the city go." The younger brother thought that when he crossed the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, mobilized the newly built water battalion to attack Yuezhou behind the Qing Demon, pulled the Qing Demon back to defense, and looked for an opportunity to break the Qing Demon on the way, the siege of Changsha could be solved without a fight. Even if the Qing Demon fights to the death and does not retreat, they can also divide their forces, and after the Da Compatriots conquer Liling, they can break through the Qing Demon camp by waving their troops north. ”

Yang Xiuqing pondered for a moment and said: "The Xidian soldiers go north, jumping behind the Qing Demon to fight this method is excellent, fighting the Yuezhou Qing Demon is worried that we will divide our troops into Hubei Province, and the Hubei soldiers will definitely be recalled by the Qing Demon Hubei Governor Chang Dachun, Shuangfu is the governor of Hubei, and he will definitely return to the division to block the defense, as long as the Qing army is loose, we will have a chance." It's just that now there is a person named Peng Yulin next to Zhang Liangji, who seems to be very strategic, I don't know if I can see this plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei? ”

Xiao Yungui's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly suggested: "The king of the east is relieved, if the Qing demon in Yuezhou is not moved, the younger brother will directly wave his army to fight Hankou, Hanyang, and even Wuchang, Chang Dachun and Shuangfu are responsible for guarding Hubei, and the younger brother does not believe this, can they still go back to the division to rescue." ”

Yang Xiuqing sighed and groaned: "Fight Wuchang? Then he raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Yungui, and said thoughtlessly: "It's better for you to lead the troops outside, so as not to be caught in the middle and be a difficult person." ”

Xiao Yungui didn't know what Yang Xiuqing meant by this, so he had to laugh dryly, but he heard that it seemed that Yang Xiuqing and Hong Xiuquan had another dispute.

I only heard Yang Xiuqing continue: "The king of heaven recently selected some women to fill the palace of the king of heaven, you know that our kingdom of heaven does not need eunuchs, and several of the king's mothers need to be taken care of, so I plan to choose a few women to enter the palace as female officials, but there are villains who misinterpret the meaning of the king of heaven and the king, which makes the women of the whole city panic, the king of heaven protects those people, and he takes advantage of the situation to laugh and accept, even the king has stuffed dozens of them here, you are the same as the king of the north, the king of the country, and other mansions, there were originally dozens of women to send them, but you are not there, the king is worried that the vinegar jar of Xuanjiao will fly around, So I didn't send it, I raised it here, go back and take a look, you can see that it is still accepted as the king's mother, but don't spoil other girls. The dozens of people here in this king have almost gone, if you don't like it, let's let the girl go home. ”

Xiao Yungui was overjoyed, it turned out that Yang Xiuqing was still thinking about herself, and she also kept a copy for herself, but after thinking about it, she was about to go on an expedition, and she had no time to enjoy the gentle township, so she had to forcibly hold back, hugged her fists and said: "The fourth brother is kind, the younger brother has a heart, the expedition is imminent, and the younger brother doesn't want to be distracted, so I still ask the fourth brother to help me send these women away." Then Xiao Yungui said in a low voice: "Fourth brother, say something that shouldn't be said, it doesn't seem to be the time to do these things." ”

Yang Xiuqing's cold face sank and said, "Why don't I know? But if the King of Heaven wants to do so, do you want me to ask the Father to come down to earth for these little things? At present, the enemy is now, let it go. ”

Xiao Yungui heard that Yang Xiuqing also seemed to have a last resort, and used Heavenly Father to persuade him a lot, the Heavenly King didn't like it, and Xiao Chaogui used Heavenly Brother to persuade him in the past, but the Heavenly King still generally went his own way.

Yang Xiuqing then sighed lightly and said: "Agui, you go, go as far as possible, I can go around alone, there are too many people involved, the king of heaven needs to look bad on his face, if there is any crime, I will bear it alone, you will lead the army to fight outside, and I will deal with these dirty things in the court." In addition to the water camp, you can even bring the splendid camp, Xuanjiao will stay in the city again, sooner or later there will be trouble, and it will be okay in your army, and I will not be out of sight and out of mind. But your family can't go with you, the king always has to give him an explanation, he doesn't worry about you leaving with your family. ”

Xiao Yungui was so frightened that he sweated, his mind seemed to be seen through by Yang Xiuqing, he asked Hong Xuanjiao to go to war with the army, but he wanted to leave his family behind, it can be seen that there is still a sense of surveillance, the Xiao family, the Jiang family, and the Huang family all became hostages all of a sudden, and even Xiao Youhe became a hostage, if there were no hostages, the Heavenly King and Yang Xiuqing would not seem to be at ease to let him lead the expedition.

For a moment, Xiao Yungui gritted his teeth and said: "The little brother knows, and the family is all left." "It's a blessing to be able to leave, it can't be perfect, there will always be a way to pick it up in the future, even if you can't pick it up, Xiao Yungui doesn't care, anyway, these people don't have the slightest affection for him, they are just relatives of their own flesh, and they have nothing to do with themselves, as long as Hong Yun'er is not left behind.

As long as there is such an important hostage as Xiao Youhe in their hands, both of them believe that the West King will not go against the sky. As soon as the king of the west leaves, the king of the east can cover the sky in the center. The Heavenly King is also one less threat, although there is still the East King, but after all, it is better to deal with one person than to deal with two.

Looking at Yang Xiuqing's cold face, Xiao Yungui didn't know if his true thoughts were what he said, whether he wanted to leave the center to avoid trouble, or whether he wanted to monopolize power, but at present, Yang Xiuqing still treats him like a brother, and many things can only be said by Yang Xiuqing in front of him.

When he walked out of the study, Xiao Yungui looked back at Yang Xiuqing, and thought to himself, thank you, Brother Dongwang, I don't know when I will be able to zaijian in the future, I hope that the next time we meet, you can still speak openly and honestly like this.