Night.

Li Dingguo walked into the courtyard of the General's Mansion.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the squeaky chirping of summer insects is a little disturbing in the ears.

Bai Wenxuan tiptoed behind him and asked, "General, don't you want to meet Liu Shilang?" ”

Li Dingguo looked up at the moon, and the silver moonlight seemed to put a thin veil on Luo Xiongzhou. He has been a rebel of the Ming Dynasty for decades, why is the temptation of loyal ministers and good generals so great at this moment?

In his early years, he was accustomed to killing people by his father-in-law's side, and he clearly knew what the Great Western Army had done. The Ming court was mediocre, but the Great Western Army was not as good as it

He walked out of the mansion and said, "Let's go, go and meet that Liu Shilang."

Luoxiongzhou is a kind of small town, built on the mountain, the streets are paved with bluestone slabs, and leather boots go up to make a "babble" sound. The streets are deserted, and a curfew has been in place since the Great Western Army invaded Guizhou last winter.

In such a remote mountain town, the implementation of a curfew has little impact on the people. The mountain people are poor, few families have spare money to light up at night, and sleeping after dark is the only leisure.

Bai Wenxuan seized the last opportunity to provide information and said, "I heard that this Liu Shilang once stayed in King Gaochuang's camp!"

"I know" Li Dingguo's steps are big.

Bai Wenxuan sped up a few steps to keep up, and when he heard that Li Dingguo seemed to be displeased, he didn't talk anymore, his goal had been achieved.

is also a former thief, the Great Western Army has always paid attention to the dynamics of the loyal battalion after it was put into the Ming Dynasty, how could Li Dingguo not be familiar with Liu Suifeng, who single-handedly surrendered the Great Western Army.

Luo Xiongzhou is not big, and after turning two streets, a group of soldiers patrolling with torches came on the opposite side. When those people saw Li Dingguo and others coming to them, they stood on the side of the road in two columns and saluted: "I have seen the lord of the house."

Li Dingguo nodded and passed through the patrol soldiers.

After two more streets, the group came to a wide courtyard of masonry, the attic of the inner courtyard still faintly lit.

Li Dingguo motioned to the guards not to make a sound, and led Bai Wenxuan and the two people in.

The people in the caravan lived in the outer courtyard, and at this time they were all hiding in the houses, and they did not dare to come out to check the movement when they heard the footsteps outside.

Li Dingguo stepped through the gate of the outer courtyard and went to the bottom of the attic. Liu Suifeng's two guards were guarding the door, and when they saw someone approaching, they asked vigilantly, "Who?" ”

Li Dingguo said loudly: "Please inform Liu Shilang that Li Dingguo is visiting"

In the darkness there was the sound of feet stepping on the floor, and a moment later, the sound of the floor became more dense, and two people walked down the stairs.

The guard who went upstairs walked in front, holding a lamp in his hand to lead the way, and Liu followed behind by feeling the stairs with the wind.

Li Dingguo walked to the door of the attic and arched his hand to the two vague figures: "Liu Shilang"

"General Li" Liu came out with the hearty laughter of the wind. He seemed to be very talkative tonight, and he gushed endlessly: "I have heard for a long time that General Li is the most powerful in the four mansions of the Great Western Army, and it is really better to see it than to hear it."

Li Dingguo thought to himself, you haven't seen the other three mansion masters, how do you know that my most powerful words are just polite words.

A gust of wind blew, the lights flickered, and only the silhouettes of each other could be seen.

Liu Suifeng opened the chatterbox, "When I was in the camp of King Gaochuang, I had seen the Eight Great Kings, but I didn't have the opportunity to meet General Li."

He is very enthusiastic, as if he is currying favor with Li Dingguo. Those who knew him well knew that he was not such a person.

Li Dingguo didn't answer for a while, and among the generals of the four prefectures of the Great Western Army, he was the most wooden person. Talking to Liu Suifeng, he is like a trickle meeting a long river. He only felt that the people in the Ming court were not as difficult to get along with as Sun Kewang said, and they were arrogant.

After saying a lot of opening remarks, Liu Suifeng seemed to feel that the place was wrong, and waved his hand sideways: "Please General Li speak upstairs"

"Please"

There was some thin moonlight in the attic, and the guard with the lamp led the way, Liu followed the wind in the middle, and Li Dingguo followed last.

Liu walked with the wind on the stairs, his pace was slow, his steps were a little staggering, and Li Dingguo was worried about not falling off with one foot in the air behind him.

The three climbed up to the attic, and the guards put down the lights and retreated downstairs.

At this time, Li Dingguo saw Liu Suifeng's face clearly. His gray head, haggard face, and brows could not hide the tiredness.

Liu Suifeng was also observing Li Dingguo.

How to be an excellent envoy is a very profound knowledge, not as simple as submitting a credential in righteous words, or straightening your neck without losing the face of the court. Because of this, although Ji Hong was in Yunnan, Zhai Zhe still asked Liu Suifeng to go in person.

Liu squinted his eyes with the wind and panted slightly, as if it had taken a lot of time to climb the stairs just now.

In this moment, he had to choose the right words, and he knew that he only had this one chance.

The attic stairs were narrow, and he deliberately asked Li Dingguo to go upstairs to discuss the matter, but Li Dingguo did not refuse, indicating that Li Dingguo was not a person with a very strong desire to control.

He deliberately stumbled in the stairs just now, and Li Dingguo stretched out his hand to help him, indicating that Li Dingguo was a benevolent person.

"When I first came to Yunnan, I saw that the people around Luoxiong Prefecture lived and worked in peace and contentment, which shows that General Li is strict in governing the army" Liu Suifeng praised first, and then changed his words, "The soldiers of Daxi are good at fighting, but they should not show their skills to the soldiers and horses of the Guiyang Imperial Court." His voice was soft, like that of an old man who had been taught.

"The imperial court has long forgiven the sins of the Great Western Army and the Great Shun Army, and four years ago, the King of Jin passed on the anti-shaving order of the world, and the Han people in the world are a family. Li Guo was appointed as the general of Jingzhou, and the loyal battalion soldiers and horses were fighting hard with the Tartars in Jiangbei, and the Great Western Army was very disappointed by this. ”

Li Dingguo said: "Liu Shilang laughed, and the Great Western Army did not surrender to the imperial court"

Liu sighed with the wind and said: "The world has been in strife for a long time, how many people have died since King Gao Chuang raised the army for more than ten years?" In the end, he almost let the Tartars occupy the world, and General Li is a person who understands, why he is still obsessed. ”

This sentence was a bit heavy, Li Dingguo's color changed, and he reprimanded: "We raised troops with the Eight Kings because the court was unreasonable and didn't care about the lives of the people. How can you put the fault on King Gaochuang? ”

"How can the fault of the world's affairs be clear in one sentence, Sizong is at fault and has died in the coal mountain, why should General Li still be angry with the imperial court. Sizong was forced to die by the Dashun army, and the court had already forgiven Li Guo and others. With the remnants of the Great Western Army, the barren land of Yunnan, do you still want to go all the way to the dark? ”

Liu Suifeng's words reached Li Dingguo's heart, except for Sun Kewang in the Great Western Army, the other three governments did not want to fight against the Ming Dynasty. If Zheng Zhilong hadn't sent an envoy to the alliance, Sun Kewang would not have been able to persuade the Great Western Army to go to war with the Ming Dynasty again.

Li Dingguo didn't want to show cowardice in front of Liu Suifeng, but he was clumsy in words, and he couldn't find words to convince himself to refute for a while.

Liu Suifeng's face was full of emotion, and he sighed: "For more than ten years, there have been tens of millions of Han people who have died, and the situation in the world is irreparable. General Li should know that I have wandered under the tent of King Gaochuang, but he certainly does not know the cause and effect."

He closed his eyes and poured out with a sad expression: "My family is in Shanxi, which is quite rich, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, forty-six members of my family died in the hands of soldiers and horses under the command of King Gao Chuang, and I was taken captive by King Gao Chuang for two years. Later, I joined the account of King Jin, and it was not that I did not think about avenging my family. When I saw the Loyalty, I thought of them as cruel murderers, but as I was, victims of troubled times. I let go of my family feud just to find a peaceful and prosperous world as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, Liu left two turbid tears with the wind, he was originally making a show, but at the moment there was truth in these two tears.

He is now the official of the Ming Dynasty, and he is likely to ascend to the position of Shangshu soon, he yearns for power, but he does not want to marry a wife or have children.

Li Dingguo was stunned, he had been orphaned by famine, and those who had had unbearable experiences could easily find common feelings.

He suddenly remembered the people who had died under his father's butcher's knife.

The summer worm is neighing tirelessly.

Liu followed the wind control, opened his eyes and said: "General Li, the King of Jin ordered me to come to Yunnan to sincerely discuss the matter of recruiting security with the Great Western Army. The hearts of the people of Huguang and Jiangnan have returned, and the Yuezhou general Zuo Ruo has recovered Shaanxi, and the imperial court is not afraid that Zheng Zhilong is playing those conspiracies, but it is just ......, but the king of Jin feels that the Han people have died enough."

Li Dingguo's eyes were shining like stars, and his mood was heavy. Liu Suifeng said that Zheng Zhilong was indeed honest enough.

In a short moment, he changed his heart from sympathy to admiration for Liu Suifeng, and his heart turned several times. He said in a deep voice: "Liu Shilang, we are also willing to go north to the east, but we just need a name from the imperial court."

Liu Suifeng saw that Li Dingguo was relieved, and he was overjoyed, and he did not waste his words in vain, and persuaded while the iron was hot: "The imperial court will never treat meritorious officials badly." Sun Shuai went to Nanjing last year to ask for the title of King of Qin, although it was excessive, but it was not completely hopeless, as long as the Northern Expedition of the Great Western Army made meritorious contributions to the Qing Dynasty, the court was not stingy with the title of king. Zheng Zhilong and the King of Jin worked together to recover Jiangnan and crown the king of Yanping; Wu Sangui assisted the imperial court in seizing Xiangyang, recovering Sichuan, and sealing the town of the king of the west. ”

Li Dingguo pondered for a moment and asked, "Liu Shilang is here, what official title can you give me in the four mansions of Daxi?" ”

"Two dukes and generals, two marquis generals" Liu Suifeng explained: "The edict is placed in Guiyang Mansion, as long as the four mansions of the Great Western Army agree, I will immediately pass on the edict." Sun Shuai and General Li are the generals of Guogong, General Liu and Ai Nengqi are the marquis' commanders-in-chief, and there are only six generals in the imperial court at present. ”

This condition is indeed rich, and it is only one step away from being crowned king.

Li Dingguo even felt that this was a condition that could not be refused.

He knew that last year, Sun Kewang asked for the title of King of Qin, and he also made a counteroffer, and Sun Kewang's original intention was to get a county king to replace the original Mu family to guard Yunnan. He was very cautious and said: "This matter still needs to be decided by Sun Shuai."

Liu Suifeng begged: "In front of Sun Shuai, I still need a few good words from General Li."

Thinking of Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo's face was covered with a layer of clouds.

Liu Suifeng has come out of his grief, and seems to have casually revealed: "General Zuo has a difficult expedition to Shaanxi this year, and if the Great Western Army is appeased, King Jin wants to mobilize the loyal battalion to go north to Shaanxi and recover his homeland." ”

Of course, he didn't say a word casually tonight.

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