In a mountain temple in the eastern mountains of Nanyang Province, the carnival of many horse bandits is nearing its end. Some of the horse bandits drank high and were babbling nonsense; Some of the horse bandits were holding some prostitutes in their hands.

Song Xiang sat on the Taishi chair in the main seat of the Juyi Hall converted into a mountain temple, and looked at his subordinates carnival with a smile on his face. But if a careful person looks at Song Xiang's expression carefully, they may find that Song Xiang's smile is just pretending, and his brows are still locked unconsciously.

Seeing that it was getting late, Song Xiang stood up from the Taishi's chair, and he shouted: "Brothers, have fun!" After that, he pushed away the prostitute who was accompanying him, turned around and walked towards his room behind the mountain temple.

But the horse bandits who were still reveling didn't notice it, and when Song Xiang turned around, he gave his cronies a look, and those cronies also followed Song Xiang into his house with understanding.

As soon as he entered the room, one of Song Xiang's cronies shouted, "Brother Song, why don't you have fun today?" What's the matter with calling the brothers in?

Song Xiang's eyes immediately widened, and he first scolded the word "" to the cronie, and then scolded: "I told you a long time ago, don't call me Brother Song." ”

Maybe some readers and friends are a little familiar with the name Song Xiang, and indeed you are not mistaken, this Song Xiang is the person who fled with seven or eight Wu Shigong's cavalry when Wu Shigong went to King Qin.

After Song Xiang escaped from Wu Shigong's army, he knew that he couldn't stay in Guide Mansion anymore, so he took these seven or eight men and horses to Nanyang Mansion, the westernmost part of Henan, and started his old business as a horse bandit.

Of course, after becoming a deserter, Song Xiang and the others didn't dare to use their real names anymore, they all gave nicknames like "Optimus Prime" or "Decepticon", so after Wu Shigong came back, Xue Zhinong couldn't find Song Xiang and these people.

But then Song Xiang's struggle process can also be called a legend, he gathered the scattered horse bandits, then occupied a mining area, and after defeating the armed forces organized by those private mine bosses twice, he completely occupied the mining area in this mountainous area for himself.

And after all, Song Xiang has been in the army for a long time, and he went to Wu Shigong to receive strict military training, so he did learn some of the essence of Wu Shigong's army. Therefore, by organizing the miners and training some furs, those miners were able to defeat the armed forces of the private mine bosses, and even Li Lu's regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

But unlike his subordinates, with these two victories and the expansion of his own strength, Song Xiang felt the pressure and danger of making a big move. Therefore, today Song Xiang gathered those cronies who were deserters with him and discussed finding a way out.

But when Song Xiang said his thoughts, a cronie said nonchalantly: "Lord of the mountain, we have knives in this mountain, and we have iron ore in exchange for silver, isn't this kind of a leisurely life quite haode." ”

"With your thoughts, how long can we still be free!" Song Xiang opened his mouth and reprimanded, "Don't look at the way we trained those miners, but look at it, those miners are compared to those soldiers when we used to work under the Wu Demon King, it is simply 108,000 miles." I thought that the Wu Demon King was in Guide Mansion, and it was still far away from our Nanyang Mansion. But I didn't expect that Demon King Wu would go to Runing Mansion to serve as a garrison, and it would only be two or three hundred miles away from where we are now. ”

"A few days ago, Demon King Wu also sent someone to me to buy iron materials, and it was only a matter of time before I found out that we were people. I wondered, isn't this what the book says! Kill people and set fire to recruit An, we still have to take advantage of our current strength to find an official government to recruit An. As long as we have an official body, then the Wu Demon King will never do anything to us. ”

Hearing Song Xiang mention Wu Shigong, those Song Xiang's cronies also fell silent. After a while, a cronie came up with an idea: "The big mountain lord killed the people sent by the Wu Demon King, and he will not do business with the Wu Demon King in the future, so the Wu Demon King will not come to our Nanyang Mansion for no reason." As long as he can't find us, then we can still live this comfortable life? ”

"Call you stupid and you don't believe it. As long as we make a move, then the Wu Demon King can find us as long as he sends someone to investigate. Besides, we are just deserters, and we don't have any deep hatred with Wu Demon King, so there is not necessarily room for relaxation. But as long as you kill the people of the Wu Demon King, then you will not die, and the title of the Demon King of Wu is not called for nothing! ”

"So what the hell is to be done? Anyway, the big mountain lord's idea, the small ones will obey it. ”

Song Xiang thought for a while, and then said, "Let's maintain it for the time being." Don't stiffen the relationship with Wu Demon King, he can also sell it cheaper if he wants iron. ”

"To be honest, even if it's Zhao'an, I still want to go to Demon King Wu. Otherwise, to serve as a soldier in another place is similar to being a beggar, and it is not a harm to the brothers. However, we don't know if Demon King Wu will be able to accept us again. But I estimate that we have now pulled out more than 4,000 horses, and the Wu Demon King is a person who likes to expand his force, which is also the capital for us to take refuge in him. ”

"Even if the Wu Demon King is unwilling, we can still be the king and hegemon here, then the Wu Demon King is the official of Runing Mansion, and the governor can't come to Nanyang Mansion."

After hearing this, Song Xiang's cronies also felt that there was nothing better to do, so they all agreed with Song Xiang's opinion and decided to take a look first.

Zhou Yanru is a little anxious now, because now another scholar, Wen Tiren, is singing against Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, in everything.

But what is even more worrying is that Emperor Chongzhen also vaguely leaned to Wen Tiren's side in every argument between the two sides. Zhou Yanru also has ears and eyes in the inner court, and he knows that Cao Huachun, the great eunuch next to Emperor Chongzhen, always speaks in the ear of Emperor Chongzhen that he has won over the society and formed a party for personal gain.

Zhou Yanru knew that he was not clean, so he wanted to take advantage of the fact that he was still favored by Emperor Chongzhen and did a few beautiful things to share his worries for Emperor Chongzhen.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the construction of Dalinghe City, which was supposed to be worry-free, was strictly besieged by the Houjin army, and several rescues by the Liaodong Ming army were also defeated by the Houjin army besieging the city. Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong, also presented a letter to the imperial court to send reinforcements to the Guan.

Zhou Yanru, as the first assistant, couldn't sit idly by at this time, because Wen Tiren was waiting for his own problem and wanted to drive himself off the throne of the first assistant.

At a critical time, it is still reliable for your own people. So today, Zhou Yanru personally wrote a private letter to some of his cronies, asking them to send the strongest army under him.

After being busy for a while, Zhou Yanru finally finished writing all the letters, and he suddenly remembered a letter written to him by his close confidant Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy Guan Yin a few days ago, asking him to transfer a garrison named Wu Shigong from Henan out of Henan.

Zhou Yanru also inquired, and the grudge between Guan Yin and the little guard was nothing more than Guan Yin's son robbing a famous prostitute with this little guard. However, after all, Guan Yin is Zhou Yanru's person, and the filial piety given to Zhou Yanru every year is very rich, so Zhou Yanru also fulfilled Guan Yin's intention in such a trivial matter.

Zhou Yanru didn't know that the origin of this letter was not entirely Guan Yin's idea, more than a month ago, Qi Chun'an, the head of the Yangzhou Qi family, sent 10,000 taels of silver to the Yanyun envoy Guan Fu, and asked Wu Shigong to be transferred out of Henan.

And if it succeeds, the Qi family can recover some of the land for selling salt goods from Guide Mansion and Runing Mansion, and can also cut off a source of wealth for Wu Shigong, and take revenge on Wu Shigong in disguise.

So Zhou Yanru wrote another letter to the governor of Henan, in which he named Wu Shigong, the garrison of Runing Mansion, to join the rescue operation outside the Guan. However, as a deal, Zhou Yanru also hinted at the governor of Henan, and now in the imperial court, there is a vacancy for the squire of the criminal department.

When Zhou Yanru finally finished writing the letter and put the letter on the thick stack of private letters, Zhou Yanru couldn't help but stretch a lot.

But what Zhou Yanru didn't know was that in his stack of private letters, there were several letters that completely affected the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

After Hou Sui, a member of the old Donglin Party, received Zhou Yanru's letter, he immediately promoted his bed partner Zuo Liangyu to an official, and asked Zuo Liangyu to lead the army to Liaodong to rescue Dalinghe City.

But this move released Zuo Liangyu, who was regarded as a pillar stone by the imperial court at the end of the Ming Dynasty and a beast by the people.

After Zhou Yanru's confidant, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, received this private letter, he immediately brought his confidant general Kong Youde and other generals from Dongjiang Town, and asked them to lead the Liaodong Dongjiang soldiers stationed in Denglai to aid the Liaodong Ming army outside the Guan.

And Kong Youde, what disgusting performances do they have? This will be described later.

When the governor of Henan received Zhou Yanru's letter, he didn't think about it at all, and immediately agreed to send Wu Shigong out. In the eyes of the governor of Henan, aren't those military attaches just tools for his civilian officials to get promoted and make a fortune?

But what will happen after Wu Shigong, the garrison of Runing Mansion, is released?