Although Ma Bao blocked the Yunnan-Guizhou border, Wang Shirong still traveled from Sichuan to Shaanxi day and night the next day. Because of the urgency, he didn't bring anyone, and rode Wu Sangui's healthy mule that traveled 800 miles a day. After sneaking into Xi'an City, I first went to the *** Admiral's Mansion and swam around, and saw a group of school captains who were busy planting stakes, wrapping cypress branches, knotting ribbons, and putting lanterns in front of him, and no one paid attention to him, so he turned around. He was thinking about whether to go to the confession first, or to meet with Zhang Jianxun, Wang Pingfan, Ma Yiguo or Gong Rongyu first, and explore the reality of this place. They are so busy building the color gate, there must be a messenger in the day, but I don't know who the imperial court will send to Shaanxi.

"Shirong!" Suddenly, someone called him from behind, and then put a hand on his shoulder, "Chicken feathers are tied to the flagpole - what a brave man!" ”

Wang Shirong was startled, and when he looked back, it was Zhang Jianxun, who had just come out of the east gate of the Admiral's Mansion with a team of soldiers carrying more than a dozen cages, and said with a smile: "It's Brother Ren, you?" What's so bold about this? Now I'll go with you to see ***, what's the matter! Zhang Jianxun smiled when he heard this: "You are just holding that handle, don't be too reckless, *** not much stupider than you!" Those who are in the know, I'm afraid they won't even be able to find the bones at this time! Wang Shirong had already thought of this, and only smiled faintly and said: "He has more than that, he has been friends with King Pingxi for decades." Besides, with you and Lao Ma here, what am I afraid of? ”

"Good job," Zhang Jianxun hurriedly instructed the captain, "Carry the things to the post house and hand them over to General Wang for placement - be careful, don't touch them, it's all jade!" He pulled Wang Shirong aside and said: "Wang Junmen is trying to show his heart to the ministers of the imperial court, although you are not afraid of death, why bother filling it as stuffing?" Go to my camp. Rest for a few days, and I will send you back to Yunnan safely! ”

Zhang Jianxun's 30,000 horses are stationed in the north of Xi'an, because he has been named the capital, and the rank is the same as ***, and he has his own line in the city. The two of them did not ride, but sat on a green tweed double eight-person sedan chair by Zhang Jianxun.

"General Zhang," Wang Shirong coughed lightly, spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and smiled for a moment, "I haven't slept well in the past few days, and the problem of vomiting red has been committed again-do you know what I mean?" Zhang Jianxun sat opposite Wang Shirong, falling rhythmically with the sedan chair, his eyes flashed, and he smiled: "Although you are nicknamed Xiao Zhang Liang, I am not a stupid uncle, if you just come to Xi'an to visit Huaqing, climb Huashan, hang Tangling, eat mutton steamed buns, knife cut noodles, how can I persuade you to leave here?" - You're my benefactor! "When he was under the command of the King of Pingxi, Zhang Jianxun was drunk, and he actually ran to Chen Yuanyuan to move his hands and feet, and Wang Shirong led out the allusion of the Spring and Autumn "Absolute Meeting" to beg for him, so he was spared from death, so Wang Shirong was regarded as a benefactor by him. At that moment, Wang Shirong only smiled faintly and said: "There is no need to mention the words of a benefactor or a benefactor, this time I came to Xi'an, I want to save you again, for virtue is not a gentleman!" ”

Zhang Jianxun fully understands the meaning of "save again", but he ...... Zhang Jianxun closed his eyes slightly, stroked his newly shaved head with his hand, and sighed abruptly: "Qin is going to come to Xi'an in three days—do you know?" Although Sun Yanling is reversed, the emperor has specially ordered Fu Honglie to be the governor of Guangxi, with full authority to investigate the chaos, Mang Yitu has led 30,000 green battalions into Guangxi, Shang Kexi was promoted to prince, Shang Zhixin was promoted to general Kou, and Wu Sangui did not move, Sun Yanling committed the following crimes, resisting the overall situation with a corner, how long can it be supported? ”

"Kangxi's hands and feet are so fast!" Wang Shirong's eyes flashed, and after a little thought, he suddenly laughed out loud.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh at you for 30 years of military affairs, and you have nothing in your chest!" Wang Shirong leaned his body on the horizontal board in the sedan chair and said word by word: "Fu Honglie and I have eight friends, and I know that he is no more than me, Wenzhi is an expert, and it is impossible to fight!" Counting on Shang Zhixin and Jin Guangzu to crusade against Sun Yanling, wouldn't it be to seek skin with the tiger - they are birds in the same nest! The reason why Wu Sangui has not moved yet is because the deployment of the armies of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces has not been completed and the arrangements have not been made, so Wang Shirong rushed to Shaanxi! Zhang Junmen, if the world is not chaotic within two months, and the beacon smoke cannot be afforded, the benefactor's head will be given to you, and you will be promoted to the rank of knight! ”

"That reckless ......"

"Wu Shang's two armies are no less than 700,000, and if 30,000 soldiers want to save the situation in Guangxi, it will not help him even if Wu Qi is reborn!" Wang Shirong smiled slightly and looked at the street scene outside the sedan window, his tone suddenly changed, and he asked again: "After talking for a long time, who is the Qincha who came to Shaanxi?" ”

"It's Moro ......"

"Good fame, great ambition and talent!" Wang Shirong said with a smile, "This is the good eyesight of the imperial court!" ”

"Feiyangu has been sent to the Fengtian Overseer, and only Mo Luo is familiar with Pingliang." Zhang Jianxun pondered Wang Shirong's words, and suddenly his heart moved, "It can be seen that the situation is urgent, the court knew that Mo Luo was at odds with ***, but still sent him, it seems that Shirong didn't tell a lie!" Just as he was about to speak, Wang Shirong's face flushed with excitement, his palms crossed and he closed violently, and said with a smile: "Zhang Gong, if you only care about stealing your life, I won't say anything." If you have the ambition to restore the Ming Dynasty, to be a fierce husband, it depends on how you deal with this stupid Mo Luo! ”

Zhang Jianxun was silent for a long time, and Fang said: "This matter is very important, let me think about it carefully, it is easy to get into trouble and it is difficult to end up!" ”

It has been three days since Mo Luo came to Xi'an, and as the minister of economic strategy, he is fully responsible for the military affairs of the West Road, and he disagrees with Kangxi's repeated instructions when he leaves, "don't make trouble, and be good at adjusting personnel". He also knew that Fei Yangu, who had been stationed in Inner Mongolia for many years, was unable to come out of Mukden, so Kangxi reluctantly appointed him to come to Shaanxi, so he was faintly unhappy about this. Since Shunzhi came to Shaanxi in 17 years, he has been operating here for ten years, he is familiar with every grass and tree in Xi'an, even the vendors who sell Dandan noodles on Gulou Street know themselves, and the Shijia archway teahouse sells and sings, and is still singing the story of the seventy-two "God" in Xi'an when he first entered Xi'an. Kangxi said that this is a dangerous place, where is the danger? The crowd on the street is still bustling during the day, and at night, the streets are still full of lights, and the gongs and drums of the big theater have been sounding until the third watch...... "No matter how holy the master is, after all, he is not a fairy!" ”

On the fourth day, Mo Luo and *** traveled to Qinling together, and on the way back, the sunset mountains, the shrine and the crows, hovering. Mo Luo watched the sunset scene for a while on the horse, and suddenly said, "Auxiliary minister, is it easy to bring the soldiers?" ”

"Huh?" After waking up from his contemplation, he sighed slightly and said, "It's okay, they're all subordinates who have been with me for many years." ”

"I've been thinking about one thing these days," said Morrow, "and if I don't say it, it's like a bone in my throat; Having said that, I'm afraid that you will be suspicious. *** grabbed Marley and stared at Moro without saying a word. Mo Luo smiled: "Don't look at me like this, I have thought about the things in the world very thoroughly over the years, and I have seen it very clearly, and the grandeur of the early years no longer exists, I just want to make friends with you with all my heart." ”

Hearing that he was so sincere, he pointed to the stone boat in front of him, which was gilded red by the setting sun, and said, "My lord has something to talk to me privately, and it is inconvenient to return to the city, how about we take a break there?" Mo Luo smiled and nodded, rode over, and ordered his retinue to wait on the spot, so he also rushed up, and the two sat down on a stone strip in front of the boat that had been washed clean by the rain.

"Sun Yanling has reversed." Mo Luo said abruptly, "Don't be surprised—what's even more worrying is that Shang Zhixin's father and son have also moved, and the Qin Cha sent to Wu Sangui's side has not had any news for more than two months!" It seems that the three feudatories are going to make a rebellion, and the big change is now! ”

Although I have been speculating for many days, once I heard the real news, my heart was still pounding, and when I spoke, my voice trembled: "So, the emperor sent you here, is he afraid that I will follow suit?" ”

"The emperor is not afraid of you, and when he left, the emperor stroked the leopard tail silver spear and said, 'You are not suspicious***, you want to spend the difficult time with him!' Moro bowed, "But your subordinates, can you guarantee that you won't fight back?" *** thought about it, bit his lip and replied: "Ma Yiguo, Wang Pingfan and Gong Rong can all be restrained when they meet me, Zhang Jianxun has always been on good terms with me, so it's hard to say." He was originally Li Zicheng's subordinate, and he had to surrender ......" Mo Luo pondered for a moment and said: "Ma Yizhu may not be reliable, isn't he also Zhang Xianzhong's person?" Now they don't know about the movements of the three feudatories, and once the news spreads, it will be difficult for these people to say! ”

"What do you think?" Pressed one hand on his knee and leaned over and asked.

Mo Luo sighed deeply and said, "I'm afraid that your suspicion is also here." These people gather in Xi'an, once there is a change, you will either follow one place or die! So the first step I want to transfer Zhang Jianxun and Ma Yistick out of Xi'an, one to the north and the other to the west, so that it will be difficult for him to collude with the three feudatories, and he will not be able to rebel if he does not sound alone! ”

"What's this? Yes! "What about the second step?" ”

"General substitution!"

If you don't say anything, you still have to be temperate and safe, and it is naturally feasible, so why change people? Mo Luo seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Of course the main general will not move, but the guerrilla thousand will always be replaced by your people!" *** raised his head suddenly, and asked in surprise: "My people, where did I come from so many people?" ”

"I came this time and brought 200 clothed house slaves, all of whom I will give to you." Mo Luo said, pulling out a piece of paper from the page of his boots, "You are already a member of the Han Army, wouldn't it be better to have a few minions?" Accept this deed of transfer, you are their banner master, exercising their power of life and death, isn't it easy to bring this soldier? With this cadre being an official below, aren't you, the admiral, sitting more steadily than you are now? ”

"Lord Mo!" Trembling and taking the paper, I was so moved that I didn't know what to say. This generous gift can be described as 10,000 taels of gold is difficult to buy, because this dry cloth banner man, even if he will enter and exit in the future, and be crowned as the king, he is still his *** minion! Suddenly, he felt that the discord with Mo Luo in the past was all about the heart of a gentleman with the belly of a villain, no wonder the people of Xi'an called him "Mo Qingtian......

On the afternoon of the second day, the generals gathered in the Admiral's Mansion and read out the order of General Mo Luo, the minister of the Qincha West Road: order Zhang Jianxun's troops to move to Baoji, and Ma Yiguo led his troops to transfer Yangjialing to prevent the internal strife and war of Tuxietu, Zasak and Chechen from spreading to Shaanxi.

"That's it," *** finished arranging, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "The Ping Fan brothers' headquarters are not moving in the original station, and they are ready to be transferred to Longnan, leaving only Gong Rongyu to guard the town of Xi'an here, and our brothers will temporarily break up, and when the north is calm, they should be transferred back - set up wine!" As he spoke, he saw Zhang Jianxun sitting motionless with a blue face, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhang, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I-" Zhang Jianxun changed his smile and said, "It's nothing, I'm going to travel for a long time, and I can't help but feel a little nostalgic for this prosperous Chang'an." As he spoke, he got up and greeted: "Lao Ma, Lao Wang, don't be so sad, we will meet again in a year and a half - come on, come on, sit down, sit down!" When no one was paying attention, Zhang Jianxun beckoned a school captain, whispered a few words, and calmly entered the table, and guessed with Ma Yizhu and Wang Pingfan.

After three rounds of drinking, it is already a mess of cups and plates. Suddenly, Gong Rongyu, the leader of the city gate, hurriedly came in with a sword, whispered a few words to ***, and retreated backwards. The hall was full of generals, and they all looked at each other in a daze.

"There is such a thing!" His eyes were like lightning, he glanced at the generals, and asked sharply, "Whose soldiers have entered the city?" ”

No one answered, and the hall was so quiet that even the sound of a needle hitting the ground could be heard. Because of the quiet, the drum noise outside the gate has faintly come in, *** in a hurry, rushing to the front of the case, pulled out an arrow, and ordered: "Rong Yu, you go out with this arrow, pass my order, tell the soldiers to return to the camp, and wait for the order!" ”

"Didn't—it worked!" Zhang Jianxun half-leaned back in the chair and stilted Erlang's leg and said, "This is a mutiny launched by my brothers!" ”

"Mutiny!" Taken aback, he looked at the generals in the hall a little blankly, as if they had all suddenly become strangers, his head and hands trembled terribly, and he asked stupidly, "Why?" ”

Zhang Jianxun put down his legs, picked up a glass of wine and shook it, leaned up, and said with a smile: "Junmen, because I still want to live!" All of my 30,000 horsemen have entered the city. At this time, I'm afraid that the bird Qincha has already fallen to the ground! ”

"Ahh As soon as his legs were weak, he sat back with his buttocks, and the leopard-tailed silver spear leaning on the side of the chair fell to the side with a "clang". He was anxious, frightened, angry, and afraid, and asked silently, "Who told you to do it?" ”

"Me!"

Wang Shirong held a jade flute in his hand, floated in with a sword on his back, stood in the hall, and raised his head and said: "I have been here for many days on the orders of the King of Pingxi, in order to save the general from being infamous for a hundred generations, restore the crown of my Han family, advocate the righteous teacher, Xingtian soldiers, and fight against Kangxi's ugliness!" ”

"Take this man down!" Roar.

"Wow!" The Chinese military academies roared.

"Who dare!" Zhang Jianxun "snapped" and started according to the case, "My soldiers have entered the street!" At this time, a tidal shout was heard outside the gate, and more than a thousand soldiers had already gotten off the weapons of the Yuanmen defenders and swarmed in, Zhang Jianxun slowly got up, paced to the door and waved his hand, and immediately became silent. Only then did he turn around and smile: "I didn't report to the military gate beforehand, forgive my brother for being rude." The Admiral can rest assured, the brother has no intention of harming, only ask the Admiral to raise the banner of righteousness and lead our brothers to create a great cause! ”

wanted to cry without tears, but he couldn't imagine that things would turn out like this, he looked left and right, and the horse chewed and drank with a stick, as if there was no one around; Wang Pingfan was excited and rubbed his hands again and again. He knew he couldn't count on these people anymore, so he sighed, picked up the gun in the ground, and stabbed it into his throat......

"Slow!" Wang Shirong knew that as soon as this person died, the Hanzhong army was leaderless, and he immediately wanted to fight among himself, so he hurriedly grabbed the arm of ***, "General, don't be like this, let's think about it in the long run!" Gong Rongyu also took a step forward, snatched the gun in ***'s hand, and said: "The military gate must not be killed!" Ma Yiba threw the bones in his hand to the ground, pulled up the tablecloth and wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, "Lao Zhang, you are too fucking unrighteous!" Such a good thing, why don't you tell me about Lao Ma first? Lao Tzu followed and did it! Wang Pingfan also smiled and said: "You Wang Shirong is really capable of ghosts, there is a big thunder in the blue sky and daylight, you have done a great job!" ”

"Do it, do it!" Covering his face, tears flowed from his fingers, "I will go to the court to accept the guilt!" ”

"You can't afford to be guilty!" Wang Shirong changed his smiling face, and when he saw the sergeants outside coming in with a big plate, he said, "Lord Admiral, please take a look, what is this?" As he spoke, he gently lifted the red cloth that covered his head.

Head. A bloody human head, braided in a pool of blood around the skull. staring at it like in a nightmare; Besides, it was the minister Mo Luo who talked to him yesterday evening. His lips trembled slightly, his face was as ugly as ashes, he collapsed in his chair, and muttered with straight eyes, "It's him...... It's ...... him."

"By the way, it's him." Wang Shirong covered the red cloth again, frowned and paced, and said slowly, "This person has always been famous and competitive, and he has a reputation as a clean official, so the people of Xi'an respect him very much. But where did his good reputation come from? In the sixth year of Kangxi, he withheld the general's military salary of 200,000 yuan and used it to help the victims, and the people gave him 100,000 umbrellas for this purpose; The general's 30,000 sergeants shivered in the tent because they had no winter clothes; He hooked up with the Xi'an general Varge to transfer all the generals' troops to the Yikezhao League north of the Great Wall, but thanks to the general's way through the scholar's pearl, his conspiracy did not succeed. Am I talking about the truth? This time he came, and he wanted to divide the armies again, so that the general was empty-handed, and he also wanted to replace the general's subordinate guerrilla generals, and overhead the general—you are stunned, and the clothed minions he transferred to you—that was a dead letter! Where have you heard that Han Chinese can also be flag masters? Such a lie, you are actually gullible, isn't it the Tang Dynasty in the world? ”

These words were reasonable, and *** slowly raised his blurred teary eyes.

"Oh, that's interesting!" Wang Shirong sighed, "Friends and enemies in the world, you, you, me, and I are so fateful!" Kangxi gave a gun, hoping that he would buy you a loyal heart without spending a penny; You were originally a confidant of King Pingxi, but because of a little thing, you became Qin Yue; Mo Luo was originally a loyal minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he had a lot of enmity with you in the past, and you cried for him; If I don't run away last time, I will inevitably be a ghost under your sword; And now that we are gathered in the birthplace of the ancestral dragon and the high ancestor, you, me, and all the heroes and the king of the peace west conspire together for the great cause, isn't this providence? It's ominous! ”

"Providence...... Ominous? *** was muttering, pondering one by one in his heart, and suddenly laughed madly, "Okay! It's from providence—oh no! You still kill me, I can't live up to it! ”

The generals looked at each other, and Wang Pingfan asked someone to go to Chuanlangzhong to diagnose him. Wang Shirong stopped and said: "He is harming the eldest young master's illness, and the eldest young master Wang Jizhen is in Beijing!" ”

Dumbfounded, staring at Wang Shirong, staring blankly, he didn't know if this person was an immortal or a demon, how did he know everything well?

"It's useless to rush at this point." Wang Shirong said, "I don't expect that the imperial court may be difficult for Brother Ji Zhen, isn't Wu Yingxiong also in Beijing?" Look, he doesn't dare to offend you! ”

"Why?" Blurted out without thinking.

Wang Shirong tightened his mouth and did not answer. He was really worried that Kangxi would not kill Wang Jizhen, which would make this half-hearted baby even more ambitious.

Zhang Jianxun ordered someone to help *** back to the back office, and said to Wang Shirong: "This cupola has been fired, you can't leave it alone!" ”

"Of course!" Wang Shirong smiled, "I have to help you sort things out, but I have to go back to recover my life." He was planning Fu Honglie's affairs again.