For a while, Zhang Gui and Zhu Xieyuan couldn't believe that the official army would win so quickly, so they had to be more steady, and only let some of the officers and troops cross the river to pursue first.

But at this moment, Liu Zongmin came to report to Zhang Guiyu: "The envoys sent from the other side want to see the supervisor and the strategy. ”

"The sum is coming?"

After Zhang Gui heard this, he stood up.

Then, Zhang Gui furrowed his brows, looked at Zhu Xieyuan and asked, "Or are they realizing that the imperial army is difficult to defeat, and deliberately seeking peace, in order to delay the opportunity and mobilize more soldiers and horses?" ”

Zhu Xieyuan thought for a while and said, "Uncle Guo, the lower officials think that they can take advantage of the victory to pursue." They shouldn't be deliberately seeking peace, thinking that they will fight again! It's really powerless. ”

"First, according to the information provided by the factory guards, the puppet rebels have no intention of fighting except for the hired foreign soldiers; Second, it's good that they don't seek peace, but if they seek peace, this can only show that they only have the heart of Gou'an, not the ambition to unify the universe! Therefore, I am afraid that those in power will not have the will to fight. ”

Zhang Gui nodded after hearing this, and had to admit in his heart that Zhu Xieyuan was the person who commanded Qin Liangyu and other soldiers and horses in history to quell the rebellion in the southwest, and his military judgment was indeed reasonable.

And he was as good as a stream, and he didn't feel jealous because Zhu Xieyuan, a Wenchen who was already good at being a commander in history, was better at analyzing the battle situation than himself, so he nodded:

"Then please ask Jinglu to act as the superintendent and convey the order to march into the army, Liu Zongmin, you go with you, just say that the meaning of Jinglu is the meaning of this superintendent! As for the other party's peacemaker, call him, and the Governor will meet him himself! ”

Zhu Xieyuan also had to admit that although Uncle Guo was ruthless and never looked down on scholars, he was still very willing to respect the opinions of his conspirators on major matters, and did not appear to be arbitrary and stubborn.

Therefore, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Gui with admiration in his heart, and secretly thought that it was no wonder that Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang were now looking at him, and even Wei Zhongxian of the Great Inner was also respectful to him, and he dared to be affectionate not only because of the holy scroll Zhenglong.

"Yes!"

Here, Zhu Xieyuan and Liu Zongmin went out of Zhang Gui's superintendent tent and came to the military office where several military department praise and painting directors were concentrated, which was equivalent to the staff room of later generations, and dispatched all the armies of the Guards to cross the river to pursue.

With one order after another, the officers and troops began to cross the river in a big way and rush to land on the beach.

For a time, the west bank of the river was full of officers and soldiers.

Some officers and soldiers have even entered the vicinity of Changsha Mansion in order to seize merit.

Along the way, because they were afraid of being liquidated, the gentry from all over the country organized their hometown Yong under the banner of purifying the traitors and catering to the king's division, and organized the village Yong, tied up or killed the officials appointed by the puppet dynasty, and opened the city to join the official army.

As a result, the entire puppet ruling area collapsed, and it didn't take long for a large number of prefectures and counties to be recovered by the official army.

And Yao Zhijing, the envoy of the puppet dynasty Taichang Temple Shaoqing who was sent by Zhao Shichun to sue for peace, met Zhang Gui in this context.

Yao Zhijing didn't expect him to be in such a situation.

Originally, he was the magistrate of Xiangshan County, Daming, but soon after receiving the edict that he would be raided if he did not respect the Han and degrade him, he was sentenced to a eucalyptus of condescension and respect for the Han, but he suddenly became a rebel minister, and was promoted to a puppet imperial history by Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun when he established another court.

Of course, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun naturally wanted to win over local officials, so as to prevent them from not supporting their establishment of another imperial court, so they promoted these local officials, and promoted them back to Beijing to be closely watched, and then sent their own people to various prefectures and counties to serve as official officials, so as to strengthen their control over the local area and make their power in the puppet dynasty more stable.

This can also be regarded as a kind of conspiracy.

In terms of infighting, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun are still at a good level.

It's just that Yao Zhijing took the lead in being an official who respected the Han and degraded the eucalyptus, so Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun always thought that he was an official who supported the reform of the law and the Han Dynasty, and after he was promoted back to Beijing, he was abandoned and did not promote him again.

But at this time, in order to be able to rule the river with the Ming court, and in order to be able to make peace with the imperial court, he remembered Yao Zhijing, who was beaten by them as a law-changer, and immediately promoted Yao Zhijing to be the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and sent him to negotiate peace.

As soon as Yao Zhijing saw Zhang Gui, he expressed his intention, and then said: "Uncle Guo, when is the time for retribution, there are those who do not respect science in this world, there are those who respect science, there are those who abide by the way of sages, and there are those who do not abide by the way of sages. ”

"Didn't Uncle Guo always advocate that the Han people should have a national consciousness before they valued their compatriots, so why do we have to kill all the Han people in the world who just want to be science disciples now?"

"Don't you understand a truth? If you can't get it on the battlefield, don't want to get it at the negotiating table. Do you think it's useful for you to say this now? ”

Zhang Gui asked.

Yao Zhijing said: "In any case, please Uncle Guo in front of everyone who is Han and allow us to rule across the river." We are willing to pay a tribute of 300,000 taels of gold, 2 million stones of grain, and 100,000 horses of silk. ”

"Now you know the word Tihan? How badly the Han people in this area were harmed by you, don't you see? When you forced them to starve to death, did you think that they were also Han Chinese? ”

Zhang Gui asked.

"This ......"

Yao Zhijing thought for a while and said: "They are voluntary, they donate voluntarily, even if they starve to death. ”

"After all, if they don't want to, in principle, they can refuse, they can go, but they themselves choose to donate, they choose to starve themselves to death, but they also want to support science, support the ancestral system, although such loyal and good people are rare and respectable, but they are indeed no wonder that they starved to death!"

Zhang Gui couldn't help but get angry after hearing this, he had seen shameless, but he had never seen such shamelessness, so he said:

"Whether they are willing or not, I don't want to see my people starving, and if I promise you peace today, I will be sorry for Your Majesty! In addition, if you are allowed to stand on your own, you will be sorry for Huaxia! As for the Han people, if they really voluntarily die for you, then okay, then you will organize the people to continue to die for you, and this governor will organize the people who are willing to put down the rebellion for the imperial court. ”

After Zhang Gui spoke, he ordered: "Xu Fuyuan! ”

Xu Fuyuan, the new governor of Liangguang, walked in: "The lower official is here!" ”

"Send him away! In addition, immediately organize migrant workers along the way, and tell the local people that anyone who is willing to support the reform of the imperial court and is unwilling to sacrifice for science can receive relief food or join the migrant labor team to work and earn money! ”

"Yes!"

Xu Fuyuan responded, and then said to Yao Zhijing: "Please!" ”

Yao Zhijing hesitated.

Seeing that he wasn't leaving, Zhang Gui asked, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Thump!

Yao Zhijing suddenly knelt down and said: "Inspector Rongyu, students are different from those foolish people who would rather starve to death than donate money to fund the exclusive respect of science and restore the ancestral system, students have always believed that learning should be realistic, and they have always believed that the Han people should be respected, but the students are afraid of death, and dare not learn to be corrupt and martyrdom, and they have always hoped to get the grace of the monarch's father Yulu, so they keep the humiliated body, and to this day, now they have to see the supervisor, after relaying the begging and words of Zhao Thief, I just want to ask the supervisor to allow the students to be attached, even if the students go back and only be an ordinary Han person, It's also better than students bullying their own people together with Waiyi in the puppet dynasty! ”

"Please be gracious!"

As he spoke, Yao Zhijing kowtowed heavily.