Yang Xin turned his head to take a look, only to see a middle-aged man in white walking slowly, with a thin figure, a mustache, and sharp eyes.

The four people at the table stood up and bowed at the same time, and said, "Student to meet Lord Wang!" ”

Lord Wang waved his hand and said: "Everyone is exempt from courtesy, this official is also troubled by state affairs, and has no intention of working in the yamen, so I have come here to listen to the sound of the pipa of the round girl, if you don't dislike it, why don't you drink together?" ”

The four of them were overjoyed and agreed to the promise, and hurriedly asked the old bustard to send someone to clean up and add a seat.

When the old bustard passed by Yang Xin, he gave him a look, and Yang Xin immediately understood that this must be the envoy Wang who he wanted to see.

However, what surprised Yang Xin was that the person who had been playing the pipa on stage was actually called Sai Yuanyuan, who was obviously a copycat Chen Yuanyuan, but he wanted to press others again, which made people laugh.

The old bustard waited for everyone to sit down, and whispered to Lord Wang for a while, and Lord Wang's expression changed dramatically when he heard it, and he looked at Yang Xin in the direction pointed by the old bustard, and Yang Xin smiled.

After a while, the old bustard came to Yang Xin and whispered: "Son, it's okay, go over by yourself!" ”

Yang Xin shook his head, feeling that he had been too cheap in the past, so he whispered in the old bustard's ear: "You went over and told him that Gongzi had news about the Ming Emperor in his hand, and asked him to go upstairs to the private room for a secret talk!" ”

The old bustard's expression changed greatly when he heard this, and he hurriedly passed the word in a panic.

Yang Xin thought to himself, it's time to test the attitude of this Lord Wang, he is currently the biggest official in the entire Shandong, and his attitude should be representative of the attitude of most people.

Sure enough, when Lord Wang heard the word, he stood up excitedly and took the lead to go upstairs, Yang Xin did not hesitate, got up and said: "I'll go up and talk to Lord Wang about something, you wait below, don't come up without my order." ”

Lord Nawang also arranged for two soldiers to guard the corridor outside the private room, not allowing anyone to approach.

Yang Xin pushed the door in, and Lord Wang was sitting at the table looking at himself with blazing eyes, Yang Xin stepped forward, poured himself a cup of tea, took two sips, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, I am fortunate to be happy!" ”

Lord Wang stared at Yang Xin and asked eagerly: "Brother Yang, you are from the capital, how is the emperor now, dead or alive?" ”

Yang Xin didn't answer in a hurry, and asked rhetorically: "I don't know if Lord Wang has received the news, is Nanjing preparing to set up a new monarch?" ”

Lord Wang was sweating profusely, thinking to himself, the other party asked like this, it must be because he had the specific situation of Chongzhen in his hands, and he was testing his attitude.

After a little hesitation, he said: "Indeed, Ma Shiying has contacted the four towns of Jiangbei, and he will push King Fu to ascend the throne in a few days." ”

He decided to tell the truth and not help each other, after all, Chongzhen reigned for seventeen years, and under the prestige, Lord Wang did not dare to hide the truth.

Yang Xin was taken aback, he is now the same as Lord Wang, and he doesn't know whether Chongzhen is dead or alive, since Nanjing has prepared to set up a new monarch in Nanjing, it is clear that at least Chongzhen has not escaped to Nanjing, so at this time, the princess should not go to Nanjing.

Seeing that his face had changed greatly, Lord Wang thought that he really had the news of Chongzhen in his hand, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Yang, where is the emperor?" ”

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "I don't know where the emperor is, but Her Royal Highness Princess Changping is in our army." ”

There is a princess as a living signboard, no need to use it in vain, otherwise the cities in Shandong will always treat themselves as thieves, and it will be really difficult.

Lord Wang's mouth opened wide and he was speechless in surprise.

So, Yang Xin explained to him in detail how to save the princess and escape from the capital.

The king immediately said that he wanted to meet the princess.

Yang Xin thought for a while and said, "The princess is in the camp outside the city, and Lord Wang can go to see her at any time." ”

Lord Wang nodded and said, "Okay, wait for the lower officials to go back and make some preparations, and I will come to meet the princess tomorrow." ”

Yang Xin nodded and said: "I have someone left in the Yuelai Restaurant next to me, if Lord Wang wants to come, you only need to go to the Yuelai Restaurant to report my name, and they will bring you to the camp." ”

The princess is on the street, Yang Xin doesn't want him to see the princess like this, after all, this is his territory, in case he has evil thoughts, it will be embarrassing to take the princess to please the Manchu Qing.

Then the king took his leave and left.

And Yang Xin finally understood a truth, Qinglou is easier to talk about things than Yamen.

When she left the Qinglou and returned to the restaurant, the princess had already bought a lot of goods and came back, and bought Yang Xin two sets of clothes, shoes and hats, and she was so excited that she asked Yang Xin to wear them to her on the spot.

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The next day, the princess dressed up in the camp to meet the princess, the princess did not do things properly, did not make the news of the princess's arrival public, but brought a few henchmen and officials, and sent someone to bring 3,000 taels of silver, 200 stone of grain, silk cloth and other materials to the princess, and also brought eight maidservants into the camp to serve the princess.

"Chen Shandong envoy Wang Yiren visited Her Royal Highness the princess, the princess is a thousand years old!"

Lord Wang and the others were very respectful and knelt down to the end.

The princess said: "Get up, the king has given such a great gift to the palace, which shows that his loyalty is commendable, and when he sees his father, he will tell his father about his loyalty." ”

Wang Yiren got up with joy, the news from the north, Emperor Chongzhen's whereabouts are unknown, and now that the princess can come to Jinan alive, the probability of Chongzhen alive has increased greatly in his heart, these gifts are nothing, they can only be regarded as reasonable political speculation.

Wang Yiren asked: "I don't know what Her Royal Highness the princess plans to do, and when she plans to go to Nanjing?" ”

The princess said: "Now the bandits are rampant on the way to Nanjing, and I can only look at it, General Yang escorted the palace all the way south, and fought with the Qing army and thieves repeatedly, the soldiers were killed and wounded countless times, and the weapons and armor were missing, I wonder if Lord Wang can support him with a batch of weapons?" ”

Wang Yiren looked embarrassed and said: "Back to Your Highness, Shandong is now rampant with thieves, the chief soldier Liu Zeqing fled to Huai'an, taking away a large number of soldiers, Jinan City is now precarious, lack of soldiers, horses and weapons. ”

Yang Xin hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, don't worry, you can buy it with silver, and the weapons and armor temporarily stored in the treasury can be given to our army first, and you can build the rest slowly." ”

Lord Wang was immediately relieved, as long as he gave money, it would be easy to do, and hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Yang Xin gave the princess a look, the princess got up to say goodbye and left, and the two began to bargain.

In the end, it was not cheap, at the price of one hundred taels of muskets, one hundred and twenty taels of armor, and one hundred and fifty taels of tiger squat cannons, a batch of weapons was purchased, which basically emptied the arsenal in Jinan, and also spent Yang Xin's budget, but fortunately, Lord Wang also gave a batch of leather armor, big knives and spears and other cold weapons, compared with Sun Shixiong, it is also slightly cheaper.

In fact, the cost of muskets in this era was about 100 taels, and Sun Shixiong could sell them cheaply because the muskets of the Dashun Army were robbed and had no business, and Lord Wang was purely looking at the face of the princess, but the book was rationed to Yang Jiajun, and he was actually greedy in it.