The two sides hit it off, negotiated the price, and then chatted again.

Yang Xin asked casually: "Lord Wang, what is the situation in Shandong now?" ”

Wang Yiren shook his head and said: "It's difficult, it's dangerous, many places can't even collect taxes now, and there is not much grain left in the treasury of the political secretary's yamen, and this batch of grain for the princess is still made up by a few gentry in Jinan, after all, she is the only princess of the emperor, and she can't lose her courtesy." ”

Yang Xin thought to himself, he was crying poor, I remember that there was a story that Emperor Chongzhen persuaded the emperor to donate silver, but only donated a few thousand taels of silver, and then King Chuang copied the house and copied millions of taels of silver.

So he asked again: "I heard that Liu Zongmin's army has gone south, I don't know where he is now?" ”

This is the advantage of dealing with the government, well-informed.

Sure enough, Wang Yiren said: "Listening to the Tang newspaper sent by Huai'an, more than 30,000 people of Liu Zongmin's army have arrived in front of Huai'an City, and there is no attack for the time being, and the imperial court has assembled a multi-road army near Huai'an, including more than 20,000 people in Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, more than 10,000 people in Huai'an garrison Lu Zhengfei, and more than 30,000 people in Jingnan Bogaojie's army, with a total strength of no less than 70,000. ”

Yang Xin was shocked when he heard this, this has obviously deviated from the historical trajectory, Liu Zongmin was actually sent by Li Zicheng to fight Nanming, and I don't know what he thinks, these 30,000 are elite, but such an important place in the capital was only given to Li Yan 2,000 people, even if you add the 1,500 people borrowed from Luo Rucai, it is only 3,500 people.

"Is General Yang saying that Li Zicheng's main force did not fight a decisive battle with the Manchus, but took the initiative to withdraw to Shanxi?"

After hearing Yang Xin's news, this Wang Yiren was also puzzled, and said: "So it's strange, his main force did not fight the Manchus, but sent Liu Zongmin to attack Huai'an, did he want to lead the Manchus to the south?" ”

After thinking about it, he denied himself, "No, Liu Zongmin is his confidant, if he is used as bait to lure the Manchus to fight in the south, it would be too stupid, it is better to let Liu Zongmin stay in the capital to assist Li Yan." ”

The two exchanged information, but they were still puzzled by Li Zicheng's behavior, so they had to give up.

Yang Xin asked again: "I don't know if there is any news in the capital now?" ”

Wang Yiren said: "According to the Tang newspaper of the imperial court, the news that Jinyi Wei Xizuo brought back from the north broke the siege of the capital after seven days, Li Yan was captured, and the red lady fled to Wuguan with more than 1,000 soldiers from the North Battalion. ”

Yang Xin was stunned when he heard this, this Li Yan is amazing, he actually guarded for seven days, and more than 1,000 people came out, this is quite a big gap with his own estimate, it seems that he underestimated Li Yan.

Wang Yiren said again: "This official plans to contact a group of officials to hold a banquet for the princess in Jinan City, I don't know what the general plans to do, whether to bring the princess into the city and station?" ”

Yang Xin thought about it, waved his hand, and said: "This is not necessary, now that the situation in Shandong is unknown, General Ben still plans to live outside the military city to ensure the safety of the princess." ”

Wang Yiren knew that he was worried that someone was secretly colluding with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which would be unfavorable to the princess, and he no longer persuaded him, and the two sides set a time for the delivery of weapons, so he took someone to say goodbye and leave.

After Wang Yiren left, Yang Xin walked into the princess's tent, and the princess was in a daze at the table.

Seeing Yang Xin coming in, he greeted him with great joy and asked, "Brother Yang, can we go to Nanjing now?" ”

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "It's not the right time, King Fu is about to ascend the throne and become emperor, your father has no news yet, and it is very dangerous to go to Nanjing at this time." ”

The princess was furious and said, "King Fu is really a dog, my father dared to be the emperor when he was still there, why wasn't he cut off his head by that thief in Luoyang?" ”

Yang Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Let's wait and see, and when we have the news of your father, it's not too late to make a decision." ”

The princess had to nod helplessly, if she went to Nanjing at this time, she would definitely be controlled by King Fu, if Chongzhen died, it would be okay, King Fu would still respect her as a princess for the sake of face, if Chongzhen was still alive, she would inevitably compete with King Fu for the throne, and then she would become King Fu's bargaining chip to blackmail Chongzhen.

She naturally hoped that Chongzhen was still alive, so she was absolutely reluctant to go to Nanjing at this time.

Later, Yang Xin announced to his subordinates that his wife was not his real wife, but the princess of Changping of the Ming Dynasty, and she pretended to be her wife just to hide people's eyes.

Wang Yiren also spread the news that the princess had fled south to Jinan under the escort of Yang Jiajun, and sent a Tang newspaper in the direction of Nanjing.

Yang Jiajun finally established a firm foothold in Jinan, and from time to time there were gentry officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty in Shandong who came to visit, and also sent a lot of gifts to condolence Yang Jiajun, Yang Xin did not have to worry about food for the time being.

At this time, there was no way to advance or retreat, so he could only be stationed in place, so Yang Xin simply concentrated on training the troops, and carried out intensive military training for 350 soldiers outside Jinan, while the mercenaries did not care about it, and let them eat, drink and have fun in Jinan City, as long as they did not harass the local people, they would not care.

In this way, after nearly a month, there is an endless stream of people who come to visit the princess, and the princess is more and more delicate, and Yang Xin is ignored, and he can't help but feel a little ashamed of himself, and can only be more intoxicated with training.

On this day, Yang Xin was practicing, Bai Youcai hurried over, and whispered in Yang Xin's ear: "Shandong according to the inspector Wang Yiren and the Jinyi guard commander Xu Xianchun came to the military camp to promulgate the holy decree, please go quickly." ”

These days, Yang Xin's military training for his subordinates can be said to be to the point of madness, and even the guards guarding the camp gate have been transferred to military training, just asking Bai Youcai to send some non-combatants to guard the door and be responsible for daily defense.

The name of Jinyiwei is like thunder in later generations, and Yang Xin came to this world for the first time to see Jinyiwei, and he is also the head of Jinyiwei.

Before entering the handsome camp, Yang Xin saw a man with a slender figure and clear eyebrows, wearing a gorgeous flying fish suit, but with a gloomy face, sticking to the princess, carefully whispering to the princess, and his appearance looked very respectful.

And Wang Yiren greeted him with a smile on his face, and said loudly: "General Yang, great joy, it turns out that Your Majesty has already arrived in Huai'an, and a few days ago he beheaded Liu Zeqing in Huai'an, subdued Gao Jie and Lu Zhengfei, and has already controlled the 70,000 army in Huai'an. ”

In the last arms transaction, Yang Xin spent nearly 40,000 taels of silver, most of which went into Wang Yiren's pocket, since then, Wang Yiren saw that Yang Xin was closer than his own mother, and rushed to speak at this time, obviously to pass on information to Yang Xin, so as not to catch him off guard in the face of Jinyiwei.

"What?"

Yang Xin was so surprised that even his jaw was about to drop, Chongzhen really didn't die, and he became so wise and martial that he dared to kill Liu Zeqing, his own memory, Chongzhen killed Wenchen without mercy, and he has always been lenient with military generals, just because Chongzhen does not have enough strength in his hands.

Yang Xin finally believed that this time and space was not the history he was familiar with, and it had been changed beyond recognition, and he didn't understand the reason for it for a while, so he was stunned on the spot.