After leaving the cell, Wang Daxiang ran to Zheng Zhuo and told him what he knew.

After Zheng Zhuo knew all this, he knew that it was time for him to come forward.

Immediately returned to the study, took a letter out of the secret compartment, and took it to the palace to ask for a meeting.

Li Hao also knew the purpose of his coming, so he asked people to invite him in.

"This guy finally can't sit still, let's see what the hell he's doing."

Chu Fan and Zhang Yun happened to be in the government at this time, and they also wanted to solve the matter of the firearms camp as soon as possible.

After all, Li Hao is now being dragged in Qidu by this matter, and there are still many things to deal with in the state capitals outside.

After a while, Zheng Zhuo walked in familiarly.

"Wechen saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and met two adults."

Chu Fan and Zhang Yun symbolically returned the salute, and Li Hao asked Zheng Zhuo to sit down.

"Lord Zheng has been seriously ill recently, and he should have visited him, but he was busy with official business and couldn't spare time to come out, so I hope Lord Zheng won't be surprised."

Zheng Zhuo replied, "His Royal Highness Lao is worried, it's just a minor illness, and now it's getting better."

"Yes, that's a good thing, but since it's already good, then Lord Zheng should also leave for Beijing as soon as possible, you should have come to say goodbye to Lonely."

Gu already knows that you don't have to delay any longer in the future, after all, Your Majesty's order is for you to return to Beijing immediately, and deliberately delaying it will anger Your Majesty."

In the negotiation in these years, whoever speaks first will be disadvantaged, anyway, the most urgent person in this matter is definitely not Li Hao.

And Zheng Zhuo's side also understands this truth, but since he is here, he is mentally prepared.

He simply said, "Yes, I have been seriously ill during this time, and I have indeed delayed a lot of time, so I plan to leave tomorrow and rush back to the capital as soon as possible.

It's just that His Royal Highness also knows that I have caused a big disaster in Qidi this time, and after returning to the capital, I am afraid that I will not be punished by His Majesty.

Therefore I have the courage to ask Your Highness for some men, so that I may bring them back to the capital and make atonement."

Li Hao pretended to be stupid when he heard this: "This is a little difficult to do, now that the garrison of Qidi is being reorganized, reorganized, and abolished, the manpower is not enough, if only Lord Zheng had brought it up a few days earlier."

Zheng Zhuo said: "I naturally understand His Highness's difficulties, and I am willing to solve problems for His Highness, and I also ask His Highness to take a look."

As he spoke, he took out the letter he had brought from his bosom and presented it with both hands.

Li Hao was also curious, so he reached out and took the letter, opened it and looked at it.

After reading it, Li Hao asked Zhang Yun and Chu Fan to circulate the letter, and said, "Lord Zheng has made a bloody investment, just for the firearms camp."

Zheng Zhuo smiled bitterly and replied, "I have also received the news from the court, and it was I who misunderstood His Majesty's intentions and even had the idea of competing with His Highness.

Now, after much deliberation with us, we have decided to attach them to Your Highness, and these things should only be regarded as our votes, and I only hope that Your Highness will be lenient with us when he ascends the throne in the future."

Li Hao looked at Zheng Zhuo with a smile and asked, "Lone is not a narrow-minded person, as long as you don't make any trouble, Lone will treat you equally.

But since you have decided to take refuge, then why do you need this firearms battalion?"

Zheng Zhuo replied: "Your Highness is kind and kind, let me wait to be grateful, but that's all later, now that I have a big disaster, I have to make up for it in front of Your Majesty."

In the previous report uploaded to His Majesty, the results of the firearms battalion were extremely impressive, so I hope to bring a team back so that I can show my face in front of Your Majesty.

Of course, even if it is a drill, it only needs a small number of people, and there is no need to bring more gunpowder and firearms, and I ask Your Highness for permission."

Chu Fan and Zhang Yun were extremely surprised by Zheng Zhuo's sudden change, after all, they were people who had been right to each other for so many years.

It's just that the letter in front of me is full of sincerity, in addition to the gifts of expensive manors and fields, there is also a list of officials attached to them, so they

There was some hesitation for a while.

Li Hao is still strong here, although he didn't expect Zheng Zhuo to come to this show, but he still reacted quickly and replied: "You are willing to return to the right path, and Gu is also very happy, but which people do you want, such as Chen Song."

Zheng Zhuo said, "Everything is up to His Highness, but please arrange a capable person."

Seeing that this guy was interested, Li Hao smiled and said, "Okay, then think about this matter alone, as for the departure, it doesn't take care of tomorrow, you can rest for two more days, adjust your body again and then leave."

"Thank you Your Highness for your concern, Weichen retired."

Zheng Zhuo made a big salute, and then left quickly.

When the figures were too far away, Chu Fan stood up and asked, "Your Highness, do you really believe that he will sincerely take refuge?"

Li Hao smiled and asked, "Do you believe it?"

Seeing that Chu Fan shook his head, Li Hao said, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, the most important thing is to get the actual things in your hands and then talk about it, anyway, it will take a long time."

Zhang Yun also said at this time: "Yes, let's see what they will do later, if there is a real problem, they will always show their feet.

Let's talk about Chen Song now, does His Highness plan to release him to Zheng Zhuo? If he is there, Zheng Zhuo is afraid that he will rebuild a firearms camp in the capital."

Li Hao smiled: "Of course I have to let it go, since their postures are all done, then I can't cooperate to be a corporal of Lixian."

Besides, I didn't hear Zheng Zhuo say that he was going to bring the firearms battalion to His Majesty to perform the exercise, thinking that His Majesty's will to summon the firearms battalion into the capital at this time should already be on the way.

If you really leave Chen Song behind, you have to ask for instructions on another excerpt, trouble."

After saying the conclusion, Li Haocai instructed Chu Fan: "I will ask you to go to the prison later, bring Chen Song out, and then go to the firearms camp together to pick people."

Things are already decided, so don't delay everyone's time, there are still many things to be busy in the future."

Chu Fan left after receiving the order, and Zhang Yun also accompanied him.

Li Hao and Zheng Zhuo reached a consensus, and the rest of the things were handled easily.

The time for Zheng Zhuo and his entourage to leave was set, and the night before leaving, he took Chen Song to Li Hao to plead guilty.

This time it was a routine of taking the guilt of petitioning, and Li Hao also cooperated with the performance tacitly, a scene of harmony and common prosperity.

It's just that in Ren Xin's mouth, this has become shamelessness among politicians.

Without Zheng Zhuo's deliberate trouble, after Li Hao completely stabilized the Qi capital, he sent the soldiers and horses that should be transferred to the north, and Chu Fan went to Bizhou to take charge.

As for himself, he began a large-scale tour of the old land of Qi, and in addition to the firearms battalion left behind, he also dispatched 20,000 soldiers and horses.

That is, this time, in addition to sorting out the contradictions in various places, Li Hao also had to clean up the hidden dangers that had not been dealt with before.

For example, the Qi army that was defeated before, in addition to those who died in battle and surrendered, there was also a part of it that accumulated together and fell into the grass.

For these people, it must be solved, and it must be cleaned in succession to avoid the phenomenon of cutting grass without roots.

When Li Hao was busy here, the war between Anwu and Wu officially began.

In the early stage, both sides did not rashly start the decisive battle of the main force, but the confrontation of small forces.

Because the front-line commanders are all veterans, they don't know how many times they have dealt with each other, so on the whole they have won and lost each other.

Even from a purely situational point of view, the Wu army even has a certain advantage.

Ren Xin still remembered Li Hao's comments to An Wu and Wu before, and when he saw this different answer, he came to Li Hao to ridicule him.

"Didn't you say before that Wuguo would definitely lose? It doesn't seem like it's the same as you said right now!"

Li Hao smiled: "Now where is this, and it has not yet reached the place of deciding the winner, and you take a closer look at the battle report here, is it really Wuguo winning?"

Ren Xin was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Li Hao pointed to the battle report and explained, "You take a closer look, although it is on the bright side now

Look, it is the Anjun army that is retreating one after another, but judging from the casualties on both sides, the Anjun army is actually not more than the Wu army.

In other words, the An army was not defeated, but consciously took the initiative to retreat, which was obviously leading the Wu army to pursue.

Somewhere ahead, the An army has already set up an ambush, just waiting for the Wu army to take the initiative to jump in?"

Ren Xin carefully compared it when he heard this, and said, "It's really like this, but even if I can't see such a problem, can't the generals of the Wu Kingdom see it."

Li Hao replied: "The generals of Wuguo still have some capable people, and most of this matter can't be hidden, but who let Yang Xingyuan personally drive this time, and one general will be incapable of exhausting the three armies.

He is now only afraid that he has indulged in the dream of returning to the monopoly of power in the DPRK and China after the defeat of the An army, coupled with the instigation of a group of ministers in his ears, where will he listen to the advice of the contrary.

You let the people of the brocade guard continue to watch, and the end of this war is not far off."

Ren Xin agreed, and then began his routine report: "There is news from the capital, the firearms battalion has behaved unsatisfactorily in the exercise in the capital, and it has not attracted much attention from the emperor.

However, under the plea of Concubine Zheng Guifei, Zheng Zhuo was not punished too harshly, but he was deprived of 200 households, demoted to the rank of captain of Anwei, and still went to serve in the forbidden army, and the firearms battalion was also arranged under him as an errand.

It's just that Chen Song has a report from his side, and Zheng Zhuo is already asking him to secretly transfer the people in the cottage to the capital with gunpowder and firearms."

Li Hao said with a smile: "This guy is really a thief, so let's go on, let this guy make trouble in the capital and create this fruit of victory."

After finishing speaking, Li Hao continued to wait for Ren Xin to speak, but there was no sound, so he looked up.

As a result, seeing Ren Xin's ugly face, he thought he had seen some bad news, so he asked, "What's wrong, what went wrong?"

Ren Xin continued to speak when he heard this, and said with a little jealousy: "It's nothing, it's just that your crown princess is pregnant, and when she entered the palace, she was discovered, and Jinyiwei reported it."

As soon as he heard this, Li Hao suddenly understood.

Li Hao had expected that this matter would be exposed, after all, it was impossible for Zhang Han not to go out to see people all the time, as the crown princess, she had a bunch of royal affairs to do.

Before, he kept it a secret, just because he had to go through the dangerous period of the first three months, and Chen Xi was taking care of him for the rest of the days, and Li Hao was also very relieved.

And now Zheng Zhuo and the others have taken the initiative to show goodwill, wanting to relax their vigilance.

Then they will definitely not want to be exposed, and most of them will wait directly until the day of the mutiny, and everything will be clear, so the capital will be safer.

However, on Ren Xin's side, Li Hao will not analyze this, otherwise he will not be asking for hardship.

It's better to be a scumbag directly, so he grabbed Ren Xin's person and pulled her into his arms.

"I thought you were talking about something, or let's work hard, didn't my mother say before that I want you to have a child.

Now that it's been delayed for so many years, I don't want to make my mother's dream come true as soon as possible."

Ren Xin was still jealous, but when he was hugged like this, he turned a little shy and uncomfortable.

Immediately struggled to retort: "Niangniang said that I should have a child, but she also said, let me be careful of men, which sentence do you say I should listen to."

Li Hao smiled: "Naturally, I should have listened to it, but I mentioned that I wanted to marry you in front of my mother, but my mother didn't object, obviously I'm not the one to be careful."

"But Niangniang didn't directly say yes, she just let me make my own decisions, so I have to take another look."

As he spoke, he used his internal force, suddenly broke free of Li Hao's arm, and then ran away without a trace.

Of course, there are also reasons why Li Hao deliberately relaxed, after all, this time is really not suitable.

In today's changing situation, Ren Xin still has to help with the matter of Jinyiwei, and it will be quite troublesome if he is really pregnant.

And Li Hao also has to take care of the etiquette, in this feudal era, there is no matchmaker

He's not a good reputation, although Ren Xin doesn't care too much about it.

But Li Hao still has to give her the best as much as possible, and after everything is settled, the marriage will be done, and then the last step will be made.

In the days that followed, Li Hao did as usual, inspecting the prefectures and counties of Qidi, while waiting for the changes in the situation in the capital and Tianmen Pass.

In the end, it was the decisive battle of Tianmen Pass between Anwu and Wu that came first, and nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses of the two countries meandered through the desert like a long dragon, with flags fluttering, iron hooves stepping through the yellow sand, neatly arranged, and moving forward step by step.

The sun was high, the sun was shining, the heat was hot, the stones were splashing, the sand was flying, and the mighty horses and vehicles rumbled.

The sand on the ground was deeply marked by the marching procession, and the dust was billowing and the clouds were filled.

There was silence all around, except for the sound of the advancing hooves of the army, the neighing of horses, and the orders of officials, accompanied by the crisp sound of horns.

This time, the soldiers from both countries were dispatched by the best soldiers of the country, and the armor of the soldiers shone in the sun, and the swords and guns were ironclad, which was magnificent.

If you are on the front line, you must be able to feel a kind of deterrence from this neat formation, as if this army in front of you can destroy all enemies in an instant.

This mighty army eventually converged on Tianmen Pass, the dividing line between the two countries and the only site of a decisive battle.

After getting a detailed description of Jinyiwei, Li Hao couldn't help but feel sorry for the soldiers and horses of Wuguo.

In terms of combat strength alone, they are by no means without the strength to fight against the An army, but it is a pity that they are with the wrong person.