What Su Yan said is not unreasonable, if it is really according to his opinion, the Ming army will fall into a passive state no matter which path it chooses.

In order to regain the initiative in his own hands, Su Yan decided to do the opposite, taking the initiative to attack Tan Tai when Ma Guozhu's headquarters was stopped outside Tongxiang County - attacking now is the best time to defeat the Qing army.

When Su Yan sounded the horn of collecting troops and was about to go to pursue the Qing army, a Kalmyk archer, who had been incorporated into the night group, suddenly entered the army with several cavalry, and reported to Su Yan that a messenger from Nanning wanted to see him.

Hearing that the envoy was from Nanning, Su Yan immediately guessed that it was a messenger sent by the imperial court, since it was a messenger sent by the imperial court, Su Yan did not deliberately hang the idea of others, he immediately ordered someone to bring the envoy over.

The envoy was still wearing the cyan official uniform of the imperial court, and his face looked a little tired, but after being led by the guards, he still cheered up, tidied up his clothes, stepped in front of Su Yan and bowed, and said:

"Xiaguan Zhongshu is in charge of the heir Qiu, meet the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Lord Su!"

After speaking, he bowed deeply, and then straightened up and looked at Su Yan, who also arched his hand and said straight to the point: "Steward, Your Majesty ordered you to come, but there is a will?" ”

"Exactly." Guan Siqiu nodded, but his face showed a little sorrow, and said: "It's just that after the lower officials arrived in Xiamen, they heard that Sun Kewang moved His Majesty to Anlong, Sun Kewang is an ambitious person, and His Majesty fell into his hands, I'm afraid it will ......."

The latter words, Guan Heiqiu did not say it explicitly, but the people present were able to take advantage of the situation to get the content behind him, Su Yan pursed his lips, or out of the scene to express his attitude, said: "Don't worry, after our army defeats the Qing army and recovers Nanjing, I will ask that Sun Kewang to hand over His Majesty and move to Nanjing." ”

After Guan Siqiu entered Zhejiang, he heard a lot of Su Yan's current military situation, the soldiers and horses of the five provinces of the Qing court came to encircle and suppress, and his pressure was no less than that of Sun Kewang in the southwest, so it was completely impossible to persuade Su Yan to lead the army to King Qin.

Taking a deep breath, Guan Siqiu replied, "I only hope that Lord Su will still remember today's words at that time." ”

After speaking, he paused, motioned to the servants who followed behind him to take out the holy decree, and said at the same time: "Lord Su, the lower officials have His Majesty's will here, please prepare to receive the decree." ”

Su Yan nodded, walked to Guan Heiqiu, and took the lead in kneeling down, Wang Yi, Su Ci and the guards present also knelt on the ground, Su Yan then said: "Everything in the army is simple, and the steward will directly announce the order." ”

Guan Heiqiu did not answer, after receiving the holy decree handed over by the servant, he unfolded the holy decree, then coughed, cleared his throat, and read out the content of the holy decree aloud, the first holy decree was to marry the sister of Zhu Chenggong, who had been named the king of Yanping County, to Su Yan to show the emperor's kindness.

The second decree praised Su Yan and his soldiers for their exploits in recovering the country, and conferred Su Dingyuan as the commander of Pingyang and the post of chief soldier of Zhejiang, and gave Su resignation as the post of Fu'an Bo and the post of chief soldier of Fujian.

After the two holy decrees were read, Su Yan didn't react for a while, why was he tired and tired here, and he didn't get anything except a marriage?

At this moment, Su Ci saw that Su Yan did not move, and carefully touched his heel, Su Yan reacted, and said that he would accept the decree, while standing up and taking the holy decree from Guan Siqiu's hand, although he did not show it obviously, Guan Siqiu was still able to guess Su Yan's thoughts, and after thinking about it, he decided to help Yongli explain.

So, Guan Heiqiu whispered to Su Yan: "Master Su, Your Majesty deeply feels that your military achievements are great, and I wanted to promote you to the Duke of the country, but the ceremonial eunuch Pang Tianshou stopped Your Majesty on the grounds that the promotion of the Lord was too fast and did not conform to the etiquette system, and Your Majesty could only reward you with marriage." ”

"Pang Tianshou?" Su Yan was slightly stunned, this is the first time he has heard of this name, how can it be for no reason, then Pang Tianshou is going to hinder his good deeds?

Seeing that Su Yan was stunned, Guan Heiqiu continued: "You don't know, in the court, the military department Shangshu Liu Qiyu implored His Majesty to move to Fuzhou, one of the tasks of the lower official this mission is to discuss with you the matter of the imperial court transfer, and that Pang Tianshou had a personal relationship with Sun Kewang in private, after the lower official left, Sun Kewang ordered his subordinate general Feng Shuangli to forcibly move His Majesty to Anlong. ”

"Xiaguan boldly guessed that Pang Tianshou was very likely to have reached some kind of agreement with Sun Kewang, in order to move the holy car to Sun Kewang's territory, so as to achieve the purpose of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes."

"But what does this have to do with me?" Su Yan frowned and asked rhetorically.

Guan Heiqiu was a little anxious, he continued: "Master Su, your influence has spread all over the southeast, if you are promoted to the prince of the country, or even the king, the court will rely on you even more, then Sun Kewang has always tried in vain to become the regent of the court, if your title is higher, it will threaten the status of that Sun Kewang, don't you understand?" ”

Hearing this, Su Yan finally understood, he only felt a little itchy, he was working desperately on the southeast front in order to repel the Qing army and regain his homeland, then Sun Kewang shrank in Yungui, and he had to drag himself back in the court, it can only be said that Nanming's infighting gene is too strong, and Sun Kewang, who was named the king of Nanming Qin not long ago, was infected so quickly.

However, he didn't have a chance to clean up that Sun Kewang for the time being, as he just said to Guan Siqiu, when he conquered Nanjing, he would slowly settle accounts with those pig teammates if there was anything.

After figuring it out, Su Yan cleaned up his mood and said to Guan Heiqiu: "Guan Sheren, since Your Majesty was moved to Anlong by Sun Kewang, why don't you go back yet, just stay on my side and help stabilize the newly recovered state capital?" ”

"It's an honor to be a lower official." Guan Heiqiu arched his hand and said: "As long as Lord Su does not dislike the lower officials for being stupid, the lower officials are willing to assist the lords." ”

Guan Heiqiu thought very clearly in his heart, his status in the Southern Ming Dynasty was not high, and now the entire court was under the control of Sun Kewang, and now he was bullied by Sun Kewang when he went back, so it was better to stay on Su Yan's side to monitor Su Yan for the court, and then persuade him to welcome the holy car after he recovered Nanjing.

What Guan Heiqiu didn't know was that as long as he accepted Su Yan's invitation and worked for Su Yan, the system would have an impact on him, making him gradually loyal to Su Yan.

After Guan Heiqiu accepted Su Yan's invitation, Su Yan asked him to return to Hangzhou Mansion, and ordered someone to send Su Dingyuan's "Zhejiang General Military Seal" that he brought over with him to Su Dingyuan in Quzhou, no matter what, Su Dingyuan was also the first person under Su Yan to be knighted by the imperial court, even if Su Dingyuan, who was loyal to Su Yan, didn't care, this was also a good start.

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