"Master Liu, go slowly, you subordinates, don't fall Lord Liu!"

Seeing the drunken Liu Fangming get on the sedan chair, Xia Yiyu reprimanded a few subordinates who were waiting for him, and those subordinates nodded and agreed, and then listened to the coachman's shout, and the carriage began to move slowly.

After the carriage began to move, Liu Fangming, who was still drunk in the carriage, instantly became energetic, he wiped his face, and let out a long breath of turbidity, which seemed to expel the boredom in his chest.

Tonight, he accepted Xia Yiju's invitation to go to his mansion to drink, and the latter had been using various excuses to spy on his thoughts on the imperial court, hoping that he would stay in Nanchang and take command, but he did not say a word about the entry of his troops into the city.

Liu Fangming knew very well that Xia Yiju wanted to keep him in the city as a hostage or something like that, so as to control the soldiers and horses of Ningxia and make it impossible for him to surrender to the Ming army.

He opened the corner of the curtain of the carriage and peered out into the silent street, trying to relieve the boredom on the way home.

Since the main force of the Ming army was pulled out from Jinxian County, and the troops went straight to Changcheng, Nanchang City fell into panic again, and those squires and landlords knew that they would be unlucky after the Ming army returned, so they all stepped up to sell their property and fled to the north.

As a result, the streets of Nanchang City became deserted, day and night, in addition to purchasing food and some necessary daily necessities, the local people chose to stay at home and do not go out, praying that the war would soon pass.

The tension in the city has also led to a surge in public security incidents, and in just a few days, the Nanchang government has received several reports, theft, robbery and other evil cases have made the residents' emotions even more panicked.

The most intuitive manifestation is that Liu Fangming, who walked home at night, could see that even the people who were on the shift were in a hurry, and he couldn't wait to complete the task and go back to work.

Not only that, Liu Fangming looked out through the gap in the curtains that were pulled up, and from time to time he could see a few figures flashing in the dark alley on the side of the street.

Passing through the lonely streets and returning to the collapse in the city, Liu Fangming went directly to bed under the service of the maidservant, and looked like she was about to fall asleep in a daze.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard the breathing of a second person in the room.

The experience accumulated over the years on the battlefield made him quickly sober up, and his right hand silently touched the dagger hidden under the pillow, and the next second he touched the cold dagger, his eyes suddenly opened, his body burst out, and the dagger was about to pierce the place where the breathing sound came from.

But before he could swing his dagger, he noticed a cold blade stop less than a centimeter in front of his neck.

"Lay down your arms."

The unfamiliar voice rang in my ears.

Liu Fangming's heart tightened, he didn't have time to think about how the other party came in, feeling the chill coming from the front of his neck, he let go of his right hand, and the dagger slipped and fell.

At this time, with the help of the faint moonlight spilling in from the window, Liu Fangming finally vaguely saw the face of the owner of this voice, that person was just a middle-aged man with an ordinary face, his eyes were calm, but the murderous aura emanating from his eyebrows was trembling.

"You, who are you?"

Liu Fangming quickly calmed down his mood and asked the man.

"The commander of the Jinyi Guard under the command of the King of Nan'an County in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yuanyong, on the order of His Royal Highness the King of the County, came to visit Lord Liu, the chief soldier of Ningxia."

"Jin Yiwei? The king of Nan'an? Liu Fangming was taken aback, but his tense nerves then relaxed.

If the other party came to assassinate him, with the other party's kung fu of sneaking into the room without knowing it, how could he have a chance to listen to the other party's self-report, and he would have already been in a different place by now.

And the other party gave him the opportunity to hear his identity and intentions, which means that the other party must have other intentions, combined with the Ming army's actions today, Liu Fangming immediately guessed that the Ming army was likely to persuade him to surrender.

As Liu Fangming had guessed, he relaxed and asked Wang Yuanyong about the purpose of the other party, and Wang Yuanyong did not answer immediately, but showed him that it was neatly placed on the table (this chapter is not over!). )

Chapter 238: Surrender

A few ingots of gold, and at the same time said in his mouth:

"His Royal Highness the King of the County is benevolent, and he does not want to see the Ningxia soldiers who are about to be buried for the pseudo-Qing that is about to fall, and I remember that Lord Liu was once my Ming general, and I was forced to surrender the Manchu Qing Dynasty out of desperation, so I ordered me to come and pass a word to Lord Liu."

"What?"

"The so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, Lord Liu's past move to surrender to the Qing Dynasty is really forced to be helpless, and he is not to blame in the past, now that the king is returning, why not return to the king, atone for his crimes, save the life of the sons and daughters in the army, and avoid the suffering of dying in a foreign country?"

After speaking, Wang Yuanyong took back the embroidered spring knife and asked Liu Fangming to think about how to make a decision, although Wang Yuanyong took back the knife and looked defenseless, but Liu Fangming would not be stupid to think that the other party did not defend himself, so that he could find an opportunity to sneak attack.

In fact, Liu Fangming was now able to shout outside to inform the guards to come in and arrest Wang Yuan, but he didn't think it was a good idea.

Wang Yuanyong also agreed with what he had just said that the Qing court's poor notification in the north and successive defeats in the southeast showed that the new empire was rapidly declining, and that continuing to serve it would only cost one's life in vain.

And Liu Fangming is not a loyal and patriotic person, otherwise he would have died fighting against the Qing army in the wave of the Qing army's entry into the customs, instead of just now, he became a frontier general of the Qing Dynasty.

On one side is the crumbling Qing Dynasty, on the other side is the Southern Ming Dynasty that turned the tide and began to prosper, and then looked at the number of ingots of gold on the table, Liu Fangming suddenly made a decision in his heart.

……

"Your Highness, that Liu Fangming accepted the gold brought by his humble position, and expressed his willingness to surrender to my Ming Dynasty and seize Nanchang Mansion City for our army."

In the camp of the Ming army, Wang Yuanyong, who slipped out of Nanchang, knelt in front of Su Yan and reported to him the results of this mission.

Su Yan listened to his report, his face was calm and light, and he didn't have any other emotions because of this - Liu Fangming's surrender was in his expectation, and smart people would make such a correct choice.

If Liu Fangming rejected his persuasion and stood firmly on the side of the Qing Dynasty, Su Yan would be surprised, because Liu Fangming would make such a decision, except for wanting to sell at a price, Su Yan could not find any other reason to explain.

In any case, although Liu Fangming agreed to persuade him to surrender, Su Yan did not completely relax because of this, until the wood was completed and before Nanchang City was recovered, he had to take precautions against Liu Fangming's rebellion.

Chapter 238: Surrender