At noon on the second day, after Xue Lao Er and Zhang Hong led their soldiers and horses back, Zhou Shixian finally ordered the army to march.

Zhang Hong continued to lead the first guard of the martial arts/guard battalion and Xue Laoer's dozens of brocade guards, controlling the three military leaders and tens of thousands of slender men.

Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, as well as the princess ministers, finally returned to the familiar carriage, and the happiest among them were Empress Zhou and Xiao Zhaoren.

Compared with the bumpy carriage and horses, Queen Zhou is actually more unaccustomed to the rocking of the boat, but she has always been reluctant to toss the horse because of her own problems, so she endured it all the way.

Xiao Zhaoren likes tall horses, and when she sees a horse, this little girl can jump up happily, which is happier than asking Zhou Shixian to eat pastries.

However, although everyone in the convoy relaxed a lot because of entering Nanzhili, Zhou Shixian clearly sensed Emperor Chongzhen's abnormality.

Especially in the past few days, the other party always seems to want to intervene in the affairs of going south, but because he didn't find a good reason, he just knocked a few words when Zhou Shixian asked him for peace, and he didn't say anything more for the time being.

Zhou Shixian knew that the other party was an indecisive and suspicious person, so he had been serving carefully.

At this time, it is not the time when his tiger body is shocked, and then his domineering is exposed, for a person like Chongzhen, who is stubborn and self-serving, he has to use another set of methods, to be gentle.

He actually knew that with Emperor Chongzhen returning to the Dragon Court, he would be subject to more restrictions.

But in the current situation, Zhou Shixian still has to use Chongzhen's hand to reform the bureaucratic system of the Ming court and revitalize this three-hundred-year-old dynasty, so he has to continue to deal with the other party.

After all, the local forces in the southern provinces are so complicated, with Zhou Shixian's current qualifications and strength, if he stands directly in the foreground, it will be difficult to calculate others, and no one will be able to take the blame.

And he simply doesn't have time to deal with these things slowly now.

In order to maintain a distance of thirty miles from the slender man team behind, the convoy only traveled forty miles a day, and it probably took the evening of the third day to reach Huai'an City.

At the expense of horsepower, Zhou Shixian's henchman with one person and three horses, Wang Chaodong, the general banner of Jinyiwei, and Ni Yuanlu's six-person team set off yesterday evening, and should have arrived in Huai'an City by now.

As for one person and four horses, and another Jinyi guard who also spared no horsepower, they could also travel more than 400 miles in three days to report to Nanjing.

This is an extremely ingenious time difference, if something happens to Huai'an, Zhou Shixian can occupy another small city, only need to hold on for two days, Shi Kefa can lead the Nanjing Beijing camp to arrive, and can also order the Ming army near Huai'an to exterminate the rebels, three hundred miles to expeditious, one and a half days and a half.

Zhou Shixian's march with great fanfare, there must be many people who choose to wait and see, and when the time comes, they will have the motivation to send troops when the rebels are exterminated.

Instead of them becoming rebels, they were shipwrecked.

And whether Shi Kefa believes it or not, he will inevitably lead his troops to the north, which is not a question of belief or not for him, but a matter of morality and loyalty, Zhou Shixian asked Emperor Chongzhen to write a holy decree to him.

In the evening, Wang Chaodong and Ni Yuanlu finally arrived in Huai'an City, Lu Zhenfei seemed to have made arrangements, as soon as the city gate heard that it was Jinyiwei, they were immediately released, and someone took them in to see Lu Zhenfei.

Seeing this, Ni Yuanlu was overjoyed, it seemed that Lu Zhenfei was on Chongzhen's side. After all, rebellion is a great crime of rebellion, and it is the most unbearable stain on all scholars and doctors with moral integrity in this era.

However, when they entered, the greeting person did not take them directly to see Lu Zhenfei, but took them to the side room, saying that Lu Zhenfei was meeting with the distinguished guests Lu Gonggong and General Liu.

As soon as Ni Yuanlu heard it, he knew that something bad was wrong, it seemed that someone was one step ahead of them, so he immediately asked the person who greeted him to find a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a secret letter to Lu Zhenfei, and asked the person who greeted him to send it immediately.

The other party saw that Ni Yuanlu's words and deeds showed extraordinary bearing, and the brocade guard was respectful to him, and he didn't dare to slack off at all, so he hurried away.

In the study, Lu Jiude and Liu Zeqing glanced at each other, and then said to Lu Zhenfei:

"Lord Lu, you also know the current situation, there are Liukou in the north, and the situation in the south is turbulent, if the country has no king for another day, you and I will do nothing, won't the world of the Ming Dynasty be ruined?"

"Father-in-law Lu, be cautious!"

Lu Zhenfei was also quite excited, if Lu Jiude had come two days earlier, he might have supported King Fu, after all, according to the order, it should indeed be the most legitimate Fu Domain.

But two days ago, the dynasty came to the east, so the situation was different.

And Lu Jiude's time was to recruit Liu Zeqing, and the other party has now joined the camp of supporting blessings, and immediately persuaded him: "Lord Lu ......"

It's just that before he could speak, the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion who greeted Ni Yuanlu knocked on the door and came in.

Then, I saw a thin civil official quickly take the secret letter, and specially avoided the sight of Lu Jiude and Liu Zeqing to look at it.

Lu Jiude looked at Lu Zhenfei with joy, and immediately secretly said in his heart that it was going to be bad, it seemed that he was one step late, and this Lu Zhenfei had already gotten the news.

Seeing this, Lu Jiude recalled Lu Zhenfei's perfunctory procrastination just now, and didn't ask anything more, and immediately clasped his fists and said goodbye: "Since Lord Lu is entangled in important matters, then our family will leave first." But what our family just said, please consider it carefully. ”

Then he turned his head to look at Liu Zeqing and said, "General Liu, let's go!" ”

Liu Zeqing was originally brought by Lu Jiude, although he was confused at this time, he didn't know what was going on, but since Lu Jiude had spoken, he could only follow Lu Jiude.

The two walked out of Lu Zhenfei's study together, and after walking a few steps away, Liu Zeqing looked back, and after making sure that the people in the study couldn't hear it, he asked, "Father-in-law, what is this?" ”

"The situation has changed abruptly, Lu Zhenfei has taken refuge in King Lu, he is short-sighted, where did King Lu come from?"

Lu Jiude casually made up nonsense, he couldn't let Liu Zeqing perceive the truth, otherwise the other party would definitely not follow him.

"That ......"

Liu Zeqing was about to ask something again, but Lu Jiude hurriedly interrupted: "Be careful that the wall has ears, and go back to talk about it." ”

"Yes!"

The two of them immediately walked out of the Lu Mansion, and Lu Zhenfei's governor and the governor of the pacesetter camp would personally send them off, but what Liu Zeqing didn't notice was that Lu Jiude secretly glanced at the other party.