At the beginning, Lou Zishi wanted to build the country of Shangrao, but Du actually opposed it with all his might. He thought that since you had raised troops for the anti-corruption officials, there was no need to take this step, and the two parted unhappily.

What happened later made Du Jing more and more disheartened, he didn't want to compete with He Zhang, and finally hid in this courtyard. Fortunately, the Second Heavenly King is an understanding person.

Without his protection, I'm afraid my uncle and nephew wouldn't be alive now. Du is very clear about this! Now that Wang Fan came to show him this document, he obviously didn't know what to do.

"The captain can finally get out of here, maybe he should leave us behind?" He smiled.

Wang Fan's head shook like a rattle: "How can Mr. say that? You and the fourth prince are not things that can be discarded at will!"

He stopped and asked Du Jing to sit down first, pulled over the bamboo stool and sat on the side, and asked, "Does Mr. think Lou Shuai is a defeat?" But the second time I withdrew from Shangrao."

"He wasn't defeated, but he lost the morale of the army." Du Jing sighed: "Do you know that a team without morale can't even deal with grass coars, let alone such a big city?"

"The second prince sent someone last time, saying that he had left Guangxin and led the team to the west to pursue Yintuo. Sir, this battle has been fought ......, why is it that the more you look at it, the more confused you become?"

"Chasing Yintuo?" Du actually looked at Wang Fan attentively. Wang Fan always came to see them every other ten days, and by the way, he talked about what happened in the past ten days, so what he knew was the situation when Wang Fan came last time.

Wang Fan woke up and hurriedly told him what he knew. Du Jing narrowed his eyes: "Is there a master next to the second general? It's someone who points out.

However, Lin Quan (He Zhangzi) is not slow to understand, and he can persuade the whole army to withdraw and avoid annihilation, he is also very smart." After thinking about it, he suddenly smiled bitterly: "It's just that I'm afraid that my life will be short!"

Wang Fan was surprised: "There is a final general, who dares to be unfavorable to Mr.?"

"What if it's a pro-army sent by Lou Zishi? What should a lieutenant do?"

"This ......, you are a hero of the army, how could he kill you?"

"I first advised him not to fight for Rao, but now that he can't enter the two sides, he must hate me for having foresight, and he will kill and then hurry!" Du Jing's face was calm, and he smiled slightly with his hands on his knees.

"How can it be so ......!" Wang Fan didn't know what to say, and suddenly slapped him on the helmet: "In the end, the second son will be taken as a confidant, and the husband and the fourth son will be entrusted to each other, even if you fight for your life, you will never lose the second son!"

Du Jing looked at him quietly for a moment, nodded and said, "I believe in you. But we can't make meat on the chopping board!"

Wang Fan leaned forward and hugged his fists and said, "Fan is a martial artist, and he only knows loyalty. What to do, please sir teach me!"

"It's not difficult for me to teach you a method, it just depends on whether the captain is willing to do it?" Du Jing lowered his voice: "If you go to Guangfeng, you will be caught in a net, and even the captain may not be able to get out. So we're not going to Guangfeng!"

He dipped his hand in the water in the pond and drew several circles on the ground, representing Shangrao, Guangxin, Guangfeng, Leadshan, Geyang, Guixi, and Luxi.

"You see, the second general led his troops along the north bank all the way west in the name of pacifying Yintuo, and I estimate that the marshal is likely to advance west along the south bank of the river.

Let's not care about them, just withdraw in the name of going to Guangfeng, and then turn back to the west, and take the small road to Geyang to meet the second general. As long as we find the second general's troops, we will be safe!"

"Okay!"

"Let's go and prepare immediately, the second general's letter said that the Tsing Yi team is all based on horse-drawn carriages and livestock, like the wind and forests, and comes and goes quickly.

The lieutenant might as well try to find as many vehicles and livestock as possible, and at the same time have enough food and grass. Let's set out in two days, and in these two days you have to take strict precautions and send out scouts."

"The last will understand!"

However, Du actually underestimated how much Lou Zishi valued him. Just the day before they were about to leave, the scouts suddenly came to report that a team of more than 500 people was heading towards Chaoyang Fort.

Wang Fan immediately became vigilant, ordered his subordinates to be on strict guard, and then led dozens of people out to greet him.

Du actually listened to the guard's report, frowned, and said, "Nothing good!" Immediately instruct the maid and the scholar to take the items

Load the two cars that Wang Fan found and prepare to go out at any time.

Sure enough, there was a shouting in front of him not long after, and the soldiers helped Wang Fan back, but he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder.

It turned out that the group of people was really sent by Lou Zishi to "pick up Mr. and Son", Wang Fan asked him if he had a second son's order, and the man was furious, saying that Wang Fan had rebelled, so he waved his knife to cut it.

When Wang Fan resisted, an arrow was shot from the enemy's formation, and if everyone hadn't desperately stepped forward to rescue him, Wang Fan would have been in a different place.

Du Jing listened calmly and judged that this low town could not be defended for too long, and only by killing the leader of the other party could he turn the corner. So he gathered the chief leaders and told them to set a trap.

Sure enough, the other party scolded and found a bamboo ladder from the people's homes and shouted to go to the city. The defenders retreated as instructed to make way of the passage, and the enemy hurled up the city and opened the gates.

The leader shouted and led the charge, but unexpectedly his feet slipped and fell to the ground, and when he looked closely, it turned out that the ground was splashed with oil.

Everyone scolded, and those in the back were blocked in the city gates, and they all craned their necks to see what was happening in front of them.

At this time, a gong sounded in front of him, and I don't know how many rockets flew in, and in an instant there was a sea of fire in front of the city gate, and the morale of the defenders soared, shouting to kill the sky, and cutting down the enemy who had entered the city to the ground.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the attackers had no choice but to retreat from the city. The defenders dragged the ladders up the walls or overthrew them to the ground. The besiegers saw that the leader had been burned to death under the gate, and the dragons had no leader, so they had to retreat.

When Mr. Du saw that the retreat was successful, he immediately stopped everyone's cheers and said, "I'll leave as soon as possible, these people have gone back to find a new leader, and they will only send them to come again, and then it will not be so easy to leave!"

Wang Fan agreed, regardless of his injuries, and commanded everyone to load the car. Those who can ride are divided into mules and horses, and those who can't sit on the cart. There were also three adults who followed on foot, and everyone hurriedly left Chaoyang.

Now that he had turned his face, there was no need to hide it, and he hurriedly drove westward in the direction of Lead Mountain.

The Hongdu County Order lifted martial law, and relaxed expressions reappeared on the faces of the soldiers and civilians in Nanchang. The degree of prosperity in street trading is close to seventy percent before the Jiangshan army conquers Jinxian, and the liveliness on the wharf is even comparable to the density of ships.

But this kind of bustle and prosperity is exactly what the conspirators do not like, and they do everything possible to avoid it.

Li Su finally saw Tang Xuan, who was now the biggest official left in Hongdu City, and he could ask him to explain that he still had a little thin face. Li Su poured wine for the other party with his own hands, and talked to him a little carefully.

Tang Xuan knew the thoughts of the eldest master of the Li family in his heart, and smiled and looked at what he was going to say.

Sure enough, in the end, Li Su couldn't help but ask about his position in the Nanjing Rite Department again, and Tang Xuan waved his hand: "Yan Ruo (Li Suzi) should no longer have illusions about this appointment, someone has already gone to sit in this position."

"How can this, how can this ......, how can it be ......?" Li Su listened to him say this clearly, and he opened his mouth for a while.

"How can't this be? Your Majesty has crossed you out of the list submitted by the Nanjing Left-behind Division, do you still dare to protest?" Tang Xuan sneered and told him, "It's not that I can't help, I really can't help."

The anticipation was poured cold water, and Li Su sat there in a daze. If the emperor has such an attitude, then he is afraid that he will not have a bright future in this life! But ......, but how could it be?

"How could His Majesty the Emperor be so prejudiced against me?" He was puzzled, he was not a famous person, His Majesty might have forgotten about himself, how could he deliberately find it out and then tick it off?

"Then don't you blame that Li Sanlang in the second room of your house? He blatantly counted you down on the street, and brought out your property and account books in public to display, do you think it is the stupidity of the Wing Loong Wei, or the stupidity of the officials or the Metropolitan Procuratorate?

Whoever whispers in the emperor's ear and you're done, where is the need for His Majesty to remember your name?" After Tang Xuan finished speaking, he put a chopstick of chopsticks and shredded perilla fried milk (pigeon meat products) into his mouth, and half-closed his eyes comfortably.

"This little evil beast, I will never die with him in this life!" Li Su angrily slammed his fist against the powder wall.

"What can you do alone?" Tang Xuan pursed his lips: "Your nephew now has a channel to directly deliver the secret to the emperor.

I don't have any, you know? Do you think you can solve it with a few people you know?"

At this time, Li Su really regretted it a little: "How did I know that he would be in the emperor's heart later?"

"Yes, Jane is in the emperor's heart, that's a good thing to say!" Tang Xuan remained silent, looked at Li Su's expression, and said faintly, "But there is another sentence, the heart of heaven is unpredictable."

"What do you mean, sir?"

A smile appeared at the corner of Tang Xuan's mouth: "Why does Your Majesty like your nephew now? And not because he will lead troops? But he doesn't have the fame of the imperial examination, and he is not the number of martial arts, he is an outlier!"

He lowered his voice: "Your Majesty was a treasure when he was worried about the war in Jiangxi, but once the bandits subsided......?"

"Adults mean the end of the birds, the good bow hidden?"

"So Yan Ruo can't be in a hurry." Tang Xuan pointed his fingers on the table, and said in a low voice that Hong Danian had impeached Li Dan and was reprimanded by the cabinet.

"It's useless to even impeach the imperial history?" Li Su was desperate.

"Hey, your brother doesn't understand, what is he entangled with your nephew according to the judge's book?" Tang Xuan leaned into his ear with a smile: "I asked him to be impeached."

Li Su was overjoyed, and was waiting for a thousand thanks, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, he looked at Tang Xuan's eyes: "You asked him to impeach Li Dan, why?" Are you trying to give Shi Shuai some problems?"

"You also look down on me." Tang Xuan was dissatisfied: "It's someone who wants to catch his fault. Li Dan's problem is that he is too young, impetuous, and rash, so it is inevitable that there is no place to make a fuss about it.

It's useless to talk from family property like you, it's difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, who is willing to help you in this kind of thing? You have to get evidence of your nephew's violation of the law, and the counterattack can be effective and powerful. Isn't that right?"

"Oh! Di Xuan (Tang Xuan) is smart!" Li Su gave a thumbs up in the depths and was in awe.

"Hong Danian's mistake this time is that he didn't get real evidence. Of course, it's okay to hear about it, but if there is no evidence, it's at most a blockage for others, disgusting, disgusting.

If Yan really wants to bring him down, or make the emperor less supportive of him, you have to come up with real evidence. How many and where are the deserters hiding? Who are the leaders of the rebel army and where are they?

Only with real evidence can the judge continue to investigate. In this way, even if it does not fall today, it will accumulate over time, and no big tree will be able to stand it!"

"Understood, understood!" Li Su nodded again and again.

"Don't worry about spending money, you don't think about giving money to officials, and you may feel distressed if you give it to the people below. Hehe, think about how much property he stole from you, so you don't feel worthless!" Tang Xuan smiled and pressed his hand his shoulder. Look at the book

When he returned home in the evening, Tang Xuan called the housekeeper Tang Fu: "Didn't I find a Qingke to go to Hong's house and send him a hundred banknotes, this matter can be done?"

"Returning to my lordship, it's all done."

"How?"

"Na Hong refused to accept it at the beginning of the year, and kept pushing it off. Later, the people who went there told him about the friendship between the adults and the Zheng scholars, and he accepted it."

"Hmm." Tang Xuan nodded: "Although Lao Zheng came to trust me to take care of it, but at this time, I am afraid of attracting attention by sending too much money. Tell the doorman to be careful.

It is better to give less every time, and never be self-defeating. This man is a very proud man, but if he can make the right friends, he may be able to help him in the future when it is critical."

Tang Fu agreed again and again.

Tang Xuan looked at the door and asked in a low voice, "Then what did Wang Jishan do today?"

"Soon after the adults went out, he went out on the street. Go to the teahouse to drink tea, and then go to see the tower outside the Xianmen (Shengjin Pagoda), and go to Tiancheng Temple when you come back. After I came out, I met a guest in the private room upstairs of the Four Seas Residence, guess who?"

Tang Fu paused here quite mysteriously, attracting Tang Xuan's attention.

"He has acquaintances here? Which one is it?"

"My lord, they should be meeting for the first time." Tang Fu leaned closer and said softly, "That person is the younger brother of Gao Yu (the commander of the capital) Ru Lady (concubine), called Wu Zhong."

"Gao Yu?" Tang Xuan

His eyes widened in astonishment, but he soon understood, "Yes, hiding deserters, where can you refer to deserters? Of course, it is Gao Ziru (高樗字) subordinates.

It seems that His Royal Highness is really investing in this time, and he has to dig up the experience of this six products!

But...... Still unreasonable, is His Highness really trying to get back because he lost face, so he sent this Wang Jishan?

Why did he work so hard to support this Hong Danian? Just to get justice? I don't believe it, that's!" Tang Xuan sneered.

"My lord is very right." Tang Fu said softly, "If you want to deal with a six-rank official, there is no need for Hong Danian to do any impeachment. These are all unwarranted things, and it is not a felony such as conspiracy, and it is enough for him to submit a document to the judge.

Not to mention the big thing, the impeachment of the political envoy at the next level not only made Lin Taiyue (Lin Zhongtai, Hong Danian's direct superior) angry, but also made Shi Shuai take a hot taro.

Common sense says that if he doesn't do this, he must have no fear to do this! Could it be that the Xiangwang Mansion had already intervened at that time?"

"Shhh Tang Xuan felt his heart beat violently a few times, and he took a few steps back and sat down in his chair. "Uncle Fu, why? W-This really doesn't make sense!"

Tang Fu is nominally a housekeeper, but his actual rank is higher than Tang Xuan. Not only that, this person also served as the director of Wuwei Zhi County, Zezhou Tongzhi and Nanjing Ministry of Industry Yu Heng Division, and resigned because he was ostracized and angry, preferring to return to his hometown to teach.

Tang Xuan asked him to go out of the mountain to help, and Tang Fu did the role of housekeeper and master. He had seen a lot of officialdom, and he hit the nail on the head with one sentence, which made Tang Xuan sweat profusely.

A county king attacked the Liupin experience, this thing was indeed weird enough, Tang Xuan couldn't figure it out. He cared about nothing else, why did Wang Jishan come to visit him as soon as he arrived in Nanchang, and he lived in his house very unceremoniously?

Is there a deeper meaning hidden behind it? Tang Xuan was a little scared.

He was already afraid to associate with this unlucky prince, and the political envoy had just changed his commander in this eventful season, and he really didn't want to be held by Shi Hao. Let Tang Fu keep an eye on Wang Jishan because he is afraid that he will have some deviant actions!

Originally, he thought that it was understandable for Wang Jishan to see Wu Zhong, but as soon as Tang Fu explained it like this, Tang Xuan felt that there seemed to be some conspiracy in it. He sat on pins and needles: "Then, Uncle Fu, look, how should we deal with this Wang Jishan?"

Shi Hao treated him well after taking office, and even appointed Tang Xuan to stay in Nanchang. Tang Xuan didn't want to arouse Shi Hao's suspicions, nor did he dare to really offend King Xiang, you must know that this highness still has some support in the court, and it is not a trick to offend.

But behind Shi Hao is the support of His Majesty, and if Shi Hao doubts himself, then ....... Tang Xuan felt in a dilemma.

"Don't worry, my lord," Tang Fu comforted him, "As long as that Wang Jishan doesn't rebel, we don't have to worry about him, just record his whereabouts and report them to Jingnei, and the rest of the matter will naturally be handled by Lord Zheng and Han Ge."

He's talking about a sandbag throw, and it's all over when you get rid of the blame.

But Tang Xuan still had some considerations: "No, this Wang Jishan, we have already found out that he came by boat from Yu Gan, who did he meet in Yu Gan, what to do, we have to send someone to investigate!"

"Are you afraid of ......?"

"Alas, I have to guard against it!"

"Old, I see."

Tang Xuan got up and walked a few steps in the house, then suddenly turned around: "Uncle Fu, Lord Zheng asked us to take care of that Hong Danian, saying that he is also from Jinghu?"

"That's right." Tang Fu was suddenly taken aback: "Your Excellency is worried about Lord Zheng, he has planned this matter from the beginning?"

"Shhhhhh Tang Xuan looked at the door and window carefully vigilantly, "Isn't there such a possibility? Maybe Elder Han Ge is also involved......

"W-Won't it?"

"King Xiang, King Xiang." Tang Xuan pointed his finger at the tabletop: "Why are you and I afraid of the king?"

Tang Fu sweated on his head: "His Royal Highness has a good reputation in Jingzhou, such as you and me, many Jinghu scholars have accepted his gifts or favors before entering the office."

"Then how many such people do you think there are in the court now?"

"Your Majesty intends to support the people of Jinghu to suppress the Jiangnan forces, and in the past two years, there have been more and more officials from this area, accounting for about two-and-a-half (one-quarter) of the total."

After Tang Fu finished speaking, he took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and his voice was already trembling: "My lord, I, will we think too much?"

"It's better to think more than to think less!" Tang Xuan's gaze suddenly became firm and cold, he felt that perhaps in this matter, his chance to come out was coming!