Bright Spring

... It was Liu Ming's first visit to An Nanguo, but the guards around him were all selected from the soldiers who had previously conquered An Nanguo.

A group of people took a boat and rowed westward with oars.On the way, Chen Xianzhen and Ruan Jingyi were talking, but Liu Ming couldn't understand them at all. Annan's language was relatively soft, but it could be seen from their expressions that they seemed to be arguing.

The wooden boat did not arrive at Qinghua City until the sun was setting.

A follower beside him whispered: "Qinghua was originally the lair of the Hu family's rebels, and the younger ones were stationed here with the army. Did Mr. Liu see the earthen house over there? The barracks built by our supply camp, these few days The bricks and stones on the main road were also paved by our officers and soldiers. In the past, almost all the roads in the city were dirt roads, but when it rained, it was all muddy water."

Liu Ming followed the direction he pointed and watched for a while.In this city, only the earthen houses in the barracks are relatively neatly arranged. The surrounding houses are better built than the barracks, but they seem to be very random and messy.

Ruan Jingyi and others led Liu Ming to a gate, and two Annan officials in silk and satin came to meet them. They claimed to be princes, and they received the envoys of the Ming Dynasty.

The officials led a group of followers, from the ceremony with Liu Ming, to the middle hall.The two sides stood still on the east and west sides, and an Annan man reminded Liu Ming to bow three times according to "Da Viet etiquette", and then handed in his credentials.Chen Jikuo, who proclaimed himself the "Emperor of Dayue", would not personally summon the envoys; the Annan people also told Liu Ming that someone would entertain him in a few days.The whole process allowed Liu Ming to see Daming's etiquette system, but there were some differences in some details.

The two "nobles" took away their credentials and did not discuss business matters with Liu Ming. After the etiquette process, they left.Liu Ming settled down in this "resort" for the time being, and it was getting dark.

Sure enough, it was the so-called rainy season, and another heavy rain fell at night, and Liu Ming woke up several times.

In the next few days, no one from Annan paid any attention to him.Today he waited until the next evening, and came to a wing room to light a lamp. While thinking about the strategy to persuade Chen Jikuo to surrender, he wrote something to deepen his impression, and then put it on the oil lamp to burn it.

At this moment, the attendant outside the door said: "Liu Shijun, I have a guest to see you."

Liu Ming immediately put down the brush, picked up the paper on the table and lit it, and then greeted him out the door.I saw a stranger standing in the yard. He was wearing a bamboo hat and came alone.

"This will be called Ruan Yinhe." The visitor clasped his fists and said.

Liu Ming had never heard of this name before. Seeing his calm expression, he made a gesture and said, "Welcome if you are far away, welcome if you are far away. General Ruan, please come to the room. Come and have some tea."

Ruan Yinhe raised his hand and said in Chinese: "No need, Mr. Liu please."

The two entered the room, and the guests and the host sat down.Ruan Yinhe immediately asked, "Does Shijun Liu know Ruan Zhi?"

Liu Ming shook his head.

Ruan Yinhe said: "The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty must know him."

"Oh..." Liu Ming subconsciously nodded.He remembered that when he met the saint in the capital, the saint had said that he would find someone in An Nanguo to pick him up.The Ruan Zhi mentioned by Ruan Yinhe may be someone from the Holy Majesty.

Although Liu Ming was a little skeptical about the identity of this person who had nothing to prove, but since there was a saint, there was at least a reasonable reason for the appearance of this person.

Ruan Yinhe said: "Ruan Zhi entrusted me to take care of Your Excellency. Now that I have ventured here, I want to inform Your Excellency. It is best to leave tonight, otherwise there will be bad luck!"

"Let's go?" Liu Ming was taken aback for a moment.

Ruan Yinhe frowned and pondered for a moment, then said: "The matter is in a hurry, I know you may not believe it, but I am entrusted by others, I can't do nothing... Ruan Zhi is from my family, he is in Xidu (Hanoi) As an official, the Ming Dynasty set up an official in the Annan Kingdom; and I was the one who raised the army. Before that, the tyrants from all over the country raised their troops one after another, sweeping all the places south of the Western Capital, and only those who raised the army can keep their land."

Liu Ming said: "The soft general also has to do it because of love?"

Ruan Yinhe shook his head and smiled, "At most, it's just going with the flow."

He lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty (Chen Jikuo) listens to other people's orders and can't accomplish anything. The world is in such a mess. There are no soldiers and you can only let mermaid go. It's also a coincidence that Mr. Liu came. It is possible to negotiate a peace with the Ming Dynasty."

"Recruitment." Liu Ming said honestly.

Ruan Yinhe sneered, "Before all the generals supported Jinshang (Chen Jikuo) as emperor, there was another Emperor Dai Yue."

"Chen Shuming (Emperor Jian Ding Chen Min)." Liu Ming said.He was ordered to go to An Nanguo, so he naturally read the files about An Nanguo. The name Chen Shuming was recorded in the official files of the Ming Dynasty.

Ruan Yinhe nodded: "Later, there was internal strife, and the generals who supported Jinshang took control of the situation; but in order to fight against the Ming army, the two sides reconciled, and the former Emperor of Dayue was honored by Jinshang as the Supreme Emperor.

Unexpectedly, at that time, there was a sudden infighting in the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of troops were withdrawn, and most of the places were abandoned.As a result, rebels from all over Dayue rose up one after another, and there were at least a dozen major forces.Seeing that today's emperor is tolerant to the Supreme Emperor, all the tyrants took refuge in him.

In my opinion, the monarch cannot command these people.But suddenly a large number of soldiers and horses gathered, and the Da Viet court was excited for a while. It had ordered all the rebels to look for opportunities to march northward and form a siege to the Ming army in the western capital (Hanoi).

At such a time, if Mr. Liu came to ask for safety, who would listen to you?There are some more radical people in the court who suggest killing you to sacrifice the flag!It was only when I realized that someone might cut first and play later that I felt the urgency of the situation. "

Liu Ming clenched his left hand into a fist, his right hand grasped his left hand vigorously, and buried himself in thought.

At this moment, the entourage reported that there was another visitor to see.After a while, a man also wearing a bamboo hat came in.There are guards from Annan people in this hotel. Since Ruan Yinhe is under Chen Jikuo's command, he may have opened the way by some means.

The visitor whispered a few words beside Ruan Yinhe.Ruan Yinhe immediately stood up and said, "Something's going to happen! I can't show up here again. Liu Shijun listens to me and finds a way to escape!"

After Ruan Yinhe finished speaking, he quickly stepped over the threshold without saying a word.

Liu Ming stayed where he was, not knowing whether to trust this visitor or not.But even if he believed it, he only had a few people in other people's territory, where could he go?

Chapter 728 An Incoherent Scene

As night fell, the house lit by oil lamps was a little dark.

Suddenly the surroundings were as bright as daylight, and after a flash, there was a loud "click", and then the sound of rain outside became noisy.Everything is very rushed and seems impetuous.

The envoy of Ming Dynasty, Liu Ming, was still in the room. He paced up and down on the ground, showing no intention of escaping.Shocking lightning and thunder interrupted his pace, he stood still and glanced out of the window, then continued to lower his eyes and meditate.

In the noisy rain, there was a faint call.After a while, several followers suddenly rushed into the wing with their waist knives in hand, and they immediately closed the doors and windows.When Liu Ming saw this, he immediately understood: The one who should come, has indeed come!

One of the attendants turned his head and said: "Master Liu, be careful, there are assassins! We have a brother, Fang has already been shot by an arrow."

Liu Ming could see clearly that the man was the young man who said "built a barracks in Qinghua" that day.

"Huh, huh, huh..." There was only the sound of noisy rain outside the door, and nothing could be heard or seen.Liu Ming stood in the middle of the room for a while, then walked to the table above, took out all the papers from his arms, lit them on the oil lamp, and threw them on the ground.

He then picked up the black gauze hat, put it on his head, straightened the hat with both hands, and bent down to pull the smooth robe.When several followers looked back one after another, he was already kneeling in the middle.

Facing the north, Liu Ming kowtowed and bowed and said: "I failed the emperor's grace, failed to complete my mission, and deserved to die. Now I have nothing to do, the only thing I can do is to die without disgrace to the court's majesty."

Unarmed Liu Ming finished speaking, stood up from the ground, patted the dust on his robe a few times, then sat down on a chair, facing the door.

"Bang!" There was a loud noise on the wooden door, and the Ming army men standing on both sides of the door immediately raised their waist knives and stared at the door.The door panel immediately "bang" fell to the ground, but there was no other movement.

Liu Ming looked outside, it was pitch black outside, and he could vaguely see the rain curtain in the yard.

"Kang Dang!" Suddenly there was another loud noise, and the wood chips of the window not far away flew across, and a chair crashed into it.In an instant, everyone was more or less attracted by the movement of the window.

Almost at the same time, suddenly a knife flashed at the door, and a person rushed in.There was the sound of wind in the air, the terrifying sound of the knife cutting on the flesh, the light of the knife flickered under the dim and flickering light, and the screams followed.

The assassin who rushed in first was stabbed twice, screaming, and the ground was covered with blood.Then the men from the Ming army who attacked by the door were repeatedly stabbed several times by several assassins who rushed in;

The wind blowing in from the door and window made the oil lamp flicker.The fighting scene in the room was not coherent, like a painting, intermittently appearing in Liu Ming's eyes.

Lightning suddenly flashed, and the room was instantly bright as day, and the scene became clear for a moment.There are already a lot of people in the room, and they are desperately hacking|slashing and fighting with their eyes wide open.In the pool of blood on the ground, several corpses had already fallen.

The screams, groans, and the sound of metal impacts were mixed with the sound of thunder and rain.

The whole process only lasted for a short while, and the room has gradually quieted down quite a bit.There is only one person left in Liu Ming's entourage, and that is the young man who "built a barracks in Qinghua".

Housheng held the knife in his left hand and stepped back in front of Liu Ming. His right arm was hanging down, and blood was dripping from his wrist to the ground continuously.

Liu Ming was still sitting on the chair, his face was splattered with blood, but he never moved.He is a scholar, and his family background was not good before. He has never even touched a sword in his life, and he doesn't want to fight at all.