The eldest son of the red mansion

"Reporting to King Yan Qiansui, Ruan Zhengyu's queen is a princess of Thailand, and this princess is quite favored by the current king. If Ruan Zhengyu escapes to Thailand, the king of Thailand will definitely take him in."

Jia Ke frowned after hearing this, and then asked Li Deshan next to him, "You are in charge of the safety of the palace, have you found the queen of Annan Kingdom?"

Hearing Jia Ke's question, Li Deshan quickly lowered his head and said, "Returning to the master, the servant did not find Queen Annan in the palace."

Jia Ke now understood that Ruan Zhengyu had indeed arranged for him to escape, presumably the Thai princess had been sent to Thailand.

Jia Ke frowned and asked Du Lin: "How is the situation in the southeastern countries? You can tell me in detail."

When Du Lin heard Jia Ke's question, he quickly replied: "Reporting to King Yan, there are three major countries in the southeast of the Celestial Dynasty, Annan, Thailand, and Burma. There are also some small countries as buffers between these three countries. A big country controls the situation in the southeast of the Celestial Dynasty.”

"And all three countries have marriages with each other, there hasn't been much conflict over the years."

After hearing this, Jia Ke was a little puzzled, "These three countries should argue with each other, how can they live in peace?"

Du Lin said helplessly: "I want to report to King Yan that the Celestial Dynasty puts too much pressure on these three countries. They are afraid that once the national situation is damaged, the Celestial Dynasty will follow the trend."

"Even if the Celestial Empire doesn't intervene for the time being, if they are too powerful and the Celestial Empire thinks it is a threat, they will send troops to conquer. Therefore, for their own safety, they temporarily suspend their troops and strike against the Celestial Empire together."

Jia Ke nodded when he heard this, which is barely an answer, but Jia Ke didn't think so. These southern barbarians were all rebellious. How could they repair soldiers because of the pressure from the heavenly kingdom? Don't you see, these countries have repeatedly violated The border of the celestial dynasty shows their respect for the kingdom of the celestial dynasty, which is superficial.

This may be because these barbarians have been fighting every year and their national strength is exhausted, so they made this bad move to temporarily repair their troops in preparation for another battle.

Let's talk about Jia Ke's suspicion of the south here, and talk about Ruan Zhengyu, who led his soldiers and thousands of troops and broke out of the south gate of Shenglong Mansion.

He regrouped two or three miles away from the city, and looked around, except for a few generals who followed him, none of the civil servants were there.

Now that Ruan Zhengyu was at the end of the mountain, he felt that he was at the end of his rope, and the more he thought about it, the more hopeless he was, and he couldn't help but draw out his sword and was about to commit suicide.

In the end, he was stopped by the soldiers next to him, and Ruan Zenglie immediately came to his senses. What happened to him was just a wrong thought for a while, and he had his own thoughts, so he couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

Coupled with the constant persuasion of the generals next to him, Ruan Zhengyu immediately cheered up again, and he said to the generals on the left and right: "We are only waiting for a small setback, and there is still half of the country in the south. When we come to the south with the lonely king, we will regroup and start again." Ding Ding An Nan Jiangshan, you and others will definitely not lose the reward of the Marquis."

After Ruan Zhengyu comforted the generals, he stopped hesitating and led his people to go directly to the south. However, since Shenglong Mansion was completely surrounded, if he took the main road, he would be discovered by Jia Ke's army immediately.

So Ruan Zhengyu asked the local natives in the army to find a path in the mountains, and these people bypassed Jia Ke's defense and came out of the encirclement.

As soon as Ruan Zhengyu left the encirclement, it was as if he smashed the jade cage to fly the colorful phoenix, and released the golden lock to drive away the dragon.

These people were as busy as a fish slipping through the net, they didn't dare to stop, they went directly to the Jiading Mansion in the south before stopping and entering the city to rest.

Ruan Zhengyu, the magistrate of Jiading Mansion, brought people here and hurriedly sent people to clean up the room and settle them down.

And Ruan Zhengyu didn't trust these southerners, he placed the army he brought from the north this time around his palace to protect his safety.

At the same time, he sent several generals who followed him from the south to gather the military power near Jiading Mansion, intending to regain control of the south, and then fight Jia Ke in a decisive battle.

Chapter 653

Ruan Zhengyu was in Jiading Mansion, gathering nearby military forces. He thought that without the restraint of Du Lin and others, the south should be easily conquered by him.

Unexpectedly, within a few days after he came to Anding Mansion, a letter was delivered to the prefect of Jiading Mansion.

The payment received the letter, and after a closer look, it turned out that it was an order sent by Du Lin, the leader of the south.

Let them gather their military power and capture Ruan Zhengyu so that they can claim credit from the Celestial Dynasty.

After the prefect read the letter, he pondered for a long time. Now the military power seems to have been controlled by Ruan Zhengyu, and several of his generals have joined the army near Jiading Mansion and become the commanders.

But the magistrate is very clear that as long as he gives the order, these troops will immediately go anyway. Now that Du Lin's order has been issued, there is no need to perfunctory with Ruan Zhengyu.

So that night, when the magistrate personally led people to the military camp outside the city, the commander who was sent by Ruan Zhengyu to take charge of the military power was hacked to pieces by the intruding soldiers before he understood what was going on.

Then the prefect sat in the military camp and issued orders to several other large camps, so Ruan Zhengyu thought that the troops he had already controlled were all out of his control overnight.

After the prefect took over the military power, he immediately led his troops into the Jiading mansion to go to the palace to arrest Ruan Zhengyu.

Who knows that this Ruan Zhengyu was not given for nothing, since he arrived in the south, he has not been relaxed for a moment.

On the bright side, generals were sent to take charge of the military power, and secretly, spies were sent around Fucheng Gate in Jiading.

This time the army entered Jiading without his order, Ruan Zhengyu knew it was not good as soon as he got the news, so he didn't care about other things, immediately rectified his own soldiers, and led the troops straight to the south gate.

The gatekeepers in the south city didn't know what happened in the north city. Seeing that the king was about to leave the city, they naturally didn't dare to neglect and immediately opened the city gate to let him leave.

When the magistrate arrived at the palace, he found that Yu was no longer there anyway. When he sent troops to seal the city gate, Ruan Zhengyu had already escaped and headed west.

The magistrate couldn't find Ruan Zhengyu, so he had no choice but to write a letter to Jia Ke in Shenglong Mansion, and at the same time sent troops to search for Ruan Zhengyu's traces.

After Jia Ke took control of the Annan Kingdom's capital, Thang Long Mansion, the situation in Annan Kingdom changed drastically. In the north, Jia Ke's army completely overwhelmed the local situation.

In the south of Annan Kingdom, due to the existence of Du Lin, there is no resistance to Jia Ke's rule. The current Annan Kingdom can be said to be under Jia Ke's control.

But Jia Ke is not at ease now, because there is still a big problem in An Nanguo, and that is Ruan Zhengyu.

After Jia Ke received the letter from the south, he immediately ordered his personal eunuch Li Deshan to cooperate with the people in An Nanguo to search for Ruan Zhengyu's whereabouts.

After Jia Ke finished giving this order, she turned her attention to the South. Although the South had already surrendered to her on the surface, in fact they still supported their own self-respect, and they only surrendered in name.

Naturally, Jia Ke couldn't allow this situation to exist. If Jia Ke wanted to build Annan into his own grain base, he naturally couldn't have any hidden dangers.

So Jia Ke ordered Wu Lv, the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, to bring 3 wolf soldiers and 2 Guangxi soldiers, and let Jiya, the Zhengbai Banner of the Eight Banners, take the cavalry of the headquarters and the Annan captive soldiers under his command to go south with him and accept all the soldiers in the south. Important military locations and prefectures and counties.

Jia Ke's action made Du Lin feel that Jia Ke was worried about people like himself.

So Du Lin convened a meeting of the southern leaders in Thang Long Mansion.

Among them, Wang Jie, a lecturer at the Imperial Academy who he pointed out as his heir, made a speech in his own right.

"I think the Yan Wang Qiansui of the Celestial Dynasty is worried about us. After all, we control all the states and counties in the south, and even a leader would not be at ease."

Du Lin nodded after hearing this. He also knew this truth. When Ruan Zhengyu was in power, he was very afraid of the south. Now that Jia Ke is here, he is also afraid of the south. But the only difference between Ruan Zhengyu and Jia Ke is that Jia Ke leads The Celestial Dynasty was very tough, and sent troops south without asking Du Lin's opinion.

"Then according to Lord Wang, how should we act."

A very thin old man next to him stroked his beard and said.

Seeing the old man speak, Wang Jie hurriedly cupped his hands, "I've met Mr. Ding."

This old man Ding is not an ordinary person. Although he is just an ordinary household doctor, he is the largest landlord in the south. In terms of strength, he is the number one in the south. He may be the leader of the South.

Seeing Wang Jie salute, the old man Ding waved his hand to him, motioning him to excuse himself, "Master Wang, you don't need to be too polite. What does Mr. Wang mean when the old man asked just now?"

Wang Jie sat back on the chair again, and then said: "Our King Yan Qiansui is very different from the former Ruan Zhengyu. We can't do anything against his will. Since Yan Wang Qiansui is worried about us, we want to There is a way to make Yan Wang Qiansui completely relieved, isn't that all right?"

Du Lin nodded when he heard this, but shook his head again. The reason is this, but if they can really go to Jia Ke to rest assured, then they have to hand over their military power. In this way, they will be fish on the chopping board.

Wang Jie also saw Du Lin's reluctance. After all, the south relied on these strengths to be able to stay safe in Annan. Now that the military power is handed over, these elders in the south may feel a little guilty.