Sha Po Lang

When a heavy rain fell along the banks of the Liangjiang River, it didn't have the clear blue sky after the rain in the north, but it became more and more sultry.

The Jiangbei garrison was originally a genuine miscellaneous army. It has only been under General Zhong for more than a year, and it is already very good-looking. If the enemy camp that Gu Yun and the others broke into also had such qualities, it probably would not be so easy to be defeated. They're making a big fuss.

Gu Yun and Zhong Chan led horses and walked side by side, neither of them was wearing armor, and no one thought that the other walked slowly.

"I haven't been free all these years," Gu Yun said, "The last time I chatted with Master was the year of the monkey."

Marquis An Ding called Master in private, but Zhong Chan was not polite, and accepted it without changing his face, and replied: "Young Master has become more and more calm. If Old Master is still alive, seeing that you have achieved today, you may be able to... "

Gu Yun continued: "You killed me."

Zhong Chan was stunned for a moment, and a stingy smile appeared on her knife-like face: "There is no need to underestimate yourself."

The river wind came from the south, and there was a little bit of water vapor in the air, which made people feel that the surroundings were wet. Gu Yun brushed away his untwisted hair and looked towards the south bank without saying a word. His smile faded gradually.

Zhong Chan followed his gaze, reached out and patted Gu Yun's shoulder: "It's hard to sum up the matter of temperament, don't say that I wait for mortals, even a saint can hardly go against the world. Today’s plan, not to mention the old Hou Ye, even if your grandfather Emperor Wu is alive, it may not be of any benefit, let’s do our best, obey the destiny, and have a clear conscience.”

Gu Yun was stunned for a moment. His teacher is really familiar with military books and both civil and military. When he was teaching him back then, he was really unreasonable. Unexpectedly, after wandering in the rivers and lakes these years, he has become more open-minded.

Zhong Chan: "We are not afraid of fighting on land, but the main navy is still short of breath-look at the Westerners, they either take the sea or face the river, and they also know this. I have some experience in how to fight water battles these days. You're not very mature yet, you won't leave these few days, let's make up your mind when you have time."

Gu Yun nodded: "I know, our sea jellyfish is not good either, this time I happened to hand in a Western jellyfish, and let Ge Chen take it back to Beijing to see what the Spiritual Shuyuan thinks."

Zhong Chan sighed: "Soldiers can be trained, and combat readiness and Ziliujin, the old man really can't help it. We can only rely on you young people to deal with it as much as possible."

With a frown, Gu Yun vaguely knew who General Zhong wanted to talk to him about.

Sure enough, the next moment, Zhong Chan said: "King Yan stayed by my side for several years when he was young."

Gu Yun: "Yes, I know, I'm bothering Master."

Zhong Chan: "Then do you know that Linyuan Wooden Plaque is in his hand?"

Gu Yun paused, wanted to say "I don't know", but felt a little guilty, so he had to tell the truth: "He didn't mention it to me, but he probably had some guesses... If it wasn't for Linyuan Pavilion, Du Caishen and others would have done it too. Then support him smoothly."

Zhong Chan let out a "huh" and said again: "When Yan Wang was young, he rarely had the arrogance of young people. He was calm and stubborn, but he was not a person who blindly admires himself. First—much stronger than when you were a child."

Gu Yun: "..."

Zhong Chan glanced at him, narrowed his eyes, and showed a little imperceptible smile, which was fleeting: "But I look at it this way, it's not a good thing for a young man to not be frivolous sometimes, he is too precocious to be human. , it must be the fault of suffering too much when I was young--I also heard about the barbarian witch, what are you going to do?"

Gu Yun didn't answer quickly, but pondered for a moment.

Zhong Chan said: "Ur's bone entanglement is not his personal will. Sometimes I think that I have many doubts about him, but it is not fair. If he is just an ordinary person from an ordinary family, I should not say anything anyway. , but he is not, he is connected with Guo Zuo——Zixi, and now a wild goose king in the court can move his whole body with one hair, he cannot be separated from him, and he cannot be completely relied on, do you understand?"

Gu Yun probably understood the implication of General Zhong's words - keep a hand for himself, don't let Yan Wang have too much power, and try to use military power to coerce him when necessary, and retreat when he retreats.

But Gu Yun didn't answer the words, and only said: "I will watch him, Master, don't worry."

Zhong Chan frowned: "I know that he grew up with you and has deep affection, but how long can you watch him? The head of the Chen family is that girl, and she is only this young. In ten or eight years, it may not be possible to Counting on her, can King Yan's supernatural power last so long?"

"I'll keep him awake for one day if I live," Gu Yun said, "Even if he really loses control one day, I can deal with it. Tens of thousands of Xuantieying are still guarding the country's gate in the northwest, so they won't let him mess around. "

Zhong Chan was taken aback for a moment, and for a moment, he felt that he heard a different meaning in Gu Yun's voice.

While the two of them were worrying behind their backs, Chang Geng and Xu Ling came to Yangzhou in the north of Jiangbei with the twenty guards assigned to them by Gu Yun. It was too difficult for them to pretend to be refugees, so they pretended to be businessmen and said It is the shopkeeper of a pawn shop branch in Lin'an Mansion under the command of Du Caishen. Because of the war, he was forced to move to Jiangbei and has nothing to do. This time, the Chamber of Commerce asked the emperor to build a factory along the canal to settle the refugees. Although the court has not yet approved it, it is estimated that there is a spectrum. So he was asked to go north to do a preliminary inspection.

The name of the Lin'an pawnshop and the identity and age of the shopkeeper coincided with Chang Geng's. Du Wanquan's arrangements had been made early on, and even if someone cared to check, they couldn't find any flaws.

In any case, Du Caishen is now the God of Wealth of the whole country. He was deliberately favored by Chang Geng. A letter from the Great Chamber of Commerce can go directly to the military aircraft office. The local government officials could see each other because of emotion and reason—even if Yang Ronggui, the Lu family, did not deal with Du Wan in reality, he had to do his best, and hosted a banquet for Chang Geng and the others in Feiyan Pavilion.

Ever since the foreigners invaded and the country was in turmoil, the annual palace banquets had been greatly reduced, and the Qiyuan Tower had not been able to stand up since it fell down. Xu Ling felt that he hadn't seen such a luxurious place for a long time. "Flying Eaves Pavilion" is well-known in this place, and it is also called "Xiaoqi Yuanlou". Although it is not as grand as Zaixingtai and Yunmeng Grand View back then, it is exquisite and extravagant, but it is even better.

Pleasure-seeking has been banned in the capital for a long time, but here the sky is high and the emperor is far away, no one cares at all, the sound of "babbling" singing ditties on the cornice attic can be heard across the street, and there are red men and women coming in and out.

Xu Ling was stunned, and said to Chang Geng dumbfounded: "Wang... the shopkeeper, does your house have such a style?"

Chang Geng shook his head and said with a smile: "No, it's just food and clothing. My family's little money is used to subsidize a group of orphans and widowed mothers. He has no idea. I think he will sell the ancestral house someday."

Xu Ling was stunned for a moment before he realized that what he was talking about was not the vacant Yanwang Mansion, but the Marquis Mansion of Anding, which "subsidizes orphans and widowed mothers". Expenses, that little pension has been reduced again and again, and I don’t know how many times I have to argue with the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs. Those people always procrastinate as they can, and shirk as they can. Just like this, there are still times when they can’t come out, and the Marquis of Anding will come in person It's okay to ask for it, but Gu Yun may return to Beijing once every few years, and he is always too far away, thinking about it, he has to subsidize it himself.

In peacetime, he was so negligent, but now that there is a war, the emperor Jinkou Yuyu said, "All supplies in the whole country should be garrisoned in various places first", but he put them out again... Presumably in a few years, if the lost land can be regained, the survivors in the city will still have to He maintains his household by mending clothes under the lamp.

Xu Ling didn't know what it was like.

Chang Geng said to him in a low voice: "I'm afraid we two poor bastards will show our cowardice later, it doesn't matter, they just want to show us a joke, and I have prepared a joke for us to watch."

At this time Xu Ling decided that the king of geese would follow his lead, and he didn't say a word, and followed Chang Geng in with the ambition to clean up the country.

This banquet was invited in the name of Yang Ronggui.

Yang Ronggui—that is, Lu Shilang’s brother-in-law, named the governor of Liangjiang, sounds very prestigious, but in fact, in this extraordinary period, the power is not great. First of all, Jiangnan is not under his control, and the Jiangbei garrison is independent. It is not under his control. The area under his jurisdiction is just a small area near Yangzhou Prefecture. It was brought up in a hurry because he wanted to use high-ranking officials in the frontier to take care of the refugees in all directions and stabilize the rear of the front line. One of the eight governors must be able to do it for a long time and truly.

It's a pity that the hearts of the people are not enough to swallow the elephant. Yang Ronggui has been dissatisfied with the current situation in Jiangbei since he took office.

However, even though Governor Yang is full of bags, his arrogance is still undiminished. In addition, the Lu family is behind him, and he is naturally at odds with the upstarts in the court supported by Du Wanquan. Naturally, he will not come to meet a few merchants in person. Accompanied by a few slick sesame officials who were too idle, Yin Yu, the prefect of Yangzhou, condescendingly showed his face during the banquet. When he sat down for a while, he said some empty words. Before he finished speaking, an attendant entered the door and whispered in his ear After saying something, Zheng Kun, the governor of Yangzhou, suddenly changed his face, stood up and left.

Xu Ling's alias was Zhang Dafu, he was born with a pale face, and he would show his face when he drank, he looked extraordinarily simple and honest, pretended to be a little drunk, and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Hey, why did Mr. Zheng leave after three rounds of drinking? "

Someone beside him laughed and said, "Brother Zhang doesn't know something. Originally, Governor Yang was going to meet him in person, but your trip was unlucky. I heard that..."

He frivolously stretched out his hand and gestured a wild goose flapping its wings, and said in a low voice, "Just arrived at Yangzhou Mansion today, Governor Yang took a group of adults to pick him up in person."

Xu Ling thought he had misunderstood, and asked in shock, "Who?"

"What, Brother Zhang, don't you know?" The accompanying guest chattered endlessly after drinking too much, "Prince Yan, Prince Yan, that's... the younger brother of the current emperor! I really don't want to mention this crap A while ago, there was a troublemaker who didn't know how to file a complaint, and went to the capital. The emperor really took it seriously, and actually sent the Yan King down. If it’s not good, you’ll be beheaded for public display.”

As he said that, the person shook his head and added: "We are innocent, we are not afraid of the shadows slanting, and he can check as he pleases, haha... It's just that Mr. Yang and the others accompanied him all the time, it was too hard."

Before Xu Ling could finish listening, his gaze turned to Chang Geng at the banquet with a "creaking creaking".

The real King Yan is here, who did Yang Ronggui and the others pick up?

Yan Wang gave him a slight smile, and unceremoniously picked up a crystal dumpling and threw it into his mouth, not eating it for nothing.

First he broke into the enemy's formation, and then he changed into a living person again. Fortunately, Master Xu is a scholar, but he can be flexible and change organically. Otherwise, he will definitely be scared to death by the Yan King.

Unwilling to finish a meal that the guests and the host were not happy with, Xu Ling sent a few dancers who were entangled with him and King Yan, and hurried back to the inn. After making sure that there was no one on both sides, he closed the door and asked in a low voice: "My lord, Why is there another..."

Chang Geng said with a smile: "Governor Yang has many eyes and ears, so he must know when the imperial envoy will leave Beijing. If you don't let him see the envoy from the capital, won't you make him suspicious?"

Xu Ling thought for a while, but was still worried, and said, "Then Yang Ronggui has met the prince, what if he shows his flaws?"

"I've only met once or twice, and I haven't spoken within a hundred steps. I don't know that well. My friend knows a little tricks. It's not good to pretend to be someone else. It's reliable to pretend to be me. Don't worry. I'll go to rest right away. We have plans for tonight."

As soon as Xu Ling heard that this must be a night visit to the refugee camp, his spirits lifted, and he immediately lifted his spirits.

In the middle of the night, the two quietly left the city with two black iron guards, and went straight to the refugee camp in the outskirts. The so-called refugee camps are actually a few shacks outside the city to accommodate refugees. It is hot summer right now and they live in the open It wasn't cold either, and there was a team of officers and soldiers guarding the city nearby to keep them from making trouble. There were several cauldrons facing the street, which must have been the place where they gave away porridge and received meals on weekdays.

In the middle of the night, the refugee camp was quiet. A personal guard from the Xuantie camp sneaked in first. His footsteps were so light that he didn't even disturb the stray cat sleeping on his stomach under the tree.

Xu Ling said in a low voice: "My lord, there is something wrong. Places with epidemics are usually marked with limestone, and herbal soup will be sprinkled on the ground. It shouldn't be quiet."

Chang Geng's expression remained unchanged: "Since Yang Ronggui knows we're coming, he won't be completely unprepared, just watch."

His voice fell, and the black iron guard who had just entered slid out like a black shadow: "My lord, there are only about [-] people living in this refugee camp, most of them are young and middle-aged men and women, and there is no sign of the outbreak of the epidemic."

"There are [-] refugees in Jiangbei, and the refugee camp outside Yangzhou city has only a few dozen people?" Xu Ling sneered, "Yang Ronggui is too foolish to fool people, isn't it true that the people living there are all smooth and slick? A carefree appearance with enough food and clothing? I think they are probably hired fake refugees."

The guard asked: "My lord, what should I do?"

"It's not a solution to keep your eyes black," Chang Geng said in a low voice, "First find a way to contact Master Ran, and let the brothers walk around the neighborhood in the past two days to see if there are any clues. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. I don't believe in Yang Ronggui. Can cover the sky with one hand."

That night, a fast horse left Yangzhou City and went north into Beijing with a secret letter, informing all ambitious people in Beijing that King Yan was already in Dendrobium.

At the same time, the local urban defense officers and soldiers in the Jiangbei area were dispatched overnight by the Governor of Liangjiang, and came in casual clothes to secretly increase troops to Yangzhou Mansion.

The poisonous snakes in the capital are waiting for one blow to kill them, they are lurking patiently, very quiet, apart from the sudden serious illness of the old lady of the Shen family, nothing bigger seems to have happened.

Mr. Shen was bedridden for several days in a row, imperial doctors came in and out like a stream of water, and even the genius doctor of the Chen family came to the door in person. Seeing that it was going to be bad, the servants of Shen's residence went to the coffin shop a few times, as if they were going to prepare for the funeral. No matter how stupid my wife is, it's not good to say anything about marriage at this time, so the matter of marriage has to be left alone.

Shen Yi asked for leave to take care of his old father, and closed the door to see no visitors.

At dusk that day, Ms. Chen, who came to Dianmao in Shen's house every day, left by car as usual, without attracting the attention of the shadowy stalkers. When she arrived at the secluded courtyard where Ms. Chen stayed in the capital, the door opened, and a string of flowers floated out of it. The sound of the piano was not a man—it was Shen Yi himself who was supposed to be filial to the head of the bed.

Shen Yike bowed his hands politely to the people in the car: "Thank you Miss Chen."

With a piano on her knees, Chen Qingxu leaned over and said, "General, be more careful. If there is any dispatch, just order it."

Shen Yi glanced at her more, he didn't know anything about Linyuan Pavilion, he only said that this girl has no official position, no power, no power, but she is an ordinary son and daughter of the world, but she is willing to follow them to join the army and eat sand all the way, and she will do whatever she asks, I was really grateful in my heart, and said sternly: "Miss Chen is Gao Yi, famous for her chivalrous demeanor, I really admire her, I don't want to thank you for your kindness."

Chen Qingxu seemed to be smiling - her smile was not obvious, and her anger was not obvious, as if nothing could shake her, a string of piano sounds came out from her fingertips.

Shen Yi didn't dare to delay any longer, got on his horse and headed for the northern suburbs.