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one hundred and thirty-two

Huan Zhen tried hard to calm his mind and said with a smile: "Brother Shi, don't make any guesses. Mr. Huan was very kind to Yuan's army. Everything he did now is for the life of the army." He turned to the generals and said: "The marching has been slow these days. On the one hand, it is probably a mistake, and on the other hand, it is to watch the movements of the court. If he is willing to let the commander come out and lead the troops again."

He said this, and there was a riot immediately below. Yuan Chonghuan was always prestige among the generals. Since he was imprisoned, many people secretly became discouraged. At this moment, he heard Huan Zhen say that there seemed to be hopeless that the old general would take them to fight the Tartars. How could he be unhappy? A group of martial artists were unwilling to think about that much. They talked about loyalty, righteousness and blood in their lives. When Huan Zhen said this, they believed it without doubt. Wu Sangui blinked his eyes, showed a cunning look, and nodded repeatedly to say yes.

Huan Zhen felt that this person was very sinister and his cunning was deep. He just now leaned in his ear and said this sentence: "Those who resisted the enemy borrowed the enemy, and those who saved Yuan killed Yuan." Others may not understand what this sentence meant at first, but to Huan Zhen, a person who was interested, it was like a bolt from the blue. His long-term thoughts actually showed him clues, so why didn't people scare him? I couldn't help but feel glad. Fortunately, Li Jingwei's incident did not reveal any news to him, and to outsiders, they only said that he was a businessman who paid military rations, otherwise there might be some trouble.

Seeing that Wu Sangui could not incite the generals, he had no evidence in his hand. Besides, if he angered Huan Zhen, it might not be beneficial for him. He immediately agreed and stepped back. Huan Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and discussed with the generals whether he would respond to Ma Shilong on New Year's Eve. He had already sent someone to deliver the letter to Zu Dashou, and he would wait for a reply in the evening.

The result of the agreement here is true or false. I can only stop the troops and see if the city really launches an offensive and make plans. The Later Jin soldiers do not have large artillery, and whether they are firing on the city will be able to understand it as soon as they hear it. Instead of taking the risk of being hit by the enemy's plan, it is better to simply delay the fighter planes. The defenders in the city will not move, and the Liao soldiers outside the city will not move. Zu Dashou also has a general view.

That night, Yan Peirou became more sick. During the day, Di Wuwei took her pulse for her before leaving the military camp. She said that she was infected with wind and cold, and it was good to take a few prescriptions to relieve exterior symptoms and sweat. However, after taking the medicine, it was not only not good, but it had a high fever. Her face was burning with cold days. Huan Zhen saw it, and felt heartbroken and worried. Seeing that the war was coming, he really couldn't keep her in the army anymore. Although he was worried that she would leave her side in this chaos, once the generals started, he would never be distracted to take care of her. He was in a dilemma for a while and had no choice.

He was afraid that Yan Peirou would become dull when he was sick, so he came to chat with her after handling military affairs. He was from western Sichuan. He told Yan Peirou that the Eighteen Eccentrics in Chengdu were so she couldn't help smiling. After a while, Yan Peirou felt so excited that she fell asleep. Huan Zhen couldn't sleep well, and walked out of the camp where Li Jingwei lived. Unconsciously, hesitated for a moment and shouted in, "Mr. Li?" Li Jingwei responded. When he saw that it was Huan Zhen, his fat face immediately filled with laughter and said, "Mr. Huan is here, and I am sorry for your crimes." Huan Zhen also laughed and said, "The military camp was originally Huan's territory, why do you need Mr. Li to come to welcome me?"

Li Jingwei laughed loudly and said, "The world is the world of the world, not the only one! The military camp is the entire army of soldiers and Jingwei, not the only one!" Huan Zhen laughed in the same voice, laughed a few times, suddenly stopped, his head was blank, and a cold sweat broke out from his back. Seeing that his expression was strange, Li Jingwei quickly said, "Why, did the villain say something wrong? If you make a mistake, you will forgive me." Huan was shocked and doubted, and looked at him several times, but when he saw that he looked innocent, he seemed to be a heartless word just now, let alone that he would never have to break up with him at this time, so he had to nod.

There was a person sleeping on the couch in the corner of the tent. When they heard the two of them laughing, they woke up and sat up and nodded and said, "General Hua is here." Hua hurriedly stepped forward and greeted, "Mr. Hua is used to this camp life?" The Hua, who was surnamed Hua, was not handsome, dark and thin, was wearing a fat and big leather robe, which looked shaky and very unkind. When Huan Zhen asked him, he shook his head and said, "But for the prince's great cause, that's nothing." He turned around and said, "Keqin was trusted by the prince and must do the job well. He was in Luoyang, and he was still waiting for news about Keqin."

The name of Hua is Keqin, whose courtesy name is Fencheng. He is an aide in the mansion of King Zhu Changxun of Fu. Why did this person be here? This starts with the separation of Li Jingwei and Huan Zhen in the Iron Field of Zunhua.

On that day, Huan Zhen was appointed as Liaodong. Before leaving the capital, he went through Zunhua and completed the iron field matters, so he broke up with Li Jingwei. At that time, Li Jingwei secretly revealed that he had a good relationship with King Fu Chang Xun, saying that when King Fu had not yet joined the vassal, Jue's father was a guest under the scepter. He felt very upset about Chang Xun's inability to establish the crown prince. At that time, Huan Zhen rushed to Liaodong and did not care about it. Later, Ningyuan made a fuss. , the two met again, and he pulled Huan Zhen for King Fu. Huan Zhen knew that Zhu Changxun was greedy and was ruthless, and he only shirked his responsibilities with words, and Li Jingwei no longer forced him. When Huang Taiji invaded the border, Huan Zhen came to the capital and ambushed Engdel at the iron field in Zunhua. Li Jingwei made it clear that the last time he borrowed Huan Zhen's 30,000 silver for the last time was the wealth of King Fu. He took out the IOU written by Huan Zhen at that time and asked him to return it immediately.

Huan Zhen led his army outside, so how could he get so much money for a while? He wanted to ignore it, but since he was in his hands, what could Li Jingwei be a businessman? However, after thinking about it carefully, he understood this principle. Could it be that Li Jingwei didn't understand? The so-called debt collection is fake, and it was true that he wanted to win over him for King Fu. If he refused, there was something a hundred times better than the IOU in his hand, which was the evidence of his private sale of arms and participation in the sea. He had a desire to kill for a moment, and while he was falsely asking him to go to Henan to greet King Fu, he would kill Li Jingwei.

Just before the sword was unsheathed, Huan Zhen suddenly changed his mind. Although King Fu was greedy and cruel, he was rich enough to rival the country. At that time, people said that Luoyang was rich in the country. Not only that, Zhu Changxun also owned a large area of ​​fertile fields in Henan, Shandong and Huguang. If it could be used properly, it would not be a great help. Anyway, King Fu was not willing to let the throne fall into the hands of his brother's descendants. However, being an emperor was not so easy. Just a group of court ministers would be enough to block him for a long time. He didn't need to worry about so much. For the time being, he could just squeeze a lot from King Fu.

After thinking this, he let Li Jingwei leave. Later, the war became increasingly tense and the capital was trapped. News came from King Fu, saying that he was preparing to raise an army to support the king. Huan Zhen knew in his heart that it was fake to support the king, and that it was true that he was preparing to seize the throne. But as long as his nephew was alive for one day, Zhu Changxun had no thoughts at all. His only hope was that the enemy soldiers would break Beijing, capture Emperor Chongzhen, or simply kill him. It would be better that even the prince would die. At that time, he could find a group of snobbish ministers to persuade him. Anyway, Zhu Changxun had money, and his money would make it difficult to force the ghosts. Even if Han Du refused to bow his head, Zhou Yanru and others would always buy him.

In doing this, you must have troops. The Ming Dynasty ruled that once the vassal kings left the capital and were not allowed to leave the vassal kings without permission, and naturally they were even more likely to have an army. Although Zhu Changxun's farm had tens of thousands of vassal kings in his farm, they were also considered soldiers, but one thing could not be compared with the regular army of the court, and the other thing was that the vassal kings privately stored weapons, which was a very serious crime. Henan went from thousands of miles to Beijing. Not to mention that Zhu Changxun himself was incapable of leading troops to aid, and he did not have any people qualified to do this. Although the royal palace raised many tourists, they were not qualified to be proud of them, let alone leading troops to fight with legitimate reasons.

Therefore, Zhu Changxun thought of this method. He believed that money could help the gods, people's hearts, the army, public opinion, and even the throne could be bought with silver. Just wait for the final moment of the war, which general made the first contribution and bought him. At that time, even if his king-stricken army joined forces with him, as long as he successfully seized the throne, who could say no? Even if he failed, he would just die. Anyway, he had enjoyed enough over the years. Even if he died immediately, he had already earned enough money. It would be better to live in the shadow of Chang Luo, the tuberculosis ghost. As for why Huan Zhen was chosen, Li Jingwei refused to say that, and Huan Zhen could not do anything about him, so he had to let it go.

Although Huan Zhen agreed to Li Jingwei, he did not intend to fulfill his promise at first. He knew in his heart that if King Fu became the emperor, he would only be more greedy than his father, and then the entire China would probably be destroyed in his hands. Later, Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned, and he and Emperor Chongzhen also broke up. The entire Liaodong had no way out. Huang Taiji had to resist, otherwise wouldn't the Ming Dynasty still fall, the Eight Banners still entered the pass, and Chinese society retreated again.

All efforts were put into vain? However, once Huang Taiji retreated, Chongzhen would inevitably let go of his grinding and kill the donkey. He was the emperor, and the entire Chinese bureaucracy was in his hands. With the power of Liaodong, he would never be able to fight against him. At that time, not only Yuan Chonghuan, but also the survival of a Liao general, became a big problem. Liaodong could not escape from the mainland to fight against the Later Jin, and he could not surrender to the Later Jin. Then there was only one way left: let Chongzhen die.

At this time, Luoyang sent someone again. When things developed to this point, Huan Zhen began to reconsider Li Jingwei's suggestion. However, he was unwilling to call Zhu Changxun the emperor. How could he use a way to leverage his strength to fight? He has been thinking about this question since he left Jizhou, but there is still no answer.

Therefore, he did not dare to support King Fu easily. Huan Zhen was just a bachelor who was borne by life and death, and he was a bachelor who was borne by life and death. But now what he was carrying on his shoulders was not his own life or Yuan Chonghuan's life, but the life and death of the entire Liaodong, China, and the entire Han people.
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