The Kaifeng Mansion was a busy mess, and there were countless horses in and out, and almost the entire territory of Henan suffered from the crazy retaliation of the imperial court. Officials in various cities were killed and wounded, and the only one left that was not affected was Mao Wenlong's old Chaoye County.

Hong Chengchou was also transferred from Dengzhou City to Kaifeng to join Mao Wenlong to discuss how to deal with the aftermath and how to fight back against the imperial court. After suffering such a dumb loss, Mao Wenlong will definitely not give up.

"Knock Knock ......"

In the huge hall of the palace, the generals who could come together gathered together, listening to everyone's discussions, Mao Wenlong knocked on the table impatiently, attracted everyone's attention and said coldly: "I don't need you to discuss how to quell this chaos now, I just want you to come up with a way to retaliate against the court as soon as possible, do you understand?" ”

"It's the chief soldier!" Everyone immediately responded in unison.

Mao Wenlong nodded, then motioned for Hong Chengchou to walk out of the lobby with him and come outside.

"What are the casualties counted by the cities?" In the final analysis, Mao Wenlong still cares about this loss in his heart.

"Fortunately, we found out in time, a few prefects and more than 20 officials died, and nothing else?" Hong Chengchou said indifferently.

"The aftermath has been arranged, and the families of these deceased must be properly arranged." Mao Wenlong frowned, still angry in his heart.

Hong Chengchou glanced at Mao Wenlong, and suddenly smiled: "Why are you so angry, there will inevitably be casualties in the battle between the two armies, and such a method of the imperial court is also in common sense." ”

Mao Wenlong disagreed, he said coldly: "So, of course, it's common sense that I want to retaliate, isn't it?" ”

Hong Chengchou was quite helpless, but it was not impossible for Mao Wenlong to retaliate, at least he could warn the court and let it stop being so unscrupulous.

After being silent for a moment, Hong Chengchou took the initiative to ask: "Then how do you want to take revenge on the court, you don't want to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, right?" ”

Mao Wenlong snorted coldly and said: "I don't have the heart to infiltrate, my goal is to attack Shanxi directly, and then directly take the Beijing Division." ”

Hong Chengchou was suddenly shocked: "You want to seize the imperial power?" ”

Mao Wenlong shook his head: "Don't be surprised, the imperial power looks good, but I'm not interested in it yet, at least for now, I'm not ready to be the emperor." ”

Hong Chengchou obviously doesn't believe it, is there any man in the world who doesn't desire imperial power, and which official doesn't want to climb up? Supreme power is the dream of every man in the world.

Seeing Hong Chengchou's disbelief, Mao Wenlong smiled and said: "Of course, what I said just now is that I am not interested in imperial power at present, not that I will not be interested in the future." ”

Hong Chengchou suddenly came over and asked in a low voice, "Then can you tell me why you are not interested in imperial power at the moment?" ”

Mao Wenlong shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's very simple, there is no benefit in being the emperor at this time, when there is chaos today, whoever is the emperor is unlucky, do you think it is necessary to make it up?" ”

Listening to Mao Wenlong's grotesque remarks, Hong Chengchou couldn't find a reason to refute it for some reason.

"Okay, those guys inside should have discussed it almost, we should also go back, we must surprise Chongzhen this time." Mao Wenlong said coldly.

The two entered the hall one after another, and the generals inside immediately quieted down, Mao Wenlong didn't want to wait any longer, and said loudly: "How have you all discussed, have you thought of a way?" ”

Cheng Zuo was the first to stand up: "Chief soldier, we unanimously decided to directly send troops to attack Shanxi." ”

Mao Wenlong laughed when he heard this, and immediately ordered to prepare for the battle, all the generals responded violently, and then quickly retreated to gather their own troops.

In the afternoon of the same day, Mao Wenlong gathered an army of 50,000 as the vanguard and crossed the Yellow River directly from Kaifeng into Shaanxi. Unprepared by the imperial court, an attack was launched.

The Huaiqing Mansion in Shanxi bore the brunt of the fierce attack of the Dongjiang Army and was breached in the evening of the same day. Cheng Zuo led the Dongjiang Army into the city to occupy, and used this city as a stronghold in Shanxi, and then Kaifeng City was still constantly transporting soldiers and horses to the past, Mao Wenlong's move has made it clear that he wants to directly do a big job.

Chongzhen was shocked when he learned of the situation, but he soon received a secret letter from Gao Qiqian, and after reading the letter, Chongzhen was surprisingly calm. He actually began to ignore Mao Wenlong's attack, which made Wu Chengen, who was waiting for him, very puzzled.

In the palace of the Daimyo's Mansion, Gao Qiqian sneered, in front of him were more than a dozen eunuchs from Dongchang, Gao Qiqian grabbed Chongzhen's reply letter to him in his hand, put it in front of the candle and lit it, and watched the letter burned into ashes in the firelight, he said to the dozen or so subordinates of Dongchang in front of him: "Immediately notify the hidden people in Ye County, and implement the plan immediately." ”

More than a dozen Dongchang Panzi immediately said yes, and then left one after another, and soon after, a carrier pigeon flew into the sky from the palace and disappeared into the blue sky and white clouds.

A day later, in a private house in Ye County, the carrier pigeon that had taken off from the Daimyo's Mansion stopped in the courtyard of the house.

A man dressed as a farmer reached out and grabbed the carrier pigeon, skillfully took a small bamboo tube from the pigeon's small feet, then poured out a small note inside, opened it and glanced at it, and immediately rushed back to the room.

"Dutou, the factory has already ordered, we can act." The big man shouted to the man in the middle.

In the dilapidated house, there were more than a dozen people at the moment, all dressed as farmers, and the man in the middle was dressed as a merchant.

"Immediately go to the farm in the back mountain, just now Xiao Liu has passed the news, Chen Lan and that Hong Ziyan went to the farm in the back mountain to pick vegetables. This is our only chance, you all cheer me up, if anyone dares to make a mistake, Lao Tzu will be the first to cut off his head. The man at the head of the capital yelled at the others.

"Yes, Dutou!"

"Let's go!"

Under the leadership of Dutou, more than a dozen people took farm tools, and then left Ye County, and rushed to the farm in the back mountain.

Chen Lan and Hong Ziyan, accompanied by Li Xiu, arrived at the farm in the carriage of Maofu. Since the establishment of the farm, it has always been a supply place for grain in Maofu, especially the vegetables here, which have always been picked by Chen Lan himself.

Today is no exception, Chen Lan arrived at the farm as scheduled, and the old man in charge of managing the farm waited at the gate of the farm early in the morning, and had already called everyone away from the land dedicated to planting vegetables supplied by Maofu, so that Chen Lan could pick them to his heart's content.

Chen Lan and the others were not disturbed from beginning to end, and entered the vegetable garden smoothly, and the three women each carried baskets and picked their favorite vegetables.

"Xianggong has been gone for nearly two months, and I don't know when he will come back?" Chen Lan didn't seem to be in a very good mood today, he looked at Mao Wenlong's favorite vegetables in front of him, and couldn't help muttering.