11. The plan of discord (6)
An Dehai was talking with Yang Jiusong about the beautiful scenery and food of Luzhou Mansion, and heard the footsteps coming from outside the flower hall, An Dehai hurriedly stood up, the package on his back was tight, Li Hongzhang walked this small hug, looked at the young man who was standing in front of him and was a little restrained, looking at the slightly curved back, and the overly neutral face, Li Hongzhang guessed that this must be the inner servant from the palace, Li Hongzhang hugged his fist, "What is this brother called, it is Li Hongzhang below." ”
Xiao Anzi was a little restrained, originally wanted to make a big gift, but in a blink of an eye, he thought that he was in the queen's palace, not an ordinary slave, and he was extraordinarily noble, so he just played a thousand with Yang Jiusong, and saw that it was only Li Hongzhang who entered the hug summer, so he took out a letter sealed with fire paint in his arms and handed it to Li Hongzhang, "The little surname is An, just call me Xiao Anzi, Lord Li will know the end when he sees this letter." ”
Li Hongzhang took the letter in An Dehai's hand, and when he saw the handwriting on the cover, Li Hongzhang knew who sent him the handwritten letter - there were still three or four letters written by the same person lying in the secret compartment of his study, Li Hongzhang opened it respectfully, and after a while, he finished reading the content inside, and couldn't help but bow his head and think, what does this mean by the queen? If you want me to send my capable subordinates to send them to Jiangning, what does this queen want to do?
An Dehai saw Li Hongzhang's thoughtful appearance, and said with a smile: "The master said, if Lord Li wants to know, what is behind me can also be shown to Lord Li." ”
Thinking about it slightly, Li Hongzhang accepted his curiosity, "That's it, since the queen mother is so secretive, she doesn't dare to explore anything." Brother An, how about a day of rest for the time being, and tomorrow you will send another thousand men for you to send? "It's better to know less about other people's secrets.
"Very good, the two imperial guards who came with me and Brother Yang Jiu will stay in the Adult's Mansion for the time being, wait for the younger one to come back from the east, and then set off from Luzhou Mansion to return to Beijing."
After Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, returned from Anhui, Yang Xiuqing felt that his performance under the city of Luzhou had lost his own people, so he personally executed the cane, and the position of the prime minister of Chunguan was still reserved for him. But the trust it had before was gone. was kicked out of the small paradise of Tianjing, and stationed at Dashengguan near Banqiao, this Hu Yihuang borrowed wine every day to drown his sorrows, thinking day and night about how to go back to Tianjing. Instead of blowing a biting river breeze every day in this place near the river outside.
On this day, Hu Yihuang rarely woke up. With a few pro-soldiers. Riding a horse, he came out to inspect the city gate of Dasheng Pass, but in fact, the inspection was only pretending. The upstream Hukou and Wuhu are heavily guarded, and the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps in the downstream were broken last year, and the Qing Demon has no sailors, how can he cross the Yangtze River to attack his own inconsequential victory, Hu Yihuang is ready to go back to make up for sleep, and then warm up with the new beauty in the house, so as to pass this long and boring time, Hu Yihuang turned the horse's head and returned to the house along the river, only to see a group of Taiping soldiers on the shore gathered together, pointing at a box in a person's hand.
Hu Yihuang squinted his eyes, shook his head, and the pro-soldiers on the side comprehended, and stepped forward, and after a while, the pro-soldiers took the box over in confusion and presented it to Hu Yihuang, "Prime Minister, the brothers said that this box was dropped by a ship that floated downstream, looking at the flag, it seems to be the ship of the Qing Demon." ”
"Oh?" Hu Yihuang took the long wooden box boredly, only to see that the wooden box was locked with a small copper lock, Hu Yihuang shook it, there were a few muffled sounds inside, Hu Yihuang used the knife at hand to cut off the copper lock, and saw that the wooden box contained a long bag of apricot yellow silk cloth, Hu Yihuang threw away the wooden box, opened the silk bag, and a scroll embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns fell out of it.
Hu Yihuang had read books for a few years when he was a child, and he still knew the basic words, and he didn't understand the prose on the scroll, but "about the country of brothers", and the next few words still clearly knew the meaning, and the meaning of this scroll made Hu Yihuang's eyes widen angrily, and he almost fell off the horse!
Hu Yihuang calmed down, rolled the scroll in his hand carefully, as gentle as he was to his new aunt, and put it back into the bag, which didn't seem appropriate, and shouted to the soldiers to pick up the wooden box on the ground, put it back in, and then carefully stuffed the wooden box into his chest. Hu Yihuang was radiant at this time, even more radiant than when he was named the prime minister of Chunguan that year.
"Prepare your horses and go back to Tianjing with Prime Minister Ben!"
A personal soldier carefully reminded Hu Yihuang, "Prime Minister, Dongwang Jiu,000 years old said last time that you are not allowed to enter Beijing without an edict." ”
"It doesn't matter! This time, even if the nine thousand years old want to kill my head, I will go to Beijing, and report to the king of the east about the big thing! Hu Yihuang said loudly, his heart was hot, if it wasn't for the most important thing on his chest, Hu Yihuang really wanted to open his chest and scream loudly at this moment
An Dehai trembled in the cabin, just now the ship sent by Li Hongzhang went smoothly to the bottom of Jiangning City, and before the ship's catapult threw out a mahogany box, Jiangning City shot out raindrops of arrows, which frightened An Dehai and crawled into the cabin.
Yang Jiusong entered the cabin, and couldn't help but laugh when he saw An Dehai's appearance, "Brother An, that box has been thrown under Jiangning City, I took a look just now, someone is practicing under the city, I guess it can be delivered." ”
"Boom, this is excellent, the master's meaning is to tell us to wait in Luzhou Mansion first, and see what the situation is here, I really don't have the courage to come to the south again, God, the arrow is really raining!"
"Brother An, relax," Mr. Qian, who led the team, entered the cabin and said with a smile and flattery, "Our ship is made by foreigners over there in Guangdong, and it comes and goes like flying, and the traitors will definitely not be able to catch up, Brother An, do we still have to go to Zhenjiang?" ”
"There's no need, we've already sent out two boxes, and I'll just take the rest back," An Dehai calmed down, "Let's go quickly, I don't want to stay here for a while, I'm so relieved to go back to Luzhou Mansion earlier!" ”
"Okay, please!"
Wei Changhui took the white jade cup in his hand, looking at the amber thirty-year-old Wuling Chun in the cup, he was fascinated, he had maintained such a boring leisure life for some time, since Yang Xiuqing stripped himself of the power of city defense, his life has become more and more relaxed, and even the scene of guests in the past seems to be difficult to see again.
I didn't expect the king of heaven to be able to endure so much, and give up his favorite Zhu Jiumei sisters in the harem, and more and more Du Men did not come out, everyone went to ask to see the king of heaven, and nine times out of ten they got that the king of heaven was meditating and praying for the blessings of heaven.
Wei Changhui sneered, he didn't believe that Hong Xiuquan had such a belly at all, when the king knelt on the ground and asked Yang Xiuqing for guilt, Hong Xiuquan's face was clear to him, but now I am afraid that the heat is not enough, when will it be enough to add another fire.
The head of the attendants of the Northern Palace, who hurried in from outside, looked hurried, and said to Wei Changhui, the Northern King, who was pouring himself a drink: "King, the city defense has obtained an important thing, which happened to be in the hands of our people, and they are in a hurry to give it to the king. ”
"What is the important thing that is worth it for him to come and tell this king so excitedly?" Wei Changhui disagreed, and ate a piece of venison with ivory chopsticks and ate it carefully, he was responsible for the city defense of Tianjing City for a few years, and there were always a few henchmen, what news was there, he could have known earlier, the cronies hurriedly stepped forward to open the mahogany box he got, and presented the contents to the King of the North, Wei Changhui saw the things inside, and his face immediately changed as if nothing had happened, he snatched the things wrapped in yellow cloth, looked at it carefully from head to toe, and couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the key places, Even Wu Lingchun in the white jade cup poured out, soaking his dragon robe and suddenly didn't know, "Okay, good, I really want to doze off, a pillow fell from the sky!" You go out and ask the palanquin man to get ready, I will go to the Heavenly King's Mansion immediately! ”
"If the East King asks"
"Let's just say that this king will ask the king of heaven to pray for the blessing of his unborn child."
"Yes!"
"I have heard that God has the virtue of a good life...... The lives in the south of the Central Plains are devastated, and I don't want the people to cry blood...... I am willing to rule with Yang Yang, the king of the east, and rule the country, which is about a country of brothers...... Oh yes! ”
The beautiful and upright ink characters are written on Huang Aya, each word is so clear, it seems to be engraved directly on Hong Xiuquan's heart, the words are bloody, and it seems to be Huang Zhong Dalu, knocking on the heart of this human god over and over again.
Row the river and rule! Brotherly country!
Hu Yihuang galloped all the way to the magnificent color building of the East Wangfu and dismounted, the box was held in Hu Yihuang as a treasure, and the attendants in front of the East Wangfu saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "My big prime minister!" Grandpa Dongwang has already issued an edict, not allowing you to enter Beijing for no reason, you came back privately, not afraid that Dongwang will be angry and light your sky lantern? ”
This is the reason why Hu Yihuang is extremely diligent in the door, and it is also the reason why Hu Yihuang is Yang Xiuqing's confidant, otherwise the attendants of the East Wangfu would not be so enthusiastic. Hu Yihuang smiled proudly, and threw the white jade wrench in his hand to the attendant who greeted him, "It's irrelevant, I came back today because I have excellent news to tell the East King, tell you to be a good person, and when the time comes, follow me into the palace, and the East King will definitely reward you with something!" ”
"Then I'm going to trust the prime minister's blessing, you wait first, I'll go in and inform you."
"Tell the prince, just say that I have a big event to tell the king, so I risked my life to go to Beijing!" (To be continued......)