In the city of Hangzhou, Hu Guozhu ran to a mansion gate with an excited face, got off his horse when he got close, didn't talk nonsense with those subordinates at all, and strode into the mansion gate: "Have you heard, the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty fought." ”

Xia Guoxiang put down the tea in his hand: "You came here in a hurry, I thought there was something to be happy about." ”

"That's the happiest thing, you think that no matter who kills the two of them, we can take advantage of it. If the emperor of the Ming Dynasty dies, we just recover central Hubei and Sichuan and Shu, and what will the Manchus do to fight us at that time? ”

Xia Guoxiang shook his head: "Before my father died, I told you a thousand times, don't start a war with the Ming Dynasty before the Manchu Qing Dynasty is destroyed, why don't you go to your heart, we still have a large number of Manchu troops in front of us, if we go to carve up the Ming Dynasty, this land south of the Yangtze River will be gone, and those scholars will not like us in the first place, if they know about it, we will stink the street." ”

"I'm sorry, those people don't know how to do it, the Ming Dynasty collected millions of taels of silver from the Manchu Dynasty, and they tore up the covenant when they turned their heads, they didn't even let go of a fart, but they had to intervene in whatever we did, either to write a poem or a song, or to make a story to refer to Sang and scold Huai, and I wanted to catch it one by one according to my idea and chop it up one by one."

"How can you have such an idea, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled the world, they didn't dare to kill all the scholars in Jiangnan, could you be more powerful than them? This scholar doesn't use a knife to kill people, and once we have a bad reputation, we can't do anything. ”

Hearing this, Hu Guozhu also sat on the chair next to him as if he was deflated: "I also know the seriousness of this matter, but I can't get angry for a while." ”

"What has the emperor been doing lately?"

"I'm busy choosing a concubine, it's too shabby to say that there are only a dozen people in the harem, I didn't get involved in this matter, he can play if he wants, I hate that he can not come out in the harem every day."

"Jin Liang, why are you so angry lately?"

"It's not big, it's okay for outsiders to scold us, we are just carrying the black pot for our father, after all, my father did everything back then, but some people in the court are beginning to be unstable, today impeached us for supporting the army and self-respect, and tomorrow we will say that we interfere in the government, and I hate to force the two of us to reverse."

"This is also a helpless thing, the two of us have commanded more than half of the troops of the Great Zhou, and it seems that they are relatives, how can we be promoted and make a fortune if people don't impeach us, and by the way, provoke the desire for power in the emperor's heart?"

Speaking of this, Xia Guoxiang's face has become a little gloomy: "Isn't it just for this matter that our class teacher returned to the dynasty this time, we have agreed with Daming to advance and retreat together, if the troops are withdrawn suddenly, Yue Le or Jieshu will pull the troops to Daming's side, Daming will not be able to hold on, once they die, we will not be better." ”

Hu Guozhu looked at Xia Guoxiang's expression and suddenly came to his senses: "What do you say, as long as you speak, I will do it." "He has figured it out thoroughly, and it is appropriate for Xia Guoxiang to do this kind of thing of using his brain to harm others, if he wants to play with his brain, the three of them can't play him if they are tied together.

"Tomorrow the court will start impeaching me."

Hu Guozhu was stunned for a moment: "What did you say?" ”

"I told you to impeach me tomorrow. As long as you impeach me, we will not arouse the emperor's jealousy, you have to remember, in the future, you must not show that you are the only one, and it is good to do anything against me, as long as the two of us are still in the court, no one can take advantage of the loopholes. ”

"I see." Hu Guozhu looked happy: "In the end, we are still relatives of the emperor, can he still help his relatives?" ”

"Remember, Lee is on our side too."

On the second day, Hu Guozhu wrote a letter to impeach Xia Guoxiang for leading troops, and Xia Guoxiang pleaded guilty and resigned. The two ladies ran to the palace to make a fuss, Wu Shifan was busy with the draft, and the two aunts made a big head: "We are all a family, and we can't write two Wu characters in one stroke, and the two aunts and I agreed to it." ”

"My husband had a good relationship with his brother-in-law last year, but this year he impeached his brother-in-law, he must have been forced by the courtiers and had to do it as a last resort, and those courtiers felt that our family had no chance to control the government, so they had to let us kill each other, they wanted to control the government, and you said that your two uncles failed you?"

Wu Shifan waved his hand again and again: "No, no, the two uncles have always treated me sincerely, even when the imperial grandfather was reincarnated, he tried his best to take care of me, even Wu Yingqi was killed by them, this great grace I have always remembered, the two aunts can rest assured, tomorrow I will be the master of the two uncles." ”

In Wu Shifan's opinion, the two uncles are good and capable, he is much more leisurely than before when he becomes the emperor, and he doesn't even have to go to the battlefield, if the two of them fall, as the aunt said, let outsiders control the government One day will he not cut off his head? But the two uncles didn't have this worry, not to mention that there were two aunts secretly taking care of them, just saying that the back hand that Wu Sangui left for him was enough to deal with them, thinking of this, he had already made up his mind.

On the second day, Wu Shifan ordered that seventeen officials be dismissed from their official positions, including three senior officials above the third grade, and these seventeen people left Hangzhou City in disappointment, who knew that all of them met bandits, and none of them survived.

The boundary of Hangzhou is now the same as the capital of the Great Zhou, and there are indeed some bandits around, but everyone still knows who these thieves listen to, and now in the face of such evil deeds, no one dares to speak, saying that what is the use of these, the emperor himself doesn't care, what kind of leisure do they have.

Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu took this opportunity to completely gain a firm foothold in the DPRK, but as Xia Guoxiang arranged, the two seemed to have turned against each other, and from time to time they had to join each other's books, which made Wu Shifan feel a lot of headaches.

The final result is that Xia Guoxiang stayed in Hangzhou, Hu Guozhu led the army to meet the battle, Wu Shifan also had no way, if these two uncles were allowed to stay together again, it was estimated that there would be an aunt who would have to be widowed, so they could only be separated first, and then talk about the relationship with them later.

In this way, Xia Guoxiang's strategy has been fully realized, he and Hu Guozhu are inside and outside, no matter what wind and grass is not likely to harm the two of them, the affairs of the court are naturally responsible for Xia Guoxiang, if you really take Xia Guoxiang, you must prevent Hu Guozhu from killing into the city from the outside, although the two of them turned their faces, but except for Wu Shifan, no one in the Manchu Dynasty believed in this matter.

Otherwise, why did Hu Guozhu lead the army out of the city, everyone knew that the three of them became tigers, and it would be much easier to get close to the emperor without complaining.

(End of chapter)