On the official road north of Chi'ankou, an ox cart is walking slowly along the official road, and there are two women sitting in the ox cart, both women are wearing wide eaves hats, and the hats are surrounded by light yarns, covering the faces of the two women, which is the most common attire for Song women, light yarn can block the erosion of sunlight and dust, and can also block the eyes of some disciples.

However, it can be seen that one woman is older and taller, wearing a long sword at her waist, while the other woman is younger, not tall, and looks very young, she is holding a child in her arms, the child is sleeping soundly, the woman looks down at the child, looking worried.

"Cai'e, don't worry, of course he won't be at Chi'ankou now, we will definitely find him if we continue to go north!"

At this time, the old woman saw a tea shed on the side of the road ahead, so she said, "I'll go and inquire about the news, and bring some food and water by the way." ”

After saying that, she didn't need to stop the ox cart, she jumped down and walked quickly towards the tea shed, and the ox cart driver found that the older woman had gotten out of the cart, and he quickly stopped the ox cart.

After a short time, the elderly woman came back with a bag of food and two jugs of water in her hand, and she instructed the coachman, "Turn around and go to Huzhou!" ”

She returned to the ox cart and whispered to the young girl: "I have inquired clearly, there was a battle in Huzhou a few days ago, and the fleet should be going to Taihu Lake, let's go to Taihu Lake to inquire, and we will know the whereabouts of the fleet." ”

The young girl nodded slightly, "Everything is decided by the owner of the nunnery." ”

The older woman thought for a while and said, "We can't go to Huzhou, since a big war broke out over there, there must be a lot of troops, we are easy to be intercepted, it is best to take a detour." ”

She also instructed the coachman to go directly to Pingjiang Mansion and not to Huzhou.

Needless to say, these two people are the palace maid Li Cai'e who escaped from the palace and Master Mei Yun, the master of Baiyun Nunnery.

Zhang Wei comprehensively searched all parts of the palace, but ignored the Baiyun Nunnery in the back mountain, the owner of Meiyun Nunnery seized this opportunity, and took Li Cai'e and the crown prince Zhao Yang to escape from Phoenix Mountain, according to the orders of the Son of Heaven, they wanted to hand over the prince Zhao Yang to Li Yanqing, and the two hired an ox cart to go north.

Li Cai'e is only thirteen years old this year, and she has been living in the palace since she entered the palace at the age of seven, without any contact with the outside world.

The old nun Master Mei Yun is a little better than her, but it is not much better, she has been isolated from the world for nearly thirty years, and her human feelings have almost degenerated, but she has a little bit of martial arts, but she can also deal with three moves and five styles.

The two of them had no experience in escaping the secret sentry at all, Master Mei Yun ran to the tea shed to inquire about Li Yanqing's whereabouts, and was immediately watched by the secret sentry guarding the tea shed, and as soon as the ox cart left, the secret sentry took more than a dozen soldiers to chase after him.

"Master of the nunnery, what's going on behind the scenes?"

Li Cai'e suddenly found more than a dozen soldiers chasing behind her, and immediately panicked.

The master of Meiyun Nunnery was shocked, she knew that they had been exposed, she was anxious, she pulled out her long sword and jumped out of the ox cart, shouted loudly, and stabbed towards the dark whistle at the head.

These secret sentinel soldiers are all experienced, how could they fight with the master of Meiyun Nunnery, they immediately divided their troops into two ways, five or six people entangled the master of Meiyun Nunnery, and the other few people rushed towards the ox cart.

"Cai'e, get off the ox cart and run!"

The master of Meiyun Nunnery was entangled by soldiers and could not go to the rescue, she saw that the situation was critical, and the ox cart was too slow, so she was so anxious that she shouted.

Li Cai'e was already frightened, where could she jump out of the car and escape, so she had to hug Zhao Yang tightly and cry.

Several soldiers had already caught up with the ox-cart, and one soldier first slashed the coachman down, controlled the ox-cart, and the head of the secret whistle laughed proudly, and the fifty thousand taels of silver were about to be paid, and he threw himself into the ox-cart.

At this moment of lightning, a wolf's tooth arrow whizzed, and an arrow pierced the back of the heart of the leader of the dark whistle, and the dark whistle screamed miserably and fell from the ox cart to the ground.

Another arrow also flew at him, and the sentry that controlled the ox cart was shot through the neck, tumbling over the ox cart and falling to the ground.

I saw seven or eight big men rushing out of the roadside woods, all of them were brave in martial arts and strong in combat, and they killed more than a dozen soldiers in an instant, and relieved the siege for the master of Meiyun Nunnery.

The leader lifted the curtain and said to Li Cai'e, who was trembling with fright: "Don't be afraid, we won't kill you." ”

He pointed to the child again and asked in a deep voice: "You tell me the truth, is he the crown prince Zhao Yang?" ”

Li Cai'e cried and said: "The official family entrusted the prince to me and asked me to find the king of Jin, but where can I go to find the king of Jin!" ”

The leader laughed, "In Xia Ruan Xiaoer, he is a general under His Royal Highness the King of Jin, we are about to rush to Pingjiang Mansion, it seems that the prince's life should not be extinguished." ”

Li Cai'e was surprised and delighted, "You are really from His Royal Highness King Jin?" ”

"You'll know when you see His Royal Highness King Jin."

Ruan Xiaoer turned around and shouted: "Fifth and seventh, we have a new task!" ”

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Li Yanqing's fleet docked at Taihu Lake West Dongting Mountain, which belongs to Pingjiang Prefecture, which is today's Suzhou, is an independent island that is not directly connected to the mainland, and there are more than 300 households on the island, relying on farming and fishing for their livelihood.

At noon that day, Mo Jun, the prefect of Pingjiang, rushed to West Dongting Mountain and brought Li Yanqing the latest news of Lin'an Mansion.

"Martial law in Lin'an Province has been lifted during the day, but a curfew is still in place at night, and the Emperor Taishang was officially crowned regent yesterday, presided over the first court meeting, and made many official adjustments."

"What major changes have been made?" Li Yanqing asked.

"The main thing is to remove Fan Zhixu and Gao Shen Xiangguo, replaced by Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan, in addition to Qin Hui concurrently serving as the servant of the Ministry of Officials, ready to start cleaning up the incompetent main and deputy officials in various places, and Zhang Cheng in the imperial history was dismissed, replaced by Du Chong, and at the same time Du Chong set up a supervision bureau, mainly to monitor the speech of the government and the opposition, now everyone in the capital is in danger, I heard that more than 100 officials have submitted their resignations."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and then asked, "Then has a new Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy Envoy been appointed?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be!"

Mo Jun said with a smile: "The Emperor Taishang has one thing on his lips, and another set on his back, although he has removed all the titles and official positions of the capital, he really doesn't dare to reach into the Jingzhao Army." ”

Li Yanqing sneered, "It's not that he doesn't dare to stretch out his hand, he is secretly wooing first, and it is estimated that he has already sent someone to Jingzhao Mansion, if Liu Jian or Wang Gui is wooed by him, he will immediately appoint a new envoy to Sichuan and Shaanxi." ”

Li Yanqing took a few steps and asked, "Is there any news of Yue Fei?" ”

Mo Jun nodded, "He and Li Gang were appointed by the official family as the pacification envoy of Yuezhou and the pacification envoy of Jingnan on the afternoon of the coup, and went to Dongting Lake to suppress bandits. ”

"Did that affect you?"

Mo Jun smiled bitterly, "It's a matter of time, it is estimated that Qin Hui is counting the bias of various magistrates!" I'm definitely in the middle of nowhere. ”

Speaking of this, Mo Jun cautiously asked, "When does Dutong plan to return to Jingzhao Mansion?" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head and said, "Why should I go back to Jingzhao Mansion?" Wouldn't it be too cheap for me to go back to Jingzhao Mansion, those dog thieves! ”

"But ......"

As soon as Mo Jun was about to speak, Li Yanqing waved his hand and interrupted him, "I know in my heart, I have sent someone to contact Han Shizhong and Cao Sheng, and there will also be a cavalry from the Jingzhao army." ”

At this moment, a soldier reported outside the cabin, "Qi Yu Dutong, Cao Zhifu and Han Dutong have pigeon letters delivered!" ”

"Bring it in!"

After a while, the soldiers came in and presented two pigeon letters, Li Yanqing opened the pigeon letters to look at them carefully, he quickly came to the map and checked carefully, Mo Jun stepped forward and asked, "Dutong, how is the situation?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "Cao Sheng's side will fully respond to my call, there are 15,000 garrisons in Jiangning Mansion will obey my command, and Han Shizhong will declare neutrality, but he will secretly lend me 30,000 elite soldiers." ”

Mo Jun hurriedly said: "Pingjiang Mansion also has 5,000 troops, as well as a large amount of money and grain, so that the army will have 50,000 people." ”

Li Yanqing nodded and said: "What I'm worried about now is Liu Guangshi of Chuzhou, I have written to him, hoping that he will remain neutral, and now he has no attitude, just in case, I need to recruit five thousand sailors in Pingjiang Mansion." ”

Mo Jun said with a smile: "Actually, you don't have to recruit, you can pick out three thousand soldiers with good water ability out of the five thousand Xiang army, and the other two thousand people can be picked out from the Jiangning Mansion army, all of them want to block the Yangtze River!" ”

"That's right, it's a pity that my sixty warships here are not used."

That night, Li Yanqing raised a banner in Pingjiang Mansion, calling on all prefectures and counties to follow him. 'Eliminate Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Du Chong and other traitorous villains.

Cao Sheng, the prefect of Jiangning and the defense envoy along the river, took the lead in echoing, followed by Zhao Yan, the governor of Runzhou, and Pan Yue, the military training envoy of Changzhou, also responded one after another, raising the banner of 'Qingjun's side'.

Han Shizhong, the defense envoy of Huaibei, declared that he would focus on the great cause of resisting Jin and maintain neutrality, but he secretly ordered Xu Ning and Zhang Hu to lead 30,000 troops to Jiangnan to support Li Yanqing.