In the twilight of the four groups, the horses' hooves galloping out of the Chongzhou military camp rushed like a shower and headed northeast, and the horse team soon obscured the twilight.

Behind the dense forest, Liu Zhi faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the post road in the distance, and secretly said that these dozens of horses ran down like this, and I was afraid that they would all be scrapped when they arrived in Jimo. The Ge Yi scout, who pretended to be a farmer, walked through the forest, lit up the sign, walked closer, and knelt down on one knee: "A group of sixty-two horsemen, Jinghai Metropolitan Supervisor Lin Tie is the leader, out of the camp and going to the northeast, it should be to Jimo......"

"Are you sure it's him?" Zhang Yan asked compassionately.

"I have seen him in Hecheng with my lord, and I will never admit my mistake." The scout replied.

"I see, you can step back first." Zhang Yan waved his hand and ordered the scout to retreat.

Although he was out of the province at the same time, Zhang Yan had always been working outside, and Liu Zhi was not familiar with him, so he couldn't help but ask at this time: "The master is really not afraid that he will win over the ten thousand masters?" ”

Ten thousand is ten thousand, and the ministers of the Inner Servant Province said that they wanted ten thousand masters, referring to the Empress Dowager Liang of Wanshou Palace.

"We are all the eyes and ears of the Holy One, how can we speculate about the Sacred Heart?" Zhang Yan clasped his hands, and did not teach Liu Zhi a lesson with a straight face, although he also felt pity, but now he has made up his mind, and he wants him to be this murderous knife, what can he do?

Seeing that Liu Zhi was resigned, and seemed to be worried that the consequences would not be managed, Zhang Yan said: "As long as he does not decisively lead the troops back to Chongzhou, this matter will be over...... I don't say, you can never imagine who will take Tang Haoxin's place. Either he honestly serves the court, and the saint will not treat him badly, and he wants to take refuge in the Wanshou Palace, dreaming! ”

Seeing that Zhang Yan was so decisive, Liu Zhi thought that there must be an insider and transaction behind him that he couldn't guess, but he was still a little breathless, and asked: "I went to Chongzhou to see, and at this time, I can't do without the defense of the Jiangdong Left Army, is it too risky for the master?" ”

"At this time, don't kick Tang Haoxin away from Shandong, and when they really become the climate, will they have it?" Zhang Yan asked rhetorically, smiled gloomily, and said disdainfully, "It's only because Tang Haoxin's tail was exposed too early, and he didn't set up the governor of the four southern counties instead of King Ning, so he could figure it out!" He is old, but he has no head, how do you know that he is not paving the way for the surname Gu? ”

Liu Zhi thought about it, it was really possible, Gu Wuchen was already the left waiter of the Jiangning Military Department, and he set up a governor of the four southern counties, even if Gu Wuchen couldn't catch up with the first term, few people in the second term would be qualified to compete with him.

After Tang Haoxin and Zhang Xie broke up, no one called the officials of the Tang and Gu Yi series the Tang Party, but there was a saying that the Dongyang Party was headed by Gu Wuchen? Compared to the Changhuai Army to Yue Lengqiu, the Jiangdong Left Army and Dongyang Township Yongke are all Gu Wuchen's disciples.

Today, he may not be willing to endure humiliation as the king of the capital move, and King Ning will most likely ascend the throne in Jiangning, and Jiangning will naturally replace Yanjing as the imperial capital at that time.

You can't raise tigers next to the imperial capital, and it's no wonder that you have to kick Tang Haoxin away from Shandong to feel at ease. But Liu Zhi couldn't figure out who would be sent to Shandong to take over Tang Haoxin's position, and how many people in today's temple could have Tang Haoxin's prestige?

Li Zhuo couldn't leave, and besides, he was entangled in a bunch of things, and the Yanguan was looking for trouble for him all day long, if it wasn't for the saint to protect him, he would have been kicked back to his hometown a long time ago.

Chen Xinbo? This is possible, after all, Zhang Xie is empty in Beijing, and he doesn't have much power, so it's better to go out of the town and county. Replacing Tang Haoxin is not without his identity. But Chen Xinbo went out of Shandong, and it seemed that he couldn't stop Gu, Lin and others from resentful and threw themselves into Wanshou Palace.

Yue Lengqiu has to be responsible for the war with the Wandering People's Army, and he knows that he can't get away from it in time.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhi's mind suddenly thought of a person like a thunderbolt, and suddenly thought that King Ning was not as simple as it seemed.

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From the city to Jimo, there are post road zigzags and turns, the whole journey is 600 miles, the forest set off from the city at dusk on the 23rd, wearing the stars and wearing the moon, in addition to eating dry food, going to the post station to change horses and stopping for a while, there was no nap for a moment all night, and the next day before noon arrived at Jimo.

Seeing that the head of Jimo City was approaching, Lin Jian reined in the reins of the horse a little to slow down the horse, but fortunately, when he saw Tang Haoxin, he didn't look too tired.

Gu Siyuan waited outside the West City Gate on a lonely horse, as if he guessed that Lin Jian would come at this time.

Seeing Gu Siyuan dressed in filial piety linen clothes, Lin Jian suddenly felt like thunder, and the whole person rolled off the horse's back as if unconscious for an instant, and fell hard onto the official road of the Jimo West City Gate where the loess was rolling.

Lin Lian turned over and got up, sat on the road stalk, and felt sad in his heart, and felt that this city gate building was so far away......

"Say goodbye to King Ning and leave from Linzi, Grandpa refuses to eat, saying that only by dying in office will the emperor know that he is loyal," Gu Siyuan said in despair about what happened after separating from Chen/Yuanliang, "Grandpa wants me to wait for you here, except for this letter, he wants you to read this blood letter first......"

Lin Tie first spread out the bloodstained white paper, and wrote with his fingers in blood, only a cross, with thousands of words, pressed on Lin Tie's chest: I don't seek the name of history, but for the sake of the people's livelihood!

Lin Lian's mouth twitched, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh, but he seemed to see Tang Gong hiding in the clouds like an old fox and laughing, he saw through that he would laugh at his stupid death, but he saw through the resentment in his heart, so he left this cross blood book.

Lin Jian was not busy reading the letter, respectfully folded the blood book, hid it in his arms, and said to Gu Siyuan: "Grandpa's thoughts, I understand, I won't go into the city, so I will go back to Yancheng to escort King Ning into Jiangning, and you can arrange for the funeral in Beijing and other places." He knelt down on the loess avenue outside the East City Gate, kowtowed respectfully three times, and couldn't help but shed two lines of tears, and the tears were not wiped away, turned over and got on the horse, and galloped towards the direction of Yancheng with Zhao Hu and a cadre of guards......

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After Lin Lian returned to Yancheng, he lived in the military camp and did not urge King Ning to set off, Chen / Yuanliang and other Shandong officials learned of Tang Haoxin's death, wept, and left Yancheng to return to Qingzhou.

Zhang Yan and others waited in Yancheng until the 26th to receive the official letter of funeral officially issued by Qingzhou, and only then did they know the news of Tang Haoxin's death.

Zhang Yan was also taken aback, he didn't want Tang Haoxin to die immediately, but he revealed that he wanted him to die today, forcing him to resign and give up his position in Shandong, but he didn't expect Tang Haoxin's bones to be so hard that he died in office.

What will the officials of the entire Shandong County think? Not many people will directly point the finger at the saint, but they will all know that he and Zhang Xitong teamed up to force Tang Haoxin to death.

What will Lin Jian think?

Zhang Yan was also panicked for a while, Zhang Xitong refused to come forward, he pulled Liu Zhi to the military camp outside the city to see Lin Tie, but gave Lin Tie a sentence to the Yuanmen Colonel to transfer back: "Keeping filial piety, seeing that the guests are ominous, when to leave for Jiangning, notify me!" ”

Lin Tie was also willing to lead his troops to escort King Ning to Jiangning to take up the domain, Zhang Yan was a little more relieved, but he also knew that this Liang Zi was deep, and he was quite helpless, and at the moment it was just good to stabilize Lin Tie, so he went to meet Zhang Xitong to arrange for King Ning to set off for the south.

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The Yangtze River is a delta landform, and the whole Hailing Mansion seems to be a big triangle stretched out, from Chongzhou to the north to Yancheng, it is actually from southeast to northwest obliquely, which is the hypotenuse of the Yangtze River Delta; Geographically speaking, the city is due north of Jiangning.

There are more than 800 miles in a straight line from Chongzhou to Yancheng, but the straight-line distance from Jiangning to Yancheng is shortened by more than 200 miles.

From the city to the south is Muyang, you can take the boat to take the waterway, then to the south is Suyu (now Suqian), then to the south is Huai'an City, take the boat into Hongzepu, the west is to the Liumin army to destroy the Sizhou City, Haozhou City, and then south is the territory of Dongyang Mansion, through the Shiliang River is the north of Jiangning City.

After entering Muyang, Ao Canghai led the Changshan Infantry Battalion to return to Chongzhou by land, and Lin Jian led the Jinghai First Water Battalion to escort Ning Wang Guanzuo and Wang Fu Wei Camp and a group of more than 4,000 people to arrive in Jiangning by water.

Along the way, Lin Jian sat alone in a boat, closed cabin and did not come out, except for Zhao Qingshan and other generals under his command, no outsiders were seen, and Liu Zhi was not seen, and they arrived in Jiangning without incident.

Yue Lengqiu commanded the army to fight against the Liumin army in central Henan, and the ministers of Jiangning, led by Cheng Yuqian, almost all of them were dispatched to Chaotiandang Beiyi to welcome the king of Ning.

Gu Wuchen also refused to come to greet him in the name of filial piety.

Leaving Ning Wangfu and others on the north bank, Lin Jian resigned and went back to Chongzhou, took a small boat to anchor at the prison gate, and met Gu Wuchen, sighing and really didn't know what to say. Tang Haoxin also left a suicide note for Gu Wuchen, the current situation and what they can do have been fully discussed before, Tang Haoxin left a blood letter in the hope that they would not harm the righteousness with small grievances.

After King Ning became a vassal of Jiangning, Jiangning will become the real political center of the southeastern counties, but before King Ning ascended the throne, Yuan Jianwu himself is more of a symbolic symbol, and the authority is almost in the hands of Zhang Xitong, Zhang Yan, Liu Zhi and others, and the forces of the Dongyang family are still marginalizing these people's efforts.

Whether it is the imperial party or the Hou party, or the Chu party, the Western Qin party, or the Liang, Cao and other military nobles, if the king of Ning ascends the throne in Jiangning in the future, there are two major forces in the local forces that cannot be ignored by all forces, one is the Wu party, and the other is the Dongyang system.

Fortunately, the Wu Party is mainly composed of local gentry and Qingliu scholars, and is always willing to be used by the officials, but in the eyes of others, the Dongyang family is much more dangerous. Both the Jiangdong Left Army and the Dongyang Xiangyong are expanding strongly, and the situation in the southeast has eroded to the current place, and Gu Wuchen has to be arranged to be the "Minister of River Defense".

If Jiangning is taken as the imperial capital, the power potential of the Dongyang system is actually much greater than that of the current Chu Party and the Western Qin Party. Emperor Chongguan was also bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years. The Cao family's secession of the northwest or the extravagant secession of the southeast could not shake the rule of the Yuan family, but he was afraid that there would be a luxury family and a Cao family on the edge of the imperial capital in the future, so he even did not hesitate to use Liang Xi to go to Shandong to replace Tang Haoxin.

Tang Haoxin also wrote in the suicide note left by Lin Tie that "the emperor is good at power, and the ministers are under the imperial courtiers, and those who go out of Shandong are the only ones who are Zheng Guogong Liang Xi'er."