The boat arrived at the mouth of the Zhulong River and received the news from Yangxin, and the Queen Mother, King Lu and his party escorted them to Qingzhou.

Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Gao Zongting, Wu Qi and others immediately changed to the south, and the boat entered Laizhou Bay, only to know that Lin Lian had personally arrived in Laizhou, and lived in the Xiashan camp at the mouth of the inner bay.

The people of Jinhai retreated south, first moved from Jinhai to Laizhou, and then went south along the Jiaolai River from Laizhou, to Jiaozhou Bay or by sea or land, and evacuated to Huaidong for resettlement. Laizhou is the largest transit base for the people of Jinhai to retreat south, and Huaidong, in the name of Jiyun Society and Heishui Foreign Ship Society, has gathered thousands of large and small ships in Laizhou to supply tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass.

In order to make up for the shortage of manpower, as early as early May, Huaidong transferred two battalions of soldiers from the military guard of the trading company, the former Qinwei battalion, and the Tianjin navy, which were nominally the military guards, to take charge of organizing the evacuation, and set up camp at Neiwankou, northeast of Laizhou City, which was called Xiashan Daying.

Huaidong finally decided to support Gu Siyuan to form the Qingzhou Army and take over Linzi, Yangxin and other cities from the Liang family, to a certain extent, because of the organization of such a large-scale evacuation of people in a short period of time, it was necessary to borrow from Qingzhou - naturally, it also needed to get the permission of the people in Qingzhou before Huaidong could form a camp in Xiashan outside Laizhou City.

Lin Jian came to Laizhou in the name of supervising the evacuation of the displaced people, and he could not openly say that he was here to rob the Queen Mother and King Lu.

Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Wu Qi, Gao Zongting, Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang, Jiang Yue and others anchored at the shore in the inner bay of Laizhou, and entered the camp of Xiashan to see Lin Binding.

More than 100,000 refugees evacuated from Jinhai are crowded in the area of Neiwankou, and they have not had time to move south.

The war horses in the Xiashan camp were hoarse-Zhou Pu also served as a guard, and the Huaidong cavalry camp was actually the elite of the guards of Lin Bin, and Lin Tie lived in the Xiashan camp, and Zhou Pu naturally wanted to lead the cavalry camp to protect the left and right.

Gao Zongting thought to himself: Could it be that the Queen Mother and King Lu and her party are in the camp of Xiashan Mountain? I don't think it's possible!

Lin Jian stood in front of the gate of the Xiashan camp to greet everyone.

At the end of July, the weather was hot, Lin Tie was dressed in green armor, his hand pressed the saber on his waist, standing in the sun, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, and he saw Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others showing their faces from the corner, greeted them, and said: "Counting that you will come over in the next few days, I have been waiting here." I'm hiding in Huaidong, let you work hard, I'm here to salute everyone......"

Lin Xuwen paused for a moment and asked Huang Jinnian to come forward. Lin Tie didn't take a shelf, Huang Jinnian was very grateful, sometimes people fight for a face, and he returned the salute and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, only if the adults strategize, we can get out of trouble safely, we should salute and thank the adults......"

"Huang Gong is polite," Lin Jian grabbed Huang Jinnian's arm, and greeted Lin Xuwen, Jiang Yue and others. He called Lin Xuwen "big brother" by ranking in the clan, called Gao Zongting's name, and called Jiang Yue "Lord Jiang", but Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Gao Zongting and others, regardless of the difference in status on each other's surface, all called Lin Jian "Adult" - the subtle differences in this title made Jiang Yue taken aback.

Jiang Yue is an official and does not participate in factional struggles, but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand the subtleties. Li Zhuo died, and there was no doubt that Gao Zongting, Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang and others would join Huaidong, but he originally thought that Huang Jinnian and Lin Xuwen would go to Jiangning as Huaidong's political allies.

Debating the nuances in the title, Huang Jinnian and Lin Xuwen have clearly joined the Huaidong family, and only Lin is looking forward to the horse.

Jiang Yue was grateful to Lin Yue for sending someone to escort his family to flee south, and said: "Lord Lin is grateful for his help!" ”

"Lord Jiang is polite...... Lin Jian returned the salute, he respected Jiang Yue's knowledge and character, such a character can be a friend, and he doesn't want to drag him into the factional struggle too early.

In addition to Jiang Yue, Lin Jian also instructed Wu Qi to lead the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department to lurk in the north, contact the officials of various ministries who have made great achievements in miscellaneous studies, as well as some master craftsmen and craftsmen under the Ministry of Industry and the Supervision Department, and arrange to cover them to go south.

These people are extremely unvalued in the entire bureaucratic system where Confucianism is the mainstream.

After Emperor Chongguan left the city, although Zhang Xie was appointed as the envoy who stayed behind, he still had 20,000 Beijing camp troops in his hands, and Yanjing City was uncontrollably restricted into chaos. Taking advantage of the chaos, these officials and master craftsmen dragged their families and disappeared from the mansion, took advantage of the displaced people to cover their way out of the city, and sneaked south in batches, which did not attract the attention of the Donghu people.

In fact, Zhang Xie and others led the Jingying army defending the city to surrender to the Donghu people, but the vast majority of the officials who remained in Yanjing City, including those who were still on duty before the fall of Yanjing, those who were idle at home waiting to fill the vacancy, and the non-commissioned officers of the Hanlin Academy, all closed their doors with their own intentions. There are always a few people who are quick to react and dare to take risks, and most people are slow and wait-and-see......

Jiang Yue and other officials of the Heavenly Prison were present, and it was inconvenient to talk about others, and when the national disaster was at hand, it was also necessary to wash the dust and suppress the shock. After the banquet, Lin Lian invited Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Gao Zongting, Wu Tian, Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang and others to his residence.

"Zongting, Quanshan, and Dingbang's family, I have sent people to take them from Jiangxi to Chongzhou. When you arrive in Chongzhou, you will be able to reunite with your family......" Lin Jian sat down and asked everyone about their hardships in the Northland. Li Zhuo gave the wine and medicine in detail, Lin Jian had already been rewarded, he hated it in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. The Queen Mother and King Lu and his entourage fled south to the river, and gave the Donghu cavalry a bite, and Chen Xinbo led a pawn to the palace with an old body, and trampled to death by the Donghu cavalry during the war.

And Emperor Chongguan threw himself into the water and died after the defeat of Chaohe, and Hao Zongcheng also drank poison and died - it was impossible to overturn the case for Li Zhuo in a short period of time, not to mention that after Li Zhuo's death, although most of the responsibility for the defeat of Liaoxi was put on his head, Emperor Chongguan did not set any formal charges.

Li Zhuo's ancestral home is in Western Qin, and he went to Jiangning and Yanjing to take up his post, all of which were alone, and his family was all from his hometown in Western Qin, and Lin Jian had no excuse to take Li Zhuo's family to Huaidong. Gao Zongting, Geng Quanshan, and Chen Dingbang were from Jiangxi, and they were successively reused when Li Zhuo was appointed as the deputy envoy of Jiangxi to supervise the army in Min County. When they join Huaidong, Lin Jian will send someone to take over their families from Jiangxi - on the one hand, they will be at ease to work for Huaidong, on the other hand, the situation in Jiangxi is very unstable, and the party struggle between the imperial court factions will soon evolve into a balance between the warlord forces, and the family will not fall into someone else's territory.

"Thank you for the adult mercy!" Gao Zongting, Geng Quanshan, and Chen Dingbang stood up and saluted.

"It's not been a day or two since everyone got to know each other, so there's no need to be so polite!" Lin Jian stopped the three of them and told them to sit down and speak.

"If you don't see the Queen Mother and King Lu here, then it should be in Qingzhou," Gao Zongting asked in a suppressed voice, "Does the Gu family really want to support King Lu?" ”

"That old witch, I don't know how she did it, she actually saw through the dirt between the Qingzhou army and Huaidong," Zhou Pu sat next to him and said in a muffled voice, "After all, there are more than 400 Jingying troops around the old witch to withdraw, Gu Siyuan sniffed his nose and rushed to Yangxin first, and the old witch hooked up with him." I can't detain this old witch and that ghost Lao Zi King Lu, I can only watch them go to Qingzhou with Gu Siyuan...... "Zhou Pu spit out the matter of the Queen Mother and King Lu rushing to escort Gu Siyuan to Qingzhou like pouring beans.

After all, Zhou Pu has no experience in this kind of thing, and if he changes to other people who are good at scheming, he will not stay in Yangxin at all, and will only do everything possible to block the news and forcibly escort the Queen Mother and King Lu and his party into the controlled area of Huaidong.

You can't blame Zhou Pu for not thinking about it carefully, people must be deficient, how can they be perfect?

"Zongting is really sharp-minded, and he will be successful in a guess, and there will be Zongting to plan for me in the future, and Huaidong will have one more help!" Lin Lian praised Gao Zongting with a smile, and did not blame Zhou Pu, the situation in the north was expected, and the people of Jinhai did a good job according to the plan, and if they could control the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu in their hands, it may not be a hot potato.

"My lord is overrated," Gao Zongting said, "I don't know if there are others planning behind the scenes, just see that the Queen Mother and King Lu and her party would rather fall into the hands of the Qingzhou Army in Yangxin, and quickly break away from Huaidong, this calculation is not weak!" ”

"Oh! It's really a bit of a headache now," Lin Jian said, "I haven't contacted Gu Siyuan directly, and the Queen Mother and King Lu have only sent someone to express their condolences!" ”

If the Queen Mother and King Lu fell into the hands of Huaidong, of course Huaidong would not have any extraneous branches here to support King Lu. However, under the condition that Huaidong controlled the king of Lu, he also firmly supported King Ning to ascend the throne in Jiangning, and King Ning naturally had to come up with more benefits to thank Huaidong for his sincerity.

If Emperor Chongguan can escape, then another story. If Huaidong supported Emperor Chongguan to enter Jiangning to sit on the dragon chair, Yuan Jianwu would not only pinch his nose and continue to be King Ning, but also cut off his right arm himself, so as not to cause death to suspicion.

In fact, King Lu Yuan Jianhai is far from qualified to compete with King Ning for the throne.

It's a pity that the chess is one move, Lin Jian rushed to Shandong, and Zhou Pu has lost control of the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu and others.

Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu are very poor in military strategy, but they are first-class masters of intrigue and trickery.

As long as the imperial power is established and announced to the world, the role of King Lu will be limited; Empress Dowager Liang may have the opportunity to go to Jiangning, but only the old woman who is waiting for death in the deep palace, even the support of the Liang family is far from helping her recover the glory of controlling the inner court in the past.

Obviously, Empress Dowager Liang also knew in her heart what would happen if she fell into the hands of Huaidong - this old woman was unwilling!

When Gu Siyuan, Chen/Yuanliang and others rushed to Yangxin to meet the driver, Empress Dowager Liang quickly understood that Qingzhou and Huaidongming were from the same source and the same qi, but they were somewhat dissociated. Moreover, the Qingzhou Army is headed by Gu Wuchen's son Gu Siyuan, which is newly formed, and it is far from being a strong army, but it is ambitious.

Empress Dowager Liang knew that it was impossible to easily get away and take King Lu to Jinan Mansion to join the Liang family, and dealing with the scheming Huaidong was far worse than dealing with the ambitious but weak Qingzhou army.

If King Lu falls into the hands of Huaidong, the Qingzhou army and Gu Wuchen will not be able to take any substantial advantage, but the Qingzhou army controls the king of Lu, unites the Liang family and Huaidong and Gu Wuchen in Jiangning to support King Lu as the emperor, and the Qingzhou army can account for at least one-third of the meritorious service.

Empress Dowager Liang saw Gu Siyuan's mentality, and after arriving in Yangxin, she quickly got rid of Zhou Pu's control and approached Gu Siyuan to enter Qingzhou City-Gu Siyuan obviously had some ideas.

This incident alone made Lin Jian feel tricky and headache.

The Donghu people were overwhelmed in Yan and Hebei, and the speed of integrating the local forces in Yan and Jin counties was very fast and effective.

Hehuai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, at this time, should quickly and decisively support the king of Ning as the emperor, form the Jiangning regime, establish a new capital, and instead devote energy to the front line of Hehuai and establish defense, instead of being here, for the support of the new emperor, unnecessary infighting.

Gao Zongting also wanted to persuade Lin Jian not to easily move his heart, the risk was too great, and the south couldn't withstand such a big toss, seeing Lin Jian frowning and shouting that he had a headache, he knew that he didn't have this mind, but Qingzhou Jun and Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan's father and son were difficult to say.

In the face of the power that covers the sky with one hand and is within reach, not many people can stay awake. On the issue of the formation of the Qingzhou Army, Huaidong, Gu Wuchen and the people of Qingzhou have already looked like they are separated.

What's more, in the eyes of careerists, Gu Wuchen is in the position of the left squire of the military department in Jiangning, and he also controls the Jiangning water camp, and there is the Dongyang army on the near side to rely on, and it is not too difficult to unite the forces of Huaidong, Qingzhou army, and the Liang family, and it is not too difficult to abolish King Ning and support King Lu.