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Located in the northwest corner of the Imperial Garden, Runfang Pavilion is shaded by flowers and trees. {We don't write novels, we're just online text porters - the courtyard is small, but it's very elegant.} It's just that due to its remote location, it is very deserted on weekdays, and it is no different from the cold palace.

All along, Da Yu'er has lived here. Her status in the palace is just a chosen attendant, only a little higher than the lowest palace maid, and there are countless beauties in this harem, the emperor seems to have forgotten her existence.

This time for Da Yu'er, it can be said that joy fell from the sky, and the emperor didn't know what to do, so he suddenly ordered her to be responsible for thoroughly investigating the affairs of the palace spies.

Of course, if this matter is done well, there will naturally be some benefits; If it can't be done

No if!

It must be done well, and if you miss this opportunity, you may have to die alone in this Runfang Pavilion like a cold palace.

Da Yu'er lived in the palace from the age of 13, survived, and eventually put her son on the throne of the Manchu emperor, relying on more than just beauty.

She knew very well that the emperor used her to investigate this matter thoroughly, and one of the very important reasons was that she had nothing to do with the forces outside the palace, and the Jurchens had basically been wiped out from the face of the earth by Great Qin, so who else could she have anything to do with.

What the emperor wants to investigate, I'm afraid it's just the palace eyeliner of this rebellion case.

The Tai Hospital secretly discussed the emperor's condition, and overnight, almost all the Gaomen mansions in Nanjing City had been informed. What is this? How can an emperor tolerate such a thing?

The emperor wants to be this wicked man himself!

So what's the matter? Even if you offend all the high-ranking officials and nobles, what does it matter? As long as the emperor is satisfied.

But where the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace are willing to be the eyes of the ministers, the biggest possibility is to be greedy for heavy profits.

Therefore, Da Yuer's first step is to check the money of all the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and the monthly rules in the palace have their own fixed number, and whoever has more money must have ghosts, so it must be good to catch them first.

Qin Mu's harem is different from the harem of the previous dynasties, which often has 20,000 or 30,000 people, and all the palace maids and eunuchs in this Great Qin Palace add up to only 1,300 people, which is much easier to check.

Ordinary palace maids and eunuchs don't have a separate room, let alone a back garden to bury money for you, so they will be searched all the time. Most of them had nowhere to hide, and a total of 47 people were found to have "huge" assets of unknown origin.

Of course, this move cannot catch all the suspects. Some people may have taken their possessions out of the palace for storage after they had obtained them. Maybe give it to a loved one.

Immediately afterwards, Da Yu'er checked the people who had the opportunity to leave the palace within this month, especially on the day when it was rumored that the emperor was ill, who had the opportunity to contact outside the palace, and it was even more strictly investigated.

A two-pronged approach. A total of 64 suspects were identified.

After the court meeting, Qin Mu returned to the Qianqing Palace, and Da Yu'er came to report on the progress of the inner palace.

Da Yu'er has a plump body, this time she came to see the emperor, she was obviously carefully dressed, and after changing into the Daqin palace clothes, she has a beautiful charm, and the mature taste is more and more sultry.

It's a pity that Qin Mu doesn't have that mind now, he asked lightly, "How did you find out?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, sixty-four suspects have been found. However, "

"If you have something to say, you can say it less."

"Assassinating the prince is a big crime of the Nine Clans, so it takes a will of His Majesty to find out the real murderer who assassinated the prince in the palace and let him be used by me."

Qin Mu didn't say anything, took off his pen and wrote a holy decree himself, stamped it with a seal and handed it to Da Yu'er.

"Thank you, slave, Your Majesty." Da Yu'er hurriedly knelt down and took the holy decree. With this holy decree of forgiveness of sins, Da Yu'er is confident that she can rely on her own means. It's not hard to find out.

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Quanjiao County is located in the south of Chuzhou City. It is 100 miles east of Nanjing, 40 miles of Chuzhou in the north, 200 miles of Luzhou in the west, and 140 miles of Ma'anshan in the south.

Low mountains stretch to the north. The central part is hilly and undulating, and the southwest and southeast are river valley plains. The Chuhe River flows through the southwest and southeast edges of the county, and is known as the back and abdomen of the Jianghuai River and the Wuchu Chongqu.

After Li Guo occupied Quanjiao, he strictly enforced military discipline and opened a warehouse to release grain. The trick of opening a warehouse and releasing grain has been tried and tested many times in troubled times, and opening a warehouse and releasing grain can often pull tens of thousands of horses.

But now the people live and work in peace and contentment. If you don't worry about food and clothing, how can you rebel for that little bit of food?

Seeing that this trick did not work, Li Laiheng was furious, and plundered the army, burned down the houses, destroyed everything, and turned the people of Quanjiao into homeless refugees.

At the same time, Li Guo played the slogan "Qin Mu is dead, Dashun is revived", firstly, to demagogue, and secondly, to force those old subordinates of the Dashun Dynasty to rebel.

After repeated actions, he finally pulled up 5,000 people. However, Nanjing's reaction was so fast that it was unexpected, Yan Yingyuan's 5,000 cavalry from Yanziji crossed the river, and went straight to Quanjiao, and Ling Zhan's 5,000 men and horses also began to cross the river north at Quarshiji, obviously to carry out a two-sided attack on Quanjiao.

The soldiers and horses of Chuzhou, Luzhou, Hezhou, and Chaoxian were also stepping up their defenses, and they quickly formed a siege on all sides.

Li Guo, Liang Tao, and Li Laiheng are all experienced generals, and they know that Quan Jiao can't stay and must quickly switch to battle. But where to go?

Liang Tao and Li Laiheng agreed that they should immediately switch to Shaanxi. First, Shaanxi is the nest of the Dashun army, and second, if Gao Yigong leads troops down from Qinghai-Tibet, he can immediately form a confluence and rapidly expand and occupy the northwest corner.

Li Guo said: "It is inevitable to go back to Shaanxi, but how to go back is a problem. It is not difficult for Qin Mu to think of this, and he will definitely do his best to prevent us from returning to Shaanxi. Wuhan, Xiangyang, Luzhou, Fengyang, and Luoyang all have heavy troops, and from here to the west and north to enter the Jianghuai Plain. ”

Li Laiheng thought for a while and nodded: "What my father said is that it seems that we can only take it by surprise and be unprepared." Qin Mu must have thought that we were in a hurry to return to Shaanxi, and now the focus of their defense was on the west and north. Father, from here to the south, one hundred and forty miles is Ma'anshan, the child suggested, with elite troops to rush forward, cross the Yangtze River at night, and surprise attack Ma'anshan. ”

Ma'anshan can be called one of the heavy industry bases of Daqin, and the steel produced here is the first in the country.

Of the 150,000 garrisons in Gyeonggi, 30,000 horses were stationed at Maansan.

But at the same time, there were also nearly 50,000 captives mining in Ma'anshan, and these tens of thousands of captives included Jurchens, Mongols, and original anti-Ming soldiers from all walks of life, most of whom could be described as elite soldiers in a hundred battles;

Now these people are being held in the mines to live a dark life, miserable, and have been doing coolies until death, if they can make a surprise attack on Ma'anshan and rescue these tens of thousands of captives, they can immediately pull up 50,000 male divisions, and at the same time obtain a large number of weapons.

Liang Tao said happily after hearing this: "Yes, Ma'anshan has the Yangtze River as a natural danger, and there are 30,000 troops stationed there, so I would not have thought that we would dare to attack." The more impossible it seems, the more it can be taken by surprise and unprepared. ”

Li Guo nodded and said: "Yan Yingyuan and Ling Zhan are all elite cavalry, well-equipped, once they bite up, it will be difficult for us to get rid of it, let alone cross the river to attack Ma'anshan."

In this way, Lao Liang, you lead a large group of men and horses, drive the people in the city to immediately retreat to Longshan in the west, and lead Yan Yingyuan and Ling Zhan's soldiers and horses to besiege the mountain.

I selected one or two thousand strong people, disguised themselves as ordinary people to go south, looking for an opportunity to cross the river and attack Ma'anshan. Once successful, your siege will not be saved. ”

The three of them all know that now that the country and the people are safe, not many ordinary people are willing to rebel with them, in fact, including them, if they were not blamed and forced to be helpless, how could they take this step?

So far, the surprise attack on Ma'anshan and the rescue of tens of thousands of captives are their only chance, so Liang Tao has no objection, and the matter is decided.

Next, Li Guo personally selected Jingzhuang, and a total of 1,450 people were selected.

After nightfall, Liang Tao led a large group of men and horses to drive nearly 20,000 people to Longshan in the west.

Li Guo took the selected elites, disguised as fleeing people, and quietly headed south under the cover of the vast night.

Can you cross the river quietly? Can you make a surprise attack on Mount Mahler and rescue nearly 50,000 prisoners? Li Guo has no bottom in his heart, and now he has to do his best and obey the destiny of heaven!

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