(Ask for a red ticket)

Jiangning City is also the autumn rain, standing under the eaves of the palace, looking out through the dripping rain curtain, the hazy sky can not see a little sign of clearing.

Yuan Yan was wearing a full-breasted skirt, revealing her snowy neck, it was already cool in autumn outside the hall, and she put on a short open gown of lotus green, and watched the maid come over with an umbrella, and asked: "Those people sent by Huaixi to Dongning, are they really people who escaped from Nanyang?" ”

The tear stains in the eyes of the two maids did not disappear, they were rubbed red and swollen, and said with a crying voice: "Nanyang is really miserable, there is not one in a hundred people who can escape, slaves and maids... The slave and maid couldn't bear to say. ”

"Why can't you bear to say it? Say! ”

A hoarse voice sounded from behind her, Yuan Yan looked back and saw the Queen Mother standing in the threshold, although she was supporting the two palace attendants, her hand still trembled, as if the strength of her whole body was on the birthday crutch in her right hand.

"Ancestor, it's cold outside, how can your body and bones withstand the wind?" Yuan Yan hurriedly walked into the threshold to carry the Queen Mother into the dormitory.

"I'm dead, the sky can't fall, just like those people want!" Although Liang's eyes were not clear, they seemed to be like knives slashing through the faces of the two palace maids standing in front of Yun Qi, only to follow a violent cough, which seemed to exhaust all her strength. Yuan Yanma took out a snow-like white silk handkerchief to pick up phlegm for her, and hurriedly asked the palace attendants to carry the queen mother in, looking at the blood coughed up on the handkerchief, her brows were worried. Thinking of the Queen Mother's words, Yuan Yan thought softly: Would you like to hope that the Queen Mother would die?

At this time, Zhang Yan and Shen Rong came over and saluted Yuan Yan and said, "Princess Yuan Yan ......"

Yuan Yan didn't know whether to stop outsiders from seeing the Queen Mother, so she thought about it and gave up, and said: "The ancestor coughed up blood again, his body was worse, and the imperial doctor couldn't prescribe any good methods, so he only said that he wanted the ancestor to recuperate; With all this mess coming in, how can you calm down and recuperate? ”

"Yes, yes......" Zhang Yan replied casually, not wanting to say anything more to Yuan Yan, so he walked into the dormitory. Although Zhang Yan also knew in his heart that the queen mother's body could not withstand the struggle and stimulation, the situation in Nanyang was already like this, except for Lin Jian who immediately replaced the Yuan family, there was no other news that could stimulate the queen mother anymore.

"Is it Zhang Yan?" Liang struggled to prop herself up from the soft couch, the light in the dormitory was not good, and her eyes could only see a vague shadow.

"It's the old ministers Zhang Yan and Shen Rong," Zhang Yan replied, and told him the news he had heard, "The Yuan Hou Ye has arrived in Shouzhou, and Dong Yuan means to ask the Yuan Hou Ye to collect the rout troops who escaped from Nanyang in Xinyang - although the effect will not be too great, but it can collect some of them." Fortunately, Marquis Yuan did not return to Jiangning, and only asked Yuan Jinsheng to come back. Yuan Jinsheng is now detained in the Privy Council, and Cheng Xiangye has seen it, but there is something unclear about the loss of Miyang. At this time, the Privy Council wants to detain the person first, and the emperor has no way to exonerate him......"

"The swineherd is not afraid that his hands will be covered with blood and leave a reputation for eternity, so he will be killed......" Liang was so angry that he coughed up blood, and he didn't care that the palace attendants around him were probably the eyeliner arranged by Lin Bin, and he poked Lin Bin's old scar when he broke it.

Zhang Yan couldn't control the Queen Mother's anger, and continued: "The privy envoy plans to fold, and wants to tilt the government and savages to fight with the captives, and here in Qichun, it will be countersigned by Zuo Chengmu and Yue Lengqiu, and to Jiangning, Lin Xuwen and Cheng Xiangye have successively countersigned and presented it to the emperor. There is a secret rumor, the emperor did not express his position in the dormitory, it was Liu Zhi's traitorous pigtail who issued the edict privately. As soon as this edict was issued, the military and political affairs of the world were in the hands of the privy envoys, and the emperor was so angry that he was furious when he came to court today! However, the civil and military officials were in the Chongwen Palace, and they all asked for battle. ”

"The swineherd takes Jiangxi, and no matter how bad the war in the north is, it will no longer threaten Jiangning. Those civil and military officials, who are stupid as pigs and timid as mice, see that they are not threatened, and they don't need to go to the battlefield to fight, how can they not show a little courage to come out at this time? "The Liang family hated that iron could not become steel, and scolded all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Zhang Yan was silent in his heart.

In July, rescuing Nanyang and pacifying Yuanzhou first were the two choices that Huaidong faced at that time.

For Jiangning's civil and military officials, Yuanzhou is related to the stability of Jiangxi and the security of Jiangning's flanks, especially when Jiangning was captured by the luxury family the year before last, they would rather fight the north bank of the Yangtze River to a pulp and not want Jiangning to be threatened again.

Therefore, the accusation that "the fall of Nanyang is all because Huaidong did not send reinforcements" has no market in Jiangning at all, and whoever dares to mention it is what Qianfu is referring to.

People's hearts, people's hearts!

With the assistance of Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others, Lin Jian not only fought beautifully, but also had a very good grasp of the hearts of Jiangning people. Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and fled north, losing most of the Yuan's little prestige, and at this time, he suddenly supported the name of the imperial family, but he could no longer capture the hearts of the people.

In the past two years, there have been countless officials of the imperial party who have moved closer to Huaidong after being disappointed in the imperial family, and the attitudes shown by Yue Lengqiu and Zuo Chengmu this time are even more desperate. If these two people are called Huaidong to win them over, can they still expect Cheng Yuqian and others to support the imperial family alone?

Now that Yuan Guizheng stayed in Shouzhou, he sent Yuan Jinsheng back to Jiangning to inform him of the details of the defeat of Nanyang.

Lin Jian formed the Privy Council outside the Ministry of War, and he personally served as the Privy Councillor to control the affairs of the imperial court, military and political affairs.

Nominally, however, the Privy Council stood side by side with the Six Ministries, and there was no difference in status, and it was subservient to the Cabinet of Ministers.

Lin Lian's excerpt in Qichun at this time was to make up his mind to devote all his manpower and material resources to fight to the death with Yan Lu in the Jingxiang area, but in fact, he asked the Privy Council to control the six ministries in wartime, and the six Shangshu would be responsible to the Privy Envoy in wartime, which almost concentrated all power under the Privy Council system.

Although Lin Bin's request was limited to wartime, it seemed to be necessary at this time, so the Manchu Dynasty rarely did not support it, but how could the Liang family and Emperor Yongxing be willing to see the power of the world further concentrated on Lin Bin?

What if you don't want to?

Liang scolded as if venting, calmed down a little, and asked Zhang Yan: "Dong Yuan is really silent in Shouzhou?" ”

"The privy envoy wants to pour the strength of the government and the opposition into the battle of Jingxiang, how could Dong Yuan refuse?" Shen Rong answered beside him, "If the privy envoy abandons Jingzhou, Huaixi will face 300,000 enemy soldiers invading like a flood of water; For the privy envoy, it is a big deal to give up Xu Si and retreat to Huainan, so that the land of Jianghuai will become a war zone, but at least half of the mountains and rivers south of the Yangtze River can be protected......"

"No one in the world can compare to this swineherd! Chen Xiyan is an old fool, but I don't know how he, an old fool, sees the current situation under Jiuquan! Liang smiled angrily.

Yuan Yan couldn't listen to it anymore when she stood in the dormitory, so she found an excuse to leave, but it rained like a curtain outside the hall, telling her to escape from this world, but there was no way.

At this time, a team of armor guards came over in a brocade car, and Yuan Yan stood under the eaves of the palace.

At this time, the only one who could take a brocade car to enter the palace directly and stop in front of the Wanshou Hall by the guards was Gu Junxun, the county gentleman.

"Gu Xianjun!" Yuan Yan greeted, as for the mature and plump woman beside Gu Junxun, Yuan Yan naturally recognized that she was Gu Junxun's cousin Gu Yingsleeve.

"Princess Yuan Yan is standing here!" Gu Junxun bowed and said, she was not good at intrigue above the temple, but as the main room of Lin Bin, the queen mother was not in good health, and the inner government of Chongguo needed someone to come to visit the queen mother every day, which was a responsibility that she could not escape. Seeing Yuan Yan's tired face, with the haggard that a girl of her age should not have, Gu Junxun felt guilty in her heart, but in front of the hegemony of the world, women are just vassals, just ornaments.

Gu Junxun has a weak temperament, but it doesn't mean that she has no insight - she has been smart since she was a child, coupled with the ups and downs of the Gu family over the years and the bloody struggle for power she has experienced, so that her insight and will are far beyond that of ordinary women in the world. Although her knowledge, strategy and strength are not as good as Song Jia, not as good as Su Mei, and not as good as her cousin Gu Yingsleeve, but the ups and downs of the world have pushed Lin Jian to the peak of this era, standing behind Lin Bin, how could Gu Junxun not feel it, how could he not know how bloody it would be once Lin Jian slipped down from this peak?

Gu Junxun was accompanied by four armed women into the dormitory to greet the Queen Mother, Gu Yingsleeve stayed under the dormitory, Yuan Yan didn't bother to go in, and finally couldn't help but ask Gu Yingsleeve: "Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanyang have been slaughtered......"

"Princess Yuan Yan is really kind-hearted," Gu Yingsleeve smiled, the storms she had experienced in her life were much more sinister than Yuan Yan, and she intercepted some words in front of her, not giving Yuan Yan a chance to say the doubts in her heart, and said, "Chongguo Gong was also resentful of this matter in Qichun, he sent a letter back to Jiangning the day before yesterday, saying in the letter that he hated Yan Lu for being cruel, hated rebellion and lost his conscience, and hated the general for being brave. The enemy is brutal, Princess Yuan Yan also knows, in my heart, I hate Da Yue even more for being brave and unable to make Nanyang become a ...... of faith."

"Ahh As if asking Gu Yingsleeve to clear the fog in her heart with a word, Yuan Yan's eyes suddenly brightened: Yes, after the fall of Jinan City, the soldiers and civilians of the city were also slaughtered, her father, mother and almost everyone around her died in Jinan City, she fled to Yangxin with her uncle under the protection of Lu Jingyan and other generals, but Yangxin was then surrounded by tens of thousands of captives.

Who is holding such a small city as Yangxin without reinforcements?

No one should take all the responsibilities of the world.

Gu Yingsleeve saw the change in Yuan Yan's expression and said: "I heard that the Queen Mother has been extremely dissatisfied with Chongguo Gong in the past two days, but I don't know if the Queen Mother is resentful of the hundreds of thousands of troops slaughtered in Nanyang, or for some other reason?" ”

"Yuan Yan doesn't know......" Of course Yuan Yan knew it in her heart, but she wouldn't say behind her back that the Queen Mother was not.

The empress dowager was resentful, but she was resentful that the last bit of force of the Liang clan had disappeared in the Nanyang fiasco, but she was resentful that Jiangning's official history and the military and civilians had lost confidence in the imperial family, but it was resentment that even Yue Lengqiu, Zuo Chengmu and others had a tendency to fall to Huaidong, but it was resentment that Huaidong Daiyuan seemed to be difficult to stop......

Before the turbulence in the world, Yuan Yan felt that she was just a weak duckweed, and said secretly: As long as you know where your mind is, you can't care about anything else.