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After letting his two lieutenants withdraw, Li Dingguo took out a piece of letterhead from the book "The Art of War" he carried, and he had already memorized the seven or eight lines on the letterhead, and he couldn't be more familiar with it.

At this moment, with a light like a bean, Li Dingguo's eyes fell on the four words on the letterhead: The Mandate of Heaven returns to Qin.

"Could it be that this Qin is referring to Qin Mu?"

A wisp of night breeze entered the window, the light swayed, and Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh silently.

Who in this world can resist the Mandate of Heaven?

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong stirred up the world, they have experienced countless hardships and dangers before, and they have failed many times, but no matter how badly they failed before, they can always make a comeback in adversity soon;

However, soon after they were proclaimed emperors, one died under the hoe of a farmer, and the other died from a stray arrow, and their era came to an abrupt end, both of them were not yet forty years old, and they died in the prime of life, and coincidentally neither of them had any children.

Isn't that providential?

Providence destined that neither of them could become the real co-masters of the world, and they proclaimed themselves emperors, but in exchange for heavenly send-off.

If it had been before, Li Dingguo would definitely not believe in such a statement of destiny, but every sentence on this letterhead has been fulfilled, from the report in front of the court, to the martyrdom of Tongguan, to the coal mountain alone, and the tragedy of the country. On the 10th of Yangzhou, he drove to the river. All these things were fulfilled;

The four sentences of zuihou are: hold 100,000 Ge, and restore my clothes. swept Liuhe, and the destiny of heaven returned to Qin. Regarding these four sentences, Li Dingguo did not dare to doubt it anymore;

The question is, is this "Qin" who is destined to return to Qin really Qin Mu?

Do you want to go against the sky, or do you follow the destiny of heaven?

Qin Mu sent Wang Huanran to say something, and once again echoed in Li Dingguo's ears: "General Li, although the governor of my family has had friction with General Li, but as the saying goes, brothers are on the wall, and they resist foreign humiliation together, and now the Manchu Tartars are peeking at my China." Destroy my clothes, at the time of the survival of this nation, all the descendants of Yan and Huang in the world should join hands to resist foreign humiliation;

The governor of my family is willing to abandon his past suspicions, and become brothers with a different surname with General Li, so that from now on, he will share the blessings and overcome the difficulties together, drive out the Tartars, and restore China. General Li controls the 16th Battalion and has a deep personal relationship with General Ai."

Wang Huanran's words not only expressed Qin Mu's sincerity, but also showed that Qin Mu was very familiar with the current situation of the Great Western Army.

Since Zhang Xianzhong's sudden death, the Great Western Army was in chaos, and was pursued by He Luohui all the way, and was defeated and retreated from Hanzhong to Guangyuan, and even the Jianmen Pass was lost, but fortunately, He Luohui did not dare to go deeper, and the Great Western Army retreated to Mianzhou to stabilize its foothold.

The threat of the Qing army is far away for the time being. However, because Zhang Xianzhong died too suddenly and did not designate an heir, it was difficult to convince the three of them who would be the commander of the Great Western Army;

The four of them have not yet torn their faces on their faces. But behind closed doors, there were already quarrels, especially Sun Kewang's aggressiveness, and his desire to seize the throne was undisguised.

However, Li Dingguo saw it clearly. Sun Kewang is cunning and arrogant by nature, arbitrary, and has no room for others. Not to mention the vision of the world, such a person is definitely not a master.

Li Dingguo struggled to weigh under the lamp alone, whether to accept Qin Mu's kindness, bow to him, or make another plan.

If so, what?

When He Luohui was in hot pursuit, the four of them could still cooperate with each other, and now that the external threat had just been temporarily lifted, the contradictions between the four of them were immediately highlighted, and according to the current situation of mutual intransigence, there was a chance that the Great Western Army would be divided into four and fight each other.

Do you want to join this melee with your sixteenth battalion? If you do, where can you go?

In an ordinary house in Wantong Lane, Chengdu, Qin Zhaoming, the general person in charge of Sichuan who is also as light as a bean, asked his deputy Lu Wanzhong in a low voice: "How is it?" Did you disclose the news of Wang Huanran's private meeting with Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi to Sun Kewang? ”

"Don't worry, the boss has done it, and now we are waiting for Sun Kewang to act."

"Don't be careless, this is just the first step, the next is the key, if we can't save the lives of Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi, we will shoot ourselves in the foot."

"I have already arranged a retreat for Li Ai and the others."

"Your Excellency handed over this matter to us, it is a great trust in us, if we can take Shu without blood, all the people involved in this operation can be expected to be rich and prosperous for generations, if it is self-defeating, we have to go to see the adults with our heads."

Lu Wanzhong replied cautiously: "Head, the subordinates know the severity of the matter, if it is messed up, there is no need to say it, the subordinates are the first to take off their heads and apologize to the adults." ”

"It's good that you know, go back quickly, so that things don't change."

"Yes." Lu Wanzhong answered, and quickly exited the courtyard through the back door;

After going around the street at night, I bought a few snacks that my sister loved to eat, and then returned to General Pingdong's mansion;

Lu Wanzhong is now Sun Kewang's "brother-in-law", and her sister Lu Xiaomei is Sun Kewang's favorite concubine for less than half a year.

It's just that Lu Xiaomei is not his own sister, which is not enough for outsiders.

In fact, his sister was a young prostitute from Jiangnan who was not accepted at night, and was sent to Sichuan after nearly a year of training;

There are still many talented female spies like Lu Xiaomei who don't receive training at night, and Huang Lianshan is unscrupulous in order to break into some important targets.

When Lu Wanzhong returned to the Pingdong General's Mansion, Li Dingguo was still thinking about it in his own mansion, and soon after, a personal soldier came from outside and reported: "General, General Pingdong sent someone to invite the general to come over to discuss the matter. ”

"Deliberations?" Li Dingguo was inexplicably surprised, this was the time of the first shift, and Sun Kewang couldn't wait until tomorrow morning to discuss something, "What is being discussed, have you asked clearly?" ”

"Back to the general, the person who came didn't say anything, only said that the general should hurry over."

As the so-called people were frightened, Li Dingguo's suspicions were even heavier, and he quietly made some arrangements before leaving for the meeting

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Longwu sent an envoy Zhu Guoying to give Qin Muguo the surname and canonize him as the king of Liao, but Gu Junen first questioned Longwu's qualifications for succession, and refuted Zhu Guoying speechless on the spot.

To be honest, Longwu's qualifications to succeed to the throne can't stand up to questioning at all, he and Chongzhen are already ten generations of distant branches, and they are Chongzhen's condemned criminal domain. It stands to reason that it will not be his turn, even Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu in eastern Zhejiang, is more qualified than him;

The reason why he is more presentable than King Lu is because he has the support of the relatively powerful Zheng family, but in the final analysis, at best, he is just a puppet set up by the Zheng family.

Therefore, people who bear the crime of "killing the king" like Enjun do not want to serve Zhu Yujian as the master, even the old team of Qin Mu such as Sima An, and they do not want to recognize a puppet of the Zheng family.

In a word, Zhu Yujian is the main one. It's better to set up another grandson of the Zhu family.

Qin Mu actually considered setting up a descendant of the Zhu family as a puppet at first, but there are advantages and disadvantages in doing so, on the one hand, he can win some talents loyal to Zhu Ming, and on the disadvantage, these talents loyal to Zhu Ming will become a big trouble sooner or later.

It's very simple, their allegiance is to Zhu Ming, not Qin Mu, after these people arrived. If it is found that Qin Mu still has a monopoly on power, there will definitely be disputes, and it will become the biggest obstacle.

On the other hand, supporting the descendants of the Zhu family will disappoint his generals very much, and it will also make the rest of Li Zicheng, who is attached, very embarrassed. It is even more unfavorable to win over the rest of Zhang Xianzhong.

Therefore, when Qin Mu was in Macheng, he sent an order for Sima An and others to greet him ceremoniously, and publicized his martial arts in Jiangxi Lake. This is in line with his long-term miracles in Huguang, Jiangxi, to make the people believe that he is a true dragon descending into the world and the destiny of heaven returns.

Even Sima An and others. also thinks that the time is ripe for Qin Mu to stand on his own.

When Li Zicheng was the king in Xiangyang, a large number of talents such as Gu Junen and Yu Dayou were willing to defect to Li Zicheng;

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, there were also many people who were willing to be Manchu lackeys;

Qin Mu defeated Azig, controlled 300,000 strong troops, sat on the most stable and rich Jinghu Lake and Jiangyou land today, held high the righteous banner of expelling the Tartars, pointed at Heluo, and overwhelmed Jiangzuo;

In this case, I don't believe that there are no people willing to come to defect, if there are really so many people in the world who are loyal to Zhu Ming, Zhu Ming will not die.

After sending Zhu Guoying away, Sima An, Zhuge Min and others accelerated the pace of persuasion, and after the second persuasion of the generals in the army, the officials of Huguang and Jiangxi quickly launched the third wave of persuasion;

Officials above the county level in various places, and generals with more than 1,000 households in the army, went to Wuchang together, and even thousands of scholars from Yuelu Academy also supported together, and there were even scholars in Wuchang City who brought tens of thousands of people to Chumen, the main gate of the palace, to bow down and persuade them.

The momentum of this persuasion is so great and appalling, Qin Mu went out of the town and Chumen repeatedly persuaded him, but the black crowd did not gather, for three consecutive days, the crowd gathered more and more, Qin Mu did know that these people were not organized by Sima An to fill the façade;

It is said that the people of Wuchang are also fed up with the suffering of war, the Ming army came to rob again, the rebels came and robbed again, how many people died because of this, and their wives were separated;

Only after Qin Mu became the ruler of Wuchang, divided the land and land, stabilized the society, reduced taxes, and developed the people's livelihood, the people were able to live a stable life.

The people's thinking is very simple, whoever gives them land, who allows them to live a stable life, they will support whom, not to mention that the legend that Qin Mu is the true dragon descended into the world and the destiny of heaven has long been widely recognized among the people.

Qin Mu can laugh at the persuasion of all officials, but these people who came to persuade them spontaneously made Qin Mu very moved, in front of Zhenchumen, he responded with tears, and thousands of people immediately cheered;

People no longer have to worry that the good governance implemented by Qin Mu will change, and they don't have to worry that the allocated fields will be recovered, and the stable life will be destroyed by the war again.

Some people even shouted out these voices, and Gu Yanwu, who was following Qin Mu, listened to the people's shouts and suddenly understood that although Qin Mu had only been running Huguang and Jiangxi for two or three years, he had already cultivated a huge group of vested interests;

The officials he appointed, the people who were assigned to the fields, the refugees who were properly resettled, and tens of millions of people were all staunch supporters of Qin Mu.

Qin Mu's policy of encouraging industry and commerce, and using bank loans to support industry and commerce, made merchants and craftsmen also his supporters.

He supported the state and county scholars, personally prepared for the construction of Yuelu Academy, allocated funds to run state and county schools, and expanded the number of students, which was supported by scholars.

As for the army under him, needless to say, many generals were personally brought out by him, and the political brainwashing of soldiers was unprecedented;

When receiving the salary every month, you have to say "Xie Qin's salary", and the first sentence of the soldier's oath shouted several times a day is "Absolutely obey the command of Lord Qin." ”

In addition, the military family members enjoy high honors, and the interests of the soldiers are also very well protected, which makes the Qin army have enough loyalty to him.

The Shinong industrial and commercial soldiers supported Qin Mu so much; Compared with the situation in other parts of the world, they are all vested interest groups, and the means used by Qin Mu to protect the interests of these groups is his amazing ability to make money, after all, the people are all profit-seeking.

Thinking of this, when Gu Yanwu looked at Qin Mu in front of him again, what he saw was no longer his invincible aura, what he saw was his all-round layout ability, as well as his silent means of moisturizing things, Qin Mu can have today's prestige, not just by virtue of his military exploits.

Under this tide of persuasion, Sima An, Zhuge Min and others secretly stepped up their precautions to prevent that if Qin Mu became king, there were local officials who opposed the rebellion, and once this phenomenon occurred, no matter who he was, he would immediately dispatch troops to extinguish it.

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PS: As soon as I went to see the monthly ticket list, I was discouraged, and I didn't have the heart to code words for a long time.

My first two books are basically constantly changing, more than 6,000 words a day, sitting in front of the computer day and night to code words, the results are average, but I have been persistent, cold and summer, two or three years have passed, the body has collapsed, to this heart has more than enough strength and insufficient strength, woohoo!

I hope that all book friends will give you understanding and support!.

(To be continued......)