Eight hundred miles of urgency sent shocking news to Beijing: Xu was rehabilitated.

Before the arrival of this official document, Niu Jinxing had already received a private message from the Shandong Defense Envoy, which began with these three shocking words, which were different from the official document in that the cause and effect of the matter were explained in detail later.

The office of the Shandong defense envoy is the former Shandong governor Yamen, Zhong Gui years ago lurking in the Ming realm to spy on intelligence, wooing the Ming generals, when his wife stayed in his hometown to support his mother, after the founding of the Great Shun, his mother went to Beijing, he and his wife stayed in a few days before accepting the post and came to Jinan, still leaving his wife's room in Beijing to take care of his mother and children. Prime Minister Niu hinted that he should find a few concubines, but Zhong Guinian refused without hesitation, "The lord is calling for the night, how can it be when the general is happy?" Although Zhong Guinian was not a general, under his rule, Shandong provided a steady stream of materials for the crusade against the Northern Alliance, ensuring the final victory of the war. Later, the dispute with Xu Ping led to the other party's resignation, Zhong Guinian felt very regretful, but he had a clear conscience.

Yesterday as usual, there were not many people in the yamen of Shandong's defense envoys, Zhong Guinian had no interest in pomp, now the Central Plains is fixed, there are many strong feudal domains, the south is still not convinced by Wanghua, Shandong is also a hundred wastes to be revived, Zhong Guinian feels that it is better to pay more money to the treasury if he has money to hire a large group of subordinates, or persuade more farmers and mulberry to run more guns and gunpowder factories, that is, it can save even one or two.

There was a thick stack of account books on the table, and Zhong Guinian did not trust the merchants to truthfully report their profits and pay taxes for them, so the defense envoy had to recalculate them for them; Zhong Guinian trusts his subordinates, but still has to conduct spot checks, so as to better ensure that they will not accept bribes to the detriment of the public and private interests.

Zhong Guinian, who was immersed in the preparation of the plate, was startled by the noise outside, and then heard several gunshots and exclamations of a large group, as well as an evil voice and an evil order: "Those who sit will not die!" ”

"How dare anyone make trouble here?" Zhong Guinian could hardly believe his ears, Jinan City was full of barracks, and the Yamen was not very far from here. The shock only made Zhong Guinian stunned for less than a few seconds, he jumped up and pounced on his weapon, although he had not walked on the rivers and lakes for a long time, but his skills were still vigorous, and he rushed to the wall with one arrow step to take down the hanging long sword.

But a few seconds of hesitation were enough for the attackers to arrive, and as Zhong Guinian gripped the hilt of his sword with his right hand, he heard a shout from behind him: "Don't draw your sword!" ”

This voice was very familiar, Zhong Guinian turned his head and saw a figure wearing a black armed uniform and a felt hat standing at the gate, and the handcuff in the other party's hand pointed straight at him.

"The defense makes you not see you for many days."

Zhong Guinian squinted his eyes and looked at the other party carefully for a while, his tense arms relaxed, he returned to his uprightness, his right hand was released from the hilt of the sword and hung down at his side, and his left hand held the scabbard close to his leg: "General Xu, are you singing that play?" Xia Guan is busy with official business now, how about you go to the living room to drink tea first, and Xia Guan will go to see you in a while? ”

Xu Ping walked slowly in front of Zhong Guinian with a handcuff, and at this time, several people in armed uniforms poured into the room and reported loudly to Xu Ping: "General, none of them have been let go, they are all tied up." ”

Zhong Guinian opened his mouth slightly to speak, but without spitting out a word, he closed his lips tightly, and his body tensed again.

"I'm here to ask the defense envoy to release him." After Xu Ping drew up the raid plan, he repeatedly explained to his rebels that no one was injured as much as possible. The raid went smoothly, and the defense made Xu Ping, the inside of the yamen, very clear, and the other party was completely unsuspecting, let alone the courage and desire to resist in the face of other enemies.

Zhong Guinian snorted lightly, his gaze crossed Xu Ping and threw himself at the few people behind him, and finally fixed on Hu Chen's face: "Officer Hu, do you know what you did?" You've hurt your adult! ”

"It has nothing to do with him, I ordered it to him." Xu Ping answered.

"General Xu, you don't have the right to give him orders now!" After Zhong Guinian finished speaking at Xu Ping, he looked at Hu Chen again: "A thief who committed chaos!" Do you know how many of your brothers you have killed? ”

"Lord Defense, I need your seal to use, and when Gao Chengcang comes out safely, we will leave immediately, and we will not disturb your work." Xu Ping took two more steps forward and waved the firearm in his hand to signal Zhong Guinian to get out of the way, but he thought about it for a while, and instead of saying this order, he tried to bypass Zhong Guinian.

But Zhong Guinian stopped in front of Xu Ping by mistake, and did not allow him to take his official seal: "General Xu, if you leave with your people now, this official will pretend not to see them and only impeach you." ”

"How can there be an arrow back when you open a bow?" Xu Ping circled left and right twice, but Zhong Guinian always dodged in front of him, and he sighed and stopped: "Lord Defense Envoy, I don't want to care about the affairs of the court, I just want to save my subordinates out." ”

"Unless you step on the corpse of this officer."

Xu Ping stared at Zhong Guinian's eyes and nodded slightly: "Then I have to offend." ”

"Someone," Xu Ping maintained a vigilant posture and shouted without looking back, "Help the defense make the lord sit down on the chair." ”

The two rebels answered and stepped forward with ropes.

"Wait!" Zhong Guinian snorted, and then Zhengse said to Xu Ping: "General Xu, this case is not a favoritism, the official sentenced the prisoner to behead, and then reported the verdict to the capital, and asked the criminal department to decide." General Xu, this official understands very well why the senior lieutenant resisted the royal affairs and committed murder on the street, and the official also admires it, and these officials have all said in the documents reported to the criminal department, this official has not tortured the senior lieutenant, and he has told the jailer to treat him well, and also asked the criminal department to exempt his family from the connection and give him a pension. Zhong Guinian emphasized: "This is not an unjust case!" ”

"I'm too lazy to quarrel with you about this, you see I don't even blame you for how you treat the people under your rule," Xu Ping slowly shook his head and said: "There is a person who doesn't deserve to die who happens to be my old ministry and my friend, and I want to save his life, that's it." ”

Zhong Guinian looked at Xu Ping's calm eyes, there was not the slightest fluctuation in them, and he swallowed a big mouthful of saliva: "Then you can only kill this official." ”

As he spoke, Zhong Guinian held the saber horizontally in front of his chest again, grabbed the scabbard with his left hand, and held the hilt of the sword with his right hand.

"Don't do that." Xu Ping shook his head and sighed.

"Brother Xu, when I don't sit on this chair, I am an ordinary person with compassion and consider myself to be your friend. But when I put on this official uniform and sat in the chair of the defense envoy of Dashun Shandong, I was no longer anyone's friend, I was not even representing the Lord, but the authority of Dashun, and there was no sympathy or mercy, and I could only reward or punish according to the interests of the state. Zhong Guinian completely ignored the handcuff pointed at his chest, and pulled out his sword as soon as he shouted, "Kill me!" ”

Xu Ping didn't shoot but took a step back, watching Zhong Guinian rush over with a sword, Xu Ping sighed again and dropped the handcuff casually, and took a step back while pulling out his matching sword.

The other rebels slowly retreated to the wall of the house, watching Zhong Guinian launch a fierce attack on Xu Ping like a mad tiger, the latter took a good time to block the opponent's fierce attack like a storm, and with a swing of the long sword, he pushed the opponent's weapon to the side, slapped Zhong Guinian's arm with the sword and spun him around, and then kicked the opponent at the crook of the knee and knocked the opponent to his knees.

Without waiting for the other party to stand up, Xu Ping knocked Zhong Guinian to the ground with a knock on the hilt of his sword, and the two rebels rushed over to carry Zhong Guinian to the chair and tie him up.

While waiting, Zhong Guinian woke up slowly, and after struggling twice in the chair and finding it useless, he raised his head again and shouted at Xu Ping: "General Xu, don't you think about Dashun and Your Majesty at all?" Now that the national situation is so difficult, why don't you know how to put the country first? ”

"I have never known how to put the country first, and I have always ignored the overall situation for personal grievances," Xu Ping replied softly: "This Brother Zhong should know very well. ”

"Why is the world innocent?" Zhong Guinian shouted: "General Xu, if you make a big mess in the world, how many families will be ruined?" How many wives are separated? Do you expect the brutal darkness to return? ”

Xu Ping didn't say a word, just looked out the door, waiting for a reply from the prison.

"Now that the world is peaceful, the people can live and work in peace and contentment, even if I do something wrong, isn't Shandong a thief? Haven't all the displaced people returned to their hometowns so that they could marry wives and have children, and live and work in peace and contentment? Zhong Guinian continued to shout reluctantly: "Xu Ping, do you have to mess up this peaceful day, let how many people cut off the incense, and let how many people go through the ravines again to feel at ease?" ……”

Zhong Guinian roared angrily for a while, Xu Ping finally couldn't hold it back, jumped to his side, and shouted at him: "But you didn't tell me that day!" You didn't tell me that you starved your whole family, young and old, you only starved to death; You don't mean that you will take away a pair of children from the family, and you will let them choose one to keep; You are not saying that all the people will not live, but you will only let 30% or 40% of them not live! What you are talking about is: Assist King Shun, open up a peaceful era, everyone can have food and clothing, can be surrounded by children in front of their knees, there will be no more grievances have nowhere to be redressed, and there will be no more villains who will be bullied and have no way to mourn the peaceful era! ”

Zhong Guinian, who was stunned, couldn't answer a word, but Xu Ping hadn't finished yet: "What's the matter, why don't you speak?" Actually, you don't believe there will be such a day, do you? You just want to change the dynasty, you don't want to try it at all, even to see if you can have such a day. But you told me that, and then I went and told my men! ”

Xu Ping stretched out his hand to Zhong Guinian: "The blood on my hands can't be washed clean, you told me about this a long time ago, and I know it." But my subordinates are not, they think they will become righteous men, and they will kill, sacrifice, and fight with blood until they shed all their blood on the battlefield! But you have turned my men, thousands of soldiers, into murderers, and you have caused them to be in the oil pot and will not be able to survive! ”

After Gao Chengcang was released, Xu Ping ordered all the captives' ropes to be checked again, and then waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go out of the city." ”

After speaking, without waiting for others to object, Xu Ping was the first to pull out his legs and leave.

After coming to the city safely, Xu Ping pointed to dozens of subordinates and pointed to the west: "Okay, then you are going to start the days of incognito, I suggest you go to Shanxi, the king of Jin will definitely accept you, you can help him defend the frontier well." ”

Along the way, Gao Chengcang didn't have time to thank Xu Ping, and was taken aback when he heard this: "Where did the general go?" Fengyang definitely can't go back! ”

"I'll go back to Jinan and surrender." Xu Ping has already thought about this question: "I can't run, today's incident will inevitably cause a sensation in the government and the opposition, if I don't surrender, the prestige of the court will be greatly damaged, and maybe there will be Xiaoxiao who will rise up in my name to make trouble." ”

"How's that going to work!"

The subordinates all shouted, and the one who shouted the most fiercely was Gao Chengcang, who felt that this was simply Xu Ping's life for his life.

"It's the other way around!"

I don't know who shouted first, someone had this idea just now, and he also wanted to persuade Xu Ping to seize the defense and make the yamen and other key points in Jinan, with Xu Ping's prestige, he might not encounter resistance at all.

This shout stirred up a thousand waves, and everyone applauded one after another, and shouted in a gossipy:

"No one in Shandong dares to resist your lord!"

"Nanjing! The Nanjing garrison is also mostly an old department! ”

Xu Ping listened to their shouts for a while, patiently waited for their cries to gradually subside, then shook his head and said: "The world is already peaceful, and the displaced people in Shanxi, Central Plains, and Shandong have all gone home, and I will never rebel." ”

Hu Chen knelt on the ground without saying a word, and with his kneeling, Xu Ping suddenly fell down in front of him, and all the old departments knelt down in front of him.

"My lord, we are willing to follow you until the next era of peace, an era when there will be no grievances and no one will be bullied."

"I can't do it, if I can do it I will do it." Xu Ping still shook his head, he didn't know where he was stronger than Li Zicheng: "I don't know anything about governing the country except for leading the troops, the king and I are like-minded, what he can't do, I can't do better." ”

"There are traitors and villains around the king!"

"In the future, I will have people like the Shandong Defense Envoy who put the country first, and how can the dynasty not have such a person?" Xu Ping said categorically: "I will never provoke a new troubled world, and I don't want to hear this suggestion again." ”

"Don't come with me, I didn't come to Jinan to kill all of you to throw away this life, be careful all the way, if someone is captured, I will die without a blind eye." Xu Ping finally moved his gaze to Gao Chengcang's face: "Don't come with me, otherwise the future of these brothers will be in vain."

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Chen Zhe hurried to the defense envoy and stretched out his fists to show the other party the rope marks and bruises on his wrists: "General Xu hid the fire gun under his clothes, forced me to go out and talk to the left and right that there was something important to discuss, and no one was allowed to disturb him all night, and then he tied up the last general and locked him in the house." ”

Zhong Guinian snorted, and seeing this, Chen Zhe asked tentatively, "What did General Xu say after he surrendered?" ”

"He said that he couldn't save the people of the world, so it's good to save one." Zhong Guinian rubbed his eyebrow bones, how to deal with this matter can only be handed over to the imperial court to decide.

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