Wang Fan left the palace and returned to the mansion accompanied by Zheng Shou, Wang Kong and other family generals.
The mansion was still the same as before. The servants walking in the front yard looked nervous. Everyone knew that the soldiers were wreaking havoc outside the city. At this time, no one knew whether the city could be defended.
Many servants in the mansion were brought from Bianliang City back then. They left Bianliang City earlier, but they have heard about the tragedy after the fall of Bianliang City. Now they are worried that they will not be able to escape such a bad fate.
Can you face it calmly?
"The prime minister is back!"
Seeing Wang Fan and Zheng Shou, accompanied by Wang Kong, they stepped into the door of the house, and the servants and maids in the front yard came to greet them.
"Who in the house is coming?"
Wang Fan glanced at a carriage parked outside the residence and asked.
"The Zhu family girl is here, chatting with Madam in the back!" the steward replied.
When Zhu Hang was building Ye City, the two families basically had no contact in the past few years, but Zhu Duojin always called Wang Fan his uncle no matter what.
Brothers Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong went to Lizhou, and Zhu Hang went to Biyang to issue the edict of King Qin. Now there is no man in charge in the Zhu mansion.
Princess Rongle has enjoyed a lifetime of glory and wealth, but now she has no idea in this situation, but Zhu Duojin is the one who takes care of many things in the Zhu Mansion.
Wang Fan nodded to show that he knew. Before he walked towards the inner house, he saw Zhu Duojin poked his head out from behind the porch and asked, "Uncle, did you just come back from the palace?"
"..." Wang Fan nodded.
"What is the situation outside the city now? I heard people said that the captors withdrew a lot of troops and horses early this morning. Did Xu Huai command troops and horses to reinforce them?" Zhu Duojin asked, "Or is it the captors?
It's a scam, I think my uncle's house is preparing a way out?"
Wang Fan muttered: "The specific situation is still unclear. You should stop asking around now. A lot of information is not accurate, but it is good to be more prepared for everything. You have to remember to guard your grandma now.
Your mother and I will also lock the door of the house tightly during the day, and don’t let outsiders in at will. If there is any suspicious person wandering around the house, you will send someone over to me immediately, and you must go out less often.
When you move around, be careful not to make any mistakes. If there is any news from my uncle, I will immediately arrange for someone to go over and inform you."
Watching Zhu Duojin leave, Wang Fan, accompanied by Wang Kong and Zheng Shou, walked to the inner house.
There is a small garden between the front and rear houses. Lu Xiong, who has white beard and hair, is sitting on the porch and taking a nap with a sword on his waist. Zhao Heng and several family generals are guarding the small garden.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Lu Xiong opened his eyes and looked over alertly. When he saw it was Wang Fan, he smiled bitterly and said, "Master Jiang came from the backyard just now and wanted to invite the prime minister to come over. Unexpectedly, the girl from the Zhu family walked straight towards her and almost gave her away."
At this time, servants were strictly prohibited from moving around in the front and back courtyards of the mansion. Lu Xiong and Zhao Heng specially led people to guard here.
However, Zhu Duojin had a special status. She also called Uncle Wang Fan. She ran over early in the morning and broke into the back house without waiting for permission. No one in the front house thought to stop her. By chance, Jiang Ping came from the secret passage to talk and called
Zhu Duojin bumped into him.
Seeing a complete stranger coming out of the back house, Zhu Duojin was naturally startled, thinking that her uncle's newly married wife was secretly stealing someone. Fortunately, Lu Xiong explained that it was to prevent the city from falling, and Jiang Ping and everyone
It was the new nursing home that fooled me.
"Is there any news from Xu Huai?" Wang Fan asked excitedly.
Since the establishment of the Jingxiang Production Department, in order to prevent Jingxiang and Jianye from becoming incompatible one day, Zhufengtang has secretly purchased several houses in the back lane of Wang Fan's residence and secretly renovated them to form a road leading from the inner house to Pogangdu Inland River.
A secret passage nearby.
As a precaution, although this secret passage was activated after Jiang Ping entered the city to maintain communication, Jiang Ping and Zheng Tu would not have come through this secret passage unless it was extremely critical and important information.
"But I didn't go into details. I just asked the prime minister to come over when he comes back from the palace." Lu Xiong said.
Jiang Ping's more important task this time is to keep an eye on Prince Qi's Mansion to prevent accidents, so sometimes he has to trouble Wang Fan to walk there when discussing things.
"Okay, let's go over right now," Wang Fan told Zheng Shou, "You will guard here for Master Lu and Zhao Heng. We will go see Master Jiang and Zheng Tu will come back!"
Wang Fan arranged for Zheng Shou to replace Lu Xiong and stay with Zhao Heng in the small garden. Paying attention to the movements inside and outside, he took Lu Xiong and Wang Kong to the back house.
"Is there any news from Jingxiang?"
As soon as Wang Fan walked into the back house, the young lady held the young son's hand and walked over and asked nervously.
"It should be so. You have been working hard these days. Stay here and don't move around, just in case Zhu Duojin breaks in carelessly again." Wang Fan said.
???????????????The secret passage is a corridor formed by two walls. People have to turn sideways to pass quickly - Jianye City is not large in scale, and since the capital was moved, there has been an influx of ten people.
Tens of thousands of people, almost every corner of the open space has been used to build houses - in the newly built densely packed, many unplanned, chaotic buildings, secret passages are hidden between two walls, and the outside world is
It's hard to detect.
At the end of the wall is a tall stone wall. Outsiders who accidentally break in would probably think it is a dead end.
Lu Xiong pulled a vine hanging down from the stone wall, and soon a head poked out from behind the stone wall and said, "Master Lu and the Prime Minister are here."
A ladder was handed over from the other side of the stone wall for Wang Fan and others to climb over.
When you walk through the hall and enter the room, you will find that you are walking into a house next to Pogangdu Inland River.
Jiang Ping, Zheng Tu and others were all under the flower gallery near the river. Several people were standing guard by the river. A long bamboo pole was stretched out. If you look closely, there is a fishing net attached to the bamboo pole hanging down into the river. At first glance, it looks like they are fishing.
There is also a painting boat moored in the river in the downstream direction, and the back gate of Prince Qi's Mansion is diagonally opposite this house.
Although the captive soldiers did not seal the city of Jianye, thousands of captives crossed the river and entered the south bank, cutting off normal communication with the outside world.
Every elite scout is a valuable asset. Jiang Ping and the others will not send people out of the city easily at this time.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Pogangdu Inland River flows from the south of the city, before the soldiers crossed the river and went south, Jiang Ping arranged for people to guard the upper reaches of Pogangdu. If there was any news that needed to be contacted, he would write it down in cipher text and seal it in a bamboo tube.
They drove into the city, where they used fishing nets to catch fish.
This method will naturally have some omissions, but at this juncture it is slightly more reliable than sending people directly in and out of Jianye to contact them.
"The envoy has come to Jianye!" Seeing Wang Fan approaching, Zheng Tu said excitedly and impatiently.
"Ah?" Wang Fan saw the changes in the soldiers outside the city today, and he thought that Jingxiang must be doing something, but he never thought that Xu Huai had already arrived in Jianye.
"The envoy arrived in Jianye early yesterday morning and led 500 personal guards to land near the Yuelong Army Village to the west of the Caochang River."
Jiang Ping took out a secret letter and handed it to Wang Fan and said,
"Yesterday, the envoy landed on the west side of the Caochang River early in the morning. He personally led his guards to annihilate five hundred enemy soldiers who came to pick a fight, which greatly boosted the people's morale in Dangtu and Lishui counties. At present, the envoy has cooperated with the people in the north and south of Niushou Mountain.
We got in touch with the military strongholds, and even recruited nearly 2,000 people from all the military strongholds at night yesterday. Now some of the troops are guarding the Yuelong military stronghold, and some of them followed the envoy into Niushoushan. The envoy's purpose of coming here is, on the one hand, to recruit.
Organize a rebel army to contain the captives and prevent them from organizing an attack on Jianye City. On the one hand, it will facilitate the reinforcements to arrive in Jianye faster. According to the current situation, it will only take ten days at the earliest, and no more than one at the latest.
By the end of the month, 5,000 elite vanguard troops will arrive in Jianye first. In your letter, you asked the Prime Minister not to worry about the fall of Jianye again..."
"Xu Huai always acts unexpectedly, and this time there is no surprise! If not for this, he would not have achieved such an achievement!"
Seeing Wang Fan, Wang Kong and the others were stunned for a long time and forgot to speak. Lu Xiong smiled and said, but he was not surprised at all.
Wang Fan and Wang Kong were filled with emotions and emotions.
Wang Fan had a disagreement with Xu Huai in his early years. In the final analysis, Xu Huai's acting style was too unruly and unruly. At that time, Wang Fan was also ambitious and wanted to achieve something in his official career, so the conflict seemed irreconcilable.
Although it is said that many years later, Wang Fan has achieved his wish to be among the prime ministers, but in the face of the strange and magnificent world trend, he has long understood that he
Like most of the generals in the court, he did not have the ability to turn the tide. He even lacked the courage to fight against the general trend, and his mentality became calm.
Wang Kong's mood was also complicated. When he was in Lanzhou, Xu Huai tried every means to win over him, but he always felt that Xu Huai was too unruly and unruly, and he finally chose to follow Wang Fan.
Facts also proved that his judgment was correct.
Times have changed, Shen Zhen died in battle, Yan Xiaoyi has already commanded envoys in Beijing and Xiangzhou, and is a person of the rank of Marquis of Yu. It is impossible to say that he will be able to become a marquis in the future, but he will always be a general in the royal family.
"The prime minister can now go to Mr. Liu Yan and Qian Langjun to discuss countermeasures," Zheng Tu shouted excitedly. "As long as the city knows that the envoy has arrived in Jianye, the morale of the imperial guards will be greatly boosted, and there is no chance that they will have the chance to go out of the city to do cruel things."
Deal with the soldiers crossing the river ruthlessly!"
"..." Wang Fan held the secret letter in his hand, pondered for a long time, and said resolutely, "This matter must not be leaked out at all!"
"Why," Zheng Tu asked in confusion, "the envoy sent a message, most likely to ask us to contact Mr. Liu Yan..."
"Did Xu Huai say in his letter that he must contact Liu Yan and Qian Zerui?" Wang Fan asked.
"That's not the case," Zheng Tu said.
"Since Xu Huai didn't express it clearly in the letter, then this matter is entirely up to me," Wang Fan said, handed the secret letter to Jiang Ping, and said, "Destroy it!"
Although he does not have the ability to turn the tide, although he does not have the ability to fight against the general trend, Wang Fan still has some experience when it comes to understanding people's minds.
At this time, ask the people in the palace to know that Xu Huai has arrived in Jianye, and then ask the people in the palace to see how Xu Huai's arrival in Jianye has a great impact on the morale of the imperial army. Maybe they will listen to Liu Yan and Qian Zerui.
Others advised him and decided to send the Suwei Imperial Army out of the city to fight.
The Suwei imperial army went out to fight in the city at this time. As long as they achieved something, the sluggish reputation of the Zhao family would be restored to some extent, and even the degree of restoration was not low——
The best outcome would be to struggle for a few more days in the city, until the Suwei Forbidden Army achieves nothing, and to the point where not only the people in the city, but also the Suwei Forbidden Army generals themselves are completely disappointed, and the best way to cross the river is for the soldiers to cross the river.
The rebels who were completely gathered by Xu Huai were driven across the river...
