"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry!"
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's frown, Chen Qixing hurriedly comforted him and said, "According to what the woman said, Zuo Liangyu just felt cold occasionally, and he should be fine in two days!"
"As long as Zuo Liangyu is in power, his love for Zuo Xianmei should be able to stop Zuo Menggeng's persecution..."
After listening to Chen Qixing's story, Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Then what plans does she have for Zuo Xianmei?"
Chen Qixing shook his head and said, "No!"
"Listening to the woman's story, it seems that Zuo Mengeng deceived Zuo Xianmei into Xinzhou on the pretext that Zuo Liangyu was seriously ill. During this period, Zuo Xianmei was unaware of the other party's plan, so she only took three thousand personal guards to go north, and No other preparations!"
"After Zuo Xianmei arrived in Xinzhou, she saw that everything was the same and learned that the war in Hebei was tense. Worried about His Majesty's safety, she asked Huang Wushan to come to help and begged the woman to protect His Majesty."
"Later, Zuo Xianmei was captured. She didn't want Huang Wushan to know about it. It was her personal guards who were worried about her safety and secretly came to Huang Wushan to find a solution..."
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while and said, "Have you confirmed the identity of the woman?"
Chen Qixing nodded and said, "Although it is not completely confirmed, the old man at the inn respects that woman very much and always calls her a saint. She must be the saint of Wenxiang Sect without a doubt!"
"The Saint of the Smell the Incense Sect!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had expected that the woman would reveal her identity, he did not expect that the other party would reveal her identity so completely.
You must know that although the Wenxiang Sect uprising has passed, they had previously publicized Zhu Hengjia's affairs in Jiangnan and seemed to intend to go against the imperial court. Zhu Yuanzhang also asked the Zhengyi Sect to come forward to suppress it.
Now, although Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Xianmei are nominally ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they are actually Sima Zhao's heart, but the other party actually revealed their identity at this time.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a moment and asked Chen Qixing to monitor him personally, and he recorded this information in Zuo Xianmei's information.
After he finished writing, he held the note and muttered: "She took the initiative to expose her identity, probably to eliminate our suspicions!"
"But the woman's expression just now was just right, which shows that she is not as shallow as she appeared before. Therefore, she is revealing her identity now to hide a bigger secret."
"What's the secret she wants to hide?"
As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he found Huang Wushan's letters and read them.
Seeing that there was no mention of Zuo Mengeng and Zuo Yongmei in the letter, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
You must know that although Zuo Yongmei's mind is slightly worse than Zuo Xianmei's, she is by no means incompetent.
If she wanted to deal with Zuo Xianmei, she would definitely capture all of the other party's cronies.
The person who was able to escape was definitely not an ordinary person. Such a person should also be Zuo Xianmei's confidant. How could he not know the details and unclear about Zuo Xianmei's safety.
"Did Zuo Xianmei have other plans, or did she not trust the woman and didn't let her know the details?"
"If Zuo Xianmei has other plans, what exactly is she planning?"
"According to the woman, although Zuo Mengeng and Zuo Yongmei took the lead in this matter, if it failed, Zuo Liangyu and her would also be implicated, and with Zuo Yongmei here, she could not take the lead in this matter, so why should she Going on an adventure?"
"Could it be that she wants Zuo Yongmei to be used as a shield, and if things go wrong, she will push them out to make up for it?"
"But this matter is not a trivial matter. Once it fails, the least involved people will annihilate the three tribes. Zuo Xianmei may be able to escape guilt by suppressing the rebellion, but the generals involved in this matter will definitely not be able to escape. How can they jump? Into the pit of fire."
"And once Jurchen enters the border, the situation will be beyond her control. With her character, she should not do such an uncertain thing!"
"Could it be that although Zuo Xianmei conquered the woman, she didn't trust her and deliberately concealed the truth?"
With this thought, Zhu Yuanzhang also remembered that when he first met the woman, the woman showed her kindness in a pretentious manner and showed that she wanted to ask for something.
When we met today, they looked like they were deeply in love again.
He originally thought that it was Zuo Xianmei who learned about the death of Queen Zhou and that Chongzhen liked brave and charming women like Tian Guifei, so he asked that woman to come and seduce him in the name of protection.
Lure him.
But now it seems that this matter may not have been instructed by Zuo Xianmei, but the woman did it without authorization, or she had someone behind the scenes.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was deep in thought, a Jin Yiwei hurriedly came to report that the woman had thrown away the Jin Yiwei who was watching her and left the city alone.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the report, he wanted to go check it out in person and find out the truth of the matter. Unexpectedly, news came from Bazhou that just when Huang Wushan and others were preparing to encircle and annihilate Liu Fangliang, a cavalry force of thousands of people suddenly came out. .
Fortunately, Huang Wushan handled it properly and Huang Degong provided timely support, so Liu Fangliang was not allowed to escape.
However, after this battle, all the previous preparations were in vain, and it would probably take another four or five days to launch another offensive. ..
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard the battle report, he frowned and said, "Didn't you say that you would launch an attack in a day's time? Why did you suddenly take action today?"
The Jin Yiwei asked and said respectfully: "Uncle Jingnan originally wanted to wait for Baoding's soldiers and horses to clear out the bandits before launching an attack, but Huang Wushan said that everything was ready, and there were many details in the army, so he was worried that the news would be leaked. , it is recommended to launch an offensive in advance..."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he knew that Huang Wushan had no intention of fighting because he was worried about Zuo Xianmei's safety.
He suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked, "Can you find out the details of that cavalry?"
The Jin Yiwei shook his head and said, "We haven't found anything yet, but judging from the opponent's weapons and the fighting situation at that time, it seems that the people coming are a well-trained army and not ordinary mountain thugs."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he suspected that Li Zicheng had sent reinforcements.
I don't know if this cavalry is the opponent's advance force or a lone division coming to rescue Liu Fangliang.
He pondered for a while, thinking that with Chen Qixing following the woman, there would be no problems, so he prepared to rush to Bazhou overnight to handle the matter personally.
Unexpectedly, before he left, another urgent report was sent from the capital.
Zhu Yuanzhang opened it and took a look, but something happened at Shanhaiguan.
It turned out that Wang Xigun had previously agreed to exchange 500,000 people for Duduo, but there was a dispute over the territory of Liaodong.
But in the past two days, Wang Xigun suddenly became very tough. Not only did he overturn the previous proposal, he was only willing to exchange 200,000 people for Duoduo, and asked Zhu Chenggong to withdraw from Pidao.
Liu Wenbing felt that something was wrong, so he dragged Wang Xigun away while pretending to be a coward, and then came to report on flying horses.
Zhu Yuanzhang had only speculated about Zuo Menggeng's incident before, but now he was more convinced after reading Liu Wenbing's memorial.
At the same time, I think that Dorgon is not a mediocre person. Now he is so eager to hold back Jierhalang, which shows that he is very passive in the Jurchen situation. .
If he can prepare properly, he may be able to prevent the Jurchens from civil strife and buy him time to put down the rebellion.
Just as he was thinking, Jin Yiwei sent another secret report from Jin Shenghuan.
Zhu Yuanzhang took it and looked at it, and saw that Jin Shenghuan not only told about Zuo Xianmei's incident in the letter, but also said that Zuo Menggeng had been frequently deploying troops recently and seemed to be making big moves, but none of the generals knew what he meant, so he must be careful.
After Zhu Yuanzhang read it, he knew that Zuo Mengeng was about to take action. Thinking of the battle situation in Hebei, he couldn't help but frown.
In fact, it was not only Zhu Yuanzhang who was in trouble at this time. Zuo Xianmei, who was in Xinzhou, also looked at the soup in her hand solemnly and stirred it subconsciously, not knowing that the medicine had cooled down.
Her personal maid had never seen her lose her temper like this before. She tried to remind her several times, but was stopped because Zuo Liangyu on the bed shook her head slightly.
"ah!"
"Dad, the medicine can... uh..."
Before Zuo Xianmei finished speaking, a stream of blood suddenly spilled from the corner of her mouth.
