Marquis Funing wanted to say something, didn't he?
But he knew that Wei Guogong must have something else to say.
Sure enough, he heard Wei Guogong say to him: "The Qing Dynasty also wants to go south, otherwise why do you think they would take Shanhaiguan in their hands? The reason why they want to form an alliance with our Ming Dynasty is because they have suffered a lot from the Tiger Character Banner." Unfortunately, I couldn’t deal with the Tiger Flag, so I roped in Da Ming to deal with them together. The so-called alliance meant that I roped in Da Ming to act as Tiger Flag’s knife for them.”
"The Duke just said that the tiger-character flag also wants to unify the world. Sooner or later, they will take action against us!" said Funing Hou.
Wei Guogong said: "You also said that you will take action sooner or later, but not now. If we form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty, who can guarantee that the Tiger Character Banner will not take action immediately. The Tiger Character Banner will need time to digest the newly acquired provinces, and We should also take this opportunity to train more troops and strengthen the strength of the army to fight against the Tiger-Charactered Banner army that may move south at any time in the future, instead of going to war with the Tiger-Charactered Banner now."
"The Duke wants to say that both we and the Tiger Flag need time?" Hou Ning said.
Seeing that he understood, Wei Guogong nodded.
After walking out of Duke Guo's Mansion, Fan Wencheng looked back at the plaque on the door of Duke Wei's Mansion and spat heavily on the ground.
He cursed in a low voice: "The Ming Dynasty has you moths who only care about your own interests. Sooner or later, you will be destroyed by the hands of the Qing Dynasty."
The entourage of the Qing envoy who had been waiting outside the Duke's mansion came to greet him.
One of them asked: "Mr. Fan, where should we go next?"
Fan Wencheng, who was standing on the street, looked at both sides of the street, thought for a moment and said, "Go to the palace."
Since the Lord's side was blocked, he could only find a solution from the eunuch in the palace.
Got on the carriage and drove all the way towards the imperial palace in Nanjing.
Because the palace has a new owner, there are many more guards inside and outside the palace than in the past.
As the eunuch guarding Nanjing, the great eunuch Yang Guorui had a certain degree of control over Nanjing's troops, but after all, he was not as good as the Ming Dynasty nobles who had controlled the garrison position in Nanjing for generations.
In order to increase the number of soldiers and horses in his hands, the eunuch Yang Guorui not only increased the strength of the Jinyi Guards, but also added many Han generals.
Although the Han general was nominally under the command of Jinyiwei, he mostly worked in the palace. In this way, he became a military force that the eunuch Yang Guorui could directly control.
"Please go in and report that the Qing envoy is here to see Eunuch Yang." Fan Wencheng said very politely to the palace gate guard in front of him.
But in his heart, he looked down on these palace guards very much, feeling that these guards were far inferior to the palace guards of the Qing Dynasty.
"Wait." The guard turned around and announced.
Ordinary people would naturally ignore these guards, but the Qing envoys still had some status.
Fan Wencheng stood outside the palace gate, glancing inside from time to time.
If the guards weren't here, he would have wanted to break in directly.
Although the Ming Palace was large, in his eyes it was not as majestic as the Qing Palace in Shengjing.
Not too long after the time passed, the guard who entered the room came out with a dark face.
"Eunuch Yang is not here, please go back!"
The guard said something to Fan Wencheng, and then returned to his duty position.
"Excuse me for asking, do you know where Eunuch Yang went when he was not in the palace?" Fan Wencheng asked in a low voice, and at the same time took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and stuffed it into it.
The guard wanted to drive Fan Wencheng away directly, but when he saw Yinzi, his expression softened a little and said, "We are not qualified to ask about Eunuch Yang's affairs. If you want to see Eunuch Yang, please change the date!"
"Thank you for letting me know." Fan Wencheng thanked him and turned back to his carriage.
As soon as he got on the carriage, his expression suddenly darkened.
From the words of the guard in front of the palace gate, he understood that Eunuch Yang was not not in the palace, but did not want to see him, the Qing envoy.
This also means that the other party is not prepared to continue to intervene in the envoys of the Tiger Character Banner to murder their Qing envoys.
Thinking of this, his face became even more ugly.
He could understand the nobles' reluctance to intervene in this matter. After all, those nobles had been on the side of the Tiger Flag from the beginning, but Eunuch Yang suddenly changed his attitude, leaving him a little confused.
"Let's go back to the post house first." Fan Wencheng ordered his entourage.
The carriage turned around and headed towards the post house.
Sitting in the carriage, he closed his eyes and began to think.
Since neither the Lord of Ming Dynasty nor the eunuch Yang Guorui could count on him, he needed to find other strong support.
Although the people in Nanjing believed that the Tiger Banner sent people to assassinate their Qing people, it was not these ordinary people who could really make the decision.
He needed a powerful person in the Ming Dynasty to speak for the Qing Dynasty, so that he could more confidently destroy the possibility of peace talks between the Ming Dynasty and Huzi Banner.
In the courtyard where the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner is located.
Yang Jiachen broke into Hong Chengchou's room.
"Hong Futai, you really act like a normal person. That bitch named Fan visited a lot of people this day." Yang Jiachen said anxiously.
The person he was talking to, Hong Chengchou, was sitting on the chair, holding a book in his hand and reading through it.
"The more times like this, the more you need to be calm." Hong Chengchou said without raising his head, and opened the next page of the book with his hand.
Yang Jiachen frowned and said, "How can I not be anxious? That man named Fan went to Wei Guogong's mansion and then to the palace to put the shit basin on our heads. Are you not anxious at all?"
"What are we here for?" Hong Chengchou asked Yang Jiachen while staring at the contents of the book.
After hearing this, Yang Jianchen replied: "Are we here for peace talks?"
"Since we are here for peace talks, what does it have to do with us whether the Qing envoys die or not?" Hong Chengchou said, "You are so unfounded. If the Ming Dynasty really didn't intend to negotiate with us, they would have sent people to blow us away long ago. , but look at it now, is there anyone coming to drive us away from Ming Dynasty?"
Yang Jiachen frowned and said, "Although what you said makes sense, are you willing to watch that man surnamed Fan put a shit basin on our heads and ruin our reputation?"
"Is there any way you can prevent this shit basin from being stuck on our heads?" Hong Chengchou looked away from the book in his hand and looked at Yang Jiachen.
Yang Jiachen said: "Come forward and explain. The people don't know the truth, and it's impossible for the government to not know that we were wrongly accused."
"Childish!" After Hong Chengchou uttered two words, his eyes returned to the book.
Hearing this, Yang Jianchen said dissatisfied: "Why am I so naive? Are you willing to watch our Tiger Flag be misunderstood by the people here?"
