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Send away Wei Guogong and Funing Hou.
Hong Chengchou and Yang Jiachen returned to the yard.
"You said that when you wait for people, you just wait for them?" Yang Jiachen asked Hong Chengchou.
Hong Chengchou said: "It is indeed beyond my expectation that Wei Guogong can come in person. Originally, I thought he would only send others here."
"It can be seen that he probably doesn't want us to leave." Yang Jiachen said.
Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "If anyone in the Ming Dynasty is willing to negotiate peace with us, Wei Guogong should be ranked in front of most people."
"It's a pity. If we hadn't been ordered to return, maybe we could have stayed a little longer to make the peace talks successful." Yang Jiachen said with regret.
After hearing this, Hong Chengchou smiled and shook his head, saying: "Even if we stay here for another half year, Ming Dynasty will not negotiate with us. Even though Duke Wei personally came here to try to persuade us to stay, in fact he is just afraid that we will fight with him." Ming's war would harm his interests, and he does not really want peace talks."
Yang Jiachen was stunned by his words.
When Yang Jiachen saw Wei Guogong, the auxiliary minister, personally come to persuade them to stay, he thought he sincerely wanted to have peace talks with their Tiger Character Banner, but it was only because of other forces in the court that the peace talks could not succeed.
Now that Hong Chengchou said this, he felt very uncomfortable and felt like he was being fooled.
A shrewd person like Hong Chengchou could guess what Yang Jiachen was thinking just by looking at him.
He stretched out his right hand and patted Yang Jiachen on the shoulder, and said: "If you have experienced this kind of thing a lot, you will understand it if you encounter it again in the future."
After hearing this, Yang Jiachen looked at Hong Chengchou with a strange expression.
I wondered how many times Hong Chengchou had experienced similar things before he could be so experienced.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Let's go, we should set off." Hong Chengchou was so frightened by Yang Jiachen's look that he said hello and walked towards the prepared carriage.
Everything has been loaded into the car and people can leave at any time.
"You haven't told me why you have to meet this Wei Guogong?" Yang Jiachen took two steps to catch up and asked the doubts in his heart.
Hong Chengchou said to him as he walked: "Didn't you hear everything? Duke Guo of Wei personally promised not to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty in exchange for the tiger-character flag and not to send troops to the Ming Dynasty. Although we said we were leaving, we wanted to give the man named Fan some trouble before leaving. , why not do it?”
"You scholars have dirty hearts." Yang Jiachen pretended to shiver.
The longer he stayed in contact with Hong Chengchou, the more he felt that this old boy was full of evil.
"Don't forget, you are also a scholar." Hong Chengchou nodded.
Filling in the blockade for Fan Wencheng was just something he did casually. The real reason was to buy more time for the Tiger Flag to digest the several provinces it had seized from the Ming Dynasty.
Which hill to stand on and sing songs from that hill.
Since he chose the tiger-character flag, of course he had to consider the tiger-character flag.
The carriage was ready. As soon as the two people got on the carriage, the team immediately set off and drove along the street towards the exit of the city.
Many people knew about the departure of the Tiger-Character Banner envoy team, but it was only known to some people in the court and some people in the city who were closely related to the court.
Few ordinary people knew that the Tiger-Character Banner envoy team would leave.
When the convoy of the Tiger Flag envoys was walking on the street, because there were no officers and soldiers following it, it did not attract much attention from ordinary people. At most, the people they met on the road were very curious when they saw such a convoy passing by. After taking a quick look at them, I never imagined that they were the leaving team of Tiger Flag envoys.
Because Hong Chengchou left suddenly, when some people in Nanjing received the news, the Tiger-Character Banner envoy team had already left Nanjing.
"Brother Xian, something big happened."
Qian Shisheng didn't wait for the steward of the Shi's Mansion to go in and report, then he broke in himself.
The housekeeper of the Shi's Mansion did not dare to stop him by force. He could only send someone to deliver the message while personally leading the way for Qian Shisheng towards where Shi Kefa was.
Shi Kefa, who was sitting in the room reading a book, felt his heart sink when he saw Qian Shisheng suddenly barging in.
He knew that Qian Shisheng was not such a reckless person.
The other party who barged in like this without waiting for notification must have encountered something important.
"You are so anxious to come here, but something important happened?" Shi Kefa put down the book in his hand and asked why.
Qian Shisheng said: "It's Hong Hengjiu, he's gone."
"It's just a way of retreating to advance, trying to force the imperial court to agree to peace talks with them." Shi Kefa said nonchalantly.
He thought it was an important matter, which made him worry in vain.
"No, they really left. The tiger bandits' team has left, and the courtyard where they live is empty." Qian Shisheng saw that Shi Kefa had misunderstood and quickly emphasized.
After hearing this, Shi Kefa's outstretched right hand hovered in mid-air, his brows furrowed. He looked at Qian Shisheng and asked, "Brother Yizhi said that the tiger thieves have left the capital?"
"Yes, they have left the capital. I'm afraid they packed their things and prepared to leave after receiving the decision at the court meeting. This is not a means to force peace talks." Qian Shisheng said.
However, this made Shi Kefa even more surprised.
I don’t understand why the people in Tiger Flag are so eager to leave.
He did not believe that the people in the Tiger Flag would leave on their own initiative just because the court had shelved the peace talks.
"The tiger thieves are gone, which is a good thing." Shi Kefa said with a smile.
Since he couldn't understand it, he simply stopped thinking about it, but in his opinion, the departure of the Tiger Character Banner envoy was a good thing for Ming Dynasty.
Qian Shisheng also said with a happy face: "Xianzhi, you are right, it is indeed a good thing."
"Now that the tiger thieves are here, we will push the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty to form an alliance to jointly deal with the tiger thieves." Shi Kefa said excitedly.
In his view, by forming an alliance with the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty would have the opportunity to regain the lost land in the north and restore the lost territory of the Ming Dynasty, instead of being like now, having to defend half of the country.
Qian Shisheng thought for a while and said, "I think it's better to find all the people here and discuss a countermeasure together. Now that there are no tiger thieves, Wei Guogong and others will have no excuse to block the alliance with the Qing Dynasty."
"Okay, as Brother Yi said, let's bring everyone over to discuss it together." Shi Kefa nodded and agreed to Qian Shisheng's proposal.
Without the obstruction of the tiger-shaped flag, in their view, forming an alliance with the Qing Dynasty would be the general trend.
The departure of the Tiger Character Banner envoy team quickly spread throughout Nanjing.
Some people are excited and some are happy. At the same time, some people are very disappointed with the departure of the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner.
Among the nobles in Nanjing, most of them did not want the envoy of the Tiger Character Banner to leave.
They don't care whether the Ming Dynasty can recover half of the lost country. What they care about is whether the departure of the Tiger Character Banner envoy will cause a war and thus affect their wealth.
