Chapter 735: Envoy to Camp (Part 1)
Li Guodong refused to let Chen Yuanyuan serve him, which made Chen Yuanyuan feel lost.
Chen Yuanyuan, whose original name was Xing Yuan, was a peddler who carried a responsibilities and sold along the street. Her mother died early and was kept in foster care at her uncle's house. As a result, she was sold to the Pear Garden by her uncle. After becoming famous, Gong Ruofu, the son of Gong Xiuling of Jiangyin, once redeemed Chen Yuanyuan as his concubine with a large sum of money, but Yuanyuan was not tolerated by her wife. She also had a relationship with Mao Xiang. Later, she was forced to buy it into the capital by Concubine Tian's father Tian Hongyu.
At that time, Concubine Tian was seriously ill. Tian Hongyu went to Jiangnan to force Chen Yuanyuan at a low price using the excuse of offering a daughter to the palace.
But when you think about it with your toes, you will know how Chongzhen could have someone with a status like Chen Yuanyuan into the palace? So it was purely because Tian Hongyu was greedy for beauty and forced himself to buy Chen Yuanyuan with the identity of the Jinyiwei. In fact, it was his own possession. Later, because Concubine Tian died of illness, Tian Hongyu felt that his status was threatened, so he presented Chen Yuanyuan to the Wu family, who was respectful.
Speaking of which, Chen Yuanyuan is also a pitiful person. He passed by four men, Gong Ruofu, Mao Xiang, Tian Hongyu and Wu Sangui, and was at least a fifth-hand car to Li Guodong. If Li Guodong had not come to this time and space, Chen Yuanyuan would have been used by Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng in turn, and finally returned to Wu Sangui's side until he was old and lost favor. Because he was disagreeable with Wu Sangui's wife and other concubines, he finally became a monk and ended his life.
As a woman, don’t you still want to find a support? Wu Xiang gave herself to Li Guodong, and Li Guodong was lukewarm to herself again, so she felt naturally uncomfortable.
In order not to give Wu Sangui an excuse, Li Guodong brought a pen to compile a book and told Wu Sangui that Wu Xiang gave Chen Yuanyuan to him, but he did not touch her. He hoped that Wu Sangui would understand the righteousness and give up going south by Shanhaiguan. If Wu Sangui was willing, Li Guodong would send a navy to pick him up south, and when he went south, he would return Chen Yuanyuan to Wu Sangui.
After writing the letter, Li Guodong asked a Jinyiwei to find a way to send the letter to Shanhaiguan and hand it over to Wu Sangui.
Li Guodong said to himself: "Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui, I'll cut off all your excuses. Tomorrow morning, I'll ask Your Majesty to give you an edict. I see if you have any excuses to surrender to the enemy! If you don't even care about your father's life and death, then don't blame Your Majesty for showing mercy to you."
The next morning, Li Guodong entered the governor's mansion that served as Chongzhen's palace. After meeting Chongzhen, Li Guodong reported: "Your Majesty, I have long suspected that Wu Sangui is suspicious of surrendering to the enemy. Please issue an edict to test Wu Sangui, and ask someone to send the edict to Shanhaiguan, and ask Wu Sangui to give up Shanhaiguan and go south by boat. If Wu Sangui refused to go south, he would rather surrender to the thief than surrender to Jiannu."
"Li Aiqing, why do you say that Wu Sangui will join Jiannu?" Chongzhen asked.
Li Guodong told all the key reasons why Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and also said that King Sanshun was treated significantly higher in the Qing Dynasty than in the Ming Dynasty, and his officers and soldiers were also greatly improved.
Finally, Li Guodong said: "Your Majesty, you have this edict. If Wu Sangui joins Jiannu again and leads his army to attack our Ming Dynasty, you can deal with Wu Xiang."
Chongzhen nodded and immediately asked Wang Chengen to take the pen and ink, write an edict, and then asked several Jinyiwei to take a boat and take it to Shanhaiguan by sea.
Afterwards, Li Guodong talked with Chongzhen for a while, and Chongzhen set the bottom line for negotiations with Li Zicheng: "You can form an alliance and sell food to the thieves, but if you don't give Li Zicheng a title of king, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to surrender to the thieves."
After Li Guodong said goodbye to Chongzhen, he went to the prison to pick up Hongniang.
The door of the cell opened, and Zhang Shuheng said: "Miss Hong, you can leave here."
The Hongniang walked out, Li Guodong glanced at her and saw that she was in a good mood. It seemed that the Jinyiwei who was guarding the prison did not torture her.
"Miss Hong, I'll take you back to reunite with Mr. Li." Li Guodong said with a smile.
"Let me go back now? Has the King of Chuang withdrawn?"
"No, I just want to go to the King of Chuang and have a face-to-face conversation with the King of Chuang."
"You still dare to go to the King's camp? Are you afraid of being cut by the King's sword?" Hongniang widened her eyes and looked at Li Guodong in disbelief, with doubts on her pretty face.
"Of course I'm afraid, so I'll take you to Mr. Li's place first, otherwise how dare I meet you, King of Breaking?"
The Hong Madam looked up and down at Li Guodong in disbelief, and after a while, he spoke: "Okay, Brother Li is also a good person. I promised to take you to see Mr. Li. But if you really want to see King Chuang, you have considered it clearly. I don't want to see your head fall to the ground."
Li Guodong changed into a blue arrow suit of the rioters and a white felt hat. He followed the Hongniang to cross the river by boat, went to Beicheng, and then left the city gate from Beicheng to Li Yan's camp.
The guards at the door naturally recognized Hong Niangzi. When they saw Hong Niangzi coming back with an old battalion soldier, they hurriedly put them in, and someone ran back to report to Li Yan.
When he heard that the Hongniang was back, Li Yan hurriedly greeted her.
"Madam!" Li Yan hugged Hong Madam tightly, "You fell into Guan Gouzi's hands, I thought you wouldn't come back."
"Wuwei Boren is very kind-hearted, and he has put his family back. Young Master, we will return to your camp, and there are some things that are not convenient to talk about here."
When he returned to Li Yan's own tent, the Hongniang then introduced: "Young Master, he is Wu Wei Bo, and he personally sent the slave back."
Li Guodong took off his hat, Li Yan looked closely and recognized that this person was Li Guodong. He was shocked: "Li Lao Er, how dare you come to our camp? For the sake of saving my wife, I won't hand you over to the King of Chuang, please leave quickly! If the King of Chuang knows, you can't leave."
The Hongniangzi told the Uprising about what happened when he was in Luoyang City again, and Li Yan was shocked: "Wu Wei Bo, I didn't expect you to be a hero. You are different from those corrupt officials. I have also heard of students. You have a good reputation among the people. You can leave quickly."
"Mr. Li, I'm here to find you, just to take me to see the King of Chuang." Li Guodong said with a smile.
"See King of Chuang?" Li Yan's eyes widened even wider, "Wu Wei Bo, your hands are covered with blood from our rebels. Are you not afraid that King of Chuang will slash you with one knife?"
"One time and another time, Mr. Li, do you know what the biggest threat is facing the King of Chuang now?" Li Guodong asked back.
"Of course, he is Jiannu from the north." Li Yan was a smart man and answered immediately.
"That's right," Li Guodong nodded with a smile, "so our Ming Dynasty hopes to cooperate with you and jointly act as a Jiannu!"
"This reason is not good," Li Yan shook his head, "The King of Chuang will definitely think that your officers and soldiers are going to use our Dashun as a target to help your court resist Jiannu in the north. Don't treat the King of Chuang as a fool."
"The King of Chuang is a generation of heroes. Of course, we will not regard him as a fool. I just came to find the King of Chuang, and explained it to him with reason and emotion, and analyzed the situation today. In this way, the King of Chuang will know who should cooperate with. You can find out the silver from the corrupt officials in the capital, but can the silver be eaten as food? You should buy your food from the south? Mr. Li, although you have occupied the capital now, Dashun is in danger. Jiannu in the north is eyeing him, and Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan may surrender at any time."
Li Yan asked, "Wu Weibo, what are the benefits for you to help us?"
Li Guodong smiled and said, "The situation is now in chaos. Jiannu outside the pass, Dashun in the capital, Daming in the south of the Yangtze River, Zuo Liangyu in Jiangxi, and Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan. Looking at all, Jiannu outside the pass is the strongest, you are the second, our Ming Dynasty is the third, and the rest are not to be afraid. In fact, the prototype of the three-part world has been formed. Since Jiannu is the strongest, why don't we join forces to deal with Jiannu first, but we have to kill each other?"
Chapter completed!