Mrs. Xing advised: "So what if you surrender to Duke Chu? As long as he promises to give you a way out, you might as well surrender. Otherwise, we will have no way out." Gao Jie thought for a while and felt that his wife was right. He was indeed desperate, and he was left with a surrender to Duke Chu. Other ways, that road is open? He could not do such a thing as surrender to the Qing army. He shaved his hair and shaved almost all his hair, leaving a rat-tail braid. After he died like that, he could not even get in. After seeing his ancestors, could his ancestors recognize a descendant with a rat-tail braid with a rat-tail braid?

Surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he could only shave his head. Once he shaved his head, it would be an unfilial descendant. Gao Jie did not want to be an unfilial descendant. Unless the Duke of Chu could not tolerate him, surrendering to the Qing Dynasty was the last way.

The envoy sent by Li Guodong walked to Gao Jie's central army tent. The guard stopped him, searched for him, confirmed that there were no items such as weapons and hidden weapons, and then put him in. When the envoy walked in, the guard at the door said with a smile: "Sir, you are so brave. The general is ready for the swordsman. If one word is wrong, the general will take you to sacrifice the flag."

"Hahaha!" The envoy ignored the threat of the guards, laughed loudly, and strided into Gao Jie's central army tent.

"Sir, you are so brave!" Gao Jie saw the messenger coming in without changing his expression, and immediately felt a little respect. He also saw that although this person was a literati, he was strong and loved a little, so he asked again, "May I ask sir, the name of his surname? Who is the person? What position does he hold?"

The envoy raised his head and chest with neither arrogant nor humbleness, but just arched his hand slightly: "The surname is Yao, his name is Qisheng, and his courtesy name is Xizhi. He is a scholar in Shaoxing. Fortunately, he was loved by the Duke of Chu and served as an aide in the army."

"Mr. Yao, please sit down." Gao Jie hurriedly greeted.

Yao Qisheng did not refuse and sat down openly. He didn't even have the reputation of a juren, but Li Guodong attached great importance to him and made him a staff member of the Duke of Chu's family.

"Mr. Yao, are you here to persuade Gao to surrender?" Gao Jie asked.

"I'm here to persuade you to surrender, but the students came not for Duke Chu, but to save you General Gao." Yao Qisheng shook the fan and replied with a smile.

"Hahaha!" Gao Jie laughed, "Mr. Yao came to save me? You should think about how to save yourself now! Gao has prepared the knife and axe master and a guillotine. As long as he gives a command, Mr. Yao will land on his head."

Yao Qisheng's face remained unchanged: "If General Gao wants to kill the student, why should he let the student sit down?"

"It's good to have courage, it's good to be good!" Gao Jie said with a smile, "Mr. Yao, you said you are here to save me, so just say it. If you don't say it well, Gao will still say the same thing, the swordsman and the guillotine are ready for you."

Yao Qisheng shook his fan and smiled: "Why do you have any good places for General Gao to go now?"

"The world is so great, please go wherever you want!" Gao Jie snorted.

Yao Qisheng laughed: "General Gao, if you don't go back to the Ming Dynasty, where else can you go? The thief can you go? Li Zicheng hates you to the core. He will let you go after you go back? Zhang Xianzhong? Zhang Xianzhong also resigned to Li Zicheng. If you go, aren't you afraid of being presented to Li Zicheng? If you surrender to Zuo Liangyu, but General Gao, do you think Zuo Liangyu is an opponent of the Duke of Chu?"

"The Ming Dynasty cannot tolerate me, Gao, and the thief army cannot tolerate me, Gao. Gao only has one way left, that is, lead troops north to go to Qing." Gao Jie said unwillingly.

"Surrender to Jiannu? Is General Gao planning to not even enter the ancestral tomb in a hundred years? When he meets his ancestors in the future, his ancestors will not recognize who the person with shaved hair and braids are. The ancestors will not recognize a descendant who is completely different from him!" Seeing that Gao Jie's face slowed down a little, Yao Qisheng struck while the iron was hot, "General Gao, Duke Chu is thinking that you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but he accidentally boarded the wrong pirate ship. So he pleaded for you in front of His Majesty, just hope that you can turn back and return to the Ming Dynasty. General Gao, Duke Chu said that you can ensure your safety."

Gao Jie asked: "Besides ensuring my safety, what other conditions do Duke Chu have?"

"Yes, if you don't reorganize your army, don't disarmament or reorganization, you will still serve as the general officer. As long as General Gao returns to the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty will give you a 500,000 taels of military salary, the Duke of Chu can also send grassroots officers to help General Gao train. However, General Gao's title was granted by the pseudo-Hongguang Emperor, so your Xingping Bo is gone. Except for this, everything else will remain unchanged."

It doesn’t matter whether Xingping Bo has it or not. He originally thought that being able to save a life would be a burning incense, but he didn’t expect that the rest would not change. Thinking of this, Gao Jie nodded slightly: “Since the Duke of Chu is so tolerant, it would be boring to resist stubbornly. Gao is willing to return to the Ming Dynasty and serve the emperor!”

"Okay!" Yao Qisheng put down his fan, "General Gao is very clear about the righteousness and is willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. It is really a blessing for my Ming Dynasty!"

"Since Mr. Yao is here, don't leave today. Stay here and have a good meal with Mr. Gao. Let's go back to Duke Chu tomorrow morning." Gao Jie insisted.

"Hahaha!" Yao Qisheng laughed, "It is hard to refuse the kindness, it is better to obey the orders of students than to be respectful."

That night, Gao Jie held a sumptuous banquet in the camp to entertain Yao Qisheng.

The next morning, Yao Qisheng said goodbye.

Returning to Tawau Castle, he told Li Guodong about the result of his mission to Gao Jie's camp: "Duke of Chu, General Gao is willing to return to the Ming Dynasty."

"Okay, as long as he is willing to come back, there will be another barrier in Jiangbei." Li Guodong said with a smile.

Since Gao Jie was willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, Li Guodong took his elite troops to Suzhou to receive surrender.

Three days later, Li Guodong personally brought five thousand cavalry and five thousand mule firearm soldiers, set out from Tawau Castle in a mighty manner, and headed to Gaojie Camp in Suzhou to accept Gaojie's surrender.

Departing from Tawau Castle, it is more than 340 miles away from Suzhou. The Huai Army traveled a hundred miles a day and arrived in Suzhou in just three days.

Gao Jie saw the banner of Duke of Chu and ordered the city gate to be opened.

More than 10,000 Huai Army soldiers waited outside the city for about an hour, and saw Gao Jie leading his generals Li Chengdong, Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu, Hu Maozhen and others, as well as his 50,000 troops, coming out of Suzhou City and surrendering to the Huai Army.

Li Guodong did not intend to annex Gao Jie's troops. After all, except for the three thousand old battalions, Gao Jie's remaining nearly 50,000 were cannon fodder. He did not want these garbage soldiers to reduce the average quality of his army. As for why Gao Jie surrendered instead of destroying him, because there is also a barrier in the two Huaihe Rivers.

This time, Li Guodong not only brought 10,000 troops to accept the surrender, but also brought 500,000 taels of military salary that Chongzhen paid to Gao Jie. Anyway, Chongzhen has the money in his hands now, and nearly 100 million taels of silver have been raided in the past. As long as any little leaks out from his fingers, it is enough to make up for the military salary that he owed before.

Gao Jie arrived in front of Li Guodong, and Li Guodong dismounted to greet him: "Welcome General Gao to abandon the secret and turn to the light and return to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Gao is ashamed! He is a general who is guilty and actually wants Duke Chu to come to greet Gao in person." Gao Jie knelt on the ground, "I thank His Majesty and Duke Chu for giving us a chance."

"Get up quickly," Li Guodong helped Gao Jie up. "This time my Duke came and brought his military salary, which was a total of 500,000 taels of silver in the car. They were all in the car. Please ask General Gao to count it."

Gao Jie was overjoyed and immediately asked someone to take over the silver cart.

Afterwards, Gao Jiejun's aide stepped forward and opened a silver box.

As soon as the silver box was opened, boxes of silver were shining brightly in the sun, which was very exciting. After counting, the amount of silver was indeed 500,000 taels.
Chapter completed!