Nanming Engineer

Chapter 294

Looking at Wang Huanzhan's letter, he still maintained a calm face, but his heart was ups and downs. Between the lines of Du Yinxi's words, two meanings were revealed.

In just a few sentences, the words above are impassioned and passionate, "the world is the most important thing" and "life and death are above all else", expressing Du Yinxi's willingness to worry about the country and the people, and to devote himself to the Zhu family community. Among all the officials at the end, he was an extremely rare loyal minister.

But the last two sentences are somewhat meaningful.

"If you don't enter Huguang, tin can't enter Sichuan."

Wang Huan closed his eyes and meditated for a while, and immediately realized that Du Yinxi was worried about him!
In the world of tomorrow, it is all the land of the king, not the private land of the governor of a certain place. In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, it was very common for generals to fight across provinces. Famous generals such as Zuo Liangyu, Sun Chuanting, and Cao Bianjiao often traveled thousands of miles in battle with the peasant army. , It is very common to go back and forth to several provinces within a year. How can we agree not to enter each other's jurisdiction? Isn't this self-binding?
Du Yinxi came out like this just because he was worried about Wang Huan's disloyalty. Huguang is a barrier for the imperial court. If something goes wrong, the consequences will be endless. So I put forward the conditions first. I will not interfere with your dominance in the southwest and northwest, and you don't want to either. Enter Huguang to expand the territory. Everyone works for the court together, and it is enough for each to do their own work well.

Wang Huan smiled wryly and opened his eyes.

"Ahem!" Gao Yigong next to him coughed a few times.

Wang Huan looked at him and saw that Gao Blacksmith looked embarrassed. He glanced at the letter in Wang Huan's hand before he could say anything. The beard on his face seemed to feel the owner's complicated mentality. It stopped.

Wang Huan looked at his appearance and knew that this upright man must know what was written in the letter. When he set off, Du Yinxi should explain something to him.

"General Gao, how's the governor's war in Changsha going?" Wang Huan didn't want to embarrass Gao Yigong. After all, he was not the one who made the decision, so he put away the letter, deliberately changed the subject, and asked casually. One sentence.

Gao Yigong's face was flushed with embarrassment, and he looked around absent-mindedly and replied: "Well, it went very smoothly, Mr. Li was in front of the warlord, and Mr. Du was behind to strategize. With the cooperation of Governor He, the generals worked hard and the three armies Take your life, although Changsha is a fortified city, it is surrounded like an iron barrel, and it can be destroyed overnight."

"Such a great kindness! As soon as Changsha came, most of Huguang fell into the imperial court's pocket. The Qing court didn't have many troops in the north of Huguang. It took Changsha, and Huguang was shocked. It's easy to recover the whole province. I'm here, and I can first congratulate Lord Du on his success again." The next one will be a great contribution." Wang Huan smiled and said to Gao Yigong while cupping his hands and wishing eastward.

Gao Yigong forced a smile uneasily, cupped his hands and replied: "Uncle Wang's heart will be brought to Mr. Du in the end."

He was upset at the moment, and unknowingly changed Wang Huan's title, from Wang Zongbing to Uncle Wang, and reduced himself to the last general. It can be seen that it is necessary for this straightforward soldier to conceal his guilt. How uncomfortable.

The two fell silent without speaking, and the atmosphere became strangely awkward, falling into an embarrassing silence.

Wang Huan was thinking about his own affairs, thinking about his future development ideas, while Gao Yigong kept peeking at Wang Huan's face, his black face the size of a washbasin was getting redder and more unnatural.

Finally, Gao Blacksmith couldn't restrain himself, and spoke in a rough voice.

"Uncle, this, this, I don't know where your army is going next?" He squeezed the rein tightly with both hands, and the leather rope almost broke.

"Oh?" Wang Huan was woken up by his call, raised his head from his contemplation, and replied strangely: "Where are we going? Stop this Qing army, and we will naturally return to Sichuan."

"Back to Sichuan? Oh oh oh." Gao Yigong felt as if he had been pardoned, all his worries disappeared, and he relaxed all of a sudden, and quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead: "That's great!"

Sensing the strange eyes of Wang Huan, Li Dingguo and others, Gao Yigong hurriedly explained: "Uh!? This, in the end, means that Uncle spent a lot of time in Huguang blocking the way for the adults alone , The soldiers are homesick, and it’s just right for them to take a good rest when they go back, yes, take a rest.”

There was a smile on his face, but it was uglier than crying.

Wang Huan didn't speak, just looked at him quietly, his eyes were clear, full of kindness like a baby.

Gao Yigong didn't dare to look at him, he frantically looked left and right, raised his head to look at the sky and looked down at the ground, but he didn't dare to look at Wang Huan, his black face was almost as red as a monkey's butt.

After holding back for a long time, Gao Yigong's temperament was finally suppressed to the bottom line, he hit his hands on each other, slapped him, pulled the rein, stood still and shouted loudly: "Don't worry, this is really fucking Aggrieved! When did Lao Gao do such a shameless thing! Uncle, don’t blame Lao Gao for being rude. It’s really hard to violate the military order. The governor said something first. Gao must watch the uncle leave Huguang before he can return. Come back to life!"

Wang Huan reined in his horse and turned back, calmly said: "I know."

Gao Yigong continued to roar: "This is not Lao Gao's own intention. To be honest, Uncle can use [-] troops to conquer [-] Tartars and protect the back road for the governor of Huguang who has nothing to do with him. It would definitely not be the case for another person." Do it, and uncle did it, with such loyalty, Lao Gao is convinced, you, my friend, Lao Gao is determined!"

Wang Huan smiled, with a heartfelt and sincere smile, and said happily: "You friend, I'm committed too!"

Gao Yigong flicked his beard and urged the horse to approach, his black face finally faded red, he said happily: "Don't uncle blame me for not being righteous? Don't you blame Governor Du for not caring about kindness?"

Wang Huan breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "The situation is pressing, and blocking the governor is a last resort. After all, these days, there are too many people like Zuo Liangyu, but there are too few people like Zhou Yafu."

He tilted his head to Gao Yigong and said with a smile: "After you go back, you can reply to Governor Du, just tell him what he mentioned in his letter, I agreed, and tell him not to worry."

Gao Yigong was stunned and stunned, speechless for a while.

Although Li Dingguo and others did not see what Du Yinxi wrote in the letter, they roughly guessed what it was from the conversation between Wang Huan and Gao Yigong. They all looked like they were frowning and confused.

"However, I have two small conditions. I also want to ask General Gao to bring the message back." Wang Huan waited carefully, and said slowly: "Please stop the governor to think about it."

Gao Yigong quickly replied: "As long as it doesn't matter to me, if I challenge my uncle to fight against the Tatars, Governor Du will definitely agree."

"Okay!" Wang Huan held up two fingers, squinted his eyes and said: "The first condition is that I want all the tiger squat guns in your army, including the gunners in your army!"

Gao Yigong immediately felt a pain in his heart, his cheeks were twitching, obviously those squatting cannons were extremely precious to him, but this person was straightforward, and when he was in pain, he still agreed without hesitation: "No problem, we can do it right away." arrive."

Wang was happy, and withdrew a finger: "Secondly, please give me 100 cannon craftsmen in Huguang after Governor Du took down Changsha."

(End of this chapter)