This short and fat middle-aged scholar is full of confidence in his words and is in a very happy mood, not affected by the cold weather at all.??????

The Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty was about to set foot on this land. The Ming Dynasty was about to collapse. Wuzhou Prefecture City, from civil and military officials, honorary relatives, and the people of Guizhou, they had already lost their time to take care of themselves. It was now, who had the leisure to care about them?

Moreover, the family he came to visit this time was not ordinary gentry and merchants, but the first civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, the Ding Kuichu family, the cabinet assistant. Such an important official place, even the factory guards dared to follow and catch people here, and talked about other ordinary Ming army guards.

What's more, a general under the Ding Mansion said that the current Jinyiwei leader of the Ming Dynasty was still the same as their master, and he was his own, so he didn't have to worry about it.

Behind them, in the shadows of the shops along the street, three young men were huddled together at this time. They were dressed in gray robes and felt hats, dressed neatly. They were tall, slender waists and arms, and very strong. They were black and moist, with bright and bright eyes, and they looked like mature and steady people at first glance.

On both sides, there are young and strong men in their twenties, with agile figure, bright eyes, and clever eyes.

"Wang Baihu, are you sure that the middle-aged scholar was the spy sent by Donglu to contact Ding Laozi?" The young man on the right asked quietly while moving his steps.

The surname Wang is a Jinyiwei Baihu, with his full name Wang Kang. He glanced at the man coldly and said, "It's him. The brothers who were following Dayunguan watched him enter the country. At that time, he was still surrounded by several military generals. "

The young man on the left seemed to be more casual. He chuckled and said to the young man on the right: "Wang Baihu is from the Jinyiwei family. His ancestors followed the army to Korea to fight with the Japanese slaves during the Wanli period. The north was attacked by Li Chuang. Wang Baihu went south and served three dynasties. He had never seen any storms. You kid still doubted his ability, and you really didn't see it to the end."

After saying these beautiful words, even though Wang Baihu was calm on weekdays, he still couldn't help but smile and praised him a few words: "Wei Guangchuan, you are not bad, you can speak more than 20 dialects in four or five provinces in the south, the customs of the people and rivers in various places, and the mountains and rivers clearly. It is really not easy to go from a military surplus to the General Banner of the Jinyiwei at a young age!"

"Where is where.          " The man named Wei Guangchuan touched his head after hearing this, looking embarrassed.

"I'm the most useless." The boy on the right said with a depressed look when he saw them praising each other.

"Haha..." Wang Kang and Wei Guangchuan couldn't help but smile when they heard this.

After chuckling, Wang Kang returned to his original indifferent expression and whispered: "Since we have locked our target, we will ask Governor Guo to take action. The emperor seems to attach great importance to this matter. We must keep a close eye on it and never let the dog thief escape."

"Okay, this is a big fish. If you keep an eye on this guy, our benefits will definitely be indispensable at that time."

The short and fat middle-aged scholar who was in front of the three of them walked slowly, so Wang Baihu and others pretended to be idle men who came out to drink together, walking and stopping, only draped far away, and did not dare to follow too close.

"It's here, Lord Zhang, please come in."

As soon as he arrived at the gate of Ding Mansion, Manager Liu introduced the short and fat middle-aged scholar into the corner gate on one side of the gate. While greeting, he hurriedly led the Ding Mansion. Although Ding Kuichu bought it temporarily, it was quite magnificent. He entered through the corner gate and entered the yard. When Manager Liu was not leading the way in front, the middle-aged scholar was about to get lost.

Passing by the Ding Mansion Flower Hall, more than 20 officials in green stood or stood, whispering to each other, and waiting for Ding Kuichu to summon him. Obviously, after Ding Kuichu arrived in Wuzhou, these eunuch party officials wanted to come over and curry favor with each other.

"Although my master has been to Wuzhou for many days, the number of adults coming to visit has not decreased." Looking at the situation in the hall, Butler Liu smiled softly, his words full of pride.

"Haha, Xiang Ding is the assistant to the cabinet, and he is below one person and above ten thousand people. He deserves this love.       ?   "

The short and fat middle-aged scholar was originally a seventh-rank county magistrate. When the Qing army came to Guangdong, he led the gentry in the city to surrender voluntarily and voluntarily recognize the thief as his father. Because he and Ding Kuichu were fellow villagers and had served as officials under Ding Kuichu's rule. Therefore, after contacting Ding Kuichu's people, Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong asked him to come and pacify Ding Kuichu.

As the two of them spoke, they had already arrived at the entrance of the study room in Ding Mansion. As soon as the door opened, they saw an old man with white beards and majestic expression sitting upright on the chair of the Grand Master behind the desk.

Ding Kuichu wore a crimson purple four-sided Xiaoyao Scarf and a crimson purple double-breasted outer cloak. He had been waiting here for a long time.

Looking at the Qing court envoy who had been looking for him earlier, he was now in front of him, he calmed down instead.

"You go back." He glanced at Manager Liu and ordered casually.

"yes!"

Butler Liu retreated and slowly brought him to the door before leaving.

Before the short and fat middle-aged scholar could speak, Ding Kuichu took a step forward and bowed his hand.

"I am here, and I am missing the opportunity to welcome you. I hope to forgive you."

Seeing this, the middle-aged scholar hurriedly bowed back and said, "Where is, student Zhang Yuanbin, I have met Ding Xiang."

"Come on, have tea."

"I don't know if Ding Xiangke still remembers the students?"

"Of course I remember that...

After the ceremony, the two of them exchanged greetings.

With Ding Kuichu's behavior of actively contacting the Qing court and his understanding of Ding Kuichu, Zhang Yuanbin was 90% sure that he could convince him to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. However, it was a bit dangerous to discuss the surrender to the Qing Dynasty within the Southern Ming Dynasty. He was also afraid that Ding Kuichu would change his mind temporarily and turn against others, which would cause death disasters, so he did not dare to easily explain his intentions.

He planned to let Ding Kuichu reveal a little bit of the surrender to him, and then he would go with the flow and give the conditions offered by the Qing court, and then convince Ding Kuichu to surrender to the Qing Dynasty with his three-inch tongue. In this way, his mission could be completed smoothly. After returning, it would be inevitable to lift it up with this skill and official rank. If not, why would he take such a great risk and cross the border thousands of miles to persuade him to surrender.

Ding Kuichu was so smart that he had already guessed Zhang Yuanbin's thoughts. He was an old official in the officialdom who did not see a rabbit or a hawk. As the cabinet assistant of the Ming Dynasty, even though this dynasty was already declining and his authority was no longer the same as before, his power shrank significantly, but he did not want to sell himself too cheaply, so he did not speak up easily.

The two of them had their own ulterior motives, greetings and talking in a warm manner, but no one wanted to mention the incident of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty first. Time passed by quickly in the chat between them. Seeing the sun set off the mountain and the night was coming, Ding Kuichu still only beat him, without saying anything about surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Yuanbin had to admit that he was not as good as others in his qi cultivation skills, and he could not fight him. He had no choice but to cough and lead the topic to the incident of surrendering to the incident of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

"Ahem, for many years, it was entirely up to Ding Xiang's support and care that students could have their current status. The grace of water should be repaid with each other. Because the students failed to repay Ding Xiang's great kindness, they often felt uneasy about it and felt uneasy. This time they visited Wuzhou, I really couldn't bear to see Ding Xiang in prison and put themselves in danger."

Seeing that Zhang Yuanbin finally couldn't help but speak, Ding Kuichu felt proud, but his face looked kind: "Haha, I helped you back then just because you were talented and capable, and I couldn't bear to be buried with talents. So it's better not to mention the word "kindness". Zikun doesn't have to do this. Just say whatever you have. I listen carefully."

"To be honest, the student made a special trip to persuade Ding Xiang to join the Qing Dynasty this time, under the orders of Tong Yangjia, Tong Futai, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, and the governor Li Chengdong, to persuade Ding Xiang to join the Qing Dynasty."

"Oh, that's it." Since the words were clear, Ding Kuichu no longer cared about being silly and pretended to be kind and righteous, and asked, "I wonder what Tong Zhongcheng and General Li said?"

As soon as Ding Kuichu said this, Zhang Yuanbin was relieved, picked up the tea bowl, slapped the tea, and said slowly: "Since Wanli, eunuchs have been tyrannical and party struggles, which has finally made the pseudo-ming lose all the hearts of the people. So Li Chuan into Beijing and Chongzhen hangs the disaster of Coal Mountain!

My Qing Dynasty followed the heavens and responded to people, and supported the iron cavalry to enter the pass, pacified the slut. Now it has occupied most of the Central Plains, and the stability of the southern sky is just around the corner. The pseudo-Ming energy has been exhausted, and my Qing Dynasty has been firmly in the Dragon Court. It is God's will to fall and rise in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the war was ruthless. Although the students were in eastern Guangdong, they were always thinking about Ding Xiang, fearing that Ding Xiang would have an accident. In order to repay Ding Xiang's kindness, the students did not fear life and death and dared to persuade Ding Xiang to abandon his weapons and surrender to the Qing Dynasty."

"Since Zikun is so honest, I don't want to hide it anymore.

Alas, I also want to submit to the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible. I am just a humble person and I am afraid that Tong Zhongcheng and Li Junmen will not like each other, so I dare not open the door to welcome the king's army."

"Oh, Ding Xiang is too worried. The two adults are eager to seek talent. They have long admired the reputation of Ding Xiang. They are waiting for Ding Xiang to come and submit day and night, so how could they not like it?

“So very good, so very good.”

"The two adults knew that Ding Xiang was unparalleled in talent and virtue, and were a powerful man in governing the country. They were especially afraid that the war would be burned together, so they sent students to ask Ding Xiang to join the Qing Dynasty. The two adults had already cast a seal of "Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi" under the order of the Regent to make a seal of "Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi" to wait for Ding Xiang to come and receive it."

Ding Kuichu was quite satisfied with the conditions offered by the Qing court. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, a rank of the top rank, was honored by Lingnan. Although his status was far inferior to that of the current cabinet assistant, his real power was greater than that of Can Ming, which actually could only control a province in Guangxi.

He stroked his beard and said with a smile: "I already know the intentions of Tong Zhongcheng and General Li, but I don't know what I can do for them without any merits."

Seeing Ding Kuichu doing this, Zhang Yuanbin couldn't help but smile and said, "No, the two adults just need Ding Xiang to come and meet with a head!"

"Who is it?"

"The fake Ming Emperor Zhu Youlang!"
Chapter completed!