Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 216
Following Wang Yan's strategy, the two routes followed the army and came all the way to join him, and stayed in northern Hunan to monitor the Qing soldiers in Changde.

At this time, outside Jingzhou City, countless camps stood along the river bank, stretching for dozens of miles in a rather scattered manner.

Groups of ragged soldiers were scattered around the camp, their morale was very low.

At this time, in a large tent that was still in good condition, more than a dozen generals of the Shun Army gathered together, and the leader was a beautiful woman.

Even though the beautiful woman was wearing ordinary clothes, she still couldn't conceal her alluring face and a touch of nobility on her body.

She is the nominal leader of the Shun Army, Li Zicheng's wife Gao Shi.

At this time, a general came out and said: "Queen, general, although Wang Yan's conditions are generous, but the final general thinks that the reorganization is absolutely impossible."

Although the Dashun Army accepted the consolation, it was only in name so far, so the Shun Army has been using the officials and titles of the Dashun Dynasty to refer to each other. This is one of the reasons why Wang Yan had to reorganize the Shun Army.

Empress Gao is not a woman with great ambitions, she is not Wu Zetian or Lu's generation, she is just an ordinary woman, of course she can be honored as a queen, although her nature is weak, she is also sensible.

At this time, she heard what the general said, and said leisurely: "General Liu will never call my concubine a queen in the future. Now that General Li and everyone have decided to be loyal to the Ming court, don't use the matching system to avoid causing trouble. Unnecessary trouble. My concubine has something to say, since the generals submit to Daming, it is better to act according to the rules of Daming."

General Yuan Zongdi made a statement: "The empress does not know something. Although the ministers are willing to be loyal to Daming, Daming may not be sincere to the ministers. Wang Yan, I am very incomprehensible. What does he mean by reorganizing our army? If they are annexed by chance, the ministers and others will lose the capital to live in chaos, and become fish on the board, at the mercy of others!"

Yuan Zongdi's words can be said to express the thoughts of many Shunjun generals present. They didn't get any money from the Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming Dynasty wants to take their army, so they naturally don't do it.

After Li Guo heard Wang Yanzhi's words, his mood was very complicated. He felt that Wang Yan should be like Du Yinxi, an upright and capable minister with integrity, and he was a trustworthy existence, but the adaptation was related to the rest of the Shun Army Interest, he heard that all the generals disagreed with the adaptation, so he had to say: "Chu Guogong, I assure this general that everyone who is a marquis in Dashun will also be a marquis in Ming Dynasty, and those who are uncles will also be earls. The supplies will also be replenished for us, and they want to adapt it for the convenience of command! Since we want to surrender to Daming, we should integrate into Daming, otherwise we will become a separate line, and Daming will not dare to use it."

Everyone was silent when they heard the words. After a while, Liu Fangliang, Marquis of Ci, said: "The general's words are reasonable, but we are born as thieves. If we hand over our soldiers and horses, the court will settle accounts after autumn. What can we do? Can the court's words be trusted? Chu Is the Duke a trustworthy person?"

Liu Fangliang asked three times in a row, but Li Guo couldn't answer.

The people in the tent were not easily persuaded, but when everyone was silent, a subordinate suddenly reported that the Duke of Chu had come outside the camp.

Seeing this, the generals frowned slightly, but they went out of their tents to greet them immediately.

When Li Guo and others came outside the camp, they saw Wang Yan standing in front of the gate in normal clothes, only his wife was with him, and behind him were more than [-] carts full of supplies.

At this time, Wang Yan saw a large number of generals coming up to meet him. He smiled slightly and pointed to the driveway behind him: "These grains and grass are enough for the army for ten days. General Li will take them first, and wait for the grain buyers sent by the governor." Go back and give the general enough food and grass. In short, from today on, whatever our army eats, the general will eat.”

Seeing this, Li Guo quickly thanked him, the Shun army really needed food and grass urgently, so he hurriedly asked them to accept it, and the soldiers immediately cheered when they saw the cartloads of rice grain being transported into the camp.

At this time, Wang Yan waved his hand to thank Li Guo, "Since the general serves the imperial court, why should he thank you for eating the imperial court's food?"

Now, under the introduction of Li Guo and Wang Fuzhi, Wang Yan got to know all the generals of the Shun army one by one, and then he realized that the generals Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, etc. were among them. .

Many Shun generals saw that Wang Yan did not rush to send food and grass, and entered the Shun camp without waiting for guards, and felt that he was completely different from He Tengjiao's generation, especially his statement, which made all the generals feel good.

Seeing this, Li Guo hurriedly asked Wang Yan to enter the tent to talk, but Wang Yan said: "I am very relieved to see you generals in Shunying today, but since I have come, I still need to see the master. I don't know Li Guo. Can the general introduce you?"

Li Guo heard the words, but changed color along with many Shunjun generals. The master Wang Yan wanted to meet was naturally Li Zicheng's wife, Gao Shi, the nominal leader of Shunjun.

When the Shun army surrendered to the Ming army, Gao's status was actually quite embarrassing. He used to be the queen of the generals of the Shun army, and was honored by the generals.

Now that everyone is submitting to Daming, what kind of etiquette Gao should use to meet officials of Daming, and what capacity Daming should use to treat Gao, these are all complicated issues.

From a legal point of view, since Dashun is finished, then Gao is the wife of a sinner, and she has to worship when she sees an official, but Li Guo is his nephew, and Gao Yigong is his younger brother. But for Daming, the Gao family is the Queen of Dashun, so naturally she cannot continue to enjoy any noble status.

At this time Wang Yan wanted to meet Gao Shi, the first thing Li Guo and others thought of was what kind of etiquette Gao should use to meet the Duke of Daming.If they worship him, then how should these generals treat Daming?What about their status in Daming?
Faced with Wang Yan's request, Li Guo and others could not refuse, so they had to ask someone to notify Gao, while leading Wang Yan to Gao's tent.

When Wang Yan wanted to see her, Mrs. Gao was also panicked, she didn't know how to treat Wang Yan, she wanted to pay respects to him, but the person who just sent the message said: "If the other party is the emperor, it's fine to pay respects, but if All the generals in the battalion will not be able to negotiate with Wang Yan, and will not be able to deal with themselves."

Amid Gao's uneasiness, Wang Yan came outside the tent, and after receiving the maid's report, he went inside to meet each other, and many obedient generals separated from each other.

Gao's view of Wang Yan was wearing a purple robe and mang suit, wearing black sand on his head, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, an extraordinary appearance, and an upright spirit on his body, he couldn't help admiring in his heart.

She originally thought that Wang Yan was a prudent old minister who was nearly half a century old, but she didn't expect to be a heroic young man who had not yet reached the stage. She looked at Wang Yan's handsome face with scars, and suddenly lost her mind stand up.

But at the moment when Gao was slightly stunned, Wang Yan suddenly moved his hands forward, shook his sleeves, and saluted with a long bow: "Ming Dynasty Duke Chu, Wang Yan, I pay my respects to my wife!"

(End of this chapter)