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Chapter 546
Zhu Yousong brought only four bodyguards to escort him into the city to negotiate. Gao Guiying highly appreciated Zhu Yousong's courage and sincerity.

Seeing that Huiying, Huimei, Zhang Nai, and Shuangxi also followed, the queen felt comforted in her heart. Although she was not her own, the kindness of the wind and rain for more than ten years was still her heart and soul. It is undoubtedly the best ending for the couple, [-] soldiers, and the people of the city to be spared from the suffering of swordsmen. If they can be reused like Huiying and the others, it is even more desirable.The current Ming Dynasty is really different from what it used to be. Once the Ming Lord is found, everything will come alive!

This is not her intention alone. Li Guo's wife, also her niece and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Huang, Yuan Zongdi's wife Wang, and Liu Fangliang's daughter-in-law Zhao all came to her in private. These women are very happy.

Mrs. Huang was worried about her son Li Laiheng. Since she learned that her son was captured, she shed tears all day long. Although Li Laiheng was an adopted son, Li Guo and his wife treated Li Laiheng more than their own son. Zongdi also became a prisoner of the Ming army. If they can really submit to the court, like Huiying and Shuangxi, they can be reused, and their flesh and blood will be reunited, and their husbands and wives will be reunited.If it doesn't work, these captives will at least have to lose their heads. For these women, it is equivalent to the sky falling.

In addition, the reason why these people dared to come to the queen to express their feelings was because they were all from the old camp, that is, they had been born and died with Gao Guiying for many years, and they had already talked about everything, and after Gao Guiying became the queen, He didn't put on airs of the queen, and didn't treat these women who were in the same boat as outsiders. These women are now the general's wife, the imperial wife, etc., and they get along with the queen like best friends.

What the former Gao Guiying said made Li Zicheng also a little tempted. The husband and wife took Zhu Yousong into the city with the etiquette of welcoming the king, and Li Zicheng found an excuse to let her go back to the palace.

Gao Guiying didn't think much about it, thinking that after Li Zicheng took a bath and changed his clothes, he went to negotiate with Zhu Yousong. When men talk about things, women have to go away. This is the rule.She had no choice but to stay in the palace and wait for Hou Jiayin. During this period, Li Guo's wife Mrs. Huang, Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi's women all came to the palace to visit her. These women were most concerned about the negotiation.

But soon a confidant came to report that Li Zicheng didn't go to negotiate with Zhu Yousong at all, but hid in the West Palace, and the negotiation was handed over to Niu Jinxing.Gao Guiying was very displeased, and later reported that Zhu Yousong had been trapped in the Palace of Qinzheng by Niu Jinxing's design, and planned to burn the hall. He heard that three harsh conditions were proposed to force Zhu Yousong to submit, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

These women were blown away as soon as they heard it.

"Once again, Niu Jinxing was acting as a hindrance. Things that were not enough to succeed, and things that were too much to fail, I fell into his hands when I was unlucky!"

Everyone asked the queen what to do?Li Guo's wife, Mrs. Huang, is now Yipin Gaoming's wife, and she was even more outspoken, angrily saying: "Empress, why don't you just kill this treacherous minister!
Gao Guiying's anger is also ups and downs. She hates this Niu Jinxing more than these women. He cheated his own daughter Li Na. He must not let her cheat his daughter, son-in-law and husband again, let alone let him cheat the whole Dashun .

But she is calmer because she is talented as a general. It is very simple to draw a sword and kill a Niu Jinxing, but it is difficult for His Majesty Li Zicheng to explain.So, after suppressing her anger and deliberating, she asked these women to go back to the mansion first to listen to the letter. She brought the maids and eunuchs to find Li Zicheng.

When the eunuch shouted at the west palace gate, Li Zicheng quickly let go of Dou Meiyi and said, "Xuan."

"Your Majesty has a decree that Empress Xuan will come to see you." The eunuch followed suit.

As soon as the words fell, Gao Guiying came in with the maid, and Dou Meiyi hurried over to salute: "See the empress."

Gao Guiying rolled her eyes and said in a deep voice, "Excuse me."

"Thank you empress." Dou Meiyi stood upright after thanking her.

"Guiying sees Your Majesty." Gao Guiying's face sank like water, but he still gave Li Zicheng the emperor's and minister's salute.

Li Zicheng hurriedly put on a smiling face, "The queen is not polite, why are you so eager to see me?" Li Zicheng asked knowingly.

"I don't know about the concubine. Didn't Your Majesty go to negotiate with the Emperor of Ming? Why did you come to the West Palace?"

Li Zicheng was annoyed when Master Gao Guiying came to question him, "Ah...the empress doesn't know something. I heard that Concubine Dou is not feeling well. I came to visit...the negotiating matter is with Mr. Niuge..." Li Zicheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and make up nonsense. , to fool Gao Guiying.

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, Dou Meiyi quickly blushed and coughed twice, in response to telling Li Zicheng that she was unwell.

Gao Guiying turned her face and looked at Dou Meiyi, her gaze was like a sharp sword, causing Concubine Dou to quickly lower her head.

Gao Guiying ignored her, and turned away the maids and eunuchs around her, leaving only Dou Meiyi present. Gao Guiying said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, Niu Jinxing is just a palace scholar. How can you rest assured that you entrust him with such a big matter? He Can it fully represent the dragon's will? Does Your Majesty know that he has planned to trap His Majesty Daming in the Palace of Qinzheng and set fire to the Palace of Qinzheng to force him to do so? According to reports from the soldiers, 10,000+ Ming army’s hundreds of cannons are ready to attack the city with all their strength, what will happen if the city is broken, is Your Majesty really ready?”

Li Zicheng comforted: "Queen, don't worry, the Ming army will not attack the city, and Niu Jinxing will not set fire to it easily. Zhu Yousong has been trapped in the Palace of Qinzheng, unable to fly. He can only accept my three conditions. There is no choice. Then I can force the Ming army to retreat and make a long-term plan."

"Three conditions?" Gao Guiying said with a stern face, "It seems that His Majesty is determined to get rid of Huiying and the others. This matter is not their fault... I have been in love with you for more than ten years, and I have been born to death. , licking blood with the knife head, is your Majesty really going to do it?" Gao Guiying's eye circles turned red again as she said.

"Okay, I promise you, as long as Zhu Yousong hands the four of them to me, I won't kill them, but they have to promise that they will not betray me or Dashun again in the future."

Just as he was talking, the confidant general sent by Gao Yigong arrived outside the palace. After seeing the eunuch explaining in detail, the eunuch dared not neglect to come in and report, saying that Zhu Yousong had agreed to three conditions, but he also put forward conditions Only by asking Li Zicheng to discuss in person can he talk about his specific conditions, otherwise he refuses to talk again, and his tone is as firm as iron, and there is no room for negotiation.Niu Ge always wanted to light a fire, but was persuaded by General Gao to ask for an order to make a decision.

Li Zicheng was a little surprised when he heard it, it seems that I really have to do it myself!

(End of this chapter)