Gao Yingxiang wore a cotton robe and stood beside a stone monument, with his hands behind his back, looking at the snow-covered mountains and mountains below him, feeling proud and proud.

It is as if the land of Gansu and Shaanxi is crawling under his feet! The rise and fall of the country is in his hands!

It feels wonderful, but the reality is cruel.

The information received from some Guyuan military household bullies who went up to the mountain to join the gang showed the reality that the new head of Shaanxi Town, Li Zicheng, was a ruthless person!

Li Zicheng! Hearing this name, Gao Yingxiang trembled in his heart!

Moreover, Li Zicheng did not come alone. He also brought a group of knight officers in front of the tent, including Liu Fangliang, Liu Xiyao, Liu Guoneng, Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu, Li You, Wu Ruyi, Gao Jie, Xin Sizhong, etc., all of them

Zhu Youjian was born as a knight in front of the tent. He was not only a close official of the emperor, but also a disciple of the emperor. Although these people were more or less related to the Shaanxi military households, they were all humbled by the emperor and relied on their military exploits and achievements to rise to the top.

Those who come up have nothing to do with the intertwined generals and hereditary military attachés of Shaanxi. Therefore, they can be rectified in a drastic way, and everything that should be eliminated can be eliminated. And the new recruits are mostly simple and brave men, otherwise

It’s impossible to conduct such rigorous training!

Once the newly recruited soldiers in Shaanxi Town have completed their training and the troops have completely become an army, then the rebel army in the Liupan Mountains may be facing the end.

Liupan Mountain is right near Guyuan, and Shaanxi Town’s elite soldiers are not ready to come and suppress it at any time? It’s probably just wishful thinking to wander around in ravines with people under Shaanxi Town’s nose.

So Gao Yingxiang had already made up his mind... Thirty-six strategies, walking is the best strategy!

He must leave Liupan Mountain and find a way out of the mountain. Moreover, he had been planning this for more than a day or two. As early as the summer of the sixth year of Chongzhen, when he discovered that there was a new atmosphere in Shaanxi Town, he began to find a way out.

Find a way to survive.

And the way out that Gao Yingxiang found, the way to survive, was to fake surrender!

Murder and arson are punished!

This is originally the second-best option for rebels in ancient and modern times when they cannot overthrow the imperial rule - if you can't defeat them, then join them!

So starting from the summer of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang sent his nephew Gao Yigong and Luo Rucai, the second master of Liupan Mountain, to go down the mountain to do activities together. He also took part of the gold and silver stolen from Xi'an Mansion to open up the joints.

Gao Yigong and Luo Ru had just been down the mountain for several months, but no good news had come back. It was not until the eighth day of December this year that the minions who had followed them down the mountain came back to report that they had found a way to survive in Lintao Prefecture, and that they would be there in Lintao Prefecture.

Before the New Year, I will go back to the mountain to explain everything.

It's New Year's Eve today, why haven't they come back yet? Has something happened?

Gao Yingxiang, who was a little anxious after waiting, simply found a place with a good view, stretched his neck, and looked at the road up the mountain from a distance, as if he wanted to look for Gao Yigong and Luo Rucai.

But all that caught my eye was a vast expanse of white, which made my eyes dazzled, and I couldn't even see a single person.

Just when Gao Yingxiang was getting a little impatient, his niece Gao Guiying was standing behind him without knowing it.

"Uncle, look there... we have put a red flag on the flagpole next to the inn at the foot of the mountain! It should be Uncle Luo and Brother Er who are back."

By the way, there is a wild store at the foot of Mihang Mountain that welcomes guests. It is actually a secret stronghold of the rebels. Anyone who goes up the mountain to join the army or comes back from going down the mountain to do business must first enter the wild store. The leader guarding the store took a closer look and found no problems.

, only then can you go up to Migang Mountain.

Gao Yingxiang forgot this rule because he was impatient to wait for others.

A red flag with the word "wine" embroidered on it is now raised on the flagpole outside the wild store, indicating that a leader has returned to the mountain!

There is no doubt that those who came are Gao Yigong and Luo Rucai!

Gao Yingxiang smiled and said to his niece beside him: "Guiying, take a few people down the mountain with Er, Er will go to greet them!"

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"Uncle, it's done, the recruitment is done!"

Gao Yigong saw Gao Yingxiang from a distance and shouted excitedly.

Gao Yingxiang quickly rode up to Gao Yigong and Luo Rucai who were returning to the mountain. Before he could ask more, Luo Rucai said with a smile: "Brother Gao, this time we have contacted a great king!"

"King?" Gao Yingxiang was stunned, "What king? He's also a king!"

Gao Yigong smiled and said: "Uncle, you are the king of the mountain, but I am a real king. It's different!"

What kind of king of the mountain? Gao Yingxiang was a little unhappy when he heard this, and said to himself: He is the King of Chuang! How can he compare with those who dominate the mountain and become the king? He must have great ambitions!

Luo Rucai smiled and said: "What we have found is His Highness the Ming Dynasty King Tang!"

"Prince Tang?" Gao Yingxiang was stunned again, "Are we going to Henan?"

"The King of Tang is no longer in Henan a long time ago." Gao Yigong said with a smile, "The Tang vassal has moved to Lanzhou, and the palace is the original Prince Su's palace."

"Oh, that's it..." Gao Yingxiang thought about it but was wrong, "The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty had no soldiers or generals. He was just a rich man who was just waiting to die. What's the use of recruiting heroes like you?"

"Brother Gao," Luo Rucai said with a smile, "you have been in the mountains for a long time, and your eyes and ears are a bit blocked... Now the vassals of the Ming Dynasty are divided into three categories. The first category is ordinary vassals, who have no soldiers or generals.

Being the King of Anle in the local area is almost the same as before.

The second type is called the left-behind kings. They are all rich men in Nanjing. They don't even have an imperial city, but they don't have any taboos.

The third category is called King of Sai! He has soldiers and generals and guards the frontier, which is a good thing.

The Tang king we contacted this time is a Sai king. He is ordered by the emperor to guard the northwest. He can recruit soldiers and horses, build his own guards... he can have 10 thousand households!

Brother Gao, if we can vote for the King of Tang this time, the King of Tang will be willing to give us two thousand-household residences, and we can arrange it as we please!"

Gao Yingxiang thought for a while and asked again: "Have you met the King of Tang?"

"No," Luo Rucai said with a smile, "I just entered the Tang Prince's Mansion in Lanzhou and met His Highness the Tang Prince's military advisor Song Xiance."

Gao Yigong added: "This Song military advisor is a good person. He is not a nerd who wants to study to death, but a semi-immortal who knows astronomy and geography, and can also do calculations!"

"Can you pinch and calculate?" Gao Yingxiang smiled, "Then he didn't calculate and we didn't want to surrender to the imperial court at all, but wanted to use a false surrender method to get out of trouble?"

"No, no..." Luo Rucai smiled, "This half-immortal seems to be fake!"

...

Thunk, thump, thump, the heavy footsteps on the Phoenix Tower continued - on the New Year's Eve of Tiancong's seventh year, Dajin Tiancong Khan and Huang Taiji were still trying to run to lose weight.

At the bottom of the steps of the Phoenix Tower, there were several high-ranking officials of Daikin who were wearing hats, court clothes, and beads hanging around their necks. They included Hesheli Shifu, Hesheli Sony, Cherge, and Tan Tai.

, Ao Bai, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Li Yongfang, Tong Liushi and others are all Huang Taiji's confidants.

Today, those celebrating the New Year did not go home for the New Year's Eve dinner. They all came to the Phoenix Tower, not to wish Huang Taiji a happy New Year, but to discuss the matter of making peace.

Although this matter has been finalized a long time ago, it is only a general principle, and there are still many problems in the specific implementation.

First, there must be a middleman.

In the past, Yuan Chonghuan was the liaison between Ming and Jin, but now he is unwilling to engage in peace talks - he is still waiting for Huang Taiji to rescue Amin!

Fortunately, there is now a communication channel between Taisong Fujin and his sister, Concubine Wu Liangha, so Huang Taiji can send envoys and letters to Beijing through Taisong Fujin.

The second question is the conditions for fraudulent peace.

Although peace is fake, the conditions must be the same as real ones, otherwise it will be easy to cheat!

Xifu, Sony and others are here to discuss this matter with Huang Taiji today... In fact, they have been discussing it for a while, and have come up with a few things. The first is to demarcate the boundary, and strive to establish boundaries in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.

With the Liaohe River as the boundary; the second is Korea. Later Jin hopes to have all of Korea, but if that doesn't work, it will have to lose half of it; the third is status. Later Jin hopes to follow the example of the Song Dynasty and Xixia, nominally claiming vassalage, but actually remaining independent.
Chapter completed!