Since the emperor stationed in Anqing, the whole Anqing became extremely prosperous. There were suddenly tens of thousands of troops in the city. The daily food and clothing expenses of these tens of thousands of troops alone were not a small amount. Moreover, new recruits were sent from all over the place. Anqing Wharf has become the busiest wharf. In the first few days, cargo was often blocked in the waterway and could not be docked. Later, the emperor ordered the army to build many simple temporary wharfs, so that Anqing Wharf could operate intermittently.

A sailboat quietly approached the dock and dozens of people walked down from the boat one after another. Except for a middle-aged scholar, the rest were all strong men. After getting off the boat, many people couldn't help looking around, with a slight look of nervousness on their faces.

If it were normal, this team of people would immediately attract the attention of the yamen runners at the dock, but now these people are not conspicuous at all. At least thousands of such people gather from all directions every day in Anqing. Most of them are recruits selected by the Yulin Guard. Such people are too common.

"Sir, if you really want to see the emperor, once you enter the city, life and death will be beyond our control." A powerful man in his thirties, Kong Wu, whispered in his middle-aged scholar's ear.

These people are nothing else, but the envoy sent by Li Zicheng to contact Zuo Liangyu. The middle-aged scholar was the military advisor of the Dashun Dynasty. In Beijing, Gu Junen, who was named Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and President of the Wenyu Academy by Li Zicheng. The strong man who advised him was Gu Kecheng, the general responsible for protecting Gu Junen.

Gu Junen shook his head: "General, no need to persuade him anymore. I have decided to implicate the general and all brothers. Gu really feels sorry."

Gu Kecheng sighed and said, "What does sir say? Since sir can ignore life and death, what a pity is it for us to have a cheap life? It's just like seeing the Ming army, all the brothers will cheer up, so don't let them underestimate our Dashun."

Gu Junen followed Li Zicheng in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and repeatedly offered suggestions to help the rebel army escape from danger. When Gu Junen first surrendered, he soon encountered Li Zicheng trapped in the car gorge by Chen Qiyu, the governor of Shaanxi of the Ming army. It was Gu Junen's plan that the rebel army went out of the gorge to revive. It was only after Li Zicheng successively accepted Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing and others, Gu Junen disagreed with Li Zicheng many times, and his status declined. However, in the old stroke of the rebel army, Gu Junen's reputation was much higher than that of Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing and others.

As soon as Gu Kecheng finished speaking, dozens of people replied in a low voice: "Yes, General." They straightened their chests one by one.

Gu Junen was ordered to contact Zuo Liangyu. The ideal situation was to let Zuo Liangyu agree to the joint anti-Qing army. If not, at least Zuo Liangyu would agree to buy food for Guanzhong. However, after Gu Junen and his party came to Wuchang through great hardships, they found that Wuchang had almost become an empty city, and Zuo Liangyu had already raised his troops to go south.

Gu Junen was immediately in a dilemma. Go back? The mission was not completed. Millions of people and hundreds of thousands of troops in Guanzhong were struggling beside hunger. If they could not get food, not only would ordinary people in Guanzhong have to be hungry, but even hundreds of thousands of troops in Dashun Army might collapse.

If you don't go back, Zuo Liangyu is gone. The most important thing is that Wuchang has almost become a ruin. Before leaving, the rice outside the city was almost set on fire. The Dashun army could not go south and eat. Zuo Liangyu did not expect that his fire would prevent the Dashun army from getting supplies from Wuchang. Otherwise, after learning that the Zuo Army was heading south, the Dashun army would definitely occupy Wuchang.

Just when Gu Junen didn't know what to do, news of Zuo Liangyu's entire army being destroyed came. Needless to say, Gu Junen, even the Dashun army soldiers who were walking with Gu Junen found it difficult to write a letter. The Dashun army suffered a lot of losses from Zuo Liangyu in the early days. Although Zuo Liangyu became timid later, the Dashun army was still quite concerned about Zuo Liangyu. After all, Zuo Liangyu was considered to be a large number of soldiers and a wide range of generals. If not, Li Zicheng would not have been in peace with Zuo Liangyu after being pursued by Wu Sangui, and went straight back to Shaanxi honestly.

However, such a powerful warlord was defeated by the Emperor of Ming in person less than a month after the reprimand, which really surprised them.

Gu Junen made a bold decision. He wanted to meet the Emperor of Ming. The Dashun Army who accompanied him thought that the military advisor was crazy. The Dashun Army captured Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death. As an important official in the Dashun Dynasty, he went to see the Emperor of Ming. Isn’t it because Gu Junen decided that the other people could not persuade him, so they had to follow Gu Junen to Anqing together.

"Your Majesty, our army has captured a group of spies. They claim to be the messengers of rebellion and demand to see the emperor." Feng Kezong reported to the emperor.

"The messenger of rebellion, Li Zicheng?" Wang Fu was very surprised. The gentry and officials of the Ming Dynasty hated Li Zicheng to the core. Many people even cheered for Wu Sangui's use of Qing soldiers to defeat Li Zicheng. If Wang Fu had not changed history, the Hongguang Dynasty now had sent envoys to Beijing to carry a large number of gifts to implement the strategy of destroying the enemy by borrowing the enemy. Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng's messenger dared to come to see him, which would have been considered bold.

Seeing the emperor pondering but not speaking, Feng Kezong was wrong: "The emperor's body is thousands of vehicles, so why are these bandits seeing each other when they want to see them? These bandits don't know how to live or die, so they just cut them down."

"Slowly, who is the leader?"

"Go back to the emperor, he said he was Gu Junen."

"Gu Jun'en, I seem to have heard of this name."

"Returning to the emperor, Gu Junen is an important figure among the bandits. He has been a bandit military advisor, and has made great contributions to the rioters." As the commander of the Jinyiwei, Feng Kezong knew a lot of information about Li Zicheng's important generals very well, but he still had a lot of information.

"I remembered it, but since this person dares to come here for danger, it's okay for me to see him, pass it on!"

"Yes, the empress dowager will obey the order." Feng Kezong concealed his annoyance. He also hated the bandits. Moreover, Gu Junen brought a lot of gifts this time, and the Jinyiwei took over from beginning to end. If Gu Junen was killed directly, most of the gifts could be hidden, but he would not dare to take action privately for such a major matter.

Gu Junen was taken up by two guards. His clothes were damaged, with a lot of dark red on them, and bruises could be seen on his face. He had obviously suffered.

"Kneel down!"

Gu Junen knelt obediently. The Ming Dynasty enjoyed the country for 280 years, and its orthodox image was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although the Dashun Army captured Beijing, it was defeated too quickly. Their self-confidence was shattered as soon as they were established. Moreover, this time they asked the court, Gu Junen wisely did not regard himself as an envoy who could be on par with the Ming Dynasty, and had no reluctance to kneel down.

Seeing the injuries on Gu Junen's face, Wang Fu looked at Feng Kezong with some anger, and Feng Kezong lowered his head guiltily.
Chapter completed!