The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty passed away on the eighth day of the first lunar month. It was the 11th day when the eight hundred miles were about to arrive in Kaifeng. Bozhou and Xuzhou received news almost at the same time. When they arrived in Luzhou, the Lantern Festival had been over for a few days.

The Emperor Meng of the Qing Dynasty personally approved the flag to lift. Lord Kuenbu, who was given the name, cried into tears at that time, and knelt in the mansion to the north for two hours. After everyone persuaded him to get up reluctantly.

The emperor passed away, the new emperor had ascended the throne, and the year of the year has not been selected. This year, the 18th year of Shunzhi will be used. The emperor's will and the empress dowager's imperial edict were issued at the same time, and the four auxiliary ministers were specially ordered to assist in government affairs. Due to the turmoil of state affairs, the imperial edicts were required to be handled briefly in various places. Luzhou is on the front line of confrontation with the Taiping Army, and the admiral of Jiangnan, Tang Sanshui, the Jiangnan Jiang'an, did not have to go to the capital, but it must comply with the simple patronage.

After placing the news of the emperor's death to various prefectures, prefectures and counties, Tang Sanshui found his confidant Song Qian and asked him to go to Jiangnan in person to listen to the latest instructions from His Highness of Qi on Luzhou after Shunzhi's death.

Tang Sanshui thought that he had made great contributions to His Highness King of Qi. Originally, the Tartar Emperor had a strong belief in him, so he thought that he could make greater contributions to His Highness King of Qi and would be a good place in the future. But now Shunzhi is dead, and the new king is an eight-year-old child, and the government is controlled by the four auxiliary ministers. He, the Admiral of Jiangnan, who was carrying the flag of the Han people, would probably not be able to make progress. Why would he take this opportunity to announce that he would return to the Ming Dynasty and present the thirty-nine prefectures and counties of the four prefectures and counties such as Luzhou and Fengyang as a great gift.

Tang Sanshui really didn't want to be in the Qingying camp and was clear. The big bandits of Zhongzhen Camp came to attack, but they didn't know the difficulties of Admiral Tang. If he hadn't been clever and gave Li Laiheng a big gift through the Taiping Army people in time and put on a big stance, could those big bandits retreat?

If you don’t return to the bright future, you have to be under the banner of the Qing Dynasty. This makes it difficult to guarantee that Li Laiheng’s band of big bands will not make any second thoughts. You can’t spend money to buy peace every time. Tang Sanshui thought that he has earned a lot of money in the past few years, but he can’t withstand such "extortion". Don’t end up, you can’t get the big band of big bands. You might as well just raise the flag and return to the bright future. In this way, the big bandits will not be able to keep a lot of money at their fatty meat.

Once upon a time, Zhou Shiqi promised the title of Duke of Tang Sanshui Kingdom. He wanted to go further and get a prince Dangdang, so he took the risk with Jia Da and Song Qian and others, pointing to make a better life in the Qing Dynasty. Now that he saw that Shunzhi, which "attention" to him, was dead, the four ministers of the regent are all authentic Manzhou, which means that Tang Sanshui may not have a better life in the future, and there are many dangers. Thinking of this, Tang Sanshui decided to understand. If he really can't get a prince, the Duke can give in.

Song Qian knew that his relationship with His Highness King Qi was really worried every day. He and Jia Da have made a lot in recent years, so it is time to enjoy it. So when the Admiral said about Rebirth, Song Qian immediately agreed and was full of energy. He wanted to take people out of the city to Anqing, and then take a boat to Nandu from there.

Luzhou has its own secret contact information with the King of Qi. The Taiping Army's Military Information Department has secret contact stations in Luzhou and Fengyang and other places. Many of the Military Information Department's transit intelligence and spies traveled to Henan and the north through Luzhou. Zhang An, ambassador of the Military Information Department, attached great importance to the Luzhou transit station. The military intelligence envoy who is permanently stationed in Luzhou is the rank of Thousand Households.

Song Qian had just found Chen Qianhu, a military intelligence stationed in Luzhou. Before he could ask the other party to arrange Jiangnan and his party, the other party was asking him to have just received a secret letter from King Qi and asked him to submit it to Admiral Tang immediately.

Did the King of Qi write?

Song Qian was shocked and did not dare to delay, so he hurriedly led Chen Qianhu to meet his admiral.

Tang Sanshui, who was happily holding the ninth room concubine, heard that the King of Qi had a letter, ignored the concubine's resentment and hurriedly drew his gun to his study.

Nowadays, warriors are interested in creating a study to show their elegance, and Tang Sanshui is no exception, and he can recognize a few words.

"Mr. Tang, this is my handwritten letter from my highness, which indicates that Lord Tang should receive it personally."

Chen Qianhu knew that his general had a good relationship with this Lord Kuenbu, and the other party was also a nail buried in the Qing army by his generals, so he might as well be as obedient as he persuaded other Qing generals to surrender. After saluting, he handed the sealed generals on the generals.

Tang Sanshui nodded, and Song Qian hurriedly took the letter, then checked the seal one by one, and finally took out the letter paper, but there were some inexplicable words on it. Tang Sanshui expected that he found a book "The Great Learning" from the bookshelf and handed it to Song Qian. Song Qian was also very familiar with searching through it, finding one paragraph after another, and then decomposing it word by word. After working for more than half an hour, he translated the content of the letter using "The Great Learning" called the password by His Highness King Qi.

When Song Qian was translating the letter, Tang Sanshui asked Chen Qianhu about the situation of King Qi. After hearing that King Qi was not in Jiangnan, he went to Fujian to fight against Jinxia, ​​which was quite surprised. Because he felt that the focus of King Qi's attention is on the Central Plains, and in the battle between Oboi and Wu Sangui, he did not know why he went to Fujian. Compared with the battle situation in the Central Plains, the matter between Jinxia seems to be less important.

"Sir, the translation is complete!"

Song Qian gave the translated letter to Tang Sanshui, with a very strange expression, as if His Highness King Qi had said something great about this letter. Tang Sanshui felt a deep heart. When he took it, his heart immediately became overturned. It turned out that His Highness King Qi said in the letter that Shunzhi would die of illness soon, and when the young emperor ascended the throne, the Qing court would be assisted by the four auxiliary ministers.

"The King of Qi is really a godly man. He actually expected the enemy to have such an opportunity."

Tang Sanshui didn't know what he said. He just learned about Shunzhi's death. But from Zhou Shixiang's letter, the other party clearly knew that Shunzhi would die of illness. He couldn't help but guess, could Shunzhi's death have anything to do with His Highness the King of Qi? Otherwise, how could the other party know that Shunzhi would die?

Jin Li from Bozhou was passing on the news of the emperor's death and the will. When the empress dowager issued an order, he also told Tang Sanshui that the emperor's death was caused by smallpox and was seriously ill. The combination of the two phases, Tang Sanshui felt a little confused. He suspected that Zhou Shixiang's people lurked into the Forbidden City and secretly spread smallpox disease, causing Shunzhi to get infected. If this is true, the thief scholar would be really a thief.

"What else does Your Highness have to tell me?"

Tang Sanshui pressed his confusion and shock in his heart and looked at Chen Qianhu. He thought that Zhou Shixiang could not send a letter to tell him what he already knew. Sure enough, Chen Qianhu did have something to do with him.
Chapter completed!