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It is definitely not possible to contact Li Guoying directly. Fang Xianting thought about it for a long time in the inn and thought that it was just about making trouble from Li Guoying's general Wang Jinbao.

Wang Jinbao was a man who was good at riding and shooting when he was young. Later, he followed Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to fight against the Huimin Uprising in Hexi. He was appointed as a garrison and was under the command of Zhang Yong, the general of Gansu. During the 11th year of Shunzhi, Zhang Yong followed Hong Chengchou to the south, and Wang Jinbao followed him to Hunan.

When the Qing court organized three armies to enter the southwest the year before yesterday, Wang Jinbao led his troops to march into the 100,000 streams, personally led his troops to climb the cliffs and smashed the Ming army camp, defeated the general Luo Dashun, the general under Li Dingguo, and was promoted to the guerrillas of the right bid for the guerrillas of the Central Camp due to his merits. When Zhang Yong followed Luo Tou into Guangxi, Wang Jinbao returned to Gansu and was appointed as the general of the admiral Zuoying, and had been serving under Li Guoying, which allowed him to avoid the fate of dying in Guangxi or surrendering to the Taiping Army with Zhang Yong.

Li Guoying appreciated Wang Jinbao very much. When he fled from Xi'an City that day, he asked Sichuan Admiral Wang Zhiding and Yansui General Han Yingqi to stay behind, but asked Wang Jinbao to go with him. This shows that in Li Guoying's mind, Wang Jinbao is definitely worth more than Wang Zhiding and Han Yingqi.

Li Guoying was very kind to Wang Jinbao, but Fang Xianting wanted to make a fuss about Wang Jinbao. This was naturally not an imagination, but a little confident. Firstly, it was because Wang Jinbao's family in Gansu was now in the hands of Wu Jun, and secondly, he had a letter written by Wang Jinbao's friend Sun Sick.

After two days of inquiry, Fang Xianting learned that Wang Jinbao was stationed in the Mother City of Twelve Liancheng, so he asked his followers to meet Wang Jinbao with a token of Queen Mother and Sun Sick's letter. After Wang Jinbao saw his mother's personal belongings and letters from his friends, he hesitated in the camp for a long time, and finally secretly left Mother City and came to Tongguan.

After meeting Fang Xianting, Wang Jinbao opened the point: "Are you Wu Sangui's person?"

Fang Xianting nodded with a smile.

Wang Jinbao asked again: "Sir, your surname is?"

Fang Xianting said: "Don't let your surname be Fang."

"It turns out it's Mr. Fang Xianting, I've long admired you!"

Wang Jinbao hugged his fists stiffly, obviously he was wary of Fang Xianting. Seeing this, Fang Xianting didn't care and just chuckled.

Wang Jinbao moved a stool and sat down. He was a man of the army. He was straightforward and had a bad personality. He asked directly: "I wonder what Mr. Fang is looking for when he is taking care of his mother's belongings?"

Fang Xianting asked replies without answering: "Have the general read the letter from General Sun Sike to General Wang?"

Wang Jinbao pondered slightly, nodded slightly, and then said, "The Governor is very kind to me, I have no intention of rebelling against him. You go back."

Fang Xianting shook his head: "No, Fang is not here to persuade General Wang to abandon the secret and turn to the light, but just ask the general to help meet Li Guoying."

Wang Jinbao was stunned for a moment: "Just just to see the Governor?"

"That's right!" Fang Xianting nodded with certainty.

"Sir, do you want to persuade the surrender of the Governor?" Wang Jinbao was a little surprised.

Fang Xianting also concealed him and admitted that he came to Tongguan by the order of the King of Liao to convince Li Guoying to join the Ming Dynasty.

Without thinking, Wang Jinbao said, "If it is for this purpose, I would like to advise you to go back. The Governor will not betray the Qing Dynasty."

"How can you know if you don't try?" Fang Xianting laughed, "Xi'an General Su Bainai is an authentic Manzhoulao, and he also surrendered to my prince. Your good friend Sun Sike is also from the Han army flag, so he also belongs to my prince?"

"this..."

Wang Jinbao's speech was stagnant for a moment.

Fang Xianting took the opportunity to persuade, "General Wang, Fang said to you clearly, the general trend of the world is no longer in the Qing Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty. You are a great man, so why should you be accomplice to the tiger and insist on serving the aliens in Manzhou?"

"After all the kindness of the Governor treats me, how can I bear to rebel against him?" Wang Jinbao is a filial son again in the hands of the other party. How could he really ignore his parents' lives or death? But he was unwilling to betray Li Guoying just now, which made him feel uneasy.

Fang Xianting said: "I am not asking the general to rebel, but asking the general to help him and let Li Guoying surrender on his own initiative."

"I just said that it is impossible for the Governor to surrender to your prince."

Wang Jinbao had a clear understanding of this. He did not think that Fang Xianting's persuasion would be effective. If he couldn't do it well, the Governor would even order someone to directly kill Fang Xianting to prove his loyalty to the Qing court.

Fang Xianting insisted on meeting Li Guoying. Seeing that the other party must do this, Wang Jinbao stopped talking and agreed to take him to see Li Guoying.

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When Fang Xianting followed Wang Jinbao to find Li Guoying, Li Guoying was drinking with the imperial envoy Ebilong.

After Ebilong, who came from Shanxi, came to Tongguan, he saw that the guards of Tongguan were in order and the food and grass were very easy to turn, so he felt uneasy. King Xin Duoni was seriously ill and returned to Beijing a month ago. Prince Ping Luo Keduo was also recalled by the imperial edict. Before Ebilong came to Tongguan, it was actually Li Guoying who was in charge of Tongguan's defense. However, Li Guoying could not command the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who escaped from Guiyang with Doni, so his life in Tongguan was not good. Although Ebilong's arrival deprived Li Guoying of command, it made the burden on Li Guoying's shoulders lighter, and also let down his heart that had been hanging. The identity of the imperial envoy's inner minister was enough to make those Manchu and Mongolian soldiers take it for him.

Ebilong doesn't drink alcohol on weekdays, but today Li Guoying invited him and was very good at Li Guoying, which made him rare to make an exception. There was no one to accompany him at the table, just the two of them. Li Guoying personally poured wine for Ebilong and toasted him. The two of them drank a few glasses and talked a lot, and they inevitably talked about the battle of Yangzhou and the imperial court's transfer of the Eight Banners outside the pass into the pass.

I don’t know if it’s because of the excessive wine or because of the feelings, Ebilong inadvertently mentioned that the current emperor is much worse than Taizu Taizong. Li Guoying was sober and did not dare to answer this. He changed the topic now, and in order for Ebilong to fill up again, he talked about the difficulties facing Tongguan.

Ebilong held the wine glass and said, "The court is rectifying the Eight Banners of the Banners of the Banners, and reinforcements will arrive soon. Maleji has been to Xi'an. According to him, Wu Sangui has only 100,000 elite troops, but he dared not attack. Obviously, this thief is also thinking of watching the tiger fight."

After hearing this, Li Guoying sneered: "Wu Sangui had this idea, so there was no such a thief scholar? Even if it was our Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid that he would have this idea, right?"

Ebilong put down his wine glass: "Although the current situation is not good for the Qing Dynasty, it is not a good thing for the thief scholar and Wu Sangui. One has elite soldiers and the other has money, grain, and wealth, and each has one emperor. It is difficult to become a force. With time, these two people will not be able to achieve success. However, the Qing Dynasty is united. This situation is like the Three Kingdoms of your Han history books. My Qing Dynasty is Wei, Wu Sangui is Shu, and the thief scholar is Wu, but the one who won the world in the end was Wei."

Ebilong is worthy of being an internal minister and is very proficient in the allusions of the Han people. When Li Guoying heard what he said, he felt very correct. He was about to agree with a few words, but the concierge came to report that it was Wang Jinbao who asked for a meeting.

"He is not staying in the Mother City of Zi, what are he doing in Guancheng?"
Chapter completed!