"Brother Hezhou, seeing you are so reluctant to leave, do you want to accompany your brother to return to Runing? That's too polite!" Wu Shigong joked with Liu Zeqing.

As soon as he left Dezhou, Liu Zeqing brought his entourage to catch up with Wu Shigong. Wu Shigong was quite surprised by this, because Liu Zeqing had decided to stay in Dezhou for another time and not go back with Runing army.

The purpose of Liu Zeqing's stay was very simple, which was to have a relationship with Shandong Governor Yan Jizu. Because as soon as Qiu Lei died, the position of Shandong general was vacant, and Liu Zeqing was staring at this position.

To this end, a few days ago, Liu Zeqing invited Wu Shigong and Yan Jizu to have a banquet. At the banquet, he tried his best to match the relationship between Wu Shigong and Yan Jizu.

In fact, Liu Zeqing's matchmaking was also instructed by Yan Jizu. In Yan Jizu's view, although he was frightened at that time, Wu Shigong did not rebel after all, and killing Qiu Lei was just a brainless behavior of a reckless military man. Therefore, Wu Shigong is not threatening now, but there are places to be used.

So at the banquet, Yan Jizu put forward the conditions, and he would play with the Spring and Autumn style of writing on the memorial of Wu Shigong to kill Qiu Lei, and give Wu Shigong a few words. Correspondingly, Yan Jizu also hoped that Wu Shigong would give him some military merits to defeat the Qing army, and to offset Yan Jizu's crime of losing his vassal and losing Jinan City. As an intermediary, Liu Zeqing, Yan Jizu would fully support him as the general of Shandong.

Wu Shigong was irresistible for this political exchange. To be honest, when Wu Shigong killed Qiu Lei, he was not afraid of what the court did to him. It was not necessarily that the court sent another imperial envoy and a team of Jinyiwei to Runing? That was really a joke. Since the assassination, Wu Shigong would never escape the protection of the Runing Army.

Then the court can punish Wu Shigong for nothing more than dismissal. But does Wu Shigong care about the title of the general and the salary of a mere 2nd rank military officer? It just so happens that he has no official position again, and the Runing army can be free and wild again. However, the court will not do such a stupid thing again.

Therefore, Wu Shigong didn't take Yan Jizu seriously at all the conditions that he thought was very important. However, Wu Shigong would not be disgusting when he helped Yan Jizu and Liu Zeqing on a favor. So at the banquet, Wu Shigong agreed to Yan Jizu's exchange.

However, after the banquet, after discussing with Zhang Zhiheng and Zhou Junwu, Wu Shigong felt that Yan Jizu and Liu Zeqing's ideas were basically nothing. After all, the crime of losing the vassal this time was too great, and Yan Jizu might not be able to protect himself. Liu Zeqing placed his hope of promotion on Yan Jizu's sinking ship, which was about to sink. No matter how you look at it, it felt unreliable. However, this had nothing to do with Wu Shigong. He would not go to the crow's mouth to awaken the beautiful dreams of Yan Jizu and Liu Zeqing.

After that, it was nothing to stay in Dezhou, so Wu Shigong was about to go home as soon as possible. But unexpectedly, Wu Shigong said goodbye to Yan Jizu and Liu Zeqing, and left the city to set off. Liu Zeqing, who was in the city, caught up. This made Wu Shigong secretly feel very strange.

"Brother, respect me! Stop making fun of me, things have changed!" Liu Zeqing said with a wry smile.

"What's the matter?" Wu Shigong asked with a frown.

"The Governor asked for information from the court that the Tiqi will come to arrest the Governor with the imperial edict." Looking at the two people's confidants around, Liu Zeqing whispered to Wu Shigong.

Yan Jizu always thought that he and Yang Sichang were from the same faction, and he was stationed in Dezhou and followed the orders of the Ministry of War, which is Yang Sichang. So he and Yang Sichang were on the same rope, so Yang Sichang would be punished for him anyway. Unexpectedly, Yang Sichang was so ruthless that Li Daitao let Yan Jizu completely blame him for his crimes, which made Yan Jizu completely confused.

Liu Zeqing had nothing to do with the officials of the court. He finally got along with Yan Jizu's line. Unexpectedly, Yan Jizu could not help, but he also couldn't protect himself. So he came to look for Wu Shigong like an ant on a hot pan.

"Then let Governor Yan send someone to the court to clear the situation quickly. I can't help me?" After hearing Liu Zeqing's words, Wu Shigong became even more surprised.

"It is to clear the situation!" Liu Zeqing quickly explained, "In addition to seeking a relationship with the governor himself, he also hopes that we will help and add a help to his escape from the crime."

"Oh? Let me tell you about it, Brother Hezhou?"

Then, Liu Zeqing introduced the method Yan Jizu came up with to Wu Shigong. Not to mention, Yan Jizu was a veteran in the officialdom and could still come up with a glimmer of hope in this death situation. However, this method required Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing. Yan Jizu asked Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing to report together with him to ask for merit and get rid of his crime. He wanted to increase some weight and let the court let him go.

After all, it was to rely on the army of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing to force the palace to the court. It was to make the court feel that if Yan Jizu was not let go, then Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing would be in trouble.

Of course, Yan Jizu's method requires cooperation from Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing. There is absolutely no problem with Liu Zeqing. Now he is obsessed with the official, but Liu Zeqing needs to convince Wu Shigong, who is more important.

But when Wu Shigong heard this, he immediately refused: "Brother Hezhou! You have made military achievements this time to serve the king, and the court has rewarded him more than anything, so why bother to go to this muddy water?"

Wu Shigong thought that Liu Zeqing was obsessed with the ghost. You should know that Yang Sichang had already used this trick to kill people and must have become a mortal enemy with Yan Jizu and never died. One was Emperor Chongzhen's favorite minister and a grandson who entered the cabinet; the other was a local governor, a minister who was about to be convicted. Do you still have to consider this choice?

Besides, letting military merits and joint memorials are completely different concepts. If it is just to let military merits, it can be said that it takes into account the friendship of colleagues and is easy to explain afterwards. The joint memorials prove that Wu Shigong, Liu Zeqing and Yan Jizu were standing on the same front, and they will immediately become thorns in Yang Sichang's eyes and thorns in the flesh. In other words, Wu Shigong also became mortal enemies with Yang Sichang. So did Yan Jizu and Wu Shigong have such a great friendship?

So Wu Shigong bowed and said goodbye to Liu Zeqing. Liu Zeqing could only be helpless. But at this moment, Yan Jizu arrived, and he finally put down his governor's airs and asked Wu Shigong for help.

Afterwards, the Runing army stayed again, and Wu Shigong also secretly discussed with Yan Jizu and Liu Zeqing for a whole day. After that, Yan Jizu had a wish, and Wu Shigong submitted a memorial to plead for Yan Jizu. Yan Jizu immediately sent a confidant to bring Wu Shigong, Liu Zeqing and himself to defend himself, and a lot of money to the capital. This activity was so powerful that the order to capture Yan Jizu was magically cancelled.
Chapter completed!