Around noon, the fleet of Fang Yuan, Li Er and others returned to Xiyuan Wharf, and brought Chen Ji, the Yu family and his son to the General Manager's Mansion to meet Zhang Yangquan.
Zhang Yangquan was very happy and encouraged a few people with warm words. He only said that the ceremony would be held tomorrow to discuss merit and rewards, and then let everyone go to rest.
Everyone left one after another, and only Guo Niansheng stayed.
"Uncle Guo, is there anything else you can do?" Zhang Yangquan raised his head and asked.
Guo Niansheng hesitated for a long time and said: "General Manager, tomorrow is your king's ceremony. Should we build a palace or expand the Oriole Garden again?"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said: "There is no need to build or expand it, just change the name to Prince Chu's Mansion."
Guo Niansheng saw that he was resolute and did not dare to persuade him any more, so he added: "One more thing, Sheng Wenyu just sent someone over and said that he would hold a rebel meeting on Baobao Lake!"
Zhang Yangquan frowned and said: "Rebel Army Conference? What are you doing?"
Guo Niansheng said: "They want to unite various rebel armies and establish an alliance. They will not attack each other and jointly fight against the Yuan Dynasty! This is just a pre-meeting. The formal meeting seems to be held in Haozhou!"
Zhang Yangquan pondered for a while and said: "If we can really reach a covenant, it wouldn't be a bad thing! When will the conference start?"
"It's not time!" Guo Niansheng said angrily: "Tomorrow is your king's ceremony, but they suddenly held a rebel meeting. They clearly want to cover up your limelight!"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said with a smile: "No, they chose today to allow more envoys from the rebel army to participate. Basically, everyone who wants to congratulate me on the title of king, are they all here today?"
Guo Niansheng thought the same thing and said with a smile: "Counting the envoys from the two rebel armies who just entered the city today, more than a dozen rebel armies have come to congratulate us!"
"Here we are, we arrived today. Zuo Junbi also sent someone!"
Zhang Yangquan was stunned. Zuo Junbi was still the general of Tianwan Army. He sent an envoy here alone. Was this to announce to the world that he wanted to break away from Tianwan Army?
At such a grand event, he really wanted to go and watch the excitement, and he thought about it and said, "Let the monkey attend on our behalf. My wife and I will pretend to be his entourage and go over to have a look!"
Guo Niansheng knew that Zhang Yangquan and Qin Lingjun liked to travel in disguise recently, so he said with a bitter face: "Then you must pay attention to safety!"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said: "I know!" He stood up, left the general manager's office, and headed towards the military camp.
After arriving at the military camp in the north of the city, they learned that Qin Lingjun had returned to Longtan Village.
Qin Lingsi happened to come over to hand over the horse work to the military camp. When she learned that Zhang Yangquan was going to attend the rebel army meeting, she immediately shouted: "I want to go too!"
Zhang Yangquan had no choice but to take her there.
In the afternoon, a painting boat glided slowly on Baobao Lake with flowers and willows blooming.
The summer wind seems to be taking a nap too, ensuring that the water surface of the lake is as calm as a mirror. The sun is shining brightly, falling from the gaps in the treetops and spilling on the lake surface, like pearls falling on a jade plate.
The chirping of cicadas on both sides of the bank formed a strange melody, which made people unable to help but feel sleepy. Zhang Yangquan yawned and looked at the painting boats in the distance slowly approaching.
There is still a quarter of an hour before the end of the day, and many envoys from the rebel army are already waiting on the shore.
Including the two rebel armies of Bu Wangsan and Meng Haima who came to congratulate them on their last wedding.
Sheng Wenyu didn't know if he was being careless intentionally, but he didn't park the boat on the shore. Instead, he swam out of the lake first. When it was almost over, he slowly came to the shore.
After a while, the boat finally stopped at the shore. When he saw a person coming off the boat, Zhang Yangquan realized that Sheng Wenyu was not being negligent on purpose.
That person was clearly Lu Juren. Sheng Wenyu was supposed to be discussing something with him just now.
Qin Lingsi touched Zhang Yangquan's arm and laughed softly: "Brother-in-law, Lu Juren must have seen his good friend become an official, and he couldn't bear the loneliness!"
Zhang Yangquan nodded, his face slightly solemn.
Lu Liangzuo suddenly became an official, and Lu Juren would definitely be affected. Sheng Wenyu could accurately grasp this and take action quickly. He is worthy of being the third-ranking figure in the Northern Army.
Lu Juren didn't even look at the crowd, strode away with his hands behind his back.
Sheng Wenyu warmly welcomed the envoys onto the boat, and Zhang Yangquan and Qin Lingsi also followed the monkey and got on the boat.
The two got on the boat. Zhang Yangquan asked the monkey to go to the cabin, while he came to the side and watched the situation on the shore.
Qin Lingsi followed him, her little face flushed with excitement, and said, "Brother-in-law, do you know what I remembered?"
Zhang Yangquan looked into the distance and asked: "What?"
Qin Lingsi smiled and said: "I remember when we pretended to be envoys together!"
Zhang Yangquan turned to look at her and said with a smile: "Well, you seemed to be disguised like this at that time, with a lot of pockmarks on your face!"
Qin Lingsi said proudly: "My disguise is no worse than my sister's, right?"
I saw two groups of people coming from the shore, led by two acquaintances, one was Mao Gui and the other was Lu Zhen.
The two of them didn't know what they were talking about, and their expressions were a little unkind.
Qin Lingsi glanced at it and said with a smile: "These two people won't fight, right?"
Zhang Yangquan couldn't help but smile.
It's really possible! Zhang Shicheng and Zhao Junyong are competing for Xuzhou. Both of them are interested in Xuzhou, a good piece of land, and neither one is willing to give in.
From this point of view, if Sheng Wenyu wants to hold today's conference, he must properly resolve the dispute between the two.
I saw Sheng Wenyu greeting the two of them, joking with them for a few words, and slightly easing the relationship.
Most of the two people's entourages stayed on the shore, and each of them only brought two followers with them, and followed Sheng Wenyu on the boat.
Zhang Yangquan was afraid of being recognized by the two men, so he stopped looking at them and continued to focus on the far corner of the shore.
At this moment, I saw a one-eyed man striding over.
Zhang Yangquan was stunned. This man was the one-eyed man from Daming Temple. Was he also an envoy of the rebel army?
By the way, no wonder he didn't want to go to the government to report the case. It must be because of his status.
"Hey, brother-in-law, that person has double pupils. Could it be Ming Yuzhen?" Qin Lingsi said in surprise.
Zhang Yangquan was stunned and said: "Are you talking about Ming Yuzhen, one of the four great kings of the Tianwan Army?"
Qin Lingsi nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I heard from Uncle Chen that this person has one eye and two pupils, and he is the most powerful among the four great Vajras in the Tianwan Army!"
Zhang Yangquan looked towards the one-eyed man and saw that he was talking to Sheng Wenyu. Sheng Wenyu was not as enthusiastic towards him as he was towards Lu Zhen and Mao Gui.
Then it is obvious that the one-eyed man is Ming Yuzhen, because the rebel army that the Northern Army is least able to deal with is the Cheonwan Army!
"Hey, brother-in-law, look, here comes a man with a black face. His face seems to be darker than Zhao Desheng's!" Qin Lingsi suddenly spoke again.
Zhang Yangquan looked behind Ming Yuzhen.
I saw a black-faced man striding over. He did have a black face that was not inferior to that of Zhao Desheng, and his complexion was even colder, exuding murderous intent.
Normally no one would dare to provoke such a person, but Ming Yuzhen stood in front of him and said, "Are you Hua Yun, Zhu Yuanzhang's general?"
The black-faced man said coldly: "So what?"
Ming Yuzhen squinted her eyes and said, "Why is your face so dark? Could it be that it was smeared with charcoal?"
"Pfft!" Qin Lingsi laughed so hard that she lay on the gunwale, clutching her stomach and said, "Ouch! You made me laugh so hard, that Ming Yuzhen really knows how to talk!"
Zhang Yangquan patted her on the head and reminded: "Pay attention to your image, we are now the guardians of monkeys!"