The Autumn Festival, also known as the Autumn Society Festival, is the grandest festival of the Miao people in Lingnan. It usually happens at the beginning of the autumn harvest. The local Miao people dress up in costumes and gather in groups to sing and dance in Phoenix City to celebrate the harvest. The climate in Lingnan Abnormally, winter has already begun in the Central Plains, and the autumn harvest has just begun here. According to Miss Du's previous inference, Yang Xuangan, who has been holding back, will make big moves in these two days. Meng Xinghe is weak and has Li Shimin's expectations on his back. , I always felt that if Lingnan could not properly submit to the imperial court and start with this, then persuading the Taiping Sect to submit would not be successful. Before coming, Meng Xinghe thought that if he had the national jade seal on him, at least he could still speak in Lingnan. How could he know that Yang Xuangan could do that? This kind of forbearance has reached such a level that now that there is a chance to make a comeback, one will not give in easily.
As for a huge boulder blocking the way, if you want to pull it out, you can't move it unless you put in some effort. I learned from Miss Du that the general who led tens of thousands of Jiangdu soldiers southward had a surname with a single name of "Tian", and also from "Lan". There was an inn where Boss Wang found out that General Lan was currently living in Phoenix City. Fortunately, although he was already seventy years old, he still controlled half of the troops in Lingnan. Although he obeyed Yang Xuangan's deployment, he really wanted to pass on the national jade seal. At present, he will still choose to be dispatched by the one who owns the jade seal.
Compared with the magnificence of the General's Mansion in the city, General Lan's residence is relatively inferior. I don't know if this time I went there for the Hongmen Banquet. Meng Xinghe walked to General Lan's Mansion single-handedly, just like last time in front of Yang Xuangan's door. He took out the imperial seal and stamped it. Two veterans were standing guard. When they saw the seal being taken out, they both seemed to have seen it before. They shivered and knelt down, kowtowed and shouted long live, which scared Meng Xinghe. For a moment, I sighed in my heart, this is indeed Yang Guang's best confidant. He has not been here in person for twenty years, and yet he is still so loyal.
"Are you, General Lan, here?" Meng Xinghe asked in a questioning tone, raising his hand to indicate that they could get up.
The two veterans stood up and looked at Meng Xinghe up and down. They were speculating in their hearts that this tall young master was the young master of the Yang family. He even had the royal seal on his body, so he must be the one whom the holy emperor recognized personally. , they couldn't help but think that when the Holy Emperor was in danger in Jiangdu, he had personally told the tens of thousands of elite soldiers that when one day someone came to them with the imperial seal, that would be their new master. The two veterans clearly remembered The words he said at that time were still fresh in his mind. Now the young master in front of him came with the imperial seal and asked General Lan again. Could it be that they could return to the Central Plains?
"Your Majesty, General Lan is in the mansion. Please come with us." The two men immediately got up and led Meng Xinghe, not daring to delay for a moment.
Mentally, there was a shadow of his warm treatment when he met Yang Xuangan. Meng Xinghe was not in a hurry to show too much joy. He followed the two veterans and just walked slowly, looking at the scenery in the mansion. Before I knew it, I came outside a room.
"General Lan is inside." Before Meng Xinghe could speak, two soldiers knocked on the door and said, "General, Dongdu has sent someone here."
"Dongdu," a loud voice immediately sounded in the room: "Is this someone sent by the third princess?"
"He is a young master," the soldier replied truthfully.
"Pa," the soldier had just finished speaking. General Lan, who had closed the door and didn't know what he was doing inside, immediately opened the door. Although his appearance was old, his eyes were as menacing as those of a tiger in the mountains. Some people, even At the age of eighty, he can still draw a bow and shoot at tigers, and he has the aura of a flying general. He is probably the kind of fierce man he is talking about.
When he looked directly at Meng Xinghe, he only glanced and said: "Come in," although he didn't say much, it left no room for doubt.
Meng Xinghe entered the door and closed it gently. There were no tables and chairs decorated with calligraphy and paintings from the Central Plains like Yang Xuangan's. Where rough people lived, there were usually weapons and bows and arrows. The only thing that caught the eye was the front of the room. , a tablet with the burial place of the late Emperor Yang Guangzhi was placed there, and the incense that had just been burned was still burning.
"Your name is Meng Xinghe, right?" Unexpectedly, General Lan actually knew Meng Xinghe's name, but he then said: "Don't be surprised, your name was told to me by the third princess when she came to Lingnan. , The person who talks the most in front of me is you. Yang Xuangan's ambition has not diminished. The three princesses know it, but she also knows that you will definitely come to Lingnan, and she even made a bet to me, saying that that person would not even give up his glory and wealth for him. Now that you have come to Lingnan, the old minister has lost to the third princess again,"
Thinking of the smart and confused woman at home, Meng Xinghe felt a little sweet in his heart. He even wondered if all this had been arranged for him by the woman at home.
The Sui Dynasty was defeated, so how could the Taiping Religion cause such a stir? Lingnan was the heart disease of the Tang Dynasty, the Taiping Religion was also the heart disease of the Tang Dynasty, and the Turks were also the heart disease of the Tang Dynasty. As long as you solved these heart problems for Li Shimin, it would be considered a success. Even if you don't become a prince or general, you can still live the life you want. Besides, Aunt Yun is such a smart person, so she would not be ignorant of Yang Xuangan's ambition. She came to Lingnan just to let him use his pent-up resentment to send troops to the Tang Dynasty, and she just happened to get it. Aunt Yun is in her arms.
"The third princess once told me that if you come to Lingnan, let me give this thing to you." General Lan took out a square object from his body: "This is a military talisman. It can mobilize half of the elite soldiers in Phoenix City. The brothers who went south with me are now dead, but they have never forgotten the Holy Master's orders in danger. They couldn't afford the sword and gun, so they sent their sons to the battlefield. Now after so many years, I finally lived up to the Holy Master's orders. I entrust you with the important task,"
A heavy military talisman fell on Meng Xinghe's hand. On it was written "It's like I am here in person" written by Yang Guang. It was almost the same weight as the national jade seal on his body.
Unexpectedly, Yang Guang has such a loyal and elite soldier. It turns out that a great evil person also has a caring follower. Meng Xinghe can even think that his Dragon Gang brothers, even decades later, may still be the same as General Lan in front of him. Never forget who your master is.
Meng Xinghe played with the military talisman in his hand for a while, and suddenly handed it to General Lan, "The general is a veteran of the Holy Emperor. How can I, an unknown junior, take away the general's military power as soon as I come here? The soldiers in Phoenix City, It is the general who has come forward to mobilize. Even if I have the military talisman, they are not able to obey physically and mentally. I think what should be said is that the three princesses have already told the general. I can't add anything." Meng Xinghe knew that he was in urgent need of the military talisman now. But you can't take it. If you take it, it means that your position is in chaos.
A few words of understatement, after Meng Xinghe said it, General Lan immediately laughed: "The third princess is indeed right. When people are in a hurry, they will hold on to life-saving straws and never let go. If you just said Take the military talisman, you may not be able to get out of this door, but if you take it away, I will lose to the third princess again in this round,"
"Could it be another bet?" Meng Xinghe couldn't understand that the woman in her family had made several bets with this old man. If she couldn't get out of this door, it would cost me my life. She dared to make fun of my husband's life. He really deserves to be beaten. , Meng Xinghe cursed in his heart and asked in confusion: "General Lan, what else did the third princess say to you?"
"No more," General Lan shook his head and said, "The third princess told me that if you can fulfill the first two bets, I won't need to prove the third bet."
Meng Xinghe was a little curious about what kind of strange bet it was, but he didn't ask to the end.
At this time, General Lan changed his previous calmness. It was hard to imagine that it was so natural for an old man who was already seventy years old to kneel on the ground. Just when Meng Xinghe didn't know what to do, General Lan knelt down respectfully. On the ground, "Please don't worry, Prince Consort, even if Lantian is shattered to pieces, Yang Xuangan will not let him succeed,"
"General Lan, please get up." Meng Xinghe helped up the waning old man and said, "I promise you, after Yang Xuangan is suppressed, everyone who came from Jiangdu in Lingnan will return to their hometown to reunite with their relatives. "
General Lan kept nodding. The person who was away from home missed home. Twenty years was not a snap of the fingers. Who could remain unmoved and look up at the distant sky, that once familiar place?