As Zhang Jun said something about the situation outside, Chen Wen couldn't help but frown.

It is not yet March yet, and even in March, the news that Lu Jianguo went to the name of the State Council will take time to reach the southwest. Logically speaking, the Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty in Zhejiang during this period could only be appointed by the State Council of Lu Jianguo himself. There are many such examples, such as Wang Yi, Wang Jiang, Feng Jingdi, and even Li Changxiang and Zhang Huangyan whom he had never seen before. These people all have the impression of seeing each other in person or hearing them, but he has never heard of this Minister of War, and he has never heard of it, and he has no impression of even a little.

Could it be a newly appointed?

Or maybe it was not an official under the Lu Jian State flag, but sent by Emperor Yongli or other Ming royal family members who intended to be the supreme throne?

Moreover, when he walked outside the gate of the camp, he started to make a big fuss without notice. Even if he was a real person, he was afraid that such people would not be a good role to play with. In any case, Chen Wen had to see him before he could make sure, but...

Let’s take a break in other military tents for a while. Let’s wait until I finish this matter, and then have an interview.”

"As for the order." After saying that, Zhang Jun walked out of the tent with a meteor, said a few words to the gatekeeper who was waiting outside the tent, and then let the officer go outside the gate to invite him.

Outside the gate, Cao Conglong and his two Congmen had already been waiting a little impatiently, especially Cao Conglong.

At the end of last year, news of Chen Wen's capture of Jinhua Prefecture, repelling the Qing army's encirclement and suppression, and Wang Jiang's accidental capture and surrender to the Qing Dynasty reached Haitan. After surviving the Battle of Zhoushan, the monarchs and ministers of the Lu Jian Kingdom, who survived the Battle of Zhoushan, decided to send Cao Conglong, the Right Minister of the Ministry of War, to Jinhua with the rewarded imperial edict, with the intention of instigating Chen Wen to lead the army to attack Taizhou so that the Lu Jian Kingdom, protected by Zhang Mingzhen, who was in Dingxi, could get rid of the current predicament, enter Zhejiang again, and lead the overall situation of the entire Zhejiang anti-Qing situation.

This plan was formulated by the civil servant group within the court of the Lujian State. In their opinion, as long as the Lujian State can land in Taizhou, a new wave of anti-Qing will break out in Zhejiang, and the existence of Chen Wen, the general of Wang Yi, can also effectively restrain Zhang Mingzhen, the Dingxi Marquis who was not in harmony with Wang Yi, so that the pattern of using civil servants to control martial arts can be re-formed, which can be said to have multiple goals in one fell swoop.

In fact, at the beginning of the plan, the new cabinet chief Shen Chenquan originally planned to come in person, but was rejected by Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, who was reserved about it, on the grounds that "Yuanfu must stay in the court and not move lightly." Zhang Huangyan, who was the one who liked Lu, had already gone to Xiamen before the news came, tried to persuade Zheng Chenggong to respect the order of the king of Lu, and could not do it easily.

Not to mention Shen Chenquan, Zhang Huangyan had set up a mountain village in Siming Mountain to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and even fought side by side with Wang Yi. Although Chen Wen had already entered Weizhou Mountain before he arrived at Dalan Mountain, he had nodded with the officials of the former Dalan Mountain, and it was easier to carry out his work. He was originally an excellent candidate. However, Zhang Huangyan had already set off for Zhongzuo Institution at that time. Moreover, it would be easier to get out of the predicament if he could persuade Zheng Chenggong, so he had to come by Cao Conglong, who was also the Minister of the Ministry of War.

After experiencing storms along the way, I relied on the familiarity of the roads to arrive at this moment after landing in Taizhou. However, it has been almost two months since I walked along the way. It is still unknown how the situation in the Lu Jianguo. I put on my official uniform and took out my seal to approach the military camp, but was captured by sentries scattered on the periphery and brought back to the camp for interrogation. On the road, I even heard the sentries chatting about the messenger that Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian of the Qing Dynasty, were brought back to the camp.

Is Chen Wen planning to imitate Wang Jiang to surrender to the Qing Dynasty? This is not certain, but since Chen Jin sent an envoy to come, he would definitely come to persuade the surrender with Wang Jiang's handwritten letter. The relationship between Chen Wen and Wang Jiang is quite harmonious according to what the Li brothers who went to Tiantai Mountain to announce the imperial edict. If Chen Wen really chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, then the final retreat of the Lu State court will be completely blocked.

With the identity of the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, he tried to persuade the sentry to take him to see Chen Wen directly, but the sentries were unmoved at all. Until outside the camp, Cao Conglong, who was anxious, directly blamed him as the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. As a result, the gatekeeper heard that he was the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, was still as unmoved as the sentry. He only entered the camp to report the news after scolding his military camp for no noise.

The moment the officer entered the camp, the soldiers guarding the gate and the sentry accompanied him blocked their way with the weapons in their hands. The two followers protected Cao Conglong behind him, but their trembling body betrayed their fear.

Cao Conglong did not understand why a large army under the military supervisor's civil servants last year was now ignorant of civil servants, but he did not know. Chen Wen was unique in his performance at the beginning of training, so Wang Yi almost never interfered with the military affairs of the old Nantang camp. Later, when Wang Jiang was serving as the governor of Zhejiang, he had never interfered in military affairs at all, for fear of ruining state affairs. In addition, the civil and military forces here have been reversed, which directly and indirectly affected the mentality of the soldiers.

Cao Conglong, who was unaware of this, had to think about the problem as the soldiers disdained Wang Jiang for surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. He was so prejudiced to civil servants, and thus he relaxed a little.

The officers guarding the gate returned quickly, but not only asked them to wait with Chen Wen's personal soldiers to the camp tent, but they just called him a gentleman, not an official position. The two servants were relieved to hear that the Ming army did not make things difficult for them, but Cao Conglong saw another possibility.

Could it be that Chen Wen really planned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, or that he planned to obey other royal families as orthodox imperialists, so he did not recognize his identity as the Minister of War?

A series of urgent misunderstandings caused by the situation prompted Cao Conglong to escape from the guidance of the personal soldiers leading the way without warning when he followed the personal soldiers to approach the central army tent and rushed directly to the central army tent.

The personal soldiers leading the way had just turned around and led the way again, but they heard the steps behind them quickly. When they turned around, they were heading straight for the central army tent. The personal soldiers saw this and quickly shouted loudly as the enemy attack and chased after him. However, they were not far from the central army tent. Before he could catch up, Cao Conglong had already arrived near the central army tent...

Chen Wen, in the central army tent, signaled Zhang Jun to take Cao Conglong into the camp, planned to end the Qing Dynasty's persuasion as soon as possible. However, he had just said a few scenes, and before he could introduce the topic, he and the generals in the tent saw a civil servant wearing a scorched official robe and embroidered peacock patches running towards him.

Zhang Jun, who was standing at the door, saw Cao Conglong running and immediately unsheathed his sword, and the other personal soldiers around him were the same. The metal texture of the blade shone brightly in the sun. Cao Conglong ran closer and hurriedly stopped his steps. However, before he was breathing, he shouted loudly: "March Ching wants to surrender to the Tartars, why don't he admit his identity as an official?"

This said something that Cao Conglong thought. However, Chen Wen was clearly decisive in his ears. Thinking of the fancy methods of civil servants throwing dirty water on military generals in this era, he slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Put down this madman for me." But if he didn't want to deal with it, he thought that the person's identity was still doubtful, so he had to change the second half of the sentence that had not been expressed yet to "lock it up."

After the rushing soldiers, Cao Conglong, who was cursing with the desire to die, kidnapped, Chen Wen, who was still angry, sat down again and continued to say the envoy just now.

"Let me tell Wang Jiang that everyone has their own aspirations. He is willing to be a dog for the Tartars, but I am not willing to do so. My Han man would rather die standing and not live on his knees. Since he is not a person with a common comrade, from today on he will cut off his robe and never interact with each other until he dies. It's that simple." As he said that, Chen Wen pulled out his sword and cut off a corner of his official uniform, and threw it at the messenger.

Seeing that the messenger's face turned pale as the corner of the official robe fell to the ground. Chen Wen smiled and said in a mocking tone: "Your Excellency, don't be afraid. I will use your words to convey the words to Chen Jin and Wang Jiang. Of course, I will not kill you, and I will not even be scared to death."

After hearing this, the messenger had no time to explain, and only heard that the generals under Chen Wen in the central army's tent were laughing in laughter, and the tent was full of contempt and discrimination towards the enemy, as if they were stunning to break through the tent.

Knowing that the effect needed had been achieved, Chen Wen naturally did not intend to continue to make things difficult for the messenger. He just asked him to go back and tell Chen Jin that the trick of persuading surrender was a waste of time on him, and in the end he even told Chen Jin bluntly.

"When I go back, I ask Governor Chen to take a bath. When the autumn is high and the horse is fat, I will personally lead the army and Governor Chen to hunt in Quzhou!"

After sending someone to see the envoy away, Chen Wen threw Chen Jin's handbook aside, picked up Wang Jiang's letter again, and asked Zhang Jun to take Wang Jiang's previous handwriting to carefully examine it. After confirming what he was thinking, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It was not until this time that Chen Wen remembered that there was Cao Conglong, so he changed his official uniform and asked Zhang Jun to bring Cao Conglong.

Seeing Cao Conglong enter the tent with his head held high with the standard expression of the martyr being about to die, the escort soldiers who escorted this person seemed to be like following. Chen Wenzhen didn't know if he was angry or funny.

So he had to ask: "You claim to be the right minister of the Ministry of War. You may have an official with a seal or a seal or something that can prove your identity. Nowadays, even the royal family has pretended to be, but the general who speaks vernacularly does not believe it."

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Cao Conglong sneered: "Marrior Chen plans to borrow the head of his official position as a letter of fame, so he will take it with you, just don't miss the name of his official position." After that, Cao Conglong took out the official seal from his arms and threw it on the ground.

Chen Wen didn't know that the three-character sarcasm was secretly sarcastic. He just planned to verify his identity, but he was afraid that he would mislead the matter. He had to endure it for the time being and ignore it.

Seeing that the official had fallen to the ground with the seal, Zhang Jun had to pick it up, verify it with several of Chen Wen's staff before nodding to Chen Wen.

After taking the official seal and looking at it, Chen Wen had to sigh. The official seal was indeed true. Next he asked a few more questions. It was not like he was fake. He had to get up and walk to his person and hand the official seal back to him.

"Don't blame Mr. Cao. Before I went south, I heard from Tianjin Wei that someone in Sichuan pretended to be the prince of Chu and tried to deceive the royal army to steal magical artifacts. Some members of the royal family dared to pretend. I had to act cautiously. Please forgive me."

What Chen Wen said was the Zhu Rongfan Rebellion in Sichuan. With the speed of communication in this era, Cao Conglong, who was in Zhejiang, naturally did not know and was too lazy to believe Chen Wen's "stupidity". However, seeing that Chen Wen had confirmed his identity and acted like an apology, Cao Conglong suppressed the anger in his heart, and had to say that the moment is indeed as unpredictable as Chen Wen said. Being cautious is a good thing, and he will not mind it.

Both sides had seen the ceremony again, and Chen Wen, who had a premonition, asked, "I dare to ask Mr. Cao what he is doing when he comes to Jinhua?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, Cao Conglong's expression immediately became serious. He just coughed lightly, and the two congmen who were hiding beside him had to step forward and take out the imperial edict in front of Chen Wen and his subordinates like magic tricks.
Chapter completed!