Chapter 126 Old friends come to the court

Tian Jianxiu was actually reluctant to be ordered to go to Beijing this time. As early as when Li Zicheng became emperor, Tian Jianxiu knew that Li Zicheng would do so, which would lead to a turn against Xiao Tian, but he could not say anything to dissuade him.

Moreover, Tian Jianxiu has had a very bad time in the past two years. Originally, he was the earliest old man who followed Li Zicheng. He has always been the most important figure under Li Zicheng. However, in the past two years, I don't know why, Tian Jianxiu obviously felt that Li Zicheng did not trust him as much as before, and like Liu Zongmin and others, He also began to deliberately exclude him, which made him very unhappy under Li Zicheng. He was subject to others everywhere, and he wanted to see the face of Liu Zongmin and others.

Even Hao Yaoqi, who followed Li Zicheng much later than him, is now also in the Dashun army, and his status is far more than him, such as Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Hao Yaoqi and others. Now they are all generals, but he is just a partial general. Even Li Shuangxi's status surpasses him, and Li Zicheng seems to be a little bit of him. Avoid, many things are no longer discussed with him, which is equivalent to emptying him up, just letting him take care of some unimportant trifles.

For this reason, Tian Jianxiu also tried to talk to Li Zicheng and ask Li Zicheng what it was, but later another hand told the reason, which made Tian Jianxiu very disappointed with Li Zicheng. During this period, he was too lazy to say anything more to Li Zicheng.

In fact, the reason why Tian Jianxiu is tabooed by Li Zicheng and excluded by others is very simple, that is the relationship between Tian Jianxiu and Xiao Tianjian.

From the earliest time in Longzhou, Tian Jianxiu had a good relationship with Xiao Tianjian. Later, when Li Zicheng repeatedly asked Xiao Tianjian, he sent Tian Jianxiu out. Xiao Tianjian treated him with courtesy and responded to his request, so Li Zicheng began to suspect that there were some inexplicable connections between Tian Jianxiu and Xiao Tianjian. Yes, so he gradually alienated Tian Jianxiu, especially after the rise of Xiao Tianjian in the past two years, but Li Zicheng was quite unhappy. Li Zicheng did not dare to trust Tian Jianxiu anymore, so that others also began to alienate Tian Jianxiu and deliberately excluded Tian Jianxiu.

Fortunately, Tian Jianxiu is an old qualification in Li Zicheng's army, and he is kind and popular, so he has not been completely squeezed out, but it also makes Tian Jianxiu gradually lose power under Li Zicheng and become an insignificant person.

This makes Tian Jianxiu quite dissatisfied, but Tian Jianxiu is also a quite forbearable person. After understanding the source of the problem, he did not show his dissatisfaction with Li Zicheng, but simply ignored it and deliberately collected it. In this way, although Li Zicheng no longer trusted Tian Jianxiu, he did not treat Tian. How about seeing the show? He just put it in an irrelevant place and no longer care about him.

But in Tian Jianxiu's heart, he was already dissatisfied with Li Zicheng and silently waited for the opportunity.

Now Li Zicheng can see that his bullshit Dashun army is not the opponent of the Dazhong army at all, and after Xiao Tianjian took action, he has fallen into the situation of being embattled on all sides, so he finally began to be soft. He wanted Tian Jianxiu, as an intermediary, to find Xiao Tianjian to find Li Zicheng and his Dashun army. Find a way out for the future.

At this time, Tian Jianxiu was reminded of by Li Zicheng again, and promoted him to General Zuo and sent him to Beijing to negotiate with Xiao Tianjian.

Under such circumstances, Tian Jianxiu, with dozens of entourage and 200,000 taels of silver, left Xi'an Mansion, which was now renamed Daxing City by Li Zicheng. Along the way, he first arrived at Gaozhou, which is now controlled by the Dazhong Army, where he met Gao Jie, Li Zicheng's enemy.

Now Gao Jie has become a battalion general of the First Town Army after defecting to the Dazhong Dynasty. Although he is nominally a battalion general, his real power is not small. After the main force went north, the 3,000 officers and troops under his command were reorganized by the Dazhong Army, abolished the old and the weak, and supplemented the recruits to be enriched by the Dazhong Army. After the low-level officers of the 100 Middle School, he had three battle camps under his command, mainly responsible for guarding Pozhou and preparing Li Zicheng's Dashun army from attacking Yan'an Prefecture controlled by the Dazhong Army to the north. Recently, he has fought with Li Zicheng's small Dashun army many times, and has won many battles, which makes Li Zicheng hate Gao Jie, but he did not Dare to use troops in Pozhou, Heyang County and other places. In this way, Gao Jie and the soldiers of the Dazhong army stationed in Tongguan echoed each other, thus controlling Li Zicheng's development to the northeast, and temporarily formed a confrontation with the Dashun army.

Because Tian Jianxiu wanted to rush to Beijing, he chose to take Gaozhou from Hancheng to Shanxi, and then entered Beijing from Taiyuan and Xuanda to Juyongguan. He met Xiao Tianjian and met Gao Jie in Tianjian, Gao Jie.

Both of them were a little embarrassed after they met. After all, Gao Jie was also Li Zicheng's subordinate at the beginning, and He Tian Jianxiu was also an acquaintance. The relationship between the two was quite good before, but later Gao Jie abducted Li Zicheng's little wife Xing Shi, defected to He Renlong, and then completely broke with Li Zicheng. Over the years But he followed the Ming government to lead troops against Li Zicheng. Gao Jie's hands can be said to be stained with the blood of Li Zicheng's men.

As Li Zicheng's subordinate, Tian Jianxiu has also fought with Gao Jie many times over the years. It can be said that each has its own victory or defeat. However, today the meeting between the two is not to meet. Gao Jian heard that Tian Jianxiu came to see him, so after asking, he took people to connect Tian Jianxiu to the camp. According to the regulations of the Dazhong Army, All departments of the Chinese army were not allowed to live in the city to disturb the people under special circumstances. Therefore, after joining the Dazhong Army, Gao Jie also followed the rules of the Dazhong Army and led his troops to station outside the city of Pozhou.

Although the two were embarrassed after they met, Tian Jianxiu still had a clear intention. After Gao Jie hosted Tian Jianxiu for a banquet, he immediately arranged for his men to escort Tian Jianxiu to Hancheng to take a boat to Beijing.

After a long journey, Tian Jianxiu finally came to Beijing in mid-August half a month later, and asked someone to inform Xiao Tianjian and ask to see Xiao Tianjian.

When Xiao Tianjian learned that Tian Jianxiu, an old friend, was visiting again, he immediately recruited Li Xin into the Wuying Hall, where he temporarily handled government affairs. He smiled and said to Li Xin, "Li Xin, today I heard that Tian Jianxiu, under Li Zicheng, suddenly came here from Xi'an Prefecture and asked to meet me!

From what you can see, what does it mean for Li Zicheng to send this Suo Tianhao (a nickname of Tian Jianxiu) to see me this time?

After hearing this, Li Xin immediately laughed, bowed his fist and replied to Xiao Tianjian, "Shang Sheng, what else can Li Zicheng send Tian Jianxiu to meet the saint? Li Zicheng must have learned the news that the emperor led the army in Shanhaiguan and took the capital of the Ming Dynasty, so now he is panicked, so he sent Tian Jianxiu to meet the saint. I'm afraid there is only one thing, that is, to find a way out for him for the rest of his life!"

Xiao Tianjian laughed and said, "Li Zicheng is not a fool. Seeing that I have calmed down the north and repelled the army of Jiannu, the next step is to free up my hand to deal with him. Before I take action first, Li Zicheng sent envoys first! Ha ha! Where is such a cheap thing in the world?

So according to your guess, what conditions can Li Zicheng offer when he sent Tian Jianxiu to see me this time?

Li Xin shook his head and smiled, "I'm afraid I can't guess that Weichen can't guess. Li Zicheng is an ambitious person. When he ascended the throne from the emperor to the throne, he followed the example of the emperor. In the matter of becoming emperor in Shaanxi, it can be seen that this person is ambitious, so Weichen thinks that even if this person is soft, he will not easily surrender to me. Chao! Therefore, the emperor might as well listen to the conditions of this thief first, and then make another final determination!"

After thinking about it, Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "Then let's listen to what the thief wants to pay first!" Come on, pass on the order, and let Tian Jianxiu enter the palace to see me!"

The two countries fought with each other. Although Dashun and the Dazhong Dynasty are now in a hostile state, Tian Jianxiu, as an envoy of Dashun, was not too neglected by the Dazhong army after entering Beijing. It was just that someone was specially responsible for taking care of him and his entourage. At this time, Tian Jianxiu had already been taken out of the Forbidden City. Hou is outside the Xihua Gate.

And Tian Jianxiu looked up at the brilliant Forbidden City and couldn't help sighing in his heart. He thought that Li Zicheng was really overestimated and had always wanted to be an enemy of Xiao Tianjian. Compared with the place where Li Zicheng lived, Li Zicheng's so-called palace was simply like a dog kennel. He was too small and angry. Psychologically, Tian Jianxiu has had an idea of worshipping Xiao Tianjian.

Tian Jianxiu actually admires Xiao Tianjian very much in his heart. When Xiao Tianjian started his family, there were more than a thousand people. With the reputation and strength of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang at that time, Xiao Tianjian was really nothing. Whether it was Li Zicheng or Gao Yingxiang, they looked down on Xiao Tianjian, although Xiao Tianjian's people were not Duo also showed considerable combat strength, but Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang still wanted to annex him most.

However, in just a few years, Xiao Tianjian quickly rose among the rebels. First, he controlled the places in southern Jin, and then marched to Henan, and jumped to the top of the strength of all the rebels.

But look at Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng. Gao Yingxiang was defeated and died. Li Zicheng and others were also hunted down by the government and turned into homeless dogs. If they hadn't been secretly supported by Xiao Tianjian, they would have died in Shangluo Mountain long ago. People with bright eyes can see that Xiao Tianjian was going to achieve great achievements. However, Li Zicheng confused the lard and insisted on going against Xiao Tianjian. Now it's okay. Seeing that he can't stand it any longer, he wants him to come to make an affair with Xiao Tianjian.

Can Xiao Tianjian still give him face to see him this time? Tian Jianxiu shook his head and smiled bitterly. Who is Xiao Tianjian now? He is the emperor of the Great Dynasty! Speaking of which, Li Zicheng is also known as the emperor, but compared with Xiao Tianjian, Li Zicheng's so-called emperor is not even good enough to carry shoes for Xiao Tianjian, and now he is still thinking about it...

"The Holy Decree announces that Tian Jianxiu, the envoy of the rebel army, will meet!" Just as Tian Jianxiu stood outside the Xihua Gate and was in a lot of mood, suddenly a bodyguard shouted at the palace gate.

When Tian Jianxiu heard that Xiao Tianjian's Yu Linwei called them Dashun rebels, he smiled bitterly. It was the same as what the Dazhong Dynasty called them. Now the people in Xi'an Mansion opened their mouths and closed their mouths. The Dazhong Dynasty is also a criminal thief. However, no matter how you listen to it, they are more confident in the Dazhong Dynasty. Their Dashun compares with Dazhong. It can only be called a thief!

However, as long as Xiao Tianjian is willing to see him, it's good. At least it's a shame that Xiao Tianjian didn't let him report and enter. Tian Jianxiu didn't think about it at all. Let Xiao Tianjian go out to greet each other as before, so he immediately checked his clothes all over his body, and then Tian Jianxiu was ready to enter the palace.

But before he could enter the palace gate, he was blocked by Yulinwei at the door. Without saying anything, several Yulinwei came up and carefully searched Tian Jianxiu up and down. It was not until he found sharp weapons such as short blades that he let Tian Jianxiu enter the palace. Yulinwei specially led the way to Wuying Hall. Go away.