"As expected, Prime Minister Xia was really in secret contact with the generals!" Wu Qihua's roar came from Tianming Temple. A letter was slapped on the table by him. The power was so strong that the paint surface burst. Ma Bao quickly picked up the letter and read it. It was a message sent by a spy sent by Wu Yingqi, saying that many troops were found in Tongchuan Prefecture, with a small number of troops, a small number of people, and a dozen of them were all fake merchants and refugees, coming to Chengdu. The spy found out that they belonged to Ma Guozhu and Wu Guogui's several spies, and these were all members of the "son-in-law party" of Prime Minister Xia.

Wu Yingqi had expected this to happen. He looked at Ma Bao coldly, and said, "General Ma, it's okay to do it now."

Ma Bao knew it would be too late to stop him. If the Xia Prime Minister was fast enough, he would arrive within three days. Ma Bao suddenly slapped him a few times, looking very regretful, and knelt on the ground: "Prince, General Yingqi, it's all my fault, I blame me..."

Wu Yingqi was just showing off his verbal pleasure, and relieved his depression. After all, after Ma Bao intervened, Wu Qihua listened to Ma Bao more and asked him less, which made him feel a little unhappy. He never thought that Ma Bao was so strong. Wu Qihua hurried over, helped Ma Bao up, and comforted him: "What is the old general doing? You are also thinking about me. No matter what, you are not blamed."

"Yes, General Ma, we just said casually. Although it was delayed for seven or eight days, the overall situation is still under our control!" Wu Yingqi said.

Ma Bao stood up, held Wu Qihua's arm with both hands, and looked sincere: "Prince, you can't delay any more at this time. You must do something immediately. You must first capture the official general of Tianming Temple, then control Chengdu Prefecture, and support the prince's supervisor."

Wu Yingqi said, "Don't worry, I've made arrangements here a long time ago, but I don't know when your troops will arrive."

Ma Bao said, "It's time to count, but you shouldn't take it lightly. Prince, General Yingqi, I'm going to go south to pick up the troops under my command. I'll work hard on Chengdu."

"Do you need a response?" Wu Qihua asked in a slight question.

Ma Bao knew that the two of them were worried that they would not do their best and said, "Now in this form, we will be at ease only when we have the advantage of our troops. How can we dare to take risks? Eliminate the traitors and support the governor. Other generals are not worried about their attitude towards the prince. The prince is no longer a teenager and should not be rude. Even if it is not for the overall situation, it is still a clan of the new dynasty, and it is not easy to offend anyway."

Wu Yingqi and Zheng pointed out, and Ma Bao said again: "General Yingqi, my Ma family is more than 30, and most of them live in Budai Hutong in Chengdu City. A few young children are also serving in Tianming Temple. Please take care of this incident, especially my wife, who is timid and cowardly, and don't scare her..."

"That's nature, that's nature!" Wu Yingqi agreed after the end and looked at Wu Qihua. Wu Qihua said, "That reinforcements are a matter of hard work for the general. We will fight against the traitor tonight. Don't forget to contact Tan Hong."

Ma Bao responded and turned around and left the room. He was still dressed as a pickle shop clerk. He had also been in Tianming Temple with this identity these days. He left the room and went straight to the kitchen to go back with the pickle shop clerk. Walking on the path in the temple, he was planning what to do next. He had already received news that his elite soldiers had arrived in Jiading and were heading north along the river (Minjiang River), which was only one or two days later than the reinforcements of the Prime Minister Xia Guoguo. However, this army could not be the two thousand elites agreed with the Wu brothers (the Wu brothers were worried that Ma Bao would take the lead and forbid him to transfer three thousand soldiers), but five thousand soldiers, almost all the troops under Ma Bao could fight.

But Ma Bao was not to help the Wu brothers to correct the situation. He wanted to snatch his family and the Zhu Ming royal family from Chengdu. At this time, it would be better to fight with the Wu brothers and their opponents. Ma Bao thought that it would be better to send news to Ma Guozhu and others.

"Stop! Open your arms and turn around!" Ma Bao, who was planning to deliver a letter to Ma Guozhu and others, was suddenly stopped. The vigilant order was mixed with the clanging sound of pulling out the sword. Ma Bao turned around with a sharp tongue, but saw a familiar face, which was his response to Xu Jie in Tianming Temple.

"General Ma, it's really you. I just looked like you!" Xu Jie was still scabbard and looked suspicious: "Why are you dressing up?"

"Brother, this is not the place to speak." Ma Bao whispered back.

Xu Jie smiled and took Ma Bao to his room. When he opened the door, he was empty. Xu Jie said, "Come in, General Ma, they all went to work on duty. Within an hour and a half, I was the only one here."

While talking, Xu Jie poured Ma Bao a cup of tea. Ma Bao took the tea cup. Xu Jie said, "You must have heard that the news of the death of the previous king. I originally wanted to pass this news to the pickle shop as soon as possible, but I never thought that General Wu Yingqi changed the scheduling after the death of the previous king. I changed it to the inner scheduling. I haven't seized the opportunity to go out these days. I'm still worried about you. I heard that there was a big quarrel over the cause of the death of the previous king. Some people said that Wu Yingqi was not guarding the previous king, and some people said that there was a problem with the woman given by Lord Xia. General should be careful. Lord Xia has deep connections and is not afraid of these rumors. It is probably not that dangerous for Wu Yingqi to protect the second master. But you have given medicine to the previous king. Eighty times you will be blamed."

"It is because of this that I came back secretly, and I have contacted General Yingqi and the others." Ma Bao saw that Xu Jie was really looking at him, and hurriedly said.

Xu Jie lowered his voice, but his expression was still full of excitement and asked: "General Ma, have you contacted General Yingqi? So, is it going to attack Xia Guoshu and his group?"

"How did you guess it?" asked Ma Bao.

Xu Jie smiled and said, "The guards are all friends. Who can cover each other? Wu Yingqi's confidants have been whispering to each other these days. Isn't it just monitoring Xia Guojin and the others? And it's said that they are free to enter and exit. Xia Guojin was stopped several times and they wanted to go out of the temple. This is going to be taken away."

"What are you going to do with Brother Xu?" Ma Bao asked with his eyes narrowed.

Xu Jie smiled and said, "I will do whatever I send you, of course, if there are other good errands, I can't get involved, just like you, General Ma, have always taken good care of me."

Ma Bao smiled in agreement. The reason he chose Xu Jie as his supporter was very simple. This guy's father and grandfather were originally Zhang Jing, one of Wu Sangui's fifty-three assistant leaders. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have been able to join the ranks of guards at a young age. It was just that his father and grandfather died early. Xu Jie relied on his father and grandfather's virtue to make a good job, but he was a guy who eats, drinks, and gambling. He was even a bachelor. Such a person did not talk about loyalty, nor did he care about anything, so he was very brave.

"That's right, you and my brothers have a close relationship, so I should take care of you." Ma Bao responded a few words and said, "Brother, now I have a good job. I can get three thousand taels of silver, but you can't keep the title of yours. Do you want to do it?"

"Three thousand taels?" Xu Jie noticed the first thing he did was the amount of the silver, and then said: "It would be fine if this guard's errands were not done. Now the old prince is gone. The soldiers in the east bank are in the throne. Our vassal is in constant battle. Since ancient times, there has been no internal fighting and prosperity. To be honest, everyone wants to find a way out now. If my brother can arrange a good road with bright silver for me, how can I not appreciate it? But Xu Jie is also the head of the guard team. What kind of errands can earn 3 thousand taels? Is there a business that can go without returning?"

Ma Bao said: "How can you do it? This is your guard status. And we two work together, even if we die, we will die together. What are you afraid of?"

When Xu Jie heard that Ma Bao would accompany him, he was no longer afraid. He walked to the corner and kicked the wall. It was empty inside. Xu Jie took out a small cloth bag. Seeing Ma Bao looking at it strangely, he opened it and revealed the things inside. It turned out to be several bank notices, including Imperial United Bank and Royal Bank. Ma Bao smiled and said, "It turns out that I have planned to get out."

"That's right, no silver bills are useful these days. The bank bills of the new dynasty are just the tough ones, which are more convenient than real money. Let me laugh at them. Hehe, I have only such skills, don't laugh at me." Xu Jie said with a smile. In fact, he had already planned to leave Pingxi Vanguard when the limelight passed.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh, to be honest, my brother is not as long as you think." Ma Bao said.

Xu Jie made a delayed gesture and said, "Let's go, Brother Ma."

Ma Bao said: "That 3,000-liang errand is not outside, it is in Tianming Temple. Come over..."

Xu Jie posted it over and listened to Ma Bao explaining the matter. Xu Jie thought for a while: "This matter is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in how to leave the temple."

"Don't worry, I'll wait for you in the kitchen, everything will be fine." Ma Bao said.

In the wing room, when Prime Minister Xia and Guo Zhuangtu were planning how to leave Tianming Temple, there was a quarrel outside. Prime Minister Xia opened the door and saw Xu Jie bringing two guards in. Xu Jie saluted with his hands and said, "Mr. Xia, please go to the main hall to discuss matters, and an emergency military message is coming from the front line."

After hearing this, Xia Guoxiang felt nervous. Could it be that the elite soldiers who had sneaked back in batches were discovered? He asked: "Since it is an urgent military situation, why do you only let me go and not invite Lord Guo?"

Xu Jie had a stern face and said, "This is not something that Bei Yiren knows. Please, Lord Xia!"

When Xia Guo Prime Minister saw Xu Jie like this, he did not dare to act rashly, so he had to follow him. However, he did not think that Xu Jie, who was leading the way, did not lead him to the place he said, but became more and more deviant. Xia Guo Prime Minister asked, "Didn't you say that the main hall is discussing matters? Where do you want to take your official position?"

The two guards were also suspicious and asked, "Boss, where are we going?"

Xu Jie ordered: "Catch him, General Wu asked me to deal with him secretly!"

The two guards rushed up and pressed Xia Guoqi. Xu Jie slammed the back of his head with a knife. Xia Guoqi could not break free and fainted. Xu Jie tied it with a rope, blocked his mouth, and asked the two guards to carry it to the kitchen. One guard asked, "Boss, what are you doing in the kitchen? Find a place to bury it and it's done."

Xu Jie scolded: "Shut up, General Wu is waiting in the kitchen, and I have a few words to ask him!"

The two followed in. As soon as they entered the door, the Prime Minister Xia Guo-in was strangled from behind before he could put down his neck. He broke it in a few seconds. Ma Bao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to the owner of the pickle shop: "You have not been in the army for many years, and you still have such strength. It is really rare."

The boss smiled and said, "How dare I forget what I learned under your account?"

Xu Jie was not as calm as the two of them, and asked, "What should I do now?"

Ma Bao directed the two of them to the storage room, where three people were tied, one was the guard in charge of the supervision, and the other two were the servants from the pickle shop. They didn't know Ma Bao's identity and could not allow them to participate in these matters, so they tied them here together.

He lifted up a few empty pickle jars and threw two bodies in. Ma Bao asked the living guard to throw it into a pickle jar, cut off the rope on the guy's body with a knife, and Ma Bao handed the knife to the two guys, saying, "You two kill him, if you don't kill him, I will kill you!"

"Hurry up!" the boss also shouted.

The two guys had never killed anyone, and they had a stinging spree when they closed their eyes. In the end, Ma Bao stepped forward and killed the guy with one knife.

"Okay, from now on, you are my people. Follow us later. Don't be afraid. When you go back to the shop, you will be rewarded with thirty taels per person, which is enough for you to get up and get married. But if the stuff is revealed in the middle, you will all die. Don't forget that you two also killed the guards, and it will die if they fall into their hands!" Ma Bao analyzed the benefits and interests clearly, and both of them should be.

Next, Ma Bao asked Xu Jie and Xia Guoxiang to enter an empty pickle jar, put the lid on their heads, put a layer of leftover vegetables and rice on it, pretending to make slurry, and lifted the donkey cart, and the four of them went out as they came in. At the door, the guards just opened the lid and took a look. When they saw that it was slurry, they drove the people away.

When Prime Minister Xia woke up, it was already afternoon and was in the woods outside Tianming Temple. He opened his eyes and saw that there were only Xu Jie and a horse around him. After looking around, Prime Minister Xia found that he had escaped from the heavens. He asked in surprise: "Why did you save me?"

Xu Jie casually made up a reason and said, "A few years ago, my father angered General and wanted to insert the arrow camp. You helped to talk to the peace and save your life. Now I will pay it back for him. By the way, I will tell you that tonight, Wu Yingqi and Wu Qihua will support the eunuchs and rule the country and eliminate those who refuse to follow. You can run away quickly."
Chapter completed!