When the guards went to invite Lang Tingzuo, Deng Ming said to Li Laiheng and others: "The first thing we need to understand is: Why Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu asked us to kill Lang Tingzuo, I guess Lang Tingzuo is probably aware of it."

"I'm afraid he won't say it." Li Laiheng's face sank: "Langzi has been here to eat and drink so many days. If he doesn't know how to polite today, let him suffer."

Deng Ming knew that Li Laiheng wanted to torture the confession, so he hurriedly stopped him and said, "No."

"If we have guessed the probable thing and just asked him to confirm it, it is not impossible to use torture." Li Xinghan next to him began to explain his views. Since he went to Chengdu, Deng Ming has often organized psychology seminars, and his guards have benefited a lot from it: "But now we know nothing. Using torture will only make him say what we mean. Our guesses may not be accurate, and the confessions we get may not be true."

"Yes." Deng Ming smiled and said, "We have to let him tell us willingly."

After a while, Lang Tingzuo was brought by the guards. After being captured, he first believed that he would die. When he first arrived at Deng Ming, Lang Tingzuo could honestly answer Deng Ming's questions. Not only did he admit that Gan Hui and Yu Xin were alive, but he also offered the approximate troops from Nanjing. But after seeing Deng Ming being very polite to him, his courage gradually became stronger. In the past few days, Deng Ming did not abuse Lang Tingzuo, but also provided him with food. The Governor of Liangjiang began to ignore Ming Junai.

In the past, when Lang Tingzuo caught the prisoner, he was beaten and tortured. Some people would surrender if they couldn't hold on. But now Lang Tingzuo has food and drink, and has not suffered any flesh and blood. This made Lang Tingzuo feel that being captured is no big deal. Life is so comfortable that Lang Tingzuo began to think that he would be a martyr.

After being brought in today, Lang Tingzuo sat on the chair he was given in a big manner, raised his head and closed his eyes, and looked like he could kill and not be humiliated. He made a generous statement without waiting for Deng Ming to ask: "I am the official of the court. I have long held up the flag by the emperor. I have already put life and death aside. I will listen to everything to kill and hexagrams. I must not surrender to the thief!"

To Lang Tingzuo's surprise, no one in the Ming army in the camp shouted, and Deng Ming replied with a smile: "I know that Mr. Lang is a bannerman, of course I will not persuade him to surrender. Even if Mr. Lang wants to surrender, I still dare not accept him."

Lang Tingzuo, whose eyes were closed, snorted, feeling a little disappointed, and at the same time a little strange. He thought to himself: "If Deng Ming didn't want to persuade me to surrender, why would he not beat or scold me, and give me food? No, this is his trick to play hard to get. He is just trying to persuade me to surrender. I must hold on and never surrender the thief." Lang Tingzuo's calculation is to continue eating and drinking as much as he should. Anyway, being killed in the end is just a knife and will not suffer much.

"Today I sent someone to the city. Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong have returned. I want to exchange prisoners with them..."

Deng Ming had thought about asking Lang Tingzuo to order the release of the people. At that time, the Governor of Liangjiang was willing to cooperate, but his order as a prisoner was useless. Even if he wrote about the prefect of Jiangning and the defenders in the city, he would not do as he did. After hearing Deng Ming mention these two names, Lang Tingzuo still did not move at all and his eyes were still unwilling to open.

"Jiang Guozhu has agreed." Deng Ming said slowly with Changyin, while continuing to observe Lang Tingzuo's expression.

"Hmph." Lang Tingzuo sneered again, as if all this was long before he expected.

"But Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong have a condition, which is to change me with Mr. Lang's head."

As soon as Deng Ming finished speaking, he saw Lang Tingzuo suddenly open his eyes and sweeping towards him.

"Originally, my condition was: they returned Gan Hui, Yu Xin and several generals, and I sent Mr. Lang back intact, but they replied that they would not live, but as long as they died." Deng Ming noticed that Lang Tingzuo's beard had begun to shake, and he was obviously furious: "If something is abnormal, it will be close to the monster. I can't understand the reason, so I dare not agree to them, so I asked Mr. Lang to ask. What deep hatred do you have? Is it trustworthy for the words of Qizhong and Jiang Guozhu? According to Mr. Lang's opinion, if I meet their requirements, will they release the Yanping vassal people?"

Lang Tingzuo was so angry that his whole body was trembling, and he didn't know how to answer Deng Ming's question. Everyone in the camp looked at him quietly. After waiting for a long time, Lang Tingzuo suddenly stopped trembling and burst into laughter: "Deng Ming, don't want to get rid of us."

"What are you doing if I'm absent?" Deng Ming asked in surprise: "I've been entertaining Mr. Lang these days, just to exchange Mr. Lang for the people from Yanpingfan. If Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong want to change their lives, then Mr. will naturally be able to return safely. When I see them, my plan of alienation will be useless. If they must change those who die, Mr. Lang will definitely not be able to leave alive, so why should I spend more time with Mr.?"

Lang Tingzuo was speechless. He lowered his head and thought for a while, and found that Deng Ming's logic was indeed impeccable. He couldn't help but ask, "What is Mr. Deng asking me to come here today? Do you understand if I die?"

"No, I think there is fraud in it. Mr. Lang and their colleagues are in the same fight, what kind of resentment are there that cannot be resolved?" Deng Ming asked: "Mr. Lang must know it in his heart."

Lang Tingzuo laughed terrified: "Deng Ming, kill, just kill, why bother to play this trick of catching mice?" Seeing that death was coming, Lang Tingzuo was full of desolation. He hated Guan Qizhong and Jiang Guozhu to the core, but unfortunately he never had the chance to take revenge.

"I'm just worried. Do you really have a deep hatred?" Deng Ming asked again: "Why do they want to kill you? Can I really exchange your head for the Yanping vassal people?"

"Yes, these two guys do have reasons to kill me, because if I hadn't been captured, they would have never had a good result. But it would be useless for the Admiral to kill me, and they would definitely not release Yanping's people." Lang Tingzuo and Jiang Guozhu, Guan Qizhong, have known each other for many years. After a while, he had guessed the two of them, knowing that the other party wanted to cheat him to death, forcing the court to rely on them and try to commit crimes and seek merit.

"Is that?" Deng Ming asked in a long tone: "They not only want Mr. Lang's head, but also ask me to do another thing: they want to inform me of Liang Huafeng's whereabouts and let me ambush Liang Huafeng..."

"What a thief!" Lang Tingzuo's hair was wide open, and he jumped up from the chair. He felt that his chest was filled with a mass of depression, and almost bleeding. After a long time, Lang Tingzuo sorted out this tone and beat his chest and shouted: "It's true. Just killing me, they still can't guarantee that they will escape from the crime."

"Get rid of the crime? What crime?" Deng Ming was happy. Lang Tingzuo really knew the reason.

Lang Tingzuo glared at Deng Ming, with a look of vigilance on his face: "Why does Mr. Deng want to know the reason so much?"

"Because only by knowing the reason can I be sure that they are telling the truth."

"There is a reason, but I dare to say that Mr. Deng killed me, and he would undoubtedly kill the Yanping vassal people with his own hands!" Lang Tingzuo was not young and was not slow at all. He immediately analyzed to Deng Ming: If Deng Mingzhen killed him and Liang Huafeng, Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong would definitely kill all the people Deng Ming wanted, so as to show that they had nothing to do with Deng Mingquan and had never made any transactions: "The most toxic thing is that even if I wrote a letter, they could say that this was forced by Mr. Deng with torture. They would never let others go in order to protect themselves. If that falls into the eyes of those who are interested, it is evidence."

"Oh." Deng Ming thought about it carefully and found that Lang Tingzuo's analysis was very reasonable.

"Let me go back." Lang Tingzuo noticed Deng Ming's hesitation and immediately made a suggestion: "When I return to Nanjing and arrest these two tragic things, I will release all the people from Yanping's vassal."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Because they will definitely not let anyone go." Lang Tingzuo said confidently: "If Mr. Deng wants to save the Yanpingfan people, he must trust me once."

"But it may also be that you are singing a double act and want to take the risk to save you. In fact, there is no hatred between you." Deng Ming finally waited for the opportunity: "In this way, tell me carefully what kind of grudges you have, and the grudges between Liang Huafeng and them, and they cannot be left behind at all." After a pause, Deng Ming said again: "Mr. Lang swears that he will release people when he goes back, so let me tell me the truth first and show some sincerity."

Seeing that Lang Tingzuo was still hesitating, Deng Ming threatened: "I will also ask them the reasons and ask them why they must take Mr. Lang's life. If I find that they are talking about more details than Mr. Lang, then I will think that Governor Jiang and others are more sincere and have a greater grasp of cooperation with them than with Mr. Lang."

Deng Ming did not ask Lang Tingzuo to immediately describe the reason, but instead sent an envoy to Nanjing in front of him to ask Jiang Guozhu and the others. After sending the envoy, Deng Mingcai said to Lang Tingzuo: "Mr. Lang first, think about it carefully, be careful not to miss anything, so as not to say more carefully than Mr. Lang, which leads me to think that Mr. Wang is not sincere."

...

When the Ming army sent an envoy for the third time, Jiang Guozhu thought he could see Lang Tingzuo's head, but he didn't want the envoy to tell him: Lang Tingzuo promised Deng Ming that as long as he let him go, he would release Gan Hui and others to thank him.

"How can Admiral Deng trust Lang Tingzuo?" Jiang Guozhu shouted out of his composure: "When he returns to the city, he will definitely break his promise."

"So my admiral asked me to ask why Governor Jiang must have the head of Governor Lang, what are the grudges between you?" The envoy also told Jiang Guozhu, and Deng Ming also asked Lang Tingzuo the same question: "My admiral has never dealt with you, and I don't know which of you is more trustworthy, so ask you the same question and see who is more intimate about my admiral. If Governor Jiang confesses to meeting each other, my admiral will cooperate with Governor Jiang. If Governor Jiang deceives such trivial matters, then it will be difficult for my admiral to believe that you will keep your promise and release the Yanping vassal people."

Jiang Guozhu expressed his intention to discuss with Guan Qizhong, and the envoy went out patiently to wait.

"How did things become like this?" Guan Xiaozhong said anxiously: "Telling Deng Ming the truth is not good for us, he will know Lang Tingzuo's weight, and maybe he will make more demands."

"But if we don't say it, Lang Tingzuo will also say it." Jiang Guozhu said: "Then Deng Ming will not trust us."

"Lang Tingzuo wouldn't say it either. If he told Deng Ming about the grudge between us, it would be even more difficult for him to get out of it. Moreover, if Deng Ming really planned to cooperate with us, he would definitely kill him." Guan Xiaozhong felt that Lang Tingzuo would not confess for his own interests.

"But he dared not not say it because he was afraid that if we told the truth, it would be useless if he didn't confess, and he would harm himself. Didn't he still want to persuade Deng Ming to let him go?" Jiang Guozhu sighed: "Unless we can tell Lang Tingzuo, we must not say it, let him not say it. The problem is that you have a way to notify him? Even if he notified, can he trust our words?"

Guan Xiaozhong was stunned for a long time and suddenly started to curse: "This Deng Ming is only in his early twenties, why is he so bad?"

"Tell him, even if he makes more requests, he is not afraid. Anyway, as long as he is willing to kill Lang Tingzuo, no matter what we promise him, he will not admit it in the end."

Jiang Guozhu and Guan Yizhong reached a consensus, called the envoy in, and told them in detail about the imperial court's secret order.

...

"Psychologically, this is called the prisoner's dilemma. The key point is to create conflicts between the two sides and completely destroy their trust between them. It is obvious that it is the best not to say it, but in the end they will say that they will betray each other." After reading the same statements on both sides, Deng Ming figured out the truth and introduced it to Li Laiheng and the guards: "If you encounter such an opportunity in the future, don't let it go."

"It sounds a bit like a case trial." Li Laiheng felt that Deng Ming's method seemed to be a means of judging cases, but Deng Ming had never been an official and had no Master Ming of Zheng around him. Where did he learn it?

"It was originally a way to investigate cases." Deng Ming smiled. Why is it called the information explosion era in later generations? It is because the knowledge that a modern person can obtain from the media is unimaginable to the ancients. What many people see and hear in this era are not as much as the amount of information that people living in the Internet age can get in a month.

Lang Tingzuo was brought again. This time, he did not close his eyes and raised his head, but looked at Deng Ming with hope.

"Jiang Guozhu is as detailed as Mr. Lang, and he is very concerned about me, so I still don't know who is more trustworthy." Deng Ming said that he cannot let Lang Tingzuo go back for the time being: "So I invited Mr. Lang to come because I want to ask if Mr. Lang has any good solutions to ensure that the people in Yanping's vassal will be released, so that I don't have to worry about Mr. Lang breaking his promise."

Lang Tingzuo shook his head: "I have no choice."

"Mr. Lang is too humble. Mr. Lang has been in Nanjing for so many years. There must be many disciples and officials. There are always people who can trust them. Can they let them release some people first? Show me your sincerity?"

"Impossible. Even if there are still some people thinking about me, they will definitely be stared at by Jiang Guozhu and the others. If they want to release people out of the city, they will not only need the jailer to release people, but also the city gates to release them," Lang Tingzuo shook his head desperately: "Now the city is full of loyal people, and my subordinates can't do it at all."

"What if I let General Liang Huafeng return to the city?" Deng Ming asked, and he took out a piece of paper for Lang Tingzuo to see: "This is General Liang's whereabouts. Jiang Guozhu just told me that he was in a hurry to rush back to Nanjing from Suzhou. There were only two thousand people around him. If I didn't ambush General Liang, what would happen after he entered the city? Will he listen to Mr. Lang? He controlled several city gates, and it would be fine to let Yanpingfan leave the city?"

Lang Tingzuo was stunned at first, and then he understood what Deng Ming meant. He had to see Zheng Chenggong's people before he was willing to release himself. Although Lang Tingzuo had a way to convince Liang Huafeng to form an anti-Cheng Guozhu and to be loyal to the alliance, he was worried about Deng Ming because Lang Tingzuo had been planning to escape from danger and broke his promise: "How did I know that Mr. Deng would not break his promise?"

"Because I will give Jiang Guozhu the same conditions," Deng Ming replied with a smile: "But Mr. Lang don't worry. As long as the teacher is willing to cooperate, I will write a letter to General Liang to explain the pros and cons of General Liang and ask him to help, I will put forward the same conditions for Jiang Guozhu after General Liang enters the city."

Lang Tingzuo jumped up from the chair again: "Admiral Deng actually wants to cooperate with Jiang Guozhu? Aren't you going to cooperate with me?"

"Whoever releases the Yanping vassal, I will cooperate with anyone." Deng Ming said with confidence: "If it was Jiang Guozhu who released the person in the end, I would say it was Mr. Lang's secret order that he confessed to me - this is not wronged, right? He also suggested that I use this to threaten Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong to surrender, but they refused. As long as I report the content of the secret order, Beijing will definitely believe me, because Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong will obviously not tell me on their own initiative - this is certainly not true, but from common sense, it will be like this. Mr. Lang thinks, what reward will your emperor have for your behavior? What kind of behavior will be rewarded by your emperor for your behavior?

?” Seeing Lang Tingzuo's face turned pale, Deng Ming was afraid that he would be so angry that he would go away, and he quickly comforted him: "But if Mr. Lang and General Liang released my people, I would say that it was Guan Qizhong and Liang Huafeng's secret meaning that they told me. They planned to surrender and use this to win the trust of me - Governor Lang, please read this statement. This statement is completely reasonable. At that time, I will still disclose the secret meaning. From a common sense point of view, your emperor has no reason to leak it. It must be what they said, confirming that their surrender is imminent, and Governor Lang can kill them to silence them on the grounds of urgent situation."

It took Lang Tingzuo a long time to sort out what Deng Ming said and found that the other party's strategy was indeed fine. However, Lang Tingzuo still murmured: "Does the admiral plan to say the same thing as Jiang Guozhu?"

"Yes." Deng Ming nodded. Now his position is in an absolute advantage. Not only did Lang Tingzuo need to cooperate with him if he wants to save himself, but Jiang Guozhu and Guan Qizhong are the same. Now when Deng Ming recalled their initial conditions, he felt angry and funny: he dared to steal the landlord with such a bad card in his hand!

"You want us to fight against the snipe and clam, you are a fisherman to benefit!" Anger made Lang Tingzuo lose his mind. He jumped up and shouted, "Do you want Guan Xiaozhong and Liang Huafenghuo to seize Jiang Ning easily? Don't think about it! I would rather die than let you succeed."

"Mr. Lang calm, calm." Deng Ming felt that Lang Tingzuo was too excited, so he explained patiently: "I don't have the ability to conquer Nanjing, otherwise I wouldn't bargain with Mr. and Jiang Guozhu. I'd better go directly to the city to save people? As for the internal strife, I believe that as long as I am still under the city of Nanjing, Guan Xiaozhong and Liang Huafeng will not fight. And Mr. Liang can also remind General Liang. I don't mind that Mr. Wang clearly stated this in his letter, so that he would tolerate his country and not ignore national affairs for personal grievances. I will also remind Governor Jiang about this matter. In fact, I don't want you to fight. Whether Guan Xiaozhong annexed Liang Huafeng's troops or vice versa, I have to worry that you will break your promise. It's great now."

Although he was a little calmer than before, Lang Tingzuo was still resentful. Now in his eyes, Deng Ming's aversion was no less than Jiang Guozhu: "Releasing Hai Ni means disregarding national affairs! I was blinded by lard earlier, and I was afraid of death and deceived by you. Now I have figured it out! I will never write a letter to General Liang, nor will I help Hai Ni leave the city. I swear to be loyal to the emperor to the death!"

Seeing Lang Tingzuo's appearance, Li Laiheng and Deng Ming's guards were a little worried, fearing that this old guy would have a stubborn temper and would not cooperate with Deng Ming again, which would lead to the failure of the competition mechanism and allow Jiang Guozhu to regain his monopoly position.

Deng Ming was also a little worried, feeling that he might not be very skilled just now, which made Lang Tingzuo feel too humiliated.

"How to save it?" Deng Ming quickly thought about the countermeasures in his heart. Suddenly, he remembered a scene he saw when he squeezed into a bus in his previous life:

The carriage was very crowded and there was no extra space. The ticket seller pulled down a man at the door. This was a father with a child. When Deng Ming saw the anxious expression on the man's face and the child crying in his arms, the first feeling was sympathy, but the ticket seller reversed Deng Ming's view in one sentence. She shouted at the man: "Are you still a father? Let such a young child squeeze the car?" Not only did Deng Ming immediately stand on the side of the ticket seller, but the man's expression immediately changed from anxiety and anger to shame.

"What you do is not important, the key is that your motivation must be noble." Deng Ming found his idea: "Well, yes, it's hard to commit crimes and robbery, but if you add a helping poverty after robbing the rich, it will be a way for heaven."

"Mr. Lang, the so-called two evils are the least." Deng Ming calmly enlightened Lang Tingzuo: "If Mr. gives up, then I can only cooperate with Jiang Guozhu, and I may be deceived by him, and I cannot rescue the Yanpingfan people. But have you ever thought about what Jiang Guozhu and the others are going to do? They want to murder the loyal general Liang and deceive the emperor. The gentleman died, but who can expose the true face of Jiang Guozhu and Liang Huafeng? Who can get rid of this great harm for the court?" Deng Ming suddenly increased his tone and blamed him with a stern voice: "Mr. Lang really doesn't know how many Haigui and Guan, Jiang and the two thieves, who are the most harmful to the court? The gentleman was angry with me, so he indulged these two thieves to deceive the world and colluded with me. Does Mr. sir take the country to heart? Is there any emperor in his heart?"

Not only Lang Tingzuo, but Li Laiheng and other guards were also staring at Deng Ming who was righteous and righteous.

"Okay, sir, think about it again, I'll say that." Deng Ming slowed down. He also felt that the play was a bit too much. He had already given this reason to Lang Tingzuo and let it ferment it on its own.

"Why does the admiral value me so much?" Lang Tingzuo was already a little confused and asked instead of leaving.

He had to continue acting, and Deng Ming replied: "If the teacher dies, I must also take the charge of leaking the secret orders to the husband for cooperation. The husband's family may have trouble, and loyalty, Jiang Guozhu can get away with it. In order to rescue the Yanping vassal, I have to do so. But from the bottom of my heart, I also despise such villains, and respect loyal ministers like the husband, so I hope that the husband will release the Yanping vassal."

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