"Surrender?" Zhu Chunjie was stunned, "A general who is a rogue bandit has to surrender? This rogue bandit is really particular."
Zhu Cixiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's not Zhao Yingyuan's surrender. What kind of watch is he on? Having Li Yan and Lady Hong as guarantees for him is better than any watch."
"Who put the watch on?" Zhu Chunjie asked puzzledly.
"Prince Heng's surrender!" Zhu Cixi smiled brightly, "Zhu Youyi submitted a surrender to Li Zicheng in April, hoping to become Prince Heng of the Dashun Dynasty! He didn't have time to send out the surrender. , Li Zicheng caused trouble. When Li Yan went to recruit Zhao Yingyuan to surrender, Zhao Yingyuan took out the surrender form.
Now that Chen Yingyuan surrenders, we will have some strength in Qingzhou! Although there were only 3,000 people, they were not something Li Shiyuan could defeat. In addition, we have irrefutable evidence that Heng Fan surrendered to the enemy, and we have an excuse to make Heng Fan surrender. "
This King Heng is so confused! Zhu Chunjie thought to himself: Without seeing the situation clearly, he blindly surrendered and left the evidence of his crime in the hands of the prince. Can anything good happen from this?
"Master Qiansui, what do you plan to do with Prince Heng?" Zhu Chunjie asked.
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said: "It's something you don't want to deal with before the person is caught. Yidu City is a strong city, and Heng Fan has been passed down for eight generations for more than 150 years, so he should have quite a lot of savings. And Li Shiyuan, who assisted Heng Fan in defending the city, He is a tiger general, and I don’t want to overwhelm the capital with troops.”
"Master Qiansui, I can try to outwit Heng Fan."
Zhu Cixi smiled: "Okay, then you can make a plan and send it to Penglai Pavilion."
"I accept the order." Zhu Chunjie saluted and was about to leave. Zhu Cihong ordered again: "Chunjie, just continue to monitor Yanzhou... don't alert the enemy."
"I accept the decree."
Zhu Cixiang added: "As for the Hengfan side, they have to try to outwit each other. No matter what method they use, they have to arrest Zhu Youyi by me. Remember, if you want to arrest him secretly without showing anything, you can't hurt him." A hair on my head."
"I obey the decree! I will find a solution immediately!"
...
In the Wengcheng in the east gate of Yidu City, the fat figure of Heng Wang Zhu Youyi was sitting on a chair, with a yellow umbrella above his head, and his fat face was twisted into a ball, covered with large beads of sweat. , I didn’t wipe it, I just kept sighing there.
Hundreds of soldiers, neatly dressed, lined up in formation, just waiting quietly.
There were also a group of clan officials and gentry in official and Confucian uniforms, all gathered behind the fat man Prince Heng, basking in the sun, all of them uneasy.
Qingzhou Branch Guard General Li Shiyuan had a dark face, holding the handle of his waist knife with his left hand, standing behind the fat Prince Heng.
The sigh of King Heng, the restlessness of the officials and gentry of the Qingzhou clan, and Li Shiyuan's increasingly darker face were all caused by the strange prince Zhu Youdi, the king of Heng clan.
As a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Heng Zhu Youdi seemed to have a special interest in surrender, and he was not willing to become an emperor and supervise the country.
In April of this year, after the news of the fall of Beijing came, Qingzhou City started a campaign to support and persuade the people to join the movement, led by the sub-defense general Li Shiyuan. Apart from this prince who likes to surrender, he is pretty good in other aspects, especially his skills. It was relatively loose and gave Li Shiyuan and the others a lot of money to recruit troops. So Li Shiyuan felt that this prince could at least serve as a supervisor.
But King Heng refused to be the prisoner of the country, let alone go further.
It was okay not to be the prisoner of the country, but then he sent someone to ask Li Zicheng to surrender!
Prince Ming, if you are surrounded by an army of bandits and have no way to escape, just surrender and beg for a living. But Qingzhou City was not surrounded! If you are afraid of death, you can run away like Lu Wang Zhu Yihai.
Why did he beg Li Zicheng so impatiently for surrender? Moreover, they also went to surrender behind the backs of Li Shiyuan and the group of defenders, which resulted in a fait accompli and everyone had no choice but to surrender together...
Of course, it is not a sin for a subjugated vassal king to surrender and beg for life, and it will not make all the officials and gentry in the city uneasy. Heng Fan's crime was that he surrendered in a hurry without seeing the situation clearly!
As a result, not long after the lowered watch was sent out, Li Zicheng lost Beijing and fled all the way. At the same time, the "missing" Emperor Chongzhen and Prince Zhu Cixi led an army to Dengzhou.
This really makes people laugh and cry. Li Shiyuan and the others were tricked by Heng Fan and became the second ministers of the Ming Dynasty. They immediately fought back and defeated the rogue army that entered Qingzhou for a while. Although there were not many results in the battle (Li Shiyuan did not know that he had killed the bandit general), Yidu City was finally stable.
However, the bandits defeated by Li Shiyuan did not return to Jinan, because Jinan was occupied by Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing who went north. The rogue bandit Zhao Yingyuan, who had no way to escape, found out what route he took, and was actually recruited by Dengzhou authorities... This really makes people don't know what to say! The two ministers of the Ming Dynasty met the two ministers of the rogue bandits. One was really more powerful than the other.
Zhao Yingyuan, the second minister of Dashun, knew that Zhu Youtong and others surrendered to Dashun. I wonder if he would expose Heng Fan's crimes to the prince?
If it was revealed, how would Prince Fujun deal with it? How should Heng Fan respond? You can't just close the city and resist, right?
The vassal king of Ming Dynasty became a loyal minister of Dashun, and then the prince sent two ministers of Dashun to attack him?
Thinking about this makes me feel weird! However, if things change, they will change again, and resisting behind closed doors is not completely impossible. Because there is something wrong with where we are now - there is obviously a holy king in the court, but all the power belongs to the prince of Fujun! This is not ancestral! Therefore, Heng Fan's resistance behind closed doors seems to have some basis.
Moreover, in Yanzhou, it seems that some people are planning to restore the power of the Holy King. Therefore, the officials in Heng Fan and Yidu City might be able to handle it...
Just when everyone in Yidu City was feeling uneasy, an envoy from Dengzhou arrived in Yidu and brought even more frightening news.
Dengzhou sent Dongge University Scholar and the Minister of War, Hou Xun, as governors of seven provinces. They wanted to lead their troops to recover Henan, Shanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Sichuan and other places occupied by rogue bandits, and they also wanted to pass through Yidu.
This is the Governor of the Pavilion Department who is passing by when sending troops! All the civil and military officials from Yidu and the vassal king will come out to welcome him. And Governor Hou is the big boss of Donglin, a figure on par with Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa. Now they are leading troops to regain lost territory. How can Heng Fan and Li Shiyuan dare to resist?
But will Hou Xun, the governor of the cabinet, bring a secret edict to arrest Hengfan and Qingzhou officials? At this moment, everyone waiting in Yidu Dongguan Wengcheng is a little uneasy!
Everyone had been basking in the sun for who knows how long. It was not until the sun gradually moved to the middle that they saw the dozen or so horses sent out to greet them come back at high speed, along with several men wearing mandarin duck war jackets. , riding on the pond horse riding on the back. Among them, the leading rider was a servant of Li Shiyuan. He shouted from a distance towards Dongguan of Yidu: "The governor of the Gebu will not enter the city. The governor of the Gebu will not enter the city of Yidu. I only ask the guard general Li Ye to come here." Go see it!"
Not entering the city?
Very good!
King Heng Zhu Youji let out a big breath, wiped the sweat from his face, turned to Li Shiyuan and said: "General Li, please go on a trip for me. Remember to bring all the gifts and give them to Mr. Hou Ge." .”
Li Shiyuan also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was tricked into becoming a second minister by Heng Fan, his army was supported by Heng Fan's money, so he couldn't be too sorry.
It’s a good thing that no one is causing trouble for Heng Fan now!
"Come back as soon as you are ready." Li Shiyuan bowed his hands to King Heng and headed west with dozens of servants and more than a dozen carts of gifts. After traveling less than 20 miles, we saw a newly established military camp. Many officers and soldiers in red shirts were either patrolling around or building forts and setting up camps. The order was far beyond Li Shiyuan's imagination.
Just when Li Shiyuan was surprised, a group of Jin Yiwei wearing flying fish uniforms suddenly came out of the camp with three to two hundred fire gun soldiers. The leader was a senior Jinyiwei official in his twenties who was quite impressive. When he saw Li Shiyuan and others, he asked: "Which of you is Qingzhou Branch Guard General Li Shiyuan? His Royal Highness the Prince of Fujun invites you!"
What? Your Highness the Prince of Fujun invites you? Li Shiyuan already knew something was wrong... He had been fooled by His Highness the Crown Prince! He looked around and saw that he was heavily guarded! It seems that there is no way to escape, so I can only deal with His Highness Prince Heng.
