"Your Majesty, look at this... I didn't expect that my little dog could be so filial. Even after so many years, I still remember that I still like Baozi. Auntie Xiaoyu from the Zhang family even served as a filial piety to the Empress Dowager on my behalf." Please give me grace... This is really, really a rare good boy!"
Wuhua Mountain, Yin'an Hall. The person who was praising his son in front of Wu Sangui was of course Wang Zhongxiao's father Wang Fuchen - although one of them cheated his son into selling official money for two thousand taels, the other sold his father to Zhang Xiaoyu and Aunt Zhang as a wishful man in order to raise money for official activities. Jun. But this is all a family scandal, and a family scandal should not be made public.
In front of Wu Sangui, Wang Fuchen couldn't say that he was quite a senior man, but he actually let his son be sold to a twenty-five-year-old girl as her husband.
After all, he is a commander-in-chief, so he still needs face!
Wu Sangui held the Empress Dowager's Yizhi and looked at it while nodding: "I have long seen that Shikai is a good boy... But I didn't expect that you, Fuchen, are actually an infatuated man. Very good, very good. OK!"
Wu Sangui attaches great importance to the relationship between men and women, so he can only be so angry as to be a beauty! Although he was taboo about this and wouldn't let others talk about it, he still looked down upon the same infatuated man.
Wang Fuchen chuckled and said: "Your Majesty, am I not living like Lu Bu? Lu Bu is the most infatuated man in the whole "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!"
Wu Sangui thought about it, and it was indeed like this... "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" contained a lot of brotherhood, father-son righteousness, and loyalty between the king and his ministers, but killing his godfather for a woman, and later to protect his own woman... It seems that the one who is willing to stand out from Xiapi City is Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian.
It seems that this Lu Bu... is still a man! And this living Lu Bu is stronger than the dead Lu Bu. The living Lu Bu just has more fathers, but he has not killed his father!
Although he jumped back and forth twice between Dashun, Ming and Qing Dynasties, except for the first time when he killed a brother-in-law, the next few times he either passively rebelled with his superiors, or surrendered to the enemy to save his life under helpless circumstances. He is somewhat loyal, much better than Lu Bu who killed his two fathers.
The Empress Dowager married her personal aunt to Wang Fuchen, obviously with the intention of wooing her, and perhaps promoting her by the way. After all, this Wang Fuchen was not only a wrapper, but also a former imperial guard. The imperial guard was not an ordinary guard, but a guard who could guard the emperor with a knife. Those who can become imperial guards are the emperor's confidants.
And Wang Fuchen was personally promoted to the imperial bodyguard by the late emperor, and he was definitely the late emperor's confidant! Although he has no friendship with the little emperor Kangxi today, he is still a figure between the little emperor and the empress dowager... Maybe after Wang Fuchen gets married to Aunt Zhang, who has been in love for more than ten years, he will have the opportunity to focus on It's a town.
If you have the chance, you should win over such a person. Only by uniting can we be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and protect the emperor!
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui said to Wu Shicong who was waiting on the side: "Shicong, go to the accounting room and get 30,000 taels of silver notes!"
Thirty thousand taels?
Of course Wang Fuchen knew that the money was used to bribe him...it was so much! Zhang Xiaoyu only paid six thousand taels for him to be her husband. In comparison, Wu Sangui was more impressive and was really a good person!
Seeing Wu Shicong go to get the banknote, Wu Sangui smiled and said to Wang Fuchen: "Fuchen, you have been living in Yunnan for more than ten years and have lived a poor life. During this time, you have helped me train troops. It is really hard. I can't let you do it. It’s all in vain, these 30,000 taels of silver can be considered as part of the wedding party I gave you!”
"Yes, but this is too much." Wang Fuchen laughed so hard that he could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear.
Wu Sangui was right about one thing. He, the Yunnan "Suppression Commander-in-Chief", was indeed a poor man...Commanders elsewhere could eat empty quotas and drink soldiers' blood. Three thousand soldiers could at least eat five or six hundred empty quotas. However, Wu Sangui had more soldiers and fewer quotas, so there was no room for short quotas. Don't even think about the blood of the soldiers. Those are all soldiers who fought with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Dingguo! If Wang Fuchen dared to deduct their money, they would chop him down with a knife at any time.
Therefore, Wang Fuchen, who had served as a general soldier in Yunnan for more than ten years, did not have much savings...otherwise he would not have blackmailed his son's "official title" by two thousand.
Wu Sangui smiled and said to Wang Fuchen: "Fuchen, when you arrive in Beijing, you will have to run everything up and down, and you can't save money. You have been working as a general for more than ten years, and you have already saved enough to be promoted to admiral, but I am in Yunnan. There is only one admiral seat next to me, and I really can’t arrange it... If we can find a way in Beijing and spend money to promote one, then we can rely on each other in the future and be loyal to the Qing Dynasty together."
Wu Sangui actually said the same thing to many people!
For example, Zhang Yong is now the admiral of Ganzhou, Zu Zeqing is the commander-in-chief of Gao Leilian in Guangdong, Li Benshen is the admiral of Guizhou, Zheng Jiaolin is the admiral of Sichuan, and Wu Zhimao is the commander-in-chief of Baoning in Sichuan. Tan Hong and others from Kuizhou General Army had all accepted Wu Sangui's benefits, and they had agreed to stay loyal to the Qing Dynasty together... However, Wu Sangui's original intention was that everyone should respect themselves as soldiers and then be loyal to the Qing Dynasty. clear.
But those people always misunderstood that Wu Sangui wanted to pull everyone together to rebel!
Wang Fuchen also had a misunderstanding. He also felt that Wu Sangui was going to rebel after all... Although Wu Sangui was fifty-eight years old this year, Nurhachi was also fifty-six years old when he proclaimed himself khan in Hetuala.
Moreover, even if Wu Sangui himself had no time to fight back, didn’t he still have his son Wu Yingqi and grandson Wu Shicong?
So this counter...must be built!
"Your Highness, don't worry," Wang Fuchen said, patting his chest, "One day... As long as Your Highness needs Wang, Wang will definitely work with him! Let's end the Qing Dynasty together!"
"Okay, let's be loyal to the Qing Dynasty together!" When Wu Sangui nodded repeatedly, Wu Shicong had already come in with a large bag of banknotes.
Wu Sangui handed the banknote to Wang Fuchen, and then personally sent Wang Fuchen to the foot of Wuhua Mountain, and watched Wang Fuchen leave, as if reluctant to part with him.
Seeing Wang Fuchen walking away, Wu Sangui's grandson Wu Shicong quietly came to his grandfather's side and whispered: "Grandpa, I'm afraid Wang Fuchen won't come back to Yunnan again, right?"
Wu Sangui nodded and said: "After all, the little emperor has taken charge personally... Maybe the old queen wants to find some escorts for her grandson? This Wang Fuchen can at least have a future as an admiral in the future. No matter how lucky he is, the governor is not sure. ah!"
"Grandpa, we have to win over such a person, he will be of great use in the future!"
Of course Wu Shicong also mistakenly believed that his grandfather had the idea of rebellion - which seemed good to him. If the rebellion succeeded, he would at least have a prince in the future, and maybe even become an emperor!
Wu Sangui nodded: "Yes...but it is not easy to win over such a person."
"Grandpa, this matter is actually not that difficult."
Wu Sangui looked back at his grandson: "What? Do you have any idea?"
"Grandpa," Wu Shicong said with a smile, "asking what love is in the world, it makes you agree whether life or death... This living Lu Bu and little Lu Bu are both infatuated men!"
"But what does this have to do with our family?" Wu Sangui asked with a frown.
"Xiao Tu!" Wu Shicong said, "Xiao Tu is a rare beauty!"
"Xiao Tu... you want to give Xiao Tu to Wang Fuchen?" Wu Sangui was stunned, "Wang Fuchen is Xiao Tu's father's brother!"
"It's not Wang Fuchen, it's Wang Shikai!" Wu Shicong said with a smile, "Grandpa, they have actually been on good terms for a long time... and have made a private decision for life!"
"What? Have you made a private decision for life?" Wu Sangui was stunned, "Is it true or not?"
"Of course it's true..." Wu Shicong said, "Grandpa, haven't you ever heard Aunt Chen sing about 'Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass stretches to the sky'?"
"How come you haven't heard of it?" Wu Sangui said, "Yuanyuan bursts into tears every time she finishes singing."
"This song was composed by Wang Zhongxiao and given to Xiao Tu!"
"What?" Wu Sangui was shocked, "Wang Shikai still has such a talent?"
"That's right," Wu Shicong nodded, "My second brother is also a man of both civil and military skills...Grandpa, as long as we can hold Shikai back, we are not afraid that Wang Fuchen will not be of the same mind as us!"
"But..." Wu Sangui frowned, "Now some people in the court don't know my king's loyalty. If Wang Shikai marries Xiao Tu, I'm afraid it will bring bad luck to Wang Fuchen, right?"
"Grandpa," Wu Shicong said with a smile, "this matter cannot be done openly, but we can do it covertly... As long as Xiaotu and Wang Shikai get married, then the two father and son of the Wang family will be ours."
