"You, what did you say?"
Wang Shiyuan was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand, and stared at Chen Yonghua, the white-faced scholar in front of him.
Chen Yonghua's fair face also showed a bit of coldness, and he said calmly: "Your Highness Prince Ding, you are the son of Emperor Yizong of the Ming Dynasty and the younger brother of Prince Xianmin. After Emperor Yizong and Prince Xianmin both died for their country, you will You should stand up and lead the anti-Qing martyrs from all over the world to defend our country. But where are you?"
"I, I was still young at that time," Wang Shiyuan defended himself.
Chen Yonghua added: "Where were you when the former lord of the Yanping clan, Guo Xingye, made the northern expedition to Nanjing in the 13th year of Yongli's reign? Why didn't you go and join us? You were not young by then, were you?"
"I, didn't I have Emperor Yongli at that time?" Wang Shiyuan continued to quibble, "What's the point of me coming out?"
"What about after Emperor Zhaozong Yongli died for his country?" Chen Yonghua asked again, "After Emperor Zhaozong Yongli died for his country, you are the hope of those who are fighting against the Qing Dynasty in the world. Since the 16th year of Yongli, there have been few heroes who have risen up in the name of His Highness. Is it? There are once or twice a year when the climate is good, right? There are even more "third princes" who go bad without causing trouble! But how come you, the rightful owner, have been living a peaceful and beautiful life here in Yuyao? What about your childhood? And now you have taken refuge in the imperial court and become a hawk dog at the sticky pole. Are you worthy of your ancestors and the heroes of the world? "
"I, I" Wang Shiyuan looked innocent. When did he join the imperial court and become a hawk? How dare he! He obviously has a lot of Confucian principles (he did very well in his studies when he was a prince in the Ming Dynasty, and after running away, he was handed over to the care of a former civil servant named Wang by Chang Mingyu's father, so he has a solid foundation in Confucianism). I don’t even dare to take the examination as a scholar. Now I am forced to become an eagle dog. I don’t know what happened, but I was made a big eagle dog in the sticky post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
Thinking of this, he had no choice but to turn his attention to Chang Xiangu. This scholar named "Fu Fu" was unreasonable, but she was still a good fairy. She had always taken good care of him these years.
But Chang Mingyue also "changed her mind" and just shook her head: "Third brother, you are sorry for your ancestors, and even more sorry for the people of the world. You owe the people of the world an uprising!"
"I owe, owe the world an uprising?"
"Yes!" The strong man named Zhang Eryi (the name given by his parents was quite random) also nodded and said, "Third brother, so many heroes have died in your name over the years, but you have nothing. If you do this, how can you be worthy of the people of the world?"
Well, this crime has escalated quickly enough. In a short time, it has gone from being sorry for the ancestors to being sorry for the people of the world.
Wang Shiyuan still shook his head: "But now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is powerful, they have set up Susong Town in Suzhou and Songjiang, and stationed heavy troops. How can the uprising succeed? If it is obvious that it has not succeeded, there may be an uprising. Isn't it just adding casualties?"
Chen Yonghua shook his head and said: "No, no, the uprising in Suzhou is not just to increase casualties, but all the dead will get what they deserve!"
First of all, Suzhou did not have heavy troops from the Qing court. Although Susong Town was an important town, the soldiers in Susong Town were all on Chongming Island, and the general military office of Susong Town was also on Chongming Island. There is only one weak brigade guarding the city in Suzhou. Although there is another governor of Jiangsu (also known as the governor of Jiangning), the governor of Jiangsu, Ma Hu (pronounced Mahu), is going to Jiangning to meet the imperial envoy Kang Wang Jieshu and the prince of Jingnan. Geng Jingzhong and his party must be accompanied by most of his assistants. We can just take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble in Suzhou Prefecture. By the time the Qing troops from Chongming Island cross the river, we will have already turned Suzhou Prefecture upside down.
Secondly, it is not you who is pushed out to be the Third Prince Zhu this time, but someone else, and this person is not an ordinary person! It was Wang Yongkang, the godson-in-law of King Pingxi. He does not want to replace you by taking action in your name, but he wants to rise up and call for the first cause of China's rejuvenation! If you can join in, even if you just wave the flag and shout, you can make this mission of reviving the Ming Dynasty more justifiable. "
It turns out that Wang Zhongxiao and Chen Yonghua designed a big show for the two third princes of Zhu!
One of them, Prince Zhu San, died gloriously, his name will go down in history, and his fame will last through the ages. He then dragged Wu Sangui onto the pirate ship, thereby defeating Kangxi's attempt to get Shi Langna to surrender.
The other Prince Zhu, the third prince, wanted to repay the people of the world for an uprising, and at the same time gave up the thought of "counseling for the rest of his life".
Only when the "cowardice" of the real Third Prince Zhu is eliminated, will he wholeheartedly follow Yang Qilong to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
Otherwise, even if you take him to Beijing, you still have to keep an eye on this guy and don't let him escape on his own. If he failed to escape and was caught by the Qing government, he would be in big trouble.
In addition, if we want to fight against the Qing Dynasty at the moment, we still have to use the banner of "anti-Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty". After all, everyone doesn't understand the concept of "republican revolution", so we can't encourage it! Therefore, if the deal to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty is completed, it may be necessary for the third prince Zhu to step forward and become the virtual king and the king for a few days. So he can't just do nothing and just eat what's ready to eat.
"This Third Prince Zhu who was pushed out by you is really the son-in-law of King Pingxi?" Prince Zhu Third Prince Wang Shiyuan looked at Chen Yonghua again, "Then who are you?"
Chen Yonghua smiled and cupped his fists and said: "My Chen Fufu, Prince Pingxi proposed to join the army! He came to Jiangnan on the prince's order to help the prince's godson-in-law to start an uprising in the name of Prince Zhu San. The prince has been trying to find you, a real man, for these years. The Third Prince Zhu was never found, so I had to make a fake one."
"What? You, are you from Prince Pingxi's Mansion?" Wang Shiyuan looked at the scholar in front of him, who had a hint of Fujian accent, with a doubtful expression on his face.
Shouldn't this accent belong to Geng Jimao, King of Jingnan?
"Third brother," Chang Mingyue saw Wang Shiyuan's suspicious face and quickly proved it for Chen Yonghua, "Fufu is indeed a member of Prince Pingxi's palace. Prince Pingxi has been preparing for war in Yunnan, preparing to raise troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Recently, he has obtained the first warrior in Manchuria. With Obai's help, everything is ready, all that's left is a righteous name.
If there is a third Prince Zhu who can start an uprising in the southeast and raise the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, then wouldn't it be justifiable for the prince to raise troops to respond? "
When Wang Shiyuan heard this, he thought it made sense, and his heart moved a little, "The prince really wants to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"
"Of course!" Chen Yonghua nodded, "If the prince does not take up the banner of Prince Zhu, the third prince, the people in the world will not obey him! So what the prince means is to ask the third prince Zhu to raise the flag of righteousness first, and then he will respond, and you will be treated as a hypocrite in the future. The king of kings and kings rules the world with his arch.
If he knew your whereabouts earlier, he would definitely not create a fake Prince Zhu. But it doesn't matter. If things happen in Suzhou by luck, you can take over. If it doesn't work, you can hide in Beijing with Mingyue and Brother Twenty-One, and Yang Qianhu's son will naturally keep you safe. "
Chang Mingyue smiled and said: "Third brother, there is no risk in this matter, just do it! If it succeeds, you can also be an emperor, and we, the loyal ministers who have always protected you, will be able to reward you based on your merits in the future!"
"That's right!" Brother Zhang Twenty-one's face was not that good-looking, and he said coldly, "I have followed His Highness for many years and risked my life to protect you loyally. Now I finally have the opportunity to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Can you... You can’t just say you don’t want to do it and then just do it!”
It’s definitely not possible if you don’t do it!
This third prince of Zhenzhu can escape the pursuit of the Qing court, can still study, marry a wife and have children, and now he can open a private school in Yuyao to live a happy life. All these are Ming Dynasty officials like Chang Mingyue and her father, as well as Zhang The merits of twenty-first-class martyrs.
Now that there is hope for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, he has the opportunity to be a puppet emperor. How can he not do it?
If he doesn't do it, how will Chang Mingyue, Zhang Eryi and the others recover their investment?
"Okay!" Wang Shiyuan finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll do it. I, Zhu Cijiong, do owe the people of the world an uprising, and I'll just pay them back." He paused, "But my family doesn't know anything. , can you arrange a way for them to survive?"
Chen Yonghua smiled: "This is easy to handle. Tomorrow we will go to the Yuyao County Government Office to find Magistrate Pan and ask him to take care of your family."
Wang Shiyuan was a little dumbfounded: "Let the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty take care of my family? Is this possible?"
"Why not?" Chen Yonghua said with a smile, "You are also an official of the Qing Dynasty now. You are a candidate for the eighth-level county magistrate. You can walk on the stick. By the way, we have also arranged a good relative for you, saying that you are Wang Fuchen, the president's military training minister. Relative. You are his cousin. He was separated due to the chaos of the war. Now he has finally been found, so I arranged an errand for you at Niangan. The President’s Minister of Military Training has a high position, and his young master Wang’s bodyguard is still Niangan. The chief and first-class bodyguard in front of the emperor is also a disciple of the great scholar Mingzhu and the governor of Liangjiang, Duolong. With such a good relative, it will be too late for Magistrate Pan of Yuyao to fawn over you!"
The city of Jiangning is full of people, and the governor's offices of Liangjiang are everywhere.
The soldiers of the governor of Liangjiang were arranged in four neat rows at the yamen gate, holding the festival flags of the governor and ministers. All the soldiers were dressed like green battalion soldiers. Most of them carried long spears and swords, and about 30% of the soldiers stood quietly with shotguns on their backs. A young military attache holding a sword on his waist was walking back and forth in front of the team.
The gate of the governor's office is open. The staff of the Supervisory Office, as well as the "official white laborers" who were waiting for vacancies at the Liangjiang Governor's Yamen, were all waiting outside the door. Duolong, the governor of Liangjiang, Echu, the general of Jiangning, Ma Hu, the governor of Jiangsu, Liang Huafeng, the admiral of Jiangnan, and Shi Lang, the former admiral of the Fujian Navy who had just arrived with a thousand Fujian soldiers a few days ago, were among this group of staff and "officers". Surrounded by "Bai Lao", he stood under the gate hanging with the plaque "Liangjiang Governor-General's Office". On the two flagpoles erected high outside the gate, Duolong's handsome flag and the flag of the Governor of Liangjiang were fluttering.
Duolong looked fatter than when he was the foreman guard in Beijing. He looked like a mountain of flesh standing there, with a big face that was so fat that a double chin appeared. He was smiling now. He was grinning from ear to ear and talking about his heroic deeds in chasing Aobei to Governor Mahu of Jiangsu, Admiral Liang of Jiangnan, General Er of Jiangning, and Shi Lang who had just arrived from Fujian, and he did not forget to praise him. Two sentences about loyalty and filial piety to the king.
"My disciple is very powerful. Do you know what weapon he used to plot against the old thief Obai? Brick! That old thief Obai is very careful. He always wears chain armor when entering and exiting the palace. Ordinary swords You can't hurt him. If you want to capture him in close combat, no one is sure of victory. So my disciple came up with the damaging trick of hitting people with bricks. He hit Obai's head so badly that his blood flowed, and he ran away screaming. Out of the Qianqing Gate!"
Hearing Duolong talk about it with excitement, General Echu of Jiangning, Governor Ma Hu of Jiangsu, and Liang Huafeng, who once defeated Zheng Chenggong on Chongming Island and was now elderly and had to walk on crutches, all laughed as if at the scene. From time to time he would chime in with a few words. Only Shi Lang, who had a big pie face, two handlebar mustaches, and his skin was darkened by the sea sun, had no expression on his face at this time. He just stood there with his head held high, not knowing what he was thinking. ?
While Duolong was bragging there, the imperial envoy's motorcade had already meandered into the city of Jiangning.
The team this time was extremely large. After all, the person responsible for this errand was Prince Kang Jieshu. He was one of the "eight great" princes of the Qing Dynasty. He was hereditary and wealthy, so how could his ostentation be so small? Moreover, the main mission of this trip was to escort Geng Jingzhong, the crown prince of Jingnan, back to Fujian to join the feudal clan.
This prince's ostentation is also quite grand. He has been the prince in Beijing for many years and has raised a large group of retainers, servants, monks, and Taoists. This guy seems to like fortune telling and fortune telling. Along the way, he met a Taoist named Li. , a scholar named Yu Renying kept doing calculations there, and sometimes the three of them would have serious quarrels over fortune-telling issues, which was really eye-opening.
Wang Zhongxiao also brought a large group of people, including his two wives "Yang Xiaotu" and Yang Xiaohuan, as well as Yang Xiaohuan's mother Jin Yuhuan, who also came with the excuse of going to Jiangnan Province to visit relatives - in fact, it was to visit relatives, Yang Qilong's Aunt Jin Yuhuan is the nanny of Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong, and this time she is here to take care of the third prince Zhu. And "Yang Xiaotu" (Wu Xiaotu) came to recognize "Wu Ake", Ake! If she really married that Wang Yongkang, she would have to be saved anyway, right?
In addition to "Yang Xiaotu", Yang Xiaohuan, Jin Yuhuan and the maids who served them, Wang Zhongxiao's team also included the three leaders of the soldiers, He Tianran, Yu Haitao, and Wang Leiyong, and the dozens of soldiers they brought with them (some of them were given by Wu Shijue) (Part of them were Yang Qilong's people, and part of them were given by Wang Fuchen)) This large group of people, as well as Imperial Physician Le, Yuan Linjing and their entourage - among them, Yuan Linjing also wanted to open the Jiangnan branch of Ruixin Hall in Suzhou, so she led a large group of people. Guys and bodyguards escorting the money.
In addition, the five "official white laborers" Jingchuan, Zhang Jingke, Zhu Xu, Jiang Zixiang, and Wang Shengming also took their respective families, masters, followers, bodyguards, etc. and went south with Wang Zhongxiao. Of course, these followed Most of the five candidates for county magistrate are Yang Qilong's disciples. The descendants of the former Jin Yiwei are now all serving as public servants again!
With such three large groups of people coming together, how can the size of this team be small?
However, this group of people walked quite fast. They only went out after eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is not yet May, and the team has already arrived in Jiangning. It is really "fast enough"!
Wang Zhongxiao thought, at this speed, it would only take a year to return to Beijing after finishing the work!
It’s no wonder that the average candidate time for those unlucky “officials” after being admitted to Jinshi can be as long as eight years. But with this kind of work efficiency, when will the Qing Dynasty be “finally” gone?
Just as they were thinking about the "end" of the Qing Dynasty, this huge team arrived outside the Liangjiang Governor-General's Office. Just as the sound of the communication came to mind, the military attaché commanding the Governor-General's pacesetters loudly ordered: "Raise the guns, blow the trumpet!"
Then I heard the "whimpering" bugle and the seven "puffing, puffing, puffing" cannons sounding one after another. The officials waiting outside the governor's office, including Duolong, the governor of Liangjiang, all slapped their horseshoe sleeves and said: "I (minions) are waiting to greet you, Holy Ann, to see the imperial envoy!"
The imperial envoys who represent the emperor are greeted with great etiquette!
Prince Kang Jieshu jumped off his horse, his movements were very agile, and it was obvious at first glance that he often rode horses. Geng Jingzhong is also good, he also jumped off the horse. Then I saw the two of them surrounded by Goshiha, like stars over the moon, surrounding them and walking towards the gate of the Liangjiang Governor's Yamen. It was really majestic.
Wang Zhongxiao's equestrian skills were much better than those of Jieshu and Geng Jingzhong, but he did not steal the limelight. He just got off the horse gently, and then went to help the elderly Leshen doctor - the Leshen doctor had a rising reputation. My ancestors came to Beijing to practice medicine in the Yongle period. It was considered prosperous in the "Xian" generation. Not only did several people become imperial doctors, but they also opened Tongren Pharmacy, which was the predecessor of Tongrentang!
Along the way, Wang Zhongxiao has become a lifelong friend of this miracle doctor who can either cure his illness or his life. And this miracle doctor often went to Yang Xiaohuan's mother, Jin Yuhuan. Jin Yuhuan was only in her forties this year, and she had always taken good care of herself. It was the time when a MILF still had her charm. Along the way, he and Dr. Leshen hooked up for a while, almost taking away the old man's soul.
Wang Zhongxiao was very happy to promote good things. Just when he was about to say a few words to Dr. Le to encourage the old man to pursue happiness, Prince Kang Jieshu had already strode up to the officials who were attending the ceremony. He replied loudly with a straight face: "Holy Holy Gong!"
The officials attending the court ceremony stood up one after another, while Duolong and others went up to greet Jieshu and Geng Jingzhong. Duolong had seen Wang Zhongxiao a long time ago. He exchanged a few words with Jieshu and Geng Jingzhong, and then loudly greeted Wang Zhongxiao: "Big head, come here quickly, I want to die as my teacher! Hahaha"
Hearing Duolong calling him, Wang Zhongxiao had to go to pay homage first. He walked to Duolong and bowed to him. Duolong gave him a hand, then pointed to Shi Lang beside him and said to Wang Zhongxiao: " Shikai, this is Shi Zunhou, the former Admiral of the Fujian Navy, the incoming Minister of Military Training, and your Ama’s deputy!”
Looking at Shi Lang with Duolong's fingers, Wang Zhongxiao's heart skipped a beat. Isn't this Shi Lang too diligent? He arrived from Fujian so quickly, so his thousand Fujian soldiers should also have arrived in Jiangsu, right? When trouble breaks out in Suzhou, will he rush to suppress it?
(End of chapter)
