It turned out that Lu Sanhao came to see Wu Xiaotuo with Wu Guogui's handwritten letter!
That's why he became Wang Zhongxiao and Wu Xiaotuo's "one of their own". To be more precise, Lu Sanhao was actually a fellow traveler of Wang Zhongxiao!
Everyone wants to trick the Qing Dynasty!
As for what to do after cheating the Qing Dynasty? The two sides still have differences, so they are just fellow travelers against the Qing Dynasty.
Since they are fellow travelers, Wang Zhongxiao of course has to have a good talk with this Lu Sanhao.
So Wang Zhongxiao and Wu Xiaotu immediately invited Lu Sanhao, Master Yu, and Wang Jizhen, who had gone home with them, into their own study rooms, and asked He Tianran to look after things outside.
After several people were seated respectively, Yang Xiaohuan, who had been pregnant for several months and still had a full belly, personally served tea to them.
Seeing Yang Xiaohuan leaving and no one else in the yard except He Tianran, Wang Zhongxiao picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then asked straight to the point: "Mr. Sanhao, how is the prince's health? Not big." Is it a hindrance? In addition, has the prince made up his mind to rebel? "
When Lu Yifeng heard Wang Zhongxiao's question, he immediately smiled and replied: "The prince's body is fine, he is pretending to have a stroke. The purpose is to earn the prince back to Yunnan, and by the way, tens of thousands of Manchu elites will be deceived into Sichuan, and annihilated in one fell swoop .”
"Oh?" Wang Zhongxiao raised his eyebrows and showed an excited expression, "So, the prince also wants to play a big game?"
"Of course!" Lu Yifeng frowned, "The prince's soldiers have less refined food, which is conducive to a quick battle! The Qing court's soldiers are weak and have more food, which is conducive to longevity."
Good analysis! But it doesn’t necessarily work. Wang Zhongxiao thought: Because Xiao Mazi also knows this truth. Not only the little pockmarked people today know it, but the little pockmarked ones in history also know it. Moreover, Xiao Mazi also knew that Wu Sangui knew his weakness that he could not fight a protracted war!
"Then where is the prince planning to march from?" Wang Zhongxiao asked again.
"Wherever the main force of the Qing court comes from, that's where the prince's army will come from!" Lu Yifeng analyzed, "Now the Qing court has divided the new army in the six towns into five groups and placed them in the three directions of Sichuan, Huguang, and Guangdong and Guangxi. Based on the garrison flag soldiers and the old green battalion loyal to the Qing court, the maximum number of troops that can be used to siege Yungui is about 200,000, and they are divided into three parties and five routes. It seems to be surrounded on three sides, but in fact the troops are scattered and can be easily defeated individually. And the prince Over there, the elites of the feudal lords and the Yunnan-Guizhou green battalion together cost no less than one hundred thousand! There are also many green battalion generals in Sichuan, Huguang, and Guangxi who are willing to follow the prince to fight against the Qing court. So the prince is sure to win this time! "
Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said: "Kangxi divided his troops into five groups and guarded three sides. It seemed like a siege, but in fact he wanted to defend for a long time. Otherwise, he would not have placed five camps in Chengdu, Chongqing, and Jingzhou, which are far away from the Yunnan-Guizhou border. , Changsha and Guilin. Now the prince may be able to lure some Qing soldiers closer to the Yunnan-Guizhou border by using the trick of pretending to be sick, but this is the only chance!
Moreover, most of the people leading this Qing army were Prince An Yue Le. He was a Manchu general comparable to Obai, and his strength should not be underestimated. Even if the prince could defeat them in one battle, it would probably be difficult for him to sweep them away. Therefore, the prince still has to have a long-lasting plan! "
Lu Yifeng said: "If your father can take action in Guangdong and Guangxi, and join the peaceful Western King in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, then the restoration of the Han Dynasty will be just around the corner!"
Wang Zhongxiao just smiled bitterly when he heard this: "It's not that easy to get things done in Guangdong and Guangxi! Mr. Sanhao, you have also been an official in the Qing court for many years. You should know how much real power the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi has? If my father hadn't also been the president of Guilin Camp The minister's errand can govern the 10,000-strong Green Camp New Army, so the only available troops on his hands are the 5,000-strong Supervisor. Besides, the Governor has no assistants except General Supervisor, and he has no authority to directly In the jurisdiction of the local area, the following magistrates, magistrates, and county magistrates cannot be appointed or dismissed.
In addition, my father has just been appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he has not yet taken office. He has not even taken over the supervision, let alone cultivate influence in Guangdong and Guangxi! Therefore, the guarantee that my father can give the prince is the following four points: First, he will not play it real when it comes to Guangdong and Guangxi, so that the prince will have no worries; second, all generals in Guangdong and Guangxi who are willing to follow the prince to conquer the world can bring their elite soldiers and family members with them. , and was safely sent out of the country with gifts; third, the exchange of goods between Guangdong and Guangxi and the prince's jurisdiction will continue as usual, and my father can also pay tribute to the prince with muskets, gunpowder, cannons, ironware and other utensils; fourth, once my father establishes a firm foothold in Guangdong and Guangxi, After gaining a foothold and controlling enough territory, population, and troops, they will definitely raise their troops to respond to the prince. "
Lu Sanhao already understood the thoughts of father and son Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao.
What they mean is: Wu Sangui, you charge first, we will cover you!
At this time, Wang Jizhen also reminded with a smile on his face: "Mr. Sanhao, please don't forget that my father's governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was appointed by Kangxi. If he failed to cultivate his power and lost the title of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, then he would not only help If you can't help the prince, he will be asked to divide his troops into Guangdong and Guangxi to help. And what my father wants is nothing more than the future of Wang Zhongshan!"
"Zhongshan". Wang Zhongxiao was startled after hearing his brother's words!
He has met "Datou, Shikai, Xiuquan, and Xiuqing" in the past two years, and he is wondering where "Zhongshan" is? Unexpectedly, the person who accepted the title of "Zhongshan" was actually Wang Fuchen!
Of course, this "Wang Zhongshan" does not correspond to the "Zhongshan" surnamed Sun, but to Xu Zhongshan surnamed Xu, that is, Xu Da, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty. When Xu Da was alive, he was granted the title of Wei Guogong and seemed to be pursuing the title of King of Zhongshan. So it can also be called "Xu Zhongshan".
What Wang Jizhen and Lu Sanhao meant when they said this was that the Wang family did not have too many ambitions, and they would be satisfied with just being the Duke of one family and two kingdoms. So, Wu Sangui can't count on Lao Wang's family to be the main force!
Now the three fathers and sons of the old Wang family have contributed a lot to Wu Sangui's rebellion. They are already worthy of becoming the Duke of the Second Kingdom. If they work harder, they may be able to achieve great success.
"But if your father does not raise the flag of rebellion, he will have to abide by the Qing system and can only be a governor with limited powers. How can he manage the situation?" Lu Sanhao still refused to give up and wanted to fight for it again.
"This matter is easy to handle!" Master Yu took the question with a smile, "Guangdong and Guangxi are beyond the reach of the Qing court. If King Pingxi becomes bigger in Sichuan, Huguang, or even Shaanxi, it will be even more difficult for Kangxi's court to order Guangdong and Guangxi. , can’t the governor of Wang Zhijun supervise it as a general? By then giving Wang Zhijun two or three years, he will be able to replace most of the prefects and county magistrates in Guangdong with his own people, and at the same time train tens of thousands of Guangdong regiments. , and then you can do whatever you want.”
Wang Zhongxiao also came to his senses at this time, and said to Lu Sanhao with a smile: "Mr. Sanhao, what my father lacks is time. How many years has the prince been operating in Yunnan and Guizhou? My father has not even arrived in Guangdong yet! There is no need to rush. We can't. It’s better to make a careful calculation and figure out how to trick this old boy Yue Le later! I guess he will probably go to Sichuan to join the army."
"Going to Sichuan?" Lu Sanhao asked, "How can we see it?"
"This is obvious," Wang Zhongxiao said, "Sichuan is on top of Yunnan and Guizhou. If the prince takes Sichuan, he will have three-thirds of the world! If he succeeds in attacking Guanzhong, he will have the powerful Qin, Han, and Sheng in the past. The foundation of the rise of the Tang Dynasty, so the first thing the Qing government had to prevent was for the princes to seize Sichuan!
As for Huguang, the Qing government set up many naval divisions on the Yangtze River. There were naval divisions in the green camps in the provinces along the river. Among them, the navy in Susong Town was the strongest. If some of them were transferred to Huguang, it would be enough to block the prince's advance. road. "
Susong Town is the town that guards Chongming Island and blocks the estuary of the Yangtze River.
Zheng Chenggong did not capture them during his Northern Expedition to Nanjing. Otherwise, the waterways in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River would all be named "Zheng", and Nanjing would not be able to defend it no matter what.
Even Zheng Chenggong couldn't defeat the river navy, and Wu Sangui's group of landlubbers from the northeast and northwest couldn't even think of defeating them.
Wang Zhongxiao went on to say: "If the Qing government fails to block the prince in Sichuan, then they will definitely work hard to set up defenses in Shaanxi and Gansu. The prince must attack as soon as possible and cannot let the Qing government complete the arrangements, otherwise they will repeat Zhuge Wu's plan." Hou's mistake. And once the prince captures Shaanxi and Gansu, the general trend of the world will be completely reversed. The Qing court's control over the southern provinces will definitely be greatly relaxed, and the military morale of the Green Camp Navy on the Yangtze River will also be unstable. At that time, as long as the prince If we send out a partial force, we can probably sweep across Huguang, and we can even go down the river and attack the two rivers. By then, the world will be at our fingertips!"
"good!"
The one who applauded Wang Zhongxiao was Wu Xiaotuo. She carried "Xiuquan" or "Xiuqing" in her belly. In short, she did not deal with the Qing Dynasty. Of course she was also a staunch anti-Qing element.
Now that I heard my husband’s succinct analysis, I became excited, “Mr. Sanhao, let’s try our best to encourage Kangxi to send his main force to Sichuan. Also, what do my uncle think? Is he ready to fight the Qing court to the end? "
"The prince has made up his mind," Lu Sanhao said, "but he is a little reluctant to let go of Gege and the two young masters."
Princess Jianning, Wu Shilin, and Wu Shifan must stay in Beijing and continue to be hostages, and Wu Yingxiong is a bit affectionate. Otherwise, in history, he would not have been killed by Kangxi!
Wang Zhongxiao suddenly thought of something at this time, so he asked Lu Sanhao: "Sanhao, does the prince know that the prince is using a trick to fake his illness?"
Lu Sanhao shook his head: "I don't know. This is what the prince meant!"
Wang Zhongxiao nodded, "If he doesn't know, that's easy!"
As soon as Lu Yifeng and Lu Sanhao left, Wang Zhongxiao's house in Dafu Lane had another visitor. This time it was Yang Qilong who looked very proud of himself.
Yang Qilong is very popular now!
Because he gave another of his girls named Yang Xiaomi to Prince Yu Fuquan as a foreign wife, and she suddenly became Prince Yu's uncle. How could this not be popular?
Although Xiaomi has no name or status, he is still "material"! She must have a good face and a good figure, and like Yang Xiaohuan, she has been "trained". After King Yu got her, he left behind a bunch of Manchu and Mongolian "noble girls" in his family.
Although those women were selected through "drafts", the standard for "drafts" in the Qing Dynasty was not based on looks at all, but on family trees! They have to be noble women from Manchuria and Mongolia to be chosen.
If your bloodline is not noble enough, even if you look like an immortal, it will be for nothing!
But the question is, among a bunch of "savage Jurchens" and "Mongolian nobles", how many girls can be good-looking? And even if she is naturally beautiful, isn’t there still the issue of “disfigured hemp seeds”?
I don’t know if that Tong Ren Tang musician doesn’t know how to vaccinate against variola or is afraid of the casualties caused by a failed vaccinia. In short, none of the Manchu and Mongolian nobles in Beijing have ever been vaccinated against vaccinia, so there are a lot of hemp seeds!
Moreover, this smallpox is especially easy to find in children, regardless of gender. If they have not been vaccinated with pox, basically everyone has been vaccinated once. If it is cured, it will be fine. If it is not, either they will die or they will look like pockmarks.
So the job of drafting for the Qing royal family really doesn’t require any aesthetic sense.
Of course, it is still the early Qing Dynasty after all. The top priority is to choose a bunch of ugly idiots to serve Aixinjueluo. It has not yet reached the point where they are all close relatives. Otherwise, even the direct descendants of the Qing royal family will be the same. Problem.
"What? Xiaomi is pregnant too? It's really fast!"
As soon as Wang Zhongxiao and Yang Xiaohuan welcomed Yang Qilong into the inner hall, they heard another piece of good news.
Yang Qilong’s sister Yang Xiaomi is pregnant with Fuquan’s child!
Yang Qilong smiled and said, "Of course it's coming soon. I'm just counting the days. How can I not hurry up?"
Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said: "With Prince Yu's protection, third brother, you will be able to get wind and rain in Beijing, and if it rains, you may be able to cause trouble to Kangxi and Xiao Qiang!"
"This, this is not a joke." Yang Qilong was startled by Wang Zhongxiao's words, and subconsciously glanced at Wang Shiyuan who was sitting in the inner hall. Now in the inner hall, except for Wang Zhongxiao, Yang Xiaohuan, and Yang Qilong, There are two masters, Yu Deshui and Wang Shiyuan.
Yu Deshui is one of his own, and this Wang Shiyuan
"Brother Yang," Wang Zhongxiao pointed at Wang Shiyuan, "This is the chief helmsman!"
Of course Yang Qilong knows who the "chief helmsman" is? He quickly stood up and bowed to Wang Shiyuan, "Headmaster Yang Qilong of the Tiandihui Zhili branch meets Director Zhu!"
Wang Shiyuan also returned the gift and said with a smile: "We are all brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, so there is no need to pay such a big gift. From now on, we are both teachers and friends, and we will just act like brothers."
"Both teachers and friends" is the new positioning given to the relationship between monarch and ministers in "The World is Public" and "Records of Visits to the Ming Yi".
Even if the new Ming Dynasty succeeds in the future, Prince Zhu San will have to be "both teachers and friends" with his ministers when he becomes Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing Yang Qilong sit down again, Wang Zhongxiao asked again: "Third brother, tell me the truth, do you have any intention of starting an uprising in Beijing?"
"Sure enough, I can't hide it from Brother Shikai," Yang Qilong said, "Now that the Eight Banners elites have been incorporated into the new army, when all the new armies are deployed, there will be only more than 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers left around Beijing.
If the front line is not properly fought, most of the more than 10,000 people will have to be dispatched. At that time...our opportunity will come! "
"Third brother, you are wrong!" Wang Zhongxiao shook his head.
"What's wrong?" Yang Qilong said, "I didn't calculate this number. Fuquan told me. How can this be wrong?"
"He only talked about the number of regular Manchu bannermen," Wang Zhongxiao said, "and did not include the number of Kaihu, other households, Baoyi, Sula slaves, nor the Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia.
If all these are included, the number of people will increase several times or even ten times! "
Historically, Kangxi could fight a long-term war of attrition with Wu Sangui. Of course, it was impossible to rely only on 50,000 Eight Banners soldiers. The Eight Banners were not so much a "nation" as an "organization". The core of this "organization" was of course Manchurian. For the Zhenghu bannermen of the Eight Banners, the so-called "Zhenghu" probably means "authentic".
In addition to the official household, there are three types of banner people: the registered household, the additional household, and the guarantor.
Among them, those who opened accounts and other accounts were bannermen with unclear origins. They were either former domestic slaves or speculators who had sneaked into the Eight Banners establishment. The Shaoxing bannerman Yao Qisheng was in this category, and some were regular households. The children born and raised by the banner people outside the country have set up separate households through various means.
As for the Baoyimen, they were actually organized flag slaves. Among them, the Shangsanqi Baoyi were the flag slaves directly under the emperor. In fact, they were no different from the Zhenghu Bannermen - the Zhenghu Bannermen were also the Emperor's slaves!
The leaders of the lower five flags are the servants of the big and small flag owners, which is a lot less interesting, but it can still be regarded as a bannerman establishment.
Under the coater, there are unorganized domestic slaves. A domestic slave is a domestic slave, and a coater is a coater. They are completely different! The former is not organized, while the latter is organized.
However, it is not that there are no ways to organize the domestic slaves who have not been organized. Many of the bannermen who opened or opened new households were promoted from domestic slaves - as long as their masters have connections and are willing to promote them, this establishment will come Got it!
In addition, in this three-level pyramid consisting of Zhengshen Banner people, otherhu, Kaihu bannermen and Baoyi people, and domestic slaves (Otherhu, Kaihu bannermen and Baoyi people can be regarded as one level), Zhengshen Banner people are the least , and the further down you go, the more people there are!
Therefore, when Kangxi faced an unfavorable battle situation and heavy losses, he could expand the source of the Eight Banners soldiers by absorbing other households, Kaihu, Baoyi people, and domestic slaves into the Zhengshen Banner team.
"Third brother," Wang Zhongxiao said again, "if we want to start a big fight around Beijing, we can't act recklessly. We still have to follow the rules of the Eight Banners and slowly manage our own strength. First, we have to give Xiaomi needs to get an identity! It’s not okay to sleep with Prince Yu without knowing anything! Once she has an identity, her son can have an identity and do big things in the future!"
Yang Qilong nodded, "Shikai, that's why I'm here. What kind of identity should I give Xiaomi? Can a coater be qualified? If it doesn't work, just become a domestic slave and then go to another place." Go up the road to the house."
"Don't set up a wrapper," Wang Zhongxiao said. "Although King Yu himself can open the back door of the wrapper, what future can a wrapper with a white flag have? If you want to do it, then make a big one. Give it to her. Let’s set up another household for Nala’s family!”
"Nala's family?" Yang Qilong asked, "Are you considered a member of the Mingzhu family?"
"right!"
(End of chapter)
