"Then Chen. Join the guerrilla army. Where do you plan to raise troops in Zhejiang?"
Geng Jingzhong didn't even know what to call Chen Yongyonghua. This "second minister" who was a consultant to join the army of the Ming Dynasty palace and an alternate guerrilla in the Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty was really a fool! Others have a priority when they serve as ministers, such as Ming first and then Qing, or Shun first and then Qing, etc. He is better, he is both Ming and Qing!
"Wenzhou!" Chen Yonghua had already chosen the place. "Wenzhou is close to the sea and close to Fujian. It has also suffered from coastal relocation. Moreover, the generals of Wenzhou Town and the generals of Ruian City Guards seem to be the same." King Pingxi is still somewhat related!"
"What? A relative of King Pingxi?" Geng Jingzhong had just come to Fujian and was not very familiar with the upright officials around him. For a moment, he didn't remember who the generals from the main town of Wenzhou next door and Ruian were?
"Your Majesty," Zeng Yangxing, a well-versed man with a lot of friends around him, immediately reminded him, "The name of the main town in Wenzhou is Zu Hongxun. He is an adopted nephew of Zu Dashou and is indeed a relative of King Pingxi."
The ancestral general was a general in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty. He not only had biological brothers and nephews, but also a group of adopted brothers and nephews. Through the relationship with Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui and this group of ancestral family members became relatives.
"Then who is Ruian's Sanrong?"
"The name of Ruian's cadre is Wu Sanwei, and he was the top martial scholar in Jiachen Branch in the third year of Kangxi's reign."
"Ah, him?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned, "I know this guy. He looks like a black man. People give him the nickname Zhang Fei, but I don't remember that he is a relative of King Pingxi!"
"He is!" Chen Yonghua said, "Does the prince still remember the name of King Pingxi?"
"Remember, Wu Sangui!" Geng Jingzhong was stunned again, "Sangui and Sanwei are really a bit like brothers."
"That's right," Chen Yonghua said with a smile, "Pingxi King's father Wu Xiang gave birth to four sons in total, Wu Sanfeng, Wu Sangui, Wu Sanfu, and this Wu Sanwei. When Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, this Wu San Wei was still young and stayed in Beijing. When the Wu family was wiped out, he was rescued by the Wu family's servants and raised in the countryside of Zhili. Later, he developed good skills and became a martial arts champion. Later, Wu Sangui, who was far away in Yunnan, read the Di newspaper and found out that his little brother was still alive. However, at that time, Wu Sangui was already suspected by the court and was in a bad situation, so he did not publicly acknowledge his relatives."
"Is this true?" Geng Jingzhong looked in disbelief.
Zeng Yangxing shook his head, "I haven't heard of it!"
Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "This is the result of a secret investigation by the Yamen sent by the Niangan Department in Jiangnan. It cannot be wrong. And this Wu Sanwei will soon start a rebellion in Wenzhou with the help of Obai!"
Geng Jingzhong said: How did you know about this secret investigation at the sticky rod? Is it possible that there are people from the Yanping Palace and the Tiandihui inside the sticky pole? No. We must check the situation inside Geng Wangzhuang!
Having made up his mind, Geng Jingzhong asked again: "Chen Canjun, how can we cooperate with you?"
Chen Yonghua said: "The prince can fly to Beijing to report that Zu Hongxun and Wu Sanwei colluded with Wu Sangui to plot a rebellion, and reported that the activities of Ao Bai and Tiandihui gang members were discovered in the border area between Funing and Wenzhou. At the same time, send a letter to Fan Chengmo, Governor of Zhejiang Go to a message to inform him of the matter, but do not send this message to Hangzhou."
"Not to Hangzhou? Where to send it?"
"Just send it to Ruian!"
"How to send it?"
Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "Vice Vice Zeng and I will arrange everything properly and keep it flawless!"
Wu Sanwei, who is a general and deputy general of the Ruian Battalion under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou Town, has been a little upset these days because a rumor related to him has recently appeared on the ground in Wenzhou!
This rumor says that he is the long-lost little brother of Pingxi King Wu Sangui!
There are also rumors that his current father is not his biological father, but the servant of his biological father Wu Xiang. When Wu Xiang was arrested by Li Zicheng, his "present father" hugged him and escaped from the country. Xibo Mansion, fled to the countryside of Zhili and hid, then raised him up and passed on his martial arts skills.
This thing is completely false!
There is "三" in his name and his surname is Wu. So is he Wu Sangui's brother? If your surname is Huang, and there is "Tai" or "吉" in your name, then whose brother is that?
Isn't this nonsense?
If he was really Wu Sangui's younger brother, would he still be a member of the Ruian Battalion with only a few hundred beggar green battalion soldiers under his command? There should be a general soldier after all, right?
But the problem is that there are still people who believe this kind of groundlessness (actually there is some basis). Several thousand bosses and general bosses under him believe it. A few days ago, it was so easy to beat around the bush and ask if Wu Sangui was coming over. Wu Sangui was in Yunnan. Even if he didn't really suffer a stroke and could rebel vigorously, fighting over would have to go through a process, right?
So Wu Sanwei immediately scolded those people with a dark face!
But he didn't dare to scold Zu Hongxun, who asked him to go to Yongjia, the capital of Wenzhou, to inquire about this matter yesterday. He was his boss. If he scolded his boss, how could he still be fooled?
But this Zu Hongxun is too useless. He himself is a relative of Wu Sangui. Don’t you know how many brothers Wu Sangui has? He actually asked him to resign as the general of the Ruian city defense camp, and then go back to Beijing to explain the matter clearly.
It really hurts my back to stand and talk. Although Wu Sanwei was the number one scholar in martial arts and was released from a military camp in Nangan Town soon after high school, he did not have this "gift package for number one scholar" after his last salary was full. , so his current Ruian Camp Lieutenant General cost money, and he also spent extra money to buy a lieutenant general.
Now that I haven't gotten it back, how can I not do it? Who will help pay off the loan sharks if he quits? So he ignored Zu Hongxun.
But the problem is that he doesn't have to listen to the words of Commander-in-Chief Zu Hongxun. Later, the rumor spread to Fan Chengmo, and Governor Fan asked him to get out, so what could he do?
When he was in trouble, there was a commotion outside the lobby of the Shenrong Yamen where he was, and then he heard a Shaanxi accent shouting: "Changshan, it's bad to be good!"
"Changshan" is Wu Sanwei's brand name.
Wu Sangui's nickname is Changbo, and Wu Sanwei's nickname is Changshan. But they are really not brothers!
Wu Sanwei looked up and saw a seventh-grade civil servant wearing an official uniform and a plain gold-topped official hat running in panting, carrying an official robe and a baggage in his hand.
This man turned out to be the magistrate of Ruian County, his name was Luo Pan, and his courtesy name was Ru'an. He was a Jinshi in the third year of Kangxi's reign. After high school, he had been waiting in Beijing to be elected. However, because his family was not very wealthy, he could not scrape together enough money. It wasn't until the beginning of this year that he was waiting for a job in Ruian, Zhejiang. It is said that he borrowed a large loan shark from Ruixintang before taking office, and he was accompanied by the master, supervisor and "family" assigned by Ruixintang.
However, no matter how miserable Luo Pan was, he was still a civil servant from the second rank. In the chain of contempt in the Qing officialdom, he was lower than the flag officer, but higher than the Han military attache who was not a warlord. Wu Sanwei was born in martial arts, and he did not dare to disrespect a seventh-grade civil servant who was much lower in rank (Sanwei was a second-grade official), so he quickly got up from behind the desk, trotted all the way out to greet Luo County Magistrate. Welcoming him into the lobby, he was still shouting: "Brother Ru'an, what gust of wind brought you here?"
"Something happened. Something big happened!" Luo Panluo, the magistrate of Daxian County, ran too fast. He was still out of breath when he sat down to talk!
"What's the big deal?" Wu Sanwei asked quickly when he saw Luo Pan, who was about to cry with a frown on his face.
"Look at this." Luo Pan handed a dirty bundle in his hand to Wu Sanwei.
"what is this?"
"Here is the message sent by the Jingnan Palace to the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen!" Luo Pan said, "The Tangma who was delivering the message encountered a robber in Ruian County. He was killed with a knife, and all the food and horses were taken away. Only this bundle and the message inside were not taken away. They were discovered by the patrolling soldiers this morning and were brought to me."
"I don't think it's a big deal," Wu Sanwei breathed out, "What's the matter? Our place in Ruian is facing the sea and is close to Da Yuan Island. There are often pirates coming ashore to plunder. Killing a lot of people is not a big deal. , don’t be impatient.”
Luo Pan sighed: "I'm not in a hurry to kill a lot of people! I'm in a hurry because of the things mentioned in the speech!"
"What is said in the message? Have you read it?" Wu Sanwei was startled, "This is the message sent by the palace to the Governor's Yamen!"
"I know the rules!" Luo Pan waved his hand and then looked at Wu Sanwei seriously, "Changshan. The things mentioned in this speech are related to you! Do you want to listen?"
"It has something to do with me?" Wu Sanwei's heart skipped a beat, "What's the matter?"
Luo Pan first stretched out his hand to support Wu Sanwei, who looked like an iron tower, and then said: "Changshan, stand firm. The Jingnan Palace intercepted a message in Fujian, saying that it was your brother, your second brother Pingxi Wang sent Ao Bai led the dead soldiers of Pingxi Palace and the rebels of Tiandihui to our Ruian, and they want to help you rebel together!"
"What?" Wu Sanwei was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Luo Pan was prepared and gave him a hand.
Luo Pan looked at Wu Sanwei and asked, "Changshan. Are you really the brother of King Pingxi?"
Wu Sanwei stamped his feet and said: "Rumors, rumors are completely rumors! How could I be the brother of King Pingxi?"
While he was defending himself, a long "report" came from outside the door.
A soldier from Ruian's city guard camp rushed in like flying, arrived in the lobby, and then made a salute and loudly reported to Wu Sanwei, who was a little frustrated: "Brother Xietai, a group of red heads appeared ten miles south of the city. There are about a thousand soldiers, and they are still under the banner of 'Obai of the Ming Dynasty'"
Luo Pan looked at Wu Sanwei in surprise, "Here you go. Changshan, you are really King Pingxi's brother, disrespectful, disrespectful!"
The soldier who came to report to Wu Sanwei immediately became excited when he heard what Luo Pan said, "Xie Tai, you are really the younger brother of King Pingxi! This is great. King Pingxi wants to be the emperor, then You are the prince!"
In Wu Sanwei's yamen, there were quite a few people like Mr. Qian, the general and the soldiers who were waiting for dinner. When Luo Pan ran in with a roar just now, they came out to watch the fun. Now I heard that Wu Sanwei is really Wu Sangui. The brothers were all so happy!
Many of these low-level green soldiers were from the Ming army. The Qing Dynasty did not treat them as dogs at all. To treat them as dogs, they had to give them a few bones! But what do they have? So a little military pay has to be deducted, and the Qing Dynasty has been relocating the coastal border in Wenzhou in recent years, causing many Wenzhou soldiers to lose their families - most of them are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty garrison, and The Ming Dynasty's military posts in Wenzhou were all on the seaside, and moving along the coast was a trick for them.
When there was no coastal border relocation, they could still rely on the sea to engage in smuggling, but now they can no longer do the smuggling business. This is a lot of money!
The Qing Dynasty made everyone suffer so much, so of course everyone didn't like it. Now there is a ready-made "Wu Sangui's younger brother" to follow. If this succeeds, the future will be the future of the Prince of Wu's personal soldiers, right?
Wu Sangui is just a brother now, how can he be the king of T-hats in the family in the future! Following the T-hat king as the founding hero of the country is simply a good thing that will lose the pie in the world!
This kind of opportunity was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the miserable Green Camp soldiers in the countryside of Wenzhou, so they all started shouting.
"Xie Tai, rebel!"
"Xie Tai, let's quickly invite Master Ao in!"
"Yes, your second brother will be the emperor in the future, and you will be the prince, so we will follow you!"
I am about to become a prince, and my future is really good!
But Wu Sanwei still had a little bit of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty in his heart!
I saw Wu Sanwei stamping his feet and shouting: "Beat the drums, gather the troops, and close the city gate!"
But the people under him didn't think so.
"嗻!"
"Master Xietai has given orders to open the city gate to welcome Obei!"
"Open the city gate and welcome Obei."
Then more than a dozen officers and soldiers swarmed up and walked out with Wu Sanwei on their backs. However, the Wu champion was completely confused now, and he even forgot to resist, so he was dragged out.
And Luo Pan, the magistrate of Ruian County, also trotted behind Wu Sanwei, shouting as he ran: "Oh no, Wu Xietai has rebelled, and Obai is here."
This is really serious. Rumors have long spread in Ruian City that Wu Sangui will send Obai to help Wu Sanwei rebel!
Everyone in Ruian hated the Qing government's relocation of borders along the coast, and there were many who wanted to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. In the past, they were just afraid of the Eight Banners' heavenly soldiers, so they didn't dare to act rashly. Now that Wu Sangui has sent Ao Bai here, what else can he not dare to do?
Of course, even if they dare not rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, they can only surrender in Kaicheng.
Because the combat readiness of the Wenzhou City Guard Camp was extremely poor, the theoretical number of five or six hundred personnel was only three to four hundred, and less than half of them were not in the military camp, but had signed up and left the camp to do small business. Now in a hurry, I don't know if I can gather 200 people? Suddenly thousands of Red Turban troops attacked. How could they defend Ruian City?
In addition, the thousands of Red Scarf troops who are following Chen Yonghua, Liu Guoxuan, and He Tianran are not all members of the Tiandihui. Their main force is the elites of the Yanping Palace on Dajuan Island and the dead soldiers of the Jingnan Palace!
Among them were five hundred "iron men" and two hundred "iron cavalry" - these cavalry were all dead soldiers who had trained for the Jingnan Palace! The remaining 300 people were brothers of the Tiandihui. The backbone of these people, led by He Tianran and Wang Zhongyi, had participated in the "Pingjiang Uprising", and the rest were also recruited after the riot. After withdrawing from Suzhou Prefecture, they hid on an island near Wenzhou on the coast of Zhejiang under the arrangement of Chen Yonghua, and continued to be trained by He Tianran and Wang Zhongyi. Chen Yonghua also obtained 200 privately manufactured shotguns from Foshan, Guangdong, and several mortars from Da Yuan Island, and equipped them into a "firearms camp."
If the Qing army in Ruian County insists on holding on, with a blast from the mortars, a charge from the Iron Man Army, and a blockade of the surrounding area by Zeng's nurturing cavalry, the city will definitely be destroyed and people will be killed!
Wu Sanwei, who was dragged outside the gate of Ruian County to "welcome Obei" by a group of opportunistic green battalion soldiers who were not afraid of big traps, saw the cavalry, armored soldiers, and musketeers approaching in a mighty manner. He was so shocked that he was almost out of his wits. Gone.
This posture is not a mob at all. It is not even the pirates on Da Yuan Island! How could the pirates have so many cavalry?
Is it possible that Wu Sangui's soldiers really arrived in Zhejiang?
But how did they get here?
At this time, the singing of "Yingming King" has already sounded in and around Ruian City.
"The morning seeks promotion and the evening seeks harmony. It is difficult for Han'er to survive these days. Open the door early to pay homage to King Ming. King Ming will come to divide the fields."
And Luo Pan, the magistrate of Ruian County, who was not known to have been bribed by Chen Yonghua with a large sum of money, had disappeared at this time.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
When the urgent report from Wenzhou Town was quickly delivered to the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen in Hangzhou by Tang Ma, Fan Wencheng's good son, Zhejiang Governor Fan Wenmo, was sitting in his yamen's study, holding a copy of "Records of Visits to Mingyi" Looking over and over again!
This book was brought to Hangzhou by Zha Yihuang, a famous scholar from Haining, Zhejiang, and dedicated to Fan Chengmo! According to Zha Yihuang, this book is the original version of "The World is Public" and "The Land and Acre System of the Celestial Empire" and was written much earlier than "The Theory of the World is the Public" and "The Land and Acre System of the Celestial Empire". Of course, the rebellious spirit in the book is a little smaller. Nor did they resort to the big move of "equalizing land".
But things like "original monarch", "original minister" and "original law" are basically copied.
In addition, Zha Yihuang also told Fan Chengmo that the author of the "Records of Visits to the Ming Yi" was Huang Zongxi, a great scholar from the Ming Dynasty! And this Huang Zongxi and his students from the Yongshang Witness Academy disappeared not long after the "Suzhou Rebellion" not long ago.
Obviously, Huang Zongxi and his students have turned traitor!
But where are the thieves and rebels?
When Fan Chengmo was thinking about it, his study door was suddenly knocked, and then a voice with a Shaoxing accent said: "Lord Zhijun, it's not good, Obai and Wu Sangui's brother have rebelled in Zhejiang!"
What? Wu Sangui’s younger brother? Fan Chengmo was stunned, Wu Sanfu? Wasn't he already dead? Even if you die, you still want to rebel?
While he was in a daze, the Shaoxing master shouted again: "Master of the Army, Wu Sanwei, the general of Ruian camp, turns out to be Wu Sangui's fourth brother. Ruian has been occupied by rebels!"
(End of chapter)
