"Your Majesty, what the Emperor of the E family means is that he is the emperor, you are the emperor, Wu Sangui is the emperor, and Prince Zhu San is also the emperor!"
In the Prince of Chu's Mansion in Wuchang City, the person speaking Shanxi dialect with a northern Shaanxi accent to Li Zicheng and Li Laishun was none other than Mr. Jia Hanfu Jia, the candidate warlord of Hunan. Although this old man claimed to be a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, he changed his clothes after arriving in Wuchang. He was dressed like an old Han scholar who had not forgotten the Ming Dynasty. He was wearing a Taoist robe, a hood, and holding a feather fan. He looked particularly sophisticated.
However, Li Zicheng and Li Laishun, the grandsons of Li Zicheng and Li Laishun, are dressed in the python robes of the Ming Dynasty princes. They sit in the Yin'an Hall of the Ming Dynasty Prince Chu's Mansion with their golden swords. Those who don't know think that they are the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang!
Hearing the "Four Emperors' Plan" proposed by Jia Hanfu, Li Zicheng just chuckled, then turned to look at Li Laishun, and asked with a smile: "Shun, I'm old, the emperor has done it, and I don't want to do it again. What about you? Do you want to be the emperor?" Your Majesty?"
Li Laishun looked honest and honest, and shook his head with a smile: "Sir, E'ada was the Duke of Xingguo in the Ming Dynasty, and Brother E, Laiheng, was the Duke of Linguo in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, Brother E was a loyal martyr of the Ming Dynasty. How come he is also the queen of the loyal martyrs of the Ming Dynasty? Bar?"
Li Zicheng nodded, "Well, well, that's right. After you became a loyal hero, you also created many loyal heroes for the Ming Dynasty. Both of them are very loyal!"
Li Laishun said with a smile: "Now that the Ming Dynasty is almost recovering, how can someone like this loyal Ming Dynasty become an emperor? There is only one emperor in the Ming Dynasty. Can someone with the surname Zhu still be the emperor?"
Li Zicheng looked at Jia Hanfu and said, "Old Jia, you have also been a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. Can you tell me whether grandson Laishun can be a loyal king of the Ming Dynasty?"
When Jia Hanfu heard this, he didn't know what to say!
Li Zicheng’s adopted grandson wants to be the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty. It seems he can really become one!
Now Prince Zhu only owns the city of Nanjing, and may give half of it to Geng Jingzhong, while Li Laishun (Li Zicheng) now owns three prefectures of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Huangzhou in Hubei, as well as parts of De'an Prefecture and Anlu Prefecture, and also owns Hunan Yuezhou Prefecture of Yuezhou Prefecture, and captured the western part of Nanchang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, and invaded Ruizhou Prefecture. The territory was not large, but it was much stronger than Prince Zhu San! Moreover, he still has the advantage upstream and can contain the Qing troops in Jiangxi and Anhui for the Third Prince Zhu. If he wants to be a loyal king of the Ming Dynasty, would the Third Prince Zhu dare not to grant him the title?
Thinking of this, Jia Hanfu suddenly frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, do you mean not to abandon Jingzhou City and not send Prince Qing'an's troops downstream?"
"Laishun, what do you think?" Li Zicheng asked Li Laishun with a smile.
Li Laishun smiled and said: "Sir, we are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so of course the land in our hands is also loyal to the Ming Dynasty. When this Jingzhou City is in our hands, it is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. If we don't take back Jingzhou City , I’m afraid it doesn’t make sense, right?”
Li Zicheng nodded: "It doesn't make sense! Since we want to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, we should help the Ming Dynasty regain its lost territory!"
Jia Hanfu quickly provoked Brother Thumb: "Zhong, you are so loyal! Then this matter is settled. After one more hard work, I will go to Jingzhou immediately to report to King An. By the way, are the two loyal kings of the Ming Dynasty the same? Send a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty to go to Jingzhou with me?"
Li Zicheng smiled and waved his hands: "Don't be in a hurry. Don't be in a hurry. Give the Third Prince and King Geng some more time to consolidate the territory of Jinling. Otherwise, the city of Jinling will be broken by King An in a single blow, and our loyal kings will be destroyed." Isn’t it appropriate?”
It turns out that Li Zicheng and Li Laishun are somewhat loyal!
Jia Hanfu nodded: "Okay, how about waiting for another month?"
"It's grown, it's grown," Li Zicheng said, "I think Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui now know that Kangxi wants to sell Jingzhou to Er? This transaction will take too long, and I'm afraid there will be many branches."
Oh, this King Zhong of the Ming Dynasty seems to have a little bit of "loyalty"!
Jia Hanfu said: "Then half a month!"
"Ten days!" Li Zicheng reduced another five days. "In ten days, I will send a speedboat to take you and Huang Wanlin, the governor of Hubei, to Jingzhou!"
"Okay!" Jia Hanfu said with a smile, "My lord, you fought for another ten days for the third prince Zhu of Jinling. You are so loyal!"
Li Zicheng smiled and said: "Old Jia, don't talk about E Zhong first. I have one condition. If you don't agree, I can't ask for Jingzhou."
"What conditions?" Jia Han asked again, "No matter what the prince says, as long as he can do it, he will not refuse."
Li Zicheng said: "If he becomes a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and recovers Jingzhou and Anlu, Wu Sangui will definitely not be willing to give in, right? When he sends troops to seize Jingzhou and Anlu, how will he deal with it?"
"Your Majesty," Jia Hanfu frowned, "Are you afraid of Wu Sangui?"
Li Zicheng chuckled: "Don't be too excited. What if I'm afraid of the person named Wu? But I still want this Jingzhou and Anlu Prefecture. So, I thought there would be someone who could be with Wu Sangui and Er. When a fight breaks out over territory, be able to step in and resolve the fight!"
"Quiting the fight?" Jia Hanfu was stunned, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"
Li Zicheng smiled and said, "Old Jia, do you remember who in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" did not fight, but was good at resolving fights?"
"Ah, my lord, do you want to ask Wang Fuchen to help you resolve the fight with Wu Sangui?"
Li Zicheng nodded: "Old Jia, after you have reached an agreement with Yue Le, I will go to Guangdong again and ask Wang Fuchen for me. If Wang Fuchen doesn't want to move, you can ask his son Wang Zhongxiao to come."
"Okay!" Jia Hanfu nodded and said with a smile, "To be honest, I was about to go to Guangdong, and Emperor Kangxi also awarded Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture to me. From now on, I and the prince will be considered close neighbors."
Li Zicheng smiled and asked: "Old Jia, who are you going to be loyal to?"
Jia Hanfu smiled and said: "Du Zhong, everyone is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Dashun Dynasty, King of the West, one family counts as one family, I just hope that the world will be peaceful in the future, and those unsatisfactory sons can each be granted a title of marquis." !”
Then he smiled and said to Li Laishun: "Prince Shaozhong, if you become the emperor, you must take care of those sons!"
"Easy to say, easy to say," Li Laishun said with a smile, "Old man, you have missed someone who is qualified to take over the world!"
"Who? Who else?"
Li Laishun smiled: "Of course it's your old in-law Li Fuchen. Maybe the Eighteenth Son Rules the World is talking about him!"
"Li, Li Fuchen? Isn't his surname Wang?"
Li Zicheng took the question and replied: "Wang Fuchen's relative Ada's surname is Li. Now he has recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan, and his surname is also Li! Moreover, he is connected with E'er, and now E'er and him are brothers of the same clan! Lao Jia , you think this brother should be willing to help resolve the fight with Wu Sangui, right?"
Jia Hanfu could only nod his head and said: "Yes, I must be willing!"
Just as Jia Hanfu left the Chu Palace accompanied by Li Laishun, Huang Zhisheng, the second most important civil servant under Li Zicheng, hurried over and went to the Yin'an Palace to give Li Zicheng a grand ceremony: "Greetings to the Emperor."
"Flat body, give me a seat."
Li Zicheng was polite and gave Huang Zhisheng a seat with a smile, and then asked with concern: "Is Huang An okay? Is everyone in the family used to it?"
"Okay, okay," Huang Zhisheng said with a smile, "much better than Xiangdao. There are mountains on the side of Xiangdao, but the seaside is a bit flat, but the wind is too strong, and everything planted is easy to fall over. How can it be as good as Huang'an's good weather? "
"That's good," Li Zicheng smiled, "Well, I'm worried that you are all Cantonese and are not used to the soil and water of Huang'an!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your care." Huang Zhisheng replied with a smile on his face.
Li Zicheng added: "Now that your family affairs have been settled, please work hard and go to Xiangyang as an envoy first."
"As an envoy to Xiangyang? Does the emperor want to join forces with Wu Yingxiong to attack Jingzhou?"
Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "There is no need to use weapons in Jingzhou anymore. Prince Zhu San restored the Ming Dynasty in Jinling. Kangxi's son was anxious and asked An Wang Yuele to lead the Tatars from Jingzhou to the south of the Yangtze River to encircle and suppress Prince Zhu San. In order to go quickly, he I just want to borrow a way from E. In exchange, I have to give up the territory of Jingzhou, Jingmen, Anlu, and De'an to E! Zhi Sheng, do you think I can eat this alone?"
"Um." Huang Zhisheng frowned, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, Jingzhou, Wuchang, and Yuezhou are all territories in the heart of Huguang! Wu Sangui is probably not willing to let go of any of them, right? Now Wuchang and Yuezhou It already belongs to the Emperor, if the Emperor takes Jingzhou again, I'm afraid..."
"Not afraid!" Li Zicheng said with a smile, "Old Li, I don't know how to write the word afraid? But I am still willing to put the overall situation first and share some territory with the Wu family!"
"I wonder how the emperor wants to divide it?" Huang Zhisheng asked.
"Jingzhou City and the areas east of Jingzhou City, north of the Yangtze River, and south of the Han River belong to the De'an Prefecture of Wu The three counties of De'an, Yingcheng, and Yingshan will be transferred to E, and Suizhou will be transferred to those with the surname Wu. Let's do this first!"
"Your Majesty," Huang Zhisheng frowned even more, "You want to control the Yangtze River in the south, and don't control the heart of Huguang and the gateway to the Northeast in the north. I'm afraid Wu Sangui won't give up!"
Li Zicheng chuckled: "So what? If Yuezhou, Hanyang, eastern Jingzhou, and Wuchang are all in our possession, we can hold back the Yangtze River Navy. And we won't go anywhere else, just stay here in Huguang. He If you want to fight with me, I will stay with you until the end! But his surname is Wu, whose ambition is to conquer the world!"
"I understand what the emperor means."
Li Zicheng nodded: "When you come back from Xiangyang, I will take a trip to Jinling."
"Visiting Jinling?" Huang Zhisheng asked, "Do you want to negotiate peace with Prince Zhu San?"
"No peace talks," Li Zicheng shook his head, "Go and ask a loyal Ming king to do it for Laishun."
"Seeking loyalty to the prince on behalf of the young master? What about you, my lord?"
"I'm old," Li Zicheng said with a smile, "it's not convenient for me to show up."
Huang Zhisheng sighed, if Li Zicheng doesn't come forward, the matter will be easier to handle. Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for Li Zicheng to become the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty!
However, while Li Laishun was the loyal king, he also let the Tatar king Yuele go to besiege Jinling. This loyalty seems a bit lacking, right?
"Bang! Crack."
In Xiangyang, in the palace of the Prince of the West, Wu Yingxiong, who had just learned that Yue Le was about to reach an agreement with Li Zicheng, was furious at that time. He picked up a tea bowl and smashed it on the floor tiles. Then he still felt incomprehensible, and even smashed his pen to pieces. .
Several generals and staff under his crown prince's residence were standing aside with their hands down, not daring to express their anger.
Wu Yingxiong has a good temper and rarely gets angry. But this time Yue Le did go too far. As he had said before, he used the land plus Princess Jianning and Wu Yingxiong's two young sons in exchange for a passage to the east. Now I suddenly changed my mind! Isn’t this bullying an honest person?
In fact, if Yue Le hadn't used Princess Jianning and Wu Yingxiong's two sons as bargaining chips, Wu Yingxiong would have attacked Jingmen and Jingzhou together with Wu Guogui.
Although the situation on Wu Yingxiong's side is a bit tight and he can't mobilize too many troops. But Wu Guogui is in good condition now. After he and Zu Zeqing joined forces, they had 35,000 troops. When they attacked Hunan, they collected many surrendered Qing troops and recruited many new soldiers. Now the total strength is five Sixty thousand!
Moreover, Wang Fuchen to the south of Wu Guogui and he were both brothers and in-laws, so there was no need for heavy defense at all. Li Zicheng in the northeast obviously did not want to go to war with Wu Guogui, and Wu Guogui did not have a naval force that could enter the Yangtze River for the time being - the opening of Yuezhou was in Li Zicheng's hands , the navy established by Wu Guogui on Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River could not enter the Yangtze River. Therefore, if he wanted to fall out, he would have to attack the fortified city of Yuezhou, and Wu Guogui was obviously not prepared.
Therefore, if Wu Yingxiong really wants to attack Jingzhou, he can definitely mobilize Wu Guogui's troops to go north!
Although the combined forces of Wu and Wu may not be able to capture Jingzhou immediately, there is no problem in besieging it. If the siege lasts for a year at most, everyone in the city of Jingzhou will starve to death.
Unexpectedly, Yue Le actually used Wu Yingxiong's wife and children as bargaining chips and deceived him severely!
How could he not be angry about this?
"Sir, has Master Yue Le tricked us?" Wu Shifan's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Wu Yingxiong looked back and saw his son, dressed in the uniform of a shotgun soldier, walking in quickly. He had obviously just arrived from the main camp of the Musketeers Association. A few days ago, he had received the three thousand flintlocks promised by Wang Fuchen. The gun and one hundred thousand taels of silver were sent to Xiangyang. Wu Yingxiong gave the flintlock rifle to his son Wu Shifan and asked him to establish a fusilier association in Xiangyang, called the "Musket Association". In these days, Wu Shifan devoted himself to the establishment and training of the Fusilier Association.
"Yue Le lied to us!" Wu Yingxiong gritted his teeth and said, "Your mother and your brother will not be able to come back for the time being."
"Then let's fight him!" Wu Shifan's eyes turned red when he thought of his stepmother and younger brother, "My child's five thousand musketeers are almost fully trained and ready to go into battle!"
Although he was not born to Princess Jianning, Princess Jianning treated him and his sister Xiaoji as if they were her own children. The reason why he was able to escape from Beijing last time was because of Princess Jianning's arrangement. It can be said that this aunt has saved his life!
"Shisun, please calm down. Now is not the time to fight!" At this time, another voice came from outside the door. The person who came was Wang Shirong. After he came back from Wang Fuchen, he was "retained" by Wu Yingxiong. Now Became the long history of the Prince's Mansion.
"Wang Changshi, if you don't fight now, Yue Le will run away!" Wu Shifan stamped his feet.
"Don't be afraid." Wang Shirong shook his head, "Let them run!"
"Let them run away? What will my mother and the others do?"
Wu Yingxiong also asked: "Yes, what should the princess do?"
Wang Shirong said: "Master, this matter is easy to handle. Yue Le handed over Jingzhou to Li Zicheng just because he wanted us to go to war with Li Zicheng! But do we have to fight Li Zicheng for Jingzhou?"
"Well, that's Jingzhou!" Wu Yingxiong said.
Wang Shirong smiled and said: "Master, you can also want the whole world! If you have the world, are you afraid that you will not have a princess?"
"The whole world?" Wu Yingxiong asked, "Why do you want it?"
Wang Shirong suggested: "You can reach an agreement with Li Zicheng to carve up Jingzhou, Anlu, and De'an, and then transfer some troops from Hunan, borrow some grain from Li Zicheng, gather tens of thousands of troops in Xiangyang, and march north to Nanyang!"
Wu Yingxiong clapped his hands: "Okay! What a great plan. Wang Changshi, do you mean that I station troops in Nanyang, pretend to be powerful in China, and force Kangxi to hand over the princess for peace?"
What? Wang Shirong was stunned and said to himself: You are already so powerful in China, why do you want Princess Jianning? What peace is still being discussed? Kill Kangxi and become emperor! After becoming an emperor, are you still afraid that you won’t have a beautiful woman as your wife?
But before he could speak again, Wu Yingxiong had already sent a mission to Wang Shirong, and he said in a calm voice: "Wang Changshi, after my son leaves Nanyang, you will go to Xi'an and tell Kangxi that you want me to go If we are fighting for territory with Li Zicheng, please ask him to return Princess Jianning and my two young sons, or I will seize Luoyang and Kaifeng, leaving him with enemies from both sides and unable to return to Beijing!"
At the same time, outside the Dasheng Pass in the west of Nanjing, an army that had just won the battle, but looked very unhappy, was coming. This army was the "Fujian Northern Expedition Army" led by Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin, Liu Jinzhong and others. In order to seize Nanjing and occupy the south of the Yangtze River, they got up early in the morning. They thought they could take the lead, but unexpectedly they were rushed. A late set. It was almost a month after most of Nanjing (excluding the imperial city) was captured by the Third Prince Zhu that he arrived belatedly.
The reason why he was so late was of course because Geng Jingzhong's ability to rebel was a bit poor. He actually performed well at the beginning of the Battle of Wuhu, catching Duolong off guard and surrounding Wuhu. If he had not thought about taking Wuhu and destroying Duolong's main force, but instead attacked Nanjing directly, he could almost enter the city with Prince Zhu San.
But he wasted a lot of time on Duolong. Although he finally captured Wuhu, Duolong and Duolong's main force still ran away on the warship sent by Shi Lang.
Later, Geng Jingzhong discovered that the third prince Zhu seemed to be stable in Jinling City, and was also holding group training in the counties under Yingtian Prefecture. He felt that he should save some capital, so he divided his troops to attack Taiping Fucheng, Ningguofucheng, Xuancheng and Chizhou. Tongling of Mansion. Although they all succeeded successfully, it was delayed for some time, so that it was only now that they led the victorious division with low morale, escorting Mingzhu, who was sometimes riding in the prison car, and sometimes in a sedan chair, and Zhu, who insisted on staying in the prison car. Guozhi, all the way dejectedly entered the territory of Yingtian Mansion
(End of chapter)
