"Chen Tingjing, if you have any clever ideas, tell me quickly!"
When Kangxi heard Chen Tingjing's words, he immediately became excited. He had always admired Chen Tingjing's resourcefulness, and he was his imperial master! And judging by his appearance, he has sideburns, a long face, a tall forehead, and thick eyebrows. Does he look a bit like Zhuge Kongming?
However, this Shanxi version of Zhuge Liang, who has an overly thick beard and eyebrows, is not as "bold" as Zhuge Liang. After hearing Kang Mazi's words, he did not dare to offer advice immediately. Instead, he lay on the ground and kowtowed, speaking in Manchurian with a Shanxi accent: "Your Majesty, If I am brave, please ask the Emperor to forgive me, and then I will dare to speak out."
Why is this "Zhuge Liang" so troubled?
Kangxi waved his hand and said, "Speak, I will forgive you!"
"Your Majesty, my suggestion is to use a Ma character tactic and a trapped character tactic to deal with Prince Zhu San's group."
"What is Ma Zi Jue?" Kang Mazi frowned.
"Back to the Emperor, this Ma Zi Jue is to paralyze the third prince Zhu and the others!" Chen Tingjing said, "In the art of war, it is said that ten times the strength of the opponent can be used to encircle the enemy. But it is impossible for the imperial court to do so. Most of our forces will be used in the south of the Yangtze River, and Prince Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong are both quite powerful. We simply cannot send ten times the force to surround Jinling. So we can only paralyze them first and make them think that we will fight with them across the river. Governance, and let Prince Zhu San become Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty."
"Be bold!"
"absurd!"
Before Chen Tingjing finished speaking, someone started to curse. After this scolding, Chen Tingjing, the Shanxi Zhuge Liang, immediately lay there motionless, with his butt raised high, as if he was ready to be beaten.
"Let him speak, let him finish!" Kangxi quickly stopped the Manchu ministers in the South Study Room who were swearing, but he did not lose his temper at them, because Chen Tingjing's words were inherently scolding, no wonder he apologized before offering advice!
For this reason, Chen Tingjing is still not as good as Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang would not scold Liu Adou when he gave him advice.
"Master Chen, please continue, I forgive you." Kangxi quickly forgave his Shanxi Zhuge Liang again.
Only then did Chen Tingjing dare to continue: "Your Majesty, although Prince Zhu will not be able to escape the Qing Dynasty's law, he certainly doesn't think so. He must feel that he is a puppet supported by Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and others. Why? Everyone has the fate of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. But this Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was not as good as Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty after all!
Moreover, according to the investigation conducted by Niangan, this third prince Zhu has a son who can pass on the throne! If the emperor could allow him to rule by crossing a river, and let him be an emperor and minister Cijiong, he would definitely want it, right? "
"Of course he wants it, but I can't live without the taxes from Jiangnan!" Kangxi said with a pockmarked face.
"Your Majesty, what I mean is that the Emperor is using a trick to pretend that Prince Zhu Third Prince will have a future as Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty." Chen Tingjing said, "There are three benefits to doing this. One is to stabilize the north of the Yangtze River! Now Prince Zhu Third Prince has sent Liu Jinzhong to cross the river to seize the throne. Jiangpu and Liuhe counties were established, and they also began to organize large-scale military training in Jiangpu and Liuhe. It was obvious that they wanted to run Jiangbei. Although with the strength of Liu Jinzhong’s army and the two counties, it was impossible to shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei. , but it is inevitable that people’s hearts will fluctuate.
If there can be a proposal to demarcate the Yangtze River, the situation in Jiangbei will be stabilized quickly, and then Jiangbei Camp and Jiangxi Camp can spare their efforts to build camp forts in Yizheng and Hezhou to control the Yangtze River waterway. If the Jiangxi camp can control the entrance of Chaohu into the river in Hezhou, and the Jiangbei camp can control Yizheng, then not only can Jiangbei be stabilized, but half of Jinling's southwest and northeast entrances can also be secured.
The second benefit is that it can turn the attention of Prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong to Chizhou, Taiping, Ningguo, Huizhou and other places in the southwest. Because once the emperor and Prince Zhu reach an agreement on delimiting the river, the court will start from Jiujiang. Withdraw the troops, and then there will be no one to resist Li Zicheng for Zhu San of Jinling!
Therefore, Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong will definitely deploy troops to strengthen the defense of several state capitals west of Jinling. In this way, they will have no extra strength to develop eastward, and the people of Jiangnan will stabilize as a result.
As for the third benefit of this discussion of demarcating the river, it is of course beneficial to the Jiangnan Camp and the Jiangdong Camp to take advantage of the emptiness of Jinling to suddenly attack and send large troops to the vicinity of Jinling. However, they should not attack the strong city, but control the dangerous points and build The city completely closed the entrance from Jinling to the east into the prosperous land of Suhu.
In this way, the imperial court can firmly pin the strength of the Third Prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong to Jiangning, Taiping, and Chizhou! "
After Kangxi heard what Chen Tingjing said, he was already very happy.
Chen Tingjing’s strategy sounds quite reliable!
And with his expression of joy, all the people below him stopped cursing. After all, they didn't have any better ideas.
Suo'etu was also the first to applaud Chen Tingjing, and also added a little more information, saying everything that Chen Tingjing left unsaid - this contribution of advice is quite great, how dare Chen Tingjing, a Han, to monopolize it ?
Suo'etu picked up Brother Thumb and said with a smile: "High! It's really high! Your Majesty, I think Chen Tingjing's method is too high!"
The servant knows the terrain near Jinling. Jinling is close to water. Although there are dangers to rely on, it is not easy to manage. Because there is water in Jinling, but the coast is too flat, you can land anywhere. There are mountains in Jinling, but the mountains in Jinling do not form a ring. Instead, they are arranged on the left and right of Jinling, with a large door in the middle. If Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong who were guarding Jinling could not spend a lot of effort to manage Jinling, then the dangers around Jinling would not be able to be used by them, but would become a basis for the imperial army to besiege Jinling.
The slave suggested that the imperial court could order Prince An to station troops in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou first, as if preparing to gather troops from all over the south of the Yangtze River and withdraw northward, and then take advantage of Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong's opportunity to concentrate on the upper reaches to send large troops along the Yangtze River and Go west through the passage between Baohua Mountain and Wuzhou Mountain, and then wait for an opportunity to build a camp near Qixia Mountain! "
"Okay!" After Suo'etu added, Kangxi could finally call, "As long as the Qixia Mountain Camp is here, Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong of Jinling will be stuck in their throats, making it difficult to use them! At the same time, we can always Withdraw the defenses from Jiujiang and let the fierce tiger Li Zicheng go eastward!"
Kangxi smiled and added: "If the third prince Zhu can become Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty, does he still lack Qin Hui? Do you think we can arrange one for him?"
"Your Majesty," Hanlin scholar Xiong Cilu immediately followed Kangxi's thinking and thought of the two candidates Qin Hui, "I know that the two of them are in Jinling and their hearts are in the Qing Dynasty. Qin Hui will definitely be able to serve as the third prince Zhu."
"Who is it?" Kangxi asked.
"Hanlin editors Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei!"
Kangxi nodded: "I know them both, they are indeed very similar to Qin Hui!"
When Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei heard this comment, they wondered whether they would feel deeply about the emperor's kindness?
"Then who can be the envoy of Jiangnan?" Kangxi asked again.
Suo'etu said: "Your Majesty, I suggest you let Mingzhu go. Anyway, he is still in Yangzhou at the moment. He is also familiar with Jinling, and he seems to be quite familiar with Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei."
Kangxi thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's right. Let Mingzhu be the envoy of Jiangnan! In addition, give Mingzhu a governor of water transportation, and let him move the governor's office to Yangzhou. It will be convenient for him to go to Jiangnan in the future. ”
Suo'etu breathed a sigh of relief, now it's better, there is no more rival like Mingzhu to compete with him for power!
From now on, this pearl will just stay in Yangzhou and deal with the two "Qin Hui" in Jinling and Ming Gaozong!
Nanjing, Yuejiang Tower.
When Kangxi and others were discussing how to make Prince Zhu San, the "Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty", the "Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty", Zhu Cijiong was standing with a group of ministers on the Yuejiang Tower to watch the mighty and powerful river flowing along the river. The Qing army is under attack!
Yue Le has already led his Jingzhou Banner Army and their family members, as well as some of the Green Camp soldiers who were recruited to Jingzhou, as well as official refugees from Huguang. There are a total of 78,000 people, riding on thousands of forcibly recruited civilian ships and Dozens of warships and official ships made their way eastward to the river near Nanjing.
Although Yue Le and his army were just passing by, Prince Zhu was still very nervous, fearing that those Qing soldiers would get out of their minds and cause trouble for him - he was really worthy of being Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty!
So as soon as I heard that the Qing soldiers were passing by, I was no longer in the mood to learn foreign languages and practice wrestling with the ladies in the harem. I immediately summoned my officials and climbed up to the Yuejiang Tower, which was actually only one stone. The high platform on the Lion Mountain is used as an empty city.
That’s right, the current Nanjing city is almost an empty city!
It's almost the New Year now, and most of the regiment training troops below have gone back to their hometowns to guard the place - but don't celebrate the New Year. The Qing soldiers are coming, making it difficult for everyone's families to live in peace.
In addition, after Geng Jingzhong's army captured the imperial city, most of them left Nanjing. This was because unexpected news came from Fujian!
Zheng Jing did not attack Ningbo Prefecture as agreed, but suddenly landed in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian. Then with the cooperation of Wu Shu and Zhao Desheng, two young men, they captured Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and also captured Haicheng Gong's son. Huang Fangdu was captured alive (Old Haichenggong Huang Wu just died of illness). Fan Chengmo, the governor of Fujian, led his troops and fled to the Yanping and Jianning Prefecture areas, cutting off the communication between Geng Jingzhong and Fuzhou!
Therefore, Geng Jingzhong had no choice but to send General Zeng Yangxing and 5,000 troops to march to Ningguo Mansion and Quzhou Mansion, hoping to return to Fujian to kill Fan Chengmo. But no one expected that Zeng Yangxing and Wang Jinzhong, who had been sent to Ningguo earlier, met the Qing troops led by Li Zhifang (the general manager of Jiangnan Camp) at Qianqiu Pass, where Ningguo Mansion and Quzhou Mansion intersected, and they were defeated!
Geng Jingzhong had no choice but to send Shang Zhixin and two thousand troops to reinforce. Now there were only more than two thousand Geng troops left in Nanjing.
The Yingtian Town Army controlled by Wang Zhongxiao was not all concentrated in Nanjing. Instead, some of them were stationed in Xiaoling Acropolis and Mufu Mountain. There were only more than a thousand people stationed in Nanjing City. They could only defend part of the city. Gate and Prince Ding's Mansion.
With just these few soldiers and horses, if Yue Le really dared to attack Wang Zhongxiao, he would certainly not be afraid!
Because he knew that when 50,000 Hunan troops besieged Tianjing City in history, there were only a few thousand old Taiping brothers in Tianjing City who could fight, but they still persisted for a long time with the help of the strong city left by Zhu Yuanzhang.
The city Zhu Yuanzhang left to his descendants is still very reliable! It's a pity that the Nanming Hongguang Chao earlier was too unsatisfactory. But now the third prince Zhu is a ruthless man who "can't even kill him". He can't be worse than Master Hong, right?
"Li, Li Zhongtang! Tartar, Tartar, the Tartar ship is approaching!"
Wang Zhongxiao was confident when he suddenly remembered the trembling voice of Prince Zhu Third.
He quickly stretched his neck to look on the river, and at a glance he found that a large official ship had left the team and was heading towards the Waijinchuanmen Pier below Yuejiang Tower.
"A boat?" Wang Zhongxiao felt dazzled, "How many people can fit in a boat?"
"A hundred people?" Geng Jingzhong frowned and said, "Maybe they are all white-armored elites from Manchuria?"
"White armor?" Wang Zhongxiao chuckled, "Climbed out of the coffin?"
"Li Zhongtang," Lu Sanhao said worriedly, "there is no defense at Waijinchuan Gate! If there are really dozens of Batulu warriors standing at the dock, there will be big trouble."
The Waijinchuan Gate is not the gate of the inner city of Nanjing, but the gate of the outer city of Nanjing. The gate is still there, but it has been undefended for a long time. The city Zhu Yuanzhang left for his descendants is so big that if they are all guarded, at least two of them must be guarded. One hundred thousand elite soldiers!
But if we really have so many elite soldiers, how can we defend the city?
And if there is no one to guard the castle, it can easily be taken away by the enemy and become their stronghold!
Therefore, Wang Zhongxiao did not dare to take it lightly. Instead, he cupped his hands with Prince Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, I will lead a hundred people from my headquarters to deal with them!"
"Okay, go quickly, go quickly!" Prince Zhu nodded quickly, and then warned, "Li Zhongtang, if the Tatars' Batulu is powerful, don't force it, we can still retreat to the inner city."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty!" Wang Zhongxiao patted his chest and said, "My martial arts skills are no match for even Obai, so why should I be afraid of Batulu?"
He wasn't bragging. Didn't Obai get shot to death by one of his arrows?
So, he immediately ran down the Yuejiang Tower, where his personal troops were guarding downstairs. There were a hundred cavalrymen, all wearing helmets and armor, carrying long spears, and carrying straight grooved rifled flintlock rifles. It looks like there's nothing Baturu can fight against!
Leading a hundred cavalry, Wang Zhongxiao quickly flew to Waijinchuan Gate. Without his order, the cavalry dismounted and went up to the city to ambush with rifled guns on their backs. Wang Zhongxiao, on the other hand, stood alone at the gate of Waijinchuan with a spear in his hand. He was indeed a guard of the gate with one horse, and no one could enter!
However, the person who emerged from the official ship that docked at the dock was not Batulu, but an acquaintance of Wang Zhongxiao, Huang Zhisheng, who did not want the Tianzi Pier Street in Guangzhou and half of the mountains in Xiangdao!
Huang Zhisheng had been looking with a telescope just now, and he saw Wang Zhongxiao from a distance, and also saw his cold-blooded cavalry coming and going behind the crenellations of the outer Jinchuan Gate tower.
"Don't shoot, Wang Shikai, tell your people not to shoot. I am not a Qing soldier, I am Huang Zhisheng who came to participate in the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming dynasties! King Chuang sent me here!"
Wang Zhongxiao also recognized him - a talented man from Guangdong who did not want a street in Guangzhou or half a mountain in Xiangdao, but insisted on going to Huang'an, Hubei to do great things with Li Zicheng. Of course, he would leave a very deep impression on people!
And talents like this who waste money for their ideals are very valuable in any era. It would be a pity if they were shot dead for being stupid.
"Don't shoot. Our own people!"
Wang Zhongxiao gave the order loudly, but he did not ride his horse forward, but still waited inside the city gate hole - he was also afraid of being shot by others!
And Huang Zhisheng still looks a little suspicious!
How could he come to Nanjing to attend the Anti-Qing and Restoration Conference with Yue Le’s Qing soldiers?
So he just waved to Huang Zhisheng, "Mr. Huang, come here quickly. The third prince is looking north at his homeland from the Yuejiang Tower. He misses the late emperor! If King Li Chuang has any good strategies to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, please tell him about it."
Huang Zhisheng carried his robe and jogged all the way to the gate of Waijinchuan. He shouted as he ran, "Brother Shikai, King Li Chuang is no longer King Chuang. He wants to be King Zhong instead. You have to change your name in the future." King Li Zhong!”
"What? King Li Zhong?" Wang Zhongxiao was stunned and thought to himself: How did Zicheng suddenly become Xiucheng? So has King Chen Ying been successful?
"Yes, yes, that is King Li Zhong!" Huang Zhisheng was already standing in front of Wang Zhongxiao with a smile, "But it is not his old man who is the king of Li Zhong himself, but his adopted grandson Li Laishun who is the king of Li Zhong! Li Laishun He is the posthumous son of Duke Xingguo and has always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty!"
"What happened to Yue Le's army on the river?" Wang Zhongxiao pointed to the mighty fleet on the river, "How did they pass through the openings in Wuchang and Hanyang?"
"It was King Zhong who asked them to let them go in exchange for the land in Jingzhou!" Huang Zhisheng said with a smile, "I also have a memorial here to report the victory and invite King Zhong to be granted the title!"
(End of chapter)
