When Wang Zhongxiao was invited to Prince Ding's Mansion by Li Guangdi, it was almost dark. The third prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong, two bad chess players who were rivals, had played several games and were both "starving". They were setting up a banquet in Prince Ding's Mansion, and while eating, they talked about how to divide the river and rule with the Qing Dynasty. !
Prince Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong’s understanding of drawing rivers to rule is the same as their understanding of Go. They are both half a catty and eight liang.
Zhu Cijiong didn't want any of the things that the king's industry was not in harmony with, the Han and the traitors were not in harmony, the emperor guarded the country, etc. He just wanted to be the Ming Xian Emperor in peace and stability, even if he was the Xian Emperor of half of the country.
Now Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty does not even have a corner of peace, nor can he say that the Han and the traitors are not at odds with each other. Instead, he is surrounded by all kinds of rebels and captors inside and outside! As for the national gate, Nanjing seems to be the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River, but the problem is that it only has one door now, and it doesn’t even have windows!
If there is someone who can rule across the river, it will really be a blessing from our ancestors!
Geng Jingzhong, the Eastern King of the Ming Dynasty, was put in a position by Zheng Jing, the Wing King, and was a little confused.
If Zheng Jing had taken care of Fan Chengmo and his supervisor when he captured Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Geng Jingzhong would not have had a headache.
After all, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou were not Geng Jingzhong’s core territories in Fujian, so there was no harm in giving them to Zheng Jing. No matter what, Zheng Jing would not completely break up with Geng Jingzhong and fight for the five prefectures of Fuzhou, Funing, Jianning, Yanping, and Shaowu. These five prefectures were Geng Jingzhong's basic base in Fujian.
But Zheng Jing made a precise attack. He only attacked Huang Fangdu but not Fan Chengmo. He also sent all Fan Chengmo's troops out of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou and sent them to Yanping and Jianning Prefectures.
Since Geng Jingzhong's troops left in Yanping and Jianning were too few, they could not withstand Fan Chengmo's thousands of supervisors. So these two mansions were quickly captured by Fan Chengmo!
After taking Jianning Mansion, Fan Chengmo's territory was connected to Zhejiang, and he could receive assistance from Zhejiang. At the same time, the Jianning and Yanping Prefectures in Fan Chengmo's hands can also cover the rear of Quzhou and Guangxin Prefectures in Jiangxi to prevent them from being attacked by Geng Jingzhong's troops.
In addition, since Geng Jingzhong's troops in Fuzhou's home base were surrounded by Zheng Jing, Fan Chengmo and the Zhejiang Qing army, they did not dare to move and had to go on the defensive, unable to threaten the southwestern part of Zhejiang.
Therefore, Li Zhifang, the general manager of the Jiangnan Camp, was able to concentrate his troops in northwest Zhejiang and at the same time divide his troops into Yixing and Liyang in Jiangsu and Guangzhou in Anhui. This not only allowed the Jiangnan Camp to threaten Nanjing, but also sealed off Geng Jingzhong's army. The road south cut off the communication between Geng Jingzhong and Fujian.
If he could really negotiate with the Qing Dynasty to divide the river and rule the country, wouldn't all his troubles be solved?
When the two of them were chatting enthusiastically, a middle-aged lady who "inherited" from Duolong and still had a charming charm shouted: "Master, Wang Datou is here to say hello to you!"
The smell is still the same as when I was with Duolong in Beijing!
"Quickly, invite him in," Prince Zhu said, and then said to a woman in her thirties who was waiting for him and Geng Jingzhong to drink, "Chunhua, go get a pair of bowls, chopsticks, and wine glasses for Li Zhongtang. , and let the kitchen add some side dishes."
"Yes." The woman had a charming and charming look. She made a blessing and walked out gently. When she passed by Wang Zhongxiao, she habitually gave him a wink.
Wang Zhongxiao quickly put away his smiling face and showed the appearance of a virtuous gentleman who looks at his nose with his eyes, his mouth with his nose and his heart with his mouth. Does he know the origins of the "ladies" in Zhu Santai's womb?
A small number of them were women in the Duolong Mansion. Those who were young and beautiful became "royal wives" directly, and those who were a little older became palace maids, serving Prince Zhu San and his family.
The remaining maids in Prince Ding's Mansion were middle-aged widows who were helpless in Nanjing City, or "elder sisters" who had no place to go by the Qinhuai River. They were also people with nothing to rely on, and they were all recruited by Prince Zhu San to work in the palace. To summon people.
As for the young and beautiful Xiaogong daughter, there is none in Mrs. Zhu Santai’s womb, so she can’t delay her marriage!
In addition, there are no eunuchs in the palace of Prince Zhu San, not even the eunuchs of the ceremonial department or the royal horse eunuchs!
Therefore, it is impossible for the new Ming Dynasty in the future to have eunuchs!
"Greetings to the king and prince!"
Wang Zhongxiao bowed his hands to Prince Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong, then pulled up a chair and sat at the wine table. He was not polite at all!
"Shikai," Geng Jingzhong said with a smile, "How is the Ming Zhongtang doing? Did you tell me how the Qing Dynasty will divide the river and rule the Ming Dynasty?"
"My teacher went to see the third interrogation of Zhu Guozhi today. After watching it, he and Zhu Guozhi hugged each other in the cell and cried. They cried for an hour or two, and they didn't leave Yingtian Mansion until the evening."
"Oh, Mingzhu has such a good relationship with Zhu Guozhi?" Geng Jingzhong thought for a while, "That's not right. Mingzhu and Zhu Guozhi have such a good relationship, so he should retaliate after Obai's collapse."
"What's so good about the two of them? The master is so miserable!" Wang Zhongxiao snorted, "Actually, Zhu Guozhi, a man who could kill a thousand swords, spent all his savings to go through Suo Sanhe's master's path. I got it. My father originally wanted to give him Nanxiong Prefecture and let him be a prince to return to his roots, but he insisted on pretending to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and in the end, you, King Dong, tricked him!"
Geng Jingzhong also looked helpless, "Why did you let me be tricked? That's because he offended too many people in Jiangnan, just like the monk's family in Guangdong!"
"Okay, okay, don't talk about these useless things! Li Zhongtang, you should talk about the matter of crossing the river to rule!" Prince Zhu asked, "Is this really a fraud?"
"It's a fraud!" Wang Zhongxiao said categorically, "Of course it's a fraud! How could this be true? Kangxi's situation in Jiangnan can still be maintained, why should he fight against us across the river? I think he is just a delaying tactic. Most likely he wanted to free up his hands to compete with Wu Sangui first.
If you don't believe it, the king will ask the Qing army to withdraw from Jiangnan immediately. I can guarantee that the master will find various excuses to delay. The most we can do is gather the armies of Chizhou, Taiping, Ningguo and Jiujiang so that we can directly confront Li Zicheng. "
"That's it." Prince Zhu was still reluctant to believe it, and turned to look at Geng Jingzhong again.
Geng Jingzhong already frowned, "What Li Zhongtang said makes sense. Now Kangxi is in Xi'an, and the Central Plains now has the situation most conducive to the Northern Expedition predicted by Zhuge Liang in "Longzhong Duel". It seems that a big war is It’s inevitable!”
Prince Zhu was very disappointed at this time, "Then doesn't that mean there's nothing to talk about?"
"Why don't we have to talk?" Wang Zhongxiao smiled, "We can't talk about the territory, and we can't talk about peace, but the trend of dividing the river and governing it can be released because of the negotiation! With this trend, we can't recruit heroes from Jiangdong, and at the same time, we can Are you selling more fame?"
During this time, including Wang Zhongxiao, all the military leaders in the Nanjing court were recruiting troops.
Some take the route of group training, while others directly recruit soldiers.
But no matter what kind of route, it is inseparable from future and money.
The future of dividing rivers to govern is also a future!
If the small court of the Nanming Dynasty could be half of the south of the Yangtze River, then those who followed the small court of the Nanming Dynasty would always have a place to become officials and make money.
In addition, the current financial resources of the Jinling Small Court are very limited, except for the field tax and commercial tax from the five Jiangnan counties under Yingtian Mansion, and the over-tax on the Yangtze River. That is the income from selling the titles of Juren and Scholars.
After all, the literary style is flourishing here in Jiangnan, and the number of candidates and scholars for each subject is limited.
In the words of later generations, the Jiangnan imperial examination was very complicated!
And compared with commercial taxes, land taxes, and tolls that can only be collected with land, selling merit does not necessarily require a large land.
As long as you have expectations, you are not afraid that no one will buy it!
Moreover, only now can you spend money to buy the fame of Nanming's small court!
If the Third Prince Zhu really wants to take over half of the south of the Yangtze River, he will not be short of the money gained by those few people who sell their positions as civil servants and scholars.
When the time comes, there will be no place to buy it if you want to!
Therefore, those rich people who have money in their pockets but do not do well in the exams will not let go of this opportunity as long as they think it is reliable to rule by crossing the river. After all, if you spend one or two hundred taels to buy a scholar, you will be able to join the scholarly ranks in the future. You don’t have to be half as short as an official, so what’s the deal?
At this time, Wang Zhongxiao was again settling accounts with Zhu Cijiong and Geng Jingzhong with his fingers.
"We don't want much for a scholar, just one hundred taels of silver! We can sell it not only in the Jiangnan area of Liangjiang, but also in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places. We can sell hundreds of thousands of scholars. Maybe, that's ten million taels of silver! There are 16,000 to 7,000 Yingtian Jiangnan regiments, which is only 770,000 taels a year. Ten million taels can support four Yingtian Jiangnan regiments for three years! By then, we might be able to take down the entire Jiangnan!"
"Okay!" Prince Zhu patted the table and laughed: "If there are 50,000 regiments training, half of the south of the Yangtze River must be ours!"
Geng Jingzhong also nodded and said: "Then let's talk to Mingzhu. We agree to draw the river to rule, but we cannot agree to recognize my father as the emperor."
"Yes, yes," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "It's no use if the third prince recognizes the wild father. Kangxi will not give us the rich land in the southeast, so we can put forward a condition that we can rule by crossing the river and let the third prince and Kangxi, thank you! They won’t agree to it anyway, so just talk slowly.
While we are talking, we can also hold a restoration meeting and invite famous people from all over the south of the Yangtze River to Nanjing to let them all know that we will definitely have a bright future! "
"The King of the West's army has arrived!"
Following the south of Nanyang City, dozens of waving military flags of various colors appeared on the official roads on both sides of the frozen Baihe River. Early this morning, Nanyang people, gentry and generals stationed in Nanyang Prefecture were waiting outside Nanyang Fucheng to welcome the king's division. The officers and soldiers under Bing Cai Lu all cheered the loudest.
Master Wang is finally here!
Moreover, there seemed to be a lot of royal divisions. The two official roads from south to north were densely lined with marching teams. Looking from a high place, one could see that the teams stretched to the horizon, as if there was no end.
Obviously, the Northern Expedition army sent by Wu Sangui was the real main force. Their number was probably no less than 50,000, no, 100,000!
"There are so many, at least one hundred thousand people!"
"Now it's better, the world is settled!"
"Hahaha, the Tatars are finished, the Ming Dynasty will be restored!"
"Okay, King Xi is indeed my most loyal minister in the Ming Dynasty!"
A group of local gentry guarding outside Nanyang City had already picked up Thumbs up and started bragging for Wu Sangui.
These people are more or less related to the Tang Palace, so they naturally hope that Wu Sangui will come over. Even if he himself becomes emperor in the future, those who are related to the Tang Palace will be able to live a peaceful life.
Because the Ming Dynasty turned upside down when Wu Sangui became the leader of the world!
From now on, it will be a drama of "anti-Wu Fuqing".
And Cai Lu and a group of Fujian people under him were also angry. They only have a thousand elites in total. With these few people, let alone Nanyang City, the Tang Palace cannot defend it. If Amida and Tong Fengcai sent tens of thousands of troops to attack, they would be in dire straits. Even if I can run away, what will happen to my family?
As for not waiting for Wu Yingxiong to come to Xiong Zhenzhongyuan, he ran away first. What about the credit?
Bringing a thousand people to seek refuge there is the future of a battalion head. If you take Nanyang Fucheng to seek refuge, you will at least be the commander-in-chief of a town!
Once you surrender, even if you don't upgrade, you still have to keep your original level, right?
Why else would you surrender?
So these days, Cai Lu and the others have really been waiting for Master Wang to "accept the bear" day and night, and today they finally got the "bear".
Thinking that he would hug the thick legs of Da Wu's "Prince Xiong" from now on, Cai Lu couldn't wait any longer, so he smiled and said to his left and right, "Come on, let's go and greet the Crown Prince?"
"Okay, okay, big brother, we all listen to you!"
The few Fujian people below all called Cai Lu "big brother", and they all smiled as if they had won the first prize.
A group of people got on their horses and galloped forward. Soon they were in front of the Wu army.
When they arrived in front of the Wu army, they discovered that the Wu army was not only large in number, but also very well-equipped. The leader was actually a combination of fusiliers and pikemen - the muskets carried on the shoulders of the Wu soldiers did not have matchlocks. ! That is to say, these Fujian people have been dealing with Westerners all year round. They are well-informed and know that those muskets are all made of flint. There are not many in Zheng Yanping's army. It seems that there are only craftsmen in Foshan and Macao. Can make.
I didn’t expect there were so many in Wu Jiajun!
No wonder Wu Jun is so good at fighting!
Just when these people were surprised by the Wu Jiajun's sophisticated firearms, a handsome young man wearing cotton armor and a gun helmet had already come up from the back of the team, surrounded by Liu Xuanchu and a group of guards. Before they arrived, There was already a loud roll call.
"The grandson of the Western King, the General of the Sharp Spear Guard has arrived!"
The visitor turned out to be Wu Yingxiong's son Wu Shifan. He has now been officially named a "grandson". He is Wu Sangui's "good grandson"!
In addition, the fusiliers under him have now expanded to a guard! He also got the title of Sharpshooter, and Wu Shifan also became a general, which sounds very powerful.
He was also the vanguard of this Northern Expedition, leading his fusiliers and twelve red-coated cannons at the forefront of an army of 50,000 people.
Cai Lu had long known the status of this "saint grandson" in the Wu family. He quickly got off his horse with his men, bowed to Wu Shifan, and said in a formal manner: "Your Majesty, Nanyang Cai Lu, leads his 3,000 strong troops to welcome King Shisun." The master is here, and the people in Nanyang City are eating pots of wine and coming out of the city to welcome him. The city has also been set up with pavilions and barracks. Please come to the city to rest for a few days, and then go straight to Huanglong."
Wu Shifan smiled slightly and raised his fist at Cai Lu: "General Cai, I was ordered by my father to lead the troops as the vanguard of the Northern Expedition. As long as I have the king's orders, I will not enter Nanyang City!"
"Not entering Nanyang City?" Cai Lu was stunned, "Will Shisun bypass Nanyang and go north?"
"What are you doing going north?" Wu Shifan said with a smile, "Mr. Cai, do you know how to get to Wuguan?"
"Wuguan?" Cai Lu was stunned, "Shisun, are you going to attack Xi'an?"
Wu Shifan smiled and said: "Yes, isn't the leader Kangxi in Xi'an? If we capture him, won't the Han world be restored? Mr. Cai, are you willing to lead the way for me?"
"Yes, yes!" Of course Cai Lu was willing, "Shisun, I will order five hundred soldiers and horses to lead you to Xi'an to capture Kangxi!"
Wu Shifan nodded, turned to look northwest, and said with a smile: "Okay! Let's go to Xi'an together. I want to see if Kangxi stays in Xi'an to die, or flees?"
Liu Xuanchu shook a goose-feather fan of the same style as Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "Shisun, this time Kangxi will be roasted by you on the fire. If he wants to abandon the city and leave, then he will not be able to be an emperor properly in the future. If he doesn’t leave, he might be like Chongzhen and be surrounded by us in Xi’an City!”
Wu Shifan smiled and waved his hand: "Let's go to Wuguan, enter Xi'an, and kill Kangxi!"
(End of chapter)
