When the students of the third phase of the Jiangwu Hall (Nanjing branch) were following the reformist Confucian scholars to learn what "subjugation of the world" meant, they went to Yingtian Primary School of the Reform School (which occupied the original Jiangning area) not too far away from the Jiangwu Hall. In the territory of Fu Xue), the three powerful factions of the Ming Dynasty are having a heart-to-heart talk, preparing to come up with a "Ming Dynasty trio" that can cover the sky with three hands!
Oh, this is not about forming a party for personal gain, but breaking down the closed rural clans, establishing an alliance of gentlemen, and serving the country and the people wholeheartedly!
Therefore, they are all very noble gentlemen, masters who are at the forefront of the times and leading the world's progress! The tallest among the three is of course the little boy Lu Bu, Li Er, and Li Zhongtang. Not only is he tall, but he also has good martial arts skills and is also highly educated.
So today's heart-to-heart talk was mainly about him reasoning with Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao.
"Three good things, Fu Fu. Throughout history, all heroes must rely on their clan and township party to assist them in achieving great things. Only with at least one of the two can great things be achieved. For example, there are elders of Peixian County in the Western Han Dynasty, Nanyang tycoons in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Cao Wei have The Cao family, the Xiahou family and the Yingchuan gentry clan, the Western Jin Dynasty had the Sima clan and the Yingchuan gentry clan. The Sui and Tang Dynasties relied on the Guanlong clan and the Yang and Li clans. The Ming Dynasty Taizu was a widower, so he could only rely on the Huaixi clan. In his later years, in order to suppress the nobles, he went on a killing spree and established vassal kings. In Manchuria, there were the Aisin Gioro clan and the Manchu Xiang Party.
But among the three of us, one of us has no local party to rely on, and the other is not from a powerful family. Therefore, if you want to achieve great things, you cannot take the usual route, you have to find a new way. My younger brother’s idea is to use the Tiandihui as the party, with military officers as the military faction and civil servants as the reform faction. From now on, the center of the Heaven and Earth Association will be headed by the three of us to form a group of three. Whenever there is a major matter, the three of us will discuss it together. If there is a disagreement, the consensus of the two will be adopted. What do you think? "
how about?
That’s certainly what I want!
Although Lu Sanhao had worked with Wu Sangui, he was not part of the Liaodong Township Party and was not a general from Shanxi Province, so he could not enter the core of Wu Sangui's group. It was only because his family had money, he found a way out, and he became a disciple of Liu Xuanchu, that he had the chance to become a Western Selector by throwing money at him. Later, he was sent to the Kangxi camp as spies by Wu Sangui and Liu Xuanchu. This was a near-death mission!
But no matter how he narrowly escapes death, it will be difficult for him to enter the core of Wu Sangui Group and gain real power. Even if Wu Sangui likes him, he will know how to advance or retreat! Otherwise, if the Liaodong Township Party, Shanxi and Shaanxi surrender generals come together to fight him, his life may not be saved!
But when cooperating with Li Zhongshan in Nanjing, Lu Sanhao's status was completely different.
Lu Sanhao had more than 10,000 people in the Yingtian regiment to train the army, and he also controlled the administration of Yingtian Mansion. He was the Yin of Yingtian Mansion and the Minister of Household Affairs of the Nanjing imperial court, ranking among the three most powerful central halls.
Now he can take more than 10,000 people and the Yingtian Mansion that he controls as shares, and the small shareholders of Tiandihui can directly join the core three-person group, which is the board of directors!
Chen Yonghua was Zheng Jing's township party member. He was an official of Zheng Jing's side and proposed to join the army. He held a high and powerful position. But Zheng Jing's group temple is too small to accommodate the great god Chen Yonghua.
What level is Chen Yonghua at now? He is the helmsman of the Jiangnan Branch of the Tiandihui, and he also controls a maritime merchant group that can travel freely on the East Asian Sea - the Sea Route Aid and Suppression Town! The support for suppression is actually just a name. The real status of this maritime merchant group is that it is a vassal of Yanping Palace, Nanwang Palace, and Qing Dynasty. They carry three flags when they go to sea. Who dares not to give face? There is nothing in the East Asian Sea that they cannot reach.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Yonghua now is Zheng Zhilong back then. He is even taller! Back then, Zheng Zhilong was just a general of the army, but now Chen Yonghua is the official minister of the Nanjing imperial court, one of the three most powerful officials!
In addition, he is of course one of the big bosses of the Tiandihui! On the Tiandihui side, he is not only a shareholder, but also the largest shareholder second only to Li Zhongshan and Yang Qilong. And in Yanping Palace, he can no longer go back.
Because the surname of Prince Yanping is Zheng!
He wanted to return to the Yanping Palace with the capital he had managed through the Tiandihui. It was hard to tell whether the Yanping Palace would continue to be surnamed Zheng, but would be half Zheng and half Chen.
However, if Chen Yonghua wanted to work with Li Zhongshan to form a world alliance to control the Ming Dynasty, he had to give an explanation to the Zheng family.
"Shikai," Chen Yonghua looked at Li Zhongshan and asked, "How do you plan to arrange the Yiwang Palace (Yanping Palace)?"
Li Zhongshan said word for word: "Yiwangfu has always been a vassal vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The Xiwangfu, Nanwangfu, Dongwangfu, Beiwangfu, and Zhongwangfu can only be vassals of the Ming Dynasty! As vassals, they can only guard the four directions. The imperial court should be governed by We, the courtiers, have the final say!”
"But Shikai, aren't you the eldest son of the Nanwang Palace?" Lu Sanhao interjected, "Shikai, you must be the eldest son in the future, right?"
Li Zhongshan smiled and replied to Lu Sanhao: "Brother Sanhao, of course I am my father's successor. But my father is still young and has a strong body. There is no guarantee that he will live another thirty or forty years. I can't keep waiting. Right? Even if I wait, the Third Prince can't wait, let alone the people of the world. "
In fact, Li Fuchen has not determined his successor, and he is not sure, because once it is determined that the successor is Li Zhongshan, Li Zhongshan is likely to take over in advance. That is not a small job Lu Bu, but a job Li Er!
Think back then, if Old Li Yuan Li had made Li Er the crown prince, would Li Er really have waited for Old Li to die? Li Fuchen was very suspicious anyway.
Of course, he didn't dare to confirm that Li Jizhen was the crown prince, because Li Jizhen didn't have that power. Nanwang Mansion was a joint-stock company, and Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan were both major shareholders. What Li Fuchen brought out were the old brothers from Shanshan and Shaanxi and the second generation of Shanshan and Shaanxi that he brought out. What Li Zhongshan brought out was the territory of Guangfu and Shaozhou that he managed by relying on Tiandihui, Jiangwutang, Weixintang, and Guangdong Customs Road.
Moreover, this territory still retains an independent military and political system, called the Guangdong Navy Jiedu Envoy Department!
Even if Li Zhongshan now enters the court, he will still be the military governor of the Guangdong Navy! Those who stayed in Guangzhou to hold the real power of Jiedushi were his wife Wu Xiaotuo and his close associates Yu Deshui, Wang Zhongxian, Wang Zhongyi, Li Jixiang, Guo Dequan (the father of Guo Jinbao), Yao Qisheng, Dai Zi, Wan Sitong, Wan Si Nian et al.
Li Fuchen previously sent troops to Guangxi, and this time he sent troops to Huguang. Although he mobilized the Guangfu New Army under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Navy's Jiedushi Division, he did not directly give orders to the Guangfu New Army, but to the Guangdong Navy's Jiedushi Division. , the four-man regiment assigned by Li Zhongshan (Yu Deshui, Wang Zhongxian, Yao Qisheng, and Wan Sitong) discussed and agreed, and then reported it to Wu Xiaotuo for approval, and then issued a troop deployment order in the name of Li Zhongshan and sent the troops to Li Fuchen.
From this perspective, the Guangdong Navy Jiedushi Division was a vassal of the Nanwang Mansion, and Li Zhongshan himself became one of the three most powerful officials in the Ming Dynasty by relying on the resources provided by the Jiedushi Division.
If we can use the Tiandihui, the Wushu Sect, and the Reformists to control the Nanjing court and then capture the territory of Liangjiang, then the new Ming Dynasty will be completely supported!
At that time, Li Zhongshan, who controlled the power of the Nanjing court, changed from Li Fuchen's successor to Li Fuchen's superior leader.
"Fufu," Li Zhongshan turned to ask Chen Yonghua at this time, "if the three of us take control of the court and win Liangjiang and Zhejiang, will Prince Yi's Mansion listen to us?"
Chen Yonghua smiled and said, "As long as Prince Yi can be allowed to rule Fujian, His Highness Prince Yi will definitely become a law-abiding vassal king, and the court can definitely rest assured."
"All the Yi Kings have Fujian? What about the East King?" Lu Sanhao asked, "Also, what about the Zhong King, the North King, and the West King?"
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Of course King Zhong is the same as King Nan and King Yi. If Li Zicheng had not received help from his father this time, he might not have been able to defend even the five prefectures of Wuchang, Hanyang, Huangzhou, De'an and Anlu. Bei. A king is worse than a loyal king, so why should he be dissatisfied if he can have a future as a vassal king? As for the King of the West, I think he will soon become the emperor himself!"
Lu Sanhao nodded: "So the world in the future will still be a three-point situation?"
"The three points must be unified after all!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "Wu Sangui's plate is just Guan Ning Wufu and Shanxi surrendered generals, while the Qing court is the Manchuria Township Party plus Aisin Gioro. And we have By establishing the Tiandihui, Lecture Hall, and Reform Hall, we can recruit talents from all over the world, so we will definitely be the ones to dominate the world in the future!"
"That's wrong!" Chen Yonghua had already heard something was wrong from Li Zhongshan's words.
"What's wrong?"
"Shikai, you didn't mention Dong Wang!" Chen Yonghua looked at Li Zhongshan, "How will Dong Wang arrange it?"
"Dong Wang?" Li Zhongshan smiled, "Then it depends on Dong Wang's own thoughts!"
Lu Sanhao smiled: "What kind of good ideas can Geng Jingzhong have? He is so angry that the emperor's clone is angry!"
Li Zhongshan and Chen Yonghua looked at each other and laughed.
"My lord, that's not right!"
Nanjing Forbidden City, Hall of Wuying. Geng Jingzhong, who was still experiencing the life of the Emperor in advance (he had obtained an Emperor Experience Card), was also anxious for his close friends to study how to turn his "Emperor Experience Card" into a "Legendary Card" "——As the emperor, life is not enough, it must be passed down to the next generation!
But someone pointed out that something was wrong!
Geng Jingzhong was looking down at the Qiben sent by Liu Jinzhong from Jiangbei (the report to the regent was called Qiben. Geng Jingzhong felt that he was the regent, so he asked his subordinates to call the report to him Qiben). Jingzhong looked up and found that it was Shang Zhixin who was saying something was wrong, so he smiled and asked, "My dear, what's wrong?"
"Wang Datou, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua are getting closer and closer. And they have more and more troops under their control!" Shang Zhixin also held a report in his hand, which he sent to the People's Corps of Yingtianfu City as an officer. Xiao Zuo sent it, "Now Wang Datou's Huai army is recruiting troops every day, Lu Sanhao's Yingtian regiment is training every day, Chen Yonghua has become the president of the National People's Corps, and he has also attracted many people. Now the total number of these three armies is It’s almost over 150,000!”
"My Lord, you are worrying too much." Geng Jingzhong felt quite good about himself. "Our troops have also increased a lot. The King of the North has expanded his army to 10,000 in Jiangbei, and we also have more than 10,000 in Jinling City. Elite, after Zeng Yangxing became the governor of Anhui, the number of soldiers and horses expanded rapidly, and they can even be called 30,000. Based on this calculation, we will soon have an army of 50,000.
In addition, the Imperial City of Nanjing is still in our hands! The Imperial City of Nanjing is very solid. As long as we firmly control the Imperial City, even if Nanjing City is breached, we can continue to support it for a while until King Bei and Zeng Yangxing come to save it. So we are actually invincible! "
"What the prince said is true!" Geng Jingzhong's confidant military advisor Yu Renying said with a smile, "The prince now not only sits firmly on the Diaoyutai, but also has the power to assist the government and can dispatch the troops of the capital. Even the soldiers of the Third Middle Hall have to listen to the prince. Order!"
Geng Jingzhong is the Eastern King after all!
Although he did not have the strength to take down Sanzhongtang, Sanzhongtang did not have the remaining strength to take down him now - Yue Le's army is now in the east of Nanjing City, and Jieshu's army has arrived in Hezhou in the west of Nanjing City, and the vanguard is still there. Captured Caishiji!
Li Zhifang's army in the Jiangnan camp is stationed in Liyang and can go north at any time.
Therefore, Nanjing is now surrounded by enemies on all sides and is about to be besieged!
Under this situation, Sanzhongtang certainly did not dare to fight with Geng Jingzhong.
"Not only do they not dare to fight, they also have to work hard to defend the city and do everything possible to break the siege of Nanjing by the Qing army!" Yu Renyingyu, the military advisor, shook his feather fan and said, "Because they now rely on the Yingtian Tuanlian, the Huai Army, and the people of the country. The regiment, in the final analysis, is the people of Yingtian Mansion. The prince can care about the life and death of the people and can securely defend the imperial city, but they cannot!"
"Master Yu is right," the Taoist surnamed Li said while counting his fingers, "and if they want to break the siege of Nanjing, they must ask the prince to take action!
Because both King Bei and Zeng Futai belonged to the prince, they had 40,000 troops outside Nanjing. If they were used properly, they could break the siege of Nanjing. "
"Taoist, do you still know about military affairs?" Geng Jingzhong asked with a smile, "Tell me, how to solve the siege of Nanjing?"
Li Daoren pinched his fingers and calculated again, "Your Majesty, I think the only way to break the siege of Nanjing is to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao!"
"Surround Wei and rescue Zhao?" Geng Jingzhong smiled, then looked at Shang Zhixin, "How about that?"
Shang Zhixin thought for a while and said: "How to surround Wei and rescue Zhao? Attack Jiujiang or Anqing?"
"No!" Shang Shuying, who came across the river on behalf of King Liu Bei, shook her head and said, "Jiujiang and Anqing are integrated. If one is lost, the other will be difficult to keep. And once these two cities are lost, Wang Fuchen and Li Zicheng will follow the river. Next. Once they enter Nanjing, our tens of thousands of people will not be enough to see them!"
Shang Zhixin nodded: "If we can't use troops against Jiujiang and Anqing, we can only go north to Gaojiayan and force Yue Le to divide his troops to the north of the Yangtze River. At the same time, we can use heavy troops to break the Jiangnan camp in Liyang, threaten the prosperous land of Suhu, and force Yue Le's entire army to return. Withdrew. As long as Yue Le withdraws his troops and Li Zhifang is defeated, Jieshu will be alone and will definitely retreat to Jiujiang and Anqing. In this way, we will break the siege of Nanjing, and then we can..."
As he spoke, he waved his hand violently and made a murderous gesture!
"Start after breaking the siege of Nanjing?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned. "Is it too hasty?"
"Why are you not in a hurry?" Shang Shuying gritted her teeth and said, "Then who is Wang Datou? He is the best at fighting. In Guangzhou, he destroyed all my concubine's family and only a few people were left. In Nanjing, he joined forces with Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua cheated his master Duolong. If you share Jinling like this, you really have to sleep with one eye open!"
Li Zhongshan seems to be really not a good person
And Geng Jingzhong wants to be the emperor! Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua are now colluding together to hold the emperor and Ling Yingtian hostage. They will definitely not allow Geng Jingzhong to usurp the throne!
So if this matter continues, it will be very dangerous for Geng Jingzhong!
Geng Jingzhong thought for a while and asked: "Gege, can you hold back King Liu Bei now? Last time in Guangzhou, you had him tied up and sold!"
Liu Jinzhong was a variable. Last time in Guangzhou, he didn't take Shang Shuying seriously. He turned against her and disowned her. However, he didn't betray her completely. Afterwards, he fished out Shang Shuying and took over the house.
Obviously there is something about this Shang Shuying that attracts Liu Jinzhong!
"Jin Zhong considers himself a loyal minister of the Third Prince Zhu and King Dong. As long as the Third Prince Zhu and King Dong issue an edict together, he will definitely obey their orders. So the key is to capture the Third Prince Zhu!" Shang Shuying said, "In addition, Jinzhong also has my people around him, and the people in Duke Xushun's mansion originally listened to me, and I can control at least one-third of his troops."
Geng Jingzhong clapped his hands and said with a smile: "That's enough! Gege, that Third Prince Zhu also regards Liu Jinzhong as a confidant. If you take the army under Liu Jinzhong's name to control Prince Ding's Mansion, he will definitely cooperate. As long as you win it Prince Zhu San, then you are not afraid that Liu Jinzhong will be disobedient."
(End of chapter)
