"able!"
As soon as Shang Shuying heard Li Zhongshan's words, she immediately realized that this was an opportunity for her, so she nodded without hesitation, then walked to Li Zhongshan and knelt down, "Zhongtang, you must trust the slave family. The slave family can go to Xuzhou in person. Cheng said for you, Shang Kejiao. Although Shang Kejiao is not Nu's uncle, the Nu family has always known him since they are members of the Liaodong Township Party and both have the surname Shang. The Nu family also knows that Shang Kejiao is cowardly, greedy and cowardly. , when he and his father were the head of the town in Wenzhou, they once ran away because Guo Xingye was called. Both father and son were dismissed from their posts and titles. Just because they had soldiers in their hands, the southeast of the country at that time The situation was urgent, so he was given a retainer. Later, Guo Xingye was defeated in Nandu, and the father and son regained their official titles. The father and son were even afraid of Guo Xingye, let alone the power of Zhongtang Tianwei?
As long as the central court can be protected and a hereditary and irreplaceable earl can be taught, and supported by the force of soldiers to suppress the situation, what reason does he have for not surrendering with courtesy? "
"There is no problem with a count," Li Zhongshan thought for a moment, "Besides, if I send troops to capture Suzhou City again, is it okay to scare him?"
"Okay!" Shang Shuying said with a smile, "As long as Zhongtang captures Suzhou City, the slave family will be sure to take Shang Kejiao and the family members of Xuzhou Town officers and soldiers to Fuliji to ask for surrender."
Li Zhongshan looked at Shang Shuying deeply and said thoughtfully: "Your father died because of my father and son, and half of the Shang family died because of my father and son. Can I still trust you?"
"able!"
Shang Shuying nodded heavily: "Zhongtang thinks my late father was loyal to the Qing Dynasty?"
"Loyalty!"
Li Zhongshan nodded.
Although Shang Kexi was nothing, his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty was beyond words. He did not participate in the San Francisco Rebellion in history. It was his son Shang Zhixin who led his men to seize military power, and Shang Fan participated in the San Francisco Rebellion.
Moreover, Shang Kexi's indiscriminate killings in Guangdong were ultimately for the sake of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, he could have been benevolent and benevolent, and had been obedient to the coastal relocation, secretly accumulating strength for a big move.
Isn’t that what Wu Sangui is like? It feels like I have an "anti-thief collecting habit"!
"But my father's entire family was massacred by the Manchus until only my father and two uncles were left!" Shang Shuying said slowly, word for word, "Actually, my father-in-law is not the real eldest brother of the slave family, he is just The eldest son was born after his late father defected to the Qing Dynasty. Before him, his late father had three sons and four daughters, all of whom were massacred by the Manchus when Liaonan Town was destroyed. But even so, didn't his late father follow the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly? And the Nu family also and Like my late father, I am willing to die for the Ming Dynasty!"
"Okay!" Li Zhongshan patted his thigh, then stretched out his hand to support Shang Shuying's arm, and helped her stand up, "Shuying, this time it is said that Shang Kejiao's return is the success of your surrender." From now on, you will be my sister Li Shuying. Even if the Shang family follows the East King to rebel, you will not be involved. From now on, you will be the North Princess in peace!"
"Thank you Zhongtang!"
Shang Shuying was about to kneel down and kowtow again. Li Zhongshan hurriedly supported her and said with a smile: "Sister Shuying, our family does not run a court, how can any sister kneel down for her brother? From now on, we will be a family. Just meet each other politely."
Under the arrangement of Luo Dawei, the patriarch of the Luo family, Shang Shuying disguised herself as a refugee landlord and went to Xuzhou the next day. Zhou Chang, who was originally in charge of the overall situation in Fengyang City, drove to Luojiaji in Huaibei with several thousand Huaixi regiments with high morale and hundreds of carts of troops and rations.
Because the enclosure at Luojiaji was already crowded with the cavalry led by Li Zhongshan, he ordered Zhou Chang to arrange for his Huaixi soldiers to camp outside the enclosure, and then invited Zhou Chang into the center he had placed inside the enclosure. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Li Zhongshan smiled and asked: "Pei Gong, how is the situation on the south bank of the Huaihe River? Are there many people who seek refuge with us?"
Zhou Chang leaned over and said: "As soon as Labu ran away, the Tatars' plate in Fengyang collapsed. Shouzhou, Dingyuan, Huaiyuan below Fengyang Prefecture, and Wuhe County below Sizhou all fell into the wind. These few days All the powerful people in various prefectures and counties have surrendered to us. These prefectures and counties plus Fengyang County are all the land of Taizu Longxing! Almost all the local powerful people are descendants of the heroes of Huaixi, and many of them still wear the clothes left by their ancestors. The official robes and hats of the Ming Dynasty are submitted with the seal of the Ming Dynasty!"
After listening to Zhou Chang's introduction, Li Zhongshan laughed and said: "When the Ming Dynasty was here, no one knew how to cherish it. Once it is gone, we will realize how good the Ming Dynasty was! Look, this is the seal of the official robes of our ancestors." Not willing to throw it away."
As he spoke, he glanced at Luo Dawei, who was accompanying him. He was in his forties, tall, with broad eyebrows, a thick short beard, and bright eyes. He was a powerful man from Suzhou in Huaibei. , has passed the examinations of literary and martial arts, but has not graduated from high school. He is generous and righteous, and has a lot of loyalty. He is very prestigious in the countryside. And his ancestor was also a hero of Huaixi who followed Zhu Yuanzhang. After he brought peace to the world, he was appointed as a commander in Shanxi, so he spread his branches in Shanxi. However, the Luo family, like other Huaixi heroes, has not cut off contact with their hometown. They continue to arrange for their descendants who have not done well to return to their hometown to become rich. In the past three hundred years, countless people have moved back to Huaishang. The Luojiaji branch probably moved back to Huaishang during the Jiajing period, and it has been a hundred years now. In the past hundred years, the Luo family in Suzhou has not produced any great officials, but there have still been several small officials with the rank of boss from a hundred households. So Luo Dawei is now wearing an ancestral official uniform of a small officer from the Ming Dynasty, with his chest protruding and his belly bulging, eyes wide open, and a mighty expression on his face, as if his ancestor is possessed!
"Military advisor, this General Luo Qian is also one of our own after being a hero of the Ming Dynasty!" Li Zhongshan pointed at Luo Dawei and said to Zhou Chang, "His nine tribes have all surrendered together!"
Luo Dawei's nine tribes are located in Suzhou, Mengcheng, Huaiyuan, Lingbi, and Wuhe. They are all good areas for the Red Turban riots in the late Yuan Dynasty and the Nian Army riots in the late Qing Dynasty. The place names are all "ji" and "ji". "Gathering", the upright officials will be anxious when they see it. They are the ones who want money or their lives if they don't give it!
But we have to rely on these people to conquer the world!
And Luo Dawei now brings the nine tribes to join him. He has also handed over the Luojiaji where his family lives to Li Zhongshan to garrison troops. He has also turned all the strong men of his family into regiment drills and prepared to help kill people. This revolutionary position is very firm, and it is completely acceptable. trust!
Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang emphasized that "he is one of their own" and wanted Zhou Chang to tell confidential things in front of Luo Dawei to show their trust.
"Military advisor, do you think Shang Shuying is reliable?" Li Zhongshan then asked about the most confidential matter!
"Zhongtang," Zhou Chang said, "Shang Shuying sincerely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!"
Li Zhongshan nodded without comment.
"But she may not really surrender to Zhongtang."
There is a difference!
Now Shang Shuying's husband is Northern King Liu Jinzhong, and her brothers are all confidants of Eastern King Geng Jingzhong. Her interests in the Ming Dynasty were obviously greater than those of the Qing Dynasty and Wu Sangui!
But how many common interests does she and Li Zhongshan have?
Zhou Chang analyzed: "Now the overall situation in Fengyang has been decided. The soldiers of the Manchu Tatar Jiangxi Camp are fighting against Nanjing together with the soldiers of the Jiangnan and Jiangdong Camps. Here in Huaixi, they are unable to send a large army unless Xuzhou is captured by us. Break through. If Zhongtang suddenly disappears at this time, then as long as King Liu Bei does not attack Xuzhou, he can safely grow in Fengyang. When the time is right, he will send troops to relieve Nanjing. In the future, the Nanjing court will be the two kings of the East and the North. He’s in charge!”
Li Zhongshan nodded, then turned to look at Luo Dawei: "Luo Qianhu, how do you think the headquarters should respond?"
Luo Dawei cupped his hands and said with a loyal face: "My lord, you must trust me. I am willing to lead the warriors from the Huaihe River to attack Xuzhou unexpectedly for my lord!"
This is called the lord. This Luo Dawei is still very good at "stud"!
Li Zhongshan may be the little tycoon at his level in this life. No, he is the only "lord" that generations of people can meet!
If you don't study now, when will you stay?
"Military advisor," Li Zhongshan said to Zhou Chang, "you and Dawei work together!"
"yes!"
"Dawei!"
"I'm here!"
"Gather all the strong men from your nine tribes. Our headquarters will form them into a Huai regiment for training, and then take them to attack Suzhou City!"
"I accept the decree!"
At this time, Xuzhou City was located on the south bank of the Yellow River in Henan! It is right next to the bank of the Yellow River, with the Yellow River above and Xuzhou below. When the people of Xuzhou City look up, they can see the fatal Yellow River hanging over their heads!
But the problem is that no matter how dangerous the Yellow River is, they have nowhere to go. They can only stay at the foot of the Yellow River. The only thing they can do is to repair Xuzhou City again and again! This city must not only be tall, but also thick! Citadel construction in other places was used to deal with enemy artillery and siege warriors. And Xuzhou City was used to deal with the Yellow River bursting its banks. The power of the two was not at the same level.
And when will the enemy come?
Since the Chongzhen period, the Yellow River has been bursting at every turn. Small breaches occur every year, and large breaches occur every few years.
Therefore, when repairing the Xuzhou project, there was absolutely no cutting corners, only processing and adding materials - it was not easy to become the prefect and the commander-in-chief, but don't forget that when the flood came and the city collapsed and people drowned, all the money was wasted.
Moreover, Xuzhou's flooding was not an accident at all.
In addition to the extremely strong city, the terrain of Xuzhou City is also very dangerous, with the Yellow River directly to the north and east! It is impossible to deploy the troops at all. To the south are Yunlong Mountain and Yunlong Lake, and the troops cannot be deployed either. Only the west side is flat land where troops can be deployed. But the plain land to the west is also at the foot of the Yellow River. No one dares to camp near the river unless the Yellow River dam is captured.
The river embankment can be captured. What if the enemy attacks the dam first?
So this Xuzhou City is definitely a castle that even Li Zhongshan, a siege expert, would have a headache!
This is not a question of whether we can beat him or not, but a question of how we can't beat him at all!
For the generals guarding Xuzhou and the prefect Nian Xialing, the city of Xuzhou is their capital to make achievements in troubled times!
As long as they guard Xuzhou, they can make contributions to the Qing Dynasty if they advance, and they can have a foothold in the future new dynasty if they retreat.
But if you ask them to make a multiple-choice question immediately between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they will definitely choose the Qing Dynasty.
After all, both of them had grown their pigtails to serve as bannermen since they were children. They had long regarded the Qing Dynasty as their own country, and their families were detained in Beijing by the regent Fuquan.
If they dare to rebel, they will be left alone in no time!
In addition, the current Ming Dynasty does not look like it will sweep the world soon. The city of Nanjing is about to be tightly besieged by Yue Le and Jieshu's soldiers. In this future world, maybe the surname will be Wu, right?
So when they learned that Shang Shuying, the concubine of Liu Jinzhong, the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty, came to ask for an audience, they both felt very confused.
This Shang Shuying should be here to persuade you to surrender!
But they were unwilling and unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty!
After the Ming Dynasty fell, everyone in the family was gone, so they had to rely on each other. And will it be over after dawn? Not necessarily! When Nanjing was defeated by Yue Le, and the Qing soldiers counterattacked Huaixi, Wang Datou and Liu Jinzhong would most likely have to join Wu Sangui. Then they will have to surrender again!
What's going on?
It's not that they are embarrassed to be the third minister, but Wu Sangui has already written a letter to them to persuade them to surrender. Are you not willing to directly surrender to Wu Sangui, do you have to let Wang Datou lead the surrender?
Don’t you even know how to surrender?
In addition, if you vote for Wu Sangui yourself and follow Wang Datou to vote for Wu Sangui, can he get the same treatment?
So if they want to vote for the Ming Dynasty now, that is really the worst option. They might as well stick to Xuzhou first and see what happens!
But because it was Shang Shuying who came, they had to welcome her. Although Shang Kejiao and Monk Kexi were not brothers, after all, their surname was Shang and they were fellow villagers. When they thought the world was at peace, they flattered her a lot.
How can you turn against someone now?
So they politely invited Shang Shuying into the flower hall in the back garden of Xuzhou Magistrate's Yamen, and then saluted Mrs. Princess Xushun of Duke Pingnan's mansion.
"Please click on Princess."
"Meet Princess."
Seeing the two high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty in front of her paying thousands of greetings to her, Shang Shuying also seemed a little emotional, "What kind of greetings should I ask for? The good Pingnan Palace and Xushun Palace are gone now."
When she said this, her nose felt sour and tears came down.
"Gege, don't be sad." Shang Ke taught, "Aren't you Princess Bei again now?"
Nian Xialing also said: "Gege, this is inevitable in troubled times. Now that my father-in-law has joined Dongwang, I will have a bright future in the future."
Shang Shuying sighed: "In the future, it may not be Prince Zhu San who will win the world, but perhaps King Wu Xi? Moreover, the North King who Jinzhong is also very unrealistic. Not to mention Li Zicheng and the West King, it is the South King, The East King and the Wing King also have their own vassal territories, but the North King has no territory."
"Isn't there Chaozhou in Beiwang?" Shang Kejiao asked.
Shang Shuying shook her head: "Chaozhou has been controlled by Li Fuchen for a long time! Li Fuchen dominates Guangdong and Guangxi, with a hundred thousand troops. If he advances, he can divide the world into four quarters, and if he retreats, he can rule Tiannan forever. How can he allow the King of the North to be on an equal footing with him?"
"What about Huaixi?" Nian Xialing asked.
"Huaixi will most likely be controlled by Li Zhongshan!" Shang Shuying said, "Li Zhongshan is one of the three main halls in Nanjing. He also advances and retreats with Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua. Behind him are the South King and the Yi King. The North King can only bow his head and do Small, unless.”
"Unless what?"
"Gege, what do you mean?"
Shang Shuying's face darkened, she looked around and found no one else, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Unless Li Zhongshan died in Huaibei!"
"Died in Huaibei?"
"Gege, what do you want?"
Shang Shuying's face was gloomy: "If you two are willing to surrender, he will wait for you to surrender at Fuliji in Suzhou with your soldiers and the families of Xuzhou Town officers and soldiers. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
Shang Kejiao shook his head repeatedly: "Isn't this possible? Magistrate Nian and I only have two or three thousand Green Camp soldiers under our command. How can we possibly capture so many soldiers as Wang Datou?"
Shang Shuying said: "If you can't take it, won't you send a letter to King An and ask him to mobilize elites from the south of the Yangtze River to go north?"
"Deploying troops from the south of the Yangtze River? What about the siege of Jiangning?"
Shang Shuying smiled: "Jiangning is right there. You can't run away. Besides, aren't the most capable people in Jiangning City Wang Datou and Liu Beiwang? Now that they have arrived in Huaibei, what does King An have to worry about? If If we can kill someone named Wang in Huaibei, wouldn't it be a sure bet to attack Jiangning later?"
(End of chapter)
