"Send troops as soon as possible to break the Jiangnan and Jiangdong camps?" Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but frowned upon hearing Shang Zhixin's suggestion, "I'm afraid haste makes waste, right?"
He and the soldiers from the three battalions of Jiangnan, Jiangdong and Jiangxi commanded by Yue Le fought inside and outside Nanjing for several months without taking any advantage at all. He had more than 10,000 direct followers in Nanjing, but he had been hiding in the Imperial City of Nanjing. Recharge your batteries inside.
His direct descendant Zeng Yangxingbu who was placed outside Nanjing was more active than him. He fought several games with Li Zhifang from Jiangnan Camp and Fan Chengmo who came from Fujian, but unfortunately, they were defeated.
Therefore, in the battle to defend Nanjing, the performance of Geng Jingzhong, the Eastern King, was indeed a bit poor. Let alone establishing his prestige and replacing him as the emperor, even threatening the emperor and making the princes feel a bit uninteresting.
But now I go out of the city to have a decisive battle with Yue Le. It's okay if I win, but what if I lose?
How can he prevent Wang Datou from returning to Nanjing to take charge of the overall situation?
Shang Zhixin seemed to know what Geng Jingzhong was thinking, so he smiled and said: "Dong Wang, Yue Le is certainly not easy to fight, but now all the elites of his Jiangdong camp are lost in Xuzhou and Suzhou. Moreover, Xuzhou, the throat of north-south transportation, has been blocked again. Wang Datou captured it, and his retreat was unstable, and the morale of the army was probably shaken so much that he might even have begun to think about retreating. Maybe Yue Le himself retreated as soon as the king sent troops."
Geng Jingzhong shook his head and said: "Don't chase the enemy when you are poor, and don't hide it when you return to the army. After all, Yue Le has been in the army for many years, and I am afraid that he will jump over the wall in a hurry. Why don't we slow down and wait until he transfers the main force to Jiangbei to counterattack Xuzhou? Let's go again It’s not too late to send troops.”
King Geng Dong seemed a bit conservative, which was probably because he did not go well with his troops after arriving in Nanjing. Moreover, the old Jingfan troops under him were not very enthusiastic about fighting the Manchus to the death. These people felt that they had done enough. In the early years, they followed Lao Geng from the Northeast to Guangdong and later moved to Fujian. Now Then they fought from Fujian to Nanjing. I have almost gone through the whole world twice by conquering here and there, so I don’t want to work hard anymore.
Moreover, most of the family members of this group of people are still in Fujian. Even if they want to fight, they just want to open up the connection between Nanjing and Fuzhou, and worry about the rest.
But Shang Zhixin and his men are much more enthusiastic about fighting, seizing power, and seizing territory. If they don't fight or seize, they have nothing!
"Dong Wang, it's too late!" Shang Zhixin clenched his fist and said, "Of course you can avoid a head-on confrontation with Yue Le, and you can even send Yue Le out of the country as a gift. But this soldier must be sent out as soon as possible, and cannot be delayed! Because you can only send out the troops , can we get Jiangnan Governor, Shangfang Sword and the power to do things cheaply!"
"Governor of Jiangnan?" Geng Jingzhong took a breath, "But when I become the governor of Jiangnan, do I have to go out of the city to oversee the governor like Wang Datou?"
It turned out that Geng Jingzhong himself was unwilling to leave Nanjing. He was afraid that after he left with his troops, Nanjing would be controlled by Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua.
"Your Majesty, isn't Nanjing also in the south of the Yangtze River? Your Majesty can supervise the army in Nanjing City! If you don't leave, can King Ding send someone to escort you out of Nanjing?"
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that?"
Shang Zhixin smiled and added: "And once the king takes office as the governor of Jiangnan, he will be able to recruit local ministers and generals from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties at his own convenience.
You can also recruit a group of supervising officials in addition to the royal officials. You can use this power to recruit all the famous people from the south of the Yangtze River into the king's shogunate! With their support, Dong Wang, you can take further steps! "
"What a great idea!" Geng Jingzhong's eyes lit up, "My dear, you are really my Zhuge Kongming!"
In the Jianguo Mansion in Nanjing City, outside a gate built like the Wenhua Gate in front of the Wenhua Palace in the Forbidden City, today it is as lively as a vegetable market.
Early in the morning, before daybreak, there was already a large group of loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, wearing black veils on their heads and various official uniforms, gathered outside the Wenhua Gate. Some of them knew the rules and knew what they were doing here, so they all behaved like courtiers. They just held the wat tablets and stood in their seats according to their rank, and did not whisper to anyone.
And some of them had just become ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and had never studied how this Ming Dynasty official became the master before. Now they were not so disciplined, and everyone started chatting happily.
"This gate is so grand! There is a plaque on the door. Wenhua Gate? What does Wenhua Gate mean?"
"I know this. Wenhua Gate is the gate of Wenhua Palace!"
"Wenhua Hall? Isn't Wenhua Hall inside the Forbidden City? How come it was moved to the Jianguo Mansion? Is there another Wenhua Hall inside this gate?"
"No, this door should be the back garden of Jianguo Mansion. Isn't it now the harem of King Jianguo Ding?"
"Harem? Why did the king call us to the door of his harem so early in the morning?"
"What are you doing? Go to court! Didn't the Jin Yiwei who came to your place yesterday tell you?"
"I didn't tell you, I just told you to put on your official uniform and hat early this morning, take the board and wait outside the gate of the Supervisor's Mansion."
"You don't know how to ask? Let me tell you. We are here for morning service today!"
"Early morning? No wonder it's so early!"
"Every official in the capital has to go to the morning court! The reason why he didn't go to the morning court in the past was because the place where he went to the morning court was occupied by the King of the East. King Ding had no choice but to go to the Jianguo Mansion, which was the original Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang. Build another Wenhua Gate, so that you can have an imperial gate to listen to the government, which means you can go to the morning court."
"Why build a Wenhua Gate?"
"Because according to the old rules of the Ming Dynasty, the Wenhua Hall is the place where the crown prince watches the government and serves as regent. Prince Ding is the only living son of the late emperor, who is equivalent to the crown prince. Now he is regent in the prison country, so the place where the regent is held should be the Forbidden City. The Wenhua Hall inside. But now."
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh, be careful what you say, be careful what you say!"
Since some people say "be careful", everyone will stop talking about the East King's occupation of the imperial city. Instead, they will talk about the good news from Jiangbei that has just been sent back to Nanjing and the great situation of three points in the world in the future. Now Li Zhongtang and Bei The king had already captured the city of Xuzhou, and he also defeated the Qing army in Suishui and Fuliji, beheading 20,000 people!
Twenty thousand is the number of beheadings!
If you count them one by one, they must be right!
Moreover, the Qing troops besieging Nanjing have obviously retreated slowly in the past few days. The Qing troops west of Nanjing have abandoned Dasheng Pass and Hezhou City on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and have withdrawn to Dangtu and Caishiji. The Qing troops in the east and south of Nanjing were gradually abandoning the gates of Nanjing's outer city and began to retreat to the Qixia Mountain Camp and Lishui County.
This makes it clear that we need to withdraw our troops! After withdrawing troops and returning to defend Zhenjiang and Suzhou, the situation is considered to be acceptable. If it gets worse, they may have to get out of Jiangnan.
It seems that the battle to defend Nanjing has been won, and the name of Nanjing's small imperial court has been established. The official position that the big guy just obtained has been saved. From now on, everyone will be heroes of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if this new Ming Dynasty is not as prosperous as the old Ming Dynasty, with a three-point world and fifty-two years of family and country (it is exactly fifty-two years from Sun Quan becoming emperor to three-thirds returning to the Jin Dynasty), everyone can still feed two or three generations.
In addition, the new Ming Dynasty is different from the old Ming Dynasty in the past. In the old Ming Dynasty, the Zhu family held a large share and the heroes, big and small, held a small share. However, the current new Ming Dynasty has a king who is not as good as Zhu Hongwu. He is an emperor. The weak master who dared not come back even after being taken over by Geng Jingzhong was actually a puppet emperor who took advantage of the golden sign of Prince Zhu.
Therefore, the killing of donkeys and heroes is unlikely to happen in the new Ming Dynasty. From now on, everyone can definitely enjoy the glory!
With all the good things happening together, can the voices of these small heroes who have taken shares in Xin Daming be prevented from getting louder and louder?
When everyone was talking enthusiastically, someone suddenly shouted: "His Royal Highness Dong Wang, Lu Zhongtang, Chen Zhongtang and others are here!"
The current Nanjing court has formed a situation where the "five big brothers" jointly protect the three princes. Of course, these five big brothers are the two kings and the three middle halls - Dong Wang, Bei Wang, Li Zhongtang, Lu Zhongtang, and Chen Zhongtang. Now the North King and Li Zhongtang are leading troops in Jiangbei. In the Nanjing court, the East King Geng Jingzhong and Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua are competing against each other.
And everyone knows that these two kings are in the same party, and the three middle halls are in the same group. This time when Li Zhongtang, the governor of Jiangbei, and the Northern King Liu Jinzhong took Huaixi together, they took Liu Jinzhong's wife Shang Shuying as a hostage because they did not trust the Northern King Liu Jinzhong.
Now that the future of Jiangdong Xiaoming Dynasty is stable, will there be a fight between the two kings and the three middle halls? If a fight breaks out, who should everyone support?
When I thought of this, all the people outside the Wenhua Gate stood on both sides of the house in an orderly manner. They all looked like loyal ministers, filial sons and good fathers.
Geng Jingzhong, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua were talking and laughing. It seems that the two groups will not be at odds for the time being!
"The supervisor is here!"
As a strong man wearing a royal robe roared out such a voice, all the shareholders of the newly opened "Xiao Ming Dynasty" bowed in obeisance. Then I heard the sound of footsteps and the voice of Prince Zhu who couldn't hide his smile: "Pingshen, Pingshen!"
Everyone straightened up and looked towards the Wenhua Gate with a smile. Then he saw Prince Zhu, dressed in court uniform, sitting on the throne, with too many smiles on his face. Seeing that all the ministers were as happy as himself, he smiled and said, "You all know, right? We won the battle!" Hahaha, Li Zhongtang is indeed the pillar of the country. With him in the Ming Dynasty, these three parts of the world are stable."
"His Royal Highness Jianguo!" Geng Jingzhong, who had a seat outside the Wenhua Gate, interrupted with a smile, "I suggest that Li Zhongshan be rewarded generously."
Zhu Cijiong nodded: "What should I reward him with?"
"Call him the king!" Geng Jingzhong suggested. "I suggest that Li Zhongshan be made the King of England. A hero, a hero! Li Zhongshan defeated tens of thousands of elites from the Manchu Jiangdong camp and Huaisi, beheading 20,000 It wouldn't be unfair to call him the King of Heroes."
He no longer used "British in Huainan" as an excuse. Instead, under the advice of his military advisers Yu Renying and Li Daoren, he changed his statement to praise Li Zhongshan.
"Feng Ying Wang" Zhu Cijiong thought for a moment, "but his family already has a Nan Wang."
Zhu Cijiong used to be Li Zhongshan's master and started his business in Guangdong with him. Of course he knew that Li Zhongshan accounted for the majority of the business in Guangdong! That's why he was able to turn Guangzhou, the fattest city in Guangdong, into his own territory.
And Li Fuchen’s favorite heir to the throne is also Li Zhongshan!
Now you can directly grant Li Zhongshan the title of King of England. The King of Nan and King of Ying are both kings of the same word. One side is big, so there is no possibility that the King of England will succeed the King of Nan, right?
"With so many sons of Southern King Li Fuchen, who would think that the family has too many thrones?" Geng Jingzhong said with a smile, "Besides, Huaixi does need a prince to control it! The current Manchu Qing Dynasty's general manager of Jiangxi Camp is Prince Kang Jieshu, there is the loyal king Li Laishun over in Wuchang, and there is the Western King Wu Sangui over there in Xiangyang. If the governor sent by the imperial court to Huaixi is just a minister of the Ministry of War, is it too small? "
There seems to be something wrong! Why is Li Zhongshan leaving Huaixi?
"Dongwang, do you mean that Li Zhongshan will be stationed in Huaixi?"
"This is necessary," Geng Jingzhong said. "Most of the territory of the four prefectures of Lujiang, Anqing, Lu'an, and Yingzhou in Huaixi is still under the control of the Manchu and Qing Jiangxi Camp. Now the Manchu and Qing Jiangxi Camp The strength is still there. Jieshu can use Jiujiang and Anqing as the basis to occupy Li Chuang in the west and fight against Guangdong in the south. He is obviously knowledgeable and good at fighting. Now besides Li Zhongshan, who else in the DPRK can ensure the victory of Lujiang, Anqing and Lu'an , Yingzhou and other four prefectures?”
"That's right." Prince Zhu thought for a moment and then looked at the two people in the hall.
"Your Majesty, I also think that Li Zhongtang should be crowned king!" Chen Yonghua stood up and said to Prince Zhu San, "In addition, I suggest that King Liu Bei be ordered to station in Xuzhou and serve as governor of Shandong and Henan provinces. I also grant the monk the right to do things for convenience. Fang Baojian.”
Lu Sanhao smiled and agreed: "Your Majesty, I second my opinion."
These two lieutenants obviously did not want Li Zhongshan to return to Nanjing, but they did not want to "lose" Li Zhongshan in vain, and wanted to "take advantage of" Liu Jinzhong.
Geng Jingzhong smiled and nodded: "Your Majesty, I also think that King Liu Bei should be responsible for managing Shandong and Henan."
You guys have agreed, right?
Prince Zhu San understood immediately!
Geng Jingzhong, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua teamed up to "invite" Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong out of Nanjing!
But even if he understands everything, he can only act according to the opinions of these three powerful officials.
"Since all three of them have this intention," Prince Zhu said, "then we will seek the opinions of Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong. If they have no objections, the imperial court will officially issue the imperial edict."
That's all it can do for now.
Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong are the "discussing government" and are the bosses who can veto the will of the third prince Zhu!
"Your Majesty," Shang Zhixin came out to report to the class at this time, "Now that Huaibei has just won a great victory, and the important military area of Xuzhou has been recovered by the court, it is the time when the captives are panicking. The court should take advantage of this opportunity to clear out the captives in the south of the Yangtze River. At least the Jiangdong and Jiangnan camps of the bandits must be destroyed. Therefore, I suggest that the Jiangnan Governor should be immediately appointed to take full responsibility for destroying the Jiangdong and Jiangnan camps, and make them have the same status as the Jiangbei Governor and the Henan Shandong Governor. Authority.”
"I wonder who can be the governor of Jiangnan?" Prince Zhu asked.
"Your Majesty, I am willing to supervise the army to pacify Jiangnan!" Of course it was Geng Jingzhong who volunteered to be the superintendent.
"East King?" Prince Zhu's heart was filled with joy. This East King is going out to supervise the city, can he return the Forbidden City of Nanjing?
But he didn't dare to agree to Geng Jingzhong's request to serve as emperor! You have to have the awareness to be a puppet.
"Lu Sanhao, Chen Yonghua, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, I agree with the Eastern King to supervise the army south of the Yangtze River."
"I also feel that the one who wants to supervise Jiangnan must be King Dong!"
The third prince Zhu smiled and nodded, "Okay, since you two have no objections, then the matter of Dongwang Governor Jiangnan is settled."
Geng Jingzhong, the governor of Jiangnan, did not involve Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong's "contract areas", so there was no need to ask for their opinions.
Geng Jingzhong smiled, as if his plot was half successful. He stood up and bowed in obeisance: "My decree."
Prince Zhu San said again: "King Dong, I also give you the sword of Shang Fang and the right to act expediently. Before the bandits have withdrawn from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces and the south of Jiangsu, outside Nanjing, south of the Yangtze River, east of Jiangxi, and east." The king can act with authority!"
"Prince Xie Ding!" Geng Jingzhong cupped his hand again.
"Dong Wang, when are you going to lead the troops out of the city?" Prince Zhu said with a smile, "The Gu family will hold a banquet to honor you."
"Leave the city?" Geng Jingzhong asked with a smile, "Your Majesty, why do you want to leave the city?"
"What? King Dong, don't you want to send troops to attack Jiangnan Camp and Jiangdong Camp, and you also want to supervise Jiangnan? If you don't leave Nanjing City, how can you attack Jiangnan and Jiangdong Camp, and how can you supervise the division to recover Jiangnan?"
"Your Majesty," Geng Jingzhong smiled, "I know how to strategize and win a battle thousands of miles away, so why do I need to go out of the city to suppress the captives? If I sit in Nanjing and dispatch troops and horses in the southeast, I can live up to your Majesty's expectations."
Without leaving the city, do you still have the power to take advantage of Shangfang's sword and do things expediently? What do you want to do? Yes, you must want to coerce the emperor and command the princes, and become a long-lived man in the future, right?
Prince Zhu didn't expect this at all, but he was still unwilling to agree to Geng Jingzhong - it seemed that Geng Jingzhong didn't want An Ansheng to be a puppet! While he controls the military forces in the south of the Yangtze River, he also wants to control greater power in Nanjing. Is he probably going to be Geng Mengde and usurp the throne of the Ming Dynasty?
Thinking of this, he quickly turned to look at Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua, but what he saw were two faces without any emotion or anger.
(End of chapter)
