Geng Jingzhong's palace was located in the original Mancheng City of Hangzhou, occupying the official office of the Hangzhou General. It was a government office with a large area and many houses. There were two interior and exterior rooms just for the signing room. Among them, the foreign-signed security room is located inside the main entrance of the Yamen. The five-bay facade is not only grand, but also quite lively. The officials and gentry who came to pay homage to Prince Geng's Mansion were all waiting there. There was also a group of gentry from Hangzhou who were forcibly recruited by Geng Jingzhong to serve as officials. They were also "waiting for errands" in the foreign-signed custody room - no more talk about errands, anyway, every day You have to put on your official uniform and come to the waiting room of the palace to wait. If anyone doesn't come, be careful that Geng Ji's iron-clothed guards come to take him away!
This Tie Yiwei is Geng Jingzhong's personal army modeled after the Jin Yiwei. This Tie Yiwei sounds more powerful than Jin Yi, so he can't be offended!
So when old man Zha Zuoyin and Zha arrived at Prince Geng's Mansion to sign for custody, the place was bustling with activity. A group of Hangzhou gentry wearing official uniforms but without any mission or salary knew that the visitor was Liu Jinzhong's military advisor Zha Zuoyin, so they all went up to pay homage to him. He respectfully called him "Mr. Dongshan", but no one dared to look down on him.
Zha Zuoyin was just a villain who betrayed a righteous man to protect himself, but they all became Geng Jingzhong's officials and turned into traitors! Rebellious ministers and villains should be like each other, like birds of a feather flock together!
After paying homage, Zha Zuoyin was invited into the prison room, and the rebellious ministers began to inquire about Zha Zuoyin.
"What do you mean, Your Highness, King Bei? Are you going to send troops to attack Hangzhou soon?"
Zha Zuoyin shook his head, the taste was so beautiful!
Since he became a villain, he has never been regarded as a person among the scholars. He turned out to be a person who could squeeze in with "Mr. Four", but after he became a villain, he even ignored some celebrities who were not very famous - this is called a gentleman not to associate with villains. The most hateful thing is that those traitorous literati who became the second minister and the third minister to suppress the Han people on behalf of the Manchus all looked down upon him with disdain, and did not know to recommend him to become a traitor together!
Well now, he is with the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty. He is not only the Northern King's military adviser, but also a "one minister". In his early years, he served as an official of the King of Lu, and he was also a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Later, he became a villain and was not considered a traitor. Yes, so I have always been a commoner, and now I am an official for the Northern King, and I am still a Mingchen. So he is the "One Minister". In this era when there are not many second ministers, three ministers are just starting out, and four ministers and five ministers are common, "one ministers" at his age are simply rare!
Even if he is a villain, he is still a "loyal villain"!
Thinking of this, the "loyal villain" Old Man Zha smiled and replied: "His Royal Highness the North King means to ask the East King to apologize, and then cut some territory, and then he and the Yi King will make a petition together to intercede with the East King. This war disaster can be resolved."
"What? How else can this be done?"
"But His Highness Dong Wang wants to be the emperor, how can he go to the court to apologize?"
"What does it mean to want to be the emperor? Haven't you heard that everyone wants to be the emperor? Is this considered a sin? As long as Dong Wang has not proclaimed himself emperor, things can change."
"Really?"
"Really, you have all read history, right? Isn't this the rule after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty? Those vassal towns would rebel from time to time. As long as those rebel towns did not proclaim themselves emperors and saw that the situation was not good, they would express their gratitude to the Tang Dynasty court. It is generally accepted. The brother of Zhu Si, Zhu Tao, who was proclaimed emperor by the rebellious Jingyuan army, did not apologize after his brother's defeat, and was later spared by the Tang court. After his death, he also gave Sikong a posthumous gift. Woolen cloth!"
"That's right, Zhu Tao was once the emperor's younger brother!"
"Wang Wujun, the Chengde Jiedu envoy who rebelled with Zhu Si and Zhu Tao, later gave the posthumous title of Zhonglie to the Grand Master!"
"Compared with them, King Dong's fault is not that big. If you apologize, you can forgive him by cutting some land."
"Thank God."
A group of officials gathered in the custody room outside Prince Geng's Mansion were happy to hear that King Dong's crime was not serious and could be spared. Just as he was enjoying himself, a group of iron-clad soldiers suddenly broke in.
The Iron Guards are feared by everyone. They all wear a piece of chain mail, so they are called Iron Guards. Their leader is Geng Jingzhong's confidant Bai Xianzhong. When others see them, they have to step aside and hide!
At this moment, Bai Xianzhong came in aggressively with several iron-clad guards. When he entered, he shouted: "Check where Zuo Yin is? The King of the East has an order!"
"I'm here, old man!" Zha Zuoyin didn't know that a disaster was coming, so he stood up and walked towards Bai Xianzhong with a smile.
"Are you just Cha Zuoyin?"
"The old man is Haining Cha Zuoyin."
"Okay! Mr. Cha, I'm very happy!"
"Overjoyed?" Zha Zuoyin was stunned.
Bai Xianzhong smiled: "Come with me!"
After saying that, he didn't tell Zha Zuoyin that he was going to be beheaded, and just turned around and walked out of the custody room.
Zha Zuoyin thought that Bai Xianzhong was taking him to see Geng Jingzhong, so he followed him happily. As he walked, he realized something was wrong. Why did he leave the palace gate and end up on the school grounds outside?
"My lord, where are you taking this old man to?" Zha Zuoyin was still asking.
Bai Xianzhong had already stopped, pointing to a large wooden pillar placed in the corner of the school ground, and said to Zha Zuoyin, "It's right here!"
"Here?" Zha Zuoyin asked curiously, "What is this big wooden pillar used for?"
"This? Just put your head on it and you'll know!"
"Put your head up?" Zha Zuoyin knew now that something was wrong, "Isn't this decapitation?"
"Isn't it just beheading?" Bai Xianzhong said with a bitter smile, "The King of the East knows that your old man is here to persuade him not to become emperor, so he wants to kill your old head!"
As he said that, he waved to the left and right again: "Come here, help me, press the old man onto the wooden pier. Old man, please stop struggling, don't move, I will chop off your head with this knife." It will hurt too much!”
Not too painful? That's beheading!
Zha Zuoyin immediately became anxious and shouted: "Don't kill me, I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Isn't it okay if I don't persuade King Dong to not be the emperor?"
"No, it's too late!"
As Bai Xianzhong waved his hand, two iron-clad guards cut Mr. Cha's arms behind his back and pushed him onto the wooden pier. Another iron-clad guard held his head and placed it on the wooden pier.
Zha Zuoyin was so frightened that he peed and kept shouting: "Spare your life! King Dong, spare your life. Don't chop!"
Bai Xianzhong didn't listen to him, he pulled out a steel knife, then he raised the knife and dropped it with one hand. With a click, Zha Zuo Yin had a scar as big as a bowl on his neck.
After killing the people, Bai Xianzhong took Zha Zuoyin's head and strode into the palace, and once again signed a contract and passed through the escort room. Those people in the foreign detention room had just heard Zha Zuoyin calling for help, so they all gathered at the door and looked around. They were all stunned when they saw Bai Xianzhong coming in with a murderous look and carrying his head.
Bai Xianzhong stopped and raised Zha Zuoyin's head in his hand so that everyone could take a closer look. Then he said, "Do you see clearly? This is the consequences of opposing King Dong's becoming emperor!"
Anyone who objects will be killed!
Co-author Geng Jingzhong is using Zuo Yin's head to establish his authority!
This Zha Zuoyin was killed not only for the gentry in Hangzhou, but also for the officials under Geng Jingzhong and collaborators like Yue Le.
The effect of killing people to establish authority is indeed very good. On the second day after Zha Zuoyin's head fell to the ground, a yellow robe was used by Yue Le, Zeng Yangxing, Wang Jinggong, Xu Wenhuan, Chen Bingzhi, Mu Tianyan, Ma Hu and other Manchus The officials joined Geng Jingzhong.
However, unlike Wu Sangui who pretended to sleep, Geng Jingzhong's yellow robe was not so "fake". When he was reviewing the three armies, more than 10,000 elites who gathered on the campus knelt down together and shouted in unison, "I respectfully invite the King of the East to take the throne as emperor." Then the people below took out the dragon robe that had been prepared and draped it on Geng Jingzhong, and then shouted "Long Live the Mountain". Then Yu Renying took out the enthronement edict that had been prepared long ago, read it in front of the public, announcing that Geng Jingzhong was the emperor and established the country. The name was "Jing", which was changed to "Dongxing" - the meaning of Dongwang Daxing.
Then Geng Jingzhong completed the ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth in half a day, thus officially becoming the third emperor in the world today!
Regardless of whether this set of etiquette is in compliance with the rules or not, or whether it is too hasty, Geng Jingzhong has to race against time when he becomes emperor!
Because tomorrow’s soldiers may attack at any time!
Even if the Ming army cannot come for a while, he must hurry up. There are already two emperors in the world, Kangxi and Wu Sangui. If he doesn't hurry up, Prince Zhu San will also become the emperor, then he will become the "Four Emperors" ?
If he hurry up and get ahead of the Third Prince Zhu, can't he overpower the Third Prince Zhu and become the "Three Emperors"?
However, after quickly completing the process of becoming an emperor and finally becoming the third emperor in the world, Geng Jingzhong began to worry about how long he could remain emperor.
Before he became emperor, Geng Jingzhong was like a fool, thinking about being cheated every day.
Now I have finally become the emperor, and I want to be the emperor for a few more years. It is best to be the emperor until the end of my life, so that the "Emperor Jing Taizu Wu" of the "Great Jing Dynasty" can be left in the history books!
But it is quite difficult to treat this emperor until his death!
The day after Jing Taizu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he began to study the map with a frown in the East Study Room (Kangxi had a South Study Room, so he made an East Study Room) with a few confidants.
There are now two large and two small countries on the map, a total of four countries!
Finally, it is no longer the "Three Kingdoms", but the "Four Kingdoms". From now on, this era can be called the "Four Kingdoms War Period" in history books.
The two major ones are, of course, the Zhou Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The Great Zhou Dynasty now occupies all the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, and also occupies most of Hubei and Hunan, part of Henan, and part of Guangxi. Historically, the territories that Uncle Liu Huang and Zhuge Kongming dreamed of taking over have now been taken over by Wu Sangui. .
The Zhou Dynasty was huge, and the Qing Dynasty occupied an even larger area!
Now the Qing Dynasty still owns all of Shanxi, Shandong, Zhili, and most of Henan. It also actually controls Monan Mongolia, Eastern Mongolia, Liaodong outside the Pass, as well as Mobei Khalkha, Korea, and Moxi Yeerqiang and Oirat. Zhubu, Xueyu Heshuote, Annan Kingdom, Ryukyu Kingdom and other internal and external vassals. Oh, the Qing Dynasty also owned Anqing City in Anhui and most of Jiangxi!
Compared with the size of the territory, Daqing is still the largest!
Ranking third is of course the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty now controls the entire Jiangsu Province, the entire Jiangbei region of Anhui Province except Anqing, the entire Guangdong Province, eastern and central Guangxi, part of Jiangxi, eastern Hubei, and two southern parts of Hunan. Gezhou, western Fujian and Danyuan Island, and some islands along the coast of Zhejiang look a bit fragmented.
Dajing was a "little four" in terms of territory, but he was not too small, not to the point of being "the emperor of a state" or "the emperor of a county".
On paper, the Jing Dynasty still owned eastern Fujian, most of Zhejiang (except for some islands), Anhui's Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Huizhou, Guangde and other places - that is, the southern Anhui region.
Of course, the size that can be shown on this map is only the size of the land. If you compare population, money and food, then the biggest one is the Ming Dynasty!
If the Ming Dynasty can capture Jiangxi and then swallow up Dajing's territory, then in terms of population, money and food, it will definitely be the second in three-thirds of the world!
Therefore, Dajing's national power is still in danger, but it is not without some solutions.
"Your Majesty Donghuang, have you noticed that the territories of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty seem to be biting together!"
From the map, I can tell that the person who has some knowledge is Yue Le, the head of the state of Geng Jingzhong. Yue Le's family was sent to Ningbo by Shi Lang's naval warship a while ago, and among them was his Liugege. She has been chosen to be Geng Jingzhong's. The queen, so Yue Le is now the prince of the Qing Dynasty (the Qing Dynasty did not marry his prince) and the head of state and prince of Dajing (Geng Jingzhong also named him Prince An), becoming a transnational aristocrat. !
"They are indeed biting together!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Mainly in Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei. It's like you are in me, and I am in you! Guozhang, do you think we have a chance?"
"Yes!" Yue Le nodded, "We can unite with the Qing Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, and the three countries will join forces to oppose the Ming Dynasty and set up a network to surround the Ming Dynasty!"
"Surrounding the network?" Geng Jingzhong looked at the map thoughtfully, "It's interesting. If we can join forces with Prince Kang of Jiangxi and Wu Sangui of the Great Zhou Dynasty, then at least in Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui, we can The disadvantage can be reversed.”
"Your Majesty, Wu Sangui and Li Zhongshan are related by marriage!"
University scholar Yu Renying reminded from the side.
This Yu Renying can now be regarded as a man of cultivation. He has grown from a poor scholar to the founding father of Dajing. Now he has also been awarded the title of Grand Bachelor of Dongge - this is Geng Jingzhong's first assistant Grand Bachelor!
Now everyone calls him "Old Yuge".
"What about in-laws?" The speaker was Li Taoist. He was now a secular man. Geng Jingzhong also named him "Li Baoguo" and made him a bachelor of Taiji Pavilion. Li Ge was also old.
"Now is a time of great strife," Li Ge said. "It is normal for in-laws to fight against each other. Wu Sangui and Kangxi are also related, why don't we start a fight in the same way? Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Chang'an, so that I will be safe." , persuade Wu Sangui to form an alliance with us, Dajingtong, to fight against the Ming Dynasty."
"Okay! Then it's time to work!" Geng Jingzhong said, "I still need to go to Jiangxi alone."
"Your Majesty, I will go there personally." Yue Le volunteered, "Jie Shu is an old subordinate of mine. Now he is surrounded by enemies on all sides and must be desperate. If we want to join forces with him, he will definitely be willing."
Geng Jingzhong nodded, "I have a father-in-law!" He thought for a while, "I still need someone to go to Beijing. Who can do the hard work?"
"Your Majesty, please let me take this trip." The original governor of Jiangsu, Ma Hu, has now been promoted and became a bachelor of Qixing Pavilion. He is also an old pavilion.
"Okay!" Geng Jingzhong said with a smile, "Let's live together then! We can now contact the Zhou Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty to carve up the Ming Dynasty's territory together!"
Hearing what he said, the founding ministers of Dajing who were present were a little bit dumbfounded. This Ming siege network was just Dajing's death struggle. If it could drag on for a few years, it would have achieved its goal, and it still wanted to divide Ming's territory?
Are the people and scholars of the Ming Dynasty vegetarian?
Though they thought so in their hearts, no one dared to say that Geng Jingzhong was serious about killing people!
It’s better not to touch this bad luck!
"This, this, this, military advisor! How come you only have one head left? What's going on? Who killed you?"
Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, the royal palace of the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty.
Just half a comfortable Chinese New Year had passed, and Liu Jinzhong, who was busy choosing a well-educated and well-known Jiangnan girl as his new princess, suddenly saw his military advisor looking at Zuo Yin!
There was only one head left, staring at Liu Jinzhong with his eyes wide open.
"Your Majesty," a middle-aged man who was Zha Zuoyin's nephew and went on the mission with Lao Zha to claim credit said with tears, "it was Geng Jingzhong who was killed. This Geng Jingzhong was so unreasonable that he didn't even see my uncle, so he just killed me." Let his iron-clad guards come to kill people, and without any reason, they pulled my uncle down outside his palace and killed him with a knife!"
"What? The palace? Geng Jingzhong has become the emperor?"
Zhu Shunshui, who accompanied Liu Jinzhong to "greet" Zha Zuoyin, immediately realized something was wrong and asked questions immediately.
"I just became the emperor of Dajing."
(End of chapter)
