"Can we still recruit Geng Jingzhong's soldiers?"
Emperor Kangxi was moved by what Tu Hai said, and looked at Tu Hai eagerly, waiting for him to tell the whole story about his plan.
Tuhai said: "Yes! Your Majesty, although Geng Jingzhong is insane and wants to arrogantly claim the throne, he is not Wu Sangui after all. Not to mention that his ability to fight with soldiers cannot compare with Wu Sangui, but his soldiers cannot compare with him either. Wu Sangui's soldiers. Wu Sangui's soldiers were either Guan Ning's cavalry or the old troops of Chuang Xian's two thieves. They were not really a slave army and were somewhat dissatisfied with the Qing court.
Geng Jingzhong's grandfather, Geng Zhongming, was King Huaishun of the Qing Dynasty. He returned to Dajin during the Tiancong period. It has been forty years now and he has been trained for a long time. Therefore, the backbone of Geng Jingzhong are all real slaves who obey the Qing Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts, which is different from the fake slaves of Wu Sangui. "
The flag army under Wu Sangui was the foundation of Guan Ning's army, which was shaved off and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the 17th year of Chongzhen. Most of the green battalion soldiers under Wu Sangui were recruited from the old troops of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.
Neither the veterans of Guan Ning's army nor the old troops of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had been well trained by the Qing court. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was busy conquering the world and grabbing territory, and had no time to train its slaves, so it sent Guan Ning's army to the front line. In fact, these people are not the real slaves of the Qing Dynasty, at most they are high-imitation slaves.
The old subordinates of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were even more dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, this group of people were born in rebellion, and some of them rebelled several times (faked surrender and rebelled again), and the remaining servility in their hearts was lost by the rebellion. Now they follow Wu Sangui and rebel again, and they are simply familiar with the road... ...These guys are not even high imitation slaves, they are the only ones who know how to rebel!
"Yes, yes..." Emperor Kangxi laughed, "Geng Jingzhong is crazy. His men are not crazy. His men are all true slaves of the Qing Dynasty. As long as they are true slaves, they will not be afraid of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers." of."
The Geng family's servility ranks first among King Sanshun's armies!
Back then, Geng Zhongming let the Qing court frighten him a little and then hanged himself. This guy could compete with Fan Wencheng as the number one slave of the Qing Dynasty.
Tu Hai continued: "Your Majesty, this Geng Jingzhong is already the third generation of the Geng family, and he has not succeeded as King of Jingnan for many years. His subordinates all eat the food of the Geng family and wear the clothes of the Geng family. Those who are loyal are not He is Geng Jingzhong, but the Geng family. Now Geng Jingzhong's two brothers have come to Xiangyang with your personal conquest. If they can come forward to recruit the Geng family's soldiers, plus the emperor's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to exert pressure. The Geng family There is still a high possibility that 30,000 to 40,000 people will defect to the imperial court... I suspect that Geng Jingzhong has not yet dared to tell most of his subordinates about the rebellion."
"That makes sense!" Kangxi clapped his hands, "All the minions under Geng Jingzhong must know this and will definitely not follow him in his nonsense. Even Liu Jinzhong won't follow his nonsense, let alone others!"
He paused and said loudly: "Xuan Geng Juzhong, Geng Zhaozhong!"
Both Geng Juzhong and Geng Zhaozhong were named counselors and ministers in the army of coated slaves. In fact, they just followed. If they win this battle, they will gain the title of counselor for free. If they lose, they will have no fault.
So they didn't know anything. After entering the city, they were busy looking for a house, buying furniture, hiring servants, and preparing to live a small life in Xiangyang Fucheng.
In addition, the two brothers also like antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and they are asking people everywhere where they can buy antiques, calligraphy and paintings in Xiangyang City... This is Taobao!
As soon as they found out and were about to go Taobao, a team of yellow jackets were detained in front of Kangxi.
These two guys didn't know what they had done, and they didn't tell those in yellow jackets when they asked, so they had no choice but to kneel down in front of Emperor Kangxi in confusion.
Emperor Kangxi and these two brothers were quite familiar with each other. They were all relatives! Geng Juzhong married Yue Le's daughter and was Kangxi's cousin-in-law. And Geng Zhaozhong married Yue Le's niece, who was Kangxi's cousin-in-law... If we count the generations from Kangxi's side, Geng Juzhong and Geng Zhaozhong are two generations apart.
"Geng Juzhong, Geng Zhaozhong," Kangxi said calmly, "I want to congratulate you two!"
Congratulations?
Could it be that Geng Jingzhong made contributions to the Qing Dynasty?
Geng Juzhong and Geng Zhaozhong had no idea that their eldest brother was crazy. It was impossible for Geng Jingzhong to tell his brothers that he wanted to be emperor! Geng Juzhong and Geng Zhaozhong were both hostages in the hands of the Qing court. The benefits of Geng Jingzhong becoming emperor had nothing to do with them. They were the first to behead. Who would be happy with this?
"Your Majesty, what's the news for your servants?"
"Your Majesty, has the eldest brother of the servants made meritorious service to the court?"
"snort!"
It was okay not to mention Geng Jingzhong. When Geng Zhaozhong mentioned "eldest brother", Emperor Kangxi immediately became angry. He snorted coldly, then picked up the letter Geng Jingzhong wrote to Liu Jinzhong and threw it towards the two of them. .
"Look...is this Geng Jingzhong's handwriting?"
You want me to see it, but I don’t dare not to see it!
Geng Juzhong was the elder - he was Geng Zhaozhong's uncle, so naturally he saw it first. When I saw it, I was scared to tears on the spot.
"Your Majesty, this slave's brother must be crazy. This slave is punished by death. It's a death sentence..."
As he said this, he kowtowed like a pound of garlic. His head was bruised and bleeding, but he didn't know it hurt, and it was still banging everywhere.
Geng Zhaozhong on the side was confused when he saw this scene - his eldest brother was crazy, why was his second brother sentenced to death? Is this a stipulation in the "Qing Code"? impossible?
Although he didn't understand what was going on, it was always right to kowtow more often, so he kowtowed without saying anything, but not so hard, and didn't draw blood all over his head and face.
"okay!"
When Kangxi saw the two brothers kowtowing like insects, he knew that they had nothing to do with Geng Jingzhong's crazy rebellion, so he shouted: "Okay, stop kowtowing, I still have something to say to you."
The two brothers stopped kowtowing and all lay on the ground with their buttocks stuck out high. Among them, Geng Zhaozhong seemed relatively stable, while Geng Juzhong was shaking non-stop.
"King Jingnan is so crazy that he can no longer be king." Kangxi said, "Which one of you will replace Geng Jingzhong as the new king of Jingnan?"
"What? Is the boss really crazy?" Geng Zhaozhong was shocked again. He didn't have the turn to read Geng Jingzhong's letter, so he still didn't understand what happened?
At this moment, Geng Juzhong began to kowtow again, "I don't dare. I am a servant without virtue and incompetence. I can't be the king of Jingnan... Your Majesty, you should withdraw from Jingnan!"
What? Withdraw the feudal vassal?
When Geng Zhaozhong heard this, he felt unhappy. The boss was crazy, and the second brother didn't want to take over, so there was still me! Why did you ask for the withdrawal of the feudal clan without asking me?
Just as he was thinking about it, Kangxi slapped the table and said, "What are you talking about? Withdrawing the vassal? No withdrawal!"
Kangxi would actually say such a thing, it's really... times have changed!
Then, Kangxi said angrily: "Today one of you two must become the King of Jingnan!"
"Your Majesty," Geng Zhaozhong saw the opportunity coming and quickly spoke before his brother, "I am willing to be the King of Jingnan to share the Emperor's worries!"
Kangxi was finally satisfied this time. Geng Zhaozhong looked much more normal than Geng Jingzhong, a lunatic, and Geng Juzhong, a kowtowing worm.
"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi nodded, "Geng Zhaozhong, you are now the new King of Jingnan. I order you to rush to Wuyi Mountain immediately to take over the power from the Jingfan army and arrest Geng Jingzhong!"
ah? And arrest Geng Jingzhong? Geng Zhaozhong was stunned and thought: "Is it against the king's law to go crazy?"
"This slave accepts the order!" Geng Zhaozhong was stunned for a moment and then immediately kowtowed to receive the order.
The emperor's words...are always right!
This attitude made Emperor Kangxi very satisfied. Kangxi nodded and said to his brother, Prince Yu Fuquan, who was standing next to him: "Prince Yu, although Geng Jingzhong is crazy, he can still deceive many of his subordinates, so Geng Zhaozhong alone can It is very difficult for people to take down this mad king. I want to personally lead the troops and go on this trip with Geng Zhaozhong, what do you think?"
