Above the banquet, the heat is steaming. A roasted Qinghai yellow sheep with a crispy brown surface, fragrant and steaming was carried up by two chefs from the presidential palace and placed on a long table with many condiments and milky white porcelain bowls. . One of the cooks was responsible for carefully slicing the roasted lamb with a knife. Divided into porcelain bowls, each piece of mutton is oily and has an alluring aroma. Another cook was responsible for sprinkling the spices from the Western Regions and Yunnan, which made the full house of guests excited.
Most of the guests here today are civil servants and military generals from the Wu and Zhou camp, plus two visitors from the southeast - Huang Zongxi, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and Hong Shiming, the governor of Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty. At this moment, everyone except Huang Zongxi and Hong Shiming were smiling like flowers, and stars surrounded Wu Sangui like a moon.
Wu Sangui was also very proud. Previously, because of the rumors of Zhu Heji's death in battle and the tug-of-war between the Ming and Qing armies on the battlefield around Anqing, he hesitated for a while... He was also an "old hesitant". During the anti-Qing rebellion in history, As soon as we got to the Yangtze River, we started to hesitate!
But at this moment, he finally hesitated and prepared to give his son Wu Yingqi and grandson Wu Shicong a fight with a hundred thousand troops!
And the chances of winning in this fight are quite high!
Needless to say, Kangxi's side... Although there are still about 100,000 new banner troops in hand, those are "lose-lose troops". He lost a battle with Wu Jiajun and lost another battle with Zhu Heji. How could they defeat the victorious soldiers of the Wu family who were full of energy and vigor?
And Zhu Heji was in a lot of trouble now. Prime Minister Zhuge had one eye on Wu Zhou and the other on Kangxi who was stationed at Qingliu Pass. The remaining force that could be used to besiege Anqing was small. An Anqing has been fighting for several months and still hasn't succeeded!
Zhu Heji's entry into Zhejiang was extremely smooth, and there should be no problem entering Jiangnan. After all, the common people and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been in poverty for a long time, and they welcome anyone who can come to rescue them. What's more, it was Daming whom they were quite familiar with. However, Kangxi had already anticipated such a situation. Not only did he use the strategy of "Feng Ting offered his party to Zhao", but he also established three major strongholds along the Yangtze River: Zijinshan, Guazhoubu and Anqing.
These three strongholds must be removed by Zhu Heji - if the Anqing stronghold is not removed, the Yangtze River Channel will not be accessible. Jiangdong and Jiangxi cannot be integrated into one. It is difficult to ship grain from Jiangxi and porcelain from Jingdezhen to Jiangdong. So Anqing must be defeated!
Needless to say, Purple Mountain... Can Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb not be recovered? If a group of Tatar soldiers were allowed to poop and pee on Zhu Yuanzhang's head every day, would Zhu Heji still have the dignity to be the emperor?
And the stronghold of Guazhoubu is stuck on the Grand Canal! If we don’t take it away, how will the logistics of the Northern Expedition be handled?
Therefore, Zhu Heji must first capture these three strongholds before he can draw a large army to launch a large-scale northern expedition.
The three strongholds set up by Emperor Kangxi were definitely not that easy to fight. It wouldn't be difficult to delay Zhu Heji for a few months, right?
Moreover, Emperor Kangxi's whimsical plan of "Feng Ting offered his land to Zhao" also bluffed Zhu Heji, so that Zhu Heji sent Huang Zongxi to negotiate with Wu Sangui... This played into Wu Sangui's favour. What a shame!
Wu Sangui pointed at the roasted sheep and smiled at Huang Zongxi: "Mr. Lizhou, this yellow sheep is a specialty of Qinghai-Tibet. It is fat and tight, fragrant but not smelly. It is the top grade of sheep. This yellow sheep is the fifth generation of the great sheep. The Lama’s envoy sent it to me.”
Huang Zongxi smiled calmly, but he was a little confused inside - why did Wu Sangui mention the fifth great lama? What does he have to do with the current struggle for hegemony among the Ming, Qing, and Three Kingdoms?
However, Hong Shiming, who became Wu Sangui's guest with him, changed his expression drastically - although he had always been a "sentinel in the officialdom", he was a bench in the Beijing court. How could he not know about the Mongols and the great lama?
The fifth great lama seems to have nothing to do with the struggle for hegemony between the Ming, Qing and Three Kingdoms, but in fact he can influence the position of some Mongolian princes.
In other words, it can be said that on the surface it was the fifth great lama who sent envoys to send yellow sheep to Wu Sangui, but in fact it was the Mongolian princes who were showing their goodwill to President Wu through the great lama!
This matter is not a big deal to people like Zhu Heji and Huang Zongxi who have never been in the Manchu power circle, but to people like Hong Shiming, who are in the Manchu circle, it means that the Qing Dynasty is under control. shake!
The Qing Dynasty has always been based on the Mongolian-Manchu marriage alliance!
If the Mongols were partially pulled over by President Wu, wouldn't the Qing Dynasty's foundation be shaken?
Moreover, the possibility of Wu Sangui wooing the Mongols through the fifth great lama exists!
Because Yunnan and Tibet border, there have always been lamas preaching in Yunnan, and there are many chieftains on the Yunnan-Tibet border who offer sacrifices from both sides. It is very possible for Wu Sangui to contact the great lama through them.
Now that Wu Sangui has taken control of Sichuan, it is more convenient to contact the Great Lama. He can even directly send troops to attack the snowy plateau... Wanting the Great Lama to help him contact Oirat Mongolia and Khalkha Mongolia is not a word. Something?
Wu Sangui glanced at Hong Shiming, and then said to Huang Zongxi: "I know that the third prince and the third grandson are fighting for the territory of Jiangnan. If anyone wants to pick fruits at this time, they will fight to the death.
I'm getting older, and I don't want to mix with the mainland in my lifetime, so I just want to get rid of the Tartars... After all, the fact that the Tartars can get in has something to do with me. "
When Huang Zongxi heard this, he immediately said to Wu Sangui: "It is a blessing to the world that the president understands justice so well!" He paused and then said, "I wonder what the president thinks about the land in Jiangbei?"
Wu Sangui smiled and said: "If I want to capture all of Jiangbei, wouldn't I be caught between the Ming and Qing Dynasties? Moreover, the territory of Jiangbei is not small, and the Qing captives have not all withdrawn. If I want to capture more territory, I have to invest more." With these troops...this will divide the troops of the Northern Expedition!"
The Jiangbei Province established by Kangxi was actually useless to Wu Sangui. It’s okay to try a little bit of the food in Shouzhou Prefecture and Lu’an Prefecture. If you really want to eat big meat, you have to conquer the four prefectures of Anqing, Luzhou, Yangzhou, and Huai'an.
Most of the territory of Anqing Prefecture and part of Luzhou Prefecture have been occupied by Zhuge Sanhe's troops, while the Yang and Huai Prefectures are blocking Zhuge He's northern expedition.
If Wu Sangui sent troops to occupy it, he would be dividing his own troops to guard the country for Kangxi... Although his strategy was poor, it was not that bad.
"President, are you planning the Northern Expedition?" Huang Zongxi's eyes almost shone when he heard the news.
"Yes!" Wu Sangui said with a smile, "I am going to ask Ying Qi and Shi Cong to march northward with 100,000 troops. They will send out troops this autumn!"
"This autumn? It's autumn now!"
Wu Sangui nodded and said with a smile: "Send troops this autumn, and they will be able to enter Beijing next spring! Hahaha... I am going to win!"
The "win" he said was not just about winning against Kangxi, but also about winning against Zhu Heji!
Whoever enters Beijing first will rule the world!
Wu Sangui sent 100,000 victorious troops to the Northern Expedition, could Kangxi stop it? If Kangxi could not stop him, Wu Sangui would be the first to enter Beijing!
Huang Zongxi looked at Wu Sangui's proud look, and always felt that he should say something to attack him, "President, Kang Yaotou still has hundreds of thousands of new Eight Banners troops, so they may not be incapable of fighting!"
"Really?" Wu Sangui laughed again, then turned to Hong Shiming and said, "Risheng, please work harder and go to Huai'an for me to persuade Xuan Ye... just treat it as a Qing Dynasty. Shunzong! If he runs faster, he can still have an army of more than ten or two hundred thousand to go outside the Pass. Maybe he can also become a hero outside the Pass and beyond the Great Wall.
Otherwise, if my son Ying Qi brings one hundred thousand soldiers to beat him first, even if he is lucky enough to win, Zhu San Taisun will bring another one hundred thousand soldiers to beat him... He will have to be beaten to withstand it. live?
These two groups of people beat him to death. After the beating, he might not even have a shunzong anymore! "
