"Prince Ming... Are you His Highness Prince Ming of the Ming Dynasty?"
Yang Ziyun stared and looked carefully at the strong man in black robes in front of him... Sure enough, he looked a bit like the king Zhu Cijiong.
They are all tall and strong, their beards are so long, and they look so fierce!
Yang Ziyun's expression changed when he thought of Zhu Heji's cruelty. Because she felt that Zhu Heji must be here to catch corrupt officials!
And her brother Yang Qilong is a big corrupt official. Just for the trip north to contact Burni, he stole at least one hundred thousand taels of gold, which can be converted into more than one million taels of silver... Such a greed for money , which is rare throughout the ages!
Now that the Ming Dynasty has just returned to the country, it must be a time when discipline is the strictest. If Yang Qilong's corruption crimes are exposed, even if he will not be killed, I am afraid he will have to be dismissed from office and serve the people.
Thinking of this, Yang Ziyun's big eyes became foggy and looked even more watery. The pretty face was also full of fear, as if he was frightened by the sudden appearance of His Highness Prince Ming.
Zhu Heji saw that this "Aunt Yang" who was quite aggressive just now actually frightened him, and his "desire to bully" suddenly arose in his heart... He also looked at Yang Ziyun carefully just now, and it turned out that it was Needless to say, she is the girl of the handsome man Yang Qilong. She is fair-skinned and pretty. She looks quite tall. She has a pair of long legs under a long skirt, and a tight-fitting little coat trimmed with white fox fur on her upper body wraps up her good figure. Her hair was exquisite and embellished, and her black hair was styled in a double bun that was only worn by girls who had not left the palace.
What a rare beauty!
But what Zhu Heji likes the most is the way Yang Ziyun pretends to be frightened, which is comparable to that of Da Bo Ling who always likes to wave her pink fists and pretend to resist.
Zhu Hexin said: "This Yang Ziyun must be quite old. She is eighteen or nineteen if not twenty, and she has not yet left the cabinet. Could it be that Yang Dazhongliang was planning to dedicate her to the king as Yang Guifei? She is so loyal. !”
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji laughed loudly: "The Gu family is Zhu Heji! You are Yang Gui, Yang Ziyun, right? I have heard your brother talk about you in the Gu family! When I saw you today, it turned out to be... .”
"Uh-huh, uh-huh..."
When Zhu Heji was about to tease Yang Ziyun with words, Yang Qilong's coughing sound could be heard.
Zhu Heji turned around and saw Yang Qilong, who had short hair and wore a red cross-collar robe, walking out of a cabin.
"Ziyun, you are still not polite when you see Prince Ming!"
Yang Ziyun also seemed to have woken up from a dream, and quickly gave Zhu Heji a blessing ceremony, "Ziyun from the slave family respectfully wishes King Ming to live long and be blessed."
"Pingshen, Pingshen." Zhu Heji nodded, smiling at Yang Ziyun who was saluting him, and was about to say a few more words. Miss Yang turned around and walked away quickly.
When Zhu Heji was still thinking about whether to follow him, Yang Qilong had already come up to him and saluted: "Your Majesty, Yang Qilong, sincerely wishes King Ming to live long and have peace."
"Qilong, level up." Zhu Heji stretched out his right hand and gave Yang Qilong a virtual support, "I just heard someone said that your ship has arrived in Nanjing, and the Gu family came over immediately... As soon as I said goodbye to Nanchang, I was almost It’s been a year and we finally meet again! How was it? How much did the Northland team gain?”
Yang Qilong smiled and said: "Your Majesty, my experience in the Northland this time is really... could write a book!
As for the harvest, I got 30,000 strong men from the Cao Gang in Shuntian Mansion, plus family members, a total of more than 70,000 people...
In addition, I and His Highness the Heavenly King marched across the sea and captured the capital of Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong!
By the way, I also received a reward of 3,000 horses and 200,000 taels of gold from Burni, of which 3,000 horses and 100,000 taels of gold were left to His Highness the King of Heaven. "
"So many?" Zhu Heji's eyes were rounded when he heard this. He pulled Yang Qilong and they both sat down in the cabin. Then he waved to Chen Yidao and asked him to get off the boat and wait.
After Chen Yidao and others left, Zhu Hejicai asked Yang Qilong again: "Qilong, what happened in Beijing the past few days? Why did that Burney pay you so much?"
In fact, he had already heard some news about the "Burni Rebellion", which was reported to him by Generals Su Yong and Zhao Hongkui who led troops to attack Huaixi and Huaidong. The source of this information is, of course, the captured Qing officers and soldiers who surrendered.
Perhaps these Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers were not high-ranking and not well-informed, so the news they reported sounded a bit false!
The restoration of the Yuan Dynasty, the empress dowager and empress of the Qing Dynasty living in the eight alleys, the Forbidden City taking turns to be the emperor, the prophecy that "Chongzhen returns and the Qing Dynasty will be over"... it is all nonsense!
How could Ming Wang, a wise king like Zhu Heji, believe in such a bizarre incident?
I don’t even dare to write like this!
But he never expected that these strange-sounding things would actually happen.
...
"This, this, this is all true! Burney, a clown-like character, has such a bad luck..."
Zhu Heji held up the memorial written by Yang Qilong and read it over, with a surprised expression on his face.
"Your Majesty," Yang Qilong reminded, "Burni is the hero of the grassland. The leader of Monan and Mobei is a tyrant of his generation. We should not take him lightly!"
This is judging heroes based on success or failure!
Burney did those things, and if he failed, he was arrogant and ignorant, he was ignorant of current affairs, and he was a clown. But this time he won the bet between the blind cat and the dead mouse, and he became a tycoon!
Zhu Heji was right when he thought about it. His father, King Zhu Tian, was also praised to such a high level as "Sanhe and Qilong, one can settle the world." What kind of figures were Zhuge Sanhe and Yang Qilong in history? ?
Aren’t they all now celebrities who will go down in history?
"You're right," Zhu Heji nodded, "Burni is indeed a great hero... Qilong, do you think Kangxi can destroy Burni soon? Can we use him to fight against Burni? opportunity to strengthen the power of the Dengzhou Army?"
"Your Majesty," Yang Qilong said, "I thought that since Burni had become big, it would not be so easy to perish... Although Kangxi clamored to destroy Burni, I thought it was just a way for him to unite people's hearts. . He might send troops outside the Great Wall to drive Burni further away, but Burni just needs not to be so stupid as to fight Kangxi on the grassland outside Zhangjiakou."
"It's impossible for him to do that," Zhu Heji said, "otherwise he wouldn't have left Beijing so quickly."
"What the king said is absolutely true," Yang Qilong said. "Although Burni is not that easy to destroy, his strength is limited and he will try to avoid conflicts with Kangxi. Most of them will use the Hetao Grassland as the foundation and then slowly develop to the Mobei Grassland. . Before annexing the three Mobei Khalkha tribes, there should be no war with Kangxi."
Zhu Heji nodded and said to Yang Qilong: "A big thing has happened in the south recently. Wu Sangui died... It is said that he was killed by the Gu family, but in fact it was probably done by Wu Yingxiong. It’s true that evil people have their own trials and tribulations! Qi Long, you are very familiar with Wu Yingxiong, and you also know Wu Yingqi. What do you think will happen to these two brothers? "
Yang Qilong smiled when he heard this and said, "Your Majesty, Wu Yingxiong should be still alive now, right?"
"Still alive!"
Yang Qilong asked again: "You should also control most of the territory in Huguang and Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, right?"
Zhu Heji nodded.
Yang Qilong smiled and said: "You can guess how Wu Sangui died. Are his officials and his old Guan Ning army really that confused? Couldn't they have guessed?"
Zhu Heji remained silent. The current situation in Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou is unclear, but the Wu Jiajun and Wu Jiaguan in Huguang and Guangxi seem to have recognized Wu Yingxiong's rule.
Yang Qilong asked again: "Your Majesty, do you know why they pretend to be stupid?"
Zhu Heji shook his head, nodded again, and then said leisurely: "Put loyalty and righteousness on both sides, and put the word "profit" in the middle!"
Yang Qilong said: "Human nature... This is especially true for Wu Zhou! In fact, after the tragic victory in Zhuxian Town, Wu Sangui's death was in the interests of most people within Wu Zhou. After all, the Northern Expedition would win quickly. It’s hopeless, and Wu Zhou doesn’t have the financial resources to fight a protracted war. It’s in the best interest of Wu Zhou’s civil servants and generals to maintain three points of the world. And these people are just profit-seeking people!”
He paused, "The people on Wu Yingxiong's side are like this, and the people under Wu Yingqi are like this... But they now have heavy troops, and their stance is different from that of Wu Yingxiong's people. They can counterattack Treat it as a business deal, and you will be paid as much as you pay!"
