"Military advisor, Shi Cong...who do you think I should seek refuge with?"
In a military camp in Zhuxian Town, Wu Yingqi stared at the list worth one million taels while asking questions carelessly.
The two people in the room who listened to his question didn't know how to answer for a moment. Both Liu Xuanchu and Wu Shicong knew that in addition to being politically confused, Wu Yingqi also had another problem: he was extremely greedy for money!
It is very bad to be Yuan Tan, but if the "Cao Cao" in the southeast is willing to guarantee Wu Yingqi's safety and pays a particularly high price, then Wu Yingqi is also willing to be Yuan Tan.
But the problem is... first, Zhu Heji did not give a safety guarantee; second, Zhu Heji did not seem to ask Wu Yingqi to seek refuge.
There was silence in the room. After a while, Wu Shicong broke the silence: "Dad, you have to think about your third uncle. Without his troops, we would be missing more than ten thousand elite soldiers!"
The "third uncle" he was talking about was Wu Guogui. Wu Guogui was Wu Sangui's adopted son. Wu Sangui didn't have many sons, and his family was slaughtered again by Li Zicheng, so there were not many left. Therefore, Wu Guogui, the adopted son, was valuable and was treated as the "real Wu Laosan".
Among Wu Sangui's three "real and fake sons", Wu Guogui was actually the most determined in his anti-Qing attitude, but he was also firmly anti-Ming.
If Wu Yingqi really wants to defect to the Ming Dynasty, Wu Guogui will definitely lead his team back to Wu Yingxiong.
"Your third uncle..." Wu Yingqi was stunned, "By the way, Yongli was strangled to death by him! This matter... is not easy to handle!"
Although Zhu Heji was from the line of Longwu and Shaowu, the last Tang king Zhu Yue later recognized the orthodox status of Yongli, and the Yanping Palace in Taiwan also used Yongli to record years. Therefore, the new Ming Dynasty also invited Yongli's tablet into the Ancestral Temple.
As a result, the relationship between the new Ming Dynasty and Wu Zhou would be difficult to reconcile, and Wu Guogui, the murderer who strangled Yong Li to death with his own hands, would be even less likely to join the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Xuanchu shook his paper fan and said, "This is probably the reason why King Ming didn't ask us to submit, right?"
"Then it's definitely not possible to vote for the Qing Dynasty!" Wu Yingqi frowned, "Kang Mazi lost half of his country to us, so he must hate us more than Zhu Heji... Zhu Heji may not really hate him. Kang Mazi must really hate it!"
Liu Xuanchu smiled bitterly: "Second Young Master, in the face of righteousness, how can there be any truth or falsehood?"
Wu Shicong said: "Then how about we take Zhu Heji's things and send our army south?"
Liu Xuanchu shook his head, "It's too late... By the time we get all these things, it will be almost June. Wu Yingxiong has already reorganized the interior, and it is almost time for Kangxi to return to the army from the grassland. If we fight again If Wu Ying is attacked by a bear, I'm afraid he will be attacked from both sides."
"What should we do?" Wu Shicong asked.
"What else can we do?" Wu Yingqi said, "Let's go west to Shaanxi... No matter what, we must have a reliable foothold. Although Shaanxi is poor, it is better than Zhongzhou after all! Shaanxi is the gateway to the east of Shaanxi Xiping Town, Xixiakou, and Jingziguan in Nanyang Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture are all in our hands. If our tens of thousands of troops move in, they can always be stabilized.
Zhongzhou is a land of four battles and is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Once Wu Yingxiong, the treacherous son, joins forces with Kangxi, how can we sustain it? "
Wu Shicong was still unwilling to die and turned to look at military advisor Liu Xuanchu.
Liu Xuanchu said: "The opportunity has been lost... Now the westward march is the only way out. But what we are going to do after we go westward, and under what name we are going to go westward, we must think carefully about it."
Wu Shicong said: "The westward march is of course to seize Kangxi's territory! After the westward march, of course the army will be prepared for war, and then troops will be sent to attack the traitor Wu Yingxiong!"
Liu Xuanchu shook his head, "It's okay to do this, but it's not okay to say it this way."
Wu Yingqi asked: "Commander, please don't beat around the bush when you talk to me. I am a real person."
Liu Xuanchu said: "Then I will put it bluntly... In the past, when we did things, we only looked at interests and strength, but we forgot to hold the title of great righteousness! This time when we move westward, we must not forget the two words 'great righteousness'" Character."
"Great justice?" Wu Yingqi asked, "What great justice?"
Liu Xuanchu smiled and uttered two words: "Ask for Yuan!"
"Assisting the Yuan Dynasty?" Wu Yingqi was stunned, "Military advisor, do you mean to seek the Yuan Dynasty?"
"Yes!" Liu Xuanchu said: "The Ming Dynasty won the great righteousness of the world because of its struggle against the Yuan Dynasty, so it was able to enjoy three hundred years of national rule. It was almost destroyed before, but now it is revived, all because of the great righteousness.
But now the Yuan Dynasty has been restored, and there is a God Bless Emperor! As a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, can Zhu Heji ignore it? But he couldn't reach the Yuan Dynasty, so he offered us one million to send troops... If the general helps the Zhu family, then he will have great righteousness in hand, and we can meet each other in the future.
So we have to ask Zhu Heji to issue an edict from the Ming Dynasty and Confucianism... to grant the general the task of conquering the Yuan Dynasty and destroying the Hu Dynasty. "
Wu Yingqi clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Okay, good idea! We won't take his one million in vain, we will help him defeat the Yuan Dynasty!"
"In addition," Liu Xuanchu added, "after we officially send troops to Shaanxi, we have to report to Kangxi... declaring that we will march westward to conquer the Yuan Dynasty, avenge the Qing Dynasty, and request that the land of Henan be exchanged for Gansu and Shaanxi!"
"Is this okay?" Wu Shicong's eyes widened, "Can Kang Mazi agree?"
Liu Xuanchu shook his fan and said with a smile: "I asked that Alani before and learned that after Kangxi defeated Burni's Mongolian cavalry outside Zhangjiakou, he did not look for Burni's tribe, so he went east to attack The Yuan Shangdu has gone to its old place. This is because Burney once claimed to go to the Jinlianchuan grassland to build the Yuan Shangdu... But I always feel that Kangxi will probably miss it this time!"
Wu Yingqi squinted his eyes and said: "It's not that the chances are that you will miss, but that you will definitely miss! If Burney dared to fight Kang Mazi on the Jinlianchuan grassland, then he might as well not leave Beijing... Now that he has left, he will They will definitely run far away, either to Khalkha, or to the west to the Hetao grassland."
Jinlianchuan Grassland is only over 500 miles away from Beijing, just over Yanshan Mountain. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty had very strong control over Yanshan. Almost all the habitable valleys in Yanshan were occupied by various Qizhuang, Wangzhuang, and Huangzhuang. There were also many official and herdsmen controlled by the Qing government on the grasslands to the west of Yanshan. .
Burni rose up in a hurry and had no time to sweep these Qizhuang, Wangzhuang, Huangzhuang and Guanmu Ranch. Therefore, going to the original place of Yuan Shangdu to build a capital is obviously asking for death!
Wu Shicong was a little confused, "Since it is impossible for Burni to go to Yuan Shangdu's hometown, then why did Kangxi go there?"
"Of course it is to firmly control the Mongols in the Xilin Gol League, the Zhaowuda League, the Zhuosotu League, the Zhelim League, and some scattered Mongolians!" Wu Yingqi said, "He should It will also significantly increase the proportion of Mongolians in the New Eight Banners...Those Mongolians are miserable, they have never seen money, and they can be fooled into becoming soldiers with just a few cents. In the past, the Jiubian of the Ming Dynasty There are many Mongolians employed in Thirteen Towns. These Mongolians were not merciless at all when they killed Mongolians outside the Ming Dynasty!"
Liu Xuanchu sneered: "Kangxi worshiped the fifth great lama as his disciple, the purpose should also be to facilitate the gathering of various Mongolian tribes...With these cheap Mongolian soldiers, he can continue to fight against Zhu Heji, but Burni will So you escaped!
And we happened to be marching westward under the banner of revenge for the Qing Dynasty. Firstly, Kangxi could not spare any effort to deal with us. Secondly, he was also afraid that Burni would invade Shaanxi and Gansu, so he would probably hold his nose and recognize us. In this way, we can avenge the Qing Dynasty and seek yuan for the Ming Dynasty at the same time, so that we can appease the Ming and Qing families. "
"Okay!" Wu Yingqi clapped his hands again, "This way we can concentrate our efforts to fight the traitor Wu Yingxiong to the end!"
Liu Xuanchu whispered: "General, you will miss the opportunity first. You still have to wait for the opportunity... Why not make peace with Wu Yingxiong first, and wait until we have established a foothold in Shaanxi before we make progress."
Wu Yingqi slapped the table: "Forget it! Tell him to send that girl Kong Sizhen to Kaifeng, and I will let his son go!"
