"Your Majesty, please walk slower..."
After listening to Prime Minister Zhuge's "storytelling" in the Chengyun Hall, Zhu Heji was about to go back to the harem to talk and hold hands with the three concubines accompanying the army, Da Bo Ling, Aoi Shin, and Wu Tu, when he heard Zhuge's military advisor's voice suddenly coming from behind him. sound.
When he looked back, he found that Zhuge Sanhe, who had just "finished talking", had quietly followed him behind him.
"Military advisor, what are you..."
Zhu Heji quickly stopped and watched Zhuge Sanhe arrive.
Zhuge Military Advisor saluted: "Your Majesty, please take a step to speak."
Zhu Heji looked around and found an octagonal pavilion that looked a little dilapidated, so he and Zhuge Sanhe stepped in.
After the monarch and his ministers sat down, Military Advisor Zhuge smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I still have some plans to offer."
Zhu Heji laughed when he heard this: "The military advisor just told the public how to trap Kangxi, but he has hidden the plan until now... This plan must be a secret plan of your Zhuge family, right? ?”
Zhuge Sanhe laughed and said: "I didn't expect that the Holy One would be able to figure it out now... This strategy is indeed a series of strategies passed down secretly from generation to generation by my ancestors!"
It is really a secret recipe made by the Zhuge family, and it works very well as soon as you hear it!
Zhu Heji smiled and said: "There are no outsiders here. Military advisor, please come quickly."
Military Advisor Zhuge said: "Your Majesty, my plan is divided into several levels. The first level is to lure the enemy into surrendering!"
Zhu Heji didn't understand, "Luring the enemy? Fake surrender? Are these two strategies?"
Zhuge Sanhe shook his head, "No, this is a trick to trick the enemy into surrendering!"
Zhu Heji asked again: "Who are you trying to trick into pretending to surrender?"
Military Advisor Zhuge smiled and said: "Of course it is the President and General Wu Guogui of the Great Zhou Dynasty... He is one of the father-in-laws of the Holy Emperor!"
"No, no, he cannot be counted as my father-in-law." Zhu Heji quickly explained, "Xiao Tu is just a palace servant and has no status."
"Then give one," Zhuge Sanhe said, "Wu Guogui now holds the heavy troops of the Great Zhou Kingdom. Isn't his daughter worth a concubine?"
Zhu Heji frowned, looked at Zhuge Sanhe, and whispered: "The military advisor didn't think that Wu Guogui would really surrender to the Ming Dynasty, right? He strangled the late Emperor Zhaozong to death with a bowstring!"
Wu Guogui strangled Yongli to death, which was a difficult hurdle to overcome. . Because Zhu Heji had to admit Yongli, Yongli himself was nothing, but he represented countless good Chinese men who shed their lives and blood to defend the world.
Therefore, Yongli’s tablet has been enshrined in the Ancestral Temple in Nanjing! The memorial tablets of the heroic men of the Yongli regime have also been placed in the Martyrs' Shrine and the Confucian Ancestors' Hall on the edge of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, where they can be worshiped by generations.
"That's why you're luring the enemy into surrendering!" Zhuge Sanhe said with a smile, "I asked Fang Guangchen about Wu Guogui's behavior before. He told me that Wu Guogui was stubborn, brave enough to outsmart others, and would remain unchanged until death... This man I'm afraid they won't join us, but the current situation is extremely unfavorable to Wu Zhou, so Wu Guogui, who is brave enough to outwit others, may very well take risks."
Zhu Heji nodded without comment.
Zhuge Sanhe added: "But with Wu Zhou's strength alone, it is not easy to defend Yuezhou, Jiangling, and Jingmen against me. Even if he pretends to surrender and makes a surprise attack, there is not much chance of winning. So the old minister's serial plan is still there." There is a second level, which is to lure the enemy in deep."
"Luring the enemy with the enemy?"
"It is to let one enemy lure another enemy," Zhuge Sanhe said, "as used in the Battle of Huguang, it is to use Wu Guogui to lure Kangxi to the bait... Didn't the old minister come up with the strategy of besieging Xiangyang and trapping Kangxi before? ? If we want to successfully surround Xiangyang, we can mobilize some of the Qing demons in Xiangyang. Because the old minister estimates that if Kangxi doesn't come, he will do his best if he comes. If there are really hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Xiangyang city, we can't besiege it. It is difficult to encircle it. Moreover, it is six to seven hundred miles from Hanyang to Xiangyang. If our army wants to ensure smooth logistics, it must advance by land and water. This will be difficult to hide from the eyes and ears of Qing Yao and Wu Yingxiong. Kangxi cannot give up without an army. With his troops leading north and south, Kangxi is likely to abandon Xiangyang."
"That makes sense!" Zhu Heji nodded repeatedly and said to Zhuge Sanhe with a smile, "Military advisor, your strategies are getting more and more powerful. You are the first to succeed in the battle of Huguang this time!"
"Don't dare to take it, don't dare to take it..." Zhuge Sanhe waved his hands repeatedly, "It's not that the old minister's strategies are powerful, but that the soldiers who implement these strategies are many and powerful! There are always good strategies, and these strategies can be It’s not often that we have soldiers who can carry out their duties well! Your Majesty, the old minister is already Duke Wu Xing, so let’s forget about this county prince. Zhengyang doesn’t need it anyway, he himself is already a marquis.”
Zhuge Liang's title during his lifetime was Marquis of Wuxiang, but after his death he was posthumously named Marquis of Zhongwu, King of Wuxing and King of Wuling.
In order to highlight Zhuge Sanhe's status as the successor of Zhuge Kongming, Zhu Heji granted Zhuge Sanhe the title of Marquis of Wuxiang, and also gave him the hereditary privilege of substitution without surrender. However, the title that is not downgraded can be moved up, and the part that has been raised up can be downgraded. In other words, the Zhuge family can be crowned a prince at the highest level, but the bottom line is guaranteed if they are demoted to Wuxiang Marquis.
Zhuge Sanhe's current title is the Duke of Wuxing, which is the Duke of Wuxing, which means Zhuge Liang's King of Wuxing has been demoted one level.
Now that Zhu Heji has proclaimed himself emperor, the upper limit of titles for the people below him has of course been raised. Originally, it was limited to the title of county king, but now he can be granted the title of prince.
However, the highest-level titles cannot be sealed easily to avoid the situation of "no title can be sealed". Therefore, Zhuge Sanhe, Mr. Yu, Qiu Hui, Chen Shangchuan, Su Yong, Zhao Zhongyi, Lin Ahu, Chen Yonghua, Eunuch Pang, Liu Guoxuan and other founding figures of the new Ming Dynasty have not yet been granted the title of county king. Only King Zheng Jing of Yanping is the county king. However, his county prince was not granted the title by Zhu Heji, but by Yongli.
Zhu Heji patted Zhuge Sanhe on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Military advisor, you deserve to be awarded a prince for your merits. Don't refuse to be a county prince. Don't worry about your great achievements shaking the master. I can do it." I am not the kind of emperor who kills heroes with his little belly. I am the emperor who serves the public... The world is the master, and you and I are all guests!"
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"Wu Yingqi, you must die a good death... Changshengtian will definitely not let you go!"
"Fuck you, Immortal Heaven. I am a Confucian scholar. What I believe in is the Confucian Way and the Confucian Heavenly Principles...Burni, stop believing in Immortal Heaven and become a Confucian scholar together!"
One day in early June, outside the Jinzhou Pass at the foot of the Daheishan Mountains in Liaodong Province, two large groups of uninvited guests suddenly arrived. Judging from their clothes, one group was Han and the other Mongolian.
Among them, there are about four to five thousand Han people, all of whom are equipped with one person, two horses or three horses. The auxiliary horse also carries large and small bags of luggage and some weapons on its back.
The number of Mongolians was greater, more than 8,000, but some of them seemed to be prisoners, tied with hemp ropes and escorted by another group of Mongolians on horseback.
And I don’t know what the relationship between these two groups is? The minions on both sides were looking at each other with cold eyebrows. The bosses on both sides were still not listening to the quarrel, but they did not fight each other.
The two bosses who were bickering were none other than Wu Yingqi and Burni.
The two bosses were both masters who could run away. When they saw something was wrong, they both fled from the Qilbo battlefield one after the other. And they all ran in the same direction - to Lushun!
Wu Yingqi came to seek refuge with Zhu Heqi after listening to Kong Sizhen's words, while Burni came to seek refuge with Zhu Heji because he had a huge sum of money in the Penglai Bank in Dengzhou. Although he had been driven by Kangxi to wander around the prairie in recent years, He still knew that there was a good place like Tianwang City in Dengzhou, and he also knew that he should deposit the money stolen from Beijing in a bank account in Dengzhou.
And he also knew that the commercial port of Dengzhou was moved to Huangniwa Bay in Jinzhou, Liaodong after the outer city of Dengzhou was broken. So Burni, who was defeated by Kangxi, ran in the same direction as Wu Yingqi! Moreover, the two met when they were crossing Yanshan Mountain, and they worked together as horse bandits for a period of time. They robbed several Zasak flags of the Zhaowuda League, and then took the loot to General Burni in Shengjing. Before the army arrived, they ran away to the Liaodong Peninsula.
