Hong Shiming was also one of the few people in the Wuzhou Kingdom who was on the Ming Dynasty's blacklist of "unacceptable surrender".
Moreover, he is in bigger trouble than Wu Guogui. Wu Guogui strangled Yongli to death, and Zhu Heji is not Yongli's descendant... just look at his attitude towards Wu Tuo.
However, Hong Shiming's father tricked Zheng Jing's grandfather Zheng Zhilong, first deceiving him and then killing him! What's even more hateful is that the Qing soldiers brought by Hong Chengchou also robbed Zheng Zhilong of all his family property that he had saved for many years.
Zheng Jing, who was originally a good third generation of rich people, turned into a "third generation of negative people". So far, he has not made back the loss!
Taking someone's money is like killing your parents! Hong Chengchou not only killed Zheng Jing's grandparents, but also took away the family property that belonged to Zheng Jing.
So the person Zheng Jing hates most in his life is Hong Chengchou! After he captured Quanzhou, he captured all of Hong Chengchou's relatives and sent them to Taiwan to grow sugar cane!
If Hong Shiming falls into Zheng Jing's hands, why not tear him into pieces?
Therefore, after knowing that he had a chance to defeat Zhu Heji, he was very motivated and rode a fast horse towards Xi'an that day. In six days, he had covered 1,200 miles and arrived at Jingzhaofu City, where Emperor Kangxi lived.
On the second day after entering the city, he saw the pockmarked Emperor Kangxi, who looked a little thin but still full of youthfulness, among the Qing emperors walking around the huge city of Xi'an.
Emperor Kangxi has been competing with the accompanying ministers these days... Kangxi particularly loved going to court. Even when he was on an expedition or on patrol, he would hold court meetings whenever possible. So take as many officials as possible with you every time you go out.
This time he came to Xi'an, of course, was no exception. He brought almost half of the imperial court here. . This was nothing at first, but in early July Kangxi suddenly issued an edict to change Xi'an Mansion to Jingzhao Mansion. He also announced that he would stay in Jingzhao Mansion for several months until the end of the Huguang War. He also asked the accompanying ministers and guards to leave their families Received from Jingzhao Mansion to live with him.
The accompanying ministers were not stupid. They immediately realized that Emperor Kangxi was planning to move the capital to Jingzhao Prefecture, and immediately began to give various advices, each one more frightening than the other, as if moving the capital would lead to the destruction of the country.
Kangxi was furious several times over this, but the people below refused to give in, which made Kangxi even have the urge to restore the imperial staff system.
But when he quietly took a small notebook to write down the names of those who opposed the capital move, and prepared to settle accounts after the fall, he suddenly discovered a very serious problem - many of the people on the blacklist were Batulu!
Almost all of these baturus are military officers...all are the counselors and assistants of the New Eight Banners, or the ministers, ministers, or senior guards of the bodyguard department.
The reason for the opposition of these New Eight Banners officers is also very simple. Their subordinates have all received land around Beijing, so how can they give up so easily?
And the land around Beijing is obviously more fertile than the land in Guanzhong!
After two to three thousand years of cultivation, the land in Guanzhong has been exhausted. In the era without "magic fertilizer", the yield was pitifully low.
So it is normal for people below not to want to move.
What made Emperor Kangxi feel abnormal was that the group of minions who competed with him gave him a sense of powerlessness... These minions all had soldiers!
Therefore, Kangxi had to reason with them carefully, and finally persuaded some Batulu from Shangsanqi to agree to move to Jingzhao Mansion.
Another thing that aroused opposition from a large number of officials was to let Kong Shenggong return to Shandong to run "Lu Yong"... Shandong was the only "rich province" under the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the population was also the largest among the provinces under the Qing Dynasty, with seven to eight million people.
Of course, everyone is unwilling to abandon such an important province to hold a large-scale team training, and they cannot agree to let Kong Shenggong take the lead.
In the end, after bargaining for a long time, the ministers agreed to use four prefectures and one prefecture in Shandong, including Tai'an Prefecture, Jining Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, and Caozhou Prefecture, to organize group training for Confucianism. At the same time, the five major Confucian figures, including Xiong Cilu, Zhou Peigong, Zhang Ying, Fu Honglie, and Huang Zhisheng, served as the prefects or magistrates of these four prefectures and one state respectively, and were in charge of the Confucian team training.
In addition, the regiment training in each state capital must be assisted and led by officers from the New Eight Banners or the Green Camp.
Although Kangxi made certain progress in moving his family members and organizing regiment training, he also felt that his imperial power had been weakened.
For a hero like Kangxi, it was really unbearable for his power to be weakened!
According to Kangxi's own analysis, the reason why his imperial power was weakened was because, in addition to the new Eight Banners system and the Xiangxian system, which had their own separate functions, he could not defeat Zhu Heji...
Just when Kangxi was in urgent need of a victory against Zhu Heji to prove himself, Hong Shiming gave him the opportunity to win!
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"Your Majesty, this is indeed an autographed letter from Zhu Heji...Zhu Heji is very good at writing in Zhao style block letters. He also likes to write inscriptions everywhere. Many of the titles of apocryphal books in the Confucian school are from him. The word."
In Emperor Kangxi's south study room, Mingzhu, a scholar who was very familiar with Zhu Heji's works and handwriting, had carefully examined Zhu Heji's autographed letter brought by Hong Shiming.
This letter was indeed written by Zhu Heji!
Kangxi nodded and asked the people around him: "What do you think?"
"Long live my Lord," University Scholar Tu Hai was the first to kneel down and speak, "I thought Zhu Heji was deceiving Wu Guogui."
"How can you see it?" Kangxi asked.
Tuhai said: "Wu Guogui was the murderer who strangled Yongli after all. How could Zhu Heji be so kind to him? Besides, Wu Yingqi had probably defected to the Ming Dynasty... Many generals under Wu Guogui were Wu Sangui's old troops. If Wu Guogui He killed Wu Yingxiong and then surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. What would the generals below think of him? If Zhu Heji releases Wu Yingqi at this time, will Wu Guogui still have a chance to survive?"
Kangxi nodded: "That makes sense! If Wu Yingqi takes the lead and kills Wu Guogui, Zhu Heji won't have to bear the name of breach of contract... What a plan!"
But Wu Guogui should have seen through Zhu Heji's trick, so he thought of a trick! Tuhai, do you think this matter is certain? "
"Big!" Tu Hai said without hesitation, "Even if we can't win completely, we should be able to severely damage Zhu Heji once... If we are lucky and can burn a large number of puppet Ming navy warships, then the Battle of Chibi But some of them were beaten."
"Your Majesty, I feel that even if we cannot win, our losses will not be too great." Suo'etu said, "After all, the main force of the puppet Ming army is in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are not many people in the camp in the north of the Yangtze River. And Prince An is experienced in battles. Formation, even if we cannot win, we should be able to retreat as a whole."
Mingzhu said: "Your Majesty, I think this is a good opportunity to ask Wu Zhou for Xiangyang City. We have only obtained Fancheng now, not Xiangyang. If we can get Xiangyang back, we will be able to occupy more positions on the Huguang battlefield in the future. Great initiative and invincible."
The few people below all support participating in the war!
In fact, Qing Dynasty has no choice now. This "false surrender to defeat the enemy" may be the only opportunity to reverse the unfavorable situation on the Huguang battlefield.
If the Qing Dynasty did not follow up and give it a try, Wu Zhou's little capital would not be able to play with it at all. Even if the sneak attack was successful, it would not cause a big blow to the Ming army.
If the sneak attack fails, Wu Zhou's main force will be liquidated directly! Wu Zhouke will be finished by then.
So Kangxi had no choice but to make up his mind!
"Hong Shiming!"
"The foreign minister is here."
Hong Shiming is still lying down respectfully!
Kangxi said: "I can agree to send troops...but it will take some time for the heavenly troops to gather, and they will not arrive until around August 15th.
In addition, the heavenly soldiers also need a place where they can station their troops. I want Xiangyang, can I do it? "
"Your Majesty, there is no problem in sending troops in August..." Hong Shiming said, "But I can't decide on the cession of Xiangyang. I have to ask the emperor for instructions."
"Okay," Emperor Kangxi nodded and said confidently, "In that case, quickly send someone to report to Wu Yingxiong! If he can agree to my conditions and give up Xiangyang Mansion to me... then I will accompany him Take a gamble in Huguang!"
