Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

123 Guoxing is successful, do you want to be Zhuangzong of Later Tang?
During the Jiashen Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty entered the country.

Countless families have been destroyed and loved ones have died. Who doesn’t have national hatred and family feuds?

Students from all over the country, officials from various provinces, and their families fled to the country in countless numbers.

The deep hatred for his parents and the hatred for the loss of his country are not just for Zheng Yanping.

Zhang Huangyan's parents, Prince Lu's wife and children, and even Emperor Yongli's two sons were scattered among the people, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

However, Zheng Yanping was exhausted after the ups and downs, and because of his extreme and strong side as a Japanese, he began to collapse and go crazy.

Ma Xin and Yang Chaodong knew about Guoxingye's madness, and they looked nervously at Guoxingye who was covering his head.

Zheng Yanping covered his head and stared at the prince's envoy.

Liu Xuanchu replied frankly: "The Crown Prince asked me to ask, can the imperial surname forget the hatred for our mentor Qian Qianyi who shaved his head and defected to the Qing Dynasty?"

"Have you forgotten the hatred for your father, Zheng Zhilong, who surrendered without a fight?"

"Have you forgotten the hatred of your biological mother, Madam Tagawa, who suffered humiliation and death?"

"Have you forgotten the hatred of Emperor Longwuxiang who starved himself to death for his country?"

Four sentences of rebuke were asked, and the empty hall echoed endlessly.

The corners of Zheng Yanping's eyes also twitched continuously.

"I haven't forgotten! Have I, Zhu Chenggong, forgotten?"

Zheng Yanping gritted his teeth and glanced at the civil and military officials in the hall, looked towards Fujian in the west, paused for a moment, and finally looked towards the two capitals in the north.

"The late emperor bestowed my surname upon me, hoping that I would successfully recover the lost territory. Your grace is as great as a mountain, and I will always bear it in my heart."

"My biological mother was insulted, and I personally cut open her abdomen, removed her intestines, and cleansed her filth. Her blood is still in my hands."

Zheng Yanping raised his hands and looked carefully. The scene of burying his mother's body fifteen years ago was still in front of him.

"As a subject, you must be loyal to your monarch and your country."

"My father betrayed his country and treason, a great disgrace. If I don't recover Fujian and the rest of the country, I will never be able to wash away the infamy that will befall the Zheng family throughout history."

Zheng Yanping and Liu Xuanchu looked at each other, as if speaking to the Yongli Crown Prince behind them, and said in a hoarse voice: "Loyalty, filial piety and integrity are the greatest virtues. We will never change until our death."

"The Zheng family has wronged the late emperor and the Ming Dynasty. I will atone for this sin even if I die."

"My mentor, Qian Muzhai, who received great favor from the nation, died long ago when Nandu fell. Now, the only ones left alive are the old men of Dongjian who are trying to atone for their sins by contacting the southeast and resisting the Qing."

Zheng Yanping was in a trance for a moment, looking at the shadowy figure behind Liu Xuanchu, muttering to himself.

"I'm not following the example of the old men of Dongjian who have lived in seclusion to protect themselves. I'm just looking for a new way to restore our country."

In the hall, Zheng Yanping's confidants from the East China Sea, both civil and military officials, were all in a state of shock and confusion.

The prince had someone hit Koxinga's sore spot.

If it were someone else, the King of Qin, who had strict military laws, would have ordered the arrest and killing of people long ago.

Only the royal family members of Prince Lu still have some dignity left over from the Zhu family.

As for other people, Zhang Mingzhen has poisoned people before, and Zhang Huangyan has made sarcastic remarks before.

The weather at sea was unpredictable. A summer storm suddenly arose. Outside the house, there was a violent storm and loud shouting, but inside the hall there was silence.

Liu Xuanchu, who was facing Zheng Yanping, pondered for a few breaths and replied seriously: "It's good that Prince Yanping hasn't forgotten."

"But the country has been ruined like this. It is not just the Prince of Yanping who has betrayed the emperor's grace and has a close enemy."

"The Emperor entrusted state affairs to the Prince of Jin, but he abandoned Yunnan and Dian, abandoning the Emperor's carriage. The Prince of Gongchang also severely criticized the Prince of Jin. The Prince of Jin's wife and eldest son were also killed by the Eastern Tartars in Yunnan and Dian."

"However, the King of Jin saw that the Crown Prince was virile and brave, so he handed over power to him."

Liu Xuanchu bowed his head slightly and said, "Prince Yanping, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has spoken."

"You have four major hatreds, doesn't he have any?"

"The Crown Prince hated the heavens for not favoring the Hu Yun, allowing the Eastern Tartars to seize the world by chance.

The second regret is that the land of China is filled with the smell of blood and the Han people are forced to shave their heads and wear clothes on the left side.

The third regret is that the Eastern Tartars massacred millions of people and left several provinces and areas in a state of complete desolation.

Fourth, I hate that the Eastern Barbarians oppress millions of people, and the Chinese people are treated like pigs and sheep at the mercy of others."

From Zheng Yanping onwards, everyone was somewhat moved.

The strong wind roared in the Ming capital, making a sharp and piercing sound, like the wailing of countless wronged souls.

Liu Xuanchu continued in a deep voice: "Prince does not hate the destruction of the ancestral country by the hands of the emperor, nor does he hate the death of his three cousins, nor does he hate the death of the emperors of the royal family who served as regents for the country."

"Prince Yanping, the Crown Prince's oral instructions."

"Heaven, Earth, Sovereign, Parents, and Teachers. Zheng Yanping, your four greatest hatreds are for Sovereign, Parents, and Teachers. My four greatest hatreds are for Heaven, Earth, and People. My hatred and pain far surpass yours."

"If you wish to stay in Yizhou, swallow your anger, and digest the pain, please do so."

"But I..."

"I will go to the two capitals and return that pain to the Eastern Tartars a hundredfold."

"Although I am the Lord of Gui and you are a minister of Tang, in the final analysis, we are both Ming people who want to keep our clothes and hats."

Liu Xuanchu's words drifted in the wind.

The two guards who wanted to close the door to keep out the rain were startled by the Nanyang Minister's words, and for a moment they allowed the wind and rain to pour into the hall.

Ma Xin and Yang Chaodong looked at Liu Xuanchu hesitantly. If the prince really said that, he must be no less crazy than Koxinga.

Without the emperor, parents and teachers, how could there be Zhu Cixuan, the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty?

Zheng Yanping had a blank expression and remained silent.

Liu Xuanchu's last words hit the nail on the head.

Among the three feudal lords of Gui, Tang and Lu, the Gui clan was of course the most legitimate.

This was the choice Shi Kefa wanted to make when he established the Southern Capital Emperor to continue the throne.

After Hongguang and Prince Lu were captured, the throne of the Ming Dynasty should have belonged to the Gui clan.

However, the warlords and civil servants in Zhejiang and Fujian chose to support the two kings of Tang and Lu based on the principle of proximity.

Zheng Yanping was of course loyal to the Tang vassal state. His legitimate surname came from Emperor Longwu, and he followed Longwu's reign title for three years after his death.

Prince Lu fled to Fujian and wanted to recruit him, but Zheng Yanping directly fought with Zheng Cai, who supported Prince Lu.

Emperor Yongli conferred on him the titles of Prince of Yanping and Prince of Chao several times, but he declined each time.

But in the final analysis, although the conflict between Guifan and Tang Wang Shaowu was no less than the dispute between Tang and Lu, it had little to do with Zheng Yanping who supported Longwu.

Seeing that Prince Yanping remained silent, Liu Xuanchu bowed again and replied earnestly: "Prince Yanping."

"Your army is currently unstable, and only the Crown Prince can restore order. Without His Highness, you will have no choice but to temporarily flee to Yizhou."

"The King of Jin handed over his power, and the Duke of Qian offered his wealth."

"The Crown Prince still values ​​them and has entrusted the military power of the southwest to the King of Jin. He has also promised the King of Jin the position of Queen, allowing the Li family to rest in peace with the country."

“Although he seized the three hundred years of savings of the Mu Palace, the prince also handed over the Western countries to the Duke of Qian, promising the Mu family a hundred generations of wealth.”

"Let's not talk about the title of King of Chao that the Emperor bestowed upon him. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never been stingy with his subjects. The eight provinces of Fujian, the East China Sea, and even the South China Sea can all be governed by the Zheng family."

Yang Chaodong and others were excited when they heard this and looked at Koxinga.

They are all former generals of the Zheng family.

In the past, he only showed off his power in the East China Sea. If he had followed Prince Yongli, judging by his actions in the South and West Seas, he might have become the king of a small country.

Zheng Yanping glanced at his confidants who were interested, and then looked at Liu Xuanchu.

"Are these conditions also the Crown Prince's instructions?"

Liu Xuanchu bowed his head: "It's just my guess."

"However, the Crown Prince often said that the two pillars of the country are Li Dingguo, who holds up the southwestern provinces, and Zheng Yanping, who dares to fight for half of the southeastern provinces."

"Prince Yanping is as important to the Crown Prince as Prince Jin, and his favor is a special honor. To be honest, since we are always by his side, many generals envy Prince Yanping."

Zheng Yanping fell silent again after hearing this.

After a long while, when the rain outside had subsided, Zheng Yanping finally spoke:
"Minister Liu, you are not suitable to be an eloquent lobbyist."

"Not to mention that Donghai originally belongs to my Zheng family. If it were really for a few honors, why would I have stayed in Jinxia for fifteen years?"

"In the eyes of the Pseudo-Qing, I'm afraid I'm like Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo combined."

Zheng Yanping spoke, striding outside into the drizzling rain. "I haven't seen the Southern Master for a long time, and I'm talking about the Northern Master in vain... The vast expanse of stench is so pungent, where are the heroic spirits of the ages? When will the vastness of the land be revealed? Why question the fate of the barbarians? The sun shines brightly from within."

Walking past Liu Xuanchu, Zheng Yanping said calmly: "What are you talking about, the Eight Fujian, East China Sea, and South China Sea?"

"It's still not enough to repay the blood debt that the prince promised with blood, a hundredfold."

……

The distance between Mingjing City and Fort Zeelandia was only eight or nine miles.

Walking through the mud and drizzle, Zheng Yanping, Liu Xuanchu and their group arrived at the Dutch Council Hall in Fort Zeelandia in half an hour.

On the wall of the lobby, realistic portraits of Dutch people are still hanging, and Zhu Cixuan is writing on the long table.

Zheng Yanping looked at Prince Yongli wearing golden armor.

The first reaction was not to the Supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but to those young rebel generals.

His face was thin, and his skin was slightly darkened by the sun in Southeast Asia. He killed the king and destroyed the country. The murderous aura on his body could be felt from more than ten meters away.

Only from their solemn facial features can one vaguely see the portraits of Emperor Hongguang of Nando and Emperor Shenzong.

Only the innocence in his eyes showed that the prince was only eighteen years old.

When Zhu Cixuan heard the voice, he looked up and saw the national hero wearing a black crown with gold edges and a blue robe.

Although Zheng Yanping was born a pirate and spent half his life fighting, he was actually a civil servant.

He has slightly fair skin, a handsome face, and is handsome and elegant.

Only the coldness in his eyes showed that he still had the ferocity of a pirate in his bones.

Zhu Cixuan was a little surprised when he glanced at Zheng Yanping's attributes on the system panel.

[Name: Zhu Chenggong (top general)

Age: 38
Official title: King Wu of Yanping of the Ming Dynasty

Command: 95 Military Strength: 95 Intelligence: 95 Politics: 95

Zhu Cixuan could understand the military power of firearms and the intelligence including experience and knowledge.

It includes politics of governing the country.

In addition to the well-known military genius Sun Kewang, the Southern Ming Dynasty also had another prodigy.

Sun Kewang was able to safely cultivate land and expand his troops in Yunnan and Yunnan because of his former subordinates of the Dashi Army and his alliance with Mu Tianbo.

Zheng Yanping started his career because his father was a traitor to his country and he only had a few hundred family members and followers under his command.

He relied solely on himself to develop from an island in Nan'ao to the coast of the East China Sea, and in ten years he had an army of 200,000.

Let the other three lanes hold on first, and wait for him to become a hero with six pieces of equipment in the late game.

When the enemy was on the high ground, we pushed back the enemy's front tower, then we made a reckless move and the game ended directly with the enemy.

It was this 95 command that puzzled Zhu Cixuan.

An army of 200,000 was defeated by a few thousand people, and he led the entire naval battle?

Zhu Cixuan put down his brush and raised his hand to signal Zheng Yanping to look at his new work.

Zheng Yanping walked closer and looked at the calligraphy that was even more cursive than cursive, and felt a pang of sadness.

As a serious civil servant in Jiangnan, he could not stand such ink.

Even if his dog dipped his brush in ink and stepped on it, his writing would be better than the prince's.

After carefully examining it for a moment, Zheng Yanping still couldn't recognize it. It was Yamada Nagamasa who, for the sake of his relationship, began to explain it.

"Your Highness, the words written are respectively."

"The troops stationed on the two islands dare to fight for half of the southeast; the resistance in one corner makes us realize that there are loyal loners overseas."

"Heroes do nothing but persevere. They can accomplish the world and accomplish themselves. Since ancient times, few have succeeded. The world is full of wounds, half crying for the people, half crying for the king."

Zheng Yanping, who had already chosen to surrender to Prince Yongli, was immediately moved when he heard this.

Although the second couplet is a bit unlucky.

But if I die, I die. What is there to be afraid of?

Zheng Yanping was silent for a moment, then bowed his head and said, "I thank Your Highness for the couplet."

Zhu Cixuan looked at Zheng Yanping with a smile and said something shocking: "The national surname is successful, do you want to be the Zhuangzong of Later Tang?"

The prince was laughing, but everyone else was shocked and angry.

Bai Wenxuan and others thought that the prince was going to recruit people to arrest him again, so they all grabbed their swords and looked at the civil and military officials behind Zheng Yanping.

The civil and military officials of Yizhou all cried out in their hearts that they had fallen into a trap. The reason why Crown Prince Yongli did not go to Mingjing was that he wanted to hold a meeting to arrest people.

Li Cunxu, the Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, was a foreigner, but was given a surname by the Tang emperor and included in the genealogy of the Li Tang royal family. He then established his own country as the orthodox Li Tang.

Except for the fact that Koxinga was not included in the Zhu family genealogy, everything else was exactly the same as Li Yazi.

Even when Koxinga attacked Yizhou, many people in the towns believed that he did not want to resist the Qing Dynasty and wanted to establish a country overseas.

At least Yang Chaodong knew in his heart that Prince Zheng Jing really thought so.

Facing the rebuke from Prince Yongli, Zheng Yanping smiled and said with an unchanging expression:

"The late emperor bestowed upon me the surname and the name Chenggong, accepting me as his trusted confidant and entrusting me with the important task of recovering our lost territory."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn't recognize it?"

The grievances between the three feudal lords of Gui, Tang and Lu were very complicated.

Tang and Lu were fighting for the throne, poaching each other's talents and killing each other's envoys.

Guitang had a long-standing grudge, but Zheng Yanping felt that Emperor Longwu and Emperor Yongli did not have much hatred.

However, the civil officials of Guifan were extremely angry towards the two Tang kings.

After the fall of Nando, Qu Shisi originally wanted to support the orthodox Gui clan, but was preempted by Emperor Longwu.

By the time Longwu died, Emperor Yongli had already become regent, and then Tang Wang Shaowu of Guangzhou usurped the throne.

Two emperors were established within a 200-li radius of each other. When the Qing army was about to march south from Fujian and Jiangxi, Yongli and Shaowu were still fighting each other with swords.

Many of Yongli's ministers blamed the fall of Fujian and Guangdong on the Tang vassal state.

It was not until the 14th year of the Yongli reign that Emperor Siwen was posthumously named Emperor Shaozongxiang.

At that time, Emperor Yongli was already a prisoner of Toungoo.

Zhu Cixuan also smiled and said, "Why not? My father posthumously conferred a title on the late Emperor Longwu, and the ministers advised me not to accept the late Emperor Longwu into the ancestral temple."

"But I say that the alliance with the invaders to suppress the enemy is the national policy set by Emperor Xiang, and the name Zheng family along the coast is the national surname bestowed by Emperor Xiang."

"Among the three regents of the remaining Ming emperors, only Emperor Xiang lived up to his title as the Great Ming Emperor."

Zheng Yanping drooped his eyelids slightly, recalling the days when he served the late emperor.

The late emperor had great ambitions and was eager to make progress, but he was hindered by his father and died with hatred in his heart.

Zhu Cixuan patted Zheng Yanping on the shoulder and said, "The Ming Dynasty was destroyed when the two capitals fell and the emperor abandoned the country, but China must not be destroyed."

"He who can drive out the Tartars and restore China can become the ruler of China."

"If I die mid-way, without completing my great cause, I ask Prince Yanping to serve my father, the emperor, and my younger brother as their master."

"If my father and brother pass away, please ask Prince Yanping to take the throne of regent."

This statement shocked the world even more than comparing Zheng Yanping to Li Yazi.

All the civil and military officials from both sides in the hall looked at the prince in astonishment and surprise.

Zheng Yanping was shocked and was about to apologize, but who would have thought that the prince supported him with his arms and prevented him from kneeling.

Zhu Cixuan said in a clear voice: "The late Emperor Longwu bestowed upon you the imperial surname, a favor as heavy as a mountain. I have no other choice but to have you included in the imperial family genealogy."

"Nan Huairen, Liu Xuanchu."

The two people woke up from their shock and responded one after another.

"I will make the following arrangements."

"After I died, the late emperor came to power. Upon his death, the throne passed to the heir. If the heir was killed, no other member of the royal family would succeed him. Zhu Chenggong would succeed to the throne and become emperor as regent."

(End of this chapter)