Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Although Wang Shirong's official position on Kang Mazi's side also rose rapidly, his heart was always on the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty!

So he was very worried that Wu Sangui would go to war with Zhu Heqi before the fall of the Qing court. If Wu and Zhu would fight, it would be difficult to say who belonged to the world.

And now Kangxi has come up with Feng Ting's old wisdom of blaming Zhao, and wants to use Jiangnan to coax Wu Sangui. If Wu Sangui falls into the trap, then Kang Mazi will breathe a sigh of relief.

With the intention of fighting the Qing Dynasty to the end, Wang Shirong finally, under the leadership of Liu Xuanchu, entered the power center of the Wu Zhou regime through a side door of the Presidential Palace, and met the President Wu Sangui in a dragon robe.

Wu Sangui's complexion was not very good. Wang Shirong heard from Liu Xuanchu that Wu Sangui was not used to the heat in Jiangling, and he was greedy for cold food. As a result, he got diarrhea and almost died.

Having recovered from a serious illness, Wu Sangui looked older than when Wang Shirong saw him last time. Wu Yingxiong, Guo Zhuangtu, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Zhuguo, and Fang Guangchen were all in the hall, accompanying Wu Sangui to meet Wang Shirong.

After saluting, Wu Sangui first said the word "sit", and asked someone to move an embroidered pier for Wang Shirong. After he sat down, he asked straight to the point: "There are rumors that Wang Fuchen shot Zhu to death in the battle of Xiangkou. He Qi, is it true or not?"

Wang Shirong said: "That's what Wang Fuchen thought... the people who followed him from the battlefield also said that they saw him shoot a white-robed third grandson with a shotgun."

Liu Xuanchu shook his head: "Fake, Zhu Heqi never wears a white robe. He either wears a red robe or a yellow robe. If he is going to the battlefield, he should wear a red battle robe, a red armor, and a Western style under the armor." Plate armor, wearing a disc-shaped helmet. This outfit is exactly the same as the officers and cavalry of the Ming army, and it is difficult to recognize."

Wang Shirong smiled and said, "That's not quite clear."

Wu Yingxiong interjected at this moment and asked, "Then what does it mean that Kangxi named Zu Zepu the governor of Jiangnan, Zu Yonglie the governor of Jiangnan, and Hong Shiming the governor of Jiangnan?"

Wang Shirong smiled coldly: "What else could it mean? It's nothing more than Feng Ting's copy of the party presented to Zhao!"

Liu Xuanchu said: "Shangdang County borders Zhao State, but Jiangnan does not border us."

"Just fight across borders!" Wu Sangui's most trusted son-in-law Xia Guoxiang said, "Now the one who wins the south of the Yangtze River wins the world... We have worked hard to raise troops and bear such a big relationship. Isn't it for the world?"

"That's right!" Hu Zhuguo, Wu Sangui's other son-in-law, echoed, "All gunpowder is now made of white sugar, and we only have sugar produced in Guangxi, and the output is not large and the quality is not good... If we can't use the sugar produced in Jiangnan If we win the land, how can we be the Zhu family's opponent in the future?"

Guo Zhuangtu, who is also Wu Sangui's son-in-law, previously stayed in Kunming with Princess Jianning and Wu Shifan, and only recently arrived in Jiangling, but he also has the same meaning as Xia Guoxiang and Hu Zhuguo.He said to Wu Sangui: "President... If Kangxi returns to the north, we may take the opportunity to capture Anqing mansion, so that we can quickly capture Jiangnan. Now that the Ming army has not captured Anqing, and Jiangnan is all our people, this is also true. Doesn’t count as a betrayal of the alliance?”

Fang Guangchen objected: "Now the section from Tianjia Town to Xiangkou Town on the Yangtze River waterway is completely controlled by the Zhu family, and Anqing's mansion is under the command of the Zhu family's soldiers. If Kangxi leaves, Anqing will surely enter the Ming Dynasty. We will fight against the Zhu family if we take Anqing. At that time, the only ones who will benefit will be the Qing captives!"

Liu Xuanchu smiled and waved his hands and said, "It's all nonsense...Why is Kangxi willing to let go of Jiangnan? He still let Zhuobutai's more than [-] soldiers defend Anqing to the death, and he himself also stationed troops to clear Liuguan. It is clearly a wicked heart."

Wu Sangui glanced at Wang Shirong, and Wang Shirong immediately said to Wu Sangui: "President, although Kangxi announced to the world that he would return to the imperial court, he set the departure date for July, which is obviously not reconciled. If Zhu Heqi really If Kangxi died in Xiangkou, then Kangxi would definitely not go north. If Kangxi wanted to go north, Zhu Heqi would have to send troops to attack the Qing army again, and then Anqing Mansion would be taken by Zhu Heqi. This Jiangnan..."

Hu Guozhu interjected: "President, you give me a soldier, and I will fight overland... As long as we can enter Nanjing City, the two of my ancestors and I can protect Nanjing City for you, President."

Wu Sangui frowned: "Let the old man think about it again... Shirong, you go to see Hong Shiming, he has wasted his life, this time he can finally pass the addiction of being a governor. At that time, the old man will tell him to let you go to Nanjing Be a magistrate."

Wu Sangui's meaning is very clear, one is to see it, and the other is to really want it!

"Thank you for the cultivation of the President." Although Wang Shirong was not very in favor of going to the south of the Yangtze River, he could only choose to obey.

As soon as he finished thanking Wu Sangui, a fat man came outside the hall, he seemed to be trotting all the way, and he shouted out of the door out of breath: "President, the humble Lu Yifeng is asking to see you."

This Lu Yifeng is the guy who toppled Zhu Guozhi in Wuhua Mountain, and now he is the chief secretary of the Presidential Palace, holding in his hand a letter just received from Wuchang Mansion.

"Come in." Wu Sangui beckoned to him.

After Lu Yifeng entered the door, he bowed to Wu Sangui first, and then handed over the letter.

Wu Sangui took the notice and asked at the same time: "You came in a hurry, what happened?"

"The Wuchang Mansion has reported that Zhuge Sanhe has just been named Prime Minister, Luzhong Shushi, and Governor of Liangjiang!"

"What?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, "Prime Minister, Luzhong Shushi...sounds like Zhuge Liang's official! Could it be that Zhu Heqi really..."

Zhuge Liang was the prime minister and recorded the affairs of the book, but Zhu Heqi's official position before he became the supervisor of the country was Zhongshu Ling-this official position was planned to be awarded to Prince Zhu Biao in the early Ming Dynasty, but it was not granted later.With this allusion, Zhu Heqi himself became the order of Zhongshu, and the province of Zhongshu became the actual prime minister's mansion.

However, after Zhu Heqi became the supervisor of the country, the official position of Zhongshu Ling was vacant, and he did not appoint a prime minister or record Zhongshu.Zhu Hexi, the supervisor of the state, still manages a whole lot of affairs of the Ministry of Education, but now he has awarded this official position to Zhuge Sanhe... It has to be associated with people!

Wu Sangui muttered in a low voice: "I have to send someone to Nanchang to take a look..." His gaze swept across the main hall, and finally fell on Lu Yifeng, a fat man, "Yifeng, you go! I will return the old Mu family Go to Nanchang in the name of others."

Chapter 385 Must avenge the third grandson!

The Mu family mentioned by Wu Sangui is a young man named Mu Shenyou and his younger sister Mu Yuping.

This Mu Shenyou is the second-grandson of Mu Tianbo, the last Duke of Qian, and his father is Mu Xianzhong, the eldest son of Mu Tianbo.Two years before Mu Tianbo was killed in Burma, Mu Xianzhong was defeated and surrendered in Yunnan, and was sent to Beijing to be imprisoned as a slave.Later, the Qing court felt that his slave was not good enough, so he secretly killed him.

And this Mu Xianzhong had already married a wife and had children in Yunnan before he was arrested and taken to Beijing.She married the daughter of Long Shirong, chieftain of Shiping, Yunnan, and gave birth to two sons, Shenbao and Shenyou, and a daughter.

And these two sons later became the banners of the rebellion of the remaining party of the Mu family in Yunnan and some chieftains who opposed Wu Sangui's rule. Among them, Mu Shenbao and his mother Long Shi were captured by Wu Sangui and sent to Beijing as slaves. It's gone too.The remaining two brothers and sisters, Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping, were led by a group of remnants of the Mu family to hide in various places in Yunnan, relying on the support of some chieftains who had been favored by the Mu family to survive.

It wasn't until Wu Sangui "raised the army according to the order" and became the president of Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses, that the two of them ran out with people to find Guo Zhuangtu "to ask for parents".

Of course Guo Zhuangtu didn't have "parents" for Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping, but he didn't kill Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping, but tricked them and their subordinates to Jiangling.

Wu Sangui met this silly Mu family brother and sister, and felt that they were just two ignorant country children, of no use value, and it seemed unkind to kill them, so he just kept them.

I didn't expect it to be used this time... Although the Mu family is useless, they are still very loyal to Daming.Moreover, some of the Mu family who followed Mu Shenyou came back from Burma, and they knew the truth about the disaster of the cursed water.Therefore, if Zhu Heqi was still alive, he would definitely meet Mu Shenyou, Mu Yuping and others in person.Even though Zhu and Qi are no longer there, Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Zhu, will meet them.

"President, if I see the third prince Zhu, do I want to talk to him about revenge?"

Lu Yifeng is also a very clever fat man, he knows what he is doing in Nanchang without Wu Sangui asking, and he can think of things that Wu Sangui didn't think of.

"Revenge..." Wu Sangui rolled his eyes and nodded again and again, "This revenge will be rewarded! Just tell them that the president of the country heard the rumors of the death of the third grandson, and was indignant and anxious, so he led [-] troops east to Xinyang , Guangzhou, prepare to avenge the third grandson, and ask Prime Minister Zhuge to also send troops to Jiangbei, and will attack the Qing captives! After the matter is completed, the two families can divide Anhui equally, and Anqing Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, and the four prefectures and one prefecture in southern Anhui will all belong to Daming."

Having said that, Wu Sangui himself felt that he was very smart, and he laughed loudly: "The president led [-] troops into Huaixi, and Prime Minister Zhuge sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Anqing. How dare the Kangxi child stay in Huainan? If you leave, the president will be able to go east to Jinling and take over Jiangnan before Prime Minister Zhuge. If Jinling is in hand, the Southern Dynasty will be my own."

"Father," Wu Yingxiong said with a worried expression on his face, "Are you really going to send troops to Huaixi? Your body..."

Leading the army is a physical effort!

In history, Wu Sangui "dwelled" in Hengzhou not long after he started his army, which was probably related to his old age and sickness.

Although Wu Sangui has many generals who can stand alone, such as Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, and Wu Shicong, their prestige is still inferior to Wu Sangui's, and it is difficult to command the entire army.

This time, although Wu Sangui tried his best to fight in Jianyangshui and defeated Kangxi's army, his physical condition deteriorated rapidly after that, and it seemed that it would be difficult to lead the army again.

Hearing what his son said, Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Although the old man's body is not very strong, he can still support it for a while. It is not good enough to go into battle, but it is not a problem to sit in the camp. The old man heard that Hanyang The Dawu Mountain in the prefecture has a beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate, so why not set up the personal expedition camp there. Let your second brother and your nephew be in charge of the front line...their two father and son together can still command tens of thousands of troops.

Moreover, they have been stationed in Xiangyang for several months, and they have been training the old man's [-] iron cavalry.Don't wait for Master Lu to come back, let them send troops to Xinyang and Gwangju first to scare Kangxi!

If they can force Kangxi away and go east to Jinling, they will definitely be able to experience and become handsome talents who can rule one side, and we, father and son, can rest assured in the future. "

rest assured?

Wu Yingxiong is not worried at all!

Although the relationship between him and Wu Yingqi is fairly good, the two brothers have been separated for many years and rarely see each other, so naturally it is impossible to get too close.

Moreover, Wu Yingqi also has a son Wu Shicong who is very capable of fighting... This Wu Shicong is much more capable than his father!

When Wu Yingxiong was in a hurry, Wu Sangui said again: "Yingxiong, you need to practice for a while! Why don't you go to Wuchang with Guoxiang and Zhuguo to sit in town!"

Wu Yingxiong understood what I was thinking. While the old man wanted Jiangnan, he didn't want to tear himself apart with the third prince Zhu.That's why he forced Kangxi under the banner of "revenge for the third grandson", and at the same time let himself, Xia Guoxiang, and Hu Zhuguo station troops in Wuchang to frighten that Prime Minister Zhuge.

At the same time, the old man doesn't want to make a big deal with the Qing court, he just wants to force Kangxi away and take Jinling by chance... This wishful thinking is so well done, it's almost as good as Geng Jingzhong!

Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong asked Wu Sangui again: "Father, do you want Hong Shiming to send a message to Kangxi?"

"It is necessary," Wu Sangui twirled his beard, "Since ancient times, to guard the river, we must guard the Huai River! It was impossible to rule the river in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it might be okay to rule the Huai River... I am old and have no ambition to go north to Zhongzhou I am satisfied to have a Southern Dynasty."

While talking, Wu Sangui suddenly lowered his voice: "If Kangxi refuses to agree, then the old man will send Ying Qi and Shi Cong together with Prime Minister Zhuge to destroy his Eight Banners new army!"

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Jiangxi, Nanchang, Zhangjiangmen Wharf.

Zhu Heqi, who was using "deceived death and pretended to be alive", was in a large official ship at this time, talking to Prime Minister Zhuge...he wanted to "teach his father"!

After all, he wasn't really dead, so he didn't need to ask Gu, just ask a father.The reason why this father was entrusted was because he was going to Ningbo by sea this time... From Fuzhou to the sea, it was more than 1000 miles by sea!

Who can tell clearly about the wind and waves on the sea?Maybe just blow out the lamp and pull out the wax?Therefore, we must plan for the worst. The father and son cannot go to sea together, so there must be a priority.

According to the plan, Zhu and Qi will go to Ningbo first. After gaining a firm foothold, King Zhu will go to Ningbo to join him, and then lead three to 4000 people north to Tianjin.

Therefore, Zhu Tianwang will stay in Nanchang for a while, and wait for Zhu Heqi to go to Ningbo, and then go south to Guangdong.

Of course, Prime Minister Zhuge had to stay in Jiangxi to "spoil hatred". On the one hand, he attracted the main force of Kangxi's Eight Banners new army;

"Prime Minister," Zhu Heqi said, "this time I will only take the second town south, and the other five towns plus the Yangtze River Navy will stay in Jiangxi. You have to use them to look at Huainan and scare Huguang... Don't be rash ah!"

This doesn't sound like what Zhu Heqi said... In fact, Zhu Heqi used troops much more recklessly than Zhuge Sanhe!

If it wasn't for the sharpness of sugar medicine weapons, he would have done bad things long ago!

"Don't worry about the supervision of the country," Zhuge Sanhe said with a smile, "Zhuge is only cautious in his life! I will never let Kangxi and Wu Sangui take advantage of me when I sit in Jiangxi, and I will never let Kangxi's soldiers get away from around Anqing...I will definitely Hang them and make them unable to advance or retreat!"

"It doesn't need to hang for too long," Zhu Hechi said with a smile, "Two or three months of hanging them is enough."

As he said that, he said to Zhu Tianwang: "Father, it is impossible to be safe when marching at sea. If I make a mistake, the cause of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty depends on you and Prime Minister Zhuge..."

Chapter 386 Too despicable, you tell the truth and lie!

From Jiangling to Nanchang, people generally take the water route. They first take the Yangtze River, then enter Poyang, and finally enter the Ganjiang River. They can go straight to Zhangjiang Gate in Nanchang, which is where Zhu Heqi boarded the boat when they left Nanchang.This road is more than 300 miles, although it is down the river, it took Lu Yifeng and others ten days to arrive.

They left Jiangling Mansion on June 23th and arrived at Zhangjiangmen in Nanchang on June [-]rd.

At this time, Zhu Heqi and his party had already landed in the territory of Ganzhou Prefecture and began to march towards Guangdong.

Zhu Heqi did not go south quietly alone, but led more than 1 people from the second town of the army, drove out of Zhangjiang Gate in a mighty way, boarded hundreds of large ships and went south together. The process was still carried out in full view.

So when Lu Yifeng led Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping to the Zhangjiangmen Wharf where people come and go, he just asked a few people, and the truth became clear.

"The third grandson of Jian Guo went to Guangdong. He left on the 1th, guarded by more than [-] troops, and went with hundreds of large wooden boats. He should have arrived in Ganzhou by now, right?"

"I see, the third grandson is in yellow clothes and yellow scarves, riding out of Zhangjiangmen on a tall horse, he is very proud!"

"Third Prince and Prime Minister Zhuge went to Zhangjiangmen to see him off together, we all saw it..."

Lu Yifeng was a clever fat man. After he arrived in Nanchang, he didn't reveal his identity immediately. Instead, he first found some bag bearers and drivers on the Zhangjiangmen wharf, and asked them about the third grandson.

As soon as I inquired, I immediately knew that there was a fraud.

This is obvious!

Now that the Anqing war is in full swing, how could it be possible for Zhu and Qi to go south to Guangzhou instead of sitting on the front line?

And he also dispatched more than 1 troops from the front line to go south together... This is obviously wrong!

It seems that Zhu Hechi is really dead!

That's why they came up with such a drama of leading the army to the south to calm people's hearts.As for the more than 1 people, of course they went to the south to guard, so we have to guard against someone taking advantage of Zhu Heqi's death to cause trouble!

Although Daming still has the third prince Zhu, the third grandson has always been the core of Daming, and the third prince is just his son's puppet.Now that the real caller is gone, it is perfectly normal for something to happen inside Daming.

After having some ideas in his mind, Lu Yifeng took out President Wu's note and handed it to the officials guarding the gate of Zhangjiang Gate, explaining his intention.

When the officials guarding the gate heard that it was Zhongliang from the Mu family in Yunnan, of course they didn't dare to neglect, and quickly sent someone to inform the prime minister's mansion.After a while, several officials from the Prime Minister's Mansion came out and took Lu Yifeng, Mu Shenyou, Mu Yuping and others to the post in the city.

At noon the next day, an audience was arranged—an audience with Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Zhu.

The meeting place was arranged in Prince Ding's Mansion, which was originally the Cunxin Hall of Prince Ning's Mansion.

After Zhu Hechi dispatched troops, the main hall began to be overhauled, and it has only recently been completed—pillars and beams have been strengthened, new tiles have been replaced on the roof, and windows and doors have been replaced with new ones.The indoor floor tiles have also been replaced with high imitation gold bricks fired in Jingdezhen (the authentic ones are fired in Suzhou).

There are also brand new dragon chairs and imperial cases in the main hall, and two rows of grand master chairs are placed on both sides, which looks a bit grand.

Lu Yifeng led Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping, two silly children, and followed an official from the Ding Palace into the Palace of Cultivation.

There are not many people in the Hall of Cultivation, only a great king who looks like Guan Ye is sitting on the throne, and a senior official who looks a bit like Pang Tong is waving a goose feather fan and sitting on the first chair on the left hand side of "King Guan" , and a white-faced scholar standing by.There are also a few guards with big beards, they look a bit like "King Guan" - those who don't know think that Guan Yunchang's family colluded with Pang Tong to usurp Uncle Liu's throne!

"Envoy Lu Yifeng of the State of Zhou respectfully invites His Royal Highness King Ding of the Ming Dynasty Jin An!" After entering, Lu Yifeng bowed to King Zhu Tian, ​​and then pointed at the young boy beside him who was staring around with eyes full of ignorance. The girl said: "His Royal Highness, these two are the grandsons and granddaughters of Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Guizhou, named Shenyou and Yuping. Their parents and elder brother were taken captive to Beijing. Keep it up, I have been hiding in the mountains of Yunnan these years, and I just came down from the mountain recently and wanted to join Daming. The President saw that they were pitiful, so he asked the ministers to send them to Jiangxi, and hoped that the third prince and third grandson could take them in."

As he spoke, he coughed.

Seeing Mu Shenyou and Mu Yuping both knelt down to Zhu Tianwang and cried together.

These two people are not very old, Mu Shenyou is only thirteen or fourteen years old, Mu Yuping is even younger, only eleven or twelve years old, and neither of them have ever studied, they are wild children from the two mountains.Lu Yifeng taught them how to salute and speak along the way, but at this moment he forgot all about it, and only thought about his parents, so he started to cry.

That Mu Shenyou was a little older, and after crying a few times, he remembered what Lu Yifeng taught him, so he cried and said in blunt official words: "The third grandson, my father, my mother, and my elder brother were all arrested by the Qing demon. Beijing is already in the city, you take me to fight Beijing together, I want to save my father, my mother, my elder brother..."

Zhu Tianwang heard the child call "Third Grandson", he sighed and said: "My son has gone south to Guangdong, not in Nanchang, if you want to fight Beijing, follow the lonely family. Shi Yuan, you take these two The child will go to the princess to settle down."

After speaking, he ordered a guard beside him to lead the two children of the Mu family to settle in Princess Kunxing's mansion.Princess Kunxing's apprentices and daughters are all married now, and she is quite lonely by herself, so it just happens to let two children from the Mu family be companions.So Zhu Tianwang sent his master Wang Shiyuan to lead the two children to the princess mansion - that Princess Kunxing and this Wang Shiyuan seem to get along quite well, and there is a bit of "husband and wife", Zhu Tianwang also has the meaning of adult beauty...

And Lu Yifeng waited for Zhu Tianwang to talk about the third grandson of Zhu, and immediately took over the conversation and asked, "The third grandson has gone to Guangdong? Isn't the fight in Anqing fierce?"

Zhu Tianwang took a look at Prime Minister Zhuge, and Prime Minister Zhuge shook his goose feather fan and said truthfully: "Although Qing Yao was defeated in the battle of Xiangkou, his strength still exists. Now Qing Yao is guarding the two north and south cities of Anqing, while stationing heavy troops in the hut. Zhouzhou and Chuzhou are posing for a decisive battle in Jiangbei... The terrain in Jiangbei is relatively flat, and there are relatively few paddy fields and streams, which is conducive to the maneuvering of the horse team. Therefore, the decisive battle in Jiangbei is not sure. Go south to Guangdong."

Liar!

How could Lu Yifeng believe Prime Minister Zhuge's words?

The battle of Anqing has been fought for this sake, is it necessary to go around the sea to fight Jiangnan?Gritting his teeth and beating An Qing down, wouldn't he have everything?

Thinking of this, he took out Wu Sangui's autographed letter, and handed it to a bearded guard with a smile, "Your Majesty, this is a autographed letter from the President. The President learned that the Qing demons gathered an army around Anqing, so he also They have mobilized one hundred thousand troops, and they want to join hands with Daming to destroy Kangxi's new Eight Banners army... This is revenge for Ming! What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"Prime Minister, what do you think?" Zhu Tianwang forwarded the question to Prime Minister Zhuge again.

"Your Majesty," said Prime Minister Zhuge, "it will take some time for Jian Guo to send troops from Guangdong...it is expected to wait until August and September before entering the south of the Yangtze River. If we can join hands to attack Huainan at this time, then Kang Mazi's Eight Banners New Army will at least Half of them will not be able to go back to the north!"