Chapter 17: The Split of the Four Towns

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"If you want me to say, let's lower the Madudu, after all, Nanjing can control our rations, I know what the brothers are worried about, although Wang Feng is powerful, but after all, it is far from us? Besides, as long as our fleet holds the Yangtze River, no matter how powerful his Guanning Iron Cavalry is, he will not be able to help us. Seeing that everyone had different opinions, Liu Zeqing no longer hid it, and said directly.

"Everyone, I invite you to come here today not only to discuss what our four towns should do, but more importantly, I want you to meet someone. After speaking, Liu Zeqing clapped his palms.

A person walked out of the curtain, and this person was none other than Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang. Ma Shiying wanted to seize the merits of the establishment, but he knew very well that it was okay to use the thousands of remnants in his hands to scare and scare the people, but to let them face the invincible Guanning Iron Cavalry in the field was nothing more than looking for death, so after getting the Fu Wang, Ma Shiying came to Sizhou as soon as possible.

Ma Shiying is very smart, he directly bypassed Shi Kefa, he understands very well that it is impossible to win over a loyal and patriotic person like Shi Kefa, instead of wasting time on Shi Kefa, it is better to contact the general soldiers of the four towns directly, as long as the general soldiers of the four towns agree to support him, then Shi Kefa will only have an empty name.

In Ma Shiying's conception, it is simply unrealistic to confront the Guanning Iron Cavalry from the land, so Ma Shiying wants to rely more on the navy, before Ma Shiying has mastered the command of more than 50,000 people in the Jinshan fleet, and now as long as he controls the water army of the four towns, it is definitely not difficult to block the Yangtze River with the power of the Daming naval army, as for the north of the Yangtze River, Ma Shiying has long thought of giving it up.

Under the temptation of Ma Shiying's money offensive and high-ranking officials, Liu Zeqing quickly gave up his position, Liu Zeqing is a very realistic person, and whoever can give him benefits now will work for him. Compared with Wang Feng, who is far away in Tianjin and has no benefits, Ma Shiying is much more real.

After listening to Ma Shiying's idea, Liu Zeqing also felt that it was feasible, and the only thing that made him feel a pity was to give up the territory of Sizhou, although Sizhou was a little poor, but after all, he Liu Zeqing worked hard to run it. But when Ma Shiying promised to give Liu Zeqing the land of Zhejiang, Liu Zeqing did not hesitate at all, not only took the initiative to take refuge in Ma Shiying, but also actively acted as a lobbyist.

"You?" everyone was shocked when they saw Ma Shiying, they really didn't expect that Liu Zeqing would surrender to Ma Shiying so quickly, I am afraid that this time to come to Sizhou was also deliberately arranged by Liu Zeqing.

"Liu Zeqing, what do you mean by that?" Gao Jie is a violent temper, what he hates most is this kind of guy who engages in conspiracy and trickery, and Gao Jie is very unhappy about Liu Zeqing's betrayal.

"Hey, brother, don't be excited, don't be excited!" As soon as he saw Gao Jie's excited appearance, Liu Zeqing hurriedly accompanied the smiling face, picked up the wine glass and poured it full of wine and sent it to Gao Jie's mouth, "Brother Gao, don't blame your brother, our four towns are one, and besides, I, Liu Zeqing, am also for our four towns!"

Gao Jie stared at Liu Zeqing tightly, and only took the wine glass in Liu Zeqing's hand for a long time and drank it.

"Come on, Governor, please take a seat, please take a seat!" Seeing that everyone was not objecting to anything, Liu Zeqing hurriedly beckoned Ma Shiying to sit down.

"Ma Dudu, I toast you!" Liu Liangzuo is a good person, he saw that cooperating with Ma Shiying is almost a sure thing, it is better to have a good relationship with Ma Shiying now, and it is true that he wants more benefits.

"Ma Dudu, I, Liu Liangzuo, don't like any twists and turns, I just want to know what benefits we can get after our four towns in Jiangnan are submissive to you?"

Gao Jie and the others immediately looked at Ma Shiying, and Liu Liangzuo asked the question they were most concerned about, for them, who surrendered was not the most important, the most important thing was how much benefit they could get.

"Haha!" Ma Shiying picked up the wine glass and drank it, Ma Shiying looked at the four of them, and now the eyes of the four of them were staring at their faces, Ma Shiying felt that something big could be done.

"On the orders of Emperor Hongguang!" Ma Shiying paused, "Feng Liu Zeqing is the East Pingbo and stationed in Hangzhou." ”

"Hangzhou?" As soon as Ma Shiying's voice fell, everyone cast envious eyes, you must know that it is Hangzhou, Ma Shiying is willing to reward it, and everyone feels that this surrender is reliable, and everyone is looking forward to what territory they can seal at this time.

Liu Zeqing was even more happy, and he was glad that his choice was not wrong.

"Feng Gaojie is Xingpingbo, stationed in Suzhou!"

"Huang Degong is Jing Nanbo, stationed in Anqing!"

"Liu Liangzuo is Guangchangbo, stationed in Fuzhou!" and rewarded 10,000 taels of gold.

Everyone is still very satisfied with Ma Shiying's reward, except for Huang Degong, he didn't expect his fief to be in Anqing, you must know that Anqing is where Wang Feng made his fortune, and it is also on the north bank of the Yangtze River, compared with the other three people, their fiefdom is too bad, but now Huang Degong also dares to be angry and dare not speak, the three have agreed to join Ma Shiying, if he is not satisfied at this time, Huang Degong can imagine that he will be eliminated by them immediately.

In fact, the reason why Huang Degong was sealed in Anqing was deliberately done by Ma Shiying, Ma Shiying was optimistic about the strength of the sailors under Huang Degong, and gave Wang Feng's hometown to Huang Degong, the purpose was to provoke discord between the two, as long as the two were not in harmony, then Huang Degong could only rely on him Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying's abacus played very well, but he didn't calculate that he did this, but pushed Huang Degong to the other side.

Immediately Liu Zeqing's mansion, Huang Degong did not stop for a moment, and went directly to his base camp with his own soldiers, and at this time, the envoy of Shi Kefa in the base camp had been waiting for a long time.

The envoy conveyed Shi Kefa's meaning, and with dissatisfaction with Ma Shiying, Huang Degong promised the envoy, "Go back and tell your lordship that I, Huang Degong, am willing to drive for your lordship." Huang Degong also handed over the situation of the Sizhou banquet and the news of Liu Zeqing and the other three people to the envoy to bring back.

Huang Degong, who was not at ease, strengthened his combat readiness on the one hand, and on the other hand, he still had to connect with Wang Feng after thinking about it, since he had made up his mind to betray Ma Shiying, if he didn't look for a foreign aid and then the three towns would attack, he would not have the slightest chance of winning.

Thinking of this, Huang Degong immediately repaired a book, sent his most powerful cronies to carry the letters, and took advantage of the shady curtain to go north.

"Gao Jie!" Shi Kefa was not surprised at all by Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's betrayal, but Shi Kefa was very sad about this Gao Jie.