Today's Nanchang Mansion is very lively, Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi arrived in Nanchang with his eldest son Shang Zhixin and 30,000 troops.

The five provinces passed through the city and Hong Chengchou personally went out of the city to greet him.

For Hong Chengchou, these 30,000 new forces are very precious.

The current situation in the south is unstable, and it is difficult to stabilize the situation by relying only on the Qing court's own lineage.

It was only Hong Chengchou who wrote to Emperor Shunzhi and asked the imperial court to order Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, to send troops to help.

Now that Shang Kexi has arrived, Geng Jimao should be soon.

The stone hanging in Hong Chengchou's heart can finally land.

The relationship between Hong Chengchou and Shang Kexi is not bad. Mainly because there is no obvious holiday between the two.

Unlike Wu Sangui, he had a feud with Hong Chengchou in Liaodong at the beginning.

Shang Kexi's father and son rode a high-headed horse into Nanchang City, and they were out of the limelight.

Hong Chengchou later held a banquet at the governor's yamen to entertain the father and son of the king of Pingnan.

Also attending the banquet was Jiangxi Governor Zhang Chaoxuan.

It stands to reason that Shang Kexi's father and son are guest soldiers, and they should be guests at their disposal.

However, Shang Zhixin asked to place the seat of the father and son under Hong Chengchou, but it was above Zhang Chaoxuan.

This made Zhang Chaoxuan very dissatisfied, but just when Zhang Chaoxuan was about to attack, Hong Chengchou stepped in to stop it in time.

Zhang Chaoxuan still wanted to give Hong Chengchou face, so he snorted coldly and didn't say anything more.

On the banquet, Hong Chengchou prepared a song and dance, which made Shang Zhixin very interested.

Many young women dressed in tulle rushed in and danced in front of Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin's eyes stared directly at the bodies of these beauties, and he didn't move away at all.

He is a demon in his own lust, and Shang Kexi naturally knows this.

But he didn't stop his son.

Coming to the garrison reinforcements always has something to get, compared with the food and grass salary, asking Hong Chengchou to send a few women is nothing at all.

"Hong Jingluo, these dancers are good-looking. Can I give a warm bed to this son? ”

Shang Zhixin at the banquet had no shame or scruples at all, and went straight to Hong Chengchou to ask for a dancer.

"Oh?"

Hong Chengchou pretended to be surprised and said, "His Royal Highness is interested in these dancing girls? Well, I will give them to His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness the Prince of the World has been serving in Nanchang these days. ”

"Then thank you Hong."

After three rounds of drinking, it's time to get down to business.

Hong Chengchou cleared his throat and said, "King Pingnan is really too timely. As you must have known, the Ming thieves drove straight into and captured Huguang, and there were Zheng thieves who rebelled in Nanjing. The Qing Dynasty's rule in the south was now in jeopardy. ”

In front of Shang Kexi, Hong Chengchou didn't need to hide, but what to say.

"Hong Jingluo, this king has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not."

Shang Kexi, who had been silent, finally spoke up.

Hong Chengchou was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "King Pingnan, please speak." ”

"I wonder how many troops there are in Jiangxi now?"

"This... There should be 100,000 when it's full. However, most of them are green battalions, and there should only be 10,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners. ”

"Only so little?"

Shang Kexi was surprised: "Didn't Lord Ao bring 20,000 elites?" ”

Hong Chengchou said embarrassedly: "Lord Ao died in battle, presumably King Pingnan knows this." ”

"Those Eight Banners soldiers also died?"

"Not really. It's just that some of the Eight Banners insisted on returning to the north. ”

Hong Chengchou sighed: "The old man can't restrain it." ”

Hong Chengchou is very honest about this.

"Some of the Eight Banners were willing to stay, and some felt that it was not safe to stay in Jiangxi and returned to the north."

Now Shang Kexi understands.

After Ao Bai's death, the Eight Banners were leaderless, and internal disagreements arose.

Some people feel that they can stay in Jiangxi, while others oppose it.

Although Hong Chengchou is a strategy of the five provinces, he can't control the Eight Banners, so he can only let them come.

"I see, Hong Jingluo is really hard."

"I don't know how many people King Pingnan brought this time."

Zhang Chaoxuan took a sip of wine and said with a smile.

"30,000 elite soldiers."

Shang Kexi said loudly.

"It is known that there are many elite soldiers and good generals under the command of King Pingnan, and there are 100,000 people who control the strings. Why did you bring 30,000 people this time? ”

"Governor Zhang doesn't know, there are many pirates in Guangdong, and this king still has to leave some troops to garrison."

Shang Kexiyun said lightly.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little cold, Hong Chengchou hurriedly stopped and said, "Come and drink and drink." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Chaoxuan no longer asked about his own drinking.

After the banquet was over, Hong Chengchou sent someone to send Shang Kexi's father and son to a large mansion with three entrances to rest.

The house was formerly owned by a wealthy merchant. Later, his house was raided for smuggling smuggled salt, so it has been vacant.

Knowing that Shang Kexi was coming, Hong Chengchou deliberately asked people to clean it up.

Similarly, there is a set of houses, which are intended for Geng Jimao.

Shang Kexi's father and son were already tired of driving all the way, so they said goodbye to Hong Chengchou and came to the house.

As soon as he entered the inner house, Shang Zhixin said coldly: "Father looked at the attitude of that Jiangxi governor Zhang Chaoxuan, as if we owed him a lot of money. Aren't we here to reinforce him? ”

Shang Zhixin was extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Chaoxuan, and if Shang Kexi hadn't stopped him, he was afraid that he would have fought in person.

It is naturally clearest what kind of temperament his son is a father.

Shang Kexi sighed and said, "My son should still focus on the overall situation. Although that Zhang Chaoxuan is a bit excessive, he is a member of the court after all. If there is a dispute with him, and the news reaches the court, I am afraid that my father will inevitably eat impeachment. ”

Shang Zhixin said unhappily: "Father, you just do things too forward-looking. Look at the old Geng family, the sky is not afraid of the earth. This reinforcement of Jiangxi, it stands to reason that the two families should get the news at the same time, right? He came to Jiangxi from Fujian and is not farther than our Guangdong, why did we all arrive, and he couldn't even see a shadow? ”

The more Shang Zhixin spoke, the more angry he became: "As it is, there is no need to fight this battle." We took the soldiers and horses back to Guangdong, and the old man Hong could fight as he wanted. I'd like to see what he can make. ”

"Silly boy, what's the use of you talking these angry words? If the Qing court falls, how can you, me, father and son be left alone? ”

Shang Kexi sighed: "You remember one sentence, even if anyone can enlighten in this world, it is not our father and son." There is no way back. ”

Shang Zhixin said coldly: "My son didn't say that he wanted to be enlightened. Can't we just do it alone? Guangdong is extremely wealthy, and it can go to the sea to do business. What Zheng Zhilong could have done at the beginning, why couldn't we do it? ”

Shang Kexi was very helpless when he heard this.

This son is good at everything, but he doesn't know how many pounds and taels he has.

Shang Kexi didn't think he could survive without the Qing court.

Moreover, neither the Manchu Qing nor the Ming Dynasty would allow the Shang family to follow the example of the late Tang Dynasty and engage in moderation.

Choosing between the Manchu Qing and the Ming Dynasty, the Shang family could only choose the former.

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