Chapter 40—Strength Rises from the Earth (10)
There was only one sentence in Chen Kai's letter, but after this sentence, Wang Xing did not hesitate to go out for an hour and chose to set off. As a result, when I came here in high spirits, I saw what I didn't want to see or hear, and anger was inevitable.
It's just that this one, which one is it, in Wang Xing's mouth, is nothing more than that Chen Kai has discussed it with Chen Qice and Li Changrong in advance, and Tete summoned him to play a play in front of him, putting pressure on him and forcing him to change his court. At least, seeing this scene just now, any normal person will feel this way.
In this way, Chen Kai became a villain who used ghost tricks, and even Chen Qice and Li Changrong became accomplices, which really scolded all the three people present.
Wang Xing has always been an upright person, and it is not once or twice that he does not choose what to say. If they were to be someone else, even Chen Qice and Li Changrong would inevitably ridicule each other, but they had fought side by side in the southern coastal areas of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing for many years, and they had long been accustomed to this. This time, he just frowned and didn't say anything. In contrast, Chen Kai was still smiling and didn't take it seriously at all.
In fact, if he said this, Chen Kai was really unreasonable, because Chen Kai was not prepared to arrange a meeting with Chen Qice and Li Changrong in advance - he was not qualified yet.
However, when Wang Xing came to Guangzhou, he endlessly posted and asked for an interview, which was really not a good object for negotiation, so Chen Kai temporarily decided to do so. At this time, Wang Xing's chair was densely covered with needles and felt, which really made him laugh in his heart, and after hearing this, there was nothing to worry about.
"Since Uncle Wang can come over, he should have figured out clearly that the only person who can avenge Lian Rubai at the moment is me, Chen Kai."
Such as white, is the word of the city, perhaps it was taken back then is the meaning of "good as water, to the realm of only white". Yes or no, it doesn't matter anymore, because Lian Chengbi has been martyred, and his life can be determined, and he can't get rid of the word martyr. But for those who are alive, it is far from over.
The sentence in Chen Kai and Wang Xing's letter is also very simple, a simple sentence, "If you want to avenge Lian Rubai, you will go to the Guangzhou Governor's Yamen for an interview within a month", that's all. As for whether Wang Xing will come, Chen Kai is not worried at all, if he comes, he will have to talk, if he does not come, it will not affect the overall situation, let alone any loss.
During this time, Chen Kai made his words clear, Chen Qice and Li Changrong sat there, and they suddenly realized that they would not react any more, and they were already purely watching the show. However, Chen Kai pointed out what he thought in the hour after receiving the letter, Wang Xing was speechless for a while, and the words that he had racked his brains on the road to figure out all disappeared at once.
He has been friends with Lianchengbi for many years, and he entered the camp alone and persuaded him to caress him. Over the years, under the strong encirclement and suppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they have persevered, and they regard each other as friends of life and death.
As Chen Kai said, the murderer of Lianchengbi, that is, the target of Wang Xing's revenge, went up to the southwest Jinglu Hong Chengqing, down to the commanders Daniel Zhang and Hu Maozhen, and Ma Xiong, the chief military officer of the Dingnan Domain, and was a figure with great power, and there were no less than 100,000 iron armor under his command.
In the past few years, Wang Xing has worked hard in the Enping area. However, his own family is just a local bandit in Guangdong, unlike the Dashun Army and the Great Western Army, who have fought thousands of miles, compared with those guys who have fought in the corpse mountain and blood for more than ten years, he has really not seen too many big scenes, and his own ability improvement is too limited. The area under its jurisdiction is no more than a small area in Wencun, Enping County and other places, even if it is trying to expand the army, it must be able to afford it. To this day, there are only four or five thousand men, and they are still in the state where new soldiers are everywhere and weapons and armor are not yet fully equipped.
If he was to defend it alone, with the easy defense and difficult attack of the Wencun Anti-Qing Base, he still had the confidence to last for ten or eight years, but now, his desire is no longer as simple as survival, but revenge, and revenge for the best friend who once led him astray back to the right path, which is far from enough.
If your own strength is insufficient, then if you want to succeed, you must try to rely on external forces, which is the most obvious truth. However, on the side of the Ming Court, Zheng Chenggong moved eastward, and all the military and political affairs of the Zheng group in Guangdong were under Chen Kai's responsibility; Li Dingguo is trapped in Yungui, and now he hasn't tossed and understood the things in his own stall, how can he have the time to find Hong Chengchou and their troubles; As for Guo Zhiqi, although he is a scholar of the Inspector University, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Guangdong and southwest Guangdong cannot be counted on. After all the calculations, only Chen Kai once fought with Hong Chengchou, and even got some cheapness.
Back then, Chen Kai and Lianchengbi were not on good terms, which Wang Xing knew very well. Even, including Lian Chengbi's death, if Wang Xing said that he had no grievances against Chen Kai, it would be a deception.
Not to mention, when Lian Chengbi and Gao Wengui were fighting against the Qing army in Wuzhou, Daniel Zhang and Hu Maozhen did penetrate into Zhaoqing Mansion from Chen Kai's jurisdiction, thus achieving a two-sided attack.
What's more, after Lian Chengbi's death, Chen Kai took advantage of the situation to occupy the northern area of Zhaoqing Prefecture, which made him even more suspicious of letting Hong Chengchou go. Even if such suspicions spread with the spread of the victory in Ganzhou, and with the defeat and escape of the new generation of Manchu famous generals Suke Saha, they were drowned out in praise, but for Wang Xing, these could not change his opinion of Chen Kai.
If it weren't for the sentence "revenge" that was really said in his heart, he would never have come to discuss anything with Chen Kai.
Everyone has desires, everyone lives in the world, and there will always be faith. The so-called belief does not have to be an idolized god or Buddha, nor is it necessarily a famous figure, it can be a value, a doctrine, an idea, an attitude. For Chen Kai, it is natural to destroy the Manchu Dynasty, but the reason why a person like Wang Xing, who was able to gather a well-known local bandit army in the south of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing as a Teochew person, is probably the most important person for values.
Chen Kai remembered that in history, in the tenth year of Yongli, the Qing army in Guangdong gathered the army of Fushu Wan to march south to suppress Chen Qice and Wang Xing. For two months, Wang Xing's troops were always besieged by the superior Qing army. At that time, someone persuaded Lian Chengbi to return to the dynasty to take up his post, and to put it bluntly, he was persuaded not to die here in vain. However, Lian Chengbi replied that "the first thing with Wang Xing is not over, it is a negative Xing", and he refused to leave anything.
Two months later, Wang Xing defeated the Qing army and lifted the siege. However, two years later, the Qing army attacked again and besieged Wencun for a year. At the turn of spring and summer that year, Wencun ran out of grain, and it cost 2,000 wen to buy a liter of rice in the village, and a mouse also asked for 100 wen. Wang Xing had no choice but to pretend to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and found a way out for his subordinates, his mother, and his brothers, and then set himself on fire and died that night. At that time, Lian Chengbi was recruiting soldiers for Wang Xing outside, and when he heard that Wang Xing was martyred, he wept bitterly, and then after severely rejecting Shang Kexi and Li Shutai's repeated persuasion, he returned to his hometown in Jinxi in frustration and lived in seclusion, and died of depression not long after.
From the first year of Yongli Wang Xing was fumed, to the thirteenth year of Yongli Wang Xing's martyrdom, the two worked together to resist the Qing Dynasty in Enping, Xinxing, and Yangjiang. Both of them regard each other as friends of life and death, and Lian Chengbi refuses to be negative, how can Wang Xing swallow this hatred of killing friends?
"How do I know you're not lying to me!"
Chen Kai's self-confidence really made Wang Xing angry in his heart, thinking of the dirtiness between Chen Kai and Lian Chengbi back then, thinking of that possibility, wrapped in the initial discord and later resentment, and shouted out together.
The anger of that part really surprised Li Changrong, even if he wanted to stand up and block the brawl that was likely to break out next. But looking at the afterglow, Chen Qice was still unmoved, with his understanding of Chen Qice, this calmness obviously had great confidence in Chen Kaibao, and firmly believed that all this was already expected by Chen Kai.
Sure enough, Chen Kai watched Wang Xing get angry, and he just sneered, and then said: "Uncle Wang takes the weight of his thousands of stragglers too seriously. ”
It is the most normal thing to speculate on people's hearts and then use people's hearts. It's just that if it's just for profit, Chen Kai doesn't think he wants to count everyone, let alone be driven by conspiracy. In contrast, he was more willing to go with the flow and leverage his strength to realize his vision, because he believed that these people shared his ideals, even if they were very different in details, but the general direction was the same, and they were not absolute enemies such as the Manchus.
The words, when he spoke, sounded disdainful, but looking at Chen Kai's expression with his own eyes, there was absolutely no sense of humiliation: "In the series of battles involving eastern Guangxi, western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, I suddenly gathered a large army in order to break through the defense line of the imperial court in southern Jiangxi in one fell swoop. Hong Chengchou passively accepted the move, and he still dealt with it in a very orderly manner under unfavorable circumstances, which is indeed worthy of his prestige over the years. ”
"I, too, am just suppressing people with force, so that I will not be trapped in the situation and unable to extricate myself, so I can achieve the great victory in Ganzhou. But that Hong Chengchou has never been a fuel-efficient lamp, his single-handedly encircled Wei to save Zhao, at first glance it seemed to force me to give up and continue the attack on Jiangxi, but in fact, it killed two birds with one stone, forcing me to bear the infamy of annexing friendly territory! ”
As we all know, the ability to recover most of Guangdong in one fell swoop relied on Li Dingguo's headquarters soldiers and horses, as well as the reinforcements led by Chen Kai himself. Otherwise, no matter how clever the plan is, without this most important military strength, it will be just a castle in the air.
In the same way, when Zhaoqing and Wuzhou fell, the generals of western Guangdong may not be able to hold those places even if they go up, and Chen Kai must press the army up if he wants to ensure the safety of Guangdong. There is nothing negotiable about this, and Hong Chengchou took advantage of this to expand the existing rift between the Zheng group, the Yuexi civil official group, and the generals in western Guangdong.
"I don't say it, it doesn't mean I don't understand Hong Chengchou's tricks. There is a saying that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, I don't have the patience to wait for that ten years, this time I have to give him a good look, let him know that sooner or later he will have to pay it back! ”
"As for you Wang Xing, it won't affect anything if you have it or not. It's just that I think Lian Rubai is under Jiuquan, and I probably want to see you, a martial artist who has devoted half of his life to him, be able to avenge his hatred and be able to slash the enemy, which is also a reflection of the value of life. But if you Wang Xing's small-bellied chicken intestines, you can't see it clearly, and you can't put it down, so I Chen Kai don't have to eat that hairy pig - this Guangzhou government, Nanyang, Panyu county government has never lacked such masters who can make human sashimi, your little craftsmanship is really not enough to see. ”
After speaking, Chen Kai didn't give Wang Xing any time to think about it, and directly served tea to the guests. Leaving Chen Qice and Li Changrong behind, they continued to discuss issues such as the division of defense areas after the completion of the adaptation. For Wang Xing, it is no longer involved at all, as if this person has never appeared at all.
Chen Kai was in Guangzhou, executing the plan step by step, completely ignoring Zhang Xiaoqi's impeachment and the changes in southwest Guangdong. However, Chen Kai is like this, which does not mean that others are the same. The impeachment was not sent directly to Kunming, but in Liuzhou, Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the Supervisory University who was sitting here, quickly received Zhang Xiaoqi's text, read it carefully, and then glanced at another urgent report on the case, but he casually threw the impeachment note aside and discarded it like a clog.
"Just a few martial artists and a council that has not yet been recognized by the imperial court? Zhang Jiangzi didn't understand at all what the biggest weight in Chen Kai's hand was! ”