Chapter 82: The Uninvited Guest (2)
The name of the person who came was Shi Xian, a native of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, and a new general recruited by Zheng Chenggong. This person, although he is known as a martial artist, is not very famous. However, he has a very famous, even very famous brother in the future, and that person is called Shi Lang!
"This army is clean and tidy, and the last general listens to the surname of the country, and most of them are due to the unparalleled governance talents who benefited Chen to join the army."
"The surname of the country is modest, and General Shi is also overrated. Not to mention, if it weren't for the national surname to control the overall situation, Uncle Hong not sheltered from the wind and rain, and the soldiers fought desperately, I would be a good woman, and it would be difficult for me to cook without rice. ”
Because of Shi Lang's relationship, Chen Kai doesn't like Shi Xian very much, but on the surface, Chen Kai is still the same as he is on weekdays, humble and free, no different from when facing others.
"Chen joined the army too modestly, your talents are obvious to all in this army, that is, when the last general first arrived at the boundary of this Chaozhou territory, I have heard a lot about the deeds of the thief who killed the car."
"It's all rumors among the husbands of the countryside, and I can't count them. I am just a tongue, capturing the city and killing thieves, and I still rely on General Du and the two General Ke. If General Shi says this again, I really want to make a list to refute the rumors. ”
"Chen Senjun laughed, I'm afraid that even if you plan to make a list, the national surname will not agree."
There was talk and laughter, Chen Kai walked out of the camp, and Shi Xian just sent him here, and then left. There is nothing to say about this kind of superficial thing, it is nothing more than to meet and laugh, when I was in the company, I was tired of some people, is it not the same, sometimes there is really no need to offend people plainly, especially what Chen Kai hates is only this person's brother, not this person.
However, I don't know if it was influenced by his advice from Zheng Guiyi, or if Zheng Chenggong had already intended to do so, this was only the second year of Yongli, and he had already begun to use Shi Xian to win over the Shi family, but it still made Chen Kai feel a little uneasy.
"It's almost time to go."
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Maybe it was really Chen Kai's mind that was diverging into the distance, more than ten days later, the time had entered August, thousands of miles away in the camp outside the city of Shaozhou, the eunuch who announced the edict read the text of the holy decree with vigor, and when Shi Lang, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others would receive the decree and thank him, he turned around and left with his nostrils facing the sky.
The content of the decree is nothing more than that the Yongli Imperial Court ordered them, the Fujian military generals, to return to Fujian and go to that place of great achievements to recover the lost territory for the imperial court. Of course, there was nothing for them, but only the ardent expectation and sincere blessing that they would go back to their hometowns, and the verbal promise that the prefectures and counties would be responsible for their military rations along the way, and nothing more.
Such rhetoric is clearly intended to abandon them as if they were to walk back to where they came from. Who is operating in this, most of the generals know it, and at this moment, the anger brewing one by one seems to be a few degrees hot even in this big tent.
As he spoke, a figure chased after him, and soon returned at a hurry. This man's name was Su Mao, and he was the deputy general under Shi Lang of the head town, he went out to catch up with the eunuch, flattered him a few words, secretly used some silver, and took out some truth, and hurried back to explain the situation before the anger of these generals completely burned the house.
"The imperial court has issued an order to change the title of Uncle to Uncle Yanping, and attack Fujian like us."
The uncle in Su Mao's mouth is not, and it will not be someone else, he refers to Shi Lang's uncle, Zheng Zhilong's old general Wu Yibo Shifu.
Shi Fu was one of the leaders of their group of troops who entered the Qing Dynasty when they entered the Qing Dynasty, and Zheng Zhibao, another Cheng Jibo who took the lead in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty under the order of Zheng Zhilong, had already retreated bravely and retreated in his home in Anping Town to "live for a long time". And they, following Shi Fu, under the leadership of Li Chengdong, entered Guangdong, rampaged all the way, swept the Ming army in Guangdong like a sweep, and even once entered the border of Guangxi, destroyed the Shaowu court, and chased the Yongli court to the head.
Next, in order to contain the Qing army in Guangdong, the Guangdong gentry Chen Zizhuang, Zhang Jiayu, Chen Bangyan and others launched a vigorous anti-Qing uprising in Guangzhou and other places. And this incident actually happened last year.
From Fujian, to Guangdong, to Guangxi, and then back to Guangdong, and even not long ago was transferred to the Shaozhou Mansion to assist in defense, Li Chengdong shouted at them like ducks, and for the accumulated military exploits they had made, they all denied it, and in front of the Qing court, all of them were counted on the generals of their people, and even so far, their army in Li Chengdong's mouth, is just a "fragile, unqualified to defend" Fujian weak brigade with only 5,000 people in the water and land divisions. There was not even an official name on the Qing court's side, and even Shi Fu was still using the title of Wuyi of the Longwu Dynasty to exterminate the Ming army of the Yongli Dynasty for the Qing court.
The two sides were born early, but Li Chengdong was the commander, and they were a group of "black households" without establishment, not even as good as temporary workers, and they had nowhere to redress their grievances, so they had to be sent by them, acting as pawns and even cannon fodder. Now, with Li Chengdong anyway, their identity has naturally become the Ming army, and the way to go north to the Qing army in Southern Jiangxi no longer exists, and they were directly thrown back to Fujian like garbage.
"It's good to go back to Fujian, if you have food, you will fight, if you don't have food, you will break up, Lao Tzu is tired, and when you go back to the countryside, you have a land, a house, and a woman, it is not better than being angry like this. To put it mildly, if it goes on like this, sooner or later you will have to die in a foreign country. ”
Anger has already been roared many times, and now it has long been transformed into boundless resentment. It's hard to say whether they are insensitive, or they don't dare to have any hope anymore, but when the holy decree is issued, what can they do, they still don't have to obey the will in a proper manner, and go back to their hometown in Fujian to work hard.
After that, Hong Xishan sat on the chair and was silent. In the big tent, Shi Lang was still angry, but Huang Ting suddenly remembered something, and said to these people: "Didn't you say some time ago that the national surname invaded the Chaozhou Mansion and killed the car, who said that we must go back to Fujian, go to Chaozhou, if the national surname is willing to treat us well, let's go back to follow the old club, and fight for a background, it's not a big deal." ”
"That's right, anyway, when we go back to Fujian, we have to pass through Chaozhou, and we will go by the way!"
Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and other generals quickly reached an agreement on this matter. But it was Shi Lang, since Huang Ting proposed to vote for Zheng Chenggong, his face has been cloudy and uncertain, so that Su Mao, who had already intended to follow the trend, had to observe his expression all the time and did not dare to speak easily.
"Honorable Marquis, give me a clear word, are you going to vote for the country's surname, or are you not going?!"
It has been two years since he went out of Fujian, Shi Fu was originally Zheng Zhilong's general of the Chinese army, a real confidant, but now that Shi Fu is not there, Shi Lang's influence on this army is also extremely huge. Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others talked for a long time, but they couldn't bypass Shi Lang, and seeing that he was still hesitating at this moment, Huang Ting, who had a slightly higher status among these people, asked him loudly.
"Hua Ming, if you want me to say, whether we vote for the country or not, there is no need to rush to settle down now. What's the matter, when I get to Chaozhou, I see the style clearly, and then say, if the country surname is too busy to take care of itself, will we have a good life in the past? ”
His eyes were focused on him, Shi Lang pondered for a moment before answering with a gloomy face. However, with such an answer, the opinions were roughly unified, and the generals also breathed a sigh of relief, and Huang Ting slapped his thigh, stood up, and then raised his arms and shouted.
"Let's go, let's go to Chaozhou!"