Chapter 66: The Alliance
Although Li Guo almost drew his sword in front of him, the generals of the Dashun Dynasty who were present felt that in desperation, this might be the best way to solve the problem.
Although the remnants of the Dashun army concentrated in the Jingzhou area are claimed to be 300,000, this is the result of counting all the people who are coerced along the road, and even the old and weak dependents.
This remnant army is now fed and demoralized, not to mention that Jingzhou City cannot be defeated, and even the larger county towns cannot be opened, and He Tengjiao and the Great Qing Kingdom want to kill them.
And now, as long as the Empress Dowager Gao marries in the past, not only can she play the banner of the Yue Ming Dynasty, but also get the food and salary support of Zhejiang, and the hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops who fled in a hurry and were homeless finally have a place to stay, the only problem is that the Empress Dowager Gao has to suffer a little grievance.
But what is it that Empress Dowager Gao has been wronged, in the eyes of these generals of the Dashun Army, women should have been wronged, and Empress Dowager Gao has been wronged alone, and the life and death of the remnants of the 300,000 Dashun Army are completely different from the realm.
Tian Jianxiu is a typical representative of this kind of thinking, and he said very confidently: "Queen Mother, this matter is very important, you should say a few words!" After all, you have the final say on this kind of big thing!"
Empress Dowager Gao has always wanted to express her personal thoughts, she doesn't feel any grievances about marrying Liu Yongxi, but she doesn't dare to open her mouth when she sees Li Guo wanting to draw a knife.
After all, she is just a fake queen mother now, except for a few people such as Li Guo and Gao Yigong, no one really regards her at the age of twenty-eight as the queen mother of the Dashun Dynasty, and the banner of the Dashun Dynasty cannot be beaten anymore, and this queen mother can be said to be meaningless.
And the more important thing is that although Li Zicheng is a real hero, he is not a good husband.
She is already Li Zicheng's third wife, and Li Zicheng's first wife Han Jin'er died directly under Li Zicheng's knife, and her second wife is the current Mrs. Xing, she and Li Zicheng are also very unhappy, so she first followed Gao Jie to surrender to the official army, and now she has become Mrs. Yue Wang.
How can such Li Zicheng be a good husband, so there is not much real affection between her and Li Zicheng.
And although everyone respectfully calls her "Queen Mother", she is still very young, even a few years younger than Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Xing can marry the King of Yue, why can't she marry Liu Yongxi, the King of Yue?
In fact, Li Zicheng is very young, he was only thirty-eight years old when he entered Beijing, and he was only thirty-nine years old when he died in Jiugongshan this year, and he naturally didn't care what to marry a wife when he was a thief and married a wife, as long as he was young and beautiful enough to be obedient, so he chose Mrs. Gao, who was more than ten years younger than himself and was particularly well-behaved.
But the problem is that as soon as Li Zicheng leaves, the twenty-eight-year-old Empress Dowager Gao can't suppress the arrogant soldiers below at all, and the Empress Dowager Gao herself doesn't think that the banner of the Dashun Dynasty can last long.
Although there is no need for the mobilization of the military generals present, the Empress Dowager Gao has long stated that she will be a widow for Li Zicheng for the rest of her life, but she is unwilling in her heart and does not want this life to end so hastily, but she does not dare to say this kind of brave words at all.
She didn't say anything when Tian Jianxiu brought the messenger to contact, and she didn't dare to say anything when Li Guo was about to draw the knife just now, but she always had the idea of marrying in her heart.
Now that Tian Jianxiu asked her to stand up, the thousands of feelings in the heart of the Empress Dowager Gao couldn't be controlled: "As long as 300,000 soldiers are not wronged, what is it for me to be personally wronged, not to mention that this is not a grievance, Sister Xing's letter said that King Yue is a strange man in the world!"
The generals of the Dashun Army present were naturally jubilant, and they were looking at Mrs. Gao very pleasing now, after all, this was exactly the result they wanted.
And Li Guo was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, but now even the generals of Li Guo and Gao Yigong felt that Mrs. Gao was high-spirited, and everyone felt that they could not miss the precious opportunity she created for the rest of the 300,000 Dashun army.
Tian Jianxiu immediately laughed: "With the words of the Queen Mother, we can sit back and relax, Zhejiang said that we can form an army by ourselves after taking refuge in the past, and we have thought of the name over there, it is called the Loyal Camp, and our Niangniang is the Princess of Yue, Mrs. Yipin Zhenyi, and on behalf of His Majesty the King of Yue, we will lead the military affairs of the five provinces, and all the military affairs of the five provinces will be responsible for the mother!"
In a sense, in a sense, this is to maintain the independence of the rest of the Dashun Army, but these generals of the Dashun Army present have experienced the glorious years of the founding of Xi'an, and they know that things will definitely not be so simple, and someone immediately stood up: "We support Niangniang to stand up and lead the military affairs, but some major events must be Niangniang has used the imperial pen and then asked the imperial court to cut it, for fear that someone will interfere with it!"
The reason why Tian Jianxiu is particularly enthusiastic about this matter is largely because if this matter is done, he will be the biggest beneficiary: "I have already discussed this matter with Mrs. Xing's side, and when the time comes, it should not be possible for a few of our old ministers to be in charge of the auxiliary government, and since Niangniang and King Yue are a family, they will definitely not reject Niangniang's royal pen, but just ask Niangniang to nominate another candidate!"
In this matter, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, and the Marquis of the Great Shun Dynasty negotiated many times with Madame Xing, and finally reluctantly reached a consensus.
Although the highest authority to award the reward is still in Liu Yongxi's hands, after Liu Yongxi rejected the candidates nominated by the Empress Dowager Gao, the Empress Dowager Gao can replace the candidate and nominate it again, and more importantly, including Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zongdi, the Hou Bo of the Dashun Dynasty can assist the Empress Dowager Gao in the name of "auxiliary government".
But for Li Guo, this is out-and-out bad news, although she has repeatedly asked for the Empress Dowager Gao to be invited out to govern, it is just an expedient move to put down the banner of the Dashun Dynasty, and in the past, the name was ruled by the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager Gao is just a twenty-seven or eight-year-old beauty, almost no strength, and the real ruler is still his tiger Li Guo and Empress Dowager Gao's younger brother Gao Yigong.
Now that the Empress Dowager Gao is invited out, Li Guo has also been set aside, but the generals of the Dashun Dynasty present feel that this is a near-perfect plan, which not only considers the interests and independence of the remnants of the Dashun army, but also ensures that the cooperation between the two sides can be mutually beneficial, and Liu Yongxi, the king of Yue, will definitely fully support the Dashun army in the court.
After all, although the real ruler of the Yue Dynasty is Liu Yongxi, the king of Yue, he is not Zhu Mingzong after all, and many people have scolded him in private for living Cao Cao, and if he wants to ascend to the supreme position, he must borrow the strength of the remnants of the Dashun army, so Yuan Zongdi was the first to kneel down first: "Queen Mother Shengming, Mrs. Zhenyi Shengming, we are willing to serve the court loyally and serve Niangniang!"
Yuan Zong knelt down like this, and the rest of the Dashun army generals also knelt down: "Queen Mother Shengming, Lady Zhenyi Shengming, Yue Wang Shengming!"
"Mrs. Yue Wang Shengming!"
"We are willing to be loyal to the court and serve my mother!"
"Niangniang, with you in charge of the military affairs of the five provinces for His Majesty King Yue, we are finally relieved!"
In the end, even Li Guo could only kneel down, and although the Empress Dowager Gao was a little cowardly and always couldn't hold up the scene at critical moments, so many generals kneeling on the ground also gave her a lot of confidence: "Everyone please get up, I still say the same thing, it's nothing if I am wronged, I can't let hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dashun Army be wronged!"
Gao Yigong below has already said loudly: "Sister, don't worry, with our mother's family, you will definitely not be wronged if you marry into the Yue Wangfu!"
Gao Yigong is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Gao, but because the relationship is too sensitive, Gao Yigong has not spoken just now, but now that the major event is established, Gao Yigong naturally wants to fight for his sister, and Tian Jianxiu also said with a smile: "The Empress Dowager is right, since you don't let hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dashun Army be wronged, then our hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dashun Army are your mother's family, how can you let Niangniang be wronged, by the way, you have to be called Zhenyi Niangniang in the future!"
"Yes, our 300,000 soldiers are all Niangniang's family, and we will not let Zhenyi Niangniang suffer any grievances!"
"Sister, not to mention our mother's family, with your peerless elegance, His Majesty King Yue will not let you be wronged!"
Although Gao Yigong's words are a bit exaggerated, they are indeed true, although Empress Dowager Gao is weak and is not a person who can inherit Li Zicheng's will and reorganize the endgame at a critical moment, but her appearance is extremely beautiful and moving, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have chosen Empress Dowager Gao as his third wife.
Although after a series of blows, Mrs. Gao, who was dressed in plain clothes, lost a lot, but after the rain and the sunny weather, she was more and more glamorous and moving, and she had a peerless beauty of the queen mother, which made many generals of the Dashun army feel that His Majesty the King of Yue, who rose from a different army, definitely has the mandate of heaven, otherwise the two queens of Yongchang Emperor Li Zicheng before and after all belonged to His Majesty the King of Yue, perhaps the mandate of the Dashun Dynasty has been transferred to His Majesty the King of Yue.
And Tian Jianxiu was also very happy to see this scene, he said with a smile: "I went to invite the envoys of Xing Niangniang and His Majesty King Yue, I told them that as long as the edict and military salary of the imperial court arrive, we will help His Majesty King Yue take Jingzhou and Wuchang down, and this time we will definitely be able to take Wuchang down!"
For the Dashun army, Chongzhen captured Hanyang at the beginning of the sixteenth year after failing to capture Wuchang across the river in one go, which can be said to be a big hateful thing for the Dashun army, because of Li Zicheng's fatal mistake, not only let Zhang Xianzhong capture Wuchang, and then Zuo Liangyu reoccupied Wuchang, and the Dashun army could only control Jingxiang in Huguang.
By the time Li Zicheng retreated south and finally occupied Wuchang, Hou Azig's army had already pursued him again, and Li Zicheng could only abandon Wuchang in a hurry and was finally defeated.
And after experiencing countless setbacks, now these soldiers of the Dashun Army see hope again, and the face of the Empress Dowager Gao is once again overflowing with beautiful luster: "That's right, let's wait for Zhejiang's edict and military salary, hmm...... And my marriage book!"
It's been a long time since she's been so happy!