"Your Majesty treats Zheng Jiaen as big as the sky, and Zhilong can only die effectively to repay one or two ......"

Zheng Zhilong's mouth was full of words of gratitude, but a black heart was in his throat.

There is no princess in the world who has been picked up for nothing - at least no one can get such a big benefit from Emperor Hongxing for no reason!

This emperor is shrewd, he must be playing some bad idea!

Zhu Cihong smiled sincerely, now that he is the emperor, he naturally has to set an example for the people of the world, and he can't be as treacherous as in the past......

This time, he mainly took a fancy to Zheng Jiangong's potential - this is a potential stock! If there is only one person in the world who can run a naval academy for Daming, this person must be Zheng Jiangong!

Zheng Zhilong can't do it, Zheng Sen can't do it, only Zheng Jian's function is good.

Because Zheng Zhilong has his own pirate business, it is impossible to do things for Daming wholeheartedly. And Zheng Sen wants to be the old man of Zheng Ge, and he can't let Confucianism go to the sea, otherwise who will be the successor of Wei Damingxiang? In the future, Zheng Sen's biography will be written according to "The Biography of Cao Shen...... And Zheng Sen has been messing with Qian Qianyi for too long, too much like a scholar.

Of course, in addition to being optimistic about Zheng Jiangong's potential, Zhu Cihong also used Princess Kunxing's marriage to appease Zheng Zhilong. Because he has decided to canonize Wu Sanmei as the queen...... It doesn't matter if the baby conceived by the third sister is male or female!

"Quan Guogong, please hurry up, I still have something to say."

As soon as Zhu Cihong said this, Zheng Zhilong hurriedly took a cool breath, got up and returned to his chair and sat down, waiting to hear the quotation - the princess's worth must be astronomical! A few million taels is not necessarily ......

Zhu Cihong's next words were not to Zheng Zhilong, but to everyone, "I am ready to make Wu Sangui's sister Wu Sanmei the queen after the success of the Northern Expedition!" ”

What the?

The queen belongs to Wu Sanmei?

Zheng Zhilong's black heart sank, and he understood how this kid of Qizaemon picked up a princess for nothing, it turned out that Emperor Hongxing wanted to make Wu Sanmei the queen, and give a princess to appease the Zheng family......

Wu Xiang's heart also sank, why wait for the victory of the Northern Expedition? Can't you just stand now? What is Sangui's idea, he can't understand what a father does!

Emperor Chongzhen was contemplating his eyebrows, was the rebel son marrying his sister to "Tian Qi" to appease the Zheng family? What about the third sister as the queen? Is it to win over Wu Sangui? Or do you want to make a deal with the Wu family? So what about the little girl in the Ergon family? What did she do?

It's complicated! There are so many calculations to set up a queen and marry a princess...... This emperor is really tired, it's better to retire as soon as possible!

Chongzhen thought for a while, and then asked, "Emperor, is it really going to be the Northern Expedition?" How long have we been stable in Jiangnan? Isn't it a little rushed? ”

Zhu Cihong said in his heart: You, the faint king, want to be the emperor in a corner of peace! This is not right, even if you become the Taishang, you must also show the strength of your life and the Northern Expedition!

"Father," Zhu Cihong said with a straight face, "We can't learn from Zhao Gou and satisfy the comfortable situation in the south of the Yangtze River!" ”

Hmph, that's because you can't learn from Zhao Gou! Chongzhen said in his heart: I want to learn......

"Then the emperor is going to be recruited again?" Chongzhen asked.

Zhu Cihong said: "I want to go to the expedition in person, but it's still early, and I guess I won't go north until winter." He paused, "From now on, it is to prepare for war...... "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says, go to the army to fight, now in addition to preparing for war, it is a strategy, as long as Wu Sangui can stand on our side, and the Dai Fan can hold on to Luliang Mountain, our winning chance is still very big." ”

Chongzhen nodded lightly: "If Sangui can really fight back, it is really a blessing for the Ming Dynasty!" ”

......

The inner city of Nanjing, the residence of the protector. In the depths of this luxurious and magnificent mansion, in a study, Wu Xiang, who had returned from Xuanhu Gong, was sitting in front of the desk in a daze, and a piece of letter paper was spread out on the desk, and there were brushes and inkstones, and the inkstone had been ground inside. But the letter was still clean, not a word was written.

There is also a strong man standing next to Old Man Wu, who is his adopted son Right Army Division, Wu Guoyong, Marquis of Jinzhou.

Seeing that his father-in-law was stunned, Wu Guoyong whispered: "Father-in-law, this Northern Expedition is an opportunity for the eldest uncle to fight back...... At that time, our family will be a prince of the Three Kingdoms, such a glory, there is no second one since the founding of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Wu Xiang didn't take Yizi's words, but said leisurely: "Ningxia and Gansu are barren lands...... And Daming has always had the Western Army, and it has never been the same as my Liaozhen. The second child must be also anxious, barely able to maintain it, right? ”

Wu Guoyong is also the general of the Ningyuan army, of course he knows the faction of the old Ming army. The southern army and the northern army were not accustomed to each other, and the Liao army and the Shaanxi army, which were both northern armies, were full of contradictions. And Wu Sangui went to Shaanxi with the Liao army, and fooled a group of generals from the Ganshan and Ming armies to surrender to the Qing Dynasty...... Hell there is a stability on the inside!

Moreover, there are a lot of Ganshan Ming troops, a large number of military town guards, countless hereditary generals, and many of them can be beaten!

Most of this group of people are now submissive to Wu Sangui, and they are crowded together with the Liao army brought by Wu Sangui on the cramped territory of Gansu and Shaanxi in the northwest. The people below are having a hard time, and they are quite capable of fighting, and Wu Sangui, who is pressed on it, is not the same as being roasted on the fire?

Wu Xiang paused, and sighed again: "Of course, the emperor named the third sister as the queen, and he dreamed of it for his father...... But what Sangui needs most is real money! If you really want him to raise troops, if you don't have one or two million silver, the Shaanxi and Gansu troops below will be willing to move? ”

"One or two million pieces of silver...... I can't transport it! Wu Guoyong shook his head, "Donglu and Zhang Xianzhong are in front of Dao'er, how can so much silver pass?" ”

Wu Xiang sighed again.

Wu Guoyong said: "Fortunately, the emperor is not a stingy king, and he also has enough money and food, if the eldest uncle really sends troops, the emperor's hands will not be small." ”

"Do you still have contact with the nobles?" Wu Xiang asked in a low voice.

The contact between him and Wu Sangui has actually been severed - this kind of contact is not good for both their father and son, because strictly speaking, it is a collaborator! It's okay when you don't pursue it, but once you want to track it down, you can lose your head.

"Yes!" Wu Guoyong nodded.

He and Wu Xiang's other son, Wu Guogui, grew up together, and they were like brothers and sisters, even if they were their own masters, they still kept in touch in private.

Of course, the liaison between him and Wu Guogui was reported to the Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Division, and it was not a collaborator.

"Okay," Wu Xiang sighed and lifted the brush, "Then send a letter to Guogui and Sangui!" ”

......

"How? Was the letter written? Will Wu Sangui defect? ”

"Emperor, the Lord Protector has already written a letter, Wu Sangui will definitely defect, but ......"

"But what?"

"The Protector is worried that Wu Sangui will not be able to serve the public in Ganshan."

Nanjing Forbidden City, Fengtian Temple, Dongnuan Pavilion. Zhu Cihong was looking down at Zheng Sen's "Journey to Japan" while listening to Wu Guoyong's report.

"Why can't you convince the public?" Zhu Cihong looked up at Wu Guoyong.

Wu Guoyong said: "Now Wu Sangui has two troops in his hands, one is his own Guanning army, about thirty or forty thousand people, all of whom are old brothers who follow all the way from Ningyuan; The second is the soldiers and horses of the Ganshan General's Gate, and there are also 30,000 or 40,000 people...... There are too many soldiers, the land is too poor, and if they are crowded in one place, it is inevitable that there will be contradictions. ”

"Won't he expand a bit?" Zhu Cihong smiled, "Qingtang and the Western Regions still have a lot of territory, right?" ”

"It's not easy to say," Wu Guoyong just shook his head, "The emperor probably doesn't know that when Qingtang was in the tenth or eleventh year of Chongzhen, many Warat tribes came from the west, called the Heshuo Special Department, and the leader was Gushi Khan, who was the leader of the Warat tribes, and should not be underestimated. He first attacked and killed the Khalkha Mongol Khan on the Qingtang side and annexed his people. In the fifteenth year, he waved his army south to Tibet and defeated Zangba Khan. Now that Qinghai and Tibet have been dominated, the soldiers are strong and strong, and it is difficult to deal with. And today's Warat Department is not only a strong man in the Heshute Department...... There are also three major tribes, such as the Gulros tribe, the Dulbert tribe, and the Turghut tribe, all of which are in the west of Ganshan.

In addition, there is also a Yeerqiang Khanate entrenched in Turpan, which is not very strong, but it is sandwiched between several major Warat tribes and Gansu, and it is not very easy to deal with. ”