Chapter 306: The Death of King Lu
While these few people were fighting in Luoyang over who would be the emperor, the other part of the ministers who had traveled to Fujian had reached an agreement with the local warlord Zheng Zhilong.
"Support the Tang King Zhu Yujian as the emperor, and the year name is Longwu."
Emperor Zhu Yujian of Longwu was a native of Fengyang, and the eighth grandson of King Tang Ding (the twenty-third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty). After the outbreak of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he asked the court to borrow 3,000 soldiers to participate in the suppression, but the court was afraid that the vassal king would take the opportunity to rebel and refused. He recruited thousands of troops in Nanyang on his own, and personally led the search for the peasant army to fight, but was defeated. The court abolished him as a concubine because he violated the law of the country and was condemned. Imprisoned in Fengyang. After the Fu King Zhu Youxiang was proclaimed emperor, he released him, and was afraid that he would compete for the throne, so he moved to Pingle Mansion in Guangxi (south of Guilin City, Jinxi), and soon went into exile in Fujian.
Historically, after Emperor Hongguang was captured in 16|45, in June of the same year, he was supported by Zheng Zhilong, Huang Daozhou and others, and was called the emperor in Fuzhou, and changed his name to Longwu. However, due to historical changes, he was not proclaimed emperor until 1650.
Emperor Longwu can be regarded as a smart emperor, at least much stronger than this Hongguang Emperor, and he also has his own ambitions. But he was born at the wrong time, and when he encountered this troubled era, although Zheng Zhilong and others supported him as the emperor, in fact, he was just a puppet, and all government decisions were also made by Zheng Zhilong and others, and Emperor Longwu could not influence it at all.
Immediately, Zheng Zhilong announced to the world and supported the Longwu regime. It is authentic to the Longwu regime.
However, this did not get a response from others, including Liu Xia. Liu Xia did not respond, did not object, and did not agree.
However, it is said that the three legions of the White Tiger Legion, the Blue Dragon Legion, and the Vermilion Bird Legion are constantly approaching Beijing at this moment, which casts a shadow on the city of Beijing.
Many nobles of the Eight Banners began to transfer their gold and silver treasures to Liaodong in case Beijing was broken and the treasures were taken away. There are even some people who have slowly transferred their wives and daughters to Liaodong.
The land around Beijing of the Manchu Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty was also deserted one after another, even the Huangzhuang had no one to go, and the war was imminent, and all the nobles were hiding in Beijing at the moment. With the experience of the last time Huo Yande just came to strangle the Eight Banners nobles outside, the arrival of Liu Xia's three legions this time made them all retreat into the city for the first time.
The comfortable days of the past few years have degenerated those bloody Eight Banners soldiers and horses, become greedy for life and fear of death, and become vain.
However, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
The three major armies did not directly attack Beijing, but surrounded the city in three directions and semi-encircled, camped on the spot, and each camp set up hundreds of artillery aimed at the front, which made the people feel a little frightened.
Since Hauge was rescued back to Beijing last time, Dolgon immediately found a large number of imperial doctors to treat him, although Hauge has a lot of disagreements with him, but now it is an extraordinary period, Hauge is also a fierce general no matter what, and Dorgon has to use it at this moment.
Under the careful treatment of the imperial doctor, Haoge still did not wake up, according to what the imperial doctor said, he missed the best treatment time, and he was already inherently lacking in skills, even Da Luo Jinxian could not be saved.
In this way, Dorgon lost one of his generals. Therefore, Dolgon began to use a large number of Han Chinese, including Hong Chengchou and others.
"Brother Fourteen, those Han people are not credible, and they must not hand over their military power. Have you forgotten the previous Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi? ”
Duoduo was very dissatisfied with Dolgon's use of Han people, before Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi ignored the battle situation, and fled privately, resulting in the defeat of Azig (in fact, Azig was undoubtedly defeated), and took away a large number of elite soldiers and horses, so that the Qing army suffered heavy losses, that battle made Duoduo remember clearly in his heart, I am afraid that he will never forget it.
Dolgon frowned, and said: "Now we can't do without Han people, after all, we still have a lot of Han people in the army or in the court, this king is not worried about them rebelling, after all, this king has now monitored all the families of those Han people, if they dare to rebel, then their families will definitely die without a place to be buried." ”
"It's understandable to use the Han people, you don't have to say anything more about the fifteenth brother, then you go down and prepare to prepare, then Liu Xia's soldiers and horses stationed around Beijing are always a hidden danger."
How can you allow others to snore next to the couch?
Duoduo nodded with a heavy face, at this moment he was no longer so arrogant in the face of the Pingbei Army, if it was before, he would definitely say to Dolgon: "Fourteenth brother, I will go and annihilate them." "But now, Dodor couldn't say such arrogant words.
After Duoduo left, Dorgon's face was even more gloomy and terrifying, what virtues did those Han people who surrendered, how could he not know? However, now the Han people have to be used. Even if this Beijing city is lost, there is nothing, after all, this is not their place in the first place.
"Dominate the world! Alas, it seems that I don't have this life in the Qing Dynasty! ”
At this moment, Dolgon also began to transfer his family's wealth and some wives and concubines to Liaodong to prevent the destruction of Beijing.
Dolgon did not announce to the public that Fulin had died, although Fulin had indeed been dead for a long time, but in order to stabilize the centripetal force of the Qing army, Dolgon had always concealed it. He didn't know how many children he searched, and finally found a person with a little imagination, and he sent him to the palace to dress up as the little emperor of Fulin.
However, he said that Liu Xia didn't care too much about it since he got the news from Fujian, because it didn't mean anything to him to appoint anyone as emperor. Now that Emperor Hongguang has fallen, Liu Xia can completely refuse to recognize any emperor supported by other forces.
As for the dispute between the King of Lilu and the King of Gui in Luoyang, it is still going on, but Liu Xia doesn't pay attention to it anymore, these people are almost poor at the moment, and they almost don't even have a place to live.
They are not Liu Xia's officials, and Liu Xia naturally will not be innocently given their salary, after all, Liu Xia is not so rich that he comes to support the enemy. Even if these people want to unite the civil and military ministers in the Pingbei Army, which of these elites is willing to contact them? They are often under Liu Xia's control, who doesn't know Liu Xia's thoughts? What's more, if Liu Xia became the emperor, it would be much better for them than to support a Zhu emperor.
Their group came on the run, and naturally they didn't bring too much silver taels along the way, so they basically spent it after a while. wanted to ask Liu Xia for it, but Liu Xia shirked the fact that the Financial Secretary had no money and ignored them. After all, these people's grades are only four or five grades, and Liu Xia has already given them a lot of face by being able to meet them.
Since Liu Xia didn't care about them, they conspired to take King Lu and King Gui over, and even if Liu Xia said no, it wouldn't work when the time came. As soon as they said and did, these two groups of people began to send people to welcome the two princes.
The first to get the news was King Lu, who happily followed these ministers on the road to the area controlled by Liu Xia's Pingbei army. In fact, Liu Xia's dragon group also knew the news, so they sent assassins to assassinate them on the road, of course, the location must not have waited for them to enter the control of the Pingbei Army.
But on Wu Sangui's territory, these secret Lu Wang and his party were all wiped out and all killed.
When Guiwang Zhu Youlang learned the news, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move. Hurriedly rejected the suggestion of those courtiers to let him come to Luoyang, although the imperial power was very attractive, but the small life was more important.
No matter how persuaded those officials, Zhu Youlang just refused to go. This made the popular ones who came to pick him up stomp their feet.
And those in Luoyang are not comfortable, with the death of King Lu, their struggle for the throne has gradually faded out of people's field of vision, and now the news is Liu Xia's three legions on the attack of the northern Tartars, and now the newspapers are overwhelmingly describing how the Pingbei army is heroic and invincible. As for the rest of the news, this of course also includes the battle for the throne between King Lu and King Gui.
In fact, this is also Liu Xia's deliberate doing.
After another period of time, the ministers who had fled were gradually forgotten, so Liu Xia also began his own actions.