"Geng'er, what do you think about this matter?"

Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers.

is related to the future of the Zuo family, and Zuo Liangyu's first thought is to ask Zuo Mengeng's opinion.

Hearing this, Zuo Mengeng bowed to Zuo Liangyu and said, "My son thinks that preserving his strength now is the best policy. It is better to take the initiative to give up Wuchang and go south down the river to eat near Nanjing. Then Li Chuang rushed all the way to Huguang, and it was time to rest. It is categorically impossible to continue down the river. As long as my father led the army to Nanzhili, he would be safe. ”

Zuo Liangyu didn't say much.

Zuo Mengeng coincided with his thoughts, which made Zuo Liangyu have a complicated feeling.

He was both pleased and worried about his son's intelligence. Can a son's character really bear this burden?

After all, there is not much difference between the "Qingjun side" and the rebellion, there is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, and their father and son can only go one way to the dark.

If he succeeds, his father and son can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. If it fails, it will be doomed.

"Geng'er, for the sake of my father, I will ask you. Did you think what you said just now? ”

After thinking about it, Zuo Liangyu felt that Zuo Mengeng might have been instructed by a master.

Zuo Mengeng hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Father, these are the son's heartfelt words!" Li Chuang went south and came straight to Huguang. He has an army of more than 100,000 troops, and if he joins with Bai Wangna, the strength can reach more than 200,000, no matter how you look at Huguang, it will be a dead land! ”

Zuo Liangyu nodded and sighed: "Okay, Wu'er has finally grown up." ”

Zuo Menggeng's words just now were very insightful, and they also made Zuo Liangyu finally make up his mind.

If you continue to stay in Wuchang, sooner or later, a conflict with Li Zicheng will break out, and the loss of troops will inevitably occur. It is better to grit your teeth and stomp your feet and lead the army to evacuate.

After a pause, he continued: "Then tell me, in what name should the father be on the side of the king, and who is the minister next to His Majesty?" ”

Qingjun naturally has to have an object on his side. The person can be just a scapegoat, but there must be.

Zuo Mengeng seemed to have been prepared, and blurted out: "Father, my son thinks that he can use the reason of killing Han Zanzhou, Liu Chuanzong and others to rectify the dynasty and do the things of the Qing monarch." ”

"Han Zanzhou, Liu Chuanzong..."

Zuo Liangyu repeated these two names, and after a while, he suddenly laughed: "Okay, good!" That's a good idea! That Han Zanzhou is the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, and he is also the prince of the inner factory, and he is almost the same as the powerful eunuch Wang Zhi back then. And this Liu Chuanzong, as the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, is even more comparable to Feng Bao and Wei Zhongxian. Liu Chuanzong and Han Zan teamed up to not know how many Donglin loyal ministers they killed. For his father, in the name of killing the two rebels, he led the army to clear the monarch's side, and his name was right! ”

Zuo Liangyu has always had a close relationship with the Donglin Party, and he felt very uncomfortable seeing the Donglin Party lose power in the court.

Now that there is an opportunity to retaliate under the pretext of Qingjun's side, Zuo Liangyu is naturally very secret.

Of course, Zuo Liangyu knows very well that the inner factory and the east factory were both rebuilt today.

The reason why Han Zanzhou and Liu Chuanzong can take people without scruples is because of the approval of today's son.

But Zuo Liangyu definitely can't directly scold Dangzi for being mediocre, after all, he doesn't plan to tear his face, he just wants to control the Son of Heaven to be his puppet and do that Cao Mengde's thing. In this case, he must have a reasonable reason to win the support of more people.

Killing eunuchs is obviously a good excuse.

Whether it is the Donglin Party, the Chu Party, or the Zhejiang Party, they all have a common enemy, that is, the eunuchs.

The eunuch is a sharp weapon used by the Son of Heaven to balance the foreign courts, and it is also an eagle dog to monitor the courtiers.

No civil servant would feel comfortable with a sword hanging over his head.

If someone can help them take the sword, they will be very supportive.

The struggle for power is brutal.

Whether the eunuch party is in power or the Donglin party is in power, the other side will be brutally suppressed.

When Wei Zhongxian's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, everyone in the Donglin Party was in danger.

Wei Zhongxian ordered Wang Shaohui, a member of the eunuch party, to compile a list of Donglin party members.

Wang Shaohui also had an idea, referring to the model of the Water Margin to compile the more famous 108 people in the Donglin Party into the "Donglin Point General Record".

This is not so much a reckoning with Wei Zhongxian as an outright insult.

Because he can unscrupulously mock the Donglin Party members in the point general record.

For example, "Tuota Heavenly King Nanjing Hubu Shangshu Li Sancai", "Tiankui Xing Shiyu University Scholar Ye Xianggao", "Tiangang Xing Jade Qilin Ministry Shangshu Zhao Nanxing".

Comparing the court officials to a grassy green forest can be regarded as the greatest insult.

And the Donglin Party people who were compiled into the "Donglin Point General Record" could only swallow their anger and pretend not to know.

Later, Chongzhen ascended the throne and Wei Zhongxian fell.

Chongzhen single-handedly led the eunuch rebellion case. The dismissal of officials involved in the reverse case, the dismissal of those who are dismissed, and the death of their heads, everyone is in danger.

Although on the surface, this is the Son of Heaven's arbitrary rectification of the dynasty, but secretly it is the Donglin Party that is promoting.

The Donglin Party members have been dormant for three years, swallowing their anger for three years, and finally have a chance to retaliate.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian died, the trees fell and scattered, and no one could shelter those eunuch officials.

Revenge for revenge, revenge for wrongs.

The Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party have always been mortal enemies, attacking each other endlessly.

Now that the Donglin Party is in decline, if Zuo Liangyu can stand up and erect the banner of counterattacking the eunuch party, he will definitely be able to get the support of the officials of the Donglin Party in the DPRK.

Zuo Liangyu in the army doesn't need to worry at all, he controls half of the Ming Dynasty's troops, and he can still be captured against Huang Degong and other tens of thousands of horses.

What he has to do is to block the mouths of the people of the world. And with the support of the Donglin Party, this matter is much easier. After all, the Donglin Party holds the pen, and the white can depict black, and the black can also be bleached.

The only problem is that he needs to pull a civilian official to join him in raising troops from Wuchang to the side of the Qingjun.

It's a difficult choice.

Zuo Liangyu thought of three people, one was He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, the other was the commander Cao Jianghou, and the other was Yuan Jixian, the governor of the four provinces.

From the perspective of official positions, Yuan Jixian has the highest official position, followed by He Tengjiao and Hou Sui. But in terms of personal inclination, Zuo Liangyu wants to choose He Tengjiao and Hou Sui to cooperate.

The relationship between these two and him is far better than that of Yuan Jixian.

However, if it is down the river, it can be "piggybacked" by Yuan Jixian, who is stationed in Jiujiang.

After thinking about it, Zuo Liangyu was ready to persuade He Tengjiao and Hou Sui first, as long as the two agreed with him, they could immediately raise troops.

Without further ado, it would be difficult to wait until Li Chuang led his troops to force Wuchang before he wanted to leave.

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