The entire enthronement ceremony was basically controlled by Li Xiao.

This Anping Emperor Zhu Cizhi, a nine-year-old child who is still ignorant of such a major event as his ascension to the throne, is completely like a puppet controlled by Li Xiao, and has no space and ability to express himself at all. Not only that, after he ascended the throne, he naturally had an almost all-round dependence on Li Xiao.

Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, his approach is simply a puppet who is willing to be a puppet and let himself be controlled by Li Xiao, which is really shocking.

And Li Xiao, the powerful minister, did this, and he was almost grandiose to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, such an attitude and practice seemed to be the invisible emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

However, such an arrangement is a rare relief and relaxation for Zhu Cizhi, who is now only nine years old and mentally immature, and does not know what governing the country is.

After all, such an ignorant young man who is still young and doesn't know what governing the country is, in the drastic changes of the times, was suddenly pushed to the throne in a daze, and the panic and uneasiness in his heart can be imagined.

In extreme panic, he naturally instinctively wanted to find a powerful force to rely on himself, and this Li Xiao, who fought with his life to save him from Beijing and pushed him to the throne of God, naturally became his biggest reliance.

Such an emotional state is almost like a child's dependence on his father.

Besides, this nine-year-old Zhu Cizhi, even if Li Xiao let him take power, he simply does not have the slightest ability to form a bureaucratic team loyal to himself. Taking a step back, he doesn't have the slightest cronies, even if he is encouraged by others to form his own forces and people, it will not be possible to succeed overnight. So the current Zhu Cizhi, who can he count on if he is not still the Tang King Li Xiao, who is still strong and prestigious.

Therefore, Zhu Cizhi, who is still young and has a soft and cowardly personality, can only obey Li Xiao's arrangement, and he does not even have the right and ability to express a little personal opinion.

Such a result can be described as the best ending for a powerful minister like Li Xiao who is extremely good at dictatorship, and for the cowardly and incompetent emperor Zhu Cizhi.

After all, in a situation where the ministers are strong and the lords are weak, Zhu Cizhi can only be willing to be a puppet and let go of all power to Li Xiao, so that he can gain Li Xiao's trust, exchange the most practical personal security for himself, and get a good ending in the end of peace and old age.

Politics has always been cold and realistic.

As a result, Li Xiao continued to gain unprecedented rights and favor from the political choice of supporting Zhu Cizhi to ascend the throne as emperor.

Now he is subject to Jiuxi, and he is called lonely, and he can really be said to have become the invisible monarch of the Ming Empire. And under his rule, there is no one who can have such power and glory to challenge or question Li Xiao's power.

Under the support of the Anping Emperor, Li Xiao only stayed with his family for two days, and immediately returned to Nanjing with Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang, the two most cronies, to deal with political affairs.

The current Anping Emperor Zhu Cizhi was further monitored and controlled by Wu Liang, the head of the palace, and without the personal decree of the Tang King, no one could approach the palace under any pretext, and he could no longer go to the emperor at will.

And when Li Xiao did this, he naturally learned the lesson of Zhu Cihong, and was determined to prevent the slightest mistake, so that there would be no more similar mistakes, so that his own enemies would take advantage of the loopholes.

Before going to Nanjing, Li Xiao went to the Yuanjing Nunnery outside Jinan City, wanting to see his former wife again, and to see this princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping of the Ming Dynasty who had a bleak background and had never been close to herself.

As he expected, Zhu Yujiao refused to see him, but only sent Xiao Ni out to spread the word, saying that he was a foreigner, and he did not want to meet and talk with secular people again, and asked Tang Wang to return by himself.

Li Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, but he didn't say anything. He looked at the closed door from a distance outside the hermitage, and finally silently returned with a group of attendants.

After arriving in Nanjing, after settling down, Li Xiaofu and the two praise paintings discussed in the Qianqing Palace.

The candlelight flickered, and the hall was quiet, but the three of them were all scorching, and their faces were full of determination.

Chen Zilong took the lead and said: "King Tang, according to the report from the Security Department, it has been ascertained that it was the idea of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that instigated Emperor Chongxing to oppose you and King Tang. It was they who sent envoys south to Fuzhou, and under the pretense of Zheng Zhilong's hand, Gao Hongtu sneaked to Shandong, and instigated the Emperor Chongxing to break with the Tang Dynasty, but in the end he ended up ......"

Li Xiao waved his hand, indicating that he already knew that he didn't need to say more.

His gaze is calm and waveless, and it is like a bottomless abyss, unfathomable. After slowly glancing at the two of them, Fang said in a deep voice: "Huang Bao, director of the General Department of Security in this matter, has already told Gu, how do you two think it is appropriate for Gu to counteract?" ”

Jiang Yueguang arched his hand and said: "King Tang, the first crime in this matter is the Manchu Qing, followed by Zheng Zhilong, in the opinion of Wei Chen, the two thieves need to be punished, so that they can understand that my Tang army is not easy to mess with." Hmph, if you don't give them a little bit of power, they still think that with such a bitter fruit, our army can only swallow it in vain, but do nothing. ”

Chen Zilong also nodded and said, "Jiang Zanhua is right." In the opinion of the students, these two thieves have divided our monarchs and ministers and disrupted our court, and they really need to be punished to relieve the hatred of our army and avenge the previous revenge. ”

After listening to the words of the two, Li Xiao was silent.

He slowly glanced at the two of them again before replying in a low voice: "Two praises, I understand your eagerness to take revenge, but I think that we will not raise troops out of anger, and our next actions must not let the enemy lead the way, and mess with the original pace and plan of our army." We must punish these two gangs of thieves, but we must not act rashly and let our army lose its proportions at this critical moment. ”

Seeing Li Xiao's words, the two praisers were stunned, and subconsciously asked in unison: "Then according to King Tang's opinion, how should our army deal with it?" ”

A glimmer of light flashed in Li Xiao's eyes, and he replied clearly: "Two, in my lonely opinion, for the punishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, we can use the Haoge who defected to our army to deal with them. ”

"I would like to hear the King of Tang and see him."

"Two, now Haoge has been appointed as the so-called commander of Manchuria, and he is being ordered to lead a group of Manchurian soldiers and horses to temporarily garrison in the area of Shanhaiguan. But I thought that letting them continue to be stationed in the Shanhaiguan area was actually of little significance, and it was far from playing their most important role. ”

"Oh? What does Tang Wang mean? ”

Li Xiao smiled faintly: "I think that Haoge can lead that group of Manchurian soldiers and horses, take the ships of the sailors, go to seize Fuzhou, and form a mutual defense with our Jinzhou defenders, so as to strengthen the existence of our army in southern Liaoning." At the same time, he ordered his subordinates to plunder and kill the Qing people in the entire southern Liaoning region, causing continuous destruction and bloodshed to the Manchus. And the goods they obtained did not need to be handed over to the public, they could all be returned to themselves, and the heads of the Qing people who were cut off were the same as those Jurchen tribes in the north who naturalized our army, and they were all rewarded according to their heads. In short, to make Fuzhou, which is under the control of Haoge, become a nail in the coffin for our army to penetrate deeply into the Qing court, and even more so to lay a coffin nail for the Qing Dynasty! Let Dolgon's gang have a good taste of the backyard fire, so that they have no chance to free up their hands to deal with me and other soldiers. ”

As soon as Li Xiao's suggestion was put forward, Jiang Yueguang and Chen Zilong both praised it.

"King Tang's plan is very good. It was a brilliant plan to turn Hauge's Manchurian soldiers and horses around and deal with Dorgon's Qing court. Jiang Yueguang said with a smile: "Haoge and others, now that there is nothing to do in Shanhaiguan, it is really better to send them to Fuzhou and become a sharp and deep nail inserted in the body of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by our army." These soldiers and horses of the former Qing army who joined our army, seeing that the Tang King provided them with such favorable conditions, would definitely go all out to plunder the land of southern Liao, in order to fill their pockets as much as possible. And the more they plundered in southern Liaoning, the more serious the damage to the Qing court would be, which was just an effective blow to the development momentum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that they would frequently look back and have no intention of invading the Central Plains. ”

"Yes, King Tang arranged like this, so that Haoge and his generals wanted to be promoted and make a fortune, then the only way for them to get it was from the Qing court. When they went out to plunder like this, the goods that they could not capture could be obtained for themselves, and those who cut off the heads of the Qing Dynasty could also be rewarded differently according to the three ranks of Manchurians, Mongols, and Han Chinese. Tang Wang's method is similar to raising eagles, if the reward is good, I am afraid that these guys will be able to shine in their eyes. I'm afraid that after arriving in Fuzhou, everyone will be brave, everyone will compete for the first, and there will be no old feelings, but they will go all out to kill their former compatriots and clansmen. From the point of view of scholars, these more than 3,000 former Manchurian soldiers and horses are afraid that they can cause greater and more serious troubles to the Qing court than Mao Wenlong, who was stationed on Phi Island before. Chen Zilong was also full of smiles and praise.

Li Xiao also smiled and said: "What the two of you said is that although Haoge has defected to our army, his behavior is mostly forced. Therefore, I have always thought that this person can be used but not greatly used. Now, Lone gave him a Fuzhou city, which became his foothold, just so that he could use this stronghold to plunder and conquer his Manchu homeland. Such a move should completely cut off his popularity and old feelings in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that he would not only completely break with Dorgon, but also be deeply hated and criticized by his Manchu people. In this way, it is no longer possible for him to be dissatisfied with our army in his heart, or to make a comeback in his homeland. Therefore Gu's strategy seems to give him a big advantage, but in fact, it can be described as a ploy for Haoge. ”

When Li Xiao said this, Jiang Yueguang interjected, and he sighed for a long time: "I think that back then, Wei Zhongxian proposed a plan funded by the Ming Dynasty to let the Mongols hunt the heads of the Manchukuos, which was a very good strategy, but because of the empty treasury of the Ming Dynasty, not only did it fail in the end, but let the Mongols turn to the Manchurian Tartars. And now, under the rule of our Tang army, there is plenty of money and a rich treasury, and it is really a trivial matter to pay Hauge the reward for the Manchurian head they hunted. Therefore, Hauge was reluctant to indulge in his heart, but his subordinates were afraid that they were all red-eyed for the sake of money and capture, and they didn't care about his personal mood. Therefore, this plan can not only make him lose the hearts and minds of his countrymen, but also divide the relationship between Hauge and his subordinates. King Tang's plan can be described as killing two birds with one stone, why not. ”

It's just that at this time, Chen Zilong suddenly thought of something, and he whispered his questions to Li Xiao.

"King Tang, if that's the case, then after Haoge caused heavy losses and disasters to the land of southern Liaoning, wouldn't Dolgon, the regent of the Qing court, have to start to deal with Haoge with all his might? Hauge only has more than 3,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses, so how can he, who is guarding the isolated city of Fuzhou, be Dorgon's opponent? ”

Li Xiao seemed to expect him to ask such a question, smiled faintly, and said: "Although there are not many soldiers and horses under Haoge, it is not easy for Dolgon's gang to completely eliminate him. Because, our army has a killer weapon in its hands. That is, our Tang army has an extremely powerful naval division, which is a force and means that the Qing court simply does not have. And the Fuzhou City, built near the sea, is extremely convenient for our army's sea ship transportation. As long as our army can continue to deliver supplies and ordnance to Haug from the sea, Haug will be able to negotiate with Dorgon for a long time. Even if Dolgon made a desperate gamble and the whole army besieged the city, our army could also send a sailor to block its military momentum and prevent it from besieging it, and finally let Hauge and others withdraw from Fuzhou City smoothly. ”

Li Xiao paused and replied: "And even if the Qing army pays a heavy price and recaptures the state city, it will be difficult to defend it for a long time. After all, southern Liaoning was already in ruins, and it was really difficult to raise troops on the spot, so the Qing court had to spend huge sums of money to transport money, food, and ordnance from other parts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to supply the army garrisoned in Fuzhou. And such expenses are extremely huge, and the Qing court will not have such financial resources to afford it now. Therefore, after they drove away Haoge and reoccupied Fuzhou, they would definitely have to retreat because of the difficulty in supply, and they could only leave a few troops in Fuzhou City. In this case, our naval division can transport troops to attack the city again, so that Hauge's troops can retake Fuzhou, and finally restore the previous state, so that the Fuzhou City, which Dolgon took with great effort and heavy casualties, will once again become a town under the rule of our army. Such a situation should be inevitable. ”

Li Xiao's explanation made the two of them praise the painting, and they both nodded and praised.

After arranging Haoge's subordinates, but after the plan to deal with the Manchu Qing was finished, Li Xiao then discussed with the two Zanhua how to punish Zheng Zhilong and Hongguang Jianguo.

Jiang Yueguang and Chen Zilong both proposed that the Tang army concentrate its forces and attack Fujian or Guangdong with all its might, and be sure to deal a heavy blow to Zheng Zhilong's sphere of influence, not only to destroy a large number of soldiers and horses under his rule, but also to seize a large number of lands under his rule, so as to relieve hatred.

Li Xiao listened to the suggestions of the two, but slowly shook his head, and did not agree with their proposals.

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