Want to blackmail the Hengyang Domain? This made the faces of everyone in the tent change, didn't Lao Zhang let His Highness play with fire?

Lu Fan can use splitting to coerce, and Tang Fan can naturally do it, so in the end, he is more ruthless than whoever cares about the overall situation.

If you really want to do it, I'm afraid that you will offend the Hengyang Domain to death immediately, even if King Lu ascends the throne, the Hengyang Domain doesn't nod, I'm afraid the throne will be like a needle carpet.

At this time, Zhang Mingzhen immediately stood up and stretched out his hand to stop: "Your Highness, this matter must not be!"

Zhang Kentang looked away and said, "Governor Zhang and His Royal Highness have misunderstood what I mean, listen to me first." ”

King Lu listened to it too.

In this Jiangnan campaign, he was responsible for containing Duoduo in Jiangbei, but he was still a little reluctant to attack Nanjing by the Hengyang Domain and the Tang Domain.

He didn't want to see the two feudatories enter Nanjing, especially when there was a high entry into the library to provoke it, so he slackened his efforts when he was contained.

Duoduo was able to transfer a large number of men and horses from Jiangbei to the city of Nanjing, and Wang Yan was naturally dissatisfied with this, so he sent Xia Xiaoyin to his army, which had the intention of monitoring and supervising.

Fortunately, Nanjing was broken, otherwise Wang Yan would definitely hate him.

Now Wang Yan doesn't like him anymore, if he really gets into trouble, Wang Yan is very likely to join forces with Tang Fan to suppress him, then he really can't bear it, so it will definitely not work to coerce.

"What does Aiqing mean?" King Lu sat up straight, and Zhang Mingzhen saw that he would be wrong, so he retreated.

At this time, Zhang Kentang said his thoughts, "Your Highness, what the minister said is that His Highness can take advantage of the worries of the Hengyang Domain to obtain the hole cards, but he is not using this to blackmail the Hengyang Domain, but to let the Hengyang Domain weigh it himself and change his attitude." ”

King Lu's face became serious, and he leaned towards him and said, "Let the Hengyang Domain weigh it yourself?" Change your attitude on your own? How can this be done? ”

King Lu asked three questions in a row, Zhang Kentang arched his hand, and replied: "Although His Royal Highness is competing with King Tang for the throne, who can ascend to the throne actually depends on the attitude of Hengyang Domain. Daming Sheji has reached this point, and His Royal Highness and King Tang can only endure it temporarily. The idea of Hengyang Domain, presumably everyone has just figured it out, he wants to control a unified imperial court, for him, who to support, the danger of the Ming split and infighting is smaller, he will support whom. ”

King Lu somewhat understands that as long as he can suppress the Tang King, make the Tang King submit, and not make trouble, then he will ascend the throne, and the Hengyang Domain will not object, but the key is that he can suppress the pro-Tang faction?

Zhang Kentang seemed to understand his thoughts, and hurriedly continued: "Your Highness, now it is equivalent to His Highness and the Tang King putting on the Hengyang Domain's choice, as long as our side has heavier chips, the Hengyang Domain feels that it is too risky to choose the Tang Domain, and it is possible to change its attitude." ”

After Zhang Kentang finished speaking, Zhang Mingzhen immediately interjected and asked, "Ge Lao, where do we have new chips now?" ”

King Lu's neck stretched out, and everyone in the tent turned their eyes to Zhang Kentang, and Zhang Kentang also said categorically: "Yes, of course there is!" ”

King Lu's eyes narrowed, "What is it?" Where is it? "\u000b" is naturally a soldier, as long as we have more soldiers, Hengyang Domain naturally scruples! Zhang Kentang said.

The reason why Wang Yan's family is dominant, in addition to his prestige, is because this goods has the money bag of Guangnan merchants and controls the South China Sea trade, and second, he has many soldiers and is elite.

The main supporters of King Lu are the gentry of Zhejiang, which can be seen from the cabinet personnel of King Lu's regime, and seventy percent of the thirteen scholars in the early days were from Zhejiang, such as Zhu Dadian, Zhang Guowei, Chen Hanhui, Ke Xiaqing, Zhang Zhengchen, Sun Jiaji, and Xiong Rulin are all from Zhejiang.

It can be seen from this that the cabinet of King Lu is a political group dominated by the Zhejiang gentry, and the Zhejiang people have a large amount of voice within their regime.

King Lu also has a money bag, that is, the maritime merchants of eastern Zhejiang.

They used to be able to rule the world, but now they can't, and King Lu basically has no money.

Speaking of soldiers, King Lu now has hundreds of thousands, maybe more than Wang Yan, but most of his soldiers are displaced people from Shandong and Lianghuai brought by Xie Qian, and 100,000 is not as good as Wang Yan's 10,000.

His elite soldiers are probably only about 40,000, which is worse than Tang Wang's faction.

"What do you mean?" King Lu listened to Zhang Kentang's words, and seemed to have caught a trace of eyebrows.

Zhang Kentang glanced at everyone and saluted King Lu and said: "Your Highness, the southern capital has been restored, the world is shaking, and with Your Highness's prestige in Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province can be passed on." Zhang Cunren, Tan Tai, and Xiao Qihui are now isolated and helpless, and they can't gain a foothold in Zhejiang at all, if His Royal Highness recruits them first, he can get forty or fifty thousand elite soldiers. When Hengyang Domain makes a decision like this, how can it not weigh it! ”

When the Ming army captured Nanjing, the men and horses needed a short rest, and Wang Yan only sent 5,000 men and horses south to support Sun Shoufa.

In fact, there is no need to send even 5,000 men and horses, as long as Zhang Cunren knows that Nanjing is lost, he will retreat to Zhejiang.

Zhejiang originally developed industry and commerce, but after the Qing soldiers came, the industry was destroyed, the cotton fields and mulberry fields were changed into rice fields, the interests of the maritime merchants and gentry in eastern Zhejiang were encroached upon, and the Qing court moved to the sea, and trade with Japan and Korea could not be done, and Zhejiang's anti-Qing sentiment was very intense.

Now that Nanjing has been defeated, Zhang Cunren and others have returned to Zhejiang, which is equivalent to sitting on the volcano, and in addition to death, the only thing left is to surrender.

There are many Zhejiang people in King Lu's regime, as long as the conditions are good, it should not be a big problem to recruit Qing soldiers from Zhejiang.

If Zhang Cunren and others surrendered to King Lu, and King Lu got these more than 40,000 Qing soldiers, his strength would immediately skyrocket.

Although it is not as good as Wang Yan, it is indeed a lot stronger than Tang Wang, which makes Wang Yan have to be more scrupulous.

"Good!" After hearing this, King Lu exclaimed, stood up from the seat suddenly, paced back and forth in the tent, walked back and forth a few times, suddenly stopped, and said to Zhang Kentang: "This matter must be done as soon as possible, to be in front of the Hengyang Domain and the Tang King, it doesn't matter if the conditions are preferential at all, these more than 40,000 Qing soldiers, Lone must get it in his hands." ”

Nanjing City, the Governor's Mansion Yamen, and the civil and military personnel of the Hengyang Domain also gathered together.

Everyone sat down on both sides, and Wang Yan also sat in the main hall, and then said: "You have also seen the situation in the main hall, and the two sides can be said to be incompatible. There is an edict from Emperor Daxing on the Tang king's side, and the pro-Tang faction will definitely not let Lu Fan ascend the throne, and the attitude of Lu Fan's side will probably not make any concessions. What do you think about this? ”

After Wang Yan finished speaking, everyone below whispered, Chen Bangyan and Gu Yanwu exchanged a few words across the coffee table, leaning over, and finally Chen Bangyan got up and said: "Your Highness, I want to hear His Highness's thoughts first." ”

Wang Yan was slightly stunned, and smiled helplessly, "This clan asked you, and you asked me first." ”

After speaking, Wang Yan thought for a moment, then straightened up, and said in a deep voice: "Then the domain will say a few points first, this first, the matter of unification, it really needs to be decided as soon as possible." Second, the Tang and Lu domains competed with each other, and in contrast, the domain preferred the Tang domain to ascend the throne, and third, the domain did not want it, because of the succession to the unification, it caused internal strife, which ruined the current good situation. Fourth, the feudal clan hoped that the new emperor would not harm the interests of the feudal clan and hinder the reform of the feudal domain. ”

After hearing this, Chen Bangyan glanced at Gu Yanwu and sat down anew, with a contemplative look on his face.

Wang Yan said four things at once, obviously he had already thought about it in his heart, and it was not a temporary idea, and these four things were added together, and some of them contradicted themselves, which was really a big problem.

The hall was instantly lively, everyone turned their heads to each other, Gu Yanwu talked with Chen Bangyan for a while, Chen Bangyan nodded, and Gu Yanwu immediately stood up.

When everyone saw that he was about to speak, the hall immediately fell silent, and then saw Gu Yanwu salute, and then said: "Your Highness, I think that the great position can only be inherited by the Tang Domain. ”

Wang Yan raised his hand and motioned for him to continue, "Tell me why?" ”

Gu Yanwu stopped, stretched out a hand, looked around the hall and said: "First, His Royal Highness captured Nanjing in the name of revenge for the emperor, and the prestige of Emperor Daxing was raised. Second, the Lu clan is a lineage, seventy percent of Zhejiang people, the regional color is strong, can only be regarded as a local government, if the Lu domain ascends the throne, the gentry of Liangguang, Chu Jiangxi, and Fujian will not be convinced, and Donglin is afraid of a resurgence. With these two points, Lu Fan cannot stand! ”

If a regional party controls the power of the whole country, it will inevitably be a disaster for the country, and this has been fulfilled by the Chongzhen Dynasty.

If there are too many people in one place in the court, it is very easy to form a monolithic interest group without moderation, and the "Donglin Party" may really re-emerge.

Wang Yan couldn't help but glance at Gu Yanwu more, it wasn't that he said that King Lu could not stand, Wang Yan never thought about letting King Lu ascend the throne, he was surprised that Gu Yanwu was also a member of Donglin, and he was a person from Jiangnan, Donglin was the representative of the interests of the gentry in Jiangnan, he obviously did not speak from the perspective of a corner of Jiangnan, but spoke for the world.

However, Donglin is not Donglin, as long as there is no situation of a dominant family, there are constraints, there are games, then Wang Yan doesn't care at this time, and after the recovery of Jiangnan, the Jiangnan gentry will definitely find someone to speak out in the court, there is no Donglin, and Xilin, there are also parties representing local interests in other places, as long as they do not exceed the bottom line, restrain each other, and compromise with each other, there is not much of a problem.

Of course, these things are issues to be considered later, and now we are talking about the succession of the great unification.

Wang Yan nodded and said, "The Lu Domain can't be established, but the Tang Domain is established, and the Lu Domain may not give up!" ”

Gu Yanwu smiled, "Then don't stand!" ”

Wang Yan smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, but immediately suppressed his smile and said in shock: "Don't stand up?" ”

In the lobby, there was also a shock, but there were also many people who understood and were calm.

Establish the emperor this kind of thing, it is not easy to meddle in the courtiers, history occasionally someone did it, but also left a bad reputation, Wang Shiheng has a good name, must set up a memorial arch, he has an idea in his heart, but he refuses to say it himself.

But fortunately, he is not as unwilling to take responsibility as Chongzhen, he is quite protective of the deployment, and many people guessed his plan after listening to the fourth article.

(Haha~ 6,000 words are finished.) ）