Chapter 16: The Great Tribulation Approaches
I walked back to the study quickly, Zheng Chenggong was sitting on a chair and reading "Thirty-six Strategies", he was reading very seriously.
"Xiao Zheng, you're back, what's going on over there in Jiujiang?" I asked eagerly.
Zheng Chenggong put down the book, knelt on the ground, and said sonorously: "Thanks to the emperor's Hongfu, the thieves besieging Jiujiang have been repelled by the ministers. Now the Huangmei area north of Jiujiang is all under the control of the old general Zuo Liangyu. ”
Hearing this, I was so excited that I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, well done!" Looks like everything is going according to my plan, hahaha! ”
Seeing that I was so excited, Zheng Chenggong asked puzzledly: "I don't understand, what is the emperor's plan?" ”
I saw that the time was ripe, so I told Zheng Chenggong about my plan to turn the tables, and Zheng Chenggong admired me after hearing it.
"If I'm not mistaken, Wu Sangui should have sent troops south at this time, and then he only needs to wait for him to capture Suzhou and Hangzhou, and King Fu will definitely make you the secretary of the military department."
Although Zheng Chenggong is a very low-key person, he still smiled after hearing my words.
And just then, a pigeon flew into the study and landed right on my hand.
When I looked, there was a white silk scarf tied around the pigeon's leg, which was Wu Sangui's reply to me.
I opened the silk scarf and looked at it, and Wu Sangui said that Li Zicheng had agreed to him to send troops south, and asked me to wait for his good news.
He also said that he would slaughter King Fu with his own hands, avenge the murder of his father, and help me restore the throne.
Seeing this news, buddy, I was very excited, but when I saw the content behind him, I was embarrassed.
At the end of the letter, he reported to me a "surprise" that I had never thought about before.
He said that he had found Princess Changping, the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, and that he would take Princess Changping south to find me.
Damn it! I thought that on the day I fled Beijing, Chongzhen's children and grandchildren would be killed by Li Zicheng, but I didn't expect that by an amazing coincidence in history, Princess Changping became a living mouth.
You must know that there has been a record of Princess Changping in history, saying that she did not die after Chongzhen hanged herself.
For this reason, Mr. Jin Yong also wrote about her in "The Story of Deer and Ding", she is Wei Xiaobao's master one-armed Shenni.
Seeing this, you may ask, since I should be happy when I "like to be a father", why should I be embarrassed?
In fact, what I am embarrassed about is not that I like to be a father, but that I am worried that Wu Sangui will use Princess Changping to blackmail me when he arrives.
This is nothing, what I am most afraid of is that Wu Sangui is very likely to find the three princes left by Chongzhen.
You must know that history clearly records that after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Chongzhen's three sons all escaped fuckingly, and one of them lived incognito until the Kangxi period before being killed.
If Wu Sangui takes Changping Gongzhu to blackmail me, I can "kill my relatives with righteousness" and let him kill him.
But if the crown prince is in his hands, once he falls out with me, he can support his own army, set up the prince as the emperor in the north, and then learn from Cao Cao to coerce the son of heaven to order the princes, and then I will be in trouble.
So, Wu Sangui, this guy is a treasure if he uses it well, but if he doesn't use it well, it's a time bomb.
But buddy, I can't do it now, I can only take one step at a time, and the key is to regain the throne first.
So I immediately wrote back to him, telling him to boldly go south, and on the premise of not harming the people, all the cities could be attacked at will.
At the same time, I also thanked him in the letter for saving Princess Changping.
At the same time, I told him that it would be better if I could find three princes.
Although I said that I hoped that he would find the three princes, I was actually testing him and asking him if he had found those three guys.
To tell you the truth, it's not buddy, I'm ruthless, I really don't want the three princes to be alive as recorded in history.
It's better that all three of them are dead, otherwise Lao Tzu will be very troublesome in the future.
After I let go of the carrier pigeon, I asked Zheng Chenggong what his attitude was towards him after this trip to Jiujiang.
Zheng Chenggong said that King Fu trusted him more and more, and he had already rewarded him for his merits and promoted him to the deputy chief soldier of Fujian.
After that, he asked me what to do next.
I thought about it for a while, and told him that the next step was to give Wu Sangui the map of the Suzhou-Hangzhou military fortress, so that Wu Sangui could easily break the city.
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Although everything went according to my plan, I didn't let up in the slightest.
I practiced archery with Zhang Zhao every day, and sometimes I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to make love with Shuang'er, so I fell asleep on the bed.
Frankly speaking, buddy, I didn't work so hard before the crossing.
At that time, I felt that it was useless to work hard, so I played games and read novels every day, and it was completely a dick.
But now that I have crossed over, I am really ambitious, and I vow to do something special, to use my own ability to completely conquer Chen Yuanyuan, and to immortalize my name in the annals of history, to be a son of heaven like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
But the fuck is that even though I work hard every day, in the eyes of Xia Wanchun and others, I'm still fucking eating, drinking, and having fun.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't even give me any hope, and secretly sighed that I ruined the Ming Dynasty.
When I heard her say this, my heart hurt buddy, but I can't help it, I have to act, the more real the better.
Everyone's misunderstanding is misunderstanding, but fortunately, as time goes by, Wu Sangui has connected several states, taken Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and the army is approaching Suzhou and Hangzhou.
At the same time, in his reply, he told me that he had not found the three princes, and told me not to worry, saying that he would do his best to find them.
That being said, I still don't feel at ease, after all, history records that he was a two-faced man.
But I had no choice but to wait for him to capture Suzhou and Hangzhou, and then I could talk to him in person when I arrived in Nanjing, to see if he was really loyal to me or false.
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Time passed day by day, Wu Sangui's army had arrived in Suzhou, King Fu and the others were frightened, and the court was in chaos, and there was no time to ask me.
At this time, I sent the map of the military fortress prepared by Zheng Chenggong to Wu Sangui with a flying pigeon, and asked him to report the military situation to me every day.
After the map was delivered, Wu Sangui was quite obedient, and flew pigeons to report the military situation to me every day.
On the fourth day, he told me that he had taken Suzhou.
Knowing the news, the buddies cried with joy, feeling that they were about to return to the throne.
But what I didn't expect was that after this good news came, I couldn't receive a reply from Wu Sangui for a long time.
I can't sleep and eat, I don't know if Wu Sangui betrayed me, or if there was some other accident.
Just when I was anxious, Zheng Chenggong came to the Heart Cultivation Palace overnight and called me up in a panic.
Seeing Zheng Chenggong's sudden visit at night, I vaguely felt bad, so I asked him what happened.
Damn it! He didn't say he didn't know, he said he was shocked.
The carrier pigeon that Wu Sangui sent me a letter was actually discovered by the soldiers guarding the city of Nanjing, and after King Fu knew about this, he was going to send someone to kill me tonight.
"Your Majesty, let's hurry up, if we don't leave, it'll be too late!"
"Good!"
I quickly got dressed, and ran upstairs to tell them to get up and run.
When they first heard me say that I was going to run away, they all thought I was stupid and talking nonsense, and told me to go back to sleep.
In a hurry, I opened my bow and shot arrows in front of everyone, and directly shot down the lantern hanging on the Yangxin Palace, and then said to everyone: "You think I am playing with Zhang Zhao every day, but in fact, I have always been pretending to be stupid, and then practicing archery desperately. Ah! I don't have time to explain to you right now, so let's get inside! ”
Seeing that I had shot the lantern within a hundred paces, everyone was excited.
Chen Yuanyuan was even more excited, held my hand tightly, and said: "Your Majesty, it turns out that you are not stupid, the people's daughter blames the emperor, and the people's daughter should be damned......"
Damn, how happy I am to hear him say this, buddy, it seems that she has been thinking about me all along.
Seeing Chen Yuanyuan holding my hand, Shuang'er couldn't help but feel a little jealous, she coughed several times before Chen Yuanyuan let go of his hand and found that his behavior was a little excessive.
Just as everyone was getting ready to go, the leader of the forbidden army who was guarding the gate heard the sound, walked in, and scolded loudly: "Waste King, what are you doing here? ”
Grass! As soon as he said this, everyone was frightened, and Zheng Chenggong hurriedly hid in the study.
You must know that King Fu arranged a forbidden army of more than 1,000 people to surround Yangxin Palace, even if Zheng Chenggong and others have high martial arts, it is impossible to defeat a hundred with one enemy, not to mention protecting Shuang'er and Chen Yuanyuan.