Zhu Hongsan chatted with Qian Yuting after eating and drinking.

"Beauty, how is your father doing?"

Hearing her husband call herself a beauty, Qian Yuting couldn't help blushing. Qian Yuting was just sixteen years old when she let Zhu Hongsan snatch it, and now she is less than nineteen years old, plus she has just given birth to a child and has a plump body, which is the most attractive time for a woman.

Zhu Hongsan saw that Qian Yuting was charming, and the desire that had just been vented couldn't help but be a little uplifted.

"Lord, my father and they have all settled down in Beicheng, thank you concubine!" After speaking, Qian Yuting got up and bowed.

Zhu Hongsan saw Qian Yuting's towering chest when she stood up, and Qian Yuting was wearing thin pajamas, so she could still hold on there. picked up Qian Yuting and came to the bed to start exercising after meals.

Qian Yuting was also absent for a long time, and was tossed to death by Zhu Hongsan's desire to die, and she was defeated in a few times, so she could only let Zhu Hongsan play with it.

Zhu Hongsan just finished getting his mother-in-law, and now he is getting his daughter, and he thought of playing with a pair of mother-daughter flowers again, although it is not a kiss, but it is not bad. Thinking of this, he was in a good mood, and after he was done, he hugged Qian Yuting and fell asleep.

The next day was the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and Zhu Hongsan got up early. Don't think it's okay to take a holiday. Zhu Hongsan still has a lot to do a year ago. Enterprises in Guangzhou should go to see it, and the development zone should go to see it. The local clans in Guangzhou want to pacify, and they also have to go to the garrison to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with the soldiers, anyway, according to the leaders of later generations.

The years passed like this, and on the first day of the new year, I had a meal at home with my family. Beginning in the second year of the new year, the officials and gentry of Guangzhou came to the palace of the king of Chu to pay New Year's greetings. The first to come were Chen Zizhuang and other cabinet members, followed by the local gentry, the workers' representatives of the factories, and the meritorious personnel of the army.

After the New Year, it is the second year of Hongguang, and the Gregorian calendar is 16*46, and there is no Hongguang second year in history. This year should be the third year of Shunzhi or the second year of Longwu, but Zhu Hongsan does not recognize the Tang regime in Fujian, so the Hongguang year name is still used in Guangdong.

Looking at the land of China, the whole of China is now divided into several major forces, the largest is the Manchu regime in the north, which accounts for most of the country, and the north of the Yangtze River, except for the noisy Shanxi, basically recognizes the actual ruling power of the Manchu Dynasty. However, the provinces that the Manchus could effectively rule were also the provinces of Beizhili and Shandong, and Shaanxi.

The second largest is the Longwu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Tang King Zhu Yujian ostensibly commanded the southern provinces and could compete with the Manchu Qing in the north, but the Southern Ming Dynasty was in internal crisis. First of all, Zhu Hongsan of Guangdong did not listen to him, and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu and the king of Tang, also disobeyed him. Huguang Jiangxi was superficially subservient, but He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, simply listened to the propaganda and did not listen to the orders of the imperial court to contact the peasant army, and attacked Li Zicheng's old peasant army, and now He Tengjiao has become a warlord. Guangxi is similar, Guangxi Governor Ding Kuichu is also against the Tang Dynasty's regime, and is ready to launch Guiwang Zhu Changying as a prisoner. Not to mention Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu in Guangdong, who turned his face directly with the king of Tang, he almost didn't meet directly. Even Fujian, the base camp of the Tang Dynasty, is not monolithic, Zheng Zhilong is stubborn and self-serving, thinking that the emperor is supported by himself, and he must control the government, and the ministers of the court are also divided into several factions and make a lot of trouble.

The third force is Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime in Yungui, Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong now owns Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou and other provinces, but the eight kings are not individuals at all, Sichuan was killed by him for thousands of miles without a rooster, and his demise is only a matter of time, and now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not poured out his hand to clean him up, so he can still survive for a while.

But Zhang Xianzhong and Zhu Yujian, the Tang King of Fujian, had come to an end. Because on the first day of the first lunar month, Dolgon, the Manchu regent in Beijing, convened an imperial council, and the Manchus were ready to start their actions against the southern forces.

The little emperor Shunzhi in the Qianqing Palace sat on the dragon chair, the Queen Mother sat behind the dragon chair, Dolgon sat under the emperor's head, and under the throne stood the Manchu ministers.

Dorgon opened his mouth to speak first: "Our Lady, Your Majesty, ministers, let's discuss today how to deal with the remnants of the Ming regime in the south in the new year. ”

The Queen Mother behind the dragon chair said: "We orphans and widows all rely on the regent, Uncle Huang, you can tell your opinion!" ”

Dolgon nodded at the Queen Mother behind the curtain and said: "Now that the north of the Yangtze River has been submitted to my Qing Dynasty, the remnant Ming regime in the south supports the Tang King Zhu Yujian to be the emperor in Fujian, and the country is called Longwu. On the surface, the remnant Ming still occupies half of the country, but Jiangning's Hong Chengchou secret report, the remnant Ming is not monolithic, Zhejiang's King Lu, Guangdong's King Chu, Guangxi's King Gui are all in constant dispute with the Tang Dynasty, this is a good time for my Qing Dynasty to break their basis. ”

Prince Zheng Zierharang stood up and said: "Regent, it is a good thing that the southern expedition is remnant, but the north is in ruins, and it is difficult to pay for the food and grass of the expedition of the army!" ”

At present, the entire north of the Yellow River has been plagued by Liukou for more than 10 years, and it is really uninhabited for thousands of miles, Shandong and Shanxi are a little better, Henan and Shaanxi are thousands of miles away, and a large number of displaced people have no fixed residence, and in many places there is even a situation of cannibalism. In Shanxi, Shandong, where the situation is better, I don't know where there are so many bandits, well-armed, and some even wear armor, and they scatter in a hurry when they encounter a large group of Qing troops, and the small Qing army is often not their opponent, which really makes the local garrison very tricky.

Zilharan continued: "Merchants from the south brought in large quantities of white sugar and salt, and some of us bought them with large quantities of silver. But I don't know what's going on in the past six months, those merchants don't want silver, they want to exchange it in kind, and a large amount of grain, horses, and coal that is already lacking have been transported away by these merchants, and now a stone of rice in Beijing has risen to ten taels of silver, which is still mixed with stones and sand, so that the whole north has materials for the army to fight? ”

Zilharan was the main opponent against Dorgon, and he wanted to see that Dolgon's subsequent expedition south was expanding his power, and today he must stop Dorgon's intentions.

Dolgon was very annoyed, it had been three years since he entered the Guannei, and he had worked hard for the Qing Dynasty, but these noble ministers were short-sighted, and they knew that the Qing Dynasty was now unstable, and if they didn't take advantage of the internal contradictions within the Ming Dynasty to eliminate them first, it would be themselves who would let these Han people relieve their anger and be unlucky. You must know that the number of Han Chinese far exceeds that of Manchuria, as long as they are given time, it is a matter of minutes to destroy themselves.

Dolgon looked at the Queen Mother with the curtain hanging deeply, this woman was not simple, Zilharan was the one he pushed out to play against him. The more Dolgon thought about it, the more irritated he became, and looked at Fan Wencheng, a university scholar below.

Fan Wencheng received the message and stood up and said: "The minister has the foundation, what Prince Zheng said is very right, but if we don't use the opportunity of the current infighting to eliminate them, it will be difficult in the future." Wasn't that what the Southern Song Dynasty was like back then? If Dajin had put all of Song Huizong's sons back at that time, the Southern Song Dynasty would not have formed a powerful core and organized Dajin's iron cavalry to go south. Therefore, the minister felt that the regent was right, and he must take advantage of this good opportunity to send troops to eliminate the remnants. ”

"But what if you don't have money or food? Can you make food? ”

Fan Wencheng continued: "You don't need to send troops from Beijing to eliminate the remnants of the Ming, you can collect grain and grass from Jiangning. The area around Jiangning has always been a grain-producing area, which can meet the needs of the army. ”

"What you said is good, but I heard that the ground in Jiangning and Zhejiang is not very peaceful, the Ming army and sailors are based in Zhoushan, and they go ashore from time to time to attack and harass, and our army is fighting fires everywhere, and they are frequently running for their lives, what should you do if you Fan University?"

"Prince Zheng doesn't know, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangnan, has been on the line Chen a few years ago, and he has led the army in Jiangnan to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army's naval division, and now the Yangtze River waterway and the coast of Zhejiang have been stable, and will not hold back the army."

What the Manchu ministers didn't know was that it was not how powerful Hong Chengchou was, but Zhu Hongsan who ordered the military operation to be stopped. After Hong Chengchou found out, he lied about the military situation and concocted a great victory in the south of the Yangtze River. The officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had just entered the Central Plains, and they had not yet learned the way of being an official in China, so they were collectively fooled by Hong Chengchou.

Dolgon slapped his thigh and said, "Bachelor Fan is right, I think I will let Bo Luo of Nanjing be the general of the expedition to the south, command all the soldiers and horses in Jiangning, and immediately go south to eliminate the Tang Dynasty!" ”

Dolgon paused for a moment, and then said: "The British Prince of Xi'an, Azig, can lead the Xi'an garrison south to Sichuan, and it is better to use both prongs!" ”

Seeing that Dolgon was about to seize power again, the Queen Mother spoke out at this time: "Prince Ying has just returned from an expedition to Huguang, and the soldiers and horses are tired, so let Prince Su Haoge go to Sichuan!" Zilharang immediately beat a drum on the side, "Our Lady Queen Mother is indeed a saint!" ”

Dolgon had no choice but to issue an edict, appointing Belebolo as the general of the expedition to the south, commanding 100,000 Jiangning Shuibu troops, going south to eliminate the remnants of the Ming, appointing Prince Hao Ge of Su as the general of Jingyuan, leading 60,000 people from the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to enter Shaanxi from Tongguan and eliminate Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime in Sichuan.

As soon as the Manchu edict was written, it was easy for the Jinyi Wei spies lurking in Beijing to hear it, after all, this kind of major event could not be hidden.

The news quickly spread to Zhu Hongsan in Guangdong through Jinyiwei's network. Zhu Hongsan looked at the news and thought to himself: "The time has finally come!" However, Zhu Hongsan did not take it to heart, the order was just issued on the first day of the first lunar month, and it would take ten days and half a month to reach Nanjing, plus 100,000 troops were ready to set off, and the preparations could not be completed in two or three months, and there was still time. Zhu Hongsan only sent an order to Li Zhi in Zhoushan through the Military Aircraft Department, and issued an order not to interfere with the southward movement of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he went to busy his own business.

Zhu Hongsan returned to Dongguan on the afternoon of the 14th day of the first lunar month, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was about to go south, so it was impossible not to worry.

Zhu Hongsan is also very busy now, and on his first day on the job, he will hold a cabinet budget meeting to decide on the income and expenditure for this year.

On the morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the cabinet members and the heads of the six ministries came to the office of King Chu in Dongguan to prepare for the meeting.