Zhoushan Islands, King Lu's sailors and Zheng Chenggong's sailors, anchored here, Zhoushan Port is full of masts, white sails like clouds, and the huge fleet is slightly magnificent.

Zhoushan was the base of King Lu's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of people followed King Lu to the island together, and after the recovery of Jiangnan, some people followed King Lu back to Zhejiang, but a large number of people chose to stay in Zhoushan.

Because in the War of Resistance against the Qing Dynasty, Zhoushan paid a lot, so after the restoration of Jiangnan, under the struggle of King Lu, Zhoushan was given a five-year tax exemption policy, and the people on Zhoushan still loved King Dai Lu very much, so King Lu temporarily docked here.

At the end of August, Zhang Kentang, a scholar of Zhejiang Party University, led 10,000 horses to Hangzhou, and then 30,000 Chu soldiers also marched into Zhejiang.

King Lu took away the vast majority of the Zhejiang soldiers, and in the face of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, the Zhejiang officialdom immediately made a wise decision to open the city and let Zhang Kentang enter the city. As soon as he entered Hangzhou, he took control of the houses of Xiao Qihui, Wang Yi, Ruan Jun and others, and there was no further action.

As a bigwig of the Zhejiang Party, Zhang Kentang temporarily lived in the governor's yamen, and every day there were Zhejiang officials who came to inquire about the news outside the yamen.

The two did not clearly indicate anything, only said that when His Royal Highness the King of Chu inspected Zhejiang, the court would make its own decision.

At the beginning of September, Wang Yan entered Zhejiang under the escort of 10,000 horse troops, first, to negotiate with King Lu and Zheng Chenggong, and second, to calm the hearts of the people in Zhejiang, so he had transferred 30,000 Chu soldiers who had entered Zhejiang and rushed back to Huguang as soon as possible.

Although Wang Yan had decided to use Jiang Xiang's chess piece to force Dolgon to retreat, it was obviously not safe to put all his hopes in one basket, and it was not the work of a wise man.

In case Jiang Xiang didn't get into trouble, or if the incident failed, and he had no other means, wouldn't the Ming army be defeated in Huguang.

Therefore, Wang Yan wanted to end the civil strife as soon as possible, transfer his troops back to Huainan and Huguang, and leave more preparations in case of contingencies.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, Wang Yan arrived in Hangzhou and lived directly in King Lu's palace in Hangzhou.

In the guest hall of the Lu Palace, Wang Yan sat upright, the scholar Zhang Kentang and the Zhejiang envoy Xie Kuang sat on the left and right, and in the center of the living room was an open box, which was full of letters.

"Your Highness, here is a letter of allegiance written by Zhejiang officials to King Lu! There are also some correspondence between some officials of Nanzhi and Nanjing officials and King Lu! Xie Kuang saluted Wang Yan.

King Lu pointed out the deer as a horse in the Yuewang Temple, and most of the officials in Zhejiang wrote letters of allegiance, and Xie Kuang knew about it, so as soon as he returned to Hangzhou, he searched these things out of the palace of King Lu.

Wang Yan looked at the whole box, I am afraid that Zhejiang has written it all up, and Nanzhi and the court are afraid that there are many people who contact King Lu.

Wang Yan frowned, suddenly looked at Zhang Kentang, who was a little restless on the side, and asked, "What does Elder Zhang Ge think these letters should do?" ”

Zhang Kentang hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "Your Highness, at this time, you must calm people's hearts, it is not appropriate to implicate too widely, and King Lu and Zheng Chenggong are still overseas, I think it is best to destroy them, in order to show the leniency of His Highness and the imperial court, and quickly stabilize Zhejiang." ”

Wang Yan listened carefully, Zhang Kentang is a bigwig of the Zhejiang faction, so he naturally doesn't want Wang Yan to be imprisoned in Zhejiang, and wants to protect Zhejiang officials and preserve the vitality of the Zhejiang Party.

He is just over 50 years old, and he can still serve the people for a few years, at least until he is sixty or seventy years old, how can he be willing to end his political life so quickly?

Wang Yan asked Zhang Kentang to appease Zhejiang, and he liked that his identity as a Zhejiang faction boss could gain the trust of Zhejiang officialdom, making them think that the imperial court would not be ruthless, so that the imperial court could quickly accept Zhejiang.

Now the overall situation is basically decided, but should we start a big case or not?

Wang Yan turned his head to look at Xie Kuang, "What do you think of Daowu?" ”

"Your Highness, people cannot stand without faith, and the country cannot be uneasy!" Xie Kuang saluted and said in a deep voice: "Since they support the rebellion, they should be punished by the Ming Dynasty, if the court does not punish them, how can they deter the world?" ”

"Xie Zhentai, this is a scholar's opinion! The law of the Ming Dynasty is important, but it also depends on the timing and the specific situation. Now we can only do the law and not blame the public, and if we deal with them all, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Zhejiang to stabilize for a while. Zhang Kentang saw that Xie Kuang was going to be severely punished, and he was a little anxious, "To govern the country, it is not okay to admit death, you have to be flexible, and sometimes you have to compromise when you need to compromise." At present, on the one hand, there is no strategy for how to deal with King Lu and Zheng Guo, on the other hand, you don't look at how many people are involved, do you want to take out all the officials in Zhejiang? ”

Xie Kuang was a little unhappy when he heard this, he talked about the matter, Zhang Kentang said that he was a scholar, and this was over, so he snorted coldly, "Zhang Ge Lao is so eager to destroy the letter, won't there be a letter from Ge Lao among them!" ”

"You ······" Zhang Kentang's face suddenly turned red, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Wang Yan immediately waved his hand when he saw it, "Okay, don't fight between the two!" It's all for the sake of the court, don't hurt the peace. Saying that, Wang Yan paused for a moment, and then pondered: "That's it! These things are placed here in the lonely king, you let the lonely think, and the lonely will answer you tomorrow. ”

After finishing speaking, Wang Yan motioned for the two to retreat, and when the two saw this, they had to bow and leave.

Walking to the door, Zhang Kentang snorted coldly, glared at Xie Kuang with a Buddha sleeve, and walked away.

Wang Yan and the others left, stared at the letter for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Yu Taichu! ”

Not long after, Yu Taichu came out of the back hall, stood in front of Wang Yan, bowed down and clenched his fists: "Your Highness, you are here!" ”

"Arrange for people to copy a copy of these letters, and then put them in the Fusi Archives Reading Library in Jinyi Weibei Town for preservation." Wang Yan ordered directly, and then admonished: "Be secret, Lone will give you a night's time!" ”

Yu Taichu glanced at the big box in the middle, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "Let's do it!" ”

Wang Yan nodded, but stopped him who wanted to leave, "How is the arrangement for meeting with King Lu and Zheng Guo?" ”

Yu Taichu was stunned, "Five days later, when we met outside Ningbo Port, King Lu and Zheng Guo refused to go ashore, and they didn't want to meet separately, they wanted to see His Highness together!" ”

Wang Yan couldn't help but touch his nose, he originally wanted to divide and disintegrate, it seemed that the two of them were too defensive of him, "It's really not even on the shore, and they don't believe in the guarantee of the lonely king!" All right! See you outside Ningbo Port! ”

"Retired from his duties!" Yu Taichu saw that Wang Yan had nothing else to explain, so he hurriedly retired.

The next day, Wang Yan summoned Zhejiang officials to see him at King Lu's mansion, and it was still the guest hall, and the box of letters was still untouched.

Every official who came in could see the box of letters, and many of them immediately turned pale.

In order to show loyalty to King Lu, many people inevitably scolded Wang Yan in the letter, what kind of thief of the country, power traitor and the like, did not say less, one by one saw these letters fall into Wang Yan's hands, how can they not be afraid in their hearts?

Wang Yan glanced at the Zhejiang officials in the hall, stared at them one by one, buried their heads in their chests, and did not let them sit down, deliberately silent for a while, before suddenly laughing: "You don't have to be nervous, King Lu pointed to the deer as a horse in the Yuewang Temple, and King Gu knew that you were also forced to write these letters!" ”

Zhou Hezhi and other Zhejiang officials, listening to Wang Yan's words, looked down at each other, and then Zhou Hezhi stood up and saluted: "Your Royal Highness is wise, at that time, King Lu was coerced by armor, and I had to write these letters of allegiance as a last resort, and the content of the letters was not out of our own intentions. ”

"Yes! We're all forced..." The officials in the hall chimed in, as if someone had put a knife on their necks at that time.

Wang Yan looked at them, smiled, pressed his hand down, signaled them to be quiet, and when the hall was quiet, he continued: "You can rest assured, the things that come from coercion are naturally innumerable. Emperor Gaozong burned the letters, and with the heart of the ministers, today the Lone King also burned these things in front of you. ”

When the people below heard that they were going to be burned, they all breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Yan glanced at them, and then said earnestly: "The painstaking work of the lonely king, I hope you can understand it, and in the future, you must be loyal to the court and obey the deployment of the court!" ”

"Your Highness's kindness, we will take it to heart, and we will definitely do things for the court wholeheartedly in the future!" Zhou Hezhi took the lead and said.

Zhang Kentang was also very happy when he saw that Wang Yan listened to his opinion, and after that, he said that Wang Yan was famous.

After dealing with the affairs of Zhejiang officialdom and appeasing the hearts of the people in Zhejiang, Wang Yan immediately went to Ningbo under the escort of the army, preparing to discuss with King Yu Lu and Zheng Chenggong.

Wang Yan rode on the horse, turned his head and asked Yu Taichu, who was following behind: "Among those things, is there any old Zhang Ge?" ”

"Yes!" Yu Taichu got closer and whispered.

Wang Yan sneered when he heard this, scolded the old fox in his heart, and didn't say anything, he twitched his horse's buttocks and accelerated towards Ningbo.

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