What a cheat!

Pit Xiucai!

Zhou Shixiang was stunned, God knows when Zhu Qinglai told the blind man Li this, and what stupid medicine did the blind man Li take to dare to shout at this time.

Yes, he wants to crown him as the prince forever, but it is not such an important law, how can there be anyone in this world who shouts in front of the emperor's envoys that he will not recognize the emperor if he does not give the prince the title!

Dead blind man, Lao Tzu is so good to you, fifty Manchurian girls can get it for you, you will repay me like this! Can you fucking grow your brain and go for a walk!

Zhou Shixiang was really stunned, he didn't know how to deal with this sudden situation, he stood there stupidly looking at Guo Zhiqi, the smile on his face was still hanging, but he looked very embarrassed, as if he didn't smile.

The blind man's "bold words" were the same as his mother's fairy sound, echoing in the council hall and in everyone's ears.

The marshal wants to ask for the crown prince? Why don't I know this?

Song Xianggong looked at Zhou Shixiang in surprise.

Wang Zhangjun and Zuo Qing were also so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths, looking at Zhou Shixiang's back blankly, there was only one thought in their minds - the thief show is really guts!

The two of them only thought that the blind Li Rong was instructed by Zhou Shixiang in advance, so that he could say what he couldn't say directly through the mouth of this unscrupulous person, after all, if Zhou Shixiang directly opened his mouth and asked Yongli for the title of prince, it would be too disrespectful and too domineering to Yongli.

However, the two of them were not optimistic that Yongli would be able to crown Zhou Shixiang as the prince, because although Nanming only had such a little territory left, the prince and uncle also indiscriminately sealed a lot. But he looked at Wang Jue very strictly, and Sun Kewang's title of King Qin was also privately granted by Chen Bangfu and others without the concealment of Yongwu's golden book and golden seal, and Yongli has never recognized it. Later, if it weren't for the fall of Liangguang. Chen Bangfu and others wanted to sell Yongli to the Qing court in order to advance to the ranks, and Yongli had to recognize Sun Kewang's title of King Qin in desperation in order to get Sun Kewang's protection, so that he had the first prince with a different surname in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Dingguo's King of Jin and Liu Wenxiu's King of Shu titles were also canonized by Yongli in desperation to some extent, after all, he had to rely on Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to fight against Sun Kewang, and not giving Li and Liu the titles of Prince was not enough to motivate the two of them to work for him. In other words, Sun Kewang's King of Qin, Li Dingguo's King of Jin, and Liu Wenxiu's title of King of Shu were all bargaining chips taken out by Emperor Yongli in order to survive. And the only thing he could get his hands on.

Yongli is the only one who takes the initiative to be crowned king when no one is threatened, and Zheng Chenggong is Fujian Zheng Chenggong, and in the third year of Yongli, Zhu Youlang named Zheng Chenggong as the king of Yanping County, and in eight years, Zheng Chenggong was crowned as the king of Chao (prince). Zheng Chenggong insisted on not accepting it, and still took the title of the king of Yanping County in the third year of Yongli.

Yongli named Zheng Chenggong as the king, in fact, it was also to gain the support of the Zheng family, after all, although the Zheng family's territory was not large. There will be more than 100,000 soldiers. There is also a powerful sailor in hand, and he restrained the Qing army in the southeast for the Yongli court. If there was no Zheng clan in the southeast, the Qing court would have transferred the army from the southeast to invade the southwest, and Yongli would have survived in Yunnan today. In other words, Yongli named Zheng Chenggong as king to save his life.

In addition, Li Chengdong's king of Ningxia was posthumously crowned after his death, and when he was alive, Yongli only named him the Duke of Huiguo. Except for these four living people and one dead person, Yongli has never crowned a single person as a king, even if it is posthumously awarded. It can be seen how important the prince is in Yongli's heart, and he will never give the prince a reward unless he is at the moment of his life. After all, if the prince is also flying in the sky like the prince and the marquis. That's not worth much.

In other words, it is an official who is loyal to the Ming family, and he will never look at the Yongli king like this, but Wang Zhangjun and Zuo Qing are both renegades and demoted officials, and they have no loyalty to the Ming family for a long time.

The Taiping army is in Guangdong, the Yongli court is in Yunnan, and Guangxi is separated by the two, so the Taiping army naturally has no threat to the Yongli court, and there is no threat to the Yongli emperor himself, so Zuo Qing and Wang Zhangjun do not think that Yongli can give the prince to Zhou Shixiang.

Moreover, if Zhou Shixiang instructed the blind man Li to argue in front of the court envoys to Yongli to make him a marquis and a prince of the country, Zuo and Wang were not surprised, and they also felt that it was natural, after all, Zhou Shixiang's merits could be awarded to the prince of the country, and even the king of the county was not impossible, but now the blind man Li was shouting for the title of the prince, and the two of them thought of several times in the Yongli court, and naturally they were not optimistic about Zhou Shixiang's move of "self-invited" to be crowned king.

At the end of the day, he is a young man, he is too anxious, the news of the recovery of Guangzhou has not yet arrived in Kunming, you are so anxious to ask the court for the title of prince, how does this Guo Zhiqi see you, and how does Yongli look at you? Sun Kewang was not so anxious as you were back then!

Things have to be done step by step, how can you become fat in one bite, let alone mention this kind of almost tearing face-to-face king's behavior.

Zuo and Wang shook their heads secretly, and listened to the meaning of the blind man Li's words, it seems that Yongli will not give Zhou Shixiang the title of prince, and Zhou Shixiang really doesn't recognize Yongli as the emperor?

Zuo Qing and Wang Zhangjun looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of worry in each other's eyes. The two of them can't help but worry, in case Zhou Shixiang is really motivated by the desire for profit and wants Yongli to make him the prince, but Yongli would rather die than seal it, is it true that the Taiping Army will not be able to fight with Nanming?

Over the years, there have been too many examples of fiascos defeated by various forces in the Southern Ming Dynasty because of internal strife, and the left and right political participation is very optimistic that the Taiping Army that has broken away from the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty can develop, you must know that the existence of the Taiping Army is related to his two lives, in case the Taiping Army is defeated, he and the two will not be able to run.

The Qing court's Jidu army arrived in Guangdong after the year, and the great enemy was current, but Zhou Shixiang wanted to fall out with the Yongli court because of the king's affairs, which was not the way to seek death.

Wang Zhangjun's mouth opened and opened, wanting to persuade, but he didn't know how to persuade. Zuo Qing peeked at Guo Zhiqi and Qin Rong's reactions, and the more he looked at it, the more cold he became.

Qin Rong and Guo Zhiqi were obviously shocked by the words of the blind man Li, one with a blue face, and the other with a calm face.

Qin Rong was already angry in his chest, and the previous Zhou Shixiang had played the imperial court as an important official for his subordinates, which made the governor of Qinzhou even dissatisfied, and after recovering Guangzhou, he did not immediately send someone to invite the governor to return to station, but set up his own political envoy, not mentioning the matter of taking back the governor's line, and appointed villains such as Wang Zhangjun as political officials. It can be seen that Zhou Shiyan does not exist at all in the eyes of the governor, and even the Guangdong government does not exist.

Even though the holy decree brought by Guo Zhiqi gave Zhou Shixiang the power to open six officials, the holy decree only gave him the appointment of military attachés below the second rank. The power of civil officials below the sixth rank, the political envoy is a senior member of the second rank, and the left and right participation in politics is a third-rank official position, so the official appointed by Zhou Shixiang is not legal.

Qin Rong wanted to grasp this matter and force Zhou Shixiang to dismiss his private political envoy, so that the governor Lian Chengbi could return to Guangzhou, so that the military and political affairs of Guangdong could be returned to the governor's yamen, which was also the purpose of Lian Chengbi to let him come to Guangzhou. But Guo Zhiqi didn't care about this. Instead, he reprimanded him, which made him very unwilling. Thinking of what Zhang Xiaoqi, the former governor of the four prefectures, and Cheng Bangjun, the head of the military department, said to him, goodbye Zhou's subordinates openly shouted that the Son of Heaven would make Zhou the prince. If you don't seal it, you will not recognize the imperial court, and Zhou Shixiang's domineering image is deeply ingrained in Qin Rong's mind.

Lord Qin has been loyal all his life, how can he stand such a domineering villain, he even scolded the thief Xiucai of Zhou Shixiang by the Qing army countless times in his heart

It is different from Qin Rong's belief that this matter was instructed by Zhou Shixiang. Guo Zhiqi was suspicious. If so, then the nature of the matter is serious, if not, it can be a big thing into a small thing, a small thing into nothing, a dignified scholar has to deal with a bunch of people.

Chen Qice and Zhu Tong of Zhaoqing told Guo Zhiqi that most of the Taiping army were surrendered soldiers and bandits, so it was reasonable for some people to come out. Isn't the Liang Shuanghu sent to Kunming by Zhou Shixiang also a hunren? Those who don't know big characters regard the "Shunzhi is a dog" behind him as "loyal to the country" in front of the Son of Heaven. It only made the Son of Heaven laugh. It can be seen that there are many people in the Taiping army, and because these people are bandits and soldiers, they don't pay much attention to the system and majesty of the imperial court, and it is normal to offend them.

As long as the Taiping army is loyal to the Ming Dynasty and Zhou Shixiang is loyal to the Son of Heaven, Guo Zhiqi will not count the gaffes of his subordinates. He even thought of saying to the Son of Heaven that Zhou Shixiang would be the king of the county, so that the military and government of Guangdong could be unified under the command of Zhou Shixiang, so as to break the previous dilemma that all the departments in Guangdong fought separately and did not have a unified order, so that they were repeatedly broken by the Qing army.

The premise of the support of the scholars is that Zhou Shixiang is loyal to the king, not arrogant. In case this matter is really instigated by Zhou Shixiang, Guo Zhiqi must be cautious.

It stands to reason that Zhou Shixiang's merits can indeed be crowned king, but whether he can be crowned prince depends on the will of the Son of Heaven, not what the courtiers want. The Son of Heaven does not give it, but the courtiers must, and if they don't deny the Son of Heaven, this is not a rebellion, but a rebellion.

Thinking that the Son of Heaven changed the Xingguo Duke originally granted to him to Xingping Bo because Zhou Shixiang was an important subordinate official, if he knew that Zhou Shixiang was going to force him to make him a prince, Guo Zhiqi could imagine how angry Emperor Yongli would be.

Things are a bit tricky, and we must not express our stance lightly, the situation in Guangdong has just improved, and there can be no more accidents.

Guo Zhiqi quickly turned his thoughts, thinking about how to deal with this.

The chamber was so quiet that you could hear a needle.

The blind man Li Huran didn't realize what impact his words just yelled at would have on his family's marshal, but he just glared at Guo Zhiqi and Qin Rong very dissatisfied, as if his family's marshal's original decree to make the prince change these two white-faced traitors.

Zhou Shixiang turned around and glared fiercely at the blind man Li who caused him a lot of trouble, and saw that Zuo Qing and Wang Zhangjun's eyes seemed to think that this matter was his own envoy, and he was so angry that he really wanted to take his finger to the sky and swear a poisonous oath, telling them that the good people of heaven and earth were really caused by the blind Li and the fool himself, and it was never instructed by me!

The atmosphere was awkward and weird, as if there was a powder keg in the council hall that could be lit with a single point, Zhou Shixiang couldn't stand the eyes of everyone looking at him, he laughed dryly, tried his best to keep himself calm, and tried to make the expression on his face as natural as before.

"Now that the decree is completed, then Ben Bo will set up a banquet for the scholars to pick up the wind and wash the dust."

Zhou Shixiang seems to have forgotten what happened just now, and wants to do his best to be a landlord and set up a banquet to entertain Guo Zhiqi.

Guo Zhiqi noticed Zhou Shixiang's self-proclaim, and saw that his expression was not fake, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and tacitly wanted to downplay the matter, and was about to speak, but Qin Rong said angrily: "Xingpingbo, what kind of heart do you have?" A while ago, you were an official in the court, and now you directly ask the Son of Heaven to crown you as a prince, can this prince be titled by a courtier? Is there a court in your eyes, and is there a son of heaven! ”

Qin Rong angrily pointed at Zhou Shixiang, even if this thief, who he identified as the same as Sun Kewang, asked someone to cut him to death on the spot, he would angrily reprimand him for his unjust thoughts, so as to do his best to prevent the Son of Heaven from being disgraced.

Guo Zhiqi frowned, and secretly scolded Qin Rong for being a fool, even if this matter was really instigated by Zhou Shixiang behind his back, he couldn't make this clear!

"Ben Bo doesn't have this thought, Lord Qin don't take what this fool says seriously."

Zhou Shixiang felt a big headache, he tried his best to downplay the matter, Guo Zhiqi didn't seem to want to dwell on this, and Qin Rong jumped out.

"Is Xingping Bo a three-year-old child?" Qin Rong sneered, pointed at the blind man Li and said, "If it weren't for Xingpingbo's meaning, this person would dare to say such a rebellious thing!" ”

The blind Li found that something was wrong, he seemed to have done something wrong, but he didn't feel anything wrong when he thought about it, Zhu Qinglai told him clearly, his own marshal really wanted to ask Yongli for the title of prince, if he dared not to give it, our Taiping army would not recognize him Emperor Zhu in the future. This is obviously said by the big handsome himself, why is the big handsome not admitting it now, the blind Li can't understand, and his expression is also very confused.

"It's really not what Ben Bo meant, Lord Qin, don't get me wrong." Zhou Shixiang is really hard to speak, he has ideas, but he hasn't had time to do it.

"It's not what Xing Pingbo meant, then this person is very rebellious, making demagogic remarks, messing with my routine, and asking Xingping Bo to correct this person's Fa to correct the public!" Qin Rong looked at Zhou Shixiang coldly.

Song Xianggong's face changed, and Guo Zhiqi's body trembled: Qin Rong is too much!

Zhou Shixiang's face also sank, and he said coldly: "What my people say, what do they do, if they don't teach Lord Qin a lesson, they will be wrong, and Ben Bo will punish him, and he doesn't need Lord Qin to shout and kill." ”

"If you don't kill this person, it means that what he said was instructed by you, what a good Xingping Bo!" Qin Rong laughed angrily, laughing at exposing the true face of the thief Xiucai.

"What does Benber mean?"

Qin Rong's laughter angered Zhou Shixiang, and he shouted angrily: "Sun Kewang can be the king of Qin, why can't I be the prince!" ”

Hearing this, Qin Rongsheng blushed and scolded: "How dare you ask for the prince!" ”

Zhou Shixiang snorted angrily: "Just rely on the tens of thousands of strong soldiers under my command!" ”

"You! Great rebellion! Qin Rong was so angry that he pointed his finger at Zhou Shixiang and couldn't help but tremble.

"Great rebellion? Did Ben Bo ever say he would rebel? "The matter has come to this, Zhou Shi no longer hides his armpits, and there is no need to be hypocritical, he is going to make him a prince forever, and it is better to say it earlier than later. He hugged his fists and said to Guo Zhiqi: "Dare to ask the scholar, can Ben Bo's merits be the king?" ”

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Guo Zhiqi was surprised by the change in things that he didn't want to see, and he didn't react yet.

"No matter how great your merits are, whether you can be crowned king or not requires the consent of the Son of Heaven, and since you are a courtier, you can't ask for it yourself! If the Son of Heaven gives it to you, you are the king, and if the Son of Heaven does not give it to you, you can't ask for it! ”

"What if I have to ask the Son of Heaven to crown me king?" Zhou Shixiang threw off his robe, pressed his sword and walked outside the hall, and pointed to the sky: "The Son of Heaven, the strong soldier and the strong horse are for it!" (To be continued.) )