Where Annan is, Tie Yi really doesn't know, and when Dong Changqing, an officer of the Ministry of War, puts out the map, he knows where Annan is, and at the same time, he also understands what is far water can't save near fire. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Ruozhen waited for him to lead the second town to Annam, and the daylilies were cold.

Zhou Shixiang didn't care about the wife Zhu Youlang got him, he cared about what was going on with the holy decree of the king of Qi. Not long ago, Shao Jiugong had just sent a telegram, saying that he had intercepted a document from the Qing army, saying that the Qing army in Yunnan had captured several Ming army spies, and they carried the holy decree of Emperor Yongli to canonize Zhou Shixiang as the Duke of Yue.

Emperor Yongli gave Zhou Shixiang the title of the Duke of Yue, but now it is the King of Feng Qi from Guangdong, and things have become very confusing, and it has made Zhou Shixiang more and more confused: Yongli is really so happy, willing to give himself the title of prince? If he is really willing to give himself the title of prince, then what is the matter with the Duke of Yue? Could it be that Yongli first crowned himself the Duke of Yue, and then felt guilty when he thought about it, and then made up for the title of King of Qi?

Zhou Shixiang had no way of guessing what happened in Yunnan and what caused Yongli to change his mind. He has a headache now, a headache for this trouble with Annan.

Reasoning, whether he wants to or not, he must immediately send troops to rescue the eldest princess who has nominally become his wife, even if the other party looks like a fat pig, Zhou Shixiang will marry her back, because this is the wife that the emperor married himself. As a courtier, as long as Zhou Shixiang did not set up a new monarch for a day, he had to accept Yongli's arrangement for him.

Zhou Shixiang has not yet established a new monarch, because he does not know whether Yongli has abandoned the country and fled. The Qing generals who surrendered to the Taiping army in Guangxi only said that Wu Sangui was leading the army to pursue Yongli, and had a big battle with Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, in Mopan Mountain, and the Qing army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in this battle, but Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, was also defeated, and is now leading the army to fight with the Qing army on the border of Yunnan. There is no news in the rhetoric of all parties that Yongli has abandoned the country, so no matter how anxious Zhou Shixiang is to support the Tang Dynasty immediately, he has to wait patiently.

If the news of Yongli's abandonment of the country does not come for a day, and if it is not confirmed for a day, it will be impossible for Zhou Shixiang to support the king of Tang. If he does this, not only will he be scolded by the world's pro-Ming forces, but the Taiping army itself will also be infighting. Not to mention the old four towns, Zhao Ziqiang's fifth town, Suna's sixth town, and Hu Qili's seventh town have nothing to worry about, but the eighth town of Zhenguo General Zhu Tong, the ninth town of Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi, and Wang Xing's tenth town will inevitably have a dirty affair with Zhou Shixiang because of this matter, and then deviate from Germany. After all, these people are willing to accept the command of Zhou Shixiang, to a certain extent, for the sake of King Qin, the king of Qin Yongli. Their titles and status were also given to them by Yongli, not by Zhou Shixiang. Even now that they have accepted the reorganization of the Taiping Army, they are still independent in the Taiping Army system.

Rather for the head of a chicken, not for the tail of a phoenix.

It is difficult to say that Zhu Tong, Guo Dengdi, and Wang Xing are really willing to be generals in the Taiping Army, and if they have the opportunity to choose, they may be more willing to be independent and be the head of the army. The reason why Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, and Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, were unwilling to respond to Zhou Shixiang's call was because they did not want to live under Zhou Shixiang.

One is the governor, the other is the governor, and they responded to Zhou Shixiang, who was just an uncle, what could they get? Which of the territories controlled by the Taiping Army in Guangdong can be intervened, why is Zhou Shixiang unwilling to move the governor's yamen back to Guangzhou, why is he single-handedly set up the Guangdong political envoy Yamen, and what is the reason? It's not about power yet.

Zhu Tong and Guo Dengdi were either for the sake of righteousness, in order to resist the overall situation of the Qing Dynasty, or their strength was limited, and they could not confront Zhou Shi, so they chose to respond to Zhou Shixiang. But Zhou Shixiang really wants to set up a new monarch, and the righteousness is not there, whether Zhu Tong and Guo Dengdi will have other thoughts is really an uncertain thing.

Zhou Shixiang claimed to them at the mouth of Zhaoqing that he was also going to King Qin in Guangxi, this son of heaven was still in the country, and he was still insisting, but Zhou Shixiang supported the new monarch in a blink of an eye, which not only slapped his own face, but also hit the face of the world's pro-Ming forces, and even created trouble for himself.

Kui Dongbing, as the "pro-Tang faction" in Zhou Shixiang's plan, has been rescued from Kuidong and put into Hubei, and is now turning the world upside down in Hubei. Zheng's family in Jinxia is also recuperating since the hurricane returned from the north last year, and the surname of the country has not given up the plan to go north, and he is starting to re-enter the Yangtze River this year. And Zheng Jun's re-entry into the Yangtze River this time was the battle of "the national surname Ye fought Nanjing" known to Zhou Shixiang, and it was also his best opportunity to pick the fruits of the southeast.

And whether it is Kui Dongbing or the surname of the country, these two substantive pro-Tang factions are obviously impossible to be people without a king and a father under the premise that Yongli has not abandoned the country, and they will respond to Zhou Shi to support Tang together. In this era, righteousness is a big hat, and it is also a hat that can kill. Kui Dongbing has been enshrined in Yongli, and the surname of the country is also seen in the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty against his will Yongli as the monarch's father, even if he does not listen to the tune or listen to the announcement, in name the surname of the country is the courtier of Yongli. Therefore, as long as Yongli is still alive, whether it is Kui Dongbing, or whether it is the surname of the country, in the face of righteousness, it is impossible for them to be people without a king and a father. If you want them to support Tang with Zhou Shixiang, there can only be one premise, that is, Yongli will die by himself - abandon the country!

The news of Zhou Shixiang's abandonment of the country can be said to be hopeful, but the news has not arrived for a long time, but it is Annan's trouble.

The matter of Annam was very troublesome, and the main force of the Taiping Army was confronting the Qing army on the two fronts of Guangxi and Hunan, and it was impossible to draw troops back from these two battlefields, so it would be too late in time. But he can't help but send troops to Annan, after all, Zhou Shixiang's nominal wife was detained by the Annan people, if he didn't save it, in case the eldest princess had any three long and two short, his "King of Qi" would not look good, if the Annan people insulted the eldest princess for anything, then he, the "King of Qi" of the Ming Dynasty, would have no face. Moreover, in addition to this cheap wife, there were also subordinates such as Xu Yingyuan and Guo Shao, as well as more than 200 Ming officials, their families and guards, including the university scholar Fu Gang. With so many people, can Zhou Shixiang not be saved?

But Zhou Shixiang really didn't want to send troops to save people, because this was tantamount to declaring war with Annan and declaring war with a country, even if Annan was only a small country, it would not be difficult to gather hundreds of thousands of people to come out. How could Zhou Shixiang have so many soldiers in his hands to start a war with Annan? Where did he get the confidence and strength to fight against the Qing court and Annam at the same time?

Zhou Shixiang had a headache, in his opinion, sending troops to Annan to save people seemed to be worth the loss, except for the effort, there was no return at all.

After thinking about it, Zhou Shixiang decided to redeem people.

Things in the world are just a good word. Why did Annan betray the Ming Dynasty, it was nothing more than seeing that the Ming Dynasty was dying. But to be good friends with the Qing Dynasty, it is not necessary to accept the name. As long as the price is high and the Annan people are satisfied, the Annan people do not have to bear a bad reputation for betraying the suzerain, and they also have to consider how the new suzerain, the Manchus, perceive what they have done. If the Manchus will not be able to do so in the future, will they do the same? Moreover, it was impossible for the Manchus to declare war on Annam just because the Annamites did not hand over the Ming officials and soldiers they had detained to them.

Therefore, Zhou Shixiang thought that the plan of ransom was feasible, and at his insistence, Tie Yi and the others did not say anything more.

After deciding to ransom people, Zhou Shixiang also had to consider a suitable envoy to Annan to act as a lobbyist, and finally he decided to send Gui Yongzhi, an official of the six officials, to Annan.

Dong Changqing, a military officer, also has foresight, and does not advocate a war with the Annan people now, because the foundation of the Taiping army is too thin, and the pressure on Hunan and Guangxi is too great, and once a war with Annam starts, Guangdong, which actually has a population of 1.5 million, will not be able to support this war at all. Therefore, the marshal said that he wanted to redeem people, Dong Changqing readily agreed, and after writing the official document sent to Guangzhou according to Zhou Shixiang's intentions, he handed it to Zhou Shixiang and said casually: "The land in Annan is not good, just one benefit, the rice in the field is three crops a year, and the grain is too much to eat." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang's hand with the official document stopped there: "You mean, Annan has a lot of rice?" ”

"It's a lot, not only is there more rice, but it's more fragrant than ours."

Dong Changqing nodded, didn't think much about it, and as soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the handsome man tore up the written official document.

"Since there is plenty of food, let's go to war." (To be continued.) )