Chapter 1102: The Duchess of a Small Country

The issue of heirs has always been Zhou Shixiang's heart disease. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yu Youming's unintentional words were like piercing the window paper, exposing Zhou Shixiang's heart disease to the light.

Without a queen, it is a big problem for today's Zhou Shixiang, and it is even more of a big problem for the current Taiping Army and even the Dingwu Imperial Court. Even, whether Zhou Shixiang has a son or not is directly related to whether the Han nationality can be revived again.

It was a feudal era.

A big era will not change just because someone who does not belong to this era comes.

Before this, there has always been a person who has always been concerned about whether Zhou Shixiang has a son.

This person is naturally Zhou Shixiang's old comrade-in-arms, and he is also a mentor and friend, comparable to Song Xianggong of Xiao He of the Han Dynasty.

Song Xianggong, who was the governor of Liangguang and was in charge of the construction of Liangguang in Guangdong, had repeatedly mentioned the issue of his descendants to Zhou Shixiang in letters in recent months. He hoped that Zhou Shixiang could marry Princess Changle as soon as possible and give birth to a son-in-law as soon as possible. For this reason, the tone of his letter was almost urging, and even complaining, which would never have happened before. In the Taiping Army, there has never been a second person who dares to urge Zhou Shixiang to do one thing like Song Xianggong.

Zhou Shixiang did not resent Song Xianggong's excessive attention to his personal issues, nor did he have the idea of whether I get married or not, and whether I have a son or not is your, because he knows that this is the reality of this era, a reality that he must respect and is powerless to change.

At present, Zhou Shixiang has become His Royal Highness the King of Qi, controlling hundreds of thousands of tiger and wolf elites, and owning half of the south of the Yangtze River, but he has no son to inherit everything he has beaten. This means that as long as something happens to Zhou Shixiang, the situation he has worked so hard to manage may collapse with his death.

Zhou Shixiang never imagined that he was really dead, and the generals under him would bow to Emperor Dingwu in the southern capital.

On that day, under the city of Yangzhou, the injured Zhou Shixiang pondered where the Taiping army would go after his absence, and whether the Manchu Qing would be completely wiped out. Under all kinds of deductions, the most optimistic thing is to divide the river and rule, and there is no hope of recovery.

Of course, Zhou Shixiang could not tolerate this result, but there was only one solution. A method that he didn't pay attention to at first, and didn't pay much attention to it.

Even if Zhou Shi injected too much advanced consciousness and instilled too many ideas of the past life into the Taiping Army he founded, there was essentially no difference between the Taiping Army group and any feudal armed group in Chinese history.

The application of weapons and the emphasis on and popularization of hot weapons could not change the essence of the Taiping Army as a feudal army. From its establishment to its growth, but in a few years, Zhou Shixiang was unable to transform the Taiping Army from a feudal army to a modern army on his own. In fact, because of his centralization of power and the actual needs of the war, the Taiping army became an out-and-out private army of the king of Qi. The object of this army's allegiance was not to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but to him as a Zhou Shixiang.

The essence of the feudal army is destined to be far more important than the stability within the group. In the eyes of the civil and military forces of the Taiping Army group, the greatest stability is that their lord has a young lord who can keep them loyal. Even, what some generals think in their hearts is to be the dragon hero of the Zhou dynasty, a hereditary magnate, rather than a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Under various factors, the existence of Zhou Shixiang, the leader of the Taiping Army, is very important.

No one can have the same authority as Zhou Shixiang in the Taiping army, and no one can gain more military hearts than Zhou Shixiang, if Zhou Shixiang is not there, the only one who can make the various factions in the army collectively support him is his son. If it were not for this descendant of Zhou Shixiang, then the Taiping army, like any armed group in the past, would definitely be in the end of civil strife and struggle for power.

Song Xianggong asked Zhou Shixiang to marry Princess Changle as soon as possible, not in the hope that he could gain greater prestige and fame from this marriage. None of this is important to the current Zhou Shixiang. Song Xianggong simply wanted to see the arrival of the prince of Qi, because he knew very well that this matter would have a profound impact on the entire Taiping army and the future situation.

In the letter sent by Guangdong three days ago, Song Xianggong admitted to Zhou Shixiang that his body seemed to be a little worse than before. Although Song Xianggong simply said such a sentence and talked about other things, Zhou Shixiang was very nervous and uneasy. He was very worried that Song Xianggong would die like Boss Hu, Qin Zhisheng, and Yu Shizhong.

For so many years, Song Xianggong's support for Zhou Shixiang has been the biggest help for him to get to where he is today. If it weren't for Song Xianggong, after Hu Quan's death, the old brothers in Daqiao Mountain would not have turned to Zhou Shixiang. If it weren't for Song Xianggong's worries in the rear, Zhou Shixiang would not have attacked the southern capital as he wished. Now, Song Xianggong is implementing various policies formulated by Zhou Shixiang in Guangdong, stabilizing the rear and supporting the war in the southwest. In terms of its merits, even Guo Zhiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, are far behind. Song Xianggong is like a needle in the sea for Zhou Shixiang.

However, this Lingnan Dinghai God Needle is really old, although Song Xianggong is only 62 years old, this age is not old in Zhou Shixiang's previous life, and he is even energetic, but in this era, he is really old.

No one knew when he would die, and Zhou Shixiang didn't know how long Song Xianggong's body bones would last, so in addition to immediately asking people to collect precious medicinal materials and various ginseng and send them to Guangdong, all he could do was to prevent Song Xianggong from dying with regret one day.

Zhou Shixiang wanted to marry Changle after pacifying the chaos in Jiangnan. Regardless of whether Emperor Dingwu is like the secret report of the Military Intelligence Department, he has a lot of dissatisfaction with him, the "niece and son-in-law", and he has to get married. His marriage with Changle was given by Zhu Youlang back then, so even if Emperor Dingwu is unwilling now, it is impossible for him to regret the marriage, and this is not something that a wise person would do. In any case, Zhou Shixiang did not usurp his position and changed the Ming Dynasty to Daqi or Da Zhou. And Zhou Shixiang didn't want to lose Changle, during those days in Zhenjiang, he knew that the other party really loved him.

As for whether his eldest son must be produced by Changle or by Lin Wan'er or Shi Yuanling, Zhou Shixiang actually didn't mind at all at first. After all, he has two lifetimes. But once it comes, it is safe, and the locals follow the customs, and the importance of the sister-in-law in this era is far from being dispelled by Zhou Shixiang's "casualness". If Lin Wan'er and Shi Yuanling were already pregnant with their own flesh and blood, then Zhou Shixiang would definitely regard his eldest son as a natural heir regardless of whether he was a son-in-law or not. But now, the second daughter is not pregnant, and Zhou Shixiang also pushed the boat along the river to meet Song Xianggong's wishes, and gave birth to his eldest son with Changle.

After Yu Shizhong's death, Zhou Shixiang posthumously named him the Duke of Zhejiang. According to the system, his son Yu Youming can only inherit the title of Marquis of Qingyuan during his lifetime, after all, the Duke of Zhejiang is posthumously sealed, just like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were posthumously crowned kings by Emperor Taizu, but their descendants can only inherit the title of Duke of the country, not the throne. However, Zhou Shixiang ignored the opposition of Emperor Dingwu and the cabinet, and made an exception to let Yu Youming inherit the Duke of Zhejiang, making the young Yu Youming and Guo Zhiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, become one of the only two dukes recognized by Zhou Shixiang after Dingwu restored the capital. Song Xianggong and Zhang Huangyan are only marquises at present. This alone is enough to see Zhou Shi's love for Youming.

But no one in the army said anything strange about Yu Youming, who loved Yu Youming, because this was what Yu Youming deserved. The Yu family is full of loyalty, and there is only one Yu Youming left in the three generations of grandparents. This only seedling rooted in the family has not only been loved and cared for by Zhou Shixiang, but also loved by other generals. For example, Jiang He, Wang Fuchen, Suna, Zhao Shihai and others were all ordered by Yu Shizhong at the beginning.

After Yu Youming succeeded the knight, he was filial piety to his father for three years. However, after forty-nine days of vigil, the little grandfather returned to the fifth town where his father was alive from the Zheguo Mansion in the southern capital.

The Fifth Town suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Jiangbei, and only more than 1,000 people survived after the war. However, Zhou Shixiang retained the fifth town, listed the fifth town as the best supplementary town, and the elite soldiers continued to make up for the fifth town, so that it was quickly full, and now the whole town is resting in Zhenjiang. Not only that, Zhou Shixiang also took the fifth town as his guard town.

The town of the fifth town will be the original deputy general Li Kuangming, who went south from Zhejiang with Yu Shizhong and later joined the Taiping army in Xiangshan. In the battle of Jiangbei, he was wounded and almost couldn't be saved. Yu Youming's sudden return gave Li Kuangming a headache, because he didn't know how to arrange this little grandfather.

After the incident was reported, Zhou Shixiang understood Yu Youming's desire to avenge his father, but he was a duke, and it was definitely not appropriate to return to the fifth town as a guard captain, even if he was promoted to a battalion school or even a brigade school, it was even more inappropriate to be directly promoted to a town general, after all, Yu Youming was still young. In order not to embarrass Li Kuangming, but also to allow Yu Youming to get a good arrangement and training, Zhou Shixiang pulled out the Suifa Gun Battalion that was originally listed in the first town and expanded it into the First Musket Brigade, and the whole brigade was equipped with flintlock pistols developed by the Ordnance Bureau, with a total of 3,500 people in the brigade, which was under the direct command of the Military Department, and Yu Youming served as a brigade school.

This time, he summoned Youming from Changzhou, where he was stationed, not because Zhou Shixiang wanted to give him important tasks, but because he wanted to tell the other party about his family. After all, Yu Youming is eighteen years old, and the Yu family is a lone seedling, for the sake of the Yu family, and for Yu Shizhong, who died in battle, how can Zhou Shixiang, the uncle of Qi Wang, personally marry Yu Youming, so that the Yu family, a loyal minister, will not only have a future, but also spread branches and leaves, and incense will be burned for generations.

Speaking of which, Yu Youming is actually the second generation of the Taiping Army. Among the generals, except for Ma Harrier, Wang Fuchen and Suna, who have sons, the rest such as Jiang Baldzi, Ge Laoliu, and the blind Li did not have wives. If you don't marry a wife, you naturally don't have a son, although there are not many women in these guys, but for some reason, like Zhou Shixiang, they don't have any sons. I don't know if it's deliberate or a coincidence.

Zhou Shixiang is also the first time to say goodbye, he doesn't know that Yu Youming is not satisfied with the wife candidate chosen for him by his uncle, but he is very satisfied with this future nephew and daughter-in-law, because what he wants to say to Yu Youming is Qian Qianyi and Liu Xiaozhao, the daughter of Hedong Jun Liu.

Liu Xiaozhao is one of the candidates for the Duchess of the Republic of China for Yu Youming on the orders of Zhou Shixiang, the ambassador of the Military Intelligence Department, and several other girls are also from famous families, but their family background is slightly poor, and they are also beautiful in the country.

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The TV series "Dragon Ball Legends" actually portrayed our Han national hero Li Dingguo as a eunuch who surrendered to the Qing court and voluntarily castrated into the palace, which is really shameless! I'm going to burst into foul language, the creators of this TV series, I'll fuck you!

The people of radio and television pulled out and stabbed one by one, and there was no wrongdoing. The Manchu Tartars are a group of fools who have brought about their own destruction, and the Han people have never been a forgetful nation in history. In 1911, the history of Mancheng in several southern provinces has only passed a hundred years.

It is true that you have mastered cultural entertainment; It is true that we cannot stop what you are doing, we can only grit our teeth and curse; But please don't forget that we Han people have never lacked heroes, a hero who raised his arms and shouted and responded in all directions.

Perhaps, our generation does not have it, but it does not mean that our next generation does not.

There are always awakened people, and there are always people who take that step.