"The daughter of the Tang King?"

When Zhu Youlang heard the name of Zhu Yulu, the pseudo-Shaowu Emperor, he did not scold Zhu Yulu as emotionally as Guo Zhiqi thought, but still called Zhu Yulu the vassal king before he was called the emperor, and asked him very strangely: "When the city of Guangzhou was broken, didn't the whole family of the Tang King call Li Chengdong to arrest him, why did he have a daughter who ran out, are you sure that the woman is the daughter of the Tang King, Changle Gong... The lord of Changle? ”

"Your Majesty?"

Guo Zhiqi couldn't figure out whether Emperor Yongli really cared about the truth or falsehood of this Tang King's daughter, or was talking back in anger, he intuitively felt that the emperor in front of him had changed too much over the years, and after hearing that Zhu Yulu was proclaimed emperor in Guangzhou, Emperor Yongli scolded Zhu Yulu in front of hundreds of officials for stealing the treasure, and he couldn't wait to tie it up and kill it on the spot. This made the Yongli courtiers dare not mention things about Shaowu in front of Emperor Yongli, and even the name of Shaowu is a big taboo. Guo Zhiqi just called Tang King Zhu Yulu with the pseudo-Emperor Shaowu, and called his daughter a princess, which was already a taboo in the Yongli court, so he was also extremely nervous, afraid that Emperor Yongli would be angry because of this.

Seeing Guo Zhiqi looking at himself worriedly, Zhu Youlang knew what he was thinking, sighed lightly, and whispered: "Although the Tang King had fought with me for the throne back then, he died and martyred the country, which has all the integrity of my Zhu family's disciples. Besides, King Tang is my uncle, how can I really hate him for the rest of my life because of his momentary mistakes? ”

After finishing speaking, there was another long sigh: "It's a pity that the city of Guangzhou was broken that year, and the 24 vassal kings of my clan were hunted and killed by the Qing army, which made the talents of the clan wither. There is no great material that can assist me, otherwise, how could I be allowed to deal with this crisis alone. ”

Guo Zhiqi didn't know how to pick up the stubble. In that year, Li Chengdong entered the city of Guangzhou, and the 24 Ming Dynasty vassal kings in the city were martyred together with Emperor Shaowu Zhu Yulu, although the close relatives of the clan and the vassal were empty, but it also made no more vassal kings in the world who could threaten Zhu Youlang's succession to the throne. To put it mildly, if there are still a few relatives and vassals, Emperor Yongli probably will not hope that these vassal kings can assist him, but will be afraid of the appearance of another Shaowu Emperor. After all, what the Yongli Imperial Court did was very chilling to some people with lofty ideals.

Once there is a vassal king who is more capable and able to win the hearts of the people than Emperor Yongli, even if he is only a little more courageous than Emperor Yongli. If you don't run away in trouble, it is difficult to say whether the throne of Emperor Yongli can still be recognized by the world's pro-Ming forces. This can be seen from the current attitude of Erzhang and Zheng in Fujian and Zhejiang, although they nominally serve Emperor Yongli as the co-master, one of them still does not give up on King Lu. One is under the banner of the dead Emperor Longwu. is lukewarm to the Yongli court.

Of course, Guo Zhiqi would definitely not dare to say these words in front of Emperor Yongli, so he could only hide them deep in his heart.

"Back then, the King of Tang and I competed for the throne, and it was still my fault if I didn't run, and the King of Tang would not have usurped the false name in Guangzhou."

Looking back on the events of that year, Zhu Youlang was also very annoyed, and he didn't mean to whitewash himself at all. This made Guo Zhiqi feel a little moved while being surprised, and experienced the ups and downs of these years. The emperor has finally matured a lot and is able to reflect on what he has done.

In the second year of Longwu, because Zheng Zhilong refused to send troops, the Qing army drove straight into Fujing and captured Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, in Changting. Soon, Emperor Longwu went on a hunger strike and martyrdom, and Zhu Yulu, who was the king of Tang at the time, and the palace members of the Longwu Dynasty fled to Guangzhou, while other Southern Ming forces elected Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, as the superintendent of the country in Zhaoqing, Guangdong.

On October 16 of the same year, after the fall of Ganzhou in Jiangxi, Zhu Youlang, who was in charge of the state in Zhaoqing, was shocked when he heard the news, and despite the dissuasion of the courtiers, he fled from Zhaoqing, Guangdong to Wuzhou, Guangxi in a hurry on October 21, ignoring the whole province of Guangdong. Therefore, when Zhu Youlang gave up the whole province of Guangdong and fled, Su Guansheng, a scholar, after discussing with a group of Ming vassal kings who had arrived in Guangzhou by sea, according to the principle of brother to brother, together with the scholar He Wuyu, the political envoy of Guangdong, Gu Yuanjing, Wang Yinghua, Zeng Daowei, etc., supported Zhu Yulu as emperor, and took the next year as the first year of Shaowu.

After the news of Zhu Yulu's proclamation as emperor in Guangzhou reached Wuzhou, Zhu Youlang was furious and immediately returned to Zhaoqing to ascend to the pole and proclaim himself emperor, changing the Yuan Yongli calendar. After being proclaimed emperor, Zhu Youlang immediately sent Peng Yao and Chen Jiamo, the head of the military department, to Guangzhou, to meet Zhu Yulu with the etiquette of a vassal king, and persuaded him to cancel the emperor's title.

Emperor Shaowu Zhu Yuqi himself did not express his position, but the chief scholar Su Guansheng was furious, reprimanding Yongli for fleeing in spite of Guangdong that day, but today he came to accuse Shaowu Junchen and asked Emperor Shaowu to respect him as a fugitive prisoner, which was really shameless, so he ordered someone to behead Peng and Chen, and then ordered the general Chen Jitai to attack Zhaoqing.

At the moment when the Qing army was the enemy, Su Guansheng was going to have a civil war with the Yongli court, which was obviously extremely inappropriate. Yongli Junchen saw that there was no hope of mediation, and also dispatched troops, with Guangdong Xuedao Lin Jiading as the right attendant of the military department, and Xia Sifu as the supervisor of the army, together with Wu Jingbo Li Mingzhong, who was transferred from Shaozhou, led more than 10,000 soldiers to meet the attack. The two sides fought in the west of Sanshui County, Guangdong, and the army of the Shaowu regime was defeated, and Chen Jitai fled. Lin Jiading won the first battle, full of ambition, and ordered the soldiers to march day and night, going straight to Guangzhou, in an attempt to sweep away the Shaowu regime in one fell swoop.

Lin Cha, the chief soldier of Shaowu, took advantage of the relationship with Lin Jiading's clan and past work together to adopt a false surrender to lure the troops into the depths, and instructed the four surnamed pirates to surrender falsely. Lin Jiading was gullible and scheming, and led his troops to Sanshan by boat according to the agreement, but was suddenly attacked by four soldiers. The small river boat on which Lin Jiading's department was riding could not fight with the big ships of the four surnames at sea, and was forced to land to meet the enemy. Due to unfamiliar geography, they fell into a quagmire more than three feet deep, and as a result, Lin Jiading and Xia Sifu drowned, Li Mingzhong escaped on horseback, and his subordinates were almost wiped out, and the Shaowu army won a complete victory.

Just as the two emperors of Shaowu and Yongli were killing each other, the Qing soldiers led by Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong had captured Chaozhou and Huizhou. Li Chengdong used the captured seal of the local government of the Southern Ming Dynasty to send a false message to Shaowu Junchen in Guangzhou that the local peace was peaceful and that the Qing army had not suppressed the border, so that Shaowu Junchen in Guangzhou did not know that Chaozhou and Huizhou had been occupied by the Qing army.

On December 15 of the second year of Longwu, Emperor Shaowu Zhu Yu was fortunate to learn martial arts, and hundreds of officials gathered, and at this time, Li Chengdong selected 300 Qing soldiers, entered Huashan in the north of Guangzhou City, and sent more than 10 people to mix into Guangzhou City, Nei should take off the camouflage on his head, expose his braids, wave his knife and shout "The Qing army has arrived", and kill a person, Guangzhou will be all over the city, and then, the Qing soldiers rushed in from the east gate.

The soldiers reported to the scholar Su Guansheng that the Qing army was coming, but Su Guansheng didn't believe it at all, and beheaded the soldiers who reported the news with false words. In the blink of an eye, the Qing army climbed the city wall, and then removed the disguise, exposed the braids, and shot arrows indiscriminately, and the city suddenly boiled. Soon, the battle situation of the Qing army was confirmed, and Su Guansheng urgently ordered the city gate to be closed and troops to fight.

However, the elite soldiers of the Shaowu court were sent to Zhaoqing to deal with the Yongli court, and they could not be transferred back for a while, so Su Guansheng led the Ming army in the city to fight fiercely with the Qing soldiers for a day and night, and the Qing soldiers had the intention of retreating. However, Xie Shangzheng, the general of Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the chief military officer of Fujian, led the Qing troops into the city, and Guangzhou fell.

Su Guansheng saw that the general trend had gone, and after writing down the eight characters of "Ming loyal ministers deserve death", he hanged himself. Emperor Shaowu Zhu Yulu saw that the general trend had gone, and he could not return to the palace to pick up his wife, son and daughter, so he had to drag a quilt and mix among the beggars, intending to climb the city wall to escape, but was caught up by the chasing horse and imprisoned in the Eastern Procuratorate. Li Chengdong sent someone to bring food and drink, but Zhu Yulu refused, saying: "If I drink a spoonful of your water, what face will I see my ancestors underground!" He was then hanged and martyred, ending his reign of forty days.

The main officials of the Shaowu Dynasty, such as He Wusu, Wang Yinghua, and Gu Yuanjing, were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, while the twenty-four Ming vassal kings in Guangzhou were all killed. After Zhu Yulu's death, Zhu Youlang became the only emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

The past is vivid, Guo Zhiqi was originally a courtier of Longwu, so there was no resistance to Emperor Longwu Zhu Yulu according to the throne of his brother and brother, and there was no resistance to the throne of Emperor Zhu Youlang of Yongli at that time, and he gave up the whole province of Guangdong and fled to Guangxi, which made the power of the whole province of Guangdong vacuum, so it is understandable that the Ming Dynasty officials who stayed in Guangdong supported the new monarch to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty, and finally Emperor Shaowu and Su Guansheng were both martyred, and there was no criticism in terms of integrity. If it is wrong, that is, the Shaowu court should not provoke a civil war in front of the great enemy, but this matter also has a lot to do with the handling of Emperor Yongli at that time.

The dispute between Tang and Gui is really complicated, and it is even more sensitive when it comes to the inheritance of the imperial lineage, even if Guo Zhiqi is a scholar, even if he is deeply trusted by Emperor Yongli, he does not dare to express too many opinions on this matter.

Zhu Youlang was melancholy for a while, and no longer mentioned the matter, and asked Guo Zhiqi: "Where is the daughter of King Tang now?" ”

Guo Zhiqi said: "Before the minister entered the city, he was placed in the post house. ”

Zhu Youlang frowned, and asked again, "Is there a token to prove her identity?" ”

"There are several ornaments given to him by the Tang King before his death."

Guo Zhiqi didn't have much confidence in his heart when he said this, after all, just what the princess said herself, plus a few ornaments in the palace, it was really difficult to prove that she was the daughter of Zhu Yulu, the king of Tang.

Sure enough, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang shook his head when he heard it and said: "You can't prove it with just a few ornaments, you have to find someone to inspect it." He then asked Wang Kun: "Are there any people in the palace who have served in the Tang Dynasty's mansion?" ”

Wang Kun, who was still kneeling on the ground and trembling, hurriedly raised his head and said: "Back to Long Live Lord, there are no people in the palace who have served in the Tang Dynasty's mansion, but there are people who have served in Fujing." ”

Fujing refers to Fuzhou, when Emperor Longwu ascended the treasure in Fuzhou and changed Fuzhou to Fujing.

As soon as Wang Kun said this, Guo Zhiqi also remembered it, and hurriedly said: "When the minister was in Fujing, he saw the King of Tang and his daughter enter the palace and see Emperor Longwu, but let the people in Fujing Palace come to check it, and you can see if it is true or false." ”

Wang Kun said: "When Fujing fell, Tang Wang's daughter was afraid that she was only a few years old, and now ten years have passed, and her appearance must be different from when she was young, but I am afraid that the people in Fujing Palace may not be able to see it." ”

"Let's let them go and see first, I admire the Tang King's National Death Day, if the Tang King's daughter really escapes, I will definitely stay by my side." However, whether the person is true or false, it is necessary to verify the correct body, so as not to have another case of a fake prince and a fake concubine. (To be continued.) )