After making arrangements for these two major events, Guo Xiong returned to the military headquarters to convene staff officers to formulate a strategy for the use of troops in Fujian and Yunnan and Guizhou, as well as matters related to the collection of grain and grass, and then submitted them to Zhou Shixiang for examination and approval. www.biquge.info Ge Yi was ordered to return to Yangzhou, dispatch mobile troops to stand by at any time, and contact Tang Sanshui in Lujiang, asking him to closely observe the war in Henan.

If Wu Sangui was bent on the Central Plains and Beijing, Fulin showed signs of abandoning Beijing, and Zheng Jun's sailors were not yet in control, Zhou Shixiang even planned to disguise one or two towns of the Jiangbei Army as Qing troops, and contain the Wu army in the name of Tang Sanshuiqin King, and drag Wu Sangui no matter what. It really didn't work, so the Jiangbei Army entered Henan and fought Wu Sangui directly.

In order not to leave future troubles, in order to uproot Manchu, which had plagued the Ming Dynasty for nearly fifty years, so that they would not even have the ashes of death, Zhou Shixiang did not care about the infamy of provoking a civil war on his back. The deaths of tens of thousands of women and children of the Eight Banners and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners in the three cities of Guangzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou did not dilute his desire for revenge. He was waiting, and he was also moving towards the goal he most longed for in his heart. For this goal, he doesn't care about fame.

After Guo Xiong and Ge Yi left, Zhang An, who had been waiting outside, quietly entered and handed over the two confessions.

Zhou Shixiang took the two confessions, glanced at them and put them on the table, and asked Zhang An: "What's the matter with that Yongxing King Zhu Linwei, this person is really Zhu Yujian's son?" ”

"Back to Dashuai, I have asked General Gan Hui, and he confirmed that Jinxia does have a Yongxing King, who is the third son of Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang. Zhu Yuzhen died of illness in Nanyang in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and a few months later the Qing army went south, and several palace officials protected Zhu Linwei to go south, and then he has been hiding in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Emperor Longwu ascended the throne in Fujian and became emperor, those palace officials took Zhu Linwei to vote, but when they arrived in Fujian, the Qing army had already occupied Fujing, and Emperor Longwu was also martyred in Tingzhou. Two years later, the old official heard that there were still Ming army activities in Jinxia, so he took ten-year-old Zhu Linwei all the way to Xiamen to beg, and was taken into custody by Zheng Jun after declaring his identity. Because of Emperor Longwu, Zheng Sen attached great importance to this nephew of Emperor Longwu, and let him study with his son Zheng Jing to deliberately cultivate. A confession in the handsome hand belonged to the old official, and the guards brought by Zhu Linwei were also ordered to be interrogated one by one, which was not wrong with what General Gan Hui said. Judging from the current evidence alone, Zhu Linwei's identity should not be fake. ”

After listening to Zhang An's brief explanation of the origin of the King of Yongxing, Zhou Shixiang nodded, but he was a little puzzled, and asked Zhang An: "If Zhu Linwei's identity is true, then why didn't he come to Nandu earlier, what the emperor said was his uncle." He is in Jinxia, no matter how good Zheng Sen treats him, he always sends people under the fence. Besides, why didn't Zheng Sen tell us about Zhu Linwei, and what did he want to hide from him? ”

Zhang Anyu said: "It is said that before Zheng Sen entered the river, he intended to pass Zhu Linwei to Emperor Longwu as the heir, and then support him as the prisoner. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang suddenly realized and sneered: "I see, I said why Zheng Sen refused to take a stand and support the Tang King with Ben Shuai, it turned out that he had other plans." If Nandu is not recovered by us, but by his Zheng Jun, Zhu Linwei can really sit on his uncle's throne. ”

Zhang An said again: "Zhu Linwei bought off a general surnamed Xia of the Zheng Army in Kinmen and let him leave Hong Kong without permission. According to the old official, although Zheng Sen treated Zhu Linwei well, he had been sending people to monitor him. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Shi did not speak, but picked up the confession of the old official on the table and read it carefully. After reading it, he gently pinched the confession with his hand, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this, Zhang An leaned forward and said: "Zhu Linwei and his entourage have been drifting on the sea for more than ten days, and their young son has died of illness.

"No," Zhou Shixiang shook his head, looked at Zhang An, who pretended to be smart, with dissatisfaction, and said: "This matter can't be hidden, Jinxia must know that Zhu Linwei came to vote for his uncle, how can such a good person say that there is no such thing." In the future, the emperor will definitely know about this, he wants Ben Shuai to hand over people, how can Ben Shuai explain? ”

Zhang An was stunned, didn't dare to be smart anymore, and asked cautiously: "What does that big handsome mean?" ”

"Send him to Nanjing, and we don't have to worry about whether we recognize his nephew as the emperor or not."

Zhang An hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Dashuai, the Son of Heaven has no heirs, if he knows that this nephew is alive, I am afraid that he will be regarded as the East Palace." ”

"Who is in charge of the East Palace, it is not the emperor who has the final say."

Zhou Shixiang waved his hand, picked up another confession on the table and looked at it. Unlike the worries of his subordinates, Zhou Shixiang was not worried at all that Zhu Linwei would become the crown prince and become the new monarch in the future after arriving in Nanjing, because it was up to him to decide who would be the son of heaven.

Zhang An stood there with some regret in his heart, he shouldn't have been reckless just now, and was regretting, when suddenly a fluttering word came from his ear.

"Geng Jingzhong's thing, you asked someone to do it, right?"

Zhang An was so frightened that he "pounced" and fell to the ground, and his back was cold.

"If you do anything in the future, you will ask me if I can do it first, and don't make any more self-assertions, which will not benefit you. Get up. ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Zhang An got up in a panic, and Zhou Shixiang didn't look at him, but continued to look at the confession in his hand. The confession was written by Mr. Yuyao Jiaoshu named Wang Shiyuan, according to whom he said that Zhu Cihuan, the third son of Emperor Lie, was Yongwang. At the age of twelve, he was captured by Li Zicheng's army with his two elder brothers, and was later taken south from Beijing by Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng's defeat, Zhu Cihuan began to drift in troubled times, and then begged to a family surnamed Wang's squire's house, the Wang squire saw that he had a special temperament, and inquired about the root cause, and Zhu Cihuan, who did not have a city government, revealed his identity. Squire Wang used to be an official in the Ming Dynasty, and when he saw that the third prince had fallen to such a point, he couldn't help but hold his hand and weep, took the risk to take him in, renamed him Wang Shiyuan, and studied with his son.

Five years later, Squire Wang died of illness, and the Wang family was unwilling to continue to take in Zhu Cihuan, so Zhu Cihuan had to wander to Jiangnan to become a monk. Later, a Hu squire in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province went to the temple to play, and saw Zhu Cihuan, who was in his early twenties, with a delicate appearance, a good temperament, and a full stomach of poetry and books, and was very good at Go. Squire Hu admired him very much, persuaded him to return to the world, and married his daughter to him. So Zhu Cihuan settled in Zhejiang. After getting married, Zhu Cihuan took teaching as a profession. After the death of his father-in-law, with the birth of children, the family was tired, he had to look for a chair everywhere, and often beat some local gentlemen to barely make ends meet. It wasn't until Yuyao was recovered by the Taiping Army that he thought twice before he had the courage to go to the government to tell his true identity.

This Wang Shiyuan said that he was the third prince of Zhu, but there was no evidence to prove his identity, which was hard to believe. However, the emperor said to Ben Shuai last year that the third prince of Zhu may be hidden in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and I asked you to go to the secret investigation, but there is no information about the third prince. I replied to the emperor that the third prince of Zhu might no longer be alive, and he didn't want to, but at this time he came out. and Zhu Linwei one after the other, but lively. An emperor's nephew, a martyr's three princes, in terms of identity, they are all indescribably expensive.... Zhang An, do you think this Wang Shiyuan is really Zhu Cihuan? ”

Zhang An shook his head and said: "My subordinates are not sure, but Jia Shennian is 12 years old, and when many people have seen him, the marshal can find some people who have seen Zhu Cihuan back then to identify the authenticity of this Wang Shiyuan." ”

Zhou Shixiang was noncommittal, and asked Zhang An: "What is this person's personality?" ”

Zhang An said: "When his subordinates saw him, this person was very cautious and seemed to be afraid of his subordinates. Whatever his subordinates asked him, it was a short narrative and never said a word. According to the experience of his subordinates, this person is either clever or really cowardly. ”

Zhou Shixiang smiled: "If I were him, I was afraid that I would be careful." After speaking, he instructed Zhang An, "Send people to Zhenjiang secretly, and then you immediately go to the palace maids and eunuchs who served the prince of Emperor Lie back then, as well as the officials who have seen them, be sure to recognize the true and false of this third prince Zhu for me!"