Yu Tianen, the general of the volunteer battalion stationed in Zengcheng, sent a big fish to Zhou Shixiang, and this big fish was Wang Yinghua, who supported Emperor Shaowu with Su Guansheng, He Wuyu, Gu Yuanjing and others.

Wang Yinghua is the first year of Chongzhen, once served as a professor of martial arts, a member of the Ministry of Rites, a Fujian envoy, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and participated in the establishment of Emperor Shaowu in the second year of Longwu, and was a scholar of Dongge University, ranking third in the Shaowu cabinet.

When the Qing army broke through Guangzhou, Emperor Shaowu fled to Wang's house and asked Wang Yinghua to take him in, but Wang Yinghua turned him away. After the death of Emperor Shaowu, Wang Yinghua and He Wusu and others descended to the Qing Dynasty together, and served as the Guanglu Temple Secretary of the Qing Court, and later wrote to the Qing court with He Wusu to beg for the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yinghua was supposed to be his Guanglu Temple Secretary in Beijing, and he shouldn't have been so unlucky to fall into the hands of Yu Tianen, but his old father died of illness, and the Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, Wang Yinghua had to go home and worry about the system, otherwise he wouldn't want to be an official again. Wang Yinghua's hometown is Zengcheng Shi Paipu Xin Shangbian Village, Yu Tianen took Zengcheng to make a letter of surrender to the Taiping Army, then sent troops to go around to search for grain and grass, by the way by the order of Zhou Shixiang to arrest some officials and gentry in the township who worked for the Qing court, as a result, Wang Yinghua was sent to Xiangshan as a big fish by Yu Tianen. Wang Yinghua's son Wang Mingzhen was also escorted to Xiangshan.

After returning to Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang was so busy that he really couldn't find time to meet Wang Yinghua, so he asked Xu Yingyuan to persuade him to surrender on his behalf.

Wang Yinghua is different from Tayinbu, this person has always been an official of the Ming Dynasty. He was also a bachelor of the Shaowu Dynasty, and he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after Guangzhou was broken, so Zhou Shixiang wanted this person to surrender to the Taiping Army. In this way, the Taiping officers have a former bachelor to help them, which can play a big role in attracting the hearts of the people.

After returning from Lutouhe, Xu Yingyuan was stacked aside by Zhou Shixiang to run his indoctrination class, and every day he was busy with the promotion of Lingnan Sanzhong, and it was not his turn to interfere in government and military affairs. Thinking that there would be no chance to get ahead from now on, he didn't want Zhou Shixiang to suddenly ask him to persuade Wang Yinghua to surrender, which made Xu Yingyuan see an opportunity to show his strength.

"Sir is a professor of martial arts. He has also been a university scholar, and he can be said to be familiar with the great Confucianism of the sages, and he has thousands of knowledge in his chest, so he should know Huayi Dafang. The so-called non-our race will have different hearts. Nowadays, the Manchurians occupy our Han family with a small number of people, and slaughter tens of millions of our Han people in order to consolidate their rule, so that our Han people live in dire straits. Willing to be poisoned by the alien race? Are you willing to see my Chinese clothes cut off from now on? … My handsome family knows that Mr. has great ability, and it was just a last resort to reduce the Qing Dynasty, so today I specially asked Mr. to help and join the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty! ”

"You don't have to say it. The old man has been cleared, so there is no reason to turn around again? Tell your family to be handsome. The old man understood his kindness, but it was difficult for the old man to turn his back on the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Sir, why bother?"

Xu Yingyuan spent a lot of tongue, just hoping to say that Wang Yinghua was good at showing his merit to Zhou Shixiang, but Wang Yinghua couldn't pour oil, and he was not moved at all, a picture of an iron-clad loyal minister and a righteous man, so that he was not annoyed, and secretly scolded this old man for really picking up persimmons and pinching them, why didn't you be a loyal minister back then, but now you have to put on a dead look.

If it weren't for Zhou Shixiang's desire to recruit this person, Xu Yingyuan would not bother to talk to Wang Yinghua, press down and be unhappy, but still persuade him, but Wang Yinghua never opened a mouthful again, seeing this, Xu Yingyuan knew that he couldn't move him, so he had to go away.

"Wang Yinghua wants to be a good slave of the Manchurians? He's old and confused, he's a bachelor from my Ming Dynasty! ”

After listening to Xu Yingyuan's report, Zhou Shixiang was very surprised, he also thought that Wang Yinghua was a Ming minister, so Xu Yingyuan went to persuade him to surrender It was a matter of course, but he didn't know that the result was like this, which made him very puzzled and puzzled: Why was Wang Yinghua able to descend to the Qing court, but he didn't want to return to the Ming Dynasty?

"Go, ask Suna to persuade him, Ben Shuai let him see, even the Tartars have surrendered to me, why does he, a Han man, refuse to help me, does he really want to repay his Manchurian master with death!"

Zhou Shixiang sulked, he didn't understand why Wang Yinghua, a traitor who had been a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, refused to return to the Ming Dynasty again, could it be that in the minds of these people, the Ming Dynasty was really incorrigible, and there was no chance of Zhongxing? Otherwise, how can the choice of these people be explained, and this person's heart must be irreversible?

"Yes, Dashuai, let's let Suna persuade you."

Xu Yingyuan was busy and asked Suna, the surrendered Manchurian leader, to persuade Wang Yinghua to surrender, but after Suna arrived, before he could speak, he saw Wang Yinghua pointing at him and sneering: "I don't know if I should call you a Manchurian or a rebel now?" If you are a Manchurian, how did you betray your ancestors from thieves? If you are not a Manchurian, why do you have my Manchurian braids? ”

"You..."

Suna's face turned red, he had nothing to say, he couldn't say all the words of persuasion he had thought of anymore, he left in a daze, and after he went back, he was so angry that he cut off his braids, changed his name to Wang Tai, and said that he would completely cut off everything in Manchu in the future. The Manchurian soldiers who surrendered together also gave Han Chinese names after hearing this, and never mentioned the Manchu names again. When the matter reached the ears of Song Xianggong, he ridiculed these Manchurians for being really smart, and they changed their Han name because they didn't want Guangzhou to know that they had surrendered to the Taiping Army, so as to protect their wives and children.

"Does this old man really think that Ben Shuai will not dare to kill him! Go, let his son persuade him, Ben Shuai won't believe in this evil! ”

Hearing that Suna was ridiculed by Wang Yinghua without saying a word, Zhou Shixiang was furious and asked Xu Yingyuan to lead Wang Yinghua's son to persuade him to surrender again, he didn't believe that Wang Yinghua really had any integrity to die for the Manchu Dynasty! If he was really so backbone, it would be impossible for him to be a traitor back then!

"Handsome and wise, no matter how hard Wang Yinghua is, he can't be hard enough to have flesh and blood affection."

Xu Yingyuan hurriedly mentioned Wang Yinghua's son Wang Mingzhenlai, and asked him to immediately persuade his father to join the Taiping Army.

Wang Mingzhen was timid and afraid of death, and when he heard that his father was not dead. And the marshal of the Taiping Army wanted to reuse him, so he nodded and replied. Under the leadership of Xu Yingyuan, he was full of hope to persuade his father not to lose his brain. Hurry up to show your loyalty to the commander of the Taiping Army, so as not to burden him, he will lose his head.

"Father!"

"Mingzhen!"

When father and son met, it was naturally embarrassing and sad.

Wang Mingzhen saw Xu Yingyuan on the side glaring at him, and hurriedly said to Wang Yinghua: "Father, I am here on the order of the commander of the Taiping Army..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Yinghua was agitated and let go of his son. There was confusion in his eyes: "The life of the handsome? ”

Wang Mingzhen nodded, looking forward to it.

"What do you want to say?"

Wang Yinghua's hands began to tremble, and his face was cloudy.

Wang Mingzhen persuaded: "Father." Good birds choose trees to perch, you are a minister, why be stubborn? ”

"I'm so confused... Alas..."

Glancing at Xu Yingyuan not far away from the corner of his eye, Wang Yinghua pretended to take two steps forward inadvertently. He said to his son in a very low voice: "My fool. Do you really want to die for that Manchurian as a father? ”

"And what about Father?" Wang Mingzhen was extremely puzzled, his father didn't want to die for the Manchurians, why did he refuse to submit?

Wang Yinghua knew that his son was cowardly and his brain was not very shrewd, so he said in a low voice: "Did my father ever tell you the truth that eggs should not be put in a blue child?" ”

Wang Mingzhen nodded and said: "When I was a child, I often heard my father say this truth, but what does this have to do with my father's re-enlightenment? ”

"You are confused, most of the world is already in the Qing Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty. The court just survived. can't become the climate, don't look at the Taiping army is making trouble now. When the army of Manchus really kills, can they stop it? Therefore, the father can no longer return to the Ming, if he really has to return to the Ming, there will be no way back for the father in the Qing Dynasty! ”

"If my father refuses to submit, then Zhou Dashuai of the Taiping Army is afraid that he will kill his father."

"My father is already old, and he won't live for a few years, so if he wants to kill, he will kill him, what are you afraid of. If the death of the father can bring you the blessings of the Qing court, the father is willing to die ten more times. ”

"Father, how can a child see his father being killed by thieves? Didn't my father often say that if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid that there will be no firewood? Now that the Taiping army is strong, the heroes don't suffer immediate losses, and the father endures the humiliation and steals his life, so he pretends to agree to come down and make plans. ”

"You don't understand what your father taught you! You must know that both the Father and you are eggs in that basket, and if you put them in one basket, if they fall in one basket, they will be broken, and if you put them in two baskets, you will break one and keep the other. Now the Father is the egg that will be broken, and only when the Father is broken will you be safe, understand? You haven't done anything for the Qing court, and you haven't done evil, so the thief will not be angry with you. ”

"Father really plans to do this, what if Da Ming can be prosperous?"

"If Da Ming really has a prosperous day, you will vote for Da Ming, and it is up to you to remedy your father's reputation."

"How can the child remedy it?"

"Regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the people who compiled history are all readers, and there are many people in the Donglin Party, which of these people has not done dirty things, which ass is clean, if Qing wins, then you don't have to do anything, for the father a loyal minister evaluation can't run, if the Ming Dynasty can really resurrect in the middle of the rise, then you go to the people who repair the history, they know how to write the old man. Let's go, you go now! ”

After speaking, with the sound of "horn", Wang Mingzhen slapped Wang Yinghua heavily in the face, Wang Yinghua pretended to be angry, pointed at Wang Mingzhen and scolded: "Get out, you get out of me immediately!" ”

"Father"

Wang Mingzhen covered half of his face and made an extremely aggrieved look.

"Evil beast, don't get out of here!"

Wang Yinghua's roaring voice spread far and wide, and he deliberately let everyone know that his son failed to persuade him to surrender.

"Old horseman, don't you recognize your six relatives! Go, bring him to me, Ben Shuai will ask him personally! ”

The people who tried to persuade him three times in a row were blocked back, and even his son couldn't persuade him, so Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but go out in person.

Song Xianggong counted that there were hundreds of officials and scholars captured by the Taiping army from Zengcheng, Shunde, and Panyu, and these people were all available to the Taiping army. Therefore, he has to say that moving Wang Yinghua to submit to himself is a matter of great significance to these Han officials and scholars, as well as to the Taiping Army. (To be continued.) )