310 The Fallen Monarch
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Your Majesty has something urgent to recruit, and the lower officials left in a hurry, but I didn't expect to disturb Jinghaihou, it's really a sin, a sin." In the city of Quanzhou, Fujian, the most luxurious 'coastal defense guerrilla yamen' in the city has now been converted into an imperial palace, and the Yongli Emperor who escaped in a hurry when the city of Nanjing was broken, Zhu Yousong.
"It turned out to be Ma Ge Lao, since His Majesty wants to recruit, then Ben Hou will not disturb your national affairs, and I will leave." After finishing speaking, the person known as the Marquis of Jinghai turned around and left the gate of the palace and walked into the distance.
Seeing the back of the Marquis of Jinghai, Ma Ge Lao, who was the first to speak just now, couldn't help but rise with anger in his heart, but unfortunately, he gritted his teeth and held back, because he knew that now it is man who is the sword and I am the fish and meat, and under the control of others, even life and death must be controlled by others, not to mention a little dignity and backbone.
After a helpless sigh for a lifetime, Ma Ge Lao could only turn around and walk towards the palace in despair, in the Yongli Imperial Court, there is only one person who can be called Ma Ge Lao, that is, once in Nanjing City, one person under ten thousand people, dominant, invincible cabinet chief, Ma Shiying, and the person he called Jinghai Hou is Zheng Zhilong, who controls the entire Fujian region and leads the invincible fleet to run rampant on the sea, and is known as the "Asian Sea Dragon King".
After Zheng Zhilong received the edict of King Qin issued by the Yongli Imperial Court in Nanjing a few months ago, he did not directly send a large army to Nanjing to rescue the Yongli Imperial Court, but according to the idea of his third brother Zheng Zhibao, he sent a fleet to anchor at the sea not far from Nanjing, and started the idea of the Yongli Emperor, and the effect was also very obvious.
After controlling the Yongli Emperor, Zheng Zhilong did indeed do what Zheng Zhibao said about the feeling of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the world, only for a period of time, in Fujian Province, the cities and forces that originally disdained to take refuge in him surrendered under a holy decree of the Yongli Emperor, which also made Zheng Zhilong feel that the Yongli Emperor was useful.
And the opposite of Zheng Zhilong is Ma Shiying, Ma Ge Lao, after Ma Shiying received Zheng Zhilong's letter to Nanjing, he really thought that the Zheng family was a loyal minister and good general of the Ming Dynasty, which is why when the city of Nanjing was broken, he would take Yongli Emperor Zhu Yousong to the sea by boat, so as to come to Fujian, even, he naively thought that as long as he arrived in Fujian, he would be able to use the power of the Zheng family, recruit talents, train soldiers, and then successfully go on a northern expedition, defeat the Manchu Tartars, and recover Nanjing and Beijing. Regain your dominance.
But he never thought that when they set foot in Fujian, they would become prisoners of the Zheng family, not only were the security officials who came with them separated by the Zheng family, but even he was put under house arrest by the Zheng family. But now although he has been allowed to move freely, this is only limited to Quanzhou City, and at the same time, he is accompanied by a few servants, who are said to be servants, but in fact they are the people who monitor him.
Falling to this point, Ma Shiying was very remorseful in her heart, but unfortunately, it was too late to regret now, and it was definitely not an easy thing to escape from the control of the Zheng family, fortunately, after years of tempering, Ma Shiying was not disheartened, but was ready to escape from here at any time.
When Ma Shiying came to the top of the main hall, he saw Zhu Yousong sitting on the dragon chair with a painful expression, after such a period of suffering, Zhu Yousong, the Yongli Emperor who used to be like a mountain of meat, has finally lost weight, of course, compared to ordinary people, he is still a super giant, but now at least he can see his eyes when he doesn't open his eyes.
When Zhu Yousong saw Ma Shiying appear in front of him, he suddenly shouted miserably, "Ma Aiqing, you are finally here, I really feel heartache!" ”
Seeing Zhu Yousong's expression as if he had been forcibly packaged, Ma Shiying was suddenly surprised in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't be impatient, everything is panicking, there are old ministers in everything, I don't know what happened just now, is Jinghai Marquis really bold enough to do something that is not good for Your Majesty?" ”
Hearing Ma Shiying's words, Zhu Yousong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, and then said, "Ma Aiqing, Jinghai Hou didn't embarrass me, but just now Jinghai Hou said to me that now the Manchu Tartar army is swarming south, and the Fujian army is exhausted and unable to resist, only by recruiting warriors to come to the main battle, can we resist the Manchu Tartar army, but in a hurry, there is no money and food in the Fujian treasury, he wants the treasures I will bring to offset the silver money, used to recruit soldiers, originally I was unwilling, but he, but he threatened me and said, If I don't want to, I will hand me over to the Manchu Tartars in exchange for the peace of Fujian, in desperation, I have to agree to his request, and give him all the jewels, which is the treasure that I and my father have worked hard to accumulate for many years, but I didn't expect that this time it was all gone, there was no more! ”
After listening to Zhu Yousong's words, Ma Shiying first felt a burst of joy in his heart, you know, when he was in Nanjing City, Ma Shiying asked Zhu Yousong to ask Zhu Yousong to take out a part of the money and grain, reward the soldiers, and recruit the villagers, but what he didn't expect was that Zhu Yousong, like his father, Lao Fu Wang, would rather die without a place to be buried, than give up money, and then it was indeed the case, the Manchu Tartar army marched too fast, and when the emperor fled in a hurry, most of the treasures fell into the hands of the Manchu army. And now this thing that was brought out with great difficulty was deceived by Zheng Zhilong again, it can be said that Lao Fu Wang and Zhu Yousong father and son, after decades of hard work, have done countless things that hurt the heavens and reason, and the treasures that have been accumulated have fallen into the hands of others so easily.
But after the joy, Ma Shiying felt a trace of anger in his heart, you know, no matter what fate Zhu Yousong falls to, even if it is a dead monarch like Emperor Han Xian, Cao Cao at least has a little consideration when facing him, after all, as a generation of emperors, the minimum imperial dignity still has to be had, but Zheng Zhilong's current behavior has completely lost the meaning of condescension and inferiority, if today's matter spreads, I am afraid that he will become the public enemy of the world, you know, Zheng Zhilong treats Zhu Yousong like this, Not only offended Zhu Yousong alone, but offended the entire ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, thinking of this, I was originally full of sadness, and suddenly thought of a way.
"Big brother, how is it, have you got those treasures, after so many years of crisscrossing the sea, my little brother can be regarded as a treasure and a treasure, but I didn't expect that the treasures in the hands of which faint monarch are actually treasures, many things, I have only seen them in books, now it's okay, these things will belong to our Zheng family in the future." In the main hall, when Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, the two fallen monarchs and ministers, complained to each other, in an equally luxurious mansion not far from here, several people from the Zheng family gathered here, and there were more than ten boxes of things in the middle of the room, which were the treasures that Zheng Zhilong extorted from Zhu Yousong.
"Daddy, although these things are all treasures, and even many of them are some unique items, but these are just some dead things, what the child doesn't understand is, why do you want to talk about these things taken from His Majesty's hands, you know, if this matter spreads, I am afraid it will damage your reputation, and more importantly, if our Zheng family wants to develop and grow in the future, a good reputation can be much more useful than more jewelry!" Standing up from the chair and looking at the contents of the boxes in the middle of the room, Zheng Sen asked with a frown.
Hearing Zheng Sen's question, Zheng Zhilong just smiled and didn't speak, but Zheng Zhibao on the side opened his mouth and said, "Fu Song, what you said is good, but you still look at the problem a little one-sided, to be honest, let alone these things, even if it is a lot of good things, our Zheng family is not rare, for so many years, guarding this endless sea, the wealth accumulated by our Zheng family is not to mention that it will be eaten for a lifetime, even if it is eaten for ten lifetimes, it will not take one percent, but the third uncle still asked your father to take these treasures from the hands of that faint king."
The reason is to completely cut off the idea of the faint king and the people around him, and tell them plainly that from today onwards, they will completely belong to our Zheng family, our Zheng family wants them to give birth to them, they can live, and if they want them to die, they can only die, and another reason is that these things are placed in the hands of which faint king, it is always a scourge, maybe when, he will use these things to accumulate strength, although we are not afraid of them, but this is still a hidden danger after all, since there is a hidden danger, Then we still have to produce it ahead of schedule. ”
When Zheng Zhibao said this, he stopped talking, but Zheng Zhilong on the side continued, "Fusong, as for the issue of reputation, do you think that even if there is no such thing, those people can really look down on us, in the eyes of those scholars or officials, we are extremely vicious pirates, robbers, no matter how we change, we can't change their opinion of us, in this case, what is the importance of one more thing or one less thing."
Also, do you think that our current reputation is better than that of the Manchu Tartars, think about it should still be us, no matter what, we are still the people of China, Han blood, always much stronger than those wild Tartars who cry and drink blood, but even so, if you look at it now, there are not so many scholars and high-ranking officials in the imperial court who are willing to surrender to the Manchu Tartars, and even willing to shave their hair and keep their heads, and dress themselves up as a barbarian, why is this.
It's not because they have strong soldiers and strong strength, if we really have the same strength as the Manchu Tartars, I'm afraid there will be more people willing to come to us, as for the issue of reputation, there will be countless so-called talented people and celebrities, for us to find a way to wash away, think back then, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, is not a poor sour boy who has been a monk and a beggar, but once he became an emperor, there are countless people who are willing to sing praises to him, so, Fusong, you have to remember in the future, What can really affect everything is not benevolence, morality, etiquette, righteousness and shame, but strength, when you have the strength that everyone in the world can't resist, everything you do becomes rules, and those people have to live according to your rules. ”
After Zheng Zhilong's words were finished, he quickly got the unanimous approval of everyone in the hall, for these people, what Zheng Zhilong said was the law of their survival, and it was also the guarantee of surviving on the sea, and after Zheng Sen heard these words, although he felt some resistance in his heart, he couldn't find a reason to refute, because all this happened in front of his eyes, for a while, Zheng Sen's heart was completely messy, the etiquette, righteousness and shame he learned in the past and the method of power supremacy that his father talked about today, The constant collision back and forth in his heart made him not know how to choose
Fujian's affairs are just a small matter for the whole world, after all, since ancient times, Fujian has been outside the dynasty because of barrenness, and now what really attracts people's attention is the Manchu Qing Zhongyongying Prince Azig in Nanjing.
"How can this be, why is this happening, what the hell is going on, are you all a bunch of rice buckets, three days, in just three days, more than 300 of our invincible Manchu warriors actually died, and you don't even know who the enemy is, you tell me, what do you do all day long, do you have your brains on your ass?" In the imperial city of Nanjing, the commander of the Manchu army, Azig scolded a group of Manchu generals below.
It's no wonder he is so angry, with the release of his iron-blooded policy, the resistance on the surface of the land south of the Yangtze River has indeed disappeared, but the resistance inside the secret is even more crazy, take Nanjing City as an example, in just three days, more than 300 Manchu Eight Banner soldiers died for no reason, these Eight Banners soldiers were all killed by sneak attacks, some were cut off heads, some were blown up by explosives on the street, some were poisoned to death while eating, and more importantly, There is actually a Manchu warrior with the title of Baturu, who was choked to death in a pit when he was drunk and went to the toilet.
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