Yang Chao did not immediately accept the order, and he was still assessing the development.

Before, the whole world knew that Zhu Cijiong was in the hands of Yang Chao, and now the world also knows that Zhu Cihuan is in the hands of the Zheng family.

Some time ago, Zhu Cihuan and other princes did not, everyone thought that they were captured with the emperor, and everyone actually hoped that Zhu Cijiong would be able to supervise the country, but Zhu Cijiong had always disagreed, but people all over the world thought that Yang Chao did not agree, and even there were voices suspecting that Yang Chao had a conspiracy.

But some people know that it is not Yang Chao who disagrees, but Zhu Cijiong himself who does not agree and refuses to cooperate.

For example, the civil servants in Nanjing, Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi came to persuade Zhu Cijiong almost every day, but Zhu Cijiong did not accept it, sighed that he had no talent to govern the country, and said that the world should be given to the virtuous, and even had to make people wonder if Yang Chao wanted to force him to concede.

So the Wenchens who didn't know why immediately changed their faces and began to lean towards Zhu Cihuan, the mourning king of Fujian.

Zheng's messenger took Zhu Cihuan's edict to Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, Zhejiang in the north, and Zhili in the south.

The change in the situation in Jiangxi was the behavior of the Qing army.

After being beaten back by Yang Chao from Nanjing, Azig retreated all the way to Jiujiang because he had no boat, and finally crossed the river from Jiujiang and returned to Beijing with Zhu Cihong.

Previously, Jiujiang had been in the hands of Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng, when Li Zicheng's army hit forty miles away from Jiujiang, Zuo Mengeng, who was outnumbered, did not dare to resist, and fled to the Yangtze River with a few warships, but Li Zicheng never fought Jiujiang, just forty miles away, Li Zicheng's army was secretly attacked and defeated by the Qing army.

As soon as the Qing army arrived in Jiujiang, Zuo Mengeng surrendered to the Qing army with Jiujiang, and when Azig retreated, he brought Zuo Mengeng to Beijing, saying that he wanted him to meet Emperor Shunzhi.

However, Jin Shenghuan, the rebel general of Zuomengeng's department, did not follow, but took him after being disabled by Yang Chao. The remaining remnants of Zuo Liangyu, with the national letter stamped with the jade seal of the Qing Emperor and the edict of Emperor Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty, recruited the Ming army from Jiujiang to Jiangxi.

Originally, Azig wanted to take Jin Shenghuan back to Beijing together, but Jin Shenghuan asked for battle. said that he was willing to take 3,000 people from his headquarters and go south to Jiangxi to capture the whole of Jiangxi for the Qing Dynasty.

Jin Shenghuan's consideration was that he didn't want to give up his soldiers and horses, he didn't want to give up military power, so he didn't want to follow the little master Zuo Mengeng to Beijing.

After weighing it, Azig also agreed, and his Eight Banners soldiers were going back to Beijing to recuperate. But you can't leave a way back, you can't give up Jiujiang and other places in vain, otherwise you will be attacked by political enemies, and it's just right to leave Jin Shenghuan, if you leave, Jin Shenghuan will be defeated by Yang Chao and lose Jiujiang, which means that these troops are not good at fighting, killing Jin Shenghuan to vent his anger is, if Jin Shenghuan has a kind. Defending Jiujiang and capturing Jiangxi, it is completely his Azig command, without the need for eight banners and a soldier, and a white Jiangxi.

For this reason, Azig could give up controlling Jin Shenghuan, co-opt Zuo Liangyu's purpose of leaving the remaining 10,000 people, leave Jin Shenghuan a blank national letter covered with a jade seal, and let Zhu Cihong write a large number of edicts of surrender.

As a result, Jin Shenghuan led 3,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, together with 5,000 men and horses in the king's body, and 8,000 people went south along the south of Panyang Lake.

Jin Shenghuan sent people to Nanchang with the letter of state and the edict. It is claimed that more than 200,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses are approaching, and only by surrendering quickly can they avoid being slaughtered. Jiangxi Governor Kuang Zhao was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he fled; Other officials and some gentlemen dispersed, and the provincial capital of Nanchang fell into anarchy in an instant. Finally, some representatives of Shimin greeted Jin Shenghuan outside the city.

The entire Nanchang Province and nearby states and counties. He took advantage of the situation to buy horses to subdue the Ming army, and soon had an army of 30,000, and Wang Tizhong expanded to 50,000 horses.

Jin and Wang have an army of 80,000. Soon conquered Fuzhou, the king of Yongning, Zhu Ciyan, and then took Ji'an, and escorted Kuang Zhao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty who had fled to the place, to Wuchang, and then occupied Guangchang and other prefectures. Then he attacked Yuanzhou, defeated the Ming general Huang Dynasty Xuanbu of more than 5,000 people, and occupied Yuanzhou. In less than a month, thirteen prefectures in Jiangxi, except for Ganzhou and Nan'an, were all controlled by Jin Shenghuan.

Yang Chao could only do nothing about this, he defeated Azig under the city of Nanjing, broke tens of thousands of naval warships of the Qing army, and in order to boost morale, he had already sent someone to notify Jiangxi.

But such a big victory, but not as good as an emperor captured, the news of Zhu Cihong's capture instantly disintegrated the morale of the army and people in Jiangxi, Jin Shenghuan can surrender one by one with the edict, except for Fuzhou and Yuanzhou, almost all other places surrender without a fight.

"Uncle, please, the country can't be without a king for a day. If the world settles down early, the gold thief is just a clown jumping off the beam, and An Neng will receive the territory of Jiangxi with an edict! ”

Zheng Hongkui has a face for the country and the people.

Yang Chao couldn't help sneering: "Benjue has now been changed to Marquis Zheng." ”

The Zheng family elected Zhu Cihuan to supervise the country, Zhu Cihuan naturally sealed the meritorious heroes, and crowned Zheng Zhilong as the Marquis of Pingyu, Zheng Hongkui as the Marquis of Dingyu, Zheng Zhibao as Cheng Jibo, Zheng Cai as Yongshengbo, and the Zheng family was full of princes.

Zheng Hongkui sighed: "Uncle Yang is joking, if Uncle Yang is willing to honor the Lingwang Prison Country, he will protect the position of Uncle and Prince." ”

Yang Chao sneered: "The position of a mere prince, this lord is not rare. Your Zheng family is so bold, the relatives of the former emperor are still there, and you dare to set up a prison country, do you want to rebel! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's son-in-law, Emperor Hongguang's brother Zhu Cijiong is still in Nanjing, Zheng can't wait to push Zhu Cihuan to supervise the country, which is the same as Ma Shiying's push to Fu Wang Jianguo, if Yang Chao is like last time, send troops to Fujian, it will be Zheng's headache, so they sent Zheng Hongkui to personally take Zhu Cihuan's edict to persuade Yang Chao, Yang Chao disagreed, Zhu Cihuan's prison country is unstable anyway, if Yang Chao agrees, they plan to remove this prison country and ascend the throne directly.

Now many civil officials are actually waiting, such as Qian Qianyi and others in Nanjing, who have not clearly responded to the Zheng family, obviously they don't want to be like Ma Shiying, King Fu has just been in charge of the country, and Yang Chao's soldiers have been killed.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong, a pirate, the civil official is more optimistic about Yang Chao, that is, because the king in Yang Chao's hands, Zhu Cijiong Lunxu, is more qualified, and because Yang Chao's strength is stronger, the Qing army has been defeated by Yang Chao again and again, and no one doubts Yang Chao's invincible military power in the world now.

"Uncle Yang is fallacious, mourning the king of the spirit and supervising the country, it is really the overall situation. The world is turbulent, the people are safe, and the king of mourning is the ancestor first, so it is difficult for him to serve as a prisoner. If the uncle can understand the difficulties of the times and respect the mourning king, then the blessing of the world and the blessing of the people will not be immeasurable. ”

Zheng Hongkui continued to persuade.

Yang Chao snorted: "Benjue doesn't believe in Buddhism, merit is not merit, Benjue doesn't care." Benjue only focuses on profits, and if you want Benjue to agree, it depends on what price your Zheng family pays. ”

Yang Chao simply picked it away, making the Zheng family bleed.

This time is different from the past, the last time King Fu was in charge of the country, Yang Chao could still lead the army to coerce the four towns, because at that time Beijing fell, the Qing army and the Dashun army were competing, it was impossible to go south to the south of the Yangtze River in the short term, and Yang Chao had time to have a big battle with the four towns.

But now it's different, if Yang Chao mobilizes heavy troops to go south and fight a decisive battle with Zheng, the Jianghuai region is bound to be ceded to the Qing army, once Jianghuai is lost, if you want to recapture it, it is impossible not to pay double, and Jiangbei has fallen, Nanjing has become the front line, and the Qing army will face the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River.

So Yang Chao has no chance to go south to fight for power, but the Zheng family does not dare to take this risk, in case Yang Chao ignores the overall situation, and would rather give up Jianghuai than fight with them, Zheng weighs the strength in his hands, and he is really not an opponent.

Judging from the thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is obviously very cost-effective to give up a piece of territory and grab the emperor in his hands, and it is not that there has been no example of civil war in the Southern Ming regime.

Therefore, Zheng's plan is to make Yang Chao focus on the overall situation, hoping to persuade Yang Chao to support them.

Now when he heard Yang Chao's offer, Zheng Hongkui couldn't help but be overjoyed, and a stone fell to the ground.

As long as the price is offered, the offer means that it can be discussed, if Yang Chao refuses to talk and makes up his mind to fight, it will be difficult for the Zheng family to parry no matter what.

"Haha, I don't know what price Uncle wants?"

Yang Chao stretched out three fingers: "Three million military salaries a year!" ”

Zheng Hongkui didn't even think about it: "This matter is easy!" ”

Yang Chao drew another circle: "Jiangnan!" ”

Zheng Hongkui frowned: "I don't know what Uncle means?" ”

Yang Chao said: "Benjue wants to open the town of Jiangnan!" Nan Zhili should be in the military and political power, all taxes, official appointments, this lord must be decided! ”

Zheng Hongkui couldn't help but be embarrassed, when the Ming Dynasty was prosperous, there were more than 20 million grain taxes in the world, and Nanzhili accounted for 7 million, and now the entire north has fallen, and Huguang is only half of the wall, and Nanzhili can be said to occupy more than half of the finance and taxes, if they are all ceded to Yang Chao, the court formed by the Zheng family will have no money available.

Yang Chao suddenly laughed: "Marquis Zheng actually has another choice, that is, to mourn the return of the Ling King to Nanjing, and the honor and favor of the Zheng family remain unchanged, what does Marquis Zheng think?" ”

When Zheng Hongkui heard this, he was even more shocked, and couldn't help but suspect that snatching away the mourning king was Yang Chao's plan, and he wanted to use Nanzhili to force the Zheng family to hand over the prison country.

Once the mourning king arrives in Nanjing, it will be Yang Chao who has the final say, but I am afraid that the mourning king will also be the head of the prison country, it must be Zhu Cijiong as the emperor, as for the Zheng family's favor, it is an empty word, just a few marquis and earls, what is the meaning.

Thinking of this, Zheng Hongkui no longer hesitated: "Uncle Yang said that he laughed, how can the prison country be moved casually, now the world is full of bandits, if he collides with the imperial car of the prison country, the lower officials really can't afford it." ”

Yang Chao sighed: "Then your Zheng family does not agree with Benjue's offer?" ”

Zheng Hongkui made up his mind at this time: "No! His Majesty thought that Uncle Yang was guarding the important land of Nangi, and it was necessary to have heavy troops, and heavy soldiers must have generous salaries, and the talents of Nanzhili could raise the soldiers of Nanzhili. Your Majesty is far away in Fujian, and he is bound to not be able to see everything, and he can't know every grass and tree in Nangi, so the governance of local affairs also needs to be carried by Uncle Yang. ”

Zheng Hongkui said as if the King of Mourning had planned to let Yang Chao guard Nanzhili from the beginning, and the military and political power was fully entrusted.

Yang Chao sighed: "In this case, this lord is willing to honor the Mourning King of the Prison Country!" (To be continued.) )