Chen Zilong repeatedly requested, and Ren Siqi finally agreed to play the Longwu court and asked Emperor Longwu to return the capital to Nanjing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, the envoy had just set off, and the envoy of Lu Jianguo had already arrived in Nanjing.

It was Ren Siqi's acquaintance who came, or his relative, Zhang Huangyan, who is now under the Lu Jian State Account.

Zhang Huangyan is Zhang Pujia's cousin, that is, Ren Siqi's brother-in-law, and Ren Siqi is very happy about his arrival. He has always admired this figure who is as famous as Zheng Chenggong.

Looking at the little Xiucai who visited him in Hangzhou back then, and now he has eight rulers, Zhang Huangyan is full of emotion.

Zhang Huangyan came on behalf of Lu Jianguo, first, to congratulate Ren Siqi on taking Nanjing, and then to ask for assistance in Lu Jianguo to take Hangzhou. In the first month, when Ren Siqi decided to attack Nanjing, he invited Lu Jianguo to attack Hangzhou to distract the Manchus.

Fang Guoan, Ma Shiying, and Wang Zhiren, the generals of Lu Jianguo, led more than 20,000 troops to cross the river from Zhuqiao, Fancun, and Liuheta in Wugu, until Zhangjiashan, Wuyun Mountain, Bapanling and other places, approaching the capital city of Hangzhou. Zhang Cunren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty, and Meile Zhangjing, Zhu Mala, Ji Xiha, Hetuo, Tian Xiong, Zhang Jie, etc., divided their troops to meet the attack in three ways, and the Ming army was defeated, and there were 11 deputy generals who were captured, and 48 generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, and garrisons.

Seeing that their own side was defeated, and the Chongming army successfully captured Nanjing, after discussing with Zhang Guowei, Xiong Rulin and others, who were under Lu Jianguo, they came up with the idea of using the Chongming army to capture Hangzhou. Zhang Huangyan was a relative of Ren Siqi, so he sent him as an envoy to Nanjing.

"Brother Huangyan, the defenders of Hangzhou are only thousands of eight banners and more than 10,000 green battalions, why are you so defeated!" Ren Siqi smiled bitterly.

"The soldiers were not well trained, the army was under the command of three generals, and they did not cooperate effectively with each other, and they rushed to be the first when they advanced, and they were defeated at the slightest setback." Zhang Huangyan said ashamedly.

"Brother Huang Yan's great talent only served as a small Hanlin editor under the account of King Lu, and incompetent people such as Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren were all ranked among the princes and held high positions. Why don't Brother Huangyan come to me, I can trust each other with a place. Ren Siqi did not say that he would not send troops, but strongly invited Zhang Huangyan to join the Chongming Army.

"My brother is a minister under the account of King Lu, and this time I also came to ask the Duke of Yue to cooperate in attacking Hangzhou on the order of King Lu, why do you persuade me to turn my back on King Lu?" Zhang Huangyan said unhappily.

"King Lu, a person who covets the big position and ignores the overall situation, what kind of face does he have to claim to be a prisoner!" In front of his relatives, Ren Siqi put down his disguise and spoke disrespectfully.

"How can you be so aggressive?" Zhang Huangyan pushed his cup and reprimanded angrily: "King Lu is the blood of Taizu, and you are the prisoner of the country, do you still have the appearance of a courtier when you say this?" ”

"What about the Taizu bloodline? Emperor Longwu has ascended the throne in Fujian and has been recognized by the provinces, why hasn't King Lu removed the post of superintendent, Tang and Lu are competing for empty national resources, saying that he is greedy for a big position and greedy for wealth is wrong?

Since the reign of King Lu, he has appointed private individuals, is lascivious, and allows Wang Zhiren to allocate land and levy salaries for national security, causing countless volunteers to disperse dissatisfied, and he has half a province but can't even beat a single Hangzhou. The servant is in a high position, and the sage is not used, such King Lu, Brother Huangyan, do you think he is worthy of being a prisoner, can he bear the burden of the Ming Dynasty? ”

In the face of Ren Siqi's questioning, Zhang Huang was speechless, in the past half a year under the account of King Lu, he naturally knew that King Lu was unbearable, and his army officials were corroded to an incorrigible degree, and what Ren Siqi said was still light.

"So you're planning to support King Tang?" After being silent for a while, Zhang Huangyan asked in a deep voice. Without Ren Siqi's support, King Lu can only be trapped in eastern Zhejiang, he came this time is actually more ordered to test, to test whether Ren Siqi supports King Lu as the Son of Heaven, Ren Siqi laid down Nanjing, has the land of Jiangdong, his subordinate army is extremely powerful, if he has his support, King Lu can ascend the throne in Nanjing. Now it seems that this idea is about to fail.

"Tang Wang, Emperor Longwu?" Ren Siqi laughed, "Although King Tang is wise and martial, far superior to King Lu, but he is held hostage by the Zheng family's brothers, and the Longwu court is just a puppet of the Zheng family. If Emperor Longwu can really come to Nanjing, I don't mind serving him as the master and being a loyal minister of Zhongxing Daming! ”

"You don't support King Lu, and you don't think about King Tang, how do you treat, can you say that you want to stand on your own?" Zhang Huangyan was taken aback, and only staggered back two steps in fright. Since the immediate rebellion, if Ren Siqi really became a rebel minister of the Ming Dynasty, he Zhang Huangyan, as Ren Siqi's relative, would never be able to escape from it.

"Hahaha, Brother Huangyan is not afraid." Ren Siqi laughed for a long time, "What do you say about self-reliance or not, doesn't Brother Huangyan know that my Chongming Army has long been self-contained?" ”

"Since the establishment of my Chongming Army, both official and military positions have been self-contained, when have they been interfered with by the imperial court?"

"Could it be that you really have the intention of plotting to usurp the throne and have the idea of replacing the Ming Dynasty?" Zhang Huangyan looked directly into Ren Siqi's eyes, and he wanted to find out what Ren Siqi really thought.

"Brother Huangyan misunderstood, Qi Wuyi said, 'It is not my intention to seal the marquis, I hope Hai Boping is peaceful', I have the same idea as him, I just need to expel the Manchu Tartars, not to sink Shenzhou, not to make my Han people miserable to be enslaved and slaughtered by foreign races, I just want me to stand on the top of the world in China and let the Siyi be subdued.

The Ming Dynasty has fallen into such a situation, it has reached a situation where it must be changed, external troubles and internal worries, even if it is replaced by a wise and martial emperor, it will not help.

I want to ask Brother Huangyan, between the Zhu family and the people of the world, where is your heart? ”

Ren Siqi's words rang in Zhang Huangyan's ears like a morning bell and a big drum, shocking his face pale and retreating again and again.

Ambition, naked ambition, was exposed in front of him like this, and Ren Siqi in front of him was by no means a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but a chaotic minister and thief like Cao Cao! But Ren Siqi's words made Zhang Huangyan have to think about who should be the most important between the Zhu family and the people of the world?

"You, you can represent the people of the world? Are you sure you can expel the Tartars and restore the Han world? Zhang Huangyan asked with difficulty.

"Since I Ren Siqi started the army, I have set up the will to expel the Tartars, from Yangzhou to Chongming, from Susong to Nanjing, do you think I fought the Manchu Qing Dynasty? What time did not achieve victory! If Brother Huangyan had stayed in my Nanjing for a while, he would have known that whether it was an official or an ordinary soldier, my Chongming army was completely different from that under King Lu. ”

In the end, Ren Siqi promised Zhang Huangyan that as long as he was willing to stay, he would send troops to attack Hangzhou and send a complete Hangzhou to Lu Jianguo, so that he could complete the task. At the same time, Ren Siqi sent someone to reply to King Lu, promising to send troops to attack Hangzhou at the price of 500,000 taels of silver.