284. The New Emperor
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On the seventh day of October, the vanguard of the Zheng army on the east road had already entered the territory of Dongguan, and the Qing troops in all counties under the rule of Guangzhou Prefecture withdrew into the city of Guangzhou. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wรจn Aishang Novel Network)
On the eighth day of October, Xinhuicheng, which had just been recovered, ushered in the attack of Shi Yingyuan, the water and land commander of Beihai Town of the Qing Dynasty, and Li Rirong, the water division and land commander of Gaozhou Town, who had reinforced, from afar to reinforce Guangzhou. The Qing army that captured Xinhui carried out a massacre of Xinhui City in the name of capturing the rebels, and only about 20 people in the city escaped with their lives.
Just when the bestial Qing army slaughtered the people of Xinhui, the Qiongzhou detachment of the Zheng army established a simple water village on Shangxiachuan Island. The next day, Chen Baoshun personally commanded four notification ships to break into the Yamen waterway, all the way up to the outside of Xinhui City. Seeing the sudden arrival of the Zheng gunboats, the panicked Qing army immediately fled to the northeast. The Qing army, which fled the crime scene, advanced all the way to Xiangshan, although it arrived at Xiangshan smoothly, but the people of Xiangshan who had been notified were united, and the Qing army was unable to drum, and its morale was declining. The two sides fought a big battle under the attention of the people of Xiangshan, the Qing army was finally defeated, the general soldiers of the two towns were killed, and the rest of the captives were taken to Xinhui City to be executed one by one according to Zheng Kezang's will.
Since all the lines along the Pearl River were in the hands of Zheng Jun, Zheng Kezhang ordered the Qiongzhou Detachment to sail into the Pearl River, all the way up to Baietan, and the Zheng Jun's gunboats that arrived under the city of Guangzhou immediately bombarded the city wall of Guangzhou with their four-and-a-half-inch short guns, and Wu Xingzuo, who had only more than 5,000 remnants in his hands, was unable to resist at all, so he boarded the boat overnight and led the army up, and Guangzhou also fell into the hands of Zheng Jun.
After the restoration of Guangzhou, Zheng Jun carried out a new round of expansion, but in view of the incomplete equipment of infantry guns and artillery, Zheng Kezhang mobilized the new left and right Shenwu divisions, left shooting sound divisions, and right tiger guard divisions to return to Dongning. The rest of the troops were organized into two armies, the left and right route armies, of which the right route army was led by Mao Hongyan, who was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, and marched to Zhaoqing and Guangxi; The Left Route Army, led by He Gan, the new deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, went north to Shaoguan to prepare for Hunan.
After finishing these things, Zheng Kezhang boarded the sailor cruise ship and returned directly to Dongning, and the day before his ship arrived in Dongning, according to his previous instructions, an envoy hurried to the residence of Zheng Jianguo in Chengtianfu.
"Great Tomorrow!" Although the sixty-six-year-old Zhu Youge has always hoped to change the brand of the prison country to the emperor, when this pie really fell from the sky, he and Zhu Cien, the prince who was waiting on the side, were dumbfounded. "Great Tomorrow, this, this is what Zhang Guogong means?" After getting the reconfirmation of Xu Mingting, the official of the Ritual Division, Zhu Youge, who came back to his senses, was busy prevaricating. "There are a large number of people in the Ming clan who stayed in Dongning, not to mention that King Lu and King Yi are all descendants of Taizu, that is, King Huai"
"The prison country is too worried." Xu Mingting interrupted Zhu Youge's unfinished words. "The feudal lord's mind has been decided, and individual clans can't make any big waves by chewing their tongues behind their backs." Xu Mingting's words are clearly implying that Zhu Youge should not be delusional even if he becomes the emperor. "Please don't prevaricate the prison country."
Zhu Youge's brain teaser turned and asked tentatively: "Then after the lonely king ascends the throne, what will be the position of recruiting the general?" โ
"The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Metropolitan Governor, the Recruiting General, the General Chapter, the Military and State Affairs." Among the three titles, Zheng Kezang originally had the general to recruit the general, and the governor of the Dadu Governor's Mansion was once the highest military position in the Ming Dynasty, and now it falls into the hands of Zheng Kezang, who is nominally under the banner of the Ming army and is actually the private army of the Zheng family, and it can be regarded as justifiable, only the general chapter military affairs are not the official positions of the Ming Dynasty, but from its name, it should be synonymous with the highest power as the Pingzhang military affairs in the Southern Song Dynasty. "In addition, please grant the feudal lord the power to raise ministers without the recommendation of the court, and please abolish the power of the celebrant to approve Zhu."
Zhu Youge understood as soon as he heard that although he was promoted to be the emperor, he was actually just a puppet in the hands of Zheng Kezang, and the reason why Zheng Kezhang did not directly claim the emperor now was precisely to use the last bit of appeal of the Ming Dynasty.
However, although Zhu Youge has some small ambitions, he knows very well that he has a few catties and taels, and after looking at Zhu Ciene, the prince of the world whose eyebrows are condensed into Sichuan characters, he sighed, leaned over and asked: "If Lone comes to be the Ming Emperor, will the Duke of Zhangguo let the descendants of Lone and Gu die well in the future?" โ
Pin smacked the mood of Zhu Youge's father and son, Xu Mingting replied with a smile: "As long as the country is supervised, no, the minister is wrong, he should be called Long Live Lord, as long as Long Live Lord has no thoughts in the future, as long as the heir can be willing to give up the throne in the future, the Lord will not be stingy with the name of a state guest." โ
Hearing the words of the heir, Zhu Youge put his mind at ease, knowing that Zheng Kezhang could not start immediately, in his opinion, the battle between Zheng Jun and the Qing court was bound to last for a long time, in this case, Zheng Kezhang did not have the heart to immediately seek the dynasty and usurp the throne, in this case, he may not be the end of the Ming family, as long as the ancestral foundation continues to be sent in his own hands, the descendants will not be able to take care of much. Not only that, Zhu Youge also knew that even if he didn't want to sit on that throne, there would always be people in the more than a dozen Ming sects in Dongning who couldn't help but sit on it and cooperate with Zheng Kezang, in that case, why should he give up the opportunity to stay in the annals of history to others?
"Lone understood." Zhu Youge sighed and asked again. "Can the feudal lord give the prince a title if he has meritorious service?"
"It doesn't have to be." Xu Mingting shook his head. "The lord of the feudal domain has a great merit of recovery, and at that time he will be crowned a prince is a destiny of the heavens, and it is not more upright than the so-called support and support?"
"With the hills and ravines in the chest of the feudal lord, it is only natural that the future generations will be bright." Zhu Youge said this weakly, and then asked. "And I don't know when this will be done?"
"Don't worry, the feudal lord will return to Dongning in a day or two," Xu Mingting chuckled. "Naturally, it will be activated then"
On October 15, two days after returning to Dongning, Zheng Kezhang led a hundred officials to ask Zheng Jianguo to succeed Emperor Zhaozong Kuang as the son of the great tomorrow. The next day, Zheng Kezhang mobilized the Ming clan to implore Zheng Jianguo to succeed to the emperor's throne, and Zheng Jianguo resigned again on the grounds that the heirs of Yizong (Chongzhen) were still alive. Subsequently, Zheng Kezhang instructed more than 10,000 people in Tianxing and Wannian counties to invite again, and Zheng Jianguo reluctantly accepted it, so he announced that the enthronement ceremony would be held in Fuzhou on November 15 of that year
Zhu Youge's enthronement ceremony is still in full swing preparations, and the news of the Ming Dynasty's re-glory has been transmitted through various channels, especially the landing raids of the Zheng Army's Northern Fleet and the Zhoushan Detachment, which quickly spread throughout the vast coastal areas from Korea in the north to Guangnan in the south, and even reached Kangxi's ears in the first time.
The reaction of the Manchurian ministers who were like mourning and examining the concubine was completely different, and Kangxi, who was light-hearted, preached in public: "When the emperor was alive, he arrested and killed two great emperors in a row, and as for the self-proclaimed prisoner of the country, it was even more of a basket, I am still thinking, when will I be able to record in the annals of history that I have captured and killed two great emperors during the Kangxi period?" โ
Seeing the excited Manchu and Han ministers retreating, Kangxi's face instantly turned pale: "Zhu Qin'er, it's extremely hateful!" โ
Kangxi smashed the cup or smashed the plate, naturally someone hid it for him, but the news of Zheng Jianguo's imminent succession spread quickly in the land of Jiangnan like a shock wave, and some scholars who regarded Ming Zheng as a pirate quickly reversed their perception of the Dongning regime, of course, this is also the current Zheng army and soldiers Wei Hehe occupies two provinces in a row, making the Ming Dynasty look like a heavy Zuo hope, otherwise these people will either escape into the mountains and forests as old people or have forgotten their ancestors and are willing to be slaves of the Manchurians.
In addition to the above-mentioned people who were ready to start speculating on the battle of Zhengqing, the remnants of the three feudatories with the purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty, the remnants of the Dashun and Daxi armies also emerged from the countryside, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army's extensive mobilization of the insufficient troops of the towns and towns, large and small anti-Qing uprisings were in full swing, and overnight Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan all had the situation of the righteous army capturing the prefectures and counties, and the Qing troops left behind were exhausted, and the situation gradually broke away from Kangxi's grasp.
As for the Zhu Qi brothers, who were once extremely unhappy with the Ming and Zheng sides because of Hanliu's refusal to cooperate with the Jiangxi Righteous Army, they also saw the opportunity to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, and the brothers repeatedly discussed that although they could not reach Fuzhou through the Guรฒ war zone, they might be able to do something for the Zheng army that was under siege by the Qing army, so a far-reaching uprising began to brew again.
Although Korea and the Ryukyus could not publicly congratulate them for various reasons, the Japanese shogunate, which greatly respected Zhu Zi's science and Hanyi orthodoxy, immediately sent an envoy to Asaga, and Guangnan, who was beaten down by Zheng's army, sent people north to Asaka in an attempt to improve relations with the Cam Ranh Governorate.
The Portuguese in Macao, the Dutch in Batavia, and the British, French, Spaniards, and even the Danes who opened trading houses in Penghu were all attentively following the developments, and although they had different perspectives, no one did not worry that a large-scale civil war would destroy the export channels for raw silk and tea. Of course, there were also countries that tried to curry favor with Ming Zheng, a regime that was obviously on the rise, and the French ordered the recall of all French clergy in Beijing, and the Portuguese, who were in the hands of Ming Zheng, were forced to follow suit, and the Jesuits were forced to withdraw the clergy under pressure from the Macau authorities, so that the Qing court's attempt to reorganize the Dagu Dockyard was delayed indefinitely.
On November 14, the Qing army in southern Zhejiang finally conquered Guantang, a key point on the South Yandang Mountain Road, and stepped into the territory of Fujian with one foot, but this insignificant victory was not enough to prevent the enthronement ceremony of the great emperor of Juexing the next day
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