On the second day of the first month of the first month of this year, Li Zicheng captured Chengtian and Zhongxiang, now Hubei, and established the regime of Dashun.

Immediately after the unwilling Zhang Xianzhong attacked Qizhou on the twenty-fifth day of the first month. At the beginning of May, a Xianzhong fell into Hanyang, and Wuchang was shaken. When Wuchang City was empty. On the 30th, after Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang and its nearby subordinate towns, he established a state in Wuchang. Set up five mansions and six departments, casting the treasure of the king of the west. Changed Wuchang to Tianzhufu, Jiangxia said Shangjiang County, according to the Chu Palace, set up Shangshu Governor and other officials. Kaike took the scholars, and ordered the distribution of Chu Di gold to help the hungry.

According to the known historical development, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong both coincided with the trajectory of history respectively, and did not miss it at all.

Although Jiangxi, which is closer to Hubei, has not been completely shared by the peasant army, it is also a fluctuating people's heart, and the small group of rebel armies continues, with the instability in Jiangxi, while the neighboring Fujian is unusually calm, perhaps the Zheng family has been operating properly over the years, and in addition to taking out part of the grain for disaster relief, so there is no chaos.

The most important thing is that the Zheng family's 100,000 private soldiers are waiting for them, and they are there, aren't you looking for death when you make trouble here, the Zheng family is rich by relying on trade at sea, and Australian artillery is not comparable to Hubei, Jiangxi and other places at all.

The chaotic war in Hubei also made some ill-intentioned feudal officials or princes of the Zhu family see a glimmer of hope in all parts of the world, especially the feudal officials with heavy troops in various places at this time What they did the most was to preserve their strength.

The Zheng family exists as the overlord of the Fujian territory, and has an army of 100,000 troops, if there is no ambition, it is impossible to be a Jedi, not to mention that the country is his Zheng family from now on, but he still has the mind of splitting the earth and sealing the king.

It's just that it's not yet the time, and now the Ming Dynasty is full of smoke, but the people's hearts are still there, especially in the south, which still agrees with the orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the anti-Qing and Ming restoration organizations in the future to survive in the south.

Now for the Zheng family, he has to protect himself, watch the changes, and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight is what he needs to do most at present.

However, as the Zheng family group, which has more and more troops in recent years, has already been targeted, and it is not so easy to successfully watch the tiger fight.

As the Donglin party becomes bigger, it will inevitably go to the imperial court to let the Zheng family send troops for its own interests, firstly, to protect its own interests. Second, it is also to weaken the strength of the Zheng family.

In the centralized feudal era, it was not a good thing that the local warlords were too powerful, especially at the moment when the situation in the Ming Dynasty was chaotic, and it was very difficult to say if the Zheng family had any different intentions.

And the birth of the Zheng family is a big problem, which makes many people, including Chongzhen, not believe that he will be honest.

In order to let the Zheng family, a big warlord, take action, the ministers in the court have begun to discuss how to find a qualified reason to let Zheng Zhilong send troops to fight against the peasant rebel army, and finally the court will benefit from the defeat of both sides.

But when you think about it, there is not enough reason. At the moment, don't say that the Zheng family listens to the announcement or not, even the other feudal officials in other places may not obey the dispatch of the imperial court.

If you want the Zheng family to make a move, in fact, the most important thing is to let the rebel army and the Zheng family fight each other, only to lead the water to the east, but it is not so easy to lead the water to the east, not to mention that the rebel army has no brains, and people also know where to carry out their forces.

Located in the Zheng family compound in Quanzhou, Zheng Zhilong and his generals sat opposite each other. Lao Zheng stared at everyone with a pair of bright eyes, "Let's all talk about our suggestions." Now how should my Zheng family choose? ”

It is not a secret that the imperial court wants Zheng Jiajun to suppress the rebellion, and it is even more impossible for Zheng Hongkui, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, not to know the news.

So at this time, all the cronies of the Zheng family gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

"If the court dispatches us and doesn't listen, even if we don't listen to them, there is nothing we can do, big brother, don't worry. As long as we run a good place in Fujian, we can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. ”

Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, the imperial court also wants to do this, the Zheng family also wants to do this, I'm afraid Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong want to do this. But it's not that easy.

It is nominally unreasonable for the Zheng family not to make a move, because the war has burned to Jiangxi, which is very close to Fujian, and it is understandable for Zheng Zhilong to send troops.

As for how much he will pay, I'm afraid it is not up to the court to decide.

"Big brother, since the imperial court has moved its mind, it will inevitably take action, we must make a good plan, in my opinion, we will send some people to Jiangxi, which can be regarded as a reason to deal with it, at least nominally, we will not lose anything."

After all, Zheng Hongkui is an official, and his head thinks more than the other brothers, and now that the Zheng family has become a behemoth in Fujian, it is impossible to sail to the sea if it is not a big deal in the early years.

And although his brothers have also been officials in recent years, their pirate habits have not changed much, and they have not forgotten that kind of thinking.

Being a pirate now is definitely an early death, not to mention that there is an Australian who suddenly appeared, as well as Spain and other red-haired fans, if the Zheng family does not have Fujian as a base, how can they confront these people.

The Australians have a suspicion with the Zheng family, and the Spaniards have also had unpleasant encounters, so many opponents are there, the Zheng family will really not dare to leave everything to sail the sea for a while, and the transformation of the Zheng family in the past ten years has been very successful, and it is definitely not what Zheng Zhilong wants to become a bandit again.

Therefore, Zheng Hongkui, who has a deep understanding of the thoughts of his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong, will give advice on sending troops.

Sending troops is only secondary, blocking and taking the lead in righteousness is the right way, and Zheng Hongqi's proposal is actually very useful. In fact, Zheng Zhilong called these people over to go through the motions, to avoid saying that he didn't pay attention to them, after all, as a boss, he couldn't snub his subordinates too much, otherwise it would be difficult to do things.

He knew that among all the people, Zheng Hongkui's suggestions had some constructive suggestions, and the others were all big and coarse, and the suggestions given were either to fight or sail to sea, and these suggestions were not nutritious.

"Well, Zhibao is right, we can't lose the righteousness, after all, we are still the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, if we lose the righteousness, we will inevitably be ashamed of the world."

Even if the Zheng family wants to tear the earth and become the king in the future, it must have the support of the scholar class, and it is difficult to sit firmly in the world without the support of the scholar class. Therefore, this righteousness is still very important, the Zheng family must not lose, nor can it be lost, since they want to choose the trick of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, they must do it all, and sending some old and weak soldiers is actually not against the will of the imperial court. (To be continued......)