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Zhu sat cross-legged on the futon, his eyes closed, and the golden sunlight shone on him through the window, as if the mythical Buddha had appeared in the world. However, this qiē is all an illusion, and it is only when one gets closer that one realizes that this Buddha is so old and so tired. In fact, after the turn of the year, Zhu Qian was already seventy-three years old, and after many years of running and the army in eastern Sichuan, his hard work and strict thinking had damaged his health, if it weren't for the belief in reviving the Ming Room, he would have been bedridden a long time ago.

"Your Highness," the guard outside the door called softly, listening to the heavy breath in the room, and the guard who knew that Zhu Qi was listening continued to report. "Master Du, they've all arrived."

I saw Zhu Qian reluctantly pick up a short rod and gently knock it on the copper bowl beside him, and the crisp sound transmitted a mysterious signal to the outside. The guards who understood immediately went out and invited all the civil and military forces in eastern Sichuan that he had just mentioned.

"Ministers and others see the prison country Chitose, Chitose!" In the same prayer, the door was opened by the guards, and Zhu Qi, dressed in cloth and monk's clothes, appeared in front of everyone.

Zhu Shudou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said unhappily: "His Royal Highness is a symbol of the Ming Dynasty, how can he wear monk's robes to show the public all day long. ”

Although Zhu Zhudou's surname is Zhu, he is not the Ming clan, his hometown Jiangjin is the Qing Shunzhi eighteenth year (1661) Xin Chouke Sanjia Tongjinshi, but he is not full of Qing officialdom to suppress the Han people, and after doing the same Liupinzhou, he abandoned the official and returned to his hometown, but he was coerced by the righteous army after the uprising, and finally had to serve as the secretary of the Great "Ming" Ministry of Rites. Although he was forced to lose his temperance at the beginning, Zhu Qian is a calligraphy and painting master and an authentic Ming clan, so after a few months, Zhu Zhandou felt that he had met the Ming Lord, and since then he has consciously and voluntarily prepared to become a "new" dynasty hero.

"Today is not an official court meeting, Zhu Qing doesn't have to be formal everywhere." The attendant standing next to Zhu Qian responded on behalf of Zhu Qi and ordered at the same time. "Come, give a seat to your lords."

After the praise, the courtiers sat down one after another, but because they were still reckless not long ago, most of them sat poorly, and Zhu Qi turned a blind eye to this, but let a few former "Qing officials" who surrendered secretly shook their heads and said nothing.

At this time, I heard Zhu Qi's attendant ask: "Zhou Shangshu, have the officials of the Six Mansions been properly appointed?" ”

The so-called six "mansions" refer to the five prefectures in eastern Sichuan such as Chengtian (Chongqing), Kuizhou, Shunqing, Suiding, Tongchuan, and Luzhou occupied by Zhu Qijun, but these five prefectures have always been subordinate to the state, not all of them are in the hands of Zhu Qijun, and even the Chengtian Mansion where Zhu Qijun's base camp is located has several counties that have been in danger so far, and as for the Youyang Xuanwei Division between Sichuan and Hunan Province, it is beyond the reach of Zhu Qi's whip.

"It's already been arranged." Zhou Yingyuan, the secretary of the ministry, replied that he was originally the prefect of Chongqing appointed by the Qing court, so the city was broken and fell into Zhu Qi's army, and under the coercion of the butcher's knife, he could only become this heavenly official aggrieved. "It's just that the local soldiers still have some scruples, so they can only fill in more from the army."

The so-called filling from the army is actually an exchange, Zhu Qi tried to recognize the territory occupied by the rebel army at the cost of the occupied prefecture and county, in exchange for the Kuidong families to hand over the military power in their hands, but although the idea is good, but the effect is not great, after all, no one is a fool, and he will never give up his own fundamental body in the troubled times for the sake of a prefect and a county, it is nothing more than handing over some old, weak, sick and disabled people to deal with Zhu Qi, the nominal co-master. In this regard, Zhu Qi knew that he was helpless, so he could only seize the territory of the two prefectures of Chongqing and Kuizhou and seven or eight counties as his own army.

Since he couldn't grasp the overall situation, Zhu Qi had no choice but to grasp what he could control first, and after seeing him for a while, the attendant asked: "Wang Du commanded the envoy, how is the reorganization of the guards and pro-army going?" ”

After the defeat of Zhu Qi's army in the first battle of Jianyang, Zhu Qi woke up, so after returning to Chongqing, he tried to gather military power on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also compressed his troops and chose to reorganize the guards and pro-army, trying to create a real army to compete with the Qing and Zheng sides.

"Back to Your Highness." The former lord of the Wang Zhai and the current Wang Du commanded the report like a loud bell. "The minister has selected 8,000 elite soldiers and divided them into 20 battalions for training." One of the reasons for the use of a small battalion of 400 men was that the battalion officers in the guards had no experience in commanding large armies, and they might be able to master it even if they had a small number of troops. "Now it's being practiced day and night, but there are many deficiencies in weapons."

Insufficient weapons including bows and arrows, birds, artillery, armor, lead, and gunpowder were also a big problem, and these could not be self-sufficient in the entire eastern Sichuan, so it was impossible for Zhu Qian to get support from those "subordinates".

"Ahem." Just when Zhu Qi was also in trouble, suddenly Tang Lu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, coughed lightly, Tang Lu was Zhu Qi's first disciple in Sichuan, and he once ruined his family to fund Zhu Qi to oppose the Qing Dynasty, so Zhu Qi was rewarded with a book after he succeeded. "Your Royal Highness, the minister was ordered to cut off the waterway of the Sichuan River, a few days ago he caught a merchant from Huguang, according to what he said, he can provide our army with bird guns and artillery, the minister is afraid that he is not ashamed to speak so he did not care, now maybe you can try."

Zhu Qi's slightly narrowed eyes suddenly opened: "The merchant of Huguang, isn't that the rebel already victorious in Huguang?" Where did the Huguang merchants come from to sell birds and artillery, it must have been the right to rebel against the subordinates who came to test the reality of eastern Sichuan, and they were immediately beheaded! ”

Tang Lu said: "What His Royal Highness said, the minister also guessed so at the beginning, but now there are three points in Sichuan, and the Qing and Zheng families are stronger than my Ming, if you can't strengthen the army, sooner or later it will be swallowed up by one of them, so the minister thinks that although the Zheng army has a plan, as long as it can be exchanged for a joint weapon, we can only drink to quench our thirst." ”

Tang Lu's words made Zhu Qi quite moved, but Tang Lu obviously didn't finish speaking: "And the minister thinks that if His Royal Highness has a large number of ordnance in his hands, it will also be of great benefit to the commanding departments, not to mention that eastern Sichuan is barren and not enough to raise an army. ”

After Zhu Qi raised his army, he got a considerable amount of silk, tea, pig bristles, tung oil and other specialties of central Sichuan, as well as some gold and silver, but these things could not be used as food, so if he could communicate with Zheng Fan, it would definitely be beneficial to maintain the "Ming" army in eastern Sichuan, and he could take the opportunity to integrate various departments, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Chu Huaiyuan, who served as the head of the household department as Zhu Qi's first confidant, agreed with both hands: "Your Highness, the minister thinks it is feasible. ”

"Then talk to this person," Zhu Qi was forced to compromise, but he still had an extra heart. "But you can't let this person into Sichuan, you can trade in Padang"

"Your Highness, the minister thinks it's inappropriate." Chu Huaiyuan shook his head. "Badong is the place where Zheng Yi is entrenched, and it is beyond the reach of our whip and inconvenient to control, so it is better to set it up in Wushan, and the ministers can monitor it nearby, and they can also collect a tax."

"It's up to you." Zhu Qian had no intention of entanglement, so he nodded and agreed. "But after the transaction of weapons is checked according to the truth, the equivalent goods can be given, and you must not be greedy for cheap and fall for Zheng Reverse."

"Ministers can save it." Chu Huaiyuan and Tang Lu glanced at each other and suddenly asked. "It's just that it's better to have the ministry come forward in this matter."

It stands to reason that it is related to the arms trade, and it is best for the military department to preside over it, but Li Yuanlong, the secretary of the military department, is a descendant of the loyal battalion, and the old foundation of the old ministry of the king is not in the scope of Zhu Qi's cronies, so he is naturally excluded. So according to the large amount of materials involved in the transaction, it should be better for the household department to come forward, but this matter is related to anti-espionage, and it is the criminal department that mentions yì first, so naturally it seems more suitable for the criminal department to hold a part of the soldiers and horses streamlined from the guards and pro-army.

Zhu Qi naturally understood that this was a struggle for power between his cronies, so he reconciled: "It's better for the Criminal Department and the Household Department to preside over it together." ”

Host together? So which grievance is responsible. Tang Lu just wanted to speak, but when he saw Zhu Qi's tired face, he hesitated for a moment, and then temporarily asked for a clear thought, but in this way, there will be a series of contradictions between the two departments in the future, which Tang Lu couldn't think of at the moment.

"I invited a few Qing family members today, but there is actually another matter." Silent for a while, as if Zhu Qi, who had regained his energy, gestured, and the attendant dutifully translated, of course, if he made a mistake in translation, Zhu Qi would also write clearly, and what would happen to the attendant who lost his favor at that time, it was naturally self-evident. "Seventy years old, after the year alone, seventy-three years old, alone death is about to be, what should I do with the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Qi led to one of the biggest worries, that is, the future of the Ming Army in Eastern Sichuan after Zhu Qi's death. "Lonely and old without heirs, once he dies, who can inherit him?" Zhu Qian sighed. "Where do you go from here? Surrender, I see that you will not be. Descend to Zheng, and the lonely will die without blinking his eyes. Launching a hypocrite, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public. Therefore, Lone asked the Qing family to find the descendants of the Ming clan in eastern Sichuan for Lone. ”

In fact, Zhu Qian had already arranged for someone to sneak into the coastal area of Zhejiang to smuggle the descendants of the Ming Sect, but first, this matter needed to be kept secret and not publicized, and second, there were many dangers and difficulties, and the possibility of success was extremely low, so Zhu Qi kept it a secret.

"If you have any gains, please send them to Chengtian, and after Gu personally verifies them, he will be established as the heir."

Looking for the heir, what a great achievement it should be, everyone's eyes flashed, and they had their own plans, but in front of Zhu Qi, everyone turned to their knees: "The ministers will definitely look for it with their hearts, and live up to the trust of His Highness." ”

After getting up, Zhou Yingyuan suddenly asked: "Your Highness, is the matter of finding the descendants of the clan to be notified to all prefectures and counties?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Zhu Qi, they naturally didn't want anyone to share the credit with them, but without the help of these local snakes, I am afraid that finding someone would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zhu Qian was afraid that he would not find it, and he was afraid that others would fool him with fake ones, so after thinking for a while, he decided: "The matter is serious, if you can't notify the ministries, I'm afraid that it will be centrifugal, so let's report it."

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