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The capital is the territory of the imperial court, and it is full of the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and if you want to do something here, you must do it after careful planning. Not long after Wu Yingxiong returned to the Efu Mansion, Shang Kexi followed him.

After a while of greetings at the door, Wu Yingxiong smiled politely and said, "I've been waiting for Shibo for a while, please come in quickly!" ", and then let Shang Kexi into the Tingyu Xuan in the inner mansion to wait for tea.

After sitting down, Shang Kexi used the lid of the bowl to pluck the tea leaves floating on it, half-closed a slightly puffy one-eye bubble, and opened his mouth with a single knife, and Wu Yingxiong was thrilled all over his body in one sentence: "Virtuous nephew, do you guess what is the emperor's intention in leaving the eldest prince of the Geng family behind?" Or did the Geng family have long been in contact with the imperial court? ”

Wu Yingxiong has been a hostage in Beijing for more than 20 years, and he is well versed in Tao Hui's technique, although he was surprised in his heart, his face did not change at all: "Shibo is too worried, Anzhi This is not Kangxi's strategy of differentiation?" My three vassal kings are in the same spirit, one is prosperous and the other is lost, I don't believe that his Geng family is so short-sighted. After speaking, Wu Yingxiong took a deep puff of cigarette and looked at Shang Keg's reaction through the thick smoke.

Shang Kexi was also observing Wu Yingxiong, a short man who was not good-looking, with a chubby body that was slightly bloated, thin eyebrows and big eyes, thick lips, and he looked extremely loyal and simple at a glance, but he didn't expect his reaction to be so sensitive. I still saw him a few times when he was young, and then he never came into contact with it again, and he didn't want to think about the past ten years, but now he has become so shrewd and capable. "After all, you young people, your father and I are old. Geng Jingzhong, like you, is so shrewd and capable. It's a pity that the letter is far from it! Shang Kexi originally had a stomach full of things to say. But thinking about it. Then he became excited.

His eldest son Shang Zhixin, although he has ability, but he has a fatal flaw - irritable, arbitrary, overjoyed, and greedy, as his son, he knows best. Now Guangdong. Three-quarters of the military power has fallen into the hands of Shang Zhixin, that is to say, in fact, Guangdong is already in charge of Shang Zhixin. But no matter how bad his son is, after all, he is still his own son, and he can only continue to help him.

The two kept chatting, but they didn't talk about anything important, and they didn't talk about cooperation or anything like that. No matter how capable Wu Yingxiong is, after all, he is still a proton, far away from Yunnan, and Shang Kexi can't be the master himself. But among the three kings. Wu Sangui's forces were more than the other two kings combined, therefore. Shang Kexi is the most veteran in front of Wu Yingxiong, but he is partial everywhere, and his words imply that Guangdong will follow in the footsteps of Yunnan.

"Yu Shizi, the prince of Jingnan is here to visit!" Wu Heng, the old housekeeper of the Efu Mansion, came to report. Wu Heng is Wu Sangui's right-hand man who stayed by Wu Yingxiong's side, and he is also the most capable subordinate of the Wu family, and there is no one. With him by Wu Yingxiong's side, Wu Sangui, who is far away in Yunnan, is also a lot more relieved.

Wu Yingxiong and Shang Kexi glanced at each other, and then said, "Hurry up, please!" But he stood up and went to the door to greet him. But Shang Kexi didn't move, after all, his qualifications are old, and there is no reason for the elders to go out to greet the younger generations.

"The younger brother has seen the world, he should have come to visit a few days ago, but he is entangled in trivial matters, and he hopes to forgive his sins!" As soon as Geng Jingzhong saw Wu Yingxiong, he immediately took a few steps forward and said.

"Haha, where did the virtuous brother say. The foolish brother has lived in the capital for a long time, and he can be regarded as half a landlord, but he did not invite the virtuous brother to come as a guest in time, and it is the foolish brother's not right. Hurry inside, please, Shang Shibo is also inside! Wu Yingxiong was polite while leading Geng Jingzhong to the inner hall.

"The little nephew has seen Shibo! I don't want Shibo to be here with Brother Yingxiong, but the little nephew of the province will go to your house again! Geng Jingzhong entered the inner hall and said to Shang Kexi who was sitting on the chair. As soon as he sat down, the subordinates of the Efu Mansion served the tea, and then went down, and only Geng Jingzhong and the three of them were left in the huge living room.

"The virtuous nephews are all my own people, so I have something to say. I was discussing with Ying Xiongxian's nephew just now, this emperor left you behind, I don't know what the purpose is? The virtuous nephew is a person who understands, Wu, Shang, and Geng can be said to be both prosperous and lossy, but don't be divided and disintegrated! In fact, Shang Kexi didn't have as much thought as Wu Sangui, what he thought was very simple, he just wanted to protect the interests of his Zhennan Palace. As for the rebellion, he didn't have that mind yet, he thought that as long as the three families were in the same spirit, the court would not dare to do anything to the three vassal kings.

Wu Yingxiong also turned his gaze to Geng Jingzhong, Geng Jingzhong smiled after hearing this, and said unhurriedly: "Shibo is too worried, and the little nephew understands the stakes. Kangxi meant to divide and disintegrate us, but the little nephew was not so stupid and didn't answer his words. The emperor left me behind because he took a fancy to my Western warships! Knowing that he wouldn't, he wanted to build some of his own. But when I told him that a warship needed more than 200,000 taels of silver, he stopped talking! ”

"Uh, hahahaha. I've heard that your Jingnan Mansion has exhausted its financial resources in order to build a horsetail water division. And the imperial court has to use money everywhere, how can the emperor have so much spare money to build such a warship. Besides, what did he build it for? The trouble in the north has not been solved, do you want to fight Taiwan? Shang Kexi heard this, haha laughed, it seems that this emperor is too young and light after all, he doesn't know the weight, looking at the majesty of the Western sail battleship, he also wants to build a few to play, but unfortunately he doesn't know the cost of this warship.

"Shibo is right. I heard that in order to build the Mawei Navy Fleet, the virtuous brother united many Fujian merchants. There's such a thing, right? As he spoke, he stared at Geng Jingzhong and asked. Seeing that Geng Jingzhong nodded, he continued: "It seems that the virtuous brother is to help open the port and develop maritime trade as a condition, so he said that those merchants helped to fund the construction of the sailor, in fact, if the imperial court also imitates the practice of the virtuous brother Jingzhong, it can also raise a large amount of silver, and it is no longer a problem to develop a sailor!" ”

"Brother Shi is right, but it is a pity that the imperial court closed the customs and strictly enforced the maritime ban policy, which greatly hindered the development of coastal commerce. Shibo should deeply understand the benefits of sea trade. Far beyond the rest. And Fujian is very poor. I can't help it. Today, Shibo and Shige are here, so I'll just say it. For example, Shibo's Guangdong province is the closest to Fujian, and we have reached an agreement on the way here. In the future, Guangdong and Fujian provinces will increase cooperation and exchange ideas. There is also Uncle Wu guarding Yunnan and Guizhou, the land is vast and rich, and it is completely possible to transport goods to the sea. As long as the goods are transported to Guangdong and Fujian, you can get more than twice the net profit, which I think should also be a good thing for Uncle Wu. At the beginning of last year, the deal reached between the younger brother and Uncle Wu is enough to explain the problem! Geng Jingzhong said unhurriedly.

"What Brother Xian said may be right, I will report this matter to my father, and his old man will be in charge." Wu Yingxiong said with a smile.

"It seems that the virtuous nephew doesn't like this benefit, too, the imperial court sends tens of millions of taels of silver to Yungui every year, how can he care about this." That's a little sour. The imperial court allocates money and grain to the three feudal clans every year. Wu Sangui accounted for half of it. And Wu Sangui opened a tea and horse exchange market in Yunnan and Tibet, and the profit was also extremely rich in annual income. He is still happy, but he can't catch up with the horse. Although the Shang family also set up private taxes in Guangdong and developed maritime trade, they made an annual profit of three or four million taels, which was far worse than Wu Sangui's.

Geng Jingzhong did not answer at this time, his ocean-going Kunpeng fleet and offshore transport formation can bring him at least 10 million taels of income every year, and at least 30 million taels are earned by the people of the Fujian family. If Shang Kexi and Wu Sangui knew about this, they would definitely vigorously develop overseas trade, but even if they wanted to do it at this time, it would be too late.

Wu Yingxiong could also hear Shang Kexi's words, and did not continue on the topic. Instead, he moved on to other topics, since Kangxi left Geng Jingzhong without any special thoughts, and Geng Jingzhong also knew his position, so there was no need to worry about other things. The three of them talked for a while, and then they went home. Geng Jingzhong was going to go back in two days, but Shang Kexi wanted to stay for a while. The old man likes children, his second son has stayed in the capital for many years, and the youngest grandson is already ten years old, so he wants to stay in the capital for a while and accompany the children.

Geng Jingzhong returned to Geng Zhaozhong's Efu Mansion, and there was nothing to do, and in the afternoon, he took a few guards to wander around the streets. In the Elu Mansion, Ah Hou originally wanted to keep up, but considering the secrecy of his identity, he held back. Geng Jingzhong's trip was not a purposeless wandering, but at this moment, the group was specifically following some temples. Geng Jingzhong still remembers the fake third prince Zhu, recently Geng Jingzhong got a detailed report from Ah Hou, and he has a deeper understanding of this San Lang Xiang Society.

There are many people who pretend to be the third prince of Zhu in history, but the most powerful one is this Yang Qilong. His father Yang Jizong was originally a distant nephew of Yang Lian, the former deputy capital of the former Ming Dynasty, Yang Lian was arrested and imprisoned for impeaching Wei Zhongxian, the huge Yang family died and fled, the family was ruined, and Yang Jizong ran away under the pseudonym Zhu Ying. In the early years of Chongjiao, Yang Lian's unjust case was rehabilitated, and Yang Jizong returned to Beijing, where he bribed Zhou Guifei's cousin Zhou Quanbin and soon got a position as the treasurer of Guanglu Temple.

On March 29, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army broke through the city of Beijing. In the middle of the night, Emperor Chongjiao rang the Jingyang bell and summoned hundreds of officials to enter the palace. When Yang Jizongfei also rushed into the Forbidden City, the corpses of the guards, brocade guards, and palace maids were everywhere, and the smell of blood was smoky. Chongzhen killed the princess, the courtier, the palace maid and the imperial concubine, and ran to the coal mountain. Hung up.

When Yang Jizong walked through the palace, he found a very delicate small wooden box, and there was a dragon golden button and jade seal inside! There is also a Tianhuang jade, which is used to prove the identity of the prince, in addition, there is also a treasure map. After Yang Jizong's death, these things fell into the hands of Yang Qilong and became the vouchers and capital of the fake "Third Prince Zhu". In recent years, he has inspected the four provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui as a "young master", and developed the Sanlang Incense Association.

In fact, if Geng Jingzhong hadn't specially reminded Ah Hou to investigate this convenient information, Ah Hou would not have set his sights on these people. Originally, in Ah Hou's opinion, it was better to pay attention to these people than to install some secret agents in the palace or the palace. But after many investigations, the information obtained about the San Lang Xianghui did scare Ah Hou, and unconsciously, there was such a force hidden around the capital.

There was nothing abnormal about the temples on a few streets, and Geng Jingzhong was not discouraged, and he was not ready to find this Yang Qilong directly. But. He also said there was a glimmer of hope. Historically, Yang Qilong was able to do without anyone's support. He has developed a huge force on his own. It is also not to be underestimated. If he secretly gave him some help, when the time came, the imperial court would start a war with Wu Sangui, and Yang Qilong would stir up peace in it, maybe Hai would make the situation more muddy, and in that case, it would be more beneficial to himself.

After looking around, he really didn't find it, so Geng Jingzhong went home. I'm going to go back in two days. That is, when he returned to the mansion, Wu Heng, the chief housekeeper of Wu Yingxiong's mansion, personally sent a letter from Wu Sangui, inviting Geng Jingzhong to Yunnan for a while. Geng Jingzhong also suddenly remembered that in history, it seems that after Kangxi summoned the three feudatories, the three kings gathered in Wuhua Mountain, Yunnan to discuss major matters, and it seems that as soon as Wu Sangui's letter arrives, history will repeat itself. However, this Geng Jingzhong is not the original Geng Jingzhong, and it is estimated that the content of the original history will also be changed

Geng Jingzhong accepted the letter. The next day, we set off for Fujian. There is also a reason why he returned to Fujian first. He's going to Yunnan. It is bound to start from the capital, besides, if you take the land route, four or five thousand miles along the way, the mountains are high and the water is long, the road is difficult to walk, and I don't know if you want to go to the Year of the Monkey. His own warship was anchored in the port of Tianjin, and it only took seven days to return to Fujian by big ship, and then he could reach Yunnan by boat to Zhanjiang in the south of Guangdong and then transfer to a horse-drawn carriage.

In Yunnan, the majestic Pingxi Wang's Mansion stands high on Wuhua Mountain on the outskirts of Kunming. Compared with Geng Jingzhong's Geng Wangzhuang, this place is more magnificent. The dragon towers and phoenixes, or the red wall is blocked, or the green bamboo is shaded, and they are scattered among the peaks and peaks of the stream according to the mountain situation. Within a radius of tens of miles, the clouds and trees are verdant, the weather is thousands, the winding mountain road, the layers of marble steps meander straight to the clouds, and people have the feeling of fluttering fairy as soon as they enter the mountain.

This was the former Ming Dynasty Yongli Forbidden City, Wu Sangui took over and painstakingly repaired, after nearly 30 years of operation, it is no longer its original appearance. Whether it is in terms of scale or momentum, it is not much worse than the Forbidden City in the capital. In the back mountain, Wu Sangui also ordered people to build rows of large stone houses, which were his Wu Sangui's treasury, and the gold, jade, beads, and treasures in it were piled up like a mountain. Next to the storehouse are all kinds of weapons, which are still being forged and renewed.

In the corridors on both sides of the Yin'an Palace, there are the Soldiers and Horses, the Officials Division, the Salt Tea Division, the Punishment Hall, the Casting Hall, etc., all of which are set up according to the imperial court system, but they are simplified and the names have been changed. The tall imitation Han Que at the foot of the mountain extends to the four outside, connecting Guizhou and Guangdong in the east, Qinghai-Tibet in the west, reaching Myanmar in the south, and Pingliang in the north...... All this qiē constitutes an incomparably huge network, and the central figure who affects this large "network" is Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi.

At this moment, Wu Sangui was sitting in front of Lie Cui Xuan in the palace garden on the west side of Yin'an Hall to watch the song and dance. Sitting side by side with him was Geng Jingzhong, who had come from Beijing after receiving a letter, and Shang Zhixin, the prince of Zhennan, who had been here from Guangdong for half a month. Geng Jingzhong also just arrived, and at this moment, it was Wu Sangui who picked up the wind and washed the dust for him. Wu Sangui knows very well what he is going to do, his power is so great, that is, he doesn't want to rebel, and the court will force him to rebel, he has no choice, in fact, he can't let go of the power in his hands, if he really puts it down, he can only be a rich man with no power and no power, that is definitely not what he wants.

The reason why Geng Jingzhong rushed over immediately after receiving Wu Sangui's secret letter was that he didn't want to miss this meeting of the three feudatories, and secondly, he wanted to see what kind of person Wu Sangui was. The three kings rarely meet, and Geng Jingzhong has never met Wu Sangui himself, and he is very interested in the famous male protagonist who is angry at the crown in history. In addition, if you come all the way to Yunnan once, you must bring something back. Of course, this thing will not just buy some local specialties, but want to make a few more transactions with Wu Sangui. The last artillery trade was very good, and he made a lot of money, but Wu Sangui provided him with thousands of skilled gun-making craftsmen.

Shang Zhixin, on the other hand, is in a different state. He is the eldest son of Shang Kexi, the king of Zhennan, and he has long been eager to snatch his father's throne. Shang Kexi is already old and can't manage so many things, in fact, the military power has long been taken away by his son. This Shang Zhixin, although he has many shortcomings, is also a person who is very deep in the city. After he came to Wuhua Mountain, he put on the demeanor of a noble son and a drunken maniac, full of foul language, and absurd behavior, which made Geng Jingzhong very annoying, and even Wu Sangui looked down on him a little.

On the surface, this gathering of the three san parties was a daily delicacy and a sound of dogs and horses, but in fact, it can be said that it was a premeditated rebellion. Wu Sangui, who is the oldest and most powerful, is not only the host of this gathering, but also the natural core figure. The other two kings basically followed his rhythm, and whatever Wu Sangui said, they also promised something. (To be continued......)

PS：…… Cheer yourself up! ……