When Teng Chong beat Daniel Zhang, Zhu Yongxing used this trick; After Shiping eliminated Wu Guogui, Wu Zisheng also learned to use it; Now, Zhu Yongxing is repeating his old tricks again, adding a little disgust to Wu Sangui and making him in a dilemma. Anyway, Zhu Yongxing was unwilling to bear the notoriety of killing prisoners, and he was even more unwilling to raise these wounded soldiers in vain.

After thinking about it, Fang Guangchen also understood the meaning of Zhu Yongxing's trick, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and said: "It's not good to accept it, it's not good if you don't accept it, this plan of the pseudo-sect is very vicious." ”

"yes!" Wu Sangui touched his beard under his chin, quite distressed, "The puppet clan also wants to exchange the heads and corpses of the generals who died in our army for the families of the fallen families of the puppet Ming soldiers, thinking that they want to buy people's hearts." ”

Among these wounded soldiers, there must be old people from Liaoxi, and their families have already been settled in Kunming, if they don't accept it, the pseudo-clan will definitely deliberately spread the news. Originally, the battle of Yuanjiang had already suffered heavy casualties, and the families of the soldiers would definitely have complaints, and if they kept these wounded soldiers out, the complaints might turn into resentment. As a result, his soldiers will also have a sad heart for the death of a rabbit and a fox, and will they fight to the death in the future? And a reputation for being mean and unkind obviously can't run away.

Fang Guangchen thought for a long time, and said helplessly: "The prince recruits heroes from all over the world, and he has the style of a polite and virtuous corporal, but he can't bear the name of this ruthless and unkind. Since the pseudo-sect has this discussion, there must also be a follow-up move. If the prince agrees, it will only be a loss of some money and food, and he will also be able to get the name of benevolence and righteousness, and the praise of loving soldiers like sons. As for the morale of the military, even if there is a blow, there is a way to make up for it. ”

Wu Sangui pondered for a moment and nodded slightly, he had actually made a decision, but through Fang Guangchen's words, he could be more firm and get some comfort. Fame is this thing. It can't be seen or touched, but it was highly valued in that era. Although Wu Sangui is arrogant to the outside world, he is very humble to his subordinates, and he is "like a father and son in his family". If the other party raises a challenge. Not only is he not angry, but he prefers to talk back and forth, "tirelessly", and never speak out if he is not angry.

At the same time, Wu Sangui pays great attention to recruiting talents, and spares no expense. Whoever is "a man of talent and a good writer, and a man of great appearance." Doing everything he could, he threw his life into the vassal and saved it for his own personal use". In other words, talented, famous, dignified, and extraordinary, are all the objects of Wu Sangui's arrogance, placing them under his subordinates. Become his private own.

"I don't know who the pseudo-sect wants to exchange?" Fang Guangchen saw that Wu Sangui agreed to his suggestion, so he asked about another matter. "The Puppet Ming Army will have the lost dependents, whether they are dead or hidden or arrested, how can he know the specific list?"

"It's mainly the wife of the puppet prince He Jiuyi." Wu Sangui sneered and said, "There are still a few people, but they are vague, and they don't know the specific personnel if they are pseudo-sects. Just say it's one for one. ”

"I think it's a lowly plan to be gone!" Fang Guangchen was a little disappointed, and his plan to oppose He Jiuyi failed, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

"It's not the fault of the court." Wu Sangui waved his hand and said with a sad face: "Even if it is unsuccessful, it is useless to leave women and children in vain." The nobles, Keyong, and footsteps have all followed the king for many years. is loyal, and I can't bear to see him buried without a whole body. ”

Wu Guogui, Ba Keyong, Zhang Zufa, these old generals in western Liaoning are naturally able to change, Wu Sangui is grateful for their loyalty on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also has the intention of buying people's hearts.

Fang Guangchen did not object to this, and he couldn't help but feel sad when he thought that these former comrades-in-arms or colleagues had all died on the battlefield. After sighing, he suddenly felt a little strange, Liu Xuanchu was also resourceful, why did these things have to wait for him to discuss? It's a bit difficult, but considering the big picture, it's not that difficult to make a decision!

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On the ninth day of December in the thirteenth year of Yongli, Ninghai.

The slightly salty and wet smell wafted from afar, and the three yellow-skinned, thin-skinned and tattered men suddenly seemed to be full of strength and stumbled forward.

Turning over a small hill, the field of vision suddenly widened, the sea breeze blew in the face, and the blue sky and white clouds in the distance reflected the endless sea. White waves kiss the sand, lap against the reef, and splash countless droplets.

The water and the sky meet, and the small islands are also reflected in the sky and the sea, surrounded by waves, like a dance dress with white lace.

Zhang Hua fell to the ground with a "plop", touched the earth, and cried loudly.

"My lord, we're finally back." Zhang Zhong helped Zhang Huangyan sit on the big stone, tears rolling down, and he couldn't cry.

"It's back, it's back." Zhang Huangyan burst into tears, thinking of the Yangtze River War, thousands of soldiers and dependents under his command fled under the encirclement and killing of the Qing army, and they all fled in the mountains and wilderness, and couldn't help but be sad and inexplicable.

"The king of Yanping County retreated in a hurry when he encountered a small setback, and he didn't know that he would meet the adult, and he was obviously trapped in the adult's death." Zhang Zhong gritted his teeth with hatred, "According to his subordinates, the Zheng family is not a Ming dynasty, but a real person!" ”

"Under the original intention of the stone city, the division will be frustrated, and may not be able to board the boat; That is, boarding the boat, not necessarily sailing; That is, to sail, must guard Zhenjiang. There is a lot of movement in the upper stream of the bullet pressure. What a thing, what a thing! Zhang Huangyan was also resentful of Zheng Chenggong's performance in the Battle of Nanjing, but he still reprimanded his subordinates: "Don't talk nonsense." Then, he looked up at the sea, but his heart was churning up and down, repeatedly thinking about everything that had happened since the southeast coast resisted the Qing Dynasty.

In June 1645, King Lu descended to the Qing Dynasty, and almost all the territory of Zhejiang was submitted to the Qing court. In a daze, he brazenly ordered his subjects to shave their hair and keep braids, so as to unify their thinking and understanding and improve their political consciousness, otherwise they would lose their heads. Unexpectedly, as soon as this order came out, the world was in an uproar, not only the people who had been preparing to surrender fled with their heads covered, but even the local people who had surrendered also rose up one after another and rebelled with great fanfare.

For a time, the southeast coast was turbulent, and the rebel army was greatly invigorated. At that time, the vassal kings in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had been swept away by the Qing army, and only the king of Lu, who lived in Taizhou, Zhejiang, had not gone north, so everyone served the king of Lu as the mainstay, and the power of the state of Lu was formally established on July 18 of this year.

Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was originally enthroned in Yanzhou, Shandong, and after escaping from death, he attacked the king of Lu, and then fled south to Zhejiang in a hurry, which can be called bitter and bitter. The hatred of the country and the family made him bitter hatred for the Qing court. One force takes the fight against the Qing Dynasty as its own responsibility, but having great ambitions does not mean that the method is right.

King Lu was originally an aspiring young man, seeing the sages and thinking together, he wanted to learn from the ancients and was thirsty for materials, and he was like a stream, but he thought that he could learn to go crazy. "See a person. then lean on the heart; When you hear a word, you believe that it is like a yarrow turtle, and it is true and modest, and everyone wants to use it. But it is not the case when it turns to hope, and when it sees the descendants, the predecessors abandon it like a hair, and when it hears the latter, the foreword is regarded as ice charcoal. Later, there were many people and no one could be used. Attached to the full court, eventually became a lonely widow. ”

After the fall of Hongguang, Fujian has supported the Tang Dynasty, and now that King Lu has ascended the throne, it is naturally difficult for one country to accommodate two masters. Two small courts fought for legitimacy. Putting the strong enemy in the north to suppress the border did not please, but instead started a war of words first, and it was not lively for a while. Then the civil war escalated, and the two kings of Tang and Lu vied with each other to take out a lot of silver and high-ranking officials to mix sand in the other party's regime and dig the foot of the wall. performed a wonderful Ming version of "Infernal Affairs".

The infighting continued, attacking each other, and the dispute between Lu and Tang made the Qing army pick up a big bargain. The Qing army Bellebolo broke through Fujian, and the Tang king was captured and killed. The regime of Lu Jianguo was also broken by the Qing army. collapsed, and King Lu escaped under the protection of Zhang Mingzhen and others. At that time, the Tang regime collapsed. Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, and the generals of the Zheng Group were leaderless for a while, and Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian and others were transferred to Lu Jianguo and welcomed King Lu to Xiamen, and then settled down.

Later, Zheng Cai fought with his brother Zheng Chenggong. The skills are not as good as others, and they were successfully occupied by the old nest Xiamen. And Lu Jianguo took the opportunity to merge with Huang Binqing, the defender of Zhoushan, and settled in Zhoushan Station, got rid of Zheng Cai's control, and reorganized the government.

August 1651. The Qing army gathered at Dingguan and won the Battle of Zhoushan, capturing Zhoushan City, the base of the Lu Jian State. In desperation, King Lu, who was untenable on the coast of Zhejiang, had no choice but to lead his troops south to Xiamen to rely on Zheng Chenggong, intending to make a comeback after resting and recovering. However, Zheng Chenggong never recognized the power of King Lu, and only agreed that King Lu would live in Kinmen as the king of the Ming domain to ensure his preferential life.

In March 1653, Zhu Yihai also recognized the legitimacy of the Yongli Emperor and sent an envoy to propose abdication and return to the domain. He was under the strict surveillance of Zheng Chenggong, and only lived a life under the fence as a "living father".

Zheng Chenggong's Nanjing city suffered a setback, and immediately set sail to the sea, so that Zhang Huangyan lost his ground, and his subordinates were pursued by the Qing army and fled the valley. There were only two retinues left by his side, and under the cover of the local righteous soldiers, they changed their clothes and changed their clothes, and went from the mountain road to Anqing, Jiande, Qimen, Xiuning, Qukou, Chun'an, Sui'an, Yiwu, Tiantai, and Ninghai to the seashore, which lasted nearly half a year, traveled more than 2,000 miles, and finally returned to the maritime volunteer army.

"Fortunately, the old master is here, or he can turn around." Zhang Huangyan wiped his eyes, stood up, and shouted loudly in the direction of the sea.

Zhang Huangyan was not prominent among the many figures in the Southern Ming Dynasty, but in the 20-year struggle against the Qing Dynasty, he went through all kinds of hardships and obstacles, focusing on the overall situation everywhere, and was almost an impeccable perfect person. Huang Zongxi wrote an epitaph for him, saying: "Today's public has been a thousand-year-old figure, compared to Wenshan, everyone believes in it." Yu bent to his adoptive mother, and he was attached to the Jin Shishi, and he didn't know whether he would allow me to do it."

After the excitement, Zhang Huangyan calmed down and thought carefully, and couldn't help sighing. Although the Yongli court was orthodox, the war situation in the southwest was worrying, the Son of Heaven took refuge in a foreign country, and the remnants of the Ming army did not know how much they could fight with the Qing army. Now it is cut off from the sea route of the Yongli Imperial Court, and there is no news, and I don't know the specific situation. In order to avoid the suspicion of the Zheng family, most of the civilian armed forces under his command drifted at sea and were stationed on desert islands, so it was inconvenient to enter Kinmen to pay homage to King Lu.

Not only to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but also to prevent Zheng Chenggong from annexing, and to think about the old lord Zhu Yihai, King of Lu, Zhang Huangyan really felt exhausted. Although Zhang Huangyan retains the name of the squire of the military department, he is not a descendant of Zheng Chenggong, so he is snubbed.

But Zhang Huangyan is Zhang Huangyan, all the way from Shaoxing, Zhoushan, and Zhongzuo, many comrades-in-arms either died in battle, or lost confidence and left voluntarily, or surrendered to the Qing army for glory and wealth. However, when the thrilling escape, the insidious struggle, and the powerful temptation all happened after all this, Zhang Huangyan still had to continue to persevere.

"The rise and fall of the fingers, the hatred of the north and the south and the yellow picture are gone. Just a few lonely loyalists, ice clear and jade. Zhao Xincheng is raining on the side of the Qiang flute, and Li Ling is on the platform. The miserable blur blew out the jade pass, and the sound was poignant. Han Palace dew, dyed garden snow. Ssangyong passed away. A flood is extinguished. The rest of the ministers struck angrily, and the spit pots were all missing. Haojie swallowed the white phoenix marrow, and drank the blood of the yellow sheep. Try to arrange the clouds to hold the heliocentric, suing Jin Que. Zhang Huangyan's "Man Jianghong? The word "Huaiyue Zhongwu" vividly expresses his strong desire to restore the country and take revenge.

After returning to the coastal area of eastern Zhejiang, Zhang Huangyan raised the banner of righteousness again. Gather people and horses, use Linmen Island in Taizhou as a base, and continue to engage in military operations against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. When the local people learned that Zhang Huangyan had survived, they were filled with joy and sorrow and responded one after another.

Just as Zhang Huangyan was regrouping, a Zhejiang merchant who had returned from Annam Yuxian (present-day Hung Yen, Haixing Province, Vietnam) brought him news of the long-isolated battlefield in the southwest.

Yongli entered Burma, Min stayed in Yunnan, Tengchong defeated the Qing army, and waved his army to attack Annam. Now it is fighting with the Qing army in Yunnan Province, and the outcome is unknown.

Although this was news more than a month ago, Zhang Huangyan still felt excited and excited. As one of the few loyal ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty who had a strategic vision and took Zhongxing Daming as his own responsibility, he naturally knew that the Emperor Dao was still there, the imperial court still existed, and he stayed in Yunnan, and the southwest was not overthrown, which was important for the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that. In this battle of Yunnan Province, can the Ming army in the southwest support it? Zhang Huangyan thought about it. It was decided to send someone to Annan to inquire clearly.

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Everything that happens in this world is not accidental, but inevitable in a state of seeming coincidence. Of course, this inevitability may be ignored and taken seriously.

Zhu Yongxing, on the other hand, after listening carefully to the complaints of the Chinese businessmen, decided to take action against the Zheng family of Annan. He was not greedy for the money donated by the Chinese merchants. I don't care if Annan Zheng is obedient or not, he wants to achieve his strategic goals.

Just as overseas Chinese were often oppressed, Chinese businessmen were often blackmailed by the rulers of Annam. Previously, Annan Zheng had made a contract with Chinese merchants on the condition that each sailing ship would pay them 1,000 taels of silver per year. Five hundred taels for the royal family. And the Zheng family may have changed it at will because of military expenses, forcing each sailing ship to pay 5,000 taels, and the royal family 3,000 taels, and forcing them to sell high-priced silk. The Chinese businessmen were overwhelmed by this kind of illegal extortion, and after many invalid appeals, they came to Zhu Yongxing for help under the guidance of the Zhengjia Commercial Pavilion.

Of course, these Chinese businessmen are also in the mood to try it, after all, they are now Qing people, and there is not much hope for the Ming Dynasty to stand up for them. Therefore, they set the amount of donations very large, hoping that Zhu Yongxing would see the money and give him a helping hand.

If you want to add sin, there is no excuse. In the eyes of others, a problem that can be solved with just a piece of paper, Zhu Yongxing wants to use the power of the great victory to seek the greatest benefits from the Zheng family of Annan.

"Do you think I'm greedy for those dozens of ships of saltpeter and sulfur, or those fifty thousand taels of silver?" Zhu Yongxing lay in front of the map on the table, and said to Changshi Yicheng without raising his head: "This is an action that must be taken, I want the world to know that all my Chinese people have suffered unfair treatment, and the country and the government will definitely seek justice for it." What's more, it is much easier to seize the passage to the sea from the hands of the Annamites than from the Qing army, right? ”

"Your Highness is wise." Although Yi Cheng was suspicious that Zhu Yongxing was going to take the lead as a merchant and that he was going to use force against the Zheng clan in Annam again when the pressure of the Qing army in Yunnan Province had not yet been lifted, he still complimented him in passing.

Zhu Yongxing smiled faintly, took a pen and drew three lines on the map, motioned Yi Cheng to come forward to watch, and said: "This is the price to be offered in the negotiation, this is the ideal purpose, this is our bottom line." ”

Changshi Yicheng looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, this is really a lion's mouth. A curve is drawn from Xuanguang, Taiyuan, Beijiang, Haiyang, and Taiping to the sea, and the land in the east belongs to the Ming army. The other vertical line has shrunk a lot, dividing the area from Lang Son and Bac Giang, including Haiphong; The third line has shrunk a lot, bounded by the line between Lang Son and Wang Mi, but it has drawn an arc at the seafront, once again including coastal defense.

This map is copied from the tourist map in Zhu Yongxing's hand, because the tourist map includes a small part of Annan, which is now the northern part that can be shown on the map. But this is much more detailed than the current map of Annam, and many places can be clearly marked. Further south, it is made up according to the map available so far, which seems very sparse.

Zhu Yongxing continued to explain: "There should be basically no problem with the achievement of this bottom line, but it has expanded dozens of miles to the west!" But there is a subsidiary condition that is very important, if the Zheng family does not agree, then I will not hesitate to meet with swords. Well, the Zheng clan will most likely agree, it is much better than letting our ships pass through Thang Long and garrison troops in Xuxian. ”

Changshi Yicheng did not interject and continued to listen to Zhu Yongxing.

"The right of navigation on the Jingtai River." Zhu Yongxing dotted on the map with a pen and said with a smile: "Tell the Zheng family that this revision of the contract will also be of great benefit to him." If we get in touch, we will listen to my orders and help them attack Nanruan. ”

"His Royal Highness is full of promises, and the Zheng family of Annan will be grateful to Dade." Yi Cheng complimented him on his lips, but he didn't think so in his heart, he slapped a sweet date, and the peace agreement was signed less than half a year ago, so this cannibalization is a bit fast, right? (To be continued......)