Winter moon eighteen, Xinye County, Nanyang Province.

After a month, the southern expeditionary army finally reached the intersection of these two provinces, three days slower than the original schedule.

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Due to the heavy wind and snow, the front reported that the snow on the road was knee-low, and it was difficult for the carriages and horses to travel, Jia Liu then ordered all the troops to suspend their advance, some of them went to Xinye City to avoid the wind and snow, and some of them camped on the spot outside the city.

In order to prevent the soldiers of the Eight Banners from disturbing the people, Jia Liu even issued a strict order: "Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering, we must take the Yue family army as an example, carry forward the spirit of Yue Wumu, and those who dare to disturb the people will be severely punished!" ”

He also ordered Xinye County to organize the people to deliver roasting wood to the army in a timely manner, so as to ensure that the officers and soldiers were kept out of the cold to the greatest extent and avoid non-combat casualties.

The special task force under the Eight Banners Internal Affairs Committee led by Ding Qing temporarily served as a military police, on duty at major and minor traffic points in Xinye, and patrolled back and forth in the form of squads to ensure that the military orders of the great general Wang could be effectively implemented.

Originally, Jia Liu was going to stay outside the city, he had always advocated the unity of officers and soldiers, but he couldn't stand the persuasion left and right, the prince of the capital was the purple gold beam of the Qing Dynasty, and the white jade pillar of the sky, if it was affected by the wind and cold sun, even if it was asymptomatic, it would be a major loss to the country.

is the son of a daughter, and he can't sit down.

Jia Liuyi thought about it, he was wearing the last breath of the Qing Dynasty, but he couldn't be sloppy, so he stayed in the largest hotel in Xinye City, the Confucian Temple, under the persuasion of Wenwu.

Local rumors say that more than 100 years ago, when Li Zicheng, the great Kou of the Ming Dynasty, retreated from Xi'an to Huguang, he lived in this Confucian Temple for one night and wrote a poem.

Shiyun: "The world is vast and lost for a while, and I am afraid to live in Chuangping for the time being."

Nourish the qi and reorganize the army to stand by, and remember when you regain the lost ground. ”

Whether this poem is not very neat or not written by Li Zicheng is impossible to investigate, and Jia Liuren is not inclined to do so, because this poem is not as well written as him.

However, combined with the current situation, Jia Liu believes that this is undoubtedly a good sign.

Of course, he was not replaced by Li Zicheng, but by Dolgon.

The arrival of the general king made this 400-year-old Confucian Temple not only usher in the second son of heaven, but also become the attention of the whole country, at least within a radius of 50 miles from Xinye.

News continued to arrive for days.

The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Leer, sent an official letter, saying that he had ordered Wang Deyong, the governor of Shaanxi, to lead 5,000 green battalions from Shaanxi, 3,000 from Gansu, and another 2,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners garrisoned in Xi'an, totaling more than 10,000 people, together with thousands of people and more than 3,000 horses and camels, to go south from Xi'an on the 9th of this month.

It is expected that he will be able to meet with the general Wang Headquarters in Xiangyang Mansion at the beginning of next month.

At that time, the prestige will be strong.

"The Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp has been the crown of the Green Camp since the beginning of the country, and now there are 10,000 people coming to help, which is like a tiger with wings for the prince."

The one who spoke was Ji Yun, the squire of the Ministry of War, and he was also the only squire-level senior official in Beijing who came to the army to listen to him, and according to the convention, he was called the counselor minister.

Ji Yun was mainly responsible for the official correspondence between the general Wang Xingyuan and the governors of various places, the front-line departments and the imperial court, and was also responsible for the allocation of grain and grass for the army.

Kind of like the Minister of Logistics.

This is also the imperial court system, and the general king must send court officials to accompany the conscription department.

Jia Liu asked Ji Yun what Wang De used to do it.

Ji Yun was busy saying that Wang Deyong was the same as the prince, and his grandfather was Wang Jinbao, one of the "Four Han Generals of Hexi" who pacified the three feudatories during the Kangxi period, and his father Wang Guobin was a second-class guard in front of the emperor, and the general soldier of Gansu Town, who was martyred in the battle of Burma.

After listening, Jia Liu nodded and instructed Ji Yun: "Pass on the order of this king to Wang Deyong, let him take charge of the army with Changqing, the governor of Yunnan, after he arrives in Xiangyang. ”

Ji Yun wrote it down and reminded the prince that the Yunnan Governor Changqing was seriously ill and it was difficult to lead the army, so it was not possible to take charge of the Yunnan Green Banner Soldiers with another good general.

Jia Liu said that after he arrived in Xiangyang, depending on the severity of Changqing's condition, he would decide who would take the Yunnan soldiers.

The preferred candidate in my heart is Zu Yingyuan, the gray grandson of Zu Dashou, because this kid is the only general who can show his hand except for Yang Yuchun, the honorary president of the Communist Association.

However, Zu Yingyuan was designated as the governor of Huguang, so it was a little tricky who to appoint the governor of Yunnan.

Let's see if Chang Qing is really sick and can't get out of bed, if he really can't do it, he Jia Liu can't embarrass others.

Ji Yun said yes, unfolded the next newspaper, glanced at it and said: "Lord Wang, Wang Fubao, the general soldier of Sichuan, said that since the defeat of Wuchang, all departments on the western front of Wuchang have retreated on a large scale, and Jingzhou has also gained and lost again. ”

"This king also wants to reach the front line as soon as possible, but God doesn't allow it."

Jia Liu sighed with emotion, the mood of being anxious to see his old subordinates was actually urgent, but the time was wrong, and he encountered heavy snow on the way, so he could only stay in Xinye temporarily and set off after the wind and snow stopped.

Anyway, it's not in a hurry for a few days.

also instructed Ji Yun to prepare military orders to Wang Fu and other generals of the Sichuan army, to the effect that the general Wang Wei should not move troops hastily.

A few days ago, the governor of Sichuan, Mr. Bo, and the governor of Sichuan, President Li, both sent people to congratulate the president on his coronation as the general king.

In addition to expressing their sworn support for the great general Wang, the two also proposed that the Xinghan army should not be allowed to continue to sit large, especially not let them go down the river to the east to capture Nanjing, otherwise it will be really difficult to control, and they will even become the biggest enemy of the general Wang and even the Communist Association.

Jia Liu is still vigilant about this, Li Chengliang raised Kou in Liaodong back then, and as a result, he raised a Qing Dynasty.

He can't really feed the Ming Dynasty on his side.

The bigger the territory, the more soldiers and horses, and the people's hearts will not be ancient.

In order to win the cooperation of his father-in-law Gu Shidao and his nephew Gu An, he had asked his wife Yuanyuan to bring his son Keqing to Baoding to the army, hoping to impress the Gu Group, which had been upgraded from a small workshop to a large enterprise.

Under the premise of one China and one emperor, anything can be discussed.

It's just that Yuanyuan said that Keqing was infected with a cold and was having a fever, and Lang Zhong said that it was not suitable to travel far in the cold weather, so he could only come to Huguang in the spring after the year.

casually went to look at another pile of official documents and secret letters on the table, and after a while, his brows furrowed slightly, and he threw the secret letter in his hand to Ji Yun very unhappily: "Which one is this Zhu Shaogong?" What is Yan Enhou? ”

"Zhu Shaogong? Yan Enhou? ”

Ji Yun was puzzled, and hurriedly picked up the secret letter to look at it, and found that there was no payer, and there was no official seal of the relevant unit, that is, he didn't know where it came from.

However, there is a small inscription on the left side above the secret letter, which is speculated to be a source within the meeting.

Half a month ago, Jia Liu personally set up an altar to introduce Ji Yun to join the Communal Association when he passed through Luoyang, which was another ministerial-level senior official who joined the Communal Association after Asha, Kuini, Jin Jian, and Enming.

The secret letter from unknown sources said one thing, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who had surrendered to the thieves before, was persuading the thief army to support a descendant named Zhu Shaogong, who was said to be a descendant of Zhu Ming and the Yanenhou family.

Which one Yan Enhou is, of course Ji Yun knows.

"Lord, this Yan'en Marquis is a first-class marquis of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the first Yan'en Marquis Zhu Zhilian is a descendant of Zhu Gui, the thirteenth son of Ming Taizu, the first emperor in order to show the benevolence and generosity of my Qing Dynasty, specially appointed Zhu Zhilian as Yan Enhou, responsible for the sacrifice of Ming Xiaoling, and Qufu's Yan Shenggong is hereditary."

Ji Yun also said that this Zhu Zhilian enjoyed the long grace of carrying the flag, and changed from the inlaid white flag of the lower five flags to the positive white flag of the upper three flags.

The current Yanenhou Zhu Yifeng is Zhu Zhilian's great-grandson, and his father is Zhu Shaomei, so according to the content of the secret letter, that Zhu Shaogong may be the uncle of the current Yanenhou Zhu Yifeng.

It may be a relative or a collateral relationship, what exactly is the relationship, it needs to be explored.

Jia Liu didn't quite believe that Yan Enhou was really a descendant of Zhu Ming.

As far as he knew, Kangxi would even cut off the third prince of Zhu who was over seventy years old, causing Zhu Ming's descendants to change their surnames one after another, and no one dared to say that he was a descendant of Zhu Ming, because as soon as his identity was revealed, he would be beheaded all over the house, so this Zhu Zhilian couldn't make it a fake Zhu Ming descendant who Yongzheng brought out to confuse people's hearts.

In this regard, Ji Yun also said badly, it should be true.

Yongzheng Ye is indeed as he said, he is a frank and good man, and he will not fake.

"Lord, if you have this Zhu Shaogong as the emperor over there, there will be disadvantages and no benefits to my Qing Dynasty and Yu Wangye, in case Anqing is broken and Jiangning is occupied..."

Since ancient times, the premise of anti-thieves must be to have great righteousness, that is, to be able to deceive people's hearts.

The details of the Xinghan army are actually the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Xiaojinchuan, and these people still regard Zhu Ming as orthodox to this day, so it cannot be ruled out that these people really supported Zhu Shaogong as the emperor.

Although it has been 100 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Ming's influence on the minds of the people is still very heavy, especially in the southern region, where the anti-Qing and Ming restoration ideas are extremely serious.

In recent years, the civil unrest that has broken out repeatedly in various places has the shadow of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, such as the religious rebellion in Shandong in the past and the war in Taiwan today.

Xiaojinchuan is the last basis of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, the army attacked Burma, but also because there were many descendants of Li Dingguo, the former king of the Ming and Jin dynasties, in the Burmese army, who wanted to use the Burmese army to invade the Central Plains in the north, so the imperial court had to send troops abroad to crusade.

Therefore, Ji Yun thought that the Xinghan army really embraced Zhu Shaogong as the emperor, and it would definitely set off a wave of anti-Qing restoration in the south.

At present, the front line is tight, and the loss of Jiangxi makes Anhui in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River face the pressure of the thief army, and the thief army has besieged Anqing for a month, although the Jiangning general Songgui has led the army to reinforcements, but the discerning people know that the battle of Anqing is very important, once it falls, it means that there are no soldiers to defend in Nanjing.

The situation is the same as the pirate Zheng entered the Yangtze River at the beginning of the country.

In case the thief army breaks through the Anqing army and comes to Nanjing, and worships the filial piety tomb, I am afraid that the south of the Yangtze River will change color.

That Zhu Shaogong ascended the throne in Nanjing, isn't it the second Zhu Yuanzhang.

Therefore, Ji Yun suggested that a diplomatic note should be immediately sent to the Xinghan army to strongly protest this matter.

"Now what cats and dogs are going to compete with this king for the head of the dragon, hmph, this king has finally made a wedding dress, and the groom can't be me."

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Jia Liu also had a headache, and after rubbing his temples, he suddenly asked Ji Yun: "Do you say that this king is also a descendant of Zhu Ming?" ”

"Huh?"

Ji Yun was stunned.

"I know it sounds ridiculous, but there's nothing in the world that isn't ridiculous... You Ji Yun is the number one pen in our Qing Dynasty, you can be described as erudite and well-informed, and the history of the Ming Dynasty is also being cultivated by you, I see if you can check the history when you have time..."

Jia Liu sincerely hoped that Ji Yun could modify his personal file for him.

He really didn't want to meet the Xinghan army.

So, it is necessary to find common ground between the two parties.

You respect the Ming Dynasty, and I can also respect the Ming Dynasty.

If necessary, I, the great general, can also learn from the ancestor Shunzhi to go to Chongzhen's grave and cry for a long time, and call Chongzhen a big brother.

"Don't look at this king with such strange eyes, this king can get to where he is today, because he is shameless."

Jia Liu was quite honest and motioned for Ji Yun to put away his not very friendly eyes.

"Historically, there has always been a struggle for power and profit, and the change of dynasty has usually killed people's heads, so that lives are ruined and the people are not able to make a living... The so-called prosperity, the people suffer. Death, the people suffer. This king has climbed up step by step from the grassroots, and he really sees the suffering of the people in his eyes, and he hurts in his eyes..."

Jia Liu instructed Ji Yun to complete this task, not only to be reasonable and credible, but also to be strict and seamless, and never give anyone the wrong handle.

"Think about it, I'll go outside and inspect it."

After leaving behind Ji Yun, who was confused and bitter in his heart, Jia Liu walked out of the Confucian Temple Hotel surrounded by a group of guards.

At this time, the night was dark and the wind was high, the snowflakes were still falling, and all the air that came out was white, and the hands and faces were very cold.

Captain Bao was worried that the prince was freezing, so he kindly persuaded him: "The prince is a daughter, and the matter of night patrol is handed over to the last general!" ”

"As a handsome person, the most taboo is to hand over all matters to the people below, because it is easy to be deceived by the people below."

Jia Liu is afraid of the cold, but he is more concerned about whether the tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers who went with him on the expedition live well, eat well, and have enough clothes to keep warm and enough wood to make a fire to ward off the cold.

Captain Bao couldn't move when he saw the persuasion, so he had to protect the prince and walk to the streets and alleys in front of him.

The officers and soldiers living in the city except for the army of Jia Liu's headquarters, that is, the Zhengbai Banner Guard, the other troops were camped outside the city.

There is no way, Xinye is a small county town, and the vacant houses in the city cannot accommodate the army, unless the people are driven out of their homes.

After leaving the city, he first came to the clothing camp of the Internal Affairs Bureau, Jia Liu randomly chose a few tents to go in to ask for warmth, and even put his hand into the coating futon to feel if it was warm.

The parents were very moved, and they all said that the general Wang was really a good prince who loved the people like a son.

Not long after, Jia Liuyi and his entourage went to the Yellow Belt Camp again.

When he arrived at the camp gate, Baozhu wanted to go to the officers of the Yellow Belt Battalion to come over, but Jia Liu said that he didn't need to, and went straight to the outpost at the camp gate.

The scene that caught his eye made him furious.

A few of the yellow-banded soldiers on duty were huddled in the corner, sitting on the hay-paved ground, sleeping with their muskets.

It's quite smart, I don't know where to find a few planks and use sticks against them to avoid the wind.

There was also a burning bonfire in front of him.

If the muddy lake is really not on the wall, and the vigilance is so lax, if there are thieves attacking, wouldn't it be a pot for others!

"Bastard!"

Bao Zhu angrily stepped forward to wake up the lazy yellow belt soldiers with a horsewhip.

I didn't want to, but I was stopped by the general king, and then I saw that the general took off his cloak without saying a word, and gently covered a sleeping yellow-belted soldier.