Zheng Cai's luck is good.

When he was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to go north, it coincided with the south wind season, although he didn't do anything after going north, and he became a rebel thief, but when he wanted to leave, it happened to be the north wind season, and Zheng Caishun returned to Fujian smoothly.

At this time, Fujian was already in chaos, and Zheng Cai got the news as soon as he landed on the shore that the imperial court had declared him a traitor, and let the provincial officials and generals capture and kill.

However, Fujian has been run by the Zheng family for many years, and it has been in turmoil, but it has not been turned upside down for a while, and Zheng Cai went directly to Anping, the lair of the Zheng family. While explaining to the Fujian gentry officials that it was the traitors in the court who framed the Zheng family and that the Zheng family was not rebellious, he forcibly drove the Zheng family to leave the arrangement and retreat to the Zhongzuo Institute, which was Xiamen Island in later generations.

Zheng Cai's wealth and Zheng Zhilong's family were all hijacked by Zheng Cai to the Zhongzuo Institute, and at the same time, Zheng Cai secretly sent a fleet of ships to Nanjing, carrying heavy treasures and huge sums of money, to Nanjing, in the name of dredging officialdom and rescuing the head of the family, seeking to be recognized by the three giants of the imperial court and replacing Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Cai said that he could give up dominating Fujian and return Fujian Town to the imperial court, but hoped to retain the Fujian sailors.

didn't know that this retreat was an advance, and it fell directly into the conspiracy of the Wu family's father and son.

Zheng Cai made a mistake, he always thought that it was Qian Qianyi who calculated the Zheng family, after all, on the surface, the Zheng family had no dealings with the Wu family and Shi Kefa, but they had a close relationship with Qian Qianyi. So I found a way to find Wu Xiang, but I didn't know that Wu Xiang was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Zheng Cai's retreat directly became evidence that he betrayed the Zheng family.

Wu Xiang immediately marched in two ways, divided 3,000 troops from Nanjing, passed through Nanzhili and Zhejiang, entered Xianxia Pass, and entered Fujian.

Although there are not many soldiers and horses in Liaozhen, most of them are infantry, but they have the name of righteousness of the imperial court, and all those who dare to resist the obstacle, whether they are officials or generals, are directly declared to be rebellious, so they drive all the way in, and no one resists.

When Zheng Cai heard that Liaozhen had entered Fujian, the first time he was to gather the soldiers and horses from all over the country to Anping, because when Wu Xiang sent troops into Fujian, he secretly discussed with Zheng Cai that this trip to Fujian was to take over Fujian Town, and he wanted Zheng Cai to help, and if Zheng Cai did not resist, he was willing to support Zheng Cai to reorganize Zheng's maritime business group and take charge of the Fujian Naval Division.

But this is just a trick, Liaozhen soldiers and horses successively took over the main state capitals of Fujian, but did not enter Anping, but garrisoned Fuzhou.

Throughout September, the north wind rose strongly, and 5,000 fresh troops from Jeju arrived, which were directly transported to Fuzhou by the navy of the Oriental Trading Company, and the scheming and decisive Xia Guoxiang in Liao became the commander of this Liao army entering Fujian.

After his arrival, he immediately used both soft and hard, first contacted the old generals of Fujian Town, and showed some letters and terms when Zheng Cai dredged up to Nanjing, although these generals of Fujian Town were related to the Zheng family, and they were all in the same spirit, and after Zheng Zhilong fell, they also hoped that someone would clean up the situation, and they supported Zheng Cai at first, but when they saw Zheng Cai selling themselves, they immediately became angry.

As a result, Anping fell into a civil war, and the Fujian soldiers and the Fujian sailors fought inseparably, and Xia Guoxiang arrived and declared the Fujian town as the king's division and the Fujian sailors as rebels, successfully dividing the Zheng family, and the forces still loyal to the Zheng family were driven to the sea.

Zheng Cai guarded the left and Kinmen Island, trying to resist by force, in Zheng Cai's view, the new dynasty was established, the power was strong, as long as he was strong enough, he would inevitably get the opportunity to be appeased, and then from a pirate to an official general.

But what he didn't know was that whether it was the Wu family father and son, who were the masterminds behind the scenes, or Xia Guoxiang, who was in charge of Fujian affairs, they had already made up their minds to exterminate Zheng Cai.

The reason is very simple, as soon as they entered Fujian, the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen heard the reputation of the Zheng family, which had been in Fujian for 20 years, operated for a long time, connected to the south of the Yangtze River and the two oceans, and had rich family assets. When Xia Guoxiang entered Anping, he saw the luxury of the Zheng family's mansion, and he knew how rich the Zheng family was.

And these riches are all coveted in Jin, Xiamen Island, and Liao Town, if Zheng Cai is not exterminated, how can he win it?

The war in the south has become treacherous because of the turmoil in Fujian, and Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi, who are in Nanjing, as well as the nobles of the five towns who are preparing to participate in the enthronement ceremony of the Lujian State, have noticed that something is wrong.

Whether it is the understanding of the five towns and nobles, or the original agreement between the history of Nanjing, Qian and Wu Xiang, Liaozhen will not be withdrawn, and Wu Xiang only brought 3,000 elite soldiers to support King Lu, but now there are more and more Liaozhen soldiers in the south, and 3,000 people have been transferred to Fujian, but there are still thousands of Liao soldiers in Nanjing, obviously the number is no longer the 5,000 people Wu Xiang said when he defended, this is tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen who landed in Fujian from the sea are thousands of people.

These people found that the Wu family's father and son's plot was definitely not as simple as they said.

You must know that Liaozhen is known as 50,000 elite soldiers, and they are controlled by Wu Sangui's father and son, but these soldiers and horses may not all be his henchmen.

The 50,000 soldiers and horses are divided into three parts, more than 20,000 people directly controlled by the Wu family, 10,000 soldiers in the Shanhaiguan General Army, and soldiers and horses stationed in Liaoxi, supervising the standard battalion, after the capital was broken, under the command of Wu Sangui, these have more than 10,000.

Of course, the gentry of western Liaoning also organized 20,000 village soldiers, who were neither armored nor organized, and were not considered an army.

In this way, the father and son of the Wu family have more than 20,000 cronies, and now most of them have come to the south, no matter how you look at it, it is not the appearance of Liaozhen not withdrawing.

Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be a little afraid, what they were most afraid of was that the Wu family's father and son coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes. In the past few months in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Xiang has dismantled the Zheng family in Fujian, eliminated most of the Beijing camp, and messed up the Governor's Fubiao Battalion and the Wenwu Caojiang along the Yangtze River, all of which are soldiers and horses that Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa can mobilize.

Now except for the nobles of the five towns, there is no one to restrain him, but the five towns are friendly with Ma Shiying, and for the Jiangnan gentry and the Ming bureaucracy, the current Jiangnan is empty.

So, Shi Kefa's secret cronies went north to Liaozhen, and found that Liaozhen had no plan not to withdraw at all, and the elite soldiers of Liaozhen had been exhausted from Liaoxi, or into Jiangnan, or Shoujuehua Island, and stayed in Liaoxi, and Qian Qianyi also learned that Jeju Island was jointly controlled by Liaozhen and Dongfang Trading Company through Jiangnan merchants, and the merchants told that Jeju Island was full of Liao soldiers and Liao people, and the accent was correct.

Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi became vigilant from this, and after the two discussed, they decided to inform the nobles of the five towns of this matter, and then, the nobles of each town left Nanjing under the pretext that there was something on the front line, so as not to be wiped out by Wu Xiang, and then, the envoy of the Nanjing court went to Liaoxi again and secretly went to see Gao Di, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan.

"Student Hou Fangyu, I have seen Lord Zongbing." In Gao Di's study, he saw this young scholar from Jiangnan, Gao Di's face was ugly, and he didn't talk nonsense with him, patted the letter on the table, and said: "What is said above is true!" ”

Hou Fangyu took a step forward, glanced at the words on the table, and nodded slightly: "These are written by Mr. Qian and Master Shi themselves, there will be no half-fake, if Lord Zongbing finds out that there is a fake, the student's head, I am willing to explain!" ”

"Damn, Wu Sangui, it's very vicious!" Gao Di grabbed the tea cup on the table and smashed it to the ground viciously, his face turned red with anger, and it was only at this time that he realized that he had been deceived.

Jiashen was in a national disaster, Gao Di went to Ningyuan for the first time, expressing his desire to advance and retreat together with the Wu family, Wu Sangui at that time greatly respected him, and made him feel the sincerity of the Wu family everywhere.

From supporting King Lu to dealing with Dashun and Manchu Qing, he did not hide Gao Di, and Gao Di thought that he could also take advantage of this to soar.

But later, he gradually realized that something was wrong, because what Wu Sangui told him was the same as the one who deceived Qian Qianyi Shi Kefa, that is, Liao Zhen did not withdraw, and the Liao soldiers entered Jiangnan, just to establish a new dynasty. But with the supervision of King Lu and the distribution of benefits in all aspects, he only had one uncle, and he originally thought that he could be crowned a marquis.

Moreover, Gao Di always thought that Wu Sangui only sent 5,000 soldiers to Jiangnan, but Shi Kefa and others said that nearly 20,000 soldiers were found in the south.

During this period of time, Gao Di worked hard and stayed at Shanhaiguan to observe the situation in the pass, and was reminded by the Nanjing court to find that most of the elite under Wu Sangui were gone.

Gao Di is different from the Nanjing Imperial Court, he has commanded the army in Liaozhen for many years, and he has a lot of access to the local area, and after a little inquiry, he learned that the main forces under Wu Sangui have left, and a small amount of the rest is in Shen Youlong, most of them have been moved to Ningyuan and Juehua Island, and even the Pingxibo Mansion in Ningyuan City has been moved.

"Say, what do Shi Kefa and Old Man Qian want me to do!" Gao Di was not polite, grabbed Hou Fangyu's shoulder, and asked sternly.

Hou Fangyu said: "Master Shi and Mr. Qian think that Wu Xiang's father and son may have coveted it, and asked the general soldier to contact the gentry officials loyal to the imperial court in Liaoxi, and they were restless for a while, so that Wu Sangui did not dare to use troops again. ”

"That's all?" Gaudi asked.

"If you can directly capture Wu Sangui, it will naturally be a blessing for the imperial court." Hou Fangyu felt the sharp pain in his shoulder, and he couldn't control the tricks he did on weekdays, what he should say and what he shouldn't say, he said it.

Gao Di didn't mean to let go at all, but squeezed it tighter, making Hou Fangyu's shoulder bones make a clicking sound, and Gao Di roared sharply: "Think about it again, what else." ”

Hou Fangyu couldn't help it now, and burst into tears: "No more, no more." ”

"Deflated calf thing!" Gao Di shook it hard, threw Hou Fangyu aside, and let this guy fall heavily to the ground, Gao Di was still angry, and went up to kick a few times at that handsome face, Gao Di scolded: "Bastard, a group of bastards in the court, let Lao Tzu deal with Wu Sangui, there is no benefit." Really treat Lao Tzu as a prostitute, a bitch in the yard, a son, use it if you want, and throw it away if you want to?

Playing bitch, the son also has to pay, okay! ”

After kicking back and forth a few times in a row, Hou Fangyu fainted directly, and the soldiers and servants outside heard it and hurriedly rushed in, seeing that the polite and gentlemanly man who was polite when he entered the door was kicked into a pig's face, and they all looked at each other.

"Put this dog thing in the stable." Gaudi scolded.

Then the soldiers dragged the person out, and Gao Di paced back and forth on the floor of the study, waving his fists, and kept muttering to himself, and the soldiers did not dare to stop him, so he let him shout and scream. Gao Di scolded and said: "The Ming court, the Dashun court, one is counted as one, they are all a group of fools with eyes and beads, they should all be killed, damn and damned!" ”

During this time, all parties were courting Liaozhen or cooperating with Liaozhen, but Dashun and Daming both had the same attitude, regarding the Wu family father and son as the masters of Liaozhen, and no one paid attention to Gao Di at all, and even if he did, he would not be regarded as a separate party, but in fact, Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, was not a member of Liao Town, and Gao Di himself was a foreign monk.

"Damn, if you're not benevolent, don't blame Lao Tzu." Gao Di seemed to have made up his mind and said: "A few of you go to Guancheng Gongguxiang and call the merchant who sells leather goods, don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know, this guy has been lurking in Shanhaiguan for a few years, and he is a spy of the Manchurians." ”

In less than half an hour, the merchant was brought, and Gaudí said, "Do you want to contact Shengjing, or can you contact Dorgon?" ”

The merchant knelt on the ground and said, "The small one originally passed the news to Shengjing, and after the Eight Banners entered the customs, the small one had to listen to Prince Yu's orders." ”

Gao Di nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you can ask Prince Yu for me, what is the price of these ten thousand brothers under my Gao Di and this Shanhaiguan City." ”

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