This Zheng Jing Nanjing hasn't been won yet, and he is already thinking about the infighting!

However, Wang Zhongxiao could only sigh quietly in his heart, because he still had to coax this sea overlord now, and he also knew Zheng Jing's hardships.

Who hasn't had a hard time these days? Wang Zhongxiao himself has a lot of it!

The reason why the Zheng group of the old Zheng family can dominate the seas of East Asia and Southeast Asia is not because of how strong their navy really is, but because the Zheng family has been managed by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong for two generations and has become the "big brother" of the Chaoshan Minnan ethnic group. Among the Han Chinese, who speak Hokkien and Teochew, their family has a very high prestige.

The Han Chinese, who speak Hokkien and Teochew, have the tradition of going to the South Seas to make a fortune and make a living, and after an unknown number of generations of development, they have spread out in Southeast Asia and the South Sea Islands, and have strong financial resources and certain political resources.

It is precisely by relying on the resources of the people of southern Fujian and Chaoshan in Nanyang and Southeast Asia that the Zheng family was able to rely on a small Dayuan Island and a population of 120,000 to fight against the entire Qing Dynasty for decades!

However, after the Zheng family lost their strongholds on the southern Fujian and Chaoshan continents, their basic base was left with little left, and they only relied on the prestige left by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong to support the situation.

And once Chaoshan and southern Fujian have a new local tyrant who also has the status of a Ming prince, such as Dahao Qiu Hui won the entire Chaozhou Mansion or Zhangzhou's Haicheng Mansion won the entire Zhangzhou Mansion, and then got the canonization of Emperor Ming Xian, then it is difficult to say whether the Zheng family can still be the "big brother" of southern Fujian and Chaoshan.

Therefore, the Zheng family must take at least two of the four prefectures of Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xinghua as soon as possible.

Only by pinching the "roots" of the group of Chaoshan and Hokkien people who went to the South Seas in their hands can the Zheng family be sure to be their "big brother" all the time.

However, compared with seizing the territory of Chao, Zhang, Quan, and Xing, it is also very fragrant to send the third prince of Zhu into Nanjing City and seize Ningbo, an important trade town in the southeast sea!

Sending the third prince into Nanjing will allow Zheng Jing to occupy a favorable position in the power game of "coercing the Son of Heaven and ordering the princes" - at least he can arrange his own army to enter Nanjing with him!

With this placeholder, he can be the prime minister of Zheng Cheng of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and he can also use the righteous name of "Emperor Ming Xian" to add an official to himself when he takes a step back.

This "Emperor Ming Xian" can also advance or retreat, to put it bigger, that is, the East Asian co-master, Tiannan, Nanyang countries are all Ming vassals.

If the Zheng family can restore a few small states of the Nanyang island country that were destroyed by Westerners in the future, it is justified to let Emperor Ming Xian crown a few kings.

The capture of Ningbo Mansion will help Zheng Jing control the supply side of silk and cotton cloth, two bulk trade goods. This is not an era of oversupply of goods, but an era of undersupply of goods.

Whoever controls the supply of large quantities of trade goods will occupy an extremely advantageous position in the struggle for the vast ocean!

And this advantageous position can also play a great role when the Zheng family wants to open up the South Seas - Zheng Jing can use the supply of commodities as a condition to unite one faction of Yangyi to fight another faction of Yangyi!

Therefore, for Zheng Jing, the most favorable situation in the future is to occupy a piece in Nanjing, take Ningbo Mansion in the southeast, take Zhangzhou Mansion, Quanzhou Mansion and Xinghua Mansion in southern Fujian, and support Dahao Qiu Hui in Chaozhou to control the coastal counties of Chaoyang and Chenghai.

And before he sent troops, he took out the matter of taking Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou and told Wang Zhongxiao that of course he did not really want to give up the big plan to send the third prince of Zhu to Nanjing, but wanted to reach a verbal agreement with Wang Zhongxiao on the issue of dividing up the territory of Guangdong and Fujian.

After thinking clearly about Zheng Jing's thoughts, Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, now the envoys of the Six Seas Festival in Liangguang are all controlled by their fathers, including Chaohai Liu Jieshuai and Nanao Qiu Jieshuai, so there is no matter whether my family can take Chaozhou Mansion or not." ”

Wang Zhongxiao's words are so leaky, he can't reveal that he wants to seize the Chaozhou Mansion now. Because Chaozhou is a buffer zone between the Wang, Zheng, and Geng families.

Chaozhou is in the hands of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui, so there will be no war between the three families of Wang, Zheng and Geng.

And the strength of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui will not pose a threat to the Wang family. In this way, the Wang family can concentrate on rectifying the interior and cleaning up Guangxi.

Wang Zhongxiao continued: "As for the territory in Fujian, my family is not interested in asking about it. If the prince wants his father to send troops to help, then he only needs to move Nanao Qiu Jieshuai to Fujian after the victory. However, my family has no intention of entering South Australia, but just wants Chen Shengcai, the general soldier of Gao, Lei and Lian, who was named by King Wu of Yanping, to move to South Australia as a marshal. ”

Qiu Hui's Nanao Festival envoy was "watched" by Wang Fuchen and sealed by Wu Sangui. Zheng Jing did not admit it, and certainly did not deny it. Qiu Hui's territory is Chaoyang and Chenghai counties plus a little coastal island, including Nanao Island at the junction of Guangdong and Fujian. And his own station has never been touched in Dahao.

As for the "Gao, Lei, and Lian General Chen Shengcai" is the one who entrenched in Qinzhou Bay to resist the Qing Dynasty, attacked Qiongzhou in a big way during the Battle of the Three Feudatories in history, and later went to Vietnam to become the ancestor of the "Mingxiang people", and also made Chen Shangchuan, who was the governor of Annan, and Shengcai was his name.

After the drastic changes in Guangdong, this Chen Shangchuan took a hole and went to Hainan Island to besiege Qiongshan County (Haikou), and Wang Zhongxiao left Guangzhou Mansion in the name of crusading against him this time.

However, whether it is the Wang family or Chen Shangchuan, they don't mean to tear their faces and beat them, they just want to talk about the conditions for attachment.

Chen Shangchuan wanted Qiongzhou Mansion, while Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao wanted to recruit him as a water governor.

And Wang Zhongxiao is now talking to Zheng Jing about Chen Shangchuan, and the meaning is also very clear, that is, he wants Zheng Jing to come forward as an intermediary.

Zheng Jing smiled and said: "It's easy to say, after this king takes southern Fujian, he will move Qiu Hui to be the lord of Xinghua Mansion, and then Nanao Town will be vacated." ”

Yes, there is another Xinghua Geng Jingzhong Nanjing has not yet been obtained, Wang Zhongxiao and Zheng Jing are about to divide up his Fujian territory!

Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "But the king seems to be in a hurry to raise troops in southern Fujian now, right?" Why not wait for King Geng to enter Jinling and have no time to take care of Fujian, and then send troops to attack Zhangzhou and Quanzhou?

As far as I know, among the three prefectures of Zhang, Quan, and Xing now, there will really be a meeting with the king Bingrong, that is, Fan Chengmo, the governor of Fujian in the Qing court, and Huang Wu, the duke of Haicheng. How many troops do the two of them have? How could it be possible to stop the heavenly soldiers of Yanping Palace? ”

Zheng Jing had already received a satisfactory reply, and laughed: "It makes sense! Fufu, tell me your method! How are you going to take Ningbo and Nanjing? ”

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "The current prefect of Ningbo is the original Ruian County Ling Luo Pan, he made military merits when the Qing army recovered Ruian, and sent a large sum of silver to Fan Chengmo, the governor of Zhejiang, and Nalan Mingzhu, to buy the lack of the Ningbo prefect.

The Dinghai County Order has always been our people, and the entire Zhoushan Island is in our hands. The army that attacked Ningbo had been resting and training on Zhoushan Island for a long time. As long as the king gives an order, the army can land and enter the city of Ningbo.

As for Nanjing. The current Shangyuan County Ling Jingchuan, Jiangning County Ling Zhang Jingke, Jurong County Ling Wang Shengming, Lishui County Ling Zhu Xu and Gaochun County Ling Jiang Zixiang are all our people! Not only are their five county commanders our people, but all the masters and team leaders under them are also brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society! ”

"Hahaha!" Zheng Jing laughed out loud, "There are a total of six counties in Jiangning Mansion, except for Jiangpu County in Jiangbei, the other five counties are our people. Shikai, what do you think of the means of Fufu? ”

"High! It's really high! Wang Zhongxiao smiled and raised his thumb, "Brother Fufu's methods, Wang really admires!" ”

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "Brother Shikai, didn't you find these five 'debtors' from Beijing?" If you want to talk about this matter, you are the first merit! By the way, the new prefect of Jiangning is also an old acquaintance of Brother Shikai! ”

"Who?" Wang Zhongxiao asked.

"Lu Sanhao!" Chen Yonghua said with a smile, "It's the original Yunnan Qujing prefect Lu Sanhao!" I don't know where he went, but he was released into Liangjiang, and he became the prefect of Jiangning! ”

"Jiangning Mansion is asking for a lack of orders," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "It should be Kangxi himself who fell for him again, but he will let go of Liangjiang, and there is probably Wu Sangui's order behind this!" It seems that this Wu Sangui is in Hanzhong, his eyes are staring at Guanzhong, and he still has a piece of land in Nanjing in his heart. ”

Zheng Jing said with a smile: "It doesn't hurt if Wu Sangui wants to intervene, as long as there is a share of us in Nanjing City!" He smiled smugly again, "It's rare to blow the west wind these days, let's take advantage of the wind to hit the road. More than 1,000 miles of waterway, if the wind and water are smooth, you can almost get there in two days! ”

Wang Zhongxiao nodded: "Okay!" Let's go! If everything goes well, maybe we can enter Nanjing a little earlier than Geng Jingzhong! ”

Liangjiang, Jiangning Province.

Duo Long, the governor of Liangjiang, and Jiang Ning, the general of Jiangning, were already so shocked that their jaws were about to fall to the ground at this time.

Because they already know that someone is coming to attack Jiangning City!

The two of them brought the news to Li Guangdi, who was in the editing of the Hanlin Academy, who went back to Fujian to visit relatives, and this Li Guangdi ran all the way from Fujian to Jiangning day and night with Mingzhu's handwritten letter.

Before Li Guangdi arrived, the situation on Jiangning's side could be described as a great good, a big good, not a small good!

On the one hand, Prince Kang, the great general of the upper Jiangxi side, finally lived up to his grace and blocked Li Zicheng's troops on the line of Dehua, the city of Jiujiang Prefecture and Xiaochikou on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Oh, of course, this is the saying of "high emotional intelligence", if you let those who can't speak, it is that Jieshu finally lost the territory of Wuchang Mansion and Huangzhou Mansion, and now he has shrunk to Jiujiang Mansion City and Nanchang Mansion City, barely resisting Li Zicheng.

But in any case, Li Zicheng will not be able to break through to Jiangning City for the time being.

On the other hand, the Qing army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River finally waited for reinforcements. Reinforcements from Fujian!

Just two days before Li Guangdi arrived in Jiangning, the messenger sent by Geng Jingzhong had arrived in advance, and also informed him of the good news that the 20,000 troops of King Jingnan were approaching.

King Jingnan is really a loyal minister! I don't care about the old nest in Fujian, and I came to help Jieshu, Duolong, and Echu guard the Yangtze River, which is really loyal!

In addition, the group training in Jiangning Mansion has been very good recently!

With the joint efforts of the new Jiangning prefect Lu Sanhao and the five county commanders below, the number of Jiangning regimental training has reached 6,000 people, and a Jiangnan regimental training camp has been set up in Xiaolingwei outside Jiangning City - 6,000 regimental training are stationed in the Jiangnan regimental training camp, and it is really reassuring not to enter Jiangning City!

But who would have thought that this good situation had only been maintained for a few days, and the bad news of the desperate death would come!

Geng Jingzhong actually rebelled!

"Geng Jingzhong rebelled? Which is he Geng Jingzhong? Now in this situation, he is already the lord of Fujian, what kind of rebellion is he still making? ”

"Could it be that he still wants to be the emperor?"

After being surprised, Duolong and Echu didn't believe that Geng Jingzhong would rebel.

Their thoughts are actually normal, if Geng Jingzhong is a normal person, he really doesn't need to rebel. Because the current "threshold for rebellion" is getting higher and higher, it is no longer enough to support the army and self-respect and divide Fujian.

Therefore, Geng Jingzhong is down-to-earth and down-to-earth in Fujian to be the king behind closed doors, and no one will care, anyway, the Qing court will still treat him as a loyal minister.

"Multi-system army, the army gate, that Geng Jingzhong is now crazy and wants to be the emperor!" Li Guangdi said helplessly, "He also made up a proverb about 'the Son of Heaven's doppelganger'." ”

"What do you mean?"

"What, what earfire? What does this mean? ”

Doron and Echu didn't study the proverbs or anything, and they were confused.

"The combination of ear fire is the word 'Geng'," Li Guang said, "The meaning of the Son of Heaven's doppelganger earfire is 'the emperor takes turns, and today he goes to Geng's house' He Geng Jingzhong has the emperor's life!" ”

"Isn't that nonsense?"

"That's right, with his little strength, isn't it good to be a vassal king in peace? If you make a rebel, you will be the emperor."

Duolong and Echu are a little speechless!

Li Guang said: "It's not! However, Geng Jingzhong's 17,000 troops this time are quite elite, and the officers and troops here in Jiangning Mansion "

As soon as he mentioned the official army, Duolong and Echuke frowned.

There are a few officers and soldiers!

The governor of Duolong has 5,000 people, and the Eight Banners of Echu have almost 5,000 soldiers.

As for the soldiers of the Jiangbei Admiral and the Jiangnan Admiral, they are now all supporting the Jiujiang front.

And the Yangtze River Sailor is still practicing. Shi Lang received the water division from Chongming Town, and based on this, the water division was expanded to 10,000 people. However, it is not easy for sailors to practice, and it is not possible to build warships and cast artillery, which can not be succeeded overnight. So Shi Lang is now stationed in Guazhou, Jiangbei, and trains and builds ships there!

Duolong looked at Echu and said: "Ejunmen, we have 5,000 green battalions, 5,000 banner soldiers, and 6,000 regimental training, a total of 16,000, and Geng Jingzhong has 17,000 of our people, isn't it a bit few?" ”

16,000 is 1,000 less than 17,000, the advantage is in Geng!

Echu said worriedly: "Then defend the city!" Jiangning is strong, our people are 1,000 less than Geng Jingzhong, and Shi Junmen still has 10,000 people in Guazhou. It's better to defend the city! ”

Doron nodded, a little moved.

Defend the city well, defend the city safely!

But Li Guangdi shook his head and said: "No, when Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river to attack Jiqing Road, the Yuan army also defended the city and resisted. However, Zhu Yuanzhang divided his troops to attack the surroundings of Jiqing Road City, and soon turned Jiqing Road City into a lonely city, and finally broke through it! The situation today is almost exactly the same as it was back then. If we are trapped in the lonely city, then Geng Jingzhong will effortlessly seize the prefectures and counties around Jiangning, and when Jiangning becomes an isolated city, can we still defend it? ”

When Duolong and Echu heard this, they also hesitated a little.

Jiangning is a big city, and there are hundreds of thousands of people and garrison families in the city, and they are really going to be besieged, or they will run out of food in a short time.

And once the prefectures and counties around Jiangning fall one by one, can the upstream Jiujiang River be preserved? Jiujiang if not guarded. Li Zicheng is here!

Geng Jingzhong's 10,000 people may not be able to take Jiangning, but what about Li Zicheng? Li Zicheng has at least tens of thousands of troops!

If Li Zicheng can't do it, then there is Wu Guogui, which is endless, and one is more ferocious than the other!

When Duolong and Echuzhen thought that they couldn't defend the city, Lu Sanhao's voice suddenly came from outside the lobby: "Li Hanlin is right, the lonely city of Jiangning must not be defended, and today's world is not the time when Zheng Chenggong attacked Nanjing more than ten years ago, Geng Jingzhong is not really a lone army, and the hearts of the people here in Jiangnan are not necessarily on the side of our Daqing!" For today's plan, it is better to go out of the city to meet the battle, and take Geng Jingzhong by surprise! ”

"Yes!" Li Guangdi also nodded heavily, "Geng Jingzhong thought that he was here to sneak attack, and he would never have thought that we already knew about his conspiracy and wanted to sneak attack him in turn. As long as we repel Geng Jingzhong, the Yangtze River will be temporarily stabilized! ”

(End of chapter)