"Emperor, the meaning of the emperor of the Ejia family is that he is an emperor, you are an emperor, Wu Sangui is an emperor, and the third prince of Zhu is also an emperor!"

In the palace of the King of Chu in Wuchang City, the one who was talking Shanxi with a northern Shaanxi accent with Li Zicheng and Li Laishun's grandson was the old man of Hunan alternate warlord Jia Hanfu Jia. Although this old man claimed to be a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, he changed his clothes after arriving in Wuchang, dressed as an old scholar of the Han people who did not forget the Ming Dynasty, wearing a Taoist robe, a hood, and a feather fan, which looked particularly profound.

And Li Zicheng and Li Laishun's grandsons are wearing the python robes of the Ming prince, sitting on the Yin'an Hall of the Ming Chu Palace, and those who don't know think that they are the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang!

Hearing Jia Hanfu's "Four Emperors Plan", Li Zicheng just smiled, then turned his head to look at Li Laishun, and asked with a smile: "Shun, I'm old, the emperor has also done it, I don't want to do it again, what about you?" Do you want to be a prince? ”

Li Laishun looked honest, smiled and shook his head: "Master, Eada is the Xingguo Duke of the Ming Dynasty, and Brother Lai Heng is the Linguo Duke of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Zicheng nodded, "Well, well, that's right, after you are a loyal martyr, you have created a lot of loyal martyrs for Daming, and both of them are very loyal!" ”

Li Laishun said with a smile: "Now that the Ming Dynasty is about to recover, how can he be the emperor after this Ming loyalty?" This Ming Dynasty has only one emperor, and he has to be surnamed Zhu to be a person, right? ”

Li Zicheng looked at Jia Hanfu, "Old Jia, you have also been a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, tell me, can your grandson Laishun be the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

When Jahan heard this, he didn't know what to say for a while!

Li Zicheng's adopted grandson wants to be the king of the Ming Dynasty. It seems that it can really be done!

Now the third prince of Zhu has a Nanjing city, and he may have to divide half of it to Geng Jingzhong, and Li Laishun (Li Zicheng) now has the three prefectures of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Huangzhou in Hubei and part of the De'an Mansion and Anlu Mansion, and also owns the Yuezhou Mansion in Hunan, and took the western part of Nanchang Mansion in Jiangxi, and invaded Ruizhou Mansion, the territory is not large, but it is much stronger than the third prince of Zhu! And he also has the advantage of the upstream, he can contain the Qing army in Jiangxi and Anhui for the third prince of Zhu, and if he wants to be a loyal king of the Ming Dynasty, does the third prince of Zhu dare not seal it?

Thinking of this, Jia Han frowned suddenly, and asked, "Emperor, do you mean that you don't want Jingzhou City, and you don't want Prince Qing'an's men and horses to go downstream?" ”

"Laishun, what do you say?" Li Zicheng asked Li Laishun with a smile.

Li Laishun smiled and said: "Master, the foreheads are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and of course the territory in the hands of the foreheads is also loyal to the Ming Dynasty. If you don't recover Jingzhou City, I'm afraid you won't be able to say it, right? ”

Li Zicheng nodded: "It's unreasonable!" Since you want to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, you should help the Ming Dynasty recover the lost territory! ”

Jia Hanfu hurriedly picked up the thumb: "Loyalty, it's too loyal!" Then this matter is decided, no matter how hard it is, I will immediately go to Jingzhou to report to King An. By the way, did the two loyal kings of the Ming Dynasty send a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty to go to Jingzhou with him? ”

Li Zicheng smiled and waved his hand: "Don't worry, don't be in a hurry, give the third prince and King Geng a little more time to consolidate the territory of Jinling." Otherwise, this Jinling City will be broken by King An as soon as it is beaten, and the loyal king of the foreheads will not be properly organized? ”

It turns out that Li Zicheng and Li Laishun are still a little loyal!

Jia Hanfu nodded: "Okay, then how about waiting for another month?" ”

"It's been long, it's been long," Li Zicheng said, "Presumably now Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui also know that Kangxi wants to sell Jingzhou to the amount, right?" If this transaction drags on for too long, I am afraid that there will be many complications. ”

Oh, this Ming Zhongwang's "loyalty" seems to be a bit less!

Jia Han replied: "Then half a month!" ”

"Ten days!" Li Zicheng reduced it by another five days, "Ten days later, I will send a fast boat to send you and Huang Wanlin, the governor of Hubei, to Jingzhou together!" ”

"Good!" Jia Hanfu smiled and said, "Lord Wang, you fought for the third prince of Jinling for another ten days, you are really loyal!" ”

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Lao Jia, don't talk about Ezhong first, there is still a condition, if you don't agree, you can't ask for Jingzhou." ”

"On what terms?" Jia Han replied, "Although the prince said that as long as he can do it, he will not refuse." ”

Li Zicheng said: "If you become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and recover Jingzhou and Anlu, Wu Sangui must be unwilling, right?" When the time comes, he will send troops to capture Jingzhou and Anlu, how will he deal with it? ”

"Lord Wang," Jia Hanfu frowned, "Aren't you afraid of Wu Sangui?" ”

Li Zicheng smiled: "You don't want to be excited, what if you're afraid of the person surnamed Wu?" However, this Jingzhou and Anlu prefectures still want it very much. Therefore, I thought that someone could come forward to solve the fight when Wu Sangui and E were about to fight for territory! ”

"Unraveling?" Jia Han was stunned for a moment, "Lord Wang, what do you mean?"

Li Zicheng smiled, "Lao Jia, do you remember who in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not combative in life, but is good at fighting?" ”

"Ah, Lord Wang, do you want Wang Fuchen to come forward to solve the fight between you and Wu Sangui?"

Li Zicheng nodded: "Lao Jia, when you talk to Yue Le for E, you will go to Guangdong again, and ask Wang Fuchen for E, if Wang Fuchen doesn't want to move, it is okay to call his son Wang Zhongxiao." ”

"Good!" Jia Hanfu nodded and said with a smile, "It's not a secret, I was about to go to Guangdong, and Emperor Kangxi also rewarded Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture." In the future, the prince and the prince will also be regarded as close neighbors. ”

Li Zicheng asked with a smile: "Lao Jia, then who are you going to be loyal to?" ”

Jia Hanfu smiled and said: "Du Zhong, everyone is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the Great Shun, the King of the West, there is a family, I only ask for the future peace in the world, and those sons who are not angry can be crowned a marquis!" ”

Then he smiled and said to Li Laishun: "King Shaozhong, if you become the emperor, you must take care of those sons!" ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say," Li Laishun said with a smile, "Uncle, you also missed a person who is qualified to win the world!" ”

"Who? Who else? ”

Li Laishun smiled: "Of course it's your old in-law, Li Fuchen, the eighteenth son, the lord of the world, maybe it's him!" ”

"Li, Li Fuchen? Isn't he surnamed Wang? ”

Li Zicheng took this question and replied: "Wang Fuchen's pro-Ada is surnamed Li, and now he has recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors, and his surname is Li!" And he also has a sect with Elian, and now Ehe is already a brother in the same clan! Lao Jia, you said that this brother should be willing to fight for Wu Sangui, right? ”

Jia Hanfu had no choice but to nod and say, "Yes, I must be willing!" ”

Jia Hanfu had just left the Chu Palace, accompanied by Li Laishun, and Huang Zhisheng, the No. 2 minister under Li Zicheng, came in a hurry and gave Li Zicheng a big gift to the Yin'an Palace: "Greetings to the emperor." ”

"Flat, give a seat."

Li Zicheng was polite, gave Huang Zhisheng a seat with a smile, and then asked with concern: "Is Huang An okay?" Is everyone in the family used to it? ”

"Good, good," Huang Zhisheng said with a smile, "It's much better than Xiangdao. Xiangdao is full of mountains, but the sea is a little flat, but the wind is too strong, and it is easy to pour anything, where can it be compared to Huang'an? ”

"That's good," Li Zicheng smiled, "I'm worried that you are all Cantonese and not used to Huang'an's water and soil!" ”

"Thank you for your care." Huang Zhisheng replied with a smile on his face.

Li Zicheng said again: "Since everything in your family has been settled, let's work hard and go to Xiangyang first." ”

"Envoy to Xiangyang? Does the emperor want to join forces with Wu Yingxiong to attack Jingzhou? ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Jingzhou no longer needs to use swords, the third prince of Zhu restored the Ming Dynasty in Jinling, Kangxi Xiao'er is anxious, and wants Wang Yuele to lead the Tartars of Jingzhou to Jiangnan to encircle and suppress the third prince of Zhu. In exchange, the territory of Jingzhou, Jingmen, Anlu, and De'an will be ceded! Phytophytes, do you say you can eat this alone? ”

"This." Huang Zhisheng frowned, "Emperor, with all due respect, Jingzhou, Wuchang, and Yuezhou are all the territories of Huguang's heart!" Wu Sangui is probably unwilling to let go of any place, right? Now Wuchang and Yuezhou are owned by the emperor, and if the emperor takes Jingzhou again, I am afraid."

"Don't be afraid!" Li Zicheng said with a smile, "I don't know how to write the words I am afraid of?" However, I am still willing to focus on the overall situation and share a share of territory with the Wu family! ”

"I don't know how the emperor wants to divide it?" Huang Zhisheng asked.

"Jingzhou City and the territory of Jingzhou City, east of Jingzhou City, north of the Yangtze River, and south of the Han River, Jingzhou Prefecture, and Anlu Prefecture are all subscribed, and the rest of Jingzhou Prefecture, Anlu Prefecture, and Jingmen Prefecture are attributed to the three counties of De'an, Yingcheng, and Yingshan of De'an Prefecture surnamed Wu, and Suizhou is attributed to those surnamed Wu. That's it for now! ”

"Emperor," Huang Zhisheng's brows furrowed even tighter, "You want to control the Yangtze River in the south, and don't hold the heart of Huguang and the gateway to the northeast, Wu Sangui may not give up!" ”

Li Zicheng snorted: "So what? If Yuezhou, Hanyang, eastern Jingzhou, and Wuchang are all available, the amount will be able to support the Yangtze River Naval Division. And he doesn't go anywhere else, he stays here in Huguang, he wants to consume with the amount, and the amount will be accompanied to the end! But his surname is Wu, but he is ambitious in the world! ”

"The minister understands what the emperor means."

Li Zicheng nodded: "When you come back from Xiangyang, you will go to Jinling again." ”

"Take a trip to Jinling?" Huang Zhisheng asked, "Is the emperor going to negotiate peace with the third prince Zhu?" ”

"Don't negotiate peace," Li Zicheng shook his head, "You go and ask a Ming Zhong King to do it for Laishun." ”

"Seeking loyalty to the king for the young master? What about you, the emperor? ”

"It's old," Li Zicheng said with a smile, "It's not convenient to come forward." ”

Huang Zhisheng sighed, if Li Zicheng doesn't come forward, then the matter will be easy to handle. Otherwise, Li Zicheng would be the king of the Ming Dynasty, which would be a bit unreasonable!

However, this Li Laishun is the loyal king, and at the same time, he has to let the Tartar king Yue Le go to besiege Jinling, this loyalty seems to be a bit less, right?

"Bang dang! Whoa."

In Xiangyang, in the palace of the prince of the West Dynasty, Wu Yingxiong, who had just learned that Yue Le was about to make peace with Li Zicheng, was angry at the time, picked up a tea bowl and smashed it on the floor tiles, and then felt incomprehensible and hateful, and it was a pen wash that was also broken to pieces.

Several generals and staff members under his Shizi's Mansion all stood aside with their hands bowed and shoulders down, and they didn't dare to come out.

Wu Yingxiong has a good temper and rarely gets angry. But this time, Yue Le did deceive people too much, and he had said it very well before, using the site and Princess Jianning and Wu Yingxiong's two young sons to change a passage to the east. Now suddenly I changed my mind! Isn't this bullying honest people?

In fact, if Yue Le hadn't used Princess Jianning and Wu Yingxiong's two sons as bargaining chips, Wu Yingxiong would have attacked Jingmen and Jingzhou with Wu Guogui.

Although the situation on Wu Yingxiong's side is a bit tight, he can't draw too many troops. But Wu Guogui is in a good situation now, he and Zu Zeqing have 35,000 people after joining forces, and when they attacked Hunan, they collected many surrendered Qing troops, and also recruited a lot of new soldiers, and now the total strength is 50,000 or 60,000!

Moreover, Wang Fuchen in the south of Wu Guogui and him are both brothers and in-laws, and there is no need to guard against heavy troops at all, and Li Zicheng in the northeast obviously does not want to start a war with Wu Guogui, and Wu Guogui has no naval army that can enter the Yangtze River for the time being - the mouth of Yuezhou is in the hands of Li Zicheng, and the sailors set up by Wu Guogui on Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River cannot enter the Yangtze River. So if you want to turn your face, you have to gnaw at Yuezhou Jiancheng, and Wu Guogui is obviously not ready.

Therefore, if Wu Yingxiong really wants to fight Jingzhou, he can completely transfer Wu Guogui's troops to the north!

Although the two Wu troops may not be able to take Jingzhou immediately, there is no problem in besieging it, and at most for a year, the people in Jingzhou will starve to death.

Unexpectedly, Yue Le actually used Wu Yingxiong's wife and children as bargaining chips and deceived him fiercely!

Can he not be angry about this?

"My lord, did my lord Yue Le play us tricks?" Wu Shifan's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

Wu Yingxiong looked back, and saw his son, dressed in the uniform of a shotgunner, walking in quickly, apparently just from the camp of the Musket Association—a few days ago, the three thousand flintlock pistols and one hundred thousand taels of silver promised by Wang Fuchen had been sent to Xiangyang. Wu Yingxiong gave the flintlock pistol to his son Wu Shifan, and asked him to establish a flintlock pistol association in Xiangyang, called the "Musket Association".

"Yue Le deceived us!" Wu Yingxiong gritted his teeth and said, "Your mother and your brother can't come back for the time being."

"Then let's fight with him!" Wu Shifan's eyes turned red when he thought of his mother-in-law and younger brother, "The child's five thousand musketeers have almost been trained and are ready to fight!" ”

Although he was not born to Princess Jianning, Princess Jianning treated him and his sister-in-law Xiaogang as her own. And the reason why he was able to escape from Beijing last time was also arranged by Princess Jianning. It can be said that this mother-in-law has a life-saving grace for him!

"Shisun, you have to calm down, now is not the time to fight!" At this time, another voice came from outside the door, it was Wang Shirong, after he came back from Wang Fuchen, he was "retained" by Wu Yingxiong, and now he is the long history of the prince's mansion.

"Wang Changshi, don't fight now. Yue Le ran away! Wu Shifan stomped his foot.

"Don't be afraid." Wang Shirong shook his head, "Let them run!" ”

"Let them run? So what should I do with them? ”

Wu Yingxiong also asked: "Yes, what about the princess?" ”

Wang Shirong said: "Lord Shizi, this matter is easy to doYue Le handed over Jingzhou to Li Zicheng, just to let us go to war with Li Zicheng!" But do we have to fight for Jingzhou and Li Zicheng? ”

"That, that's Jingzhou!" Wu Yingxiong said.

Wang Shirong said with a smile: "Lord Shizi, you can also want the whole world!" With the world, are you afraid that there will be no princess? ”

"The whole world?" Wu Yingxiong asked, "Why?" ”

Wang Shirong suggested: "You can reach an agreement with Li Zicheng to carve up Jingzhou, Anlu, and De'an, and then transfer some troops from Hunan, borrow a little grain from Li Zicheng, gather tens of thousands of troops in Xiangyang, and enter Nanyang in the north!" ”

Wu Yingxiong slapped his face: "Okay!" Good strategy Wang Changshi, do you mean that I stationed troops in Nanyang, put on the appearance of a mighty Huaxia, and forced Kangxi to hand over the princess to negotiate peace? ”

What? Wang Shirong was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: You are all powerful in Huaxia, what else do you need Princess Jianning? What else is there to discuss? Kill Kangxi as the emperor! When you become an emperor, are you still afraid that there will be no beautiful women as wives?

But before he could speak again, Wu Yingxiong had already sent a messenger to Wang Shirong, and only heard him say in a calm voice: "Wang Changshi, after the son of this world leaves Nanyang, you will go to Xi'an and tell Kangxi that if you want this son to fight for territory with Li Zicheng, ask him to return Princess Jianning and my two young sons back, otherwise I will take Luoyang and Kaifeng, let him suffer from the enemy on his back, and then he will not go back to Beijing!" ”

At the same time, outside the Great Victory Pass in the west of Nanjing, an army that had just won the battle, but was very unhappy to look at, was coming. This army is the "Fujian Northern Expeditionary Army" led by Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin, Liu Jinzhong and others - in order to seize Nanjing and occupy Jiangnan, they got up early in the morning, thinking that they could take the lead, but they didn't expect to catch up with a late meeting. It was almost a month after most of Nanjing (excluding the imperial city) was captured by the third prince of Zhu, and it was long overdue.

The reason why he was so late for so long was, of course, because Geng Jingzhong's ability to rebel was a little poor, and his performance at the beginning of the Battle of Wuhu was actually quite good, and he was caught off guard by Duolong, and he surrounded Wuhu. If he didn't think about taking Wuhu and destroying Duolong's main force at that time, but directly attacked Nanjing, then he could almost enter the city with the third prince of Zhu.

However, he wasted a lot of time on Duolong, and although he finally took Wuhu, Duolong and Duolong's main force still ran away on the warship sent by Shi Lang.

Subsequently, Geng Jingzhong found that the third prince of Zhu seemed to be stable in Jinling City, and he was still holding a large group training in the counties under Yingtianfu, and felt that he should save some more capital, so he divided his troops to fight Taiping Mansion City, Ningguo Mansion City Xuancheng and Tongling of Chizhou Mansion. Although they all succeeded successfully, they were delayed for some time, so that until now they led the victorious division with low morale, escorting Mingzhu, who would sit in a prison car for a while, and Zhu Guozhi, who insisted on sitting in a prison car all the time, entered the territory of Yingtianfu with their heads down

(End of chapter)