When Wang Zhongxiao was invited to Dingwang's Mansion by Li Guangdi, it was almost dark. The third prince of Zhu and Geng Jingzhong, the stinky chess baskets of the two chess rivals, have been killed several times, and they are "starving", and they are setting up a banquet in the Dingwang Mansion, talking about the matter of dividing the river with the Qing Dynasty while eating!

The third prince of Zhu and Geng Jingzhong's understanding of the rule of the river is the same as their understanding of Go, which is half a catty to eight taels.

What royal industry is not partial, what Han and thief are not separate, what the Son of Heaven guards the country, etc., Zhu Cijiong doesn't want any of them, he just wants to be an emperor of the Ming Dynasty in peace and stability, even if it is half of the emperor, it is good.

Now he, Emperor Ming Xian, doesn't even have a corner of peace, and he doesn't talk about the Han and the thieves, but is surrounded by all kinds of anti-thieves and thieves inside and out! As for the country. Nanjing seems to be the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River, but the problem is that he has one door now, and he doesn't even have a window!

If there is a river to rule, it is really blessed by the ancestors!

And Geng Jingzhong, the king of the east of the Ming Dynasty, was put together by Zheng Jing, the wing king, and was a little in a hurry.

If Zheng Jing took Fan Chengmo and his supervisor together when he took Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, then Geng Jingzhong would not have a headache.

After all, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are not Geng Jingzhong's core territories in Fujian, and it doesn't hurt to give them to Zheng Jing. And Zheng Jing will never completely tear his face with Geng Jingzhong to rob the five mansions of Fuzhou, Funing, Jianning, Yanping, and Shaowu, which are Geng Jingzhong's basic plate in Fujian.

But Zheng Jing came with a precise strike, only hitting Huang Fangdu, not Fan Chengmo, and also sent Fan Chengmo's entire army out of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and sent them to Yanping Mansion and Jianning Mansion.

Because Geng Jingzhong's troops left in Yanping and Jianning were too small, they could not resist Fan Chengmo's thousands of governors. So these two mansions were quickly taken away by Fan Chengmo!

After taking Jianning Mansion, Fan Chengmo's territory was opened up with Zhejiang, and he could get assistance from Zhejiang. At the same time, the Jianning and Yanping Prefectures in Fan Chengmo's hands could also cover the rear of Quzhou and Jiangxi's Guangxin Mansions, so as not to be flanked by Geng Jingzhong's men and horses.

In addition, because Geng Jingzhong's army in Fuzhou was under the sandwich of Zheng Jing, Fan Chengmo and the Qing army in Zhejiang, they did not dare to move, so they had to go on the defensive in an all-round way, and could not threaten the southwest of Zhejiang.

As a result, Li Zhifang, the governor of the Jiangnan battalion, was able to concentrate his forces in the northwest of Zhejiang, and at the same time divide his troops into Yixing and Liyang in Jiangsu and Guangdezhou in Anhui, which not only allowed the Jiangnan battalion to threaten Nanjing, but also blocked the southward road of Geng Jingzhong's troops and cut off Geng Jingzhong's communication with Fujian.

If he can really negotiate with the Qing Dynasty to divide the river and rule, won't his troubles be solved?

When the two of them were chatting energetically, a half-aged who "inherited" from Duolong's side and still had a rich charm shouted: "Master, Wang Datou is here for you!" ”

It smells the same as when he followed Doron in Beijing!

"Hurry up, invite him in," Third Prince Zhu said, and said to a woman in her thirties who was serving him and Geng Jingzhong to drink, "Chunhua, go and get a pair of bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses for Li Zhongtang, and let the kitchen add a few side dishes." ”

"Yes." The woman looked delicate and lovely, and after making a blessing, she walked out lightly, and when she passed by Wang Zhongxiao, she habitually handed over a wink

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly put away his smiling face and took out the appearance of a virtuous gentleman who looked at his nose, nose and mouth, and asked his heart. Does he know where the "palace maids" in Mrs. Zhu's womb come from?

A small part of them are women in the Duolong Mansion, those who are young and beautiful directly become "princesses", and those who are older become palace maids, serving the third prince Zhu's family.

And the remaining palace maids in the Dingwang Mansion are helpless middle-aged widows in Nanjing City, or "big sisters" who have nowhere to go on the banks of the Qinhuai River, and they are also people who have nothing to rely on, and they all recruited the third prince of Zhu into the palace as envoys.

As for the young and beautiful daughter of Xiaogong, there is no one in Mrs. Zhu's womb, so she can't delay someone getting married!

In addition, there are no eunuchs in the palace of the third prince of Zhu, and there are no celebrant eunuchs and imperial horse eunuchs!

Therefore, it is impossible for the new Ming in the future to have a eunuch party!

"Say hello to the king and the prince!"

Wang Zhongxiao gave the third prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong his hand, and then pulled a chair and sat at the wine table, which was not polite at all!

"Shi Kai," Geng Jingzhong smiled, "How is that Ming Zhongtang?" Did you say how the Qing Dynasty was going to rule the river with our Daming? ”

"My teacher went to see the three sessions today, and after Zhu Guozhi finished reading, he and Zhu Guozhi hugged their heads and cried in the cell, crying for an hour or two, and only left Yingtianfu in the evening."

"Ouch, this pearl has such a good relationship with Zhu Guozhi?" Geng Jingzhong thought for a while, "No, Mingzhu and Zhu Guozhi are so good, then he should recover after the fall of Aobai." ”

"What are the two of them doing, the family teacher is sad that the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad!" Wang Zhongxiao snorted, "Actually, Zhu Guozhi's errand of killing a thousand knives was only done after spending all his savings to get through Suo San and the family teacher. My father originally wanted to give him Nanxiong Prefecture and let him be a prince to return to his capital, but he had to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and as a result, you were pitted by the East King! ”

Geng Jingzhong also looked helpless, "Why did you let me get into a pit?" That's because he offended too many people here in Jiangnan, just like the Shang family in Guangdong! ”

"Alright, alright, don't say it's useless! Li Zhongtang, let's talk about the matter of dividing the river and ruling it! The third prince of Zhu asked, "Is this really a fraud?" ”

"It's a fraud!" Wang Zhongxiao said categorically, "Of course it's fraud!" How can this be true? Kangxi's situation in Jiangnan can still be maintained, why should he rule with us by rowing the river? I think he is also a delaying tactic, most likely because he wants to free up his hands and share with Wu Sangui first.

If you don't believe it, the king will let the Qing army evacuate Jiangnan immediately, I dare to pack the ticket, and the family teacher will definitely find all kinds of excuses to delay. At most, it is to gather the armies of Chizhou, Taiping, Ningguo and Jiujiang, so that we can directly confront Li Zicheng. ”

"That's it" Third Prince Zhu didn't want to believe it, and turned his head to look at Geng Jingzhong again.

Geng Jingzhong was already frowning, "Li Zhongtang is reasonable. Now Kangxi is in Xi'an, and the Central Plains now has the most favorable situation predicted by Zhuge Liang in "Longzhong Pair" for the Northern Expedition. It seems that a big war is inevitable! ”

Now the third prince Zhu was not disappointed, "Then isn't there nothing to talk about?" ”

"Why didn't you talk about it?" Wang Zhongxiao smiled, "The territory cannot be negotiated, and the peace negotiation cannot be achieved, but the wind of dividing the river and ruling can be released because of negotiation!" With this wind, won't we be able to recruit Jiangdong heroes, and at the same time sell more fame and fame? ”

During this time, including Wang Zhongxiao, the military leaders of the Nanjing court were recruiting troops.

Some follow the path of group training, while others recruit directly.

But no matter what kind of route, it is inseparable from the future and silver.

The future of this river is also the future!

If the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty can have half of the south of the Yangtze River, then the people who follow the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty will always have a place to become officials and make money.

In addition, the financial resources of the small court of Jinling are now very limited, except for the field tax and commercial tax of the five counties in the south of the Yangtze River under the Tianfu, and the tax on the Yangtze River. That is the income from selling people and showing off their talents.

After all, the literary style in Jiangnan is prosperous, and the quota of talents and talents in each subject is limited.

In the words of later generations, the Jiangnan imperial examination was very rolled!

Moreover, compared with the commercial tax, field tax, and toll that can only be collected if there is land, there is no need to have much land to sell fame.

As long as there is an expectation, there is no fear that no one will buy it!

Moreover, only at this time can you spend money to buy the fame of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty!

The third prince of Zhu really wants to take down half of the south of the Yangtze River, and there will be no shortage of silver from selling people and showing off their talents.

When the time comes, there is no place to buy it!

Therefore, those rich people who have money in their pockets and do not do well in the exam, as long as they feel that it is reliable to row the river and rule, they will not let go of this opportunity, after all, spend one or two hundred taels to buy a showman, and they will be able to rank among the scholars in the future, and they don't need to be half a short cut to see officials, so how much can they do?

At this time, Wang Zhongxiao broke his fingers again to settle accounts for Zhu Cijiong and Geng Jingzhong.

"A showman. We don't want much, just a hundred taels of silver! Not only can it be sold in the Jiangnan area of Liangjiang, but also in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, and it is possible to sell 100,000 shows, which is 10 million taels of silver! Ying Tianjiangnan regiment trained 16,700 people, only 770,000 taels a year. 10 million taels can be used for four Ying Tianjiangnan group training for three years! At that time, maybe the whole Jiangnan will be defeated! ”

"Good!" The third prince of Zhu slapped the table and laughed: "If there are 50,000 regiments training the army, half of the south of the Yangtze River must be ours!" ”

Geng Jingzhong also nodded and said, "Then talk to Mingzhu. agreed to divide the river and rule, but could not agree to recognize his father as the emperor. ”

"Yes, yes," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "It's useless for the third prince to recognize the wild father, Kangxi will not give us the rich territory in the southeast, so we can put forward a condition to worship the son and rule the river, and let the third prince and Kangxi worship the son!" Anyway, they won't agree, just talk slowly.

While talking, you can also hold a conference to restore the Ming Dynasty, and invite famous people from all over the south of the Yangtze River to Nanjing, so that they all know that we will definitely have a future for half of the country! ”

"The army of the King of the West has arrived!"

With the south of Nanyang City, on the official road on both sides of the frozen White River, dozens of military flags of various colors appeared, and the people of Nanyang, the gentry, and the officers and soldiers of Cai Lu, the chief soldier stationed in Nanyang Mansion, who were waiting outside the city of Nanyang Mansion early this morning to welcome the king's division, all gave the loudest cheers.

Wang Shi is finally here!

And the king looks like there are a lot of them, the two official roads from the south to the north are densely lined up with marching teams, standing on a high place and looking out, you will find that this team extends to the horizon, as if there is no end.

Obviously, the Northern Expedition army sent by Wu Sangui is the real main force, and the number of people is not less than 50,000, no, 100,000!

"That's a lot, at least 100,000 people!"

"It's okay now, the world is decided!"

"Hahaha, the Tartar is over, Da Ming is going to recover!"

"Okay, the King of the West is really my first loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!"

A group of local gentry guarding outside Nanyang City had already begun to brag about Wu Sangui with their thumbs.

These people have more or less something to do with Tang Wangfu, so they are naturally looking forward to Wu Sangui calling. Even if he wants to be the emperor himself in the future, those who are related to the Tang Dynasty Mansion will be able to live a peaceful life.

Because after the Ming Dynasty arrived at Wu Sangui and became the co-leader of the world, he turned the page!

In the future, it will be the drama of "anti-Wu Fuqing".

And Cai Lu and a group of Fujianese under him also breathed. There are only 1,000 elites in total, and with these few people, let alone Nanyang City, the Tang Wangfu can't defend it. If Amida and Tong Fengcai sent tens of thousands of troops to attack, they would be miserable. Even if I can run away, what will happen to my family?

As for not waiting for Wu Yingxiong to come to the epicenter of Xiong, he ran first. What to do with the credit?

Taking refuge with a thousand people is the future of a battalion. If you take refuge in Nanyang Fucheng, at least you will be the general soldier of a town!

Once you surrender this time, even if you don't upgrade, you have to keep your original level, right?

Why don't you surrender somewhat?

So these days, Cai Lu and they are really looking forward to Wang Shi day and night wanting to "respond to the bear", and now they finally hope for the "bear".

Thinking that he was going to hug the thick legs of Da Wu's "Prince Xiong" in the future, Cai Lu couldn't wait any longer, so he smiled and said to the left and right: "Let's go, let's go and greet the prince, right?" ”

"Okay, okay, big brother, we all listen to you!"

Several Fujianese people at the bottom called Cai Lu "Big Brother", and they all smiled, as if they had won the jackpot.

A group of people turned over and got on their horses, and all of them rode their horses and galloped, and in a short time they had already met the front of the Wu army.

When they arrived at the Wu army, they found that this Wu army was not only large in number, but also very well-equipped, and the first one was actually a combination of flintlock muskeers and pikemen - those muskets on the shoulders of Wu soldiers did not have arquebuses! That is to say, these Fujianese people have been dealing with Westerners all the year round, and they are well-informed, and they know that those muskets are flintlock pistols that are lit with flint, and there are not many things in Zheng Yanping's army, and it seems that only craftsmen in Foshan and Macao can make them.

I didn't expect there to be so many in the Wu family's army!

It's no wonder that Wu Jun is so capable of fighting!

Just when these people were shocked by the sophisticated firearms of the Wu family, a handsome young man wearing cotton armor and a gun helmet had already come up from the back of the team surrounded by Liu Xuanchu and a group of guards.

"The grandson of the King of the West, the general of the sharpshooter guard has arrived!"

The person who came turned out to be Wu Yingxiong's son Wu Shifan, who has now been officially named the "grandson" and the "good saint grandson" of Wu Sangui!

In addition, his flintlock musketeers have now been expanded to include a guard! also got the name of a sharpshooter, and Wu Shifan also became a general, which is very powerful when he listens.

In this wave of the Northern Expedition, he was also the vanguard, leading his flintlock pikemen, pulling twelve red-coated cannons, and walking at the forefront of the 50,000-strong army.

Cai Lu had long known the status of this "holy grandson" in the Wu family, and hurriedly took his subordinates to turn over and dismount, saluted Wu Shifan, and said: "Minister Nanyang Cai Lu, led the three thousand strong troops of the department, to welcome the grandson of the king here, the people in Nanyang City also eat pot pulp, out of the city to greet each other, the city is also a good barracks, please go into the city to rest for a few days, and then go straight to the Yellow Dragon is not too late." ”

Wu Shifan smiled slightly, and hugged his fist at Cai Lu: "Cai Zongzhen, this lord was ordered by his father to lead the troops as the vanguard of the Northern Expedition, and with the king's order, he will not enter Nanyang City!" ”

"Don't enter Nanyang City?" Cai Lu was stunned for a moment, "Does the grandson want to bypass Nanyang and go north?" ”

"What are you going north for?" Wu Shifan smiled and said, "Mr. Cai, do you know how to get to Wuguan?" ”

"Wuguan?" Cai Lu was stunned, "Shisun, are you going to fight Xi'an?" ”

Wu Shifan smiled: "Yes, isn't the captive chief Kangxi in Xi'an?" If you arrest him, won't the Han people recover in the world? Mr. Cai, are you willing to lead the way for Benjue? ”

"Yes, yes!" Of course Cai Lu was willing, "Shisun, the last general will order five hundred soldiers and horses and lead you to Xi'an to catch Kangxi!" ”

Wu Shifan nodded, turned his head to look at the northwest again, and said with a smile: "Okay!" Let's go to Xi'an together, I want to see if Kangxi stays in Xi'an to die, or does he come and run away? ”

Liu Xuanchu shook a goose feather fan of the same style as Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "Shisun, this time Kangxi can be roasted on the fire by you, he wants to abandon the city and leave, then he will not be able to be an emperor in the future." If he doesn't leave, he will be surrounded by us in Xi'an City like Chongzhen! ”

Wu Shifan smiled and waved his hand: "Go, go to Wuguan, enter Xi'an, and kill Kangxi!" ”

(End of chapter)