Nanjing's Great General's Mansion is now a neighbor of the National People's Council, and it is placed in the original Dingwang Mansion. The Dingwang Mansion was the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang some earlier, covering an extremely wide area, with many houses, and it was also the arrangement of the Yamen, which could accommodate a large number of officials to work in it.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan, who created the shogunate, did not let people build a new shogun's palace, but only asked people to set aside less than one-third of the territory in the Dingwang Mansion for the use of the national council, and the rest of the place was used as the office area of the shogunate and Li Zhongshan's own living area.

As for the Mochou Lake, it is now divided into two, half as the Southern Palace, and the other as the British Palace, which is the residence of Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan in Nanjing. However, Li Fuchen now led the troops to Jiangxi, and Li Zhongshan rarely went back to live in order to get closer to work, but his Shanzi battalion was stationed there.

However, General Li, who can go to work without leaving the gate today, took half a day off, nested in a small building in the back house of the General's Mansion, and accompanied his concubine Wu Xiaogang and did nothing inappropriate for children, the two just sat face to face and read the letter together. Look at a few letters sent from Xi'an Prefecture!

The room was quiet, and I don't know how long I watched it, before I heard Li Yat-sen's low voice: "Old Emperor Wu, what is this arrangement?" first sent Wu Shicong to the Western Regions to pacify the Yarkand Khanate, and then began to get sick again, and let Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi stay in Xi'an to govern Xiaogang for him, how is your grandfather's health? Is he really sick, or"

It turned out that Li Zhongshan and Wu Xiaogang received a letter sent to Nanjing by Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan from Xi'an. There are four letters in total, which are two letters from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan to Li Zhongshan, and two letters from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan to Wu Xiaogang.

The contents of these four letters are almost the same, that is, to inform Li Zhongshan and Wu Xiaogang of Wu Shicong's expedition to the west, Wu Sangui fell ill, and Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi entered the court.

And between the lines of these four letters, there is a deep sense of worry.

In particular, Wu Shifan's letter to Li Zhongshan revealed some unknown information - in this letter, Wu Sangui fell ill first, Wu Shicong went to the back, and Wu Yingqi was recalled from Lanzhou only after Wu Shicong went on the expedition. In this order, things seem to make a lot more sense.

Wu Xiaogang's brows tightened, and he took Li Zhongshan's question and said: "Master, my grandfather is old, and he is used to living in Kunming, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, and he is a little unaccustomed to the soil after arriving in Chang'an. And he always looked worried."

"That's worrying about your father and your second uncle coming to a change in the Xuanwu Sect!" Li Zhongshan said leisurely, "It seems that he is depressed and sick, and after knowing that he will not, he will send Wu Shicong away first, and then recall your second uncle, and let your second uncle assist your father in ruling together." What a well-intentioned one! ”

He's already a little convinced!

Because he remembered that Wu Sangui died of illness in the middle of the uprising of the three feudatories, and the duration of the uprising seemed to be eight years, and now it has been more than four years since Wu Sangui raised the army, almost five years, and the time is about the same.

But it's still a bit weird!

Before, Wu Sangui also used the divisive plan to turn Li Jiqing into Sun Jiqing, and just used half of the plan, and before he had time to stir up the situation in the two Guangzhous, he was going to die? It can't be a serial scheme, right?

At this time, Wu Xiaogang sighed, "Who made him the emperor?" The most ruthless imperial family! ”

Li Zhongshan nodded: "It's still as good as the Ming Dynasty is now, the king is the original king, the minister is the original minister, everyone can keep their duties." He thought for a while, and then said, "Xiao Gang, you will say it again when you go back and write a reply, and let your father and your brother come to vote for Daming when they are not satisfied. The seat of the king of the Ming West is still reserved for them! ”

"Well," Wu Xiaogang nodded, "You're so nice, sir!" ”

Li Zhongshan stood up with a smile, "Xiao Gang, I'm going to discuss countermeasures with Zhou Peigong and Yao Xizhi. Come back in the evening to see your written reply! ”

"Yes, sir."

Li Zhongshan collected the four letters written by Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan, then turned around and left the house and went to the capital hall of the General's Mansion. When he arrived at the capital, the two think tanks of Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng, as well as the two Dazhongtang of Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao, as well as Li Zhongzheng, who was sent to Li Zhongshan by Li Fuchen, and Zhu Shunshui, who was recommended by Liu Jinzhong, the king of the north, to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhu Tiangui, the admiral of the Yangtze River Navy recommended by Zheng Jing, were already waiting there.

The above people are now influential figures in the Ming court.

Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng are Li Zhongshan's right-hand men, Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao are the left and right men of Shangshu Province, and the real power figures of the Ming Dynasty are tied for the second, Li Zhongzheng represents Li Fuchen, the king of the south, Zhu Shunshui represents Liu Jinzhong, the king of the north, and Zhu Tiangui is the representative of Zheng Jing.

After beckoning a few people to sit down, Li Zhongshan said straight to the point: "Has the Espionage Department already reported the news that Wu Sangui is seriously ill?" ”

Zhou Chang, the left member of the army of the Great General's Mansion, replied: "The Great General, the Espionage Department and the Zhongwang Mansion have all reported the news that Wu Sangui is seriously ill, Wu Shicong is marching west, and Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi are in power. Except for whether Wu Sangui is seriously ill and difficult to determine, other news should be true. ”

"General, is there any news from Princess Jiading?" Yao Qisheng asked.

"The crown prince and grandson of the Wu family wrote letters to her and me respectively." Li Zhongshan said, "Wu Sangui seems to be seriously ill, and it is very likely that a dispute will break out within Wu Zhou. ”

Lu Sanhao was born as Wu Sangui's Western Election Official, and he was still a student of Liu Xuanchu, so he had a better understanding of Wu Zhou's internal situation, and he also nodded and said, "This is not bad. Wu Sangui is in his sixties, and he has worked hard in the past few years, and it is normal for him to be seriously ill. And it's right to send Wu Shicong away, on the one hand, Wu Shicong has a handsome talent in his own right, and on the other hand, his mind is deeper than his father. At this point, he changed his words again, "But. . . We still have to have the heart to defend against others! ”

"Sanhao, do you think Wu Sangui is pretending to be sick again?" Li Zhongshan thought for a moment and said, "He is asking for this."

"Wuchang, Guangdong!" Lu Sanhao said, "If you don't take Wuchang and Hanyang, Wu Sangui's Jingxiang defense line will not be complete, which is equivalent to opening a hole, once His Royal Highness Nanwang and His Royal Highness King Zhong join forces to conquer Jiangxi, our army will be able to enter the hinterland of Huguang at any time." And Huguang is where Wu Zhou's granary is, and if Huguang is lost, Wu Zhou will have a problem even eating.

Guangdong can solve Wu Zhou's financial difficulties and the problem of insufficient firearms and gunpowder, and now Sun Jiqing is likely to have raised troops in Guangxi, and we have not opened a land passage to Guangdong. For Wu Sangui, this is a rare opportunity! ”

Zhou Chang took Lu Sanhao's words and said: "General, my subordinates feel that if Wu Sangui is really a trick and wants to hold back the bad sneak attack on us, it will be a rare opportunity for us!" ”

"Our chance?" Li Zhongshan thought for a while, "Pei Gong, do you mean that we can take the opportunity to lure the snake out of the hole?" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Chang said, "These days, the biggest thing in the military division is Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong. If they shrink, we will have to attack the city everywhere, among which Jiujiang in Jiangxi has natural dangers to defend, while Hangzhou, Yanzhou and Quzhou in Zhejiang are not easy to fight. ”

As soon as Zhu Shunshui heard that Zhou Chang was difficult to fight in Zhejiang in advance, he immediately took this stubble and said: "Yes, Zhejiang is mountainous and watery, and it is not easy to fight. ”

Zhou Chang said with a smile: "So, if Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong take the initiative to attack in order to cooperate with Wu Sangui, won't our opportunity come?" ”

"Makes sense!" Li Zhongshan laughed, "Then let's give him a plan!" He pondered for a moment, "Over there in the Zhongwang Mansion, do you want to remind me?" ”

"There's no need," Zhou Chang said, "King Zhong finally agreed to send troops to cooperate with the King of Nan to attack Nanchang, and if we remind him to be careful of Wu Sangui, he may retract again." In this way, it will be difficult for the king of Nan to conquer Nanchang, and if Wuchang is not in a hurry, Jieshu and Geng Jingzhong will not come out! ”

Yao Qisheng said again: "General, don't underestimate King Zhong's ability to run the city, the three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou have long been Jintang cities!" Moreover, there are a large number of beacon towers along the Han River and the Yangtze River. Even if Wu Sangui's people sneak attacked, it was impossible to steal Wuchang City at once! ”

Of course, Li Zhongshan knew that there was a Li Zicheng in Wuchang City. In the past, Guan Yun was careless in Jingzhou, and now there will never be another Uncle Li who carelessly loses Wuchang, right?

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan nodded, and then his eyes swept around the capital hall: "Everyone, no one should go out to talk about what is being discussed today. The General's Mansion will secretly prepare everything.

But on the bright side, let's still think that Wu Sangui is about to die! ”

Chang'an, the imperial city.

WU Sangui. Now in a state of death!

Anyway, except for Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shifan, and Wu Shicong, the five core team members of Wu Sangui, no one else knows whether Wu Sangui is going to die soon, or will he die later?

Because they couldn't figure out the situation, Wu Zhou's courtiers were worried every day when they went to court, for fear of some change in the Xuanwu Gate!

But if you are afraid, you still have to go up, and you always have to be an official.

Because now the Wu Zhou family seems to be quite stable.

Because of a brotherly infighting, the Qing Dynasty has now officially positioned itself as the "second in the Great Liao", and Kangxi has recently announced that he will carry out the two-Beijing patrol system, and set up the head military state, and then it is time to engage in the Privy Council of the North and the South!

And on the Ming side, the southeast has not yet been unified and they are quite divided internally, a group of vassal kings, generals, Zhongtang, and leaders are intrigued! Their emperor Zhu Cijiong doesn't do anything serious, he knows how to study, eat, drink and have fun, and the most interesting thing is to write his experience after researching, and publish it in the "Guoshi Commentary"!

With such an emperor, the Ming Dynasty is estimated to be lying flat on the top of the three-point world.

In this case, the official of the Great Zhou. And it began to smell.

In the past few months, there have been scholars and doctors in the Great Zhou Dynasty who have exchanged the fame of the Great Qing Dynasty for the diploma of the Great Zhou, and then went to the officials of the Great Zhou to seek officials.

Although there is no particularly big Confucianism, there are also a few second-class Confucians, including Dazhou Tang Zhen, Suining Lu Qian, and Xindu Fei Mi, all of whom are great Confucians in Sichuan!

With the joining of these Confucian scholars, the ranks of civil officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty also began to expand, and local governance gradually got on the right track.

Looks. Even if Wu Sangui is gone, and one dies between Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi, Da Zhou can still mix.

But when will this Great Zhou version of the Xuanwumen change come? Waiting for them to kill each other every day, it is abrasive enough, after all, the gun has no eyes, and if it really fights, no one knows if it will be affected?

And today, after the courtiers in Chang'an City walked into the Chang'an Imperial City worriedly, the situation was a little wrong - the gate of the Imperial City was closed in broad daylight, and there was also a large group of Wu Zhou forbidden troops guarding the city gate and city wall!

What does that mean?

It's rare that the Xuanwumen change has happened?

Who won?

The ministers below are starting to panic!

It's inevitable to take sides in the officialdom. Those who are qualified not to stand in line and remain neutral must be particularly powerful or prestigious.

And those officials who are not qualified to be neutral must stand in line or be lined up between Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi - those officials' superiors, leaders or factions have taken sides, and if they do not draw a clear line, they will naturally stand in line.

So at this time, seeing that the situation is not right, it is really everyone's heart to the throat. I'm afraid I'm on the wrong side. Although standing on the wrong line is not the same as a dead end, it is inevitable that the officialdom will be ruined in the future!

In this case, everyone involuntarily began to look for the big guy in the crowd - Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, and Wu Guogui, who just returned to Chang'an not long ago, everyone must not be able to see them, and Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Wei Pu, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, Wang Shirong These people are not there!

What's going on?

Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Wei Pu, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, Wang Shirong and others, in fact, don't know what happened?

Wu Sangui did a good job of pretending to be sick this time, and there were few people who knew that he was pretending, so at this time, the second-class henchmen in the Wu Zhou Group in Chang'an were all anxiously waiting outside Wu Sangui's dormitory, consciously standing in two rows - the row supporting Wu Yingxiong, the row supporting Wu Yingqi, and the heart was full of seven up and down, for fear that the one he supported had been assassinated.

Suddenly, the door of Wu Sangui's dormitory opened, and then I saw Wu Guogui coming out of it.

The big guys all look at his hands together - to see if he has his head lifted!

No!

Is this not killed, or is it killed and the whole body is left?

"My father is invited!"

Your father?

Wu Sangui is going to confess his last words?

The original frightened expression suddenly turned into a sad and sad look - the emperor is dying, everyone can't smile, right?

Wu Guogui didn't pay attention to the faces like his dead father, he just made a gesture of surprise, and then led people into Wu Sangui's dormitory.

The smell of chicken soup wafts through the dormitory!

Then everyone saw Emperor Wu sitting on the bed, setting up a table in front of him, with a few side dishes and a pot of chicken soup on the table, Emperor Wu was eating and drinking there, and he was standing on the left and right Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi, the two filial sons.

Is this a flashback?

When everyone was deciding whether to cry or laugh, Wu Sangui put down the dishes and chopsticks and spoke: "Everyone, do you know what kind of illness the old man has these days? ”

"The Ministers Don't Know"

Everyone heard Wu Sangui speak, and he didn't seem to be sick, but he wasn't sure, so he could only "don't know".

"The old man has met a ghost!" Wu Sangui said.

Oh, I do too many bad things, and I'm sick of suspicion!

The ministers below analyzed in their hearts.

Wu Sangui continued: "The old man has met the ghost of Emperor Chongzhen! ”

Chongzhen?

Why didn't he go to find the third prince Zhu to come to you?

Everyone is eager to ask this.

Wu Sangui said: "He asked me: Uncle, how is this Da Ming?"

I said to him: Da Ming has been restored by me!

He asked again: Has Hu Lu been convinced?

I said, "I've already served, and Hulu's masters call me grandpa."

He asked, "Have the thieves been destroyed?"

I said, "It is already destroyed." The thieves and thieves have been destroyed! ”

Saying that, Wu Sangui suddenly raised his voice: "But the emperor said. You're lying! I only saw Zhang Xianzhong below, but I didn't see Li Zicheng! ”

Wu Sangui paused, then looked at the people below with burning eyes, and said, "I know now, I still owe Emperor Chongzhen a revenge. I want to avenge Chongzhen, and I want to kill Li Zicheng, the old thief, in order to comfort Emperor Chongzhen's spirit in the sky! ”

Ah, it turned out that I was "pretending to be sick"!

The "second-class henchmen" at the bottom are all smart people, and they all understand at once, it turns out that Wu Sangui is cheating again this time, not only cheating on illness, but also "seeing ghosts", and also saying "nonsense", all in order to earn Li Zicheng's enemy!

(End of chapter)