"Don't want military merit, don't want a domain? That's what he wants. Become a shareholder? ”

"Stake now? It's a good time to pick! No wonder people say that Zheng Jing is the best! No one is going to fight this little abacus? ”

"Alas, there is no fool who can get to this position, let alone a person surnamed Zheng?"

"That's right, he is the grandson of Zheng Yiguan, who is rich in the world, and the Zheng family's family business is still revived in his hands, can he not be fine?"

In the general's mansion in Nanjing, Li Zhongshan, who had just returned from a boat trip to the Yangtze River with Zheng Jing, was sitting in his capital hall, discussing with Huang Zongxi, Chen Gongyin, Yao Qisheng, and Zhou Chang, a few henchmen and think tanks, about absorbing Zheng Jing into the shares.

If the current Republic of Daming is regarded as a joint-stock company, then Zheng Jing should be regarded as a particularly important franchisee. Zheng Jing now owns the whole of Fujian and has a fairly strong naval force, and also recognizes the Emperor of the Ming Republic as his own monarch. But at the same time, because Fujian is a feudal territory, there are not many Fujianese in the national political assembly of the Ming court, and there is no local national political system in Fujian Province.

Therefore, although Zheng Jing and Fujian belong to the Ming Dynasty, they are not part of the Ming Republican system, and they cannot be regarded as shareholders, at most they are only indispensable franchisees.

And this franchisee now sees that Daming, a joint-stock company, has encountered a temporary business crisis, and urgently needs to issue new shares to raise funds to solve the difficulty, and takes part of its own industry to be converted into shares, so as to become an important shareholder of the company from the boss of the franchisee in one fell swoop, enter the board of directors, and enter the decision-making circle.

Although sooner or later, several franchisees of the Ming Republic will either become shareholders or be eliminated! But when to buy shares is still very particular. Before Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua became shareholders, the Ming court was opened, and they were almost the initiators of the Ming Republic. At this time, the risk of investing in shares is the greatest, and the benefits are of course the greatest, so now the most powerful ones in the Ming court are the two of them!

Geng Jingzhong also had the opportunity to become a major shareholder at the same level as Li Zhongshan before, but he was bent on being the emperor, so he left the company and went alone, and now he has become a competitor that the company must eliminate.

And Zheng Jing himself did not participate in the initiation of the Ming Republic, but he let his adviser Chen Yonghua participate in the initiation - at least half of Chen Yonghua's capital was sponsored by Zheng Jing!

Through Chen Yonghua, Zheng Jing has a clear understanding of the rules and details of this republic.

Since it is Menqing, of course he also knows that the Ming Republic has a future!

Since the Ming Republic has a future, then the division of one side and many vassal kings will sooner or later be absorbed and merged by the Ming Republic court.

Since sooner or later he will be absorbed and merged, then he will simply find the best time to buy shares on dips!

The best time to do this seems to be now! Now the Ming Dynasty is under siege by the Zhou, Qing and Jing Kingdoms, while the Zheng family is unified Fujian because of Geng Jingzhong's shrinkage of troops.

So now is the time when the Zheng family, a franchisee, has the highest valuation, and at the same time, it is the relative low point of the Ming Republic. If you don't buy shares at this time, when will you buy shares? If you don't buy shares now, and wait for Daming to defeat Wu Sangui before you buy shares, then the conditions will be different!

"General, did the Wing King say the conditions?" Huang Zongxi asked.

Li Zhongshan said: "I didn't say it explicitly, but it has been hinted at. First of all, the Fujian sailors were to be included in his feudal firms. I reckon he wanted to emulate the Dutch East India trading house, and make a similar one.

Secondly, he also brought a large group of Fujian gentry over this time, wanting them to join the National People's Council. ”

Yao Qisheng shook his head: "The strength of the Zheng family's land division is mediocre, but the water master is alone in the sea, and now he wants to keep the water master, this abacus is really enough!" ”

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "The Lu division doesn't make money, and the Fujian Navy Division is actually an armed merchant fleet, but if he makes money, of course he refuses to let go!" However, his family's ancestral business can also be imitated in the future. You can let the surnamed Zheng go to break through first, and let him touch the Westerners. If this path works, let's do it together. ”

Li Yat-sen actually hopes that the old Zheng family can break out on the broad road of colonialism - the Zheng family has broken out of the wealth effect, and others are easy to follow!

If the Zheng family called imperialism to bully, then Li Datou happened to invest in the Zheng family's colonial company to help him turn over the capital.

Zhou Chang frowned at this time, and took over the topic: "Fujian's Lu Division is not something that we can control by sending a few people over, it is an army built by three generations of the Zheng family!"

In addition, the Zheng family is the head snake of Fujian, even if Fujian is not regarded as a domain, without the nod of the Wing King, it may be difficult for the governor and prefect we sent to control the situation. However, the Zheng family's shareholding is still acceptable. Do you want to apportionment millions of national bonds to Yiwang and Fujian Province? ”

"Where's a few million?" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "At least 10 million yuan have to be subscribed, and the Zheng family is rich now!" Pei Gong, why do you think that the Wing King has been bent on the Fujian territory in the past two years? There are eight mountains, one water and one field in Fujian, and if you don't want to starve to death, you have to run to the sea, and those who do business and make a fortune in Nanyang are either Fujian people or Cantonese people, among which the Cantonese people are the most Chaozhou people, and the Chaozhou people are almost the same. Therefore, the Yiwang hit Fujian to fight the hometown of the Fujian people who went to Nanyang to make a fortune and controlled their clan. The national debt of 10 million taels is nothing to the Zheng family. ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhongshan frowned slightly, as if he was wondering whether to ask Zheng Jing for more benefits. Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and then I heard the voice of my brother Li Zhongzheng coming in: "Second brother, second brother, it's not good!" Wu Sangui's army of water and land has already rushed through the mouth of the small pond, and Wu Sangui's army is imminent. It may have washed into Poyang Lake! ”

Wu Sangui finally moved!

Several people in the capital hall looked at each other, all of them looked calm and relaxed, Li Zhongshan seemed the most determined, and he smiled and picked up the teacup, as if he was ready to "drink a cup".

At this moment, Li Zhongzheng, Li Zhongzheng's "new third brother", had already rushed in from outside. This "Zhongzheng brother" followed Li Zhongshan, who was originally a beautiful man in the wind of Yushu, and he also loved to dress up, and always picked himself up cleanly. But now it looks like I've traveled a long way, a dirty outfit, covered with stinky sweat, gray face, and a little unshaven, I don't know how many days I haven't repaired my face?

"Third child, you're finally back." Li Zhongshan greeted him with a smile and said, "Let you go and send a letter to our father. You have been going for so many days, and our father has been working hard to repay you, and half of Jiangxi seems to have been won by you! ”

It turned out that Li Zhongzheng was sent by his Lao Tzu to escort Cai Yurong to Guangdong these days, and after leaving Nanchang, he first went east to Raozhou, then south to Fuzhou, and then west to Linjiang and Yuanzhou. Then he went south to Ji'an, and finally entered Ganzhou, and sent Cai Yurong and his hundreds of tired and thin soldiers to the territory of Chaozhou Mansion in Guangdong, before rushing back to Li Fuchen's Jiujiang camp. The prefecture cities, state towns, and county towns that have passed along the way, of course, are all under the leading role of Cai Yurong, the former governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and they have returned to the Ming Dynasty!

However, the credit for recovering the territory is all recorded in Li Zhongzheng's great contribution to recovering the six state capitals, so he should be knighted!

Li Zhongzheng didn't have the heart to talk about his "heroic deeds" in Jiangxi at this time, but shouted loudly: "Second brother, don't talk about me yet. Say our dad! Our dad is in danger! When I passed by Xiaochikou, I bumped into Wu Sangui's army going down the east of the river! It's terrible, the river is full of Wu Zhou's warships, sails and flags cover the sky and the sun, and there are at least thousands of them at a glance!

The pipelines on the banks of the Yangtze River are also full of Wu Sangui's land divisions, and there are countless horse teams. Second brother, Wu Sangui dispatched at least three or four hundred thousand troops this time! All turned into Poyang Lake, our father is hanging now! ”

It turned out that after Li Zhongzheng saw Li Fuchen in the camp of the Ming army near Jiujiang Fucheng, he immediately crossed the river and went to Jiangbei, preparing to return to Nanjing by the official road of Jiangbei. Unexpectedly, when I walked to Xiaochikou, I met the army of the Wu family who was heading south along the Yangtze River! Fortunately, Wu Jiajun did not march from the north bank of the Yangtze River, but only took the Yangtze River waterway and the south bank of the Yangtze River. So Li Zhongzheng felt that he was running to Nanjing quickly, and he actually arrived in Nanjing half a day earlier than the 600-mile expedited sent by the Anhui Admiral Yamen of the Ming Dynasty.

This filial piety is really commendable!

"Third child, don't worry, our father has a great life, and Wu Sangui can't take his life." Li Zhongshan was quite confident in Li Fuchen, and said to his brother with a smile, "You go back and rest. The foolish brother immediately found someone to discuss the matter of sending troops! ”

"Good!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "Brother, you have to hurry up. I am worried that Wu Sangui's army will go through Hanpokou into Poyang Lake, and then enter the Ganjiang River from Xingzikou, all the way to Nanchang. At the same time, Wu Sangui's Lu Division, after relieving Jieshu's Jiujiang predicament, would follow our father and Li Zhongwang's army all the way to Nanchang. When the time comes, if our father retreats more slowly, he may be attacked by the enemy on his back, and in the end he won't even be able to enter Nanchang! ”

"Yes, you know, go and rest! The Military Division of the General's Mansion has long prepared various countermeasures, and our father has been in battle for a long time, so he will be fine. In any case, it is always possible to retreat into Nanchang first. ”

Li Zhongshan comforted him again, and finally coaxed his brother away.

Of course, he couldn't tell his brother that their father, Li Fuchen, was actually ready to sneak into Nanchang to defend it.

With Li Fuchen's ability to defend the city, Wu Sangui is not so easy to make Li Jizhen and Brother Li's heir king.

When the brothers were far away, Li Zhongshan instructed Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng: "Wu Sangui is menacing this time, it seems that he has made the plan of the first battle that is the decisive battle, and the first battle will be decided. You immediately go and convene a meeting of the staff officers, and come up with two strategies for marching, one by water and the other by land, and show them to me early tomorrow morning. ”

After saying this, he said to Huang Zongxi and Chen Gongyin: "Mr. Lizhou, Mr. Banfeng, accompany me to the Yiwang Mansion." ”

Huang Zongxi hurriedly asked: "General, do you want to make an alliance with the Wing King?" ”

Chen Gongyin asked, "General, do you plan to send troops to Jiangxi?" ”

Li Zhongshan said solemnly: "Now is the time to make an alliance with the Wing King and the North King. As for where to send troops, I can only say this to you, Mr. Banfeng, the first battle is a decisive battle, and the decisive battle must not be lost! ”

Zhejiang, Yanzhou Mansion, Jiande County.

Geng Jingzhong's old camp is now located in this small county town surrounded by mountains. The small county town is now crowded with the dignitaries and families of the Nanjing Dynasty.

So many people squeezed into such a small county town at once, even if the original people were moved to Hangzhou, it seemed crowded. And being moved here from Hangzhou will be a little unpleasant, so this small city can be very noisy these days.

In order to hide from Qingjing, Geng Jingzhong simply moved to Sandu Town outside the county seat, occupied a landlord's compound, and continued to be the emperor of his compound.

Although he is still the emperor, this "imperial palace" is the worst house he has ever lived in in his life, and the situation in this Great Yasukuni is a bit not very good!

The proverb of "the Son of Heaven is a doppelganger" is also a bit headless!

He has been the "provincial emperor" for a while now, and he can be regarded as answering the proverb. But what about after becoming the emperor? I didn't say that! Isn't it really going to die for the rest of your life?

When Geng Jingzhong thought of this, his heart suddenly became flustered. Suddenly, he heard a rush of footsteps outside the house, and then the voice of Guozhang Yue Le: "Your Majesty, good news, good news, Wu Sangui sent troops to Jiangxi, Li Fuchen was trapped in Nanchang, and Li Zhongshan has sent troops from Nanjing!" ”

Geng Jingzhong almost burst into tears, and thought of "the Son of Heaven has tears and doesn't flick", so he quickly wiped his tears and shouted: "Come in and proclaim!" ”

As soon as the word "Xuan" came out, the door of his dormitory was opened by a guard, and then a group of Dajing ministers who "praised and worshipped the nameless, did not enter the court, and went to the palace with their swords".

Those who came were Yue Le, Yu Renying, Li Daoren, Zeng Yangxing, Bai Xianyong and others, all of whom were Geng Jingzhong's confidants. He was now huddled in a hut with a group of important ministers, and he was not in the mood to let them pay homage, so he simply waved his hand and asked them to excuse themselves from talking about things.

"Your Majesty, our chance has come!" Yue Le was the most excited among the group of people, the current situation, Geng Jingzhong's emperor didn't know how long he could do it? But he can at least have one Duke of the Great Zhou - Prince Kang Jieshu has already sealed the Duke of Kang, so he Yue Le should have an Duke of An, right?

Geng Jingzhong asked, "Guozhang, where should I send troops?" ”

"Canton Texas!" Yue Le said.

"Canton?" Geng Jingzhong pondered and said, "But Liu Jinzhong is garrisoning Huzhou, and Huzhou is on the edge of Guangdezhou."

He was still a little scared when he saw this Liu Beiwang!

"Let's go around the edge of Huzhou," Yue Le said, "and at the same time, we can also send an envoy to discuss with Liu Jinzhong, and tell him not to block our way to attack Nanjing!" ”

"Attack Nanjing?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned and stunned, "Didn't you say that you would withdraw to Zhejiang if you grabbed a handful?" How did it become a fight in Nanjing? ”

Of course, the fight against Nanjing is to cooperate with Wu Sangui - this is Yue Le's true thoughts.

Geng Jingzhong's "Mandate of Heaven" looks like it's coming to an end!

Now that the destiny is over, of course Yue Le has to help Wu Sangui do things!

"Fighting Nanjing can mobilize the Ming army from all over the south of the Yangtze River to come back," Yue Le said, "As soon as they come back to help, our opportunity will come. When the time comes, you can grab whatever you want! ”

"That makes sense!" Geng Jingzhong suddenly realized that something was wrong, "Then who did Liu Jinzhong send over there to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to take a trip to Huzhou!" It was Geng Jingzhong's Dongge University scholar Yu Renying who volunteered to go to Huzhou, "Your Majesty, now is the life-and-death decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Zhou!" If Liu Jinzhong doesn't plan to be a diehard of Daming, there is no need to block us at this time. ”

"Makes sense!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Master Yu, be careful." ”

"Emperor Xie," Yu Renying bowed to Geng Jingzhong, "the minister will not be dishonored!" ”

"Ahh The surname Wu really looks up to Li Fuchen! Unexpectedly, the navy and the land division, marching from north to south, really want to trap their foreheads in Nanchang! ”

On the tower of Desheng Gate, the north gate of Nanchang City, the king of the south of the Ming Dynasty looked at the sails and flags that covered the sky and the sun on the Ganjiang River, and couldn't help but gasp.

When Wu Sangui's Lu Shi drove over yesterday, it was already very scary, at least 100,000 troops were camped outside the city, and now there are so many more!

I don't know how many troops this Wu Sangui has bringed? It can't really be a million, right?

Thinking of this amount, Li Fuchen's face was a little ugly.

An army of one million may not be able to take the Ming Dynasty, but there are only more than 20,000 of his and 15,000 of Li Laishun in Nanchang City, and the sum is only 35,000. If you really want Wu Sangui to surround and fight, can it still be good?

It seems that the strategy of defending Nanchang and Geng Jingzhong that was formulated with Li Zhongshan's kid before, Geng Jingzhong is destroyed, and the big tomorrow soldiers will go back and fight Wu Sangui again!

"King Nan," Li Laishun, who was standing with Li Fuchen, was also a little nervous, "There are so many Zhou troops, what should we do?" ”

"Let's. . . Let's strike! ”

Li Fuchen was actually very panicked, but he still proposed a countermeasure plan for attacking.

He panicked, let alone others? If you can't win a small victory and stabilize people's hearts, this battle will not be easy to fight!

"Sortie?" Li Laishun was taken aback, "There are so many people in Wu Sangui."

"It is precisely because Wu Sangui has many soldiers and there is fear from top to bottom that we should attack for a while, to strengthen the army's prestige and to calm the army's heart!"

"Sortie. Can you win? "Li Laishun is very skeptical!

"Of course!" Li Fuchen said with a smile, "I have two thousand iron horsemen, all equipped with spears and firearms, which can charge on horseback and shoot the enemy with flintlock pistols. Today, you can take it out and give Wu Sangui a dismount! ”

Li Laishun knew that Li Fuchen's cavalry was very elite, and although the number of those cavalry was small, the horses and equipment were all excellent, and they were well-trained, and they were very good at coordinating with the gun array, flintlock pistols, and artillery.

"Nanwang be careful, Xiao Wang will cheer for you!"

Li Fuchen laughed: "Wait for a while, kill him for a while!" ”

(End of chapter)