Wu Shifan became the emperor after all!

Li Yat-sen said in his heart: It seems that he is still a true genius! I don't know if the emperor will die this time?

"Old Taishan," Li Yat-sen asked again, "how is Wu Yingqi?" Did he be."

Wu Guogui shook his head, then took out an envelope and put it in front of Li Zhongshan, saying, "Shikai, this is a handwritten letter from my second brother to you. He is now the prime minister of the Great Zhou State, the governor of Lu Shangshushi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the opening of the mansion, the false festival, and the governor of the Chinese and foreign military. ”

"What?" Li Zhongshan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: This Wu Yingqi is learning from me!

Thinking of this, he quickly opened the envelope, took out the letter inside, and unfolded it to look at it. After looking at it for a while, his brows furrowed slightly.

"Shikai, what did my second uncle write in the letter?" Wu Xiaowu saw her husband frowning, a little worried about the resumption of the war between the two sides, so she asked loudly.

Wu Erye said in the letter that now the Great Zhou Kingdom is united, both inside and outside, and wants to imitate Shu Han and engage in the reality of the Hypocrisy, and in the future, Shifan will be the Hypocrisy of the Great Zhou, and he will learn from Zhuge Wuhou and be the reality of the Great Zhou. He also hopes to form an 'alliance between Wu and Han' with us to resist the Northern Qing Dynasty and expel the Tartars together." As he spoke, Li Zhongshan looked at his old Taishan Wu Guogui again, "Old Taishan, what do you think?" ”

Wu Guogui said: "Since Wu Zhou started to fight in the southwest, it has been our three brothers who have assisted the ancestors. Now that Emperor Xiaozhuang (modified) has collapsed, I voted for Daming again, and he is the only one left among the three brothers. And his strength has always been the strongest, and in this big war, the losses suffered were the smallest. If he is willing to follow the example of Marquis Wu, grasp the real power in the name of the prime minister, and then give Shifan a hypocrite and offer him highly, I am afraid that Wu Zhou will praise his loyalty both inside and outside. ”

is obviously unwilling to carry the black pot, but the effect is to praise both inside and outside, and work together!

Li Zhongshan nodded and said: "I have long known that the King of Qin is loyal and righteous, it seems that Wu Zhou has the regent of the King of Qin, and he will be able to unite if he practices the system of the reality of the hypocrisy. ”

His words are not unfounded, and Wu Yingqi did not become emperor after Wu Sangui's death in history, when he was in control of Wu Zhou's Yuezhou army, which was the main force blocking the Qing army's attack. And his son Wu Shicong controls Wu Zhou's Guangxi army - Wu Zhou's situation in Guangxi was fought by Wu Shicong himself!

And Wu Shifan has always stayed in Yunnan and has never participated in the war between Wu Zhou and the Qing Dynasty, so it is impossible to control much military power.

In this case, if Wu Yingqi insists on competing with Wu Shifan for the throne, it is not easy for him to succeed in coming to power. But Wu Zhou, who was already in turmoil, after such a toss, I am afraid that he will die faster.

And Wu Zhou in history, after Wu Sangui's death, insisted on it for another three years, which has something to do with Wu Yingqi's loyalty, right?

Nowadays, although Wu Zhou is in turmoil, this regime still controls Shaanxi and Gansu, a high-quality and low-cost source of soldiers and a production area of war horses. Fighting in the land of the water towns south of the Yangtze River, the power of the cavalry was severely reduced. Because there were rivers everywhere that could prevent the cavalry from maneuvering, Wu Zhou's cavalry was of no great use except to charge on the cramped battle battlefield.

If the battlefield was moved to the Central Plains, Wu Yingqi's cavalry corps could not only be used to charge the formation, but also to carry out a wide range of campaign maneuvers, battlefield shielding, and strikes against the enemy's logistics lines. This will cause great difficulties to the campaign organization and logistics support on the Ming side!

Therefore, if the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty wants to achieve a big victory, it must establish an equally powerful cavalry corps!

In addition, Wu Zhou is not the only opponent of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty still occupies half of the Central Plains, the Northeast, and Mongolia!

Wu Guogui also mentioned the Great Qing Kingdom at this time, and he said to Li Zhongshan: "Shikai, don't forget that there is a Northern Qing Kingdom in the north!"

That Kangxi is not an idle person, he will not watch this Ming Dynasty spend ten years to annex Wu Zhou...... Today's world, after all, is a three-legged stand!

Moreover, in the past two years, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty and Wu Zhou to attack each other, the Northern Qing Dynasty has also eased up. That Kangxi still has some methods, he relies on the Council of Ministers and the division of the people, as well as the official system in the north and south, which can be regarded as uniting the hearts of the people again. We can't be the Northern Qing Dynasty or the Northern Yuan! ”

Li Zhongshan seemed to have been persuaded by Wu Guogui, so he nodded immediately and said, "Old Taishan, you are right, now is not the time to annex Wu Zhou in one fell swoop. I haven't integrated it well! Now only some areas of Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Anhui have really understood the republic, and we are far from being at home with the effort of cultivating virtue and politics internally! ”

Wu Guogui nodded again and again: "Yes, there are too many territories for Daming, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, and maybe more."

He is exploring Li Zhongshan's background.

Zhejiang and Jiangxi have been completely taken, Hunan has taken less than half, and there is nothing to say about the remaining half, it will definitely be taken, as for other territories, it depends on the results of peace talks between the two sides.

"And Hubei, Guangxi!" Li Zhongshan said, "As long as Wu Zhou's military government withdraws from Hunan and Hubei, and then withdraws the remnants of Sun Jiqing from Guangxi, the three-legged stand will be achieved!" ”

Wu Guogui said tentatively: "Shikai, then me and Shijue."

Li Zhongshan said: "Old Taishan, you can be the governor of Hunan, and Shuangyu can be the governor of Hunan." According to the official system of the Ming Dynasty, one governor and one admiral were both five years. Your father and son must complete the transformation of Hunan within these five years, under the guidance of the Great General's Mansion and Shangshu Province. After five years, you will have to become an official in the court.

Old Taishan, you can do a lot of things in five years, and now Hunan is like a blank sheet of paper, you can let you and Shuangyu play! If you play well, the councilors and politicians in Hunan will only look forward to you and Shuangyuma in the next few decades. ”

Of course, there is a considerable degree of compromise in Li Yat-sen's national republic, and if you want to dig deeper, it is actually to transform the warlords into families, and at the same time promote a group of national soldiers and Chinese people to serve as the backbone of the republic. In the end, a republic of families, scholars, and people was formed. And to open up the two upward channels for the bottom, "to be a soldier and go to university", in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, if you can get this step, it is a quite progressive regime.

And Wu Guogui, Wu Shijue and his son have been in charge of Hunan for five years, which is to open a convenient door for them to change their identities - the two fathers and sons already have many government soldiers who have divided the land, and of course there are also a group of Hunan scribes who serve them. Then in the future, the father and son of the Wu family will be protégés, and the old officials will be all over Hunan!

The same number of roads will also be implemented in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi and other places, if everything goes well, five or ten years later, the Republic of the Ming Dynasty will appear three Li (Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Laishun) plus Wu, Zheng, Liu, Chen, Lu, a total of eight families. If Yang Qilong can return, it will be the top level of the Nine Great Families who will control the Republic of the Ming Dynasty together.

Of course, Li Yat-sen's "King Li Ying" family must be the first of all families. At least until the death of Li Yat-sen, the great general, there is no one who can replace him!

Beijing, Great Hall of the Temple of Heaven of the Council of Ministers.

A political conference of the "United States" of the Qing Dynasty is underway.

This Qing Dynasty is still very progressive. Progress to the point that "Kang Liang" will shed tears when he sees it, and Cixi will want a coup d'état when she sees it!

But it's not okay if you don't make progress!

Now the "Battle of the Three Emperors and the Ming Dynasty" has decided the winner, and the "imperial system" has lost to the "republic"! Geng Jingzhong, who insisted on the imperial system, was the first to be defeated, and he didn't know where he died? Wu Zhou, who has a relatively high imperial composition and a relatively low republican component, suddenly lost a pair of emperors - Wu Sangui, Emperor Shenwu Gao, Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Wu Yingxiong, the emperor of Xiaozhuang of the Great Zhou Dynasty, have now begun to take the route of the republic of the hypothetical monarch, with Wu Shifan as the hypocrisy monarch and Wu Yingqi as the prime minister to lead the republic.

Look, if you don't progress, you will perish!

I don't even have a chance to be a semi-colony for foreign devils!

What can Kangxi do? We must continue to adhere to the path of the United Constitution, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will really die!

"Your Majesty, Minion" Prince Kang Jieshu, who had just flown thousands of miles back to Beijing from the south of the Yangtze River, was still a little uncomfortable, and called himself a "slave" as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Don't, don't, Uncle Huang, don't call yourself a slave, our Qing Dynasty is now united to establish a country," Kangxi hurriedly corrected, "Don't be a slave!" ”

"Ah, the minions are gone?" Jie Shu looked at the layout in the Great Hall of the Temple of Heaven, it really didn't look like a scene of masters and slaves discussing politics. All sitting! And it's still sitting in a circle, and I can't see who is the master and who is the slave at all?

"yes, you can't be a minion anymore. Must be united! Kangxi was also a little helpless, "If you are a master and a slave again, I will die in the Qing Dynasty!" If you're dead, you can't be a minion either, can you? ”

"Your Majesty." As soon as Jie Shu said this, he habitually wanted to kowtow to Kangxi.

"Don't kneel, don't kneel. Our Qing Dynasty is now a monarch and a minister, and the etiquette of kowtowing and kneeling is almost cut, and when the political conference is held, there is no rule of kneeling and kowtowing. ”

Don't be a minion, don't kowtow. I'm not used to it!

Jieshu had no choice but to stand there, looked left and right, and found that everyone was sitting leisurely and discussing politics!

"Uncle, how is the fight in the south? Do we still have a chance? Kangxi looked at this "very servile" Prince Kang, and suddenly felt cordial in his heart, so he didn't invite him to sit down, but asked directly about the war in the south.

"I can't beat it," Jie Shu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, slave."

Don't let the self-proclaimed minions not speak!

"Minister, call minister." Kangxi said to Jieshu.

"The minister's soldiers called Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen's people have beaten badly!" As Jie Shu spoke, tears came down, "The minister almost died. Woo."

I'm crying!

Although his life was saved, he was almost spared, and even he had no concubines and children in Jiangxi.

"Uncle, don't be too sad," Kangxi hurriedly comforted, "Victory and defeat are commonplace, you have persisted in Jiangxi for so many years, and you are already glorious despite defeat!" ”

Jieshu is now the number one general in the Qing Dynasty!

Although he has always lost the battle, he has persisted in Jiangxi for so many years under the attack of Li Zicheng, Li Fuchen, and Li Zhongshan, which is indeed the only one in the Qing Dynasty!

And fighting for your life with a high-level opponent is also the best way to improve your skills.

Kangxi saw that Jieshu was crying better, and asked again: "Uncle, then how can we defeat the Ming army of the Northern Expedition and keep the three points of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Hearing this, Jie Shu took out a pocket, and then handed it to Nalan Xingde, who was the walking person of the council, who immediately sent the bag to Kangxi.

Kangxi opened his pocket and looked inside, as if it was some lead bullet. Feeling a little strange, he reached out and took a buckshot out of it, and immediately realized that something was wrong. It's not a whole buckshot, it's a half-drawn buckshot, and there's some hollowed out of the butt.

"How do you cut corners with this gun?" Kangxi asked.

"Your Majesty, this is not a gun that cuts corners, but a gun used by the Ming army's smoothbore guns." Jie Shu said, "The minister doesn't know why, this kind of half-pulled and hollowed out gun is put into the chamber and shot far and accurate!" The reason why the Ming army defeated both Chen and Wu Sangui was because of flintlock pistols, especially rifled flintlock pistols! The second is to rely on this kind of bullet. If we want to withstand the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, we must take the Ming Dynasty as a division, reform the military, and equip a large number of flintlock pistols and bullets that cut corners. ”

Kangxi nodded, it seems that there is still some reason for the discussion of the people. This method of strengthening the army has been discussed!

He then asked, "Uncle, how is Wu Zhou's situation?" Can it still be held on? I want to send troops to Henan, do you think it is feasible? ”

"Your Majesty, Wu Zhou will definitely be able to persevere!" Jie Shu said, "Wu Yingqi has the backbone of Zhuge reincarnation, and he will definitely be able to twist Wu Zhou up and down into a rope!" Besides, the tricks that Chen learned from Da Ming, Wu Zhou must also be able to learn. As for sending troops. Who does the emperor want to fight? ”

Kangxi smiled: "I don't want anyone to fight!" ”

Jingzhou, Shashikou.

When Wu Guogui took Li Yat-sen's reply letter and met Wu Yingqi in the name of the Ming Dynasty's "condolence envoy", the prime minister of the Great Zhou State, Lu Shang Shushi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Kaifu, the fake festival, and the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, had already escorted the coffins of Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan, the son of Honghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty, to Shashikou on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou Prefecture.

This retreat to the north is still very rapid!

Wu Guogui first followed Wu Yingqi to incense Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong's Zigong Palace—two huge coffins, carried by two eight-horse carts, parked in a makeshift shelter to protect them from the wind and snow. Surrounded by veterans in white clothes and white armor, it is still snowing in the world, and the sky and the earth are white, and it is still a little sad and sad.

Wu Guogui first cried in front of the two big coffins, and then hugged Wu Yingqi and cried, crying almost before he was invited to the "banquet".

"The third child, your Hunan governor, I will hand it over to Shi Jue" Wu Yingqi said to Wu Guogui at the banquet, "The Zhichong Mansion managed by you and Shi Jue has also stayed in Hunan, and there are always enough for 30,000 households?" ”

"I'm enough," said Wu Guogui, who was dressed in filial piety, "but Li Shikai feels that it is not enough, he also needs Guangxi and Hubei!" ”

"Guangxi can give it back to him," Wu Yingqi thought for a moment, "as for Hubei. Naturally, I will not occupy Li Zicheng's territory anymore, but it is impossible for me to give up Xiangyang, Yunyang, Yichang, and Shinan to shield Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Guizhou. ”

Wu Guogui said: "That means that Jingzhou Mansion and Jingmen Prefecture can allow?" ”

Wu Yingqi nodded: "At most, it has been ceded to Jingzhou Mansion and Jingmen Prefecture, and Li Zhongshan has already won the three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Hunan, as well as Jingzhou and Jingmen, which are rich in rice. ”

"United Beiqing?" Wu Guogui asked, "Wu Xuanye didn't turn his face and didn't recognize people?" ”

Wu Yingqi smiled coldly: "Third child, do you think I'm afraid that he will turn his face?" Although my Da Zhou is greatly injured, but the elite of Gan and Shaanxi is still about to turn his face, then I will accompany him to the end! ”

Wu Guogui smiled: "Luoyang and Nanyang can also be defended?" I heard that the army led by Kangxi himself has arrived in Kaifeng Mansion! ”

Kangxi's Northern Qing Dynasty had sent troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty before, but the forward positions of the two sides were relatively far away, the northern line of the Ming Dynasty was placed in Xuzhou, and the southern line of the Qing Dynasty was placed in Yanzhou, and they were facing each other from afar.

After learning that Wu Yingqi and Wu Sangui were defeated one after another, and Wu Zhou's army abandoned Jiangxi and Hunan. Kangxi came to the momentum, and the royal driver personally went to Kaifeng Mansion. But who to fight with was not announced!

"He's not here to fight with my family," Wu Yingqi said lightly, "He's here to help my family fight against the Ming Dynasty!" ”

(End of chapter)