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Chapter 842

Wuchang, by the East Lake.

Gu Shidao, commander of the Xinghan Army, sat in the pavilion by the lake, looking at his grandson who was playing with his mother not far away, with a kind smile on his face that never stopped.

This is family fun.

When people get older, they will always cherish the happiness brought by this kind of family affection.

Therefore, when his daughter proposed to take Keqing back not long ago, Gu Shidao asked her mother and son to stay by his side for a while.

He was really reluctant to be separated from his daughter and grandson again.

These two people are the only remaining flesh and blood of his blood in this world.

His eldest son's family and his eldest daughter's family all died in Jinchuan's anti-Qing struggle;
His eldest brother and younger brother died in the sweep of the Qing army;

His wife jumped off the cliff with two sister-in-laws;

Unfortunately, his pregnant sister was captured alive by the Qing army and died of dissection
For more than 100 years, the survivors of the Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan, including the Gu family, fought against the Manchurian invaders and wrote bloody hymns in the mountains. Traitor.

What a tragedy!

God is pitiful, seeing that Jinchuan's anti-Qing struggle was about to fail, God gave these Han people who insisted on their clothes the last chance.

It has to be said that this is the hope of the Gu family, the hope of the more than 2000 survivors of the Ming Dynasty who broke through Jinchuan, and the hope of the whole of China.

Now, however, that hope looks slim again.

There are two other people in the pavilion, one is Chen Huizu, governor of Huguang, and the other is Wang Ang, governor of Hubei.

The two have one thing in common, that is, they were both officials of the Qing Dynasty, that is, they were demoted.

The two were both demoted, but their political stances were completely different.

It can be said that there is a tit-for-tat existence.

The reason is that Chen Huizu is the main peace faction, and Wang Ang is the most determined main war faction.

In the original Xinghan regime, there was no such thing as a master and a master battle. Almost all forces, including the demoted officials, wanted to fight out of Huguang and send troops to the Central Plains in one go, thus completely ruining the Qing Dynasty.

Among them, Chen Huizu, Governor of Huguang, and Bayan San, Governor of Hunan, two high-ranking officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties who surrendered, were the most violent.

The two of them wanted to eat the meat of the Huns in public, and talked about drinking the blood of the Huns with a joke.

However, after the Qing government appointed Prince He Shuorui Shikai as the general king to lead the army to the south, many advantages obtained by the Xinghan regime in the early stage were continuously reduced by Shikai through various means.

Even years ago, the Xinghan army had a large-scale defection and surrender, which caused half of Hubei's prefectures and counties to be occupied by the Qing army again.

Although the Xinghan Army still completely controls the two provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi (except Ganzhou), and has concentrated a large number of troops to conquer Anqing, intending to go down the river to occupy Nanjing.

In Hubei, a defensive circle with Jingzhou, Wuchang, and Hanyang as the core has also been established. However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Xinghan regime is actually facing a major crisis.

Unless the downstream can break through Anqing and march to Nanjing to take over the territory of Liangjiang, they will be surrounded by the Qing army and eventually face the ending of failure.

After all, whether it is money, food, manpower, or equipment, the Xinghan army cannot compete with the overwhelmingly dominant Qing army for a long time.

In particular, the Xinghan Army has many internal problems, and it is not monolithic at all.

At the beginning, the development of the Xinghan Army itself was deformed. More than 2000 people snowballed and developed into 10,000+ people. If this snowball can keep rolling, it will naturally change the dynasty.

The problem is, now this snowball suddenly can't go down!
Not only could it not roll down, but many small snowballs began to leave the mother's body.

Therefore, various arguments appeared after the year.

First of all, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who originally proposed to support Zhu Ming's clan, never mentioned the matter of supporting the Ming clan again, and repeatedly expressed in public that he could negotiate peace with the Qing court, saying that judging from the current situation, "war There must be a big defeat, and peace may not necessarily lead to chaos."

He advocated immediately stopping the fighting with the Qing army, and sent a mission to Xiangyang to start negotiations with Prince He Shuorui, who represented the Qing court, in order to achieve early peace in the three provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi, so that the people in the three provinces who had suffered from military disasters could enjoy peace as soon as possible. Taiping, living in peace and business, multiplying opportunities.

For this reason, he even believed that as long as the Qing court allowed the military and civilian autonomy of the three provinces and implemented a system different from that of the rest of the region, then the Xinghan regime could formally obey the Qing court.

This statement is actually very beneficial, because they have gone further than Wu Sangui and the others back then.

To be able to achieve this step may be the best result for the adherents of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Wenyuan, the prefect of Wuchang, and Shi Chaoxuan, a member of the right administration of Hubei Province, also advocated peace talks with the Qing court. The fantasy of looking through the mirror and in the water is a high-profile way of sacrificing countless lives for the sake of personal fame.

Wang Wenyuan even mocked Wang Ang in public, saying that Mr. Futai fights all day long, so he can put on his armor and go into battle himself, instead of hiding behind and singing high-profile.

After the beginning of spring, the conflict between the main peace faction and the main war faction became more and more intense, which had already affected the stability of the Wuchang regime.

Some generals in the army also participated in the discussion of war and peace.

If the situation continues to spread and expand, the other main force of Xinghan that is marching east will definitely be affected.

At this time, news came that Qianlong was actually the son of the Han people. The general of the Qing court, Wang Shikai, wanted to convene a meeting of officials and clans in Xiangyang to jointly attack the thief Qianlong.

This news shocked the officials of the Xinghan regime from ear to ear, and they all realized that this was undoubtedly a major turning point for the Xinghan regime.

Wang Ang was the first to go to the Governor's Mansion to ask Gu Shuai to see him. He actually asked Gu Shuai to send someone secretly to the capital to contact Qianlong, a Han Chinese, and the two sides joined forces to deal with Manchuria.

That is to say, we are all Han Chinese. Even if we used to be the enemy of life and death, in the face of the common enemy of Manchuria, we can let go of the past grievances first, and put "restoring China" as the first priority.

Needless to say, Wang Futai's idea has really won the approval of many people.

When Chen Huizu, governor of Huguang, learned that Wang Ang had the idea of ​​joining forces with Qianlong, he laughed angrily and scolded Wang Ang for being a nerd, and he came up with such a bad idea when he was dizzy.

Afterwards, he asked Gu Shuai to present his opinion.

It is to cooperate with Xiangyang when there is a major crisis within the Qing court, so as to strive for many conditions that are conducive to the Xinghan regime.

For example, in the name of cooperation, the Qing army in Hubei was required to withdraw unconditionally.

After that, you can take advantage of the internal strife in the Qing army to make drastic reforms and integrate forces, so that in the future, whether it is talking or fighting, there will be a chance to show off.

It's not like being trapped and suppressed by the Qing army like it is now, and people are panicked.

Gu Shidao definitely disagreed with Qianlong to deal with his son-in-law.

But he was unwilling to listen to Chen Huizu's cooperation with his son-in-law.

Because, he will never surrender to the Tartars.

Even if this person is his son-in-law, the father of his grandson.

The quarrel between the two officials in the pavilion in the distance didn't make Yuanyuan take a second look, she didn't care about these things, she just encouraged her son to move forward boldly.

Xiao Keqing is learning to walk, but his steps are unsteady, and he refuses to walk or falls down after a few steps.

At first Yuanyuan felt distressed, but gradually she stopped helping her son and let him get up and continue walking.

Keqing was unwilling and acted like a baby and pretended to cry, but was ignored by his mother.

Even, my mother broke a willow stick from the side of the road and held it in her hand, as if she would beat you if you didn't leave.

Helpless, Xiao Keqing had no choice but to pout and weep while taking small steps forward with difficulty.

It's like exploring life.

"How old is Dabao? Why do you mother-in-law force him so much?"

The one who spoke was Gu Mingyuan who had just returned from Jingzhou. He was Yuanyuan's cousin, and his father was Yuanyuan's uncle Gu Shiwen.

More than 20 years ago, Gu Shiwen and his younger brother Gu Shiwu stayed behind together, and both died in the country.

"Didn't my elder brother force me to learn to walk when I was young?"

Looking at her elder brother who was ten years older than herself, Yuanyuan laughed.

When I was young, my father and mother were often not at home, and she and my sister grew up with brother Mingyuan.

"In a flash, you have children."

Looking at his toddler nephew and his married sister, Gu Mingyuan sighed for a while. He glanced at his uncle in Tingzhong, and then his eyes fell back on his sister's face: "There is news from Xiangyang that my brother-in-law is going to proclaim himself emperor." gone."

Yuanyuan said "Oh", but there was no emotional reaction on her face.

"What? You're not happy?"

Gu Mingyuan was a little surprised by his sister's reaction.

Even if the brother-in-law is a Manchurian Tartar, or Aixinjueluo, Ming's deadly enemy, the younger sister married someone else and gave birth to a son for him. Now that the Tartar brother-in-law is going to proclaim himself emperor, the younger sister has no reason to be unhappy.

"Why should I be happy?"

Yuanyuan shook her head, "On one side is my father and brother, and on the other is my husband, but my husband and my father and brother cannot become a family. What should my brother say?"

(End of this chapter)