Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 167
Taihu Lake, Dongshan.

Zhu Shengli accompanied Deng Wang and Zhu Yujian to safely bring back Tongcheng King Zhu Shengcheng, along with Wang Qisheng, the former military doctor, and Jin Gongyu, the chief soldier, and a group of people.

Zhu Yihai was very polite to them. In fact, Zhu Shengcheng was very nervous and uneasy all the way. Although Deng Wang, the elder of the clan, repeatedly said how holy Jian Guo was, he was always uneasy. After all, he was already an emperor in Huzhou. It's still unpopular.

I was afraid of being deceived by good words, and then chopped off my head with a knife.

"Previously, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ding Kuichu, reported that Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang, had started a rebellion in Guilin, pretended to be the supervisor of the country, and attacked the governor. However, he was put down in seven days. Chen Bangfu, the general of Guangxi, escorted a group of people to go north, and stayed behind. Plan, please kill. I have thought about it for a long time, and I have thought that they are all descendants of Emperor Taizu Gao. I also said before that the king who restored the two capitals first, the king of Jingjiang should not have sent troops to fight among himself."

Zhu Hengjia, the King of Jingjiang who rose up to supervise the country, was defeated and captured within seven days, was credited to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and General Chen Bangfu of Guangxi. Zhu Yihai actually wanted to kill this kind of person, and killing a few of them would serve as an example to others, but in the end he still planned not to kill them.

It's not that he is also surnamed Zhu and is a member of the old Zhu's family, but that he still wants to maintain the banner of unity and resistance. If he can't even tolerate the people of the old Zhu's family, then Qing will be able to enter the camp and even surrender. It is difficult for the generals of the Army Green Battalion to really believe in Zhu Yihai's words of unity.

Qianjin Shigu, Zhu Hengjia not only called the supervisor of the country, but also took the lead in the civil war, so he was spared. The Chuangjun who once invaded Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death, Zhang Xianzhong, who once invaded Fengyang, the central capital, and dug the grave of the old Zhu family's ancestors. Army, they can rest assured.

From another point of view, people like Zhu Hengjia actually pose no threat to Zhu Yihai. He has already rebelled once, and he has lost so much, so even if he wants to rebel again, no one will follow him.

Therefore, it doesn't matter if this kind of person is killed or not. If he doesn't kill him, he can still have some effect. It's better to keep the waste and use it.

Of course, as long as they don't kill, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.

He has passed an edict to Shaoxing to approve red punishment, King Jingjiang Zhu Hengjia was abolished as a commoner and imprisoned in Taizhou. Zhu Yihai did not take advantage of the situation to abolish King Jingjiang's feudal clan, but appointed Zhu Hengjia, Zhu Hengjia's cousin, as the new Jingjiang king.

The conferment of the new King Jingjiang is also very particular. It was originally a public case of the Prince Jingjiang's mansion. Zhu Rensheng, the tenth King of Jingjiang, is the grandfather of the two brothers Zhu Hengjia and Zhu Hengshu.

Zhu Rensheng had two sons, the eldest son Zhu Luxiang and the second son Zhu Luhu, but the eldest son Luxiang died before his father, and then did not know what happened, Zhu Rensheng did not make the eldest son of the eldest son, the eldest grandson Hengyi, as the grandson, but the second son As the eldest son, it is said that it was because the eldest grandson was too young at first, so it was agreed that the second son would inherit the title first, and in the future the second son would appoint his eldest grandson Hengyu as the eldest son and pass it on to his eldest grandson.

Later, after Zhu Rensheng's death, Zhu Luhu succeeded in inheriting the title of Prince of Jingjiang, but instead of appointing his eldest nephew as the eldest son as agreed, he made his own son Heng Jia as the eldest son.

Anyway, from Wanli to Apocalypse and then to Chongzhen Dynasty, this Zhu Hengjia fought a lawsuit with his uncle and cousin for many years for the throne. However, Chongzhen only awarded him a general of the town, and Zhu Hengjia was still the heir of Prince Jingjiang.

When Zhu Luhu died, Zhu Hengjia succeeded to the throne. At the succession ceremony, Zhu Hengjia was arrested on the spot and locked up in the forbidden room on the grounds that Zhu Hengjia was late. It took 11 years from the seventh year of Chongzhen until he failed in his own rebellion. was let out.

So now Zhu Yihai directly named Zhu Hengyu the No.14 King of Jingjiang, and decreed that King Jingjiang was re-appointed to Pingxiang Prefecture, Guangxi, to guard Zhennanguan.

After Zhu Hengjia's rebellion, Zhu Yihai's disposal of the entire Jingjiang Fan was to depose Zhu Hengjia first, depose him as a commoner, and imprison him under a high wall for life.

Then re-examine the case of contending for the title, and change Zhu Hengjia to be the qualified heir. In fact, the throne of Zhu Hengjia and his father were abolished. Not only Zhu Hengjia but also his father Zhu Luhu were abolished. admit.

In the same way, after Zhu Heng was established separately, he was moved to Nanguan, Pingxiang, the farthest part of Guangxi, to guard the town of Nanguan. By the way, he cleaned up the Jingjiang Prince's Mansion, and settled all the problems of King Jingjiang's occupation of fields over the years, and dealt with what should be dealt with. .

This is also a deterrent to the clan.

At this time, Zhu Yihai's position as the supervisor of the country can be said to be stable, but there are still many clans that are taking the lead in various places, not to mention Jingjiang King Zhu Hengjia who has been captured and abolished, and Tongcheng King Zhu Shengcheng who has recently abdicated and returned to the vassal. Chongming still has Yiyang Wang Jianguo, and now it seems to be over, but after all, it once claimed to have 20 troops, and with the response of the three Wus, it was almost able to compete with Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang.

In addition, there are still many reports in various places.

For example, there was a king of Yiyang in eastern Zhejiang, who claimed to have obtained the order of the Empress Dowager Cixi to supervise the country.

According to investigations by Zhang Guowei and others, this King of Yiyang claimed to be ordered by Cixi to be promoted by Fang Guoan in Dexun Town, and he was the supervisor of the country.This Empress Dowager Cixi refers to Emperor Hongguang's mother, Empress Dowager Zou, who was captured after the fall of Hangzhou and committed suicide when she went north.

So this is obviously a cover, and the real truth is still supported by the general Fang Guoan who is stationed in Yanzhou in private.The reason why Fang Guoan dared to act recklessly like this was actually because he was on the front line of the Qiantang River before, competing with various armies for salaries, and even directly robbing the local government treasury of money and food, withholding taxes, and even increasing the payment privately.

This incident aroused Zhu Yihai's dissatisfaction, and directly ordered Zhang Guowei and others to deal with it severely. Not only did Fang Guoan re-set the military quota, but he also took away his right to pay and cut taxes. Soldiers, food and salaries.

Although Zhu Yihai also conferred the title of Earl Fang Guoan and his nephew as Deputy Commander-in-Chief, this matter still aroused Fang Guoan's great dissatisfaction. He believed that he was the general with the most regular troops under the court of Lu Jianguo and the most capable general, so He should be the highest regardless of the number of troops or military pay, and even the rank and official position.

He thought that Zhu Yihai gave Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen much better than him, so he was very dissatisfied.

Zhu Yihai forbade him to cut taxes and send salaries to recruit soldiers. On his side, he secretly instigated a Yiyang king to supervise the country, set up a separate court in several prefectures of Yanzhou, Jinhua Chuzhou, Quzhou, privately appointed officials, and even recruited soldiers.

But who this Yiyang king is is still unclear, because both the Liao king's lineage of the Ming Dynasty and the Zhou king's Yiyi had sealed Yiyang king and Yiyang country, and the Yiyang king of the Liao line was sealed in Jingzhou Fucheng.King Yiyang of the Zhou Dynasty was enfeoffed in Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province, and had no sons in the Jiajing period.

Some people suspect that this King of Yiyang is actually from the Yiwang lineage of Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, and some people say that it is from the lineage of the Liao King. Anyway, the current situation is turbulent. They have all been removed from the country long ago.

Zhu Yihai also thinks that this person is just a swindler. Fang Guoan may not be clear about it, but he just uses it to make trouble, and wants to use it as a bargaining chip to obtain what he needs.

Of course, Zhu Yihai couldn't agree. Fang Guoan's behavior just made him add another crime to Zhu Yihai's notebook blacklist.

In addition, in Huai'an Mansion in the north of the Yangtze River, King Xingchang used Yuntai Mountain as his base to contact the righteous people in Shuyang, Haizhou and other places in the surrounding area to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

There are also Rui'an Wang Zhu Yiling, Ruichang Wang Zhu Yiling and Lu'an Wang who are active around Nanjing.

In addition, Lu Xiangguan, the younger brother of Lu Xiangsheng, the former governor of the Xuan Dynasty, also raised troops in Maoshan, south of Yingtian Mansion and west of Taihu Lake, and enshrined the clan Zhu Shengli as the supervisor...
The elders of the left-behind pavilion reported that there are seven or eight people who call themselves supervisors, and even more who call them generals and governors. The most powerful one is of course King Yiyang of Chongming. In addition, King Jingjiang, who claims to be a supervisor and then picks internal strife, Of course, King Ruichang and others fought against the captives and the Qing in the enemy-occupied areas.

Among these people were King Jingjiang who had already been captured, King Tongcheng who had briefly claimed that the emperor was now defeated and voluntarily abdicated and returned to the vassal, and the former Nanyang king who refused to be supported by the Zheng family and now Deng Wang Zhu Yujian, and Yiyang King Zhu Chaoqian, who was already dying and Xishan was about to die.

In fact, these people are no longer Zhu Yihai's real threat.

It can even be said that it is past the time for him to compete for the title of supervisor and emperor, because it is useless to have a name alone, and Zhu Yihai has basically won the approval and support of the remaining people of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as he is not defeated by the Tartars, no one in Lao Zhu's family can challenge his leadership position now. He has proved himself with his own actions and has good strength. Officials basically recognized him.

Unless one day Zhu Yihai fell down, other people might stand up and fight for the position again.

Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang who claimed to supervise the country and provoked civil war, was dealt with as a commoner and imprisoned for life. Zhu Yujian, who gave up the supervision of the country and supported Zhu Yihai, was made a prince and worshiped as the general of Zhenglu and the governor of the Chinese army.

The king of Tongcheng who abdicated and returned to the vassal was also forgiven, and he was awarded the general of Pinglu and the governor of the right army.

For the unidentified Yiyang King in eastern Zhejiang, Zhu Yihai's solution was to send the governors and generals of Zhejiang to jointly encircle and suppress him, and further strengthen the restraint and suppression of the other party's national security, so that he will never be allowed to blackmail the court.

Zhu Yihai is more tolerant of those around Nanjing and Jiangbei. Even if he is called a state supervisor, he doesn't blame him. Continue to lead the war of resistance and wait for the arrival of Zhu Yihai's Northern Expeditionary Army.

The king of Tongcheng was comforted by Zhu Yihai, and he still felt a little uneasy. He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Zhu Yihai left.

"What should I do next?" Tongcheng King Zhu Shengchen, who had been emperor in Huzhou for a few days, asked Deng Wang Zhu Yujian.

"You can stay and assist in military affairs, or you can go back to Shaoxing, Tokyo."

"But I don't understand military affairs." Zhu Shengcheng said.

"Then you can write, count, and draw pictures, right? Help manage the Headquarters of Food and Rating."

"Ah?" Zhu Shengcheng felt that he was the majestic king of Tongcheng, how could he do such chores as a military clerk?

The gray-haired Deng Wang Zhu Yujian said naturally, "The Northern Expeditionary Army was tens of thousands of people, and everyone performed their duties. Only in this way can we continue to win victories. Everyone should use their talents and work together. Alright, you can Think about it slowly first, I have to go to the Liangtai to do something first, and it will be the payment day soon, so there should be no delay in this matter."

Zhu Shengcheng stared blankly at the gray-bearded King Deng who went to help at the Liangtai. He was a majestic county king, so why didn't he also stay in the army to do these chores?

After thinking about it, he still opened his legs and followed in the direction of King Deng Zhu Yujian. He planned to follow King Deng to familiarize himself with the situation in the Northern Expedition Army first.

King Deng is an elder of the royal family, so it is always right to follow him.

(End of this chapter)