Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 257

"In ancient times, Zhuge captured Meng Huo seven times, and now there are Guofans who surrendered three times and rebelled four times. It's amazing."

Zhu Shengli led the way on horseback, and he didn't forget to ridicule the prefect Zhu. Zhu Guofan just smiled, and he didn't seem to be ashamed at all.

"Why are you so shameless?"

"Yes, yes, the general is right." Zhu Guofan replied indifferently.

Zhu Shengli was directly annoyed, and just as he was about to explode, Yang Boxing, the general soldier of Yulin Town, came out to greet him in person, and stopped him in time. "His Royal Highness summoned Zhu Zhifu."

"Mr. Yang, this person is too shameless, he has repeatedly jumped six or seven times."

Yang Boxing knew the details of Zhu Guofan, so he said to Zhu Shengli calmly, "Please give me the name of the country."

Leading Zhu Guofan to the imperial camp, "Master Zhu has been wronged."

"What Guo Xing said is also true. I have repeated it many times and it is true."

"I understand Master Zhu's good intentions."

Zhu Guofan smiled slightly.

The big tent of the imperial camp.

Zhu Yihai met with Hangzhou and asked Zhu Guofan, the envoy.

As soon as he entered the big tent, Zhu Guofan knelt down on the ground, begging to surrender sincerely.

"Tian Xiong slayed himself and ordered Hangzhou Wenwu to surrender?"

Zhu Guofan knelt down on the ground without lifting his head, saying yes.

All the civil and military personnel in the imperial tent were very surprised.

Some people directly suspect that there is fraud.

"I'm alone!" Zhu Yihai stood up and said three words directly.

"Hangzhou soldiers and civilians, Your Highness, please make three chapters!" Zhu Guofan still knelt on the ground and begged.

"Say!"

"Please Your Highness, after entering the city, don't hold the guards accountable, don't kill innocent people indiscriminately, don't plunder the people."

"allow!"

So Zhu Guofan kowtowed to thank him.

"Mr. Xu Ge, please write a draft edict immediately, expressing the decree in three chapters."

Zhu Guofan received 800 taels of silver and left the camp to return to the city, but was taken by Yang Boxing to another tent on the way, where Zhu Yihai was already waiting.

"Zhu Qing."

"Your Highness."

Zhu Yihai stepped forward to hold Zhu Guofan's hand, "Zhu Qing has done a great job."

"Actually, His Highness besieged the city for a long time and cut off Hangzhou. Now Hangzhou is ripe, whether there are ministers or not."

Zhu Yihai pulled him to sit down. This Zhu Guofan looked fat, white, and very elegant. It's hard to imagine that this Master Zhu is also such a talent. He may be an ordinary local official, a good official who has contributed to the local area and cared for the people.

At this turbulent time, facing the Qing army going south, his choice can be said to be completely different from the traditional loyal courtiers. When the Qing army came, he advocated Kaesong surrender, and when the rebel army came back, he still took the lead in surrendering. It still advocates that Kaesong surrender and not resist.

Then the Ming army came, and he surrendered again.

Anyway, this one is like running water, whoever comes down.

Before, Zhu Yihai still appointed him as the Tongzhi of Huzhou, and then the Qing army came again, and he surrendered again.The strange thing is that Zhang Cunren in Hangzhou didn't punish him. Instead, he felt that this guy was also a talent, so he even called him to Hangzhou.

But Zhu Yihai was right about him. Although Zhu Guofan would never resist whoever voted for him, he obviously still had a big heart in his heart. He had waited for the opportunity to besiege Hangzhou.

"What is the current situation in Hangzhou City? How did Tian Xiong die?"

"Tian Xiong stubbornly resisted his loyalty and did not surrender, so I had no choice but to instigate the pusher Xu An and others to have a banquet with Tian Xiong, and then stabbed him to death at the banquet, and then summoned his officers, saying that Tian Xiong was afraid of suicide and surrendered at his death."

"Hahaha, you are really bold, this is not in line with your style. Why are you so active this time?"

Zhu Guofan is also very honest, "Hangzhou's 50 people have been besieged for a long time, and now they are extremely hungry. Cannibalism has already occurred in the city. There are wicked people who kidnap beggars, slaughter them and sell meat on the black market, which is called rice meat."

"The black market in the city is ten taels of silver for stone rice, but in fact it is sold by bucket now, at least two taels of silver for a bucket, and it is still mixed with miscellaneous grains. As for meat and vegetables, there is no market. If you continue to besiege the city, Hangcheng It will be hell on earth."

"I just want to save the people of this city as much as possible, so as to avoid the scene of purgatory, so I have no choice but to kill Tian Xiong."

Zhu Yihai sighed, "Don't Tian Xiong's generals have any doubts?"

"In fact, they all saw that there was a problem with Tian Xiong's death, but the current situation in Hangzhou makes them only want to protect themselves. If Tian Xiong is not dead, no one dares to open the city and surrender. Now that he is dead, this obstacle is gone."

"Hahaha, so they have to thank you in their hearts."

Zhu Guofan said truthfully, "Actually, the fall of Hangzhou is only a matter of time, but a few days later, tens of thousands of people may starve to death. I really can't bear it."

"The minister also knows that His Highness is actually too unbearable, so he made an exception to make a deal with the standard battalion guarding the city, and took their broken weapons and armor with food."

Zhu Yihai waved his hand, "Wars are always crueler than people imagine, and Gu is not as great as you said. The Hangzhou garrison offered to make a deal, and I agreed to it. It's just to break the morale of the garrison."

After chatting with Zhu Guofan and confirming the situation in Hangzhou, Zhu Yihai took his hand and sent him outside the tent.

"This prefect of Hangzhou is none other than you, who else is better than you? You continue to be the prefect of Hangzhou."

Zhu Guofan thanked him, "I only have one request. I hope that after His Royal Highness enters the city, he can immediately release the blockade of Hangzhou and allow the food from Qitang to be transported into the city to relieve the hunger of the people."

"It's natural. After entering the city, a batch of food will be pulled out to help the people."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Actually, I should thank you. You were in Huzhou and now in Hangzhou. You have opened the city several times, and you have survived countless lives. In troubled times, if there are more parents and officials like you, the common people will be lucky in their misfortunes."

Zhu Guofan resigned.

"Why does Your Highness value this person so much? He is capricious and has no faith."

"Wrong, Zhu Guofan is a man of faith, but his faith is not to the king, but to the people under his rule. In troubled times, such a person is very rare, even rarer."

From the emperor's point of view, a courtier like Zhu Guofan is rebellious, but to Zhu Yihai, this person is worthy of admiration.Anyway, although he wasn't loyal to Jian Guo or Daming, at least he didn't do anything bad.

Fighting and defending the city are indeed the affairs of the soldiers. If the soldiers can't defend and give up, then why force the civilian officials and the people of the city to die.

Half an hour later, Chen Qianfu came to report that he had confirmed from the information from the dark thread in the city that Tian Xiong was indeed dead, and Hangzhou Wenwu was willing to open the city and surrender.

"Let Zhu Guofan lead the civil and military forces of Hangzhou to open the city and surrender, the soldiers and horses in the city will go out of the city and disarm, and the bannermen will enter the city to defend Hangzhou."

After besieging the city for a long time, Hangzhou was finally captured without bloodshed.

(End of this chapter)