Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 201 "Wu Shunqing" Has the new Three Kingdoms started? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Shifan, tell grandpa again, how did you kill Tong Guoyao? This Tong Guoyao is a fierce general, why did he lose to that flintlock gun?"

Among the three halls of the Xiwang Mansion in Hanzhong, Wu Sangui was holding the hand of his grandson Wu Shifan, and asked about the "Battle of Yuanmen in Yunxian County" with a smile.Just now Wu Shifan had already talked about the whole process of taking Yunyang and Xiangyang, especially the matter of taking Yunxian County, in very detail.

Who is Wu Sangui?People at the tactical expert level can immediately hear the key.

A few rounds of volleys of less than [-] flintlock guns defeated Tong Guoyao's personal soldiers and launched two rounds of assaults!Although the third round of assault led by Tong Guoyao hit the vicinity of the gun formation with the firepower of the flintlock guns, but because of the heavy losses, the vigor was lost, and in the end they were wiped out by the sword soldiers and white-armed soldiers covering the flintlock soldiers!

Although Tong Guoyao's [-] soldiers were not Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, they were at least at the level of family members in the late Ming Dynasty. This kind of troops killed more than half of them with flintlocks by a group of mountain people who had only been soldiers for a few months. How powerful?

And fighting is not only offensive, but also defensive!

If relying on sharp-fired flintlock guns, militiamen who have only received a few months of training can rely on fortifications or city walls to cause major damage to the enemy's elite. This is a great event!

Anyone who has led the army knows that the rookie who has only joined the army for a long time is a mob.Under normal circumstances, these rookies should be beaten up by Tong Guoyao's skilled servants!

But now it's the other way around. If the same situation can be replicated, it means that the flintlock gun is used well, and it can really make the rookie beat the servant?

This is amazing!
This can definitely change the life and death of the strong and the weak on the battlefield!
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui couldn't help but continued to inquire about the use of flintlock guns.

However, Wu Shifan did not continue to explain the flintlock tactics with Wu Sangui. Instead, he took out the "Letter from Li Fengtian to the King of the West" written by Huang Wanlin and signed by Li Zicheng, and held it to Wu Sangui with both hands. A handwritten letter sent from Wuchang to Xiangyang!"

"Letter from Li Zicheng?" Wu Sangui quickly took the letter, picked up the crystal presbyopic glasses on the desk at the same time, put it on, and unfolded the letter paper to read it carefully.

After watching halfway through, King Wu Xi couldn't help snorting: "Good you Li Zicheng. If I don't send troops to attack you, you still want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and you want to jump out after the king and the Manchus both lose. Peach picking?"

"My lord, what did Li Zicheng write?"

"My lord, does he want to go to Jiangnan?"

Wu Sangui's two military advisers, Fang Guangchen and Liu Xuanchu, were also in the third hall of the West Prince's Mansion at this time, and were helping Wu Sangui process the scriptures reported from below. When they heard Wu Sangui's words, they all came together to ask him.

Wu Sangui snorted again: "This Li Zicheng said that he only wants to take care of the elderly in Yuezhou, Hanyang, Wuchang, and Huangzhou. He won't go anywhere, and he won't go to the south of the Yangtze River."

Fang Guangchen frowned when he heard this: "This Li Zicheng is really a good learner, he is really smarter than a monkey at the moment. He must have guessed that we will definitely accept his Yuezhou when he goes east. , Hanyang, Wuchang, and Huangzhou, so I want to manage the site first, and then make plans. But if he comes like this, we will be stuck on the Huguang battlefield."

Wu Shifan was a little puzzled, "Mr. Fang, why is he stuck around our necks? He has already given up the territory of Lizhou, Changde and Jingnan, and Third Uncle's army can go north from there."

Fang Guangchen said: "Isn't there still Jingzhou here? Now Li Zicheng holds Yuezhou Mansion and Hanyang Mansion, and Kangxi also has Jingzhou and Jingmen in his hands, which just separates the soldiers of the Third Master from the Shiziye. The third master must always be on guard against Li Zicheng copying their lair! To be honest, Li Zicheng is so stuck in Yuezhou Mansion, Hanyang Mansion, and Wuchang Mansion. In terms of the situation in Huguang, it is better to let him go to the south of the Yangtze River!"

"Then let him go to the south of the Yangtze River!" Wu Shifan said, "If we can win Huguang, then my father and third uncle can join hands to advance to the Central Plains. At that time, Kangxi will have to abandon Shaanxi and Gansu and return to the Central Plains. Shaanxi and Gansu are ours. That’s right. With the strong men from Shaanxi and Gansu, the Central Plains will be conquered sooner or later, since ancient times, those who win the Central Plains will win the world!”

"My lord, you forgot about Hong Wu!" Liu Xuanchu reminded, "The Great Ming first pacified Jiangbei and Jiangnan, then settled Huguang, and then swept the world in Beiping. And who can guarantee that Li Zicheng will not learn from Sun Quan? When the third master went north to the Central Plains, he came to cross the river in white clothes and surprise Jingzhou?"

"That's not enough, is it?" Wu Shifan didn't seem to know much about the dangers of the human heart.

"As for it!" Wu Sangui smiled wryly, "The world today is no longer a struggle between the old man and the Qing Dynasty, but a struggle between the old man, Li Zicheng, and Kangxi!"

"Three Kingdoms?" Wu Shifan was taken aback, "But Li Zicheng only had four mansions! Wang Fuchen has more territory and troops than him. If the grandson is not wrong, Wang Fuchen now has Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Leizhou, Wuzhou, Pingle, The seven prefectures of Xunzhou and Guilin, plus the two prefectures of Yulin and Luoding, and the prefectures of Qiongzhou and Guangzhou should also fall into his hands soon. That is the land of nine prefectures and two prefectures! It only takes more than [-] troops It's a matter of the year."

Wu Sangui shook his head: "After all, Guangdong and Guangxi are too remote. If you want to go north to fight for the world, you have to go through many dangers. If Wang Fuchen has pacified Guangdong and Guangxi, it's okay to say, but Guangdong still has the Shang family, and Guangxi still has Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong. So now he is not a giant fighting for the world, but a figure like Gongsun in Liaodong, Ma Teng in Xiliang, and Shixie in Jiaozhou.

Although Li Zicheng has only four mansions, they are four mansions located on the banks of the Yangtze River in the world, and they also occupy Hankou, one of the four gatherings in the world.

In addition, these four prefectures have no less than 2000 million mu of land, and most of them are paddy fields near the river, with two crops a year, and there are few floods and droughts.And the population of these four prefectures is about two to three million, which is equivalent to several Sichuan provinces!

If Li Zicheng manages well, he will be able to recruit [-] elite soldiers within two years."

At the end of Wu Sangui's words, his words were actually full of envy.

It's no wonder that Wu Sangui is envious, Li Zicheng has indeed grabbed a piece of geomantic treasure land!
Although the land is not big, it is small, rich, densely populated, and located in the central area of ​​the world, so it can be operated as a "land of Zhili".

In contrast, Wu Sangui's territory is very large, but there is no piece of land that can be used as the center of the empire.Not in Hanzhong, not in Chongqing, not in Kunming.

Moreover, due to the obstruction of Jingzhou controlled by the Qing Dynasty and Yuezhou controlled by Li Zicheng, as well as too many inaccessible mountainous areas in Sichuan and Hanzhong, the forces of the Wu family have emerged in three relatively independent areas outside the main plate of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. One is the Hunan plate controlled by Wu Guogui, the other is the Yunyang and Xiangyang plates controlled by Wu Yingxiong, and the other is the Longxi plate controlled by Wu Yingqi
Wu Sangui was silent for a while, and then glanced at his two major military advisers: "Ting Xian, Xuan Chu, it seems that the three-thirds of the world's power has just been achieved, so how should we break this situation next?"

Fang Guangchen said: "My lord, we must not let Li Zicheng take Jiangnan. But there is no need to turn against Li Zicheng and start a war right now.

Obviously this Li Zicheng had suffered enough from groundless grounds, and this time he walked extremely steadily.He devoted himself to the management of the temporary place of residence in Lizhou, not to mention the four prefectures of Yuezhou, Hanyang, Wuchang, and Huangzhou?Maybe his plan to retire in Sifu was not a lie at all, but he really planned to die in Wuchang.

Therefore, I suggested that the prince should follow the original strategy, and go out to Qishan in the northwest direction this year, and take Longyou.In the direction of Huguang, let's do a good job first! "

"Operation?" Wu Sangui frowned slightly. He knew that he wanted to manage the territory, but now there is Wu Yingxiong in Hubei, Wu Guogui in Hunan, and Wu Yingqi in Longxi.And he, Wu Sangui, is over 60
"What Ting Xian said is very true!" Liu Xuanchu said, "My lord, since you compare today's world struggles to the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty, should you learn from Cao Wei's art of ordering the world?

Wu Sangui sighed, and said to Wu Shifan: "Shifan, you go back and tell your father, don't be in a hurry to conquer Huaxia, and don't be in a hurry to seize Jingzhou Jiancheng. It is a safe policy to manage the territory first. , I will hand it over to your father and you in the future. You first take all Xiangyang, Yunyang, Yichang, and Jiangnan parts of Jingzhou, and then all the land that should be equalized, all the government soldiers that should be recruited, and those who should be appointed Talents are also used.

I think Li Zicheng's equalization of land in Lizhou and Jingnan is quite good, and you don't need to make major changes to those who gave us the manor farms.Li Zicheng's method can also be implemented in Xiangyang, Yunyang, Yichang and other places.

If there are local tyrants who are not convinced, they can use the fields in Sichuan as compensation, and they will all be sent to Sichuan!The obedient gentry and powerful gentry also gave Sichuan land, but it was up to them to decide whether or not to go and when to go.

If some of the gentry in Hubei are willing to work for us, you should also give them preferential treatment as appropriate. You can use the land in Sichuan as compensation, and at the same time use the flag fields in Jingzhou Prefecture, Anlu Prefecture, and Jingmen Prefecture as their gift land, and wait for the future. After capturing Jingzhou and Anlu, give it to them. "

"Grandson knows, grandson will definitely manage Hubei with daddy."

Wu Sangui nodded, and said to Fang Guangchen: "Okay! Ting Xian, please take a trip to Changsha and help Guogui manage Hunan. In addition, Hunan has outstanding people, and there are many old Ming Dynasty elders who do not want to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and live in seclusion. Survivors, think of a way to invite some of them to work for this king!"

Hearing that Wu Sangui wanted to invite some famous people from Huguang to come out to play the side drum for him, Fang Guangchen was a little dumbfounded.This Wu Sangui really doesn't know how bad his reputation is?It would be better if he had the third prince Zhu in his hand now, but he didn't have the third prince Zhu. Even if the third prince Zhu is gone, he can welcome another Zhu family descendant from elsewhere to be a puppet!

Although everyone knows that you, the King of the West, want to be long live, but the procedure of coercing the emperor and ordering the princes must go through a little bit, right?Anyway, let's extend the Ming Dynasty for another ten or eight years!

Thinking of this, he winked at Liu Xuanchu first, and then tentatively said: "My lord, those scholars are all very rich and arrogant, and if you can support the third prince Zhu or a genuine Ming dynasty heir Commander, and then recruited in the name of the Son of Heaven, no one would dare not come."

Liu Xuanchu also said: "My lord, if you can coerce the emperor and order the princes like Cao Mengde, then you will attack Li Zicheng in the future, and it will be called justice!"

Wu Sangui frowned, as if unwilling, "But the third prince Zhu has passed away, who should I appoint as king?"

"Grandpa," Wu Shifan interrupted suddenly, "The Third Prince Zhu has not passed away!"

Wu Sangui turned to look at his grandson: "Shifan, how do you know?"

Wu Shifan replied: "Because when my grandson was in Guangdong, I heard people from the Tiandihui say that the third prince Zhu is still alive, and he is in Guangdong!"

Wu Sangui was taken aback, "People who listen to the Tiandihui. Ah, yes, isn't Wang Shikai the leader of the Tiandihui? Isn't the third prince Zhu the chief rudder of the Tiandihui? Could it be that the third prince Zhu has always been in Wang Shikai's hands?"

"Grandpa," Wu Shifan said, "If you want to welcome Third Prince Zhu to the north, why not let Second Brother Shijue go to Guangdong, I believe he will be able to invite Third Prince Zhu."

Wu Sangui hesitated again. Should the Third Prince Zhu be invited or not?
"My lord, don't hesitate! As long as you invite the third prince, you will have a complete reputation!"

"Yes, if the third prince is in the hands of Wang Shikai, then once you support him as the emperor, then Wang Fuchen and Wang Shikai will definitely defect and support you. They have soldiers, guns and flintlocks in their hands!"

Wu Sangui was finally persuaded, nodded and said: "Shifan, you also write a letter to Wang Shikai. Ting Xian, when you go to Guangdong with Shijue, you must show affection and reason to Wang Shikai. You have to tell him that our Wu family knows that Shi Lin was not killed by him, on the contrary, he saved Shi Fan's life. And Shi Fan is the successor of my family!"

When Wu Sangui finally thought of welcoming the third prince Zhu to become Prime Minister Wu, a pair of very "sophisticated" monarchs and ministers were discussing similar things on Dayuan Island, which was hanging overseas. , so Zheng Jing is so "sophisticated", how could he not know the benefits of coercing the emperor and ordering the princes?It's just that his small capital and small profits, coupled with the internal strife in the family a few years ago, and the attack by the foreign devils colluding with the Manchu Qing, caused heavy losses. He urgently needs to do some "legal smuggling" work to recover his blood, so he doesn't want to cause trouble.

Therefore, Wu Sangui's side is full of color, Zheng Jing is still indifferent on the island, busy counting money but now the situation has changed!

Li Zicheng actually jumped out and robbed Wuchang Mansion. This is to go down the river to take Jiangnan!

If he took Jiangnan, wouldn't he be "Li Chongba"?If he wants to become "Li Chongba", wouldn't he be Zheng Jing's prime minister?

So Zheng Jing, who got the news, immediately had someone recall Chen Yonghua who was in Macau, and began to discuss with him about capturing Nanjing and supporting Ming Xiandi.

But to support Ming Xiandi, of course, one must first understand the wishes of the third prince Zhu himself.

"Fufu, have you inquired with him? Is he willing to be Ming Xiandi?"

Zheng Jing is very thin, with high cheekbones, big eyes, fair skin, and three strands of beard. He looks like a shrewd "great loyal businessman"!
"I am willing! I am so willing." Chen Yonghua smiled, "He is also from the emperor's family, how could he not know the joy of offering the emperor?"

"Hehehe, too!" Zheng Jing laughed, "Emperor Xian is also an emperor! Fufu, then you should hurry back to Guangdong and invite this Emperor Xian to Dayuan Island."

"This." Chen Yonghua was a little embarrassed, "This is not easy."

"What? Isn't he willing to be Emperor Xian?" Zheng Jing was taken aback.

"My lord," Chen Yonghua said, "In ancient times there were good ministers who chose their lords to do things, but now there are lords who choose their ministers to rely on. In today's world, there are already Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, and you, the king, as well as Wang Fuchen and Wang Shikai from Guangdong. There is Geng Jingzhong on the other side. And there is only one Emperor Xian!"

"Why is there only one?" Zheng Jing glared, "Isn't it just after Zhu Ming? There are many on Dayuan Island!"

"My lord," Chen Yonghua shook his head and said, "Once the third prince comes out, those people will not be qualified to be emperors! This third prince Zhu is the chief rudder of the Tiandihui!"

Really, this "Xiandi" can only be the third prince Zhu now!

Not for anything else, just for the "Theory of the World is Public" and "The System of Tian Mu in the Heavenly Dynasty"!
Although the third prince Zhu has no strength, he has the title of "anti-Qing leader" - he is not only the son of Emperor Chongzhen, the most legal heir of Ming Dynasty, but also the leader of the world.

He is not the Emperor Ming Xian, who can be?
"Then" Zheng Jing was also a little dizzy, "Then what should I do? Is it just like this?"

"I can't forget it." Chen Yonghua said, "My lord, have you forgotten the route that the former king took to Nanjing?"

"Of course I didn't forget. Fufu, I invited you back for this matter!" Zheng Jing said, "Feng Xifan sent a letter from Fuzhou a few days ago, saying that Geng Jingzhong has agreed to work with us. But this Geng Jingzhong is very ambitious. Da, wants to be emperor too! I think he is the material to be Yuan Shu!"

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "As long as he is willing to do it, if he is Yuan Shu, he will be the master of Yuan Shu. I personally went to Fuzhou to find out Geng Jingzhong's background. If he is really willing to do it, then we will join hands with him. He will travel by land. We took advantage of the confrontation between Man Qing and Li Zicheng on the Yangtze River by water, and took Nanjing in one fell swoop. Then let the third prince ascend the throne in Nanjing and become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

"Then what should Geng Jingzhong do if he wants to usurp the throne?" Zheng Jing asked thoughtfully, "This Geng Jingzhong is a bit superstitious. The prince abdicated."

"It's easy," Chen Yonghua said, "you can use Wu Sangui's prestige to suppress Geng Jingzhong. If you can get out of Nanjing, you will be Prime Minister Zheng of the Ming Dynasty! At that time, most of the territory in Fujian can be decided by publicity, and Guangdong has to give us face."

"Okay, let's do it!"

(End of this chapter)