Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 237 Plan the river to rule, how about Emperor Xian of Ming Dynasty changing Emperor Gaozong of Ming Dynasty? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Chen Tingjing, what good plan do you have, tell me quickly!"

As soon as Kangxi heard Chen Tingjing's words, he immediately became excited. He always admired Chen Tingjing's resourcefulness, and that was his emperor's teacher!And looking at his appearance, he has a long face with sideburns, a high forehead and thick eyebrows. Does he look a bit like Zhuge Kongming?

However, this Shanxi version of Zhuge Liang, who has too thick a beard and eyebrows, is not as "bold" as Zhuge Liang. After hearing what Kang Mazi said, he did not dare to offer advice immediately. I dare to ask the emperor to forgive my innocence, so I dare to speak."

Why does this "Zhuge Liang" have so many things?

Kangxi waved his hand, "Say it, I forgive you for your innocence!"

"Your Majesty, my minister's suggestion is to use a hemp character formula and a sleepy character formula to deal with the third prince Zhu's group."

"What's Ma Zi Jue?" Kang Mazi frowned.

"Back to the emperor, this Mazi tactic is to paralyze the third prince Zhu and the others!" Chen Tingjing said, "The art of war says to surround them with ten times, which means that you must have ten times the strength of the opponent to use the method of encircling the enemy. But it is impossible for the court. Use most of our forces in the south of the Yangtze River, and the third prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong are both quite powerful. We simply can't use ten times as many troops to encircle Jinling. So we have to paralyze them first, making them think that we will cross the river with them rule, and let the third prince of Zhu be Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty."

"Bold!"

"absurd!"

Before Chen Tingjing could finish speaking, someone started scolding him immediately.With this scolding, Chen Tingjing, Zhuge Liang from Shanxi, immediately lay there motionless, his buttocks still sticking out, as if he was about to be beaten.

"Let him talk, let him finish!" Kangxi hurriedly stopped those ministers who were cursing people in the South Study Room, but he didn't lose his temper at them, because Chen Tingjing's words were already scolded, no wonder he pleaded guilty before offering advice!

At this point, Chen Tingjing is still not as good as Zhuge Liang. When Zhuge Liang offered advice to Liu Adou, he would not scold him.

"Master Chen, you continue to say, I forgive you for your innocence." Kangxi hastened to forgive his Shanxi Zhuge Liang again.

Only then did Chen Tingjing dare to continue to say: "Your Majesty, although the Third Prince Zhu will certainly not be able to escape the justice of my Qing Dynasty, he certainly doesn't think so. He must think that he is a puppet raised by Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong. Everyone has the fate of a Han Xiandi. But this Han Xiandi is not as good as Song Gaozong after all!
Moreover, according to the verification at the sticky pole, this third prince Zhu has a son who can pass on the throne!If the emperor can allow him to rule the river by himself, let him be a son of the emperor's minister Cijiong. He must wish for it, right? "

"Of course he can't ask for it, but I can't live without taxes from Jiangnan!" Kangxi said with a pockmarked face.

"Your Majesty, what I mean is that your Majesty is cheating and pretending that the third prince Zhu Zhu has a bright future with Emperor Gaozong." Chen Tingjing said, "There are three advantages to doing this. One is to stabilize Jiangbei! Now the third prince Zhu has sent Liu Jinzhong across the river to seize Jiangpu and Liuhe counties have been established, and they have also started to set up regiments to train troops in Jiangpu and Liuhe. Obviously, they want to manage Jiangbei. Although with the strength of Liu Jinzhong's army and two counties, it is impossible to shake the foundation of our Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei , but it is inevitable that people's hearts will fluctuate.

If there is a plan to draw the river, the situation in Jiangbei will stabilize quickly, and then Jiangbei Daying and Jiangxi Daying will be able to free up their strength to build camp artillery fortresses in Yizheng and Hezhou to control the Yangtze River waterway.If Jiangxi Daying can control the mouth of Chaohu Lake in Hezhou, and Jiangbei Daying can control Yizheng, then Jiangbei can not only be stabilized, but also half of the southwest and northeast entrances of Jinling can be tied.

The second advantage is that it can turn the attention of the third prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong to Chizhou, Taiping, Ningguo, Huizhou, etc. in the southwest. Because once the emperor and the third prince Zhu reach an agreement to draw the river, the court will start from Jiujiang. Withdraw the army, and then no one will resist Li Zicheng for Zhu San in Jinling!

Therefore, Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong will definitely deploy troops to strengthen the defense of several state capitals west of Jinling.In this way, they will have no extra strength to develop eastward, and the people's hearts in Jiangnan will be stabilized as a result.

As for the third advantage of this plan to draw the river, it is of course beneficial to the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangdong camp to take advantage of the emptiness of Jinling to suddenly attack and send large troops to the vicinity of Jinling. The city completely closed the entrance from Jinling to the east to the rich land of Suhu Lake.

In this way, the imperial court will be able to firmly nail the strength of Third Prince Zhu and Geng Jingzhong to the front lines of Jiangning, Taiping, and Chizhou! "

After hearing Chen Tingjing's words, Kangxi was already ashamed and delighted.

Chen Tingjing's strategy sounds quite reliable!
And with his embarrassment and joy, the Mandarin below stopped scolding him, after all they didn't have any better ideas.

Suo'etu was also the first to cheer for Chen Tingjing, and added a little bit of material, saying everything that Chen Tingjing had left unsaid--this contribution is quite great, how dare Chen Tingjing, a Han, enjoy it alone ?
I saw Suo Etu picking up Thumb, and said with a smile: "High! It's really high! Your Majesty, I think Chen Tingjing's method is really too high!
The servant knows the topography near Jinling. Jinling is surrounded by water. Although there are dangers to rely on, it is not easy to manage.Because Jinling has water, but the coast is too flat, you can go ashore everywhere.There are mountains in Jinling, but the mountains in Jinling do not form a ring, but are divided into left and right sides of Jinling, with a wide open door in the middle.If Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong, who guarded Jinling, could not expend great efforts to manage Jinling, then the dangers around Jinling would not be used by them, but could become the basis for the imperial army to besiege Jinling.

The slave suggested that the imperial court could order Prince An to station troops in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou first, assuming that he was preparing to gather troops from all over the south of the Yangtze River and retreat northward, and then take advantage of the opportunity of Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong to concentrate on going upstream, send large troops along the Yangtze River and Go west through the passage between Baohua Mountain and Wuzhou Mountain, and then wait for the opportunity to build a camp around Qixia Mountain! "

"Okay!" After Suo'etu added, Kangxi was finally able to call, "As long as the Qixia Mountain camp is here, Zhu San and Geng Jingzhong in Jinling will be stuck in their throats and it will be difficult to use them! At the same time, we can also call them at any time Disarm Jiujiang and let Li Zicheng, the tiger, go eastward!"

Kangxi smiled, and added another one: "If the third prince Zhu can become Emperor Gaozong of the Ming Dynasty, is there still a shortage of Qin Hui beside him? Do you think we can arrange one for him?"

"Your Majesty," Hanlin Bachelor Xiong Cilu immediately followed Kangxi's train of thought to think of the two candidates for Qin Hui, "I know that the two are in Jinling and their hearts are in the Qing Dynasty. They will definitely be the third prince Zhu's Qin Hui."

"Who is it?" Kangxi asked.

"Hanlin editors Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei!"

Kangxi nodded: "I know them both, they are indeed very similar to Qin Hui!"

When Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei heard this comment, they wondered if they would be deeply impressed by the emperor's grace?
"Then who can be the envoy of Jiangnan?" Kangxi asked again.

Suo'etu said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that you let Mingzhu go. Anyway, he is still in Yangzhou at the moment. He is also familiar with Jinling, and he seems to be quite familiar with Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei."

Kangxi thought for a while, then nodded and said: "That's true. Let Mingzhu be the emissary of Jiangnan! In addition, give Mingzhu a governor of water transport, let him move the governor's office to Yangzhou, and it will be convenient for him to go to Jiangnan to handle affairs in the future." gone."

Suo'etu breathed a sigh of relief, it's all over now, there will be no rival Mingzhu competing for power with him anymore!

From now on, this pearl, just stay in Yangzhou honestly, and let's deal with the two "Qin Hui" in Jinling and Emperor Gaozong of Ming Dynasty!

Nanjing, Yuejiang Tower.

When Kangxi and others were discussing to let the "Ming Xiandi" Zhu Third Prince be the "Ming Gaozong", this Zhu Cijiong was standing on the Yuejiang Tower with a group of courtiers, looking at the mighty, and going down the river. Down with the Qing army!
Yue Le has already led his Jingzhou Banner Army and Banner Army family members, as well as some Green Battalion soldiers gathered to Jingzhou, as well as official refugees in Huguang area, a total of 8 people, aboard thousands of forced civilian ships and Dozens of warships and official ships went all the way east to the river near Nanjing.

Although Yue Le and his army were just passing by, the Third Prince Zhu was still very nervous, fearing that those Qing soldiers would not think about it and come to trouble him for a while--his Mingxian Emperor has a good taste!

So when I heard that the Qing soldiers passed by, I lost the mood to learn foreign languages ​​and practice wrestling with the ladies and sisters in the harem. I immediately summoned my officials and went up to the Yuejiang Tower, which was actually only a stone. The high platform on the Lion Rock at the base acts as an empty city plan.

That's right, the current Nanjing City is almost an empty city!
It’s almost the Chinese New Year now, and most of the training regiments below have gone back to their hometowns to guard—but don’t worry about the New Year’s Eve, the Qing soldiers are coming, making everyone’s family members unsafe.

In addition, Geng Jingzhong's army mostly drove out of Nanjing after conquering the imperial city. This is because of unexpected news from Fujian!

Zheng Jing did not attack Ningbo Mansion according to the agreement, but suddenly went ashore in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, and then with the cooperation of Wu Shu and Zhao Desheng, two young men, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou were captured, and the prince of Haicheng was also captured. Huang Fangdu was captured alive (the old Haicheng Gong Huang Wu just died of illness).The governor of Fujian, Fan Chengmo, led his troops and fled to the area of ​​Yanping Mansion and Jianning Mansion, and has cut Geng Jingzhong's connection with Fuzhou!
So Geng Jingzhong had no choice but to send general Zeng Yangxing to lead [-] troops to Ningguo and Quzhou, intending to return to Fujian to destroy Fan Chengmo.But no one expected that Wang Jinzhong, who had been sent to Ningguo earlier by Zeng Yanghe, would meet the Qing soldiers led by Li Zhifang (the minister in charge of the Jiangnan camp) at the Qianqiu Pass where Ningguo Mansion and Quzhou Mansion intersected, and was defeated!

Geng Jingzhong had no choice but to send Shang Zhixin and 2000 troops to reinforce, leaving only more than [-] Geng troops in Nanjing.

The Yingtian Town Army controlled by Wang Zhongxiao did not all concentrate in Nanjing, but part of them were stationed in Xiaoling Acropolis and Mufu Mountain. There were only more than 1000 people stationed in Nanjing City. They could only guard part of the city gates. And Ding Wangfu.

With such a few troops, Yue Le would certainly not be afraid to attack Wang Zhongxiao if he dared to!

Because he knew that when the [-] Hunan Army besieged Tianjing City in history, there were only a few thousand old Taiping Army brothers who could fight in Tianjing City, but they still persisted for a long time relying on the strong city left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The city Zhu Yuanzhang left to his descendants is still very reliable!It's a pity that the Nanming Hong Guangchao from earlier was too disappointing. But now the third prince Zhu is a ruthless person who can't even kill him. He can't be worse than the leader Hong, right?
"Li, Li Zhongtang! Tartar, Tartar, Tartar's boat is approaching!"

Wang Zhongxiao was confident, when suddenly the trembling voice of Third Prince Zhu came to his ears.

He quickly stretched his neck to look at the river, and found that a large official ship had left the team and was heading for the Waijinchuanmen Wharf under the Yuejiang Tower.

"A boat?" Wang Zhongxiao felt dazzled, "How many people can a boat hold?"

"100 people?" Geng Jingzhong frowned and said, "Maybe they are all white-armored elites from Manchuria?"

"Bai Jia?" Wang Zhongxiao chuckled, "Crawled out of the coffin?"

"Li Zhongtang," Lu Sanhao said worriedly, "the outer Jinchuan gate is unarmed! If there are really dozens of Batulu warriors standing at the pier, it will be a big trouble."

The Outer Jinchuan Gate is not the gate of Nanjing’s inner city, but the gate of Nanjing’s outer city. The gate is still there, but it has long been undefended—the city left by Zhu Yuanzhang for his descendants is too large. Ten thousand elite soldiers!

But if you really want so many elite soldiers, why would you guard the city?

And there are castles that are not guarded, and they are easy to be taken away by the enemy and become their stronghold!
Therefore, Wang Zhongxiao did not dare to take it lightly, but bowed his hands to the third prince Zhu and said: "My lord, let me lead 100 people from the headquarters to deal with them!"

"Okay, go, go!" Third Prince Zhu nodded quickly, and then urged, "Li Zhongtang, if the Tartar's Batulu is strong, don't force it, we can still retreat to the inner city."

"Your Majesty, don't worry!" Wang Zhongxiao patted his chest and said, "I'm not even Oboi's opponent in martial arts, so why are you afraid of Batulu?"

He wasn't bragging, wouldn't Oboi be shot to death by one arrow?

So, he immediately ran down the Yuejiang Tower, and his personal troops stood guard downstairs. There were a hundred cavalrymen, all of them wore helmets and armor, carried long spears, and carried straight-slotted rifled flintlocks on their backs. It looked like there was nothing Batulu could resist!

Leading a hundred cavalry, Wang Zhongxiao flew to the Wai Jinchuan Gate very quickly, and without his order, those cavalry got off their horses and went to the city to ambush with their rifles on their backs.But Wang Zhongxiao stood alone at the gate of Wai Jinchuan with a long gun in his hand. Sure enough, he was guarding the gate with one rider, and no one could get in!

However, it was not Batulu who got out of the official ship that was docked at the pier, but Wang Zhongxiao's acquaintance, that Huang Zhisheng who didn't want the Tianzi Ferry Pier Street in Guangzhou and the half-mountain and half-mountain of Xiangdao!

Just now, Huang Zhisheng had been watching through the binoculars, and he saw Wang Zhongxiao from a distance, and he also saw his cavalrymen who were sniping behind the crenels of the Waijinchuanmen tower.
"Don't shoot, Wang Shikai, tell your people not to shoot. I'm not a Qing soldier, I'm Huang Zhisheng who came to participate in the Anti-Qing Fuming Conference! I was sent by King Chuang!"

Wang Zhongxiao also recognized him—a Guangdong talent who does not want a street in Guangzhou and half a mountain in Xiangdao, but insists on going to Huang'an, Hubei to do a big business with Li Zicheng, will certainly leave a very deep impression on people!
And this kind of talent for ideal dung and money is very precious in any era. It would be a pity to be shot dead in a daze.

"Don't shoot. Your own people!"

Wang Zhongxiao gave an order loudly, but he didn't move forward immediately, he was still waiting inside the city gate - he was also afraid of being snooped by others!
And Huang Zhisheng still looked suspicious!

How can you come to Nanjing to participate in the Anti-Qing and Fuming Conference with Yue Le's Qing soldiers?

So he just beckoned to Huang Zhisheng, "Mr. Huang, come quickly, the third prince is looking north at his homeland on the Yuejiang Tower, missing the late emperor! If King Li Chuang has any good strategies to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, you just tell him."

Huang Zhisheng took his robe and trotted all the way to the outer Jinchuan gate, and shouted as he ran: "Brother Shikai, King Li Chuang is no longer the King of Chuang, he wants to be the King of Loyalty, you have to change your name in the future King Li Zhong!"

"What? King Li Zhong?" Wang Zhongxiao was taken aback, and said to himself: How did Zicheng suddenly become Xiucheng?Is it possible to become King Chen Ying?
"Yes, yes, it is King Li Zhong!" Huang Zhisheng smiled and stood in front of Wang Zhongxiao, "But it is not his old man who will be the King Li Zhong himself, but his adopted grandson Li Laishun who will be the King Li Zhong! Li Laishun He is the posthumous son of Duke Xingguo, who has always been loyal to Daming!"

"Then what happened to the Yue Le army on the river?" Wang Zhongxiao pointed to the mighty fleet on the river, "How did they pass through the entrance of Wuchang and Hanyang?"

"It was the old King Zhong who asked them to let them live in exchange for the land of Jingzhou!" Huang Zhisheng laughed, "I still have the memorabilia for the victory and the invitation to King Zhong!"

(End of this chapter)