Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 325 Wu is not dead, Wu wants to avenge Chongzhen! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

The Grand General's Mansion in Nanjing is now a neighbor of the People's Political Council, and they are both placed in the original Dingwang Mansion.Earlier, that Prince Ding's Mansion was the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, which occupied a very large area and had many buildings. Moreover, it was arranged as a Yamen, which could accommodate a large number of officials to work in it.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan, who first created the shogunate, did not let people build a new general's mansion, but let people set aside less than one-third of the site in Dingwangfu for the National People's Council to use, and the rest of the place was used as the general's shogunate. Office area and Li Zhongshan's own living area.

As for the side of Mochou Lake, it is now divided into two parts, half as Nanwang Mansion and half as Yingwang Mansion, which is the mansion of Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan in Nanjing.However, Li Fuchen led the troops to Jiangxi now, and it was rare for Li Zhongshan to go back to live in order to commute closer to get off work, but his Shanzi camp was stationed there.

However, General Li, who was able to go to work today without leaving the gate, took half a day off and hid in a small building in the back house of the General's mansion, accompanied by his concubine Wu Xiaojiao and did nothing inappropriate for children Well, the two of them just sat facing each other and read the letter together.Look at some letters from Xi'an Mansion!

The room was quiet, and I don't know how long I watched it before I heard Li Zhongshan muttering in a low voice: "What is the arrangement of the old emperor Wu? First send Wu Shizong to send troops to the Western Regions to quell the Yeerqiang Khanate, and then start again." Sick, and let Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi stay in Xi'an to take charge of him, how is your grandfather's health? Is he really sick, or "

It turned out that what Li Zhongshan and Wu Xiaoying received was a letter from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan sent to Nanjing by secret envoys sent from Xi'an.There are four letters in total, two letters from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan to Li Zhongshan, and two letters from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan to Wu Xiaoying.

The contents of these four letters are similar, that is, they informed Li Zhongshan and Wu Xiaojiao of Wu Shicong's Western Expedition, Wu Sangui's illness, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi's entry into the court to take charge of power.

And between the lines in these four letters, there is a deep sense of worry.

In particular, the letter written by Wu Shifan to Li Zhongshan revealed some unknown information-in this letter, Wu Sangui fell ill first, Wu Shicong went to the army later, and Wu Yingqi was sent from Lanzhou after Wu Shicong went to war. Recall. If you follow this order, things seem to make more sense.

Wu Xiaojiao frowned tightly, took Li Zhongshan's question and said: "Master, after all, my grandfather is old, and he is used to living in Kunming, where the winter is warm and the summer is cool. After arriving in Chang'an, he is a bit uncomfortable with the climate. Besides, he sees He always looks worried."

"That's because he was worried about your father and your second uncle's Xuanwumen change!" Li Zhongshan said leisurely, "It seems that he is depressed and sick, and after knowing that he will not let it go, he sent Wu Shicong away first, and then recalled your second uncle. , and asked your second uncle to assist your father to govern together. It is really well-intentioned!"

He already has a little faith!
Because he remembered that Wu Sangui died of illness in the middle of the San Francisco Uprising, and the duration of the San Francisco Uprising seemed to be only eight years. It has been more than four years and almost five years since Wu Sangui started his army, and the time is about the same.

But this thing is still a bit strange!
Before Wu Sangui used a divorce plan to turn Li Jiqing into Sun Jiqing, he just used half of the plan, and he was about to die before he had time to stir up the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi?Isn't it using a chain meter?
At this time, Wu Xiaojiao sighed, "Who asked him to be the emperor? The most ruthless emperor's family!"

Li Zhongshan nodded: "It's better that Daming is as good as it is now. The ruler is the original ruler, and the minister is the original minister. Everyone can keep their duties." He thought for a while, and then said, "Little Gentleman, we will talk about it when you write back the letter later." Once again, let your father and your elder brother come to vote for the seat of Daming West King when they are not happy, and leave it to them!"

"Well," Wu Xiaojiao nodded, "Master, you are so kind!"

Li Zhongshan stood up with a smile, "Xiao Jia, I'm going to discuss countermeasures with Zhou Peigong and Yao Xizhi. Let's read your written reply tonight!"

"Yes, sir."

After Li Zhongshan collected the four letters from Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan, he turned and left the house, heading for the capital hall of the General's Mansion.When he arrived at the Dutang, the two think tanks Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng, the two Dazhongtangs Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao, Li Zhongzheng sent by Li Fuchen to Li Zhongshan, and the Northern King Liu Jinzhong recommended to be the Minister of Rites Zhu Shunshui and Zhu Tiangui, the admiral of the Yangtze River Navy recommended by Zheng Jing, were already waiting there.

The above-mentioned persons are the most influential figures in the Ming court now.

Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng are the right-hand men of Li Zhongshan, Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao are the left and right ministers of Shangshu Province, and the Ming court is tied for second in real power. Li Zhongzheng represents the Southern King Li Fuchen, Zhu Shunshui represents the Northern King Liu Jinzhong, and Zhu Tiangui is Zheng Jing represent.

After greeting a few people to take their seats, Li Zhongshan cut to the chase and said, "Has the intelligence department reported the news that Wu Sangui is seriously ill?"

Zhou Chang, Zuo Canjun of the General’s Mansion replied: “The General, the Intelligence Department and the Zhongwang’s Mansion have all reported that Wu Sangui is seriously ill, Wu Shizong’s expedition to the west, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi’s taking over the government. Except for whether Wu Sangui is seriously ill, other news should not be confirmed. Fake."

"General, is there any news from Princess Jiading?" Yao Qisheng asked.

"The prince and grandson of the Wu family have written letters to her and me respectively." Li Zhongshan said, "Wu Sangui seems to be seriously ill and there is a possibility that a dispute for the heir apparent will break out within Wu Zhou."

Lu Sanhao was born as Wu Sangui's Western election official, and was a student of Liu Xuanchu. He knew Wu Zhou's internal situation quite well. He also nodded and said, "This is not too bad. Wu Sangui is in his 60s, and he has worked hard these few years. Quite, it's normal to be seriously ill. And it's right to send Wu Shicong away, on the one hand, Wu Shicong has a unique handsome talent, on the other hand, he has a deeper mind than his father." At this point, he changed the subject again, "But. We still need to be defensive!"

"Sanhao, do you think Wu Sangui is pretending to be sick again?" Li Zhongshan said thoughtfully, "He wants to."

"Wuchang, Guangdong!" Lu Sanhao said, "If Wuchang and Hanyang are not captured, Wu Sangui's Jingxiang defense line will not be complete, which is equivalent to opening a hole. Once His Royal Highness Nan Wang and His Royal Highness Zhong Wang join forces to take down Jiangxi, our army will be ready at any time." It can enter the hinterland of Huguang. And Huguang is where Wu Zhou's granary is located. Without Huguang, Wu Zhou will have problems even eating.

Guangdong can solve Wu Zhou's financial difficulties and the problems of insufficient firearms and gunpowder. Now Sun Jiqing is likely to have raised troops in Guangxi, and we have not opened a land passage to Guangdong.For Wu Sangui, the opportunity is rare! "

Zhou Chang took Lu Sanhao's words and continued: "General, my subordinates feel that if Wu Sangui really cheats and wants to sneak up on us, it will be a rare opportunity for us as well!"

"Our chance?" Li Zhongshan thought for a while, "Pei Gong, you mean we can take the opportunity to lure the snake out of the hole?"

"Yes!" Zhou Changdao, "The biggest headaches for joining the military these days are Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong shrinking back. When they shrink back, we have to attack cities everywhere. Among them, Jiujiang in Jiangxi has natural dangers to defend, while Hangzhou and Yanjing in Zhejiang Both Zhouzhou and Quzhou are not easy to fight."

As soon as Zhu Shunshui heard that Zhou Chang was ahead of his time and Zhejiang was difficult to fight, he immediately took over and said: "Yes, Zhejiang is not easy to fight because of the mountains and rivers. The King of the North fights back and forth, only Huzhou and Jiaxing, so it's not easy to take a good rest. After a while, I really can't move Hangzhou!"

Zhou Chang said with a smile: "So, if Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong take the initiative to attack in order to cooperate with Wu Sangui, wouldn't our chance come?"

"It makes sense!" Li Zhongshan laughed, "Then let's give him a trick!" He pondered for a while, "Would you like to remind him at Prince Zhong's Mansion?"

"No need," Zhou Chang said, "King Zhong finally agreed to send troops to cooperate with King Nanchang to attack Nanchang. If we remind him to be careful of Wu Sangui, he may shrink back. In this way, it will be difficult for King Nanchang to take down Nanchang and Wuchang If you don't rush, Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong won't come out in force!"

Yao Qisheng said again: "General, you must not underestimate King Zhong's ability to manage the city. The three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou have long been Jintang cities! Moreover, there are a large number of beacon towers along the Hanshui River and the Yangtze River. Wu Sangui's Even if a person makes a surprise attack, it is impossible to steal Wuchang City in one go!"

Of course Li Zhongshan knew that there was another Li Zicheng in Wuchang City. In ancient times, Guan Yun was careless about Jingzhou, but now there will be another Uncle Li who carelessly lost Wuchang, right?

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan nodded, and then glanced around in the capital hall: "Everyone, no one should talk about the matters discussed today. The General's Mansion will prepare everything in secret.

But on the bright side, we still think that Wu Sangui is about to die! "

Chang'an, the imperial city.

Wu Sangui. Now he is in a state of dying!
Anyway, apart from Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shifan, and Wu Shicong, the five core team members of Wu Sangui, no one else knew whether Wu Sangui was going to die soon or later?

Because they couldn't figure out the situation, Wu Zhou's courtiers were worried every day when they went to court, for fear that there would be some changes in the Xuanwu Gate!

But if you are afraid of returning home, you still have to go to court, and you always have to be an official.

Because now Wu Zhou's family country seems to be quite stable.

Because of a fraternal strife, the Qing Dynasty now officially positions itself as the "Second of the Great Liao Dynasty". Kangxi recently announced the establishment of a two-Beijing tour system.

As for Daming, the southeast has not yet been unified and they are quite divided internally. A group of vassal kings, generals, Zhongtang, and leaders are fighting each other all day long!Their emperor Zhu Cijiong didn't do any serious business, he just knew how to study, eat, drink and have fun. The most fun thing was that he wrote his experience after the research and published it on the "Guo Shi Review"!

With such an emperor, Daming would probably be at the top of the world.

That being the case, the officials of the Great Zhou began to smell good.

In the past few months, scholar-bureaucrats in the Dazhou territory have been exchanging the Qing Dynasty's fame for the Dazhou diploma, and then went to the Dazhou official department to seek officials.

Although there is no particularly great Confucianism, there are several second-class famous Confucianists, including Tang Zhen from Dazhou, Lu Qian from Suining, and Feimi from Xindu. They are all great Confucianists from Sichuan!

With the joining of these Confucian scholars, the ranks of civil servants in the Great Zhou Dynasty also began to expand, and local governance gradually got on the right track.

It seems that even if Wu Sangui is gone, and one of Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi dies, Da Zhou can still get along.

But when will this Great Zhou version of the Xuanwumen Change come?Waiting for them to kill each other every day is exhausting enough. After all, guns have no eyes. If there is a real fight, no one knows if it will be affected?
But today, after the courtiers in Chang'an City entered the Chang'an Imperial City worriedly, the situation was a bit wrong-the gate of the Imperial City was closed in broad daylight, and there was a brigade of Wu Zhou Imperial Army guarding the gate , the city wall!
What does it mean?
Is it rare that the Xuanwu Gate Change has already happened?

Who's winning?
The ministers below are all starting to panic!

It's inevitable to stand in line with the officialdom.Those who are eligible to remain neutral without taking sides must be extremely powerful or prestigious.

And those officials who are not qualified to be neutral must stand or be taken in line between Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi-the officials' superiors, leaders, or factions are in the line. If they do not draw a clear line, they will naturally take the line.

So at this time, seeing that the situation is not right, everyone really raised their hearts to their throats.I'm afraid of standing on the wrong team. Although standing on the wrong team does not mean a dead end, but the officialdom in the future is inevitable!

Under such circumstances, everyone involuntarily began to look for the big bosses in the crowd - Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, and Wu Guogui who just returned to Chang'an not long ago, everyone must have been invisible, and Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, People like Wei Pu, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, and Wang Shirong were not there!

In the end what happened?
People like Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Wei Pu, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, and Wang Shirong don't actually know what happened?
Wu Sangui did a good job of keeping the secrecy of pretending to be sick this time. Knowing that there are not many people who are pretending, so at the moment, the second-class confidants in the Wu Zhou Group in Chang'an are all waiting anxiously outside Wu Sangui's bedroom. , Consciously stand in two rows—the row supporting Wu Yingxiong, and the row supporting Wu Yingqi, all in a panic, afraid that the one I support has been assassinated by someone.

Suddenly, the door of Wu Sangui's bedroom opened, and Wu Guogui was seen coming out from inside.

Everyone looked at his hands together - to see if he was lifting his head!

No!

Is this not killing, or killing and leaving the whole body?

"My father is here to invite you!"

Your father?
Is Wu Sangui going to confess his last words?
The originally terrified and flustered expression suddenly turned into a mournful expression - the emperor is going to die, everyone can't smile, can they?

Wu Guogui didn't pay attention to the faces that looked like dead fathers, he just made a gesture of respect, and then led him into Wu Sangui's bedroom.

The strong smell of chicken soup is wafting from the sleeping hall!

Then everyone saw that Emperor Wu was sitting on the bed, and there was a table in front of him. There were some side dishes and a pot of chicken soup on the table, and Emperor Wu was eating and drinking there. filial son.

Is this a flashback?

When everyone was deciding whether to cry or laugh, Wu Sangui put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said, "Everyone, do you know what kind of illness this old man has these days?"

"I don't know"

Everyone heard Wu Sangui's voice full of energy, as if he was not sick, but they were not sure, so they could only "don't know".

"The old man met a ghost!" Wu Sangui said.

Oh, I have done too many bad things, and I am paranoid!

The minister below analyzed it in his heart.

Wu Sangui continued: "The old man met the ghost of Emperor Chongzhen!"

Chongzhen?

Why didn't he go to the third prince Zhu to come to you?
Everyone wants to ask this.

Wu Sangui said: "He asked me: Uncle Chang, how is this Daming doing?

I told him: Daming has been restored by me!

He asked again: "Has the Hulu been subdued?"

I said: I've been convinced, the Hulu masters call me Grandpa.

He asked again: "Have the thieves been wiped out?"
I said: It's gone.The thieves and trespassers have all been wiped out! "

Wu Sangui suddenly raised his voice while talking: "But the emperor said, you are lying! I only saw Zhang Xianzhong down here, not Li Zicheng!"

Wu Sangui paused, then looked at the people below with burning eyes, and said: "Now I know, I still owe Emperor Chongzhen a revenge. I want to avenge Chongzhen, and I have to kill that old thief Li Zicheng to comfort Chongzhen. The spirit of the emperor is in the sky!"

Ah, it turned out that what I got was "pretending to be sick"!

Those "second-class confidantes" below are all smart people, and they all understood at once that it turned out that Wu Sangui was cheating again this time, not only cheating, but also "hell" and "nonsense". O enemy!

(End of this chapter)