Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 366 Kangxi, why have you become a second minister! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

In the third year of the Republic of China, the tenth day of November.

Li Zhongshan, who had already moved to Yuezhou, an important town in northern Hunan, accidentally met his two teachers Nalan Mingzhu and Duolong here. They followed Li Zhongshan's father-in-law Lao Taishan Wu Guogui from Jiangling, the capital of Jingzhou, to Yuezhou to meet the Ming Dynasty. of the Great General.

Of course, these two didn't come all the way here just to have a teacher-student friendship with Li Zhongshan. In fact, they came to see Li Zhongshan as envoys of Wu Xuanye and Wu Mazi, the "Emperor of the United States" of the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, the two envoys of the Qing Dynasty and Wu Guogui also told Li Zhongshan a news that made him laugh and cry-the Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty have now reached a "Northwest Mutual Protection". Any country in the world, the other country will definitely send troops to help.Because the Great Zhou is in the west and the Qing Dynasty is in the north, so this is Northwest Mutual Protection!
Hearing this shocking news, before Li Zhongshan could do anything, his father Li Fuchen taunted him in a strange way, "Northwest Mutual Insurance? Brother Angus, why does the old Wu family have to rely on Tartars at every critical moment?" To protect?"

"What are you talking about?" Wu Guogui did not give in to the "Supreme General" at all, and replied with a glare, "Now Kangxi is no longer a Tartar, he has already recognized my father as his grandfather, Wu Xuanye That is the emperor, the cousin of Emperor Honghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I can’t write two Wu characters in one stroke. They are all the emperors of the old Wu family. Isn’t it right to support each other?”

Li Zhongshan turned his head to look at Nalan Mingzhu and Duolong: "Teachers, is this the case? Kangxi changed his surname to Wu now? All the ancestors of the Aixinjueluo family are gone?"

Nalan Mingzhu replied with a smile: "Shikai, this Wu is the Chinese surname of the Qing emperor, and Aixinjueluo is the old Manchu surname. This is not contradictory!"

Duo Long nodded and said, "Yes, right? It's not contradictory! Think Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, was also given the surname Wanyan by the Jin Dynasty?"

Wu Guogui also smiled and supported Nalan Mingzhu and Duolong: "That's right, Kangxi's Chinese surname is actually more than one Wu surname, and his surname is Li."

"Surnamed Li?" Li Zhongshan was taken aback, "Li Chengliang's Li?"

"Yes!" Wu Guogui nodded, "Nurhachi is the adopted son of Li Chengliang, of course his surname is Li Shikai. Speaking of which, this Kangxi is not only my family, but also yours!"

Well, this Kangxi has three surnames in a blink of an eye, and he is also in the same family as Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan, and Li Zicheng.

Li Zhongshan smiled wryly: "Co-author our Three Kingdoms struggle for hegemony or do our own people fight our own people?"

"Originally," Nalan Mingzhu said, "I was originally from my own family! Not to mention how many surnames the Qing emperor had, even from the perspective of marriage, the three families are also from the same family! The surname is Yang, and the small character is Xiaomi. She is the sister of your concubine Yang Shikai. Shikai, your eldest wife Wu is the cousin of Emperor Honghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and your other concubine is the younger sister of Emperor Honghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Look, aren't these all relatives?"

Li Zhongshan said in his heart: In fact, Kangxi and the third prince Zhu are also brothers-in-law. It's just that he doesn't know it yet!
Wu Guogui smiled and said: "Shikai, since we are all relatives, why don't we all stop beating each other, and let each of us rest and recuperate, so that the common people can breathe, and each family should practice virtue."

"That's right," Nalan Mingzhu said with a smile, "Shikai, this is also what the Qing emperor meant. He stationed 20 troops in Kaifeng Mansion this time not to fight you, but to understand the fight!"

"Jie Dou?" Li Zhongshan smiled, "Kangxi also learned from Lu Fengxian now? I don't know how he wants to get rid of the fight?"

Nalan Mingzhu said: "What the emperor means is that the territories of Qing, Zhou, and Ming in Henan, except Guangzhou handed over from Dazhou to Ming, the rest will maintain the status quo; the dividing line between Qing and Ming in the east of Henan will follow The provincial boundaries of Shandong and Jiangsu are divided; the western boundary between the Qing Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty is divided along the Yellow River. The four prefectures of Xiangyang, Yunyang, Yichang, and Shinan, and the seven prefectures of Wuchang, Huangzhou, Hanyang, De'an, Anlu, Jingzhou, and Jingmen were occupied by the Ming Dynasty; Guizhou, Sichuan provincial boundaries, and Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou provincial boundaries."

Wu Guogui said: "This is what Prime Minister Wu of the Great Zhou meant. The world has been in turmoil for many years, and now it has formed a situation where the three kingdoms stand together. Although the Ming Dynasty is strong, it does not have the strength to sweep two-thirds of the world. It is the same as Jiang Wei. It is better to give the people of the world a period of time to recuperate after the futile Northern Expedition. The three of us can also use this time to rectify our internal affairs. Shikai, do you think this is good?"

Li Zhongshan frowned and remained silent. He seemed unwilling to suspend his progress of sweeping the world, but in fact he also understood that he could not complete the great cause of unifying the world in just a few years-in history, if Zhu Yuanzhang There was also an interval of 11 years between the capture of Jiqing Road and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains for such a fierce man!
And it has only been five years since I occupied Nanjing, and it has only been six or seven years since I took control of Guangdong.In [-], it occupied all of the eight provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Hunan, plus most of Hubei and a part of Henan. The territory occupied has already caught up with the territory of Ming Dynasty before Zhu Yuanzhang swept north. .

This cannot but be said to be a miracle!
But the route to achieve this miracle is a bit special, this route is called "Republic"!
Although this "republic" can mobilize the enthusiasm of the Chinese people to fight for the country to the greatest extent, it can also reconcile the contradictions of the major factions in the country.But this "Republic" is a long-disappeared ancient system for Huaxia, and it is also a new deal in a sense.

It's not easy to get things straightened out and straightened out, it takes time!
In addition, the enthusiasm of Chinese people to fight does not come entirely from the republic system, but also from generous treatment.And the generous treatment requires a strong financial backing!The reason why Ming Dynasty was able to rise so quickly was actually due to a method of raising military expenditures that was rarely used in the past in China - borrowing!
However, in the current era, debts still have to be repaid. Therefore, Li Zhongshan, a general, cannot put aside the issue of financial rectification and only focus on collecting money.

And to rectify the finances, of course, a few years of recuperation is indispensable.

Finally, the promotion of this republic system in various parts of Ming Dynasty will also take time.The Republic of Ming Dynasty now only exists in a small number of state capitals, and it is far from being extended to the whole country!

What's more troublesome is that the few "kings" who participated in the republic have not actually completed the transformation from great warlords to kings who discuss politics!
A republic is not a warlord regime!

However, Li Zhongshan couldn't easily agree to the peace proposals put forward by Zhou and Qing just because he himself needed time to rectify his internal affairs. After all, the Ming Dynasty was winning consecutive battles, and it was time to gain the upper hand!
Therefore, the person surnamed Wu and those surnamed "Aixinjueluo, Li, and Wu" had to be slaughtered!
"If Wu Shifan and Aixinjueluo Xuanye can present themselves as ministers, then the general can agree to the harmony of the three families." Li Zhongshan paused word by word, throwing out his own conditions.

"That's easy!" Wu Guogui said with a smile, "The old Wu family has received the favor of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Although he is now the emperor, he has not forgotten the old master, and it is only natural for him to be a minister to Daming! As for Wu Xuanye, he was a minister to Da Zhou before. , now it’s okay to transfer it to Daming? In this way, Wu Xuanye is also a second minister!"

Well, this time Kangxi is not only a family slave with three surnames (Aixinjueluo, Li, Wu), but also a second minister!
If there is another Qianlong in the future, when he asks people to compile "The Biography of Second Officials", the first one should be his grandfather Kangxi Emperor Aixinjueluo. Wu. Li. Xuanye!
"Teachers," Li Zhongshan looked at Mingzhu and Duolong with a smile, "I have to tell Kangxi about it!" He said to his father-in-law, Wu Guogui, "Lao Taishan, please take a trip to the Great Zhou Kingdom. Go talk to Emperor Honghua and Prime Minister Wu, and if they agree, then bring the letter of professment and the envoy together. I will wait for the news in Jiangxia City!"

This time, Wu Guogui met Emperor Honghua and Prime Minister Wu in Xiangyang Fucheng. They arrived in Xiangyang in early November, and they didn’t move any more. They planned to spend the winter in Xiangyang and go to Chang’an next spring.

The reason for this is that Wu Zhou's retreat this time is not just a transfer of troops, but also a large number of government soldiers who will be transferred with their families, and then resettled to Sichuan—it is almost a time when Huguang, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan are filled. !
It doesn't work if you don't fill it in!

In the past, there were Huguang and rich lands in the Great Zhou that could collect food and silver. Although the soldiers in the Great Zhou did not get much military pay, the military rations were sufficient, not only enough for themselves, but also for their families.

Therefore, a large number of government soldiers assigned to farms in Sichuan did not actually go to Sichuan to cultivate.

But now it’s gone, Huguang’s rich and prosperous land is almost lost, if you don’t go, you will have nothing to eat!
So this time Wu Yingqi is going to send all the Fubing households who moved out from Huguang, as well as some Fubing households from Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as Sun Jiqing's troops who ran out from Guangxi, to Sichuan to farm.

But to send so many people to Sichuan, on the way there is also the rations for the first year after entering Sichuan, as well as the farm tools, cattle, and seeds needed to reclaim the farmland, all of which have to be raised from the rich and prosperous land in Huguang that has not yet been evacuated.If you can't raise enough quantity, you have to find Li Zhongshan and Wu Guogui to buy, so Wu Yingqi and Wu Shifan have to sit in Xiangyang.

In addition, Wu Yingqi is also planning to ask Wu Shifan to meet with Wu Xuanye and conclude a "Northwest Mutual Protection" agreement.

No matter whether Ming Dynasty agrees to make peace or not, the Great Zhou in the west and the Qing Dynasty in the north need to conclude a covenant.

Of course, this covenant is not only aimed at Ming Dynasty, Da Zhou and Qing Dynasty have common enemies in the west and north, and the sphere of influence needs to be divided.

As for the matter of professing ministers to Daming, Prime Minister Wu and Emperor Wu are quite open-minded.

"That's it? Let's weigh it, it's not like I haven't weighed it before!" Wu Yingqi didn't care, and said to Wu Shifan with a smile, "Your Majesty, did you and the third prince Zhu know each other?"

Wu Shifan nodded, feeling a little emotional: "I went to Guangdong with the third prince Zhu, but I didn't know he was the third prince Zhu at that time. I really didn't expect that there were two emperors in the group that left Beijing together!"

"This is fate!" Wu Yingqi asked with a smile, "Third brother, that... Now that we have surrendered to Daming, can we buy some seeds and cattle? It is best to get credit, in the name of the emperor."

Wu Shifan also sighed leisurely - he, the emperor, seems to be the same as Zhu Cijiong, who is short of money in the five elements, and is destined to be heavily in debt.

"This." Wu Guogui looked embarrassed.

"Can't you?" Wu Yingqi looked at Wu Guogui, "That General Li is the son-in-law of our Wu family! Can't be so stingy?"

Wu Guogui frowned and said: "It's not impossible, but can the Great Zhou Kingdom pay it back? There are many banks in Ming Dynasty that specialize in lending money to merchants and the court. As long as there is a way to repay the debt, there must be a way to borrow money."

"It's still up!" Wu Yingqi said, "To be honest, before the war with Daming this time, I had already sent Shi Cong to the Western Regions to step on it! The horses fought over and opened up the trade routes in the Western Regions, wouldn't I have money in Dazhou?"

"Business route in the Western Regions?" Wu Guogui thought for a while, "Is there such a trade route?"

"Yes!" Wu Shifan said, "During the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an was a place where Hu merchants gathered. It was only after the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions and the commercial roads were cut off that Chang'an changed from a prosperous place to a desolate place like it is today. If our family can rebuild Occupying the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the Western Regions can turn Chang'an into a prosperous business capital again."

"That's a good relationship!" Wu Guogui said with a smile, "Why don't you send a eloquent envoy to Jiangxia to meet Li Shikai with a letter of honor and a plan to borrow money to go to the Western Regions."

In Kaifeng Mansion, the Qing Emperor is here.

These days, Emperor Kangxi is leading an army of 20, falsely claiming [-], and stationed in Kaifeng Mansion in the name of resolving the struggle for the Ming and Zhou dynasties.

Of course, if Li Zhongshan, the great general of the Ming Dynasty, must fight to the death of Wu Shifan, the new emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, he, Wu Xuanye, can only provide all support except help.

However, after analysis, Kangxi felt that the probability of his success in "resolving the fight" was still very high, because Daming couldn't swallow the entire Wu Zhou in one bite, and Daming's top priority was not to swallow Wu Zhou, but to unify the interior.

This war between Ming Dynasty, Wu Zhou, and Geng Jing is actually an internal strife between the kings of Ming Dynasty!

And the reason why this internal strife happened is because the Ming Dynasty was not unified, and the kings who discussed politics had too many territories and troops, and they seemed to be the kings of a country.After the Daming Center was controlled by Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua, there would naturally be forces that did not accept them and rebelled.

If Li Zhongshan wants to completely eliminate the risk of internal strife, then he must take advantage of the power of victory to rectify the internal affairs, and nationalize the troops and territories of the kings who discussed politics.

But this matter is not small, and it will not be done in a few years.If you don't get this right, you will only know how to fight everywhere with your head covered. The bigger the territory you conquer, the stronger the vassals under it will be. Sooner or later, people like Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong will appear.

In fact, Kangxi himself was also troubled by the princes and ministers of the princes and ministers. Fortunately, there were no particularly powerful princes in the Qing Dynasty except for Prince Gong Changning and North Korean Supervisor Yang Qilong.But Yang Qilong and Chang Ning are not in the same group, so the two will not collude to rebel, so Kangxi can still control the situation right now.

If he can continue this "relief of struggle", reach a "Northwest Mutual Protection" with Da Zhou, and succeed in negotiating peace with Da Ming, even if he can only achieve peace for five or ten years, then he can further consolidate his position in the North. Qing dominance.

However, Nalan Mingzhu and Li Zhongshan's terms of peace brought back by Duolong made him a little embarrassed.

He had already lost a lot of prestige by being a minister to Wu Sangui before. If it weren't for Fuquan's fighting skills, he would not be the emperor now.

This time, I want to be a second minister again and submit myself to Daming. Don't provoke Chang Ning again!

So when he met Mingzhu and Duolong today, he didn't nod immediately, and now he was still thinking about his thoughts while going back to the harem.

"The concubine welcomes the emperor!"

Yang Xiaomi's delicate voice interrupted Kangxi's thoughts.

Kangxi looked up and found that he had arrived at the bedroom where Empress Yang was walking.

"Pingshen," Kangxi squeezed out a smile, "Queen, let's take a few steps with me."

"Your Majesty, do you have something on your mind?" Yang Xiaomi stood up and followed Kangxi in the courtyard. Seeing Kangxi's ashamed face, she took the initiative to ask.

Her behavior belongs to the harem meddling in politics!Kangxi is very opposed to harem meddling in politics, except for Empress Yang. Her Manchu name is Nalalaner. Isn't it natural to be involved in politics?
"Li Datou wants me to be a minister to the third prince Zhu!" Kangxi said, "I have already made a minister to Wu Sangui, and now I want it again"

"Oh, it's because the emperor doesn't want to be a second minister?" Yang Xiaomi really dared to say.

Kangxi's face suddenly sank, he was not happy, but when he turned his head to look at Yang Xiaomi's face, chest, and belly, his anger disappeared.

They want to have a face, a figure and a figure, and they will have a son!
With a son, Kangxi's throne will be secure!
"It's okay to be a second minister," Kangxi said, "Just in case someone uses this as an excuse to raise troops again, wouldn't this be another chaos in the world?"

"It's easy," Yang Xiaomi said, "Just let the fifth master go to Nanjing to present a petition to the third prince Zhu."

"Let Chang Ning go?" When Kangxi heard this, his face was filled with joy. If Chang Ning went to be this envoy, what reason would he have to rebel?

Then he frowned again: "But is he willing?"

"Why wouldn't you want to?" Yang Xiaomi said, "He doesn't have a share in the Qing Dynasty? Daqing is about to be attacked by the Ming Dynasty, and he is the first to be beaten in Shandong! Your Majesty, it's inconvenient for you to tell the fifth master about this." , My concubine went to talk to him. The custodian asked him to propose to go to Nanjing as an envoy!"

"That would be great!" Kangxi laughed, "Chang Ning will come to Kaifeng Mansion in two days. Then I will go to Xuzhou to meet Wu Shifan. You stay in Kaifeng Mansion to meet Chang Ning."

(End of this chapter)