Nanming Yiming

Chapter 127 The Spring of Yongli

Tong Yangjia is naturally aware that Ganzhou is at stake, but he also has his own scruples. What Li Chengdong said is not wrong; the Yongli regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty is eyeing Guangxi, and if he goes north with all his strength, it will definitely leave Guangdong with no troops.

But if you sit back and watch the city of Ganzhou break down, firstly, it will be difficult for the court to explain; secondly, if Jin Shenghuan's 20 troops go south to Guangdong, it will be enough for him to drink a pot.

So he has to save Ganzhou no matter what.

Seeing that Li Chengdong finally agreed to lead the army to the north, Tong Yangjia was afraid that he would go back on his word, so he said: "I will order the chief minister's office to allocate 6 taels of silver and 10 shi of grain. I also hope that Admiral Li will send troops quickly."

After receiving the promise of silver and food, Li Chengdong said: "As soon as the military salary and food arrive, I will send troops immediately!"

But the strange thing is that after waiting for 2 days, the salary and food promised by Tong Yangjia have not been delivered to Zhaoqing for a long time.

So Li Chengdong found his adopted son Li Yuanyin, and said: "Yuanyin, the things Tong Yangjia promised have not been delivered for a long time, you take 500 sergeants to the treasury of the governor of Guangdong, and bring them back to me. "

Li Yuanyin said: "Father, don't worry, the child will not disgrace his life."

Soon Li Yuanyin brought people to the Yamen of the Chief Envoy of Guangdong.

Seeing Li Yuanyin and others approaching aggressively, Chief Political Envoy Si Zuo Counselor Sun Heyi knew that they were here to ask for supplies, so he said with a smile: "The young admiral came to my Chief Executive's office in person, what's your business?"

Seeing Sun Heyi's expression, Li Yuanyin got angry immediately, and said angrily: "You don't pretend to be a fool for me, why is the salary and food allocated by Governor Tong not delivered to Zhaoqing?"

Sun Heyi said indifferently: "Governor Tong's appropriation of military funds, how dare we neglect it, it's just a coincidence that the treasury is currently counting supplies and checking the accounts. Please wait patiently, as long as the accounts are checked, we will immediately send the supplies Send it to Zhaoqing."

Hearing this, Li Yuanyin was furious, and immediately said: "It's ridiculous, our army is about to leave, how can we delay the trip because of the counting and reconciliation of the treasury, and you can take care of the big things if it breaks?"

Sun Heyi was not afraid, and replied: "Military affairs are not something that my little chief secretary can control, but the chief secretary's office also has its own rules, and I hope the young admiral will forgive me!"

So Li Yuanyin pulled out his saber and said viciously: "This military resource is going to be ordered today, you have to give it if you give it, or you have to give it if you don't give it!"

When the chief secretary saw Li Yuanyin drawing his sword, they backed away in fright.

At this time, Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Guangdong, came out of the yamen.Said: "Young Admiral is very angry, please calm down first, let's talk inside."

Li Yuanyin put away his saber, hummed, and said, "I'd like to see what you have to say?"

After entering the inner hall of the yamen, Yuan Pengnian retreated left and right.

The Chief Envoy is a lucrative position. When these people distribute supplies, they often delay and withhold for various reasons in order to ask for bribes. This is very common.

Li Yuanyin has been in the army for a long time, so he is very familiar with this set of things.

However, Li Chengdong is the admiral of Guangdong and Guangxi, and someone dared to "rip off" him, which he did not expect.

So Li Yuanyin asked: "Yuan Pengnian, what do you mean by deliberately withholding military funds?"

Yuan Pengnian said: "How dare I, a small political envoy of Guangdong, withhold the military funds of the admiral of Guangdong and Guangxi for the expedition."

Li Yuanyin thought for a moment and said, "Is this what Tong Yangjia meant?"

Yuan Pengnian glanced at Li Yuanyin, and said in a low voice: "I have heard for a long time that the young admiral is a loyal man, and he has always cared about Ming Dynasty. Since Jin Shenghuan Jiangxi, he has persuaded his father Li admiral several times to raise troops to fight against him. Is there such a thing?"

Li Yuanyin has been depressed since Li Chengdong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and has repeatedly persuaded Li Chengdong to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, but how did Yuan Pengnian know?

Seeing Li Yuanyin's puzzled expression, Yuan Pengnian said: "Young Admiral, don't rush to deny it. To be honest, although Yuan Mou was forced to be an official here in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, he never forgot that he was a Han. The rising and falling waves of the Qing Dynasty is a good opportunity for me, Da Ming, to make a comeback!"

"Why don't we use military resources to make your father think that Tong Yangjia deliberately made things difficult, maybe this will happen."

Soon Li Yuanyin returned to Zhaoqing empty-handed.

Seeing Li Yuanyin returning without success, Li Chengdong was very unhappy, and scolded: "What's going on?"

Li Yuanyin knelt on the ground and cried: "Qi reported to the commander-in-chief, the chief ministers shirked in every possible way, and the child drew a knife to threaten them, so they had to tell the truth. Tong Yangjia secretly ordered them to deliberately hold back the military funds."

Li Chengdong was furious when he heard this, smashed the wine glass on the ground, and cursed: "The old thief bullied me too much!"

Li Yuanyin took the opportunity to say: "Father commander, my son will go to rectify the soldiers and horses, and immediately go to Guangzhou to take the head of that old thief Tong."

Li Chengdong said: "My son will go to rectify the soldiers and horses first, but don't act rashly, everything will be done according to the orders of the father."

Seeing Li Chengdong loosen his mouth, Li Yuanyin said excitedly: "My child obeys!"

After Li Yuanyin left, Li Chengdong continued to drink.Facing the table full of dishes, he didn't have the slightest appetite, he just kept pouring and drinking by himself.

Seeing Li Chengdong's frowning face, Mrs. Zhao quickly sat in his arms and said softly, "Master, why are you drinking alone here?"

Seeing the glamorous concubine in front of him, Li Chengdong felt a little better.Caressing Zhao's delicate and fair face, he said: "It's not that my concubine doesn't know, that old thief Tong bullies me all day long, and I'm very depressed as a husband."

Zhao said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, my concubine can relieve my worries!"

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhao got up and went to Jin Shenghuan's bedroom, and took out a wooden box from the cabinet.

Li Chengdong looked at Zhao Shi in front of him in surprise, and asked, "How does my concubine know about this?"

After Li Chengdong captured Guangzhou, he confiscated more than [-] seals of the former civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, but only hid the seals of the "Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi".

All of this was seen by Li Chengdong's concubine, Mrs. Zhao. As Li Chengdong's bedside person, Mrs. Zhao naturally knew what Li Chengdong was thinking.

She was originally the concubine of Chen Zizhuang, one of the "Three Loyalties of Nanming". After Chen Zizhuang's heroic death, Li Chengdong coveted her beauty and took the Zhao family as his own.

Although the Zhao family committed themselves to Li Chengdong, they never forgot Chen Zizhuang's last wish to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Seeing that Li Chengdong was dissatisfied with Tong Yangjia, he was always looking for opportunities to persuade him to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

At this time, Mrs. Zhao said: "The imperial court is unfair. Since the Qing court is unwilling to give the two governors, why don't you vote for the Ming court?"

"Look at that Jiangxi Jin Shenghuan, you only need to raise your arms, the master, the governors of these two provinces are not in your pocket."

This Mrs. Zhao is very fond of Li Chengdong, so naturally what he said hits his heart.

Although Li Chengdong was already inclined to return to the Ming anyway, he still hesitated at this time.

He said worriedly: "Although I intend to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, my family of dozens of people is in the Songjiang Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Qing army. According to this, if I raise an army myself, my family will definitely be killed by the Qing army!"

After learning about Li Chengdong's concerns, Mrs. Zhao said: "A man born between heaven and earth, how can he be so affectionate? A concubine does not dare to enjoy wealth to herself, and becomes the entanglement of the master. This is to show her ambition by death, hoping to inspire the master to achieve rebellion." The great cause of the restoration of the Qing Dynasty."

After speaking, taking advantage of Li Chengdong's unpreparedness, he pulled out the saber beside him and killed himself immediately.

Soon, blood oozed from Zhao's neck.The incident happened suddenly, and Li Chengdong had no time to grab the knife, so he quickly supported Zhao Shi.

However, it was still a step too late after all, and at this time, Mrs. Zhao had no breath.

Li Chengdong was greatly moved, he did not expect that his concubine could have such ambition and bearing, which made him ashamed.

Holding the corpse of his concubine, Li Chengdong swore to himself: "In this life, I must fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and achieve a career, so as to comfort my concubine's spirit in heaven!"

That night, He Wuzhen and Huang Shijun, the two former academicians, under the lead of Li Yuanyin, expressed their full support for Li Chengdong anyway; coupled with the support of Yuan Pengnian, the chief envoy of Guangdong, soon all the military and political power in Guangdong province fell. In the hands of Li Chengdong.

With the cooperation of the Guangzhou defenders, Li Yuanyin led 5000 soldiers and horses into the city of Guangzhou without bloodshed.

At this time, a soldier came to report: "Your Excellency is not well, Li Yuanyin brought a brigade to surround the Governor's Mansion."

Hearing this news, Tong Yangjia's expression changed drastically.You don't need to think about it, you know, Li Chengdong must be the opposite.But now he only has dozens of Ding's cronies in his hands, and he has no power to fight at all.

So before Li Yuanyin entered the mansion, Tong Yangjia cut off his braid, and presented the seal letters from the Governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and Governor of Guangdong with both hands, expressing his willingness to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway and obey Li Chengdong's orders.

Seeing that Tong Yangjia was so knowledgeable, Li Chengdong did not kill him immediately, but asked Tong Yangjia to issue written orders to officials at all levels to cooperate with Li Chengdong's actions.After the incident, Tong Yangjia was placed under house arrest in the mansion.

On April 4th of the second year of Yongli, Li Chengdong took out the "Governor's Seal of Guangdong and Guangxi" in his private collection and issued a proclamation. Hong Tianzheng, a loyal Jinshi, was dispatched to Nanning to invite Emperor Yongli to station in Guangzhou.

As the admiral of Guangdong and Guangxi, the military power in Guangdong province was already under Li Chengdong's control.

Soon Guangzhou, Shaozhou, Nanxiong, Huizhou, Chaozhou, Zhaoqing, Deqing, Gaozhou, Huazhou, Leizhou, Lianzhou, Qinzhou, Qiongzhou, ten All three governments announced that they would return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

After Geng Xianzhong, the governor of Guangxi, heard that Li Chengdong was in Guangdong, he also led his troops in Wuzhou with Yang Youguang and Chen Shi of Cangwu Road in Wuzhou.

At this time, life in the Yongli court in Nanning was not easy.

Although Emperor Yongli is the co-lord of the Ming Dynasty today, the forces of the King of Lu in Zhejiang and Fujian only superficially respect Yongli as the emperor, but in essence they are in a state of self-reliance. The play table was confirmed by Yongli, that's all.

But this is much better than the previous fight between Lu Wang and Long Wu.

At the beginning of the year, Nanming's ostensible territory included the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and most of Guangxi in the southwest, as well as some territories of King Lu in Zhejiang and Fujian.

Since the Zhongzhen Camp and Huguang governor He Tengjiao were driven out of Hunan, the territory that Emperor Yongli could actually control was only half of Guangxi, and Yunnan and Guizhou were actually controlled by the Daxi Army.

But with Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi in the first lunar month, it seems that Daming has begun to change his luck, which can be described as good news.In addition to Jin Shenghuan's occupation of the 11 Jiangxi prefectures, Qian Mo and Zhang Mingzhen also won successive battles in Zhejiang.

Now that he learned that the entire province of Guangdong and Guangxi had lost their state capitals, he was overjoyed, and he couldn't believe it was true.

Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang pinched his thigh fiercely, and the pain told him that this was indeed not a dream.

The palm seal of the Supervisor of Rituals said that Pang Tianshou said: "Congratulations to the emperor, this is really the blessing of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty. First, there was a Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi, and now there is a Li Chengdong in Guangdong. I am hopeful for Ming Zhongxing!"

"Of course, it's all because of the emperor's virtuousness that he can make the world return to his will. I don't think Jiangnan will be peaceful soon."

Pang Tianshou's burst of rainbow fart made Yongli's heart full of joy, but he didn't lose his mind because of it. He made a lot of jokes because of inaccurate intelligence.

Yongli said to Cao Jixiang: "This matter has a lot to do with it, and there is absolutely no room for loss. Cao Aiqing, your Jin Yiwei, hurry up and find out about this matter, but you must not make a joke out of it!"

However, Cao Ye, the governor of Guangxi, and Hong Tianzheng, the governor of Gao Lei, who had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, came to court and confirmed the authenticity of Li Chengdong anyway.

Only at this time did Yongli and his ministers relieve their doubts, and Nanning was filled with joy.

Yongli immediately issued a decree: Li Chengdong was granted the title of Marquis of Guangchang, Tong Yangjia was made Xiangping Bo, and Geng Xianzhong was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War.

At this time, Yongli felt that his spring had arrived, and everything could be expected.

But soon he encountered another trouble.

Li Chengdong sent envoys to ask Emperor Yongli to move to Guangzhou.

Qu Shixu, a scholar of the university, said in Shangshu: Before Guangdong was recovered, the army should be stationed in Guilin to control Chu; now that Jiangxi and Guangdong have returned, the army should be stationed in Guilin to open up Chu.Where the opportunity lies, a slight difference can lead to a thousand miles of error.

The land of Guangdong is rich and the taxation is sufficient. If the general government is located in Guangzhou, the Yongli court will not be so financially distressed; but the disadvantages are obvious, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be restrained by Li Chengdong.

Now that the Qing army is empty in Hunan, if it will be stationed in Guilin, it will be conducive to mobilizing a large army to go north and take advantage of the situation to recover Hunan.

Yongli also swayed from side to side, hesitating.

At this time, Li Chengdong once again wrote a letter: Now Guangdong has just turned around, and the hearts of the people have not yet fully surrendered. His Majesty prefers Guangxi and refuses to move. It will inevitably make the hearts of Guangdong heroes cold!

At the same time, he sent his general Luo Chengyao to Nanning to welcome him with a thousand taels of gold and 10 taels of silver.

Where did Yongli see so much money, so he hurriedly named Li Chengdong the Duke of Hui, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

However, the academician Qu Shixu and others believed that if the imperial court moved to Guangzhou, it would be manipulated by Li Chengdong, and Liu Chengyin's farce would be repeated, and they expressed strong opposition.After several discussions, it was finally decided to take Zhaoqing as the destination.

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