Nanming Yiming

Chapter 167 King Lu Appears

Now the scale of Zhejiang Navy has grown a lot, and they are going to enter the overseas market. Qian Mo changed the name of Zhejiang Navy to Daming Donghai Navy.

The reason why the Qing court was able to recruit so many surrendered troops from the Ming Dynasty at once was mainly because it robbed a large amount of money left by Li Zicheng in Beijing.This Chuang Wang attacked the officials of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, and searched for a total of 7000 million taels of silver. As a result, he was driven away by the Qing army without staying in Beijing for a few days. Most of the silver taels were cheap. Man Qing.

If you want to say who is the number one hero in the Manchu Qing rule of the Central Plains, it is undoubtedly Li Zicheng.Subjectively, King Li Chuang did not intend to collude with the Qing army at all, and he also wanted to drive away the Tartars; but objectively, his actions contributed to the situation where the Manchus entered the Central Plains.

However, no matter how much money there is, it is a one-time income. When it is spent, it is the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River that really support the rule of the Qing Dynasty.The rise of Qian Mo is like a knife, cutting away the fattest pieces of meat from Da Qing.

Now that Zhoushan has been recovered, the Dutch are no longer threatening for the time being. The Donghai Navy is ordered to go north to Chongming and re-block the Yangtze River waterway. Qian Mo wants to block the economic lifeline of the Qing Dynasty.

The navy of the Qing army stationed in Chongming was the remnant of the previous Wusong navy, and there were not many ships left at all. After the Zhoushan navy was finished, it could not resist the Ming navy at all.

Huang Binqing's demise made Chongming General Soldier Tu Guobao restless.

At this time, he had the idea of ​​surrendering to the Ming army.

Tu Guobao said to the deputy general Huang Dabiao: "The navy of the Ming army has blocked the Yangtze River. I think Chongming will be attacked next. What should we do?"

Huang Dabiao said: "Li Benshen has taken away the main force of Chongming, and now there are only 5000 troops on the island. We must not be able to resist, why not surrender to the Ming army!"

Tu Guobao said with a worried face: "I also want to surrender to the Ming army, but this year, we first surrendered to the Ming, and then surrendered to the Qing; now that we are turning against the Qing and surrendering to the Ming again, I am afraid that Qian Mo will not accept us."

Huang Dabiao said in a low voice: "This subordinate just got a report that someone pawned a jade pendant at a pawnshop half an hour ago, it doesn't look like an ordinary person's item."

Tu Guobao's eyes lit up, and he spit out two words, "King Lu?"

Huang Dabiao said: "It's not sure yet, I have already sent people to investigate, if King Lu can be caught and used as a gift, I believe Qian Mo will definitely accept our surrender."

At this time, a Qing soldier hurried in and said, "I would like to report to the two general soldiers. We followed the clues of the jade pendant and tracked down Wang Xiucai in the east of the city. But when we arrived at his house, Wang Xiucai A family of three has been killed."

Huang Dabiao asked, "Are there any other discoveries?"

Qing Bing said: "We followed the traces and found a small hidden compartment under his bed, where people can hide."

Tu Guobao also reacted at this time, no wonder he didn't find King Lu's whereabouts after searching so much, he must be hiding in this secret compartment.

So he said: "Quickly block the port and pier, search the whole island, and I must stop them."

At this time, Lu Wang Zhu Yihai had already boarded a small boat, and he looked at the island that was gradually receding in front of him, and his heart was full of self-blame.If it wasn't for him, Wang Xiucai's family wouldn't have suffered such a murder.

In the panic that day, he was unfortunately shot in the left arm by the arrows of the Qing army, and was separated from his guards in the confusion.Fortunately, he met Wang Xiucai. Wang Xiucai, who has some medical skills, not only healed his injury, but also took him in and protected him.

But Wang Xiucai's family was already living in poverty, and with the addition of King Lu's mouth, the family will soon be unable to open the pot.King Lu felt that his jade pendant was not very expensive and did not have the imprint of the royal family, so he asked Wang Xiucai to pawn it in exchange for some food. Unexpectedly, it brought disaster to his family.

Now he hated the man in front of him with a scar on his face. It was he who killed his savior's family.

Although he really wanted to swear and greet the family of the man with the scar, he was a man of status after all, so King Lu still didn't swear.

He began to carefully look at the group in front of him. There were only 3 of them, the Scar Man, but they were very quick.Don't look at the clothes of ordinary people, but they must be well-trained officials from the government. They never answered any questions from King Lu along the way, nor did they say a word.

At this time, three words appeared in King Lu's mind - Jin Yiwei, their behavior style is so similar to Jin Yiwei!
First of all, this group of people must not be from the Qing Dynasty, otherwise I would have been sent to prison by them; if these people escorted me to the territory of the Qing army, there would be no need to be so sneaky at all.

Then they are people from Daming.Although the news on Chongming Island was relatively closed, he still knew the news of Zhang Mingzhen's death.

Then this group of people were either sent by Qian Mo or Yongli, he really couldn't think of anyone else who would bother to catch him.

The boat docked shortly after, and King Lu was blindfolded with a black cloth with a scarred face before he landed; he felt that he should have been brought into a carriage, and after a long turbulence, he seemed to have arrived at his destination.

When he took off the black cloth, he found himself in a courtyard.Although this courtyard is not big, it is quite unique. The white walls and blue tiles are a typical Jiangnan garden style.

Although there were several servants and maidservants in the courtyard, they all seemed to be dumb.No matter how Lu Wangru asked them, they were all hesitant and unable to speak, and kept signing in sign language.

Not long after, King Lu gave up communicating with these dumb servants. Since the other party specially found these dumb servants, he would definitely not let him get any information from them.

Just when King Lu was in despair, suddenly there was a melodious sound of piano from the garden behind.

King Lu went looking for the sound, and soon saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Pianpian boy playing the piano.

When the young man saw Queen Lu, he took the initiative to greet him and said, "I thought I would never speak again, but I didn't expect that there would be guests here."

King Lu, whose face was covered with circles, finally saw a man who could speak.Then he asked: "I don't know little brother, what is your name, what is this place?"

The young man shook his head and said, "My lord, Wang Shiyuan, was originally teaching people to read in a mountain village near Yuyao. I didn't want to be brought here by a man with a scar on his face more than a month ago."

"I only know that this place should be near the West Lake, and I don't know anything else. There is no need to worry about food and clothing here, but these dumb servants can't speak. Mr. is the first visitor to visit in a month."

With this scarred face again, it seems that the origin of this young man may not be simple.King Lu said: "My servant, Zhu Yihai, is the supervisor of Daming, and he was also captured here by this scarred face."

After hearing the name of King Lu, the young man was obviously taken aback, and stopped playing the piano.But then he quickly regained his composure, and said lightly: "Cao Min sees Your Highness Jian Guo!"

King Lu saw something strange from the young man's behavior, and just as he was about to continue to question, a voice came from behind and said: "It seems that your uncle and nephew have a very happy conversation. Still satisfied?"

The two looked at each other with the same surprised eyes, "Uncle and nephew", doesn't it mean that the young man in front of him is also from the royal family of Zhu Ming.

Compared to King Lu, the young man was even more shocked. He was originally Chongzhen's fourth son, Yongwang Zhu Cizhen.Since he fled the capital, he was taken in by a small official surnamed Wang in Henan. Seeing that he was pitiful, the man took Zhu Cizhao in and changed his name to Wang Shiyuan, which means "the original king" in reverse.

Later, this little official died of an illness, and Zhu Cizhao started exile mode and became a teacher in a mountain village in Yuyao.At this time, Zhu Cizhen had no interest in inheriting the great unification, fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.He firmly remembered what the little official said to him before he died: No matter who will sit in the world in the future, you must remain anonymous for the rest of your life, only in this way can you live in peace and stability.

If the history had not changed, this King Yong would have lived on forever and had many heirs; then when he was 70 years old, he told a friend the secret, and was finally exposed, and Kangxi pretended to be a member of the former Ming royal family. He was sentenced to death for the crime, and the family could not escape the murderer in the end.

He has never disclosed his identity to anyone, and he really can't figure out how his identity is known by these people?

I just heard that person say: "Liu Yichen, the deputy commander of the intelligence department under the Governor's Mansion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, see King Lu supervises the country, His Royal Highness King Yong!"

"Yongwang", Zhu Yihai looked at the young man in surprise as if he had been struck by lightning, and said, "Are you really the nephew?"

Seeing that his identity was exposed, the young man no longer concealed it, cupped his hands and said, "Zhu Cizhao pays his respects to Uncle Wang!"

Lu Wang Zhu Yihai was extremely shocked at this moment. The late Emperor Chongzhen actually had a son still alive. Although the Yong Wang Zhu Cizhen was not the descendant of Queen Zhou, he was also the descendant of Concubine Tian Gui. He was the legitimate heir to the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with them, the supervisors and emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty are more qualified to inherit the great unification.

Then the King of Lu cursed angrily: "Qian Mo, a traitorous minister, he privately imprisoned the Ming imperial family, what is his intention?"

Regarding Zhu Yihai's anger, Liu Yichen was not angry, but said indifferently: "His Royal Highness Jian Guo may not understand the current situation. Governor Qian has officially accepted the canonization of His Majesty Yongli, and has become my Duke of Yue."

"Duke Yue brought the two of you here, and he didn't intend to do any harm. He just wanted to save your lives."

"Chongming's national treasure, it has just been announced that it has returned to Ming anyway. If Duke Yue wants to harm His Highness Jian Guo, why bother to bring you here?"

Liu Yichen said that's right, since Qian Mo has taken refuge in Yongli, he has actually lost his political use value to him.

Besides, King Yong, the legal heir to the throne of Ming Dynasty, is already in his hands, so it is useless for Qian Mo to hold himself.Qian Mo could have killed himself with the help of Tu Guobao, and even handed himself over to Yongli.

But when he thought of Qian Mo abandoning himself and clinging to the "high branch" of Yongli, he was still quite angry.At the beginning, Qian Mo was just the leader of the water bandits in Taihu Lake, and he was the one who gave him an official position and let him grow all the way.Now that he has only disappeared for a while, he has taken refuge in Yongli. It seems that he has raised an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf.

So he said: "Who knows what evil thoughts are hidden in Qian Mo's heart? I don't want to talk nonsense with you, let your master come out, I want to talk to Qian Mo."

Liu Yichen thought to himself that King Lu is really a donkey, just an abandoned son, and he has already fallen into this field, so what's the point here?
Said: "Duke Yue has a lot of things to do every day, I'm afraid he won't have time to see you, but he has a sentence for me to bring to you two."

"There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country. Now that the princes of the Ming Dynasty have surrendered to the Yongli court, it is really inappropriate to start disputes."

"If the two of you are unwilling to give up your titles, then the Duke of Yue will report to the court that he found you, and then the court will pick you up."

Wuqing is the emperor's family, if he and Zhu Cizhao fall into Yongli's hands, the end will be even worse.One is Jian Guo, who wants to fight against him, and the other is the former emperor who is more qualified to succeed him.

Maybe I can still live under surveillance for a while, but King Yong will definitely be eradicated by Yongli; there is a high probability that he will be charged with pretending to be a prince, which is a typical example.

Even if Yongli was kind and wanted to let the prince live, his heroes would never let him live.Those who fail to seize the throne have always had a dead end.

The uncle and nephew looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.In fact, they are all declared politically dead like Emperor Jianwen.

As early as when Emperor Hongguang succeeded to the throne, Zhu Cizhen had already been posthumously named King Yongmour.

Although Yongli has not officially pursued the posthumous title of King Lu, but with Qian Mo switching to Yongli, I believe it is only a matter of time.

Obviously, the monarchs of Nanming did not want them to be alive. A person who has been declared dead in politics is no longer important.

Seeing that they stopped talking, Liu Yichen also understood their final choice, so he said: "If the two of you choose to give up your title, then Duke Yue can guarantee that you will live a carefree life in Meizhuang."

"From now on, there will be no King Lu and King Yong in the world anymore, only Zhu Yihai and Wang Shiyuan."

Zhu Cizhao had originally planned to hide his name for this remnant life, but Zhu Yihai had always been arrogant, but in the current situation, he had no choice but to accept the reality.

The two said: "I would like to thank the Duke of Yue for his protection, and I am willing to stay in this Meizhuang."

Then Liu Yichen said to the scarred face next to him: "Lin Baihu, you stay here and take care of the safety of these two."

Scarface and the others knew that they knew the secret, and they would never be able to leave Meizhuang alive. Fortunately, the intelligence department would take good care of their family.

After Liu Yichen left Meizhuang, he said to Qian Mo who was outside the village: "Everything has been arranged properly!"

Qian Mo nodded, looked at the West Lake not far away, and said thoughtfully: "I really hope that there will never be a day when Wang Shiyuan can be transformed back into King Yong."

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