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Chapter 214: Ambitious!
"My king, how did you coax them to be so impatient?"

Gao Jie said doubtfully.

In front of them were the militiamen pouring out of Yangzhou.

Xu Du's deputy Zheng Zunqian took the lead and pointed his whip at his subordinates to urge them on.

This young man from a wealthy family in Shaoxing, a typical Confucian family that passed down farming and reading, the son of a military master, now has the style of a complete military commander. Not only does he wear armor and ride a horse, but he also has a short gun and a long sword hanging next to the saddle, and a spear standing upright behind him. He even has a long scar on his face due to a previous injury...

He already looked like the truly powerful sons of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

And you can see that he is enjoying it.

This guy is an outlier among the scholars.

Even their gang with Xu Du as the core was like this. These noble families in eastern Zhejiang were armed privately in the late Ming Dynasty. He wanted to join the rebellion in Xu Du, but was locked up by his father. When the Qing army went south to Hangzhou and fell, he wanted to raise an army to resist the Qing. His father had already welcomed the royal army in Hangzhou, and was so scared that he knelt down and begged him to stop making trouble. But in the end, he still raised an army and killed the surrendered local officials to resist. But in the end, he failed. His father committed suicide after the Qing army crossed the Qiantang River. He continued to resist with the Lu Wang system, but committed suicide in anger because of the internal struggle with Zheng Cai.

But now, from his aesthetic point of view, he can be said to be living a very happy life.

Strongly armed.

And they had just defeated the Jianlu.

Now we have higher ideals and new goals.

Top ambition!
Which young person would not get excited in this situation?
"How do you feel when you're drunk?"

Yang Feng looked at Zheng Zunqian and said with a weird smile on his face.

"Drank too much?

That depends on how many points you get.

Being 70% drunk is the best. At that time, you will feel light and energetic and have the energy to do anything. When a battle comes, you will not be afraid of anything. No matter how many enemies are in front of you, just charge forward. Don't even think about people. At that time, you will kill gods and Buddhas who stand in your way. You will feel that you are invincible.

But being extremely drunk is not good, because then you won’t know anything and will just pass out drunk.”

Gao Jie said.

So he was killed when he was very drunk.

"Then I just got them seven-tenths drunk."

Yang Feng said.

"Wait until they are very drunk?"

Gao Jie said in a low voice.

"Why do you think I'm going to do it?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, I am a rough man, but I am not ignorant. These people are useful. Really, when Xia Yunyi's son was in the most critical moment, he rushed into the Jianlu with a sugar bomb in each hand and threw it, which made the Jianlu so dumbfounded that they didn't even try to stop him. If there had been such a group of local gentry in the past, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would have been crushed to ashes long ago, and even the Jianlu would have been wiped out by now. Even I understand this, so I think His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers in the court would understand it too. Sun Chuanting is such a capable person, how could he not understand something that even I understand?
But why did no one dare to let them go?

Even His Majesty the Emperor would not have allowed the militia to train if he had not been unable to do anything to you.

In fact, they all know that if they really allow militia training, it will be hard to say who will rule the country in the end.

Although I am illiterate and do not read, I have heard about the heroes of the troubled times. Wasn't the Wuyue King from their place? Wasn't the Southern Tang from Chen Zilong and others? You see, Zhejiang is a country, Nanzhili is a country, and there are countries everywhere. What were these heroes of the troubled times at the beginning? Aren't they just local tyrants? Using them will be like throwing a clay pot on the ground sooner or later, and the entire Ming Dynasty will be broken into pieces. In the end, a strong one will emerge from these pieces and put them together again. Hasn't this been the case since ancient times?
Isn’t that what Emperor Taizu Gao did?

Now that the Ming Dynasty has fallen, we are just waiting for the one who can pick it up again."

Gao Jie said.

Then he looked at Yang Feng with a disgusting and flattering look, like a good dog.

"Don't talk nonsense. We are all loyal subjects of the Ming Dynasty, protecting the country for His Majesty. We can't let it break into pieces. We must keep it intact because we will give it to His Majesty in the future!"

Yang Feng said righteously.

"Ah, yes, yes!"

Gao Jie said quickly.

Understand!
Cao Cao said the same thing.

Yang Feng certainly didn't want to discuss it in depth. He stood there and watched Zheng Zunqian lead the Zhejiang militia to Guazhou, where Wu Zhikui's warships were waiting to load them to reinforce the upstream. It was obvious that Wu Zhikui had been won over by them. He was also from Songjiang and belonged to this group. Next, he would take his navy to transport all the militias in Yangzhou westward.

They will first lift the siege of Chao County, and then join forces with the Jiangxi militia to continue pushing westward.

It’s up to you wherever it can be pushed.

But Hukou is the minimum.

After all, Jiangxi Group also has to block the Hukou gate first.

Of course, Jiujiang is the best.

As for the battle in Jiangbei, this was handed over to Yang Feng and Gao Jie. However, Yang Feng was not in a hurry. To attack further, he needed to solve the problem of Zhu Cilang...

That depends on what the princess means!

At this moment, there was a sudden burst of gunfire to the west. Zheng Zunqian turned his head in astonishment and looked at the white smoke in the distance. But then he looked at Yang Feng and Gao Jie who looked calm. Since that was the case, he didn't care. The gunfire continued to the west, and even the ground was shaking, as if thousands of troops were charging. Soon, the local soldiers and civilians around them stopped their work and looked at the white that blocked the end of their vision in astonishment.

But because of Yang Feng and Gao Jie's strange behavior, they just watched and listened obediently.

I don’t know how long it took.

The figures of a large number of cavalrymen there gradually became clear. These were obviously the cavalrymen of the Confucius and Mencius Knights. In front, many of them could be seen running away.

But then they were swallowed up by the cavalry that swept past...

Five days later.

Nanjing.

Wuying Palace.

"Xi'an has already received an imperial decree, which has deposed the crown prince as a commoner and ordered all places to capture him. We are just following the order. Even though we take into account the relationship between the regent and his sister, we can only properly place him after capturing him and not send him to Xi'an."

The new cabinet minister, Gu Xichou, said.

This is now a cabinet meeting.

All the ministers were there, including those who were originally supervising the army away, Ma Shiying, Yuan Jixian, Zhang Guowei, Yang Feng, Gao Hongtu, and after Shi Kefa's death, Gu Xichou was added. That made one Southern Zhili, one Zhejiang, one Jiangxi and two Shandongs, plus Ma Shiying. However, Yang Feng was largely just a figurehead.

Moreover, he was not originally the Regent of Nanjing. He was the Grand Secretary of the Dongke Academy and was from the capital.

His territory is not under Nanjing's jurisdiction.

In addition, Huang Daozhou has also arrived. He came here with the militia group from Fujian.

Of course he wanted to be the Chief Censor, and the position of Assistant Chief Censor was obviously not enough, so Su Jing asked to step down, and Liu Zongzhou was promoted to Right Chief Censor, and Huang Daozhou to Right Deputy Chief Censor. The regent finally gathered the two biggest trolls of the Ming Dynasty.

Su Jing became the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi.

When the mother of former Guangdong and Guangxi Governor Shen Youlong died, he asked to return home to bury her.

As for letting Su Jing go, it was mainly because the Guangdong gentry were in a state of separatism under the current situation. They had established the Guangdong Elders Association, intercepted all taxes, organized 20,000 militias, and directly hired a bunch of Portuguese as officers. In short, they were almost indifferent to the affairs of the north. Shen Youlong was a native of Songjiang, so of course he couldn't control the situation under such circumstances. Su Jing was backed by Yang Feng, the new governor of the coast, and Guangdong's coast was of course also the coast. Let him go first to lay the foundation, so that Yang Feng could reap the fruits later.

"But if we continue to attack, the Jianlu will not be able to defeat us and will still kidnap my brother and take him north."

said the princess.

On the table in front of her was a report from Gao Jie, the general governor of Huaiyang.

As for the content, the Jianlu who surrendered in Yangzhou before rebelled and tried to escape to the west, but they were suppressed by him and the Knights of Confucius and Mencius. Some stubborn ones were beheaded and their bodies were dumped in the Yangtze River, but there was no specific number. Of course, Her Royal Highness would not care about this. It was just a small matter. If they rebelled after surrendering, they should be killed. Otherwise, why would they serve as masters?

Although Nanjing did not actually suffer an attack in this battle, her performance impressed the government and the public.

At least she didn't run away.

During this period, he personally led the guards to inspect the city defenses, comfort the soldiers and civilians, evacuate women and children in advance, and even gathered all the orphans and elderly people without support in the city into the palace.

In addition, he personally inspected the grain stores in the city and prohibited them from taking the opportunity to raise prices. Violators would be shot.

But additional rewards were given to grain merchants.

Appoint some minor officials.

Their children were allowed to study in the Imperial Academy.

This made all the grain merchants control their urge to make money from the national crisis. After all, for these merchants, it was already very touching that a princess who was the regent would look up to them in this way. Besides, it was not that they were not allowed to make money, just a little less. However, it gave their children a chance to make a leap forward.

There is a world of difference between businessmen and scholars.

Overall, she performed much better than her father.

Of course, her father cannot be used as a standard.

After all, her father escaped, and in order to escape he released Yang Feng...

Yang Qing.

In short, after this battle, both the government and the public began to re-recognize this girl who was actually not even sixteen years old. She did not seem to be just a vase, and even if she was a vase, she was a vase with some uses. It seemed that supporting her as regent was really an excellent choice. So at this time, Zhu Cilang suddenly came, and he even took advantage of the power of Jianlu, which was very disgusting.

Bringing outsiders to bully your own sister?

Your sister is obviously doing very well in Nanjing and everyone likes her, so why do you have to come here and take her place?

This is wrong!

Of course, the main reason is that Dorgon is behind him. Once he takes control of Jiangnan, he will definitely not be as easy to talk to as his sister. It will be impossible for the elders from all over the country to do whatever they want as they do now, and they may even be forced to disband.

What normal monarch would allow something like the Council of Elders to exist?
I, Da Ying, have to chop off the king's head first.

Louis XVI said I had to hang it up first too.

"If that's the case, then there's nothing we can do. He's already a commoner, and everything is his own fault."

Yuan Jixian said.

The princess looked obviously unhappy.

"Princess, I do have a suggestion."

Yang Feng said.

The princess' eyes lit up and she immediately looked at him expectantly.

"We can send someone to talk to Dorgon in a private capacity. If they are willing to withdraw across the Huai River and leave the deposed prince in Fengyang, then we can stop pursuing them and let his subordinates withdraw south of the Huai River. Similarly, we will not attack the deposed prince's territory afterwards. As for the future, it depends on your majesty's will. If your majesty orders an attack, then we will fight slowly. It is normal that we cannot defeat them in a short time.

If Li Zicheng was in a hurry, he would send his own troops to help.

Besides, why didn't he attack Henan?

If he recaptures Henan, what does the deposed crown prince matter?
Anyway, take your time.

But Dorgon is not allowed to cross the Huai River in the future, otherwise we will regard it as he wants to start a war again.

In this way, temporarily leaving Huaixi as a non-war zone can also be regarded as a place for the deposed prince to gain a foothold. "

Yang Feng said.

Of course, Chongzhen would be furious.

Moreover, the emperor had no choice but to cling to Li Zicheng's thighs and let the latter help him kill this rebellious son. The beautiful picture of Chongzhen, who was full of Yang Feng's evil taste, and Li Zicheng, a sage ruler and a virtuous minister, unfolded. As long as Yang Feng's hands were not stained with Zhu Cilang's blood, it would be fine. After all, it would be difficult for the princess to accept him if his hands were stained with Zhu Cilang's blood.

The elders looked at each other...

"Then follow the King of the East Sea."

Before they could say anything, the princess spoke impatiently.

It was obvious that he was very satisfied with the proposal.

"Princess, this matter still depends on whether Dorgon agrees or not."

Ma Shiying said hurriedly.

"Then beat him until he agrees!"

The princess said with great momentum.

Since that was the case, everyone had nothing to say and left. Although the princess wanted to keep Yang Feng, she was too embarrassed to ask for it, so she had to wait for a while before summoning him alone. Yang Feng walked out of Wuying Hall with the cabinet elders. Several cabinet elders went directly to the cabinet duty room. Only Gu Xichou and Yang Feng walked out of Donghua Gate together, and walked all the way to Xi'an Gate...

"Your Majesty, I heard that Your Majesty proposed to invite elders and presidents of academies from all over the country to Nanjing to discuss which is more important, the emperor or the country?"

Gu Xichou suddenly said.

"Well, it wasn't me who proposed it. I said that I was not well-educated and had some doubts about it. Then Chen Wozi said that we should invite these great scholars to the capital to debate and resolve the confusion of the world. It has nothing to do with me. It was him who proposed it."

Yang Feng quickly distanced himself from the matter.

Gu Xichou smiled and nodded.

"My father wrote to me yesterday, saying that this was a great event that would go down in history, and that he was planning to come."

He said.

This is to inform Yang Feng that the Suzhou Elders Association supports this matter.

His 81-year-old father is a senior figure in the Suzhou Elderly Association.

"Emperor Gu is old and virtuous. It would be great if he could preside over this event. We are all your majesty's subjects and cannot judge the king as subjects. But Mr. Gu has been living in leisure for decades, so he doesn't need to worry about these things."

Yang Feng said.

The two of them walked out of Xi'an Gate with a smile.

Then I saw a large group of people running excitedly outside...

"What happened?"

Yang Feng asked the attendants who were waiting outside.

"Replying to the king, Huang Shu was brought here from Yangzhou and is being beaten by the people of Huizhou. These people are here to watch the fun."

The attendant said with a smile.

"Why did the people of Huizhou beat him?"

Gu Xichou said doubtfully.

"A female family member of the salt merchant Wang in Huizhou escaped the butcher knife of the Jianlu. She saw with her own eyes that Huang Shu smashed Wang to death with a stone. The Wang family would not let him enter Huizhou again, no matter what. They all came to Nanjing to eat his flesh. Other Huizhou merchants who died in Yangzhou also came. I'm afraid that the little meat on his body is not enough to share."

The attendant said with glee.

(End of this chapter)