Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 253 Promise
The reward cannons allocated to Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhilong were sent to Tianjin Port to see off Zheng Hongkui on his return to the south.

Before leaving, a farewell banquet was held for Zheng Hongkui again.

Lü Mou hated the indispensable element of Chinese etiquette, "please eat." Not only does it hurt money, but most importantly it hurts your body. How old am I now? I am still young. Drinking alcohol is not good for babies.

But if you don’t send a farewell party at the end, you will lack etiquette and you will be impersonal.

But fortunately, there were no outsiders at this farewell banquet, only Zheng Hongkui, Yu Minzhong and Li Yan.

Lu Mou raised his wine glass: "This time when I return to the south, I would like to send my greetings to Weiyuan Marquis Zheng Zhilong."

Zheng Hongkui toasted gratefully: "On behalf of my brother, I would like to thank the regent for his care."

"Now, as for the situation in Jiangnan, just keep it as it is now. Don't launch an attack on Li Chuang easily and lose the soldiers. Leave it to me to send my army south to unify the country."

I have to ask this again and again. As for the extent of your understanding, it is the extent of your understanding of the dark psychology of the Regent.

Now, Zhang Huangyan of the Jiangnan Group Army has firmly grasped several strategic strongholds, and together with the newborn calf Yang Songshan, he actually has the strength to partially restore Jiangnan. If Zheng Hongkui's navy is added to the mix, if they get hot-headed and launch a counterattack, their own affairs will be ruined.

The current situation is no longer to entrust Li Chuang to help eliminate the inherent forces, but to contain him in the south, freeing up his hands to concentrate on dealing with Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan and Manchu Qing in the east.

Only he and Yang Songshan knew about the conspiracy between himself and Li Yan.

But Yang Songshan's junior qualifications could not suppress Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Hongkui. If these two people insist on counterattack, will they launch reinforcements and war against Jiangnan?
As long as their main force intervenes in the Jiangnan War, the Manchu Qing will never let go of the opportunity and give themselves a severe blow in the back.

At that time, it will really be difficult for him to take care of himself, and the whole situation will become precarious again.

This is the inevitable result, and it is also the result that Lu Mou least wants to see.

Although Lu Mou seemed to be going smoothly now, he actually knew that what he faced at the beginning was only part of the rogue bandits, not Li Chuang's main force.

If it weren't for the plague and the embarrassing situation Li Chuang faced at that time, even if he wanted to face Li Chuang's million-strong main force face to face, even if he defeated him, his vitality would be severely damaged and he would be defeated. Get back to your original shape.

Regardless of whether it is from a historical perspective or from one's own personal situation, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was powerful.

Although he directly defeated him twice, the first game was at his home court, and he caught the Qing Dynasty's contempt for the Ming Dynasty at that time, which made Duozhi feel frustrated.

In the second game, Hauge and Jilhalang were caught off guard by relying on the terrain and forcing the camp to form a formation. The camp was set on fire, leaving them without food or water, and they marched in hardship, almost wiping out his entire army. In fact, the weather helped me.

If now, relying on the North, which has been completely devastated in the northwest, before it is completely restored, I will never be able to withstand a full blow from the powerful Manchu Qing Dynasty. Li Yan doesn't need to remind him of this, Lu Mou has a clear understanding of it.

But now why didn't the Manchu Qing attack themselves with all their strength?

According to the report from the undercover Jin Yiwei in Shengjing, this was all thanks to the traitor Hong Chengchou.

I don’t know what kind of considerations this resourceful traitor had, always trying to make himself and Li Chuang consume each other so that he could enjoy the benefits and take over the Central Plains.

For this reason, he tried his best to persuade Fan Wencheng and Dorgon. He made several decisions to send troops directly from Inner Mongolia to Gyeonggi.

This gave Lu Mou time to manage the northwest and then develop stably.

In fact, judging from Hong Chengchou's actions, Lu Mou began to involuntarily agree with later generations' evaluation of Hong Chengchou. He is not a real traitor, he is a hero who infiltrated the enemy and relied on his own efforts to preserve the traditional culture of Han people.

For this reason, he could not help but believe in the poem that Sun Dapao, the founding father of the country, commented on Hong Chengchou: "Five ethnic groups compete for important festivals, and China will be glorious." No one knows how great his achievements are if his life is not ruined. On the day when Man returned to the Central Plains, Han Qi had been around for a long time. Wen Xiangtao devised strategies to change his clothes. "

Regarding the evaluation of this poem, some people suspect that it was fabricated by the descendants of the Hong family. However, in fact, judging from the governance strategies he induced these two people to implement after Hong Chengchou was reused by Huang Taiji and Dorgon, it is very possible. of.

Not to mention history, right before our eyes, he advocated treating the Han people well in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, implemented the system of the Ming Dynasty, advocated sinicization, and promoted Confucianism. At the same time, he was trying to buy himself time to recover. You have no doubt that he is a Han Chinese spy who broke into the Qing Dynasty. You can't even explain the logic of his actions.

But this is just speculation and there is no conclusive evidence. Lu Mou could not go to Shengjing to pick apples like he did to test Zu Dashou. The people watching the apple orchard there are very fierce. Therefore, Lu Mou did not dare to use this speculation as evidence. When he had to launch a war to unify the south and annihilate Li Chuang, he was lucky that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not go all out to launch a war to confiscate homes in the north.

This has to be guarded against.

The reason why Zheng Hongkui did not reach the high position of a feudal official like his brother Wu Sangui was not because he was incompetent, but because he was implicated by his rebellious brother Zheng Zhilong and his own upright character. To be honest, he just doesn't know how to figure things out, and he just doesn't know how to be an official.

In fact, he is still superior to Wu Sangui in terms of strategy and tactics.

Faced with Lu Mou's worried instructions, he certainly understood the power of it.

"I understand that I will not use troops like Meng Lang, resolutely hold on to several key points along the river, counterattack south of the Yangtze River for the regent, and defend the landing site."

Although your understanding is completely different from my purpose, the purpose is the same. This can be regarded as different paths to the same destination, which is better.

"When you go back this time, you will reward Zheng Zhilong on behalf of the governor. Tell Marquis Weiyuan on my behalf that I will not interfere with what he is doing now. But I ask him to protect the Ming Dynasty's maritime territory for me. Foreigners will never be allowed to except Outside the merchant ship, a warship sailed in. "

"Don't worry, Prince Regent, my brother still has the sense of responsibility to protect the territory of the Han Dynasty."

Lu Mou nodded: "One more thing is to continue to manage Taiwan and expand Ryukyu, and we must not let the great powers get involved. If he can conquer Japan, I will not hesitate to reward him with the title of Japanese Governor-General Overseas."

It was not about destroying the country, but just conquering it and making Japan a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Although this goal is a bit far away, it is not impossible to achieve it with Zheng Zhilong's current strength and financial resources.

Now Zheng Zhilong's power has encompassed most of Taiwan Island and various parts of East and Southeast Asia: Dadi, Feni, Champa, Luzon, Jingang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Bombay, Banten, and Jiugang , Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, Siam.

It is estimated that the military strength is as high as 20,000 including Han Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Austronesian people, African blacks and other ethnic groups. It has a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small warships, becoming the main force between East China and South China. The overlord of the ocean world.

Here, East China and South China refer to East China and South China.

Zheng Hongkui stood up immediately: "I will definitely convey the regent's high hopes to my brother and expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty."

Faced with such a prospect, Yu Minzhong's eyes also shone.

Lu Mou smiled and said to him: "Zheng Zhilong wants to conquer Japan, but what I ask of you is to directly occupy North Korea and incorporate North Korea into the territory of China. So you can only be my official in the Ming Dynasty, but you know the rules of the Ming Dynasty. , Those county kings on the grassland are empty and do not count. But if you become a prince in the Ming Dynasty system, you will only have dead kings with foreign surnames, and I don't want to die early. oh."

Then he said to Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong: "Are you going to be a king outside the Ming Dynasty, or are you going to be a prince within the Ming Dynasty?"

The two looked at each other and replied without hesitation: "I would rather be a ghost of the Ming Dynasty than a king from outside."

Lu Mou laughed loudly: "Okay, we have agreed. When you two complete your tasks and the Ming Dynasty is unified again, I will replace you with the duke."

(End of this chapter)