Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 344

Dai Zhijun traveled all the way and found Chen Zilong on Taihu Lake. After getting the letter, he went out to Zhoushan to meet His Royal Highness King Lu.

The Tiandihui and the Taihu Rebels are both supporters of the Tang Dynasty, but in the south of the Yangtze River and eastern Zhejiang, the influence of the King of Lu is actually far stronger than that of the Longwu court.

This has nothing to do with other things, but the geography determines this point. After all, King Lu is on the coast of eastern Zhejiang, while the Longwu court is far away in Fujian.

For the anti-Qing forces in the south of the Yangtze River, it is much easier to contact Lu Wang than to contact Longwu, and the transmission of news will shorten a lot of time, so that the opportunity will not be delayed.

From this point of view, the dispute between Tang and Lu has indeed severely consumed the anti-Qing forces, making it impossible for the two factions to cooperate effectively and delaying many opportunities for combat.

With the great changes in Central Fujian this time, even the Tiandihui was not clear about the situation of the Longwu court. Rumors abounded that Chen Zilong could no longer contact the court, so he had no choice but to contact the Tiandihui and Lu Fan.

Chen Zilong did not have the right to appoint an official Xu Jue, nor could he contact the court, and there was too little time, and what he said naturally could not make Wu Shengzhao abandon his scruples, so he could only let Dai Zhijun go to Zhoushan to seek an official for Wu Shengzhao.

Lu Fan and Long Wu, if they were born in peace, could be regarded as wise kings, but they were born in the same era and became rivals.

Since eastern Zhejiang was cleared by the Qing army, Lu Fan left the sea, went south to Longwu Buna, Fujian, and returned to Zhoushan by boat.

At this time, Zhang Mingzhen, a general under the King of Lu, lost no time in proposing the "Longzhong Opposition" to encourage the King of Lu to gain confidence.

Zhang Mingzhen advised that based on the sea and based on Zhoushan, he would use the name and prestige of "supervising the country" to recruit talents, first attack the coast as the foundation, and at the same time properly handle the relationship with overseas countries, so as to win North Korea and Japan to send troops to help. When facing the Longwu court, learn from the previous lessons, no longer adopt a tit-for-tat policy, and let the Longwu regime hold back the Qing army as much as possible.

In this way, three parts of the world can be formed, making the Qing court, the Longwu regime and the Lu Jianguo a tripartite force. When the south of the Yangtze River is empty, use elite troops to attack Nanjing, and the revival of the Ming Dynasty is expected.

Zhang Mingzhen's remonstrance was appreciated by the King of Lu. In fact, the collapse of eastern Zhejiang and the change in central Fujian had already caused Longwu and the King of Lu to suffer the bitter fruit of the dispute over the same surname.

Just like the Hongguang court was destroyed because of the national policy of "unity with the captives and suppress the bandits". Inevitability to reflect, and the ministers around him who advocated fighting with Longwu either died in battle or surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which made his thinking change accordingly, tending to be the same as Longwu's forces.

At this time, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan learned of Tiandihui's plan to instigate Wu Shengzhao's rebellion, and join forces with Zhoushan to capture Suzhou and Hangzhou to contain Hong Chengchou's plan. They couldn't help feeling that this was a rare opportunity.

As long as they have the support of Wu Shengzhao and the Taihu Rebels, they can easily take the Su and Song areas. At that time, whether they go south to attack Hangzhou or go west to Nanjing, it is possible. struggle.

Therefore, the king of Lu quickly agreed to Dai Zhijun's request, and immediately asked Zhang Mingzhen to cast a "Seal of General Pingjiang" with silver, and then sealed Wu Shengzhao as Wu Bo and the imperial edict of General Pingjiang, and asked Dai Zhijun to take it back to Songjiang. Give it to Wu Shengzhao to settle his mind.

In addition, the two sides also agreed on a time, on August [-]th, the Zhoushan government army will arrive in Wusong, and cooperate with Wu Shengzhao and Chen Zilong internally and externally to help restore the Ming Dynasty.

After the defeat in Eastern Zhejiang, King Lu's power was severely damaged, but he never stopped fighting for Ming restoration. After Dai Zhijun left Zhoushan, Ningbo's Ming restoration forces also came to Zhoushan. Brewing.

The secret connection of the Fuming forces in the south of the Yangtze River quickly aroused the vigilance of the sticky poles, and unknowingly strengthened the inspections in various places, and the search by the Qing soldiers became more and more strict. all become difficult.

On August 20th, Xie Yaowen, an anti-Qing patriot, was arrested by sticky poles for his indiscriminate behavior. He copied more than 34 documents, lists, and letters, implicating Chongzhen in three years. Waiting for [-] scholars, they were beheaded by the Qing court regardless of their leaders.

In all the prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, the patrols of the Qing soldiers have been strengthened. Teams of Qing soldiers and yamen servants in the city are patrolling the streets, making the city full of tension.

When the time came to August [-]th, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, the tense atmosphere eased, and some gentry and common people who bought festival items appeared on the street.

The pastries of the Jiangnan generation are very famous. As the Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival, every household has to eat moon cakes. In the shops in the city, many people have already bought moon cakes for the festival.

At this time, a team of Qing soldiers also patrolled in front of the shop, and the owner of the shop immediately came out and gave a box to each Qing soldier with a smile, and the team of Qing soldiers turned around and left with a smile.

In Ningbo city, Wang Jiaqin came back from the street, went back to the study, closed the doors and windows, took out the moon cakes he bought from the shop, he opened them lightly, and saw a small white silk leaking out of the moon cakes.

His heart moved immediately, and he opened it to look, and saw that it was written in small letters: "August [-]th."

Wang Jiaqin raised his eyebrows slightly, and he already understood that in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, Liu Bowen sent the message of killing Tartars to the peasants through moon cakes, and a large-scale anti-Yuan uprising broke out.

Killing Tartars on August [-]th, or killing Tartars on the full moon, has become a folk story.

Recently, there has been a lot of rumors, and Wang Jiaqin couldn't contact Huaxia and others at all. When he saw the words "August [-]th", he understood what it meant by scriptures.

This is Huaxia sending a message to the people who have recovered their eyesight in the city. Of course, not everyone can get the mooncake with the note, only the core personnel can get it.

After reading the note, Wang Jiaqin stuffed it into the moon cake, wrapped it up again, called a reliable servant, picked out a few more items, added the moon cake, and asked the servant to send it to the king outside the city. In the hands of the clan chief.

On August [-]th, the moon and stars were thin, and the city gate of Ningbo was already closed, but nearly ten thousand people with hoes and poles slowly gathered outside the city. When the county magistrate reported, he saw a fire ignited in the direction of the county government, and there was an immediate commotion inside and outside the entire city.

At the same time, in Songjiang City, Wu Shengzhao took advantage of the opportunity of August [-]th to invite the Qing government’s Haiphong to know Yang Zhiyi, promote the official Chonglang, and come to the admiral’s office to enjoy the moon. Li Kui, the deputy general, immediately led the officers and soldiers to swarm up, hacked Yang and Fang to death on the spot, and ordered the civil and military officials to cut their braids and fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Three days later, in the Governor's Office of Jiangning City, Hong Chengchou was processing documents to allocate food and materials to support Tan Tai's march into Jiangxi.

Hou Fangyu came to Hong Chengchou's office with a few reports in his hand. He paused for a moment, and then shouted in a pretense of panic: "Governor, something is wrong~ something is wrong~", while Quickly ran into the office room.

In the room, Hong Chengchou and all the subordinates couldn't help looking at him, and Hong Chengchou asked with reproach, "Why are you so flustered?"

Hou Fangyu seemed shocked and said: "Governor, Wu Shengzhao rebelled and joined forces with Chen Zilong to attack Suzhou. The Ming Army Navy from Zhoushan entered the front line of Wusong. In addition, in eastern Zhejiang, more than ten counties including Ningbo, Taizhou, and Jinhua rebelled at the same time. The land of Wudong, It’s not owned by the Qing Dynasty~”

(Thanks to vimpire for the monthly pass, and Yuedong Woxin for the reward, for pushing the book "Yaoyuezhu")
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