Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 294 The First Anti-Bandit Alliance ([-])

However, although Jiangxi was chaotic, Wu Sangui firmly occupied the land in northern Jiangxi. For a while, heroes from all directions rushed to vote, and Fang Guangchen was one of the best.

Fang Guangchen's father was Fang Yizao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites of the former Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizao was the governor of Liaodong with a bachelor. At that time, Wu Sangui worshiped Fang Yizao.Afterwards, Fang Yizao sent people to negotiate with the Tartars at the behest of Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War at the time, but later the leak was opposed by the ministers.Later, during the Jiashen Revolution, when Wu Sangui led his troops back to guard Shanhaiguan, Fang Guangchen also offered a plan to join the Tatars against Li, so Wu Sangui led the Tatars into the pass.

A few years later, when the world gradually leveled off, Fang Guangchen returned to his hometown and settled in She County, Huizhou Prefecture, Jiangnan Province.After returning to his hometown, Fang Guangchen devoted himself to studying, but he failed repeatedly, and he is not even a student.Originally in history, he should have been affected by the cancellation case in the 18th year of Shunzhi, which caused him to be deposed after the Chinese style, so he developed resentment towards the court, fled to Yunnan, and then entered Wu Sangui's curtain.

However, today's history has changed drastically because of Qiu Tianxing's meddling. When Qiu Tianxing led his troops to take down Jiangning, Fang Guangchen couldn't wait anymore.Fang Guangchen fled to Anqing Mansion when the looting of large households began to spread in Huizhou Mansion.Later, Fang Guangchen was lucky enough to live a stable life under Hong Chengchou's wing for two years, but when Hong Chengchou was ordered to return to the north, Fang Guangchen was in panic all day long.After thinking about it, Fang Guangchen crossed the river and defected to Wu Sangui in Jiujiang, and devoted himself to being Wu Sangui's staff, counselor and maintenance.Because of the previous relationship, Fang Guangchen quickly became Wu Sangui's confidant again.

In addition to Fang Guangchen, there is Xie Siqing, who is from Huizhou like Fang Guangchen, but his reputation in history is weaker than Fang Guangchen.

Xie Siqing joined the army when he was an official in the former Ming Dynasty to the cabinet and Minister of the Ministry of War. He broke his arm because he fell off a horse, so he had to resign and return to his hometown to recuperate.Later, both Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui sent people to invite them to become officials, but they were all rejected by Xie Siqing's poems.Xie Siqing wrote a poem to Hong Chengchou: "The bloody battle in Suiyang in the lonely city is bitter, and the scholar with his arms folded is in vain. The heaven and earth ghosts and gods are careless, and the monarch and his ministers are both boundless. Nanyang still has Uncle Liu Wen, and Bolang still has Zhang's ovary. That day, it was a dream for the king to be together. In the dream How long does it take to dream again?"

When rejecting Wu Sangui, Xie Siqing also wrote a poem saying: "Li Ling's heart has been in the world for a long time, and he has been lying on his salary for 30 years? After returning to Chu, why did the emperor Qin die again! The heart has long been changed by the beauty, and the history is hard to forgive the white-haired man. The sound of the eternal night horn should make me sleepless, and Nakan Sizi misses his relatives again."

It can be said that Xie Siqing's historical fame is due to his iron bones and a few poems.

But a person's character depends not only on himself but also on his environment.Just like Huang Zongxi was loyal to the emperor at the beginning and later said that the emperor was a great evil in the world, Xie Siqing was also affected by the general environment.

Because of the rebellion of the security group, Xie Siqing's hometown was also involved.Xie Siqing, who has been deeply involved in Confucianism all his life, thinks that the security regiment's behavior of shaving hair, abolishing famous religion, poisoning landlords and gentry, and elevating the status of craftsmen and merchants is simply inferior to beasts.Compared with those short-haired thieves, what Wu Sangui did was nothing, at least the Tartars also worshiped Confucius.Moreover, Wu Sangui has changed anyway now, and has re-enshrined Emperor Yongli as Zhengshuo, and was also named King of Zhou by Yongli, so Wu Sangui was even more appreciated by Xie Siqing.

When the Jiangxi camp of the Tartars withdrew to the north, Xie Siqing also fled to Jiangxi and joined Wu Sangui's tent.There are many people like Xie Siqing. Although the security group and Nanfang Haoxiong have the same species and different cultures, in the eyes of many people, the same species and different cultures are more serious than the same culture and different species.The sages said that when the barbarians enter China, China will become China, and when China enters the barbarians, the barbarians will live.Therefore, these people call the security regiments of the same clan short-haired, gangsters, and gangsters.

In addition to the gentry from Jiangnan Province who fled to Jiangxi, the local gentry in Jiangxi also enthusiastically joined Wu Sangui's tent.For example, Zhu Shihui, Zhang Zilie and others, but these people are not well-known and their political ability is not good.In order to show that he was thirsty for talents, Wu Sangui put them all under his account.

Because the heroes of the south conspired against the bandits, Wu Sangui secretly came to Jiujiang Mansion for the convenience of commanding the army.

At this moment, in a courtyard in the city of Jiujiang, Wu Sangui's confidants were sitting around, arguing with each other constantly.

Not long ago, Yongli's emissary, Wang Fuzhi, had just left.Because of the appreciation of Wang Fuzhi by Huang Qiyu, the chief assistant of Yongli, and Guo Zhiqi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Fuzhi is now a high-ranking censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a full fourth rank.The reason for this is that Wang Fuzhi is highly valued, second is the need to travel as an envoy, and third is that the Yongli court originally had few officials, and with Mu Tianbo's rectification of the court, a large number of official positions were vacated. It was also cheap for Wang Fuzhi, and after several promotions, he put on the official uniform of Yunyan Buzi.

When King Lu fled to Wenzhou Mansion in a panic, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan under his command proposed to make peace with Yongli. Although some ministers objected, King Lu still agreed.Zhang Huangyan's line "The prince and Gui Wang are brothers of the same surname. No matter who the country belongs to, they belong to the Zhu family. The sages have said that the brothers are fighting against their regrets outside the wall. Now the bandits are very aggressive. Now is the time to unite" touched King Lu.So the King of Lu sent Zhang Huangyan to Nanning to discuss the alliance with the Yongli court.If it weren't for the turbulent opposition of the ministers, the King of Lu would still want to take the title of supervisor.

It has been more than half a month since Zhang Huangyan came to Nanning.After learning of Zhang Huangyan's intention to come, the Yongli court also held a court meeting, and many of the ministers also advocated that the king of Lu should go to the title of supervisor of the country, and then return to live in the court.However, Mu Tianbo, who knew the pros and cons of it, did not accept it, but decided to form an equal alliance with King Lu.Now that Mu Tianbo is so powerful, the whole court is influenced by him, and Yongli naturally accepts him.

After discussing with Zhang Huangyan, Mu Tianbo sent envoys to Wu Sangui, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, Zhu Chenggong and others.Of course, Shang Kexi, Duke Mingde, Geng Jimao, Duke Zhongzhong, and Jin Li, Duke Mingyi, under the banner of King Lu, also welcomed the envoys of King Lu.Among them, the envoys of these forces are also running around separately, interweaving small circles together.The mountains and rivers are separated, the roads are far away, and the messengers go back and forth. For three full months, the southern heroes have not yet reached a unified consensus.This also gave the security regiment an opportunity to reorganize its troops.

Now, Wang Fuzhi, the envoy of Yongli, came to Jiujiang for the third time. He made a condition to Wu Sangui that if the bandits were wiped out, the west of Luzhou Prefecture would belong to Wu Sangui.

This also caused Wu Sangui's subordinates to argue endlessly.

(End of this chapter)