Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Xue Zhang looked at Fengming Mountain, didn't speak, just nodded.

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"Gege... I heard that you had a good relationship with Wu Yingxiong when you were in Beijing!"

Ten miles outside the city of Ganzhou, in a reception pavilion, Kong Sizhen, who was waiting for Liu Jinzhong's brigade to arrive, suddenly heard her husband say something strange.

She immediately turned her head to look at Sun Yanling who had aged a lot these days, and then looked left and right, and found that there were only the two of them in the reception pavilion, and the others were waiting outside the pavilion, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Efu, what are you talking about?" Anger suddenly appeared on Kong Sizhen's rather pretty face, "Those things have already passed, why are you bringing this up?"

Sun Yanling laughed a few times, "I, I just heard that you two are very close..."

Kong Sizhen snorted: "It's okay to tell you. Back then, Wu Yingxiong, Shang Zhixin, and Geng Jingzhong and I were married to Jinlan in the apple orchard... Wu Yingxiong was the oldest and was the eldest brother, Shang Zhixin was the second brother, and Geng Jingzhong was the third brother. It's the fourth sister. But it's not about how good the relationship between us is, it's just that the four feudal clans are getting closer to each other."

Sun Yanling smiled apologetically, "Gege, that's what I'm asking... Do you think we can consider contacting Wu Yingxiong?"

"What did you say?" Kong Sizhen's face suddenly turned cold, which shocked Sun Yanling.

"Gege..." Sun Yanling paused, "Don't you think the world has changed?"

Kong Sizhen remained silent.

Sun Yanling sighed, and said again: "We can't rely on the third prince Zhu, after all, Lao Taishan did ruin Chongzhen in the past. But Wu Sangui and the third prince Zhu are not of the same heart... Otherwise, he would not call himself the generalissimo of the president Now, if we take refuge in the past, the Wu family will have the world in the future, and they shouldn't treat us poorly."

Kong Sizhen remained silent, the biggest problem with this woman was probably her stubbornness!

Sun Yanling is quite speechless to his stubborn wife, but he can't leave his wife and vote for Wu Sangui by himself!Because he himself is worthless, Kong Sizhen is one of the four vassals, the lord of Dingfan, and he is considered an equal figure with Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin.How old is Sun Yanling?

Thinking of this, he said to Kong Sizhen again: "Gege, the Wu family may not have the whole world in the future, but I see that this third part of the world has been stabilized. Maybe we can help Wu Sangui go further and promote the Wu family and Aixinjueluo The family divides the world equally. In short, Zhu Ming cannot be allowed to recover again! Otherwise, Daqing, Wu Sangui and us will not end well..."

When Kong Sizhen heard this, his whole body trembled, his face turned livid, and he nodded and said: "Your words make sense! Whether it is the Qing Dynasty or Wu Sangui, we will always have our share of wealth. But Zhu Ming's side, is there no one?" The foothold of our Kong family! If the third prince Zhu wins the world, it will be impossible for us and my wife to be ordinary people!"

"Yes, yes, yes," Sun Yanling nodded again and again, "The third prince Zhu is our deadly enemy!"

Kong Sizhen paused, and then said: "After welcoming Liu Jinzhong, I will give the old master a note and tell her about saving Wu Shilin's life."

Sun Yanling smiled: "Gege, please write another letter to Wu Yingxiong... We have done a good deed to save lives, so we must leave our name!"

Chapter 254 With so many loyal ministers, the Qing Dynasty must win!

Kangxi 12 years, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Emperor Kangxi, who had finished the Shangyuan Festival and started to devote himself to work, had just finished his lunch and was sitting in the south study looking through the dozen or so very important memorials and title books that had been delivered one after another these days.

Part of it is an excerpt for pleading guilty... There are so many criminals!Before the New Year's Eve, Tu Hai, Sun Sike, Shi Lang, Sun Yanling and others had already committed crimes.

After the Chinese New Year, Geng Jingzhong, Liu Jinzhong, and a bunch of Hunan officials' apologies have arrived again!

There is nothing to say about the incrimination notes of those Hunan officials... It is normal for them to be unable to beat Wu Sangui.

Moreover, the speed at which they lost their land is acceptable. The four important places of Changsha, Yuezhou, Hengyang, and Changde are still in the hands of the imperial court, and it is estimated that they can keep them for a while.

And Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong's excerpts made Kangxi a little speechless. These two guys didn't know what medicine they took wrong before the New Year's Eve, but they had the courage to fight Chaozhou Prefecture!

That's a place like a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair, so they can beat it?As expected, it was really a disastrous defeat... defeated by a traitor named Yang Xiuqing.

This Yang Xiuqing's name, Kangxi, has been seen in "The Collection of Poems of Renzike Gongshi".

At that time, Emperor Kangxi knew that this was not easy. He did not expect that he was not only talented in literature, but also in military strategy. He was a talent with both civil and military skills!

It's a pity that no matter how powerful a talent is, he refuses to be used by the imperial court, and instead becomes the right assistant deputy military adviser of the rebel.

Kangxi sighed and thought to himself: "My father and I are not only wise rulers, but also benevolent rulers...Why are these talents unwilling to serve the court?"

In addition to the excerpts for pleading guilty, there are also several excerpts for sending good news to Emperor Kangxi.

For example, Fan Chengmo, the resigned governor of Fujian, reported good news in his notes——Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong were really defeated!

Moreover, Geng Jingzhong personally went into battle to fight the thieves, and returned with serious injuries...Fan Chengmo has already visited, absolutely true!

Since it is true that Geng Jingzhong was injured, this is good news, which shows that both Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong are loyal!If they had colluded with the third prince Zhu long ago, then the defeat in Chaozhou would have been a fraudulent defeat. How could it be possible that the damage was so great that Geng Jingzhong almost died in battle?

That Fan Chengmo was a loyal and shrewd servant, and it was impossible for that stupid Geng Jingzhong to hide it from him.

So Geng Jingzhong's loyalty can be determined!

As for Liu Jinzhong... Although many people said he was unreliable, Kangxi felt that this guy was still loyal.

Otherwise, when he was defeated in Chaozhou, he would quit and kill Geng Jingzhong in one fell swoop, and now the whole of Fujian is in chaos.

In addition to these "two loyalties", Emperor Kangxi discovered another loyal minister, that is, the Pingliang Admiral Wang Fuchen.

This Wang Fuchen used to work under Wu Sangui, and it is said that he was quite favored, so many people gave Kangxi secret papers, asking him to beware of Wang Fuchen.

And Wang Fuchen is now on the book - because he heard that the rebels have "bomb boxes" that can hurt people's lives, and he is very worried about the negligence of the gatekeeper of the Taihe Gate.Therefore, please resign from the admiral of Pingliang, and you will enter the imperial court as an imperial guard, guarding the Taihe Gate for the emperor, and protecting the safety of the emperor!

Look, what a minion this is!

How is it possible to be unfaithful?

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi did not reject Wang Dazhongnu's wishes, and immediately ordered Wang Fuchen to enter the court as soon as possible to become the "Minister of the Porter"... The important task of guarding the Taihe Gate was entrusted to him.

In addition to the "Three Loyalties" of Geng Jingzhong, Liu Jinzhong, and Wang Fuchen, Tu Hai, who has committed crimes and meritorious service, also gave Kangxi an example, recommending Shi Dazhong, who has repeatedly fought in the north, to be the admiral of the Yangtze River Navy!

This is really a defeat and a promotion!

Although they are all admirals, the admirals of the Yangtze River are much more important than the admirals of the Xijiang River!

But this official still has to be promoted by others!

Because Kangxi really didn't have any talents to run the navy... Most of the original navy commanders in Guangdong and Fujian were landlubbers from the Chen Han Army.

However, Emperor Kangxi was also a little worried that the Yangtze River Navy was handed over to Shi Lang!

You have to find a servant who is more loyal than Shi Lang!

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi immediately looked for it in the South Study Room.

Now the courtiers who are on duty in the South Study Room are divided into two parts, one part is the ministers, and if there is nothing important to leave, the senior scholars must come.Man Shangshu from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households also had to come.There is also a "Prince of Staff" Yue Le who also has the title of Minister of State Affairs and comes to the South Study Room every day.

The other part is "little ministers", led by Xiong Cilu, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, including Fu Honglie, Huang Zhisheng, Zhang Hongtian and so on.

Among them, Zhang Hongtian is the Daoist Qiling, and he is also an Hanlin now.Officially worshiped as the "Hanlin of Magic", he was specially responsible for helping Emperor Kangxi to do "magic experiments".

Emperor Kangxi was a scholarly emperor who excelled in arts and sciences, and he was different from the later Jia, Dao, Xian, and others... Just look at those few words!

And this Kangxi also likes to do math problems very much, he doesn't need to be forced by Bumubutai, it's purely for interest.Those who like to do questions are typical academic masters!

"Kang Xueba" has recently become obsessed with "spell experiments", holding a "spell bomb", which is the one picked up by Deng Zhong and given to Shi Lang, and he and Zhang Hongtian are playing with it.After taking it apart, I carefully smashed the sugar medicine in the hollow cylinder inside, and then experimented with small pieces... Soak it in cold water, hot water, wine, vinegar, and so on. Soak in lard and soak in soy sauce.

Anyway, it’s all kinds of bubbles. After soaking, heat them again, and then cool them after heating...and then filter them with gauze.

After tinkering with a "Spring Festival", "Kang Xueba" actually discovered a lot of "mysteries of magic".

He now knows that Zhu Heqi's sugar medicine does not add charcoal powder and sulfur... These two things are insoluble in water!

You put the sugar medicine in hot water and you'll know it once it blooms and is filtered.

In addition, Kangxi also knew that Zhu Heqi's sugar medicine was made by boiling sugar and adding fire nitrate!

Kangxi personally went to the dim sum room of the Imperial Dining Room to ask about this matter... This sugar is usually burnt, hydrated, or vinegared.If it is hydrated, it will become sugar water, so it will definitely not work.All that’s left is to melt with vinegar and heat.

Kangxi and Zhang Hongtian did an experiment together, but it seemed that vinegar would not work, and it was still too wet to burn.And the effect of melting with fire is the best, but it will catch fire if you are not careful!

When they were experimenting, they inadvertently lit the imperial dining room, and even surprised the Empress Dowager Bumbutai.

Afterwards, Emperor Kangxi felt that it was better to keep the "magic" away from the kitchen, so as to save the imperial dining room from being burned down.And now we are studying new gunpowder, what if we study new poisons in the future?It doesn't seem right to put it in the kitchen, does it?

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi set up a "Mage Hanlin" establishment under the Hanlin Academy, and let Zhang Zhenzhen also become an Hanlin.

Although the compilation problem has been solved and a special laboratory has been set up, the secrets of sugar medicines have not been completely solved—the sugar medicines made by Kangxi and Zhang Zhenzhen are easy to break, and they will break after a while when they are cold, and they will become damp when broken. It is easy to fail.

In addition, it is very dangerous to boil sugar medicine with open fire and it is easy to cause a fire.

The most troublesome thing for Kangxi is that the method of boiling sugar medicine is too simple, and it is not easy to keep a secret. If all the Han people in the world know it... the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers will not have much deterrent power!

However, compared with these troublesome things, the things that comfort Emperor Kangxi these days still account for the majority-the Qing Dynasty still has many loyal ministers!

As long as these loyal ministers are made good use of, the Qing Dynasty will surely win!

Thinking of this, Kangxi cast his eyes on the "stupid and loyal" slave Fu Honglie.

"Fu Honglie!"

"The servant is here!" Fu Honglie quickly knelt down to Kangxi.

Kangxi smiled and asked, "Fu Honglie, have you learned how to prepare the medicine for thunder?"

"Once you know it, you already know it. The servant learns from Zhang Zhenren every day, and he has already learned it."

Kangxi nodded and said, "Very good, are you from Nanchang Prefecture?"

"Exactly," Fu Honglie said, "The slave is indeed from Jinxian County, Nanchang Prefecture."

"Okay," Kangxi nodded and said, "Then you will go to Jiangxi and become the minister who supervises the Yangtze River Naval...in charge of two things, first, in charge of the navy and the supply of fire and thunder for the general Xingyuan in Nanjing. The two Huo Leizuo collars that were originally under Deng Zhong's management are now under your control. The lack of posts will be filled by people from the Baoyi Xiaoqi Camp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Second, in terms of the recruitment of the navy's soldiers, the navy's soldiers need to use the people by the riverside and lakeside. If you are from Jiangxi, you should know where to recruit.We must help Shi Lang recruit [-] strong men as soon as possible, preferably boatmen and fishermen. "

Chapter 255 Yue Le goes out to guard Jiangning!

"Slave Fu Honglie bows to the imperial decree!"

When Fu Honglie said these words, there were tears in his eyes, and he suppressed himself so as not to cry out.This emperor's grace is really too deep!

During this period of time, Fu Honglie's slave fortune really shot up like a rocket!Not only did he raise the flag, he became a slave of the Zhengbai Banner Han army, he also ordered the Hanlin, and became a slave in the Hanlin Academy, and now he has appointed a minister to supervise the Yangtze River Navy... Although this minister is not a permanent official, so There is no grade.

But this real power is really great!

Thinking of this, Fu Honglie could only kowtow heavily to Emperor Kangxi in salute, and then stepped aside.

"Prince An." Kangxi saw him retreat, and immediately called Prince An again.

"The slave is here." Prince An Yue Le immediately left the class, and then knelt down to Emperor Kangxi.

"Prince An, you are a veteran general who followed Prince Su to fight against the Khalkha Mongolia. You can be called the famous general of the dynasty."

As soon as Kangxi came up, he praised Yue Le fiercely, which moved Yue Le very much. At the same time, he also knew that it was time for him to act, so he quickly kowtowed and said: "The emperor has won the award, how dare Yue Le be so famous. The emperor has orders, slave Even if you are heartbroken, you will not fail the grace of the Holy Spirit!"

Kangxi nodded, feeling extremely satisfied with the uncle's humility and courage in doing things.

"Prince An," Kangxi said, "now Wu Sangui has rebelled... and the troops are pointing directly at the Yangtze River! The imperial court must put the destruction of Wu as the top priority, and the battlefield has also shifted from Lingnan to the Yangtze River Basin and Sichuan-Shaanxi area. In your opinion , where should the court deploy its defenses, where should it attack, and where should it temporarily abandon?"

"If you go back to the emperor, in the humble opinion of a slave, although Wu Sangui has great influence, but his stamina is limited, and he is old and has lost his vigor, so it is difficult to succeed." Prince An Yue Le thought about his choice of words, and said, "Although the imperial court has set the order of Wu first and then Zhu, it cannot take lightly the false third prince Zhu of Fujian, Guangdong... Please don't forget the pirate Zheng Yanping's northern crime in the 16th year of Shunzhi! If it's not Zheng Yanping but Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe, Yang Xiuqing and his ilk, Jiangning will definitely change hands!"

"Oh, Uncle Huang means that Jiang Ning is the first point that the imperial court must defend?"

"Your majesty is wise!" Prince An Yue Le said, "If there is a loss in Jiangning... the imperial court will lose the land of wealth in the southeast. If there is no wealth in the southeast, what will Shi Lang and Fu Honglie use to manage the navy and guard the Yangtze River? The naval division of the third prince Zhu attacked from the east, and the land division of Wu Sangui attacked from the west. Under the enemy's back, how could Tuhai hold on in Wuchang and Jiujiang? If the false third grandson of Zhu then used Jiangning as his base, sailed to the sea, and invaded Liaodong in the north, we Is there still time to return home?"

Ginger is really old and spicy!

After all, Yue Le is an old man who has experienced Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition to Nanjing, and he knows the panic and fear in Beijing... To be honest, when Li Dingguo fell to the king, everyone was not so scared!

Because no matter how big Li Dingguo's troubles are, as long as he can't change a navy that can cross the Yangtze River, he will definitely stop at Yuezhou, and he won't even be able to reach Wuchang.

And once Zheng Chenggong takes Nanjing, how difficult will it be to turn his pirates into Yangtze River Navy?

If Jiangnan has all the population and wealth, and the navy goes north again to land in Shandong, Liaodong, and North Korea, what is the difficulty?

At that time, Zheng Chenggong's army will approach Shanhaiguan, and the fun will be too great.

So at that time, Emperor Shunzhi spread out the map and took a look, my good guy, that is really a sea of ​​thousands of miles, with wind leaking everywhere... The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end!

This frightened Emperor Shunzhi!

Fortunately, Zheng Chenggong's land battle really broke down, and the Qing Dynasty escaped.

But this time Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe, and Yang Xiuqing's land combat skills are very high!

Emperor Kangxi nodded again and again, "It's still the emperor's uncle who is thoughtful! Nanjing must be guarded by important officials!"

"Your Majesty," Yue Le said again, "not only Jiangning, Songjiang, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Taicang, Changzhou, but also Haimen Hall, Tongzhou, and Yangzhou in Jiangbei must be strictly guarded! Never let the rebels in the mouth of the Yangtze River After landing step by step to the west to fight over.

In addition, Zhejiang also needs to fortify with heavy troops, and entrust capable officials with both civil and military skills to preside over the overall situation. "

Kangxi pondered and asked: "Prince An, who do you think can guard Jiangning?"

Prince An Yue Le immediately kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi: "Your Majesty, I recommend myself to go to Jiangning to take care of this important place for the survival of the country!"

Kangxi felt a little surprised, and was stunned for a moment and said: "Uncle Huang thinks that there is a high possibility that Zhu San and his son will attack from the sea?"

Yue Ledao: "Your Majesty clearly learned that the father and son of the false third Prince Zhu originated in Guangdong and are located in a corner of Tiannan, which is extremely unfavorable for them to compete for the world. And they played the banner of Chongzhen's third son, so it is impossible to favor Tiannan They are a vassal king. Therefore, the slaves reckon that their father and son will definitely forge ahead! There are only two ways to make progress from Guangdong, one is through Huguang, Jiangxi, and the Yangtze River in the north; the other is through the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang to the southeast.

If the three fathers and sons of Zhu go to Huguang and Jiangxi to the north, they will either conflict with Wu Sangui and benefit the court, or they will fight fiercely with the court's soldiers and horses. place.So what is the way out for Zhu San and his son?