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Fang Guangchen said with a smile: "You can take the agreement signed by Kangxi and go to Jiugong Mountain to divide the territory with Zhu San Taisun... Let's take all of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, and most of Hunan, and they will take all of Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi, and a part of Hunan." At the same time, Guangxi professed its vassal status to both of them, which was regarded as a buffer.
Then you ask the third prince Zhu to be the emperor first and restore the Ming Dynasty.In this way, even if you have completed Chongzhen's last order, and then become the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it will be justifiable.At the same time, you can also stipulate in the peace treaty with the Zhu family that the two families cannot attack each other until the Tartars are expelled and China is restored. "
He is treating the "Chongzhen Legacy" as a contract to restore Daming Guozuo!
The third prince Zhu took all of Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi, and part of Hunan, and then became emperor in Guangzhou. Wouldn't the Ming Dynasty be restored?
As soon as Ming Guozuo was restored, the "Chongzhen Legacy" was completed.The righteousness of Wu Sangui and Daming's monarchs and ministers can be considered complete.
The matter of killing Yongli... From the perspective of feudal righteousness, it can also be covered up.
Wu Sangui twirled his beard and pondered for a while, "Then the old man took all of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, and most of Hunan, and then became the emperor himself..."
Fang Guangchen said with a smile: "President, with so many of us, we have taken such a big risk, carried such a big notoriety, and have been lurking in the Qing camp for more than 20 years and almost 30 years. He didn't give him a penny of salary from the Ming Dynasty. Shouldn't we take Sichuan , Yunnan, Guizhou, all of Hubei and most of Hunan?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Wu Sangui nodded again and again, "But Mrs. Zhu is willing to make this agreement with us?"
Fang Guangchen smiled: "Don't the President think that the Third Prince Zhu who looks like Guan Gong looks nothing like Emperor Chongzhen and Emperor Chongzhen's eldest son?"
"That's right!" Wu Sangui was startled, then turned to look at Liu Xuanchu, "Xuanchu, who are they? Have you found out?"
Liu Xuanchu said: "President, according to my secret visits, I found that the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu are indeed the eldest sons of the Ming Dynasty... Both of them have the official title of Fengguo lieutenant, and the third prince Zhu's lieutenant Fengguo was conferred by Emperor Longwu. , Lieutenant Fengguo, the grandson of the third grandson of Zhu, was conferred by the last Tang king and Lu Jian. If the minister guessed correctly, they should be the eldest sons of the Tang king of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the foundation of the court of the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu is mainly a group of embers of the Tang Palace plus the local tyrants and pirates in Chaozhou, plus people from the Yanping Palace.Only one old eunuch Pang was regarded as a survivor of the Chongzhen Dynasty.However, this old eunuch had previously followed Longwu, Shaowu and the last Tang king, so he was considered a big brother of the Tang king.
Moreover, he was not actually an eunuch in the court of the third prince Zhu, but a founding hero.The Ming court in Guangzhou is actually a brand-new court with a Ming signboard, that is, Ji Han, Liu Song and others, so it won't be so roundabout. "
"That's good!" Wu Sangui said with a smile, "Then let's figure it out, how should we make an appointment with Kangxi?"
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A hardcover unequal treaty was quickly brought back to Xiangyang Mansion by Hong Shiming, and placed in front of the imperial case of Emperor Kangxi, who had long been eager to see through.
Kangxi was in a hurry!
Because Zhu Hexi is making great progress on the ground in Jiangxi these days!
As the news of Kangxi's public beheading spread all over Jiangxi, all the Qing troops and officials in Jiangxi lost their fighting spirit. It was running and surrendering...but it was running or surrendering, and it made no difference to Kangxi. big.Because except for the bannermen and the coat slaves of the upper three banners, they would go to Wuchang Mansion, Huangzhou Mansion, and Anqing Mansion, which are still under the firm control of the Qing Dynasty.If the others wanted to run, they would run towards Wu Sangui!
This Qing Dynasty, in their eyes, is just two words - it's over!
However, for Kangxi, losing all of Jiangxi's territory is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that after losing the Jiujiang Mansion in Jiangxi, the Yangtze River waterway will be blocked by Zhu Hexi.At that time, it will be difficult for Kangxi to go to the south of the Yangtze River.
If you can't go to Jiangnan, Kangxi can't control the money bag.And without money, he, the emperor, will not be able to continue his job... These days, he has to spend ten hours a day writing court letters to those ministers outside Xiangyang, and he does not "complete" [-] words a day I don't sleep at all.
Moreover, the tone of these court letters was extremely gentle, and they praised the ministers below, asked for their care, and appointed officials to make wishes. For Yue Le, Chang Ning, Mo Luo, Tu Hai, Shi Lang, Zhuobutai, Ba People like Hai who have soldiers in their hands have to flatter them.If you change the title and end of the court letter to "kowtow to welcome the master Shengan" and "slave XX", you can send it back to Kangxi.
But... these days, Kangxi didn't receive many invitations to ask for peace. The most frightening thing was that Yue Le and Chang Ning didn't even arrive!
One of these two guys controls Jiangning, the other holds Beijing, and they are both princes of the Qing Dynasty. What are they thinking?Do you want to be emperor?
So when Kangxi heard that Hong Shiming and Wang Shirong were back today, he was so excited that he almost went out to greet him.In the end, although he held back, he asked Mi Sihan to bring them here quickly.
Now that I saw the "text of the treaty" with yellow silk as the cover, I was so excited that I almost shed tears...
Chapter 326 Kangxi didn't cry, it was Wu Sangui's trick!
Kangxi really cried!
I didn't cry happily when I saw the unequal treaty, but I cried because I was "pissed" by the content of the treaty.
What good conditions can there be in an unequal treaty?Of course they are all extremely harsh.Oh, at least in the eyes of the majority of slaves who love the Qing Dynasty, that is extremely harsh.So Kangxi read the text of the treaty in front of the ministers, and he was ashamed with tears on the spot.
"Well, this Wu Sangui is too shameful... He actually wants me to admit that Daqing betrayed him, that Daqing didn't abide by the agreement of using his teacher to help suppress him, and forced him to shave his head and surrender to Qing Dynasty! I am the king of the world! Exactly, it is rare in all dynasties, if I sign this contract, don’t I think that the Qing Dynasty broke the contract and seized the country?”
There is a reason why both Kangxi and Wu Sangui struggled with this matter, because this treaty is not a "peace treaty" or an "armistice treaty", but an agreement to exchange prisoners and territories.
Wu Sangui offered the withdrawal of the Qing army and the release of the captured [-] soldiers of the Eight Banners and thousands of slaves of the Upper Three Banners in exchange for the release of Wu Shilin by Emperor Kangxi, and the peaceful transfer of the territory of Xiangyang, Hanyang, and Wuchang, as well as the territory All the people, properties, and even Emperor Kangxi's army were not allowed to plunder the people, and a certain amount of food had to be left for Wu Sangui's army.
And after this exchange is completed, the war between Wu Sangui and the Qing Dynasty has to continue!
For such a treaty, Kangxi had to admit that "the Qing broke the contract and seized the country" was indeed a big loss... because once Kangxi admitted the matter of "breaking the contract and seizing the country", it would be tantamount to handing over the feudal principles to Wu Sangui.
Those two, three, four, five, six ministers with heavy soldiers in their hands would turn their backs and surrender to Wu Sangui and the third prince Zhu, then they would be justified.
It's not that they are shameless and want to be ministers, but that they were too young to know how cunning the Tartars are, and they were deceived into innocence by the Tartars.
Of course, it was Daqing who lost money, not Kangxi himself!
Kangxi understood this truth, and of course the ministers under him also understood it, so they all knelt down to Kangxi, and then talked about it, kneeling to find the steps for the "Holy Lord of Hemp Yan".
"Your Majesty, you have to take care! Your body is the foundation of my Qing Dynasty!"
"Your majesty, please don't let Wu Sangui, that rebellious minister, get mad... Otherwise, you will really fall into the hands of Wu Sangui, Zhu Heqi and others."
"Your Majesty... if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. As long as you can go to Jiangning and have the money from Jiangnan, are you afraid that you will not be able to regroup?"
"Your Majesty, don't shed tears, it is Wu Sangui who should shed tears now, because he has already fallen into the scheme of the Emperor!"
The one who said Wu Sangui was tricked, of course, is Kang Mazi who is the most cunning, and used Fuquan's head to use Zhou Peigong, a "low imitation of Zhou Gongjin" who "hasn't".
Of course, Kangxi still trusted Zhou Peigong.Because Zhou Peigong's "plan to cede land and seek peace" has succeeded!
So now that he heard that there was another plan, of course he stopped crying, but looked at Zhou Peigong with burning eyes, full of anticipation!
"Your Majesty," Zhou Peigong pouted, "what is Wu Sangui's intention in signing this contract with us? Isn't that known to the passers-by? He wants you, Your Majesty, to go to Jiangnan, use Jiangnan's money to regroup, and fight with the Zhu family again." Ah! The wishful thinking is to make us and the Zhu family both lose, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman. But how could things be as good as he thought?
Now that we occupy Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion, we actually separate Wu Sangui and Zhu's territory.Although both of them border on Hunan and Jiangxi.But those places have inconvenient transportation and are not important places for both sides to contend for.
Now Wu Sangui's focus is on Hubei, and it is clear that he wants to take the land of fish and rice in Jianghan as his home, and at the same time use the Great Plains around Dongting Lake as his backyard.Only in this way can there be food, drink and population, and the foundation of the country.Changsha and Hengzhou are nothing but courtyard walls.It is not fatal to be snatched by Zhu Heqi, and it is not very meaningful for Zhu Heqi to snatch these two mansions.
In the same way, the roots of the Zhu family are Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing. These sites are all located in a remote corner, and Wu Sangui can't afford to grab them now.And it's not interesting to go to Jiangxi from places like Yuanzhou and Ji'an...the road is not easy to walk, and you won't be able to eat such big meat as Nanchang, Jiujiang, and Raozhou all at once.
But once we hand over both Wuchang and Hanyang to Wu Sangui, the situation between the Wu and Zhu families will change drastically.After Wu Sangui got Wuchang and Hanyang, Bingfeng pointed directly at Jiujiang Mansion.And once he takes Jiujiang, the Zhu family will have no way to get their hands on the Yangtze River.Although it is still possible to go north by sea, sea boats and river boats are not the same thing after all, and sea boats entering the river are not very useful.
Moreover, they may have taken advantage of Wu Sangui's advantage by going north by sea, stealing Jiangning City while we and the Zhu family were both in harm's way!
Now that Wu Sangui is old and Wu Yingxiong lacks talent, at most he is a master of success.If Wu Sangui sits on three points, the world in the future will either belong to the Qing Dynasty again, or the situation of the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty will appear.At that time, the Wu family will be at a dead end.
Therefore, the gains and losses of Jiujiang are directly related to the survival of the Wu and Zhu families..."
Zhou Peigong's remarks have already "crossed the line" a bit. He assumed that Kangxi could not defeat Wu Sangui who went down the river or Zhu Hechi who marched in two directions.
"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi slapped the table, "That's great!" He frowned again, "But... But if Wu Sangui wants to go north from Xiangyang and go straight to the capital, the gains and losses of Jiujiang will not matter. ?”
Kangxi is more "dare to think" than Zhou Peigong, he has already thought of what the Qing Dynasty will end!
The big guy didn't dare to answer this topic, and the scene became a little cold for a while.
"Your Majesty," Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming interrupted suddenly, "I saw Kong Sizhen in Wu Yingxiong's mansion."
Kangxi didn't understand what Hong Shiming meant, and asked, "Have you seen Sun Yanling?"
"I didn't see it," Hong Shiming said, "I heard people say that Sun Yanling, under the care of Wu Yingxiong, got a job as the governor of Hunan, and happily went to Changsha to take up his post."
"Then Sun Yanling really surrendered to Wu Sangui?" Kangxi asked while thinking, "Could it be that I really wronged Geng Jingzhong?"
"It should be," Hong Shiming said, "This servant also finds it unbelievable. His wife is so generous with Wu Yingxiong. He also has the face to surrender to Wu, and he is not afraid of others pointing at him behind his back."
"Then Kong Sizhen..." Kangxi remembered at this moment, Kong Sizhen was sent by his grandmother to Wu Sangui, "where is she now?"
"Of course she is from Wu Yingxiong's side," Hong Shiming replied, "but as the empress dowager said, the Wu family and the Qing Dynasty can't coexist... The servant suggested that the emperor write a book, and share all the principles with Kong Sizhen. Make it clear, when the servant and Wang Shirong return to Jingzhou, they will quietly pass this letter to Kong Sizhen. With her to sow discord, the Wu and Zhu families will turn their heads sooner or later!"
"Okay!" Kangxi nodded and said with a smile, "I will ask Wu Shilin to take this letter to Kong Sizhen... and prepare her a generous gift, which is a congratulatory gift from me to her and Wu Yingxiong. Kong Sizhen is the goddaughter of the Empress Dowager, It's my dry aunt, she and Wu Yingxiong are both talented and beautiful, so we should congratulate on this matter!"
"Emperor Shengming!"
Hong Shiming really thought that Emperor Kangxi was a wise man—as long as he needed it, being an aunt or being a mistress could be an excuse for him to give gifts!
This is the style that a king in troubled times should have!
Kangxi then asked Zhou Peigong again: "Pei Gong, how about I leave for Wuchang tomorrow?"
"I'm afraid it's too late!" Zhou Peigong's answer made Kangxi's heart tremble.
"Why...why is it too late?" Kangxi asked, "Didn't Zhu and Qi reach Jiujiang Mansion yet?"
Zhou Pei said: "Your Majesty, the Jiangxi Military News that we learned about is a few days late... I am worried, he has already entered Jiujiang Mansion!"
"Then, what should I do?"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, this servant still has a solution." Zhou Peigong was quite calm.
"Hurry up..." How could Kangxi not be in a hurry?
"Your Majesty," Zhou Pei said, "this servant suggests that you immediately order Zhuobutai, Tuhai, and Shi Lang to lead their troops to the south of the Yangtze River. Zhu and Qi must have sent espionage agents to Wuchang, and they may have heard about it." The secret agreement between you and Wu Sangui. After you arrive in Wuchang, you will definitely send troops to Jiujiang...so the soldiers from Wuchang and Hanyang must withdraw immediately. At the same time, let the news to Zhu Heqi, and see if he will rob Wuchang with Wu Sangui?"
"Then what should I do?" Kangxi asked with a pockmarked face.
"Your Majesty can go to Anqing by land," Zhou Pei said fairly, "it's best to leave today... The matter of exchanging and fulfilling the contract with Wu Sangui can be handed over to a competent minister."
Chapter 327 Old thief Wu is old after all!
When Hong Shiming, Wang Shirong, and Wu Shilin, the grandson of Wu Sangui, brought congratulatory gifts from Emperor Kangxi to Wu Yingxiong and Kong Sizhen, an adulterer and adulterer, they also held the "Treaty of Jingxiang and Wu of the Qing Dynasty" that had just used the seal of the "Emperor's Treasure" of the Qing Dynasty. When the text arrived in Jingzhou City again.This city, which is about to become the capital of a country, is immersed in joy.
Because just two days ago, the "Master Wu" reported the good news of recovering the three cities of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou, so Lubu flew quickly and reported to Jingzhou Fucheng.
For the people of Jingzhou City, the recovery of the three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou not only means that they are a little closer to the day when they become the people of the capital, but also means that the possibility of them being massacred by the Manchurian soldiers is very small.
Now Jingzhou has the dangerous Jingmen in the north, the Han River and the Yangtze River in the east, and the solidity of Wuchang and Hanyang.As for the west and south sides, they are both Wu Sangui's territories, so don't worry.
Moreover, the people of Jingzhou are not worried about the old Zhu's family from Guangdong and Jiangxi traveling all the way to call, because both Zhu and Wu know the truth that the rare is the most precious.Only the Qing Dynasty didn't care... If Wu Sangui hadn't detained more than 1 Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers and was about to hack them to death at any time, the Qing Heavenly Soldiers would have slaughtered Wuchang, Hanyang, and Xiangyang before withdrawing.
This incident also made Jingzhou people fully understand who is the real "Qing Dynasty person"!
And Wu Sangui also took the opportunity to come up with some measures to buy people's hearts, such as exempting the Chongzhen 46-year-old arrears, and announced that starting from next year, the equalization of land and taxes will be implemented.
The specific measures are that in addition to the Xunzhuang farmland (to be distributed to the meritorious soldiers of the Wu family army) taken from the puppet officials' counterproductive, green camp reclamation fields and wasteland, the Huguang area ruled by the Wu family will start counting the land and population from next year.After the inventory is completed, the old Wu's family will be the same as the old Zhu's family in Guangdong. First, the land will be equalized, and then the tax will be equalized.
However, Wu Sangui's land equalization will adopt the method of "subsidize less and not return more"...that is, set a lower limit for land equalization, and Wu Sangui will make up for what is not reached, and there is no need to hand over the land if it exceeds it!
This Juntian is really a joy for everyone!
Of course, the land that Wu Sangui used to supply the poor and lower-middle peasants is a bit far away...all in Chongqing and Chengdu!
To farm there, one must first learn the skill of shooting tigers with muskets, and organize an armed immigration group, with hundreds or thousands of people carrying muskets on their backs to migrate there collectively.Fortunately, Wu Sangui will properly arrange these things, and now he is not afraid of rebellion by the armed Han people.
In the history that Wu Sangui knew, under the rule of the Han court, the common people of the Han people would generally rise up when the conflict between people and land was extremely intensified, when the land was highly concentrated, or when they met a monarch who was really messing around.Now there are more tigers than people in Sichuan, and there is plenty of land, what kind of rebellion do you want to make?
In addition, the old Wu family will also open a course to obtain scholars starting next year, and scholars from Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan and Guizhou can come to take the exam and become officials.
In fact, allocating land, developing frontiers, encouraging production, etc., are the most common measures used by the founding emperors. New officials have to be fired three times when they take office, let alone a founding monarch?
Where can it be like the Qing Dynasty? After the founding of the country, it was such as "enclosing land, shaving hair, occupying houses, massacring cities, throwing money, escaping people, moving borders along the coast, and wicker side walls" to actively reduce population, reduce production, and clear the frontier. measures?
Moreover, the Qing Dynasty was extremely efficient in doing this kind of thing, and it was extremely ruthless!
With the comparison of the Qing Dynasty, as long as others come to power, as long as they are normal, they will be a wise king if they mess around casually!
Now that the extremely ruthless Qing Dynasty has been beaten away, and Huguang is under the governance of Wu Mingjun again, the good days of the common people are coming soon, can you not be happy?Don't the common people of the Han people just want a wise king who can let them live a peaceful life for a few years?
So Hong Shiming, who accompanied Wu Shilin into Jingzhou City, was really upset at the moment!
Everyone on the street he saw through the small curtain of the carriage had a smile on his face... Shouldn't the faces of these ordinary people be numb and painful?What happened to Hubei people?Why are you so happy?Don't they know that Wu Sangui is a bad guy down to the bone?
These ordinary people are too easy to be deceived!
Just as he was thinking of this, the carriage stopped suddenly. Hong Shiming poked his head out of the carriage to look forward, and asked Ma Bao, the cavalry chief of the Wu family army who was accompanying him, "Where have you been? Have you arrived at the Presidential Palace?"
"It's almost here," Ma Bao said with a smile, "Mr. Hong, hide your braids, take off your official hat, wear this hat... and take off your official robe."
"You, what do you mean?" Hong Shiming looked at Ma Bao nervously, thinking that Ma Bao was going to force him to join Wu Sangui as a founding hero.Although he was looking forward to it in his heart, the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty still had to pretend.Moreover, he was a courtier of the Qing Dynasty when he was an official, and he had never been a second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth minister. He is not familiar with such things as surrender!
"It's not interesting... Do you see those people outside the presidential palace in front?" Ma Bao raised his finger and pointed to the front as he spoke.
Hong Shiming turned his head and looked over, and saw that the square outside the presidential palace was crowded with people, all of whom were wearing common people's clothes, and it seemed that some people were chanting slogans feebly.
He listened carefully, and it turned out to be: "Long live the President, the President is the emperor..."
Ma Bao said with a smile: "The people of Jingzhou are devoted to the President and oppose the Qing Dynasty that Mr. Hong is loyal to. Now because they come outside the Presidential Palace to persuade them to enter and block the road, we have no choice but to dismount and walk... If the people see your attire , I might get beaten!"
It turned out that it was not persuasion.
Hong Shiming was afraid of being beaten, so he had to follow Ma Bao's wishes, changed into a green coat and hat, and hid his braids, and then followed Ma Bao to detour, passing a construction site that was just circled on the right side of the Presidential Palace and was leveling the ground. Only then did he enter the presidential palace through the side door.
When passing by the construction site, Hong Shiming also inquired with Ma Bao.Ma Bao told him that a palace was being built here—it was Wu Sangui's palace!
The current Presidential Palace is the original Huiwang Palace, which was once set on fire by Zhang Xianzhong.Later, it became the barracks of the Qing army and was repaired, but it was still a bit dilapidated.After Wu Sangui arrived, he asked people to carry out renovations inside and out. The project is still very large and has not yet been completed.
While walking in the presidential palace, Hong Shiming thought about it: "I didn't expect that the renovation of the presidential palace has not been completed, and the construction of the palace has started again... It seems that Wu Sangui is really old, and he will be in Jingzhou after he is ready to become emperor. Enjoy the rest of his life in this comfort zone. And Wu Yingxiong is a middle-of-the-road man. He can keep the family business left by Wu Sangui, and it would be good to control his reckless brother. The future of the world still depends on the Qing emperor and the third grandson of Zhu! "
Thinking of this, Hong Shiming had lost his mind to vote for Wu, and made up his mind to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.
After all, Wu Sangui and Hong Shiming are family friends, so they did not formally meet him and the returning Wu Shilin in the hall.Instead, a family banquet was held for Hong Shiming in the "White Fish Pond" of the Presidential Palace, that is, in a pavilion next to the pond in the back garden where the auspicious white dolphin was located.