Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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After listening to Prime Minister Zhuge's "storytelling" in the Chengyun Hall, Zhu Heqi was about to go back to the harem to talk and hold hands with the three concubines who accompanied the army, Daboling, Aoi Zhen, and Wu Tu, when he heard Zhuge's military adviser suddenly coming from behind him. sound.

He looked back, and found that Zhuge Sanhe who had just "finished the book" quietly followed behind him at some point.

"Military division, you are..."

Zhu Heqi hurriedly stopped, watching Zhuge Sanhe approaching.

Military Master Zhuge gave a salute: "My lord, please take a step to speak."

Zhu Hechi looked around and found an octagonal pavilion that looked a bit dilapidated, so he walked in with Zhuge Sanhe.

After the two monarchs and ministers were seated, Military Master Zhuge smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I still have something to offer."

Zhu Heqi laughed as soon as he heard it: "Just now, the military adviser has disclosed the method of entrapping Kangxi in public, but has kept this plan hidden until now... This plan must be a secret plan of your Zhuge family, right?"

Zhuge Sanhe laughed and said, "I didn't expect the Holy Majesty to figure it out now... This strategy is indeed a series of tricks passed down from generation to generation by the old minister's ancestors!"

It's really made by the Zhuge family's secret system, and it's very clever when you hear it!

Zhu Hechi smiled and said, "There are no outsiders here, the military commander should hurry up and come here."

Military Master Zhuge said: "My lord, this old minister's chain is divided into several layers. The first layer is a trick to lure the enemy into surrendering!"

Zhu Heqi didn't understand, "Luring the enemy? Fake surrender? These are two tricks?"

Zhuge Sanhe shook his head, "No, this is a trick to trick the enemy into surrendering!"

Zhu Heqi asked again: "Who are you deceiving to pretend to surrender?"

Military Master Zhuge smiled and said, "Of course it is Wu Guogui, President of the Great Zhou Dynasty...he is one of the fathers-in-law of the Holy One!"

"No, no, he can't be my father-in-law." Zhu Heqian quickly explained, "Xiaotu is just a palace servant and has no status."

"Then give one," Zhuge Sanhe said, "Wu Guogui now holds a large army of the Great Zhou Kingdom. Isn't his daughter worth a concubine?"

Zhu Heyi frowned, looked at Zhuge Sanhe, and said in a low voice: "The military master doesn't think that Wu Guogui will really submit to Ming Dynasty, does he? Emperor Zhaozong was strangled to death with a bowstring!"

Wu Guogui strangled Yongli to death was a difficult hurdle to overcome.Because Zhu Heqi had to admit Yongli, Yongli himself was nothing, but what he represented were countless Chinese good men who threw their heads and blood to defend the world.

Therefore, the tablet of Yongli has been enshrined in the Taimiao in Nanjing!The memorial tablets of the heroes and men of the Yongli regime were also placed in the Martyr's Shrine and the Confucian Xiansheng Hall on the edge of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, where they have enjoyed sacrifices for generations.

"That's why I lured the enemy into surrendering!" Zhuge Sanhe said with a smile, "The old minister asked Fang Guangchen about Wu Guogui's character, and he told the old man that Wu Guogui was stubborn and brave, and would not change until death... I am afraid that this person will not He took refuge with us, but the current situation is extremely unfavorable to Wu Zhou, so this brave Wu Guogui is likely to take risks."

Zhu Heqi nodded without commenting.

Zhuge Sanhe said again: "However, relying on Wu Zhou's strength alone, it is not easy to defend the three dangerous places of Yuezhou, Jiangling, and Jingmen against me. There is a second layer, which is to use the enemy to lure the enemy to go deep."

"Luring the enemy with the enemy?"

"It is to let one enemy lure another enemy," Zhuge Sanhe said, "used in the battle of Huguang, it is to use Wu Guogui to lure Kangxi to the bait... Didn't the old minister come up with the strategy of encircling Xiangyang and trapping Kangxi? If we If we want to successfully encircle Xiangyang, we will be able to mobilize some Qing demons in Xiangyang. Because the veterans estimate that if Kangxi does not come, he will do his best. If there are really 10,000+ Qing troops in Xiangyang, it will be difficult for us to encircle them. Moreover, there are six or seven hundred miles from Hanyang to Xiangyang. Our army must advance by land and water to ensure smooth logistics. It will be difficult to hide from the eyes and ears of Qing Yao and Wu Yingxiong. So, Kangxi is likely to give up Xiangyang."

"It's reasonable!" Zhu Hexi nodded repeatedly, and said to Zhuge Sanhe with a smile, "Military Master, your strategy is really getting stronger and stronger. You are the first in this battle of Huguang!"

"Don't dare to be, dare not be..." Zhuge Sanhe waved his hands again and again, "It's not how powerful the veteran's strategies are, but how many and powerful the soldiers who implement these strategies are! There are often good strategies, and soldiers who can implement these strategies in place Not often! Your Majesty, the old minister is already Wu Xinggong, let’s forget about this county king. Anyway, Zhengyang doesn’t need it, he is a prince himself.”

Zhuge Liang's title during his lifetime was Marquis of Wuxiang, but after his death he was posthumously named Marquis Zhongwu, King Wuxing and King Wuling.

In order to highlight Zhuge Sanhe's identity as Zhuge Kongming's empress, Zhu Heqi granted the Marquis of Wuxiang to Zhuge Sanhe, and also gave him the privilege of hereditary succession.However, the titles that are not descended can be raised upwards, and those that have been promoted can be descended instead.That is to say, Zhuge's family can be crowned prince at the highest level, but the bottom line is guaranteed when he descends to Wuxianghou.

And Zhuge Sanhe's current title is Wu Xinggong at the national level, which means that Zhuge Liang's Wuxing King has been demoted to one level.

Now that Zhu Heqi has become the emperor, the upper limit of titles for the people below will of course be raised. Originally, they were stopped by the county king, but now they can be named the prince.

However, the highest-level titles cannot be sealed easily, so as to avoid the situation of "nothing can be sealed", so Zhuge Sanhe, Mr. Yu, Qiu Hui, Chen Shangchuan, Su Yong, Zhao Zhongyi, Lin Ahu, Chen Yonghua, Pang Gonggong, None of the founding heroes of the new Ming Dynasty, such as Liu Guoxuan, has been crowned as the county king, and only Yanping Wang Zheng Jing is the county king.However, his county king was not granted by Zhu Heqi, but by Yongli.

Zhu Hexi patted Zhuge Sanhe on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Military Master, you should be named a prince for your merits, and you should not refuse a county king. Don't worry about the master of high merit, I can It's not the kind of emperor who slaughters heroes with a small belly, I am an emperor who treats the world as the public... the world is the master, you and my monarch and ministers are all guests!"

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"Wu Yingqi, you must die... Changshengtian will definitely not let you go!"

"Fuck your mother's Changshengtian, I am a Confucian scholar, and I believe in the Dao of Confucianism, the principles of Confucianism... Burni, don't believe in Changshengtian anymore, let's become Confucian scholars together!"

One day in early June, outside the Jinzhou Pass at the foot of the Dahei Mountain in Liaodong, two groups of uninvited guests suddenly came. Judging by their attire, one group was Han Chinese and the other group were Mongolians.

Among them, the number of Han people is about four to five thousand, and they are all prepared with one person, two horses, and three horses. The horses of the auxiliary horses also carry large and small bags of luggage and some weapons.

There were more Mongols, more than [-], but some of them seemed to be captives, tied with hemp ropes, and escorted by another group of Mongols on horseback.

And these two people don't know what's the relationship?The minions on both sides looked at each other coldly, and the bosses on both sides still didn't listen to the bickering, but they didn't fight each other.

And the two bosses who were bickering were Wu Yingqi and Burni.

These two bosses are masters who can run, and when they saw something was wrong, they both fled from the Chilbo battlefield one after the other.And they all fled in the same direction - all going to Lushun!

Wu Yingqi came to seek refuge with Zhu Heqi after listening to Kong Sizhen's words, and Burni because he had a huge sum of money in the Penglai Bank in Dengzhou-although he was forced to wander around on the prairie by Kangxi these years, but He still knew that there was a good place to go, Dengzhou Tianwang City, and he also knew that he wanted to store the money robbed from Beijing in the bank in Dengzhou.

And he also knew that the commercial port of Dengzhou was Huangniwawan, which was moved to Jinzhou in Liaodong after the outer city of Dengzhou was broken.So Burni, who was defeated by Kangxi, ran in the same direction as Wu Yingqi!Moreover, the two met when they were passing Yanshan, and they were horse bandits together for a period of time. They snatched several Zasak flags from the Zhaowuda League, and then brought the spoils to the Shengjing General Burni. Before the army arrived, they ran to the Liaodong Peninsula.

Chapter 600 There is a Second Battlefield!

"Second brother, it's really you!"

"Sambo...how did you come to Liaodong?"

At the same moment when Wu Yingqi and Burni were arguing, inside the Jinzhou Pass at the foot of the Dahei Mountain, inside a simple bastion piled up with soil, Ma Bao, a general under Wu Yingqi's command, was fighting with Zhu Heqi's "Nanchang Yuanru" Ma Weixing, one of the "Seven Sons", was crying with his arms in his arms.

It turned out that Ma Bao and Ma Weixing used to be brothers. Ma Bao, Ma Weixing and Ma Jinzhong were all born in bandits, and later they defected to Daming successively. During the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the three of them got together again by chance.Because they are all fellow villagers in Shaanxi, both have the surname Ma, have been bandits, and have been loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, so they kowtowed and worshiped, and became "brothers with the same surname".

Ma Jinzhong, one of the three horses, died of illness early on, and became Daming's "uncompromising loyal minister"—he was a big bandit, and there was no boss at the top, and was later recruited by Zuo Liangyu.However, when Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he did not follow him. Instead, he led his troops to escape and went to He Tengjiao's men.Since then, he has been fighting for Nanming until he died of illness.

However, Ma Weixing and Ma Bao followed Li Dingguo to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and did not surrender to Wu Sangui until Yongli went abroad.Wu Sangui originally planned to keep both of them under the tent, but the Qing court worried that Wu Sangui's unconvinced Nanming surrendered too many generals, so he transferred Ma Weixing to Fujian.

Unexpectedly, the two of them actually got together again in Liaodong!

After shedding tears for a while, Ma Bao talked to his righteous brother Ma Weixing about the purpose of coming here with Wu Yingqi and Burni.

"Second brother, Er, Wu Yingqi, and that Burnie were all tortured by Wu Yingxiong. They had nowhere to go, so they had to come and vote for Daming. But they didn't vote in vain. They brought a meeting gift... Er and Wu Yingqi brought cavalry Five thousand, more than 1 good horses. Burni brought 2 Mongolians, no less than [-] capable of fighting, and more than [-] horses! How about it? Can Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong, and Burni each be exchanged for a rich family Weng Dangdang?"

Ma Weixing was a little stupid after hearing Ma Bao's words, [-] to [-] horses, [-] cavalry... This is simply a windfall!

Earlier, Daming opened two large military horse farms in Dengzhou and Yingtianfu's Jiangbei Laoshan area. They used imported large stallions and large mares to lead their hooves. After several years of hard work, the number of horse herds was only Three or four thousand horses.

The number of cavalry in the Ming army has not exceeded [-] so far, and most of the cavalry battalions belonging to the Ming army are just bluffing names—only soldiers, no horses, and they are actually ordinary infantry.

The biggest difficulty for the Ming army to open up the second battlefield in Liaodong was actually not Kangxi's scorched earth tactics, let alone the few mountain cities, but the lack of horses.Without horses, there is no way to form a light cavalry that can cover the army's advance to the Liaodong Plain, let alone guarantee the safety of the long logistics line.

"Yes, it's so capable..." Ma Weixing was almost insane after realizing it, and took his brother's hand and said, "Sambo, to be honest, these tens of thousands of horses alone can give you, Wu Yingxiong and others Burni has been knighted one by one! As for money, it’s not a problem... Daming is not short on money now!"

These words are really arrogant!

Seeing Ma Weixing's reaction, Ma Bao knew that he and Wu Yingqi had come to the right place.

As soon as Ma Bao mentioned money, he thought of something again, so he asked with a smile: "Second Brother, let me ask you something... Is the Penglai Bank still closed?"

"What are you talking about?" Ma Weixing smiled, "How could the Penglai Bank fail?"

"Didn't I hear that the outer city of Dengzhou was destroyed by the Qing soldiers?"

Ma Weixing laughed loudly: "Do you think the outer city of Dengzhou was broken by the Qing demon, and the silver in the Penglai Bank was robbed?"

Ma Bao asked: "Have you not been robbed?"

"How could it be robbed?" Ma Weixing said, "The big treasury of Penglai Bank is in the main office in the inner city of Dengzhou! The semicolon in the outer city only has some small money for daily cashing, and most of them were transported away when the incident happened. Oh... Sanbao, have you deposited a lot of money in the Penglai bank?"

Ma Bao shook his head again and again, "No, no, how can I have money? Burni saved the money."

Ma Weixing laughed loudly and said: "Sambo, you will soon be rich... You have voted for our grand duke and emperor, are you afraid that you will not have money to envoy?

Let's go, follow me to Tianwang City in Huangniwa, the Liaodong Governor's Yamen and the Liaodong Branch of Penglai Bank are all there!

Let's go see Liu Zhijun first, then take you to Penglai Bank to open an account, and then invite Wu Yingqi and Burni to enter the customs together! "

The Tianwang City in Huangniwa is the 2.0 of Dengzhou Free City. Those people who ran out of Dengzhou Free City, including "new Dengzhou people" and refugees under the Terengganu Prefecture, were mostly transported to Liaodong and resettled. On the Jinzhou Peninsula west of Nanguanling.

Those who are willing to cultivate the land will be given seeds, agricultural tools, and land will be allocated for them to cultivate on the Jinzhou Peninsula.Those willing to go to the city to work and do business all gathered near Huangniwa and started building a new free city—Tianwang City!

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Tianwang City is still a very crude city, not even a city.A few rammed earth roads were paved inside the walls of a large circle of earth mounds, and some houses were built with logs.In addition, many felt tents were built-the kind of yurts, which are quite warm. The Ming army also prepared tens of thousands of tents for this battle in Liaodong.

Now half of these yurts are used to accommodate refugees from Dengzhou.

However, Liu Jinzhong, the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Jinzhou, still have wooden houses to live in.

Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan were also overjoyed after learning that Wu Yingqi and Burni were defeated and came to vote.While ordering martial law in several towns that were busy with construction in Jinzhou, he personally greeted them, opened the door, and invited Wu Yingqi, Burni and others into the Jinzhou Peninsula.

After Wu Yingqi, Burni and others settled down, Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan immediately sent a memorial to the Nanjing side, announcing the good news to the Supreme Heavenly King and the Dagong Emperor!

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The news that Wu Yingqi and Burni's group of "horse bandits" had fled to Jinzhou, Liaodong, was sent to Xi'an by Bahai in an expedited [-] miles.By this time, it was already late June.

Why send it to Xi'an?

Because Emperor Kangxi is now in Xi'an, he entered Xi'an in the name of going south to Huguang - Xi'an is only [-] miles away from Wuchang, while Beijing is [-] miles away from Wuchang, which is a full [-] miles away!

In addition, Kangxi's army also rescued a group of "old Beijing", women and children, from the old camp of the Chahar tribe at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.Kangxi did not send them back to Beijing, but resettled them "closer" to Xi'an.

Because of the relocation of Wu Yingqi's troops in Xi'an, a large amount of land was vacated. Seeing the rare opportunity, Kangxi rushed from Shanxi to Shaanxi to occupy the land.

Moreover, Kangxi also tried his best to change the name of Xi'an to Jingzhao Mansion, and designated it as the Xijing of the Qing Dynasty, with the same status as Shengjing.

Of course, he did not forget to "aid Wu" during this time, and sent Fei Yanggu to lead a new Eight Banners army from Gushan into Fancheng.He also ordered Yue Le, who had previously led the siege of Dengzhou, to lead two Gushan troops to Xiangyang.

As for sending troops on a large scale, it is not yet the time.

While Kangxi was waiting for the time for Huguang to go to war, there was such a mistake in Liaodong.

This gave Kangxi a headache.

The Liaodong Ming army was already very strong, and now it is partnering with this "horse bandit", the problem of lack of horses will be greatly alleviated.

It seems that I have to guard against it.

But how to prevent this?

"Long Live Lord, there should be no serious problem with Ba Hai in Shengjing." In the South Study Room, Tu Hai was advising Emperor Kangxi again, "But the defenses of Ningyuan and Jinzhou are still a bit empty... in case of false claims If the rebels raid Ningjin and even Shanhaiguan while the main force of our army is going south, then it will be troublesome!"

"Fake Ming enters the customs to attack my Qing Dynasty?" Kangxi's brows tightened immediately, "Then let Wang Fuchen guard Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Shanhaiguan!"

Chapter 601 Zhen, I can never be Chongzhen of the Qing Dynasty!

"Long Live Lord, I'm afraid one Wang Fuchen is not enough!"

Xiong Cilu, who had been promoted to the University of Martial Arts Hall and succeeded Mingzhu as the chief Confucian sect, also came to Kangxi to speak at this time.

He had been staying in Tongzhou to "assistant" Shenggong Kong Yuqi before, but it was only because Kangxi saw that Huguang was going to fight the "Battle of Chibi" that he remembered that Xiong Cilu would "talk about the Three Kingdoms", so he called him to Xi'an for a trip. up.

"How could it not be enough?" Emperor Kangxi frowned, "Now the traitors in Liaodong have just captured Beisha City and surrounded Deliying City. Dustpan Village has not yet called the police, so there should be no serious problems within a year. After a year, Huguang's The Red Cliff War will determine the outcome."

"Long live, if the Huguang battlefield is still stalemate after one year, and the heavenly soldiers can't get out and go east, what should we do?" Xiong Cilu said worriedly, "Long live, I have something to say, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

Kangxi said: "Xiong Cilu, do you think I'm a stupid king who can't listen to harsh words? If you have something to say, it's okay to say it. Forgive your innocence."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xiong Cilu hurriedly kowtowed, "I don't know if the Emperor has discovered that the situation we face in the Qing Dynasty is so similar to that of the Ming Dynasty in Chongzhen!"

"shut up!"

"Xiong Cilu, stop talking nonsense!"

When Tuhai and Suo'etu heard that Xiong Cilu wanted to tell the truth, they became anxious immediately.

Kangxi waved his hand: "Let him talk!"

Xiong Cilu said: "Your Majesty, the reason why Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was defeated was because there was the Qing Dynasty outside, there were bandits inside, and a group of shameless scholars who controlled the countryside and did everything possible to evade taxes and labor. And my Qing Dynasty Now there is chaos in Liaodong and North Korea in the east, and the southwestern side is going to participate in the great battle of Huhu, and the sages below..."

When Kangxi heard this, his pockmarked face turned dark.

He is obviously a hundred times more capable and wise than Chongzhen, how did he become the same as Chongzhen?No, it seems that it is not as good as Chongzhen.When Chongzhen went to Shangjingshan, Daming still had the land of wealth in Nanzhili!Now the Qing Dynasty is not small from the map, but it is basically bad land.What Mobei, Monan, Modong, Moxi, Xueyu... just by looking at the names, you can tell that there is not much oil and water to be squeezed out.

Chongzhen was begging for food while guarding a cornucopia, but now Kangxi has lost the cornucopia!

The thought of Jiangnan made Kang Mazi's heart ache.

But no matter how much his heart hurts, Kang Mazi would not lie down and die as an equal. As a wise emperor, he had to struggle a few times no matter what.

Thinking of this, his pockmarked face gradually calmed down... He couldn't be like Chongzhen who would kill ministers in a fit of anger, making everyone in the court feel insecure, and there was no one who could take care of things.

"As long as the battle of Huguang can be won!" Kangxi paused, "As long as the battle can continue, I have nothing to worry about..."

"The emperor is holy." Xiong Cilu kowtowed, "The servant was worried that Zhu and Qi would not be able to win the game in Huguang, so he placed a heavy bet on Liaodong and started another round. Moreover, the servant thought that this banditry was very strange, and they actually They can defeat those Mongolian cavalry from the Zhasak Banner. These are not ordinary horse bandits, could they be Wu Yingqi and Burni?"

Kangxi's pockmarked face turned dark again - this is almost catching up with the Sichuan opera's face-changing!