Chapter 217 Internal strife is a skill, sneak attack is an art! (Please vote for me, please subscribe)

Author: Da Luoluo

Chapter 217 Internal strife is a skill, sneak attack is an art! (Please vote for me, please subscribe)

Zheng Jing hasn't even taken Nanjing yet, but he is already thinking about internal strife!

However, Wang Zhongxiao could only sigh quietly in his heart, because he still had to coax the maritime overlord, and he also knew Zheng Jing's difficulties.

Who doesn’t have a lot of troubles these days? Wang Zhongxiao himself has a lot of troubles!

The reason why the Zheng Group of the old Zheng family can dominate the seas of East Asia and Southeast Asia is not because their navy is really strong, but because the Zheng family was managed by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong and became the Chaoshan and Minnan ethnic groups.

"Eldest brother". Among the Han people who speak Hokkien and Chaozhou dialect, their family has a very high prestige.

The Han people who speak Hokkien and Teochew dialects have the tradition of going to Nanyang to make a living. After countless generations of development, they have spread out in Southeast Asia and the Nanyang Islands, and have strong financial and certain political resources.

It was precisely relying on the resources of southern Fujian, Chaoshan people in Nanyang and Southeast Asia that the Zheng family was able to fight against the entire Qing Dynasty for decades with a small Dayuan Island and a mere one or two hundred thousand people!

However, after the Zheng family lost their strongholds in southern Fujian and Chaoshan mainland, their base was running low, and they could only rely on the prestige left by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong to support the situation.

Once Chaoshan and Southern Fujian emerged, new local tycoons who also had the status of princes of the Ming Dynasty emerged. For example, Dahao Qiu Hui took over the entire Chaozhou Prefecture or Haicheng Gongfu in Zhangzhou took over the entire Zhangzhou Prefecture, and then obtained Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty.

After canonization, it is hard to say whether the Zheng family can still be the "elder brothers" of southern Fujian and Chaoshan.

Therefore, the Zheng family must capture at least two of the four prefectures of Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xinghua as soon as possible.

Only by grasping the "roots" of those Chaoshan and Hokkien people who traveled to Nanyang can the Zheng family be confident that they will always be their "eldest brother".

However, compared with seizing the territory of Chao, Zhang, Quan, and Xing, it would be more convenient to send Prince Zhu San into Nanjing City and seize the important Southeast sea trade town like Ningbo Prefecture!

Sending the third prince to Nanjing would allow Zheng Jing to occupy a favorable position in the power game of "holding the emperor and commanding the princes" - at least he could arrange for his own army to follow him into Nanjing!

With this position, you can become Prime Minister Zheng of the Ming Dynasty in the future. If you step back, you can use the great title of "Emperor Xian of the Ming Dynasty" to gain an official title.

This "Ming Xian Emperor" can advance or retreat. To put it more broadly, it is the common master of East Asia, and all countries in Tiannan and Nanyang are vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

If the Zheng family could restore several small South Sea island states that were destroyed by Westerners in the future, it would be justifiable for Emperor Ming Xian to confer several kings.

Taking over Ningbo Prefecture will help Zheng Jing control the supply side of silk and cotton, two bulk trade goods. This is not an era of excess supply of commodities, but an era of insufficient supply of commodities.

Whoever controls the supply of bulk trade goods will be able to occupy an extremely advantageous position in the fight for the vast ocean!

And this advantageous position can also play a great role when the Zheng family wants to explore Southeast Asia - Zheng Jing can use the supply of goods as a condition to unite one group of foreign barbarians to fight another group of foreign barbarians!

Therefore, for Zheng Jing, the most favorable situation in the future is to occupy a piece of Nanjing, capture Ningbo Prefecture in the southeast, capture Zhangzhou Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Xinghua Prefecture in southern Fujian, and support Dahao Qiu Hui in Chaozhou to control Chaoyang along the coast.

, two counties in Chenghai.

Before he sent out troops, he told Wang Zhongxiao about the capture of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou. Of course, he did not really want to give up the big plan of sending Prince Zhu San to Nanjing, but he wanted to discuss the carving up of Guangdong and Fujian territory with Wang Zhongxiao.

Zhongxiao reached a verbal agreement.

After thinking clearly about Zheng Jing's thoughts, Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said: "Your Majesty, now all the Liuhai Jiedushuans in Guangdong and Guangxi are controlled by my father, including Chaohai Liu Jieshuai and Nan'ao Qiu Jieshuai, so

My family doesn’t have a problem with taking Chaozhou Prefecture or not.”

Wang Zhongxiao's words are so accurate that he cannot reveal his intention to seize Chaozhou Prefecture now. Because Chaozhou is the buffer zone between the three families of Wang, Zheng and Geng.

If Chaozhou is in the hands of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui, then the three families of Wang, Zheng, and Geng will not break up and start a war.

The strength of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui will not pose a threat to the Wang family. In this way, the Wang family can concentrate on rectifying the internal affairs and cleaning up Guangxi.

Wang Zhongxiao continued: "As for the territory in Fujian, my family has no interest in taking over the territory of Fujian. If the prince wants my father to send troops to help, all he needs to do is move Qiu Jieshuai of Nan'ao to Fujian after the victory. However, my family has no intention of taking over Nan'ao.

I just want Chen Shengcai, the commander-in-chief of Gao Lei and Lian named by King Wu of Yanping, to move to Nan'ao as the commander-in-chief."

Qiu Hui's Nan'ao Jiedushi was "represented" by Wang Fuchen and granted by Wu Sangui. Zheng Jing did not admit it, and certainly did not deny it. Qiu Hui's territory was Chaoyang, Chenghai and two counties plus a few coastal islands.

Including Nan'ao Island, which is located at the junction of Guangdong and Fujian. His personal residence has never been moved in Dahao.

As for the "Commander Gao, Lei and Lian Chen Shengcai", he was the one who occupied Qinzhou Bay to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He launched a large-scale attack on Qiongzhou during the historical Battle of San Francisco. Later, he went to Vietnam and became the ancestor of the "Mingxiang people". He is still there

Annan made Chen Shangchuan the governor-general, and Sheng was his title.

After the drastic changes in Guangdong, Chen Shangchuan took advantage of the opportunity and went to Hainan Island to besiege Qiongshan County (Haikou). Wang Zhongxiao left Guangzhou Prefecture this time in the name of attacking him.

However, neither the Wang family nor Chen Shangchuan had any intention of getting into a fight. They just wanted to negotiate terms of surrender.

Chen Shangchuan wanted Qiongzhou Prefecture, while Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao wanted to recruit him as the naval commander.

And now Wang Zhongxiao is talking to Zheng Jing about Chen Shangchuan, and his intention is very clear, that is, he wants Zheng Jing to act as a middleman.

Zheng Jing smiled and said, "It's easy to talk about. After I take over southern Fujian, I will move Qiu Hui to be the head of Xinghua Palace, and then Nan'ao Town will be freed up."

Got it, another Xinghua. Geng Jingzhong hasn’t gotten it yet in Nanjing. Wang Zhongxiao and Zheng Jing have almost divided up all his Fujian territory!

Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "But it seems that your Majesty is too hasty to raise troops in southern Fujian now? Why don't you wait until King Geng enters Jinling and has no time to take care of Fujian before sending troops to attack Zhangzhou and Quanzhou?"

As far as I know, among the three prefectures of Zhangzhou, Quan, and Xing, the ones who will really fight against the king are Fan Chengmo, the governor of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, and Huang Wu, the Duke of Haicheng. How many troops do they have? How is it possible?

Can you stop the heavenly soldiers from the Yanping Palace?"

Zheng Jing had received a satisfactory answer and burst into laughter: "That makes sense! Fufu, tell me your plan! How do you plan to take Ningbo and enter Nanjing?"

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "The current magistrate of Ningbo is the original magistrate of Ruian County, Luo Pan. He made military exploits when the Qing army recaptured Ruian. He also gave a large sum of money to Zhejiang Governor Fan Chengmo and Nalan Mingzhu to buy Ningbo."

The shortage of prefects.

The magistrate of Dinghai County has always been ours, and the entire Zhoushan Island is in our hands. The army that attacked Ningbo has been resting and training on Zhoushan Island for a long time. As long as the king gives the order, the army can land.

Go straight to Ningbo Fucheng.

As for Nanjing, the current magistrates of Shangyuan County, Jingchuan, Jiangning County Magistrate Zhang Jingke, Jurong County Magistrate Wang Shengming, Lishui County Magistrate Zhu Xu and Gaochun County Magistrate Jiang Zixiang are all our people! Not only their five county magistrates are our people

, all the masters and squad leaders under them are also brothers of the Tiandihui!"

"Hahaha!" Zheng Jing laughed, "There are only six counties in Jiangning Prefecture. Except for Jiangpu County in the north of the Yangtze River, the other five counties are ours. Shikai, what do you think of the method of restoration?"

"High! Really high!" Wang Zhongxiao smiled and raised his thumb, "Wang really admires Brother Fufu's methods!"

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "Brother Shikai, didn't you find these five 'debtors' from Beijing? If we want to talk about merit in this matter, you are the top one! By the way, the new governor of Jiangning is also Brother Shikai

An old acquaintance!"

"Who?" Wang Zhongxiao asked.

"Lu Sanhao!" Chen Yonghua said with a smile, "That's Lu Sanhao, the original prefect of Qujing, Yunnan! I don't know where he found his way, but he was actually released from Liangjiang and became the prefect of Jiangning!"

"Jiangning Mansion requested an imperial edict," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile. "It should be that Kangxi himself fell into his trap again, but he would let Liangjiang go. There was probably Wu Sangui's order behind this! It seems that Wu Sangui is in Hanzhong, and his eyes are on

Guanzhong, I still have a piece of Nanjing in my heart."

Zheng Jing said with a smile: "Wu Sangui wants to get involved, it doesn't matter, as long as we can be a part of Nanjing City!" He smiled proudly again, "It's rare that the westerly wind blows these days, let's take advantage of the wind and hit the road."

The waterway is more than a thousand miles long, and if the winds and currents are favorable, we can get there in about two days!"

Wang Zhongxiao nodded: "Okay! Let's set off now! If everything goes well, maybe we can enter Nanjing earlier than Geng Jingzhong!"

Liangjiang, Jiangning Prefecture.

Duolong, the governor of Liangjiang, and Echu, the general of Jiangning, were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.

Because they already know that someone is coming to attack Jiangning City!

The one who brought the news to them was Li Guangdi, an editor at the Hanlin Academy who had returned to Fujian to visit relatives. Li Guangdi had traveled all the way from Fujian to Jiangning with Mingzhu's autographed letter.

Before Li Guangdi arrived, the situation in Jiangning was very good, not bad!

On the one hand, Prince Kang Jieshu, the general in the upper reaches of Jiangxi, finally lived up to his divine grace and blocked Li Zicheng's advance at the line between Dehua, the capital of Jiujiang, and Xiaochikou on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Oh, of course this is a term for "high emotional intelligence". If people who can't speak tell it, it means that Jieshu has finally lost all the territory of Wuchang Prefecture and Huangzhou Prefecture, and now it has shrunk to Jiujiang Fucheng and Nanchang Fucheng, barely

Resisted Li Zicheng.

But no matter what, Li Zicheng is unable to break through to Jiangning City for the time being.

On the other hand, the Qing army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River finally received reinforcements. Reinforcements from Fujian!

Just two days before Li Guangdi arrived in Jiangning, the messenger sent by Geng Jingzhong had arrived in advance and informed the King of Jingnan of the good news that an army of 20,000 troops would arrive in the near future.

King Jingnan is such a loyal minister! He didn't care about his hometown in Fujian and came to help Jieshu, Duolong, and Echu guard the Yangtze River. He was so loyal!

In addition, the team training in Jiangning Prefecture has been going very well recently!

With the joint efforts of the newly appointed Jiangning magistrate Lu Sanhao and his five county magistrates, the number of Jiangning regiment training personnel has reached 6,000, and a Jiangnan regiment training camp-Liu was also set up at Xiaolingwei outside Jiangning City.

Thousands of regiments are stationed at the Jiangnan regiment training camp and will not enter Jiangning City. This is really reassuring!

But who would have thought that after only a few days of such a good situation, the devastating news would come!

Geng Jingzhong actually rebelled!

"Geng Jingzhong rebelled? What kind of rebellion did he, Geng Jingzhong, rebel against? In the current situation, he is already the lord of Fujian, what kind of rebellion can he rebel against?"

"Is it possible that he still wants to be emperor?"

Duolong and Echu were surprised, but they didn't believe that Geng Jingzhong would rebel.

Their thinking is actually normal. If Geng Jingzhong is a normal person, he really does not need to rebel. Because the "rebellion threshold" is getting higher and higher now. The self-respect of the army and the separatist rule of Fujian are not enough to be a rebellion.

Therefore, no one would care if Geng Jingzhong became the king behind closed doors in Fujian. Anyway, the Qing court would still treat him as a loyal minister.

"With multiple armies and an army gate, Geng Jingzhong is now crazy and wants to be the emperor!" Li Guangdi said with a helpless look, "He also made a prophecy about 'the emperor's clone has ears and ears'.
To be continued...