During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gengshi killed all the eldest brothers of Emperor Wu without any reason, and even sent Liu Xiu to Xuanfu, Hebei Province after seizing his military power. However, Liu Xiu, a mere commander, was able to command a large number of heroes to follow him to Hebei Province.

After that, countless powerful people who had never met were willing to join him. The reason is that Liu Xiu shocked the world in the battle of Kunyang, so people were willing to invest in him instead of those opponents who were more powerful than him.

If someone told Li Dingguo that he had a good way to save the Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo would be doubtful at most, and even beat the lunatic out of the palace with sticks. But Chen Kai was different. He had witnessed the miracles created by Chen Kai with his own eyes.

And more than once. Chen Kai told Li Dingguo that the Ming Dynasty's ancestral system could no longer save the Ming Dynasty, so it definitely couldn't be saved. He believed that Guo Zhiqi's thoughts at that time must be the same as his thoughts now.

"It turns out that we misunderstood Governor Guo."

Damn it, it turns out that Li Dingguo is also... Chen Kai really has nothing to do with His Highness the King of Jin, so he simply continues what he said next: "Ning Yu, like you and the generals of the Jin vassal behind you, like the generals of the Shu vassal, like

Those old subordinates of Sun Kewang, such as the Kuidong generals, the shepherds, Zhang Shilang, Damu, and me, we will all be the first beneficiaries."

Li Dingguo could easily understand the Xiying Clan and the Chuangying Clan. After all, they either dug up the ancestral graves of the old Zhu family, or forced Chongzhen to commit suicide. Moreover, they had both killed members of the Ming Dynasty clan.

More than once, the emperor's loss of power prevented him from settling accounts with them.

When he thought about it more carefully, Qian Qianyi came to the Qing Dynasty and had a dark history, Zhang Huangyan was a close civil servant of Lu Jianguo, and Zheng Chenggong simply received great favor from Emperor Longwu. These people were also important to Yongli.

It is unbelievable. However, Chen Kai has never supported another clan, nor has he ever been a bandit, so how could he include himself in it?

"Jingcheng, others are easy to understand, you..."

Seeing that Li Dingguo was confused, Chen Kai explained: "When Zhang Taishi, the first assistant of the Wanli Dynasty, was in charge of the country, he carried out rigorous reforms. This offended many people, but the fiscal revenue of the imperial court increased significantly and the burden on the people was also reduced. As a result, Taishi Zhang died.

, Emperor Shenzong was still reluctant to part with him on his sick bed, but he ordered his house to be ransacked and all the previous gifts were confiscated, and even the children of Grand Master Zhang were starved to death in the mansion."

Li Dingguo never expected such an answer, but after hearing it, he became more convinced - Chen Kai is a person who is willing to correct the country's problems, and has always worked hard to do so. With those

The guy who talks a lot but has nothing behind his back is completely different.

This time, Chen Kai gave them a reassurance that they could fight to expel the Tartars without any worries. At the same time, he also gave himself a reassurance that he was doing more than just expelling the Tartars.

Things have happened, and preparations have been made for the future reforms after the Ming Dynasty and the ZTE.

"It's the same sentence. Today's conversation only came out of my mouth and into your ears in this room. Once I leave this room, I won't recognize you."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, was speechless. Indeed, no matter whether it was the Shu vassal, the Qin vassal, or the Kuidong generals, their friendship with Chen Kai was far from comparable to his. Chen Kai was willing

Telling him what is in your heart is not only a way of trusting him, but also to avoid being discovered by him in the future and damaging the friendship between them.

"What are you going to do next?"

"We still have to start the preparatory meeting of the war cabinet first. Only with the war cabinet can we do the rest."

Speaking of this, Chen Kai suddenly remembered something and quickly rummaged through the case. Soon, he passed several reports to Li Dingguo.

"Dasu ordered to increase the number of guards at the top of Wuchang City..."

"Da Su gave a death order to the defenders of Jinkou Town and Zhifang. They must hold on until..."

"Hu Quancai rushed to repair the walls of Hanyang Fucheng and added forts..."

"Dasu ordered Nanchang to garrison the Eight Banners and control the water gate and navy..."

"..."

There were a bunch of reports, all of which came from the Huguang Tiandihui. Li Dingguo looked through them one by one and expressed his sincere admiration for the Tiandihui created by Chen Kai. However, after praising him, he quickly discovered a problem.

Completely incredible question.

"Wait a minute, why are Dasu and Hu Quancai giving the orders? Where's Hong Chengchou!"

………………

On the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, an official ship of the Qing Dynasty was slowly sailing north. There were three posts, one post, five steps and one post on the ship, but no flags were seen. The ships coming and going were all used to this canal, so it was obvious to see this

They all gave way to the main channel.

The official ship sailed northward as if it were in a deserted land. In the innermost cabin, the dim candlelight seemed to be motionless and burning silently on the candlestick. The windows were not opened, and the air became increasingly turbid.

If it weren't for the sound of breathing and the occasional sparks from candlelight, it would have been like being in a tomb that had been dusty for thousands of years.

I don’t know how much time passed, but the candlelight gradually faded, and as the ship rocked slightly, it was extinguished. In the darkness, a footstep hurried to the table, and a new candle was replaced. In the faint light, a figure could be vaguely seen.

The young man dressed as a book boy breathed a long sigh of relief. When he turned his head, the old man who was so haggard that there was almost only a handful of bones left on the coffin-like bed seemed to move. The book boy stepped forward and took a look, then hurriedly rushed over.

Exited the cabin.

Soon, a large group of doctors, civil servants and military generals swarmed in. After several doctors checked their pulses one after another and exchanged words in low voices, the oldest doctor with the most famous medical temperament started talking to one of the young men.

The civil servants, who were nearly forty years old and had golden pheasants embroidered on their official uniforms, summarized the illnesses they had diagnosed.

The civil servant looked worried, but he still sent them out. After chatting with several other civil servants and military generals, he was about to go out, but he only heard a weak call and rushed to the bedside.

"Heng Jiu."

"Old Manager."

"Hong Jinglue."

A group of civil and military officials talked to each other, and soon the leading civil official remembered the doctor's instructions - Hong Chengchou's illness should not be cured, but the cabin was stuffy, so it was best not to stay with too many people, so he

Everyone was invited out.

"Guardian, have you arrived in Wuchang?" came a hoarse and weak voice. Huang Zhilin, the envoy to the left of Huguang, was stunned for a while. But before he could recover, he heard Hong Chengchou say something again.

: "We've already passed Wuchang, right." There was no trace of confusion in his tone, and some of it was just straightforward and clear.

Hearing this, Huang Zhilin sighed, knowing that this seemingly old and confused in-law was actually smarter than anyone else. Seeing that he could no longer hide it, he had no choice but to tell the truth: "The imperial court ordered me to wait until I return to Beijing.

Debriefing."

"Are you going back to Beijing to report on your duties?" Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment, then asked Huang Zhilin directly: "How many people are left in the Changsha shogunate?"

"This..." Huang Zhilin was startled when he heard this. He was about to make a delaying strategy, but was immediately interrupted by Hong Chengchou. Seeing this, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and reply: "It is true that some people have left."

"It's not just some people!"

Huang Zhilin's voice was as thin as a mosquito, but Hong Chengchou asked him to tell him the details word for word: "Zhang Daocheng, Jiang Yingtai, Xu Teng, Ru Daotong, Hao Zongfu, Zhang Xuchu, they are all here

On the boat, I will call them over soon."

"Also, don't report only the good news and not the bad news."

"Uh." Huang Zhilin had no choice but to continue: "Liu Jianlong, Wu Hongdao, Chen Yuanlu, Song Chengming, Yang Zhengcui, Huang Zhongdao, Liu Zhaolong, Che Dingying, Peng Ershu, Liao Wenying, Zheng Bin, Fu Youzhong, Liang Guobao are not there

As ordered, perhaps the evacuation was too hasty and there was no time..."

"continue."

"Heng Jiu..."

"Continue!"

Hearing this, Huang Zhilin took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind: "Wu Zhengzhong hid first after receiving the news. Later, there was intelligence that after Du Hui entered the city, he asked the Ming army to surrender.

, Chen Kai still appointed him as the Changsha branch guard. In addition, Robin Pin, Peng Ying, Zhang Dade, Hu Erkai, Shi Zongyao, Zou Zhuoming, Peng Qi, Wang Wenda, Zhou Yingyu, Wang Zhong, Zhou Zhihan, Zhang Dahui, Zhang Daqi, Zhu Yingsheng

Others also surrendered to the Ming army one after another. Except for Shi Zongyao, Peng Qi, and Wang Wenda who still serve as original officials, everyone else has entered Chen Kai's plot..."

Changsha branch guard Wu Zhengzhong, Xiangtan county magistrate Shi Zongyao, Ningxiang county magistrate Peng Qi, Ningxiang magistrate Wang Wenda, except for the four of them, the rest are all staff who have been in Changsha to assist him in government and military affairs all year round. Each has his own responsibility.

Zhang Dade is the most famous and can be regarded as the think tank of the Changsha shogunate.

With these familiar names, Hong Chengchou could even clearly remember their looks and voices, as well as every contribution they made in the Changsha shogunate. However, all of these people surrendered to the Ming army.

As for those who did not comply, they were all members of the Changsha shogunate who did not serve in the Changsha Prefecture - from Huguang's deputy envoy to the Hunan Dao Peng Shu, to Yongzhou Prefecture's Huang Zhongdao, Hengzhou Prefecture's fellow magistrate Liao Wenying, Baoqing Prefecture

Chen Yuanlu, the governor of grain, became famous in the Song Dynasty in Baoqing Prefecture. Liu Jianlong, the magistrate of Guiyang Prefecture, then Wu Hongdao, the magistrate of Yuanjiang County, Zhu Ying, the magistrate of Changning County, Yang Zhengcui, the magistrate of Guiyang County, Liu Zhaolong, the magistrate of Xing'an County, together with the county magistrate

Che Dingying, and even Yuanzhou deputy general Zheng Bin, Hengzhou deputy general Liang Guobao, and Baoqing general Fu Youzhong. In all likelihood, these civil and military officials surrendered to the Ming army, but they are not aware of it for the time being. Otherwise, Ru

Daotong was able to run back from Qianyang County in the southernmost part of Chenzhou Prefecture, and Xu Teng was able to run back from Xingning County in Chenzhou, but the others did not receive the news. How is this possible?

Soon, Hong Chengchou found some patterns from these names, that is, those who escaped were either northerners or Han bannermen, while those who surrendered and those who lost contact were all southerners. Obviously, there are no more

People were optimistic about the Qing government's rule south of the Yangtze River, and those who fled back probably had to do so out of their own hands.

"anything else?"

"No, no more."

Seeing Huang Zhilin's behavior, Hong Chengchou smiled miserably and said: "Don't worry, I can still hold on, there must be worse news. Having said it in one breath, I can feel relieved."

"Hey." Seeing this, Huang Zhilin could only say: "The news sent by Hu Quancai yesterday said that Qihuang Forty-Eight Village had rebelled, and Li Youshi and Cao Yinchang deceived Zhou Shizhong, Chen Hongfan and others into the village.

Kill the sacrifice flag together..."

After hearing the bad news, Hong Chengchou was speechless for a while.

The forty-eight villages in Qihuang and the thirteen villages in Kuidong are not accurate numbers. They refer to a series of anti-Qing armed forces located at the junction of the three provinces of Huguang, Henan, and South Zhili. They are stationed in various places in the form of mountain villages. There are about three

There are more than a hundred cottages, the most famous of which are the 48 cottages, so they are called Qihuang Forty-Eight Villages.

These forts were all stationed in places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Most of them were headed by local gentry, who had great local influence. They controlled a large area at the junction of the three provinces, and usually went down to the mountains to harass various places. When the Qing army invaded, they would watch and help each other.

The Kuidong Thirteen Family and the Kuidong Thirteen Family formed a two-sided pincer attack on the Qing army in the north of Huguang.

situation.

When Hong Chengchou was pacifying Jiangnan, he used all his strength to attack those anti-Qing armed forces operating in the Yinghuo Mountains of South Zhili in this vast area, and captured Zhang Jinyan, the chief military officer of the General League of these anti-Qing armed forces, to surrender.

. But this is limited to his ability to control southern Zhili. The anti-Qing armed forces in Huguang still have a huge scale, and they are formed with anti-Qing armed forces such as the Kuidong Thirteen Family and the Yaohuang Thirteen Family.

A huge threat to the Qing Dynasty's rule in northern Huguang. This time he served as the Southwest Economic Strategy, and the recruitment of the Qihuang Forty-Eight Villages was an extremely important political achievement after he took office.

Of course, the so-called appeasement only appeased some of the cottages, and then used these cottages as a support point to fight or pull other cottages, gradually eroding the anti-Qing forces in this vast area, and establishing the Manchu and Qing dynasty at the junction of the three provinces.

The ruling order of the zone.

The most important persons in charge of this matter in the Changsha shogunate are Zhou Shizhong and Chen Hongfan. The former is a bannerman of the Han army, and the latter is a well-known local squire in Huguang.

Mo Cao Yinchang started to recruit his close friend Li Youshi, who was also the leader of a village, and used this as a breakthrough to launch a campaign to suppress the anti-Qing armed forces of the entire Qihuang Forty-Eight Villages.

Hong Chengchou has always admired their work very much. Chen Hongfan still pretended to be a survivor and refused to accept his official appointment. But Zhou Shizhong was a staff member he was very optimistic about, and now the recruitment plan is almost complete.

After successfully conquering Guangxi, he planned to recommend him to serve as the chief envoy to Guangxi and the counselor to guard Zuojiang Road. All the joints in the court had been taken care of, and he was just waiting for the army to destroy the country to determine the general trend of Yunnan.

Later, he moved to Guangxi, so that he could formally join the army. Unexpectedly, Zhou Shizhong died at the place where he first made great achievements, and the Qihuang Forty-Eight Village also surrendered and then rebelled.

"Why is this so?"

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