When the public trial ended, bursts of cheers erupted in front of the salt warehouse in Minghechang Town.
The vast majority of the people in the town were very grateful to the young Lu Jianguo, and even had some support. As for those wealthy families who were rescued by King Lu's troops at the critical moment after the city was broken last night and were about to be plundered by the rebels.
The merchants were in mixed moods again.
I am grateful to Lu Jianguo, but also somewhat secretly dissatisfied.
Almost every family was forced to donate money to support the army, and the Yu and Ye families were even forced to donate 50,000 taels each. Although for these two families, 50,000 taels was actually not much.
During the attack, they all took the initiative and gave out ten thousand taels each to reward the brave men.
But after all, it was forced, so I was still a little dissatisfied, but there was nothing I could do about it.
Lu Jianguo's money was not easy to owe. Shen Wenzhong and other passers-by were more polite, but the soldiers from the Shenji Camp of the Flag Bearer Camp were not.
The military discipline was strict last night, and there was no looting at all. The only gain was that after overthrowing the more than a thousand rebel soldiers, some of the looting proceeds of the rebels were recovered from their hands. Everyone is waiting for these wealthy households to donate more, so that His Highness the Supervisor can also
Only then can I have money to reward everyone.
"King Yiyang?"
In a courtyard of the salt farm, Zhu Yihai, Shen Chenquan, Zhang Mingyang and others took time out to sit down and discuss matters.
Before those rebel officers were killed, they were interrogated by surprise, and they also learned that there was another prison state in Wu. Even when they discussed the prison state, they were no later than Zhu Yihai, and they raised their flags almost at the same time.
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And they now claim to have 200,000 troops, even stronger than Lu Jianguo.
Zhu Yihai had already recovered the three prefectures of Yue, but King Yiyang had already sent troops to Yue from Wu. Even Huang Binqing had already been sent by King Yiyang.
This is very surprising.
No wonder Huang Binqing didn't even look down on the earl conferred by Zhu Yihai. It turned out that he had already organized it.
This Chen Wu was actually the Zhendong Bo appointed by the King of Yiyang, and even became the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. There was another dynasty who went south with him first, but he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Zhang Mingyang is still like a wooden man, "What qualifications does King Yiyang have to supervise the country? He is just a prince of Zhou Dynasty!"
Zhu Yihai also felt a little troublesome.
The king of Zhou in the late Ming Dynasty was quite famous. Li Zicheng opened the Fengfu three times and conquered the vassal land of Zhou Xiaowang Zhu Gongzhen. This Zhou king had a much better reputation than King Fu. When Li Zicheng opened the Fengfu three times, it is said that he took the palace inventory.
All the silver was taken out, and a heavy reward was given to recruit brave men to resist. One thief was captured for a hundred taels, and another thief was killed for fifty taels. A total of 1.4 million taels of silver were taken out to reward the army.
With this, he prevented the invading army from attacking the city again and again, and even made the servants of his own palace starved for food.
In the end, they could no longer stop it, so they dug up the embankments of the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng Mansion, leading the gentry and officials in the city to escape from Kaifeng.
It is also said that after Chongzhen hanged himself, King Fu, King Lu and other kings of Zhou were in Huai. At that time, Nanjing Civil and Military even planned to make King Zhou the emperor. The reason was King Zhou's outstanding performance when facing Li Zicheng. However, King Zhou was seriously ill at the time.
, and died soon after.
Hongguang established the title, established the capital in Nanjing, and named the son of the crown prince of the Zhou king as the new king of Zhou.
However, this grandson of King Xiao of Zhou was very cowardly. After King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he immediately crossed the river and surrendered.
"Zhu Chaoyang? It's impossible. According to the Zhou family's generation, isn't this Yiyang King Zhu Chaoyang the great-uncle of King Zhou Xiao? Is he the ancestor of the Zhou King Zhu Lunkui who was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty before? Why is there such a big difference in generation? It can't be
Is it fake?" Shen Wenzhong expressed doubts.
Zhu Yihai believed that there was no possibility of fraud in this regard. After all, the information obtained now showed that King Yiyang had many supporters, including Huaiyang Governor Tian Yang, Minister of Household Affairs Shen Tingyang, and Military Supervisor Jing Benche. As well as the support of Huang Binqing, Chen Wu, Wang Chaoxian, Wu Zhikui and other general military officers, these people are of high status and cannot be deceived by a fake county king.
"It has been nearly three hundred years since Taizu founded the country. Each vassal has multiplied many branches. Some are growing quickly, some are growing slowly, and it is normal for the generational differences to be large."
King Zhu Chaoyang of Yiyang is the seventh-generation grandson of the first Zhou king, King Zhou Xiao is the tenth-generation grandson, and the Zhou king of Hongguangfeng is the twelfth-generation grandson, a difference of five generations, but considering that it is nearly three hundred years, the difference of five generations is not impossible.
Just like Zhu Yihai is the 10th grandson of Taizu, Chongzhen is the 11th grandson of Taizu, the King of Tang is the 9th grandson of Taizu, and Zhu Chaoyin is the 8th grandson of Taizu, they are all different.
Now I can only believe that this Zhu Chaoyang is the real King of Yiyang. After all, the key to the problem is not whether it is true or not, but that he has been supported by a group of civil servants and generals in Sanwu. It seems that he also has the support of many gentry in the Sanwu area, such as several members of Fushe and several societies. Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others have already supported it.
They also claim to have 200,000 soldiers and horses.
This was a huge impact on Zhu Yihai's newly built Lu Jianguo court.
Previously, Zhu Yihai had been thinking about the Tang King Zhu Yujian, and how to take over the throne before him to supervise the country, seize the opportunity, and occupy the orthodoxy.
But who would have thought that this would actually create an additional problem, and another king of Yiyang would supervise the country.
He thought carefully and found that there were many emperors and emperors in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty. For example, King Fu served as a prisoner before he came to the throne, King Lu served as a prisoner before he surrendered, Zhu Yihai served as a prisoner before he came to the throne, and King Tang also served as a prisoner before he came to the throne. country.
Even King Jingjiang of Guangxi served as a prisoner of the country, and then there seems to be a county prince in Jiangxi who served as a prisoner of the country. It seems that there was indeed a king of Yiyang in Suzhou and Changzhou who served as a prisoner of the country.
However, they raised troops in the Susong area and failed quickly, so it is not clear whether they ever formally supervised the country.
Although Zhu Yihai can roughly guess the main reason why King Yiyang is now known as 200,000 soldiers and has not caused any trouble. Look at the general officers under him, and look at Chen Wu, Huang Binqing and others who are now going south. , are all a group of deserters.
Each one was escaping faster than the other. Now that the Qing army had occupied an important place in the south of the Yangtze River like Su Song, they would not easily give them a chance to make a comeback, especially since it was a flat area in the Yangtze River Delta and there was no danger to defend it.
Without some firm will, you will definitely not be able to achieve anything.
Shen Chenquan seemed a little excited.
"I didn't expect that there would be so many imperial troops in the land of Sanwu. I accidentally attacked my family last night."
Zhu Yihai sneered disdainfully, "What do you expect from a deserted general like Chen Wu?"
"Your Highness, should you send someone to find the two generals Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen and ask them to temporarily withdraw their troops and not fight against their own people? At this time, it is more important to join forces to fight against the captives. How can there be internal strife?"
Zhu Yihai was not satisfied with Shen Chenquan's naivety, but he could understand his thoughts. After all, the Tartars were now powerful.
But he would not believe Chen Wu and others, nor would he believe King Yiyang and others, because history had long proved that they could not be helped.
Who is Huang Binqing, the chief military officer of the Land and Water Bureau granted by King Yiyang?
Historically, this guy either fled from the Qing army or retreated to Zhoushan, but he made several raids and annexed the Ming soldiers who resisted the Qing. For example, Wang Chaoxian, Wang Zhiren, Zhang Guozhu, Shen Tingyang, Jing Benche, etc. were all attacked and annexed by him. People and horses rob ships and supplies.
When King Lu was in crisis, both sides refused to allow him to retreat to Zhoushan.
Is this kind of person considered a human being?
According to historical records, Huang Binqing was timid against powerful enemies but brave enough to harm his own kind.
And the Chen Wu in front of him came to Ningbo from Jiaxing. Even if he came to be the governor, he must at least have the appearance of a court governor. As soon as he came, he launched troops to loot and murder the people. What the hell is this official army?
If you expect this group of people to restore the world and revive the Ming Dynasty, you might as well expect Zhang Xianzhong's Xiying and Li Zicheng's Shunjun.
Historically, Zhang Xianzhong's remaining Xiying camp and Li Zicheng's remaining Zhongzhen camp did persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty for decades. Are they no better than these so-called general soldiers?
But at this time, Zhu Yihai did have to consider an issue, that is, no matter what, since they have raised the banner of prison, they can be regarded as a court. If there is an internal fight at this time, it will be regarded as a battle of orthodoxy.
"The matter of King Chongming of Yiyang supervising the country has not yet been clarified. Guhui sent envoys to contact and find out. If it is really the descendants of Taizu who led the resistance against the Qing Dynasty, Guhui will be very happy.
At that time, who will be regarded as the orthodox one, or whether Wu and Yue will join forces to fight against the invaders, restore Nanjing in the future, and worship the Xiaoling Mausoleum together, this is a matter for later."
He calmed down and said to Shen Chenquan, "But right now, I don't care whether Chen Wu, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, is real or fake. I only see him harming the people and poisoning the place, so I can't just sit back and watch, let alone tolerate it."
"Gu is determined to get rid of Chen Wu first. If this person had taken the initiative to tell the truth yesterday when Gu sent people to contact him, and could control his subordinates, everything would be easy to talk about. Now that he is in this situation, Gu will never tolerate him!"
As soon as the word "Wu Yue" came out, it actually showed Zhu Yihai's attitude. Regardless of whether King Yiyang was true or false, he would never give up his status as a supervisor of the country.
The worst-case scenario is that Wu and Yue do not attack each other and join forces to fight against the captives. In the future, whoever recovers Nanjing first will be king.
Zhejiang has been divided into two Zhejiang since ancient times, bounded by the Qiantang River. The left side of the river is also called east Zhejiang, and the right side of the river is also called west Zhejiang. East Zhejiang is mainly mountainous, which was called Yue Di in ancient times, and the right side of the river is mainly the Jiahuhang Plain. It belonged to Wu region in ancient times and is closer to the culture of Wusong area.
There are eight prefectures in Zhejiang, the three prefectures of Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Hu are in the west of Zhejiang, while in the east of Zhejiang, in addition to Ningshaotai, there are eight prefectures of Wenchu and Jinquyan.
Zhu Yihai called several soldiers and wrote several letters, which were sent to Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, as well as Wang Mingqian, Wang Xiang, Qian Sule and others who were staying behind.
"Tell Governor Wang and Mr. Zhang that no matter what identity Chen Wu claims to be, I want them to take down this thief as planned and restore peace to eastern Zhejiang as soon as possible."
"Tell General Wang Mingqian and Minister Qian to be careful of Wang Chaoxian and Huang Binqing. These two people deliberately concealed information from us. They must have evil intentions and ulterior motives. Watch out for them to take advantage of the situation."
"If they dare to lead troops to invade, feel free to give them a severe blow!"
"Your Highness, when the country is in crisis, why not be more tolerant to the generals? Tolerance is for the sake of the country." Shen Chenquan persuaded.
Zhu Yihai shook his head and replied without hesitation, "The weaker the country is, the less it can tolerate these national thieves. No matter whether they are civil servants, military generals, gentry, or ordinary people, if they dare to raise their swords towards me, the people of the Ming Dynasty, they will be stabbed first." !”