Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 121
The night is quiet, only the sound of waves beating against the rocks endlessly, and the sea breeze is light, shaking the treetops.

A few fishing lights guide in the dark night.

A fishing boat slowly approached the fishing fire, and Mr. Yan got off the boat.

Deputy General of the Yulin Battalion, Yang Boxing, led Yan Wogong to come to Zhu Yihai through many secret posts, "Your Highness has been waiting for a long time."

"On this midsummer night, there is a wind blowing by the seaside, and some octopus and fried octopus, and some shrimp are actually not bad, let's try it together."

Yan I thanked you, and took a bunch of sea prawns with both hands.

"Is it going well in Hangzhou this time?"

"Well, it's going well. Boluo has no doubts in my ministers. Even the traitors Zhang Cunren and Tian Xiong have no doubts. They have entrusted them with important responsibilities. I hope I can recruit more civil and military officials from Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yihai chewed on the very tough octopus tendrils, while taking out a list from his arms and handing it to Mr. Yan, "I've prepared it for you a long time ago."

My father Yan looked through the campfire.

I saw Wu Kai, Marquis of Kaiyuan, Shi Zhongfang, Marquis of Dingyuan, Gu Qixun of Yi'anbo, General Jiang Junxian of Kaiping, General Wang Yongsheng of Anyuan, General Tian Dekun of Zhaowu, General Chen Long of Yiyi, General Shen Chenglong of Zhongyong, and General Hu Maofang of Huben. , Pingyi General Lu Mingshi, General Soldier Chen Dezhi, etc.

Two marquises and one uncle, seven generals with seals and one general officer, eleven people.

The above names are more scary than the last, but Yan Wogong has some impressions except Wu Kai, who is Conglong Yuanxun, who is now the commander-in-chief of Shipu Town, guarding Shipu Town on the Xiangshan Peninsula between Ningtai and others. Never heard of one of them.

"these are?"

Zhu Yihai grabbed a boiled prawn and peeled the shell slowly, while saying, "Wu Kai, you should have heard that the former commander of the Zhedonghai gate guard, and later served as the provincial Zhenhai gate general, is the leader of the lonely co-conspirator. , You said that such a credit, it is not too much to give him a title alone, right?"

Yan Wogong was a little confused. As far as he knew, after Lu Jianguo ascended the throne in Taizhou, although he also conferred some titles, he was more cautious and did not confer indiscriminately.

Among the generals under his command, only Wang Zhiren was named Wu Ningbo, Zhang Mingzhen was named Zhendong Bo, as for Zhennanbo Fang Guoan, Nan'an Marquis Zheng Zhilong, etc., they are obviously different, and they are somewhat restrictive and appeasement.

Although Wu Kai had contributed to the conspiracy of the first uprising, he did not get the title.

Why did he suddenly become Marquis of Kaiyuan again?He remembered that Wu Kai had only been granted the title of General Kaiyuan back then.

This number is obviously a miscellaneous general.

"Gu heard that the Tatars are very good at buying people's hearts, and they set very high conditions for the surrender of our civil and military officials, especially those generals who lead troops. rank appointment."

"Of course, I can't be stingy to my loyal soldiers. In troubled times, loyalty and bravery should be rewarded. Therefore, I have recently conferred many generals, or conferred titles, as hereditary, or conferred generals with seals to command troops. , to increase the power."

"It's just that some people failed Gu, and under Yan Qing's vigorous consolation, they were actually surrendered."

When Yan Wogong heard this, he understood everything in an instant.

Wu Kai, Marquis of Kaiyuan, and Shi Zhongfang, Marquis of Dingyuan, that's what happened.

"His Royal Highness asked the minister to take this list and report it to the Beijing Luting, saying that he had successfully recruited these generals under the command of Lu Jianguo?"

"That's right, that's exactly what it means."

"Except for General Wu, what are the positions of the other generals?" Yan Wogong asked.

Shi Zhongfang was originally from Xiaoshan, and last time he came across the sea with his servant Chen Qianfu.Zhu Yihai also didn't hide from Yan my father that this Dingyuan Hou Shi Zhongfang was originally a thousand households in a guard station in Xiaoshan. When Yu Ying recruited Xiaoshan to surrender, he led his family to respond and captured the false county magistrate to welcome Yu Ying.

Later, Yu Ying led his own battalion of rebel soldiers on the Qiantang River defense line. Last time, he accompanied Chen Qianfu to transport money and food across the sea, and stayed in the Northern Expedition Army. Now he is the commander of the fourth battalion.

On the list Zhu Yihai gave Yan Wogong, he wrote him Dingyuanhou and Xiaoshan Rebel General.

Yi'anbo Gu Qixun is actually just a deputy of the personal army under the command of Zhen Dongbo Zhang Mingzhen. He used to be a bandit leader with more than a dozen horse thieves under him. He was known as the Thirteen Blood Eagle Knights.General Jiang Junxian of Kaiping, General Wang Yongsheng of Anyuan, and General Chen Long of Yiyi were actually one of the thirteen horse thieves back then.

Zhongyong General Shen Chenglong, Huben General Hu Maofang, and Dingyi General Lu Mingshi are all brave veterans under Wang Chuangzi.

The general Chen Dezhi turned out to be just a water thief.

Most of them were in Zhu Yihai's Northern Expedition Army, except for Wu Kai, the tallest was just a general, and the lowest was just a team leader.

These people have a characteristic, they are either ex-military officers or ex-bandits, bandits, pirates and water bandits. They are all very brave, and don't look at their bad background, but after Chen Qianfu's careful examination, they are more loyal and brave.

Pirates, water bandits, mountain bandits, and horse bandits say they are loyal and brave, but they are not contradictory, just like many bad guys are sometimes filial sons.

Zhu Yihai took out another list, which was the list of 21 middle and senior generals including deputy generals Lei Hubiao and Yang Zilong, and participating generals Lu Yicheng and Gao Shuxun.

When Yan Wogong asked, it turned out that these lieutenant generals, participating generals, and guerrilla generals were no more than team lieutenants at most, and several of them were just ordinary soldiers or servants.

"Your Highness, if they are all like General Wu Kai, it will be easier for the Tartars to trust them. At least they should be officers like General Shi who have more than a thousand households in the original guard."

Zhu Yihai said helplessly, "Originally, I wanted one of the four princes to pretend to be Pijiang, Yang Wencong, the nine friends in the painting, and Liu Kongzhao, the honored minister who previously supervised Caojiang in Nanjing, and they pretended to surrender, but they were all unwilling. "

When Mao Bijiang heard that he was asked to surrender to the Tartars in a false manner, he shook his head like a rattling drum. In fact, he reluctantly accepted the false surrender for the country, but he would not do it if he had to shave his head. Moreover, he said that he was famous, so if he surrendered I am afraid that the Tartars will call him to Beijing, so I still don't want to take the risk.

Yang Wencong and Liu Kongzhao also resolutely refused to surrender.

In the end, Zhu Yihai had no choice but to find a group of willing warriors, all of whom were not of good backgrounds, and their current positions were not high, but they were more loyal and brave. In the end, in order to be able to fool the Tartars, he had to list Yongli Yuan from Wu Kai list.

There are a total of 32 people, pretending to be the leaders of 32 Lu Jianguo or Jiangnan folk anti-Qing rebels.

Yan Wogong felt a little embarrassed, and the fake was a little too fake.

People like Wu Kai can still cheat, but it's too much for you to have a group of servants and team leaders pretend to be Uncle Hou and General Hangyin.

"Anyway, to trick the Tatars, I didn't intend to let these people lead troops to surrender the captives. What I mean is that you are not the ambassador of Zhejiang Province. The Tatars give you the cheap power to recruit. You can report with this list. Just go up."

"Anyway, whether it's Wu Kai or Lu Mingshi, it's just your merit in recruiting security. There may be three to five thousand people under their name, or thousands of people, scattered all over the country, surrendering to you, accepting your recruitment and reorganization, and you ask the Tartars to invite them. The official begs the noble, and see if you can get some food and weapons by the way. From time to time, you report to the Tartars, saying that under your leadership, they have fought a battle with Lu Jianguo's subordinates somewhere under your leadership, and won How, how many kills, how many attacks have been contained, etc., even if we need to act, we can cooperate."

"Even in the future, I can send troops to Jiangnan Prefecture, and I can also use their banner."

Yan Wogong has to admire, Lu Jianguo's idea is very wild, it is completely trying to play the Tartars like monkeys.

"I think it's actually feasible. After all, in Jiaxing now, you are Mr. Yan in Wen, and Li Yuchun in Wu. You are all on your own. It's okay to cover up together."

"Now Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Jigang in Haiyan County have successfully sneaked into the captive camp, raised the green flag and mounted the Tartars."

"I heard that Bo Luo also agreed to keep the marquis for Zheng Jiwu and the earl for Zhu Dagang. Look, isn't this going well?"

Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Dagang pretended to surrender. This is a big drama jointly performed by Zhu Yihai and Yan Wogong. Yan Wogong recruited them for Li Yuchun, and then asked Boluo for credit. Earl Marquis.

Then Boluo and Zhang Cunren followed the usual practice, with a swipe of a pen, they retained their titles at the same time, and also promoted them to ranks, conferred the names of generals and deputy generals, and even paid for the two battalions of Haiyan's troops on the surface. Well, the first batch of food and rewards are already on the way, although according to the usual practice, the food and salary may only be this batch, and it will be difficult to give them later, but at least they have been cheated.

Because of this successful precedent, Zhu Yihai now made a bigger list, and made a bunch of Hou Bo, General Guyin, and generals of the general army to surrender.

"This is also to cooperate with you, the newly appointed Zhejiang appeasement ambassador. Since you are valued by Boluo and the others, you must show some decent merits in recruiting security. Besides, we can also use this method to get a bunch of banner leaders. , and it will be convenient for us to act here.”

"Maybe I can cheat some money, food and weapons."

Yan Wogong couldn't help admiring him, "Your Highness is really clever!"

"Hahaha, this is just fishing in muddy water. The muddier the water, the better. If you can touch it for a while, then you can slowly arrange all the counties in Jiaxing to be taken over by these surrendered soldiers and horses, and leave a prefecture for Li Yuchun. That’s fine. At that time, all the counties in Jiaxing will display the green flag of the Tartars on the surface, but in fact they will be occupied by our Ming army, wouldn’t that be great?”

Yan Wogong thought to himself, only you, Your Highness, can think of this, and even dare to do it.

But think about it, I, a squire who pretended to surrender, are now mixed up with the Tartars. Zheng Jiwu from Haiyan has all directly become the princes and uncles of the Qing Dynasty, the deputy general of the general army, and Li Yuchun have already sent Zhu Yihai the redemption bank of a prefecture and seven counties, and also paid the interest and handling fees. Most of the several 10 taels of silver have been sent to Jian Guo. Thinking about it this way, there seems to be nothing impossible.

"Bo Luo is about to return to Beijing with the main force. I guess he will take you to Beijing at that time. You, the envoy of surrender, must go to Beijing to meet the regent Dorgon. Only with his approval can you really get The Tartars trust and reuse you. Therefore, Gu has prepared merits for you in advance, and then you will be able to be reused when you go to Beijing to meet Dorgon." Zhu Yihai said with a smile.

"It turns out that His Highness has already arranged for such a long-term plan."

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