Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 128 Li Chengdong

Although they were in the army of the Northern Expedition, the Meng family still sneaked in to add some atmosphere to everyone.Early in the morning, she and her younger sister began to prepare for a family feast together.

"Today, taking the opportunity of this banquet, I invite Jian Guo to come to the banquet. It is just for the third and fourth younger sisters to meet with Jian Guo. If Jian Guo can watch it, then this matter will be a matter of course." Meng finally finalized the menu, Started to play side drums for two younger sisters who had just been picked up from Shaoxing.

Before, she and her husband talked about the lack of people around Jian Guo, and wanted to recommend her younger sister, so she immediately sent her servant back to Shaoxing to deliver a letter to her father, asking for his attitude, and at the same time writing to the younger sisters, asking for their wishes.

For this matter, neither Master Meng nor the third and fourth sisters in Shaoxing's family objected to it. Even the two-year-old girl couldn't help but admire him because she had heard too much about Lu Jianguo's heroic deeds recently.

After getting the reply of approval from there, Meng Shi immediately sent someone to bring his father and younger sister over. Today's banquet, even if it is the last hurdle, if Lu Jianguo can take a fancy to the younger sisters, then it will be done.

The third younger sister Meng was quiet, but the fourth younger sister Meng jumped a little bit, holding a comb to the mirror, but chattering non-stop, "I heard that His Highness is a good shotgunner, who once shot down two wild geese with one shot, isn't that right, sister."

"Then I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I heard from your brother-in-law that not only is your highness good at riding and shooting, but he is also really good at shooting muskets. He can even handle cannons. He is in his 20s. Now I am busy with ZTE's great cause, and I am focused on the Northern Expedition, and there are no people around, and I don't know how many people are watching, this opportunity is rare, you have to hurry up."

But Sanmei Meng asked with her chin in hand, "Your Highness is not a warrior who only knows how to ride and shoot?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Your Highness's poems and essays are also excellent. He even wrote several poems with strong emotions in public. Your brother-in-law said that there is a legacy of Wei Wu and Tang Zong."

"Sister, did you speak too well of His Highness? It sounds more powerful than the four young masters." The fourth sister said.

Meng said with a smile, "The four young masters are only sought after by young scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, even the famous prostitutes on the Qinhuai River. They are all born in famous families, and they are indeed masters of writing. They like to hang out in brothels. Seeds, but if you really want to tell my sister, they are not as good as His Highness, not even your brother-in-law."

"The country is in peril, and the man who really does practical things to save the country is the real hero."

"By the way, today I also invited the four young masters of Fushe, pretending to be Pijiang to come to the court in Haiyan to raise righteousness, and being conferred by His Highness, and asked him to recommend talented people, pretending to be young masters, I went to letters to recruit friends from Fushe, etc. Hou Fangyu, Chen Zhenhui and Fang Yizhi have arrived one after another. In addition, Huang Zongyan, Tu Xiangmei and many other celebrities of Fushe are also there. I have already invited them today. After you see them with your own eyes, you will know that the four sons praised by scholars are actually not as good as His Highness Too many."

Meng Sanmei is a literary young woman who likes poetry and drama. In the boudoir, she also likes to listen to the love stories of talented scholars and beautiful women, such as the love story between Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun, Mao Pijiang and Dong Xiaowan, and even Wu Sangui who became a beauty in anger. Ah, all of these deeply moved the girl who was in Huaichun.

In fact, he was not very happy about his sister and father wanting to send her into the palace, but she didn't have enough courage to object.

"Ah, will Fourth Young Master come too?" Sanmei Meng's eyes widened.

But Simei Meng obviously prefers famous women like Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan. "Are Sister Dong and Sister Li really so beautiful?"

Looking at the two younger sisters, Meng could only shake her head slightly. She also came from this age, "Third sister only wears this pair of pearl earrings today. Take off the other gold and silver jewelry. Your Highness advocates frugality now. I don't like it." luxurious."

Sanmei said, "I heard that His Highness used to like luxury the most. There are [-] sets of nail sets alone, and there are all kinds of gold, jade, ivory and tortoiseshell."

"That was in the past. Your Highness now shares food and clothing with the soldiers. He is very simple. You don't even see gold or jade on your body."

This pair of pearl earrings is good to wear, it not only adds temperament to the third sister, but it is not tacky.

She picked out a few more silver ornaments for the fourth sister, but she didn't use any gold or jade. The fourth sister was young and cheerful, innocent and innocent, but with a few silver ornaments on her body, she looked even more innocent and lovely.

The clothes also try to choose a more elegant collocation.

"If the prison country has any questions, you can answer them. You don't have to be too restrictive."

"Understood." Fourth Sister smiled.

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After the imperial meeting was over, Chen Qianfu came over to invite Zhu Yihai to a family banquet, "Jiayue just came from Shaoxing, and Zhuo Jing made arrangements for a family banquet to welcome the wind, and I dared to invite His Highness to the banquet."

Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "Okay, your father Menggong is a loyal squire, and I would like to thank him personally."

Mr. Meng is a rich man in Shaoxing. He not only used money to recruit soldiers and horses for his son-in-law to help defend Qiantang, but also paid a lot of silver several times for military pay. When Chen Qianfu went north, he paid another 1 taels of silver.

And this time when Mr. Meng came, he generously took 2 taels. Although Mr. Meng actually had some selfish intentions, for example, he took the risk to go north this time because he wanted to be the father-in-law of the country.At the same time, I also want to find a family for my sons and brothers and nephews.

But compared to the stinginess of Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Chongzhen, the emperor's son-in-law only borrowed a few thousand taels, and even withheld the money given to him by the queen. This old man Meng is undoubtedly a rare person.

Zhu Yihai then invited Deng Wang, academicians Xu Shiqi, Shen Chenquan, and the new four governors, as well as Yu Dafu, Shen Wenzhong and Zhu Chenggong to the banquet.

Chen Qianfu and his wife also invited Mao Pijiang, Huang Zongyan and other famous people in Fushe.

The commander-in-chief of Yulin Yang Boxing, the commander-in-chief of Jinwu Zhang Mingyang, and the commander-in-chief of the Bannerman Battalion Zhang Quan led a team of elite troops to escort them to a mansion where Chen Qianfu and his wife temporarily lived.

The Meng family is still busy with the banquet.

It was still early, so Zhu Yihai and Chen Qianfu sat in the courtyard to enjoy the cool air.

"Your Highness, I have received a tip-off that Li Chengdong, the commander of the Tartar Su Song, is gathering troops to attack Chongming."

Zhu Yihai was not too surprised when he heard the news.

The Yiyang Kings in Chongming were actually formed by the navy that had disbanded from Nanjing, together with the local civil servants and military generals. Although King Yiyang was the king of the feudal clan of Zhou, he had neither ability nor courage. He was pushed to this position because there were no other clans to support him at that time.

Originally, the main force of the Qing army went south to Hangzhou, and the three Wus were empty. It was a good time for them to develop, but these people wasted precious time. common people.

These rebels are cast aside by the people, not as good as the Beibing's reputation.

Later, under the suggestion of Xia Yunyi and Chen Zilong, they barely made a strategy, planning to deal with the Qing army along the coast of the lake, but Xia Yunyi's books were only literati, Tian Yang and others were also literati, and Jing Benche, Shen Tingyang and others were not familiar with the military. , Huang Fei, Wu Zhikui and other generals are all defeated generals, and not many sincerely want to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

This strategy is unrealistic. Even before the three Wu lands at the door of the house have regained control, they have already begun to think about reaching out to control Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places.

And Chen Wu, Wang Chaoxian, Huang Binqing and other powerful generals also took the opportunity to go south, saying that they were going to the governor's place, but in fact they wanted to stay away from the three Wus and the Qing army, and at the same time wanted to seize the territory.

In this way, the strength of King Yiyang and others became more and more dispersed.

This is the way to die.

Previously, the strategy of taking Su Song first, then attacking Hangzhou, and then recovering Nanjing was decided, but there was no movement. build up.

In contrast, the Qing army reacted faster.

Li Chengdong, the commander-in-chief of Su Song, planned to capture the thief and the king based on the military situation he had mastered. First, he would break Chongming's thief nest, take down Yiyang King, the puppet supervisor, and then defeat the Ming army in various places in Su Song.

He even deliberately waited for Huang Fei and other generals to gather and besiege Suzhou. After all, it would be more troublesome to encircle and suppress Suzhou one by one, but it would be more convenient and quick to defend the city and fight the Ming army.Li Chengdong is also an experienced general. He knows that with the strength of these defeated troops, the more troops there are, the weaker the combat power will be, and the easier it is to defeat.

Now Li Chengdong is going to start the tactic of changing his family and let Huang Fei and others besiege Suzhou, but he brings the elite to fight Chongming. He is very confident that Suzhou can hold on until he breaks Chongming and comes back with the power of victory.

"How is this Li Chengdong's strength?" Zhu Yihai also knows Li Chengdong's name, but mainly because in history, anyway, he became the leader of the Dongxun Group of the Yongli Dynasty, controlled the Guangdong area, and once fought the Qing army in a very embarrassing situation. .

However, Zhu Yihai didn't think that Li Chengdong was so powerful, because anyway, the Qing army he fought later was mainly the green battalion after the surrender of the Ming army.

"Some people say that Li Chengdong was originally Gao Jie's old subordinate? He also came from a thief?"

Chen Qianfu is in charge of the military situation, and now that the Northern Expeditionary Army has quietly entered the territory of Su Song, he is also inquiring and collecting information on Li Chengdong, the general soldier of Su Song.

He shook his head, "Li Chengdong was indeed Gao Jie's subordinate, but he was not from a bandit. In fact, it was just a rumor. Li Chengdong was originally a frontier soldier in Ningxia, and was later transferred to Zhenbiao guerrillas in Henan, and participated in the Battle of Kaifeng." , because of his meritorious service in the Battle of Kaifeng, he was promoted to deputy commander and transferred to Zhili."

"After Emperor Lie died for his country, he ran from Shanxi to Nanzhi, and then joined Gao Jie's command. His relationship with Gao Jie was average. After all, he had only been under his command for more than a year."

"When Li Chengdong was under Gao Jie's command, he was not outstanding. After Gao Jie was killed, his subordinates had the highest status and the strongest strength was Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen, who was promoted by Nanjing to be the Prince Shaobao and added to the post of Zuodu Supervisor."

"However, after Gao Jie's death, the imperial court did not maintain the town of Gao Jie, but divided Gao Jie's department into seven. Gou, Hu Maozhen and Guo Hu are stationed in Sizhou, and Li Chengdong is stationed in Xuzhou."

Zhu Yihai could hear that although Hongguang set up the four Jiangbei towns when he came to the throne, he was actually very afraid of these disobedient four towns. Not affiliated.

At this time, Li Chengdong is also in charge of the headquarters and stationed in Xuzhou, which is considered to be his own.

The reason for the disintegration of Gao Jie Town was that apart from the fact that the imperial court took the opportunity to dismember Gao Jie after Gao Jie’s death, it was also because Gao Jie had a very mixed army. He himself was General Li Zicheng, but he later surrendered to Ming Dynasty. The old brothers he brought out from Li Zicheng, Guo Hu is a general of the Qin Army, Yang Chengzu and even Luo Rucai’s former subordinates, most of these people are from Shaanxi, and Li Chengdong is from Ningxia, so although he is an officer, he can also integrate into this circle .

However, compared to Gao Jie’s subordinates, most of whom come from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region, Li Chengdong’s confidantes are basically from Henan. Although he is from Ningxia, he really started in Henan. He is also from Tongxu, Yin Zhirong is from Shangqiu, all around Kaifeng, and Yang Dafu is also from Henan.

After the Qing army went south, Li Chengdong led his troops to surrender in Xuzhou, and he was still the commander in chief. The Qing army didn't pay much attention to him. After all, even among the seven ministries after Gao Jie's death, he belonged to the marginal branch.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Li Chengdong performed very hard when he fought Yangzhou, and he added some points, and then he went to the south of the Yangtze River, and he always played the role of a vanguard. He was very cruel when dealing with his former colleagues of the Ming Dynasty.

Afterwards, he followed the national treasure to suppress the rebel forces in Changzhen and other places. Because of his hard work, he was awarded the general soldier of Su Song and moved to Su Song to let him continue to play a role.

In history, Li Chengdong also served as the general soldier of Su Song. He frantically suppressed the soldiers and civilians of the Three Wu Uprising, and created the astonishing Jiangyin Massacre, Jiading Massacre, and Kunshan Massacre. Dingzi, and then went south to Zhejiang and Fujian with Boluo, made new achievements, and then invaded Guangdong, and was finally promoted to Admiral of Guangdong.

In the end, because he felt that he had made great contributions, but the Qing Dynasty refused to let him be the governor, he was very dissatisfied, so he rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, at that time, apart from the unequal distribution of spoils and the feeling that the Qing Dynasty had treated him badly, it was also related to the situation in Lingnan at that time. Wang Zhu Yihai also took advantage of the situation to launch a wave of offensive in Fujian at that time, capturing many places.

Li Chengdong was almost surrounded, and Guangdong became an isolated island, so seeing that he was in danger, he simply reversed.

But even though it was reversed, in fact, Li Chengdong's performance in history is not a real reform, and he really supports Nanming, but just has other plans.

Although in the first few years of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Chengdong seemed to be the nemesis of the Southern Ming army, invincible and unstoppable, but in fact, after careful study, Li Chengdong was not unable to fight in the Ming Dynasty, but became the god of war in the Qing Dynasty, but he fought from the south of the Yangtze River. When we went to Guangdong and Guangxi, we actually dealt with the second-tier or even the brave and common people.

It was precisely because he wrongly overestimated himself that he was defeated and died later.

But now that Li Chengdong is going to fight Chongming, he will definitely win, because he has won in history. Jing Benche, the governor of Zhezhi Navy appointed by King Yiyang of Chongming, can't fight at all, and he can't even control the soldiers. The soldiers have the worst military discipline, and they are already rotten around Chongming.

Later, when he fled to Zhoushan, Huang Binqing killed him on the grounds that he had sent troops to plunder the people, and then swallowed his ships and men.

"By the way, Zhang Guozhu, the former general of Chen Wu's department, has now joined Li Chengdong's command." Chen Qianfu added.

Zhu Yihai fell silent.

"Are we going to save Chongming?" Chen Qianfu asked.

"What do you think?" Zhu Yihai asked back.

(End of this chapter)