Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 217 Infighting is a skill, sneak attack is an art! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

Zheng Jing hasn't won Nanjing yet, but he's already thinking about internal strife!

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

Who doesn't have a problem these days?Wang Zhongxiao himself has a lot of them too!
The reason why the Zheng family 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 has been run by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong for two generations. "Big Brother".Among the Han Chinese who speak Hokkien and Teochew, their family has a very high prestige.

The Han Chinese who speak Hokkien and Teochew have a tradition of going to Nanyang to make a fortune. After countless generations of pioneering, they have spread across Southeast Asia and the Nanyang Islands, possessing strong financial resources and certain political resources.

Relying on the resources of the people of southern Fujian and Chaoshan in Nanyang and Southeast Asia, the Zheng family was able to rely on a small Dayuan Island and a population of 20 million to fight against the entire Qing Dynasty for decades!

However, after the Zheng family lost their strongholds in southern Fujian and Chaoshan mainland, their basic assets were depleted, and they only relied on the prestige left by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong to support the situation.

And once a new local tycoon with the same status as the prince of the Ming Dynasty rises in Chaoshan and southern Fujian, for example, Dahao Qiuhui won the entire Chaozhou Mansion or Zhangzhou’s Haicheng Mansion won the entire Zhangzhou Mansion, and then won the Ming Xiandi’s Canonization, then it is hard to say whether the Zheng family can still be the "big brother" in southern Fujian and Chaoshan.

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

Only by grasping the "roots" of the Chaoshan and Hokkien people who have gone to Nanyang, can the Zheng family be sure to be their "big brother" all the time.

However, compared with capturing the territories of Chao, Zhang, Quan, and Xing, it is also very fragrant to send the third prince Zhu into Nanjing City, and to capture Ningbo Prefecture, an important southeast sea trade town!
Sending the third prince into Nanjing will allow Zheng Jing to occupy a favorable position in the power game of "holding the emperor and ordering the princes"-at least he can arrange his own army to follow into Nanjing!

With this position, in the future, he can become the prime minister of Ming Dynasty Zheng, and if he takes a step back, he can also use the righteous name of "Ming Xiandi" to add officials and ranks to himself.

This "Ming Xiandi" can also advance or retreat. To put it bluntly, it is the co-lord of East Asia, and all countries in Tiannan and Nanyang are all vassals of Ming Dynasty.

If the Zheng family can restore several small Nanyang island states that were wiped out by the Westerners in the future, it will be justified for Emperor Ming Xian to grant several kings.

Taking Ningbo Mansion will help Zheng Jing control the supply of silk and cotton cloth, two bulk trade products. This year is not an era of oversupply, but an era of undersupply.

Whoever controls the supply of bulk trade goods can occupy an extremely favorable position in the struggle for the vast ocean!

And this favorable position can also play a great role when the Zheng family wants to open up Nanyang - Zheng Jing can use the supply of goods as a condition to unite one group of foreigners to fight another group of foreigners!
Therefore, for Zheng Jing, the most favorable situation in the future is to occupy a piece of land in Nanjing, seize Ningbo Prefecture in the southeast, capture Zhangzhou Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Xinghua Prefecture in southern Fujian, and support Dahao Qiuhui in Chaozhou to control Chaoyang along the coast. , Chenghai two counties.

And before he sent troops, he told Wang Zhongxiao about the acquisition of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou. Zhongxiao reaches a verbal agreement.

After thinking about Zheng Jing's thoughts clearly, Wang Zhongxiao smiled, and said with a smile: "My lord, the envoys of Liuhai Jiedu in Guangdong and Guangxi are all controlled by my father, including Chaohai Liu Jieshuai and Nan'ao Qiu Jieshuai, so There is no such thing as whether to take or not to take the Chaozhou government in my family."

Wang Zhongxiao's words are impeccable, and he can't show that he wants to seize Chaozhou Mansion now. Because Chaozhou is a buffer zone between Wang, Zheng and Geng.

Chaozhou is in the hands of Liu Jinzhong and Qiu Hui, so Wang, Zheng, and Geng will not fight each other.

And 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 interior and cleaning up Guangxi.

Wang Zhongxiao went on to say: "As for the territory in Fujian, my family is not interested in asking. If the prince wants my father to send troops to help, then he only needs to move Nan'ao Qiu Jieshuai 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, appointed 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 conferred by Wu Sangui.Zheng Jing didn't admit it, and of course he didn't deny it.Qiu Hui's territory is Chaoyang and Chenghai counties plus some coastal islands, including Nan'ao Island at the junction of Guangdong and Fujian.And his own residence has never been touched in Dahao.

As for the "Gao, Lei, and Lian Soldier Chen Shengcai", he was the one who occupied Qinzhou Bay to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He aggressively attacked Qiongzhou during the historical San Francisco War. An Nan named Hou Chen Shangchuan, who became the governor, and Sheng was his name.

After the upheaval in Guangdong, this Chen Shangchuan took a chance and went to Hainan Island to besiege Qiongshan County (Haikou). Wang Zhongxiao left Guangzhou this time in the name of crusade against him.

However, neither the Wang family nor Chen Shangchuan intended to fight, but just wanted to talk about the terms of attachment.

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

And now Wang Zhongxiao talked about Chen Shangchuan with Zheng Jing, and his meaning was very clear, he just wanted Zheng Jing to act as a middleman.

Zheng Jing smiled and said: "It's easy to say, after this king takes Minnan, he will move Qiu Hui to be the head of Xinghua Mansion, and then Nan'ao Town will be vacated."

Yep, Wang Zhongxiao and Zheng Jing are almost splitting up his Fujian territory!
Wang Zhongxiao smiled: "But your majesty seems to be too hasty to send troops to southern Fujian, right? Why don't you send troops to attack Zhangzhou and Quanzhou when King Geng has entered Jinling and has no time to take care of Fujian?
As far as I know, among the three prefectures of Zhang, Quan, and Xing, the ones who will really meet the king in arms are Fan Chengmo, the governor of Fujian in the Qing court, and Huang Wu, the Duke of Haicheng. How many troops do they have?How could it be possible to stop the Heavenly Soldiers of Yanping Palace? "

Zheng Jing had already received a satisfactory answer, and he laughed loudly: "It makes sense! Fufu, tell me your method! How are you going to take Ningbo and enter Nanjing?"

Chen Yonghua said with a smile: "The current prefect of Ningbo is the original Ruian county magistrate Luo Pan. He made military achievements when the Qing army recaptured Rui'an, and gave a large sum of money to Zhejiang governor Fan Chengmo and Nalan Mingzhu to buy Ningbo. The lack of prefect.

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

As for Nanjing, the current Shangyuan County Magistrate Jingchuan, Jiangning County Magistrate Zhang Jingke, Jurong County Magistrate Wang Shengming, Lishui County Magistrate Zhu Xu, and Gaochun County Magistrate Jiang Zixiang are all from us!Not only are the five county magistrates from us, but all the masters and squad leaders under them are also brothers of the Tiandihui! "

"Hahaha!" Zheng Jing laughed loudly, "Jiangning Mansion has a total of six counties, except for Jiangpu County in Jiangbei, the other five counties are our people. Shikai, what do you think of Fufu's method?"

"High! It's really high!" Wang Zhongxiao smiled and raised his thumb, "Brother Fufu's method, Wang really admires it!"

Chen Yonghua smiled and said: "Brother Shikai, didn't you find these five 'debtors' from Beijing? If you want to talk about merit in this matter, you are the first one! By the way, the new prefect of Jiangning is also brother Shikai An old acquaintance!"

"Who is it?" Wang Zhongxiao asked.

"Lu Sanhao!" Chen Yonghua laughed, "It's Lu Sanhao, the former prefect of Qujing, Yunnan! I don't know where he got through, but he was released from Liangjiang, and even became the prefect of Jiangning!"

"Jiangning Mansion is short of request," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "It should be that Kangxi himself fell for him again, but he will let Liangjiang go. There is probably Wu Sangui's order behind it! It seems that Wu Sangui is in Hanzhong, and his eyes are fixed on him. In Guanzhong, there is still a piece of land in Nanjing in my heart.”

Zheng Jing said with a smile: "Wu Sangui doesn't mind if he wants to get involved, as long as we have a share in Nanjing City!" He smiled complacently again, "It's rare for the west wind to blow these days, so let's take advantage of the wind and go on the road. 1000 The Duoli waterway, if the wind is smooth, it will take about two days to arrive!"

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

Two Rivers, Jiangning Mansion.

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

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

The one who brought the news to them was Li Guangdi, who was editing at the Hanlin Academy who had returned to Fujian to visit relatives. This Li Guangdi had traveled day and night from Fujian to Jiangning with Mingzhu's handwritten letter.

Before Li Guangdi arrived, the situation on Jiangning's side was very good, good, not small!

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

Oh, this is of course a "high emotional intelligence" statement. If you let those who can't speak say it, it means that Jieshu finally lost all the territory in Wuchang and Huangzhou, and now he has shrunk to Jiujiang and Nanchang. Resisted Li Zicheng.
But no matter what, Li Zicheng was 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 got reinforcements. Reinforcements from Fujian!
Just two days before Li Guangdi arrived in Jiangning, the envoy sent by Geng Jingzhong had arrived ahead of time, and informed Jingnan King's army of [-] soldiers would soon arrive.

King Jingnan is really a loyal minister!I don't care about Fujian, the old nest. It is too loyal to help Jieshu, Duolong, and Erchu guard the Yangtze River!
In addition, the group training in Jiangning Mansion has been doing very well recently!
With the joint efforts of the newly appointed Jiangning prefect Lu Sanhao and the five county magistrates under him, the number of Jiangning regiments has reached [-], and a Jiangnan regiment training camp has been set up in Xiaolingwei outside Jiangning City—— Thousands of regiments are all stationed in the Jiangnan regiment training camp, and it is really reassuring not to enter Jiangning City!

But who would have imagined that this great situation lasted only a few days before the terrible news came!

Geng Jingzhong actually rebelled!
"Geng Jingzhong rebelled? What kind of rebellion did he rebel Geng Jingzhong? In the current situation, he is already the lord of Fujian, so why should he rebel?"

"Could it be that he still wants to be emperor?"

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

Their thoughts are actually normal. If Geng Jingzhong is a normal person, there is really no need for him to rebel.Because the "threshold for rebellion" is getting higher and higher now, it is not enough to rebel if you support yourself and separate yourself from Fujian.

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

"Multiple armies, frontal army sects, that Geng Jingzhong is now insane, and he wants to be emperor!" Li Guangdi said helplessly, "He also made a prophecy of 'the son of heaven is divided into ears'. "

"What do you mean?"

"What, what ear fire? What does this mean?"

Duolong and Echu didn't study the prophecy or anything, so they were confused.

"Erhuo combined together is the word 'Geng'," Li Guang said, "Emperor's separate Erhuo means 'the emperor takes turns to do it, come to Geng's house today' He Geng Jingzhong has the emperor's order!"

"Isn't this nonsense?"

"That's right, with his little strength, wouldn't it be good to be a vassal king in peace and stability? What kind of rebellion did he make, and he still became the emperor?"

Duolong and Echu were a little speechless!
Li Guang said: "That's right! But the [-] troops that Geng Jingzhong brought this time are quite elite, the officers and soldiers on the Jiangning Mansion"

As soon as he mentioned the official army, Duolong and E Chuke frowned.

There are few officers and soldiers!

Duolong has 5000 supervisors, and Echu has almost [-] Eight Banners soldiers.

As for the soldiers of Jiangbei Admiral and Jiangnan Admiral, they are now supporting the front line of Jiujiang.

And the Yangtze River Navy is still practicing. Shi Lang took over the navy from Chongming Town, and based on this, he expanded the navy to ten thousand people.However, naval drills are not easy, and they also need to build warships and forge artillery, which cannot be achieved overnight.So Shi Lang is now stationed in Guazhou, Jiangbei, where he is training troops and building ships!
Duo Long looked at E Chu and said, "E Junmen, we have five thousand green battalions, five thousand banner soldiers, and six thousand regiments, a total of [-], and Geng Jingzhong has [-]. Isn't it a little small for us?"

Sixteen thousand is one thousand less than seventeen thousand, the advantage lies in Geng!

Er Chu said worriedly: "Let's defend the city! Jiangning is strong, we have one thousand fewer people than Geng Jingzhong, and Shi Junmen still has 1 people in Guazhou. It is better to defend the city!"

Doron nodded, a little moved.

Keep the city safe, keep the city safe!
But Li Guangdi shook his head and said: "No way. When Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river to attack Jiqing Road, the Yuan army also defended the city to resist. But Zhu Yuanzhang divided his troops to attack the surrounding area of ​​Jiqing Road City, and soon turned Jiqing Road City into a city. An isolated city, finally broken in one fell swoop! The situation today is almost exactly the same as it was back then. If we defend the isolated city, then Geng Jingzhong will easily capture the counties around Jiangning, and when Jiangning becomes an isolated city, can we still defend it?"

When Duolong and Erchu heard this, they hesitated a little.

Jiangning is a big city. There are hundreds of thousands of people and family members of the garrison in the city. They are really going to be besieged, and they will run out of food in a short time.

Moreover, once the prefectures and counties around Jiangning fall one by one, can the upstream Jiujiang be preserved?If Jiujiang does not defend, Li Zicheng is here!

Geng Jingzhong's tens of thousands of people may not be able to take down Jiang Ning, but what about Li Zicheng?Li Zicheng has at least tens of thousands of troops!

If Li Zicheng can't do it, then there is Wu Guogui, who is endless, and each one is more brutal than the other!
When Duolong and Er Chuzhen were thinking that they could not defend the city, Lu Sanhao's voice suddenly came from outside the lobby: "Li Hanlin is right, the isolated city of Jiangning must not be defended. Today's world is not the one that Zheng Chenggong attacked Nanjing more than ten years ago. It's time, Geng Jingzhong is not really alone, and the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River are not necessarily on the side of our Qing Dynasty! For the present plan, we should go out of the city to fight, and catch Geng Jingzhong by surprise!"

"Yes!" Li Guangdi also nodded heavily, "Geng Jingzhong thought he was here to attack him, and he never thought that we already knew his plot and wanted to attack him instead. As long as we repel Geng Jingzhong, the Yangtze River will be temporarily stabilized." Already!"

(End of this chapter)