Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 295 The Great Ming Encirclement Network! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Geng Jingzhong's palace is located in the original Hangzhou Mancheng, occupying General Hangzhou's official office, which occupies a large area and has a lot of houses. There are two inner and outer houses just for the signing room.Among them, the foreign-signed mortgage room is inside the main entrance of the yamen. The five-bay facade is not only grand, but also quite lively.Officials and gentry who came to pay homage to Prince Geng’s mansion were waiting there first, and a group of gentry in Hangzhou who were forcibly recruited by Geng Jingzhong to become officials were also “waiting for errands” in the external sign room—whether there was an errand, anyway, they had to wear official uniforms every day and wait in the external sign room of the palace.
This Tie Yiwei is Geng Jingzhong's pro-army modeled after Jin Yiwei. This Tie Yi sounds better than Jin Yi, so I can't afford to mess with him!
So when old Zha Zuoyin and Zha arrived at Prince Geng’s mansion, the place was bustling with activity. A group of Hangzhou gentry wearing official uniforms but without dispatch or salary knew that the visitor was Zha Zuoyin, Liu Jinzhong’s military advisor.

Zha Zuoyin was just a villain who betrayed righteous men for self-protection, and they all became Geng Jingzhong's officials, and they turned out to be traitors!Rebellious ministers and villains should like each other, birds of a feather flock together!

After the worship, Zha Zuoyin was invited into the foreign signing room, and the gang of rebellious ministers asked Cha Xiaoren about it.

"What does His Royal Highness Beiwang mean? Are you going to send troops to attack Hangzhou soon?"

Zha Zuoyin shook his head, the taste is so beautiful!
Since he became a villain, he has never been regarded as a person by scholars.He used to be a character who could squeeze around "Mr. Four", but after he became a villain, even some not-so-famous celebrities ignored him-this is called a gentleman who does not associate with villains.The most hateful thing is that those traitor literati who became second ministers and three ministers to suppress the Han people for the Manchus all looked disdainful when they saw him, and they didn't know how to recommend him to be traitors together!

Well now, he has joined the Northern King of Ming Dynasty, not only the military advisor of the Northern King, but also a "first minister". He was an official of the King of Lu in the early years, and he was also a Ming minister. Later, he became a villain, and no one wanted to be a traitor.So he is a "first minister". At a time when there are not many second ministers, three ministers are just starting, and four ministers and five ministers are very common, "first ministers" at his age are so rare!
Even if he is a villain, he is still a "loyal villain"!
Thinking of this, the "faithful villain" old man Zha smiled and replied: "His Royal Highness the Northern King means to ask the Eastern King to express his apology, and then cut some territory, and he will make an expression with the Yi King and express his love to the Eastern King, so that this military disaster can be resolved."

"What? Can it still be like this?"

"But His Royal Highness Dongwang wants to be the emperor, so how can this be a form of apology?"

"What's the point of wanting to be emperor? Haven't you heard people say that everyone wants to be an emperor? Is this considered a crime? As long as Dong Wang hasn't proclaimed himself emperor, things can turn around."

"really?"

"Really, have you all read history? Isn't this the rule after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty? Those feudal towns rebelled from time to time. As long as those rebel towns didn't proclaim themselves emperor, they would express their guilt when they saw that the situation was not good. The Tang court generally admitted it. Zhu Tao, the brother of Zhu Xi who was proclaimed emperor by the rebellious Jingyuan army, apologized after his brother was defeated, and was later pardoned by the Tang court.

"That's right, Zhu Tao was once the emperor's younger brother!"

"Wang Wujun, the envoy of Chengde Jiedu who rebelled with Zhu Xi and Zhu Tao, later gave the grand master a posthumous title of Zhonglie!"

"Compared to them, Dong Wang's fault is not too big. If you apologize, you can forgive him if you cut some more land."

"Thank goodness."

A group of officials who gathered in the custody room outside Prince Geng's mansion were all happy when they heard that Dong Wang's crimes were not serious and could still be forgiven.Just being happy, a group of iron-clothed soldiers suddenly broke in.

Tieyi pro-army is feared by everyone, everyone wears a chain mail, so they are called Tieyiwei, the leader is Geng Jingzhong's confidant Bai Xianzhong, when others see them, they have to step aside and hide!
At this moment, Bai Xianzhong led a few guards in iron clothes and came aggressively. When he entered, he shouted: "Where is Zha Zuoyin? The Eastern King has an order!"

"Here is the old man!" Zha Zuoyin didn't know that the disaster was imminent, so he got up and walked towards Bai Xianzhong with a smile.

"You are Zha Zuoyin?"

"The old man is Haining Zha Zuoyin."

"Okay! Mr. Cha, I'm overjoyed!"

"Overjoyed?" Zha Zuoyin was taken aback.

Bai Xianzhong smiled: "Come with me!"

As he said that, he didn't tell Zha Zuoyin that he was going to be beheaded, so he turned around and swaggered out of the signing room.

Zha Zuoyin thought that Bai Xianzhong was going to lead him to see Geng Jingzhong, so he followed happily, but found something was wrong while walking, why did he leave the gate of the palace and went to the school field outside?
"My lord, where are you taking this old man?" Zha Zuoyin was still asking him.

Bai Xianzhong had already stopped, pointing to a big wooden pier placed in the corner of the school yard, he said to Zha Zuoyin: "It's here!"

"Here?" Zha Zuoyin asked curiously, "What is this big wooden pier used for?"

"This? You'll know it when you always rest your head on it!"

"Put your head on it?" Zha Zuoyin knew something was wrong now, "Isn't this decapitation?"

"Isn't it just beheading?" Bai Xianzhong smiled wryly, "East King knows that you are here to persuade him not to be emperor, so he wants to kill your old head!"

As he spoke, he beckoned to the left and right again: "Come here, help me, and push the old man onto the wooden pier. Old man, don't struggle, don't move, your head will be chopped off when I cut it down, it won't hurt too much!"

Not too painful?That is decapitation!

Zha Zuoyin immediately became anxious, and shouted: "Don't kill me, I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Is it okay if I don't persuade Dong Wang not to be emperor?"

"No, it's too late!"

As Bai Xianzhong said, with a wave of his hand, the two iron-clothed guards cut off Mr. Cha's arms backwards and pressed the whole thing onto the wooden pier, and another iron-clothed guard swung his head on the wooden pier.

Zha Zuoyin was so frightened that he pissed, and kept shouting: "Spare me! Dong Wang spare my life. Don't cut it!"

Bai Xianzhong didn't listen to him, he pulled out a steel knife, and then raised the knife with one hand, clicked, and there was a bowl-sized scar on Zha Zuoyin's neck.

After killing people, Bai Xianzhong strode into the palace with Zha Zuoyin's head in his hand, and once again signed a foreign sign to escort him outside the door.The people in the outside signing room heard Zha Zuoyin calling for help just now, so they all gathered at the door to look around, and they were all dumbfounded when they saw Bai Xianzhong coming in with a murderous look and carrying his head.

Bai Xianzhong stopped in his tracks, raised the head of Zha Zuoyin in his hand, so that everyone could take a closer look, and then said: "Have you seen it clearly? This is the end of opposing the Eastern King as emperor!"

Kill anyone who opposes it!
Co-author Geng Jingzhong is using Zha Zuoyin's head to show his prestige!

This Zha Zuoyin was killed not only for the gentry in Hangzhou, but also for officials under Geng Jingzhong and collaborators like Yue Le.

The effect of killing people and establishing power was really good. On the second day after Zha Zuoyin's head fell to the ground, a yellow robe was added to Geng Jingzhong by Yue Le, Zeng Yangxing, Wang Jingong, Xu Wenhuan, Chen Bingzhi, Mu Tianyan, Ma Hu and other Manchu and Han officials.

However, unlike Wu Sangui pretending to sleep, Geng Jingzhong’s yellow robe was not so “fake”. When he inspected the three armies, more than ten thousand elites gathered in the colonel knelt together and shouted in unison, “I respectfully invite the Eastern King to be the emperor.” Changed to "Dongxing" - the meaning of Dongwang Daxing.

Afterwards, Geng Jingzhong completed the ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth within half a day, thus officially becoming the third emperor in the world today!

It doesn't matter whether this set of etiquette is in compliance with the rules or not, or whether it is too hasty, anyway, when Geng Jingzhong is the emperor, he must race against time!

Because the Great Tomorrow Soldiers may come over at any time!

Even if the Ming army can't come for a while, he has to hurry up. There are already two emperors in the world, Kangxi and Wu Sangui. If he doesn't hurry up, the third prince Zhu will also become the emperor, so he will become the "Four Emperors"?
If he hurry up and get ahead of the third prince Zhu, won't he be able to overwhelm the third prince Zhu and become the "Three Emperors"?
However, after quickly going through the process of becoming an emperor and finally becoming the third emperor in the world, Geng Jingzhong began to worry about how long his emperor would last.

Before he became emperor, Geng Jingzhong was in a daze, thinking about becoming emperor every day.

Now that I have finally become one, I want to be in it for a few more years, preferably until the end of my life, so that I can leave a "Jing Taizu Wu Emperor" in the "Great Jing Dynasty" in the history books!

But it is quite difficult to treat this emperor until the end of his life!

On the second day after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Taizu Jing began to study the map with a few confidants in the East Study Room (Kangxi had a South Study Room, so he built an East Study Room), frowning.

Now there are two big two small countries on the map, a total of four countries!

Finally, it is not the "Three Kingdoms" but the "Four Kingdoms". In future history books, this era can be called the "Four Kingdoms War Period".

The two big ones are of course the Great Zhou and the Great Qing.

Dazhou now occupies all of the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as most of Hubei and Hunan, a part of Henan, and a part of Guangxi.

The Great Zhou was very large, and the Great Qing occupied an even larger area!

Now the Qing Dynasty still owns all of Shanxi, Shandong, and Zhili, and most of Henan. It also actually controls Monan Mongolia, Dongdao Mongolia, and Liaodong outside the Guanwai.

Compared with the size of the territory, the Qing Dynasty is still the largest!

Ranked third is of course Daming. Daming now controls the entire territory of Jiangsu Province, the entire Jiangbei region of Anhui Province except Anqing, the entire territory of Guangdong Province, the eastern and central parts of Guangxi, a part of Jiangxi, eastern Hubei, two states in southern Hunan, western Fujian and Dayuan Island, and some islands along the coast of Zhejiang. It looks a bit fragmented.

Dajing is a "little four" in terms of land, but he is not too small, not to the point of "one state emperor" or "one county emperor".

On paper, the Great Jing Dynasty still owned eastern Fujian, most of Zhejiang (except some islands), Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Huizhou, Guangde and other places in Anhui—that is, southern Anhui.

Of course, the size that can be displayed on this map is only the size of the occupied area.If it is compared to population, money and food, then the biggest one is Daming!

If Daming can win Jiangxi, and then swallow Dajing's territory, then compared to the population, money and food, it will definitely be second to none in the world!

Therefore, Dajing's national situation is still in jeopardy, but it is not impossible.

"Eastern Emperor, have you noticed that the lands of the Ming, Zhou, and Qing families seem to be biting together!"

From the map, it can be seen that Geng Jingzhong’s patriarch, Yue Le, is Geng Jingzhong’s patriarch Yue Le——Yue Le’s family was sent to Ningbo by Shi Lang’s naval warship a while ago, and his Liugege was among them.

"It's indeed bitten together!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "It's mainly in Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei. It's like I am in you, and you are in me! Master, do you think we have a chance?"

"Yes!" Yue Le nodded, "We can unite with Daqing and Dazhou, the three countries join forces to fight against Ming, and set up a Ming encirclement network!"

"Siege network?" Geng Jingzhong looked at the map, thoughtful, "It's interesting. If we can join forces with Prince Kang of Jiangxi, and then join forces with Wu Sangui of the Great Zhou Dynasty, then at least in Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui, we can reverse the disadvantage."

"Your Majesty, but Wu Sangui and Li Zhongshan are related by marriage!"

Academician Yu Renying reminded him next to him.

This Yu Renying has now achieved a fruitful cultivation. He has grown from a humble scholar to a founding father of Dajing, and now he has been granted the title of Dongge University Fellow - this is Geng Jingzhong's Shoufu University Fellow!
Now everyone wants to call him "Old Yuge".

"What about in-laws?" The person who spoke was Daoren Li, who is also a vulgar person now, and Geng Jingzhong also gave him the name "Li Baoguo" and made him a Grand Master of Taiji Pavilion, which means that Li Pavilion is old.

"Now is a time of great conflict," Li Ge said, "It's normal for in-laws to fight each other. Wu Sangui and Kangxi also have relatives, why don't they start fighting as usual? Your Majesty, I am willing to go far to Chang'an, so that we can persuade Wu Sangui to form an alliance with our Dajing Tonghao and fight against Ming Dynasty."

"Okay! Then I'll have to work!" Geng Jingzhong said, "I still need to go to Jiangxi by myself."

"Your Majesty, the old minister will come here in person." Yue Le volunteered, "Jie Shu is my old subordinate. Now he is surrounded by enemies and must be desperate. If we want to join forces with him, he will definitely be willing."

Geng Jingzhong nodded, "It's time to thank the Master!" He thought for a while, "I still have to go to Beijing, who can work hard?"

"Your Majesty, let's take this trip, Minister Ma Hu." The former governor of Jiangsu, Ma Hu, has also been promoted now, and has become a scholar of the Seven Star Pavilion, and he is also an old man.

"Okay!" Geng Jingzhong said with a smile, "Then let's work together! We can contact Da Zhou and Da Qing now, and together we can divide up Da Ming's territory!"

Hearing what he said, the founding ministers of Dajing who were present were a little dumbfounded. What kind of Daming encirclement net is Dajing struggling to the death, and if he can survive for a few years, his goal has been achieved, and he still wants to divide Daming's territory?
Are the people and scholars of the Ming Dynasty vegetarian?
Thinking this way in my heart, no one dared to say that this Geng Jingzhong wanted to kill someone for real!

Don't touch this mold!

"This, this, this military division! Why do you only have one head left? What's going on here? Who killed it?"

The Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, where the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty lived.

Just after half a comfortable new year, Liu Jinzhong, who was busy choosing a well-educated and well-known lady from the south of the Yangtze River as the new princess, suddenly saw a part of his military adviser Zha Zuoyin!
With only his head left, his eyes were wide open, his eyes were wide open, and he stared at Liu Jinzhong with unconcerned eyes.

"My lord," a nephew of Zha Zuoyin, a middle-aged man who went on a mission with Lao Zha to earn credit, said with tears, "Geng Jingzhong was killed. This Geng Jingzhong is too unreasonable. He didn't even see my uncle. He just asked his iron guard to kill him. He dragged my uncle out of his palace and killed him!"

"What? The imperial palace? Is Geng Jingzhong the emperor?"

Zhu Shunshui, who accompanied Liu Jinzhong to "greet" Zha Zuoyin, immediately realized that something was wrong and immediately asked.

"Just now, what kind of Dajing emperor?"

(End of this chapter)