Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 696
Wang Yan was thinking, when he suddenly looked up and saw Lu Shikui outside the hall, he seemed to be busy, so he was called in.

Lu Shikui stepped into the lobby quickly, bowed to Wang Yan, and presented a letter, saying: "Your Highness, the letter from Guangjing has just been delivered to the palace, and the humble official hastily sent it."

A letter from Guangzhou?Wang Yan was slightly taken aback, then took out the letter paper and slowly unfolded it. After reading a few lines, his eyes suddenly enlarged a lot.

This letter was written by He Gang, the governor of Guangdong. It stated that the emperor was preparing to move to Ganzhou under the escort of General Lin Cha and Tang Wang, and Huang Renlong, the envoy sent by the imperial court to Beijing, was put under house arrest by Dorgon when he arrived in Beijing. But the deputy envoy quietly ran back, and the negotiation had completely broken down.

The letter stated that Pang Tianshou seemed to be planning to shirk the failure of the negotiation on the fact that he and the king of Lu did not withdraw troops from the Yangtze River at that time, so that he could wash away his guilt, and the emperor had decided to raise the Sixth Division himself and send troops to attack Jiangnan.

The content of this letter is very complicated, and a lot of information was revealed at once, but they were all fragments of words, not clear, and it took time to digest, but Wang Yan can be sure of one thing, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is about to change under the emperor's embarrassment and anger. Complicated.

After Wang Yan finished reading, he asked his personal guards to take down the letter and show it to He Tengjiao and others. He himself reconsidered whether the issue of sending troops should be delayed so that he can cooperate.

Several officials looked at it, and after a while, Chen Bangyan got up and said, "Your Highness, if His Majesty wants to send troops, the situation will be complicated. Should we contact the imperial court to formulate a unified plan."

At this time, Wuchang can send [-] soldiers. If people insist on carrying spears and swords, it is no problem to pull out more than [-] soldiers, but the combat power will be greatly reduced. This is unwise behavior.

The Qing court had heavy troops stationed in the south of the Yangtze River and the two Huaihe Rivers. His 2 people could not stir up any storms, but if the court was going to send troops, then the combination of Wanji, Jin Shenghuan, and Zheng Chenggong might make a big deal happen. Attack Man Qing.

Wang Yan immediately straightened himself up, and then said: "Let's send troops down first, and make a decision after watching the court's movements, but everyone must be prepared, and the army must be ready to move at any time. Ordered Hao Yangqi in Xiangyang to let He has strengthened his defenses, and Ma Jinzhong from Shangyong must cheer up the clan."

"Obey!" Everyone stood up and saluted.

Wang Yan then said to Wu Jinxi: "Master Wu will handle the matter of contacting Jiangxi."

Wu Jinxi saluted and accepted the order, Wang Yan waved his hand to let the crowd disperse. After sitting for a while, he said goodbye to He Tengjiao and returned to the temporary palace.

Although Wang Yan's power has been withdrawn from the imperial court, there are still inextricable ties between him and the imperial court. Emperor Longwu can quickly know what he has done, and the movements of the Longwu court There will also be many officials who are friendly with him to write letters to inform.

In the next few days, Wang Yan received more than a dozen letters, most of which were about the emperor's relocation to Ganzhou, or the emperor's preparation for a personal conquest.

Two of them are particularly noteworthy. One is that Zuo Maodi explained the process of the failure of the negotiation, and the emperor vomited blood once, and then asked melancholy about the chances of attacking Jiangnan. The other is that Jiang Yueguang mentioned Xie Qian After the envoy arrived in Anqing, Jin Shenghuan passed the news to the court, and the emperor had sent an order to Jiangxi to prepare for the expedition.

With the gathering of news from all parties, Wang Yan gradually sorted out the context of the whole incident.

After the Manchu and Qing Dynasties negotiated peace, there was no news about the handover of Jiangnan and Huainan, and there was no further news, and the envoys sent by the imperial court to Beijing did not send any news back, which aroused dissatisfaction and suspicion among the ministers of the court and the central government. .

After Wang Yan withdrew from the central government, Pang Tianshou took advantage of the emperor's favor and began to install party members in the court. Many positions of the Chu party were occupied by the eunuch party, which aroused dissatisfaction among the civil servants, and began to question the strategy of peace talks, using this to attack Pang Tianshou.

Just at this time, some maritime merchants stated that they found that the Manchu Qing was buying guns from the Dutch to prepare for war. Not long after, the deputy envoy from Beijing escaped and announced that the negotiations had completely broken down.

In the court hall, it was originally Wang Yan and Pang Tianshou fighting, but after Wang Yan left, the civil servants had no choice but to roll up their sleeves and fight on their own.

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, starting from Yingzong, the most colorful battle between eunuchs and civil servants was the most important.

The battle between the two parties spread to several emperors, and the game lasted for nearly a hundred years. It was not until the Chongzhen Dynasty that the civil servants completely gained the upper hand.

This is the result of the struggle of the ancestors. How could Pang Tianshou be turned against the heavens? The Chinese courtiers took advantage of the failure of the peace talks to attack Pang Tianshou violently, which put great pressure on him and the emperor.

In order to shirk responsibility, Pang Tianshou quickly sent the deputy envoy to prison, and soon the deputy envoy died in prison inexplicably, and the confession stated that Wang Yan and King Lu broke the peace agreement and wanted to wash away their responsibilities, but Chen Zizhuang and others did not. Don't buy it.

At this time, news came from Jin Shenghuan that the rebels in Lianghuai asked him for help, and at the same time asked for help from Lu Fan and Hengyang Fan. The emperor was annoyed by being teased by the Qing Dynasty, and urgently needed to divert internal conflicts, so he made a decision to move to Ganzhou and personally conquer The Northern Expedition, the recovery of Nanjing, in order to break the passive situation.

Back then when Long Wu was under the control of Zheng Zhilong in Fujing, he wanted to conquest himself, but it never came true, but this time he finally wanted to act.

Wang Yan has no objection to the emperor's personal conquest, but he has doubts about whether Nanjing can be recovered.

Judging from his own armaments, he can probably estimate that the preparations in Jiangxi and Fujian are not sufficient.

Jiangxi also fought a big battle last year. Although it grabbed a lot of supplies in Anqing, it is obviously not strong enough to attack Nanjing. Zheng Chenggong's situation should be better than Jiangxi, but he has a strong navy and not many infantry. If the emperor wanted to recover Nanjing, there might be no hope. Unless the three parties united, there might be a chance, but each of the three families had their own ideas, and it was difficult to urinate in one pot.

Wang Yan was waiting for the news in Wuchang, and within a few days, the emperor's decree arrived in Wuchang, but the content was beyond Wang Yan's expectation.

One is to reprimand him for intervening in the peace negotiation, which resulted in the failure of the peace negotiation. He has seen this in the previous letters. Pang Tianshou and the emperor wanted to throw the blame on him.

The second is to let him send troops to attack Henan, contain the Liangshun king in Henan, attract the Qing soldiers from Lianghuai to go north, and cooperate with the emperor to personally conquer Jiangnan.

The Liangshun kings in Henan not only had to guard against Xiangyang, but also Haoge. They didn't need to send troops to attack, and the Qing soldiers in Henan didn't dare to move casually.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yan understood that the emperor wanted to conquer Nanjing by himself, but he was afraid that he would intervene, so he asked him to conquer Henan.

(Just going home these few days, older single men and young men, everyone knows, I will try my best to guarantee [-] words per day.)
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