Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 778
Blackmail Hengyang Fan?This caused the expressions of everyone in the tent to change. Didn't Lao Zhang let His Highness play with fire?
Lu Fan can threaten to split, so can Tang Fan, but in the end it is more ruthless than anyone else, who is more disregarding the overall situation.

If you really want to do this, I am afraid that you will immediately offend the Hengyang Fan to death. Even if the King of Lu ascends the throne, if the Hengyang Fan does not nod, the throne may still be like a blanket of needles.

At this time, Zhang Mingzhen immediately stood up, stretched out his hand to stop him, and said, "Your Highness, this is absolutely impossible!"

Zhang Kentang turned his head away, and said: "Dudu Zhang and His Highness misunderstood what I meant, please listen to me first."

The king of Lu listened to it too.

In this Jiangnan campaign, he was in charge of Jiangbei to contain Duoduo, but he was still somewhat reluctant to attack Nanjing by Hengyang Fan and Tang Fan.

He didn't want to see the two vassals enter Nanjing, especially after Gao Jinku provoked them, so he slackened his restraint and didn't try his best.

As a result, Duoduo was able to transfer a large number of troops from Jiangbei to Nanjing City, and Wang Yan was naturally dissatisfied with this, so he sent Xia Xiaoyin to his army, with the intention of monitoring and supervising.

Fortunately, Nanjing was destroyed, otherwise Wang Yan would definitely hate him.

Now Wang Yan doesn't like him anymore, if it really gets stalemate, Wang Yan is very likely to join forces with Tang Fan to suppress him, then he really can't bear it, so blackmail is definitely not an option.

"What do you mean by Aiqing?" King Lu sat up straight, and Zhang Mingzhen backed away when he saw that he might have made a mistake.

At this time, Zhang Kentang expressed his thoughts, "Your Highness, what I said is that Your Highness can use Hengyang Fan's worries to get the hole card, but it is not to blackmail Hengyang Fan, but to let Hengyang Fan weigh it himself. , to change attitude."

King Lu's face became serious, and he leaned towards him and said, "Let the Hengyang clan weigh it themselves? Change their attitude? How can this be done?"

King Lu asked three times in succession, Zhang Kentang cupped his hands, and replied: "Although Your Highness is competing with the King of Tang, who can ascend to the Great Treasure actually depends on the attitude of the Hengyang Fan. The Daming Sheji has reached this point, Your Highness and Tang Wang can only endure it for the time being. Everyone must have figured out the idea of ​​Hengyang Fan just now. He wants to control a unified imperial court. For him, whoever he supports will be supported if the danger of Ming's splitting and internal fighting is less. who."

King Lu understood a little bit, as long as he could subdue King Tang, make him submit, and not cause trouble, then Hengyang Fan would not object to his enthronement, but the key point was, could he suppress the supporters of the Tang faction?

Zhang Kentang seemed to understand his thoughts, and quickly continued: "His Royal Highness, now it means that His Highness and the King of Tang are posing for the selection of Hengyang Fan. May change attitudes."

After Zhang Kentang finished speaking, Zhang Mingzhen immediately interjected and asked, "Mr. Ge, where do we have any new chips now?"

King Lu's neck stretched out, and everyone in the tent turned their attention to Zhang Kentang, and Zhang Kentang said firmly, "Yes, of course!"

King Lu narrowed his eyes, "What is it? Where is it?" "Of course it's soldiers. As long as we have more soldiers, the Hengyang Fan will naturally be scrupulous!" Zhang Kentang said.

Apart from his prestige, the reason why Wang Yan's family dominates is that, firstly, this guy has the pocketbook of Guangnan maritime merchants and controls the trade in the South China Sea, and secondly, he has many and elite soldiers.

The main supporters of the King of Lu were Zhejiang gentry. This can be seen from the cabinet members of the King Lu regime. Seventy percent of the thirteen scholars in the early days were from Zhejiang, such as Zhu Dadian, Zhang Guowei, Chen Hanhui, Ke Xiaqing, Zhang Zhengchen, and Sun Jiaji. , Xiong Rulin are both from Zhejiang.

It can be seen from this that the Lu Wang cabinet is a political group dominated by Zhejiang gentry, and Zhejiang people have a lot of voice in their regime.

King Lu also has a pocketbook, and that is the Eastern Zhejiang Maritime Merchants.

They used to be the leaders in the world, but now they can't, and King Lu basically has no money.

Speaking of soldiers, the king of Lu now has hundreds of thousands, possibly more than Wang Yan, but most of his soldiers are refugees from Shandong and Huaihe Rivers brought by Xie Qian and the others. One hundred thousand is not as good as Wang Yan's 1 .

His elite soldiers are probably only about [-], which is worse than that of Tang Wang's faction.

"What do you mean by the Qing family?" King Lu seemed to have caught a clue after hearing Zhang Kentang's words.

Zhang Kentang glanced at the crowd, saluted King Lu and said, "Your Highness, the southern capital is restored, and the world is shaking. With His Highness' prestige in Zhejiang, it depends on whether the province can spread it. Zhang Cunren, Tan Tai, and Xiao Qihui are now isolated. Without help, it is impossible to gain a foothold in Zhejiang. If His Highness recruits them first, he will get [-] to [-] elite soldiers. How can Hengyang Fan not weigh it when making a decision like this!"

The Ming army captured Nanjing, and the troops needed a short rest. Wang Yan only sent 5000 troops to the south to support Sun Shoufa.

In fact, there is no need to send 5000 troops. As long as Zhang Cunren knows that Nanjing has fallen, he will return to Zhejiang with a broken heart.

Zhejiang was originally developed in industry and commerce. After the Qing soldiers came, the industry was destroyed. Cotton fields and mulberry fields were converted into rice fields. Do, anti-Qing sentiment in Zhejiang is very intense.

Now that Nanjing has been beaten down, Zhang Cunren and others returned to Zhejiang, which is equivalent to sitting on a volcano. Apart from death, there is only surrender.

There are many Zhejiang people in the King Lu regime, so as long as the conditions are good, it should not be a big problem to recruit the Qing soldiers from Zhejiang.

If Zhang Cunren and others surrendered to King Lu, and King Lu won more than 4 Qing soldiers, his strength would immediately soar.

Although it is not as good as Wang Yan, but he is indeed stronger than Tang Wang, which makes Wang Yan have to be more scruples.

"Okay!" After hearing this, King Lu gave a sigh of admiration, stood up abruptly from his seat, paced back and forth in the tent, and after walking back and forth a few times, he suddenly stopped and said to Zhang Kentang: "This The matter must be done as soon as possible, and it must be ahead of the Hengyang Fan and the King of Tang. It doesn't matter if the conditions are favorable, and the more than 4 Qing soldiers must be in their hands."

Nanjing City, the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, and the civil and military personnel of the Hengyang Fan also gathered together.

Everyone sat down on both sides, and Wang Yan also sat down in the main hall, and then said: "Just now, you have seen the situation in the hall, and the two sides can be said to be incompatible. Tang Wang has Emperor Daxing's will The faction that supports the Tang Dynasty will definitely not allow Lu Fan to ascend the throne, and the attitude of Lu Fan just now may not make any concessions. What do you think about this?"

After Wang Yan finished speaking, everyone below discussed in low voices, Chen Bangyan and Gu Yanwu leaned over the coffee table and exchanged a few words, and finally Chen Bangyan got up and said: "Your Highness, I am waiting to hear what His Highness thinks first. "

Wang Yan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled helplessly, "This fan asks you, you should ask me first."

After finishing speaking, Wang Yan thought for a moment, then straightened his body, and said in a deep voice: "Then, let me talk about a few points first. First, the matter of the great unification really needs to be settled as soon as possible. Second, the two feudal clans of Tang and Lu Competing with each other, in comparison, Ben Fan hopes that Tang Fan will ascend the throne. Third, Ben Fan does not want it, because the matter of succession will cause internal strife, which will ruin the current good situation. Fourth, Ben Fan hopes that the new emperor Don't harm the interests of the clan and hinder the reform of the clan."

Chen Bangyan glanced at Gu Yanwu after hearing this, and sat down again with a pensive look on his face.

When Wang Yan said four things at once, it was obvious that he had already thought about it in his heart, and it was not a temporary idea. And these four things together, some of them were contradictory, and it was really a big problem.

The hall instantly became lively, everyone whispered to each other, Gu Yanwu talked with Chen Bangyan for a while, Chen Bangyan nodded, and Gu Yanwu immediately stood up.

Seeing that he was about to speak, everyone in the hall immediately quieted down, and then saw Gu Yanwu salute, and then said: "Your Highness, I think that the great position can only be inherited by the line of Tang Fan."

Wang Yan raised his hand to signal him to continue, "Tell me why?"

Gu Yanwu stopped, stretched out a hand, looked around the hall and said: "First, His Highness took Nanjing in the name of revenge for the emperor, and the prestige of Emperor Daxing was elevated. Although the king is famous, his influence is limited to the southeast, and cannot be compared with the lineage of the Tang clan. Second, the Lu clan, [-]% of whom are from Zhejiang, has a strong regional color, so it can only be regarded as a local government. The gentry in Chu, Jiangxi and Bamin will not be convinced, and Donglin is afraid of resurgence. With these two points, Lu Fan cannot stand!"

For a regional party to control the country's political power, it must be a disaster for the country, and this has been fulfilled in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

If there are too many people in one place in the court, it will be too easy to form a dominant and unrestrained interest group, and the "Donglin Party" may really reappear.

Wang Yan couldn't help but look at Gu Yanwu more. It wasn't because he said that the king of Lu could not be established. Wang Yan never thought about letting the king of Lu ascend the throne. What surprised him was that Gu Yanwu was also a member of Donglin, and he was a member of Jiangnan , Donglin is the representative of the interests of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. He obviously does not speak from the perspective of a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, but speaks for the world.

But Donglin is not Donglin, as long as there is no dominance of one family, there are restrictions and games, then Wang Yan doesn't care at this time, and after the recovery of Jiangnan, the gentry in Jiangnan will definitely find someone to speak in the court. Without Donglin, As for Xilin, there are also parties representing local interests in other places. As long as they don't exceed the bottom line, restrain each other, and compromise with each other, there is no big problem.

Of course, these things are issues to be considered in the future, and now we are talking about the succession of the Datong.

Wang Yan nodded, and said: "Lu Fan cannot be established, but if Tang Fan is established, Lu Fan may not let it go!"

Gu Yanwu smiled, "Then don't even stand!"

Wang Yan smiled slightly when he heard this, but immediately stopped the smile and said in shock, "Don't even stand?"

In the lobby, there was also shock, but there were also many understanding people, who were calm and composed.

It is not easy for courtiers to intervene in matters such as establishing an emperor. In history, people occasionally do it, and they also leave a bad reputation. Wang Shiheng has a good name, and he must build a memorial archway. He has an idea in his heart, but he refuses to say it himself.

Fortunately, he is not as unwilling to take responsibility as Chongzhen. He is quite protective of the deployment. Many people have guessed his plan after hearing the fourth article.

(Haha~ I finished writing [-] words.)
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