Without spending a single soldier, he captured all the four prefectures and one state in western Guangdong. Zhu Hengjia was so satisfied that he wanted to continue to advance into Guangzhou, Chaozhou and other central and eastern Guangdong areas.
"First go to Wuzhou and Zhaoqing, and then take all Guangdong and Guangxi to get a glimpse of the world situation." This is the grand strategy discussed by King Qin, Zhu Hengjia and a group of confidants.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Zifang, the number one adviser of the Jing vassal, took the initiative.
Zhu Hengjia asked him why he couldn't. Zheng Feng only said two sentences: The first sentence is that the problem for His Highness lies with the captives, not the Tang Dynasty; the second sentence is that the problem of the elbows and armpits is with Chen, Li, Chen, Li Buping, and it is difficult to determine in Guangxi.< /p>
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Hengjia woke up like a dream: "If Zheng Qing hadn't taught me, I would have missed something big!"
Yes, the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty was the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If they continued to attack Guangzhou, they would violate Emperor Longwu's bottom line. Emperor Longwu would definitely send troops to rescue Guangzhou. If he and Longwu killed each other, it would only consume the national power of the Ming Dynasty and gain nothing. Moreover, his forces in Guangxi are only Guilin, Pingle, and Wuzhou. Chen Bangchuan's headquarters is located in Sien, which is very close to Guilin. If Zhu Hengjia goes to attack Guangzhou, it will be bad if Chen Bangchuan sneaks into Guilin; Li Mingzhong's troops are entrenched in Xunzhou Prefecture and control the main transportation route to Nanning, threatening Wuzhou. If Chen and Li are not pacified, Guangxi's old nest will not be stable.
Therefore, Guangzhou must not be attacked. The top priority is to quickly return to Guangxi and pacify Chen and Li.
If you can't fight, you can only make peace.
Zhu Hengjia asked Zheng Feng who would be good to send to Fuzhou to negotiate with Emperor Longwu. Zheng Feng smiled lightly and said that your highness has the world's most talented people, and the peace talks will definitely be successful. Zhu Hengjia was puzzled and said that besides you, Zheng Zifang, I don't think there is anyone else. What kind of talent are you? Zheng Feng asked with a smile, why have you forgotten, what happened to the person you hated most some time ago? Only then did Zhu Hengjia react: Yes, I hated old thief Ding to the core at the time and wanted to kill him. However, he deceived him with just a few words. Not only did he not kill him, but he made him Taifu. This man's ability to deceive others is indeed the best in the world, and he is the best person to negotiate peace.
At first, Ding Kuichu thought that Zhu Hengjia still remembered his hatred for accepting money but not doing anything, and wanted to kill him with the help of Emperor Longwu, but he was unwilling to go.
What a joke! As Emperor Longwu's bachelor and governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, not only did he not commit suicide after the defeat, but he surrendered to Jingfan and surrendered four prefectures and one state in Guangdong. If he had gone to Fuzhou, Emperor Longwu would have spared his life. Got yourself?
Zhu Hengjia encouraged him, saying that Gu knows your great talent best. Gu hated you so much at the beginning, but you were able to turn the danger into safety. Emperor Longwu is nothing to you.
Finally, Zhu Hengjia promised that if he could conclude the peace negotiation, he would be named Uncle Jingbei, so he reluctantly went to Fuzhou with Zhu Hengjia's conditions.
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A strange thing happened in Xunzhou City. General Li, the deputy general of Xunwu, killed a scholar and hung the scholar's head on the top of Xunzhou City.
After Zhu Hengjia defeated Ding Kuichu and surrendered four prefectures and one state, Guangdong and Guangxi were shocked. Some ambitious ambitious people thought that King Jingjiang might succeed, so they came to vote for him one after another. Scholars also wanted to vote for Jingfan, but they were afraid that Jingfan would not take them seriously, so they decided to vote for him.
I want to persuade Li Mingzhong to surrender together to achieve great success.
Although Li Mingzhong was a military general, he was born as a scholar. He was very polite to the scholar at first. When the scholar explained his intention, Li Mingzhong refused. As the deputy general of Xunwu, he had the responsibility to defend the territory. How could he surrender without a fight? Let his subordinates drive the scholar out.
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It turned out that this scholar was also ignorant. When he was kicked out, he actually cursed General Li and said that if you don't surrender, General Li will become a fan when the Jingguo army arrives!
This made Li Mingzhong angry. Although our old Li was a scholar, when he defected to Marshal Mao Wenlong as the chief secretary of Changyi to fight the Tatars in Pidao, he killed dozens if not hundreds of Tatars. Even Mr. Chongzhen
The emperor praised me, Old Li, for his unparalleled loyalty and righteousness. Who are you? You dare to scare us? I'll kill you!
As a result, the scholar's head was hung on the top of Wuzhou City.
Vice General Li admires two people the most: Emperor Chongzhen and Marshal Mao.
At that time, Marshal Mao had a lot of integrity under his command, and Geng Zhongming and Li Mingzhong drank and sang together, calling themselves brothers. Later Marshal Mao was killed by Yuan Chonghuan, and the two invited Li Mingzhong to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
In the Central Plains, wealth in a different place is not what I want." He rode back to the capital alone and wrote to Emperor Chongzhen about the strategy for the Ping Liao Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen was very moved and praised Li Ming for his unparalleled loyalty and righteousness.
"The late Emperor Chongzhen??", Vice General Li's eyes were wet!
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Dongge University Scholar Sun Jinding came back from Si'en. He was very depressed along the way because he failed to recruit Chen Bangchuan.
Originally, he had convinced his son-in-law, Chen Bangchuan's son Chen Zengyu, that things would work out. Unexpectedly, his in-laws, Si'en General Chen Bangchuan, suddenly fell ill.
I am very ill and bedridden.
It’s really serious! I went to see him by myself, and he actually asked his concubine to feed him even porridge. He even said to himself in tears, my in-laws! I can’t survive. After I die, my son will be entrusted to you. p>
Alas! Now that things are like this, how can we still expect him to lead his troops and horses to our prison country? However, the in-laws are so seriously ill, why is the concubine of the in-laws secretly smiling while feeding porridge? Don't the two of them have feelings for each other?
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After arriving in Wuzhou, Sun Jinding became even more depressed. He used to be the number one confidant of Jian Guo, but a guy named Zheng Feng came to him just a few days after he left. Jian Guo obeyed his words and always praised him as Zheng Zifang. He often followed him.
Eat and live with him.
It’s not okay to develop like this, there is a danger of falling out of favor!
I have to make meritorious deeds, make great merits! Let the prison country also praise me as grandson Fang, Sun Jinding thought to himself.
In the Third General Office of Wuzhou (Zhu Hengjia was stationed here after the defeat of Ding Kuichu), Zhu Hengjia summoned everyone to discuss the matter, "This Li Mingzhong, damn it! He actually hangs the head of the person who persuaded him to surrender on the city wall. This is a demonstration against loneliness. Which general is willing to
Lead the troops to attack Li Mingzhong on behalf of the orphan?"
Sun Jinding was refreshed, and the opportunity to make a great contribution came. "As a supervisor of the country, I am willing to persuade Li Mingzhong to surrender with his sharp tongue."
What? Zhu Hengjia was shocked, "Li Mingzhong is ruthless, Sun Qing, you are Gu's right-hand man, you must not go to Xunzhou."
"Thank you very much for your concern."
Three days later, a chamberlain reported that Sun Jinding, the Grand Scholar of Dongge University and the Minister of Rites, had disappeared.
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Lieutenant General Xunwu Li Mingzhong met with an important minister of the Jing dynasty, Sun Jinding, a great scholar of Dongge University, at the Lieutenant General's Mansion.
The first thing Li Mingzhong said when he saw Sun Jinding was: "You are very brave to come here."
Sun Jinding laughed loudly: "I, Sun Jinding, was originally a criminal who was exiled to the army. No one in Guangxi has a worse reputation than me. Now it is my honor to die under the sword of the unparalleled loyalty of General Li."
Li Mingzhong was astonished: "There are so many heroes in Jingfan! What else can you say before you die?"
"I have three questions for the general. Do you have any wine?"
"Come here, give me a pot of wine for Mr. Sun." Li Mingzhong was a man of both civil and military skills, and he liked the most generous and sad songs.
"Wine without food is not the way to entertain guests."
"Give Mr. Sun two more pig's trotters."
Sun Jinding has a pig's trotter in his left hand and fine wine in his right hand, feasting on a big meal.
After eating and drinking, without wiping his hands, he directly asked Li Mingzhong: "Has the general forgotten the people in Liaodong who are still struggling under the iron heel of the Tartars?"
"Mingzhong cannot be forgotten", Li Mingzhong's eyes were moist.
"Has the general forgotten the bloody feud between himself and the Tartars?"
"Mingzhong dare not forget." Li Mingzhong's eyes turned red when he thought of his family members who died tragically at the hands of Qing soldiers in Changyi City.
"Has the general forgotten Emperor Lie's kindness?"
"It's hard to repay Mingzhong with his broken bones." Li Mingzhong shed tears. At that time, the late Emperor Chongzhen praised himself. If everyone in Liaodong was like Li Mingzhong, there would be no need to worry about the injustice of the Tartars. The scene is still before his eyes.
"My king is a man of great talent and strategy, and he only wants to conquer the Tartars in the north and restore the two capitals and Liaodong. The reason why he oversees the country is to welcome the son of Emperor Lie as emperor. He often tells us that this world belongs to the lineage of Emperor Lie. , not only the vassal kings such as King Fu, King Tang, and King Lu, but also sent people to the north to find the whereabouts of the descendants of Prince Lie. Taking Chongzhen as the title means not forgetting the wishes of the late emperor."
"What if Jingjianguo can't find the bloodline of Emperor Lie?" Li Mingzhong asked.
"If you can't find the bloodline of the Liehuang, I think, Emperor, whoever has the greatest merit will do it! If my supervisor can lead the army to drive out the evil smell, restore China, return the two capitals to me, and regain Liaodong. This will be a great achievement in rebuilding China! Who in the world is dissatisfied with this great achievement? Don’t forget, my family’s surname is also Zhu." Sun Jinding said.
Recover Liaodong! Li Mingzhong is from Liaodong and dreams of returning to his hometown.
"General, does he know where I come from? I just came from Si'en General Chen Bang, who is my in-law. He has agreed to lead his troops and horses to submit to my family and supervise the country."
"What? Chen Bangchuan surrendered?"
"I know that you are not afraid of death, general, but what's the use of dying for the country? How can you avenge the blood feud and the kindness of the late emperor?"
"Sir's words woke up the dreamer. Please forgive Mingzhong for being rude!"
On September 11, the 18th year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, Li Mingzhong, the deputy general of Xunwu, surrendered to Zhu Hengjia.
Zhu Hengjia ordered him to capture Nanning, but the prefect of Nanning, Qiu Ziqi, surrendered without a fight. Li Mingzhong led his troops to capture Siming Mansion. Zhu Hengjia promoted Li Mingzhong to the rank of Siming Commander-in-Chief.
Since then, six of the eleven prefectures and eight prefectures in Guangxi have been included in Zhu Hengjia's sphere of influence.
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At first, Zhu Hengjia heard the news that Sun Jinding went to lobby Li Mingzhong, and thought that Sun Jinding would die. He said sadly: "I have lost an arm!" He only shed tears sadly, did not eat for a day and a night, and saw no other people. People don't listen to anyone's advice. The veterans who followed Zhu Hengjia were very moved and whispered, His Majesty still treats us old people more favorably than newcomers!
"The Chronicles of Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty": At the beginning, when the emperor heard the golden tripod proclaiming his loyalty, he sobbed and said, "I have lost an arm." He choked with sobs and shed tears. He did not eat day and night, and he did not listen to his advice. It may be said that the emperor treats the old people better than the new ones.
