At the same time, Wu Sangui also made a breakthrough in Hunan!
Changsha City was captured by him, and large areas of Hunan's state capitals fell into disgrace!
Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingqi even led troops across the Yangtze River and went to Hubei Province, frightening the Qing army in Jiangbei.
Of course, Wu Yingqi withdrew without daring to go too far!
But even so, the weakness of the Qing court was still fully exposed.
The current chaos is much greater than the San Francisco Rebellion in history.
Even in terms of scale, it is not smaller than the Taiping Rebellion that almost overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history!
…
In Guangzhou City!
Supervise the country's mansion!
Zhu Hongyu looked at the girl in front of him who looked very similar to Li Lingxiu, with an interesting expression on his face.
Li Lingxiu sent such a person here to remind him not to forget his wife and children?
He rested his elbows on the table, crossed his slender fingers in front of his face, and spoke with a playful tone in his eyes.
"May I have your name?"
When Zhu Hongyu asked the girl what to say, his eyes were fixed on Li Guangyuan beside him. His eyes seemed to say, you Li family are very good at playing!
Li Guangyuan spread his hands nonchalantly, with a helpless expression on his face, and explained with his mouth.
My mom arranged it!
Zhu Hongyu rolled his eyes, and the expression on his face was unusually lively, instead of the usual formulaic seriousness or smile.
The girl lowered her head slightly, with a shy expression on her face.
"I...my name is Li Qiuyue!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and then spoke.
"Qiuyue?"
"The boats in the east and west are silent, only the white autumn moon in the middle of the river can be seen?"
“What a nice name!”
With a very false politeness, Zhu Hongyu waved his hand to the eunuch who was serving him to take Li Qiuyue to his place.
Immediately afterwards, he talked about business with Li Guangyuan again.
"The battle in Jiangxi should soon be decided. If Xia Yuankui can defeat the Qing army in Ningdu Prefecture, the overall situation in Jiangxi will be decided!"
Li Guangyuan nodded and said.
"What your Highness said is true!"
"After the war in Ningdu Prefecture is over, as long as Nanchang and Jiujiang can be captured again, the war in Jiangxi will be considered over."
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and discussed with Li Guangyuan the specific matters of the Jiangxi war and the decisive battle that would follow.
At this moment, the guard at the door came in to report that Zhou Tianxu, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, was outside asking for an audience.
Zhu Hongyu nodded and then spoke.
"Bring people in!"
Not long after, Zhou Tianxu straightened his robes and strode into Zhu Hongyu's office with a clear smile on his face.
Zhu Hongyu asked.
"What's wrong?"
"Looking at your expression, what's the good thing?"
Zhou Tianxu presented a memorial to Zhu Hongyu, then took a few steps back and spoke.
"Your Highness, this is news from the capital!"
"The secret line in the capital launched an assassination operation to retaliate against the Qing court's assassination of His Highness, and the operation was successful."
"They succeeded in killing Bumbutai..."
When Zhu Hongyu heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He picked up the memorial sent by Zhou Tianxu and started to read it.
When he saw Jinyiwei's special operations team entering the imperial city through tunnels, pretending to be imperial doctors, and broke into the Qing palace at night.
After the news that they stormed the Qianqing Palace, killed Bumbutai, and then all died heroically.
Zhu Hongyu actually felt a little emotional.
This great country and nation has never lacked people who dare to die heroically.
For the sake of the country and the nation, even if they knew they would die, they would not hesitate to fight for it!
Even if you know that you will pay the price with your life if you go up to it!
Could those secret agents of Jinyiwei in the capital not know that they would enter the palace to assassinate Bumbutai and Kangxi, and that regardless of whether the mission was successful or not, they would definitely die?
The answer is obvious!
There's no way they don't know!
That's the palace. Since ancient times, who has entered the palace for assassination and escaped unscathed?
However, after receiving the order from the top line, almost everyone on Wu Tong's line was rushing to sign up and participate in the action.
It seems that what they are competing for is to receive the prize, not to die!
Zhu Hongyu took a deep breath and put down the report in his hand, with a somewhat emotional expression on his face.
"Pity!"
I just don’t know whether Zhu Hongyu regretted the heroic death of Wu Tong and others, or whether he regretted that they could not kill Kang Mazi at the same time as Bu Mu Butai...
"If I remember correctly, Wu Tong has a son, right?"
Zhu Hongyu picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Then he was slightly startled. The usually fragrant tea tasted bitter when he drank it.
Zhou Tianxu bowed slightly and spoke.
"Yes, Your Highness!"
"Wu Tong has a son who is seven years old this year."
Zhu Hongyu pondered for a while and said with a somewhat sad tone.
"The families of the martyrs must be well settled and receive preferential treatment in education, medical care, imperial examinations, etc."
"For those who have sacrificed their lives, we must pay tribute to them in life and death!"
"My Ming Dynasty will never treat any meritorious official ill. As long as he sacrifices for the Ming Dynasty, his family will receive the best care."
Zhou Tianxu clasped his fists and prepared to retreat.
Zhu Hongyu took a deep breath, as if he had made some decision, and spoke.
"Let Wu Tong be granted the title of Baron!"
"The remaining people were also granted the title of Lord and were rewarded with a certain amount of land and money."
"They sacrificed themselves for the Ming Dynasty, so give their titles and rewards to their children, their parents, their wives, and their brothers!"
"We must implement it. We cannot make the brothers below bleed and shed tears!"
"..."
"Here!"
Wang Ruxian took the order and wrote down Zhu Hongyu's instructions.
The rewards Zhu Hongyu mentioned, such as gold, silver, acres of land and the like, are actually just extra.
The posthumous title is the key!
There is no doubt that Ming Dynasty was a feudal country.
In a feudal country, the social status of those with a title and those without a title are completely different.
A title can achieve a jump in social class, which is not just talk!
Why did Ming Dynasty’s science and technology advance so rapidly in recent years?
Except that Zhu Hongyu gave specific research and development directions and used his own knowledge three to four hundred years in advance to lay a scientific basic structure for researchers.
The main reason is actually because Zhu Hongyu used the title of knighthood as bait and dangled it in front of everyone!
As for the title of the Ming Dynasty, if you get the title, you can achieve a class jump.
Who wouldn't be surprised?
Of course, in this matter, Zhu Hongyu's title was not given casually.
In good conscience, the contributions made by Wu Tong and others are worthy of being knighted.
After all, they successfully assassinated Bumbutai.
To a certain extent, it changed the political situation of the Qing court and even affected the situation in the world.
What's more, these participants in this assassination mission all went with the determination to die.
In the end, no one survived!
Even if it was just to buy horse bones for a thousand dollars, Zhu Hongyu felt that he should give him a few titles.
One baron, a dozen lords, that's all!
It's not a high-level title such as earl or marquis.
For ordinary people, this is an opportunity to achieve a class jump and enter the Ming Xungui Group.
But for Zhu Hongyu, it’s just a matter of opening his mouth!
He is really not reluctant to part with it!
If he can use such a few titles to make the people below him rush to die for him, Zhu Hongyu can be said to have made a lot of money.
After discussing the posthumous titles and rewards for Wu Tong and others, Wang Ruxian, Li Guangyuan, Zhou Tianxu and others resigned and left.