Chapter 15 Yuwen Compensates for Too Much Playful Memes in the Previous Chapter
At the Jin Prince's Mansion, the personal guards Li Laiheng brought to Kaifeng are now busy decorating the lanterns with their entourage, decorating this small mansion beautifully.
In addition to preparing the firecrackers that will be set off the day after tomorrow, because of Li Laiheng's status as a soldier, the guards also arranged several salutes in the courtyard of the Jin Palace.
The maids sent by Luo Yanqing to protect Youci were decorating the house with furniture. In addition to the wedding ceremony, dressing table and other items, they also prepared red dates, peanuts, longan and other things with good meanings.
Red silk threads were hung everywhere in Prince Jin's palace, and the maids also smoked sandalwood in four corners of the courtyard. The deep aroma made Sun Shoufa and other personal guards feel dizzy.
Li Laiheng sat casually on the threshold, sniffing the scent of sandalwood in the air, patting the place next to his butt, and motioned for Fang Yiren to sit with him.
Fang Yiren looked at the threshold with a look of disgust. He moved a bench and sat down on his own. He clasped his fingers and counted various matters related to the wedding. But before he could finish, Li Laiheng interrupted him.
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"Okay, okay, Leshan...isn't this the point? How is the situation over there in Guide?"
Fang Yiren looked sideways at Li Laiheng and said: "Chen Yongfu has been holding back the news of Shandong's victory for almost half a month... If he continues to hold on, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it. It is estimated that the news will reach Kaifeng in the next few days."
Li Laiheng clapped his hands and said with a smile: "In the past few days? It won't matter. The wedding will be over the day after tomorrow, and when the news arrives, it won't affect the overall situation."
"From Guide to the east, as far as Xuzhou, it is Chen Yongfu's old territory. He is very familiar with it." Fang Yiren added, "Thanks to him, we can control the information channels along the way. The news channel in Taiyuan
…It’s also thanks to Chen Yongfu.”
"Chen Yongfu's son died in the Huolu battlefield..." Li Laiheng's eyes dimmed slightly when he mentioned this incident, "He and Donglu already had an sworn hatred. In such a never-ending situation,
We can only do our best to assist us. Zuo Ming, the son of Zuo Guangxian, has also come to my house to hand over his famous assassination before. After these Ming Dynasty surrendered generals cut off the road to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, if they cannot follow our attack
Donglu, if you are guilty of treason and regicide, and your whole family died at the hands of Donglu, you can only follow my path to the end."
In fact, Chen Yongfu is lucky. He is from Henan, and all his land and family property are in Henan. Henan is still under the control of Dashun, so Chen Yongfu will fully support Dashun even if he wants to keep his own property.
But those generals of the Qin Army, such as Zuo Ming, the son of Zuo Guangxian mentioned by Li Laiheng, as well as Niu Chenghu, Wang Yongqiang, Sun Shoufa and other Qin Army generals. Their properties are all in Guanzhong, and now Dashun has given up most of Guanzhong
In this region, it is a rare thing that these people can still be loyal to the cause of Dashun Army.
It was also because of the interests of the generals of the Qin Army that Li Laiheng overcame all objections and sent Mi Laiyin to lead a part of his troops to manage Longxi, so as to preserve the influence of the Shun Army in the northwest area and to reserve a short period of time for the generals of the Qin Army.
There may be hope of counterattacking Shaanxi within the country.
Of course, there is actually another more critical factor that made the old generals of the Qin army devote themselves to Dashun.
That was Li Laiheng's move to relocate people when he evacuated Guanzhong. He also moved the generals of the Qin army and even the family members of many civil servants from Shaanxi out of Guanzhong.
At that time, Li Laiheng and Dorgon had reached an exchange agreement of mutual concessions, and the two sides formed a tacit understanding, so the Qing army sat back and watched Li Laiheng's move to relocate.
The generals of the Qin army, civil servants from Shaanxi, and their families have all been moved to Henan and Huguang, all under the control of Li Laiheng, and their ancestral homes and properties were all occupied by the Donglu who swarmed in later.
In this way, they had to attach themselves to Li Laiheng in terms of family members; in terms of interests, they also had hatred with the Qing army for having their ancestral property taken away.
Comparing the two, of course these people can only cling to the thighs of the Shun Army - or to be more precise, cling to the thighs of the Jin King Li Laiheng among the Shun Army who is most likely to defeat the Donglu.
"The same is true for Song Qijiao and Gong Zhen." Fang Yiren said lightly, "Most of the Qin people and civil servants are also loyal to the master of the palace."
Li Laiheng laughed and said: "Leshan is joking again... He is loyal to the prison country, how can he say he is loyal to Gu?"
He then changed the topic and said: "Speaking of Song Qijiao...this old Song Dynasty Minister, I originally intended for you to worship him as your adoptive father."
Theoretically speaking, Youci is still Li Laiheng's adopted sister, and her full name should be Li Youci.
The Ming Dynasty was an era of revival of Neo-Confucianism, and people still attached great importance to the idea that people with the same surname should not marry. What's more, from the perspective of etiquette and law, it would be rude for Li Laiheng and You Ci to get married since they had such a sworn brother-sister relationship.
Although Li Laiheng's treatment of You Ci was not 100% sincere, since he wanted to use the wedding as an opportunity to achieve the goal of redefining the Shun army as one, he had to act in accordance with the etiquette at this time.
So Fang Yiren came up with an idea for Li Laiheng, which was to let Youci choose one of the elders of the Shun Army to be his adoptive father. In this way, Youci naturally broke away from his adopted sister relationship with Li Laiheng, and could also have a more respectable person.
Li Laiheng's identity, not to mention who You Ci chooses to be his adoptive father, is actually Li Laiheng's choice to deepen the relationship between political allies.
In Li Laiheng's mind, his choice for this candidate was Song Qijiao, the Minister of Civil Service among the Six Governments.
However, Fang Yiren strongly objected to this. Fang Yiren bluntly said that at this moment when the situation is tense and the situation is at stake, there is no need to waste the opportunity to appease the civil servants.
He strongly suggested that you let You Ci worship Liu Fangliang as his adoptive father, which would have the effect of consolidating the alliance between Chu Chuang and Zuo Ying.
Although Liu Fangliang is Li Laiheng's master, and the relationship between the two is considered very deep in the Shun Army, Fang Yiren still considers the eventuality - after all, if the relationship is deep, no matter how real the relationship between Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang is,
It is impossible to compare with the sincerity of the relationship between Liu Fangliang and Li Guo.
This approach is of course highly utilitarian, but the current situation has reached a point where it is about to break out. How can Li Laiheng continue to think about being alone?
He said a little depressed: "I followed your wishes and asked You Ci to recognize Master Liu as my adoptive father... Alas, Master Liu will be my Taishan from now on."
A burst of pink fragrance hit Li Laiheng's nose. He raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of You Ci's boudoir, feeling a little dazed again.
The embroidered silks and satins were hung up by the guards and maids, and the long ribbons hung down one by one. In the yard, people also placed two round drums with long silk strips floating on them and hanging beads.
Made for decoration.
Li Maoheng, the captain of the personal army who had just been promoted by Li Laiheng, took a flute that would be used at the wedding and slowly played a Qin opera tune. The flute flashed with golden light under the bright light of the sun, and the melodious music played in the
Entering the courtyard of Prince Jin's Mansion.
Fang Yiren took over the modified new felt hat, and the red tassels on it were changed into beautiful peacock feathers by skilled craftsmen.
Li Laiheng looked at the funny red-tasseled felt hat that looked like a peacock spreading its tail, and felt a bit nondescript, so he waved his hand and said:
"Forget it. Leshan, I will still wear the old hat... just like the one the late emperor wore, and then change it, we will make it more like it."
"Okay, the master of the palace will introduce the ruins of the late emperor, just like Zhe Zong of the Northern Song Dynasty."
Fang Yiren praised me seriously, but what Li Laiheng was thinking about was praising me as a Zhezong? Is this a curse for me to die young...
Li Laiheng patted his butt and stood up. A letter sent by Chen Yongfu from Guide fell to the ground. It read:
Shandong Lubu was very fast, Guo Shuai was like a god with his troops, and his horse was strong. Xu Zhao recruited Ming Tingjin and Liao naval forces for my use. He first robbed Kong Youde's baggage, and then burned the warships of three rebel kings. Dengzhou was restored, and Wuqiao rebelled against the chieftain.
The rats fled back to Ji, and the good news came from Xu Die. It will arrive in Bian in about ten days. I have tried my best to delay it, and the Lu troops are still being mobilized. I hope your highness will make arrangements soon...