In June of the first year of Hongguang in the Ming Dynasty, Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang.
Linhai City.
"Since Lu Jianguo has surrendered the city of Hangzhou to the Tartars," Zhang Guojun's tone was uneasy, and he gritted his teeth, "We might as well surrender."
"Have the Tatars already scared you out of your wits even though they are hundreds of miles away in Hangzhou?" Lao Zhu raised his head and said mockingly to this pale-faced 'brother-in-law'.
Zhang Guojun did not refute, but his voice was a little deeper, "The King of Zhou in Xiaoshan, King Hui of Kuaiji, and King Chong of Qiantang have all crossed the river to Hangzhou to attend the summons of the commander-in-chief. In Zhejiang, only the five kings are left now.
Your Majesty, King of Xialu." Zhang Guojun, wearing a flying fish uniform and an embroidered spring knife, looks young and mighty, but at thirty years old, he was actually the son of a wealthy noble family in Ningbo, Jiangnan a year ago.
"If the prince is unwilling to surrender, then we will quickly set off south for temporary refuge."
Even if the thirty-year-old Zhang Guojun is wearing a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife, it is only because the King of Lu, Zhu Yihai, fled south from Yanzhou last year and was moved to Jiangguang by Emperor Hongguang to temporarily live in Taizhou. After he remarried Zhang Guojun's sister, he was granted the title.
It's just an official title.
"Surrender or escape? Is there no third way to choose?" Zhu Yihai, the twenty-six-year-old King of Lu, stood there with raised brows, seeming to ask Zhang Guojun or talking to himself.
Zhang Guojun originally thought that after sending his sister to Prince Lu's Mansion in Taiwan, he would become a relative of the Ming Dynasty. However, who would have expected that before he even got used to wearing the flying fish clothes and brocade clothes on his body, this Tatar had already broken through Nanjing first and then went to Suzhou and Hangzhou.
, what was even more unexpected was that the four towns in Jiangbei were vulnerable, and Emperor Hongguang of Nanjing and Prince Lu, who was in charge of the country in Hangzhou, were both extremely weak. One abandoned Nanjing and fled without fighting, and the other was in charge of the country for only five days.
He surrendered Hangzhou to the Qing army.
Chongzhen hanged himself in Beijing, Hongguang was captured in Wuhu, and King Lu surrendered in Hangzhou. There is no hope for the Ming Dynasty!
"The prince has a bloody feud with the Tatars. I can understand his unwillingness to surrender. Then leave as soon as possible before it's too late. As the old saying goes, if you leave the green hills behind, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood!" Zhang Guojun had only one way to escape except surrender.
, To be honest, he was still a little hesitant to surrender at this time. After all, the Tatars had a reputation for being vicious. Not to mention the massacres committed by their convicts in recent years, let’s just say that after conquering Yangzhou this year, the revenge for Shi Kefa’s determined resistance was the bloody massacre of Yangzhou.
In ten days, the sword was sealed and the prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River was slaughtered into a ghost town hell.
At this time, there were too many unknowns about surrendering the captives, not to mention that he had just married his sister to King Lu. He was not yet satisfied with the majesty of King Lu's uncle, and he was not willing to accept it. The Zhang family in Ningbo was the richest, and he was still in Fujian, Guangdong and other places.
There are many industries, and it is not bad to protect King Fulu from going south.
It’s midsummer in June and the sun is scorching.
The heat wave is rolling outside, and the heat is steaming.
This garden built in Linhai City, Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangnan, is very ingenious, elegant and exquisite. It was once a garden that Zhang family of Ningbo spent a lot of money to renovate the decaying Ziyang Palace in the downtown area. After King Lu came to Taiwan, he donated it to the garden.
It was given to King Lu as a residence, but it could not stop the heat wave at this time.
Although the brown carved window lattice of the house was open, not a breath of wind came in. Instead, waves of heat poured in, making the house even more stuffy.
Thick carpets on the floor, large rosewood tables and chairs, screens with gorgeous lacquered patterns, and the precious calligraphy and paintings of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty hanging on the white walls, plus the elegant style of the paintings.
The guqin, as well as two shelves of spotless thread-bound ancient books behind the qin, and the cloisonné stove decorated with animal patterns are rising up the plumes of incense...
This room is filled with silk brocades and gold and jade utensils, showing luxury and magnificence everywhere, so that even King Lu who fled south in a hurry can still maintain the noble face of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
But at this time, Lao Zhu was watching all this, but had no time to take it to heart.
He is Zhu Yihai, but he is not King Lu. In other words, there are two souls of Zhu Yihai in the body of King Lu. One is that of King Zhu Yihai, and the other is the writer Zhu Yihai who appeared here inexplicably from later generations.
One is the tenth generation grandson of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, and the eleventh generation King of Lu in the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yihai. The other is Zhu Yihai, a history enthusiast and internet writer. The two were hundreds of years apart and should have had nothing to do with each other, but because of Lao Zhu
While participating in an offline armor fighting game held by lovers of history and cold weapons, I suffered a violent blow to my head and passed out. I woke up here again.
He changed his body and even had an extra memory in his mind.
He finally reluctantly accepted this bizarre reality, but he soon faced a more serious crisis. Although he returned to the Ming Dynasty and became a prince, the Ming Dynasty was almost over.
The Qing army not only occupied Beijing, but also just occupied Nanjing, and surrendered Zhu Changzi, the king of Lu in Hangzhou.
Taizhou is only a few hundred miles away from Hangzhou.
In the turbulent late Ming Dynasty, when Beijing fell and Chongzhen committed suicide a year ago, most people in the south of the Ming Dynasty still believed that even if the northern captives were fierce and the bandits were powerful, it would still be possible to protect the southern half of the Yangtze River. By then, like the Eastern Jin Dynasty or
The Southern Song Dynasty settled in the south of the Yangtze River and could last another hundred or two hundred years.
But who would have expected that the situation would collapse so quickly.
Zhang Guojun, who had just put on the flying fish brocade clothes a year ago, had also passionately pointed out the country and denounced the Northern Tatars. At this time, he was also panicked. The first year of Hongguang was only halfway through, but all the officials, generals, common people and gentry of the Ming Dynasty had already known about the Tatars.
The fierceness and cruelty of the captives.
And Lao Zhu knew the ferocity and cruelty of the Tatars better than anyone else. The Ten Days in Yangzhou was not the only one, there would soon be the Three Massacres in Jiading, and countless wars and disasters.
King Lu, the eleventh generation of the Ming Dynasty, unfortunately traveled to the wrong time. At this time, the title of King Lu could no longer enjoy the benefits left by Zhu Yuanzhang, but it was a danger.
Of course, it is also a responsibility.
"Jiangqing, it is impossible to Jiangqing in this life!"
Zhu Yihai turned around and sat down with a firm tone.
At this time, there were five vassal kings in Zhejiang, basically all of whom had fled from other places. King Lu, King Zhou, King Lu, Chong Wang Hui, and they lived in Hangzhou, Xiaoshan, Qiantang, Kuaiji, Taizhou and other places. At the beginning, the civil and military forces of Nanjing were still supporting King Fu.
Perhaps there was endless debate between King Lu, and finally Ma Shiying and the four towns in Jiangbei supported King Fu, which also laid the foundation for internal strife in the Hongguang Dynasty.
At that time, Zhu Changzi actually wanted to compete for the throne with his nephew Zhu Yousong, but in the end the generals who led the army supported Prince Fu, so he had to live in Hangzhou.
But no one could have imagined that only a year later the Qing army would break through Yangzhou and cross the Yangtze River. Zhu Yousong abandoned the city and fled, and was eventually captured in Wuhu. The chief minister Ma Shiying fled to Hangzhou with the Queen Mother, and had to support Prince Lu.
However, at this time, King Lu did not want to be the emperor at all, because the Qing army had marched southward, and the throne at this time was already like a hot potato.
However, after King Lu refused and was forced to accept the position of supervising the country, he surrendered the Qing army in just five days, which was considered a shock to the world.
After King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, among the other four kings in Zhejiang, the three kings of Zhou Huichong and Zhou Huichong immediately accepted the offer and went to Hangzhou to meet Boluo, but only Zhu Yihai refused to surrender.
Of course the writer Lao Zhu was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
However, the King of Lu, Zhu Yihai, also resolutely refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty because the King of Lu had a bloody feud with the Qing army.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army invaded Guanzhong, entered Shandong, and captured Yanzhou. The Lu vassal suffered a disaster. King Zhu Yi of Lu sent the city to break and committed suicide. His fourth, fifth, and son brothers were all killed by the Qing army. The town at that time was
The national general Zhu Yihai was also stabbed three times and fell among the dead. In the end, he survived by luck.
However, his eldest son and third son were both kidnapped as slaves by the Qing army, and his first wife Zhang even committed suicide by jumping off a building.
Lao Zhu opened his clothes and exposed his upper body.
Suddenly, three large scars on his body were revealed.
One of them started from the left shoulder blade and went diagonally to the right waist and hip. The dark purple scar was shocking, and there were two slightly shorter scars on the chest.
Lao Zhu looked at himself in the mirror.
"This scar was made by the Tatars. At that time, the city of Yanzhou was broken, and the Tatars entered the city, looting and killing everywhere. I was stabbed three times and fell into a pool of blood..."
"Your Majesty is blessed with great fortune, and lucky people have their own destiny..." Zhang Guojun said.
Lao Zhu looked at the scar and asked, "What does this scar look like to you?"
This was not the first time Zhang Guojun saw this scar, but he was always shocked every time he saw it. He was lucky enough to survive these three cuts.
"This scar looks like a wrapped python dragon!" Zhang Guojun said, King Lu is the vassal king, so it is certainly appropriate to say that this long scar is a python dragon.
"I think it's a dragon too!"
It's not like Lao Zhu never thought of escaping, but this idea was quickly given up. Where could he escape? In history, the captured Emperor Hongguang, the surrendered Lu Jianguo, and the King of Zhou Chong took the initiative to join Hangzhou.
The kings of King Hui, plus the fake Prince Zhu who was imprisoned by Hongguang in Nanjing City, will soon be brought back to Beijing. They will be temporarily appeased for a period of time. By next year, the Tatars will be eager to find an unwarranted prince.
They were all beheaded for the reason of rebellion.
Later, Emperor Longwu of Fujian was captured and killed, Emperor Shaowu committed suicide after being captured, and although Emperor Yongli was the best at escaping, he ran from Guangdong to Guangxi, Guangxi to Yunnan, and Yunnan to Myanmar, but in the end he did not escape being raped as a traitor to the Qing Dynasty.
Wu Sangui was strangled to death. Although he surrendered in Burma and returned to Kunming, he was still strangled to death.
Even Emperor Chongzhen’s third prince, Zhu, fled when the city of Beijing fell. He was only a teenager at the time. He spent his whole life hiding in Tibet, keeping his name anonymous, and never participated in the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. He taught in the countryside, married, and had children. By the time of Kangxi, he had already
He was over 70 years old, but he was eventually found out and was still questioned by his whole family.
Surrender is a dead end.
Escape, there is no way to escape.
Even if they fled to Nanyang at this time, there were Dutch people in Taiwan, Spanish people in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malay and other places were also colonized by the Dutch, Portuguese and others. By the early Qing Dynasty, there had been several tragedies to massacre the Chinese.
Even if you run to Nanyang, you can't escape.
"After the martyred emperor died, the Ming Dynasty had no successor to the True Dragon Emperor, so Hongguang abandoned Nanjing and fled, and King Lu offered Hangzhou harshly. These people were extremely cowardly, and they were in vain to be the queen of Taizu and Emperor Gao.
I, Zhu Yihai, the tenth grandson of Emperor Taizu Gao and the eleventh generation King of Lu in the Ming Dynasty, will never surrender to the captives.
I will defend the country that Hongguang cannot hold, and I will attack the Tartars that King Lu dare not resist.
One day, I will drive out the Tartars, restore China, and revive the Ming Dynasty!"
"But, but, Emperor Chongzhen's Guan Ning cavalry and millions of soldiers and horses from two capitals and thirteen provinces still couldn't defend Beijing. Hongguang had hundreds of thousands of horses and horses from four towns in the north of the Yangtze River, but they couldn't stop the Tartars from going south. Although His Highness is
The vassal king has no soldiers and generals, how can he drive out the Tartars and revive the Ming Dynasty?" Zhang Guojun felt that this was a big joke. He looked at his brother-in-law seriously and wondered if he was scared out of his mind!