Chapter 842 Brother-in-law Wants to Proclaim Emperor
Wuchang, by the East Lake.
Gu Shidao, the commander-in-chief of the Xinghan Army, was sitting in a pavilion by the lake, looking at his grandson who was playing with his mother not far away, with a kind smile on his face that never stopped.
This is family happiness.
As people grow older, they will always cherish the happiness brought by this kind of family affection even more.
Therefore, when his daughter proposed to take Keqing back not long ago, Gu Shidao asked her mother and son to stay with him for a while.
He really couldn't bear to be separated from his daughter and grandson again.
These two people are the only remaining flesh and blood of his blood in this world.
His eldest son’s family and his eldest daughter’s family all died in the anti-Qing struggle in Jinchuan;
His eldest brother and younger brother died in the Qing army's raids;
His wife even jumped off the cliff with her two sisters-in-law;
Unfortunately, his pregnant sister was captured alive by the Qing army and then disemboweled and died.
For more than a hundred years, the survivors of the Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan, including the Gu family, fought successively against the Manchu invaders, composing a series of bloody hymns in the mountains and mountains, holding on to the last hope of the Han nation, but were defeated by the Manchu monarchs and ministers
Slandered as a traitor.
How sad!
Unfortunately, when the struggle against the Qing Dynasty in Jinchuan was about to fail, God gave these Han people who insisted on their clothes the last chance.
I have to say that this is the hope of the Gu family, the hope of the more than two thousand Ming Dynasty survivors who broke through Jinchuan, and the hope of the entire China.
However, this hope now looks slim again.
There were two other people in the pavilion, one was Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, and the other was Wang Ang, the governor of Hubei.
The two of them have one thing in common, that is, they were both officials in the Qing Dynasty, that is, they were demoted.
Both were demoted, but their political stances were completely different.
It can be said to be a tit-for-tat existence.
The reason is that Chen Huizu is the peace advocate, and Wang Ang is the most determined war advocate.
In the original Xinghan regime, there was no such thing as "main war" or "main war". Almost all forces, including those who were demoted, wanted to rush out of Huguang and march to the Central Plains, thereby completely ruining the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Among them, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, and Bayan San, the governor of Hunan, two of the top Manchu officials who had surrendered, were the most fierce.
The two of them had no choice but to eat Hun meat in public and laugh about drinking Hun blood.
However, as the Qing government appointed Prince Heshuorui Shikai as the general king to lead the army in the southern expedition, many of the advantages gained by the Xinghan regime in the early stage were continuously reduced by Shikai through various means.
Even a year ago, the Xinghan Army had a large-scale defection and surrender wave, causing half of Hubei's prefectures and counties to be occupied by the Qing army again.
Although the Xinghan Army still completely controls Hunan and Jiangxi (except Ganzhou) provinces, it has concentrated a large number of troops to march eastward to Anqing, with the intention of moving down the river to occupy Nanjing.
A defense circle with Jingzhou, Wuchang, and Hanyang as the core was also established in Hubei. However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Xinghan regime is actually facing a major crisis.
Unless the lower reaches can break through Anqing and march to Nanjing to gain territory in the two rivers, they will be surrounded by the Qing army and ultimately face defeat.
After all, no matter whether it was money, food, manpower, or equipment, the Xinghan Army could not compete with the Qing Army, which had an absolute advantage, for a long time.
In particular, the Xinghan Army had many internal problems and was not monolithic at all.
The development of the Xinghan Army at the beginning was deformed. More than 2,000 people snowballed into more than 100,000 people. If this snowball could keep rolling, dynasties would naturally change.
The problem is, now this snowball suddenly can’t roll anymore!
Not only could it not roll down, but many small snowballs began to break away from their parent bodies.
Therefore, various arguments emerged after the year.
First of all, Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who originally proposed to support the Zhu Ming clan, never mentioned supporting the Ming clan again, and made many public remarks on the possibility of peace talks with the Qing court, saying that judging from the current situation, "war"
There will be a great defeat, and there may not be a great chaos.”
He advocated an immediate cessation of fighting with the Qing army, and sent a mission to Xiangyang to negotiate with Prince He Shuorui, who represented the Qing court, in order to achieve early peace in the three provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi, so that the people in the three provinces who had suffered from military disasters could enjoy early peace.
Peace, peace of mind, and prosperity.
For this reason, it was even believed that as long as the Qing government allowed the military and civilian autonomy of the three provinces and implemented a system different from that of other regions, the Xinghan regime could formally obey the Qing government.
This statement is actually very beneficial, because Wu Sangui and others have gone further than they did back then.
If we can really achieve this step, it may be the best result for the survivors of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Wenyuan, the prefect of Wuchang, and Shi Chaoxuan, the Right Political Consultant of Hubei Province, and other officials also advocated peace talks with the Qing court. At the same time, they slandered Wang Ang, the leader of the main war faction who insisted on "driving out the Tartars and restoring China" and wanted to fight the Qing court to the end.
The fantasy of Through the Looking Glass is a high-profile way of sacrificing countless lives for personal fame.
Wang Wenyuan even mocked Wang Ang in public, saying that Mr. Futai was fighting all day long, so he could just put on his own armor and go into battle, instead of hiding behind here and singing a high-profile speech.
After the beginning of spring, the conflict between the main peace faction and the main war faction became more intense, which has affected the stability of the Wuchang regime.
Some generals in the army also participated in the discussion of war or peace.
If the situation continues to spread and expand, another main force of the Xinghan Dynasty that is currently marching eastward will definitely be affected.
At this time, news came that Qianlong was actually the son of a Han Chinese. Wang Shikai, the great general of the Qing court, was going to convene a meeting of hundreds of officials and clans in Xiangyang to jointly attack Qianlong, the thief who stole the country.
This news shocked the officials of the Xinghan regime from ear to ear, and then they all realized that this was undoubtedly a major turning point for the Xinghan regime.
Wang Ang was the first to go to the Governor's Mansion to see Gu Shuai. He actually asked Gu Shuai to send someone secretly to the capital to contact the Han Qianlong, so that the two sides could join forces to deal with Manchuria.
That is to say, everyone is Han, even if they were life and death enemies in the past, in the face of the common enemy Manchuria, they can put aside their past grievances and put "restoring China" as the first priority.
Not to mention, Wang Futai’s idea has been recognized by many people.
When Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, learned that Wang Ang had the idea of joining forces with Qianlong, he laughed angrily and cursed Wang Ang as a nerd, who was so confused that he came up with such a bad idea.
Later, he asked to see Gu Shuai and put forward his own opinions.
It was to take advantage of the major crisis within the Qing court to cooperate with Xiangyang to strive for many conditions that were conducive to the revitalization of the Han regime.
For example, in the name of cooperation, the Qing troops in Hubei were required to withdraw unconditionally.
Later, we can take advantage of the internal strife in the Qing army to carry out drastic reforms and integrate forces, so that in the future, whether it is negotiation or fighting, there will be a chance to show off.
It was not like now where we were trapped and suppressed by the Qing army, and people were in panic.
Gu Shidao would definitely disagree with joining forces with Qianlong to deal with his son-in-law.
But he was not willing to listen to Chen Huizu's suggestion to cooperate with his son-in-law.
Because he will never surrender to the Tatars.
Even if this person is his son-in-law or the father of his grandson.
Yuanyuan didn't take a second look at the quarrel between the two senior officials in the pavilion in the distance. She didn't care about these things and was just encouraging her son to move forward boldly.
Little Keqing is learning to walk, but his steps are unsteady and he either refuses to walk or falls down after only a few steps.
Yuanyuan felt distressed at first, but gradually she stopped helping her son and let him get up by himself and continue walking.
Keqing didn't want to, so he acted coquettishly and pretended to cry, but was ignored by his mother.
Mother even broke a wicker stick from the roadside and held it in her hand, ready to whip you if you didn't leave.
Helpless, Xiao Keqing had no choice but to purse her lips and shed tears while taking small steps forward with difficulty.
It's like exploring life.
"How old is Dabao? How dare you, a mother-in-law, force him like this?"
The speaker was Gu Mingyuan, who had just returned from Jingzhou. He was Yuanyuan's cousin, and his father was Yuanyuan's uncle Gu Shiwen.
More than 20 years ago, Gu Shiwen and his younger brother Gu Shiwu stayed together as queens, and both died for their country.
"When I was a kid, my eldest brother forced me to learn how to walk."
Looking at her elder brother who was ten years older than herself, Yuanyuan laughed.
When she was young, her father and mother were often not at home, so she and her sister grew up with her brother Mingyuan.
"In a blink of an eye, you already have a child."
Looking at his toddler nephew and his sister who was now a married woman, Gu Mingyuan also sighed. He glanced at his uncle in the pavilion, and then his eyes fell back on his sister's face: "There is news from Xiangyang that my brother-in-law is going to proclaim himself emperor.
Already."
Yuanyuan said "Oh", but there was no emotion on her face.
"What? Are you unhappy?"
His sister's reaction made Gu Mingyuan a little strange.
Even if her brother-in-law is a Manchu Tatar, and he is Aisin Gioro, the great enemy of the Ming Dynasty, my sister married him and gave birth to a son for him. Now that the Tatar brother-in-law is going to proclaim himself emperor, my sister has no reason to be unhappy.
"Why should I be happy?"
Yuanyuan shook her head, "On one side is my father and brother, and on the other is my husband, but my husband and my father and brother cannot be a family. What does my brother say I should do?"