Chapter 18 Orientation
July is not suitable for getting married according to the common practice, so it is said that the most effective fortune teller in Jinhua Mansion helped Chen Wen decide on several days of August and September. September is approaching the late stage of summer tax collection, and it is estimated that military affairs will start to become busy again, so Chen Wen chose the day of August, which is also today - the eighth day of August.
However, when we got married today, we only reviewed the etiquette several times yesterday at the urging of Sun Yu and his wife to deepen our impression. Early this morning, Chen Wen's first thing was to go straight to the study in the inner courtyard and picked up the letters he had just delivered this morning.
"Mr. Chen, the Marquis of Anyuan, met with him..."
The letter was written by Zheng Chenggong. After Zheng Qi and Zheng Tai visited one after another, a mechanism for communication between Chen Wen and Zheng Chenggong had been established in the southeast. However, now there is no direct access between the Ming army in Zhejiang and the Ming army in Fujian. On the way, it must pass through the occupied area of the Qing army, so the message is still confidential, and it is also due to extremely troublesome that the transmission speed is delayed.
Liu Qingtai became the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. Chen Wen had already learned about this news from Huang Zongxi. At that time, he also sent someone to the agreed contact point to pass it to Zheng Chenggong. However, in this news of returning, Liu Qingtai was stationed in Fuzhou, but he almost laughed.
The governor of Zhejiang and Fujian should have been the garrison of Quzhou, but now all Quzhou is in Chen Wen's hands. The Qing army dared not even take a step forward in Xianxia Pass, let alone sending such a high-ranking official to Chen Wen's mouth. Now, Liu Qingtai is stationed in Fuzhou, and Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao is also stationed there. Although Zhang Xuesheng is imprisoned, the successor Fujian governor must have stayed there. If Zheng Chenggong competes for some excitement and bombards Geng Jimao from Quanzhou to Fuzhou, the four kings of the Qing Dynasty in Fujian are facing each other in Fuzhou City. It is estimated that the military and political affairs in the eight Fujian areas can be completely solved on the mahjong table.
However, when Zhang Xuesheng and others were suddenly imprisoned, Chen Wen clearly remembered that the Qing Dynasty was thinking that Zheng Chenggong was showing goodwill to discuss peace. The charge of taking them back to the capital was also the charge of Zheng Chenggong's nest when he went to Guangdong to serve the king that year, these guys took out the Zhongzuo House's lair, so that the Zheng family had hoarded for many years was wiped out. In the words of the Qing court, it was because of this that Zheng Chenggong fought desperately against the Qing army, and these major culprits were the culprits.
I have to say that although it was more than two hundred years earlier and I had worked hard for myself, the Qing Dynasty was still as skilled as ever. The thick skin was also made of the same mold, which was obviously inherited from the same lineage, and even later generations reached the state of being better than the blue ones. No one can say that the bloodline of the Qing royal family was impure.
In fact, many of their imprisonment were jealous of other Qing tyrants and officials because of the uneven distribution of spoils. Chen Wen remembered that it seemed that these people refused to admit it after entering Beijing. They relied on bribery in private, and even the officials who interrogated them began to vaguely. In the end, the case was left unresolved. Especially Ma Degong, it seemed that after a short time, he returned to Fujian and was soon promoted to the admiral of Fujian. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of first-class marquis, which was very glorious.
In history, the Qing Dynasty was too difficult for Zheng Chenggong, and the defeat of Jin Li and Li Dingguo began to use troops to Guangdong, so he decided to use Zheng Zhilong to surrender Zheng Chenggong. Now, Zhejiang, which had been pacified, has become a major problem for the Qing Dynasty. It is obviously a forced one to recruit Zheng Chenggong. However, Chen Wen had no idea whether Zheng Chenggong would use it to expand his power as in history.
The second thing has actually happened, that is, Zheng Chenggong responded to the plan and call of his teacher Qian Qianyi and invested all costs to the plan of the third game of Qiuping. The first batch was the 20,000 army led by Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan. They set off. If nothing unexpected happens, they will arrive at Chongming Island next month to prepare for entering the Yangtze River and picking up Sun Kewang.
The third game of the cherry blossoms is a grand strategy planned by Qian Qianyi. Chen Wen has agreed. Zheng Chenggong is his student, so naturally there is no reason to disagree. As for Sun Kewang, Chen Wen remembers it very clearly, and is also full of confidence and enthusiasm for this plan. If he remembers correctly, Yao Zhizhuo should have already brought those letters and imperial edicts to return to Jiangnan.
Everything is ready, but Dongfeng is missing. Unfortunately, in history, the second male lead Sun Dongfeng was always blocked by the Qing Dynasty paparazzi led by Hong Chengchou and did not arrive on the set as promised. So the first male lead Qian Kongming didn't even have a rival scene. He could only chat and make jokes with some supporting roles and ruin a good drama that borrowed Dongfeng.
Now, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan have set out as in history, while Hong Chengchou was appointed as the Southeast Strategic in advance. The war situation in the southwest is likely to undergo earth-shaking changes next year and next. Sun Kewang reorganized an army that was enough to send troops to restore Huguang.
Whether the three rounds of the chessboard will become empty is still unknown!
In fact, in the seventh year of Yongli and eighth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong always faced three choices. In the Fujian battlefield, Zheng Chenggong occupied Zhangzhou, but the Geng family moved to Fujian, and the land threat increased dramatically, which made his pressure here not weakened. There was no way out for a while, so the other two - the three games of Guangdong and Yuping, must have a choice, just like when they fought with Jin Li, although they defeated the Eight Banners of the Han army, but their own strength was also seriously damaged.
In the third game of the chessboard, Zheng Chenggong had obviously started; in the Guangdong direction, although Zheng Chenggong respected Li Dingguo enough, he still had no intention of leaving. The last news was about the battle of Zhaoqing initiated by Li Dingguo.
Even after the four provincial capitals suppressed the war, Chen Wen was still very dissatisfied with the letter of apology that was belatedly apologized because Hong Chengchou blocked the place. As long as Jiangxi wins one battle, Nanjing will go down the river. Nanjing is the place where the Ming Dynasty's Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang has the only place in the world, and its influence is only Beijing can compete with it. The two armies work together to capture Jiangnan. Isn't it stronger than the so-called "Guangdong is rich, Jiangxi is ruined, deep roots and solid foundations". It is really not like Li Dingguo, who is famous for his two kings.
But from history, Sun Kewang's time bomb is indeed a great threat. Li Dingguo was also a loyal minister who was brainwashed by the idea of loyalty to the emperor. God knows whether the unfinished intention at that time had such considerations.
However, now, Li Dingguo is still defeated Zhaoqing as in history. With his character, it is naturally impossible to give up. Perhaps the Battle of Xinhui will still break out next year, but in Chen Wen's memory, it was a tragic siege battle that was extremely fierce - the reason is that the cruelty of the Qing army was fully demonstrated in that battle, so that Chen Wen still remembers it vividly.
"What should I do, even if I don't stop Li Dingguo's defeat, I will try to save those people from becoming the Qing army's meal."
Xinhui, located south of Guangzhou, is too far from Zhejiang, his occupied area. There are two ways to get there. One is to take a boat and go south across Fujian and eastern Guangdong, and enter directly from the Pearl River Delta; the other is to try to recover Jiangxi, especially Nangan, who goes straight to Guangzhou from there and kill Shang Kexi. After thinking that Yu Yunlong may not have the courage to continue to resist.
Unconsciously rubbing the texture of the paper, these two thoughts were all about a thousand miles away. Judging from the current strength of the Ming army in Zhejiang, they all seemed to be nonsense. It was not until a long time later that an anxious urging woke him up again.
Chapter completed!