Fifteen years ago, when the Qing army headed south, the Ming Dynasty's clothes and historians surrendered like clouds, and a large area of ​​land surrendered without fighting...

Zhang Huangyan, a young master who was under thirty at the time, stood up without hesitation with his passion, and traveled without hesitation to the civil and military officials who had surrendered to the Qing court anyway. Two years later, the civil and military officials in Fujian, who were holding heavy troops bowed to the Qing court one by one. Zheng Chenggong, a student who was just over 20, brought his classmates and servants with a total of 90 people to raise the flag of uprising, and wrote letters to the Fujian and Guangdong officials who surrendered with his father one by one, and advised them to go and leave their hair.

When Zhang Huangyan first started his rebellion, he was nothing but full of saints' knowledge and a heart for serving the country, and he knew nothing about military affairs. More than ten years have passed, and Zhang Juren, who was familiar with the banner of navy and land warfare, was at ease in handling political affairs, military garrisons, and tents.

Zheng Jiansheng, who was less than a hundred at first, was also quite confused about military affairs when he first took over military power. In order to encourage his subordinates to dare to fight against the enemy's cavalry, Zheng Chenggong once whimsically announced that "cutting horses like a level of merit", which led to his subordinates killing them when they met a horse. A few years later, a war horse was not captured, and Zheng Chenggong suddenly realized. After experiencing continuous bloody battles in Fujian and Guangdong, he was ordered to do so and remained stubborn and refused to turn around and fight with a sword. Zheng Chenggong also developed the army from the initial ninety people to 100,000 people.

In terms of strategy for the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong always cooperated together.

A few years ago, when the Ming army in Southeast China started a reunion negotiation with the Qing court due to financial difficulties, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong jointly played a double act. Zheng Chenggong acted as a blushing face and told the Qing court that he was sincerely willing to surrender, but Zhang Huangyan was almost unable to accept it. When Zhang Huangyan faced the Qing court's persuasion to surrender, he said that he did not surrender, nor did he intend to negotiate, but he did not oppose Zheng Chenggong's talk on his behalf. At the same time, Zheng Chenggong actively sent people to the Qing army's territory to collect grain and recruit soldiers. Zhang Huangyan worked hard to contact the gentry around Nanjing and sent troops to reconnaissance the truth and reality in the coastal areas. After the Qing court finally launched an attempt to recruit Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong from collecting taxes in the Qing army's territory, the two immediately launched a large-scale attack. The high cháo of this offensive was last year's Nanjing battle.

Zhang Juren and Zheng Jiansheng, ten years ago, are now the southeast pillars of the Ming court, and are even more dependent on each other. Today, the relationship and friendship between the two over the past ten years have encountered an unprecedented crisis.

"Can Your Majesty the Supervisor?" After entering Zheng Chenggong's study, Zhang Huangyan asked straight to the point. Because he felt that Zhoushan was not safe, Zhang Huangyan sent King Lu to Xiamen before, and Zheng Chenggong promised to respect King Lu with the courtesy of the prince and not interfere with the personal life of King Lu. In exchange, Zhang Huangyan and Zhejiang sent Ming army no longer tried to support King Lu as the Supervisor.

Not long ago, this agreement has been well implemented by both parties.

After listening to Zhang Huangyan's words, Zheng Chenggong sighed in his heart: "Shangshu Zhang is giving me face. He did not mention the word "reincarnation in front of others, but was just with me in private. I hope I can take a step back with him."

Although he understood Zhang Huangyan's intention, Zheng Chenggong had no intention of giving in. He asked loudly: "I wonder who is the person Zhang Shangshu said, 'Your Majesty' refers to?"

Zhang Huangyan stared at Zheng Chenggong for a while and said coldly: "This is the will of the Lord. The Lord ordered Huang Huang to order King Lu Qiansui to be the governor."

Yongli sent the imperial edict from Myanmar to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan, granting the position of governor of Lu. After receiving the imperial edict, Zheng Chenggong sent the King of Lu to the military garrison in Penghu without saying a word. He was afraid that the Zhejiang soldiers around King Lu would help the King of Lu escape. While sending the King of Lu to the heavily guarded Penghu, he also left all Zhang Huangyan's subordinates, telling them that they could stay in Xiamen or return to Zhoushan, but they didn't think about going to Penghu together.

Zhang Huangyan received the imperial edict later. When he hurriedly sent someone to Xiamen to discuss the support of King Lu's second reprimand, he received a report from someone from Xiamen. Zheng Chenggong violated the previous agreement and put King Lu under house arrest in the military camp in Penghu.

"I did not violate the agreement with Yanping. This time the matter of governing the country was not proposed by our Zhejiang Army, but the imperial edict of the current emperor." Zhang Huangyan's tone became more and more severe, with anger on his face: "Where is the Chitose Under the Sea now? Yanping must give me an explanation."

"Everything is fine for Qiansui. Now the emperor proposed to let Qiansui supervise the country be clearly a life-threatening under the instigation of people." Of course, Zheng Chenggong would not plot to kill King Lu, but it is absolutely impossible to let him let King Lu escape from his own control now, because he knew that as long as King Lu was taken away by Zhang Huangyan, he would definitely start the second supervising state with this imperial edict.

"The emperor went to the south to hunt, what's wrong with letting the prince supervise the country?" Zhang Huangyan disagreed with Zheng Chenggong's words.

"It is precisely because the emperor is hunting in the south that his life is even more insane. How can the emperor be convinced?" Zheng Chenggong argued vigorously: "How do you know that this is the emperor's original intention, not made up by Xiao?"

"How can Yanping know if it means the Lord?" Zhang Huangyan was even more angry when he saw Zheng Chenggong's impolitement: "Now there are only you and me, what do Yanping's fallacies mean? Do I not know what the abacus Yanping is thinking? Emperor Longwu's successor has been eliminated, and Yanping should not want to randomly recruit the clan to the former emperor to succeed. The Lord will definitely not agree. If Yanping did this on his own, then he would be a sure traitor."

Zhang Huangyan felt that this killer move was very powerful, enough to block all the futile struggles of Zheng Chenggong. But soon he found that the effect was not as good as he imagined. Zheng Chenggong just sneered a few times without showing a trace of despair.

"Have he inquired about the descendants of Tang Fan?" After seeing the expression on Zheng Chenggong's face, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but have such doubts, but immediately denied himself: "If there is really news, how could he not make a big splash?"

Zheng Chenggong spoke several times, but in the end he still didn't get the trump card out. After sneering again, Zheng Chenggong said bluntly: "Shangshu Zhang is good, there are no outsiders here, let's talk clearly today. This is obviously a mess. Although the bandit of Li Dingguo recovered Yunnan, it was already severely damaged. After losing Guizhou, Li Dingguo was blocked in Yunnan and could not get out; the emperor did not even have the courage to return to Yunnan, and he also knew that Li Dingguo was unreliable. In the short term

It is hard to achieve success. Judging from our great power, we know that you and I will join hands, as fast as five years, as slow as ten years, it will be a matter of time to take down Shenjing and the entire Southeast. At that time, no matter who you and me have the upper hand, the emperor will have to hand over the position. So he wants to alienate you and me. If we fight for the country supervision and turn against each other, the time to recover Shenjing and the southeast will definitely be greatly behind. Emperor, he wants to buy some time for Li Dingguo! He is also thinking of fighting out of that mountain nest."

Seeing that Zhang Huangyan didn't say anything for a moment, Zheng Chenggong knew that the other party was not unaware of the powerful: "If the emperor really wanted to abdicate, why didn't he abdicate, but just promised a ruling country? Please read, if Zhang Shangshu made King Lu as the throne with this edict today, it would be legitimate to take it back in the future. And if we don't care about the emperor's edict at all, and after we recover the Shenjing, we will declare to the gentry and people that 'China cannot be masterless'. If we support King Lu's thousand-sai's supervising country, can the emperor still take it back? Anyway, the emperor does not need to decide whether the country is supervising at all, so why should King Lu's favor be accepted?"

Although he knew that Zheng was successful, Zhang Huangyan knew very well that there was another key reason for the other party: "After regaining Shenjing, will Yanping agree to the Qiansui regent of King Lu?"

"We won't mention this matter for now. We still have to work together to recover the Shenjing first. Then we will show our magical powers." Zheng Chenggong had no intention of a positive answer.

closure

"I don't believe it." Zhang Huangyan originally had this hope, hoping that after regaining Nanjing, he could jointly support King Lu and Zheng Chenggong for the second reign of the country. He sent King Lu to Xiamen to give Zheng Chenggong an opportunity to get closer to King Lu. Anyway, in Zhang Huangyan's opinion, Zheng Chenggong had no other choice. If Emperor Longwu could not continue his succession, supporting King Lu was already his best choice. If Zheng Chengyi and King Lu eliminated the barriers, Zhang Huangyan would of course be happy.

Before, Zhang Huangyan had fantasized that as long as he could firmly stop Zheng Chenggong from reincarnating the farce of Emperor Longwu's random succession, Zheng Chenggong would have to compromise with King Lu in the end, and settle for the second best to become the supporter of King Lu. However, this time Yongli's imperial edict completely broke Zhang Huangyan's fantasy. It was obvious that Zheng Chenggong would do anything to prevent King Lu from ascending to the throne. The relationship between Zheng Chenggong and King Lu was separated before, but it was many years ago, but the incident of sending King Lu to Penghu for house arrest this time was too bad. Zheng Chenggong could not not know the serious consequences of doing so, and the conflict between him and King Lu would never be eliminated. Since he had done this, there would be no way out and no possibility of compromise.

"This is the emperor who wants to disagree with you and me." Zheng Chenggong said anxiously. Although Zhang Huangyan's power is weaker than Zheng Chenggong, if he wants to regain Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he still needs to rely on Zhang Huangyan's intelligence network and local guides. Otherwise, Zheng Chenggong would have tens of thousands of soldiers and would not be able to do anything.

"I know." Zhang Huangyan nodded. After losing the support of the Zhejiang soldiers, the Fujian army could not do anything to Jiangsu; and after losing the Fujian army, the Zhejiang army did not threaten the Qing court. It is best to divide the Fujian and Zhejiang families in the current Southern Ming court. This can be divided and ruled, making it impossible for the Southeast Ming army to join forces to launch competitors that are enough to shake their status today, and to seize the opportunity to recover a political center like Nanjing before the court (if the court still has this ability), giving the imperial court and the Yunnan army a chance to make a comeback.

Zheng Chenggong laughed: "Since Zhang Shangshu knows, then I'm relieved..."

"But I still can't believe in Yanping," Zhang Huangyan interrupted Zheng Chenggong's laughter. Yongli's imperial edict broke Zhang Huangyan's fantasy. The irreparable gap between the Fujian and Zhejiang armies Zhang Huangyan didn't see it clearly, or did not want to see it seriously, but now Zhang Huangyan is clear about it: "I want to bring King Lu Qiansui back to Zhoushan."

Zheng Chenggong's smile froze on his face and slowly disappeared without a trace.

"This is impossible!" Zheng Chenggong said firmly, and then he still tried to convince the other party: "Ma Jixiang (the assistant of the Yongli court today) is a complete person, doesn't Zhang Shangshu know?"

"I know, but I just care about the safety of King Lu Qiansui. Now seeing the emperor's useless imperial edict, Yanping sent King Lu Qiansui to Penghu. When the stranger restored Shenjing, will Yanping send King Lu to Nanjing? Yanping should not treat me as a three-year-old son. I am only afraid that Qiansui's life would be in danger at that time." Zhang Huangyan saw that Zheng Chenggong's face had become very ugly, and promised: "This time I will take King Lu back to Zhoushan, and I will not accept the imperial edict and not be the position of the state."

After a moment of silence in the room, Zheng Chenggong said slowly: "Since Zhang Shangshu is not my letter, how can I trust Zhang Shangshu?"

Zhang Huangyan stared at Zheng Chenggong for a while, and said two words contemptuously: "Thief!"

"Thief?" Zheng Chenggong jumped up suddenly as if he was stabbed by a needle. In the blink of an eye, the Prince of Yanping, who had been calm, was so excited that his face flushed: "Okay, I don't want to say something to outsiders, and I have never mentioned a word, but Zhang Shangshu and I have been in love for ten years, so I will know it today!"

"My father was very ruthless and was deeply grateful to the country, and was even more favored by the elders of Fujian for decades. But he was a corrupt man who begged for wealth. Not only did he betray the emperor, but he also sent millions of elders to the Tartars to kill him." Zheng Chenggong said in a heavy mood: "When I learned about this, I would have nightmares every night. When I was in Nanjing, I saw Qin Hui's descendants write poems and he was ashamed of his surname Qin, and I knew that one day, my children and grandchildren would hate their surname Zheng, and they would be ashamed to step into Fujian!"

Zhang Huangyan looked at Zheng Chenggong and was very surprised. In his impression, Prince Yanping had never been so excited.

"So, my father and brothers broke up, and with a few like-minded classmates and scholars, I took our dozens of servants and grooms, and raised the flag of revolt to fight the Tartars. At that time, I thought it was very simple. If I died on the battlefield, I would use my blood to wash away the shame left to them by my father. They could also return home with their chests, and be worthy of the surnames passed down to them by our ancestors. Fortunately, the emperor was never stopped, and the soldiers used their lives.

,I have fought more than seventy years in the past ten years and have repeatedly defeated the powerful enemy. I know that in the history books of later generations, Zheng Zhilong betrayed an emperor and his elders in a province, but he had a son who regained the two capitals for the Ming Dynasty, took back the world, and saved the people of the world from the iron hooves of the Tartars. I can not only clear my father's faults for my descendants, but also clear my brother and my entire family of shame."

Hearing this, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but sigh: "Yanping's ambition is noble."

"Brother Zhang is my comrade." Zheng Chenggong agreed briefly and continued: "Our dynasty practice is that if we support it, we will die in a miserable way and we will be labeled as a treason. Even if we have the merit of saving the country, it will only be rehabilitated within decades. I, Zheng Chenggong, must revive the Ming Dynasty and remain unchanged, but the fate of Yu Shaobao (Yu Qian) should never fall on me, nor should I fall on my descendants. I want to protect the safety of the people and my descendants."

Zheng Chenggong stopped here, sighed, and then spoke to Zhang Huangyan again: "I am not a thief, so I cannot let myself be wronged and unwilling to be charged with the crime of rebels. This is not the end that a hero should have!"

"This is indeed not the end that heroes should have," Zhang Huangyan said sympathetically: "But King Lu is Renhou, Yanping can rest assured."

"I can't believe it!" Zheng Chenggong shook his head firmly: "Can Shangshu Zhang trust the emperor? If you can trust it, then why would you support King Lu in every way?"

Zhang Huangyan was speechless, stood up and said to Zheng Chenggong: "I just want to see you for a thousand years."

"How dare I stop this vassal?" Zheng Chenggong was stunned, then called the guards and asked them to take Zhang Huangyan to rest, and then arranged a ship to take Zhang Huangyan to Penghu to meet King Lu.

Looking at Zhang Huangyan's back as he left, Zheng Chenggong said in his heart: "I'm sorry, Brother Zhang."

In Deng Ming's previous life, Yongli issued an order to make the King of Lu supervise the country again, which led to the same internal strife effect. Zhang Juren and Zheng Jiansheng, who had fought side by side for many years, parted ways from then on; and the Fujian-Zheming Ming army led by the two of them also began to reach their respective ends of destruction from this day.

…Penghu.

Zhang Huangyan met King Lu.

The King of Lu looked pretty good. Although he was under house arrest in the military camp, he still had a royal demeanor. When the two were alone, the King of Lu did not speak out any resentment towards Zheng Chenggong.

Zhang Huangyan met King Lu when he was in his twenties. At that time, King Lu was still a royal child who was completely ignorant of the world. He had long nails like King Lu. In order to protect his nails, he had to put long bamboo tubes on ten fingers, drink water, and eat, and ask others to serve him.

"How about my nails?" King Lu showed off to Zhang Huangyan the newly left nails on his fingers. After living a carefree life here at Zheng Chenggong, he picked up all his old habits when he was young: "It's here in Penghu, and there are also shows to watch every day."

Zhang Huangyan nodded with a smile, but felt even more distressed, knowing that this was a deliberate gesture by King Lu to make Zheng Chenggong feel at ease.

"Don't have a gap with Yanping," King Lu did not mention this matter when Zheng Chenggong's guards were beside him, but now he and Zhang Huangyan are the only ones in the house. King Lu let Zhang Huangyan understand that this is what he said in his heart: "The southeast has lost a large area of ​​land, and countless people who are struggling under the iron hooves of the Tartars are still waiting for you to work together to recover and save. At this time, you must not fight in internal conflicts, and do things that hurt your relatives and your enemies are happy. How old are you in Yanping? You should give in to him in everything."

"Your Highness's golden and beautiful words, Huang Yan must keep them in mind." Zhang Huangyan's words were like this, but he felt more and more sad. He suspected that the recovery of the Southeast was also when Zheng Chenggong wanted to get rid of King Lu, so the more generous the King of Lu was, the more Zhang Huangyan felt crying.

"Is Shangshu Zhang very sad when he saw me? Why did he seem to cry?" King Lu joked and asked again: "Sichuan Admiral Deng Ming, I heard that Zhang Shangshu saw it with his own eyes. What is the person? Let me tell you in detail."
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