Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 142

In the city of Guangzhou, Wang Yan couldn't help frowning and sighing after listening to Qian Yifeng's words. The intrigue and conflict of interests in the officialdom had penetrated into every corner of Daming. Even if he left the court, there would not be a pure land for him to live in. .

Now Wang Yan has retreated from Fujing to Guangdong, and the sea is to the south. He has no way to retreat, and he does not allow himself to retreat one step further, so no matter what challenges he encounters, he must face them, no matter who He would ruthlessly trample it under his feet.

When Wang Yan was in Guangdong, he was thinking about how to subdue the officials, and when he quelled the Jingjiang Rebellion, Zuo Maodi, who was far away in Fujing, was also thinking about the way out for the Longwu court.

In the past few days, the emperor and Zuo Maodi suppressed Zheng Zhilong's impeachment against Wang Yan, and took advantage of Zheng Chenggong's different political stances to achieve a check and balance with Zheng Zhilong in the court. During the anti-Qing period, bad news came from Zhejiang Province again.

At the end of August, the emperor sent Liu Zhongzao to Shaoxing to proclaim an edict, demanding that the Lu Jianguo regime recognize the orthodox status of the Longwu court. edict.

The situation of Tang and Lu contending for the establishment has been formed since then.

At the beginning of September, Emperor Longwu made another effort to squeeze out 10 taels of silver from the already stretched treasury, and ordered Lu Qingyuan, the censor of the capital, to go to eastern Zhejiang to reward his teachers, but he was killed by the generals of Lu Jianguo. (Historically, it happened in the first month of 1646, and the author here is ahead of schedule.)
When the news came back to Fujing, the emperor was furious.

The day before yesterday, Jin Yiwei found out that the king of Lu sent Qiu Zhaojin, the governor of the left army, and Lin Bida secretly entered Fujing to ask Zheng Zhilong to see him, and made a promise that as long as Zheng Zhilong supported Lu Jianguo, the Zheng brothers would all be dukes.

The emperor was terrified when he got the news, and asked Zuo Maodi for advice, and he followed suit with admonition: "Knock the mountain to suppress the tiger." Let Jin Yiwei lock up the envoy of Lu Jianguo and imprison him in prison.

The intensified dispute between Tang and Lu made Zuo Maodi very worried, but what made him even more distressed was that due to the dispute between Tang and Lu, the volunteers in the south of the Yangtze River could not get effective support.

Shortly after Kunshan and Jiading were captured by the Qing soldiers, Jiading scholars and people gathered in the city again. Under the leadership of the righteous man Zhu Ying, they returned to the city again on the fourth day after the Qing soldiers left to kill the false officials and traitors. The banner of anti-Qing righteousness was raised, but soon the city was breached by the Qing army, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were slaughtered by the Qing army, which is called the Second Massacre.

The cruelty of the Qing soldiers killed the soldiers and civilians in Jiading twice in succession, but the villagers outside the city gathered again and rushed to Jiading one after another. Together with the general Wu Zhifan, they attacked Jiading. The anti-Qingyi flag was raised, but the villagers were not the army after all. Most of them had not been trained in combat, and they were soon defeated. The Qing army invaded Jiading for the third time. The general Wu Zhifan died in battle. The Qing army slaughtered the city again, which is called Jiading Three massacres.

Since then, bloody Han people inside and outside Jiading were slaughtered, and the rest were shaved and easy to wear, and became obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty.

In the future, Zhu Zisu, a scholar who personally participated in Jiading's anti-Qing war, poured the atrocities he witnessed and filled with grief and indignation into "Jiading Yiyou Chronicle", saying that no less than [-] people were slaughtered.

When Jiading was fighting against the Qing Dynasty, a large-scale uprising against the Qing Dynasty also took place in the Wusong area next to it.

When the Qing soldiers went south to Yuhang, Xia Wanchun happened to be in his hometown in Songjiang and was planning to move south with his family, but before they could move, Hangzhou was captured by the Qing army. His father Xia Yunyi committed suicide in the battle of Dusongguan, and his teacher Chen Zilong was defeated. Ben Taihu.

Xia Yunyi's martyrdom made Xia Wanchun full of grief and indignation, and decided to go to Taihu Lake to join Chen Zilong to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the ambush, Lu Zhiyu, the deputy commander, was ambushed and killed, and then defeated by the Qing army in Liuhu. Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui were killed, and Xia Wanchun fled to Taihu Lake with only a few hundred remnants.

In the land of Wusong, the anti-Qing rebel army also failed.

In Huizhou Prefecture, Jin Sheng led the troops to fight bloody battles with the Qing army at Congshanguan, waiting for reinforcements, but the reinforcements never came. As time passed, the Qing army gradually gained the upper hand. Said to lead troops to help.Jin Sheng didn't have time to investigate carefully and let him enter.

The Qing army took the opportunity to cooperate with the outside, invaded and occupied Congshan Pass, and then captured Jixi County. Jiang Tianyi led nearly a thousand remnant soldiers and fled into the mountains. , don’t leave the people.”

Soon after, Huizhou Fucheng surrendered to Qing general Zhang Tianfu, and Houyi County, Qimen, Wuyuan and other places also surrendered successively.

Wu Yingji, the leader of the rebel army in Shidai County, escaped into Chengding Mountain alone, but was seriously injured and died under the pursuit of the Qing soldiers.

At the end of August, Jin Sheng was forced to go to Nanjing, and the people saw him off along the way. When passing through Wuhu, a fellow from Huizhou greeted him by the roadside, shouting loudly: "When the master comes back, I will definitely come to the roadside to wait."

Wen Yu, wearing shackles, Jin Sheng replied with a smile: "If I come back again, I will be worthless."

At this time, Hong Chengchou, who was a Jinshi in the same year as Jin Sheng, heard that he was detained in Nanjing, so he intended to persuade him to return to the Qing court, and then referred Jin Sheng to the mansion, persuading him: "How many ministers are dead today; The public should obey the sky and obey the sky, and don't just suffer for yourself!"

"You are a minister of the imperial court, you can't die but seduce others?" Jin Sheng opened his eyes wide and angrily said: "You and I are Jinshi on the same list and receive the emperor's favor, and the first emperor treated you very generously and bestowed upon you Jiuqing, Governor Garr, I died fighting the Qing Dynasty, but you sat on the eagle dog of Hu Yi, what face do you have to come to see me? And what face do you have to see the late emperor Yu Jiuquan?"

When Hong Chengchou heard the words, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and quickly asked the soldiers to take him away.

At that time, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River was in a state of turmoil. Duoduo, the Prince of Yu of the Qing Dynasty who had returned from the north, went south again to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He felt that Jin Sheng was very capable, so he wanted to keep him.

Duoduo's emphasis on Jin Sheng made Hong Chengchou worried about killing Jin Sheng, and suggested that Jin Sheng became a monk, but Jin Sheng asked back, "Why do you call him a loyal minister?" The sound of killing gold.

Before his execution, Jin Sheng paid homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, and then sat upright to drink his sword. Jin Sheng's younger brother Jin Jing, general Fan Yunlong, righteous men Chen Jiyu, Wu Guozhen, and Yu Yuanying.Those who joined the army, Xiang Yuan, Hong Shikui, Lieutenant Luo Tengjiao, Min Shiying, and Dusi Wang Yiyu, all the students from She County, were arrested one after another and died unyielding.

So far, the anti-Qing rebel army in South Zhili, except for Chen and Yan Ergong in Jiangyin, Chen Zilong in Taihu Lake, and Wu Yi, have all been wiped out by the Qing court.

At the beginning of September, the news of the successive defeats of the volunteers in the south of the Yangtze River came back to Fujing. Emperor Longwu was furious and reprimanded Zheng Cai for his ineffective rescue.

(Historically, Jiang Tianyi died with Jin Sheng.)
(End of this chapter)