Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 172

The southeast is full of wind and clouds. When the king of Lu raised his troops to return to Hangzhou and was defeated by the Qing army, the court of Longwu in Fujian also had no intention of making progress because of Zheng Zhilong's support of the army and held the court hostage. Intensified day by day.

Since entering Fujian, the emperor has not sent a single soldier out of Fujian to fight against the Qing army. Seeing that the territory of Huizhou and Jiangxi fell into the hands of the Qing court little by little, he was very sad and indignant.

At this time, Emperor Longwu and his confidants have reached a consensus that if they want to make a difference, they must break away from Zheng's control, otherwise the court will gradually become a puppet.

As an emperor with great ambitions, Emperor Longwu has decided to move to Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and then depending on the situation, if Jiangxi succeeds in using troops and the situation is stable, he can connect He Tengjiao in Hunan to the west, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian to the east, and Wang Yan in Guangdong to the south. Nearby command effect.

Even if the battle in Jiangxi is unfavorable, the emperor can move west to Hunan and south to Guangdong.

Hunan, southern Jiangxi, and Fujian are like a long snake, when the Qing army stormed Jiangxi, why?It was to cut off the belly of the snake and lose contact between the beginning and the end of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, since August of the Yiyou year, southern Jiangxi has always been a place of fierce competition between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Longwu wanted to move to Ganzhou instead of moving to the safer Guangzhou, which shows that the emperor's desire for recovery is by no means necessary. Same day.

In order to get rid of Zheng Zhilong's control, the emperor not only ordered Wang Yan to go north as soon as possible, but also closely prepared with the courtiers to move.

The right servant and right deputy of the Ministry of War, Yushi Wanji, knew His Majesty's mind, and followed up with the sparse and dense play, "Ganzhou is located in the upper reaches, and Yuzhang cannot attack with its back. It is enough to attack Chu on the left, Fujian and Zhejiang on the right, and Dongyue on the back. To control three sides, it is advisable to stay here."

The emperor was overjoyed when he saw Zou, and he added Wanji as the governor of Jiangxi, leading the false title of Minister of the Ministry of War, the governor of Jiangxi's armies, and ordered him to leave Fujing and settle in Ganzhou to prepare for the emperor's relocation.

The layout of Emperor Longwu and his loyal ministers in resisting the Qing Dynasty was also noticed by the Qing court. Jin Shengheng, who was the admiral of Jiangxi in the Qing court at the time, was very afraid, and quickly wrote to Dorgon: "The slaves carefully observe the situation of Chen Bing in the Southern Ming Dynasty. A Changshan snake is headed by eastern Zhejiang, with Jiangxi as its belly, Hunan, Guangxi, and Yunnan and Guizhou as its tail. The enemy fears Jiangnan and Manchuria, so it takes a defensive position in the southeast. Jiangning, and He Tengjiao is connected with Wang Yan of Guangdong, and has a large army in the upper reaches. If these two people bring a large army to attack Wuchang from above, and go down to Jiujiang, Jiangxi will not be safe, and the southeast half will be restored. This slave implores the emperor Father Regent sent [-] soldiers from Manchuria to join forces with the slaves, from southern Jiangxi to Fujian and Guangxi, cut off their waists and abdomens, so that the enemy could not look at each other from head to tail, then Qiantang could be crossed with one reed, and then together they could pacify Yunnan and Guizhou. Isn't it easy to unify the industry!"

Both Ming and Qing recognized Jiangxi's strategic position, but Emperor Longwu was unable to mobilize Zheng Zhilong's army to enter Jiangxi. After Wanji entered Jiangxi, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangnan, dispatched Ke Yongsheng, Gao Jinku and other ministries to enter Jiangxi. Cooperating with Jin Shengheng's troops, the army directly pressed Ji'an, but was tired of coping, and had no ability to welcome Emperor Longwu out of Fujian.

In Fujing City, the emperor was worried about the deteriorating situation in southern Jiangxi. After several orders, Zheng Zhilong had to send Yongsheng Marquis Zheng Cai out of Shanguan to rescue the Jiangxi Ming army. He ignored Zhang Jiayu's urging during the military affairs.

Zhang Jiayu was so indignant that he had no choice but to impeach Zheng Cai, and Emperor Longwu had no choice but to remove Zheng Cai's title once again.

University scholar Huang Daozhou was very indignant about this. After discussing with the chief university scholar Zuo Maodi, it was decided that Zuo Maodi would continue to stay in Fujian to assist the emperor, and he volunteered to ask the governor to go out of Fujian to support Jiangxi and contact the poor. Jiangtian's rebel army in the mountains of Huizhou tried to open the situation for the court.

After Zheng Zhilong heard the news, he was overjoyed that there would be one less veteran who opposed him. He was afraid that Huang Daozhou would change his mind, so he immediately prepared a month's money and food, but he did not send a single soldier to support him.

Huang Daozhou followed with barely more than 3000 soldiers, and embarked on the journey together with Zhao Shichao, the head of the Ministry of War.

Before leaving, Emperor Longwu had no soldiers or food in his hands, so he could only give Huang Daozhou more than 100 blank commissions, allowing him to recruit loyalty and righteousness along the way and raise his own military salary.

Wang Wei, who was left in Fujing by Wang Yan, saw that most of Huang Daozhou's soldiers were recruited and lacked combat experience. Huang Daozhou himself was also a powerless civil servant, and he just read some military books temporarily. , but has never commanded an army experience.

Wang Weijiu was in the army, and fought against the Qing army with Wang Yan. He only knew how powerful the Qing army was, but Huang Daozhou's soldiers and horses were obviously impossible to defeat the Qing army, so when he said goodbye to Huang Daozhou, he suggested to him to dismiss The team, with only a small number of elites, entered Ganzhou directly from the small road. In the name of the University Supervisor, they restrained and mobilized the governors, governors, and general soldiers of Huguang, Southwest and other places to join forces and make progress.

It's just that Huang Daozhou was reluctant to part with the three thousand soldiers and horses in his hand. He thought it was better than nothing, so he didn't take Wang Wei's suggestion.

Seeing this, Wang Wei felt helpless, so he had to mobilize [-] elite soldiers from the Zhongyi Camp, and let the [-] households headed by them protect the elder Zhouquan.

At the end of September, Huang Daozhou left Xianxia Pass, intending to rescue Jiang Tianyi who was besieged by the Qing army in the mountains of Huizhou, but after the army entered Huizhou, they turned around with their heads covered. After voting for Chen Zilong, he realized that his army was just a mountain away from Jiang Tian's.

After the plan to rescue Jiang Tianyi failed, Huang Daozhou moved to Jiangxi with his troops, and repeatedly wrote to Jin Shengheng, the admiral of Jiangxi who instigated the rebellion against the Qing court, but was ignored by him.

Arriving in Guangxin in early October, Huang Daozhou relied on his personal prestige to raise three months of military rations, and then divided his troops into three groups to attack the Qing soldiers. All roads are lost.

Soon after, Hu Maozhen, general of Ningguo of the Qing army, Yu Yongshou, general of Chizhou, Li Zhongxing, general of Huizhou, and Bu Congshan, general of Wuhu, inquired about Dao Huang Daozhou's camp in Mingtang, Wuyuan County. Thousands of people, the rest were scattered, and five hundred elite soldiers from the Loyalty Battalion fought and fled to protect Huang Daozhou.

Afterwards, the Qing army escorted Huang Daozhou to the prison in Nanjing. He chanted in the prison as before. There is a poem saying, "Things have changed in the past 60 years, and there is no life after turning over and over again. The old minister squeezed out his blood, and he will return to the Central Plains for thousands of miles. "

At that time, the Qing court sent envoy Hong Chengchou to persuade him to surrender, and Huang Daozhou wrote such a couplet: "Historical pens are flowing, although they are not successful, they can be lawed; Hong En is so great that they cannot serve the country but become enemies." Compare Shi Kefa with Hong Chengchou.Hong Chengchou was ashamed and ashamed, and Shangshu asked Daozhou to be exempted from the death penalty, but the Qing court refused.

Hong Chengchou killed Huang Daozhou, and before his execution, Daozhou looked south and bowed, and cried out in pain: "My minister, Huang Daozhou, bid farewell to my emperor." After worshiping nine times in a row, he cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, although I can no longer gallop On the battlefield, for the sake of the country, if you are captured with shame, there is no reason to be reborn. I hope that your majesty will reorganize the court, turn the tide, wipe out the traitors, and march northward. The holy pilgrimage will be peaceful and shameless. ?May your Majesty's holy will be decisive, beware of it, and be careful." After saying that, he bowed again, and then sat upright to be tortured.

The people watching the sentence all wept bitterly and shouted, "Master Huang."

On the same day, Cai Chunluo, Lai Jijin, Zhao Shichao and Mao Yujie were killed on the same day, known as the "Four Gentlemen of the Huangmen".

The obituary news spread to Fujian, and Emperor Longwu "mourned and stopped the dynasty", bestowed the posthumous title of "Zhonglie" on Wenming Bo, and ordered a "Min Zhong" temple to be built in Fuzhou for Zodiac Zhou, and a "Zhongxing Dagong" square; There is a "Baozhong" temple in Pu, and a "Zhongxing Jinfu" square is built, where the Spring and Autumn Festival is held.

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