Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 385

The Nanming court moved to Guangzhou, and everything was complicated. In addition, the central officials suffered heavy losses. It would take at least several months for the court to restore its functions and order the world.

Guangzhou was renamed as Guangjing, and Wang Yan also gave up Chu's mansion as the emperor's temporary residence. He and Xu Yanyan re-established the mansion.

At this time, although the imperial government's finances were bankrupt, Wang Yan was actually relatively rich, not to mention the Jingyuan Commercial Bank in which he was a shareholder, and even the theater run by Xu Yanyan, Li Zhenli, and Li Xiangjun, which was also making a lot of money every day.

In addition, the Hengyang Wang family also started last year, through Wang Yan's relationship, to start a business from Hunan to Guangzhou, and Wang Yan was also a part of it.

Collusion between government and business is always the easiest and fastest way for capital development. With the end of the war in Guangzhou, commercial activities inside and outside the city have also resumed.

The Ming army defended Guangzhou, which gave the merchants great confidence, and many escaped firms moved back, so it seems that the city of Guangzhou has not been greatly affected.

When Wang Yan entered Guangzhou, the appearance of the city had basically recovered, and it seemed that there was not much difference from when he left. However, Wang Yan has no time to care about these things now. After he returned to Guangzhou, he devoted himself to the imperial court without even entering his house. among the affairs.

On the first day when Longwu entered Guangzhou, he summoned ministers to discuss major issues, and the most urgent one was how to deal with Gui Fan, who was known as the supervisor of the country.

At this time in Longwu's temporary palace, several ministers had been arguing for more than half an hour.

Su Guansheng said angrily: "Your Majesty wants to carry out ZTE's affairs, but how can you not understand the order and keep doing it? The king of Lu fought with your majesty, so that East Zhejiang did not listen to the imperial court's order, so East Zhejiang and the imperial court were broken by the Qing court one after another. Today, King Gui There is also the desire to spy on the emperor's throne, which is really a great harm to the court, and this hall advises to send troops to wipe it out, so as to frighten Xiaoxiao, what's wrong?"

Zuo Maodi shook his head and said: "In the face of a strong enemy, the same surname is competing, this is the way to bring disaster. The defeat in eastern Zhejiang and the change in Fujian are the result of the discord between the imperial court and the Lu Fan. To wipe out the Gui Fan, not to mention whether the imperial court has the money and food to do so, whether it can be wiped out in a short time, even if it is wiped out, what will King Lu of Zhoushan do with it? Isn’t this forcing King Lu to rebel?”

"China is safe, and the barbarians are submissive. It is the old husband who wants to fight against the outside world, he must first settle inside!" Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Bamin changed color, and the Qing army easily entered Guangdong. Su Guansheng deeply realized that a person with internal problems How fragile the stable court is, he argued: "The country is so dilapidated, it is not because it could not completely wipe out the rogues at the beginning, but also fought on both sides! It is the strong enemy that the court must eliminate all hidden dangers, so that the upper and lower With one heart, defeat the Qing court."

"Although Su Ge's strategy is dedicated to the country, it is not suitable for the current situation." Zuo Maodi has experienced the dispute between Tang and Lu, and the change in Fuzhou, and he has also had many reflections. , Only then did the Qing court defeat them all, "In the current situation, Qing wants to destroy me, which is a confidant's trouble. Gui Fan and Lu Fan have ringworm and scabies. The same family, you can talk about it or take it easy. It is really unwise for Mr. Su Ge to abandon his fatal illness and treat minor ailments!"

Emperor Longwu sat in the middle of the hall and listened to the debates between the ministers of the two factions. Most of the ministers who followed him to Guangxi agreed with Zuo Maodi's words, thinking that there should be no conflict with King Gui and King Lu, because the differences within Nanming should be resolved peacefully. Guangnan officials, on the other hand, advocated the extermination of Gui Fan, and most of them supported Su Guansheng.

The difference between the ministers of the two factions mostly came from the difference in experience. Zuo Maodi and others had suffered enough from the dispute between Tang and Lu, while the Guangnan people hated King Gui who abandoned them.

Of course, there may be a little selfishness in it. At present, there is a serious shortage of officials in the imperial court. If the Pro-Gui faction can be eliminated, they will undoubtedly get more official positions, from local officials to central officials.

After listening for a long time, Emperor Longwu probably had figured out the meaning of the two factions and understood their thoughts. He stopped the courtiers from arguing again and asked Wang Yan, "What's Aiqing's opinion?"

Wang Yan disagreed with Su Guansheng's idea from the very beginning. Right now Guangxi is almost all under the sphere of influence of Guangxi. Guangxi is known as a hundred thousand mountains, and it is very troublesome to conquer. Moreover, the Qing army is still eyeing Fujian. Conquer Guifan.

Su Guansheng's idea is good, but it requires the court to have enough strength, but right now many ministers who moved to Guangzhou with the court don't even have the money to resettle them, so why talk about pacifying Guifan?

At this time, Wang Yan came out and said: "Your Majesty, I agree with Elder Zuo Ge. Right now, King Gui has the support of Ding Kuichu and Qu Shixu, and there are 3 or [-] horses. I got in touch and learned that many of the old Zheng family had already pledged their allegiance to the King of Lu, and the strength of the Lu Fan had risen sharply. If the imperial court took action against the Gui Fan, let alone whether the Fujian Qing soldiers would take advantage of it again, it would be said that the Lu Fan had met the imperial court If Guifan understands the righteousness and abdicates automatically, then everyone will be happy. If Guifan is unwilling to abdicate, he should try his best to persuade him. Guifan should not proclaim himself emperor, if Guifan insists on refusing to listen and proclaims himself emperor to rebel, then no matter how difficult it is, I will clear up the rebels for Your Majesty."

Emperor Longwu nodded when he heard the words. The Longwu court had experienced so much, and its policies with Lu Fan and Gui Fan needed to be adjusted.

This time, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian, who belonged to the old Zheng clan, did not want to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but because of their previous antagonism with the imperial court, they had no choice but to take refuge in the King of Lu.

At this moment, a servant came into the hall suddenly, he walked up to Long Wu and whispered in Long Wu's ear, Long Wu couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "I haven't sent anyone over yet, he sent someone here first."

Long Wu waved his hand to let the servants back down, and then said with a smile: "Masters, some soldiers came outside the palace just now, saying that the envoy of King Gui was captured by the soldiers outside the city."

Wang Yan's heart moved. Su Guansheng had been blocking the news of Emperor Longwu before, trying to make King Gui's faction continue to mess around, angering Emperor Longwu, and finally sent troops to cut off King Gui's forces, and Wang Yan and Longwu had only entered the city for a day. Know the news of Longwu.

Counting the footsteps, the emissary had already set off before Longwu entered Guangzhou, so he probably didn't even know the situation in Guangzhou.

The next day, in the city of Guangzhou, at the mansion of Su Guansheng, the envoy of King Gui was brought into his study. When he saw Su Guansheng, he saluted slightly. Wise and intelligent, according to the law of etiquette, His Royal Highness Gui Wang should be the successor. This is a fact that His Royal Highness Tang Wang can't fight for! And now that Bamin has fallen, with a strong enemy on his side, the country is in danger, and the elders will not work together with His Royal Highness Gui to defend the throne. Sheji, instead supported His Royal Highness the King of Tang, resulting in conflicts of the same surname, so the fate of the Yuan brothers will not be far away."

The emissary of King Gui was Yushi Yuan Pengnian. After he finished speaking, he saw that Su Guansheng just closed his eyes and said nothing. How will the people of the world comment on Mr. Ge after the major event of the Anti-Qing Dynasty?"

After Yuan Pengnian finished speaking, Su Guansheng still looked the same, which made Yuan Pengnian a little impatient. He was about to get angry when a burst of applause came from behind the screen.

At this time, he saw Wang Yan in a scarlet official robe, laughing and clapping his hands as he walked out from behind, "Haha~ Yuan Yushi, well said~"

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