scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 415 Superfluous
From winter to spring, everything recovers, and a hundred flowers bloom. Unknowingly, time has quietly entered the second year of Honghua in Dazhou. In March, as a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River entered Beijing, the price of grain in the famine-plagued Gyeonggi area gradually fell. Back to the normal level, and with the gradual stabilization of law and order, the Nine Cities of Beijing has gradually restored the prosperity and excitement of the past. When land prices plummeted due to repeated military turmoil, he bought a piece of land he wanted in the city of Beijing, opened various businesses, and all businesses gradually prospered, presenting a gratifying scene of prosperity.

It is not only the common people and businessmen who moved into the capital in large numbers, but also the family members of the Fatty Army and the government offices are also moving to Beijing. In order to accommodate these old and weak women and children, Lu Fatty ordered the inner city of Beijing to be divided into two, from Fuchengmen to Chaoyang The straight street of the gate is the boundary, and the northern half is vacated to accommodate the families, wives and children of the main generals and dignitaries of the Fatty Army. The southern half is sold to the common people except for the confiscated mansion of Prince Qing Qing. Jiangnan bought food and porridge to help the people of Zhili survive the famine, bought seeds and farm tools and distributed them to poor people for free, and artificially accelerated the economic recovery of Gyeonggi.

The north and south cities are not separated by city walls, and people can come and go as they please, but the land in the north city is not allowed to be bought and sold for the time being, and they are preparing to arrange it for the old Pingxi palace vassals who will surrender in the future. The most, and the sacrifice is the biggest. Although Fatty Lu did not imagine that the Qing court raised these people with hard-core crops, he had to do something to repay them.

Among the old Pingxi Palace vassals, the first batch of beneficiaries, in addition to the old man of Pingxi Palace in the Fatty Army, and then the old man of Pingxi Palace in the team of Old General Ma and BMW, after the old man of Pingxi Palace in the team of Old General Ma entered Beijing , everyone immediately got a house in the inner city of Beijing, and an enclosure confiscated from the Eight Banners of Mite Qing. Old General Ma simply lived in Prince Kang's mansion next to the imperial city.When the old people in Pingxi Wangfu in General Ma's team thanked Fatty Lu together, Fatty Lu said with a smile: "I wanted to give you more, but the world is not peaceful yet, and the military expenditure is too high, so I will talk about it later." .”

Hearing Fatty Lu's words, in order to show their loyalty, the generals of Ma Bao's army, who had just surrendered, were of course scrambling to salute and ask for a fight. The leading generals from all walks of life in the palace wrote letters to appease these leading generals on behalf of Fatty Lu. Using himself as an example, he persuaded these people to be like him and return the territory with the troops to the embrace of the King of Yue.At the same time, in order to start the war to recover Liaodong, Fatty Lu appointed Du Hui as the admiral of the Liaodong Navy, and placed it under Gao Dejie's command. He was sent to Shanhaiguan to form the Qinhuangdao Navy of the Fatty Army. Du Hui readily obeyed.

In fact, there is no need for General Ma to waste time writing letters to appease him. As the number one general of the non-Wu clan and Wu's relatives in the old Pingxi Palace, General Ma joined the Fat Army with his team and territory and exchanged countless riches and honors. As the news spread, all the generals in the Pingxi Palace who were not from the Wu clan's relatives were already very excited and eager to try. They sent envoys or secret agents one after another to try to get in touch with Fatty Lu, and wanted to see what price Fatty Lu was going to buy. their ranks and territory.After all, these people have no prestige and are not strong enough to protect themselves. No matter how ambitious they are, they will not be able to make big waves. It is better to find a good master and sell themselves for a piece of glory and wealth. Future generations will thank you Own.

Representatives of this type of people are of course Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen who are entrenched in Shaanxi and Gansu. Their army strength is indeed not weak, but due to environmental constraints, it is impossible to achieve self-sufficiency in food, grass and military pay on the site, and they are surrounded by several powerful enemies. There is no capital to be independent, so after the Fatty Army general Han Daren captured the entire territory of Shanxi and bordered them, Wang Fuchen and Wang Pingfan inevitably both sent envoys to get in touch with the Fatty Army to test the Fatty Army's appeasement to them. manner.In Wang Pingfan's letter to Fatty Lu, in addition to testing whether Fatty Lu intends to appease him, he also asked Fatty Lu a very sensitive question-for whom is Fatty Lu planning to rule the world?For the descendants of old traitor Wu, or for Fatty Lu himself?
Of course, Fatty Lu would not answer Wang Pingfan's question. Not only did he not answer, but he also wrote back to scold Wang Pingfan bloody, and pointedly pointed out that Wang Pingfan has not captured Tongguan so far. It is not a matter of strength or the dangerous terrain of Tongguan. It's about Wang Pingfan's mentality!I want to keep Tong Huinian, the remnant of the Qing army, as an excuse to avoid being involved in the Wu army's civil war, and to avoid taking a position in the Wu army's civil war!With such sinister intentions, what qualifications do you have to ask yourself if you have the ambition to usurp the throne?If you want to join the Fatty Army, you can first use Tong Huinian's head as a vote, otherwise, Wang Pingfan will be sorry to the deceased Wu old traitor, and Lu Fatty will also be sorry to Wang Pingfan who is playing a bandit and raising a thief!
In front of Wang Pingfan, who is very loyal to the old traitor Wu, Fatty Lu has a righteous face.For Wang Fuchen, who is shrewd and capable but does not have a good relationship with him, Fatty Lu is extremely kind, because Wang Fuchen sent his adoptive son Wang Jizhen as an envoy to send a letter to test him, and Fatty Lu immediately named Wang Jizhen a third-rank loose rank Official, give back Wang Fuchen's original residence in the capital.Then he wrote back to Wang Fuchen, saying that he didn't care about what happened in Qujing before, and that he and Wang Fuchen didn't get along very well in Qujing back then, mainly because Li Suzu's [-]-year-old son was a hindrance, and now Li Suzu is a dog traitor His dog bones are already smelly, so can he still miss the trivial skirmishes in the past because of this little guy?What's more, Wang Fuchen's favorite general, Wang Jing, was his sworn brother. Although Wang Jing had been killed in the Wu army's civil war, in terms of relationship, he still had to call Wang Fuchen Brother Wang.

Of course, Fatty Lu didn’t call Big Brother Wang for nothing. As a brother, Fatty Lu still has a small matter to ask Wang Fuchen, that is, Fatty Lu extremely hated Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong, two hard-core traitors, especially those who fought in the Bajiang battlefield. Zhao Liangdong took advantage of the fire to attack Fatty’s army, but now he has no way to personally kill them, so Lu Fatty wants to ask Wang Fuchen, the big brother, to help him vent his anger, and chop off the heads of Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong, two traitors, for his own sake. Revenge for the brothers who died in Bajiang!

As for the other words of wooing and buying, Fatty Lu intentionally did not write a single word, because Fatty Lu understands Wang Fuchen's character very well. He is a typical old Qiu Ba, who will repay every grievance and likes to show loyalty. Please Wang Fuchen do his best to kill Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong, and let him sell one. It's easier to say other things if you give yourself favors.Otherwise, Wang Fuchen, who has a grudge against him, is unlikely to believe in his sincerity to win over so directly.

Fatty Lu's reply was sent back to Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen respectively. After reading Fatty Lu's letter, Wang Pingfan's face was of course blushing. Tong Huinian's army launched an attack. At the same time, he sent a letter to Xie Chang, a fat army general stationed in Luoyang, inviting Xie Chang to send troops to attack Tongguan, and strive to wipe out Tong Huinian's team.He also took the initiative to express that after taking Tongguan, he would give Tongguan to the Fatty Army, and then discuss the issue of Wang Pingfan's army joining the Fatty Army.

Unlike Wang Pingfan, after reading Fatty Lu's reply, Wang Fuchen heaved a sigh of relief, and finally had an answer to the question he had been hesitating for a long time.At that moment, Wang Fuchen immediately ordered the envoys sent by Guo Zhuangtu to be taken down, together with Guo Zhuangtu's letter inviting him to send troops to attack Fatty Lu, and sent them to Beijing to dedicate to Fatty Lu, and then immediately sent troops from Pingliang to attack the people who were entrenched in Lanzhou City. Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong launched an all-out attack.

The reason why Fatty Lu's strategy of appeasement according to the person can be successful is not so much Fatty Lu's clever means, but rather the trend of the times. The Shaanxi-Gansu soldiers and horses are indeed strong, but because of climate and environmental changes, the economic foundation of the Shaanxi-Gansu region But it is very weak, without external supply, the local area can't afford a large number of soldiers and horses, and without money and food, it is impossible for the strong soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu to just work for Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen, fighting desperately with the fat army on an empty stomach.At the same time, there is no dominant family in Shanxi-Gansu. Wang Fuchen and Wang Pingfan have equal strength and check each other, and the remnants of the Qing army are on the sidelines. The agreement is in effect forever, and once the two families go to war, the only ones who can reap the benefits are the fat army.Therefore, for Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen, the most correct and wise way is to hug Fatty Lu's fat thigh first, so as to be invincible.

In fact, even if Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen don't take the initiative to hug Fatty Lu's fat thighs, it doesn't matter much to Fatty Lu. With comprehensive strength here, even if Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen can't be dealt with for a while, as long as there are no major problems in the Fatty Army Therefore, the future victors must also belong to the Fatty Army, and to solve the Shaanxi-Gansu issue by force, the hidden dangers are much smaller than those solved by appeasement.

At the beginning of April, the reorganization of Ma Bao's team, which was the latest to join the Fat Man Army, was completed. More than 6 people eliminated the weak and retained the strong, leaving only 5000 troops. Farming at home, to reclaim the land in Jiangxi that was largely abandoned due to the destruction of the war; the reorganized 1 army only left [-] to help defend Jiujiang and Nanchang, and the remaining [-] were led by Wu Yonghua, a former general of the Fat Army Hussars. Go down and attack Jianchang, Ningdu and Ganzhou, and eradicate the remnants of the Qing army entrenched here. Li Xiongfei is responsible for the defense of Jiujiang and Nanchang, with [-] troops. There are about [-] troops, and more than [-] people from the Li Jiyang Navy are stationed at Poyang Lake. Three insurances ensure the safety of the important places in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, Han Daren's army, which had successfully captured the entire territory of Shanxi, also began to deploy and adjust, leaving 2 people in the north, which were placed under the command of the former general of the fat army's pro-army iron cavalry. The Corps mobilized 5 troops to go north to Zhangjiakou, and together with the troops left by Han Daren, they were responsible for the defense of the Great Wall along the line from Juyongguan to Shuoping.Some of the more than [-] main forces of Han Daren's army stayed in Taiyuan and Fenzhou, and the other part was led by Han Daren himself to go south to Pingyang, where he supported them, and could be put into the Henan battlefield or the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield at any time.At the same time, Han Daren's appointment as the governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi also satisfied Han Daren's wish to become famous and be independent.

While nervously adjusting the strategic deployment of the northern battlefield, Fatty Lu has never forgotten the southernmost Fujian-Guangdong battlefield. The 15 troops newly recruited in Zhili, Shandong, in addition to entering the Jiujiang battlefield and strengthening the defense of Anhui, about [-] troops He was sent to the south by Fatty Lu and handed over to Li Tianzhi, preparing to launch a war to annex Fujian and Shandong.During this period, through the scouts and secret agents' rigorous reconnaissance, and through the intelligence of all parties, Fatty Lu also quickly confirmed an important situation, that is, Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong, two young men, probably did not know that they were going to fight Guo The secret of Zhuangtu joining forces to resist him has been leaked, so in order to avoid arousing his vigilance, Shang Zhixin's emissary was still in Nanjing bargaining with Wang Shaobo for the ownership of Chaozhou, and Geng Jingzhong did not stimulate himself by transferring the main force to the north.

Patiently and repeatedly confirming these situations, a series of complex logical relationships naturally appeared in Fatty Lu's evil mind, and even more evil plans were naturally gradually brewing...

One: Guo Zhuangtu, Geng Jingzhong and Monk Zhixin joined forces to rebel and conspire against—fatty Lu thought it was rebellion if he dared to plot against himself behind his back—in short, the three rebellious and rebellious, except In addition to self-protection, the ultimate goal is different. Guo Zhuangtu is to annex the whole world, Geng Jingzhong is to annex Jiangnan, and Shang Zhixin is because he has done immoral things to his ancestors and compatriots. He only wants to use Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuang Trying to protect himself, he doesn't have much aggressive ambitions—with Shang Zhixin's strength, even small warlords like Zu Zeqing and Liu Jinzhong can cut flesh from him, so don't even think about having any aggressive ambitions.

Two: Because of the different ultimate goals and serious conflicts of interests, if I want to destroy the bullshit alliance of these three young people, the most ideal entry point is Shang Zhixin, who gave Kang Mazi the contract of betraying his ancestors and compatriots, Also the best weapon.

Three: Geng Jingzhong and Monk Zhixin, the two youngsters don't know that their rebellious plan has been exposed, this can be used!If the two youngsters can be made to think that they were betrayed by each other, or that they were betrayed by Guo Zhuangtu, so that they know their rebellious plan, the alliance of the youngest and fifth will inevitably break down, and they may turn against each other.

Four: It would be too difficult to create a false impression and let Geng Jingzhong and Monk Zhixin know that they were captured by Guo Zhuangtu. There is no benefit in betraying them, and the two youngsters will not believe it.

Five: It is a little less difficult to create the illusion that Geng Jingzhong betrayed Shang Zhixin. Even if it succeeds, the two youngsters will turn against each other, and Shang Zhixin may completely fall for Guo Zhuangtu. His eldest wife in Guangzhou, Shang Wanyi, will be in danger , and even if Geng Jingzhong fell to himself and was bound by morality, he would not be able to eat Geng Jingzhong. The enemies of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan and Guizhou would firmly unite and create trouble for him to unify the world.

Six: It is the least difficult to create the illusion that Shang Zhixin betrayed Geng Jingzhong. Everyone believes in Shang Zhixin's behavior. For his own benefit, he can even imprison his own father, and even kill his own sister. The wonderful character is placed here, saying that he Geng Jingzhong would be the first to believe in betraying Geng Jingzhong!Moreover, after the plan was successful, the two boys turned against each other, and Shang Zhixin cut off the land connection between Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuangtu. Guo Zhuangtu's new firearms could not be directly supplied to Fujian, which would make it easier for him to annex Fujian. Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuangtu were double-teamed, so they could only bow their heads to themselves. They also had an excuse to break into Fujian, eat Geng Jingzhong, and then use other means or force to annex the helpless Shang Zhixin.

After sorting out these complicated logical relationships and weighing various pros and cons, Fatty Lu immediately asked Huang Yanbo to draw up an edict, using the honor of the imperial decree of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the order of the King of Yue, to confer Shang Zhixin the title of Prince of Fude, and grant him a gold medal to avoid death. , Avoid dying three times!Then let the envoy bring the decree and the original deed of sale to Kang Mazi from the gold medal monk's letter, and rush to Guangzhou via Jiangxi, read the decree to Shang Zhixin, and then burn the deed of sale in front of Shang Zhixin, trying to stabilize the two five sons.

Immediately afterwards, Fatty Lu issued three more orders in succession. The first order was to Wu Yonghua who was attacking southern Ganzhou, asking him to enter Ganzhou as soon as possible and set nails there.The second way was to Huang Ming, who led the army south to reinforce Li Tianzhi's army, and asked his [-] recruits to escort another batch of food, grass and weapons from the south of the Yangtze River to prepare for the Fujian war.Regarding this, if Geng Jingzhong sent an envoy to inquire about the reason, he would reply that it was to prevent Zheng Jing from raiding the coast.

Fatty Lu's third order was to give Li Tianzhi the emissary to hand over the book of covenant presented by Ma Bao and the declaration of war against Geng Jingzhong to Li Tianzhi, and let Li Tianzhi find an excuse to invite Geng Jingzhong to the north of Fenshui Pass two months later. At the meeting, if Geng Jingzhong dared to go out of Fenshui Pass, then he would show evidence of Geng Jingzhong's rebellion, take Geng Jingzhong into custody and send him to Beijing, and then use Shang Zhixin to expose Geng Jingzhong's rebellion, and then march into Fujian and seize the entire territory of Fujian.

If Geng Jingzhong was afraid that it was the Hongmen Banquet that did not dare to go out of the Fenshui Pass, Geng Jingzhong would definitely send an envoy to reply, then Li Tianzhi would present the evidence of Geng Jingzhong's rebellion in front of Geng Jingzhong's envoy, kill Shang Zhixin who betrayed Geng Jingzhong, and then Let Geng Jingzhong's envoys bring the declaration of war back to Fujian, and then Li Tianzhi directly sent troops to attack Fenshui Pass, and regained the entire Fujian by force!At the same time, Fatty Lu also gave Li Tianzhi a letter of surrender against Geng Jingzhong in advance, that is, if Geng Jingzhong surrenders military power and Fujian, the whole family will not die, and Geng Jingzhong will be granted the title of Duke Shunyi and Beijing.

This vicious plan was all arranged by Fatty Lu, and Fatty Lu's confidantes didn't intervene until Fatty Lu finished arranging it. Yao Qisheng thought for a long time before interjecting, reminding: "My lord, I think your plan is worthless." Mi Yishu, you killed him because Shang Zhixin betrayed Geng Jingzhong, but before we do it, what if Shang Zhixin’s army does not act abnormally? If Shang Zhixin didn’t prepare for war at all, wouldn’t it prove that Shang Zhixin is innocent ?”

"No." Fatty Lu waved his hand and said with a sneer: "Geng Jingzhong's main force went south to fight Zheng Jing, and General Liu Jinzhong controlled an enclave in Chaozhou for us. [-]. And after receiving the news that our army has increased its troops in Zhejiang and attacked southern Jiangxi, the two youngsters have a guilty conscience, so can’t they prepare for defense? Especially Geng Jingzhong, who will definitely pour tears and snot at Shang Zhixin Please help, even if Shang Zhixin just randomly sends some people to Jiaying Prefecture to make a show, once my declaration of war is announced, it will become an irrefutable proof that Shang Zhixin and us are joining hands to attack Geng Jingzhong!"

"My lord's words are very true. I really forgot to calculate this point." Yao Qisheng nodded, and then suggested: "Your lord, just to be on the safe side, I suggest that the envoy we send to read the decree to Shang Zhixin can come before Shang Zhixin. Just to mention it casually, he said that his secret wax pill was leaked to that person on purpose by the Emperor Kang Mazi of the Manchu in order to instigate someone to join hands with the Mangou team to attack us, and then that person took the wax pill secret letter to the man. The prince asked for credit in front of him, in exchange for the prince not withdrawing his domain and seizing his seal, the prince was worried that this secret book would be used by that person, so he sent it to Guangzhou and destroyed it in front of the prince."

"Planting it on Geng Jingzhong? What if Shang Zhixin sends an envoy to question him?" Fatty Lu wondered, "Geng Jingzhong definitely doesn't know the existence of this wax ball secret book. When the two families confront each other, isn't this king's clever plan?" exposed?"

"Prince Geng swears, will Lord Shang believe it?" Yao Qisheng asked with a smile: "Don't Lord Shang think so, it is because Prince Geng betrayed him, so Prince Geng refused to admit it?"

"But in this way, when I plant Shang Zhixin to betray Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin will understand that I have played tricks on him when he receives the news, and he may fall to Guo Zhuangtu?" Fatty Lu proposed another New possibility, "At that time, Guo Zhuangtu will mediate again to reconcile the conflict, and these three young men will hook up again."

"Your official thinks that the prince doesn't need to worry so much." Yao Qisheng replied: "In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and tricks are only auxiliary. The boys don't trust each other, and they don't do their best to rescue each other. Our series of ecstasy schemes are used, and the fragile alliance of the three second- and fifth-year-old boys is almost torn apart. It is impossible to trust each other anymore, and that is enough for us. gone."

"What's more, even if it's not superfluous, we planted Shang Zhixin and betrayed Geng Jingzhong, but Shang Zhixin has never done this at all. We can still ask Guo Zhuangtu to mediate and reconcile the conflict. And we will provoke Shang Zhixin to provoke Geng Jingzhong's hatred, Even if Shang Zhixin finds out that he has been duped, he will hesitate for a while, considering whether to continue to join forces with Geng Jingzhong, or to go downhill and directly join forces with us."

Fatty Lu pondered, and soon smiled again and said, "Let's add another thing to it. With my brother-in-law's suspicious and irritable temper, this kind of superfluous thing may bring us unexpected surprises."

(End of this chapter)