Zuo Liangyu is probably crazy, even if he is not completely crazy, his spirit is definitely not normal!

Not only did Hou Fangyu, who was sitting opposite him, feel like this, but the three people hiding behind the screen behind Zuo Liangyu - Zuo Mengeng, Huang Shu and Zuo Liangyutie buddies, the current Jingzhou Mansion Town Guard, and Qiu Lei, who is also Zuo Mengmei's biological father, also felt that Zuo Dashuai was a little crazy!

Because of Huang Shu's provocation and Zhu Cihong's "forced away" Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, and seized Liu Zeqing's power, Zuo Mengeng and Qiu Lei, as well as most of Zuo Liangyu's generals, resisted the Nanjing court.

After learning that Li Zicheng would send Yongwang Zhu Cizhao to Wuchang, Huang Shu, who avoided trouble in Wuchang, put forward the strategy of "supporting Yongwang, resisting the prince, and protecting the saint" - in history, Huang Shu had instigated the left Qingjun side, but now he does not have such courage.

Because Zhu Cihong's strength is much stronger than that of Emperor Hongguang, there is no one on the left who wants to shake it.

Don't look at the claims of the Left Army, 800,000 or 1 million, they are all bluffing, and the actual number is only about 100,000, which is about the same as Zhu Cihong's army.

In fact, the number of troops is tied to the amount of money, population, and land they have. Although Zuo Liangyu stayed in Wuchang for more than a year, he did not work hard to grasp the land and population, so the soldiers and horses of the left did not take root in Huguang.

Zuo Liangyu did not have enough land and population, and that was the way to gather soldiers.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Hou Sui gave Zuo Liangyu, who led the troops to fight with Li Zicheng at that time, 500,000 taels of internal money, and later Zuo Liangyu went to Wuchang to plunder the army again (at that time, Hankou Town was known as the four gatherings of the world, and Jingshi, Suzhou, and Foshan were called together), and there was a lot of money in hand. And he doesn't have any family to spend, and he has become nervous, and there are not even women in the back house, so naturally he can't spend any money. Therefore, it is all used to recruit and raise soldiers. Therefore, in terms of numbers, the left part can crush Gao Jie and Huang Degong.

However, the elite of the left was completely lost in the battle of Zhuxian Town, and the newly built troops after running to the south did not have enough equipment, good training, and high morale.

Unlike Zhu Cihong's new army, most of them have now been allocated land and married to a lady, so naturally people have to pinch the root of their lives, and they have to work overtime to train, and they dare not complain about "996" and "997", and they don't dare to run away when they go to the battlefield. The training and morale are still guaranteed, and the weapons and equipment are much stronger than Zuo Liangyu's department - Zhu Cihong has more money than Zuo Liangyu, and Zheng Zhilong, an international arms dealer, can provide cannons and firearms, and can also go to Macao to invite foreign military advisers!

Therefore, although the number of people on the left is about the same as that of the new army, there is no certainty that it will really start. Besides, Zhu Cihong still has Gao Jie and Huang Degong on his side, and their strength is also not below Zuo Liangyu!

In this case, separating one side and watching the dispute between the Southern Ming and Northern Qing Dynasty is the wishful thinking of the top leaders on the left.

What is on the side of Qingjun in the east, everyone doesn't dare to think about it!

And the Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, who is about to be returned by Li Zicheng, is the banner and title of the left division, or it can also be called a bargaining chip.

But it is not the same as the division of the Yongyong King and the proclamation of the Yongyong King as the emperor......

Moreover, whether it is a division or a Qingjun, there is no need to have a showdown with Zhu Cihong so early!

"My lord, why did you tell Hou Fangyu everything we were secretly planning?"

"Master Hou, the prince can be cunning and insidious, if he is on guard, how can we succeed?"

"Yes, it's better to send Mengmei to Nanjing to confuse the prince......"

As soon as Hou Fangyu left, Zuo Mengeng, Huang Shu and Qiu Lei came out from behind the screen and shouted beside Zuo Liangyu. Zuo Liangyu saw that several people were upset, and when he slapped the table, his face sank.

The old man frowned: "What did you say?" What are you talking about? ”

Ah, it's over...... The old man's mind is confused, what can I do!

Zuo Mengeng, Huang Shu and Qiu Lei looked at Zuo Liangyu, and their hearts were cold. Now is a critical period, the old man is confused, what should they do as a group? To put it mildly, if you want to surrender to the enemy, there is nowhere to go!

The Tartars are still in Beizhili and Shanxi! If they want to surrender to the enemy now, they can only vote for Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong...... They are willing, but the people under them are not willing! voted for those two demon kings, and they were not allowed to be caught and tortured with sticks?

"My lord, you really don't remember what you said to Hou Fangyu?" Zuo Mengeng asked in a trembling voice.

Zuo Liangyu glared at him, "How could you not remember?" Just after seeing it, how could the old man not remember? ”

Fortunately, I wasn't completely confused.

Huang Shu shook his head: "Master Hou, you shouldn't have put our plans together!" ”

Zuo Liangyu smiled coldly: "Then what should I do?" Let Mengmei go to Nanjing to serve the prince? ”

"It's okay to go......" Mr. Zuo said.

"Okay?" Zuo Liangyu glared at his adopted son, "That's not a draft girl!" It was the Marquis of Wuchang who sent a woman into the palace as a concubine...... Do you want to send off your relatives in this world? ”

Yes......

Zuo Mengeng was stunned.

Zuo Liangyu looked at his son, "If you want to go, you won't be able to come back!" If you don't go, he has a way to deal with us! What he has is silver, and when Mengmei returns to Wuchang Province, the following generals will give this 30,000 yuan and that reward 50,000 yuan...... Do you still want to be the lord of the armies here in Wuchang after a hundred years? ”

The old man was not confused......

"But Hou Ye shouldn't tell Hou Fangyu about supporting King Yong, ah......" Li Guoying still couldn't figure it out.

Zuo Liangyu snorted coldly: "Don't make it clear, after next year's Spring Festival, he will usurp the throne...... Will we admit it then? admit it, he is the father of the Ming Dynasty, and if we oppose him again, we will rebel!

If you don't admit it, then you have to go to war! Not to mention whether you can win the battle, Xiangyang Mansion is still in the hands of Li Zicheng! ”

Huang Shu has already provoked the thumb up, "Master Hou is smart!" Let's protect King Yong and oppose the usurpation of the crown prince, and we will take the name of righteousness! And as long as the crown prince does not usurp the throne, we will not have troops, and we will occupy Huguang and him! ”

"But what if he sends troops to fight Wuchang?" Qiu Lei asked.

"Impossible," Zuo Liangyu smiled, "The Tartars have already reached the north bank of the Yellow River, and they will soon go south!" ”

......

Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng, Huang Shu, Qiu Lei, Hou Fangyu didn't know. He didn't have the heart to think about this, and when he left Zuo Liangyu's Hou Mansion, he didn't even dare to go back to the inn, so he went directly to the dock, hired a boat and went to Nanjing-he was afraid that Zuo Liangyu's subordinates would know that Old Man Zuo had leaked his mouth and sent someone to kill him!

Fortunately, he ran very fast, did not be caught up by the killer, and arrived safely in Nanjing City, which had also become a little crazy, before the Chinese New Year's Eve......

"This filial and honest man, if he has money to contribute, he has the strength to contribute, and he must protect his reputation! Anti-tartar! ”

Hou Fangyu had just come ashore at the Shangxinhe Wharf in Nanjing when a young scholar with a Jiangxi accent greeted him, handed him a poster, and shouted a slogan.

What's going on? Hou Fangyu looked up and found that there were several young scholars shouting slogans and posting posters on this busy wharf.

Whenever someone gets off the boat and goes ashore, as long as they look like a reader, someone will go up and post a post...... What's going on with these scholars? Don't read anymore? Enke is about to be opened, how can they still have such spare time?

He looked down at the post, the content on it was still smearing the Tartars, saying that the Tartars were perverse in Beizhili, enclosing land, occupying houses, forcing confiscation, wantonly slaughtering cities, burning books and pit Confucianism, and threatening to send the tomb of Confucius and Mencius, and exterminate Confucianism and Taoism...... And at the end of the post, there is also a letter, which reads "Donglin Conference weeps blood and screams".

What's going on?

What does the Donglin Conference mean? Could it be that the people who posted the poster are all gentlemen of Donglin?

Hou Fangyu hurriedly grabbed a young scholar and asked, "This little brother is also the successor of Donglin who came to the capital to take the exam?" What's going on with this post? ”

The young man smiled bitterly: "Xiaolian Gong misunderstood, I am the successor of Donglin, I am just a son of the exiled Jinling, just to make some hard-earned money for Donglin Plenum." ”