Because Wuchang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, this spring naturally came much earlier than the north, and in addition to the cargo ships and passenger ships coming and going, there are many sampan boats, and these sampan boats are the largest number of ships in the river. All year round, this river is full of such sampan boats, either carrying people or goods, or fishermen casting nets on the river to catch fish.

Since he was promoted to the general army of Huguang, every time he has free time, Li Ziyuan will come to the riverside in civilian clothes, and when he sees the rolling Yangtze River, he often unconsciously chants the "Linjiang Immortal" made by an anonymous person at the beginning of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes." Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, and many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking. ”

At this time, the irritability and boredom in the heart will fade for a while, and the worries and anguish caused by the desire for fame will also be comforted for a moment.

Success or failure turns empty!

No matter how hard you try, what can you do?

But it's just a matter of turning around!

But on the other hand, deep down in my heart, I am unwilling. For Li Ziyuan, who entered the social school at the age of 4 to study the study of saints and was admitted to the Xiucai at the age of 17, his road should have been smooth sailing.

When I think of it, I am so full of spirit and hope for the future. However, the situation in the world is unpredictable, Da Ming died overnight, and since then, his fate has also changed, first of all, he was unable to take the examination for fame and glory. Later, he was plundered into the army as a soldier, and in that barracks, it can be said that he was humiliated, and it was the encouragement of the bottle Han Xin to endure the humiliation of the crotch that persevered.

Later, after more than ten years of hard work in the army, the battlefield sharpened his bookish spirit, but the desire for fame in his heart has never faded. It is precisely because of this that he made that choice in Nanjing, he was eager to be out of the crowd and to become famous one day. It can be said that this is his lifelong pursuit.

After several twists and turns, from the day he became the chief soldier of Huguang, Li Ziyuan felt that he had finally come to the end of his hardships. Now he not only has more than 200,000 troops under his command, but also has the Huguang money and grain tax payer Ding north of Dongting Lake for his use, according to Wuchang last year, in the world, he Li Ziyuan is just a general under Zhang Cangshui, but now, he has a faint reputation as the fourth person in the world.

Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan, Zhu Mingzhong...... There is also him Li Ziyuan, as for Li Dingguo, he doesn't know where to go for a long time.

However, even so, Li Ziyuan still has a heart disease in his heart, because of Zheng Jiajun, he first betrayed Zhu Mingzhong, and then betrayed Zhang Huangfang, so it took a lot of twists and turns to achieve everything today, although he is prominent, but in private, people inside and outside ridicule him with "three family slaves". With such a bad reputation, how can you attract talents from all over the world to use? Even the local gentry were not ashamed of his personality and did not want to enter his shogunate.

Every time he thinks about it, he is depressed, and for Li Ziyuan, he can only relax by the river, that is, he can make his boring mood relatively relaxed here. The only thing that can make him feel a little relieved is that although the recruitment in Huguang last year was not very smooth, and was resisted by many people, but now the army is in chaos, as long as there is a knife in his hand, he is not afraid of others being disobedient, so in the end, the recruitment is also smooth. Moreover, in recent months, the training effect of the recruits has been greatly improved, and the military discipline has also been more rectified, which has also made him feel a little more comfortable recently.

This afternoon, there was nothing to do, remembering that the soldiers had been training since the beginning of the year, and it had been four months since then, and they had never taken a holiday, so I simply gave them a day off today. Then he came to the river, but he did not come here for a walk, but for fishing.

If Li Ziyuan has any hobbies, I'm afraid he likes fishing, once upon a time, he thought he was quite talented, and often used Jiang Taigong to encourage himself, so this fishing has become his preference. It's just that there is no time for him to fish here with peace of mind, after all, there are so many things. Most of the time, I just walked along the river, but now I was quite satisfied with catching fish.

But even if it seems to be relaxed, but when he sat on the shore and waited for the fish to bite and eat, Li Ziyuan was so excited that he couldn't be at peace, first remembered the governance of Huguang at present, then remembered the current situation, and then thought of the flood thieves in Dongting Hunan, of course, Zhang Huangyan who lived in Nanchang, and finally, what he thought of was the current situation - Zhu Zheng and the two broke up!

It's not just a break, but even both sides are now starting to deploy troops, and they look like they could fight at any time. The situation has become a little beyond his imagination!

An hour has passed, Li Ziyuan's mind has hardly calmed down, the fish float has been shaking, and the fish rarely take the bait, it seems that the fish today is also deliberately avoiding him, and he doesn't eat the hook at all.

At this time, a large cargo ship sails down the river to the north, looking at the cargo ship in the river, the cargo ship is different from the common rowing in the Yangtze River, but the centipede boat with multiple oars, such a ship is not common in the Yangtze River in the past, but now in the shipyards of Jiangyin and Yangzhou, there are more such cargo ships, which are often equipped with more than 40 wooden oars, the speed of the ship is faster than the rower, there is no wind to raise the oars, the wind lifts the sails, if necessary, the oars are used together, and the water walks like flying, because the ship is large, so it carries a lot of cargo. At the end of last year, Li Ziyuan had ordered six large centipede ships in Yangzhou, but they were not gunboats, but only cargo ships carrying cargo, but this did not prevent him from adding artillery to the ships after buying them back, and later ordered the shipyard in Wuchang to copy dozens of ships to strengthen the combat power of his naval division.

The reason why the centipede boat will be customized is because when he captured Wuchang, Li Ziyuan saw that the loyal army was relying on a powerful warship, which could run rampant along the river, and if he wanted to, he could naturally claim the king and hegemony on the Yangtze River. Because of this, since occupying Wuchang, he has never relaxed the construction of the water division.

"Perhaps, you can buy more boats, there are more than 100 large and small centipede boats, this sailor is almost in the beginning of the scale, when the time comes, if you want to take Nanchang, you can naturally go south along the waterway in Dongting."

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan was very excited, since the capture of Wuchang, in the face of the ridicule of the "three family slaves", although he was annoyed in his heart, he knew that unless he made a miraculous achievement, this stigma would definitely accompany him for the rest of his life. It is precisely because of this that he will set his eyes on Hong Chengchou's body.

"As long as you take Nanjing and cut off the head of the flood thief, when the time comes, in this world, who will dare to call Li a "three-surnamed house slave" again. ”

Thinking that the world is now sarcastic for his capriciousness, disloyalty and injustice, Li Ziyuan sneered.

"Que Yan knows the ambition of the bird, how can you know what Li has done!"

As a scholar, Li Ziyuan, of course, cares about reputation, and he naturally doesn't want to be burdened with capriciousness, disloyalty and injustice when he is in the government and the opposition in the future. Therefore, he naturally longs to be able to make a miraculous feat, and this miraculous feat, naturally, is to take off the head of Hong Chengchou, the world's first traitor. Just take that man's head, and then who in the world will remember what he did, and then the stigma will no longer exist.

But now...... Thinking of the current situation, thinking that Zhu Zheng and the two might meet each other at any time, Li Ziyuan, who was originally full of confidence in the future situation, was suspicious, does this mean that the Qing Dynasty has its own blessing?

Li Ziyuan, who was originally in a state of turmoil, thought about it like this, and his mind was naturally even more chaotic, and at this time, there was a pro-soldier preaching over there.

"General, Mr. Yao asks to see you."

Mr. Yao in the mouth of the pro-soldier is naturally Yao Qisheng, since he helped Li Ziyuan win Wuchang, he has won his trust, not only most of the affairs in the general army's mansion are handled by his hands, but also local affairs, which are all handled by Yao Qisheng, so that Li Ziyuan, who has never had experience in governing the local government, will not be in a hurry, and has no brains. It can be said that Li Ziyuan was able to gain a firm foothold in Wuchang thanks to Yao Qisheng's help. And now most of the time he is in charge of general civil affairs.

"Subordinates, see the military gate."

Yao Qisheng was still very respectful to Li Ziyuan as in the past, without the slightest hint of arrogance, after all, he knew very well what would happen if he annoyed these Qiu Ba.

"Xizhi, you came just in time, the official was confused in his heart, and he wanted to ask you something."

"Is the military gate confused about the current situation?"

Sitting directly next to Li Ziyuan, Yao Qisheng knew that apart from this matter at the moment, I am afraid that there is really nothing to bother him.

"That's exactly what happened, Xizhi, you say, those two, are they really going to fight? If the two of them had a big fight, wouldn't they be profiting the Tartar soldiers and fishermen at that time? When the time comes, what will happen if the Tartars go south? ”

When the continuous questions came out of Li Ziyuan's mouth, Yao Qisheng just looked at him until his voice fell, and then said.

"The military gate thinks that if the two armies of Zhu and Zheng meet each other, who will win and who will lose?"

"This ......"

Yao Qisheng's question made Li Ziyuan think for a moment, and then said.

"From this official's point of view, the victory of the loyal and righteous army is greater, if you say that Zhu Mingzhong has any strengths, it is that he is not only good at training, but also good at surprising soldiers, since the beginning of the army, he has won with surprise, if he does something to Zheng Jun, he will be surprised."

Although he has not been under Zhu Mingzhong's command for a long time, Li Ziyuan knows Zhu Mingzhong's character very well, and he is good at using strange soldiers, but Li Ziyuan does not know that the reason why Zhu Mingzhong is good at using strange soldiers is that he is influenced by many military examples in later generations, especially special operations.

"Well, it's true, take Nanjing, Kejiangbei, defeat Dasu, the loyal army is very brave, but in the final analysis, it still does not deviate from the four words "surprise victory", although the king of Yanping has been famous for a long time, but although the Zheng army is good at water warfare but is not good at land warfare, as far as its use of troops in Fujian is concerned, it is only so......"

Compared with Li Ziyuan's light capture of Wuchang, Zheng Jiajun's entry from Zhejiang into Fujian was not very smooth, and he has not been able to capture Fuzhou until today, and it is precisely because of this that Yao Qisheng came to this conclusion.

"Therefore, if the loyal and righteous army can defeat its water division with the Yangtze River, it will only be a matter of time and night to take Nanjing."

Li Ziyuan's affirmation made Yao Qisheng nod, and then shook his head and said.

"Although the loyal and righteous army is better than land warfare, don't forget, Zhu Mingzhong was born in the Zheng family, and he is Zheng Chenggong's sister-in-law, even if he is raising troops, he will not have no worries, if he has scruples, how can he easily raise troops?"

Yao Qisheng's words made Li Ziyuan nod approvingly.

"So, I really don't know what to do! Whether to fight or not is a question, and to what extent it is also a question. ”

"Yes, so at this time, we have to think about what we should do!"

"What are we supposed to do? Please also make it clear! ”

Staring at the fish float on the water surface, seeing that it moved, Yao Qisheng did not answer Li Ziyuan, but pointed to the fish float and said.

"Junmen, the fish is hooked!"

At this time, Li Ziyuan was naturally in no mood to think about the fish he caught. For him, it's the immediate thing that matters.

"Xizhi!"

Li Ziyuan was a little unhappy with Yao Qisheng's betrayal. But he also knew that this was the so-called pride of the literati.

"Please teach me more!"

Again, Li Ziyuan gave Yao Qisheng enough face.

"Junmen, in fact, the most important thing for us now is which one we should choose."

Yao Qisheng said slowly.

"According to common sense, we should naturally be friends with the strong, but from the perspective of the military gate, who is the strongest of the two of them?"

Yao Qisheng's rhetorical question made Li Ziyuan's whole person fall into silence. It was a long time before he spoke.

"The two of them can be said to have their own strengths and weaknesses, if you want to separate one strong, I'm afraid it will not be easy."

The reason why Li Ziyuan said this was not that he didn't know that the Loyal Army was better at land warfare, but that he had his own considerations.

"King Huai always looks forward and backward when he does things, and he will always leave three points of affection."

Staring at Li Ziyuan, Yao Qisheng said this. It can be said that when he was in Nanjing, if Li Ziyuan was Zheng Chenggong's subordinate, there would have been no Li Ziyuan in this world. Where is there still so much to do now.

"What do you mean?"

Li Ziyuan looked at Yao Qisheng and asked.

"Nanjing?"

"Nanjing will definitely have a request for the military gate!"

Yao Qisheng said affirmatively.

"But is the military willing to be driven by Zheng Chenggong?"

When Yao Qisheng's words fell, Li Ziyuan's whole person fell into silence, he just looked at the rolling Yangtze River and was silent......————————————————————————

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