Chapter 493: Are Loyal Ministers Useful?
Zhou Shixiang wanted to solve the Ming army that refused to express its position by force, which was the rhythm of the current internal strife of the great enemy, but Zhu Tong, who was a member of the clan, clapped his hands in support, and scolded those guys as "traitors".
It is normal for Zhu Tong to have this reaction, he is a clan, and he is naturally the most concerned about the life and death of the Ming court. The Qing army used hundreds of thousands of troops in the southwest, and the imperial court and the Son of Heaven were in danger. Originally, he didn't have the power of King Qin, and the Taiping army had to go east to deal with the Jidu army, no matter how worried about the safety of the southwest, King Qin's heart had to be pressed, otherwise his three or four thousand people went to King Qin, which was not enough for the Qing army to stuff their teeth.
Guo Zhiqi told Zhu Tong and Chen Qice in Zhaoqing that Zhou Shixiang would be Qinwang after the Eastern Expedition, so after Chen Qice's death, Zhu Tong had no requirements for Zhou Shixiang in addition to fighting for the establishment of an eighth town for himself, but fully supported Zhou Shixiang's military-political and civil integration relative to Zhaoqing, hoping that Zhou Shixiang could integrate the forces of Guangdong as soon as possible, and then lead the Taiping army west into King Qin, Guangxi, to save the Son of Heaven.
As far as the clan and Zhu Tong are concerned, the Yongli court in the southwest is their root, their hope, their roots, their home and country; The root is dead, the family is dead, the country is dead.
Before his death, Nanyang Bo Li Yuanyin cried and sighed, "Your Majesty is a minister, and your Majesty is a minister!" This statement somewhat reveals Yuan Yin's disappointment in the emperor Yongli, but no matter how disappointing this emperor is, he is also the root of the Ming Dynasty and the hope of the people of the world!
As a member of Zhu Ming, even if this Son of Heaven is desperate, Zhu Tong is resolutely determined to sacrifice everything for this Son of Heaven, even if he still dies in the end, he has no regrets, because he has fulfilled his duty and is worthy of his ancestors and ancestors.
From the fourth year of Shunzhi to recruit soldiers, Zhu Tong persisted for eleven years. In the past eleven years, he has lost countless relatives, witnessed countless family breakdowns, and almost committed suicide in despair countless times, but he persevered again and again, just because he believed that even if it was not for his surname Zhu, even if it was not for his clan identity, even if it was not for the ancestors of the Zhu family, he still had something worth dedicating, that is, countless Han people in the world.
Manchuria's entry into the customs is not a change of dynasty, but the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!
The country of the dead Han people, the species of the Han people destroyed!
Zhu Tong's surname is Zhu, and he is a clan, but he is more of a Han person!
The Ming Dynasty is more than three generations!
Han Gao started as a small official, personally led the army to attack the tyrannical Qin, and it can not be said that it is unjust to win the country, but Gaozu ate Qin Lu and was not loyal to Qin, which is also disadvantageous; Wang Mang usurped Lixin, Yu Cao Wei, Sima. Jin, Southern Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen are all like this, and the Northern Dynasties are really ashamed of China; Sui Yang seized the country of his grandson, and Tang usurped the position of his cousin. The five generations were all cut down, and Song Yichen seized the home business of orphans and widows; At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it was metal, and later it formed an alliance with the Southern Song Dynasty to cut gold, and the gold was destroyed and the Song Dynasty was disloyal and unjust!
But my Ming Taizu from the grass, did not eat Yuan Lu, his father and brother died in the Yuan Dynasty ****, the Yuan Dynasty wanted to destroy the five surnames of the Han people, how can it not be reversed, not against the help of the Emperor for abuse, the Ming both established the country, reverted to the Yuan Emperor, and repaired the virtue of Zhou Feng Weizi, so in this view, the Ming Dynasty is more positive than the Han and Tang Dynasties. And Meng Yuan is brutal and murderous, regards the Han people as pigs and dogs, the Han people in the world are deeply humiliated, and those who want to drive them away, ten rooms and eight, the Ming Dynasty drove out the Tartars, restored the society of the Han people, reproduced the clothes of the Han family, set things right, and recreated China!
Now that China has fallen into the hands of Hu again, the children of the Zhu family do not follow the will of Taizu to fight up, are they still the children of the Zhu family, and they will have the face to see Emperor Taizu after death!
If the emperor does not die in the country, the prince dies in the country; The prince does not die, but the clan dies. When the edifice is about to fall, someone will die in the country!
Chongzhen died in the country, Hongguang died in the country, Longwu died in the country, and Shaowu died in the country!
None of the four emperors descended, and the four emperors were all martyred!
There have always been dynasties that have fallen to the country, but the Zhu family is so tragic?
No!
Since the day the family fortune was scattered, Zhu Tong was going to be the clan of this dead country, and he knew that the idea of those generals who refused to express their stance was nothing more than to preserve their strength in troubled times. At present, the southwest is gathered hundreds of thousands of heavy soldiers of the Qing army, and the soldiers who can fight are there, although the Taiping army defeated the army led by the prince of Qing Jian, Jidu, but the full battle is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and this point of soldiers and horses is only a fraction of the Qing army in the southwest!
The Guangdong Ming Army and the Taiping Army are not more than 100,000 people, and half of the soldiers of King Qin who can be drawn into Guangxi are the top of the sky, whether it is strength or strength, the gap is not a little bit, so those people are afraid, they are afraid, they are worried that King Qin will consume their own capital, even if they have been insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, even if there are many loyal ministers among them who can go down in history.
But is it useful for loyal ministers?
Shi Kefa is loyal or disloyal, He Tengjiao is loyal, Ding Chukui is loyal, Qu Shiyun is disloyal? !
No matter how many loyal ministers can't save the country, what's the use!
Zhu Tong is not a person who knows the ancients, eleven years of persistence has made him see more clearly than ever before, what the Ming Dynasty needs now is not loyal ministers, but good ministers, good ministers who can win battles!
Zhu Tong sided with Zhou Shixiang, whom he considered to be a good minister, and he sent another letter in the name of the clan to Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, and the generals from all over the country, asking them to respond to the call of King Boqin of Xingping. However, there was still no response from the walls, and the silence of the governor emboldened the generals who were waiting and watching, and they made the decision that was most beneficial to them - to sell at the price.
Zhou Shixiang knew that righteousness alone could not make these large and small military leaders who supported the army and self-respect to respond to him and accept his command, and what these people needed was money and food, officials, and ordnance. And these, Zhou Shixiang can't provide them at the moment, and he can't give them, all he wants is their unconditional obedience - bring their most capable elites, bring their best equipment, and go to King Qin with him!
Lian Chengbi is selfish, this is a loyal minister, but in the eyes of Zhu Tong, he is an incompetent and selfish loyal minister.
The governor of Liangguang was the highest official in Guangdong appointed by the imperial court, and controlled all the civil and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty in Liangguang. An uncle initiated King Qin but asked the governor, the princes, and the princes to respond, the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, have you ever heard of it?
After the recovery of Guangzhou, Lianchengbi wanted to move the governor Yamen back to Guangzhou out of consideration of the overall situation, but this move was resisted by Zhou Shixiang, because Zhou Shixiang did not want to have more than one ancestor who gave orders.
Without the approval of the Yongli Imperial Court and the endorsement of the Governor of Liangguang, Zhou Shixiang privately established the Yamen of the Guangdong Political Envoy, which made the Yamen of the Governor of Qinzhou hollowed out, and made it impossible to control Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Huizhou and the current Zhaoqing Mansion in terms of system and righteousness. These four prefectures are the essence of Guangdong, and there is no place for these four prefectures, and there is no difference between the two governors of Guangxi and a prefect even the city wall.
Without territory, it is impossible for the governor of the army to control the situation in Guangdong, as a private envoy, the punishment of Qin Rong, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate, and the return of the deputy envoy of the Ministry of War, Cheng Bangjun, some slander of Zhou Shixiang, coupled with some comments from Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, made the city wall, which was so anxious that his hair was gray, and he remained silent in a daze.
Lian Chengbi didn't really want to fall out with Zhou Shixiang in his private heart, he just wanted Zhou Shixiang to talk to him, take a step back, the governor Yamen could not return to Guangzhou, but at least the leader of the initiator of King Qin must be his Liangguang Governor Lianchengbi, not Xingpingbo and Zhou Shixiang of Guangzhou Town, which are under the control of the Governor of Liangguang. It's not in order.
However, what the city wall finally waited for was the Taiping Army's first town coercing Gaozhou, the second town landing in Leizhou by sea, the third town moving west from Xinhui, and the eighth town advancing to the northwest of Zhaoqing.
Overnight, the Taiping army, like the original Qing army, attacked everywhere, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses threatened the Ming army that refused to respond to King Qin by force, and even some generals of the Taiping army openly claimed that those who did not obey the orders of Xingping Bo were adulterers with the Qing Kou, and they would die if they did not surrender!
The situation became more and more tense, and Zhu Tong firmly stood on the side of Zhou Shixiang and led the Eighth Town to sweep up some miscellaneous Ming troops in Zhaoqing. He also ignored the request of the envoy sent by Lianchengbi to ask him to stop Zhou Shixiang's crazy actions as a clan, and told his subordinates that the civil officials in Lianchengbi were blinded by lard, and Guangzhou was beaten by the people Xiucai themselves, so why did they come to pick fruits. Now Xiucai wants them to respond to King Qin, but they don't move and refuse to respond, is there still a court in their eyes!
The envoy went to Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division, and Wu Yuan was very pragmatic, he knew whose orders he should listen to now, so he not only did not agree to the promise of great profits made by the governor Yamen, and took the naval division out of the Taiping army, but more diligently swept away the Ming army boat divisions and forced them to surrender to the Taiping army.
The second town was transported by sea from the naval division to the Qinzhou Hai'an Station, and the soldiers pointed directly at the biggest reliance of the city wall -- Gao Lei's general army Gao Jinku.
Gao Jinku is a native of Yichuan, Shaanxi, Chongzhen was the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, in the second year of Shunzhi, the prince of Qing Yu Duoduo soldiers went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Gao Jinku did not dare to resist and surrender, and was appointed by the Qing court as the deputy general of Jiangning, and then followed Hong Chengchou to pacify Jiangxi with 3,000 soldiers. Shunzhi for four years, promoted to the Left Association, stationed in Ganzhou. In the fifth year of Shunzhi, Li Chengdong was broken, more than 10,000 people were beheaded, and the governor of the capital was added. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, he was appointed by the Qing court as the commander-in-chief of Gaolei in Guangdong, and his station was in Haikang County, Leizhou Prefecture.
After learning that Guangzhou was occupied by the Taiping army, Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi was killed, Jingnan King Geng Jimao surrendered, and the Manchurian general Hahamu and the whole city called the Taiping army to kill it, Gao Jinku knew that he had become a lone army, hopeless to go north, trapped and powerless, and after thinking twice, he sent people to the city wall of Qinzhou to express his intention to surrender. Lian Chengbi, who was suffering from the lack of soldiers under his hands, was overjoyed, and immediately accepted the surrender of Gao Jinku, and still ordered him to be stationed in Haikang, as the chief military officer of Gao Lei in the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time asked for the title of Haikang Marquis.
Zhou Shixiang created the Taiping Army with the strength of one person and created a good situation for Guangdong to resist the Qing Dynasty, but he had to seal Xingpingbo, and he was able to get the governor to personally ask the governor to seal the Marquis of Haikang, and even the city wall was confused. (To be continued.) )