Chapter 457: The Old Department of King Lu
Qian Lide has followed Zhu Hongsan since he was a child and has a very accurate grasp of the emperor's nature. He knows that this man is most afraid of someone betrayed him. Now, when he hears Zhu Hongsan's bad tone, he knows that his false accusation has played a role.
"Your Majesty, the spies of the Jinyiwei in Zhang Huangyan's home discovered the tablet of King Zhu Yihai of Lu. Zhang Huangyan also worshiped on the first and fifteenth day of every month!"
When Qian Lide said this, Zhang Huangyan looked bloodless. He did set a tablet for King Lu in his family, but it was a longing for the old master and had no other meaning. However, today, Qian Lide said this completely changed its nature.
Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhang Huangyan with a smile on his face, "Mysterious, Fatty Qian is right!"
Although he knew that he would definitely not have a good end to admit it, Zhang Huangyan, as a Zhengchen, did not defend himself: "Yes, Your Majesty, I have a tablet of King Lu in my family!"
After hearing Zhang Huangyan’s admission, Zhu Hongsan’s face became very terrifying.
"Okay, Zhang Huangyan, what do I do to you? You have no place to settle down in Guangdong. I have given you a house, you have no money to settle down, and you have five stores. Are these things I have done not as good as the dead ghost's words? OK! OK! Don't you want to know how Zhu Yihai died? I tell you, it was me who killed him with my own hands. Are you still missing him? OK! Let you go and give it to him..."
Just as Zhu Hongsan was about to say "Be a companion for him", Qian Qianyi stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty, you can't. Mysteriously, you can be loyal to King Lu and your Majesty. There is also the moment when the counterattack on Zhejiang East is about to be imminent. The Zhang family is a great clan of Ningbo, so it is really not suitable to deal with Zhang Huangyan at this time! Please think twice!"
As Zhang Huangyan's teacher, Qian Qianyi could see that his students were in trouble, so he quickly stood up and distinguished him.
Qian Qianyi's words moved Zhu Hongsan. What should I do if I deal with the old people of King Lu and let the rebels in eastern Zhejiang be dealt with? They are all old subordinates of King Lu!
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "Why do you scholars have to be stubborn in your bloodline? My bloodline is remote, but everything I do is not much better than Zhu Yousong, Zhu Yihai, Zhu Youlang, Zhu Youjian and others! Okay, I am secretly not going to kill you, are you unfaithful to King Lu? Now King Lu is buried outside Guangzhou City. Go to Nanhai County, Guangzhou to be the magistrate, and go to your King Lu to be loyal to you!"
Zhang Huangyan gave a deep gift without saying a word, and then retreated.
Seeing that Zhang Huangyan's life was saved, Qian Qianyi wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Qian Lide secretly, and thought to himself: These guys from the Jinyiwei are so scary. It would be bad if he had any handles to them in the future, but who can restrain the Jinyiwei?
Qian Qianyi thought for a long time and saw Cao Fang, the eunuch standing behind the emperor. Qian Lide, the commander of the Jinyiwei, had been bribed by Tong Yangjia. He could not squeeze into their ship. However, there was another big spy leader Cao Fang. Although the Dongchang was not famous, his methods were no worse than that of the Jinyiwei. It seemed that he had the chance to make friends with Cao Fang.
The fleet passed through Changguowei and entered the Zhoushan Islands. In front was Shuangyu Island outside Zhoushan, which is Taimen Town, later Zhoushan City. There was an outpost of the Guangdong Navy on this island. When he saw his fleet arrive, he quickly lit fireworks. Shuangyu Island is less than fifty miles away from Zhoushan. The various civil and military officials on Zhoushan Island had been waiting for many days. When he knew that the fleet had finally arrived, he was ready to welcome him.
Now there are several governors and governors on the Zhoushan Islands, including Li Zhi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang who have been here, Yu Shilong, the governor of Zhejiang who later arrived, Chen Zilong, the governor of Zhejiang, and Ma Jiyuan, who just arrived yesterday. In addition to them, there are some small officials. The remaining are leaders of some large rebels in eastern Zhejiang.
Because eastern Zhejiang is the main battlefield of the anti-Qing Dynasty, there are countless rebels here, including Zhou Rui, Zhou Hezhi, Pinglubo, Sanpan, Wenzhou, Wang Yi, Wang Jiang, Feng Jingdi, etc., who were driven by the Qing army and had nowhere to escape to Zhoushan, and Zhang Mingzhen, Qian Sule brothers and others. These people were old friends who followed the King of Lu Zhu Yihai back then, and many of them also had titles granted by the King of Lu. Today, I came to Zhoushan to see how this new Shenwu Emperor was like and whether it was worthy of his loyalty.
Among these people, Ma Jiyuan is the most honorable. He stood in front, and Li Zhi and others were standing next to him. Li Zhi had met Ma Jiyuan several times. Seeing Ma Jiyuan standing there silently, he asked curiously: "Sir Ma, why are you worried?"
Ma Jiyuan pointed a little, looked around, and found that the King of Lu was far away from him. He whispered to the surroundings: "I am worried about the King of Lu. King of Lu was full of mud and sand back then. As long as he was loyal to him, he would give him an official position. Look at who these are, they dare to call themselves generals, generals, and the Fujian Anbo Zhou Rui had less than 3,000 people. I heard that the weapons were not worthy of the King of Lu actually named him an earl. It was so nonsense!"
Yu Shilong and Ma Jiyuan were not familiar with each other, but Chen Zilong had a good relationship with the Ma brothers. He heard Ma Jiyuan say this and whispered: "Don't worry, Lord Ma, our emperor is very smart. See when did the emperor suffer a loss?"
After hearing what Chen Zilong said, it was really true. Zhu Hongsan has always played a role in playing pigs and eating tigers. Today, these kings of Lu’s shrimp soldiers and crab generals are clearly here to benefit. With the emperor’s nature, they will definitely be unable to express their suffering.
While several people were talking, the Guangdong Navy's large fleet appeared on the horizon and Zhu Hongsan arrived. The Zhoushan Military Port had already emptied the air, and all the unrelated ships had already stopped outside the port.
The officials of Zhu Hongsanyi's group had seen the size of the Guangdong Navy, but they had no effect. However, the local buns such as the Zhejiang Eastern Rebel Army had never seen such a large ship that was taller than the city wall. They were so scared that they could not speak.
The other ships of the fleet stopped outside the port, and Zhu Hongsan's ship entered the port, and Ma Jiyuan brought everyone to the dock to welcome Zhu Hongsan.
Zhu Hongsan was wearing a bright yellow military uniform, an eight-petal dome helmet made of gold, and a gilded mountain armor. He wanted to burn more bags as much as he wanted. Zhu Hongsan got off the springboard and saw Ma Jiyuan and others laughed and said, "Several gentlemen have arrived early, I'm late!"
Seeing the emperor get off the boat, Ma Jiyuan quickly led all the civil and military officials of all sizes and big, shouting long live!
After the ceremony, Ma Jiyuan and Li Zhi began to introduce the officials behind Emperor Zhu Hongsan. It was easy to deal with one side. They shook hands when they met, but Li Zhi, an official from the King of Lu, was in trouble and could not say anything.
Zhu Hongsan was meticulous and knew what was going on when he saw Li Zhi was in trouble. He quickly asked, "Li Aiqing, what's going on with these officials?"
After hearing the emperor's question, Li Zhi quickly said, "Go back to Your Majesty, these officials were appointed by King Lu when he was supervising the country. Listen to Your Majesty's preparation to counterattack Nanjing, and he will lead his subordinate rebels to help!"
Zhu Hongsan knew what was going on when he heard this. These guys came to see what benefits they could give them. As for the support, Zhu Hongsan had not yet fallen in love with the thousands of peasant militias. But these guys represented a huge force, that was the faction in Zhejiang that year that supported the king of Lu. These people were the main force in Zhejiang's anti-Qing. They did fight to defend the local area and the Qing army. If Zhu Hongsan didn't handle it well, it would make the Nanzhili war half the result with twice the result.
But who is Zhu Hongsan? His eyes turned and his mind turned. Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "I had a good relationship with King Lu. Originally, King Lu went to Guangdong to surrender to me. I originally wanted to give up the throne to King Lu. Whoever is virtuous is here? But I didn't expect that King Lu is lucky. In addition, King Lu's Tang Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, was not from the east. When King Lu passed through the border, he actually sent the Zheng family to attack the throne ship of Lu, causing King Lu to fall into the water. If it weren't for my Jinyiwei's desperate rescue, King Lu would have suffered misfortune. But in this way, King Lu also fell into the root of illness and died after staying in Guangdong for half a month. However, King Lu had already handed over the important task of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty to me. I hope you will also inherit the King Lu's wishes and be loyal to me!"
Li Zhi and Ma Jiyuan were ashamed of Zhu Hongsan's righteous words. They both jumped into the sea with their hearts. As senior executives of Zhu Hongsan's group, they knew how King Lu died. Now they felt so stingy that Zhu Hongsan said, "I'm going to be goosebumps."
Zhu Hongsan said it sincerely, but some people here do not believe it. This person was the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple, the right assistant censor Qian Sule. Logically speaking, Qian Sule was a Jinshi in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and with Ma Mingyuan and Chen Zilong, he was inclined to the Shenwu regime. However, as several ministers who supported the king of Lu, Qian Sule could make King Lu die inexplicably. He had heard anything good to say just now, and then he stood up to question Zhu Hongsan.
"Your Majesty Shenwu, I heard that it is different. I heard that the king of Lu was killed by His Majesty when he came to Guangdong, and the two concubines of the king of Lu were included in the harem by His Majesty. Is this a fact?"
Qian Sule's statement made Zhu Hongsan very embarrassed when he told the truth. He didn't expect Qian Sule to be so disrespectful. Just when Zhu Hongsan had no choice, someone stood up behind Zhu Hongsan. It was Zhang Huangyan, who had just been demoted to Nanhai County by Zhu Hongsan in the morning.
Zhang Huangyan and Qian Sule are family friends. Both of them are talented men from Yin County, Ningbo. Zhang Huangyan also supported the king of Lu.
Zhang Huangyan stood up and saluted Qian Sule, saying, "Mr. Xisheng, when His Highness King Lu and I arrived in Zhoushan, it was at this pier that King Lu announced that he would give up the regent and hand over the great cause of anti-Qing to Emperor Shenwu, and ordered his civil and military officials to be loyal to Emperor Shenwu. I was by my side at that time, and Lord Li, the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, was also present. He could testify!"
Qian Sule knew Zhang Huangyan's character, but Qian Sule believed it completely after he said this, and knelt down on the dock and kowtowed to the south and cried: "Your Highness, I will inherit your will and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!