Yan Yingyuan and others spent all their money, so they could only wait for news at the city gate.

Many scholars flocked to Fujing City, many of them wandered in the city, and many of the children of the Ming Dynasty royal family were also wandering on the streets and even becoming beggars.

Zhu Yuanzhang set up a vassal system, hoping that his descendants could enjoy wealth forever, but things went against their wishes. The huge Zhu family's royal family not only dragged down the Ming Dynasty, but also suffered cruel purge after the Qing Dynasty invasion.

Now that a large number of royal families fled to the south, they lost their fiefdoms, and the court could not pay their salaries. Most of them lived a pampering life and had no skill, so they could only beg for a living.

Yan Yingyuan and others saw beggars everywhere on the streets, and couldn't help but sigh, and were also worried about their situation.

At this time, a team of soldiers suddenly came to the city gate, and the leader shouted: "Where is the group of people who just entered the city today?"

Yan Yingyuan's heart moved, thinking that news was coming, so Zhang Mu, Qian Chengzhi and others stood up and responded.

A group of soldiers saw them, so they came over and asked, "Have you been to the residence of Duke Ping before?"

Yan Yingyuan asked with his fists: "Are you Damu's subordinates?"

Zhang Mu said anxiously: "No, it's Yu and others."

The chief officer didn't say much and sneered, "Follow me and have arranged a place for you!"

...

In the palace, Zhao Ming and Emperor Longwu were still discussing.

Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty because King Lu was defeated and Zhejiang was occupied by the Qing army. The Qing army was directly targeting Fujian. After Fujian was threatened head-on, Zheng Zhilong saw that Longwu Dynasty was about to smash it into his hands, so he hurriedly took action and surrendered to the Qing army.

Now, King Lu still defends eastern Zhejiang and blocks the Qing army in Jiangnan. Fujian is temporarily safe. The Longwu court has not yet reached its most critical moment. Even if Zheng Zhilong wants to invest in Qing, he will wait for a price.

As long as Zheng Zhilong did not immediately surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty would not collapse immediately. At that time, the King of Lu would rule the people of Chu and Gan along the southeast coast and Emperor Longwu would be able to cooperate with each other, and would have a great chance to recover Jiangnan.

Moving to Ganzhou was not Zhao Ming's strategy, but actually the method that Longwu monarch and ministers came up with.

Zhao Ming’s advice to Emperor Longwu, to grant King Lu the crown prince, to move to Ganzhou, and to resist the Qing Dynasty, were actually Longwu’s own ideas. Zhao Ming just said it in advance because he had read books on the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In fact, these are all good strategies, but Long Wusheng was not at the right time and implemented it too late. Before he could implement it, he was killed by the Qing army.

If Zhao Ming did not mention it, it would not take long to Wan Ji, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War of Longwu, and the right deputy censor of the Longwu Dynasty, saw Zheng Zhilong domineering and the Qing army pressed forward step by step, he would submit a secret report, "Ganzhou is in the upper reaches, Yu Zhang cannot attack on the back, and the left is Chu, the right is Fujian, Zhejiang, and the back is Dongyue, which is enough to control the three sides, so it is suitable to stay."

At that time, Longwu would be very happy to see the memorial, and he would add ten thousand yuan to the governor of Jiangxi, lead the title of Minister of War, and governor of Jiangxi's army. He ordered him to leave Fujing and settle in Ganzhou to prepare for his move.

However, in the end, Emperor Longwu was blocked by Zheng Zhilong and moved too late. Before the person left Fujian, Zheng Zhilong had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and caught up with Emperor Longwu and executed him.

Although Emperor Longwu died, the strategies he formulated during his reign continued to influence the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Among them, he changed the Hongguang Dynasty's wrong strategy of joining the enemy to suppress the enemy, recognized the main contradictions in China, and had transformed the ethnic conflicts between Manchu and Han people from internal conflicts in the Han people, and implemented the strategy of joining the army to resist the Qing Dynasty, laying the foundation for the Yongli Dynasty to persist for nearly 20 years later.

Now that the situation in Zhao Ming in Nanming has not completely deteriorated, and eastern Zhejiang is still under the hands of King Lu. When the Qing army was still far from Fujian, he suggested that Emperor Longwu move in advance. As long as Longwu leaves Fujian and enters Huguang, the entire southwest region will be used as the depth and rear. Even if the situation deteriorates, it will not be easy for the Qing army to capture Emperor Longwu.

At present, Zhu Youjian and Zhao Ming discussed some specific matters, agreeing that Zhu Youjian would be appointed Zhu Yihai as the crown prince, and Zhu Yihai would be the crown prince, and Zhu Yihai would continue to lead the east and south of Zhejiang to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Yihai would support Zhu Youjian and become Zhu Youjian's foreign aid. If necessary, troops could be sent to Fujian and protect the troops from Fujing.

Zhu Youjian decided to find an opportunity to move to Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and then move westward to Huguang, and command Huguang and Jiangxi two anti-Qing battlefields nearby.

If the Qing army attacked eastern Zhejiang, Zhu Youjian launched a counterattack in Huguang and Jiangxi. If the Qing army attacked Huguang and Jiangxi, Zhu Yihai would attack Jiangnan, support each other and fight against the Qing army together.

Emperor Longwu and King Lu were both ambitious people. King Lu had been on the front line of the anti-Qing Dynasty for a long time. Emperor Longwu had always wanted to fight the northern expedition and intended to go to the southern Jiangxi region where fierce battles were in full swing, rather than fleeing to Guangdong and Guangxi. It can be seen that both of them had the ambition to revive and restore the situation. This was simply incomparable to Emperor Yongli in history.

After Zhu Youjian and Zhao Ming negotiated, he soon had a complete strategy in his mind, united with King Lu, moved to Chu and Gan, united to resist Qing, first went to Wuchang, and then took Jinling.

Zhu Youjian was excited and wrote three decrees in a row. One was to enthrone the King of Lu Zhu Yihai as the crown prince, the second was to issue an edict to Yang Tinglin, the Minister of War who was guarding Ganzhou, to prepare to welcome the sage. The third was to pass the orders of He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi, and ordered the two to recruit the remaining troops of the rebel army.

Among them, Zhao Ming suggested that Du Yinxi be the presided over the recruitment. However, He Tengjiao was once the magistrate of Nanyang and had a relationship with Zhu Youjian. He was regarded as a confidant by Zhu Youjian, so Zhu Youjian did not follow Zhao Ming's advice. He just added Du Yinxi's name and still ordered He Tengjiao to be the presided over the recruitment.

...

The palace is where the emperor lives, and no foreign ministers are left to spend the night.

When it was almost dark, Zhao Ming left the palace. He didn't know if Zheng Sen picked up Yan Yingyuan and others, so he decided to go to the city gate first. If no one was seen, he would go to find Zheng Sen.

At this time, just after Zhao Ming went to the palace, several soldiers came up to greet him, and one of them smiled and said, "But Zhao Ming, General Zhao?"

Zhao Ming was slightly stunned and nodded and replied, "I am Zhao Ming."

The head officer was happy and smiled and said, "Mr. Guo, please wait for the general. Please follow me."

Zhao Ming asked: "I still have companions. Did Damu send someone to pick them up and settle them?"

The officer smiled and said, "All have been resettled, General!"

At that moment, Zhao Ming followed his soldiers to a large mansion. Zhao Ming looked up and saw a plaque on the door with four golden lacquer characters "Pingguo Duke's Mansion".

Zhao Ming frowned slightly, wondering in his heart that it was Zheng Zhilong’s mansion, so it was hard for Zheng Sen to live with his father?

It was already late at this time, the lights in the mansion were brightly lit, and there were many soldiers and were on guard.

When Zheng Zhilong saw the room in the back house, he listened to the report of an eunuch with a smile on his face, then waved his hand and ordered: "Thank you for your hard work, I'll give you five hundred taels to your father-in-law for tea!"

The eunuch showed joy on his face and bowed with a smile, "Thank you, I'll thank you for the rewards, so I won't bother the master!"

Zheng Zhilong smiled and ordered his subordinates, "Send Eunuch Pang to see you off!"

When the eunuch left the room, Zheng Zhilong's face immediately collapsed. Zheng Zhibao, who was beside him, said in a deep voice: "Brother, I really misread the person. Since the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, he has been dishonest and wants to get rid of our control. Over the past few days, in the name of the emperor, he has recruited many officials loyal to him, Yang Tinglin of Jiangxi, He Tengjiao of Huguang, Du Yinxi, and Zhang Kuang, all expressed their submission to him. Even Damu is fascinated by the wits and loyal to him. Now even the King of Lu wants to regard him as the truth. If they really make an agreement, our Zheng family may not be able to control him."

Zheng Zhilong's face was gloomy, "I thought he was sparse in blood and the throne would be unstable after ascending the throne. He would rely on my Zheng family and be a puppet, but he didn't want to be a puppet. However, if I could support him, I could destroy him. He wanted to escape from our control, that's not to be a puppet."

At this moment, a guard came in to report, "Qi reported to the Grand Master, Zhao Ming was taken into the mansion."

Zheng Zhilong heard the words, looked at Zheng Zhibao and said coldly: "Fifth brother, please explore his voice, and then~"

Zheng Zhilong made a neck wiping action. Zheng Zhibao nodded immediately and smiled treacherously, "Brother, I understand, if you kill the envoy of King Lu, the Tang and Lu alliance will be ruined."
Chapter completed!