Chapter 305
Flower Horse Liu Fan
Chapter 305 Flower Horse Liu Fan
Yangzhou.
"Your Highness, Liu Liangzuo from Huai'an has sent a congratulatory gift."
"Gift? What kind of gift?" Zhu Yihai was a little surprised.
"People here say it's a gift for the Double Ninth Festival, and I'll make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival by the way." Yang Boxing presented the gift list to Zhu Yihai, and Liu Liangzuo sent a lot of gifts, including 1000 taels of gold, 2 taels of silver, and many other pearls and corals. , and also sent him a pair of Yangzhou skinny horses.
"Your Highness, does this flamboyant Liu want to surrender anyway?" Yang Boxing couldn't help asking.
"That's not necessarily the case. This guy just wants to keep his current status." Zhu Yihai has seen through people like Liu Liangzuo long ago. He has no sense of national society, loyalty and shame in his heart. What they just want to preserve their strength and wealth in troubled times, As for who to be loyal to, it just depends on who is stronger.
Presently sending congratulatory gifts, it's obviously a bit of begging for mercy, I don't want Zhu Yihai to beat him to Huai'an, I don't want Zhu Yihai to kill him.
"There's another letter here."
Ming people have a habit of writing letters. They like to send two letters at a time. Instead, the main letter is just a greeting, and the important content is placed in the side letter.
Liu Liangzuo's deputy letter told Zhu Yihai that the [-] elite reinforcements led by Tan Tai, He Luohui, and King Sanshun, the generals who conquered the South in the Qing Dynasty, had traveled from Jinan to Yanzhou Prefecture. Tan Tai was in Jinan, Dongchang, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, The Denglai prefectures not only collected food and grass, recruited peasants to transport food, but also developed ambitions for Zhu Yihai after they arrived in Yanzhou.
Even massacred locally.
Ziyang, Yanzhou, where Lu Fan was originally located, was even slaughtered by Tan Tai. After slaughtering all the people in Ziyang City, Tan Tai also changed the original Lu Palace in Yanzhou City into a Mancheng stationed in the Eight Banners, and flattened Lu Fan's cemetery. Army horse ranch.
The 23 counties in the four prefectures of Yanzhou Prefecture were thoroughly swept over.
The Lu family enfeoffed the town of Yanzhou. For more than [-] years, a total of [-] counties and kingdoms were divided into [-] counties and kingdoms. The clan failed to go south, most of them were lieutenants who had passed on far away. These people usually had a difficult life, even suffering from hunger and cold, and they were unable to engage in four industries and could not leave the fief.
The Shun army and the Qing army occupied Shandong one after another. They didn't even have the ability to escape, so they had to stay.
In the past, the Qing army pretended to give favor to the clans of the Ming Dynasty in these places left behind, and stipulated corresponding salaries according to their ranks, but now Tan Tai raised his butcher knife and hunted down these clans wantonly.
Lu Fan's Lu Palace, the county kings, generals, lieutenants, and even the Lu Fan family's sons-in-law and in-laws were searched and searched. Those Wangzhuang, minerals, shops, etc. owned by the Lu Fan clan were completely confiscated. Fans who were related to relatives were also dealt with.
Obviously, Tan Tai's [-] troops were unable to go south quickly due to insufficient supply of grain and grass, but the situation in Shandong was not optimistic. There was no grain transported to the north, and only in Shandong, how could there be much surplus grain.
You can only search for the common people, but in the past two years, the Qing army and the Ming army have repeatedly fought and washed it over and over again. There are barren fields everywhere, and the people fled in large numbers. After collecting grain and grass, Tan Tai had no choice but to attack the wealthy households in Shandong.
Not only the Lu Fan in Yanzhou, but also several other suzerain vassals also ended up in the same way.
Several vassals have sealed off the town of Shandong for nearly 300 years. Who doesn't have a relationship with them if they have a certain status?
This round of catastrophe, except for those families who surrendered, basically involved all of them.
"Have the Tartars reduced to the point of digging graves?" Zhu Yihai just sneered after hearing this.
When the Tartars first entered the customs, they used the banner of avenging the trespassers for Chongzhen, paid homage to Chongzhen hypocritically, and issued an edict to give preferential treatment to the Ming clan, and all former Ming officials were appointed with their original titles.
Even gentry from all over the world are given preferential treatment.
But now they have begun to completely tear off the camouflage, not because they don’t need it anymore, but because the camouflage can’t go on anymore. The war continues and drags on for a long time. The Tartars are now too busy to take care of themselves. Not going well, military expenditures, casualty rewards, pensions, etc. are all rising steadily.
The Tartars have no money in their hands, and there is even a risk of repeated battles. At this time, they don't care about giving preferential treatment to the court, gentry, or any face.
The Tartars are already impatient.
This is a good thing.
"My condolences to Your Highness, I swear that in the future, I will tear up this Tan Tai's body, dig out his heart and dissect his liver to sacrifice to His Highness's ancestors."
Zhu Yihai didn't have much special affection for the ancestors of Lu Fan whose graves were dug up. If they knew what Daming Cheng was like now, they would probably have to lift the coffin boards if they were sleepless underground.
"This Tan Tai is a ruthless person, and it is estimated that he will go south earlier than we expected."
By burning, killing, and looting, Tan Tai was able to raise a large amount of money and food immediately, and speed up his journey southward, so Zhu Yihai couldn't stay in Yangzhou for a long time.
"Since Hua Ma Liu has been so polite to us and has already given us a gift, we have to go back and pay a visit. Order the whole army to rush to Huai'an Mansion at full speed."
Huama Liu gave gifts and reported letters, but it was not all out of good intentions. This obviously meant to threaten Zhu Yihai, telling Tan Tai that he had come, and told him not to go to Huai'an to disturb him again.
But Zhu Yihai was unwilling to let Huai'an go.
Huai'an, as the residence of the former governor of Daming Water Transport, and a transit center for Lianghuai Salt Industry, had to be forcibly demolished.
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Huai'an Mansion, Shanyang City.
When the envoy sent to Yangzhou returned, Liu Liangzuo asked, "Did you take everything? Did you see anyone?"
"Go back to father, everything is taken away, and my son has also seen Lu Jianguo."
It was his son Liu Zehan who was sent by Liu Liangzuo to give gifts, but he went there under the false name of Chief Qian of the Chinese Army. Liu Zehan ventured south this time to see the momentum of the Ming army, and more importantly, to see if the leader of the Northern Expedition As the Ming army announced, it was Lu Jianguo who personally raised the imperial camp.
"Is it really Lu Jianguo?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. Back then, when King Lu went south, he came to Huai'an with King Fu and other six kings. My son had seen him before."
"Did he recognize you?"
"No, my son didn't dare to reveal his identity. My son knew King Lu, but King Lu didn't recognize his son."
"Is Lu Jianguo as brave and decisive as the rumors outside?"
Liu Zehan nodded, "My son saw with his own eyes that the King of Lu beheaded the three hundred and eight banner prisoners under the city of Yangzhou. He even beheaded a man with a sword in his hand, and cut his heart and liver to pay homage to the soldiers and civilians who died in Yangzhou, such as Shigebu. Cut off the head of the leader of the Eight Banners, the movement is sharp, the face is not afraid, and then calmly took the knife to open the leader's belly, took out the heart and liver, from the beginning to the end, his face was calm and calm."
Liu Liangzuo couldn't help being horrified when he heard that, a suzerain vassal king could be so ruthless, even some veterans might not be able to calmly do such a heart-breaking thing.
"Also, Jian Guo's imperial battalion is indeed clean and tidy. Although the armor rate is less than [-]%, the morale is very high. Those soldiers have a rare fortitude, and they are not even weaker than Huang Degong's Yongwei battalion back then."
"And they have many ships, and the big bird has many cannons on it."
Liu Liangzuo nodded, "Chen Tai won't be wronged if he loses."
"Father, there is one more thing. As soon as the son started to leave, Jian Guo has already swung his troops northward. Right now, he is not far behind, and he can reach the city of Huai'an at any time."
Liu Liangzuo was shocked, "Didn't you tell him that Tan Tai and King Sanshun led [-] troops to kill?"
"I said it, but Lu Jianguo still came."
hiss!
Liu Liangzuo was horrified.
"What can we do? Tan Tai led [-] troops to kill, and the Governor of Lu personally proposed that the Sixth Division of the Imperial Battalion go north. If we are caught in the middle, don't we want to become cannon fodder?"
In panic.
The soldiers reported that a flag officer sent by Tan Tai, the general who conquered the South, had arrived.
Liu Liangzuo claimed to be sick and asked his Chinese army to receive him first.
Half an hour later, the Chinese army came to report that the flag officer had come to read out the order of the Beijing court. The regent decreed that Liu Liangzuo was guilty of abandoning the city and losing his land, and was dismissed.
Hear the news.
Liu Liangzuo's complexion was cloudy and uncertain.
"Give me a few thousand old and weak, how can I defend Yangzhou? Didn't Chen Tai always say he was brave, but he still failed to defend Yangzhou with thousands of people?"
Liu Liangzuo stood in the hall and turned around, and the more he talked, the more angry he became, "At the beginning, I brought 10 people to join me, but how did the Tartars treat me? They took my soldiers and horses and left me idle. Now because of this, I have to be accused of crimes." , it really doesn’t make sense.”
Liu Zehan also persuaded Liu Liangzuo not to return to Beijing.
But his nephew Liu Zehong urged him to return to Beijing.
Liu Zehan glared at his cousin, "Are you worried that it will affect the future of your father and son, so you don't care about my father and son's life?"
Liu Zehong served as the deputy general under Liu Liangzuo. His father Liu Liangchen was originally a soldier under the command of Zu Dashou. After the defeat of Dalinghe, he surrendered with Zu Dashou in the fourth year of Chongzhen. .
Liu Liangzuo came to the Qing Dynasty more than ten years later than his brother, and after he was sent to the Qing Dynasty, like his brothers, he also joined the Han army with a yellow banner.
Compared with his brother Liu Liangchen who was more important in the Qing army, Liu Liangzuo's status was more embarrassing after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Although the Qing army retained his title of Earl of Guangchang on the surface, in fact the title of the Ming Dynasty was useless in the Qing Dynasty , this earl is not as good as a world job.
It used to be one of the four towns in Jiangbei, but now it has fallen to such a level, the gap is huge.
Hua Ma Liu also scolded her mother in her heart.
When he accompanied Duoduo to conquer the south of the Yangtze River, he had been left idle all the time. Now that he returns to Beijing, he might be left in the capital to wait for death just like Liu Zeqing.
Liu Liangzuo was not reconciled, otherwise he would not have let his son go to Yangzhou to give gifts to Lu Jianguo.
"Since the Tartars are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous!" Gritting his teeth, Liu Liangzuo directly scolded the Manchurians for the Tartars.
"Uncle, think twice," Liu Zehong urged loudly.
"Zehan, hurry up and go south of the city to see Lu Jianguo. When you meet, you can tell your identity directly, and say that I have led the troops to occupy Huai'an City anyway, so please come and receive the Jianguo."
After finishing speaking, he called the servant again and asked his nephew Liu Zehong to be locked up first, and then Huai'an was put under martial law, announcing a defection and uprising!
(End of this chapter)
Yangzhou.
"Your Highness, Liu Liangzuo from Huai'an has sent a congratulatory gift."
"Gift? What kind of gift?" Zhu Yihai was a little surprised.
"People here say it's a gift for the Double Ninth Festival, and I'll make up for the Mid-Autumn Festival by the way." Yang Boxing presented the gift list to Zhu Yihai, and Liu Liangzuo sent a lot of gifts, including 1000 taels of gold, 2 taels of silver, and many other pearls and corals. , and also sent him a pair of Yangzhou skinny horses.
"Your Highness, does this flamboyant Liu want to surrender anyway?" Yang Boxing couldn't help asking.
"That's not necessarily the case. This guy just wants to keep his current status." Zhu Yihai has seen through people like Liu Liangzuo long ago. He has no sense of national society, loyalty and shame in his heart. What they just want to preserve their strength and wealth in troubled times, As for who to be loyal to, it just depends on who is stronger.
Presently sending congratulatory gifts, it's obviously a bit of begging for mercy, I don't want Zhu Yihai to beat him to Huai'an, I don't want Zhu Yihai to kill him.
"There's another letter here."
Ming people have a habit of writing letters. They like to send two letters at a time. Instead, the main letter is just a greeting, and the important content is placed in the side letter.
Liu Liangzuo's deputy letter told Zhu Yihai that the [-] elite reinforcements led by Tan Tai, He Luohui, and King Sanshun, the generals who conquered the South in the Qing Dynasty, had traveled from Jinan to Yanzhou Prefecture. Tan Tai was in Jinan, Dongchang, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, The Denglai prefectures not only collected food and grass, recruited peasants to transport food, but also developed ambitions for Zhu Yihai after they arrived in Yanzhou.
Even massacred locally.
Ziyang, Yanzhou, where Lu Fan was originally located, was even slaughtered by Tan Tai. After slaughtering all the people in Ziyang City, Tan Tai also changed the original Lu Palace in Yanzhou City into a Mancheng stationed in the Eight Banners, and flattened Lu Fan's cemetery. Army horse ranch.
The 23 counties in the four prefectures of Yanzhou Prefecture were thoroughly swept over.
The Lu family enfeoffed the town of Yanzhou. For more than [-] years, a total of [-] counties and kingdoms were divided into [-] counties and kingdoms. The clan failed to go south, most of them were lieutenants who had passed on far away. These people usually had a difficult life, even suffering from hunger and cold, and they were unable to engage in four industries and could not leave the fief.
The Shun army and the Qing army occupied Shandong one after another. They didn't even have the ability to escape, so they had to stay.
In the past, the Qing army pretended to give favor to the clans of the Ming Dynasty in these places left behind, and stipulated corresponding salaries according to their ranks, but now Tan Tai raised his butcher knife and hunted down these clans wantonly.
Lu Fan's Lu Palace, the county kings, generals, lieutenants, and even the Lu Fan family's sons-in-law and in-laws were searched and searched. Those Wangzhuang, minerals, shops, etc. owned by the Lu Fan clan were completely confiscated. Fans who were related to relatives were also dealt with.
Obviously, Tan Tai's [-] troops were unable to go south quickly due to insufficient supply of grain and grass, but the situation in Shandong was not optimistic. There was no grain transported to the north, and only in Shandong, how could there be much surplus grain.
You can only search for the common people, but in the past two years, the Qing army and the Ming army have repeatedly fought and washed it over and over again. There are barren fields everywhere, and the people fled in large numbers. After collecting grain and grass, Tan Tai had no choice but to attack the wealthy households in Shandong.
Not only the Lu Fan in Yanzhou, but also several other suzerain vassals also ended up in the same way.
Several vassals have sealed off the town of Shandong for nearly 300 years. Who doesn't have a relationship with them if they have a certain status?
This round of catastrophe, except for those families who surrendered, basically involved all of them.
"Have the Tartars reduced to the point of digging graves?" Zhu Yihai just sneered after hearing this.
When the Tartars first entered the customs, they used the banner of avenging the trespassers for Chongzhen, paid homage to Chongzhen hypocritically, and issued an edict to give preferential treatment to the Ming clan, and all former Ming officials were appointed with their original titles.
Even gentry from all over the world are given preferential treatment.
But now they have begun to completely tear off the camouflage, not because they don’t need it anymore, but because the camouflage can’t go on anymore. The war continues and drags on for a long time. The Tartars are now too busy to take care of themselves. Not going well, military expenditures, casualty rewards, pensions, etc. are all rising steadily.
The Tartars have no money in their hands, and there is even a risk of repeated battles. At this time, they don't care about giving preferential treatment to the court, gentry, or any face.
The Tartars are already impatient.
This is a good thing.
"My condolences to Your Highness, I swear that in the future, I will tear up this Tan Tai's body, dig out his heart and dissect his liver to sacrifice to His Highness's ancestors."
Zhu Yihai didn't have much special affection for the ancestors of Lu Fan whose graves were dug up. If they knew what Daming Cheng was like now, they would probably have to lift the coffin boards if they were sleepless underground.
"This Tan Tai is a ruthless person, and it is estimated that he will go south earlier than we expected."
By burning, killing, and looting, Tan Tai was able to raise a large amount of money and food immediately, and speed up his journey southward, so Zhu Yihai couldn't stay in Yangzhou for a long time.
"Since Hua Ma Liu has been so polite to us and has already given us a gift, we have to go back and pay a visit. Order the whole army to rush to Huai'an Mansion at full speed."
Huama Liu gave gifts and reported letters, but it was not all out of good intentions. This obviously meant to threaten Zhu Yihai, telling Tan Tai that he had come, and told him not to go to Huai'an to disturb him again.
But Zhu Yihai was unwilling to let Huai'an go.
Huai'an, as the residence of the former governor of Daming Water Transport, and a transit center for Lianghuai Salt Industry, had to be forcibly demolished.
······
Huai'an Mansion, Shanyang City.
When the envoy sent to Yangzhou returned, Liu Liangzuo asked, "Did you take everything? Did you see anyone?"
"Go back to father, everything is taken away, and my son has also seen Lu Jianguo."
It was his son Liu Zehan who was sent by Liu Liangzuo to give gifts, but he went there under the false name of Chief Qian of the Chinese Army. Liu Zehan ventured south this time to see the momentum of the Ming army, and more importantly, to see if the leader of the Northern Expedition As the Ming army announced, it was Lu Jianguo who personally raised the imperial camp.
"Is it really Lu Jianguo?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. Back then, when King Lu went south, he came to Huai'an with King Fu and other six kings. My son had seen him before."
"Did he recognize you?"
"No, my son didn't dare to reveal his identity. My son knew King Lu, but King Lu didn't recognize his son."
"Is Lu Jianguo as brave and decisive as the rumors outside?"
Liu Zehan nodded, "My son saw with his own eyes that the King of Lu beheaded the three hundred and eight banner prisoners under the city of Yangzhou. He even beheaded a man with a sword in his hand, and cut his heart and liver to pay homage to the soldiers and civilians who died in Yangzhou, such as Shigebu. Cut off the head of the leader of the Eight Banners, the movement is sharp, the face is not afraid, and then calmly took the knife to open the leader's belly, took out the heart and liver, from the beginning to the end, his face was calm and calm."
Liu Liangzuo couldn't help being horrified when he heard that, a suzerain vassal king could be so ruthless, even some veterans might not be able to calmly do such a heart-breaking thing.
"Also, Jian Guo's imperial battalion is indeed clean and tidy. Although the armor rate is less than [-]%, the morale is very high. Those soldiers have a rare fortitude, and they are not even weaker than Huang Degong's Yongwei battalion back then."
"And they have many ships, and the big bird has many cannons on it."
Liu Liangzuo nodded, "Chen Tai won't be wronged if he loses."
"Father, there is one more thing. As soon as the son started to leave, Jian Guo has already swung his troops northward. Right now, he is not far behind, and he can reach the city of Huai'an at any time."
Liu Liangzuo was shocked, "Didn't you tell him that Tan Tai and King Sanshun led [-] troops to kill?"
"I said it, but Lu Jianguo still came."
hiss!
Liu Liangzuo was horrified.
"What can we do? Tan Tai led [-] troops to kill, and the Governor of Lu personally proposed that the Sixth Division of the Imperial Battalion go north. If we are caught in the middle, don't we want to become cannon fodder?"
In panic.
The soldiers reported that a flag officer sent by Tan Tai, the general who conquered the South, had arrived.
Liu Liangzuo claimed to be sick and asked his Chinese army to receive him first.
Half an hour later, the Chinese army came to report that the flag officer had come to read out the order of the Beijing court. The regent decreed that Liu Liangzuo was guilty of abandoning the city and losing his land, and was dismissed.
Hear the news.
Liu Liangzuo's complexion was cloudy and uncertain.
"Give me a few thousand old and weak, how can I defend Yangzhou? Didn't Chen Tai always say he was brave, but he still failed to defend Yangzhou with thousands of people?"
Liu Liangzuo stood in the hall and turned around, and the more he talked, the more angry he became, "At the beginning, I brought 10 people to join me, but how did the Tartars treat me? They took my soldiers and horses and left me idle. Now because of this, I have to be accused of crimes." , it really doesn’t make sense.”
Liu Zehan also persuaded Liu Liangzuo not to return to Beijing.
But his nephew Liu Zehong urged him to return to Beijing.
Liu Zehan glared at his cousin, "Are you worried that it will affect the future of your father and son, so you don't care about my father and son's life?"
Liu Zehong served as the deputy general under Liu Liangzuo. His father Liu Liangchen was originally a soldier under the command of Zu Dashou. After the defeat of Dalinghe, he surrendered with Zu Dashou in the fourth year of Chongzhen. .
Liu Liangzuo came to the Qing Dynasty more than ten years later than his brother, and after he was sent to the Qing Dynasty, like his brothers, he also joined the Han army with a yellow banner.
Compared with his brother Liu Liangchen who was more important in the Qing army, Liu Liangzuo's status was more embarrassing after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Although the Qing army retained his title of Earl of Guangchang on the surface, in fact the title of the Ming Dynasty was useless in the Qing Dynasty , this earl is not as good as a world job.
It used to be one of the four towns in Jiangbei, but now it has fallen to such a level, the gap is huge.
Hua Ma Liu also scolded her mother in her heart.
When he accompanied Duoduo to conquer the south of the Yangtze River, he had been left idle all the time. Now that he returns to Beijing, he might be left in the capital to wait for death just like Liu Zeqing.
Liu Liangzuo was not reconciled, otherwise he would not have let his son go to Yangzhou to give gifts to Lu Jianguo.
"Since the Tartars are not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous!" Gritting his teeth, Liu Liangzuo directly scolded the Manchurians for the Tartars.
"Uncle, think twice," Liu Zehong urged loudly.
"Zehan, hurry up and go south of the city to see Lu Jianguo. When you meet, you can tell your identity directly, and say that I have led the troops to occupy Huai'an City anyway, so please come and receive the Jianguo."
After finishing speaking, he called the servant again and asked his nephew Liu Zehong to be locked up first, and then Huai'an was put under martial law, announcing a defection and uprising!
(End of this chapter)