Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 434 Father and son are different
Phoenix Castle is more than 400 miles away from Shengjing, but it is only more than 100 miles away from Zhenjiang Fort on the Yalu River.Huang Taiji's plan is to let Geng Zhongming pretend to be an internal response, and lure Lu Xiangsheng and his Dongjiang army here.At that time, Huang Taiji will make another arrangement, and Lu Xiangsheng must come and never come back.

Another advantage of choosing this location is that even if Lu Xiangsheng wanted to escape, he did not escape so quickly; moreover, this place is far away from the coast, even farther away from the Guanning area; It is also impossible to wait until the arrival of reinforcements.

After discussing for a while, Huang Taiji started acting again.Pass on to the other leaders of Phoenix Castle, and scold them head and face. Anyway, it's just a pickpocket, so don't make it too easy.After scolding, he also took Geng Zhongming's title of King Huaishun away, and left angrily.

Regarding this situation, everyone was a little aggrieved for Geng Zhongming, especially his close men, who even shouted to Geng Zhongming, saying that Huang Taiji was suspicious because they were all surrendered by the Han people. .If you seize the title of prince today, you might send someone to take him tomorrow.

On the contrary, Geng Zhongming's son, Geng Jimao, said to Geng Zhongming in a complaining tone: "Father, the child has already said, what are you doing to take in those escaped people? And also give them food. Look around, just count us on the side of Phoenix Castle." Those dog slaves are the best. Father..."

Geng Zhongming frowned when he heard this, and immediately reprimanded: "I don't need you to teach me what I do!"

He is a Han from Liaodong, but he did not accept the oppression of those officials in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty. He defected to Nurhachi to fight against the Ming Dynasty very early, and achieved the position of Qianzong.But then he discovered that Nurhachi did not treat the Han people as human beings, and would slaughter them at every turn.This allowed him to see through what Jianlu was, and finally led the people of Liaodong to defect to Mao Wenlong.Fighting under Mao Wenlong is also brave and good at fighting. He has accumulated meritorious service and was promoted to a general, and even took charge of the property of the Dongjiang Army. It can be seen that his ability can win Mao Wenlong's great trust.

As far as he is concerned, he has sympathy for the Han people in Liaodong, so even after he surrendered to Jianlu, he will give some care to the Han slaves within his ability.

In the original history, Geng Zhongming was a fugitive in hiding, and was reported by others, and he was supposed to be beheaded according to the law.Therefore, he finally chose to commit suicide.

But it is obvious that his son does not have his experience, so it is naturally different from his attitude towards Hannu.

What's more, now in Geng Jimao's view, his father's title has been taken away, so that there is no possibility of him taking over the throne at all, and of course he is angry.

At this time, Geng Jimao was reprimanded, not only did not admit his mistake and shut up, but straightened his neck and said: "The emperor has treated us with great kindness, when we were desperate, we did not care about the fact that we had fought against the Qing Dynasty, and treated us as kings. So kind, father, you have to be good enough in dealing with those slaves. I'm sorry, the emperor. If you want the child to say it, just use it to death. Wang, why don't you hurry up and write a memorial to the emperor, saying that the father was wrong..."

His words made Geng Zhongming so angry that he raised his hand and wanted to slap him.

But at this moment, he stared at his son, and saw that his neck was still straight, with a look on his face that I was right, what I said was right, suddenly, he suddenly realized.

Why did Huang Taiji choose to do this by himself, and why did Huang Taiji feel that he would not betray the Qing Dynasty?

It was because his son was truly loyal to the Qing Dynasty, which made Huang Taiji feel relieved.

In the original history, it was indeed proved that this Geng Jimao, unlike his father, was truly loyal to the Manchu Qing just like Shang Kexi.

He and Shang Kexi captured Guangzhou, and then launched a massacre in Guangzhou that lasted for twelve days. Regardless of men, women, old or young, all were killed. According to the statistics of the monks who collected the corpses, the number of deaths reached 70.

Later, he made great contributions to the Manchu Qing's southern and northern wars, and helped the Manchu Qing eradicate Nanming.

At this moment, Geng Zhongming thought about this, and he couldn't slap him any longer. He immediately turned black and told the others to leave, and then took out the secret decree given by Huang Taiji and said, "See for yourself!"

Geng Jimao didn't understand what it meant, so he immediately took a look at the secret decree, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, not only was the prince not taken away, but he even promised that after the decree was completed, the throne would be hereditary.That doesn't mean that he, Geng Jimao, will be [-]% able to become a prince after his father's death!
Thinking of this, he became so excited that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Sheng Jing.

Looking at his son's behavior, Geng Zhongming had mixed feelings, and finally just looked at his son in a daze and didn't speak.

After Geng Jimao kowtowed devoutly, he stood up and said to Geng Zhongming with a smile on his face, "It's the child who wrongly blamed the father. The father will beat and scold, and the child will admit it!"

Hearing this, Geng Zhongming sighed in his heart, but he didn't go to fight or scold, but sat down to drink tea and rest, he was a little tired.

When Geng Jimao saw it, he immediately stepped forward, beat his father's back, and poured tea for his father. He was extremely courteous.At the same time, he said to Geng Zhongming: "Father, you must think carefully about how to complete the matter that the emperor told you..."

I don't know why, Geng Zhongming couldn't listen anymore, stood up a little irritably, and said impatiently to his son: "This matter must be kept secret. As for the matter explained in the will, the emperor has already cares about it, so you just don't know it." .”

"Ah, it turns out that the emperor has already given an explanation, and that must be the best." Geng Jimao was overjoyed when he heard it, and after admiring immediately, he really had to stop talking.

Geng Zhongming put away the secret decree, walked out of the room, looked up at the sky, and thought in his heart: It's a pity that Kong Youde is not around at this time, otherwise, he is the only brother he can talk about!
Soon, at the Phoenix Castle, because of Huang Taiji's visit, the atmosphere became delicate.

Those Jurchen tribesmen in Jianzhou publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the surrender of the Han people, dared to criticize, and no longer feared Geng Zhongming. After all, even the king was taken away, they must have lost their sacred heart, so what are they afraid of!
On Geng Zhongming's side, he also felt aggrieved by the injustice encountered.Finally, one of Geng Zhongming's personal guards followed Geng Zhongming's military order and secretly went to find the Ming army.

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Although Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, had an eavesdropping system in hand, the eavesdropping seeds were not given to Huang Taiji after all. Therefore, he naturally knew nothing about what Huang Taiji was doing secretly.

He just gathered information from the eavesdropping seeds on a few people and inferred that Huang Taiji was patrolling the area in Liaodong, inspecting the military equipment, and changing the garrison in various places.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay special attention to this, anyway, whatever Huang Taiji loved was fine, as long as he wasn't plotting against Daming.

As for the fact that Huang Taiji had killed all the kings and ministers of North Korea, Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew about it immediately.He is not sentimental about the death of North Korea's monarchs and ministers. Today's North Korea is tantamount to having no master.

However, Dongjiang Town is still there. Judging from Lu Xiangsheng’s eavesdropping seed feedback, most North Koreans defected to the Dongjiang Army. Today’s Phi Island has completely become a training base for North Korean soldiers of the Dongjiang Army.

Of course, not all North Koreans wanted to go to Ming Dynasty, and some people set up their own regimes in North Korea and attacked each other; because of the lessons learned from the North Korean monarchs and ministers, most of these people did not go to Ming Dynasty, nor did they go to Manchu Qing. The plan in their hearts is to expand their own power first, and to watch the battle between Ming and Qing Dynasties. They must pay attention to it, and whoever overwhelms the other will win the thigh!

Regarding this, Lu Xiangsheng didn't care about them.His energy is mainly still dealing with Liaodong Jianlu.It is not too late to clean up these small fish and shrimps in North Korea.Of course, there is another reason, that is, Lu Xiangsheng didn't know how to deal with the current situation in North Korea, so he wrote a memorial, which is now on the way to the capital.

The monarchs and ministers of North Korea, including the Li family, were all taken away by Jianlu.If this is not the case, there is a high probability that Daming will support someone from the Li family to be the new head of North Korea, but there is no such thing now.Regarding North Korea, a land without owner, Lu Xiangsheng suggested in the memorial that it can be called the Ming Dynasty North Korea Province, and the people from Shandong were relocated to enrich North Korea.

However, for Lu Xiangsheng, this approach is somewhat scruples.After all, this is the land of the vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems a little unreasonable to be occupied by the suzerain of the Ming Dynasty.But from a practical point of view, doing so is the best.

Emperor Chongzhen did not have the same scruples as Lu Xiangsheng did about this, and all the monarchs and ministers of North Korea were killed. Even if some people in North Korea continued to pretend to be members of the Li family to make troubles, how many people would recognize the Li family?If you want to save face, you can write a Manmin book written by the Korean people.I don't believe it, between Daming and the former Li family of North Korea, who will the people of North Korea choose!The noisy North Korean courtiers are gone anyway.

Thinking about these things, time flies too quickly, and it will be the eighth day of August in the 15th year of Chongzhen in the blink of an eye.Whether it's Daming side or Liaodong side, the weather is a bit hot.

On Guanglu Island, in Lu Xiangsheng's new governor's office, he was looking at the map of Liaodong, frowning slightly, obviously something was not going well.

On the table next to it, there are several stacks of papers.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the map, then flipped through the stacks of papers, and then marked on the map with a brush.

After a while, he sat back in his seat, rubbed his head, and said to himself: "It's been more than a year since the battle of Pyongyang. Although the emperor didn't urge him, the Dongjiang Army can't be idle all the time. Don't do it!"

The reason for this is the lack of news about Liaodong.Han people from all over the country fled, and he got some news.However, these news are not reliable. Today it is said that the Jianlu army in Gaizhou has only 5000 people, and tomorrow it is said that the Jianlu army in Gaizhou has withdrawn to Haizhou. As a result, someone immediately said that there are Jianlu troops stationed in Gaizhou.With such news, Lu Xiangsheng was unable to confirm how many troops there were in Gaizhou, and how many Jianlu troops there were in the surrounding area.

A few months ago, he tried to contact Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming to see if these two former great Ming generals could change their minds, the military information he got from them would definitely be much more reliable.

It's just that I didn't expect that the people here had just been sent out, whether it was Kong Youde or Geng Zhongming, they were all transferred away, and they couldn't be contacted at all.

"I wonder if there is any latest news about the military situation from the Imperial Guard's spies from the emperor's side?" Lu Xiangsheng thought to himself, then stood up, strode out of the lobby, and headed for a wing in the front yard.

It's very quiet here, but when you get close, you can hear the "cuckoo" of the pigeons.That's right, this is the place where the imperial court sent to train pigeons.

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng approaching, the person who was training the pigeons, named Chen Er, immediately stood up to salute.

Lu Xiangsheng has been here more than once. Chen Er naturally knew why he came here this time. Therefore, without waiting for Lu Xiangsheng to speak, he immediately reported: "My Lord Governor, it's almost time. These two homing pigeons may be able to Use it. As long as you send someone to take it to Tianjin and let it fly, there is a great possibility that you can fly back here."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help being overjoyed, and went over to look at the two carrier pigeons that Chen Er was talking about like a baby.Although he opened his eyes wide, he couldn't see anything special in the end, but he was happy. After admiring it for a while, he said: "Well done, then send these two pigeons to Tianjin as soon as possible."

After speaking, he returned immediately. Taking this opportunity, he wrote another memorial, just to ask Emperor Chongzhen if he had the latest military situation of Jianlu in Liaodong.

This time, he even personally watched the two pigeons being taken to the pier and sent to China by the Clippers.

Chen Er was on the side, seeing Lu Xiangsheng attaching so much importance to it, he smiled and said: "Don't worry, Governor, as long as you give the villain time, there will only be more and more pigeons that can be used later."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard it, he turned around and praised it for a while.If there is communication for carrier pigeons, then the communication will be very convenient, and the unfavorable situation on the Dongjiang Army's side across the sea can be improved a lot.

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng has not been idle all the time, and he has been sent to the Liaodong Peninsula even if he does not accept it at night. At this time, he is looking at the direction of Liaodong, and he is already thinking in his heart whether he should send the cavalry out to have a look. If you don't go to attack the city, I believe that Jianlu will not be able to keep the cavalry, and it will also increase the tension of Jianlu. By the way, it is better to see Jianlu's reaction than not doing anything all the time!
Thinking of this, he immediately summoned Li Dingguo to discuss the military situation.

But he didn't expect that before he could speak to Li Dingguo, Ye Bushou would suddenly report back: "My lord, Geng Zhongming of Liaodong sent a messenger to ask to see you."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help being overjoyed, and quickly asked, "Where is he? Come and see me!"

Geng Zhongming took the initiative to send someone over, what is the purpose, it goes without saying!

(End of this chapter)