Chapter 41 The forty-first palindrome and Wu together lead the Eight Banners generals and ministers to praise Xiliu camp

When they heard that Emperor Kangxi wanted to conquer Yueyang in person, Xiong Cilu, Mingzhu and others were shocked.Suo'etu hurriedly walked up a few steps, came to the emperor and kowtowed: "I don't think so! The capital is an important place, long live you must not stay away. Wu Sangui wants to row the river to rule, obviously he has no ambitions. The Lord is light, in case there is a slight If he failed, he would instead activate his heart to go north to the Central Plains. Could it be—” "Shut up! I would rather be the emperor who died in battle than the lord of peace!"

After Mingzhu heard this, she hurried forward and said, "Long live a personal conquest is a last resort. Now Geng Jingzhong has surrendered, Shang Zhixin and Wu Sangui have different ambitions, and the situation of thieves is declining, so there is no need for the Lord to personally conscript." When Kangxi saw that they all came to dissuade him, he was even more unhappy and wanted to get angry, but Xiong Cilu, contrary to his usual calmness, said excitedly: "Long live sees the most holy and brightest. I think Wu Sangui is the last of his strength. The two sides have been fighting for a long time, and at this time, Long Live's personal conquest will definitely boost the morale of our army. In my opinion, the Lord's personal conquest is the way to success in one fell swoop!"

In the midst of the dispute, He Guizhu came in, drenched in water, held up a seal document, and said, "Your Majesty, the urgent military situation that was just handed in from Gubeikou. Because Long Live has a special order to deliver it at any time, so I came here overnight... .” "Okay, Chahar must have sent reinforcements!" Kangxi said with a smile while unpacking, "I will take these three thousand cavalry and come to Jiangnan in person. Wu Sangui—ah?" Kangxi suddenly stopped talking , He rubbed his eyes and read the memorial twice again, his hand holding the letter trembled slightly.Back on the couch in a daze, his legs softened and he sat down.

Going to the study room immediately became quiet, only the sound of pattering rain outside could be heard.Mingzhu finally couldn't help but asked cautiously: "Long live, this...?" "Prince Chahar has rebelled and has already imprisoned Niebuhr. He took advantage of the emptiness of my capital and brought ten thousand cavalry to attack him! Well...all of them are rebellious...let's rebel!" Several ministers were dumbfounded as if they had been sapped.Tu Hai's heart was beating wildly. At this moment, Beijing is actually an empty city. How should we deal with the mutiny that is so close at hand? At this moment, Zhou Peigong suddenly kowtowed and said: "Long live, I have already thought of a countermeasure, and Rong Chen will play!"

"Speak...speak!" "Although Prince Chahar's change is recent, it is a disease of ringworm. The current situation in Hunan is stalemate, and I don't think there is any need to work on Shengjia." Zhou Peigong's calm surprised all the ministers.Kangxi was furious, "Bastard! Are you just letting me listen to your empty words?" Zhou Peigong kowtowed to the ground, and said loudly: "Long live, Rong Chen has finished playing. Our army and Wu Sangui are red-eyed in Yuezhou. I think that Wang Fuchen of Pingliang has been ignored!" "Yeah." Kangxi leaned forward suddenly, "Speak on!"

"Yes, the reason why Wu Sangui is still able to deal with it is not because of Geng Shang and the other two, but because there are Wang Fuchen on the west road to restrain our troops! If he wakes up at this time, he can send a general who is used to fighting to lead a brigade of elite soldiers. Sichuan enters Shaanxi and Gansu, joins forces with Wang Fuchen to harass our rear, then the situation in Hunan will be in jeopardy. But if we take a step first, eliminate the crisis in Gansu and Shaanxi, and then deal with the enemy forces of Heng and Yue with all our strength, Wu Sangui will surely The generals will hear the news, become frightened, and the whole army will collapse."

This is very reasonable, Kangxi couldn't help nodding his head, but he immediately remembered that the troops in Shanshan, Gansu and Gansu could only barely deal with Wang Fuchen, and the Chahar rebels were about to attack the capital again. Where would they come to reinforce the West Road? Kangxi lowered his head and sighed, and said, "Zhou Peigong, you are right. I... just lost my temper in a hurry, but how should I deal with this matter?" "I ask Long Live to issue an imperial decree to recruit all the kings in Beijing, Baylor, Beizi, and the slaves of the banner owner. You can immediately get 30,000 elite soldiers. Under the command of Tuhai and assisted by my ministers, within half a month, if you can't wipe out the Cha Hal's change, please the emperor punish the crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Tuhai listened, his face glowing.He had always been depressed because he had no soldiers to lead and couldn't go to war. He was overjoyed when he heard Zhou Peigong's unique move, and he kowtowed and said: "I also want to issue a military order!" Kangxi jumped up and went around Zhou Peigong for a while. He was about to speak when he saw Zhou Peigong's face showing hesitation.He stammered, "It's just..." Kangxi hurriedly asked, "Tell me, what is it?" "The slaves of the Ding family of the princes' residences were originally the elite of the Eight Banners, even the junior banner slaves, all of them are extremely brave. Fighting is a good thing, I'm afraid I'm used to being domineering according to the situation..."

"Hahaha, are you afraid they won't accept it? Alright, I will make the decision, Li Dequan, and Tianzijian will serve you!" Li Dequan understood what he had heard early on, and walked in quickly, took out a sword with bright yellow tassels, and held it over with both hands.However, Kangxi stopped him with his hand, and turned to Zhou Peigong, "Are you still a fourth rank?" Zhou Peigong hurriedly paused and said: "Once I receive this Emperor Sword, I will act on behalf of the heavens, and there is no rank or rank!" "Mr. Zhou Pei has great aspirations!" Mingzhu, who was kneeling next to him, praised loudly, "I think Mr. Zhou Pei should be promoted to the third rank!"

"No, the second rank!" Kangxi said loudly, "This is the person recommended by Mr. Wu. Treating the national scholars should be treated the way the national scholars should be treated. The decree was issued, and Tuhai was appointed as the general of Fuyuan, and Zhou Peigong was the counselor of the general of Fuyuan. Title, deal with it quickly and according to the agreement!" Tu Hai quickly said: "I thank you. Three days later, I will wait for the military parade in Nanhaizi." "Okay, I will go to the school in person at that time. You just have to do it boldly. I will also give you two red cannons. You don't have to return to the army after you wiped out Chahar. Join forces with Horqin's four thousand cavalry to attack Pingliang and pull out Wang Fuchen for me. This nail!"

"Minister - lead the decree" "Go! Tonight, an order will be delivered to the princes' mansions to requisition banner slaves according to the roster. Those who dare to resist the order will be dealt with by military law." "tie!" It was still nothing to do just now, but it melted away in a blink of an eye.Looking at Zhou Peigong's back, Kangxi couldn't help but shook his head and praised: "He is really a genius, and Mr. Wu's recommendation is not in vain..." Suo'etu hurriedly said: "It is indeed a genius, why don't you appoint him as the main general?" "Hey, you don't understand. This team can only be led by a seasoned and prudent veteran general like Tu Hai. This group of banner slaves is not a fuel-efficient lamp!" Mingzhu laughed and said: "Long live Shengming, it is all thanks to the master's good dispatch that such a good general leads the army. The slave also thinks that Chahar will be peaceful soon!" "Ha...Okay! You guys came tonight to discuss the conquest, but you came to such a result—hey, Mr. Xiong, why are you in a daze?" "I, I am wondering where the salary comes from? There are soldiers but no salary, and it is not easy to fight!" "Well—yes. But no matter what, this battle must be fought. As for the soldier's salary, let's embezzle 50,000 yuan from Ouchi first..." The date of the parade has arrived.The night before, Tuhai and Zhou Peigong handed in the papers, saying that more than 31,700 soldiers had been conscripted from the palaces of the princes, Baylor, and Beizi, and they had already been drilled and inspected once.Tomorrow, after the emperor's personal military parade, he can go to the front line and enter Gubeikou.Kangxi saw it and was very happy.I got up early this morning to wash and wash, went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to greet the Empress Dowager, braved the autumn rain, and rode straight to Nanhaizi with Wei Dongting and other guards. Nanhaizi was originally Shanglin Garden in the Ming Dynasty, also known as Feifangbo.Within a hundred miles, there are lush forests and bamboos, hills, valleys, ponds and canals.Since the early Ming Dynasty, countless tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, bears, deer, roe deer, and deer have been stocked. Due to the bad state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, they have not been operated for a long time.It was already desolate.In the early years of Shunzhi, Banghaizi built the East and West Palaces, and there was a nine-curved bridge leading to the island in the sea, named "Yingtai", which became the place for the children of the Eight Banners to hunt and practice martial arts. In late autumn and October, the garden is red and thin, green and thin, the residual lotus is withered, and the autumn pond is sprinkled with rain, and the waves of sorrow are rippling, a chilling scene. Kangxi came here with his guards, and when he looked up, he saw a wooden village built on the Liutai.In the village, a large flag drenched by rain trembled in the cold wind, with the eight characters "Picture of Fuyuan General by Order Fuyuan" embroidered on it.Below the stage are teams of sergeants lined up neatly, wearing the uniforms just brought from the inner library, all fresh and neat.On both sides of the platform and the gate, there are dozens of school comforts from the Admiral's Mansion of the Nine Gates to guard.One by one, they pressed their waist knives, their eyes were not wrong, and they stood energetically.Kangxi saw that the military appearance was so neat, he couldn't help but nodded and praised: "Okay, this slave Tuhai, together with Zhou Peigong's helper, has really become a general." Xiong Cilu next to him was about to answer, but suddenly heard a loud shout : "Who is riding here? Come down!" Several people were startled. When they looked up, it turned out that it was a flag officer holding a command flag and fighting at the door.As soon as the stubborn donkey saw this situation, he patted the horse and was about to step forward to answer, but Mu Zixu grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Brother, don't make mistakes, let Brother Wei deal with it." Wei Dongting had already got off the horse, Throwing away the bridle, he stepped forward and whispered a few words to the flag officer. The flag officer nodded with a straight face, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, and saluted Kangxi with his hands flat on his chest, and said: "There are orders from Tu Junmen and Zhou Junmen. If Long Live comes to inspect in person, you can wait at the Yuanmen for a while." .At the moment, they are marching to kill people." Go Lun, who was following Kangxi, was a new guard, young and energetic, and he rushed forward and shouted: "You are blind, this is long live!" The official knows that it is long live. If it is someone else, riding a horse in front of the camp is a capital crime!" Since he became the emperor's front guard, Glenn has never encountered a setback. Seeing that the flag officer contradicted Long live, he felt angry, raised his whip, and was about to whip him over.Unexpectedly, Kangxi's face darkened, and he scolded angrily: "Presumptuous! Get off your horse, stand back. Ge Lun, pull out the feathers on your head!" Ge Lun was so frightened that he was so cold, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty, took off his hat, pulled out the feathers on it, and presented it to Wei Dongting. Kangxi had already got off his horse.When the guards saw this scene, no one dared to speak.Mingzhu knew that this must be Zhou Peigong's idea again, and wanted to learn the story of Liu Yafu's Xiliu camp governing the army.But Suoetu said quietly to Xiong Cilu: "As long as they can win the flag, the master will be happy if he doesn't ride a horse." Xiong Cilu didn't answer, and said to Kangxi: "Master, please stand here, it is higher here. ,see it clearly." What the flag officer said just now is right, the military law is indeed being used to kill people in the barracks.Most of the flag slaves recruited this time were heroes who fought on the battlefield back then, but it is different now.As the saying goes, there are as many slaves as there are masters.The masters of these flag slaves acted as princes and princes in the capital, and the slaves also grew in value and prestige.Now they are all married and established in the capital, enjoying wealth and honor, who is willing to fight with their lives for that one or two money?When they first assembled, everyone cursed at the sky and was listless.Coupled with the fact that the wives and children were dragging their legs, and friends were farewell, so when the whole team performed yesterday, more than 700 people were late for more than an hour.Tuhai and Zhou Peigong did not deal with it severely, but reiterated the military order, telling everyone to come to the team on time tomorrow and wait for the inspection.Unexpectedly, when we gathered today, more than a hundred people were late.Zhou Peigong ordered all battalions to escort all latecomers to the Chinese army for disposal. When Liu Ming saw that the prisoners had been brought, he stepped forward and reported to Tu Hai: "General, all the late soldiers and soldiers from all battalions have been brought here. Please send them down, General." Standing on the general platform, Tu Hai had already seen the emperor with his ministers and guards watching from a distance.He knew that the emperor wanted to see Zhou Peigong's military skills, so he ordered loudly: "Please deal with Zhou's army according to military law!" Zhou Peigong walked to Jiangtaizhong without hesitation. Xiaoxiao Qiuyu has already wet his yellow jacket, and the newly gifted peacock feathers are also dripping water.He glanced down coldly, and the huge campus fell silent immediately, and the 30,000 sergeants moved as if they were made of iron.Zhou Peigong said in a loud voice: "Now the military order of the General Fuyuan is re-declared-those who disobey the orders will be executed! Those who shrink before the battle will be executed! Those who fail to rescue will be executed! Those who kill good people will be executed! " As soon as the word "cut" was uttered, the faces of more than a hundred people kneeling below were ashen.But I heard Zhou Peigong say again: "These military orders of General Tuhai have been announced yesterday, and there are still 107 people who cannot be dispatched today. They should be dealt with as a whole. When the country uses troops, the last three will be beheaded to show the public. , and each of the rest is responsible for the eighty army sticks!" When the Chinese lieutenants heard the order, they agreed like a thunderbolt and went to drag people.Three sergeants who were scared out of their wits were dragged to the edge of the general's platform, and after being verified to be upright, they were pushed to the gate again.But one of them struggled and yelled and refused to give in: "Zhou Junmen is merciful, I beg you, I have an old man and a young man, you can't, Zhou Junmen...you can't avenge yourself!" "Ah? Public revenge!" Zhou Peigong was very surprised, but he didn't recognize the man when he looked down.The man was still struggling and shouting: "As long as you don't kill me from Zhou Junmen... I will tell you the whereabouts of Ah Zuo. If you kill me, you will never see her again..." Zhou Peigong suddenly remembered that the evil slave in front of him was Liu Yigui from Prince Li's Mansion whom he met at Zhengyangmen in the ninth year of Kangxi!In this way, the disappearance of Ah Zuo in Lanmian Hutong must have been done by this person, so he blurted out and asked: "You evil slave, where did you get Ah Zuo to go? Tell me!" "You spare my life, I'll tell!" This sudden and unexpected change made Tu Hai, who was sitting in the handsome seat, stunned.Zhou Peigong's heart was tumbling, he couldn't tell what it was like.It seems that Ah Zuo has fallen into the hands of this person, and now the military law has been enforced.Prince Li's Mansion will take revenge on Azuo!Thinking of Ah Suo's affection for presenting gold hairpins and giving porridge and rice back then, Zhou Peigong felt a pain in his heart.Although I have no selfishness with Ah Zuo, I always remember Ah Zuo's friendship in my heart.Today, how could he have the heart to let this kind girl be implicated again?However, if you don't kill Liu Yigui, how can you enforce the law and convince the masses, and lead the three armies? He gritted his teeth and thought for a while, then sneered: "Liu Yigui, you are daydreaming that I am already a general of the imperial court, how can you threaten me with personal affection? Get out—cut!" Three cannons rang out, white knives flew by, and the executioner chopped off the heads of three soldiers who violated discipline, and brought them back to the Chinese army to hand over the orders.According to Zhou Peigong's order, three heads were hung on the high pole of the gate. In the barracks, there was a deathly silence. Zhou Peigong coughed lightly and said, "I am a scholar, and I have never understood this murder. But today, with the entrustment of the general's country, I have to clean up the military discipline in order to repay the holiness." En. Come on, drag down one hundred and four sergeants who have misplaced their positions and beat them. Anyone who dares to moan and cry will be given an extra 20 army sticks for every cry!" As soon as the general order was issued, the captains rushed forward.This group of domineering and lawless rascals and slaves can be regarded as a taste of Master Zhou's power.Although the big sticks flew up and down, and everyone was beaten to pieces, bloody, but no one dared to make a sound. On the high slope outside the barracks, Kangxi looked solemn, Xiong Cilu was terrified, Suo'etu praised secretly, but Mingzhu was thoughtful. Make faces at Wei Dongting. As soon as the corporal punishment was over, Tu Hai's bell-like voice came from the barracks: "Soldiers! In this battle, the enemy is a clown who is not worthy of the heavenly soldiers. But the Lord is committed to the southern military, so he made an order Let’s use the former Eight Banners brothers, you are all the servants of the imperial court, and you are closely related to the country. Serving the country and sharing the emperor’s worries are also for your own wealth and life—this is the first level!” Kangxi smiled at Xiong Cilu after hearing this: "Ah! There is a second floor? Listen to what this slave said." "This general knows that you are all from banner slaves, and your family is poor, and the salary of more than one tael is really very little. As long as you work hard to fight the battle of Chahar, I will guarantee your wealth for half a lifetime!" Before he finished speaking, he was drowned out by the discussions of the sergeants below.Kangxi couldn't help but hesitated, "Why are you talking about this? The salary can't be paid anymore. Where did you get the "half-life palace expensive"?" He was thinking about it when he heard Zhou Peigong speak again, his voice was louder than Tu Hai: "Prince Chahar is the orthodox descendant of Yuan Shizu, and his family has gold mountains and silver seas! I have checked the history books, and he only has gold in stock, not ten million taels! The family's private wealth is several times more than this! Breaking the city On that day, half will be handed over to the emperor, and the other half will be shared among you. General Tu Da and I will not take any money!"