After Yan Zungao captured Baojing, Yongshun, Chenzhou, and Changde, he initially completed Zhu Hengjia's combat objectives and asked Zhu Hengjia for instructions whether to continue the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hengjia was a little hesitant. Although the treasury was empty now, he could still fight for a few more months through the captured chieftain's treasury. If he didn't take advantage of the situation and pursue it, he might miss the opportunity.

But if Yuezhou is defeated again, King Sanshun of Wuchang will definitely counterattack, and the scale of the war will be huge. By then, money will be spent like a sea. The summer tax has not been collected yet, and I don't know whether the national treasury can bear it.

It's a dilemma whether to continue hunting or wait until the summer grain harvest comes in.

After thinking about it, Zhu Hengjia gave Yan Zungao four words of approval: acting cheaply.

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After hearing the news that his general, Xiongshao deputy general Li Yangchen, had surrendered to Jin Shengheng in Nanxiong Mansion, Guangdong Admiral Li Chengdong was extremely angry.

His territory was not large to begin with, but among the four prefectures of Chaozhou, Huizhou, Shaozhou and Nanxiong, now Nanxiong is missing, leaving only three prefectures of Guangdong.

How can you not be angry?

"Li Yangchen betrayed me! I will kill this traitorous general."

His adopted son Li Yuanyin and his generals Du Yong and Gong stood on both sides, waiting patiently for Marshal Li to finish his anger.

Li Yuanyin took out a letter and said, "Father, Vice General Li has sent you a letter.

"Oh, Li Yangchen still has the nerve to write a letter to me? Bring it to me."

After folding it and reading it, the letter said that he had let down Marshal Li's kindness and had no choice but to surrender. Jin Shengheng said that Wang Deren's army was too strong and had 300,000 troops. He couldn't resist it, so he temporarily surrendered and waited for the Marshal's army to kill him. When he arrives, he will definitely change his banner and submit to Yun Yun again.

All other words were nonsense in Marshal Li's eyes. Only the sentence "Jin, the king is powerful and has an army of 300,000 men" shocked Marshal Li greatly.

How could the Ming army be so powerful? So powerful that even my own generals were forced to surrender?

Du Yonghe also said: "Commander, Yan Tianfeng, Yang Huai, Hao Yongzhong and Wang Jincai of the Ming army are gathering in Guangzhou; water marshals Lin Cha and Sun Gui are also active and seem to intend to capture Huizhou."

Li Chengdong was shocked, wouldn't I be attacked from both sides?

Li Yuanyin and Du Yonghe had long wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway. When they saw this, they took the opportunity to say: "Commander, now we are attacked from both sides. The Qing court has emphasized the north over the south and bullied the commander-in-chief. It's better for us to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway. It's neither If you lose the reward from Bohou, you will still have the honor to see your ancestors after death."

In fact, Li Chengdong had already had enough of Tong Yangjia's anger, but there was something he cared about in this world. He sighed quietly: "What if there are hundreds of people in Songjiang?"

It turns out that Li Chengdong was the commander-in-chief of Songjiang. The Qing government sent him south to attack the Ming Dynasty, but left his family members in Songjiang for protection but actually as hostages.

Not only Li Chengdong, but also the family members of the generals are also in Songjiang.

Li Yuanyin frowned and said: "The strategy of bribing Governor Tong that Yuan Fangbo offered last time should be effective soon. Father Commander might as well wait a little longer."

Yuan Fangbo refers to Yuan Pengnian, the Qing envoy to Guangdong.

Yuan Pengnian was originally a minister of the Ming Dynasty, with the courtesy name Jiemei and the nickname Teqiu. He was a member of the Huguang Public Security Bureau. He was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen and was a member of the official department of the Longwu Dynasty.

After the Qing army invaded Fujian, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was appointed by the Qing court. He followed Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong to conquer the Southern Ming Dynasty and was named the chief envoy of Guangdong.

This person is very famous in history. Not because of the great things he did, but because of his famous saying that will last forever: "Money and the rat's tail are the elegant governance of the new dynasty; Eguan and Bodai are the bad rules of the country's downfall."<

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In fact, it’s not his fault. His butt determines his mouth, where he sits, and what he says. Yuan was an official in the Qing Dynasty, and his superiors asked him to persuade people to shave their hair. How dare he not do so?

But Yuan's heart is towards the Ming Dynasty. Although he shouts "Money Rat Tail" is good, he misses the "E Guan Bo Dai" of the Ming Dynasty all the time.

After becoming the chief envoy of Guangdong, Yuan Pengnian, Li Yuanyin, Du Yonghe and others persuaded Li Chengdong to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

He was very lucky. It was precisely because of his contribution to persuading Li Chengdong to give up anyway that he was not treated as a traitor and reviled by the world because of those infamous words.

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A few months ago, Li Chengdong wanted to take his family back home and summoned Yuan Pengnian to the commander's mansion to ask for advice.

Yuan Pengnian came to Li Chengdong's handsome mansion.

"What orders does the commander-in-chief have to his subordinates?"

"Uncle Yuan Fang, you have read a lot, but is there any way to bring me and the generals' family members to Huizhou?"

The commander-in-chief asked me to find a way for him to bring his family and that of the generals to Guangdong. Could it be that he agreed to my suggestion and finally returned to the Ming Dynasty?

Yuan Pengnian was ecstatic inside, but there was no trace of it on the outside.

"The commander-in-chief wants to take his family back home, which is easy. All he needs to do is bribe a person with a lot of money."

"Bribing someone? Bribing whom?"

"Tong Yangjia, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi".

Following Yuan Pengnian's policy, Li Chengdong lowered his noble head and gave Tong Yangjia a gift.

Looking at the thick stack of gifts sent by Li Chengdong, Tong Yangjia was very proud: Li Teranium, Li Teranium, you finally surrendered to me!

Li Chengdong once participated in the peasant uprising and was nicknamed "Li Hezi" among the rebels. Later, he followed Gao Jie, one of the four towns in Jiangbei of the Hongguang Dynasty, and became an officer.

After Gao Jie's death, Li Chengdong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the name of Gao Jie's wife Xing.

During the battle to march into the south of the Yangtze River, he successively invaded the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong. He thought that for his hard work, he had to be the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong. Unexpectedly, he was intercepted by Tong Yangjia, and he was not even appointed as the governor of Guangdong.

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Li Chengdong was very angry and always opposed Tong Yangjia. Unexpectedly, he also asked Tong Yangjia for help.

In addition to belonging to the "Tong Banchao" family, Tong Yangjia actually had very little foundation in the Qing court, and it only took four years for him to be surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

The old Tong family tree has deep roots. At first, only the branches were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the main trunk was still an official in the Ming Dynasty. When Nurhachi attacked Fushun, Tong Yangzhen, the brother of Tong Yangjia, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty began to clean up the old Tong family. A group of them were killed in Liaoyang.

A group of people were detained in Shanhaiguan. Tong Yangjia took the alias of Dong Yuan and hid under Zuo Liangyu's curtain. After the Qing army went south, he defected to the Qing Dynasty, restored his name, said that he was from the old Tong family, and was immediately trusted by the Manchu nobles. Although there was no

Despite having many armies and not achieving many military exploits, he was directly appointed as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangdong and the Governor of Guangdong.

Poor Li Chengdong, for his great achievements, he didn't even become a governor.

After listening to Li Chengdong's request, Tong Yangjia felt proud in his heart, but he didn't show it on the outside. At that time, he urgently needed to appease Li Chengdong and stabilize the people of Guangdong.

This is a good opportunity to win over Li Chengdong!

"Tingzhen," Tong Yangjia called Li Chengdong affectionately, "It's human nature to miss your loved ones. Don't worry, this matter will be taken care of by the governor."

Tong Yangjia's philosophy of life is: Either don't do favors, or do it right.

In front of Li Chengdong, Tong Yangjia drafted the title book for the Regent Dorgon.

The question book is well written and well-founded.

"Li Chengdong, the admiral of the postal inspection, had to guard the place in Guangdong, but his family members were still sent to Songjiang. Du Yonghe and other family members also lived in Songjiang. The officials and their family members paid their salaries and silver there, and their expenses here were not reduced.

It is better to move them and return them to one place, which not only avoids the expense of overlapping expenses, but also allows the families of those who work hard to unite the army to be reunited without any internal worries."

Li Chengdong thanked Tong Yangjia repeatedly, saying, "Don't worry, Tingzhen, this matter will be taken care of by the governor."

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Just when Li Chengdong was worried about his family, Dorgon's approval came: accurate!

Li Chengdong was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to whip their horses and whips, and quickly take his family to Guangdong.

The family members passed through South Zhili and Jiangxi and arrived in Huizhou, just when Jin Shengheng's uprising was in full swing. They told Li Chengdong about the situation of the rebels in Huguang, South Zhili, and Jiangxi, which added to the story of his return.

The heart of understanding.

On this day, Li Chengdong, Yuan Pengnian and Li Yuanyin climbed upstairs again and conspired upstairs.

Yuan Pengnian sighed.

"Why did Mr. Yuan sigh?"

Yuan Pengnian spoke in a leisurely tone with endless nostalgia, "E Guan Bo Dai, how beautiful it is!"

Li Chengdong's expression fluctuated, and he sighed for a long time: "My generation left and returned to the Qing Dynasty due to national calamity. However, every time I think about it, it has been more than three thousand years since Shaokang. Although the orthodox dynasty has failed, there must be successors and rises. This dynasty

He is deeply benevolent and generous, far beyond the Tang and Song dynasties. The changes of the previous emperors were shared by the world. Today, the generals of Jin Dynasty are unparalleled, and the current situation and human affairs are almost unknown. I also heard that King Jing of the Supervisory State was in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guixiang, and they were going to meet each other.

Harmony is shared by gods and men. If you lead troops to assist, it will be easy to be granted the title of marquis if things succeed, but it will still be loyal if things fail."

Yuan Pengnian and Li Yuanyin are overjoyed, Marshal Li is finally moved!

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Yuan Pengnian hurried back to his house and opened the secret room.

Three great scholars are waiting in the secret room.

One of the people in the middle is Zhu Hengjia’s special envoy, the 67-year-old Dongge University Scholar He Wuzuo.

Regardless of his age, the old man personally went to Guangdong to lobby Li Chengdong for Zhu Hengjia.

But he is not actually old, there are people older than him.

Next to him was a 78-year-old scholar Huang Shijun. Huang Shijun, courtesy name Liangtan, nicknamed Yuyu, was a native of Shunde County, Guangzhou Prefecture. He was the number one scholar in Wanli in the 35th year of his reign and was the Minister of Rites.

Many of Mr. Huang's disciples and former officials served as officials under Li Chengdong. Although they were in their dying years, they ignored their old age and frailty and came to Huizhou from Guangzhou without hesitation for the sake of the Ming Dynasty to help He Wuzu.

There is another person who is a disciple of He Wuzou, the famous scholar Kuang Lu.

Kuang Lu is much younger than the two elders. She is forty-four years old this year. She was born into a scholarly family. She was a famous poet, calligrapher, and musician in the Ming Dynasty. She is also proficient in the art of war, riding and archery, and was born in Shushe in the Longwu Dynasty. This man is both civilized and military.

Historically, he and his generals defended Guangzhou and died fighting the Qing army.

When the three of them saw Yuan Pengnian coming back, they immediately stood up and asked.

"Jiemei, how's the lobbying going? Does Li Chengdong want to return to the Ming Dynasty?"

Yuan Pengnian was overjoyed.

"A great deal has been accomplished! Today I tested Li Chengdong and said how beautiful it is to have a crown of elegance. He said that this dynasty is orthodox. Although the orthodox dynasty has failed, there will be successors and rises."

The three of them are very excited. This is great. If Li Chengdong can return to the Ming Dynasty, the general trend of the world will become very favorable to the Ming Dynasty.

He Wuzou said: "Jiemei, please take the three of us to see Li Chengdong and strike while the iron is hot."

Yuan Pengnian thought for a while and said: "No, Li Chengdong has a capricious character. The three of them are the pillars of the country, and they should not go into danger lightly. What is happening now is like Cuju, only one more kick is needed. Wait for this kick.

When we land, I will lead three people to see Li Chengdong."
To be continued...