Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After Wu Yingxiong, the eldest son Wu Shifan and the second son Wu Shilin escaped from the Beijing capital, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Qing court, they have been hiding in Shanxi. In order to capture Wu Yingxiong and threaten Wu Sangui, Shunzhi spared no effort, but he never dreamed that his brother-in-law would stay in Shanxi.

Because of Wu Sangui's rebellion, Shunzhi also felt bad about his sister Jianning, and hated that the sister failed to report Wu Yingxiong's absconding to him in time. Not as good.

Wu Yingxiong did not dare to leave Shanxi because the road to the south was blocked, the checkpoints were strictly checked, and he had not been able to contact his father for a long time. Until Xi'an General Tabai surrendered and Li Guoying, Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, opened Tongguan, Wu Yingxiong Fang secretly set off to return to his father. Along the way, he was helped by many officials of the Qing Dynasty, and there were even Qing generals who secretly sent troops and horses to **** him after seeing his identity. From this, it can be seen that the officials of the northern region have been shaken as to whether the Manchu Qing can still persist.

"Father (Prince)!"

After Wu Yingxiong and Hu Yuxuan came in, they found Wu Sangui meditating.

"You are here."

Wu Sangui waved his son and Hu Yuxuan to take their seats. Hu Yuxuan's spirit is also not good these days, and his mood is very low, mainly because he blamed himself for not being able to understand the weakness of Yungui for the prince, resulting in the fall of Guizhou and Zhu Youlang's murder, which has made the situation difficult. Seeing this, Wu Yingxiong said softly, "Teacher has to cheer up, and the father and the king still have to rely on the teacher."

Hu Yuxuan once enlightened Wu Yingxiong, so Wu Yingxiong called him a teacher.

Wu Sangui nodded, glanced at his son approvingly, and then said to Hu Yuxuan: "Ying Xiong is right, sir, he has assisted this king since the Liaodong time. For more than 20 years, this king has received a lot of help from Mr. In this situation, if you feel distressed, this king will be helpless."

Hearing this, Hu Yuxuan hurriedly cheered up and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best for my lord and die."

After hearing this, Wu Sangui said very emotionally: "If you have this remark, this king is enough for this life!" Then he stood up and walked in front of Hu Yuxuan, holding his hand and asking, "I don't know what Master thinks, how should this king respond now?"

Hu Yuxuan pondered for a while, and said decisively: "I thought that the prince should immediately proclaim himself emperor to reassure people's hearts."

This statement surprised Wu Sangui, and Wu Yingxiong's eyes flashed.

"Why do you want this king to be the emperor now?"

Wu Sangui drummed in his heart. Although Hu Yuxuan, Fang Xianting and his subordinates had repeatedly persuaded him to become emperor, he did not think it was a good time. In his opinion, the best time to call himself emperor is to restore Beijing and settle the south of the Yangtze River. Before that, it is very beneficial to support Zhu Ming. In the current situation, it is even more inappropriate to be called an emperor, because he is now facing enemies from both sides. What's worse, he probably couldn't clear up the suspicion of killing Zhu Youlang.

Hu Yuxuan said, "May I ask your lord, what is the purpose of your army?"

The purpose of the army?

Wu Sangui was stunned there. After a while, Fang said: "This king is for the purpose of expelling Manchu and restoring China."

Hu Yuxuan nodded slightly: "After the Manchus are expelled and China is restored, someone must be the emperor. This emperor is either a Zhu family, a Wu family, or other people who participated in the rebellion against Manchu. In short, there are The virtuous live in. The lord has always had concerns about the emperor's heart, and Xianting and I also had this concern in the past. We thought that supporting Zhu Ming would always be a banner, and we could call on the world to vote. Now Zhu Youlang doesn't have this banner. On the surface, it seems that our army's name is not justified, it is wasted in internal disputes, and the morale of the army is also very low, but in reality, it is to give the prince and me a chance for 200,000 soldiers and a new self-reliance. Opportunity! The so-called death and life."

"Oh?" Wu Sangui was very tempted by Hu Yuxuan's words, but he said, "At the beginning of our army, after all, we supported Zhu Youlang, and now Zhu Youlang is dead, but it doesn't make sense for this king to stand on his own? Mr. I also know that the thief Xiucai slandered that this king killed Zhu Youlang, and if I were to become emperor, wouldn’t my wish be fulfilled, and this matter really happened?”

Hu Yuxuan pondered for a long time, and said: "My lord, who killed Zhu Youlang is irrelevant. The lord only needs to know one thing, the king or the loser! As for the fact that we supported Zhu Youlang at the beginning, there are many people in this world. They think that the world belongs to the Zhu family. In their eyes, the Zhu family is the family of the emperor, and the world is in the hands of the Zhu family. The people of the world feel at ease because the Zhu family belongs to the Han people. When the world falls into the hands of the Manchus, the Han people are opposed to it. , because the Manchus are not Han.”

"Sir's words make this king more and more confused!"

Wu Sangui didn't understand what Hu Yuxuan meant, and Wu Yingxiong was also puzzled.

"To put it clearly, in the minds of the Han people, this world has masters and is the world of the Zhu family. If foreigners take it away, it will lose the Han people's face, so everyone is against it, and when the Han people are in the hands, it must be For the Zhu family, it is unreasonable for other families to fight. Therefore, no one will help him to fight. In the eyes of the Han people, they have their own lords. The monarch is the lord of the people and the supreme lord. , each person has his own master, like an official, the superior is the master of the subordinate; like the commoner, the official or the master is the main; like the businessman, the money is the main, etc. Therefore, the Han people have There is a saying that a country cannot live without a ruler for a day, that is to say, the Han people think that if there is an emperor, there is a master, and if there is no emperor, there is no master. Those who have a master tend to live happily because he has a pillar in his heart. A masterless person often lives in a state of lethargy, because he will feel like he has no faith in his heart, which is commonly referred to as having no whereabouts in his heart, I wonder if the lord understands what I mean?"

Wu Yingxiong understood Hu Yuxuan's meaning, he said: "The teacher means that the death of Zhu Youlang means that there is no master in this world, but the soldiers in our army must have a master. If the master does not stand for a day, the soldiers Uneasy for a day?"

"What the prince said is very true." Hu Yuxuan looked at Wu Sangui and said categorically: "Now that Zhu Ming has lost his own master, the prince should be the master of the world, so that the soldiers, the people and the people can be at ease."

Wu Yingxiong suddenly said: "There are pseudo-Dingwu in the south."

Hu Yuxuan smiled softly: "The prince said it was a fake Dingwu."

Wu Yingxiong nodded and said no more.

"I am proclaimed emperor at this time, I am afraid that the soldiers may not follow this king." Wu Sangui is worried that if he is proclaimed emperor, whether those generals of the Great Western Army and the generals of the Ming Dynasty will still be loyal to him ?

However, Hu Yuxuan said: "My lord has been thinking too much. In my opinion, only by proclaiming the emperor will the soldiers and soldiers under the lord feel that they are fighting the world for their lord. The so-called merits of following the dragon are there. , He Chou soldiers are not working hard."

After Wu Yingxiong heard this, he stood there silently, wondering what he was thinking.

After Wu Sangui thought it over and over again, Fang said: "Sir's words are good, but according to what this king has heard, those who have always been emperors must obey God's will." After saying this, he paused, looked up outside the hall, "Said The time of the emperor is of great importance, so this king should ask the will of heaven."

Ask God?

Hu Yuxuan froze for a moment, but didn't say anything, just nodded.

Wu Yingxiong was a little worried, and asked, "According to the teacher's opinion, how to detect the will of God?"

Hu Yuxuan thought for a while, and said, "I heard that there are immortals living in Mangshan, and the lord can go and ask!"