Zhu Jiancai is a rude, but he is not a fool without any brains. As the leader of the gossip sect, Zhu Jiancai is a careless guy. Although taking down Tonglu greatly increased his strength, it is very strange to think about it carefully. It is incredible that Tonglu can take such a big place with nearly a hundred defeated soldiers. Besides, there is a mountain of materials piled up on the wharf. Is there no leader in these defeated soldiers? Even if you don’t attract the men and the people in your hands, it’s not a problem to recruit a thousand soldiers.

From beginning to end, it seemed that someone had set up a plan, deliberately asked him to come to take over Tonglu. Although Zhu Jiancai has not figured out who set up this plan until now, it is certain that it will definitely not be the Qing army.

The Qing army would not be so stupid as to take a Tonglu City and add so many supplies to set up a plan. These things would not be fake. Zhu Jiancai, who occupied Tonglu, grew rapidly. So who was the person who set up a plan? Who would be so generous to deliberately give these things to Zhu Jiancai?

These are unexplainable problems, which also confuses Zhu Jiancai. In addition, as Zhu Jiancai said, he had long received news that the Qing court had sent the eldest prince to command the troops south, with the purpose of encircling and suppressing the various rebels who were defeated in Hangzhou. What's more, Tonglu's materials were verified to be reserved for the Qing army. After taking down Tonglu, Zhu Jiancai in Tonglu not only gained these things, but also the main goal of the Qing army.

Perhaps, this is the ultimate goal of the setter. Zhu Jiancai thinks that this possibility is the greatest, but even if there is this possibility, Zhu Jiancai will not be stupid enough to stay in Tonglu as a goal to attract attention. Therefore, Tonglu must not stay for a long time, and the safest thing is to leave Tonglu as soon as possible.

This is also the main reason why Zhu Jiancai made this decision. As for where to go after leaving Tonglu? Zhu Jiancai also had his own ideas. He planned to advance east along the river, and then bypass Hangzhou and advance northward, and throw an empty Tonglu city to the Qing army.

The next day, Zhu Jiancai's army set off. Before leaving Tonglu, Zhu Jiancai ordered that the entire Tonglu be scrapped away, and those who could not be taken away were set off to burn it directly. When the army drove out of Tonglu in a mighty manner, a raging fire ignited from Tonglu City, along with the pier and other places. On the horse, Zhu Jiancai turned around and looked at Tonglu City in the fire, and laughed proudly.

In just a few dozen days, Zhu Yicheng abandoned Tonglu and went to Ningbo, Zhu Jiancai occupied Tonglu and burned the city. Yuan Qi was unsure of his whereabouts from the Great Man Valley, and the situation in Jiangnan suddenly changed greatly.

The Qing army led by the eldest prince received a news report from Lin'an before reaching its destination. When he learned that Tonglu was occupied, the eldest prince was shocked. He never expected that this would happen.

After being surprised, he was replaced by extremely angry. The fall of Tonglu caused a huge loophole in his original plan. The right-wing army was unable to reach the predetermined location on time without supply. Although the middle and left-wing army did not have any worries about food and grass for the time being, there would definitely be a big gap in food and grass for the subsequent food and grass. The most important thing is that Yuan Qi and other rebels actually ran to Tonglu, which was different from the original information. In this way, the plan of three routes to encircle the left and right could not continue.

The eldest prince, who was so angry that he gritted his teeth, immediately sent someone to Hangzhou to urge grain and grass, and issued an emergency order to transfer grain to Nanjing and other places. In addition, the eldest prince also wrote a memorandum of 800 miles to the capital. On the one hand, he reported the changes on the front line to Kangxi, and on the other hand, he also expressed strong dissatisfaction with the local officials in Zhejiang. At the same time, he asked Emperor Kangxi to assist in the transfer of grain from other places for military use.

In addition to these, the eldest prince also ordered the left army to move closer to the middle. Since he found that the rebels had appeared in Tonglu, the original goal of the left army was meaningless. Tonglu is the main goal now. Taking down Tonglu can not only kill these arrogant thieves, but also snatch the lost materials from the rebels.

Beijing, Forbidden City.

Emperor Kangxi finally returned to the capital the day before yesterday. Compared with the historical time, he returned to the capital half a month earlier, and the position of the prince did not change as in history. Since the eldest prince led his troops south halfway, Kangxi had fewer people to report in his ears, which made the prince, whose status was shaky, barely sat down in this position for the time being.

After leaving Jing for many days, although there were left-behind ministers handling government affairs, the court would urgently send some more important memorials to the north to offer Kangxi's holy decision. However, after the emperor left Jing for so long, there were still a lot of government affairs. It took Kangxi two days to barely deal with a batch, picked up a red pen and wrote a few words on a memorial, and then put it aside. Kangxi picked up the ginseng tea on the side and drank it, and then couldn't help but pinch his eyebrows with his hands.

"Time is not forgiving people..." Kangxi sighed. He was almost old and obviously felt that his energy was not as good as before. He just felt difficult to deal with government affairs for two consecutive days. Looking at the piles of high notes, he couldn't help but sigh again, picked up the top notes and opened them. After looking at them for a few glances, he frowned and thought about it, and said to the eunuch who was marching below: "Go! Call Ma Qi!"

The eunuch responded quickly. Soon, Ma Qi, who was working in the study room, came to hear the news.

"The slave answers to the emperor..."

Ma Qi kowtowed to Kangxi with his horse's sleeves. Kangxi didn't say anything. He sat there and continued to look at the note in his hand. After Ma Qi finished his salute, he was still lying there. Kangxi said lightly: "Don't kneel down, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty..." Ma Qi got up and stood aside with his hands hanging down, waiting for Kangxi to ask questions.

"Have you read this memorial? Tell me." Kangxi asked the eunuch to hand over the memorial he had just read to Ma Qi. After Ma Qi took it, he looked at it and replied immediately: "Go back to the emperor, I have read it, but at this time, I can only be the master, and I need to break it by the emperor."

"Shengduan, haha." Kangxi smiled. Although it was a laugh, the laughter was not at all happy: "Where are people now?"

"Pre-timely detained in Dali Temple." Ma Qi replied, and then quickly explained: "Please rest assured that this matter was arranged by the slave himself and outsiders do not know about it."

Kangxi's face calmed down a little, and nodded and said, "Have you checked it? What's the truth?"

"This..." Ma Qi hesitated: "This person is sensitive and he is afraid to make decisions without authorization."

"Go and check it out! Check it out!" Kangxi said coldly: "There seems to be one or two people in the palace of the former Ming Dynasty. You, Ma Qi, are the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have this right. If the other party verifies his identity, he should be properly placed, but if he bewitches the people in the name of the name, just like Yang Qilong back then, you should know how to deal with it."

"Slaves honor the order!"

"Kneel and rest." Kangxi said calmly, and then he didn't look at Ma Qi who knelt down and continued to pick up the note at hand and started to look at it.

When he walked out of the hall, the cold wind blew outside, Ma Qi realized that his back was completely wet. Thinking back to what Kangxi said just now, Ma Qi was glad that he had not made any decisions without authorization, but locked the man in Dali Temple. Although Kangxi did not explicitly explain what to do, the meaning in his words was already very obvious, and Ma Qi also understood what he would do next.

After all, the Qing Dynasty entered the pass to fight for revenge for Emperor Chongzhen. The former emperor and the regent also worshiped Emperor Chongzhen and the tombs of the former Ming Dynasty. Even Emperor Kangxi was the same in the reign of the throne. This was a move to show the people of the world the orthodox Qing Dynasty's throne and also to appease the world.

Since this statement was made, if the other party was really the son of Chongzhen and the identity of the third prince of Zhu was indeed true, then the Qing Dynasty had never rebelled over the years. Otherwise, in the eyes of the world, wouldn’t the Qing Dynasty have become a way of saying one thing and doing another, and wouldn’t it be benevolence and righteous?

Therefore, it is no longer important whether the third prince Zhu is true or false. What is important is that he must not be real. As for what the old man in the palace recognizes, it is not simple? Ma Qi will naturally make arrangements. Thinking of this, he already has a clear idea, so he hurried back to the study room, recruited a few people and discussed the arrangements.
Chapter completed!