Li Laiheng bowed and said: "I can't hide it from my grandmother's eyes. My great-nephew has indeed encountered a problem these days. After thinking about it, I can't be sure, so I have to ask my grandmother for advice."

Mrs. Gao nodded and said nothing, but looked at Li Laiheng with encouraging eyes.

Li Laiheng considered his words and spoke slowly, detailing his encounter with Huang Li and his suspicion that he was the Third Prince Zhu.

Mrs. Gao's expression gradually became serious, she frowned slightly, lowered her eyes from time to time, and occasionally a light flashed in her eyes, showing the ups and downs of emotions in her heart.

After Li Laiheng basically finished speaking, he turned his hopeful eyes to Mrs. Gao, as if he was waiting to ask, and perhaps wanted to get a more accurate answer.

Mrs. Gao thought for a long time, frowned, shook her head, and said, "He must have been only three or four years old when Shunjun entered the capital, right? Even if I had seen him back then, thirty years had passed and his appearance had changed drastically, so I still wouldn't be able to recognize him.

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Although Li Laiheng had expected it, he was still a little disappointed.

Mrs. Gao pondered for a moment and continued: "He said that the person who took the third prince out of the capital to Henan was a general named Mao. This does not seem to be a fabrication. I remember that there was a General Wuwei named Mao, but his name was not

Know.”

General Wuwei is the fifth rank in the Shun Army, the lowest general, and there are a lot of them. Mrs. Gao’s identity is listed there, and it is impossible to remember all of them.

Li Laiheng thought for a moment and said, "This seems to be evidence that he is not making things up."

Mrs. Gao nodded gently and said: "According to my analysis, even if Mr. Huang Lihuang is not the third prince, he must have a close relationship with the third prince. He is probably a personal guard or a confidant."

After a pause, Mrs. Gao added: "Perhaps Huang Li was sent by the third prince to inspect the various Ming armies and the situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty?"

Li Laiheng thought for a while, and said with some clarity: "If you don't come sooner, you won't come later. After Emperor Yongli died, the third prince must have thought that the time has come."

There has never been a shortage of emperors in Nanming, and sometimes there are even two at the same time. You are fighting for it, and you all want to be the supreme emperor.

Emperor Yongli was recognized and respected as orthodox by all the anti-Qing armed forces. Although the third prince Zhu was closer in blood, he appeared to be competing with Yongli for the throne.

During the reign of Emperor Hongguang, there was a case involving the fake prince Zhu Cixiang, which caused an uproar and rebellion, and even led to civil strife in Zuo Liangyu's "Qingjun side". As a result, the Qing army easily crossed the river, occupied Nanjing, and captured and killed Emperor Hongguang.

"Watch and then act. The third prince has been holding back for so many years. He is indeed very cautious." Li Laiheng nodded in agreement and said: "If the situation is bad, or if the Kuidong ministries cannot be trusted, he will naturally refuse to come out."
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Mrs. Gao smiled slightly and said: "No matter who Huang Li is, we can't neglect him. Your decision to take the initiative to fight back will show him our army's determination to resist the Qing Dynasty."

Li Laiheng smiled bitterly and said: "The initiative to counterattack is not just to show off to him. It is actually dictated by the situation. If you don't fight to the death, it will be like sitting back and waiting for death."

Mrs. Gao felt a flash of sadness. She also knew how critical the situation was.

After pondering for a while, Mrs. Gao said: "How could I not know your difficulties? In my opinion, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, you might as well discuss with Huang Li and spread the news about the Third Prince."<

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"There is no need to go into too much detail. I just want to let the soldiers know that the Third Prince has contacted our army. When the time is right, he will come to sit in and continue the great cause of restoring the Ming Dynasty. The key is Huang Li. He must pretend to be the Third Prince's envoy.

People are convinced.”

Li Laiheng thought thoughtfully, this does sound like a very feasible method.

It not only stabilized the morale of the army, but the effect would be better even if the third prince was not personally in charge; it also prevented the Qing Dynasty from paying enough attention to it and thinking that this was just a trick of the Ming army to deceive people.

Li Laiheng's eyes gradually brightened up, and his face showed joy. He hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you, grandma, for your advice, which made my great-nephew suddenly enlightened."

Mrs. Gao waved her hand and said: "It's just a casual comment. You have to think carefully about how to arrange it, or find more people to discuss it carefully."

Li Laiheng repeatedly claimed that he was, but could no longer sit still, so he stood up and left.

The room became quiet, and Mrs. Gao sat in her chair without moving for a long time. Her eyes were blinking slowly, and she was deep in thought.

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Staring at the starry sky in a quiet night for a long time will give you a sense of remoteness and depth, and will also bring about a sublimation of your thinking like an epiphany.

Sometimes Huang Li sat in front of the case and wrote furiously, sometimes he got up and walked to the window, looking at the night sky and the mountains and forests, clearing his head and organizing his thoughts.

In order to boost the fighting spirit and confidence of Li Laiheng, Li Yue and other soldiers, he went all out, blasting tunnels, modifying gunpowder, and tinkering with mines and wooden cannons.

"Advanced weapons are not necessarily the best, but practical weapons must be the best. If the Ming Dynasty waited until firearms matured before equipping the troops, perhaps history would not be the same."

Huang Li did not think that these simple and easy-to-make weapons could not work. On the contrary, if used properly, they would cause serious damage to the Qing army.

Even if firearms and bows and arrows are high-tech, they are immature and have various disadvantages; bows and arrows are antiques that have been passed down for hundreds of years, but they can take advantage in the early stages of firearm development.

Landmines and wooden cannons can be called the poor man's weapons, but they have left their legends in military history. Even in modern times, landmines are still one of the indispensable weapons.

In fact, Huang Li felt that his biggest gain, or the touching of his soul, came from soldiers such as Li Laiheng.

These people generally did not have high education, and in that era, they were usually called ordinary people.

Going back further, these common men rebelled against hunger and tyranny, and were called "thieves and bandits" by the gentry and officials.

But now, these ordinary men who have not been favored by the Ming court are holding up the banner of the decadent Ming Dynasty that they overthrew, and have become the only armed forces on the mainland that persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty.

What is even more ironic is that those scholar-bureaucrats and social elites who once made generous speeches and received the country's favor are now all living in pigtails, either continuing to prey on the common people, or singing praises for the new dynasty.

And those old Ming soldiers who once killed good people and took credit for their crimes changed their skins and became Tatar accomplices, attacking the anti-Qing armed forces, and enslaving and massacring the people.

"It's a pity that Li Laiheng and others have struggled all their lives, but nothing has changed. They fought to death in the name of 'loyalty'. However, the farce between the scholar-officials and the social elite was a glorious era for ordinary people."
Chapter completed!