Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 98 Is the popular support available?

However, only 300 million strong laborers are not enough for Zhu Jinsong.

The number of 300 million sounds like a lot, but when it comes to the number of people needed by the entire Meng Lianggu rebel group, the number of 300 million is not even a splash.

Among other things, just building roads and social schools requires millions or more young men, and those workshops related to textiles also need a large number of female workers.

300?
At the level of a country, another 300 million may not be enough.

In addition, Meng Lianggu's rebel group seems to be powerful now, but in fact it only has one province.

Compared with the nearly tens of millions of people who fled from Zhili to Shandong, a land the size of Shandong is really not enough.

Therefore, Zhu Jinsong naturally set his sights on Zhu Zhongtao from Henan.

In addition to seeing Zhu Zhongtao's territory and the number of people under his rule, another reason is that Henan has been a major grain-producing area since ancient times.

It's just that it was different from when we attacked the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Jinsong encountered extremely fierce resistance when he led his troops to attack Henan.

In the final analysis, the reason is that Zhu Jinsong's army will fight local tyrants and divide the fields wherever they go.

The policy of killing local tyrants and dividing the land is a good one. Those ordinary people and tenants who do not have their own land will definitely support this policy. They also welcome Zhu Jinsong's army to be the masters of their own. swept across Shandong.

But those local tyrants and evil gentry who own a lot of land and earn money by bullying the people will definitely not welcome Zhu Jinsong's army.

Because Zhu Jinsong's army and the local tyrants and evil gentry are in natural opposition, there is no way to find a balance between the two. It is basically nonsense to try to achieve a harmonious coexistence of the two.

Based on this premise, those local tyrants and evil gentry in Henan would naturally choose to support the fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Zhongtao.

Zhu Zhongtao is a typical player who can do it if I can. At the beginning, after seeing Zhu Jinsong sweeping the entire Shandong, and scared the old dog Qian Deaf back to Zhili, Zhu Zhongtao immediately wooed some close friends from the clan. The brothers raised the flag of rebellion.

Coincidentally, the sages and gentry in Henan also needed such a not-so-smart "the fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen" to be the emperor. Therefore, Zhu Zhongtao became the "fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen" and became the "emperor grandson" in Luoyang. ".

As the saying goes, people are soft-spoken and short-handed, and Zhu Zhongtao himself relied on these local tyrants and evil gentry to become the so-called "emperor", so Zhu Zhongtao naturally had to take care of these local tyrants and evil gentry.

The best way to take care of them is to allow these local tyrants and evil gentry to set up their own village training.

After all, I had already agreed to this matter before I shrank my eggs. After Zhu Zhongtao raised the flag of rebellion, Henan was already full of bravery. Zhu Zhongtao, who is quite clever, was naturally powerless to change this situation, so he simply chose Following the trend, he turned his head to win over those sages and gentry from the countryside.

Therefore, the practice of Zhu Zhongtao, the "fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen", is actually similar to that of Chen Tailai before, mainly to win over these sages and gentry, relying on the support of these sages and gentry to strengthen his strength.

And with the local tyrants and evil gentry trained by themselves, they naturally have the confidence to fight against Zhu Jinsong.

More importantly, these sages and gentry are now fighting to keep their own glory and wealth, which are two completely different concepts from fighting for the Qing court.

Therefore, when Zhu Jinsong attacked the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, he was able to sweep through the entire Shandong like a broken bamboo. However, when he attacked Zhu Zhongtao in Henan, he encountered these well-prepared village gentry desperately resisting.

For this situation, Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzihao, is naturally well aware of the root cause of all this.

If Zhu Jinsong had only distributed money, food and land at the beginning, then the resistance of these sages and gentry might have been smaller. However, the crux of the problem is that Zhu Jinsong killed Liu Juren when he started his family. Later, when fighting the local tyrants throughout Shandong, they also led the people to publicly try those local tyrants and evil gentry, and then deal with those village sages according to the results of the public trial.

Many country gentlemen lost their heads because of this.

With the sage gentry in Shandong as a precedent, these sage gentry in Henan are naturally unwilling to sit still.

After all, handing over money, food, and fields is two different things from handing over your life.

As the saying goes, drinking with a confidant is less than a thousand cups, and talking is not speculative. Both have their own core interests, and both are for their own core interests. Naturally, the two sides cannot find a way to coexist.There is not even a leeway for relaxation.

In order to resist Zhu Jinsong's army, the sages and gentry in Henan launched the action of uniting villages and mutual protection. Simply put, several villages form an alliance and advance and retreat together. As long as one of the villages is attacked, the villagers of other villages The virtuous gentry will lead their militias to support.

Then the problem goes back to the original point.

How did Zhu Jinsong's army start?What is the flag that was played?
Zhu Jinsong started his business by fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, so he had irreconcilable conflicts with the sages and gentry in Henan.

Should these sage teachers and students who resisted Zhu Jinsong die?
Of course they deserve to die, but before they die, they have another identity, that is, they are also the people of Zhongyuan Tangkou, especially Tuanlian Xiangyong under their hands. A good young man.

If you say that you don't care about it and push it over, then this matter is very simple. After all, the regiment trained by the sages and gentry like this is nothing compared to the army trained by Zhu Jinsong using rabbits as a template.

However, Zhu Jinsong's banner is to expel the Tartars, restore China, establish guidelines and discipline, and rescue the people, so Zhu Jinsong is doomed to choose to push it flat.

This is different from fighting the Eight Banners soldiers. No matter how many Eight Banners soldiers there are, Zhu Jinsong can get them all to work as laborers without changing his face, and it’s even okay to use them to build Beijing temples. It is as cruel and ruthless as the Eight Banners soldiers of the Tartars.

So this matter became very difficult, and Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzi, was also scolded angrily.

However, compared to Zhu Jinsong who was only scolded by his mother in anger, Zhu Zhongtao, who was sitting on the dragon chair in Luoyang City under the banner of the fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen, was already scared like a quail.

If it was other anti-thief leaders who came to attack him, Zhu Zhongtao felt that his army could still fight. Even if he couldn't win, at least he wouldn't lose too badly. At least he should be able to fight [-]-[-].

But now it was Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzi, who was attacking him, and Zhu Zhongtao didn't have much confidence in his heart.

After all, Zhu Jinsong's prestige is that he fought against the Eight Banners Battalion and the Green Battalion on the battlefield, and his reputation was earned by fighting with one knife and one gun.

Therefore, after receiving the news of Zhu Jinsong's attack, Zhu Zhongtao hastily summoned the cabinet ministers of the "Da Ming" and the generals of the five armies' governor's mansion to discuss countermeasures.

Then, the cabinet ministers of the "Da Ming" and the generals of the Five Armies Dudu's Mansion came to a common conclusion.

People's hearts are available.

Then?

Then there is nothing then.

Zhu Zhongtao only became the "emperor" under the support of the sages and gentry in the village. The real control of the territory in the hands of Zhu Zhongtao, the "Emperor of Ming Dynasty", is only the capital city of Luoyang. Everyone went their own way, no one took the emperor Zhu Zhongtao seriously

What's more terrible is that Zhu Zhongtao doesn't know anything about governing the country or cultivating talents, and the virtuous gentry who helped him to sit on the dragon chair themselves looked down on Zhu Zhongtao who came from a humble background, so naturally they didn't. People taught him these things.

This led Zhu Zhongtao to only see that Zhu Jinsong swept the entire Shandong in just one year, and even shrank Qian Deaf's old dog back to Zhili, but he did not see Zhu Jinsong spared no effort in cultivating talents and developing Meng Lianggu's foundation , Strictly governing the army and other means.

Therefore, there are actually no real talents in Zhu Zhongtao's court, and the so-called confidants are all the old brothers of Zhu Zhongtao when he started his family.

In terms of loyalty, these people are naturally loyal.

In terms of ability, these people really don't have it.

Governing the people, these people can't do it.

Even in war, these people can't do it either.

After seeing the sages and gentlemen from all over Henan actively resisting Zhu Jinsong, these people can only come to a conclusion that is acceptable to the people.

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Zhu Zhongtao, who had a bit of a brain, was also scolded angrily: "Who the hell is telling me that the people's hearts are good, so go down and get the board!"

"If the people's hearts are really available, then the Qing Dynasty will lose the whole of Shandong? Then the deaf old dog will need to withdraw its eggs and return to Zhili?"

"Just relying on the sages and gentry in Shandong, we can wipe out the rebel Zhu Jinsong!"

"Open your damn eyes and take a good look. Now less than half of Guide Mansion has fallen into the hands of that traitor Zhu Jinsong. If you lose a village today and a county tomorrow, the entire Shunde Mansion should be destroyed the day after tomorrow. lost!"

"How much land can we lose? Come and tell me, will you still tell me that the people will be happy when Zhu Jinsong hits the city of Luoyang? Huh?"

Zhu Zhongtao's cabinet assistants and the generals of the five armies' governor's mansions were trained so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up, but they just couldn't hold their heads up.

Actually, these people didn't take Zhu Zhongtao's reprimand at all.

In the eyes of these people, the emperor is an old brother who grew up playing with mud naked with him when he was young. All right.

Things were indeed as they thought, Zhu Zhongtao just cursed a few words, and then there was nothing else.

Because Zhu Zhongtao also knew in his heart that the reason why he was able to sit on this dragon chair in Luoyang City was not only the support of those sages and gentlemen in the village, but also the support of his old brothers.

If I really got angry and killed some of these old brothers, who knows what these old brothers will do?In case someone gives himself another Qing emperor's side...

Shaking his head, trying to get this idea out of his mind, Zhu Zhongtao looked at these old brothers with hatred and said: "After you go back, you should discuss it carefully. How should you deal with the attack of that traitor Zhu Jinsong? Only these words can be used by the people."

While Zhu Zhongtao was reprimanding these old brothers under him, Zhu Jinsong, the rebel leader of the Tianzi brand, was also reprimanding the generals of Meng Lianggu's rebel group.

"Don't just know how to kill and kill every day. We also know that those sages and gentlemen in the country deserve to die, but we still say that the people and the brave people who are coerced by them are not worthy of death."

"Anyone who keeps yelling about killing and killing all day long, we'll let him go dig a latrine!"

Having said this, Zhu Jinsong changed his voice again, and said, "However, this battle is really aggrieved, and we can't continue fighting like this."

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