The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 378 Golden State Victory
well!It's useless to worry about it, let's do something down-to-earth!

On the seventh day after the imperial court learned that Zhang Chun's [-] to [-] troops were wiped out in Changshan, Elder Xu Ge requested an order to go to Kaiping to inspect the harvest of this year's new crop, maize.

He also needs to verify the results of the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes. He wants to see the harvest of the [-] mu of rice fields opened outside Kaiping Town. By the way, he will personally guide which dry fields can be transformed into paddy fields to increase the area of ​​rice sown.

Facing a food crisis in the imperial court, the bandits from Shanshan and Shaanxi have been repeatedly suppressed. The reason is that they are hungry.

Chongzhen didn't know the importance of food, so he agreed to Xu Guangqi's inspection trip to Kaiping on the spot. He also stated that he could promote some officials who were dedicated to farming, and they could be given the official status of the ninth-rank master book or even the eighth-rank and eight-rank officials. .

In fact, Xu Guangqi's family members and most of his disciples and officials are instructing agriculture in Kaiping. He already knew that this year's sweet potato and potato harvests have been bumper again, and he also knows that the yield of maize has reached more than two stones per mu, and the rice yield per mu is close to two stones. .

He chose to leave the temple to avoid disputes. There was no other way. Xu Guangqi retired several times but was sincerely persuaded by the emperor. Daming Bo is treacherous and it is time to employ people.

Ever since, Mr. Xu Ge simply continued to do his favorite agricultural research.

When Xu Guangqi came to Kaiping, Huang Yizhou, who kept a respectful distance from other civil officials and scholars, liked to communicate with him alone, and personally took him around to see. Sometimes Xu Ge would dig a piece of soil and take it back for research. Huang Yizhou even did it himself. .

Huang Yizhou's military style is not good at words, and he likes to talk about the facts. Xu Guangqi also likes Huang Yizhou's straightforwardness and is willing to chat with him.

Xu Guangqi has good eyesight. He has never seen a garrison battalion that drills every day, a garrison battalion that is full or even overstaffed, and a garrison battalion that is stronger than the frontier army.

The jurisdiction of Huangyizhou is orderly and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Xu Guangqi is happy to see it.

The military appearance of the Luanzhou Garrison Battalion fell into Xu Guangqi's eyes. He thought that Huang Yizhou was such a talented general, and it wasted years before he made his fortune after a certain age!I secretly thought about recommending to the court.

The elderly went from house to house to see how ordinary people use the constant temperature in the cellar to store sweet potatoes and potatoes, the processing of vermicelli and vermicelli, the brewing of high-grade liquor, and the production of ceramics and cement.

Xu Guangqi lived in Kaiping for a few days. Every day, Huang Yizhou accompanied him to practice Taijiquan. He was busy with his favorite things every day. The gloom in his heart was swept away, and his body recovered a lot.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. After living in Kaiping for less than a month, Xu Guangqi learned that something serious happened in Denglai, so he hurried back to the capital.

The Wuqiao mutiny was caused by Li Jiuzheng coercing Kong Youde to commit crimes. The rioters were less than a thousand Liaodong cavalry, and when they expanded to two or three thousand in an instant, the combat effectiveness was not very good, because prisoners, green skins, and gangsters could only fight in groups. Crash thousands of miles.

Professional counterparts are really important. Sun Yuanhua's talent is not reflected in being an official or playing politics, just like Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was a great poet and a bastard fool.

If Sun Yuanhua continues to engage in scientific research and build artillery, he may become a great scientist in this era who has mastered the technology of casting artillery across the ages. It is a pity that good fortune tricks people, and pushing a scientist onto the political stage will bring disaster to the country and the people.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua was not wronged at all to be executed because of Denglai's corruption. He has an inescapable responsibility for this disaster.

First of all, he was the instigator, that is, he advocated that the Liao people defended the Liao soil and accepted the generals of Dongjiang Town, such as Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng, etc., to reuse them.

The Denglai Liao soldiers participated in the training on how to fire the Hongyi cannon and use the Lumi blunderbuss. They belonged to the most advanced firearms unit of this era, and there were as many as dozens of Flangji instructors in this army.

Sun Yuanhua was insensitive when he heard that Kong Youde had rebelled and slaughtered Wuqiao, but he was ready to appease the people who had killed thousands of innocent people and committed unspeakable atrocities.

Is there still justice and justice in this?In the eyes of scholar-bureaucrat Sun Yuanhua, the people of Wuqiao are really inferior to pigs and dogs!This may be the root cause of the Donglin Party members' misjudgment of the country, being too divorced from the masses and too far away from the common people.

Sun Yuanhua used the power of the governor of Denglai to prevent the Ming army from encircling and annihilating the rebels, and sent people to contact them to appease them. At this time, the rebels were not in charge of Kong Youde at all.

Li Jiuzheng, who is full of five poisons, empties him. Once the rebels start to rob, kill, and rape, none of them can stay, because these former soldiers will become addicted like drugs after tasting the joy of losing military discipline. up.

Li Jiuzheng pretended to be comforted and burned, killed and looted all the way to Dengzhou to march, but Sun Yuanhua had no political wisdom and basically no commanding ability.

He didn't know how to stay behind to prevent the need to go to war if the conciliation fails, and he didn't even do the work of guarding Dengzhou City to check the Liao army faction in the city and so on.

As a result, Dengzhou City, which had the most advanced and most cannons in the Ming Dynasty, was easily captured by the rebels. The rebels suddenly had tens of thousands of people and a strong city with a harbor as a foothold.

In the end, it took more than a year for the Ming army to seize the Dengzhou city occupied by Kong Youde with its absolute superiority.

It can be seen that the level of Sun Yuanhua's commanding army, which has the righteousness of the court, is far from that of Kong Youde's rebel army.
This is enough to show that all the officials in Xinjiang who are under the halo of the Donglin Party are the ones who cheated Daming to death and made themselves extremely wronged. How unfortunate it is to meet these cheating Emperor Chongzhen.

While waiting for the news of Dalinghe City and Jinzhouwei, the extremely anxious emperor got the bad news that Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde rebelled and wreaked havoc in Shandong, and he was even more angry.

It was the Donglin Party members who were responsible for the heavy responsibility again, causing trouble. Emperor Chongzhen was completely disappointed with the Donglin Party. It seemed that proper personnel adjustments should be made, otherwise it would be too late for any Donglin Party members to cheat again!
Fortunately, the good news of the "Golden State Victory" finally came three days after the bad news, that is, on November [-]th. Go back to the capital and face the saint.

Three days later, Shenshuying and Jinyiwei, who transferred to Tianjinwei and landed, all came back. The number of people was reduced by [-]%. Among them, there were many wounded, and there were more than a dozen missing arms and legs.

Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian thought that it was completely unnecessary to bring horses on board to waste capacity and increase transportation costs.

When they arrived in Tianjin Wei, the civil servants and military generals there could send troops, horses and carts to escort them. When they returned to the capital, would they not be able to get good horses to ride?Therefore, hundreds of good horses were all given to the "Red Banner Army".

(End of this chapter)