Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 199 Wu Sangui?how old is he
Winter has passed and spring has come, and it is already the end of February in a blink of an eye.

The situation in the world became violent and turbulent for two months.

In the name of the emptiness of the capital in the Qing Dynasty, Dai’s large-scale migration from his hometown in Liaodong to Hebei included both Manchus and Han Chinese. They are already relatively confluent with the Manchus, but they can barely be regarded as their own people.

At the same time, Tu Hai succeeded Le Erjin, and Mu Zhan succeeded Jie Shu. To be honest, it was a radical change for the Manchu army on the front line. All the junior officers were greatly encouraged, because it meant that as long as they fought the enemy bravely, they could all be promoted and their salaries increased. Maybe one day they could be promoted from a soldier to a general like Mu Zhan.

It was an inspiring experience.

So much so that even against the wind, Tu Hai was able to defeat Wu Sangui in two months on the Jingxiang battlefield, and suddenly broke Yuezhou again.

If it wasn't for Liu Dapao's concern about sending reinforcements from Wuchang to support Wu Sangui, and at the same time, he might also have the intention to further sow dissension, so he voluntarily gave up stationing in Yuezhou and left after looting, maybe the whole of Hunan is already because of this And the door is wide open.

However, Mu Zhan, who has always been famous for his bravery, came to Yangzhou, but he played surprisingly wretchedly. He didn't even touch Ningbo City, which Zeng Yangxing was rushing to build, but sent very small naval forces to harass the surrounding areas of Nanjing every now and then. , and tried every means to get the elite Eight Banners squad to kidnap the families of the wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

There are even a group of people who have sneaked into Suzhou, and because the imperial court has just taken over Suzhou, the grassroots management ability is not good, and the Manchus and Hans look the same, so it is really hard to catch people for a while.

A good war was stunned to give it a bit of a spy war.

We must know that almost all the wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are shareholders of the company. Although none of the kidnapped family members participate in the executive board of directors, there are indeed many people who are qualified to participate in the general meeting of shareholders held every five years. Naturally, it was transmitted to Zeng Yangxing.

It can be said that Mu Zhan has found the real weakness of the Ming court with great precision. Whether it is Liu Dapao or Zeng Yangxing, everyone is a wage earner of capital, and the interests of shareholders must be considered. Can't they let their family members live or die?Large shareholders will also feel sad for small shareholders.

If the shareholders think that you are not one of them, even Zeng Yangxing, as the biggest general in the Ming court, will still be subject to the constraints of capital everywhere.

In particular, Mu Zhan is really coquettish, quite similar to Chang Yuchun, that is, relying on his own bravery, he likes to fight alone very much.

Many modern people think that in ancient times, there was no heads-up duel by generals, and that duels by generals is entirely a novelist's words. In fact, this is not true. Single-handed fights in ancient times were quite common, but generally the generals in charge of single-handed fights are not high-level That's it, it's a bit like the entertainment show before the war.

Moreover, this trend reached its climax during the Ming Dynasty, and the best one was Chang Yuchun. The biggest characteristic of this guy is that he likes to single out others, doesn't care about his status as a general, and uses himself as a small school. It's also the reason why Romance of the Three Kingdoms likes to write about single-handed battles between generals, because this is originally a Ming Dynasty novel.

So Mu Zhan’s method of disgusting people is to often tie the hostages to the boat, and then invite Zeng Yangxing to go out of the city to fight him one-on-one, and explain that if I win, I will release them, and if I lose, you will pay for food to redeem them. It is fair, open and just. .

There is nothing he can do about Zeng Yangxing. He himself would not dare to go out of the city to challenge Mu Zhan, so he could only send out the small school, and without exception, they were all killed by Mu Zhan. A lot of ransom.

Fortunately, he didn't suffocate him to death.

Liu Dapao was also very surprised after learning about this, and even specially sent He Tieshou to watch it, but when He Tieshou came back, he told him that Mu Zhan's martial arts were not inferior to his own, and he was undoubtedly the number one master in the Qing Dynasty. She, Jiu Nan, and Gui Xinshu are all first-class experts in the first echelon. Except for Yuan Chengzhi, no one else is sure of winning. Counting the gap between riding and archery, there is a high probability that they will suffer a bit. .

Liu Dapao said that since this is the case, let Lao Yuan go to Ningbo, but Nine Hardships stopped him, insisting that he had arranged tasks for Yuan Chengzhi, so he couldn't leave.

Anyway, he is also the emperor, so he has to give others a little face. These nine difficulties obviously have a little bit of his own ideas. He presumably wants to train Yuan Chengzhi to be his private minister, and he doesn't want Liu Dapao to order him around.

What else?That's how we deal with it.Anyway, the heads-up before the battle is also a small way, purely for entertainment, it can't affect the overall situation, as long as Zeng Yang's temperament is not up to the mark and goes out of the city to fight Mu Zhan himself, the problem will not be big.

Of course, Mu Zhan's move actually has other meanings, because the overall war intensity in the southeast battlefield is very small, basically no different from the truce, so the border smuggling trade naturally flourished, and those who were sent back by Mu Zhan Families often persuaded their families to start wars and border trade, transporting grain to the north, and then transporting it to Shandong by water, and then transporting it from Shandong to Tongzhou. This has greatly eased the water transport blocked by the Qing court due to the fall of Wuchang.

This kind of thing is not to mention that he is a bourgeois Ming, and Chongzhen couldn't control it at that time. Even this thing is the same as sending luxury cars to Ukraine from a beautiful country. Modern countries can't control it. The only thing Liu Dapao can do is to be strict. Control firearms, and try not to let firearms flow to the Qing court on a large scale.

Anyway, the smuggling trade needs to be bought with real money. Besides, to be honest, if Liu Dapao hadn't worried about Wu Sangui, he really wanted to cease the war with the Manchu Qing and resume trade.

Ah, a purely feudal agricultural country and me, a budding industrial country in the primary stage of capitalism, have free trade, and there are no tariffs, so he will take off his underpants.

Of course, these are just small things.

Northwest Hanzhong was the real main direction of Manchu attack.

Seeing that the two non-clan generals, Mu Zhan and Tuhai, both took command of the battlefield, even considering that the entire remaining guard of the capital was handed over to Jie Shu, the four armies were tied [-]-[-]. As Aixinjueluo's last According to the card, Yue Le really showed the momentum of breaking the boat in this wave, personally risking arrows to besiege Pingliang City, and beat Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen very ignorantly through a series of superb tactics.

A little further to the northwest, Galdan saw that Liu Dapao seemed to really not intend to control the Heshuot Khanate, so he simply took the opportunity to launch an offensive against it. In just two months, three decisive battles were launched. The bereaved dog, the envoy who sought help from Kangxi, Liu Dapao, and Wu Sangui never stopped, but everyone was busy, and no one responded to him, so that he surrendered in a daze.

After all, the Heshuote Khanate and the Junggar Khanate belong to Erut Mongolia, and they both have the meaning of a colonial regime. One is a colonial Hui and the other is a colonial Tibetan. Another identity of Galdan is the eighth of Wensa Living Buddha. The incarnation, recognized by the fifth Dalai Lama, was extremely corrupt at the top of the Heshuot Khanate, and it was not popular with the local Tibetans.

On the other side of the Northeast Plain, due to the straightforward retreat of the Qing court, the Chahar Mongolian and Korean troops joined forces in Shengjing very smoothly.

The ancestral land is gone!

However, once Liaodong is lost, Jilin and Heilongjiang will naturally disappear. In fact, the Cossack cavalry who fought against Tsarist Russia in the early years of Kangxi had already begun to wreak havoc in Heilongjiang. The Qing court really has no spare power to control it now.

And in fact, Manchurians are not the only ones in Northeast China. Heilongjiang and Jilin are in a mess and there are many other ethnic minorities. Everyone usually calls the Manchus Big Brother, and Big Brother also regards them as their own. When the Cossack cavalry bullied people, the Qing court As a big brother, you usually have to vent your anger for your younger brother. In fact, the root cause of the conflict is that. Maozi also wants to accept younger brothers in the Northeast.

Now that the younger brothers saw that the Manqing had even given up on Liaodong, facing the fierce and brutal Cossack cavalry, how could they resist? One by one, they immediately took off their clothes and washed them in vain, waiting for the elder brother to be lucky.

As a result, the whole of Heilongjiang was seized by Ross State, most of Jilin was divided by North Korea, and the whole of Liaodong was occupied by Chahar Mongolia. They were busy exploring sites to build a bastion for the Ming court.

In the entire Northeast, there is only a small middle area left, which is still loyal to the Qing government in name, but in fact it is no different from self-government. On the contrary, the contradictions between the Mongolian, Korean and Mao tribes are becoming more and more prominent and sharp Well, they sent envoys to Liu Dapao wave after wave to send gifts. Even the Qing court began to send envoys over.

And when the whole world was in chaos, Liu Dapao's Ming court was actually not idle. Although it can't be said that it was burnt out, it was indeed powerless to pay attention to other princes.

"My lord, there is a battle report from Guangdong. The director we sent to Leizhou... because he is not familiar with the soil and water, he got miasma and died of illness."

As a result of the letter, Liu Dapao's face was very gloomy, and he asked, "Are you sure he died of illness? How far has the military reform in southern Guangdong reached?"

Lei Zhentian smiled wryly when he heard the words: "This...not sure if he died of illness, the military reform in southern Guangdong is progressing slowly, and it is even extremely difficult to find out the news."

"What about Guangzhou? Is Shang Zhixin sensible?"

"It should... be considered sensible. At least none of the people we sent out died, but the progress of the work is still not very smooth. This is mainly because all the soldiers under Geng Fan's command brought their own land. If they say yes, they are unwilling to use the land. It is state-owned, and Lao Sun is working there."

"Zeng Yangxing, where is Geng Jingzhong?"

"That's okay. Geng Jingzhong stayed in Chenghai and didn't care about it at all. Zeng Yangxing himself was quite cooperative. But Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong were all looking for various reasons to shirk, and there was a lot of resistance. "

"Is the person sent out dead?"

"No, only those sent to southern Guangdong died."

"Uncle, what do you think?"

"This...how about writing an imperial decree and strictly ordering Zu Zeqing to explain this matter?"

"Hmph, I don't think it's necessary to be so troublesome. Sun, Geng, and Zu are opposed to the military reform or have excuses. This is already expected, but the nature of the person who dared to kill me is different. I won’t kill people, I’m afraid that other people really think that I dare not kill people.”

"Pass me an order, Xianzu Zeqing will immediately ride into Beijing alone for me. I will wait for him in Chenghai. I will not see him within ten days. Immediately send troops to attack. I will go there in person. By the way, I will kill chickens and monkeys and ask Monk Sun Yanling for his letter." , Is it still my courtier of Ming Dynasty?"

"Sir, think twice!"

"Think twice about what?"

"My lord, although our army has expanded slightly, our strength is still a bit stretched. Ma Bao and Zeng Yangxing's troops will definitely not be able to be mobilized easily. I'm afraid we won't be able to gather many troops temporarily. Going to Leizhou, the mountains are high and the water is far away. The logistical supply is difficult after all, and no one knows if there will be any changes in Guangzhou, if Shang Zhixin has a rebellious heart, the consequences will be disastrous."

"Who said we were going to send troops from Guangzhou? Order Qiu Hui to prepare ships and build a camp in Qiongzhou in advance. Prepare early. I will go directly by water and use Qiongzhou as a logistics base to attack Leizhou by water."

"This this……"

"anymore question?"

"My lord, this Zu Zeqing is Wu Sangui's cousin after all, besides, he and his soldiers are all from the Liaodong lineage, and they are inextricably linked with Wu Sangui's side. We...do this is not too disrespectful to Wu Sangui? Lost face? Besides, most of the soldiers under his command are brave and good at fighting, so wouldn't this force him to rebel?"

Liu Dapao was happy when he heard the words, and said: "I...why should I give Wu Sangui face? Wu Sangui, a big traitor, first lured Man Qing into the customs, and then strangled Emperor Yongle to death. He and I clearly have a blood feud Dai Tian, ​​why should I give him face?"

"Cannon! Be careful! Can't you...can't you see that the Qing court tried every means to provoke our relationship with Wu Sangui? If this word spreads, what do you make Wu Sangui and his generals think? It's a great situation Wouldn't it be destroyed once?"

Liu Dapao sighed and said, "Uncle, the current situation is the separation of powers. Do you really think that if the Qing court doesn't stir up trouble, we can live in peace with Wu Sangui? Believe it or not, it won't be long before Wu Sangui It's time to ask us for money and food, tell me, will I give it or not?"

"This... needs money and food?"

"Wu Sangui's rule over Hunan can be said to be poor. Most of the military pay and food depend on Yunnan and Guizhou's old nest. However, the southwest region is already poor. Before that, it relied on the support of the southern provinces. Wu Sangui is incompetent in governance. The time has been reduced by nearly half, and the most backward feudal serfdom is implemented in the territory. The economy is weak, no shit, this battle is going to be fought for two years, and the bones and scum of the people in the southwest region may be squeezed out by him , to be honest, what Wu Sangui needs most now is not firearms and gunpowder, but the most real food, but we don't have much food."

"You mean... to turn against Wu Sangui directly? Isn't... isn't this following the wishes of the Manchu Tartars?"

"Whether you turn your face or not, it depends on how Wu Sangui responds. You, arrange for someone to spread the words I just said. Let's put on a tough stance on purpose. I'll talk to the Queen about it later. , let him complain in public, let’s see how Wu Sangui responds.”

"If he is smart enough to give up his military power and come to Chenghai to look for me to take care of him, I will naturally not be stingy in giving him a good death. Although food and grass are tight and his belt is tightened, he can still send a batch to the southwestern generals, so that they will not starve .”

"If he is not angry, it means that he is out of mind. I will naturally have to settle the matter of Emperor Yongli with him. How can I use precious food and grass to support the enemy?"

"And if Zu Zeqing refuses to come to Chenghai to explain to me, then he is clearly guilty and dares to kill me. He is Wu Sangui's own father and I will kill him too!"

(End of this chapter)