Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 221 Zhili Restoration
The night was as thick as asphalt, and under the dim moonlight, the sea water and the sky were blurred together. With the faint light, Lao Le and his men had already landed on the beach in Tianjin, and directly entered the city of Tianjin, staged a A Ming version of Crossing the River in White Clothes.

The non-governmental commercial activities between the Qing court and the Ming court have never stopped. The Ming court, which has completed the initial industrialization, has a great advantage over the Qing court in the handicraft industry. Moreover, the Qing court is still short of food. There is a grain smuggling trade with the Ming court, which is even officially encouraged.

As for Liu Dapao, because he couldn't control it, he just turned a blind eye and closed one eye, and Tianjin is also one of the largest concentration of sea trade smuggling.

While importing grain on a large scale, some businessmen would always import some industrial products produced by the Ming court, or even luxury goods from overseas, and the Qing court naturally couldn't control it.

This smuggling business is almost always done in an aboveboard manner.

Therefore, it is not easy for Lao Le to find a few businessmen who are engaged in smuggling business in Tianjin. The Ming court did not have too many meritorious deeds.

The smuggling of goods from the Ming court at night is very reasonable.

It’s just that the scale is bigger, the ships entering the port are bigger and more, and the officials who check along the way are all their own people. Anyway, when Tianjin City finally notices something is wrong, there is almost no need to guard the city at all. up.

Besides, there are not many soldiers in Tianjin City now. The Qing court is now fighting on all sides. The [-] defenders in the Zhili area have long been emptied. The Ming army, from bottom to top, surrendered immediately without saying a word.

Lao Le took down the entire city of Tianjin almost without bloodshed, so smoothly that he couldn't believe it.

The common people in the inner city heard that the Ming army had entered the city. Except for the Manchus in the city who were panicked and even organized to resist, the rest of the ordinary people almost didn't react at all. Most of them just locked themselves in their rooms. Can't get out of the door, that's all.

Some daring ones even began to greet Master Wang with a beating, and they didn't start to get scared until they left the city and saw that the Ming soldiers who landed were all blond and blue-eyed, and they didn't look like human beings.

However, this Ming army was ordered repeatedly before departure, and even paid for war subsidies out of their own pockets. At least for the time being, military discipline is indeed okay, and they are all trying to squeeze out smiles when facing ordinary people who do not have guns in their hands. Come, but nothing happened to harass the households.

Even on the second day, Lao Le may have been too happy to drink too much or something, and he actually turned on the big coin mode.

In the name of buying military supplies from the common people, but the price given looks like giving money.

Well, it’s just sending money. Lao Le really has money and has no place to spend it, so he issued an order the next day, welcoming residents in the city who are short of food, they can get one in front of the stalls set up by the Ming army in various places in the city. bucket of rice.

As for how to judge whether a family is short of food?

There is no test, as long as you tell me, I dare to believe it.

What's more, anyone with an elderly person at home will be given two silver coins to suppress the shock.

Anyone who has children at home will give you a silver coin to buy candy for you.

The common people in Tianjin are all stupid.

Everyone can be regarded as coming from troubled times. After all, the world has only been stable for decades, but it has never been heard that the army actually gives money to the people.

A silver coin is about one tael of silver, and Lao Le thought through it quite thoroughly. In the early Qing Dynasty, Tianjin City had a total population of only 60 million.

More than 100 million taels of silver, that is the pocket money of these rich Dutch money for two months.

According to Lao Le, problems that can be solved with money are not problems here.

For the sake of money, who the hell still pays attention to the skin color and hair color of these people?

Not to mention his subsequent series of routine operations such as killing traitors, destroying the city, dividing land, and so on.

After the news spread, the people in the Zhili area naturally looked forward to welcoming Lao Le.

As for Lao Le, he also followed Liu Dapao's example. On the one hand, he called for reinforcements to the rear; The entire Zhili area.

But in half a month, Shuntian Mansion was restored, and Baoding Mansion was useless at all. The guards led the people to simply arrest and kill the Manchu officials, and led the green battalion soldiers and the people to cut the whips and replace them directly. Ming Huangqi, and then sent people to Tianjin to ask for inclusion and support.

It took only half a month for the entire Zhili area to encircle the capital into an isolated city!
Both Jingzhou and Yangzhou are at war, and Mu Zhan and Tuhai themselves are incapable of doing their own thing, and the situation may not be better than that of Kangxi. Facing the urgent report from the capital, the two of them took this matter as a matter of coincidence. There was wind in my ears.

Not a single soldier was sent back.

The two even sent their confidantes back to Yuncheng and Yanzhou respectively. Among these two rear bases, they were fighting for the leadership of the two cities.

The two of them, after all, are not named Aixinjueluo.

On the contrary, it was the only northwest direction where the Qing court mainly attacked. Yue Le led [-] Qing troops back to aid without saying a word, which gave Wang Pingfan a good breath.

As for the four Hexi generals, even though they had received orders from Yue Le to guard and even go south, who would ignore him at this time?
Zhang Yong cut off the whip neatly in front of the soldiers of the three armies, folded the arrow and swore that he would protect the country and the people.

Then, he took his soldiers and horses all the way to the west, went to Qinghai and continued to smash Galdan.

Gansu and Ningxia officially announced their merger into the Ming court.

Wang Pingfan took the opportunity to send his troops northward to recover the lost ground, regained Hanzhong and Pingliang, and besieged Xi'an city.

All in all, the situation is really good if Lao Le messed up the battle like this.

Liu Dapao was quite confused when he received the battle report. In fact, he never doubted Lao Le's ability to fight. He just instinctively didn't want these foreigners to get involved in his family's affairs.

And to be honest, a group of foreigners came from the sea to capture Tianjin City. The battle report always seemed to have a sense of the second Opium War, which made Liu Dapao feel uncomfortable about this matter.

He doesn't know more specific information, and he doesn't know if Lao Le has done anything wrong in the Zhili area, but the matter has come to this point, and it is impossible for him to stop him any more. People are not so wary of Lao Le.

At least in this time and space, Lao Le and other red-haired devils give ordinary people a far better impression than the Manchus.

In the end, Liu Dapao had no other choice but to send Chen Jinnan and the Penghu defenders to Lao Le as reinforcements, which was another kind of supervising army.

Although, Chen Jinnan could not supervise Lao Le at all, and no one in the entire Ming court could supervise Lao Le except himself.

(End of this chapter)