Lu Ming

Chapter 415
After Cao Zongbing bombarded Xu's house, he probably stayed in Zhangsugang for another ten days before cleaning up all the first and last dishes.

The pressure from Nanjing is the bulk of this.After all, Nanjing is in charge of Nanzhili, and civil and military officials have the responsibility to guard the land. If such a big thing happened, it would be impossible not to figure it out.

And Cao Zongbing can only try his best to support at this time, trying to steer the situation in the direction of "personal grievances".

As for the effect, that's it.Like Nanjing Jinyiwei, which is mixed with public hatred and private hatred, and even killed the other party's employees, the cross-travelers don't plan to tackle the problem.

As for the others, Jiang Tian, ​​the guarding officer, is easier to handle here.Eunuchs, what they love is nothing more than goods, money and goods are the most important things that the people who travel through the world lack.In addition, the eunuch Jiang, who bombarded the gentry's house and was shunned by civil officials every day, actually liked it from the bottom of his heart, so everyone made friends because of it.

As for the yamen that should have reacted the most: Governor Yingtian, because the boss Cao Wenheng went to Beijing to serve the king, plus the tricks in the troop transfer document, the accountability of Yingtian Fuya was the smallest.

In this way, it took Cao Zongbing ten days to finally fool everything.Of course, the bullets from each yamen must have been sent to the capital. This is a necessary procedure, and no one can do anything about it.

However, this is of no use.All criticisms will eventually be shattered in front of the military exploits.

Starting from the year of the wild boar skin uprising in the Ming Dynasty, people gradually occupied the outside of the pass and pushed back into the pass. Over the years, the situation has deteriorated, and most of the elite soldiers and generals have been wiped out. Now even the capital is surrounded by the Eight Banners soldiers.

In this situation, whoever can bring the head of "True Tartar" to Chongzhen is Chongzhen's father-this is not an exaggeration at all.

Don't think that the head of "True Tartar" is so easy to get.

By the time of Tianqi and Chongzhen, after a series of military failures, the Ming army had lost the ability and determination to fight head-on with the Eight Banners army.This time when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Guan Ning's army would rather put the Eight Banners soldiers under the capital city, and then "fight according to the city", which is the most obvious example.

In this situation, the Eight Banners soldiers, who have the advantage of maneuvering on the battlefield, will not leave time for their opponents to cut their heads even if they are slightly defeated and killed.What's more, both sides were fighting from the beginning to the end with the Eight Banners soldiers suppressing the Ming army, and the Ming army had no chance to clean up the battlefield.The packers are always responsible for cleaning the battlefield.

As for the exaggerated battle reports of the generals of the Ming army, they are purely funny.If calculated according to the numbers in the battle report, the entire Manchu clan had been wiped out hundreds of times.

The real history is: if a small school can get the heads of three real Tartars, then he can be promoted to a higher level.If a general can get ten real Tartar heads, he can also be promoted by one rank.

Therefore, the original way of recording military exploits, counting heads, is quite effective in certain periods of time, because the reason is simple: the heads are counted by civil officials.

This rule will expose countless deceitful and exaggerated battle reports—the real heads of Tartars can be easily distinguished from the packers.

Therefore, those generals in the later period of the Ming army, such as Zuo Liangyu and his like, could kill good people and pretend to be meritorious when they exterminated the refugees, but when it came to fighting with the Tartars, they couldn't use their tricks.

And this time Cao Zongbing went to Beijing because he was holding back his energy and wanted to put a satellite for Brother Chongzhen!

In the real history, the first time the Manchus entered the customs, and after they robbed enough to retreat, the battle report of the Ming army who followed behind was still in the usual style: big victory, recovery, recovery. In short, there are victories every day, but there is no head .

The reason is simple: the left-behind troops of the Manchus in the rear cities must be the Mongolian Eight Banners and Manchu Eight Banners elites who can mount and leave at any time. How could such troops be beheaded by the Ming army?
So now a variable has appeared: when Brother Chongzhen, who is used to hearing single-digit and tens-digit head battle reports, suddenly saw the heads of hundreds or even thousands of "real Tartar" heads brought by Cao Zongbing, not only Chongzhen , What is the reaction of the Civil and Military Society of the Manchu Dynasty?
Therefore, in the face of absolute power, everything is a cloud.At that time, the bad thing of fighting with the Jiangnan gentry will not be put on the table at all.Chongzhen would never blame Cao Zhongchen for this, and he was counting on Cao Zhongchen to kill more Tartars in the future.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zongbing Cao dismissed the Nanjing side in a flicker: he has a big move in his hand, and he is not afraid of small tricks.

After all the forces from all sides were settled one by one, Cao Zongbing was ready to leave.At this time, in addition to the 200 soldiers who took the transport ship in advance, the three sail warships carrying 50 special forces and equipment were ready, waiting for Cao Zongbing to board the ship and set off.

Before leaving, Cao Zongbing did the last thing: reconcile with the Land Deed Alliance.

The Land Deed Alliance, as a chess piece that was sent to the door by oneself, was forced to be put on the shelves by Mr. Xiong in the end, and was finally used by Cao Zongbing to show his prestige.

By this time, the gentlemen will become medicine dregs, with no use value.Therefore, after Cao Zongbing received a retired government official in the alliance, he immediately stated: Everyone still values ​​peace.Forget the compensation or something, you bring the box of land deeds, and I will give you a few coins, and the matter is over.

So the Land Deed Alliance could only nod with resentment—what if they don't agree?The house in Shanghai County has become a tourist hotspot these days, and the 3.5-ton iron ball has nakedly displayed the hard power of Mr. Zongbing.

Therefore, even if the Land Deed Alliance is not reconciled, it can only smash its teeth and swallow blood, and bury the hatred in the bottom of its heart.

As for after this incident in the future, we both know that hatred cannot be resolved, so let's ride a donkey to read the script, let's wait and see.

Cao Zongbing came this time and presented some shells to the gentlemen, which solved the land deed issue, which was regarded as a complete merit.

After that, Shanghai Port, which was forcibly broken from the shackles, will undoubtedly usher in a wave of great development, and now there will be no more unsightly people coming to Mr. Xiong to make trouble here.

And not long after, a new wave of transport fleets full of industrial products sailed from the south, officially announcing the reopening of Shanghai Port.

At the same time, Xiong Dao, who had obtained the land deeds of Zhuangzi in the surrounding area, also started an integration operation.He now has 300 regular soldiers from the Guards Battalion, so his style can be a little tougher: the newly acquired tenants are classified and screened one by one, and all the ones that should be sent away are sent away, and there is no room for bargaining.

Ever since, 10 days after arriving in Shanghai Port, Cao Zongbing, who caused many waves, finally drove north to rescue the emperor on December 1629, 12.

The fleet parted ways outside the mouth of the Yangtze River.Since the Zhenman did not need to go north, it turned around and headed south after leaving the sea. Accompanied by a Youguang-class gunboat, it went directly back to Taijiang to rest.

The remaining two Youguang-class ships and a small frigate began to travel retrograde along the northern coastline of the mainland against the harsh northerly wind in winter.

Although there were hydrological data sent back by the scouting ship on this route, it was the first time for the fleet to take the northern route, so the commander Wang Bo dared not be careless.

He not only ordered to slow down the speed, but also sent frigates to explore the way ahead. The entire fleet kept changing its route on the sea surface, and sometimes dispersed to map different routes to prepare in advance for future large-scale shipping.

Due to the wrong wind direction in winter, Chinese merchant ships that rely solely on sails usually do not go north at this time, so the sea is very deserted now, and you can toss about casually.

After 5 days of difficult sailing, the sailing fleet powered by coal finally joined the transport fleet that had departed earlier in the waters of Lianyungang.

After that, the large army spent the New Year at sea, and then on January 1630, 1, the 4th day after departure, they came to the easternmost part of the Shandong Peninsula and saw the series of landmark islands and reefs.

The fleet has gone through a complete range of routes these days. Not only did they take a straight route that Ming merchant ships dared not take, but they also surveyed and mapped commercial routes along the coast.

In terms of speed alone, the Beishang Fleet must be incomparable to Xia Tian this time.We must know that even the Chinese-style ships of the Ming Dynasty set off from Liujiagang, Taicang, Suzhou, and went to Tianjin to transport goods in the early days when the sea was not banned.

That is to say, when all goes well, the old-fashioned sea-going ship can cover the 1000-kilometer sea route and reach Tianjin in only ten days.This most efficient mode of transportation was maintained in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.

It is a pity that the Ming court finally failed to straighten out the relationship between sea transportation and water transportation.After Zhu Baba came to power, he began to ban the sea, and it was resumed in the Yongle period.However, after the orthodox 13th year, the river was dredged, and shipping was banned again simply because of the high risk.

This ban means that all official material transportation has been transferred to water transportation, and sea transportation is only reserved for a relatively small number of private merchant ships.This prohibition has created a huge water-sucking class.

In fact, in the mid-term of water transportation, due to the joint corruption of officials, gentry, Cao Jun, the cost has already far exceeded the loss of sea transportation.In the end, the proposal to resume shipping by sea never succeeded again.

But for the people who traveled through time, this kind of bullshit concept of water transportation is purely unacceptable.To put it bluntly right now, a certain force is relying on the sea to mess around, and without the huge number of sea ships, it will be impossible to talk.

Therefore, one of the most important tasks of the Northward Fleet this time is to plan routes for large-scale shipping in the future.

Shandong, as an important transit point in the route, a place for recruiting troops, and a distribution center for materials, has a very high status.Therefore, after the Beishang Fleet arrived at the Shandong Peninsula, it deliberately circled around the entire peninsula, and observed and recorded some city guards along the coast of the peninsula, even including small strongholds such as piers. No way, people saw Beishang Behind the fleet, the beacon was lit from a long distance away, and the black and black sky rose into the sky. The fleet couldn't record it!
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