Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 125 Zhu Chenggong

On the south bank of Taihu Lake, Zhenze, a large industrial and commercial town on the canal.

Zhu Yihai ordered the battalion of banner bearers to polish their armor, put on new smocks, and went out of the city to meet Deng Wang and the fourth governor and his party.

The original duty of the Bannerman Battalion was to be a guard of honor. At this time, tall and brave warriors were carefully selected, dressed in mercury armor, with a sword on their waist and a bow on their back, holding a spear and holding a battle flag high.

The pilgrims who had trekked all the way were moved when they saw this military appearance.

Huang Daozong, the censor of the Zuoqian capital and the governor of Jin Quyan, saw this military appearance, stroked his beard, and praised, "No wonder Jian Guo sent troops to the Northern Expedition, and won consecutive battles. With this military appearance alone, the Tartars should be invincible."

And Zhu Chenggong, who gave the surname to the country, also stopped to look at the soldiers and horses. Although he knew that these soldiers must be specially selected soldiers, just like the generals of the Han Dynasty before the court, but he was not an ordinary rich man. , but his family is in the southeast sea, and he is no stranger to the army. He can see at a glance that these mighty guards of honor are not only appearances, but also exude a smell of iron and blood. They are really from the dead. veteran.

Thinking of the mission of this trip, Zhu Chenggong felt complicated. His father hoped that he would take this opportunity to meet Lu Jianguo and find out the reality of this young Jianguo. The method was appreciated by Lu Jianguo and successfully became the son-in-law of Jianguo, so that the Zheng family's position in Fujian would be more stable.

If Lu Jianguo had the same virtue as Hongguang, Lu Wang, etc., then the Zheng family would never bet on him. Although Nanyang Wang Zhu Yujian refused to cooperate before, Zheng Zhilong has now placed Zhu Yujian's younger brother Tang Wang Zhu Yukai in the Fujian, very polite and courteous approach to get closer, this is a pawn of the Zheng family, if Lu Jianguo fails, then they will support the king of Tang.

If it doesn't work, Zheng Zhilong still has another trick, that is, he brought Hong Chengchou's mother, wife and children to Fujian a few years ago, and has been supporting them well.Now that Hong Chengchou is a bachelor of the Jiangnan Governor's Inner Academy, if the Ming Dynasty's true energy is exhausted, and Hong Chengchou's old mother is in his hand, he can still use this relationship to connect with Hong Chengchou, a noble Qing Dynasty, and use his relationship to send a message to the Qing Dynasty. Surrendered and surrendered, based on the strength and status of the Zheng family in the southeast sea, he believed that his future would not be inferior to that of Wu Sangui and King Sanshun.

Zheng Zhilong didn't tell his young and passionate son, but just asked him to see if Lu Jianguo was really the Mingjun of Zhongxing. Zhu Chenggong was very dissatisfied with his father's wait-and-see attitude. In his opinion, when the country was in crisis, , since King Lu has the courage to stand up and lead the fight against the Qing Dynasty, then everyone, as ministers of the Ming Dynasty, naturally has to support him loyally, and can't be half-hearted.

This eldest son of the Zheng Family Marine Group, because he studied at a young age and received an elite education, took a completely different path from his fathers, so his thoughts were completely different from those of his fathers who used to be robbers and merchants. There is no difference between the scholars of Fushe.

In the past year, he returned to his hometown in Fujian from Nanjing Guozijian, and then went north from Fujian to Wuyue. This road he used to take has changed a lot now, and people are panic-stricken. The further north he goes, the more turbulent it is.

But after arriving in eastern Zhejiang, I felt a different atmosphere. This place is close to the front line of the Tartars, but everyone's eyes are not so confused.

He was a little puzzled before, but after crossing the sea, he understood more and more. Jiaxing was originally occupied by the Tartars, but now Jiaxing prefecture, county and township are quieter and more peaceful than those in Fujian and Guangdong. Living and working in peace and contentment under the iron heel of the Tartars?
At first he found it incredible, but later he suddenly realized that it was not the Tartars who let them live and work in peace, but His Highness Jian Guo, who personally initiated the Sixth Division's Northern Expedition and forcibly built a territory in Jiaxing, changed this place.

A short time has changed a lot.

Eliminate the people's accumulated debts over the years, reduce or exempt taxes for three years, stop the three salaries, etc., eliminate bandits, crack down on bandits, set up a gold bureau to help the people without hurting the people, and build a long-term husband battalion in the army instead of recruiting men as husbands These things are unimaginable without tiring the people, but they are already being officially implemented here.

There is no random apportionment, no various persuasive donations, and even the country roads are smoother and safer.

The most important thing is that Jian Guo's [-] soldiers went north, and it is said that they have expanded several times by now, but his soldiers and horses did not have a bad military discipline, and they robbed everywhere.

The Zheng family started as pirates, and later accepted recruitment and monopolized the southeast maritime trade. All merchant ships at sea must be affixed with the flags awarded by the Zheng family. According to the size of the merchant ships, the Zheng family assigns different flags and receives different money. The big ship receives 3000 taels a year. Silver, for this alone, the protection fee collected by Zheng was as high as more than 1000 million taels of silver.

And the Zheng family relied on its powerful force. After defeating other pirates, they controlled the route and monopolized the Chinese goods in the foreign trade of Ming Dynasty. In the trade with Spain, they actually acted as the agent of Ming Dynasty, forming a real Cheng-Spanish trade on.

The Zheng family used force to support their monopoly on trade, and gained a lot of money with this, but their political status did not match their strength as the Southeast King. Zheng Zhilong was just a guerrilla when he was first recruited.

Over the years, the Zheng family has been working hard to squeeze into the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty's political circle, so as to obtain a higher position to protect their lucrative interests.

But even in the Hongguang Dynasty, when he was awarded the title of Earl of Nan'an and the general town of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong's maritime group still had a part-time job in the pirate business. They also often attack the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards.

Even, they still often rob the people along the coast, and they will go ashore to rob from time to time.

The huge armed force of the Zheng family has better military discipline these years than in the past, but it can only be said to be average, and still retains many bad habits of pirates.

Compared with the Northern Expeditionary Army of Lu Jianguo, it is a world of difference.

He had stayed in the army, and he knew that it was difficult to lead a good army of soldiers, and it was even more difficult to make those soldiers with swords and guns obedient and obey military discipline.

He couldn't imagine how Lu Jianguo did all this.

The guard of honor of the three armed forces of the Banner Bearer Battalion newly formed by Zhu Yihai made its mighty debut for the first time, and it really shocked these various people from the south.

Even Li Jin, Hao Yaoqi, and Yuan Zongdi, generals of the Chuang army, have seen the world. They once entered the city of Beijing with Chuang Wang and stood in the emperor's golden palace.

But they were also shocked by Zhu Yihai's guard of honor. They didn't think how elite these soldiers were. In fact, although Chuangjun started as a thief, in the later period, there were many elite troops. Even Chuangjun was very capable and capable of fighting. cavalry troops.

For example, one of the tactics used by Li Zicheng's repeated defeats in the later period, known as the Three Walls, was [-] horses and [-] heavy armored cavalry, just like the iron kites of Xixia in the history of Li Zicheng's hometown. Just hack and kill.

When attacking, the iron cavalry advanced like three walls. If they encountered ordinary officers and soldiers, they would break through and defeat them directly. After the situation broke up, the infantry who broke into the army surrounded and killed them with long spears.

Under Li Zicheng's three-wall cavalry offensive, the Ming army was basically unable to stop it.

Later, Sun Chuanting was ordered to crusade against the Chuangjun. In order to deal with the Three Walls, he specially built [-] trains. He actually forcibly repelled Li Zicheng's Three Wall Cavalry. The fourth cavalry wall was pulled out, the train collapsed, Sun Chuanting died, and the Chongzhen Dynasty actually perished in this battle.

Thirty to forty thousand armored cavalry, that is the real existence of deterring the world.

But what Li Jin and the others were shocked at this time was this Lu Jianguo. How could he do this? I heard that when he was called Jianguo in Taizhou, he had hundreds of Ding Huyuan under his command.

Later, when I went to Taizhou and Ningbo, I almost started alone. There were only 1 people when I crossed the sea, but most of the recruits and veterans also came from various ministries.

"I think this one really has the aura of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty."

"Perhaps he can really become famous!"

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Zhu Yihai personally led the accompanying civilian and military generals to welcome the group in front of the city gate.

In the distance, a man with gray beard and hair wearing a python robe stepped forward quickly, and then bowed down in front of Zhu Yihai, "My minister Zhu Yujian pays homage to His Highness Jian Guo."

Zhu Yihai looked at this man, the most tragic emperor in history, full of passion and ambition, but in the end he was only reduced to a puppet of the Zheng Group. Emperor Longwu was considered the best among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he had no The ambition was in vain, and finally died on the front line of the Northern Expedition.

"Uncle Huang please get up!" Zhu Yihai helped King Deng up.

Historically, the Tang and Lu vassal rivalry, and the confrontation between Zhejiang and Fujian eventually accelerated the collapse of Nanming. In this time and space, Zhu Yihai was the first to ascend the throne and supervise the country as soon as he came, and immediately sent people to chase after Zhu Yujian.

After Zhu Yujian learned that Zhu Yihai supervised the country, he happily gave up re-supervising the country.

Compared with history, due to lack of information, the two supervised the country separately. However, Emperor Longwu, who actually supervised the country earlier and proclaimed himself emperor, sent someone to send an edict to Zhu Yihai to abdicate and return to the vassal. In fact, Zhu Yihai did abdicate and return Taizhou was lost, but later Zhang Guowei and many other ministers in eastern Zhejiang believed that the Qing army was suppressing the border and the country was in crisis. At this time, they could not back down.

So Zhu Yihai was hesitant to be invited back to Shaoxing. As a result, the conflict between the latter two became more and more intense. You killed my envoy, and I killed your ministers, and each other conferred titles on each other's ministers and generals. The son picked up a bargain.

"I violated the ancestral system, left the vassal land without permission, and led my troops to Wu. Please forgive me and punish you, but please don't let me go back. I want to stay and fight the Tartars together." Zhu Yujian said sincerely.

Zhu Yihai held Zhu Yujian's hand, and said with a touch of emotion, "Uncle Huang insisted on going north to resist the captives despite his frailty and illness. This is how loyal he is to the country. How can he be punished alone. Uncle Huang stayed in the army and assisted in military affairs. I will wait for the descendants of Emperor Taizu Gao to fight the enemy side by side and rebuild Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Yujian was overwhelmed with tears by what he said, thinking that when the Qing army entered the fortress, he recruited troops to go north to serve the king, but was reprimanded by Chongzhen, and even convicted and seized the title and imprisoned in the high wall of Fengyang. The country has a completely different attitude towards him.

"Under the leadership of His Highness, Daming will surely be able to recover."

"It's hard to survive alone. To restore the world, we must unite as one and fight against the captives. From the clan and vassals, down to the people of the Li people, from the mountains and grass to the barbarians, as long as they are willing to unite against the captives, the lonely capital Open up and accept!"

(End of this chapter)