Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 303 Beijing Peace Negotiation
Jiangning.

Yan Wogong held back his troops, excused that he had no money and food, the green camp was abandoned, and the Yangtze River and the canal were cut off by the Ming Navy. He insisted on sending troops after the autumn grain was collected.

He stayed in the Jinglue Yamen and wrote a letter to the regent, requesting the reorganization of the Jiangnan Green Camp.

"I suggest that you please set up a governor of water transport in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two governors of Jiangning and Fenglu. A battalion of three thousand.

Set up a green battalion with one Admiral of Anhui, one of Su Song, and one of Jiangning Caojiang, each divided into five battalions, with eight generals and five thousand soldiers.

In Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Pukou, Anqing, Chitai, Dongshan, and Guangde, there were eight township commanders, seven associate generals including Langshan, and Jinshan and Changzhou battalions participated in the generals, guerrillas, and guards, and led the battalions.

In addition, the five provinces in the south will set up five battalions of Jingbiao, and the governors of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangxi, and Henan will supervise the five battalions, each with [-] troops.

In Jiangnan Province, there are 1 classics, [-] superintendents, [-] Cao Cao, [-] each for the three admirals, [-] each for the two governors, [-] soldiers for each of the eight towns, [-] for the deputy generals of the Seventh Association, and [-] for the generals and guerrillas. Waiting for [-] people in the [-]th Battalion, a total of [-] posts! "

"In addition, the remaining battalions of the general, deputy general, general, guerrilla, and garrison were all abolished and merged."

"In addition, there will be a governor in Henan, a second battalion with 2000 soldiers, an admiral, a third battalion with [-] soldiers, three township commanders in Hebei, Nanyang, and Kaigui, and two battalions with [-] people in each town. There are seven generals under the garrison, with [-] soldiers. The participating generals of Henan Weihui, Runing, and Guide battalions each have [-] soldiers, and the Cizhou Camp Dusi and Songshan garrison have [-] each.

Jiangxi set up governors of Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi, each with two thousand battalions on the left and right sides, one admiral, five thousand for promotion, two general soldiers of Nangan and Jiujiang, five thousand each for standard battalions, and deputy townships of Yuanzhou and other Sixie towns. General soldiers, each with [-] soldiers, Guangde and other battalions participating generals, Fuzhou naval battalions, each with [-] soldiers...

Zhejiang set up governors, governors, and admirals, with [-] supervising bids, [-] bidding bids, and [-] promotion bids. The two townships of Hai and Quzhou were set up as commanders, and the three battalions of Qiantang and Taizhou naval divisions were set up with [-] battalions each. Deputy generals, three battalions of pacesetters, each with [-] soldiers, three lieutenants in Chuzhou, Yanzhou, Jinhua, each with [-] pacesetters...
Yan Wogong reorganized all the green camps in the five provinces of Jiangnan, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and even Fujian in one go, and issued nearly 20 green camp establishments at once.

Then use this list to ask Beijing for food, salary, official titles, ordnance and equipment.

Yan Wogong said that the situation in the five southeastern provinces is very serious, and he pointed out that the original surrendered troops are not available, false names are serious, military officers are paid for nothing, and military rations are deducted, equipment is backward, training is insufficient, etc. Most of them are unusable anyway. .

Therefore, it is necessary to abolish all the original guards and battalions in the five provinces, reorganize the new green battalion, provide real soldiers and pay, and supply equipment and equipment. naval confrontation.

Before that, the imperial court should stop marching southward, reorganize the green battalion first, dredge the canal again, and ensure the safety of navigation on the Yangtze River before going south.

Otherwise, although the Eight Banners are elite and capable of fighting, they will have no food support, no green battalion assistance, and the army will go south alone and go deep into the enemy's rear, and will be in great danger. The siege of Kangkala Changzhou this time is the biggest lesson. It was impossible to go to the rescue in time, because there was no food and payment, and the canal was blocked again.

Now that Yangzhou has lost again, fortunately Huguang has recovered, so now we should suspend the military offensive and concentrate on rectifying the green battalion and restoring local stability. Only after we have accumulated money and food can we use troops on a large scale.

He also took the opportunity to impeach all the former governors, admirals, and general soldiers in Jiangnan. Anyway, there are not many slaves who can be used.

The Eight Banners were not included in the army list of Mr. Yan. He suggested that the Eight Banners should be stationed in the important towns and cities in the south, and Prince Baylor should be assigned to lead them. They should not be under the jurisdiction of the local governors. Not only Jiangning, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou should be stationed in the Eight Banners, but also Yangzhou Important towns such as Anqing, Zhenjiang, Huai'an, Fengyang, Anqing, Jiujiang, and Taiping must also be stationed in the Eight Banners.

In this way, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion support each other, so that the south will be safe.

Of course, not to mention the garrison of the Eight Banners, just the reorganization of the 20 green battalions in the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River will kill the court. None, city defense, river defense, and warships lack artillery. It is not easy to replenish these equipment.

Not to mention 20 soldiers and horses, even if one soldier has one tael of silver per month, he will still get 20 taels of military pay a month, which is more than 200 million a year, but in fact, one tael a month is not enough, Yan Wogong also said, The military pay of the Ming army has been greatly increased now. An auxiliary soldier and civilian husband can pay three taels of silver a month, and an armored soldier can even get four taels of silver a month.

There are also An Jiayin and so on.

Therefore, in order to boost morale, our Jiangnan Green Camp also has to increase their salaries.

At least three taels of silver a month.

In these suggestions of Mr. Yan, there is another important point, that is, he believes that most of the generals and soldiers in the place where the imperial court recruited and resettled were either from bandits or from the Ming army. These people are full of bad habits, and the officers like to deduct their pay , The soldiers are timid and fearful. These people are useless. It is best to send them home and recruit some honest and honest people, such as farmers and miners.

In the end, he did not forget to impeach Liu Liangzuo, the admiral of Jiangbei, saying that the Earl of Guangchang fled before the battle and abandoned the city one after another, so he should be killed.

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Beijing.

There were two memorials in front of Dorgon, one was sent back by Hong Chengchou who had disappointed him, and the other was sent by Yan Wogong, whom he had placed high hopes on.

In the memorials sent back by the two managers, one announces good news, the victory in Huguang, and the other reports sorrow, the corruption in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Hong Chengchou, who announced the good news, was still in Anqing, and did not participate in the great battle of Huhu. Although Yan Wogong, who reported the worry, said that Jiangnan was corrupt, he also recovered Huzhou in Hangzhou, kept Jiaxing in Songjiang, and just broke the siege of Changzhou. For the third time Recover Suzhou.

"Unexpectedly, the situation in the south has reached such a level. What do you think of these two memorandums?" Dorgon asked.

Chen Mingxia, Minister of the Ministry of Officials and a Bachelor of Attendance, said bluntly, "I think that although Yan Jinglue is reporting his worries, he can still see that he is doing practical things. However, although Hong Jinglue is reporting good news, the situation in Huguang can be said to have nothing to do with him. It doesn't matter at all."

"Although Huguang has reported a great victory, I think that Huguang is really corrupt. Earlier, the Ming army broke Xiangyang and captured Jingzhou, sweeping Jiangbei, demolishing a city every time it went down, and relocating the people of a city, making thousands of miles uninhabited. , There is no chicken crowing for a hundred miles. Although the siege of Wuchang ended unexpectedly, and Jingxiang, Yuezhou, Changsha and other places have been recovered one after another, Huguang has been smashed, and it will be difficult to recover within a few years. Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Changsha and other cities are only won Just a few empty cities."

"Furthermore, the Ming army was defeated in Huguang this time, but was not really defeated. They still defended Yunyang, Badong, Pianyuan, Hengyang and other places. These places are remote and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"Huguang was originally a granary, but now Huguang and Susong, the two granaries and grain production areas, have been smashed. This is the most troublesome."

Dorgon agreed with what Chen Mingxia said.

"Qian Shilang?"

Qian Qianyi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and also in charge of the secretary, stood up, "I think the worst thing is water transportation. Now the Yangtze River, canals and even sea transportation are all under the control of the Ming army. If this matter is not resolved, the imperial court will no longer have food and money to enter Beijing. , Losing the food and silver from Huguang and Jiangnan, the imperial court can’t even distribute the salaries of hundreds of officials.”

"Are the Han soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River really so useless?" Dorgon sighed. Since he led his army into Beijing, he has been sitting in the center of the court and never made a move south. He doesn't know much about the Han soldiers in the south.

But what was reported below was really shocking.

Su Song Admiral Wu Shengzhao rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, Jiading General Li Chengdong rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Governor Zhang Cunren abandoned the city and fled, Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong committed suicide in fear of crime, and Liu Liangzuo even abandoned many cities.

Not to mention how incompetent these green battalion Han soldiers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, such as the impeachment of Mrs. Anning Chi, were reported every day by Luck Dehun, so that his Eight Banners reinforcements could not get supplies on the way, and had to wipe their buttocks to regain their lost ground, etc. .

Obviously possessing the elite Eight Banners, but unable to hit the enemy, Leket went crazy.

And Chen Tai, the new Governor of Water Transport who just lost Yangzhou, also impeached Liu Liangzuo, saying that he had neglected Yangzhou and other places before, but he sent troops to him after he went south, but he only sent him [-] old and weak green battalions, which caused him to be in Yangzhou. When the city faced the main force of the Ming army, it lost Yangzhou again.

Seeing Dorgon's silence, Qian Qianyi proposed, "I have the courage to suggest that it is better to make peace with Ming first, to recognize the position of the Ming Lord of the Lu Jian Kingdom, and to stand side by side with the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Mingxia sneered, "What does Mr. Qian mean by this? Don't you still miss the old master?"

Qian Qianyi has always looked down on this villain with great ambitions. Chen Mingxia was a 16-year Tanghua in Chongzhen. He was first awarded the editor of the Imperial Academy, and later awarded the Second Division of Household Soldiers. His official career can be said to be very good, but his luck is not good. Well, Li Zicheng quickly attacked Beijing.

This guy was not willing to waste ten years of studying hard, so he immediately went to welcome King Chuang into Beijing, and became the Hanlin of the Dashun Dynasty, but who would have thought that the Qing army would enter Beijing again soon, this guy would still immediately go to welcome the Qing army , and then do Hanlin.

Originally heard that when Li Zicheng was defeated in Shanhaiguan, he planned to go south to the Hongguang Dynasty in Nanjing, but after hearing that Ruan Dacheng had designated him as obedient and rebellious, he turned around and returned to Beijing halfway to meet the Qing army.

Relying on the recommendation of Wang Wenkui, the governor of Baoding from the same party in the original court, Dorgon became an Hanlin again. In Dorgon's place, although Chen Mingxia was young and inexperienced, he was indeed smart and knowledgeable, and he gave up his face He was willing to flatter Dorgon, so he was highly appreciated, and his status rose steadily, and he even became the leader of the Zhongnan people in Qingming.

Qian Qianyi, the former leader of Donglin, naturally became an obstacle in front of this backward leader.

"Your Highness the Regent, the minister is not thinking about it, but just thinking about it for the court. Right now, Huguang and Jiangnan have been completely corrupted, and that Lu Jianguo is indeed capable. He can quickly clean up people's hearts, and he can always cause us trouble. Destruction, if the fight continues like this, it will hurt both sides, and for the imperial court, this is the worst situation."

"It's better to pretend to make a peace agreement, stabilize the south, and then wait for us to stabilize the northern parts of the Central Plains, restore the two major granaries in Huguang and Jiangnan, and rebuild a naval fleet, and then go south in a big way to destroy them in one fell swoop. The Ming army is now relying on Yes, it’s just a navy, as long as we make up for this shortcoming, it will be easy to destroy the Ming army, even if they flee to Fujian and Guangdong, they can chase and wipe them all the way!”

"Temporarily shrinking is just for punching more powerfully next time."

Dorgon was very satisfied with this explanation, which indeed made some sense.

(End of this chapter)