Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 336 Confrontation
In the city of Zhenjiang.

After a little strictness, my father summoned the right chief envoy, Tu Guobao.

When the two old friends met, the atmosphere was a little tense, because Tu Guobao was desperate, and the Qing court sent a new governor of Jiangning, Zhang Dayou.

This Zhang Futai is from Liaodong. He was originally the general manager of Guangning Weiqian in the Ming Dynasty, but he surrendered to Houjin 25 years ago. He is considered a veteran of the Eight Banners of the Houjin Han Dynasty. He was awarded the third-class Jingqi Nihafan in the world.

Regardless of qualifications or ability, they are far above the national treasures.

The Qing court sent Zhang Dayou to the south of the Yangtze River for a simple purpose, to replace the national treasure, and try to restore the stability of the south of the Yangtze River and stabilize the money bag.

Kangkala was also sent to garrison Suzhou.

If it weren't for the Ming army going south, Zhang Dayou and Kang Kara would have to guard against the Ming army, and the Tu Guobao would have been locked up and taken to Beijing long ago. It hasn't been locked yet, but the Tu Guobao already knew his end.

"I never thought that Duke Yan is actually a spy of the Nine Kings." Tu Guobao said in astonishment.

Yan Wogong poured the tea with a steady hand.

"Fantai, don't talk nonsense."

"I have evidence." Tu Guobao lowered his voice a little, and then began to count his evidence, such as how Yan Wogong helped him redeem the city when he lost Suzhou for the first time, and even murdered Li Sutai, etc. .

Pile by piece.

But my father-in-law Yan didn't panic at all.

"You can't count these as evidence. Is there any more direct evidence?"

Tu Guobao stared straight at Yan Wogong, "Yan Gong is really calm, but I don't know if I send these so-called evidence that you don't count as evidence to Ma Guozhu or even the regent, will they believe you?" ?”

Mr. Yan picked up the teacup and tasted it slowly.

"Fantai is about to die, so do you want to take over? Even disregarding my kindness to you at the beginning, want to repay your kindness? Will you wrong me?"

"There is no one else here, and there is no need for Mr. Yan to tell such lies. We all know what is going on. I didn't dare to believe this fact at first, but as long as there are seeds of doubt, they will take root and germinate. I used After a lot of thought and careful investigation, it was finally determined that this is the truth, an astonishing fact."

My father-in-law Yan drank his tea and didn't speak.

He was thinking about one thing, Tu Guobao would suspect that he was normal, but he didn't inform the Qing court directly, but came to tell himself these things, no doubt he wanted to use this as a bargaining chip.

"The Fantai should also know some news about Beijing. The regent is very dissatisfied with your loss of Suzhou, especially when you are the governor of Jiangning, and the governor of Changzhen Susongtai. The imperial court confiscated a grain of grain and a penny, but it cost a lot, and even repeatedly caused the imperial court to lose troops and generals in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Not to mention the green battalion, the Eight Banners of Manchuria alone has lost nearly 3000 people in the south of the Yangtze River. Three thousand Eight Banners of Manzhou, do you know how angry the princes of Beijing are? For months, there was no major war, and just like that, three thousand was consumed little by little?"

"How many bannermen in Beijing wish they could take you back and eat you raw."

"You can't escape this catastrophe. After the war is settled, Zhang Dayou will come up with a secret decree to arrest you and send you to Beijing. At that time, you will be executed at the vegetable market in Beijing, or even executed by Ling Chi."

Tu Guobao laughed miserably.

"I was born and died for Manchuria, but now they can't wait to kill me soon,"

"Yan Gong, I admire you very much. You have the courage to play this hand with the Tartars, and you can even play it so well. Li Yuchun, Boluo, Zhang Cunren, Duoduo and even the regent Dorgon, one after another. You played around and around, you kept you in the dark, you said that you are a juren, how did you get to this point?"

But my father Yan continued to ask, "What is Fantai going to do now?"

Tu Guobao sighed, "Just looking for a way to survive, isn't that not a big deal for Duke Yan?"

Yan Wogong looked at him and laughed.

"You're interesting."

Tu Guobao only said that he wanted a way to survive, but he didn't say that he planned to join the Ming Dynasty.

"What do you think of Jiangzhou Ying's vote?" asked Yan Wogong.

"In my opinion, this is an inevitable thing. Since the rise of Nalu Jianguo and the Nine Kings Brothers, these green battalion soldiers who defected and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty will take this road sooner or later.

Since this period of time, it is not uncommon for the green camps in the south of the Yangtze River to disappear and surrender, and rebel.Speaking of which, there is still a lot of credit for Yan Gong.

The Nine Kings sent troops to conquer and won consecutive battles, and Duke Yan rectified the green camp in the rear. With this two-pronged approach, the green camp in the south of the Yangtze River collapsed completely.

Those green battalion officers can't eat empty pay, can't deduct it, and can't even plunder and persuade donations, so what do they do with that little salary?Even if Duke Yan gave them a salary increase, the income of the officers is still pitifully low.Even the servants in the yamen of prefectures and counties are thinking of ways to make money, and the officers are doing hard work, and they still refuse to give money. Who wants to? "

"Why couldn't the Ming army fight at the beginning, why did they surrender to the Qing Dynasty, isn't it that the imperial court couldn't give money?"

With external military pressure and various internal oppressions, the collapse of the green battalion is naturally not the case.

Yan Wogong's rectification of the green camp in the south of the Yangtze River seems to be the right way, but under the current situation, this kind of reorganization is nothing more than forcing these green camps back.

After all, you only allowed this and that, and you didn't seriously consider the actual situation of the soldiers of the Qing army, and you couldn't increase their salaries and salaries. This naturally forced them to rob or even choose to surrender to the enemy.

Although the imperial camp of the Nine Kings has strict military discipline and forbids false surnames, it can also support soldiers with generous salaries. Not only are the soldiers’ salaries two or three times that of the green camp, but the officers’ treatment is even better. There are tens of thousands of taels in total for ministers, silver, etc., and five to six thousand taels for the general army, and a few thousand taels for any battalion officer.

The low-level officers of the team, who are the commander-in-chief, also have generous salaries. If Lu Jianguo and the Nine Kings can find a way to give money to the army first, and support the soldiers well, the imperial battalion will naturally be willing to accept strict military regulations. With a generous pension, he naturally dared to fight and was able to fight.

This is the same as the generous treatment the Tartars gave to the soldiers of the Eight Banners. Why can the Eight Banners fight?
How many times is the treatment of the Eight Banners the Green Camp?
A Ba Yala was given 200 taels of silver for death in battle, 150 taels of silver for death in vest and infantry armor, and even 100 taels of silver for those who died in battle with armor and armor, but how much would a green battalion pay for death in battle?
A cavalry soldier is given 70 taels for death, and an infantry soldier is given 50 taels.

But these have to be listed in the military registers, but many green camp soldiers are not in the official registers, they are overstaffed by the generals, and these are dead, but they have no money.

It is also a soldier to fight, but in the end it has to be divided into the Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, the registered soldiers of the green camp, and the non-registered soldiers. The treatment of the green camp is only a fraction or even less than one-tenth of others.

It was okay when there was no war, at most it was just a dawdling day, but now people get up earlier than chickens, work more than cows, eat worse than pigs, and their lives are in danger at any time, so naturally they cannot continue this job.

Tu Guobao is a big greedy person, and he is very greedy, so he also knows the role of money very well.

"Bashan is about to take the [-] Banners to the Zhenjiang camp to take over the defense. The admiral of Caojiang Chen Jin and the governor of Jiangning Zhang Dayou will go with him. Why don't Fantai go?" My father Yan poured him a cup of tea.

"What does Mr. Yan mean?" Tu Guobao was a little puzzled by this sentence, "Could it be that Ma's meritorious service will be reversed?"

Mr. Yan held his teacup and said to himself, "Chen Jin is responsible for a lot this time. Of course, with his qualifications, he may still have a chance, but if a person dies, there will be no chance at all. Zhang Dayou the same."

"Do you want to be the admiral Cao Jiang and the governor of Anhui, or do you want to be the governor of Jiangning again?"

Tu Guobao was dumbfounded, and looked at Yan Wogong in shock!
(End of this chapter)