Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 358 Duke Ji

Laba.

Yan Wogong, the manager of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, sent the people in the city to deliver Laba porridge to the Ming army early in the morning. The city of Nanjing has now begun to supply food in a limited amount, but Yan Wogong still tightened his belt and gritted his teeth to deliver it to the Ming army outside the city. Laba porridge was delivered with grain, and carts of grain were moved out, for fear that the Ming army would not have a good time during the Laba Festival.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. I have sent someone to clean up the imperial city and Miyagi. Your Majesty can celebrate the New Year in the Imperial Palace."

Zhu Yihai and Yan Wogong drank Laba porridge under the imperial wall of Xiaoling Mausoleum in Zhongshan.

"If I enter the Nanjing Imperial Palace, then you won't be able to stay in Nanjing City anymore. The Qing troops from all over the place probably won't try their best to save them."

Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to enter Nanjing, nor did he want to enter the Nanjing Palace.

"Your Majesty has already figured out a perfect countermeasure. I pretended that I couldn't get the money to redeem the city. Your Majesty was angry and attacked the city. I just sent some disobedient generals and soldiers in Nanjing to guard them. When the time comes, the imperial camp will defeat them and seize them." In the imperial city of Miyagi, I will lead my troops to defend the line of the Qinhuai River to the west of the palace. In this way, the Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake from Tongji Gate in the south to Taiping Gate in the north will be the boundary. .”

Yan Wogong suggested that at that time, we can take the opportunity to open a wave of cities and let some Nanjing people go out of the city, so as not to be trapped in the city of starvation.Of course, he didn't intend to let those collaborators and traitors go. These are fat sheep, and he planned to beat them hard, and he didn't intend to let go of their little possessions.

"How are you mastering the soldiers and horses in Nanjing now?" Zhu Yihai asked.

"After the deaths of Chen Jin, Chen Tai, Zhang Dayou, and Bashan generals, Ma Guozhu, Tu Guobao, Liu Yingbin and others went out to rescue soldiers. The minister guarded Jiangning alone, and looked for an opportunity to send the prefect Lin Tianqing to His Majesty's side as a prisoner. , the rest of the Governor’s Biaoying, the Governor’s Biaoying and other officers who refused to obey were also seized by the ministers last time, and finally forced them to mutiny, and then took the opportunity to win.

Now in the entire Jiangning City, there are [-] soldiers, and the middle and upper-level officers are basically their own people, and most of the officers and soldiers below are willing to obey orders.

The minister organized another [-] battalions of [-] strong people to help defend, but those people had no armor or weapons, just pretending. "

Hearing this result, Zhu Yihai was very satisfied.

This is equivalent to the fact that he has not yet entered Nanjing, but Nanjing has changed color secretly, and basically it is controlled by his own people.

Yan Wogong and his lieutenant-generals, who were in charge of the army, scattered a lot of money and continued to reorganize. They are quickly turning these soldiers in Nanjing into their private army.

It is precisely because of this that Lord Yan made a proposal to invite the emperor to enter the palace.

Now the news of the Ming army's great victory in Zhenjiang and the siege of Nanjing has begun to spread to various places, followed by the news of Zhu Yihai's enthronement in Xiaoling.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, countless people on both sides of the Yangtze River who were shaken by these news could not calm down.

Yan Wogong intends to send some craftsmen to the Ming military camp before taking the opportunity to let some people in the city go out. It is clear that the money is exchanged for redemption of the city silver. In fact, of course, it is to use the information held by the Qing government in Jiangning City. It is better to send these talents to the emperor.

"Strictly obey the order!" Zhu Yihai said loudly.

My father Yan got up quickly, then knelt down to accept the imperial edict.

"I will make you the Duke of Ji, and Xu's descendants will inherit and replace you forever!"

Mr. Yan was stunned by this reward.

"Your Majesty, I am a minister who only has a little merit, how dare I accept this award, I dare not accept it."

"Yan Qing, you are the second duke of the state named by me. The first one is Zheng Zhilong, the duke of the Pingguo. But in my eyes, your contribution far exceeds that of Zheng Zhilong. You are still lurking in the enemy camp. This way The decree can only be kept secret. When Yanjing is recovered in the future, I will definitely proclaim it grandly for you!"

A strict man is better than a hundred thousand tigers.

With such great achievements, Zhu Yihai never hesitated to be granted the title of a hereditary Duke.

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La Jiu.

In Jiangning city.

Jinglue Yan Wogong basically has complete control over Jiangning’s military and political power, and several civil and military officials, such as Daotai, generals, and guerrillas, who are still focused on their own affairs, have basically been killed or hacked by Yan Wogong for reasons. Whether it is transparency, or cowardice, or corruption, anyway, Yan Wogong has the final say now, and it is very easy to kill them.

"Yesterday, I asked to send a batch of grain to appease the Ming army. As a result, some people dared to tamper with these grains, mixed old grains and old rice with those grains, and even mixed mud and sand for me. It is really audacious. Now King Ming Furious, or I will pay him 100 million taels of silver."

"What do you say about this matter?"

Yan Jinglue swept across the civil and military officials attending the meeting with a murderous look.

A dozen people were trembling there.

Someone couldn't help but said, "Then King Ming is just making excuses, besides, now that the two countries are fighting each other and besieging the city, how can there be any reason to give the Ming army the Laba with the little food in the city?"

"The lower official thinks that one tael of silver and one grain of rice can no longer be given to the Ming army in the future. That is an enemy!"

My father Yan glanced at him, "Zhao Tongzhi, you are responsible for the Laba food this time, but now that something happened, you can't get rid of it."

Immediately, a Jingbiao general came forward and produced a bunch of definite evidence to testify against Zhao Tongzhi's embezzlement and embezzlement of grain, and even sold the embezzled grain at a high price on the black market.

There are hundreds of participants.

Not only many Jiangning officials participated in it, but also many big households and grain merchants in the city were also involved.

"Zhao Tongzhi, there are all the witnesses and material evidence, what else do you want to say?"

Zhao Tongzhi trembled, knowing that he would not be able to survive under Yan Tiemian's command, so he gave it up and pointed at my father-in-law Yan and yelled, "Yan, you are just a low-ranking person with no talent or virtue. But as a manager of the five provinces, you have no ability, except to make Jiangnan more chaotic and worse, can you save half of the situation?

You are the most responsible for the current situation in Jiangnan! "

"I am not responsible. Whether I have the ability is not up to you." Yan Wogong sneered, "But now you dare to embezzle and embezzle under my rule and shake the morale of the army. .”

"There are also those fellows who dared to spread the wealth of the country and the war, all of them were dragged out and chopped up, and their property was confiscated!"

After the dozen or so officials were dragged away, the atmosphere in the hall became more solemn.

"Let's get down to business. It's hard to get reinforcements right now. We still need to stabilize King Ming to delay the time."

"Give me the money." Someone said.

Some people think that this is a bottomless pit, and the King of Lu has no credibility. The two envoys Chen Hongfan and Qian Qianyi have sent 200 million taels of silver and 10 taels of gold before.

Then they gave another 250 million taels of silver.

The redemption of the city silver is still 800 million taels short.

Now it is fined another 100 million taels.

When is this a head.

What's more, the previous several million taels of silver are the result of scraping the land from Jiangning City several times.

"There's really no way to get the money out."

"There is not enough food in the city."

"Now some people in the city have started to attack beggars. The yamen has received many reports that many beggars have disappeared. It is said that they have been taken into captivity to make rice meat..."

Yan Wogong looked at these people, "Then you mean not to give it?"

"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, my lord Jinglue!"

"Ha ha."

Yan Wogong waved his hand and announced the adjournment of the meeting.

(End of this chapter)