Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 669 Liaodong Confucianism: Can flying balls burn cities?Really?I do not believe!

many things,

The difference between the original intention at the beginning and the final result is often the last resort in the process.

For example, take the big reading.

In the beginning, Zhang Haogu and Zhu Youxiao's plan was to hold a ceremony similar to a military parade to show the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and let the diplomatic corps of various countries see how awesome the Ming Dynasty is.

At the beginning, the cabinet was also based on a marching plan for the three major battalions of the capital, including which battalion to dispatch, and where to march from.

But progress is progressing, each of the three major battalions of the capital, each of the three major battalions of the south of the Yangtze River, one of the Northwest Frontier Army, one of the Southern Liaoning Frontier Army, and the third of the Grassland Army, this is a simple march plan. It is not suitable.

Coupled with the enthusiasm of the soldiers and the lieutenants and generals of the military schools, it became a drill.

You can calculate the military expenditure, the number of people dispatched, and the distance of the training. In the end, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and all the money was spent. He might as well spend it in place at once, and let's have an actual combat exercise.

Therefore, the simple parade march turned into dispatching one part of the Fifth Army Battalion, one part of the Three Thousand Battalion, one part of the Shenji Battalion, one part of the Nanjing Fifth Army Battalion, one part of the Shenji Battalion, one part of the Liaonan New Army, and one part of the Trilateral New Army. One, one part of the grassland Baliannadu cavalry, and one part of the Chahar cavalry.

It is planned to mobilize a total of 5000 people, including 5000 cavalry and [-] infantry, including [-] tiger squatting cannons, two hundred cannons, Weiyuan cannons and general cannons, and fifty long snake-breaking arrows , Fifty arrows of leopards running horizontally, [-] arrows of hundreds of tigers running together, and [-] flying balls. The army set off from Gyeonggi and arrived at the Xishan drill site.

After the plan is set, the dispatch order begins.

And such a large-scale mobilization of the Ming army, moving troops from all directions to Gyeonggi, also attracted the attention of interested people, such as Huang Taiji in Liaodong, who missed the Ming Dynasty day and night, and he will never forget it.

First, he was raided in his hometown of Shenyang after a disastrous defeat in Liaodong, and then forced back to Liaodong after a disastrous defeat in the grassland. How could Huang Taiji not be angry?
But now that Liaodong is injured, he can only curl up in Shenyang City and lick his wounds.

For example, his good brother, Dorgon, is not healed from his injury right now.

In fact, compared to Dorgon, Duoduo's injury was worse. Don't look at the arrows on Duoduo's body, but the arrow is tricky. One arrow happened to be shot on the thigh. If it weren't for the cotton armor on Duoduo, it would be really powerful. , I am afraid that Duoduo will not be humane in the future.

But even so, there is something missing under Duduo, so what can I say, it would be nice to keep it.

When this incident happened, Huang Taiji felt deeply guilty. On the one hand, he felt that he was arrogant and conceited. As a result, Mr. Wolong’s good plan for Shenyang failed.

On the other hand, it was the loss of soldiers and generals, not to mention the loss of many of the Eight Banners' disciples, and it also caused great misfortune to his two younger brothers. Dorgon is now injured all over his body, and Duoduo is almost on the verge of losing his children and grandchildren.

So Huang Taiji was heartbroken and tried his best to heal.

In addition to entrusting Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, Wei Gongchao and other Han people with important tasks, he followed the example of the Ming Dynasty to form a cabinet, and appointed those Han gentry who had taken refuge in him as officials to assist him in governing the government. In terms of military affairs, Huang Taiji also learned from Ming Dynasty's military reforms and established a full firearms army.

As for no firearms?

To steal, to rob!
On the one hand, it is to treat the local craftsmen of Liaodong favorably, so that they can study firearms with peace of mind, and on the other hand, they secretly send people to Daming and North Korea to steal their firearms technology.

Liaodong does not lack iron or coal, but it lacks technology.

After going back and forth in this way, Huang Taiji knew the bad news. Daming mobilized troops near Gyeonggi, even mobilized troops from Ganshan and Jiangnan.

Immediately, Huang Taiji felt that something was wrong. Why did the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty mobilize troops and horses to escort food and grass?
Who does he want to hit?

Who else around here is good enough for him to fight?

After thinking about it, Huang Taiji suddenly came to a bad conclusion: the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty must have come after me, right?

The more he thought about it, the more Huang Taiji thought it was possible.

After all, the grasslands have been conquered by the dog emperor, so the dog emperor who claims to be the descendant of the Taizu and the blood of the ancestor, isn't he just conquering the Tatars and conquering Liaodong?

You can't stand thinking about everything, and the more you think about it, the more something is wrong with Huang Taiji, so he invited Wolongfengchu Youlin, who is also the top three cabinet scholars of the Qing Dynasty, to discuss this matter together.

Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, and Wei Gongchao got together to discuss together, and combined with the information they got from the friendly business contacts with the Ming Dynasty, they finally came to the conclusion that the Ming Dynasty was not targeting the Qing Dynasty.

It's good not to target the Qing Dynasty.

After reaching this conclusion, whether it was Huang Taiji or the Eight Banners nobles of the Qing Dynasty, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Right now, the Qing Dynasty really doesn't have the strength to fight Daming, so I really can't fight it anymore.

Since it was not aimed at the Qing Dynasty, why did the Ming Dynasty mobilize troops like this?

Huang Taiji was keenly aware that something must have happened in the Central Plains, otherwise how could the Ming Dynasty mobilize troops like this?

Could it be that there was a rebellion within the Ming Dynasty?
The dog emperor has finally provoked the anger of the heavens and the people, and the gentry of the Ming Dynasty are going to rebel against the Zhu family?

Insufficient intelligence and intelligence, Huang Taiji, who was determined to plant more spies in the Ming Dynasty, cultivated more spies on the one hand, and on the other hand, asked around, and finally got accurate information: No man-made dog emperor rebelled, it was the dog emperor who attacked again. If the battle is won, the one who destroys the country wins the battle. A small country in the southwest was destroyed by the dog emperor!
This news disappointed Huang Taiji, but also made him extremely jealous. Our Qing Dynasty is in a difficult situation, so why is your Ming Dynasty so prosperous?

As the saying goes, watching others make money is more uncomfortable than losing money yourself!
This is how Huang Taiji feels now, why does the Ming Dynasty live so well?

And after receiving the important news that it took only three months before and after the Ming army's attack to destroy the country, and most of the time was still on the march, Huang Taiji's only feeling was fear!

Three months!

What concept? !

It took three months to walk from Gyeonggi to Annan, and it only took three months for the Ming army to attack and destroy the country. How is this possible? !
Thanks to the Ming Dynasty boasting of martial arts, Ming Pao was indeed spread all over the country, and many Da Ming Pao could be seen in Huang Taiji's Qing Dynasty.

The Daming News described in detail how the Ming army went upstream to reach Annan, and how the magic soldiers descended from the sky and burned the rising dragon. This made Huang Taiji mutter: What is the matter with the flying ball?

What happened to the divine soldier descending from the sky?

Then Huang Taiji became worried: If the Ming Dynasty let this flying ball fly to Shenyang, would it also burn me?
For a while, Huang Taiji didn't think about tea and food, thinking hard about how to solve this flying ball problem.

Even in the court hall, Huang Taiji asked all the officials: "The Ming Dynasty has flying balls, which can fly over mountains and burn cities thousands of miles away."

"If one day this flying ball reaches the sky of my Qing Dynasty, how should my Qing Dynasty deal with it?"

In this regard, Wei Gongchao immediately said: "Long live, the sage said, if you don't speak indiscriminately, what is a flying ball? As far as I can see, it is just a Kongming lamp. How can this person go to heaven when he is on the ground?"

"This is just a false show of martial arts!"

"I think it is true that the Ming Dynasty destroyed the country, but it is impossible to use the short period of three months. Annan is far away in Nanyang, and it will take two months for the army to travel thousands of miles. However, there are many mountains and dense forests in the southwest, and the army is marching. Difficult, the battle of Annan will definitely last longer."

"As for the so-called divine soldiers descending from the sky and the sky burning the city, it was just that the Ming army used some Kongming lanterns to ignite the food and grass in Shenglong City. How could there be any divine soldiers descending from the sky? The hypocrisy is just pretending to make us fearful."

The surrounding officials all agreed: "Master Wei is right. It's unheard of for a person to go to heaven. If he goes to heaven, isn't he a god?"

"That's right, how can a person go to the sky? That small Kongming lantern, even if it is magnified ten times, it can't carry people."

"There is a fire candle in this Kongming lantern. If it falls from the sky and happens to land in a pile of firewood or in a granary, there is a real possibility of igniting a fire. This should be the case with the so-called sky burning the city."

Listening to the words of these Han ministers, Huang Taiji felt that something was wrong, but it seemed to make sense, so he couldn't help nodding his head frequently.

Seeing that Huang Taiji recognized his ideas, Wei Gongchao continued to say triumphantly: "My minister thought that my Qing Dynasty could order all places to have water tanks around the firewood piles, and the top of the granary should be sealed with soil to prevent fire attack. Just prepare water sources and order people to patrol more, don’t worry about burning the city.”

Su Mingzhe said: "If the Ming Dynasty really came up with a Kongming lantern that can carry people, so what?"

Wei Gongchao smiled disdainfully and said, "How big is the Kongming Lantern that can carry people? Five feet or ten feet? Not to mention that the Kongming Lantern is made of paper. Even if paper is not used, a Kongming Lantern that big will fly in the sky and fall down after a while? "

"And it is carrying people, how high can it fly? I am a warrior in the Qing Dynasty who is good at shooting. I can detect it a few miles away from the city wall. When I draw my bow, can I still shoot it?"

After saying this, the nobles of the Eight Banners agreed with each other: "That is, I am a warrior of the Eight Banners who is good at riding and shooting, and can pierce the eyes of a roe deer several miles away!"

"Not to mention the roe deer, even the eagle in the sky. I have shot it down before. The eagle is only the size of a finger in the air. If it is a flying ball of several feet, I will definitely shoot it down!"

Seeing this, Huang Taiji had no choice but to skip this topic.

In fact, what he wants to know most is how the Ming Dynasty made flying balls. He wants to see if the Qing Dynasty can also build them, and then imitate the Ming Dynasty and burn the Thang Dragon. The Qing Dynasty also used flying balls to burn the Ming Dynasty. the capital city.

But right now, this idea is doomed to fail.

These ministers didn't believe that there was a flying ball in the Ming Dynasty that could carry people thousands of miles away.

When Huang Taiji was tired, it was worth not thinking about these things. After all, what Wei Gongchao said was also reasonable. How high can a flying ball with a size of several feet fly?
He has seen how high the Kongming Lantern can fly. Not to mention arrows, slingshots can be shot down, so the flying balls of the Ming army are not a concern, right?

Not to mention Huang Taiji's worries, Daming is also very excited now.

The national pride brought by the war of annihilation to the people is extremely strong, and this is something that greatly enhances national pride and national self-confidence.

It's the same as you shouting every day that you will be invincible tomorrow. Is it useful?
Useless!

But if you beat the enemy to the ground on the grassland first, and then run to the mountains in the southwest to grab another enemy and beat him up, and at this time you shout that tomorrow is invincible, everyone will definitely believe it.

Now the Ming Dynasty is like this, defeated Liaodong, pacified the Tatars, and destroyed Annan.

The great tomorrow will be revealed, the country will be great and the people will be proud, and all directions will come to court.

What everyone can see is real.

Today's Ming Dynasty is strong, and the people can really feel it. Whether it is a student, a businessman or a commoner, they can find that today's Daming is really getting stronger and stronger from the surrounding bits and pieces. It is different from before. When other countries The caravan and envoys looked at Daming with awe, looked at the buildings of Daming with admiration, looked at the clothes on the people with envy, and watched the changes in Daming with amazement. The people saw all this and felt a sense of belonging to Daming. , A sense of pride arises spontaneously.

In the cabinet, Zhang Haogu's prestige is unmatched for a while. He not only has political achievements, but also military merits.

Being a general and becoming a prime minister has been the pinnacle of Confucian scholars since ancient times. Now there are only two generals and ministers in the Ming Dynasty. The first one is Yu Qian and Yu Shaobao who won the battle to defend the capital and have the merits of rebuilding the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Haogu, Zhang Taishi, who won a series of wars and personally commanded the war of destroying the country.

Naturally, Zhang Haogu's government orders went through extremely smoothly.

Opening a brochure, Zhang Haogu frowned after looking at it for a few moments: "I remember that I said before that since the new policy, all memorials must be concise and to the point, and waste of pen and ink is strictly prohibited. What's the matter with this brochure?"

How many memorials did the Ming cabinet have to review every day?
If everyone's memorials are written in a thick pile, densely packed with thousands of characters and the theme cannot be written, the time of the court is wasted, and the cabinet is really idle?
After this paper was taken away by the waiter, Zhang Haogu opened the next paper and looked: "Has there been any changes in the Qing army in Liaodong recently?"

"Tune up the excerpts from Chahar."

The waiter sent Chahar's papers, and after discovering that the Ming and Qing troops had made some moves, Zhang Haogu reviewed it and said, "The cabinet transferred troops to send Chahar and southern Liaoning, and ordered Cao Wenzhao, governor of Chahar, to send troops to southern Liaoning. Governor Yuan Chonghuan took strict precautions and sent out sentries to find out the situation in Liaodong. As usual this year, the military expenditures in the grasslands and southern Liaoning have each increased by [-]%, building watchtowers, digging trenches, and continuing to encircle and suppress Liaodong."

After reviewing the papers of the Qing army, another paper was sent from Yunnan. It was Huang Degong's paper on social welfare management.

Zhang Haogu also commented: "Benefits are different from the mainland, and the newly attached land needs to stabilize the people's livelihood. Severe punishment and strict laws are certainly feasible, but the policy of gentleness should not be forgotten. Not only the people need to be appeased, but the gentry also need to be appeased. The imperial court will set up a new Guoxue, this pavilion has approved [-] quotas for Jiaofu."

Zhang Haogu's meaning is very simple. He gave a list of [-] Chinese studies, so that the gentry and dignitaries of Jiaozhi will take the initiative to come forward and give up their land property and turn it into a Ming-style official home. The gentry and dignitaries will not let this opportunity pass.

If it was the mainland, Zhang Haogu would definitely not be bothered to use these methods.

But the situation is different. Not to mention the territory that has just been transformed into the Ming Dynasty, the territory is full of mountains and forests. Once someone wants to play guerrillas with the Ming Dynasty in the mountains and jungles, it will really consume energy.

When Daming's rule in Jiaozhi can be carried out to the township level, Jiaozhi will be completely stable.

After reviewing the paperwork for Jiaozhi, Huang Zongxi sent the paperwork for Jiangnan governor Wang Wenyan. Wang Wenyan stated in the paperwork that he had communicated with the Westerners and would buy three warships from the Hongyi people by barter. It will be shipped during the next trade between the Hongyi people and Daming, and immediately Daming can dismantle these warships to study their structure and use them to manufacture Daming's own warships.

That's good news.

After Zhang Haogu reviewed it, a new copy was delivered, which was about the rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

The memorial stated that there is a lot of rain this summer, and the water level of the Yangtze River system has risen extremely fast. There may be floods. I hope the court will make preparations early.

Zhang Haogu looked at the memorial and frowned. The south has a dense water network and frequent floods, which happen every year, but basically small disasters that affect several prefectures and counties do not affect the overall situation in the south of the Yangtze River.

But once there is a terrible flood that affects several prefectures and even the entire south of the Yangtze River, it will be difficult for the imperial court to control it at that time.

"Tai Chong, bring me all the books about flood control in the south this summer."

Huang Zongxi took out those folders that had been sorted and neatly presented to Zhang Haogu, Zhang Haogu couldn't help frowning: "There are so many."

Huang Zongxi said: "There is a lot of rain today, and all parts of the south of the Yangtze River are preparing for flood control."

Zhang Haogu pondered for a moment, and said: "Well, this pavilion knows."

When everyone was eating at noon, Zhang Haogu said: "Everyone, the rains have been frequent this summer, and all parts of the south of the Yangtze River have requested the imperial court to allocate funds for flood control. What do you think of this matter?"

Huang Liji swallowed his food, took a sip and stroked his beard and said, "Let's do it as usual. There have been constant floods in the south of the Yangtze River this year. It is true that there is more rain this year, but with the accumulation of previous years, it should not happen out of control." thing."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "In my opinion, it is better for the imperial court to issue a special fund for flood control, so that the provinces can control the flood by themselves, dredge the river, and build dams. If there is a problem in this province, or in that section of the river, let the governors of each province, each The prefect is in charge."

Zhang Haogu nodded: "This is a way. The provinces in the south of the Yangtze River face floods all the year round, and they should have more experience than we should. In this case, the imperial court will allocate a sum of money to let the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River take precautions. If it goes on, the money The purpose is to build embankments and prevent floods, so special funds are required, and if they are embezzled, they will take off their official robes and save the court trouble."

Wei Guangwei added: "Should the money and food in the Jiangnan area be transferred this morning to prevent sudden floods?"

Huang Liji said: "Old Wei Ge's words are justified, Yuan Fu, the money and food for the first two seasons in the first half of the year have been transferred well this morning."

Zhang Haogu nodded: "Let's do it this way, send internal letters to all provinces, and urge it."

(End of this chapter)