Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 280 Kang Mazi, quickly sign the unequal treaty for paying tribute and claiming vassal status! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Father, look, this is Bailuoji. It is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River and more than [-] miles west of Honghu Lake. Although it is surrounded by plains, the water network is dense and the rice fields are everywhere. It is very difficult for the army to attack from the land. Son Shijue has been ordered to build a fortress in Bailuoji and set up dozens of red-clothed cannons and red-clothed small cannons to block the river and land attack channels, so as to be safe!"

".This is Chenglingji, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is a three-fork intersection. The Yangtze River and Dongting Lake meet here. It is not only the gateway of Jingzhou, but also the gateway of Hunan, and the gateway of Baling, the capital of Yuezhou. There must be no mistakes! So the son asked Wei Wanchu to lead his elite Houwuwei army to guard Chenglingji, and also expanded the castle of Chenglingji, and also deployed dozens of red-clothed cannons and red-clothed small cannons. "

The person who was introverted at the Pingxi Palace in Xiangyang City, pointing to a map hanging on a screen, and reporting to Wu Sangui the deployment of Yuezhou Mansion, which had been assigned to the Wu family, was Wu Sangui's adopted son, General Jinwuwei, and Wu Guogui, the governor of Hunan. .

Now the land exchange between Wu and Li on Huguang's side has been completed under the auspices of Li Fuchen, an enthusiastic man who is fond of resolving the struggle. Yuezhou Mansion, which controls the entrance of Jingjiang and Dongting Lake, has become Wu Guogui's defense zone.

In order to concentrate on the management of Shaanxi and the Central Plains, Wu Sangui allocated a section of the river bank area belonging to Jingzhou Prefecture on the north bank of the Yangtze River to Yuezhou Prefecture so that Wu Guogui could fortify both sides of the Yangtze River, completely blocking the waterway of the Yangtze River, and cutting off Li Zicheng's westward advance. the road.

And Wu Guogui's actions were also very fast. In just a month or two, he had turned the Bailuoji fortress in the north of the Jiangbei into a fortress, and at the same time strengthened the defense of Chenglingji in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Well, the soldiers at the beginning were all left to him by Qi Sansheng, the most elite, and he will be safe to guard Chenglingji. But we only defend and not attack. How is the navy doing? When will we be able to fight with Li Zicheng? Will this traitor's Yangtze River Navy compete?"

Wu Sangui obviously hasn't given up on his plan to go down the river, but his navy is really not enough to look at—Wu Sangui, a "rebel collector" only collects intruders and western thieves when collecting rebels, and doesn't pay attention After collecting pirates, he found out that none of his men were good at water warfare when they reached the Yangtze River Basin.What's more, Li Zicheng, who was supposed to be a landlubber from Shaanxi, lived on the banks of the Yangtze River for a long time, and actually pulled up a decent Yangtze River Navy.

So Wu Sangui also had to go down the steps given by Li Fuchen, so as not to be hanged and beaten by his deadly enemy Li Zicheng on the Yangtze River!

However, Wu Guogui still found a talent for Wu Sangui who really understands the navy, that is, Lin Xingzhu, who originally belonged to the pirate camp, but later moved to the Qing Dynasty as a second minister, and was thrown in Hunan as a general.

This is a professional pirate, and he is also amphibious. He can not only sail a boat to fight water battles, but also lead rattan soldiers ashore to fight land battles.

So Wu Guogui entrusted him with the important task of running the Yangtze River Navy!

However, running a naval division is not running a land division. Although the so-called "[-]-year navy" is exaggerated, it is inevitable that it will take a few years to build a "Jiangjun" that can be used.

Not to mention anything else, but there is no rush for shipbuilding.Li Zicheng has a ready-made Hankou shipbuilding industry that can be used, but it is very difficult for Wu Guogui and Lin Xingzhu.Although both Changsha and Yuezhou can build ships, they are still far behind when compared with Hankou, where the whole world gathers.

Wu Guogui shook his head: "Father, it is difficult to build a naval army, and it is even more difficult to build a warship. There is no rush. My son has already ordered Lin Xingzhu to set up a naval camp on Junshan Island in Dongting Lake, and also set up a naval camp in Changsha." The shipyard also hired a group of highly skilled shipwrights from Guangdong through Xiaotu’s relationship, and planned to build some gunboats that can travel freely on the Yangtze River, Xiangjiang River, and Dongting Lake. However, to build high-quality warships, it is still necessary You have to choose high-quality wood, and these woods have to be dried in the sun before they can be used.”

The shipyard has to be opened fresh, the shipbuilder has to go to Guangdong to recruit, and the wood for shipbuilding has to be chopped and sun-dried
Wu Sangui also sighed, pondered for a while, and asked again: "Then, have you and Xiaotu understood the 'Sharp Spear' of Lu Bu's family?"

"Understood." Wu Guogui nodded and said, "There is no magic spear at all. Li Zhongshan invented a special 'Zhongshan Gunzier', which can be used for long-range shooting with a rifled gun. Two or three hundred steps No problem, and it reloads quickly."

"What's a Zhongshan gun? What's a rifled gun?" Wu Sangui frowned, "Can we make it ourselves?"

"Yes!" Wu Guogui said, "Xiaotu entrusted someone to send me a sample, and I'll send it to you to have a look later. In addition, I have already asked the gunsmith below, and they can make it, but"

"But what?"

"However, it's very slow to make!" Wu Guogui said, "It's inherently slow to make a gun. It takes more than half a month to toss a single barrel, and then cut the rifling on the inner wall of the iron pipe. This is even more labor-intensive. There are few craftsmen in the first place, and it may be impossible to mass-produce rifled guns.

In addition, the rifling of this rifled gun will be smoothed, and after being ground, it will be the same as a smoothbore gun.It’s really easy to use but hard to make, and the price is too expensive!Let Xiaotu figure it out, the cost of training and equipping a flintlock rifleman can make a small red cannon that fires six catties of shells! "

It is precisely because the flintlock rifle is easy to use, but it is difficult to manufacture and the price is more expensive, so Li Zhongshan asked Wu Xiaotu to send samples of the rifled rifle and Minie bullets to Wu Guogui—the rifled gun is compared to metallurgy and forging handicrafts scale!
The craftsmanship of rubbing rifle guns is not difficult. In history, the craftsmen of Kangxi's Yangxindian Manufacturing Office could rub them out (Migne bullets must not be available), and they can be seen in museums of later generations. It is still a matchlock rifle. gun.But this thing can't be rubbed a few times a year, it's enough to play with Kangxi's little white rabbit, don't count on it to equip the troops.

However, in order to produce enough rifled guns to equip the army, there is only one town in Foshan that has this kind of production capacity in China today.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan was not afraid of the spread of the technology of rifled guns and Minie bullets at all, and he was not even worried that Wu Sangui and Wu Guogui quietly bought a batch of rifled guns from Foshan Town to equip troops.

Because this hand-wrought rifle is really expensive, the price of a flintlock musket produced in Foshan Town is sold to the Guangdong Navy Yamen for five taels of silver, and the price of a flintlock rifle is based on this. Double it, that is ten taels of silver!
If outsiders want to buy from Foshan Town, they need the approval of Dai Zi, the General Quartermaster of the Guangdong Navy, through legal channels, and the price of illegal channels will at least double. That is 30 taels!This price allows Zheng Jinglai to buy a lot, but where does Wu Sangui get so much money?

And to train a qualified rifled soldier, at least one brand new rifled gun must be scrapped!
For the Guangdong Navy, the cost of training a rifleman with guns, gunpowder and bullets is at least 20 taels of silver!

In addition, after completing the training, you have to give a brand new rifled gun with a certain amount of ammunition, as well as helmets, breastplates, bayonets and other various equipment for five taels of silver a month. "Deputy chief" military pay (this is a preferential salary for veterans and technical arms), and an additional reward will be given at the end of the year.

So the Guangdong Navy is so rich, and they still guard a town of Foshan where they can rub a large number of rifled guns by hand. In total, they have trained a total of a thousand or hundreds of rifled soldiers, all of whom are like treasures.

Because Li Fuchen was Li Zhongshan's father, he also had [-] riflemen, and Li Zhongshan also brought [-] riflemen to the Huaixi Army.People like Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao had a close relationship with Li Zhongshan, and each of them had one or two hundred riflemen.

As for the other forces in China, there is no organized rifleman yet.But when Wu Sangui heard that this rifled gun was really more expensive than a cannon, he lost interest all at once. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more artillery with that spare money?
"This rifled gun is more expensive than a cannon, so what are you going to do? Let's get more cannons. We didn't have enough horses in the past, and we couldn't use them if we made cannons. Now that the second child has taken Gansu, he can buy horses from the Western Regions. Finally, we can get more artillery teams."

"Father Wang is wise!" Wu Guogui said with a smile all over his face, "We only need to get more cannons, and we can blast the city wall of Xi'an, take Xi'an, and father Wang will have three points of the world in his hands. Then the third prince Zhu has become a courtier!"

This is persuading!

There are quite a few people who have persuaded Wu Sangui to come in these days, and there are auspicious signs appearing every few days!

But Wu Sangui is very modest, saying that his virtue seems to be a bit lacking. Therefore, he cannot become emperor in a small place like Xiangyang or Jiangling.

This ancient time full of imperial spirit seems to be Xi'an and Luoyang!And Xi'an's royal spirit is obviously stronger than that of Luoyang. Xi'an is not only the former capital of the Fourteen Dynasties!Moreover, the most recent dynasty, the Dashun Dynasty, which established its capital in Xi'an, was destroyed because of Wu Sangui. The aura of Dashun should have been transferred to Wu Sangui.

So Wu Sangui felt that he should be enthroned in Xi'an, and the country name should be Zhou, so that it would last for a long time.

Wu Sangui was twirling his beard, thinking about handing over the defense of Huguang to Wu Guogui and then leading his troops to attack Xi'an, when he suddenly heard someone shouting from a distance: "My lord, my lord, great joy!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Hexi Your Majesty!"

"I congratulate the king!"

Wu Sangui was taken aback, because he could hear the voices from Liu Xuanchu, Fang Guangchen, and Wang Shirong. Why did these three come to "Congratulations, congratulations" today?Did they also discover auspiciousness?But they had never had any auspiciousness before, did they think about it today?
In addition, Liu Xuanchu has been in Nanyang, why did he come to Xiangyang today?Is this auspiciousness coming from Nanyang?
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui turned around and walked a few more steps, sat on his throne, and then ordered the guards outside the door: "Please come in, three military advisers!"

Not long after he finished speaking, he saw Liu Xuanchu, Fang Guangchen, and Wang Shirong coming in from the door together, but there was one more person, and it was actually Wu Shifan.The four of them all looked cheerful and lucky, they walked up to Wu Sangui together, saluted and said in unison: "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

"Pingshen, let's all sit down. Shifan, you're here too? Sit down too." Wu Sangui waved his hand, motioning for the three military advisers and his grandson Wu Shifan to take their seats, and then said to Wu Guogui: "Young three, sit down too. "

"Yes, Father."

Fang Guangchen, Wang Shirong, Liu Xuanchu, and Wu Guogui all took their seats, but Wu Shifan did not. Instead, he took out an envelope and handed it to Wu Sangui with both hands: "Grandpa, look at this!"

"This is." Wu Sangui took the envelope and looked at it, and was also taken aback, "Aixinjueluo Xuanye, this is Kangxi?"

"Kangxi's personal letter!" Wu Shifan said, "it was sent to Nanyang by Li Guangdi, Kangxi's imperial servant. The son found some Kangxi's handwriting and corrected the handwriting. It is indeed an authentic Kangxi!"

"What did you write?" Wu Sangui stretched out his right hand while asking, Wu Guogui quickly stood up and went to a desk beside him to get reading glasses for him.

"Grandpa, Kangxi said in a letter that there were rebels in his country!"

"Huh?" Wu Sangui rolled his eyes, traitor?Is that me?
"Grandpa, don't misunderstand that the traitor Kangxi is talking about this time is his brother Yuwang Fuquan, the one who forged the Shunzhi edict to make himself the regent!"

"Oh, so the Manchus wanted brothers to kill each other?" Wu Sangui had already taken out the letter paper and read it carefully.

"Grandpa, you are holy," Wu Shifan said with a smile, "Kangxi couldn't bear Fuquan anymore, and was going to attack Fuquan, because he was afraid that we would take the opportunity to stab him in the back, so he wanted to stabilize us first, so he proposed in the letter that he should follow Shi Jingtang's example and demand Ceded the land of Guanzhong to us, and recognize my father as a foster father in exchange for our reinforcements!"

"What, what? Recognize your father as a adoptive father? Then he has become my grandson?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, and quickly read the letter at a glance, "The letter didn't say that you want to recognize your father, it just wants to cede the land. Make good friends, borrow the teacher to help suppress."

"Father, maybe this Kangxi really couldn't save face and wrote it in black and white?" Wu Guogui also put on a smile, and interjected, "But as long as we can get the land in Guanzhong, who cares about him?"

"The third master is in trouble," Liu Xuanchu interjected, "just cutting the land is not enough!"

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Military Master, I don't like this pockmarked Kangxi!"

"My lord," Liu Xuanchu said, "it doesn't really matter whether Kangxi recognizes you as a grandfather. Shunzhi used to call that foreign monk Tang Ruowang Tang Mafa, which means Grandpa Tang. Shi Jingtang's nephew Shi Chonggui in history In the letter of credence given to Khitan after ascension to the throne, he was called a grandson but not a vassal, so it doesn’t matter whether he is called a grandson or not, the key is to be a vassal!"

Fang Guangchen also nodded and said: "Your Majesty, Kangxi only said that he recognized his father and ceded the land, he didn't mention being a minister, and he didn't mention paying tribute. In fact, he just wanted to play tricks with you. He wanted to get your support for nothing!"

Wang Shirong also said: "My lord, if Kangxi pays tribute to you and becomes a minister, then Daqing will be your vassal, and you will be able to regain the lost land in the north in terms of title. Moreover, Kangxi is the emperor, and you are the suzerain of the emperor. It's appropriate, and of course we should advance to the throne and proclaim ourselves emperor!"

"That's right!" Wu Sangui stroked his beard, "If this old man becomes the suzerain of the Qing Dynasty and regains the capital of the Fourteen Dynasties, it is obvious that he has obtained the destiny!"

"Yes, yes! Grandpa, when the time comes, you should obey the destiny and become emperor!"

Wu Sangui stroked his beard again, "But the old man is going to be the emperor, so what about the third prince Zhu?"

"Of course the third prince Zhu can't be emperor! Anyway, he hasn't become emperor yet." Wu Guogui smiled, "Father, you only need to confer titles on Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan, Liu Jinzhong, Li Laishun, Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua Waiting for someone to be king, the third prince Zhu is naturally a naked man. At worst, you can also make him a king, and let him enjoy the glory and wealth for generations."

Wu Sangui nodded, the method of his three sons was quite good, he made a few more kings, and absorbed all the military leaders who praised the third prince Zhu.Then when Kangxi and Fuquan fires are over, they will take the group of vassal kings in the southeast to join the Northern Expedition to completely eradicate the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, and the Great Zhou will be able to rule the world. Perfect!
Thinking of this, he looked at his three military divisions again.

Liu Xuanchu smiled and said: "The third master's method is good. Although there are a little more vassal kings in the world, as long as you can expel the Tartars and restore China, and then go straight to Huanglong, you will be able to gradually cut down these vassals in the future. "

I have already thought about cutting down the domain. I don't know if there will be another chaos in the Nine Domains by then?
Fang Guangchen said with a smile: "Xuan Chu, you are thinking too far. Let's take care of the present first. This Kangxi has not yet said that he will be a minister, and this Guanzhong land has not yet been cut into our hands."

Wang Shirong has been serving as Wu Sangui's envoy for the past two years, of course he would not miss this opportunity, and immediately said to Wu Sangui: "Your Majesty, I can go to Xi'an!"

Wu Sangui shook his head with a smile: "Shirong, this time's matter cannot be done just by relying on your three inches!"

"My lord, do you want to." Wang Shirong rolled his eyes, "Send troops to Guanzhong to force Kangxi to cede land, pay tribute, and become a minister?"

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "That's right, this king is going to send troops! Kangxi sent an envoy to say this, which shows that he is close to the end of the road, and there is no other way except to agree to our request.

As long as the king personally brings a hundred thousand troops to the city of Xi'an, this Kangxi will definitely submit!
Xianting, Xuanchu, Shirong, the three of you, go and discuss with Li Guangdi a covenant called Kangxi to cede land, pay tribute, and become a minister. In the end, let Li Guangdi bring the covenant back to Xi'an, and the old man will lead an army to the city. "

His covenant, in fact, has a more accurate name called "unequal treaty"!
That's quite unequal. The Qing Dynasty not only wanted to cede land, but also to pay tribute, but also to be a minister. This really bullied Kangxi to death!
But now Kangxi has no choice. He is already going to be Shi Jingtang, so can he still rely on an unequal treaty of treason?

Therefore, Li Guangdi did not argue with Liu Xuanchu, Fang Guangchen, and Wang Shirong, but directly drafted a treaty with Wu Sangui according to Wu Sangui's wishes, and then returned to Xi'an with the draft treaty.

The first unequal treaty of the Qing Dynasty was placed in front of Emperor Kangxi in this way!
(End of this chapter)