Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 438 Shuying, is this really Kang Mazi’s battle strategy? (Please subscribe, please vote)
When everything revived in the spring of the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Nanjing, the republican capital of the Ming Dynasty, was already tense and busy before the war.

The smell of gunpowder of war has begun to permeate the air of Nanjing City. There are more and more people wearing military uniforms on the streets. The military camps inside and outside Nanjing City are now full, and officers and soldiers are pulled out for training every day. , lined up in teams, they looked neat.

The 10 dry docks of the Jinling Shipyard on the Yangtze River in the north of Nanjing have all been completed. Each dock is busy, but what exactly is being built is blocked by brown rope nets and light-transmitting gauze. Strictly.Only the tinkling sound of hammering and the energetic chants of the master workers can be heard.

The iron workshops and bronze workshops in Pukou, Jiangbei, were also extremely busy. Dozens and hundreds of tall chimneys were filled with black smoke, and soot and dust were everywhere.The sound of beating wrought iron never stops all day long!

After more than ten years of slow but uninterrupted efforts, the iron, copper and shipbuilding industries of Ming Dynasty are now quite large, at least in terms of scale, and may already be the first in the world!
In addition to the huge iron industry, copper industry, and shipbuilding industry, a heavily guarded ammunition factory has now appeared in the southeast of Nanjing's outer city at the site of the original Great Sacrifice Altar. Its products include gunpowder, cavity bullets, Mini bullets, Hand grenades with wooden handles, artillery shells of various calibers and types - most of these products are hand-made and require a lot of labor. The area around the originally abandoned altar has become an increasingly prosperous new town.

Several ports in Nanjing have been busy since last winter, and even worked overtime during this year's Spring Festival.Grain from Hunan and Hubei, wood from Jiangxi, fire salt from Haizhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Tongzhou (Nantong) and other places using saltpeter collected from the seaside saline-alkali land, pig iron from Xuzhou, and Japan The imported sulfur, the saltpeter smuggled from India, and the mules and horses transported from unknown sources were all hauled to various docks in Nanjing City by boat, and then transported by the officers and officers of the Yamen, the Logistics Director of the General's Mansion. The workers they hired were taken away by the car or directly and sent to the designated warehouse site.

Of course, preparing for war with such great fanfare could not be hidden from the spies of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, and the foreigners!Moreover, it is not just Nanjing that is preparing for war with all its strength, but Ming Dynasty, a large country with a population of 6000 million and covering the nine provinces of Liangjiang, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang, has entered a state of preparation for war. The largest war machine has begun to rotate!

The 80 million Chinese and scholar households scattered across the nine provinces of the Ming Dynasty have received conscription tickets - the strongest among them will be called into the twelve armies directly under the General's Mansion, and the rest will in principle become Rural soldiers who do not leave their homes only need to take turns to serve. If they cannot take turns, they can stay at home and defend their hometown.

Of course, if you are particularly wealthy, but are afraid of death, and do not want to serve in the military, you can also donate a military salary in exchange for exemption from military service.

In addition, recruitment stations were opened in each state capital under the nine provinces of the Ming Dynasty.For those warriors who have not caught up with the Ming Dynasty and achieved military success, and cannot afford the status of nationals and soldiers, but still want to serve in the army and stand out, now they have the opportunity to earn military merits, become nationals, and share the land!

A group of carriages and horses passed through the most prosperous area of ​​Nanjing City and meandered out of the Sanshan Gate of Nanjing's inner city.This team of chariots and horses attracted the attention of many people. The front and rear guards were all Shanziying cuirassiers wearing breastplates and riding horses. Many of them had stab wounds and gunshot wounds on their faces. From the look in their eyes, There is fierceness in it.The carriage they were guarding was a four-wheeled carriage with transparent glass windows.

The glass of this carriage's window is made in Ming Dynasty, not imported from Venice. It can transmit light but is opaque.But the car window can be opened, and from time to time in the car, the head of a blond girl with blue eyes pokes out, looking at everything around her with bright light blue eyes.

This beautiful girl with blonde hair and blue eyes is Natalia Petrovna Leshinskaya, a Rakshasa Cossack from Ukraine.

That's right, this is the motorcade Li Zhongshan took home from get off work.Natalia, a free person and a close translator in the General's Mansion, could have stayed in the dormitory of the General's Mansion, but Li Zhongshan, Zheng Jing, Co Tangtan, Luo Wenzao, Feng Qi, Yu Qilin, Guo Jinbao and others After a meeting to study the situation in Europe, when I was about to go home from work, I saw Natalia waiting there for a long time at the door of the Tobo (office).

This really lovely beauty told him that she was afraid of living in the dormitory of the General's Mansion and wanted to go home with General Li!
Oh, what a coward!

Of course, General Li couldn't let Natalia worry alone in the huge general's mansion, so he took her home.

Seeing Natalia's pleasing appearance, Li Zhongshan just smiled.Now I wonder if Xiao Tu, Xiao Huan, and Xiao Zhi at home can live in harmony with this Natalia?

Natalia closed the car window: "Master, your city is so big! It's bigger than the Sultan's Constantinople!"

This Natalia really knows how to talk!
Although she was "free", when she was alone with Li Zhongshan, she still called "Master" one after another, with a sweet voice that made people's bones go numb.Those big eyes are also very good at pleasing people. The look in Li Zhongshan's eyes is called a heartfelt admiration!
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Nanjing is not my city, but a city of the Ming Dynasty. It should be the largest city in the world. There are 50 people living in the city alone, and the best silk in the world is produced here. The center of China’s banking industry. The cities of Sudan are incomparable!”

Natalia had a charming smile on her face and said in an admiring tone: "It's so great. Only a great general like my master can rule a great city like Nanjing!"

Li Zhongshan just smiled and nodded. This beauty is really good at coaxing people. I don't know if she was trained by the traffickers in Constantinople, but with this set of "kung fu", she can probably win over Xiao Tu. , Xiaohuan, Xiaoji and the three of them are happy.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan stretched out his big hand and hugged Natalia's small waist. Natalia cooperatively leaned on Li Zhongshan's broad and strong shoulders.

During the rest of the journey, neither of them spoke, until the driver suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

Li Zhongshan then patted Natalia's body, and then whispered: "We're here. Natalia Petrovna, do you know the Ming Dynasty's system of monogamy and multiple concubines?"

"I know," Natalia smiled, "Master, I heard this from Master Feng and Master Guo."

Li Zhongshan nodded: "But the situation in my family is different. My eldest wife is the princess of the Xiwang family and the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty. My second wife's brother is the ruler of Korea, a great banker, Yang Qilong, the Duke of Sui Dynasty. .My third wife’s brother is the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty. Although my second wife and third wife are also concubines, you have to treat them as wives.”

"Yes, the slave family knows." Natalia smiled and nodded, looking very coaxing.

Li Zhongshan smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, you will have to be sweeter when you meet my three ladies later!"

Natalia sat up straight, nodded, and said "Yeah" again.

The gate of Li Zhongshan's Prince's Palace has no threshold or steps, so the carriage can drive directly into the gate, go around behind the inner screen wall, and park in front of the Second Palace Gate.

When the car door was opened and Li Zhongshan got out of it, his three lovely wives were already waiting to greet him at the gate of Ergong Gate.Although it is said that Li Zhongshan's three wives all have backgrounds, and there are people in their natal families.But the status of Wu Xiaotuo, a big family member, is more stable than Mount Tai. Both Xiaoxian and Xiaohuan are under her control, and whether it is Xiaoxian's petite beauty or Xiaohuan's plump beauty, they are not as good as "eight". "Facing Guanyin" There is a feeling of flowers turning into green leaves around Wu Xiaotuo.

It is precisely because of this "Eight-faced Guanyin" that Li Zhongshan's back house has always been stable.Of course, there were no newcomers after Wu Xiaoxian. So when Natalia came out of the carriage, Wu Xiaotuo, Wu Xiaoxian, and Yang Xiaohuan were all stunned.However, he was not stunned for long. Wu Xiaotuo was the first to react, and then he greeted his two sisters with a smile: "Xiaohuan, Xiaoji, quickly salute the master."

Only then did Wu Xiaoxian and Yang Xiaohuan react. Together with Wu Xiaotuo, they made a blessing gift to Li Zhongshan and said in unison: "Thank you for your hard work, Master."

Li Zhongshan nodded as a return gift, and then greeted with a smile: "How are you at home?"

This time, it was the mistress Wu Xiaotu who answered alone: ​​"Okay, everything is fine." Then she glanced at Natalia, who was following behind Li Zhongshan, with a low eyebrow and a sweet look, and asked with a smile: "Master , who is this foreign girl?"

"Her name is Natalia Petrovna Leshinskaya."

"Hey, such a long name." Wu Xiaotuo frowned, "I can't remember it!"

At this time, Natalia hurriedly took two steps forward, also made a blessing ceremony, and said with a smile: "Princess, please call my slave Xiaona. This slave was given to the prince by Prince Fuquansky and General Guanyin Baoguan. Slave girl, the prince saw that the slave was pitiful, so he exempted the slave from the slave status and asked the slave to work as his translator. However, the prince and the princess will always be the masters of the slave." Wu Xiaotuo saw that Natalya's posture was so low, and he was not happy. No matter how hard he tried to make things difficult for her, he smiled slightly and said, "Xiao Na, don't just salute to me. The Second Madam and the Third Madam are also your masters!"

"Yes." Natalia responded and gave a blessing gift to Wu Xiaoxian and Yang Xiaohuan each.

Wu Xiaotuo said to Yang Xiaohuan again: "Xiaohuan, please arrange for Xiaona to live in Qingzhuyuan."

"Yes." Yang Xiaohuan agreed, and then said to Natalie with a smile, "Xiao Na, come with me."

"Yes, Second Madam." Natalie replied and followed Yang Xiaohuan.

But Li Zhongshan felt a little bad in his heart. Qingzhuyuan was not close to Tongten Pavilion where he lived. When he wanted to learn foreign languages ​​at night, it was not convenient to find someone!Why didn’t Xiaotu arrange for Natalia to live in Wenxinxuan?

Seeing Natalia leaving with Yang Xiaohuan, Li Zhongshan felt a little reluctant to leave.

"Your Majesty," Wu Xiaotuo spoke again at this time, "Wenxinxuan has guests."

"Is there a guest at Wenxinxuan?" Li Zhongshan was stunned, "When did you arrive?"

"I came in through the third east gate at noon today," Wu Xiaoxian took over the topic, "Except for the slave and the eldest sister, no one in the family knows."

Li Zhongshan nodded and said: "I'm going to Wen Xinxuan right away. Don't let the rest of the crowd wait to come to Wen Xinxuan! Xiaoxian, bring me dinner. It's for two people. Just a few side dishes will do."

After saying this, Li Zhongshan picked up his running skills and hurriedly entered the Second Palace Gate, and then walked all the way to the depths of the palace, passed through several gate towers, turned a few more turns, and finally entered the palace next to Mo In the back garden of Chou Lake, he stopped outside a locked small courtyard door, then took out the key, unlocked the door, then pushed the door open and walked in.As soon as he entered the door, a lazy female voice came from a small building with several open windows in the yard: "Who is it?"

"It's me, Li Zhongshan!"

Li Zhongshan closed the moon door of the small courtyard, turned around and was about to walk into the small building. The closed door of the small building creaked open, and a man wearing a white jacket, a green hat and a green trousers walked out of the door. The beautiful woman in a horse-faced skirt and a little bit of pink and white came to Li Zhongshan and knelt down: "I would like to invite you, your Majesty Jin'an."

Li Zhongshan smiled and stretched out his right hand, gave the beautiful woman a virtual support, and said with a smile: "Shuying, what gust of wind brought you here?"

This beautiful woman turned out to be Princess Pingnan of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Shang Shuying, the general manager of the Mongolian East India Trading Company.

Although Shang Shuying's position as general manager of the Mongolian East India Company was arranged by Li Zhongshan, she took up this position as a princess of the Zhou Dynasty and a princess of the Qing Dynasty, and it was Wu Guogui who officially recommended her as the general manager - outsiders do not know. Those who knew the inside story thought they had some special relationship!
Moreover, after Shang Shuying became the general manager, she did not formally go south to visit Li Zhongshan, nor did she publicly say anything about "the revenge of killing her father is nothing to care about". Otherwise, she would not be good in the Zhou and Qing Dynasties. Active.

But privately, she had come to Nanjing to apologize to Li Zhongshan before. After apologizing, Li Zhongshan settled down with her. It was quite frank to meet her frankly!

After that, Shang Shuying officially took refuge with Li Zhongshan and began to collect intelligence for Li Zhongshan in the Qing Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, this is not the place to talk. Please come inside."

Shang Shuying did not answer Li Zhongshan's question immediately, but took his arm and entered the small building. Then she closed the doors and windows tightly, then invited Li Zhongshan to sit down, and poured two glasses for Li Zhongshan and herself. Tea, and then sat down next to Li Zhongshan.Next, she told Li Zhongshan an astonishing news: "Your Majesty, the Nu family went to Beijing this time and spent a lot of money to get a copy of the Northern Qing Dynasty from a very trusted first-class guard in Prince Gong's Mansion. A copy of the battle strategy!”

"Beiqing's combat strategy?" Li Zhongshan was surprised, "Can this be achieved? Is it true?"

Shang Shuying said: "The authenticity cannot be completely confirmed at the moment, but there are many signs that can still be verified."

"Oh, really?" Li Zhongshan asked, "Where is the copy of the battle strategy?"

Shang Shuying said with a smile: "It is such an important thing. Of course I will take it with me. I will take it out and show it to you, Your Majesty."

As she spoke, she did not avoid Li Zhongshan, but undressed and took off her belt in front of him. When she had taken off all her clothes and only had a close-fitting garment left on her upper body, she took it out from a small pocket on the inside of her clothes. He picked up an envelope and presented it to Li Zhongshan with both hands.

Li Zhongshan glanced at her, and then took the envelope with a smile. The envelope was not sealed, so Li Zhongshan easily took out the letter paper inside. It was just two thin sheets, and it was not in a rough format, but it was the manuscript of a memorial. .Looking at the tone of the Chinese characters in the letter, it seems that it was a note given to Kangxi by Prince Gong Chang Ning.

The content of this "excerpt" is a rough battle plan.The key points of this plan are two. One is to "borrow teachers to assist in the suppression". That is to use the power of the Spanish, Dutch, English, and Portuguese to deal with the Ming Dynasty!A specific method was also proposed, which is Japanese pirate tactics!

Taking advantage of the maritime advantages of the foreigners, they transported Japanese pirates to the southeast coast to cause destruction, attracting the main force of the Ming Dynasty's army to divide their forces for defense.

The second key point is to lure the enemy deep into the country, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and defend one country and one city!Specifically, the main battlefield of the decisive battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was placed around the city of Beijing!
First, lure the enemy deep into the territory and clear the country in the northern Zhili territory, making it difficult for the Ming army to raise supplies on the spot.At the same time, the entire Qing Dynasty concentrated its efforts to defend Beijing.They tried hard to force the Ming army to attack the fortified city of Beijing, and then used light cavalry to plunder the grain roads behind the Ming army, causing the Ming army to fall into a desperate situation of siege and exhaustion of grain and grass.

At the same time, the richest southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty was attacked and destroyed by foreigners and Japanese pirates. Li Zhongshan could only regretfully withdraw his troops.After Li Zhongshan withdrew his troops, the Qing Dynasty gathered all the troops from the country, then covered up the killing and beat up the drowned dog!

After reading the draft of the memorial, Li Zhongshan fell into deep thought.

This plan is quite difficult to deal with!

If the Ming Dynasty wants to achieve greater results in this Northern Expedition, it must at least push it to the front line of the Great Wall in North Zhili. In other words, it must capture the city of Beijing!
Moreover, if Kangxi really adopted the strategy of "one country defending one city", then Li Zhongshan would have no reason to give up the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Qing Dynasty. If the main force of the Qing Dynasty were annihilated, it would not push it to the Great Wall line, but could push the Northeast Also won together with Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia.

The Zhou Kingdom in the west will also be greatly frightened and may eventually leave Central Asia without a fight.
Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan turned his attention to Shang Shuying, who was already fully dressed: "Shuying, is this really Kang Mazi's combat strategy? You just said you could verify it, so what's going on?"

(End of this chapter)