Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 247 Chongzhen: I want to drive my own conquest

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youjian, Li Banghua, Man Gui, and Hou Shilu are doing war games around a sand table map.

"Man Aiqing, how do you think we can put down the puppet Qi?"

Looking at the sand table, Zhu Youjian said calmly, since the fall of Jiangnan, he no longer has any hope for those civil officials. Those people will only fight for power and profit, and frame each other. If you want to rely on those people to regain the lost land, it is better to go earlier Sleep and see if there is such a beautiful dream in your dream.

"Your Majesty, now that the puppet Qi has become a climate, it may be very difficult to put down the puppet Qi."

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Man Gui shook his head and said.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian was not angry either. He was prepared for Man Gui's answer, because he himself could not think of a way to put down the puppet Qi. Now the puppet Qi has 60 million soldiers and horses. He wants to put down the puppet Qi. , easier said than done.

"Then Man Aiqing thinks how Daming can break the situation now?"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youjian asked again. Although he no longer cares about the mess in the court, it doesn't mean that he really doesn't even read the memorial. Now that the cabinet handed over the memorial, he still has it. It's just that he didn't approve it, and let those people arrange it themselves.

Don't those people like to fight?
Now he doesn't care about it, let those people fight to their heart's content, anyway, now Daming lacks everything except those who want to be officials, and it would be better to clear out a group of aggressive ones.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the only way to break the situation now is to reorganize the Beijing camp and organize a battle-ready army."

After thinking for a while, Man Gui said: "First put down the rebellion in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, and then concentrate all our forces to fight to the death with the puppet Qi and regain the lost land."

The biggest problem for Ming Dynasty now is that there are no soldiers to fight, those guard soldiers are useless at all, and it is impossible to rely on those guard soldiers to recover Jiangnan.

To rectify the Beijing camp?

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian fell into deep thought. He also sent Li Banghua to rectify the Beijing camp before, but in the end it didn't work.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Banghua and said, "Li Aiqing, I sent you to rectify the Beijing camp before. How do you think we can rectify the Beijing camp?"

Rectify the Beijing camp?
Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Banghua couldn't help but smile wryly in his heart. If he knew how to rectify the Beijing camp, why would he be impeached and finally demoted from office.

But now that Zhu Youjian has asked, he can't say that he doesn't know. After thinking about it, Li Banghua said: "Return to Your Majesty, the current Beijing camp is rotten to the bone. Forming cliques has long been the norm, and it is impossible to rectify the Beijing camp."

"Moreover, most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp today are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rectification is just a waste of time. Instead of thinking about how to rectify the Beijing camp, it is better to draw out all the young and strong in the Beijing camp and reorganize them. First battalion, further training."

The Beijing camp has been rotten to the bone. The generals, relatives, eunuchs, and tyrants of the Beijing camp all pretended to be strong men in the army with their own servants, and received a monthly salary. When he reorganized the Beijing camp last time, he cleaned it up. A batch, and the result is that he was impeached by the censors in turn, and finally demoted to go home.

If you want to rectify the Beijing camp, you can only say, just think about it, unless all the generals, relatives, eunuchs, and tyrants of the Beijing camp can be driven out of the Beijing camp, otherwise it will be useless.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian fell into deep thought. Rebuilding a battalion is not a trivial matter. Food, weapons, and other things are a huge expense. The Ministry of Households may not be willing to allocate funds, and his internal funds Not much left.

After a long silence, Zhu Youjian said: "Li Aiqing, if I entrust this matter to you, can Aiqing train me to fight a soldier?"

Although there is not much money left in his internal funds now, only more than 100 million taels of silver, but if he can train a soldier that can fight, it is worth the money.

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Banghua immediately became embarrassed. It is not difficult to train soldiers, but in this way, he will have to poach a lot of benefits from the Beijing camp. With the character of those people, he will definitely not end well .

After all, after the transfer of young and strong men from the Beijing camp, the entire Beijing camp will almost be scrapped. Those people will definitely not sit idly by, and what awaits him will be endless impeachments.

After thinking for a long time, Li Banghua gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

Only after a pause, Li Banghua continued: "Your Majesty, it's just that this matter will affect the interests of many people, and I'm afraid those people will not let it go."

Although Li Banghua didn't speak very clearly, he believed that Zhu Youjian should be able to understand what he said.

"Don't worry, Ai Qing, I know this matter well."

Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "Aiqing just let it go, and I will bear all the consequences."

Now he has no patience with those people in the court. The last time he moved to the south has made him see clearly that those people don't care about Daming's country at all, they only care about their own interests.

In the past year, he summoned Li Banghua and others to build his own team and learn the art of war at the same time. Only by mastering the military power can he completely control the court.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will bow to my fullest, and die after exhaustion."

Hearing Zhu Youjian's assurance, Li Banghua bowed and said.

"Everything is up to you, Ai Qing."

Zhu Youjian said in a deep voice: "When the army is successfully formed, I will personally conquer the army!"

Drive in person!

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Banghua and the others were not surprised, because Zhu Youjian had expressed this idea many times in the past year.

They are also very supportive of Zhu Youjian's idea. If it was a few years ago, they would definitely oppose Zhu Youjian's idea. Maybe Daming can still be saved.

.........

On the other side, Huguang Buzhengshi, Jingzhou Mansion.

After receiving the order from the imperial court, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops from Nanyang Mansion and went straight to Jingzhou Mansion.

Facing a famous general like Lu Xiangsheng, how could Hu Zhongwu's improvised young man be an opponent? In just two months, Hu Zhongwu lost Jinzhuping, Baihuguan, and Nanjinkou. Hu Zhongwu's hometown, Yiling Prefecture.

Yiling Prefecture, the state government.

Hu Zhongwu sat in the first seat, Hu Qing took the second place, and Hu Dapeng and Hu Guiyou sat in the last seat.

Listening to the reports of their subordinates, Hu Dapeng and Hu Guiyou looked gloomy. The strength of the imperial army far exceeded their expectations. The reason why they dared to rebel with Hu Zhongwu was mainly because the imperial court had been quite ineffective in suppressing bandits in the past ten years. as.

The rebellion in Shaanxi is getting more and more suppressed. From the beginning of Shaanxi to the present Shanxi and Henan, even Huguang has been affected by the rebellion. As for Daqi in Shandong, it is not to mention that the Ming Dynasty even lost Jiangnan. Old Zhu's hometown.

Who knew that the army of the imperial court would be so fierce when dealing with them now. Jinzhuping, Baihuguan, and Nanjinkou are considered to be important places. They have more than 2 soldiers and horses there, but under the attack of Ming soldiers and horses, Only lasted two months.

"Your Majesty, what should we do now?"

Hu Guiyou looked at Hu Zhongwu. Since the rebellion, Hu Zhongwu has proclaimed himself emperor, and his country name is Dragon God.

Hearing Hu Guiyou's words, Hu Zhongwu frowned. The three places of Jinzhuping are very important. If they lose these three places, they will lose control of Guizhou and Badong, but they don't have the ability to counterattack.

After all, all the checkpoints at Jinzhuping were defeated by the Ming army. If they met the Ming army in the wild, they would be even more vulnerable. With plenty of food, once they were trapped in Yiling City, they would not even have a chance to escape.

"Zhongwu, do you want to ask the Dragon God?"

At this time, Hu Qing suddenly spoke.

Seeking Dragon God?
Hu Qing's words made Hu Zhongwu stunned, because since ancient times, he has never heard of gods intervening in human wars, and the dragon god can't help them. After all, the dragon god can't directly kill the Ming army, because killing people is An evil god, no one would enshrine an evil god.

Hu Zhongwu smiled bitterly and said, "Father, it is impossible for the Dragon God to intervene in human wars."

"Of course I know that."

Hu Qing shook his head and said, "I just asked you to ask the Dragon God when the Yangtze River will flood. If we know when the flood will occur, we can plan to destroy the Ming army."

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu couldn't help wondering: "How could the Ming army fall for it so easily?"

It is not an easy task to plan to eliminate the Ming army, and there are signs of flooding. How could the Ming army be so stupid.

"Ugh!"

Hearing Hu Zhongwu's words, Hu Qing sighed: "Zhongwu, we are no match for the Ming army now. If we can't use the Yangtze River to deal with the Ming army here, we can only escape to Sichuan, Guizhou, or Guangxi."

Now there is still a drought in Henan, and Daqi is in Jiangnan. Even Daming is no match for Daqi, let alone them, so the only places I can go to are Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi.

But their foundation is in Jingzhou Mansion, and the families of their soldiers and horses are all in Yiling Prefecture. Once they leave, they have to drag their families with them, which is very unfavorable to them, and many people even don't want to leave with them.

"I'll go ask the Dragon God."

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu also sighed, turned and walked out of the state office.

...

The moment Hu Zhongwu walked into the Dragon Temple, Jiao Ming, who was recuperating at the bottom of the river, opened his eyes, then turned into a human form, and headed towards the Dragon Temple.

"Sage, I don't know why you came here to find me?"

Seeing Hu Zhongwu in the temple, Jiao Ming appeared and said with a smile.

"Xiaomin pays homage to Master Dragon God!"

Seeing Jiao Ming, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly saluted.

"Sages don't need to be polite."

Jiao Ming smiled and said, "The sage is busy with military affairs, why do you have time to come?"

"Master Dragon God, Xiaomin is here to ask for help."

Hu Zhongwu explained the current situation with a wry smile.

"Ugh!"

After listening to Hu Zhongwu's words, Jiao Ming sighed and said, "Sage, this god can't do anything about it, gods can't kill people."

There is nothing he can do about this matter. He sneaked into this world. He usually stays low-key. Coupled with the magic weapon to cover up, Tiandao can't find him. Once too much karma is formed, Tiandao will definitely find him .

More importantly, his magic weapon can still cover up a small amount of cause and effect, but once there are too many causes and effects, exceeding the limit of the magic weapon, and being discovered by the Dao of Heaven, then he will be finished. At that time, he will have no other choice but to escape from this world. choose.

If that wasn't the case, why would he use Hu Zhongwu's power to transform the dragon? If he shot directly, who would be his opponent in this world.

"Master Dragon God, Xiaomin dare not ask Master Dragon God to kill someone."

Hearing Jiao Ming's words, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly said: "Xiaomin just wants to ask Master Dragon God for advice, whether there will be a flood these days, Xiaomin can plan to deal with the Ming army."

"A sage forgives sins!"

Jiao Ming shook his head, he is not a real Dragon God, how could he know where there will be a flood, and even if he knew, he would not be able to tell Hu Zhongwu that once Hu Zhongwu really succeeded in ambushing the Ming army, he would also There are many causes and effects behind it.

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.

...

Time passed day by day, under Lu Xiangsheng's offensive, Hu Zhongwu could only retreat steadily, and finally retreated all the way to Jingzhou Fucheng.

"Father, is the boat ready?"

Looking at the torrential river, Hu Zhongwu was in a low mood. He thought that he had the fate of a real dragon and should have a smooth journey, but now he was driven around by a general of the Ming army, not only lost Yiling Prefecture, which was called emperor , and finally even the only prefectural city was abandoned.

"Ready."

Seeing Hu Zhongwu's dejected look, Hu Qing shook his head slightly. This child has never suffered or experienced any difficulties since he was born, and now he is dejected when encountering a little difficulty.

However, Hu Qing did not persuade him, because since ancient times, no one has been hit by a hero who has been able to achieve success. If Hu Zhongwu can get out of the predicament by himself, it means that he has the qualifications to become a hero.

If Hu Zhongwu falls like this, then it is good to be an ordinary person. Anyway, with Hu Zhongwu's strength, an ordinary person can enjoy all the glory and wealth.

"Let's go then."

Hu Zhongwu sighed, Fucheng was the only city left on their side, and it was impossible to defend it anyway. Instead of wasting troops, it would be better to avoid the Ming army.

According to their discussion, the decision was to withdraw to Guizhou. Now after An Bangyan's rebellion in Guizhou, chieftains from all over the country are ready to move. Coupled with their strength, they will definitely be able to fight against the Ming army.

Soon, Hu Zhongwu crossed the Yangtze River and headed towards Guizhou with an army of tens of thousands and the huge wealth looted from Fucheng and Zhoucheng.

With a large amount of gold and silver clearing the way, Hu Zhongwu's soldiers and horses entered Guizhou by the way, and then settled down in Sinan Prefecture.

...

On the other side, Lu Xiangsheng led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses all the way to recover the lost land, but after being ransacked by Hu Zhongwu, the wealthy households in each city had no money, so Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses fell into the predicament of food shortage.

(End of this chapter)