Win the Ding 1617

Zhenjiang.

Because Hong Chengchou had to handle the handover with the new Pingnan General and the county king Leke Dehun, and also introduced him to the customs, military and political affairs of various places in the south of the Yangtze River, he was almost ten days later than Duoduo when he crossed the river north.

After crossing the Yangtze River, it was getting late, so his fleet anchored in Jiangbei, preparing to go north after dawn and return to Beijing along the canal.

The temporary residence of Grand Master Hong was set up in the famous Jinshan Temple.

At this time, it is not the Qing Dynasty more than a hundred years later, Hong Chengchou is not Gaozong Hongli, and there is no group of Yangzhou salt merchants here who are good at guessing what they want, and naturally there will be no eminent monks to fight with Hong University scholars, what to say There are only two ships in the river, one for fame and one for profit.

By the way, the Yangzhou salt merchants at this time have almost become a historical term.After decades of Nanzhong Salt Industry's wanton siege, the sales scope originally called "Yin'an" by salt merchants has long been defeated by the high-quality and cheap Nanzhong refined salt, and the life of salt merchants is also precarious.Salt merchants like Jiang Chun, who had seen it early, changed their course quickly, and took the opportunity to become the agent and distributor of Nanzhong Salt Industry. Apart from making a fortune in this wave, most of the salt merchants have fallen into decline. But it is necessary to support the embarrassment of the scene.

Not long ago, Zhenjiang and other places in Yangzhou were ransacked twice by the same group of Ming and Qing troops, and they were even more dilapidated.Don't say that there is no salt merchant coming to receive Shangguan, even the dinner of Master Hong is nothing more than a vegetarian meal.Hong Chengchou's entourage officer couldn't stand it any longer, and was about to go to the city to buy some famous Zhenjiang delicacies to serve as a meal for the adults, but Hong Chengchou sternly stopped him.

"We live in this pure place of Buddhism, and we have already caused a lot of trouble for the great monks. How can we still handle meat and wine here?! Don't make mistakes! Go down!"

Thus, Master Hong had his own simple dinner under an oil lamp.After that, he even ordered people to look for the abbot with a lantern.

"Great monk, I'm passing by Guibao Temple under the imperial decree, so I'm bothering you a lot. Come here, let's take a chance!"

The margin book is the account book of the temple alms, and it can also be equivalent to the donation list of sponsorship.In many newly built or rebuilt temples, there are similar stone monuments and memorial walls donated by devout men and women.For example, there is such a joke, "When a monk makes meritorious deeds, when he meets a tiger, he is very afraid, so he hits it with a piece of cymbal. When he comes back, throw another piece. It is because the scriptures were swept away, and the tiger rushed back to the cave. The tigress in the cave asked why, and replied: "I happened to meet a monk who was rude, and only disturbed two pieces of him, so I plundered one of the edges, and it was not allowed. don't run. "Listen, Yuanbo scares even the man-eating tigers in the mountains!

Seeing that Master Hong, who was so powerful in the southeast, wanted to give alms to Jinshan Temple, the abbot was so panicked that he ordered the Zhike monk to fetch a beautifully decorated book, "My lord, please."

"Student Hong Chengchou donated 1000 yuan of precious treasure temple sesame oil, and some gold leaves for decoration of Buddha statues and jewels." Hong Chengchou wrote down the amount of his donation with a big pen on the notebook.

"My lord is devout and worships the Buddha, and I will surely realize the Three Treasures and Three Bodhis early." The abbot saw such a big handwriting, although he said that the monks did not love money, the more the better, the more the better.

Hong Chengchou casually flipped through the book, but inadvertently saw a line of crooked and ill-formed characters on the first few pages. "Ao Lei Yilan, a believer girl, donated 2000 yuan of sesame oil, 200 taels of gold, some red sapphires, ivory, gold leaves, and four strings of red bamboo and stone rosary beads to worship in front of the Buddha. She also donated a set of four-season clothing for all monks and monks in the temple. I pray to the Buddha to grant my husband all the best and have many descendants.”

Seeing Master Hong saw this page, the abbot was a little flustered even though he practiced the Dharma intensively.

"My lord, this is the Seventh Lady of Liang Guogong who went to the Bi Temple to burn incense to pray for Liang Guogong and ask for a son for herself." The abbot stuttered a little.Everyone knows that the Hong University scholar in front of him and Liang Guogong's family are two deadly rival camps.

"Your official and Li Weiru have been friends for many years, so you don't need to be alarmed. Unexpectedly, Li Weiru's wealth is so generous, even in the inner house!" Hong Chengchou gently revealed the words, but the shrewd intellectual But the monk could vaguely smell a sour vinegar smell from the words.Originally!You are a university scholar, and what kind of envoy are you, but you only donated 1000 silver dollars, and the seventh lady gave you [-] silver dollars, and you even have red, sapphire, ivory and so on.Not to mention, those little novice monks who do rough work in the temple, the Huogong priests all have a gift of clothes for the four seasons.

"Is this Li Weiru's seventh wife still childless?" Hong Chengchou asked casually. It would be an unexpected gain if he could find out a little about the inside story of Li Shouhan's family from the abbot.After Li Huayu's death, the most powerful and most legitimate successor of the Southern Guangdong Army was gone.If it is possible to provoke infighting among the Southern Guangdong Army for the heir's position by any means, it will be a great joy for the Qing Army.

"Your Excellency does not know that although this Seventh Lady is an outsider, she is also innocent and innocent, like a person who is as pure as gold and jade. She already has a son under her knees. She is for everyone in Liang Guogong's inner house. Oh, aunts and wives begging for a child."

This is strange!The followers around Hong Chengchou couldn't help feeling curious.Historically, in palaces and deep houses, women hoped that their sons would become the only males in the family so that they could inherit the family business.In order to achieve this goal, women use various means to emerge in endlessly.However, this Seventh Madam did the opposite, blatantly begging for children for the other women in the inner house. Is this insanity or a posturing?

"My lord doesn't know. The little monk said that the seventh lady is an outsider, and she also pointed out something. It is said that she herself is a princess of a certain tribe in the bitter cold place in the extreme north. She was sent to the Duke Liang's mansion to be married. Natural experience It’s different from my Central Plains woman.”

"So that's it!" Hong Chengchou yelled bitterly to himself!From the abbot's few words, he quickly sorted out a clue. "It turns out that the reason why the barbarians of Sauron's tribe were able to become armored warriors almost overnight was that their weapons were as sharp and sophisticated as our Eight Banners army. I'm afraid it's the Seventh Lady's method!"

Hong Chengchou experienced Huang Taiji's expedition to the north to conquer the Sauron tribe. After winning a big victory, he was unfortunately shot in the thigh. As a result, he struggled for a long time, and finally died in his prime. "If you think about it, most of the credit for Sauron Barbarian's ability to carry out trade with Nanzhong comes from this seventh lady."

Sauron's ministries have always been famous in Liaodong for their brave men who dared to fight and die.Even among the Eight Banners Manchuria, there were many soldiers from Sauron's tribe as dead soldiers.These people are a sharp sword and a sledgehammer for the Eight Banners Manchuria to suppress the Eight Banners Mongolia, deter the Eight Banners Han army, and suppress the newly surrendered troops.However, now this sharp sword has become Li Shouhan's dagger in the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty!

After the Eight Banners soldiers and horses entered the customs, the land of Liaodong was empty and tight. Sauron's ministries, which had gradually recovered their vitality, under the leadership of Bomu Bogor, provided them with training and equipment in two guard brigades. , and at the same time provide them with artillery support, and act as a backer for them, and start to attack frequently in the south and west directions.

Going south, they harassed and plundered the Qing army's various towns in Liaodong, and attacked Horqin's Mongolian 49 Banner tribes.Everything is like a replica of the Qing army in Liaodong and Guannei, looting living supplies, plundering people, taking cattle, horses and camels, and burning tents and pastures.

Going west, the spearhead is directed at the fortresses built by the Raksha people who did not capture at the beginning!Although compared with the nearly strict military discipline of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, the soldiers and horses of Sauron's troops can still be worthy of the four-character comment of "a crowd of mobs", but they are equipped with Eight Banners-style weapons made by Nanzhong, and there are a few Sauron, with the firecrackers in his hands, is no longer as effective as he used to be.

What's more, when sending troops to fight the Eight Banners soldiers and horses and attack the Raksha people's strongholds, there are always soldiers and instructors from the Southern Guangdong Army accompanying them to supervise the battle. "That team of soldiers and horses does not obey orders, and the soldiers and horses and their tribes will be immediately disqualified from trading!" Not only will your military exploits be counted, but your tribe will also be unlucky.In the icy and snowy area close to the Arctic Circle, Sauron's ministries have enjoyed the benefits of trade with Nanzhong over the years, and they are used to the sweetness, so naturally they can't bear to go back and suffer.It is also true that several groups of soldiers and horses did not listen to orders, did not attack when they should attack, and rushed out with a howl when they should not attack.As a result, the blood of the captured heads had not yet solidified, the tribe was disqualified from trading, and the decision to punish the individual's military exploits as invalid was notified to the entire army.As a result, the tribe struggled for half a winter in the severe cold, and the tribe fled and joined other tribes.With such a lesson learned from the past, who would dare to rely on his bravery and disobey the orders of the army?

Gradually, with the establishment of military discipline orders among the soldiers and horses, the Raksha people's strongholds were pulled out one by one under the bombardment of the Nanyue Army's eight-pound guns and mortar rockets.Whenever a Rakshasa city changed its flag on the map, it indicated that at least hundreds of miles of hunting grounds and pastures were under the control of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Although Master Hong didn't know the meaning of expelling the Raksha people to the west, Sauron's troops continued to attack on a small scale, using small groups and multiple roads to carry out bloodletting with small knives on the old nest of the Qing army in Liaodong. Attacks, these things, he can always see some of them in the frequent military intelligence reports.

"Although it's not a serious problem, and it's not a physical illness, it can't be taken lightly." This is his comment on the military situation in Northeastern Liaodong.However, he couldn't find out how to deal with these Sauron soldiers for a while.They are not like the Ming army, who will be defeated at the first touch and look forward to thousands of miles, or even surrender at the front of the horse, and they are not like the Southern Guangdong army, who will come head-to-head with you with a majestic banner of integrity.It's a bit like the various units of the Peasant Army back then, which often ruled the enemy by walking.After breaking through a town, the town was looted.They are less picky than when the Eight Banners soldiers and horses entered the pass to plunder.After they returned to Heilongjiang with a full load and satisfied, the officials and generals of the Qing army returned to the burnt and looted city. They were annoyed and hated to find that the iron nails used in building the houses had been carefully carefully inspected by these Sauron barbarians. Pulled from the wood, collected and carried away.

"If things go on like this, the main force of Liang Guogong's headquarters will confront the Yangtze River, and he will be restrained by Mrs. Li Shao in the mountainous area of ​​southern Shandong. The land of Longxing in Liaodong will be frequently harassed by Sauron's troops. The veterans are tired, and the food and morale do not belong to us. .At that time, my Qing Dynasty will be defeated!"

Back in the meditation room where he was staying, Hong Chengchou was so bored that he couldn't sleep for a while, so he took out the map from his luggage, looked at the map under the candle, opened his notes, and searched for those who were in the army one by one on the map. Place names appearing in newspapers.

Once he found the place names in the notes on the map one by one and marked them with cinnabar, his underwear was soaked with sweat unconsciously.It was already early autumn, and there was a few drizzles scattered outside, and he was actually startled into a cold sweat!

On the map, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places, Songjiang Prefecture, and the border area between Fujian and Zhejiang are all territories controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army, and Fujian and Guangdong to the south are places where the Southern Guangdong Army is deeply rooted.

A Yangtze River, in Shanghai County, at Wusongkou, is like two big locks, locking the Yangtze River firmly.If Luck Dehun hadn't made up his mind to drive the Nanyue Army guarding Songjiang Mansion out of the sea after he took office, I'm afraid the gunboats of the Nanyue Army's navy would go up the river, cruising back and forth on the river in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, cutting off the Yangtze River and the river. Canal water traffic.If that's the case, Master Hong and Lord Duoduo will either be escorted by a brigade of troops or sneak across the Yangtze River when they go north to return to Beijing!

Not far from the estuary of the Yangtze River, Tamna Island is also the anchorage of the Nanyue Army Navy.Not only is there a large number of gunboats stationed, threatening the coastal areas of Wuyue, Qilu and other places.It is also an important place for the transfer of materials for the Southern Guangdong Army.The food and supplies that support the Lumahong Shandong soldiers and horses in the north are transshipped from here.Golden ginseng and many horses come from the Heilongjiang River Basin thousands of miles away, and they also come ashore here to breed.What's more terrible, here not only can transfer supplies from north to south, but also, eastward, it's even more terrible!

Not far to the east is North Korea, a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.If the naval commander Zhang Xiaohu, the long-standing pirate, led the navy to North Korea on a whim.With the weakness and decay of North Korean soldiers and horses, how can they withstand the wolf-like navy of the Southern Guangdong Army?At that time, something will happen in North Korea, will the Qing Dynasty save it? !

Sit back and watch North Korea be broken by the Southern Guangdong Army?Where is the face of Qing Dynasty?However, if North Korea is not saved, and North Korea is allowed to sit back and watch as it was broken by the Qing army, not only will the Qing Dynasty lose face in front of the Mongolian ministries, Uszang and other foreign vassals, but also in the military, the Southern Guangdong Army will send cannons It went directly to the city of Liaoyang!

But if it is to save North Korea, how much will the soldiers and horses go?From where?How to plan for food and grass, and where to find military pay?Soldiers and horses went less, no doubt to send meat to the Southern Guangdong Army who were waiting for work, and if they went too many, it was to affect the battlefields in the Central Plains.What's more, how to raise military pay and food?

Unknowingly, the candle gradually burned until wax dripped down.A drop of wax fell on Hong Chengchou's hand, and he suddenly woke up from the heat.

"Great Qing is really a place of luck, ancestors bless! Rao Li Shouhan is quite good at sailors, but he forgot the usefulness of North Korea for a while! Right now, we should first hope that Prince An, Yue Le, will be able to get rid of the villains of the western thief Zhang Xianzhong. If all the accomplices are driven out of Sichuan, our army can occupy the upper reaches, and we can gradually regain the initiative."

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, the Qing army and various local armed forces in Sichuan achieved a tacit understanding and kept pace with the military operations against the Daxi Army.Gradually, the troops of the four adopted sons Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, who had restored their original surnames, and Ma Yuanli, Bai Wenxuan and others were compressed to southern Sichuan.As long as one step forward, the Qing army can drive the remaining 10,000+ people of the Daxi Army to Yunnan.

Yunnan is a place with a vast land, sparsely populated mountains, a lot of land and little food, and it is difficult to be self-sufficient.When Sun Kewang and others arrived here, they took one step closer to the desperate situation.Not to mention the elimination of the possibility of joining forces with the original Dashun army, the survival of the family would be affected.

"Hey! First easy and then difficult!" Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou woke up the dozing book boy (?) and ordered him to spread the paper and grind it, and turn on the lights. He wanted to write a letter to Prince An, Yue Le, who was far away in Sichuan, please He must drive Sun Kewang and others into Yunnan as soon as possible!

"Once the remnants of the western thieves enter Yunnan, the weather will be full of miasma and insects, the terrain will be favorable for mountains, and the people will be barbaric. The Mu family will be the enemy of the western thieves. At that time, there is no need for our army to attack. These three things You can kill most of the western thieves!"

"The lord, with the momentum of guarding the upper reaches and building a strategic position from a high position, will go out of the Three Gorges and go east, then Jingxiang, then Wuchang, then Jiangxi, all the way can be fixed!"

A letter was written, signed and sealed with a monogram, and ordered to be sealed with wax lacquer, and it was delivered to Prince An Yue Le in Sichuan overnight.

As for the upstream matter, Hong Chengchou felt that with Prince An Yue Le's talent and ability, it should be easy to drive Sun Kewang and others into Yunnan to fight against Mu Tianbo of Mu Wangfu's weather and geography in Yunnan.

At present, Hong Chengchou scratched his shaved head and couldn't figure out how to break the threat of the Nanyue Army to the Yangtze River water transport, and then find a way to interrupt the supply line of the Nanyue Army.

"Hey!" He sighed, "Perhaps, what General Pingnan did was right. After breaking through the Songjiang Mansion and driving the Nanyue Army to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River waterway can be used by me."

He looked far away to the east, where there were still dark clouds, and an autumn rain was brewing.

"I hope General Pingnan can successfully capture Songjiang Mansion in this battle, and Jiangnan will be settled in one battle!"