Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Master Wu! When your ministry is ready, the villain will go back to Fujian with them. Please rest assured, my elder brother will treat all your troops equally." Zheng Jiao said with a smile.

Then Zheng Jiao saw Wu Shigong holding up the teacup expressionlessly, he felt a little embarrassed, so he left immediately with the shopkeeper Zheng.

In this negotiation, Zheng Jiao can only accept 700 Runing Army soldiers by biting Zheng Zhilong, and [-] of them will be scattered on sea ships, so there are only [-] soldiers on Taiwan Island.

And Zheng Zhilong will allocate a piece of land on Taiwan Island to Wu Shigong, and will send [-] immigrants from Fujian to help develop it.Zheng Zhilong also promised that if Wu Shigong could recruit another thousand migrant families in Henan, he would also help transport them to Taiwan Island free of charge.

Judging from the land drawn by Zheng Zhilong, the area is not small, and if the Runing Army has the ability, it can also extend along this land to the interior of Taiwan Island. It should be said that there is a lot of room for expansion.

But Wu Shigong has already learned from Zhang Rubao that the current Taiwan Island is not at all the treasured island of the motherland that later generations know.In this island, because it has not been developed at all, and no water conservancy ditches have been excavated at all, the flow of rivers is unpredictable, and natural disasters occur frequently, resulting in very little arable land.

In addition, the aborigines on Taiwan Island are still in the stage of slash-and-burn cultivation, that is to say, they are completely savages. They often fight with each other, and they are used to going down the mountain to "hunt heads". Therefore, it is very difficult to develop on Taiwan Island. Dangerous thing, and relying on the [-] Runing Army, it is very good to be able to protect the immigrants who are going to develop. It is impossible to launch a war abroad, let alone expel the Dutch.

And Zheng Zhilong also restrained the Runing Army.The land allocated by Zheng Zhilong to Wu Shigong is in the interior of Taiwan Island, and all the ports are controlled by Zheng Zhilong, so he can pinch the neck of the Runing Army in terms of supplies.And because of the defense of the Runing Army on the outskirts of the port.It also protected Zheng Zhilong's port in disguise.

Moreover, the immigrants Zheng Zhilong sent to the Runing Army were all Fujianese, and at most, Wu Shigong himself recruited a small number of Henanese.But if there is a dispute between the two sides, who will the immigrants lean towards?The result is self-evident!

And what did Zheng Zhilong pay?A large piece of land in Taiwan that he despises, plus at most two sea ships that were given to Wu Shigong before.

For the rest, help the Runing Army train sailors?But the soldiers of the Runing Army also helped Zheng Zhilong's sea-going ships to fight.Help the Runing Army build inland ships?But the Runing Army will also pay for the construction costs.No matter what, they benefit from each other!

Therefore, it can be said that Zheng Zhilong's condition is to take advantage of it, and Wu Shigong had to hold his nose to sign this agreement in order to achieve the goal of getting involved in Taiwan Island.But Wu Shigong was definitely in a bad mood, and he didn't need to hide his mood in front of people with lower status like Zheng Jiao and shopkeeper Zheng.So without even saying any polite words, I served tea to see off the guests.

And the resolution of the Taiwan Island issue.The construction of the Navy was immediately put on the agenda again.It is impossible for Wu Shigong to have so much financial and material resources to establish two inland water divisions on the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, so he must make a choice.

Therefore, Wu Shigong finally negotiated with the civil and military forces of the Runing Army and decided to build two navy ports near Hongze Lake and Wuchang. Through the port in Songjiang Prefecture, the two major waterways will be effectively connected.And it is also able to ship with the island of Taiwan.As for the waterway from Xinyang to Hongze Lake on the Huaihe River, it can only be transported by small boats.

But even so.It will also cost the Runing Army a huge amount of silver.And the ports of Hongze Lake and Wuchang are still on paper.Even though he gritted his teeth, maybe the Runing Army could scrape together so much money to buy it, but would the local officials who owned the port be willing to sell it?That's still unknown.So Wu Shigong asked Tang Liu, who was familiar with the water, to put down the business at hand and solve the port problem first.

As for the soldiers dispatched to Zheng Zhilong, they were drawn from the Marine Corps of the Navy.But regarding this transfer, Deng Qifan raised a question: because many soldiers of the Marine Corps were from the Boys' Battalion.There is no family encumbrance at all. If Zheng Zhilong lures him with high profits, it is likely to cause soldiers to switch to Zheng Zhilong and spread the advanced training methods and combat techniques of the Runing Army.

Wu Shigong has no good way to solve this.We can only ignore this problem for the time being.It is not necessary to doubt your own soldiers now and cause panic, but it is self-disruption!

Entering August, Gao Yingxiang's troops conquered Fufeng, Qishan and other counties one after another.And Hong Chengchou finally gathered more than [-] people from the main force of the Shaanxi Ming Army to leave Xi'an to pursue Gao Yingxiang's troops.

After that, the three giants Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces and fought against Hong Chengchou in Guanzhong.In the short [-] days from late August to early September, the two sides fought fiercely in fourteen battles, and the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were dark.Judging from the scene of the battle, there were winners and losers, and it was a tie.

But as the war progressed, the Ming army continued to have reinforcements to join, and their food and grass were also guaranteed by the major cities controlled by the Ming army, so the more they fought, the stronger they became.However, the peasant army did not have any supplements, and gradually fell into a disadvantage.

For this reason, the peasant army began to avoid the war and find another way out.The Hong Chengchou tribe also gave up the pursuit because of the exhaustion of the long-term battle, and broke off contact with the peasant army.

In this battle, it was Shaanxi governor Gan Xuekuo who held back the Ming army.According to the decree of the Ming court, a limited farming system had already been implemented in Shaanxi.In the memorial submitted to the imperial court, [-] troops and more than [-] hectares of land should be stationed around Xi'an.But later these fields belonged to the wealthy family headed by the King of Qin, and the soldiers were only on the roster.

Therefore, in this battle, Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, did not make any efforts at all, which led to Xi'an being besieged twice by Gao Yingxiang's troops.As a result, those wealthy families who suffered heavy losses quit. They impeached Gan Xuekuo one after another, and asked Sun Chuanting to supervise Qin.

But for Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, he really wanted to scold his mother.It was those rich families who invaded the land, and those rich families impeached him. Didn't Gan Xuekuo acquiesce in their land occupation in order not to offend the rich families?If he had known that he would lose his position sooner or later, it would be better to resist the encroachment of the wealthy with an iron fist.

Not to mention Gan Xuekuo who wants to buy regret medicine, let's look at Sun Chuanting, who is well-received by everyone.

Sun Chuanting is a native of Daixian County in Shanxi Province. He was a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli. The Ministry of Officials sealed the doctor of the inspection department and the Cheng of Shuntianfu.

After his comeback, Sun Chuanting was very concerned about the current situation of suppressing bandits. He often gave pointers to the country, encouraged writing, and had the ambition to clarify the world. He was regarded by the courtiers as a rare "frontier talent".

But Emperor Chongzhen was not in a hurry to change generals. On the one hand, he gave Gan Xuekuo one last chance; on the other hand, he was busy dealing with a happy but difficult matter.That is Yu Zilian, the magistrate of Ruzhou, and his Ruzhou army who were born out of nowhere.

As soon as the battle report of the Ruzhou Army was submitted to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers couldn't believe it, so that they couldn't tell the truth from the fake, and immediately issued a reward.

But following Yu Zilian's battle reports of great victories, the court finally believed that there was such a strong army.What's especially wonderful is that this powerful army didn't even spend a cent of military pay from the imperial court. This is simply the representative of "old scalpers"!

But now the problem arises again.It will definitely be of great use to Yu Zilian, and his Ruzhou Army will also be included in the ranks of the Ming Army and turned into soldiers.But what position should Yu Zilian be given?

However, those veterans who have been infiltrating the officialdom for many years finally figured out a way. They first gave Yu Zilian the position of Imperial Envoy of Youqian Capital, raised his rank, and included him in the ranks of Beijing officials, and then let him lead Ruzhou Army, join the ranks of bandits.Of course, Yan Jingyan, who was recommended by Yu Zilian, also succeeded as the prefect of Ruzhou as he wished.

But it was also out of the selfishness of the chief assistant, Wen Tiren, that the imperial court did not include Yu Zilian under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, governor of the five provinces, but let Yu Zilian lead the army alone and play freely.But Wen Tiren didn't expect that this move would also provide the Donglin Party, who had gone to the field, with an ammunition to shake its position as chief assistant.

During Wen Tiren's assistant government, he was obsessed with repelling dissidents and attacking political opponents. However, his main target was the Donglin Party, so he was also connived by Emperor Chongzhen.

Because compared to Wen Tiren, the Donglin Party was too much of a threat. They not only manipulated public opinion in the world, but also manipulated the selection of officials through the Ministry of Officials.Even after Fushe was established, they were able to manipulate the court to recruit scholars, and so on.The imperial power is really going to disappear, and the emperor will become a decoration.

Of course, Wen Tiren's behavior also received great backlash, and there are countless people in Shangshu who impeached him.However, due to Wen Tiren's outstanding personal virtues, and his clique-forming behavior was quite covert, these people not only failed to bring down Wen Tiren, but set themselves on fire.Some were dismissed from office, some were exiled, and some were even beaten to death on the spot.

And even the Donglin Party, which was hit, could only temporarily die down.But they are not reconciled to living in the countryside for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to fight back.

So at this time they found an opportunity.Because in the chaos of the world, the status of civil servants and generals with heavy soldiers is getting higher and higher.Look at those people who held heavy soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng were sympathetic to the Donglin Party, and the rest of the military attaches were nothing but grass. They gained power and leaned over there, and there were no warm and benevolent confidants at all.

And what about the Donglin Party?Because of Hou Xun's relationship, Wu Shigong and Zuo Liangyu were assigned to the Donglin Party.And now there is another Yu Zilian.You know, officials from Su Xichang are born members of the Donglin Party.

But the most inexplicable one is Wu Shigong. He still doesn't know that in the eyes of those literati, he has switched from the eunuch party to the Donglin party. (To be continued..)