The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 290
Tong Yizhen has also seen the combat power of these Frangji soldiers before - they are skilled in battle, strict in military discipline, and aggressive and bloodthirsty.When performing martial arts, none of the thousand or so soldiers under him were opponents of the three hundred barbarian soldiers.

He finally gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, as you said, go out of the city and guard the river!"

Fausto was also relieved to see that he was no longer stubbornly defending the city.

Before leaving Macau, Governor Du Chen repeatedly told him to keep Ding Kuichu's regime at all costs.

The whole of Macau only has 250 or 90 troops. The governor of Macau sent all [-] mercenaries to Guangdong, but he was afraid that it would not be enough. He made an exception and dispatched more than [-] naval soldiers to pretend to be mercenaries and assign them to him to command.

You must know that the Portuguese soldiers had seriously violated the agreement with Daming by leaving the territory of Macau.

But then Du Chen revealed to him that Governor Ding was planning a coup, and the two of them made a deal. As long as they can assist Governor Ding to succeed in the coup, the new regime will sign an agreement with Portugal, recognizing that Portugal enjoys independent autonomy in Macau rights, the Orientals will not interfere.

This is a dream that Portugal has been pursuing for nearly a hundred years - to have a solid foothold in the Far East, where it can garrison a large number of troops, build a military port, build a bastion, and even join hands with Spain to drive the Dutch out of the Far East.

You know, although they are doing these things secretly now, they are all implemented by bribing the officials of Ming Dynasty and making them turn a blind eye.Not to mention spending a lot of money, the scale must not be too large, otherwise the Ming court will cut off water and food in Macau every minute, and even send troops to suppress it.

If there is a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, no, maybe in the future it will be the asylum of the chief assistant of the new court, and they can colonize and trade in Macau as they like, and everything will be very different.

Therefore, Fausto led people to carefully plan, and at his own expense hired locals to build a Zhang Xu high earth barrier on the south bank of the Pearl River to resist the Ming army from crossing the river.

Together with Tong Yizhen's team, he has absolute confidence to block the auxiliary king of the Ming Dynasty on the other side for a few months until the new Wuzhou court is established and reinforcements are sent.

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It wasn't until we walked out of the boundary of Fujing that we gradually lost sight of the people who sent off the Dragon Guards.However, there are still many officials from the Tingzhou government who saw them off, still following behind the army.

After passing Jiaoling, a large number of people from Chaozhou Prefecture staggered and walked against the army. They all heard that there was a disaster relief from the imperial court in Fujing and wanted to try their luck.

Zhu Linmei sat on the horse and raised her eyes to look far away, and she saw desolate scenes everywhere. Due to the drought, people beside the road could be seen starving to death from time to time.

He couldn't help frowning secretly. He heard that the drought in the northeast of Guangdong was far less severe than that in southern Fujian, and it turned out to be such a miserable situation in the world.He immediately thought that if the disaster relief in southern Fujian was not effective at that time, it would have been even more miserable than this, and there was a [-]% possibility of a civil uprising.

But now Ding Kuichu is only busy keeping his separatist forces, and has no time to care about the disaster here.

Zhu Linmei took the reins, and asked the soldiers to call the Tingzhou Tongzhi who was following the rear team, and ordered him to return to Tingzhou immediately, and first send some grain and rice to Chaozhou to rescue people.

Then he called in the clerk and said: "Order the household department to immediately allocate 30 taels of silver to relieve the drought in Chaozhou Prefecture.

"In addition, the Department of Price Parity of the Ministry of Housing and Economics closely monitors grain prices in Chaozhou to guard against profiteers.

"Let Zhang Canghai send people to bring potatoes and sweet potatoes to Guangdong to promote planting.

"The other thing is to immediately implement a single tax in Guangdong and cancel all other taxes."

Although the imperial government's decree is still difficult to reach Guangdong for the time being, his Dragon Guards are everywhere, and they are the king's land!
All policies of the imperial court must be followed up immediately.Zhu Linmi wants the world to see that as long as the place is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, the people will live and work in peace and prosperity.

He waited for the clerk to stop writing, and then continued: "Order the Propaganda Department to mobilize manpower as soon as possible to carry out missionary work in Guangdong, especially in Chaozhou Prefecture, so that the people will know that the imperial government's disaster relief food will arrive soon, so as to stabilize people's hearts."

In this era, riots are most likely to occur after major disasters, such as Ding Kuichu, who simply gave up all of eastern Guangdong because he was worried about civil unrest.

"At the same time, let the Propaganda Department release the news that the recruitment of officials from mission offices in various parts of Guangdong will be held in half a month, and the location will be in Chaozhou Prefecture."

If a large number of scholars flock to Chaozhou, merchants will be encouraged to do business with them, which in turn will drive grain merchants to transport grain here for sale.In this way, the pressure on the imperial court for disaster relief can be relieved to a certain extent.

Zhu Linmi took the two government orders from the clerk and checked them, signed and sealed them and handed them to Shi Lin, saying, "Send someone to send them back to Tianxing Mansion as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

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Two days later, the Dragon Guards entered Huizhou Prefecture, only four or five days away from Guangzhou.

The large group of people was moving forward at a high speed, and a hussar galloped up to Zhu Lin's horse, holding a letter box with both hands and handing it over, "My lord, I just received the secret report from Jinyiwei North Town."

Shi Lin took the letter box and opened it, and handed the secret letter inside to Zhu Linmi.

Zhu Linmi unfolded the note and read it roughly, but couldn't help frowning.

The secret report was written by Xu Feihu, who was sent by Gu Yanwu to be in charge of intelligence affairs in Wuzhou and Liuzhou.The report said that it had received definite news that Ding Kuichu wanted to support Guifan to rebel, and he also had many connections in Huguang and Yunnan.But the matter of rescuing King Gui ordered by His Highness was urgent and difficult to carry out. Ding Kuichu sent many secret posts to surround King Gui's mansion, and people who were not close friends of the Ding family were not allowed to approach.

At the end of the secret report, Xu Feihu cryptically asked for instructions that Guifan might rebel at any time, and whether King Gui should be removed as a last resort.

Zhu Linming put away the secret letter, feeling extremely entangled in her heart. If Ding Kuichu were allowed to push Zhu Youlang to the throne of God, it would definitely tear Daming apart.

In history, after Zhu Yu'ao established the Shaowu regime in Guangzhou, it was precisely because of the struggle with Zhu Youlang's Yongli regime that caused turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River. In the end, Li Chengdong led more than a hundred cavalry to capture Guangzhou City.

But if he wanted to assassinate Zhu Youlang, he couldn't bear it. The last emperor in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty had a miserable life, but he was not considered a faint king, and he was just being used by Ding Kuichu at the moment.

Zhu Linmi was indecisive, when a soldier came to report that the Lijiang Mansion was seeking an audience with Mr. Zhimu.

Master Mu?Zhu Linming realized immediately, isn't Lijiang Tongzhi the same as Mu Jing?

He hurriedly ordered: "Take him here quickly."

"Yes!"

After a while, a dozen people dressed as merchants came from afar under the guidance of the soldiers.Zhu Linmi saw that the person in charge seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before, but she didn't see Mu Jinghe.

When a group of people came to the front, two servants broke through the crowd and came to the front, leading the crowd to kneel down and salute, "The lower officials (grassmen) pay homage to His Royal Highness Fuzheng Wang."

Only then did Zhu Linming see clearly that one of the two servants was Mu Jing, and the other was Mu Zhiqing who was disguised as a woman.Although she painted black and gray on her face, her beautiful eyes were very recognizable.

(End of this chapter)