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Now that Zhu Heqi has come, how dare the Qing army rush to Seoul without a certain number?
Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi immediately ordered Da Boling: "Go and inform the Military Division of the Xinggong, and hold a military meeting immediately!"
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The Xinggong Junjun Division is a military staff and military order organization that follows Zhu Hechi. In theory, it is the dispatching agency of the Military Advisory Office, and the chief becomes the Xinggong Military Advisor or Marching Military Advisor.
Currently serving as the marching officer is Yu Xiaoqian, Zhu Heqi's younger brother, who is the adopted son of the old man, and Zhu Heyi is the younger brother of the old man, so he has a relationship with Zhu Heyi here.
Because Zhu Heqi is Qidi, and he handles things more calmly and has some martial arts, so he has been a general under Zhu Heqi's command very early.
After Zhu Heqi took down Guangfu, he has been coming and going in the military academy and the positions of chief military officer and admiral military gate.
Because of his young age, active brains, and rich military experience, he later joined forces with Zhuge Zhengyang, Zhao Hongkui, Ling Zongjun, Yu Xiaowen, Yu Xiaowu, Su Zhanshan, Su Zhanhai, Su Zhanjiang, Su Zhe, Qiu Bao (Qiu Hui), Qiu Hu ( Qiu Hui's youngest son) and other young generals, as well as Zhu Heqi himself "self-taught", and worked out the current Ming army's various drills, regulations and formations.Because of this, he was "used" by Zhu Heqi as a military division-level talent!
Now, it is no longer Zhuge Sanhe, Yang Qilong, Zuo Chunqiu and other senior military advisers who are playing the leading role in the military division of the Ming Dynasty, but a new generation of chief of staff military divisions.
When Zhu Heqi and Da Boling arrived at the hall of the Military Division of the Xinggong, Yu Xiaoqian had already come up with a plan with several deputies and Gao Can.
"Your Majesty, I suggest that you start the Liao campaign immediately, and try to complete the landing operation before the severe winter comes!" After saluting to Zhu Heqi, Yu Xiaoqian immediately made a suggestion on behalf of the marching division.
Zhu Hechi nodded, "It's about time...then let's send two fast boats to Chengshanjiao!"
Yu Xiaoqian immediately winked at a high-ranking officer beside him, and the latter immediately turned around to draft the token.
"What about North Korea?" Zhu Heqi asked again, "Can the army's first town, second town, No.11 town, and No.12 town be used now?"
Yu Xiaoqian said: "I'm afraid it will take some time to train for it to be fully used. These four towns are expanded on the basis of the first and second township officer teams and [-] non-commissioned officers and veterans. Nearly [-] Koreans have been added... However, I predict that Kangxi will proceed cautiously if he knows that the king is coming to Seoul.
As long as he is careful, we can intensify our training inside the city of Seoul and in the barracks on the south bank of the Han River.
If Kangxi can be kept north of Seoul, then Asan Laoying will be absolutely safe... The imperial court will continue to flow from Chungmyeongfu (formerly Chungcheongdo), Hanseongfu, Jeollafu, Gyeongsangfu, Gangwon The government has mobilized strong men! "
Zhu Heqi smiled and nodded: "With hundreds of thousands of strong men from the five prefectures of North Korea as the base, I am not afraid of anyone queuing up to be shot!"
"Your Majesty Shengming!"
"Okay! Send troops to Seoul... the lonely family is going to meet Kang Mazi for a while!"
Chapter 540 Yue Le, Chang Ning, hurry up and grab Dengzhou!
"My lord, let Wen Ji accompany you to Seoul!"
Zhu Heqi seems to have encountered a little trouble this time. On November [-]st, he just dressed neatly, and brought his beloved Da Boling, surrounded by Yan Yuan, Liu Yan, Yu Xiaoqian and other high-ranking palace officials. Now, when he just walked out of Yashan Palace, he was blocked by two little girls, Li Wenji and Zhang Yuzhen.
And the two of them didn't come to see Zhu Heqi off, but they were going to the front line in Seoul with Zhu Heqi.
Zhu Heqi took a look at the two girls, they both had changed into military uniforms in addition to their filial piety uniforms, which looked like Da Boling's sulfide blue narrow sleeves and purple armor— —Now Daming’s military uniforms have been changed to blue, because Zhu Heqi has not yet been able to prepare a durable red synthetic dye...he can only prepare three synthetic dyes: sulfur black, sulfur blue, and aniline violet.
So he chose sulfur blue, which symbolizes the sea and is more solemn, as the color of the military uniform.
As for the style of the military uniform, the narrow sleeves often worn by the military officers of the Ming Dynasty were chosen, and the cavalry could also add a brightly colored overcoat, or not.Military uniforms are mainly made of thick cotton cloth, and only senior officers can wear military uniforms made of silk.
In addition, officers will sew small iron, silver or gold round shields on the collar of the military uniform to show the size of the official rank.
Da Boling holds the title of Madam, which is similar to the Duke of the State, and is also eligible to wear three gold round shields that symbolize the Zuo Dudu.
The two little girls, Li Wenji and Zhang Yuzhen, probably thought that Da Boling's clothes looked heroic.So I asked my tailors to do the same, and even the three round shields were imitated. It was really dumbfounding to see.
Zhu Heqi was also wearing blue narrow sleeves and a purple armor. At first glance, it looked similar to Daboling's, but a closer look revealed the difference.Zhu Heqi's clothes are relatively loose, and they can be seen as men's clothes at a glance.And Da Boling's clothes are a bit tight, which can set off that good figure.
Putting on the military uniform, Zhu Heqi, who also wore a long sword, a pistol, and a grenade hammer, looked even more fierce. Zhang Yuzhen looked at him a little nervously, as if telling him——all this is what the princess meant. .
But that Princess Ming'an was still looking at him with a smile like a flower, with an innocent look, Zhu Hexi's heart almost melted seeing it.
Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Da Boling.
Da Boling knew Zhu Hechi's intentions best, and had always "spoiled" him, so she smiled and said, "It's just going to Seoul, not going to the battlefield."
Li Wenji nodded: "Yes, yes, just go to Seoul."
Zhu Heqi smiled and said, "Okay... let's go together! Come on, bring the horse over here!"
His horse was still a big Lusitano horse, gray, tall and big, named "Big Gray", when it was brought over, Princess Ming An, who had never seen any big horses, was taken aback.
Seeing the little girl's frightened appearance, Zhu Heqi looked very happy, and asked with a smile, "Ming An, can you ride a horse?"
"Yes, a little bit..."
Zhu Hechi laughed a few more times: "It's okay to know a little... I'll teach you how to ride a horse!"
He pointed to his "big gray" and said: "We ride a horse together, I will teach you how to do it!"
Riding a horse together?Still holding hands... Li Wenji's face flushed red when she thought of that posture, but she still nodded slightly: "Well, it's up to the king."
Zhu Heqi laughed again, and said to the left and right: "Send troops... Seoul!"
The soldiers from the four towns who were about to go to Seoul had already started marching columns on the official road leading to Chenghuan Station in the Ya Valley.
Although the soldiers from the four towns are very moist, they don't look that big from the outside... They all wear the same blue military uniform and disc-shaped helmet, carry the same large linen backpack and small shovel, and wear a pair of shovels around their waists. A palm-width belt, with grenade hammers, bayonet holsters, bullet boxes, wine gourds and other miscellaneous things hanging on the belt, and a dry food bag slung across the back.There are also leggings on the calves, and there is a pair of straw sandals under the old cloth shoes on the feet.
And because the recruits are escorted by non-commissioned officers and veterans, and they can form a dense formation that is easy to control, it looks very strict when marching.
Teams of Ming army infantry, together with the supply team, artillery team, engineer team and a small number of cavalry, passed through the official road of Seoul-Asan, and rushed to the front line at high speed.
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In Kaesong, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty went to the palace.
Not long after Emperor Kangxi arrived in this dilapidated Goryeo, and was worrying about who to sleep in tonight in the palace, Tuhai, Bahai, Suo'etu, Mingzhu, Wang Fuchen, Zhou Peigong, Deng Guangming , Yu Chenglong and others all came together.
After the big ceremony, Tu Hai smiled and reported: "Your Majesty, I just received a secret report...Zhu Heqi has already led an army of [-] to leave Asan and head straight for Seoul."
"[-] troops?" Emperor Kangxi was taken aback, "There are so many?"
Zhou Peigong said: "Long Live Lord, the slaves have already spread eyeliner in Seoul and Zhongqing, and the approximate number of the puppet Ming army can still be figured out. The reason why they have so many people is because of Zhu Heyi's passage. Over time, many North Koreans have been recruited into the army, and the number has reached tens of thousands."
Kangxi let out a laugh: "It's just a mob!"
"Your Majesty," Ba Hai frowned, "maybe Zhu Heqi transferred some of the troops lurking in Shandong to North Korea...According to the investigation, the puppet Ming Dynasty built a port at Chengshanjiao. The Bailihai Road runs from east to west, and the traffic is not greatly affected by the north wind in winter."
"It's possible." Wang Fuchen took over Bahai's topic and said, "It's already November, and many places in the Bohai Bay have been frozen. If the puppet Ming army doesn't land, I'm afraid there will be no place to land. "
Mingzhu reminded: "Lushunkou and Chengshanjiao are not frozen."
Ba Hai shook his head, "Even if the port is not frozen, it is still extremely cold when they go ashore. Moreover, when the weather warms and thaws, there will be frequent floods in Liaodong, and the roads are muddy, making it difficult to march. If Zhu and Sheng want to plan Liao, it is actually Meng Chun who goes ashore. The most suitable……"
The land in Liaodong is really difficult to fight, not only to fight "monsters", but also to fight against the sky and the earth, and only summer and autumn are the most suitable for fighting in a year, and the rest of the season is either too cold or muddy.
In addition, the Manchu Qing had already made preparations, and the clearing of the walls and fields on the Liaodong Peninsula has been going on!Except for a small number of military settlements, this peninsula is a big wasteland!
Even if Zhu and Qi's troops went aboard, they would not be able to rush to the vicinity of Shengjing and Liaoyang in one fell swoop.
Because of this, Kangxi was relieved to take time out of the army on the Liaodong Peninsula, and first transferred to North Korea to fight.
Kangxi thought about it: "Maybe there are not so many rebels in Dengzhou, maybe they have already come to North Korea... No matter what, I will send troops to attack Dengzhou!
Give an order to Prince An and Prince Gong...Let them dispatch troops as soon as possible to rob Dengzhou City for me! "
Kangxi paused, and then said: "Also, give Wu Yingxiong another message... It's time for him to fulfill his Ama Wu Sangui's unfulfilled wish!"
"Your Majesty, what are you referring to..." Tu Hai was a little confused, because he felt that Wu Sangui's wish was to hack Kangxi to death!
"Proclaim the emperor!" Kangxi said, "Wu Sangui has been tossing around for so many years, isn't it for this? Now that I and Zhu Heqi are in an inextricable fight, no one cares about him. He doesn't want to be an emperor?"
Kangxi actually wanted to persuade Wu Yingxiong to be emperor?
The ministers below all suspected that they had heard something wrong, and no one dared to respond to the voice.
Kangxi said with a smile: "Ying Xiong proclaims himself emperor, and Wu Wu will fight!"
"Your Majesty, the servant still doesn't understand." Tu Hai shook his head, "Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi have endured for so long and haven't started fighting, will they fight because of Wu Yingxiong's proclaiming the emperor?"
Kangxi smiled and said: "Of course! Wu Yingqi endured it all the time because he still had illusions about Wu Sangui's old officials, and wanted to take away three parts of the Wu family without bloodshed. But once Wu Yingxiong succeeds in proclaiming himself emperor, it means that he has already won the Wu family. With the support of the veterans of the old ministry, once the emperor is firmly established, the prestige will increase greatly, and the hearts of the people inside will be stable, and Wu Yingqi will have no chance at that time."
Chapter 541 Pingliao Bonds, Liberty Dengzhou
Dengzhou now has two nicknames, one is Zhusan Prince City and the other is Tianwang City.In fact, they all mean the same thing, that is, this city, located at the entrance of Bohai Bay and facing the Liaodong Peninsula only by sea for more than [-] miles, belongs to the third prince Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and now the Supreme Heavenly King Zhu Cijiong of the New Ming Dynasty.
For the new Ming Dynasty, whose capital was Nanjing, Dengzhou was an enclave that was difficult to govern. For the Qing Dynasty, which still controlled more than half of Dengzhou Prefecture and all other state capitals in Shandong Province, Dengzhou was a difficult enclave. Hard bones gnawed off...
And for those profiteers, village sages, hypocritical Confucians and traitors who still point to the Qing Dynasty for money, but at the same time are not very optimistic about the future of the Qing Dynasty, and are unwilling to be buried with it, Dengzhou...is their life. The place to reboot!
Zhu Tianwang, who ruled Dengzhou, seemed to them like a patron saint of righteousness!
He not only provides protection to those people or money whose origins are unknown, even without asking their origins, he can even provide them with a new identity, allowing them to start a new journey within the increasingly tall and thick walls of the outer city of Dengzhou. life.
After three or four years of development, the reputation of Third Prince City and Tianwang City has become bigger and bigger in the whole north. Those suffering farmers may not know it, but those guys riding on the necks of the working people and domineering , but everyone knows about the loopholes in the Huihui Skynet.
Li Sixing, who owns a courtyard house made of red bricks and black tiles in the mansion area called "Libazhuang" near the commercial port of Dengzhou, is the "bad guy" who started a new life.Of course Li Sixing is his pseudonym, his real name is Li Sixing...it seems that he is not very famous, but his father and "Grandpa Emperor" are well-known figures in the world.
His father's name is Li Dingguo!His "grandfather" is Zhang Xianzhong, long live Daxi old man!
In the first year of Kangxi, shortly after the death of his father Li Dingguo, he brought more than 200 people from his father's old ministry to the Qing Dynasty.In fact, he can't blame him for this matter. His father Li Dingguo was only 42 years old when he died, and he was still a young man in his early twenties, and he couldn't control the situation at all.Therefore, Li Dingguo ordered the general Jin Tongwu to lead the army, and asked Li Sixing to worship Jin Tongwu as his foster father.
But the situation at that time was too desperate, with more than 1000 remnants of soldiers without a leader, trapped in the remote villages on the border between Yunnan and Myanmar, with no way out.
Therefore, Jin Tongwu couldn't control the officers and soldiers who were completely desperate for the future, and was poisoned shortly afterwards. Then Li Dingguo's old department coerced Li Sixing and Liu Wenxiu's son Liu Zhen to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Li Sixing was named the governor, Liu Zhen was named a marquis, and they all raised the flag... The sons of the two anti-Qing heroes actually became the children of the Eight Banners. I really don’t know what to say about this matter. ?
Li Sixing's Dutong is of course an empty-headed official, just an official waiting to die.Probably because the Qing court saw that he was quite honest, so they didn't make it difficult for him, and let him go about his life step by step... In the original history, he also served as the general soldier of Ningxia, which can be regarded as a great grace of the emperor.
But this time he was unlucky. When he was still serving as the guard of the Forbidden City who clocked in to work, the Qing Dynasty "disappeared" once, that is, the time when Burni called in!
When Li Sixing came in from Burni, he was guarding the gate of Shenwumen with a few guards. When he saw the Mongols coming, he did not fight for the Qing Dynasty, nor did he protect the queen mother and queen, but ran first. , Shangyong who escaped only when he saw a thief.
But also because he ran fast, he took his wife and sister and fled to the outer city of Beijing... Later, when Kangxi returned to Beijing, of course he wanted to arrest and punish him.Li Sixing felt that he had committed a serious crime, and he didn't dare to stay in Beijing anymore. He also happened to hear that Dengzhou was a place like a "water park in Liangshan", so he, his wife and sister, took the little things left by his father with him. The inheritance also included a little savings that I had accumulated for many years as an official, so I ran away to Dengzhou.
Although they did not bring much money, but fortunately Dengzhou had just been developed at that time, and the land and housing prices were relatively cheap, so Li Sixing bought a piece of land inside the "fence wall" for 500 taels of silver, and paid another 1000 taels of silver. Yin Zi built this large courtyard and added some furniture, so he had a home.
But after finishing all this, his savings were almost exhausted, so he had to find an errand.But he dare not say that he is Li Dingguo's son!
Who made him surrender to the Qing Dynasty?If he didn't surrender, even if he couldn't claim the title of King Jin, he could at least be a Marquis.But now he is a "Qing Yao" who escaped from the Qing Dynasty!
So Li Sixing used Li Sixing's alias to go to the Heavenly King's Mansion in Dengzhou to look for an errand, and he really found a good job - he found a leader in the Dengzhou Guard Army Camp and was in charge of guarding the gate of the outer city of Dengzhou.
Because he has work experience as a gatekeeper in the Forbidden City, and he is also a professional soldier trained by Li Dingguo and the Qing Dynasty, so whether he is leading troops or guarding the gate, he has performed well.A year ago, he also participated in the "Commander Class" held by the Xiaoling Guards Military Academy in Dengzhou, and learned the necessary knowledge to command the infantry fusiliers battalion. He was then promoted to be a battalion general of the [-]nd Battalion of the Dengzhou Guards. It can be regarded as a prosperous official fortune.
At the same time, he also found a close relative for his sister Li Haiyue, and married Zhu Shangxian, Yang Qilong's confidant, and became his wife...Zhu Shangxian was originally Li Sixing's superior, the deputy commander-in-chief of Biedidezhou Town.The official is not young, but he doesn't know much about military affairs, so he keeps asking Li Sixing for advice.Later, he and Li Sixing went to the "Jiangjun Tutorial Class" and became classmates, and we got to know each other well.
Later, Li Sixing knew that Zhu Shangxian had delayed his marriage for the great cause of "anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty", so he was still a bachelor at a very old age (actually in his 20s), so he introduced his sister to him.
Because of Zhu Shangxian's great backer, Li Sixing became the number one person in the circle of Xindengzhou people—in fact, many people in Xindengzhou knew Li Sixing. He used to guard the gate of the Forbidden City, and sometimes Look at the back door, sometimes at the Meridian Gate, and the officials who go to court have to pass by him from time to time.Not only the officials knew him, but also the domestic servants who accompanied the officials to court.
But since everyone has arrived in Dengzhou, there is no past, so those who know each other pretend not to know each other. This is the rule of Dengzhou.
But everyone is still willing to inquire about some "inside" information, and Li Sixing is also a good talker and good friend.When I'm not on duty, I always like to soak in a teahouse called "Sihai Tea House" in Dengzhou Commercial Port, make a pot of tea, talk with people in Dengzhou who I don't know or pretend not to know, and do something by the way. Bearer bond trading... This "Four Seas Tea House" is also a spontaneous bond market, which specializes in buying and selling bearer public bonds sold by Penglai Bank.Because most of the people and money in Dengzhou come from unknown sources, there is no way to buy and sell in regular exchanges like Nanjing and Guangzhou, and they can only trade secretly in places like Sihai Tea House.
And this Four Seas Tea House is said to be the property of Princess Kunxing, everyone can trade here with confidence... There are also special "ticket inspectors" here, and they can help check the authenticity of bank notes and debt notes. Charge a small fee.
Moreover, all bonds and bank notes traded here are anonymous.
Recently, the Four Seas Tea House is very lively, because Penglai Bank is selling a kind of "convertible bond" called Liaodong land bond... Of course, what is convertible is not the stock, but the fertile black land of Liaodong !
The money here in Dengzhou is relatively abundant, and a large amount of funds have not been invested, so the interest rate is relatively low, and there are more funds to find a way out.And land must be the most attractive asset for these funds. After all, the owners of these funds are not industrial and commercial capitalists, they are originally the bureaucratic landlord class!
So Li Sixing, who has "inside information", has recently become a social celebrity in the Four Seas Teahouse!
Chapter 542 King Ming has arrived, and the cross-sea expedition to Liao will begin soon!
"General Li Shen, I'm looking forward to your coming! Have you heard? The Ming Dynasty's King Ming went to North Korea and fought with Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty in Seoul, and he accidentally killed the King of North Korea. So when the two sides came together, they worked together to withdraw the North Korean country! Look at this, King Ming and Kangxi are going to stay in North Korea for a long time. Is the matter of crossing the sea and conquering Liaodong a joke? Isn’t the Liaodong land bond we bought? Smash your hands?"
"Isn't it? Pingliao debt has been falling all the time in the past two days! The coupon of this debt is very low, with an annual interest rate of only [-]%, and the term is long. It can only be paid after five years. It’s only [-]% exchange rate, and it’s only been calculated for five years... The big guy bought it because he was greedy for the land of Liaodong! If the matter of Pingliao goes wrong, we have to pay at least [-] points of interest a year, Calculated based on seven and a half years, how much will you lose?"
"Now I'm afraid that the imperial court will not be able to pacify Liaodong, and there will be no money to pay off the debt... This will be miserable!"
"General Li Shen, you are well-versed and well-informed, you have to let us know!"
"General Li Shen, just tell me... the Pingliao debt in my hand was bought for my master. If I lose money, I will have to jump into the Bohai Sea later!"
Li Sixing felt quite helpless when he heard the questions from these people, because he also bought a lot of Pingliao debts himself, and it was his brother-in-law Zhu Shangxian who asked him to buy them.
Because he believed his brother-in-law's words, he invested all his savings in Pingliao bonds when they were issued.In fact, he didn't buy much, so he invested two thousand silver dollars...but this was already all his savings...
And now the price of Pingliao bonds has dropped by [-]%. If you sell the meat now, you will lose [-] silver dollars... That is his salary for working hard for a whole year!
Although he suffered badly, he couldn't share his bitterness with him... He "has inside information", if he followed him, Pingliao's debt might fall even worse.
So although Li Sixing hasn't seen his brother-in-law Zhu Shangxian for several days, he still looks confident, "How could the Battle of Pingliao be a waste? The Battle of North Korea will not hinder the conquest of Liaodong... What is protracted, you have to have capital to do it." Lasting! Although Kangxi wiped out North Korea’s three provinces, North Korea’s wealth has always been South Korea’s five provinces. King Ming ate all of this meat, so why does Kangxi last long?
And how much capital Kangxi has is not clear to everyone?If it is true that Chen Bing has [-] soldiers in North Korea, how many are left in the country?If the King of Ming can still come up with an army and horses from our Dengzhou to cross the sea to the north, Liaodong may be flattened in one go!Once Liaodong is lost, Kangxi may be buried in North Korea! "