The Tongling County government office was temporarily installed as the palace of the Supreme Emperor, and soon became the base camp of the Southern Expeditionary Army.
Inside and outside the county government office, there was an endless flow of cars and horses, and the lights were on all night long.
Groups of messengers wearing purple military uniforms with various flags on their backs were like busy worker bees, vibrating their little wings on Tongling Street, delivering packets of intelligence from various places in Liaodong, Shandong, and Jiangxi back to the base camp.
The piles of newspapers, memorials, and congratulations (June is the birthday of the Empress Dowager Cisheng) were compiled and compiled by Dongfang Zhu, Francisco, and Pei Dahu, and then submitted to the Emperor for inspection.
The palace camp was as bright as day, and the four walls were covered with bright whale oil lamps.
The pile of official documents and memorials on the imperial case was three feet high. The burly Liu Zhaosun was like an earth god from underground, completely submerged in this vast pile of paper.
Occasionally, he would raise his head, grab the tea cup on the table, and drink it in one gulp.
Even though he is half human and half god, the Supreme Emperor cannot handle such a high-intensity work of reviewing memorials.
The empire has a vast territory, so state affairs are heavy. Hundreds of reports of floods, droughts, and locust plagues are reported from various places every day. What's more terrible is that each one requires the court to give instructions as soon as possible.
If the relief for these disaster-stricken prefectures and counties is delayed a few days and the rescue is not complete, there will be an additional figure like Li Xianzhong and Zhang Zicheng among the victims.
From this point of view, Liu Zhaosun admired Emperor Wanli very much. It was not easy for the Ming Dynasty not to be over for decades without going to court.
Compared with the mountains of memorials sent back by civil servants, there are only a handful of memorials from the generals of each corps.
The Supreme Emperor gave the frontline commanders considerable autonomy in decision-making. In actual wars, the commanders of each corps could choose to act expediently based on battlefield needs.
Especially when encountering a major war opportunity, the chief officer can even decide in advance whether and when to start a war, and then report the decision to the court, enjoying the right to kill first and report later.
Of course, all decisions made by chief officers must be based on the advice of the training officer and soldier representatives before they are in compliance with the process.
Although he was about to conquer the world, Liu Zhaosun's current work was more like that of a civilized emperor.
For a long time, Liu Zhaosun's main focus was on handling the civil affairs of the empire.
He almost never interfered with the combat tactics of various regiments, such as disaster relief, appointing officials, and rewarding officials, and he would not even interfere with the position of a company's machine gun points like a certain leader of later generations did.
Among Liu Zhaosun’s edicts to the chief officers of each corps, this sentence appears most frequently:
"How can I know all these people from what I have seen? They are thousands of miles away. If there is any advantage in the army, then the generals and others will deal with it themselves."
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Liu Zhaosun rubbed his scarlet eyes, took a long breath, closed his eyes and took a nap. Dongfang Zhu stood beside him holding hot tea.
He woke up quickly, grabbed some tea and drank it all in one gulp. He took out a book from the mountain of official documents and took a look at it. The beginning of the memorial read:
"I would like to express my congratulations to the Queen Mother Xiao Ding Zhen Chun Qin Ren Duan Su Bi Ci Sheng on her birthday..."
Another birthday memorial, even Mongolian officials began to fall into the bad habit of false writing, and the emperor couldn't help laughing.
"Are the piles of congratulations here for the Empress Dowager Cisheng?"
Dongfang Zhu quickly looked at the corner of the case and replied:
"Yes, Your Majesty, I have already screened out all the congratulatory forms from officials below the state and county level. The remaining ones were submitted by governors and prefects of various provinces, as well as congratulatory forms from several princes and the shogunate of the King of Ryukyu and Joseon. A total of one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven copies..."
One thousand five hundred and thirty-seven copies, which is simply insane.
I took out another copy. The cover was gold-gilded and very delicate. When I opened it and looked at it, I found that it was a congratulatory note sent by King Lee Joon of Joseon.
The handwriting is very beautiful. He respectfully calls Jin Yuji the mother of Korea, which invisibly gives Liu Zhaosun a higher rank. The entire congratulatory letter is full of flattery, almost comparing the Emperor of Daqi to the most courageous king in the third generation. The Qi army was invincible and invincible. Those who didn't know it thought that Da Qi Tai was about to break out of the earth and unify the solar system.
Liu Zhaosun naturally knew Li Zhu's current mentality. This wallflower was now worried that after Liu Zhaosun occupied Jiangnan, he would fully attack North Korea and annex the remaining four roads of North Korea.
Therefore, in the congratulations, Li Zhu behaved extremely respectfully, not like a nephew at all, but a grandson.
"You're welcome, you're welcome. Daqi and North Korea are the countries of uncles and nephews. I am Li Zhu's uncle. How can there be any reason in this world for an uncle to bully his nephew? Let the bachelor write a letter back and tell Li Zhu that I He is leading a million-strong army to hunt in Jinling, so we cannot drink green plum wine with him. When we return to Liaodong this winter to collect Zheng Chenggong's body, we will gather with my nephew in Hanyang, eat kimchi, roast venison, and drink wine."
The Supreme Emperor took out the congratulatory note sent by Li Zhu all the way from North Korea from a pile of memorials and carefully put it away alone. He was going to send this letter back to Liaodong to show it to Jin Yuji to make her smile.
The manager Ouchi stood beside the case and did not move.
"What? Didn't you hear clearly?"
Dongfang Zhu said quickly: "Your Majesty, you have forgotten that the bachelor is still negotiating peace in Nanjing, and he should not be able to come back at this moment."
"Oh. I was busy and forgot, so I asked Zhang Pu to write it immediately. Don't let my nephew worry about Daqi in Seoul."
Dongfang Zhu took the order and left. Of course he knew what "not letting Li Zhu worry" meant.
Daqi and North Korea are testing each other. The war in Liaodong is not over yet. If North Korea suddenly takes the wrong medicine and sends troops to Shenyang to take advantage of the fire, the war in Liaodong will be in trouble.
Liu Zhaosun stood up and stood in front of a map of Daqi's territory that was more than two feet wide, and stood there for a long time.
High Priest Francisco Francisco and Pei Dahu came up and stared at the giant map with the Supreme Emperor.
Zhang Dong led the messenger in.
Liu Zhaosun felt a little familiar with this veteran messenger.
Zhang Dong whispered: "Your Majesty, he is from the Third Corps..."
"oh,"
Liu Zhaosun nodded:
"What's going on in Liaodong? Have Jinzhou and Gaizhou in southern Liaoning been captured by Zheng Sen?"
The messenger looked exhausted. Under the black uniform, his body became skin and bones. He struggled to open his mouth, and just as he was about to speak, he fainted.
"this····"
The Supreme Emperor quickly asked Pei Dahu to help the soldiers go down to rest.
"Your Majesty, forgive me. This man took a boat to Dengzhou two months ago. As soon as he landed, he encountered a large group of White Lotus sect. One of his companions was killed by the White Lotus sect. He came here from Dengzhou to report the news alone. He didn't rest much along the way. ·······”
Zhang Dong watched the messenger being helped out and explained quickly.
"Come from Shandong?" Liu Zhaosun gritted his teeth, "It's not easy, take a good rest, it's not easy."
The Supreme Emperor sighed repeatedly, and everyone around him was also amazed.
Zhang Dong quickly relayed the military situation in Liaodong he had just heard to the Supreme Emperor.
When reporting on the military situation, the normally calm and indifferent intelligence chief's voice actually trembled:
"Your Majesty, the Zheng thieves were defeated by General Qi and the others at the end of March. Zheng Sen besieged Gaizhou for a month and a half, but did not fight. He sent people to Shenyang every day to recruit surrender. In the end, they were all captured. A lone army in Gaizhou held them back. , three hundred cavalry, and five hundred gunmen all died in battle, buying valuable time for the reinforcements. General Qi, General Wang, and King Zhongyi (Bumu Butai) arrived in time, defeated the pirates in one fell swoop, and killed both of them. There were more than ten thousand people, and the remaining pirates dispersed in a hurry and retreated from southern Liaoning to the sea. They were intercepted and killed by Wu Aheng. Zheng Sen did not know whether to live or die. A great victory in Liaodong, Your Majesty!"
"A great victory in Liaodong, a great victory."
Liu Zhaosun muttered to himself and repeated it several times before stopping.
The Supreme Emperor had long expected that Zheng Chenggong would be defeated this time, but he did not expect that the defeat would be so fast, and exactly the same as the original defeat in history. The Supreme Emperor thought for a long time, and finally could only explain the Liaonan War by saying that the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. war.
Zheng Jun went deep alone, and the supply line was too long. From the beginning, he never thought about playing steadily. He only thought about opportunism and let Zuo Liangyu take advantage of the fire and make wedding clothes for them...
It can be said that the Zheng family has committed almost all the taboos of military strategists. However, there is no way to make Mr. Guo Xing be so confident and underestimate the enemy.
Maybe in his eyes, the State of Qi was just a paper house that would fall down if he stepped forward and kicked it.
In the final analysis, with a pirate's intellectual vision, it is impossible to see the true strength of Daqi, let alone the terrifying combat power that can be unleashed under the polarist system...
Later, based on the descriptions of Zhang Dong and the messenger, the Supreme Emperor roughly understood the entire process of the Battle of Gaizhou.
On March 18, the first year of Guangde, after failing to persuade the ministers left behind in Shenyang (Lu Xiangsheng and Empress Dowager Cisheng) to surrender, Zheng Jun's siege artillery was finally delivered.
On the 19th, Zheng Jun began to place artillery on the front lines of each battalion, and the general attack was scheduled to begin on the 21st.
On the 20th, Zheng Sen received information (Wang Zengbin, Bumu Butai) that the Qi Army Corps in Guannai and Western Liao Dynasty were reinforcing Liaodong, and the Qi Army in Gaizhou prepared to counterattack.
At this time, the arrow was on the string. Regardless of the opposition of the generals, Zheng Sen insisted on defending first and still carried out the general attack on the 21st according to the original plan.
On the 21st, the two sides shelled each other at Chengen Gate (West Gate of Gaizhou). As a result, the Zheng Army's artillery position was destroyed by the Qi Army's flying crows.
The Gaizhou cavalry rushed out of Chengen Gate to counterattack. Zheng Jun's Qianfeng Town was severely damaged, and Zhongchong Town was damaged by more than half.
A hole was torn open in the Zheng Army's siege line. The Qi Army's cavalry, which had won the victory out of the city, simply stationed outside Cheng'en Gate to confront the Zheng Army, which was dozens of times their own strength.
Zheng Sen had no choice but to change his siege strategy again, changing the combat goal from siege to driving the Qi army's cavalry back to the city.
Maybe he thought that there were too few cavalry out of the city (about 300 cavalry and 500 musketeers), so the king did not immediately order the cavalry to be driven out.
In the early morning of the 23rd, Bumu Butai led the Liao Mongolian soldiers and Wang Zengbin led the main force of the cavalry regiment and rushed to the battlefield in southern Liaoning.
The Gaizhou garrison followed the two armies and launched a full-scale counterattack. Realizing that the end was approaching, Zheng Jun fled in a hurry, but was blocked by the Qi army outside the city.
After paying a heavy price (two thousand of the six thousand iron soldiers were lost), the Qi army was finally wiped out.
However, at this time, the reinforcements of the Qi army had completed the encirclement. The Zheng army was caught in the attack of the two main regiments, the cavalry regiment and the Mongolian regiment. It suffered serious losses. The 100,000-strong army suffered 20,000 casualties. The rest were disintegrated and fled into the sea, where they were annihilated by the Qi navy. There were countless of them, and Zheng Sen was nowhere to be found.
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The Supreme Emperor turned his gaze back to the map on the wall, stared at the direction of Kyushu Island, and murmured to himself:
"Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen, where did you escape to?"
By this time Dongfang Zhu had returned.
"Is there any news from Nanjing?"
The Ouchi Supervisor stepped forward and added some oil to the whale oil lamp on the wall: "Back to Your Majesty, I just received the newspaper. The Grand Master is preparing for the ceremony of Emperor Ming's abdication and surrender. It is said that they have rehearsed it twice."
"Rehearsal? Two more times?"
The Supreme Emperor laughed dumbly. After thinking for a while, he felt that Qian Qianyi had gone too far.
"I didn't know that a great scholar could be so talented. It's really my Xiao He who knows how to write such nonsense!"
However, on second thought, according to the wishes of several ministers in the cabinet, the surrender ceremony must be extra grand, otherwise it will not be able to demonstrate the prestige of the Qi State and intimidate people from afar.
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On June 20, the 15th year of Hongguang's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Changhui, issued an abdication edict in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, announcing the cancellation of the country and era names, and personally led the Ming Dynasty's nine provinces, sixty-three prefectures (prefectures) and 358 counties. Enter Daqi.
An excerpt from Emperor Ming’s edict to abdicate is as follows:
I heard that the emperor's orders are not ordinary, but are due to virtue. Therefore, the Han Dynasty was the Qin Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was the Yuan Dynasty, which was the appropriate time.
Since the Wanli period of Longqing, the sky has been disgusted with me. There are many traitors in the temples, the grass is everywhere in the north and the south, bandits from the east and west, floods, droughts, locust plagues, comets in the ground, wars and disturbances. As for the wrath of the sky, it can be heard of the change, but you can't know it.
Although I don’t know, I dare not live up to my destiny and I am virtuous!
Kuang Gu, the king of the world, focuses on preserving the common people, and cannot bear to have those in power harm others! I, following the imperial decree, intend to renew the world, and because of the alliance with Xuzhou, I hope to ensure eternal peace. Three thieves from the left came in, seven rebellions from Zheng rose up, the rivers boiled, the people were in distress, the north and the south were at war, pointing at each other.
Just because the south of the Yangtze River is not attached, the people of the world will be restless. Today, the people will remember the new dynasty. Brilliant Great Qi, where destiny belongs!
If it goes against the majority of the people, how can I bear to do so because of the honor of one surname and the likes and dislikes of the people? This is the general trend on the outside and the public opinion on the inside. I lead all the ministers and subordinates to the Qi Dynasty...
Zhu Changhui was secretly sent to Zhenjiang by Marquis Lingbi, where Emperor Hongguang would change into another identity and secretly sail northward on a Qi warship to Ganghwa Island in North Korea, where he would reunite with his Zhu family relatives.
Lingbihou is the title conferred by the Supreme Emperor on Zhao Zhilong. Liu Zhaosun deliberately set up such a model to encourage the officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty to be loyal to the new dynasty.
On June 29, more than 8,000 representatives of the various regiments of the Qi Army, led by Nanming's demoted officials, entered Nanjing City with strong military skills.
At the first quarter of July in the first year of Guangde, Zhao Zhilong, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Zhili Army of the Qi Dynasty and Lingbi Marquis, led eight hundred demoted officials and presented his surrender to the Supreme Emperor in front of the Xuanwu Gate in Nanjing.
In the grand and unprecedented surrender ceremony, the Supreme Emperor tremblingly received the jade seal passed down from the Ming Dynasty, and announced in public the pardon of all the people who had been demoted in the Southern Ming Dynasty except Zheng Sen and Zuo Liangyu.
Inside and outside Stone City, millions of soldiers and civilians cheered long live.
The Ming Dynasty perished.
Nanming belongs to Jianghuai, Jiangnan and most of the southwest.
Including Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and parts of Zhejiang and Fujian, a total of nine provinces, 63 prefectures (prefectures) and 358 counties, 8,655,065 Households, more than 36 million new people, all belong to Daqi.
Although Emperor Hongguang had announced his abdication, canceled the title of Ming Dynasty, and called on all the subjects to be loyal to Da Qi.
However, in various parts of the south, there were still many officials who were loyal to Zhu Ming and refused to surrender. They vowed to fight Qi Lu to the end.
These remnant forces are mainly distributed in Fujian and Guangdong. Some of them are Zheng Sen's old troops (the whereabouts of Zheng Sen are still unknown), as well as southern officials who previously supported other vassal kings.
Two years later, the Zheng family in Fujian surrendered to Qi, and in the same year, Emperor Zhang Zicheng of Daxi surrendered.
Since then, the Daqi Empire created by Liu Zhaosun has actually controlled the following territories:
The 18 provinces of Han, the three provinces of Liaodong, the Outer Northeast (including Sakhalin Island), the entire territory of Mongolia (roughly equivalent to the northern control area at the height of the Mongol Empire), the two northern provinces of Korea, southeastern Australia, Taiwan Islands, Ryukyu Islands· ······
If you add in the homeland that Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang regained in Yinzhou (North America) (several scattered strongholds on the west coast),
And a few decades later, Emperor Liu Kan of Guangde and his successor Xuanzong launched a series of expansions (conquering Japan, sweeping the Indo-China Peninsula, drinking the Danube, sweeping Europe... the empire's territory would eventually expand to a terrifying 53 million people square kilometers, accounting for approximately 29% of the global land area.
The upper limit of the territory of the Da Qi Empire had long exceeded that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and was even twice as large as the territory of the Mongolian and Yuan Empire during the time of Kublai Khan.
Of course, this is all for later.
I won’t spoil the glorious glory of Da Qi Empire here.
At least at the turn of summer and autumn in the first year of Guangde, the main energy of the empire was still digesting the Jiangnan provinces and quelling the rebellion and rebellion of the remaining forces of the Ming Dynasty.
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