"Fujian, how many people died?"
"Back to Your Majesty, according to the statistics of the civil affairs officials of various prefectures and counties in Fujian, from February 5, the second year of Guangde, when the Seventh Corps entered Fujian to fight the rebellion, to October 28, the third year of Guangde, that is, at the end of last month, nine provinces under the jurisdiction of Fujian In the seventy-one counties of the two prefectures, a total of 3,785 people died due to famine, plague, and massacres by Ming thieves, including 127 in Min County and 82 in Changle County...
The Supreme Emperor interrupted Xie Guangkun's lengthy narration and looked up at the lean Zhang Dong.
"What about reality?"
Zhang Mazi looked indifferent: "Your Majesty, there are two hundred thousand people."
Liu Zhaosun's face changed drastically, his breathing became rapid, and he was speechless for a long time.
Dongfang Zhu winked at Zhang Dong quickly.
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"Twenty thousand people died, and they will be recorded in history!"
After he finished speaking, he immediately shook his head and said: "It's impossible, it's impossible for so many people to die."
Zhang Dong ignored Dongfang Zhu's wink and said firmly: "Your Majesty, counting the missing people from various places, I'm afraid there are more than 200,000."
The Emperor lowered his head in pain, his veins swelled, and the tea cup he was holding shattered into pieces.
Several close confidants remained silent and stopped talking.
Liu Zhaosun faced the Zhenwu God enshrined in the main hall and shed a tear.
Dongfang Zhu consoled him and said, "Your Majesty, my condolences. Life and death are determined by fate and wealth. If you want to blame, blame the Ming thieves for taking human lives, using the people as cannon fodder, and robbing the people of their food. These 200,000 people were forced to death by the Ming thieves."
As Eunuch Dongfang spoke, he winked around. Zhang Dong turned a blind eye. The high priest Francisco stepped forward and said:
"Your Majesty, you are the king of kings and the master of the world. Your Majesty's army saves those poor people from hell. Without Your Majesty, the subjects of Fujian would still be suffering from plague and pirates, just like the peasants in the European Middle Ages. , justice will never befall them."
Liu Xingzuo also echoed: "What the high priest said is absolutely true. The remnants of Zheng Sen, especially Zhangzhou guard Chen Jin, are so crazy that they drive women and children to the city every day to throw stones, and let the whole city be buried with the Zheng family..."
The Supreme Emperor waved his hand to signal everyone to stop talking.
I thought I could capture Fujian without any bloodshed, but I didn't expect to pay such a heavy price in the end.
Even half of the 200,000 people could be used to reclaim Sakhalin Island.
"I heard that the siege of Zhangzhou has not been solved yet?"
Zhang Dong nodded and said: "On the 40th day, the Ming thief can no longer hold on."
Before the Supreme Emperor could speak, Liu Xingzuo explained to Wang Zengbin:
"Your Majesty, Zhangzhou is no better than Quanzhou. The situation in this city is much more complicated."
The Emperor's eyes were sharp: "I heard that several of your subordinates were killed in Zhangzhou. What happened?"
"Your Majesty, it is true that this happened because the people in the city reported it to the Ming thieves."
More than ten coir raincoat guards and informants arranged by Liu Xingzuo in Zhangzhou were betrayed by the Fujianese and all were quartered by Chen Jin.
Publicly and privately, Liu Xingzuo hated Zhangzhou deeply, so he fully supported Wang Zengbin's siege.
"Your Majesty clearly knows that the capital city of Zhangzhou is the home of the Zheng family. Many people are fishermen on weekdays and can turn into pirates at any time. Not to mention that all the people are thieves, but it is not an exaggeration to say that 67 out of 10 support Zheng Sen. If we attack hard, There will be heavy casualties, so encircling without fighting is a good strategy.”
Several people nearby also agreed.
The Supreme Emperor said nothing more and walked straight out of the Wenhua Hall.
Francisco of the East followed.
As the Supreme Emperor walked away, he said to himself:
"Sometimes, I miss that time in the first year of Wuding, when bandits came from Shaanxi with great ferocity, a plague broke out in the capital, and the dead piled up in mountains... Although the situation was difficult and dangerous at that time, and there was a narrow escape from death, everyone worked hard, and I only wanted to When an order is given, no one dares to disobey, and if they say to fight in the east, they will never fight in the west. The soldiers are high-spirited and invincible. Now, they often refuse to obey the orders of the foreign kings. The killings are all in units of ten thousand. It is killing to fill the field. Bleeding and drifting!"
In the third year of Guangde (1644), the Supreme Emperor was over forty years old. He was radiant and energetic, and could easily control ten women at night. He was so young that he did not look like a man in his forties.
But, old friend. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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One by one they are dying, the affairs of the country are becoming more and more complicated, the world's people are becoming more and more cruel, and under the eternal body, his heart is aging rapidly.
The country is picturesque and the people's hearts are like iron.
The originally soft heart will become harder and harder.
Dongfang Zhu thought that the Emperor was being sentimental and comforted him in a low voice:
"Your Majesty is overly worried. The whole world is not the land of the king, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers. Your majesty is arbitrary and arbitrary. Who in the world will not obey?"
The Supreme Emperor smiled and said: "Of course I don't doubt their loyalty. Anyone who betrayed Da Qi is dead. However, this time, too many people died, and I am still a little unaccustomed to it."
You'll get used to it later.
"Mencius Li Lou Shang": If you fight for the land, you will kill people to fill the fields; if you fight for the city, you will fight and kill people to fill the city.
Liu Zhaosun and his Da Qi will build an empire even more magnificent than that of Meng Yuan. So, how many people do the Emperor need to kill?
Obviously it’s not just Yingye Yingcheng.
Dongfang Zhu saw that the Emperor's mood had eased slightly, and then advised:
"Your Majesty, what I saw in Yangzhou was nothing short of hell. In order to destroy the great cause of the abolition of the canal, the Luo Jiao Cao army used all means to burn, kill, loot, and commit all kinds of evil. Rong Chen may say something outrageous, but in fact, what Lu Shoufu said that day was not wrong. I also I feel that many of the people in Fujian are beguiled by Zheng Sen and are thieves. I estimate that the incident in Guazhou in Yangzhou has just happened. General Lin Yu’s body is still cold, and so many soldiers were injured. All the regiments are holding their breath. Wang The cavalrymen under the general are all very valuable. The Ming thieves in Zhangzhou have no way out. If they attack by force, the rats will eat the cats. The casualties are not as high as those in Yangzhou and Guazhou. The siege is also a bad strategy. As for starving so many people to death, it is not possible. It’s the Ming thief’s fault.”
Liu Zhaosun listened patiently to his father-in-law and said solemnly:
"The chief culprit is the Ming thief. When Zheng Sen and Zuo Liangyu are captured, I will cut these two thieves into thousands of pieces to thank the people of the world."
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At the turn of summer and autumn in the third year of Guangde, the Qi army was invincible in the southeastern battlefield. The cavalry of the Seventh Corps conquered the land of Fujian, and the powerful ships and guns of the Sixth Fleet sailed to the East China Sea. _o_m
At this time, Emperor Liu Zhaosun, who was in Nanjing, was paying attention to the affairs of Yangzhou and Shaanxi while paying attention to the battlefield in Fujian.
Deng Changxiong led the Second Corps to recruit troops in Hanzhong. This year, Deng Changxiong recruited a total of 8,000 new soldiers. The recruits are intensifying training to prepare for the upcoming battle in Sichuan. Some prefectures and counties in Shanxi and Henan near Shaanxi are recruiting grain and grass to assist the Second Corps.
Emperor Guangde Liu Kan continued to implement the great cause of abolishing canals in Yangzhou.
Ten days after Yangzhou, all kinds of voices opposing the abolition of the canal have almost disappeared.
However, sea transportation, which replaced water transportation, has been stumbling and has not progressed smoothly.
In early September, a group of grain-carrying ships headed north from Yangzhou and were suddenly attacked while passing through the sea off Dengzhou.
All the food was robbed by pirates, and all the boatmen and sailors suffered casualties. According to the accounts of two helmsmen who escaped back to Tianjin, the fleet was attacked by Japanese pirates and pirates speaking in southern Fujian.
There is no doubt that this is Zheng Sen's masterpiece.
While the Sixth Fleet was fighting the rebellion in Fujian, Zheng Sen colluded with Japanese pirates to frequently dispatch from Kyushu Island to harass Shandong. The Japanese pirates did not land ashore, but robbed Daqi ships offshore and disrupted north-south shipping.
The Eighth Corps stationed in Dengzhou lacked ships and was unable to deal with pirate intrusions.
Zhao Lijiao, the commander of the Eighth Corps, wrote five bloody letters to Nanjing in two months, imploring the Supreme Emperor to send troops to the east as soon as possible to launch a war of annihilation against the Japanese pirates.
In a letter of petition written with the blood of the soldiers, the Eighth Corps had been fighting hard for a long time, and was only waiting for the Emperor's order to attack the Japanese pirates from Kyushu.
The Emperor did not support or oppose this fanatical act of revenge.
In a personal letter replying to Zhao Shujiao, the Supreme Emperor wrote:
"I think about avenging Yuan Shaobao all the time. However, Fujian is not at peace. The Sixth Fleet has experienced the battles of Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Yangzhou. The damage needs to be repaired urgently. Please be patient and continue to train in Shandong. The Zheng bandits are rampant at the moment. The expedition to Japan was originally scheduled for three years, but it has to be brought forward. I promise you that as early as next spring and summer, we will use your 8th Corps as the vanguard to land in Kyushu and conquer the Japanese country. By then, you will kill your enemies with your own hands. I will fight with you. You drink together in Edo Castle, using Tokugawa Iemitsu’s head as a drinking vessel..."
On the fifth day of November in the third year of Guangde, after the Battle of Zhangzhou ended. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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On the third day, the Supreme Emperor issued an edict that in memory of the people who died in Zhangzhou, he would not attend court for three days and not eat for forty-nine days.
Under the remonstrance of the officials, the forty-nine days were changed to four days.
On the eighth day of November, Yuan Shu, the son of Yuan Keli, was appointed governor of Fujian. Together with Zhang Yunxiu, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he handled the government affairs of Fujian and assisted in preparing for the entry of the Seventh Corps into Guangdong.
The war to regain Guangdong and Guangxi will soon begin again.
On the ninth day of November, Emperor Guangde Liu Kan led his retinue back to Nanjing.
On the same day, the third batch of 5,000 Cao troops were dispatched to Sakhalin Island and various places in the North Sea.
The great cause of abolishing the canal was successfully completed.
On November 12, Wu Xiao, Li Zicheng and others brought back Lin Yu's relics from Yangzhou.
The Supreme Emperor led his ministers five miles out of the city and met him at Longsheng Pass outside the city.
Longshengguan Pier.
Banners and flags are lined up, and the military looks solemn.
Ships loaded with grain and cloth were docked at the dock, and grain and grass collected from Yangzhou and Guazhou were continuously imported into the imperial capital.
The Battle of Yangzhou after the abolition of Caojia brought huge gains, but Huizhou merchants recovered tens of millions of taels of silver, and countless pieces of tea and silk cloth. This does not include the assets and goods of Huizhou merchants and trade from various places. .
Xie Yang was holding a large stack of yellow account books and stood at the front of the team. It took more than a month for the civil affairs officials to complete the registration and registration of the huge wealth seized in Guazhou and Yangzhou, and they have been busy until now.
At the beginning of noon, the Supreme Emperor looked in a hurry and strode towards him, surrounded by the high priest Dongfang Zhuhe.
Daqi officials were talking a lot, their faces filled with joy.
Being able to firmly hold all the wealth of the Grand Canal in the hands of the imperial court is unprecedented. The revenue of Daqi's treasury will definitely double this year. More importantly, with this piece of fat, Daqi's precarious finances can finally be eased. .
Under the eager gaze of tens of thousands of people, the Supreme Emperor walked slowly towards Xie Yang.
Xie Guangkun was holding a mountain of account books in his hands, and his arms were already bent.
As if showing off his victory, he tried his best to hand it to the Supreme Emperor.
Surrounded by a large group of civil affairs officials, they are obviously the focus of everyone's attention today.
The Supreme Emperor walked to Xie Yang.
"Your Majesty, these are the various prefectures in Yangzhou..."
Liu Zhaosun gently pushed Xie Guangkun away and continued walking forward. Dongfang Zhu quickly caught the account book that was about to fall to the ground.
A dense group of civil affairs officials in front quickly made way, and the Supreme Emperor walked straight to the back of the crowd as if there was no one around.
Wu Xiao held a pair of worn-out chainmail in his hands, his eyes slightly red.
Li Zicheng burst into tears, holding a huge mace in his hand, with deep blood stains on the edges of the mace.
The two of them didn't notice the Supreme Emperor coming over, they just stared blankly at the things they were holding, as if they were holding the whole world.
Liu Zhaosun spread his arms, surrounded the relics, raised his head to the sky, and sang an ancient soul-calling ballad under the gaze of tens of thousands of subjects:
"Duoah...슷"
"Ehhhhhh..."
"The soul will never come back!"
"They all get used to it, and their souls will be released after they die."
"Come back! You can't ask for more."
"The soul is back! The south cannot stop."
"Come back, come back quickly!"
"The soul has gone away... and returned 슷·슷슷"
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On November 13, the Supreme Emperor summoned Lin Yu's wife, Fujiwara Chiyoko, in the Shengshen Hall.
Also summoned were Chiyoko's son Lin Zhenyu and brother Zhang Fujiwara Kyouji.
The young father-in-law, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, read the imperial edict loudly:
"...Give me a daughter, make Chiyoko the first-grade wife, and make Lin Yu's son the chief military officer of Hangzhou Prefecture..."
Fujiwara Kyouji quickly pulled his sister to receive the order to thank him, but Chiyoko remained motionless.
The Supreme Emperor stretched out his big hand to signal Fujiwara Kyouji to excuse himself.
Chiyoko stared at the half-human and half-god Liu Zhaosun on the dragon throne, looking at the king who had been mentioned countless times by her husband.
"Yu'er and I don't want rewards or titles, we just ask your majesty to promise me something. _o_m "
The young father-in-law shouted: "You are brave, you are a barbarian, you don't know whether to live or die! Your Majesty will reward you. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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How can you take back what you have given? "
Eight-year-old Lin Zhenyu immediately stood in front of his mother, shaking his fists and looking at the guards on both sides.
Fujiwara Kyouji quickly grabbed his nephew and persuaded his sister in a low voice in Japanese.
The Supreme Emperor suddenly looked sideways at the little eunuch who was announcing the decree, and with a flick of his finger, the little eunuch flew out.
"Tell me what you want, as long as I can do it, I will agree to it."
Fujiwara Chiyoko shook off her brother's pull and said to the Emperor, neither humble nor arrogant:
"I dreamed that the cherry blossoms were in full bloom in my hometown. I wanted to take Yu'er home to a place with cherry blossoms. _o_m "
The little eunuch is still looking for teeth all over the floor.
The Supreme Emperor said kindly to the mother and son:
"I promise you, but the Japanese country is dangerous and Lin Yu has many enemies. If he goes back now, they will seek revenge. Let's do this. I will send a battleship to escort you to Ryukyu Province. There are also cherry blossoms there. After destroying Tokugawa Iemitsu, we can What do you think about taking you back to Osaka?"
Chiyoko handed her husband's memorial tablet to her son and bowed in salute:
"On behalf of my husband, I would like to thank Your Majesty."
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