"Going on the road? You can't go on the road!"
In the governor's office of water transportation in Huai'an, as soon as Mingzhu proposed to escort grain, gold, silver, silk and other items northward, someone immediately raised objections.
Mingzhu, who had been arrested twice, had been in jail, and been in a prison car, and had suffered a lot, was frightened because of the "Li Zhongtang Northern Expedition". Hearing that someone objected to him running away quickly, he became angry at that time and asked him. The man cast a vicious look.
The man was about forty years old, almost fifty years old, with a medium build, his temples and beard were still black, and his eyes were bright, giving people the impression of being smart and capable.
Seeing Mingzhu staring at him, the man was not angry at all. He just shook his head and said: "Uncle, I really can't go on the road. My Jiangbei camp really can't spare many troops to escort you and those treasures northward."
It turned out that Mingzhu was glaring at her eldest nephew, named Nala Muzhan. He was the eldest great-grandson of Jin Taishi, the head of the Jurchen Yehe tribe. Although he was seven or eight years older than his second eldest brother, Mingzhu, he was The generation is one generation shorter.
This Nala Muzhan was also one of the few figures in the Qing Dynasty who participated in the last wave of Ming and Qing wars, but he did not participate in much. He just caught up with the tail. He once followed Tong Jia Zhuoluo, a powerful man with a white flag in Manchuria. Together they went to Yunnan to defeat Li Dingguo, and later stationed in Yunnan for a period of time, playing chieftain and leveling up with Wu Sangui, Wang Fuchen, and Zhang Yong.
However, after completing his leveling, he was cast into disuse and sent to serve as the Vice-Capital of Manchuria under the Yellow Flag. Who made him the most direct descendant of Jintaishi? When the princes of the Aisin Gioro family cannot lead troops, how can the descendants of Jintaishi lead troops?
However, as the Qing Dynasty lost several important battles one after another, Kangxi and Fu both began to "think about Aobai" and "think about Amma in national calamity", so Nala Muzhan was naturally appointed and entrusted to Jiangbei. The important task of the general manager of the camp.
Of course, it is also the responsibility of Mu Zhan, the minister in charge of the Jiangbei camp, to protect the smooth flow of water transportation in Jiangbei. But he really can't afford this responsibility now. There are more than 20,000 soldiers in the Jiangbei camp, of which Shi Lang's navy accounts for 10,000, leaving 10,000 thousand soldiers. Originally, they only had to guard Huai'an and Yangzhou, leaving Liu Jinzhong, the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty, to advance eastward. That's it.
Unexpectedly, Prince Zhu and Prince Geng Dong of Nanjing City actually squeezed out an army from Nanjing when the Qing army's Jiangxi, Jiangnan, and Jiangdong battalions suppressed Nanjing, and handed them over to the little man who changed his name to Li Zhongshan. King Lu Bu made him the governor of Jiangbei!
And this little job Lu Bu is really fierce. As soon as he crossed the Yangtze River, he went into a rage. He immediately raised the banner of "Three thousand tigers and brave men, sweep straight to the land of Youyan". Within half a month after crossing the river, he rushed straight to Qianming. Fengyang, the central capital. Prince Jian Labu, the deputy minister of the Jiangxi camp who was guarding Fengyang, originally wanted to rely on Fengyang Fort to defend, but he fell into the enemy's trick and was deceived by a small number of Ming army's vanguard cavalry into thousands of fine cavalry from the city. , and then was ambushed by "thousands of shotgun soldiers", and more than half of the thousands of cavalry were lost!
These are all Eight Banners soldiers!
Half of the Eight Banners cavalry led by the generals were wiped out in one battle. How could the remaining Fengyang defenders dare to fight hard?
The day after those defeated soldiers fled back to Fengyang City, the regiment training of Fengyang Prefecture, which cooperated with La Bu in defending the city, was greatly shaken. Several regiment leaders even began to plot to kill Prince Jian La Bu and then surrender to the city.
Although the conspiracy was discovered by Labu's palace guards and they promptly killed the regiment leaders, the remaining regiment leaders and their subordinates were unwilling to work hard and even began to set up barricades in Fengyang City in preparation for fighting the Qing army. Fighting the civil war "urban civil war". This is still a hairline! Labu was not a demon like his great-grandfather Shuerhaji and grandfather Jierhalang, and he had no way of attacking the Huaixi assassins in Fengyang City. He only took the flag soldiers and green camp soldiers to retreat to Lujiang overnight, and gave a good Fengyang City and thousands of Huaixi regiments in the city directly to "Li Zhongtang"!
As soon as Labu ran away, the two camps of Jiangbei and Jiangxi of the Qing Dynasty suffered a lot.
Originally, Jiangbei Camp only needed to defend the area to the west of the canal, and this area was blocked by Gaoyou Lake, Shaobo Lake, Baima Lake, Sanhe, and the canal. It also had Yangzhou Jiancheng and Gaojiayan to rely on. If it didn't work, Gaojiayan could still be dug out. Use water instead of troops. Therefore, more than 10,000 Green Camp Army Divisions with weak combat effectiveness are enough.
But once Fengyang Fucheng was lost, that "Li Zhongtang" not only got a large number of brave and capable Huaixi soldiers, but he could also directly cross the Huaihe River to attack the Zhongyun River in Huaibei!
If that "Li Zhongtang" knew that Mingzhu was heading north with a large amount of grain, silk, cloth, and silver that the Qing Dynasty had plundered from the south of the Yangtze River, he would undoubtedly come to block the road and rob him!
"Mu Zhan, do you think this will work? We can go north quietly, and we can transport grain and grass separately from silk, cloth, and silver! I will leave first with silk, cloth, and silver, and you can send one or two thousand elite soldiers to escort me. "
Mingzhu still doesn't give up, he really doesn't want to be caught again. And he still loves the Qing Dynasty! Knowing that Prince Yu, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, was in great difficulty now, he urgently needed to obtain this batch of property plundered from the southeast.
Here alone, Yuan Linjing obtained seven to eight million taels of silver deposits from salt merchants and private merchants in Yangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou on behalf of Yu Wang Fuquan! There is also the old foundation of Yangzhou Lianghuai Salt Transportation Yamen, which is 1 to 2 million taels.
In addition, what is now gathered in Huai'an are the silks and cloths stored in the three weaving warehouses of Hangzhou Weaving, Suzhou Weaving, and Yangzhou Weaving - this is the old foundation that the three major weaving houses have saved for many years.
According to the suggestion of Mu Tianyan, the chief envoy of Jiangsu, all the money in the accounts of the three major weaving yamen was used to purchase silk and cloth, almost all the silk available in the markets of Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Songjiang (Songjiang cloth) and cotton cloth were all purchased.
If the Qing Dynasty could not protect the southeast or maintain water transportation in the end, the silver shipped to Beijing would not be as fragrant as silk and cotton!
And such a large amount of wealth is very important to any party in this troubled world!
If King Yu could get this wealth, he would be completely frightened.
"No, no, it's too dangerous! Money and silk touch people's hearts. Even if we can hide it from Wang Datou, we can also hide it from those people in Shandong and Henan."
The person who said this was too dangerous was Suzhou Weaving Cao Xi. He was originally from Jiangning Weaving. He ran away during the Jiangning uprising and was later appointed by Kangxi to Suzhou Weaving.
Of course he didn't want Fuquan to get such a large fortune!
But what he said makes sense!
Now the Qing Dynasty has established four vassal towns in Shandong and Henan, and has not sealed the envoys. This sounds reminiscent of the disaster of the vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, so it took a step back and called Tuan Lian envoys.
In Shandong, two towns were sealed, namely Zhang Yong, the training envoy of Dongchang regiment, and Zhao Liangdong, the training envoy of Tai'an regiment. Zhang Yong was in charge of Dongchang Prefecture, Linqing Prefecture and Caozhou Prefecture, while Zhao Liangdong was in charge of Yanzhou, Jining and Tai'an. Both towns are along the canal
In the two towns in Henan, there were Sajiabao, the training envoy of the Guide regiment, and Fan Chengxun, the training envoy of the Runing regiment. Among them, Guide Mansion and Chenzhou Mansion, which Sakyabao was responsible for, were not far from the Grand Canal. However, Fan Chengxun's Runing and Guangzhou are relatively far from the canal, so they should not be able to rob Mingzhu's treasure.
"They dare?" Mingzhu felt very guilty when she said this.
"Why don't you dare?" Mu Zhan said, "After the robbery is over, we can dig out the Yellow River and flood it, and there will be no way to investigate!"
He is indeed a time-honored villain!
They are much more cruel than Mingzhu and Cao Xi!
"Here, what should I do?" Mingzhu felt a little numb, very anxious!
He is now the "Ming Dynasty Monopoly". In troubled times, there is no army and a rich man with a lot of wealth, and there is also a wicked nephew by his side!
"It's better to take the sea route!" Yuan Linjing, the head of the Jiangnan Branch of Ruixin Hall who "escaped with money" gave Mingzhu a trick, "Water transportation has taken the sea route in the late Ming Dynasty. It is to install ships from the Huaihe River and enter the sea, and then Bypass Shandong and go to Tianjin Wei. Now the Tianjin Customs Highway has fleets that can go through Liaodong and North Korea. Let them come to Huai'an and take away all the good stuff. The remaining grain will not be a big problem if it goes through the canal."
Food may also be withheld, but Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong, and Shakya Bao will never stop being human beings for a few million stones of food. If they want food, they can just take it, and the court will not hold them accountable.
After all, the regent is not short of hungry soldiers!
"But isn't Yang Qilong a relative of Wang Datou?" Mu Zhan quickly reminded him upon hearing this, "What if he robbed these good things and surrendered to Wang Datou?"
"That's not possible," Mingzhu shook her head, then smiled mysteriously, and said to her cousin, "Well. Na Lalan'er is also named Yang, and is also Yang Qilong's sister. She is now the regent's side, and she also works for the regent. I gave birth to a big fat boy!”
"What? Is there such a thing?" Of course Mu Zhan knew Na Lalan'er - they were all from the Nala clan, and he was the "chief" of the Nala clan, so he still didn't know about Na Lalan'er's "reformation". Helped. He can now become the general manager of Jiangbei Camp, thanks to Lan'er's pillow style.
Now Jiangbei camp looks a bit dangerous, and he wants to ask this girl to continue blowing with Fuquan and find a safer place.
"Then it's okay. Lan'er is his sister and mine, so he and I are brothers!" Mu Zhan thought for a moment and said to Mingzhu, "Then let's write the inscription to the regent!"
The sixth day of June in the 14th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty.
Beijing.
In a duty room in the Regent's Mansion between the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City and the Dong'an Gate of the Imperial City, several ministers of the Beijing Remaining Department were flying eight hundred miles with the governor's office of Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu provinces and water transportation. The military report delivered was breathless. Everyone's faces are pale. You look at me, I look at you.
Suo'etu, the head minister of the left-behind department, was sitting on the kang table, holding a bowl of hot tea in his hands and dazing there, motionless.
The voices of the few ministers who stayed behind gradually started to discuss.
"There are three thousand tigers, and they are sweeping through the land of Youyan! This king wants to imitate the Red Scarf Army's Northern Expedition, and carry our Beijing city just like he carried Yuan Shangdu! This little job Lu Bu is better than the real Lu Bu So cruel!"
"Nonsense, the city of Beijing is not the Shangdu of the Yuan Dynasty, it is the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. How many people does Lu Bu have under this little job? He is just a Huo job in Henan and Shandong, but he can't reach Beijing. Besides, since he knows "Hu Ben San" Qian, you should also know the fate of this Red Scarf Army since they swept straight into the land of Youyan?"
"That's true. So his threat to attack Beijing was a false shot. Then what is his real purpose?"
"Where else? Xi'an! He must want to help Wu Yingxiong attack Xi'an!"
"Help Wu Yingxiong? Why?"
"Don't you know? Wu Sangui has made his grandson Wu Shifan his grandson. Wu Shifan's half-sister is Wang Datou's concubine, and she has probably become a regular wife now!"
"Then what will the emperor do? Is it possible?"
Hearing that the content of the discussion turned to a sensitive topic, Suo'etu paused the tea cup in his hand and slowly raised his head: "Why are you panicking? Isn't it just a rebel force? It's clearly to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. To rescue the rebels in Jiangning. And Wang Datou is not a rogue, how could he come to Beijing? His most important thing now is to protect Jiangning and capture Jiujiang and Anqing! With Jiujiang and Anqing, his father's Guangdong soldiers will have a steady stream of talents Keep walking north of Jiangxi. Only in this way can he secure Cao Mengde's position in Jiangdong!"
Not to mention, Suo'etu's eyesight is quite sharp, and he can see the key to the southern battlefield at a glance - the key is not the battle of Nanjing, but Jiujiang and Anqing!
As long as Jiujiang and Anqing are still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, the anti-Qing forces in the south will be divided into two large parts. It is not that they cannot communicate with each other, but it is difficult for the large armies to leave. Once Jiujiang and Anqing were captured, the Qing Dynasty would be completely finished in these two rivers.
Once the two rivers were lost, the Qing armies in Zhejiang and Fujian were also destroyed!
By then, the anti-Qing forces in the south will be united into one. Oh, maybe two or three!
If Wu Sangui and Jiangnan can reach an agreement, the Qing Dynasty will be finished at any time, otherwise it can still maintain a three-point score.
However, the Qing Dynasty is no longer unified. Will Kangxi use Wang Datou's Northern Expedition to lead his army back to Beijing to aid?
If he comes back to help, he will be in big trouble.
Thinking of this, Suo'etu couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up alone and said to the ministers in the room: "I'm going to see the regent. You are all waiting here. The regent is wise and wise. We are right to listen to him!" "
Can this be correct?
What should I do if the emperor comes back?
The other left-behind ministers in the room didn't know that Fuquan had the "Maker of the Shunzhi Edict" and could oust Kangxi with an edict at any time, so they were all worried at the moment!
Therefore, no one wanted to discuss Wang Datou's Northern Expedition with Suo'etu, a loyal minister who did not know whether he would live or die.
"Prince Regent, I am wronged. I am even more unjust than Dou E. As you know, my ancestors were in charge of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Nzi's Mansion. They have been in charge of this for generations. When the Ming Dynasty is over, the slave's Ama will be involved in the crime." I took the most beautiful mother-in-law in my family and went to Tianjin to live a happy life, but I ended up leaving these beauties as a disaster for me!"
Those who were kneeling in the flower hall in the back garden of the Regent's Palace, crying and complaining, were of course Yang Xiaohuan, Yang Xiaomi (Nala Lan'er), and Yang Ziyun's good brother Yang Qilong.
In the past two years, he has been an undercover agent playing Infernal Affairs. He has been promoted from a slave to Manchuria with a white flag (Yu Wangfuquan is a small flag owner with a white flag)!
It's Manchuria with a white flag, not the Han army with a white flag! With this move, his last name was changed to Yang Jiaqilong! In addition to raising his flag and changing his surname, he also rose through the ranks very quickly, and is now the Minister of Commerce of the North. Although he is still in charge of the Tianjin Customs Road, the minister has a high official position, and he has been given a second rank!
Just when he was getting closer and closer to the highest level of undercover, Wang Zhongxiao, who had changed his name and surname to Li Zhongshan, suddenly came with "Three thousand tigers and brave men, sweeping through the land of Youyan"!
This is great fun!
The Wang family ruled in Guangdong, and it was nothing to be a loyal minister of the Ming, Qing, Dashun, and Wu dynasties. The rebels were powerful and could not be caught or defeated. What could the court do? Just open one eye and close one.
But now Wang Zhongxiao wants to make the Northern Expedition to cause trouble for the Qing Dynasty!
What should I do if Yang Jia gets bulging?
Although his current strength is not small, he can definitely do a big job in Zhili. However, he is not the leader of the Sanlang Xianghui now, a loan shark in the capital and the early leader of the Cao Gang. But it was Yang Jiaqilong, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Beiyang in the Qing Dynasty, who was also the uncle of the Regent Wang Fuquan of the Qing Dynasty!
How valuable is this status? How can you say it is the opposite?
So he could only explain it to Fuquan and the great monk Shunzhi.
Fuquan was very dissatisfied with his explanation, "What are you talking about? Who is the trouble? Xiaomi is so good, how can she be the trouble?"
Yang Jiaqi breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, you are right, Xiaomi is not the trouble, Xiaohuan is! Back then, she followed the slaves to open a teahouse outside Zhengyang Gate. For some reason, she was attracted by Wang Datou, and she was directly arrested and taken as a pawn. He is a concubine! He was a bodyguard at the time, what else can I do if my servant is just a businessman?"
(End of chapter)
