Dahao, the general military office of Chaozhou in the Ming Dynasty.
The Chaozhou General Soldiers and the Guards Association of Zhongyong Bo Qiu Hui lined up in four rows at the yamen gate, playing suonas, beating gongs and drums, and holding the Commander-in-Chief's three-service command flag and the Zhongyong Bo's recognition flag. All the soldiers of the Guard Battalion were wearing cloth-covered iron armor, holding spears, or carrying firecrackers on their shoulders, and stood quietly. A co-leader with a sword in his hand was walking around in front of the team.
The main door of the General Military Office (actually there is only one door in total) has been widely opened. Qiu Hui's son Qiu Rong is waiting inside the door with more than a dozen officials from Chaozhou Town of the Ming Dynasty. As for Qiu Hui and Chen Yonghua, it is of course impossible for them to go out to greet them. Zhu Qipao was just a sixth-grade Fengguo lieutenant, and the strength of the two father and son was only equivalent to a confederation (several hundred people) of the Ming and Zheng armies.
Zhu Jushan and Zhu Qipao's father and son had visited many times before, but they had never enjoyed such treatment. Today, Qiu Hui didn't know what An's idea was to welcome Zhu Qipao's visit with such fanfare.
Although Qiu Hui's power is not small, it is a grass-roots creation after all. It is inevitable that it has the meaning of a grass-roots team, and the internal hierarchy is not strict. Many of Qiu Hui's subordinates may be a little in awe of the boss Hui, but they are laughing and joking with his son Dao Scarong. Used to it. So if I don’t understand anything, I just ask.
"Brother Qiu, I heard that Cannon Zhu is crazy. Is this true?"
"Brother Qiu, I heard that the dog officer of the Artillery Zhu Chaozhou Mansion was stunned. Is it true?"
"Brother, I heard that Cannon Zhu Fabing 60 took over the pig pen of the factory owner's house and drove all the pigs out?"
"Isn't this stupid and crazy?"
"The boss won't marry the fourth lady to a fool, right?"
"Definitely not, even if you are not stupid or crazy, it is impossible! He and Miss Fourth are not engaged, it's just a toad that wants to eat swan meat."
"that is......"
Qiu Rong didn't say a word, he just had a drooping scarred face, full of helplessness and sadness... How could a good person be so stupid and crazy?
While Da Laohui's men were busy analyzing Zhu Qipao's condition, Zhu Hesheng, who had concealed his soul-changing syndrome and didn't know that he was here for a blind date (he hadn't thought of Qiu Shuzhen yet), was leading him The troops had already entered Dahao Commercial Port and were heading to the General Military Office in a swaggering manner.
Although the number of people in this team is not large, there are only more than 200 people in total. But this spirit made everyone who saw them along the way feel uplifted... It's hard to describe the spirit, but it's easy to feel it.
The formation of these two hundred people is not neat, and most of them don't have good equipment, but they look like they have just won a battle, beaten the Tatars, and returned in triumph. Hao asked for help.
In addition, the two dozen leading knights on short Yunnan horses among the more than 200 people all wore cloth-covered iron armor that only the Qing flag soldiers had, and they also carried Manchu bows and shotguns that only the Qing flag soldiers had. Shotguns are not popular here in Guangdong, everyone likes heavy muskets) and Kanto large sweeping knives.
There is no place in Guangdong to buy the standard cloth-covered armor, Manchu bows, shotguns and Guandong swords... you can only get them from dead or captured flag soldiers!
As for the equipment on these twenty knights, it would be very difficult to grab it just by killing twenty flag soldiers. Because killing the enemy on the battlefield does not mean grabbing the enemy's body!
Normally, while grabbing more than twenty corpses and prisoners on the battlefield, they would also kill several times as many enemies!
Just the equipment on these twenty Danan Mountain knights means the death and injury of hundreds of Xushun Gongfu's flag soldiers!
Hundreds of flag soldiers!
Now the soldiers of the Qiu family who were guarding both sides of the street to maintain order looked at this "stupid and crazy" Artillery Zhu in a different light.
And when these Dananshan knights wearing cloth-covered iron armor and carrying the standard weapons and equipment of the flag soldiers appeared outside the Chaozhou General Army Office, including Qiu Rong, all the generals of the Qiu Family Army who were waiting for Zhu Hesheng inside the General Army Office gate. , were all taken aback.
This time there was no more chattering.
A surprised expression flashed across Dao Scarong's face, and then he saw the successor of the Qiu family army laughing and stepping forward, cupping his hands to Zhu Hesheng and saying: "Lieutenant Fengguo, please come in! My father and the Prince of Yanping have discussed joining the army. Military Advisor Chen has been waiting in the mansion for a long time!"
The Prince of Yanping proposed joining the army, Military Advisor Chen? When Zhu Hesheng heard this name, he thought of Wei Xiaobao's master Chen Jinnan!
Unexpectedly, this great military advisor also came to Dahao... This is an opportunity!
Zhu Hesheng thought: "It's time to let Chen Jinnan see the evidence that the Qing Dynasty is about to end!"
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In the lobby of the Chaozhou General Military Office of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hesheng finally met Hui Qiu Hui, the big boss who single-handedly supported the cause of anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty in the Chaohui area, and the big brother who said that "if you have never seen Chen Jinnan in your life, it would be useless to call him a hero." The hero Chen Jinnan.
Zhu Hesheng and Qiu Hui were old acquaintances. Qiu Hui and Zhu Jushan had worshiped each other, so Zhu Hesheng could treat themselves as juniors and meet each other with great courtesy. After paying homage to Dalohui, Qiu Rong introduced Zhu Hesheng to Chen Yonghua.
From the moment Zhu Hesheng entered the lobby of the General Military Yamen, Chen Yonghua was carefully observing this "crazy lieutenant".
He seems to be quite normal, his speech and behavior are polite. Every move he made was full of confidence and vaguely regal.
Seeing that Zhu Hesheng had already sat down on a chair, Chen Yonghua said nothing more and directly brought up the topic of Kangxi's reduction of vassal status. He asked: "Lieutenant, I got news that the Tatar Emperor Xuan Ye is interested in Imitate Zhao Kuangyin and release the military power of the three vassals with glory and wealth. Do you think this is possible?"
"Impossible," Zhu Hesheng shook his head, "unless Kangxi is crazy!"
Chen Yonghua was stunned, "How do you say that?"
Zhu Hesheng said: "The fate of the three vassals does not lie with the lord, but with the slaves! Does the military advisor know how many soldiers, horses and population the three vassals have?"
Chen Yonghua thought for a while and said: "Wu Sangui has fifty-three assistants, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao each have fifteen assistants, and the three vassals have a total of eighty-three assistants. Each of them has 200 soldiers, and the total is There are 16,600 soldiers, and the population is about five times that of the soldiers, so there are more than 80,000 people in total."
Zhu Hesheng shook his head, "There are quotas for the number of banner troops of San Francisco, but their population cannot be controlled by giving them a quota... San Francisco occupies the three provinces of Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian, and has There are countless vassals, and it is easy for the generals and subordinates of the vassals to get good positions and good positions. Who is not making a lot of money? When a man has money and land, who is not bringing three wives and four concubines to his family? Can the Tatar emperor control the disciples of the Eight Banners? Without intermarriage with the Han people, how can you still control the servants of the San Francisco vassal who are far away from Emperor Tiangao and not ask for a mistress? Not to mention others, how many children does King Pingnan Shang Kexi have? More than a hundred!
San Francisco's flag army may really only have more than 16,000 people, but after more than 20 years of multiplication, the population under the vassal may be in the hundreds of thousands! How many people did Emperor Kangxi's Eight Banners have in Manchuria? Maybe it won't be as large as the actual population of San Francisco.
Emperor Kangxi really dared to move so many servants from Yunnan, Guangdong, and Fujian to Shanhaiguan? Haha, if this group of people rebelled outside Shanhaiguan near Beijing, the Manchurians would have great fun! "
It seems to make sense!
Chen Yonghua glanced at Qiu Rong - this Zhu Qipao doesn't seem crazy!
Zhu Hesheng continued: "So Kangxi would never give up his military power over a glass of wine... Even if the three feudal lords did not rebel, he would definitely arrange an ambush during the migration of the three feudal lords and massacre hundreds of thousands of the three feudal lords' population. !
Kangxi understood this truth, and so did the lords, advisers, and generals of the three vassals! And Kangxi... would never tolerate the continued expansion of the number of slaves under the Three Feudatories. Otherwise, in another twenty years, the number of slaves under the three vassals will not be hundreds of thousands, but two to three million, which will be several times that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
At that time, it will not be whether the Manchu emperor can accommodate the three feudal lords, but whether the three feudal lords are willing to give the Manchus a way to survive. "
Chen Yonghua nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, you are right! Although the San Francisco Banner Army is not as good as Manchuria, but a few of them can still win!" He sighed, "In fact, our Yanping Palace is not immune to We have few soldiers and few people? If the Yanping Palace can have a population of two million under its rule, why should the Yanping feudal army not be able to sweep across Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian?"
The biggest difficulty facing the Yanping Palace at this time was that the population was too small, less than 200,000. Therefore, the standing army of the Yanping Palace only has more than 10,000 people, and it has to be divided into two armies, water and land, which is really stretched.
But even so, in the original history, the troops of the Yanping Palace also captured Chaozhou and Huizhou in Guangdong and Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian during the San Francisco Rebellion. He also defeated Shang Kexi's main force in the Battle of Limu Mountain and killed more than 10,000 prisoners!
Zhu Hesheng said: "Military advisor, if your equipment is sophisticated enough, even if you have a small number of soldiers, you may not be able to use one as ten! There are no less than 30,000 soldiers in Yanping Palace, Chaozhen, and Gaoleilian Town (Chen Shangchuan). If you can really count as ten, you can still count them as ten." Are you afraid that you won’t be able to sweep away Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian?”
Chen Yonghua frowned and asked: "What the lieutenant doesn't know is that the Heyi Red-haired Kingdom had a good relationship with Manchuria because of the conflict between the former king and the Yanping Palace. Therefore, the Western firearms that the Yanping Palace can obtain can also be obtained by the Manchurians. If you want to rely on it, I’m afraid it’s impossible to compare the power of one firearm to ten.”
Zhu Hesheng smiled and said: "Military advisor, Xiaguan accidentally discovered a method of preparing a violent gunpowder that is several times more powerful than black powder... This kind of violent gunpowder was invented by Xiaguan and is not available in other Western countries. "
As he spoke, Zhu Hesheng took out the hand grenade hammer filled with medicine from his belt!
