Emperor Kangxi certainly knew what Zhu Cijiong's real purpose was in establishing Dengzhou Third Prince City, Dengzhou Tianwang City or Dengzhou Free City!
However, because Kangxi had just experienced the "shame of the fall of Beijing" at that time, all the Eight Banners in Manchuria were clamoring to seek revenge from Burni, and no one cared about what happened in Dengzhou. Therefore, Kangxi did not dare to disobey everyone's wishes, leave Burney alone and send troops to the state. . .
Moreover, under the circumstances at that time, Burni did pose a great threat to the Qing Dynasty. Because once Burni conquers the entire Monan Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolia and Eastern Mongolia, then a unified Mongol Empire will come. By then, Beijing and Shengjing will be under the attack of the Mongols, and Burni will come from time to time. If there was a fight, wouldn't Emperor Kangxi's Qing Dynasty be transformed into the Great Jin Dynasty?
Therefore, Kangxi at that time could only pretend not to know about the threat in Dengzhou and concentrate on dealing with Burni first.
But I didn't expect that Burni was so "oiled" that he didn't confront Kangxi at all, and even placed his Khan's court far away on the Houdao grassland near Ningxia. And he also regarded Khalkha Mongolia and Khovd Grassland as his main direction of attack.
Although Kangxi had attacked him several times, this Burni was obviously better than the others in running away. His grandfather Lin Dan Batur could not compare with him at all! So he can escape easily every time.
Moreover, Kangxi was constrained by Zhu Heji and could not let go of his hands and use troops on the grasslands. In the end, he had to accept the reality of "equally dividing Mongolia" with Burni. First, firmly control the Bashang Grassland (Chahar Grassland) and East Mongolia on the Monan Mongolian East Road, and temporarily give up the attempt to recover the Monan Mongolian West Road (Hetao Grassland) and control the Khalkha Mongolia.
But when Emperor Kangxi stabilized the situation on the grassland and looked back at Dengzhou carefully, he found that the third prince Zhu had already created a quite prosperous situation in Dengzhou, and he also seemed to be a bit impregnable.
Of course Kangxi was fully aware of the dangers of Dengzhou. But at the same time, he also knew that it would be quite difficult to attack Dengzhou, which had a strong defense system and was backed by the sea. In particular, the Ming Dynasty, which occupied Dengzhou, also had overwhelming sea power.
Therefore, in the past two or three years, Kangxi could only adopt an appeasement policy towards Dengzhou - although appeasement would lay the seeds of trouble for the future, it was better than defeating Dengzhou again and again!
Because every defeat would consume Kangxi's little remaining prestige. Once his prestige was exhausted, Kangxi would have to let his own people kill him before he could wait for Zhu Heji to come and kill him.
In these years, the reason why Kangxi tried his best to extract money from the Han and Koreans to satisfy the greed of the old and new Eight Banners; at the same time, he also tried to win over Han officials by supporting Confucianism and establishing a rural meritocracy system of drinking poison to quench thirst. Isn't it just because you suffered too much in defeat that your prestige is almost gone?
He now has to coax the people below him to live their lives!
Kangxi had already felt that the people below him were becoming more and more disrespectful towards him as the emperor. Everyone was making small calculations and uniting the party.
Those who had soldiers even formed cliques in the ranks, trying to take the military power belonging to the imperial court into their own hands... When Kangxi granted land to the old and new Eight Banners soldiers below, this kind of The signs of uniting with the party in the military are particularly prominent!
In the New Eight Banners Army, those in charge of military affairs ministers (chiefs of a certain banner's new army) or New Army Dutong (chiefs of a certain Gushan of the New Army) who control a certain Gushan force will try their best to control all the troops under their command. The field conferment areas of the ministers and their subordinates were concentrated together. And those leaders wanted to bring the subordinate leaders together. The leaders' thoughts were not much different, and they also wanted to gather their bannermen to form a group.
Although Kangxi also knew this method, sooner or later the new Eight Banners Army would become the same as the Eight Banners soldiers when Emperor Taizong just took over the throne of Jinhan... They only recognized their respective banner masters (now they are all unified ministers) , don’t listen to the Khan very much.
However, Kangxi wanted to win over the ministers, governors, counselors, and assistant leaders who were in charge of the troops, and at the same time, he also wanted to facilitate mobilization and assembly and reduce conflicts between the various banners. They had no choice but to follow their wishes and allocate 30 million acres of land around Beijing and several million acres of land around Shengjing to the 24 Gushan affiliated to the Eight Banners New Army. According to the latest military system, Each Gushan of the Eight Banners New Army has 10,000 households, and 10,000 people can be mobilized under general mobilization.
Although through this series of concessions and delegation of power, Kangxi temporarily stabilized the position of the Qing Dynasty. But he also knows that if he wants to truly stabilize his situation and restore his declining prestige, he must win a victory that convinces the people below him.
This victory cannot be found from the slippery "Genghis Khan", but can only be found from Ming Dynasty.
Because "Genghis Runaway Khan" cannot be caught at all. He is a "runaway Khan" to begin with. Even if Kangxi drives him away, it is not considered a victory... Moreover, as long as the Qing troops withdraw, this runaway Khan will be eliminated. Khan runs back again!
Therefore, the goal Kangxi found for himself to establish his authority and make a comeback was Dengzhou!
In order to successfully capture Dengzhou, especially in order to enable his Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to capture the outer city of Dengzhou at a relatively small cost, Kangxi not only joined forces with Yue Le, Tuhai, Changning, Bahai, Feiyanggu, Mingzhu, and Suo'e. Tu, Tong Guogang and other Manchurian confidants formulated a plan to raid Dengzhou, and they also sent people from the Confucian and Internal Affairs Departments to Dengzhou early to act as internal agents.
Moreover, the members of this group should not know the existence of the other party, so that they can avoid ruining the overall situation if one of them is captured by the Jin Yiwei from the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Li Sixing, Monk Yishi and others were rejoicing that Zhu Heji, Da Boling and the tens of thousands of troops led by them marched into the Dengzhou Commercial Port, in the Dengzhou Commercial Port, there was a small red building near the harbor. Inside. Kangxi's two most trusted confidants, Cao Xi and Cao Yin, were also hiding behind a window in a small building, holding a telescope, and looking around in the sticky room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
That Cao Xi seemed to have seen something good, and he almost burst into tears, "Tsk, tsk, tsk... If I were to catch this person and make her a n-mother, she could stand up to three or five of them!"
Of course Cao Yin next to him knew what his old man saw? He was so lucky, otherwise he wouldn't have married his mother. Without her mother's milk... the Cao family wouldn't be as wealthy as they are today!
He just smiled bitterly and said: "Amma, are you overthinking? That Da Bo Ling has committed a heinous crime. If he is caught, he will definitely be executed in Ling Chi. How can he enter the palace and become a nanny?"
"If you want to be executed in Lingchi, you have to be interrogated by our sticky pole first!" Cao Xi was still joking with his son.
"Amma! Can you be more serious! We are doing big things for the emperor!"
"I know, I know..."
As he spoke, Cao Xi put down the telescope with a smile, then quickly walked to the other window of the small building, opened the window suddenly, and faced the salty sea breeze.
Cao Xi raised his telescope again and looked into the harbor of Dengzhou Commercial Port. I only saw that the bay under the setting sun was filled with two to three hundred sand boats of different sizes and a small number of bird boats and lucky boats.
Some of them are immediately recognizable as warships of the Dengzhou Navy - these warships are equipped with oars and sails, and the bow and stern are equipped with six or four rocket launchers!
Some are merchant ships traveling between Shanghai - Huai'an - Dengzhou - Tianjin. Because the water on the Jiangbei coastline is very shallow, boats with sharp bottoms can easily run aground or be overturned by rolling waves if they sail close to the coast. Therefore, most of the merchant ships shipping north from Shanghai are flat-bottomed sand boats.
Of course, it's not that pointy-bottomed boats can't come to Beiyang, but they can't go along the coast. They have to stay away from the coastline to ensure safety. This creates difficulties for sea-going ships to navigate.
Nowadays, the ships in Dengzhou Bay include both flat-bottomed and pointed-bottomed vessels. There were both warships and merchant ships, and they obviously tried their best to collect them.
Cao Xi watched for a while longer. At this time, Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who had arrived at the dock began to board the ship. In addition, some Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers drove into the coastal defense fortress next to Dengzhou Commercial Port, and seemed to be preparing to temporarily station there. .
And the "Big Wave Ling" boarded a large sand ship carrying two to three thousand stones, and it seemed that he would be the first to cross the sea.
Cao Xi turned back to look at his son Cao Yin, his expression had become extremely serious, and he said word by word: "Da Bo Ling has boarded the ship... It seems that Zhu Heji is going to lead his army across the sea! The Qing Dynasty has turned around. The opportunity has come.
Son, hurry up and sneak out of Dengzhou City and inform Prince An... Tell Prince that Cao has led the dead men into Dengzhou City, and you will risk your life to capture a city for him. Door! "
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