Qianlong is indeed under great pressure now.
The news coming from Hunan and Fujian is very bad.
November 3rd.
The Ming army occupied Chenzhou Prefecture and Hengzhou Prefecture.
Luo Dian, the head of the Yuelu Academy, voted for the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty appointed Peng Jun as the prefect of Hengzhou and Ouyang Houjun as the prefect of Chenzhou. They quickly brought the two prefectures under their control. The local gentry expressed support for the Ming Dynasty and sent their sons south to Guangzhou. He also sent family members to join the army and donated money and food.
November 7th.
The Ming army occupied Zhangzhou Prefecture and Quanzhou Prefecture in Fujian, and sent naval troops to destroy the Fujian Navy stationed in Penghu. Taiwan Prefecture was also occupied.
November 11th.
Feng Guanggui, the prefect of Changsha, abandoned his official position and left. The gentry from all over Changsha returned to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Daohua, the puppet king of the Ming Dynasty, moved to Changsha.
In the following days, wealthy families and gentry from all over Hunan Province defected to Ni Ming one after another.
As time entered December of the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign.
More bad news appeared on the desk of Emperor Qianlong of Jiangning.
As soon as Hunan was in the province, the Qing court officials who stayed in Guangxi were basically out of touch, and in all likelihood the entire province had fallen.
After Hunan was occupied by the Ming army.
The Ming army began to strengthen its offensive in Fujian.
Now it seems.
The consequence of concentrating the forces of the southern provinces in Jiangxi was to allow Ni Ming to take advantage of the situation, bypass Jiangxi, and seize Hunan and Fujian in a big way.
At this moment.
Qianlong of Jiangning Mansion was present, and the expressions of several important officials of the Qing court were similar to Qianlong's.
His brows were furrowed and his face was solemn.
"Your Majesty, in just three months, Ni Ming attacked from both sides and brought all the provinces of Hunan and southern Fujian under his control. He sent officials and subordinates, opened Enke, and assumed a posture of long-term occupation."
The one who was speaking was Sun Shiyi.
As one of the few Han-chen military aircraft, Sun Shiyi was Qianlong's most important Han-chen think tank, even if Sun Shiyi wanted to quit because of the expulsion of the people of Ganzhou.
Qianlong also did not grant his request to return to his hometown after becoming an official.
"Now if Hunan and Fujian all return to the Ming Dynasty, the Ganzhou and Nanchang camps in Jiangxi will be in danger of being cut off from the Jiangning camp by the Ming Dynasty."
Qianlong nodded solemnly.
"The Ganzhou camp and the Jiangning camp have a total of 100,000 troops. If the 100,000 troops are trapped in Jiangxi, I am afraid that Zhejiang, Yunnan, and Guizhou will not be safe. By then... I am afraid that Ni Ming will be able to control Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian south of the Yangtze River. , Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Zhejiang, with a total population of over 10 million!"
Qianlong looked at the ministers with a solemn expression.
"If so...the Ming Dynasty is really coming back!"
"Everyone, Jiangxi must be defended. The Qing Dynasty will never lose the south of the Yangtze River!"
Qianlong stood up, with a bit of cruelty on his cold and thin face: "No matter what the price is!"
Hunan and Jiangxi were one of the most important grain producing areas in the entire Qing Dynasty.
Zhejiang and Jiangsu have the biggest money bags.
If we lose Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces.
How did the Qing Dynasty support the Eight Banners, which numbered over a million people, and how did it win over the princes of Inner and Inner Mongolia?
The Qing Dynasty was essentially a court where the Manchu and Mongolian aristocrats (mainly the nobles and princes of Inner Mongolia) happily sat in the Han land and sucked blood to enrich themselves.
And now the fattest piece is about to be taken over by the Ming Dynasty.
How to keep Qianlong from being anxious?
Losing the south of the Yangtze River not only caused the Qing Dynasty to lose a large piece of land - in fact, from a land perspective, it was not particularly large, just a fraction of it.
The key is wealth and population!
These southern provinces provided at least more than 70% of the tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty and almost half of the population.
There is no more taxing power in the southeast.
We must continue to raise the hardcore crops of the Eight Banners.
We must continue to attract the princes of Mongolia to support the Qing Dynasty.
Then we need to put our courage on the Han people in the north.
In fact.
The burden on the Han people in the north was already heavy - with the over-development of the north, Guanzhong was ruined after the Tang Dynasty, and the Central Plains and other places also suffered from over-development problems due to population expansion.
The environment in the north has been greatly damaged, land fertility has been lost, and the sediment content in the Yellow River continues to increase.
These problems have caused the environment of the North China Plain, which was originally one of the best agricultural plains in the world, to become extremely fragile, and its ability to resist disasters has dropped to a very dangerous level.
If the South is lost.
Then push all these courage to North China.
So how could the Qing Dynasty suppress the Han farmers in North China?
Qianlong was aware of these issues.
After the Qing Dynasty lost South China, it had reached a very dangerous point.
The collapse of any dynasty.
It all starts with the financial collapse...
"There's always a fight, and it can't be delayed any longer..."
Fukangan said.
"The key is where to place the battlefield? If it is to be placed in Nanchang Prefecture, then it is best to retreat directly from Ganzhou and strengthen Nanchang Prefecture. If it is to be placed in Ganzhou Prefecture, then it is also necessary to increase troops in Ganzhou."
"But... the key is whether Ni Ming will choose to engage in battle. Currently, except for the fifty thousand marching troops and tens of thousands of cavalry, other armies... do not have the ability to engage in field battles with Ni Ming. Ni Ming's artillery is too Sharp, if there is no solid fortification as a barrier, it is really difficult to fight with it."
As soon as Fukangan said these words.
Everyone present couldn't help but have a headache.
Now the Qing army wants to fight in the field with the Ming army, or it has enough artillery to be able to use artillery to form an evenly matched confrontation with the Ming army.
Either.
That means sending a large number of cavalry. The cavalry can cover the infantry and look for opportunities to harass the enemy's artillery positions.
However, these two methods were somewhat difficult for the Qing Dynasty.
The first way is that even if you have enough cannons, you don't have enough gunpowder, and the cost of producing cannons for the Qing court is too high, and there is no way to have so many cannons like the Ming army.
The second method is that the Qing Dynasty has an absolute advantage.
However, cavalry is hard to come by and the logistics pressure is great.
Now, the 30,000 cavalrymen who followed Qianlong's march south have already required the Qing Dynasty to use their wealth to support them.
If cavalry were mobilized from Inner and Inner Mongolia to go south, the terrifying logistical pressure would crush the Qing court...
So now the question is.
On the one hand, the Qing army did not dare to take the initiative to leave the fortified city and seek decisive battles in the wild.
on the other hand.
There is also an urgent desire to fight.
This required the Ming army to take the initiative to attack the city.
Only in this case.
How likely is it that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack the city?
Hailan looked at Qianlong.
Narrowed his eyes.
As a savage native from the Northeast, he has climbed all the way to his current position by relying on his ability to fight.
Hai Lancha is naturally not a foolhardy person.
"If we want to attract Ming Lai to attack, the battlefield cannot be placed in Nanchang, but in Ganzhou City!"
"If our army shrinks back to Nanchang, then Ni Ming will have no worries. He can arrogantly capture all the southern provinces, and then mobilize superior forces to besiege Nanchang City."
"So we must create a condition... that Ni Ming must attack, or... a bait."
Hailancha looked at Qianlong.
Bait?
No one here is stupid.
A bait that could make the Ming army abandon their existing plans and choose to break Ganzhou and besiege Nanchang...
Perhaps there is only this Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Qianlong frowned: "Mr. Chaoyong, are you asking me to go to Nanchang in person?"
Hai Lancha said: "Long live Lord, this is your only chance. When you arrive in Nanchang, it is impossible for Zhu Daohua to turn a blind eye. He will definitely lead his troops there. This is called the king meeting the king!"
"But in fact, I came to Nanchang just as a bait to attract the Ming army to attack Ganzhou City?"
Qianlong came to his senses.
The so-called purpose of going to Nanchang is not to fight the Ming army in Nanchang City.
Instead, he made a gesture that the Ming army must break Ganzhou City before Zhu Daohua could lead his troops to Nanchang.
This was a move to attract the Ming army to attack Ganzhou.
Lord Qianlong is still hiding in Nanchang Mansion and is very safe.
"Will Ni Ming take the bait?"
"Yes, if there is an opportunity to annihilate all the capable soldiers of the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi in one battle, Ni Ming cannot give up this opportunity!"
Helena said.
"This is the only chance at present for Ni Ming to give up conquering various places and instead engage in a decisive battle in advance."
Fukangan sighed in relief.
He also agreed with Hailancha's point of view.
This is the passivity after losing the ability to fight in the field.
When to fight.
how to spell.
It is not controlled by oneself at all.
The initiative on the entire battlefield is controlled by the other side.
Now there is a way to attract the Ming army to attack Jiancheng.
It is indeed a rare opportunity.
"Sun Shiyi, what do you think? Is it feasible to launch an army in Nanchang?"
Qianlong took a few steps back and forth, then turned to look at Sun Shiyi and asked.
Of course Sun Shiyi knew what Qianlong was most concerned about.
"Your Majesty, the mouth of the Yangtze River has been blocked with iron cables and forts. As long as the Ming Dynasty's navy cannot enter the Yangtze River, with Poyang Lake and the Gan River at its back, Nanchang City will have no worries about its food and fodder, and no worries about its retreat."
Sun Shiyi said.
The food supply is worry-free, in other words...
Emperor Qianlong's retreat was clear.
Just in case things come to a head.
Qianlong could retreat immediately. If he returned to the north, he might be able to maintain the Northern and Southern Dynasties...
After Sun Shiyi finished speaking, he lowered his head and sighed in his heart.
In just half a year.
The situation took a turn for the worse.
The Qing Dynasty actually came to the point where it was considering maintaining a Northern and Southern Dynasty.
This is the reverse light of the south.
The rise is too fast...
How did Sun Shiyi know?
Guangdong is now one of the most industrialized regions in the world.
Even "high technologies" such as railways and trains were the first to appear in Guangdong.
Although the current Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a "semi-industrialized" country at best.
But even so.
To deal with the big feudal empire like the Qing Dynasty.
That is also a dimensionality reduction strike.
What limited the speed of the Ming army's advance was only the reserve of local management talents.
Sun Shiyi is a smart man and a capable minister.
But now this is a battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It is not a traditional battle between warlords for hegemony and dynasty replacement.
Rather, it symbolizes the advanced productivity and the prospect direction of industrialization that the New Ming Dynasty defeated the Qing Dynasty.
From supporting industry and commerce, Zhu Daohua is now planning to improve the political status of industrial and commercial practitioners - at least not worse than the wealthy landlords in Hunan.
this series of operations.
Although according to the words of later generations.
It is a revolution that does not touch upon the fundamentals.
It is just improvement and reform.
But enough is enough.
The rumble of steam engines drives the wheels of industrialization to rumble.
This symbolizes the power of the explosion of human technological civilization, after the sun's energy stored in plants buried deep underground hundreds of millions of years ago burst out in the form of combustion.
This wheel ran over the Qing Dynasty back and forth without any problems.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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