Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen are not as influential as Huang Binqing in the Zhejiang military at this time, because neither of them has any record or military exploits.

But Auntie Zhu couldn't help thinking of the information about the two in later generations.

Wang Zhiren was the cousin of the eunuch Wang Zhixin. He had good friends with Zhejiang gentry and literati, and had a deep relationship with the officialdom.

Later, when the Qing government ordered to shave their heads and make it easier to obey, everyone in the south of the Yangtze River rebelled against it. Wang Zhiren was persuaded by the gentry and common people in Zhejiang to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

When the Qing army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, all the troops were defeated, and Wang Zhiren also retreated to Zhoushan without a fight.As a result, Huang Binqing's navy took advantage of the fire and robbed the ship and horses, leaving only two boats for Wang Zhiren's family.

In a fit of rage, Wang Zhiren drowned his family members in a boat, leaving only one boat and ran to Wusongkou to be captured voluntarily.

But he was not surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. After scolding Hong Chengchou in Nanjing, Bujiang was killed.

From Hao Guangming's point of view, Wang Zhiren is not a military general, he is clearly a pedantic civil servant.

A typical example of "talking about one's heart with nothing to do, and repaying the king with one's death".

Therefore, even if his cousin Wang Zhixin was killed by Chongzhen in this time and space, Aimee Zhu would not take Wang Zhiren seriously - this person is unlikely to rebel, and even if he did rebel, it would not be successful.

As for Zhang Mingzhen, he has a great reputation in later generations, and can be said to be the pillar of the military generals in the imperial court supervised by King Lu.

But in Hao Guangming's view, Zhang Mingzhen's military ability is slightly stronger than the average level, and his political ability is probably not up to standard.

Because in later generations, two well-known generals under him split off, one was Ruan Jin and the other was Chaoxian.Among them, Ruan Jin had a conflict with him and almost got into a fight, and Wang Chaoxian was directly killed by him.

Of course, Nanming's poor political and military environment is also a major factor in Zhang Mingzhen's repeated failures.

Therefore, Hao Guangming's suggestion to Zhu Yuxi is to use Zhang Mingzhen as an ordinary general and see how far he can go in this time and space...

"The army in the interior of Zhejiang is dominated by three generals, Zhang Pengyi, Zhang Shiyi, and Jiang Ruolai, each of whom has thousands to more than ten thousand troops under their command.

The guest army is mainly Fang Guo'an, the general of Zhennan, who currently has more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command, and the sub-camps are entrenched in Hangzhou and Yanzhou.

However, according to our investigation in Zhejiang, Fang Guoan has many mobs under his command, and their combat power is very low.After selection and reorganization, there may not be many people left.

Apart from these major ministries, the rest of the rest of Zhejiang are small groups of recruited soldiers, guards, and civilians, which are not enough to worry about. "

At this point, Bi Zhu stood aside, indicating that she had finished speaking.

At this time, Zhu Dadian, who has always been cautious, said: "Your Majesty, according to my view, although several major military forces in Zhejiang had the intention to separate themselves during the puppet emperor's time, they have not yet become powerful.

Now that His Majesty has hundreds of thousands of elites and great justice, as long as this generation is not stupid, they will definitely cooperate with the imperial guards in the selection and reorganization.

Even if someone was really confused, two battalions of the imperial guards would be enough to calm them down. "

Aunt Zhu smiled and said, "Theoretically speaking, the troops in Zhejiang are really not worth worrying about, but what if they join forces to fight against the imperial court?"

Zhu Dadian was taken aback for a while, and then said: "They don't know how to join forces, do they?"

Zhu Dadian was not quite sure about what he said.

Because he suddenly remembered that there is another person in Hangzhou—Lu Wang Zhu Changhao!

At this time, Auntie Zhu said again: "This time, Taowen also brought back two secret performances from Zhejiang, one was written by Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, and the other was written by Liu Zongzhou, but they talked about the same thing.

Zhang Bingzhen said that in May, Chen Hongfan bewitched everyone and conspired to make Lu Wang Zhu Changhao the emperor. He was aware of it, so he punished Chen Hongfan and searched the Chen family.

Liu Zongzhou said that Zhang Bingzhen, Chen Hongfan, and Fang Guoan colluded with each other in May to deceive King Lu and some officials and gentry, and held him hostage to plot a rebellion.Because of the news that I had won the Qing captives in Yangzhou, Zhang Bingzhen punished Chen Hongfan and blamed Chen for all the crimes. "

After a pause, Auntie Zhu looked at the few people with a smile and asked, "Which performance do you think Zhang Bingzhen or Liu Zongzhou is trustworthy?"

Yang Tinglin said without hesitation: "Of course it's Mr. Shi Shan."

Zhu Dadian pondered for a while, and then said: "I also think Liu Zongzhou's words are more credible—he founded the Shishan School, advocated 'sincerity and respect', 'cautious independence', self-denial and self-cultivation. Although he is not perfect, he is by no means perfect. would make up a lie about something as big as this."

Li Yan's voice finally came from the projected video, "Your Majesty, I think that after the reorganization of the Zhejiang army is completed, a special person will be sent to investigate this matter thoroughly.

However, before that, it is advisable to send troops to escort Lu Wang, Tang Wang, Lu Wang and other clans who were enshrined in Zhejiang by the Hongguang puppet emperor to Nanjing. "

Hearing this, Yang Tinglin couldn't help frowning and glanced at Li Yan, who was projected, and then said to Aimee Zhu, "Your Majesty, it is the Ming Dynasty's system to enshrine the feudal kings outside the capital, so bringing the kings back to Nanjing will not only attract criticism from all over the world." , the exchange will also waste money and food."

Li Yan heard this, and immediately said through the video: "If you don't bring them back to Nanjing, why don't they stay in Zhejiang for those who want to use them? Besides, it is no longer appropriate to seal the feudal vassal to foreign countries. Your Majesty will rebuild Daming, and you should take the opportunity to destroy them." fan."

Yang Tinglin wanted to say something more, but Zhu Wei raised her hand and said: "Okay, this matter has already involved the cabinet, and I will discuss it with the cabinet later, so today's military meeting will come to an end."

Apparently, Auntie Zhu is partial to Li Yan.

Seeing this, Yang Tinglin sighed slightly, followed Hong Niangzi, Zhu Dadian and others, and exited the Hall of Martial Arts after saluting.

Li Yan took advantage of the video before hanging up, and said again: "Your Majesty, we must take this opportunity to break the old system of sealing feudal vassals to other provinces in Gyeonggi. If it is delayed, it will be even more difficult to do this."

"I think so too." Aunt Zhu nodded, but then brought up another matter, "After the autumn harvest, I want to order Lu Daqi and Li Dingguo to drive all the Qing troops out of Shaanxi, so that Sichuan will be more stable, and Mr. Li can lead The personnel from the Military Affairs Academy have come to Nanjing."

At the same time that the Qing army withdrew from Huguang and Henan in mid-to-late May, the Qing army in Shaanxi also fully shrank its defense line under the order of the Qing court, sticking to Xi'an, Yan'an and Yulin Township.

Auntie Zhu discussed with everyone in the Military Affairs Council several times, and felt that after half a year of small-scale warfare, the combat power of the new army in Shaanxi had been significantly improved. Annihilating the Qing army in Shaanxi was enough to defeat and drive it away.

In this way, with the Yellow River as a support, the Ming army in Shaanxi is in an advantageous geographical position where it can advance and attack, and retreat and defend, and the military is much more calm.

Although Li Yan had anticipated this matter, he was still overjoyed to hear Auntie Zhu say it.

He has been separated from Hong Niangzi for more than half a year.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Mr. Li, you don't have to thank me. Speaking of which, I owe you and Hong Niangzi something."

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Another day later, the team that held the auction in Nanchang also came back.

Although Jiangxi is not a major grain-producing province, it is better than Zhejiang, so this time a total of 100 million shi of rice and 950 million taels of silver were obtained.

Among them, 50 shimi were left in Jiujiang, under the supervision of the First Town of the Jiangxi Garrison, and will be approved for use by other local troops and government in Jiangxi according to the purpose.

The first town of the Jiangxi garrison was based on the former supervisor Yuan Jixian, plus ten or twenty frontier generals, plus thousands of garrison troops transferred from Huguang. It can basically be trusted.

After getting this news, Zhu Yuxi immediately made a final calculation of the money and food obtained from the seven auctions, and obtained a total of 915 million stones of rice and 7110 million taels of silver!

And the rice in it will be replaced with various types of grain when the settlement is made, and it actually needs to be more!
However, not so much grain was actually transported to Nanjing.

Among them, the grain in Chengdu, Linxiang, and Yangzhou is stored locally, which is convenient for the government and the army to transport grain nearby.

Only part of the grain from Hangzhou, Nanchang, and Suzhou was transported to Nanjing, and the total is estimated to be about 300 million shi.

As for the more than 7000 million taels of silver, except for the one in Chengdu, which was decompressed to the Shu Palace, the other five were decompressed to Nanjing.

7000 million taels sounds like a lot, but in fact it may not be enough for the current Ming court to spend a year. After all, the finances during the Chongzhen period were so rubbish that there were more than 2000 million taels a year in tax revenue.

Of course, the more than 7000 million taels are Zhu Yuxi’s personal income, and all of them will be included in the internal funds, and they are not considered the official income of the Ming court...

Aunt Zhu was doing the calculations herself, when an eunuch entered the Hall of Martial Ying and said, "Your Majesty, the Propaganda Department has recommended Liu Rushi to see you."