Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 579 The Eve of the Great War (3)

In Seoul, North Korea, at the Sizheng Hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Zhu Cijiong is discussing matters with North Korean monarchs and ministers.

Li Jing passed away more than half a year ago, and Li has officially succeeded to the throne as King of Joseon.

After the failure of the last coup d'etat, the North Korean officialdom suffered a large-scale purge, the Kim family and the Shen family withdrew from the central government, and Ju In-ho transformed himself into a political leader.

Most of the newly promoted officials are pro-Ming faction.

In particular, the two trainees, Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-yu, are hard-core fans.

Needless to say, Lee, who is sitting on the throne of North Korea at this moment, has in fact become a puppet. No matter whether it is Gu Inhou, who is the head of civil servants, or Park Dongxi and Kim Jae-woo, who are the heads of generals, they don’t have him at all in their eyes. In their eyes, only Zhu Cijiong, King Ding of the Ming Dynasty, is the real king of Korea.

"King of Joseon, Gu just received an urgent delivery from Nanjing."

"In the next year, I, Ming Dynasty, may at any time send the heavenly soldiers to the north to crusade against Jiannu."

"This Northern Expedition, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent, so I, Da Ming, will do my best."

"And North Korea, as a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, should also send troops to participate in the Northern Expedition?"

Li Wenyan was already yelling in his heart, Daming's war with Jiannu has nothing to do with us in North Korea?Why did North Korea send troops to the war?Do vassal states deserve to be used as cannon fodder?

But on the surface, Li could only agree.

"Yes, North Korea will of course send troops to join the war."

As soon as the words fell, Ju Renhou and other civil servants and generals also echoed.

They didn't want to go along with it, and they didn't dare to offend Daming. The evil star Zhu Cijiong really dared to slash people with a knife. What's more, their children were all studying in Nanjing Guozijian.

Zhu Cijiong smiled, and asked again: "Then how many people should we send?"

Li's face trembled, and he asked in a low voice, "Is ten thousand troops enough?"

"1 people?" Zhu Cijiong just chuckled when he heard the words, noncommittal.

"Otherwise, [-]?" Li looked embarrassed, [-] is already the limit.

Zhu Cijiong was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li, and turned his eyes directly to Park Dongxi and Kim Jaewoo: "What do you think?"

"Report to the King." Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-yu said at the same time, "Since the formation of the army, the new North Korean army has only been trained and has never experienced an actual battle. This Northern Expedition to build slaves is an excellent training opportunity, so I implore King Ding to allow the whole division of the North Korean New Army to participate in the Northern Expedition, all [-] new troops will go!"

Li said anxiously: "Ding Wang, is this not good?"

"King of Joseon, this is also a good thing for North Korea."

Zhu Cijiong's eyes turned cold: "If an army can't go through a great war, it won't grow. Also, as a vassal state, it should bear the obligations of a vassal state. That's the deal."

Li was silent like a cicada, and didn't dare to say another word.

Zhu Cijiong snorted coldly, and said again: "Also, you don't have to worry about mutiny or foreign enemies, the [-] soldiers from Gyeonggi Province transferred from Daming are enough to ensure the safety of Seoul."

The [-] town soldiers were transferred from Guide Mansion.

It was Huaianfu Xiangyong who had participated in the Sanyang War.

Most of the 2 people selected by Chongzhen have not yet married. The promised benefit is that after arriving in North Korea, they will not only get 25 mu of land for every Ding, and after giving birth to a son, they can get another [-] Mu for every Ding when they become adults. Appreciate the fields.

This condition is much better than the conditions in Xuzhou Town and Guide Town. When the town soldiers in Xuzhou Town and Guide Town gave birth to sons, only the eldest son could inherit the Enshangtian, and the other sons could only earn their own fortune.

So as soon as the news was announced, the unmarried Xiangyong of Guide Mansion enthusiastically signed up.

In the end, Chongzhen selected 20 unmarried people from the [-] Huai'an township braves.

This is just a part of Chongzhen's father and son's entire immigration plan. In the near future, the entire North Korean Eight Paths will be occupied by town soldiers from various provinces of Ming Dynasty, and eventually evolve into North Korea Town.

It's just that the town soldiers in this Korean town are all Han Chinese.

As for the original North Koreans, they will be relocated to various major cities.

Faced with Zhu Cijiong's arrangement, Li Shi dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Coming out of the Ideological and Political Hall, Zhu Cijiong turned his gaze to the direction of Nanjing.

At this time, the emperor should be holding an imperial meeting, right?
……

At this moment, Chongzhen did indeed hold an imperial meeting in Yilun Hall.

Ma Mingpao, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and almost all the departments in Nanjing participated in the meeting.

Seeing Gao Qiqian walk in, Chongzhen immediately waved and said: "It's just right for Gao to come back with you, hurry up and find out the detailed map of Beizhili for me."

"Old slave obeys the order."

Gao Qiqian hurriedly took a few young eunuchs to find out the detailed map of Beizhili from the pile of maps.

After finding out the detailed map, Gao Qiqian asked the little eunuch to bring a ladder and hang it on the north wall of Yilun Hall with his own hands.

"Okay, very good, it's much more intuitive to have a detailed map of Beizhili." Chongzhen nodded happily, then looked around at Ma Mingpao, Yan Yingyuan and other officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and said, "Let's start discussing the first topic."

"Northern Expedition, from which direction should the attack be launched?"

Speaking of this meal, he said again: "My dear friends, you can speak freely."

As soon as the words fell, Zheng Sen rushed to say: "My lord, I think the soldiers should be divided into two groups."

"Come to the front." Chongzhen signaled Zheng Sen to go to the map, and asked Gao Qiqian to hand him the long wooden pole.

Zheng Sen took the long wooden pole, pointed to the huge Beizhi map and said: "The left road crosses the Yellow River from Kaifeng Mansion to the north, breaks into Shanxi through Weihui Mansion, and goes north to break through Datong and Xuan Mansions. ! Take the right road to Gaizhouwei by sea, join forces with the Gaizhouwei garrison, and go straight to Shanhaiguan through the Liaoxi Corridor.”

Speaking of this, Zheng Sen tapped the map with a long wooden pole and said: "In this way, we can form a two-sided encirclement situation for Jiannu, block their escape route to the north or east, and finally encircle and annihilate them in the capital. "

"That's right." Chongzhen said happily, "It's a good idea to divide the troops into two groups."

"My lord, I have a different opinion." Chen Zilong stepped forward and said loudly.

"Brother Renzhong, please tell me." Zheng Sen politely handed the long wooden pole to Chen Zilong.

Chen Zilong did not save Zheng Sen's face because of this, but criticized very bluntly: "Your Majesty, I think that dividing the army into two groups is the best strategy. In the battle of Saerhu, I was defeated by Daming." Yu divides troops."

Zheng Sen's handsome face immediately collapsed, and he said anxiously: "The Battle of Salhu is incomparable with this Northern Expedition."

"I don't think there is any difference between the two." Chen Zilong said, "The Holy Majesty once said that a lion fights a rabbit with all its strength. I think that in this Northern Expedition, we should concentrate our forces to attack from the front. One blow will determine the world."

Zheng Sen retorted: "It is much easier to concentrate our forces to attack from the front, but if Jiannu fled to the north, or retreated to the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, wouldn't it be like the confrontation between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, falling into a protracted stalemate ? If it is difficult to destroy it for decades or even hundreds of years, so what should we do?"

"That's in the future." Chen Zilong said, "The first thing to consider right now is to restore the capital!"

Zheng Sen retorted: "The Master said: People do not have long-term considerations, but they must have near-term worries. If we can't plan ahead and prevent Jiannu from fleeing north or east, it may lead to catastrophe in the future."

"Zi said: the teacher is too late, the business is not too late, and the business is not too late." Chen Zilong retorted tit-for-tat, "It is good to plan ahead, but if you plan too much, you will miss important things."

The two started a heated debate citing scriptures, and no one could refute the other for a while.

The other scholars also supported the faction, and the Yilun hall suddenly became a quarrel.

In the end, Chongzhen suggested: "Zheng Sen and Chen Zilong, why don't we play a game each?"

"Dare not to follow orders." Zheng Sen readily agreed, and then said to Chen Zilong, "Brother Renzhong, you play the role of Jian slave first, and the younger soldiers will attack you in two ways, how about it?"

"I'm afraid you won't succeed." Chen Zilong stroked his sleeves and said, "Come on."

"Quick, play chess." Jiang Tianyi, who had already been promoted to the staff department, immediately took a dozen scholars from the staff department and began to place war chess on the sand table in the center of Yilun Hall.

……

Beijing, the Nuan Pavilion of Prince Rui's Mansion.

Dorgon just opened the window to breathe, and then began to cough violently again.

"Master, didn't the doctor say that you can't blow the wind? Why did you open the window again?" Hou Fangyu hurried forward, closed the window again, and put the fur on Dorgon's back with heartache.

Dorgon just sighed faintly.

This body seems to be very difficult to move neatly.

In summer, it seems to be almost the same.

Unexpectedly, after the weather turned cold, he started to fall ill again.

It can be said that in the current situation of the Qing Dynasty, it is really impossible to support without a good body.

"Xiao Houzi, what did Horqin Mongolia say?" Dorgon tightened his fur and asked, "Is the invasion of the Ming army's scout cavalry really that serious?"

"Returning to the master, it is quite serious."

Hou Fangyu replied worriedly: "In the past half a month, nearly a thousand horses have been lost."

Dorgon suddenly changed his face: "In the past half a month, nearly a thousand horses have been lost? Didn't they lose more than ten thousand horses?"

"Yes." Hou Fangyu sighed and said again, "From the beginning of the year to the present, more than [-] riders have been lost in all the banners of the Horqin tribe, and one of the ten banners has lost one of the three strong men."

"Damn it!" Dorgon's facial muscles began to twitch violently.

At this time, Qi Chongge, a scholar of the Hongwen Academy, hurried in.

"Master, something serious has happened." Qi Chongge said with a dark face, "The secret agent of the Fan family just sent back the news that Nanming has been preparing secretly since half a year ago, and now it is almost ready."

"Almost ready?" Dorgon asked blankly, "What are you preparing for?"

"Master, of course we are preparing for the Northern Expedition." Qi Chongge said anxiously, "The Ming army is about to launch the Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition?!" Dorgon's expression changed, "Impossible? Not long ago, the Luo family brothers sent back news that Nanming would take at least two more years before the Northern Expedition was possible?"

"Master, most of the Luo family brothers have been instigated to rebel."

Qi Chongge stomped his feet and said, "We were deceived."

(End of this chapter)