national surname chiming

Chapter 438
Zhu Shuren ordered Li Yu to return to his hometown and win over North Korea again, but this will take time after all.

It will take time for the troops to be transported and the equipment to be paid.

Although there is a northward monsoon after February, in previous years it was used for water transportation around Denglai to Tianjin, and the wind direction is slightly westward.If you want to blow to the east of the Korean Peninsula, you have to park in Denglai and wait for the opportunity.

Counting everything together, plus the half month required for the sea voyage, it would be considered pretty good to be able to reach North Korea in the middle and late March.

After arranging these things, it is rare for Zhu Shuren to enjoy one or two more months of leisure in Nanjing and spend time with his family.

The follow-up frontal military operations of the Ming Dynasty will basically wait until the end of the busy spring farming in March before advancing one by one.

It's not that Daming's lack of manpower is afraid of delaying the busy farming.But Zhu Shuren didn't want the people in the Heluo area to miss the farming season, and the Ming government would have to come to the rescue for the autumn harvest——

In Zhu Shuren's eyes, although the people in the Qing-occupied areas around Kaifeng and Luoyang were allowed to plow well in the spring, anyway, by the time of summer harvest, at most autumn harvest, this piece of land would no longer belong to the Qing Dynasty.

So now the grain planted in the spring is planted for Daming, how can Daming destroy his own production?
As for the land north of the Yellow River, it was impossible to get it this year, and the production status had nothing to do with Daming.

From the first month of the first month to the middle of March, the front-line troops basically maintained a stalemate and vigilance, and the two sides lived in peace.This timeline can basically perfectly match the actions of North Korea.

By April, whether it is the Central Plains or North Korea, they can launch an accident together, and the Qing court will naturally be overwhelmed by both sides.

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And the two months Zhu Shuren stayed in Nanjing with his family was not idle.There are still some major daily government affairs every day. Whether he needs to deal with it or not, he must listen to the report and understand it.

In the back house, he also had to accompany Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing.Shuangshu accompanied Zhu Shuren to live in Hefei for half a year last year. This was also the first time that Zhu Shuren took his side concubine and concubine to travel far away after he adopted his first son and moved the palace to a stable place.

Facts have proved that Zhu Shuren's body is still very strong, especially when he travels for a long time in the army and often rides a horse to keep fit. He had few heirs before, but it was just to ensure that the princess's first wife would be the first wife and prevent the concubine from being messed up.

Now that the ban is completely lifted, the firepower is fully activated, and the days are not adjusted. Before Zhu Shuren left Hefei, Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing had already been recruited one after another.

Fang Ziling caught the trick early, and discovered it shortly after he left in late summer and early autumn last year. It is estimated that he had already had it before he left Nanjing last year and went north.Bian Yujing found out later in the winter.

At that time, Zhu Shuren finally returned to Nanjing ten days and a half months earlier, otherwise it would be inconvenient for the women around him, so he could only temporarily recruit a few beautiful maids to make do with it.

Now, Zhu Shuren lived in Nanjing until the beginning of April, just in time for Fang Ziling to give birth.The medical research institute in Nanjing is now more complete than when the princess gave birth two years ago, with a lot of small achievements and a lot of practice.

Fang Ziling didn't endure much hardship at all, and gave birth to a son smoothly. So far, Zhu Shuren can be regarded as having one concubine and one concubine. Among them, the concubine who was adopted to the royal family is not counted as him. After all, birth is far more noble.

If the princess doesn't have any other sons in a few years, Zhu Shuren is going to let this concubine inherit the title of Prince E's Mansion. In the future, if there are more humble matrilineal bloodlines, they will be assigned to inherit the Shen family's family business.Anyway, don't rush to confirm it now, so as not to scramble for the house, everything can wait and see.

After all, this kind of child does not inherit the throne, and there is no need to "seek only the heirs and only the elders". You can watch their growth, look at their elders at three years old, and look at their elders at seven years old, and make a decision after determining whether the child is worthy or not.

Bian Yujing will have to wait a few more months, and the result is estimated to be in July and August. However, many female doctors in the obstetrics department read it and said that the stomach looks like a daughter. If it is accurate, Zhu Shuren will have two sons and three daughters.

Following Fang Ziling's birth, Zhu Shuren's other concubines were also a little hot-eyed, so from the Chinese New Year until April, they spent three whole months obsessing over each other, cooking and cooking nourishing soup for Zhu Shuren.

In particular, Chen Yuanyuan is the one who is most afraid in her heart. She and Zhu Shuren are the earliest.

Chen Yuanyuan's age is also the oldest among Zhu Shuren's wives and concubines. She is only two or three years younger than Zhu Shuren. She was 26 years old when they first met. Now she is 29. As for Zhu Shuren, she is [-] years old.

In comparison, Li Xiangjun is more than two years younger than her after all, and Bian Yujing is one or two years younger.Now Bian Yujing, who is 22, is about to have a child, and she, Chen Yuanyuan, is not pregnant yet. According to the standards of the ancients, there is no rush.

There is no way, Zhu Shuren is also a person who values ​​love and righteousness. After all, Chen Yuanyuan is the first woman he has taken in since he came to this world, so love is there.

He had no choice but to comfort him every day and work hard.At the end of the spring plowing season and the eve of the resumption of war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties on the front line, Zhu Shuren's daily spring plowing work at home finally had some results.

In April, Chen Yuanyuan was pleasantly surprised to find that her relative finally failed to come on time, so she hurriedly had a female gynecologist from the Medical Research Institute examine her carefully, and finally confirmed the good news.

As for Li Xiangjun, in the past few months, he has often been given some leftovers, but there has been no movement, maybe the opportunity has not come, and there is nothing to force.

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Time soon came to April of the fourth year of Longwu.

With the complete end of the busy spring farming, both sides also slightly repaired the water conservancy facilities, checked for leaks and made up for gaps, and the Ming army in the Henan direction also moistened things silently and gradually increased the intensity of military operations.

The line between Yingchuan and the ancient canal is a plain without danger, and only some gentle rivers can be used as barriers.Therefore, after any party has gained a greater advantage, it will not support the weaker party to defend every step of the way. Basically, once it is pushed, it will be pushed directly to the rhythm of the Yellow River.

Last autumn and winter, the Qing army suffered heavy losses. After Azig's death, the Qing army's troops from Huaixi Road withdrew northward to Kaifeng, and their soldiers had no fighting spirit.

Although Dorgon newly appointed Bei Le Bai Yintu to temporarily take over the retired Azig's old department, and two other Beizi Shuosai and Gong Adai as assistants, but under the heavy firepower of the superior Ming army, these people had no choice but to choose avoid.

The steady and steady campaign in Kaifeng Mansion advanced slowly, and it lasted for nearly two months. By the time of the summer grain harvest, the entire territory of Kaifeng Mansion had been completely occupied by the Ming army.More than a month later, the summer harvest and autumn planting double rush season ended, and Guide Mansion, where Shangqiu was located next to it, was also forced to retreat because there was no danger to defend.

Some of the defeated troops of the Qing army directly withdrew across the old course of the Yellow River and retreated to Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion.Baiyintu had the duty of commander-in-chief, so he didn't dare to disobey his orders and retreat across the Yellow River, so he had to divide his troops and retreat westward, passing through Sishui Pass and hiding in the Heluo Basin, relying on the eight dangerous passes of Luoyang to delay.

Fortunately, in the Ming Dynasty, the old course of the Yellow River was relatively south. There were three or four prefectures in Henan Province that were located north of the Yellow River. Therefore, the loss of Kaifeng and Guide was nothing more than the loss of Henan’s provincial government, not a complete fall. a province.

Luoyang is a thousand-year-old capital, and relying on the favorable location to hold Luoyang temporarily, it can barely hold a fig leaf.

However, with the fall of Kaifeng, the road for the Qing army in Luoyang to directly enter the North China Plain through Henan Road was completely blocked.If the Qing army in Luoyang encounters the strong attack and siege of the Ming army again and wants to evacuate or ask for help, they can only count on the Qing army in the direction of Shanxi and Hanoi to cross the Yellow River south through Mengjindu.

Luoyang itself does not have a canal, and the cost of transshipment of supplies in Hanoi will be very high. Once there is a stalemate for a long time and there are too many troops, the Qing army in Luoyang will be a very heavy burden on the Qing court.

In addition, the military affairs of the Qing court in the mountains and Shaanxi areas are still fully in charge of Prince Su Haoge who was assigned to deal with Wu Sangui last year.

And Hauge is definitely the most difficult group of people in the world to deal with Dorgon - they had a rivalry for the throne back then, and this feud was completely unending.

Historically, it was in this year (1648) that Hauge was framed by Dorgon to cut his title, and was finally murdered in prison.It's just that Dorgon, the regent king, has lost his prestige now because the butterfly effect is too violent, so he can't deal with Hauge.

What's more, Hauge is now the only one among the four Qing troops dispatched last year that hasn't suffered a clear defeat.The other three routes lost troops and lost generals, and some of them lost more than half of their troops and lost large tracts of land.

Although Hauge had no credit, he just fought a war of attrition with Wu Sangui and Yuan Zongdi in Xi'an, pulling each other's hair and pecking at each other, but at least he didn't lose any size of land, and the battle damage was no more ugly than Wu Sangui.

In this case, even if Dorgon wanted to frame Hauge, the people below would not be convinced.

So, how could Hauge give good looks to those generals who completely obeyed Dorgon's troops?If you expect to get more military supplies by crossing the border from Hauge's territory, you have to accept some votes to choose sides.

If he refuses, and still wants to be completely loyal to Dorgon, then Prince Su doesn't mind applying moderate pressure to wear small shoes, and gradually infiltrate with kindness and power, so as to slowly evolve the old Azig troops who retreated to Luoyang.

In the next few months, Hauge continued to completely control the Qing army in Shanshan and Shaanxi, while gradually cleaning up the part of the Qing army in Henan that had fled to the Luoyang Basin, gradually mastering the military strength of two and a half provinces.

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There are two flowers, one on each side.

While the Ming army gradually captured Kaifeng and Guide mansions during the four-year summer offensive of Longwu, the Korean kingdom in the remote Dongyi also encountered some unexpected situations.

One day in early April of this year, the Korean guard of Ganghwa Mansion, more than a hundred miles east of Seoul, at the mouth of the Han River, suddenly discovered at least a hundred giant ships in the sea off Ganghwa Island, meandering from the west, with masts and flags covering the sky.

The local magistrate was shocked, and quickly followed the usual exaggerated rhetoric of the North Koreans, saying that the "more than a hundred" giant ships were "hundreds" and directly asked Seoul for help, without even having time to wait for the other party to dock or send out ships. The teacher intercepted and questioned.

Fortunately, the visitors did not have any malicious intentions, they landed on the tens of miles of sea after a short two-hour voyage, they just sent out sentry boats to show their identities, saying that they were the Daming Navy, and sent the Daming envoy.

When the local officials of Jianghua Mansion heard the news, they couldn't tell whether it was joy or sorrow.

It is said that the Kingdom of Korea has now been forced to become a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and it has been changing flags for seven or eight years.

If it is the navy of the Qing army, it is theoretically regarded as the suzerain state.But North Korea is very afraid of the approach of the Qing army, because every time the Qing army approaches, it will be accompanied by burning, killing and looting, even if it is already a vassal country, it will inevitably suffer.

In contrast, although the Daming Navy is theoretically an enemy army, the Koreans are relieved, because the Ming army has always been a civilized army. When fighting against the Japanese pirates 50 years ago, the Ming army entered North Korea. Very civilized.

"I heard that the Ming and Qing truces a few years ago, and the Tartars' Southern Expedition suffered heavy setbacks. Last year, the two countries resumed fighting. I don't know if the situation is clear now.

The folks say that the Tartars have suffered another disastrous defeat, but when they went to Beijing to inquire about the news, the envoys of the Tartars sent back news that they had wiped out countless Ming troops, so I don’t know who to believe..."

When the officials of Jianghua Mansion were waiting to be contacted, they inevitably thought so in their hearts.

Although the decisive battle in the Central Plains was initially decided in October last year, by the twelfth lunar month, everything was settled.But Dongyi, a remote place in North Korea, has little news.

In the past few months, Daming in Nanjing was not in a hurry to communicate with them across the sea, and the news obtained from Beijing's official channels was mostly beneficial to the Qing army.As a result, more than four months after the winner was clearly determined, North Korea has not yet figured out the situation.

As several battleships in the Ming fleet docked, the largest ones, which were [-] yuan in size, amazed the Koreans, and even the berths at Jianghua Island almost couldn't stop.

The Ming generals and official envoys on the ship, escorted by rows of Wuchang-made riflemen with shiny bayonets, gracefully boarded the pier.

All the riflemen wore integral forged breastplates that were as bright as bayonets, and the arcs of the polished steel were finely polished, which barely looked like a distorting mirror, but it made the onlookers feel creepy.

Of course, it is impossible for the team Zhu Shuren sent this time to be led by Li Yu. That would be an invasion of North Korea.There must also be an official state envoy, one with two weapons.

Wen is in charge of submitting credentials to the King of Korea, and Wu is in charge of re-opening Zhendongjiang Town and recruiting troops to train and garrison in North Korea in the future.

The envoy only needs to be eloquent and well-known, so Zhu Shuren asked Gu Yanwu, who has been idle recently, to go. That's fine.

Li Bing, who stayed behind in Jianghua's mansion, went to meet Gu Yanwu as soon as he stepped onto the pier: "Your official Jianghua's mansion stayed behind. I didn't know that the angel from the upper kingdom was coming, so I was far away to welcome you."

The North Korean official system, the government left behind is from the second grade, it looks very scary.But in fact, North Korea's territory is too small, so the country has to be divided into eight divisions first, and there are prefectures and counties below the divisions.In fact, a second-rank official only cares about the big things.

After the scene was finished, Li Bing said tactfully: North Korea has now been forced to become a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, so please keep a low profile when the Ming envoy comes, and don't cause trouble for North Korea.

Otherwise, if it is discovered by the Qing court, it will inevitably send troops to coerce North Korea.North Korea does not reject Daming in his heart, but he has no courage to show it openly.

Gu Yanwu is also considered a great Confucian in the world, so he naturally knows how to deal with such face-saving tasks flexibly. After he introduced his identity, he immediately hinted to the other party that Daming was going to reopen Dongjiang Town. An encouraging message of victory.

"Li Shoubei, is your news about North Korea so closed? You don't know that Ming Dynasty has already won the counterattack against the puppet Qing Dynasty, killed the puppet British prince Azig, wiped out 20 enemies, and recovered two provinces?
The official came here this time to accept my Ming Dynasty's order to give North Korea a chance to abandon the dark and turn to the Ming. As for defense, I will cooperate with myself.Li Shoubei just leads the way and leads me to Seoul, and the rest is up to the king of your country to discuss and make decisions. "

Li Bing was shocked again when he heard the words, and he still didn't believe the results of the battle that the envoy of the Ming Dynasty said.At this time, generals are needed. Gu Yanwu has nothing to prove. He gave Li Yu and others a look, and Li Yu immediately took over the topic forcefully:
"Prince Azig, the pseudo-British prince, was shot and killed by this general himself, how can there be a fake?"

Li Bing glanced at him suspiciously: "I don't know this general..."

Li Yu had the arrogance of returning to his hometown: "This general is the concubine son of Cao Li, the judge of the army. He was a hostage in the Tartars. Seven years ago in the battle of Bijia Mountain, he had the opportunity to lead his troops to abandon the dark and turn to the Ming. He was reused by Daming and accumulated merits every year to Dongjiang Town. Commander, lead General Anton!"

When Li Yu mentioned his father, it was inconvenient to even mention his name, so as not to be disrespectful, so he only referred to him by his official position.

Li Bing was even more surprised, and while expressing that he would entertain them well and keep them steady, he gave some instructions to the people next to him.

After a while, under the control of Li Bing, everyone first went to the Garrison Mansion for a banquet to meet the wind, and after a rest, they arranged to go to Seoul tomorrow.Then during the banquet, a young military officer who was also less than 30 years old was brought in. Li Bing gave a few instructions and pointed him to recognize him.

The North Korean military officer followed Li Bing's instructions, hesitated for a few seconds, and immediately showed shock: "Fourth brother?"

Li Yu also noticed it, and after a short hesitation, he finally recognized from the other person's expression that this person was his third brother Li Yue - eight years ago, his father had asked him to take the place of his third brother as a hostage to the Tartars.

"Isn't this the third brother? Why are you still messing around here now? Didn't your father always love and support you?" Li Yu was also angry in his heart, so of course he wouldn't speak nicely to the third brother.

Li Yue smiled embarrassingly: "Fourth brother is laughing at me... Being impersonated as a hostage, it's not easy for my brother to stay in Seoul.

The so-called wrong step.At first, in order to avoid being a hostage, I could only use your identity to continue to make a living as a brother. My father was afraid that if he stayed in Seoul, there would be too many people who would look at him. Please be isolated from the world, so as not to leak, alas. "

Li Yu replaced Li Yue's identity and went to Shenyang. Of course, Li Yue who stayed in Seoul had to change his identity on the surface, so he lived as a younger brother from then on.

If Li Yu can be released by the Qing people, then the two brothers may switch identities again, pretending that nothing happened in the intervening years.

But when Li Yu feigned death in the Qing Dynasty, Li Yue's original identity could no longer be used. In the eyes of the world, the identity of "Li Yue" was already a dead person.

Their father, Li Shibai, has also regretted this incident in the past few years. If he had known earlier, it would have been better to let his son-in-law be a hostage back then, which was really self-defeating.

So now Li Yu wants to prove that he is "resurrected", which is good for Li Yue, at least he doesn't have to live with a false identity anymore, and he can behave in a dignified manner.

Li Liushou on the side saw that Li Zongbing and Li Dujian were indeed brothers, and he didn't admit his mistake, so he knew that this matter was beyond his level to intervene, so he should send it to Seoul as soon as possible, and let the king and Li Sanshu worry about it.

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Resting overnight at Jianghua Mansion, the next day the Daming Mission continued to ride horses to Seoul. It was a ninety-mile journey, and it took only one day to ride a horse.

There is really nothing to repeat about the subsequent drama.

King Li Ji of North Korea was already 54 years old at this time. He was seriously ill and seldom governed himself.Historically, he only had one year left to live, but he heard that the Daming Mission came with heavy troops, so he still had to meet him in person.

As for the specific affairs, he was afraid of power, so he had to hand them over to Li Hao, the prince's son, and Li Shibai, the military judge.In addition, Fu Song Shiyeol, the eldest son who lived in seclusion in Chungcheongdo, was specially recalled to Li Hao's staff, and by the way, he also showed his favor to the Ming envoy.

Li Hao and his elder brother Li Wang both went to the Qing Dynasty as hostages and were brainwashed by Dorgon for many years.His elder brother Li Wang was brainwashed more thoroughly, and Dorgon has been trying to put him back in the future to succeed him, so that he can get a Korean king who is pro-Qing.

However, the anti-Qing forces in North Korea are not small, so after the brothers Li Wang and Li Hao returned to China in the second year of Shunzhi, Li Wang was poisoned to death by ministers of the pro-Ming faction, but everyone said to Dorgon that "it is indeed a disease." Death", Dorgon did not catch the evidence, and there was nothing he could do.Then it was the turn of Li Hao, who was not so thoroughly brainwashed, to become the heir.

As for the eldest son Fu Song Shilie, he was in charge of teaching Li Hao to study in his early years. Later, when the pro-Qing faction came to power, he abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion.This time the king re-conquered him, which is also a signal.

Song Shilie originally wanted to pretend to be aloof, but he heard that he was asked to receive the Great Angel, so he came out to be an official again.

Gu Yanwu didn't play tricks with Li Shibai and Song Shilie in private, so he directly asked Zhang Mingzhen and Li Yu to show off their muscles and military exploits, emphasizing that Ming Dynasty is not what it used to be, and they can definitely counterattack the Tartars.Hulu has no long luck, and his luck is exhausted!
After winning the hearts and minds of North Korea, Gu Yanwu talked to them about the details of the conditions for returning to Ming Dynasty.

It is nothing more than a promise first that as long as North Korea returns to the Daming vassal, Daming will lift the trade embargo on saltpeter and sulfur that has been in place for 16 years since the fifth year of Chongzhen.

At the beginning of the embargo of the Ming Dynasty, the main reason was that North Korea was under pressure to trade with the Qing state, and some arms materials were resold to Liaodong through North Korea. However, because Mao Wenlong was killed in the Ming Dynasty, the anti-smuggling and inspection capabilities of Dongjiang Town were greatly reduced. Imports are also banned.

Now that Da Ming dares to reopen, of course he is sure that he can manage it well.

In addition, this time Daming also reiterated that the purchase of military rations by the new Dongjiang Town and North Korea can be handled according to a pre-approved official price.Although it is still required to be cheaper, at least there are rules to follow, so that North Korea will not be exploited by executives at all levels——

As a vassal state, North Korea should provide some military rations for the Ming garrison.However, in previous years, this policy was not implemented well, mainly due to the increase in exploitation and corruption.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty’s household department, military supervising eunuchs at all levels, and local money and grain handling officials did the same to their own army, not specifically targeting North Korea.

Now it is nothing more than that Zhu Shuren has completely rectified Daming's military supply and payment system.His father, Shen Tingyang, has rectified a lot in the past few years since he became the Minister of the Ministry of Households. He also killed and demoted a lot of rubbish interest groups in the north and south Beijing with excuses, so he reversed the unspoken rules.

The Koreans received so many guarantees, and finally, the elder son Li Hao himself was humiliated for many years when he was a hostage in the Qing Dynasty, which made him firm in his determination to accept this condition.

The main reason is that Li Hao also realized that Li Shibai's concubine became Daming's dog, and he had three battalions and guards, 1 elite soldiers, and 2000 of them were armed with new-style weapons that he had never seen before. rifle.

Now his father is seriously ill again.If Li Shibai was drawn over by Daming and wanted to "change to a Korean king who is close to Ming", then things would be troublesome.

Rather than waiting for Li Shibai to sell it, it is better for him to sell it himself, and there is no middleman to make the difference.

That's it.North Korea began to secretly prepare for war, resumed trade with Ming Dynasty, and exchanged information on whether to provide military rations required by Ming Dynasty.

Of course, North Korea is not in a hurry to show off. This kind of thing must try to block the news and delay it as much as possible, so as to give more preparation time.

Therefore, the Qing court did not realize the problem immediately.It was not until a few months later, almost at the end of this summer, that the Qing court realized that something was wrong, and sent envoys to investigate several times. Finally, it was not until the autumn harvest that it was completely convinced that North Korea was a traitor.

Dorgon was of course furious, and immediately demanded to divide his troops back to the Yalu River, and to reconquer North Korea by force.

However, Dorgon's order has been questioned by more people. Everyone feels that since North Korea is only in a defensive posture and has not taken the initiative to provoke, why bother to make more enemies.It's already like this with the Ming Dynasty, why bother to make a mess.

(End of this chapter)