Nanming Yiming

Chapter 65

"Excerpt Opera" achieved unexpected success. In addition to Taihu Lake, Tianjiazhuang and Tianmu Mountain also toured.

The venues were also full, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians under the Su Song Governor's Mansion was even higher, donating money and materials, and enthusiastically joining the army.

In particular, the surrendered soldiers of the engineering battalion were ashamed of having been in the Qing army, and insisted that the engineering battalion become a regular army under the Susong Governor's Mansion.

So Qian Mo transferred Qian An to the engineering battalion as a general, and changed the name of the engineering battalion to Jiaxing Camp, and expanded it to 1000 people.

Ask Qian An to join the Jiaxing Camp with some cronies, and Li Qi will continue to serve as the deputy general of the Jiaxing Camp.

The Jiaxing Battalion enjoyed the treatment of the second-class battalion and officially became a combat force under the Su Song Governor's Mansion.

The original law enforcement battalion was taken over by Bai Bing, who continued to take orders from Gu Yanwu.

After half a month, the troupe raised more than 1000 taels of silver through tickets and donations.

In fact, this is not surprising. There are indeed not many entertainment projects in this era, especially the people at the bottom.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, it is believed that human needs from low to high are:

Physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

Now the soldiers and civilians under the Su Song Governor's Mansion have no worries about food and clothing, and they are paid monthly.After the most basic physiological needs and safety needs are met, there will naturally be higher-level needs.

Now it is the first month of the second year of Yongli, Shengui Island is filled with a kind of festive atmosphere of Chinese New Year, this year you don't have to worry about the New Year.

The financial situation of Su Songdu's government has also improved slightly.

Last month, the intelligence department handed over 8000 taels of silver to the treasury.

The Industry Division under the Chief Envoy's Yamen also had a surplus of 13000 taels.

1000 taels for an external troupe.

The governor's office has more than 2 taels of income.

Although the expenditure is still huge, the purchase of grain consumes 4 taels of silver, the salaries and rewards of the army and various officials, craftsmen and people are 3 taels, and the purchase of other raw materials is 2 taels.

However, the expenditure was finally controlled within 10 taels.

Now there are more than 66 taels of silver in stock, a decrease of 2 taels from last month.

This month, a large amount of grain was purchased, and now there are 12 shi in stock.

Now the output of Lumi guns can reach more than 800 rods per month, and the workshop also produced 4 tiger squat guns last month.

The Shenji Battalion has all been refitted with new Lumi guns.

The Chongming Camp and the Jingnan Camp were each equipped with 200 Lumi guns.

According to the previous plan, the Jingnan Battalion will form an elite Iron Armor Army, but the current output of Iron Armor is still very low, mainly due to the limited quantity of pig iron and iron ore, and the large amount of transportation will easily attract the attention of the Qing Army.

Weng Zhiheng reported that there are currently 5 battalions under the Susong Governor's Mansion, with a total of 5600 soldiers.

The first-class battalion of the Chongming Battalion has 1200 troops, 200 Lumi guns, 400 bird guns, and 6 tiger crouching guns.

The first-class battalion of the Jingnan Battalion has 1200 troops, 200 Lumi guns, 300 bird guns, and 100 pairs of iron armor.

The first-class battalion of Shenji Battalion has 1200 troops, 1000 Lumi guns, 16 tiger crouching guns, and 7 Qianjin Flang machine guns.

The second-class battalion of the Taihu Battalion has 1000 troops and 150 bird guns.

Jiaxing Battalion B Battalion has a strength of 1000 people.

Qian Mo said: "The cost of pig iron and iron ore transportation is indeed high, and it is also inconvenient. Let's directly find iron ore in the Tianmu Mountains and make iron on the spot."

"Sit and eat is not an option. Have you figured out the situation in Huzhou?"

Xia Wanchun said: "According to the information from Nanchang, Jin Shenghuan has been forced to do something. It may be in the next few days, and we have to make preparations early."

"In addition, the news from Chongming said that the king of Lu will summon the generals of the Ming army from all over the country in Chongming, and the governor is also on the list. The envoy should be here soon."

Qian Mo said: "There is no such thing as a good banquet. Although it may not be a Hongmen banquet, the governor of the capital who celebrates the Chinese New Year can't go to see His Highness Jian Guo empty-handed."

"Governor Qian Bu allocated 5000 shi of grain from the grain depot, and prepared 500 pairs of cotton armor, 1000 bolts of high-quality cotton cloth, and 100 altars of fine Jinling spring wine."

"Now that the war is imminent, everyone must stick to their posts. Let Hong Fugui choose 50 elites to accompany me to Chongming to meet His Highness Jian Guo."

At this moment, Lu Shanhai reminded: "With Yang Wenqi in Chongming, I can't rest assured of my lowly position. The governor should bring more soldiers!"

Gu Yanwu also said: "This subordinate has some friendship with Marquis Dingxi. With Huang Yu in Tianjiazhuang, he must rest easy. The humble officer can bring the white soldiers to guard the governor. There may be changes in Huzhou. I am afraid that General Hong should not leave at this moment."

Qian Mo said: "Brother Ning is more thoughtful, don't take the supplies prepared for the King of Lu, and ask them to send someone to pick them up when the governor returns."

"The political envoy Qian Bu allocated 2 taels of silver from the treasury. Brother Ning can use the name of the Chinese New Year to visit officials of all sizes in Chongming first, and send silver to King Lu and Marquis Dingxi in private. Except for Yang Wenqi, Chongming All the important officials of the country will send a copy, and the national treasures will also be sent."

"The money that should be spent still has to be spent. This is more effective than bringing more soldiers and horses. Just ask Brother Bai to bring 50 good soldiers to go to Chongming with me."

Then he said to Xia Wanchun: "All kinds of information indicate that Jin Shenghuan is about to start an incident in Nanchang. We must pay close attention to the information from various places, so as not to delay the opportunity of the war."

"In addition, during the governor's absence, everything will be dominated by Governor Xia. You must fully cooperate and make no mistakes!"

In fact, Qian Mo was overthinking this time. It was Zhang Mingzhen who came up with the idea of ​​King Lu summoning the generals of the Ming army in Chongming.

Its purpose is mainly to test Zheng Cai rather than Qian Mo.

In May of the third year of Shunzhi (1646), the Qing Dynasty sent a large army to conquer eastern Zhejiang. It happened that Zhejiang had a long drought and no rain this summer, and the Qiantang River dried up.Seeing that the water was not as deep as a horse's belly, the Qing army split up and attacked Shaoxing in two directions. Fang Guoan's Qiantang River defense line collapsed immediately, and a large number of Ming officials surrendered to the Qing army.

On the night of May 29, Zhu Yihai left Shaoxing under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen and others, and fled to the sea via Taizhou by boat.Before leaving, Zhu Yihai sent Jingyi General Mao Youlun to protect his family and retreated to Taizhou.

The Qing government took this as a threat and sent envoys to tell Zhu Yihai to shave his hair and surrender, but Zhu Yihai reprimanded him angrily.

After Zhu Yujian was killed by the Qing army, some civil and military officials who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing court changed to Zhu Yihai, the supervisor of Lu, as the orthodox, which caused a great change in his status.At this time, Zhang Mingzhen lost no time in proposing the "Longzhong Opposition". He fully explained to Zhu Yihai the strategic policy of first dividing the world into three parts, building the foundation and establishing the country, and then recovering Jiangnan and unifying the world.

The specific steps are to first attack Fujian, where the Qing army is weak, and establish a reliable base; then use the name and prestige of "supervising the country" to recruit talents, and gradually increase political, economic, and military strength; at the same time, properly handle relations with overseas states. , Encourage North Korea and Japan to send troops to help; when the king of Gui in the southwest proclaims himself emperor, he no longer adopts a tit-for-tat policy, so that the regime of the king of Gui can hold back the Qing army as much as possible.In this way, a three-point world (the Qing court, the king of Gui and the king of Lu) can be formed. When the south of the Yangtze River is empty, use elite troops to attack Nanjing, and the revival of the Ming Dynasty is expected.

Zhu Yihai appreciated this strategy very much, and decided to achieve a generation of hegemony as set by Zhang Mingzhen's version of "Longzhong Dui".In June of the same year, Zhu Yihai arrived in Zhoushan under the protection of Zhang Mingzhen and others. Huang Binqing, who ruled the Zhoushan Islands separately, refused to accept Zhu Yihai on the pretext that he was sealed by the Longwu court. Benevolent article.

In September, Yongshengbo Zheng Cai, who guarded Jin and Xia areas, welcomed Zhu Yihai into Fujian. Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhilong had already rushed to Fuzhou Boluo Army to surrender.

Zheng Cai was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and decided to give priority to Zhu Yihai. Zhu Yihai's strength grew rapidly, and most officials and people in Zhejiang and Fujian took King Lu as the banner of ZTE Ming; The Qing army was empty.

In the first month of the first year of Yongli (1647), Zhu Yihai swore an oath in Changyuan. At the oath meeting, he expressed his determination to "the king's industry is not partial to peace" to the troops from all walks of life.After the initial reorganization of the government's army, Zhu Yihai began to recover the lost land. In just half a year, many counties in Fujian recovered one after another.

In July, Zhu Yihai went on an expedition in person, and he issued a call to action, calling on the gentry and people from all over the country to revolt and create a great cause together. The "liberated area" continued to expand, and Jianning Mansion, Jianyang, Chong'an, Songxi, Zhenghe, Shouning, Lianjiang, Changle, Yongfu, Minqing, Luoyuan, Ningde and other places were all recovered.In October of the same year, Funing Prefecture was also conquered by the Ming army, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty in Fujian was on the verge of collapse.

At this time, Zheng Cai already had the idea of ​​narrow emperor to order the princes, and wanted to gradually control Lu Wang Zhu Yihai.It happened that Zhang Mingzhen led his troops to occupy Chongming. At this time, the Qing court was empty of troops in Susong, and there was even a possibility of directly recovering Nanjing.

King Zhu Yihai of Lu was considered the number one figure in the imperial clan at the end of Ming Dynasty, so how could he fail to see Zheng Cai's intentions.So taking advantage of Zheng Cai's unpreparedness and using the excuse of regaining Nanjing, Zhang Mingzhen welcomed him back to Chongming overnight.

But now the situation in Fujian is very good, and Zhu Yihai is unwilling to give up his foundation in Fujian, leaving behind Xiong Rulin, a scholar, Zheng Zunqian, Marquis of Yixing, Qian Sule, Minister of the Ministry of War, and others to contain Zheng Cai.

Zheng Cai saw that her plan of "narrowing the emperor to order the princes" had come to nothing, and she did not kill ministers as she did in history.

This year in history, Zheng Cai killed the scholar Xiong Rulin for no reason. Yixing Hou Zheng Zunqian was very dissatisfied, and Zheng Cai ordered someone to force Zheng Zunqian to throw himself into the sea and die.

Zhu Yihai was furious when he learned about it, and accused Zheng Cai, saying: "Killing loyal ministers to break the legs, what use is there for me to live?" It's over.

Then, unwilling to become a puppet, Zhu Yihai appointed Qian Sule, Minister of the Ministry of War, to take over as a bachelor to be in charge of drafting government votes. Unexpectedly, Zheng Cai bullied Qian Sule many times, causing Qian Sule to vomit blood and die.

Unexpectedly, Qian Mo's unintentional act of leading Zhang Mingzhen to occupy Chongming actually avoided this historical tragedy invisibly.As a result, the situation of the Ming army in Fujian is still very good.

At this time, Zheng Cai heard that the Qing army had deployed heavy troops in the Susong area, and knew that King Lu was temporarily unable to recover Nanjing.So Xiong Rulin, a scholar, and Qian Su, Minister of the Ministry of War, were sent to Chongming overnight, saying that the situation in Fujian is very good now, and Fujing is already an isolated city. They hope that Zhu Yihai will return to Fujian and lead the army and people to conquer Fujing.

Zhu Yihai himself was also shaken. After all, he had conquered Fujian bit by bit, and now he has conquered two prefectures and more than ten counties. It would be really reluctant to ask him to give up.

But if they go back, they will inevitably be controlled by Zheng Cai, it is really difficult to choose.

So Zhang Mingzhen offered a plan to simply bring together the generals of the Ming army from all over the country in Chongming. If Zheng Cai had a clear conscience, he would definitely come, but if he had evil intentions, he would definitely not dare to come.

In fact, in this era, most of the warlords, large and small, who have finally revealed themselves on the surface, listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda. It is not easy for them to come.

Zhang Mingzhen did this because he was afraid that Zhu Yihai would get confused and return to Fujian to throw himself into the trap.

Naturally, Zheng Cai wouldn't come in person, so this "Hongmen Banquet" that tested Zheng Cai turned into a test for Qian Mo inexplicably.

After all, Taihu Lake is very close to Chongming, if Qian Mo doesn't come here for an excuse, it must show that he has evil intentions.

The reason why Qian Mo ventured to Chongming was mainly for two reasons.

One is that Jiangxi Jin Shenghuan is about to turn around, and now that Qian Mo's strength is limited, he still has to cooperate with other ministries of Nanming to seize this golden opportunity and maximize the results of the battle.

The second is that Qian Mo wanted to meet Zhu Yihai and Zhang Huangyan, two influential figures in Nanming, of course Zhang Mingzhen was also one of them.

A clown like Yang Wenqi, Qian Mo really didn't take him seriously.

Sure enough, the envoy of Lu Jianguo came to Taihu Lake the next day to summon Qian Mo.

Qian Mo also warmly entertained the envoy, and accompanied the envoy to Chongming Island overnight.

Although the Jinshan Acropolis had been destroyed once before, the navy of the Qing army also retreated in the Wusong water village.

But on this vast sea, it is not a joke to run into a patrol ship of the Qing army, so most of the exchanges between Taihu Lake and Chongming choose to cross at night.

Fortunately, the distance between them was not too far, and the sailors on the ship were already familiar with the road, and they did not encounter any obstruction from the Qing army along the way, and the ship docked at Chongming Wharf smoothly.

Qian Mo is no stranger to Chongming Island. Qian Mo's first battle in this world was to capture Chongming City.

Of course, this battle also destroyed many of Qian Mo's fantasies. He almost died in Chongming City, so he had to face the reality of Nanming's "pig teammate".

At this time, the Chongming Wharf has undergone renovation and expansion, and the pier trestle is much wider than it was two months ago.

The Chongming Fort not far away has also been restored, and a large number of warships are moored in the naval fortress next to it. It is much more spectacular than before, and it is no longer the same.

Knowing that Qian Mo came across the sea overnight, Gu Yanwu had already brought people to wait on the pier in advance.

Looking at the familiar pier, Qian Mo shouted in his heart: "Chongming Island, I, Qian Mo, are back!"

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