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Chapter 306
Yongzheng decided to send troops at the end of June, just after summer.

This is not surprising. It takes time to mobilize military supplies, integrate various armies, and recruit civilians.

Moreover, Yongzheng also learned a lesson this time and either did not send troops or went straight to a decisive battle.

Taking advantage of the unsteady foothold of the Ming army in the south, they marched into Huaibei and Sichuan at the same time.

We met at the end of June, mostly to cooperate with the Qing army in Sichuan.

A battle will determine the world!

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The third year of Jianwu in the Ming Dynasty, the second year of Yongzheng in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, 1724 in the Western calendar.

end of April.

Zhu Yijiong took away three thousand imperial troops, a set of secretaries who accompanied the army, plus his own concubine Yao, and some palace maids, and set out from Nanjing to conquer personally.

Yongzheng planned to conduct the conquest personally, so Zhu Yijiong naturally had to do so as well.

Not to mention that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has decided to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. This decisive battle will also determine the ownership of the world. It is definitely impossible for Zhu Yijiong to let the frontline generals make their own decisions.

At least he, the emperor, must be in charge personally. This is also a kind of love for the general.

The emperor took the navy's fleet and entered the Grand Canal along the east side of the Yangtze River, stopping in Yangzhou first.

The name of the magistrate of Yangzhou was Tang Zeming, who was a scholar from Fujian. Similar to him was Yan Jie, the magistrate of Jiangdu.However, he is a scholar from Zhejiang, and both of them belong to the kind of young scholars who have not passed the imperial examination and relied solely on hard work.

Tang Zeming's political achievements were not outstanding and could only be regarded as quite satisfactory.The only advantage is that he is upright as an official, honest and honest, and he is a bit jealous of evil.

Maybe he was pretending on purpose. After all, after the emperor's anti-corruption campaign, everyone knew that the emperor liked upright officials, and he also liked upright officials who were not afraid of power.

But Zhu Yijiong didn't care. Even if he was just pretending, he still needed such talents to be the prefect of Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is too complicated. Not only did the Yangzhou Ten Days outbreak occur, but it is also a gathering place for Yangzhou salt merchants.

Now that Zhu Yijiong is engaged in salt law reform again, he must put an upright and honest official here who hates evil, otherwise problems will easily arise.

After entering the city, Zhu Yijiong did not ask about military affairs, but about civil affairs: "How was Yangzhou last year?"

Tang Zeming replied: "There were no major disasters. Only the rain and snow in autumn and winter were more frequent than in previous years. However, because Your Majesty prepared for rainy days and provided timely relief, although the people suffered losses, they were not serious. The weather has warmed up in the spring this year, and the people are all grateful for Your Majesty's kindness."

Zhu Yijiong heard this and joked: "You have learned how to flatter others now. Where is your upright temper?"

Even if Tang Zeming was flattering, he was serious: "Your Majesty, this is not flattery, the people are really grateful for your kindness. And your Majesty is so prepared for rainy days and considerate of the people, even the ancient saints are nothing more than this."

"Hehehe!"

Zhu Yijiong smiled for a moment, then restrained his smile this time and said, "How is the implementation of Yangzhou's new salt law going?"

Tang Zeming said: "Although salt merchants have criticized the new salt law a lot, they were already prepared when the new salt law was tried out, and the actual response was not great."

Zhu Yijiong nodded: "That's good!"

Tang Zeming hesitated for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty... the Yangzhou salt merchants are willing to donate [-]% of the food and military supplies to the army to make up for the two years of guilt!"

The second year of guilt refers to the second year of Jianwu.

The emperor's draft is essentially a political marriage.

As a result, these salt merchants were so bold that they bribed the draft official. It couldn't be considered a bribe, but they simply offered... a thin horse.

The key point is that the skinny horse still has bound feet, which really disgusted Zhu Yijiong.

It’s not just the issue of foot binding, but more importantly, there are actually thin horses in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou Shou Ma, under the glamorous name, is rampant human trafficking.

The courts of the Ming and Qing Dynasties also banned this, but this thing could not be banned at all. Those businessmen first raised thin horses in the name of parents' adoption, and when they grew up, they were "adopted" home by wealthy businessmen at a high price.The whole process was "legal" and could no longer be "legal," and even the government couldn't say anything.

In addition to Shouma, there is also Brothel Chuguan, both of which are essentially the same.

When brothels can exist legally, rampant human trafficking will inevitably occur.

There can't be so many women in this world who are willing to fall into prostitution, especially in ancient times, when most of them were sold into it.

"These salt merchants are willing to donate, so let them donate!" Zhu Yijiong did not refuse.

However, Yangzhou Shou Ma, Chu Guan, and Zhu Yijiong must also be completely banned. In essence, subsequent human trafficking must be banned.

It's just that we can't do it now, not only during the war, but also the repercussions of doing it now will be too great. We can only do it with the power of a great victory.

……

After only staying in Yangzhou Prefecture for one day, Zhu Yijiong continued northward, passing through Gaoyou, Baoying, and finally Huai'an Prefecture.

If the imperial commander goes on a personal expedition, he will definitely not go to the front line.

Huai'an is located at the intersection of the Huanghuai River and the Grand Canal. It is also a transshipment base for the Ming army's troops, grain, grass, and civilians.

For this battle, the Ming army had assembled an army of more than 10 people in Huaibei.

In addition to Yang Gong's First Army and Yu Kecheng's Seventh Army, the Fifth Army and Zhou Haizhong's troops were transferred from Nanjing to the north.
The Nanjing garrison task was handed over to Fu Yunsheng of the newly formed Ninth Army.

This person was a general who was specially promoted by Zhu Yijiong for his meritorious service in the previous battle to defend Chizhou.

He Xiangming of the Sixth Army also went north from Zhejiang, taking the Grand Canal from Hangzhou all the way to the Huaibei front line to gather.

The garrison tasks in Zhejiang and Fujian were handed over to Liang Cheng of the newly formed Tenth Army. Although this man had not made any military exploits, he was extremely quick-witted.

The Third Army Xu Jin moved south from southern Fujian and is now in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Zhu Yijiong's imperial edict on Guangdong and Guangxi has just arrived in Guangdong a few days ago. Guangdong is okay, but it just needs to be sorted out.

It must be a long-term task to completely win over Xujin, Guangxi.

Qiongzhou Lin Liang made a lot of money, easily winning a government with less than 3000 people.

A thousand soldiers were assigned to Taiwan to garrison the newly established Ryukyu County and the eight northeastern Ryukyu Islands.

Lu Feng of the Eighth Army is now in Changsha, also waiting for the court's results on the Shaomin in western Hunan and southern Hunan.

The Second Army Zheng Dingrui is stationed in Hubei.

The Third Army Huang Dian was ready to divide his troops at any time and provide local support to the two lakes.

This is the current military distribution map of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Dingrui still has tens of thousands of Longkodu training troops in the Lianghu Army. Although they will not be available for a short time, it will be difficult to recruit and surrender.

But if the situation is really urgent and the Ming troops in the two lakes cannot stop Yue Zhongqi, then these surrendered troops will not be unable to be used in battle.

At the same time, Yang Gong also had an additional cavalry unit on hand, with a force of a thousand men, and all of them were Mongolian war horses from the north.

The cavalry under Yang Gong are definitely not as good as the serious traditional cavalry units in mounted combat, but these cavalry are all trained according to the method of the fire cavalry.

Coupled with full breastplates, in a real fight, these cavalry units, which are technically dragoons, may not be unable to defeat the Manchu and Qing cavalry.

It doesn't matter if the firecrackers are useless, Zhu Yijiong also ordered Yang Gong to train these cavalry in wall charge tactics.

This set of tactics is not completely invincible and has great shortcomings, but it is the best way to use the Ming army's cavalry with no basis at all.

　Additional update from the boss

　　
　
(End of this chapter)