Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 917 Alliance ([-])

"Marquis Dingxi, we meet again." Liu Haiyang, wearing a navy spring and autumn uniform with a saber on his waist, walked towards Zhang Mingzhen and others majestically.He and Zhang Mingzhen have only met once or twice, so they are not familiar with each other, but this does not prevent him from making a friendly gesture.

"After a long time, Liu Jun's family will be safe and well." Zhang Mingzhen is also a free and easy person. He didn't stop at all, he stepped forward to hold Liu Haiyang's hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Nian is here in Wenzhou." Tai has also heard for a long time that Liu Jun's family controlled the great river and pointed his sword at Songhang. The Tartars gathered [-] troops, but Liu Jun's family couldn't do anything about it, so everyone admired them."

"The Tartars are clowns who are lucky enough to be crazy for a while and occupy China. But there are no good men in my land of China. As long as all the heroes work together, we will be able to expel the Tartars and restore China." Liu Haiyang responded with a smile, and his words paused. The point is to ask everyone to let go of the past and work together.

Zhang Mingzhen himself does not have such a strong sect opinion. He studied literature in his youth, and later traveled around, dealing with people from all schools and schools.In the last years of Chongzhen, he had been an official to a deputy general, guarding one side, and since the Qing soldiers went south, he has been painstakingly maintaining the situation in eastern Zhejiang. He is a real practitioner, not comparable to those Donglin Fushe who have strong sect opinions. .

But if Zhang Mingzhen didn't mention it, it doesn't mean that other people won't mention it.No, Lu Ruoteng, the representative of the Zheng family who just arrived here two days ago, came out to speak: "Liu Jun's intentions are good, but there are some things that need to be clarified first. Your country claims to be a descendant of the former Song Dynasty, and the name of the country is also named after The word Huaxia, where does this put my Ming Dynasty? Since Hongwu, my Ming Dynasty has suppressed bandits, expelled the Tartars, and conquered the world in hundreds of battles. This is the one who has won the country since ancient times. What's more, my Ming Dynasty has more than thousands of seeds The style of learning is not comparable to that of your country. How can we explain clearly where Huaxia Zhengshuo is. In the future, when the king will drive out the Tartars and restore Shenjing..."

"Mr. Liu'an, be careful!" Afraid that this somewhat blunt old man would say something that would make everyone come down, Zhang Mingzhen interrupted immediately in a hurry: "In the Eastern Dynasty, Liu Junmen was in Ningbo to repair water conservancy, promote agriculture and mulberry, and punish spies. , Persuading business and industry, all of them are benevolent and virtuous, and they have the style of ancient benevolent people. Now that the Tartars have entered the customs, China is in a state of turmoil. At this critical time of life and death, there is still such a struggle between the people, the court, and the people. Your majesty has no benefit at all, and it will only make the Tartars laugh at you! Be careful!"

Lu Ruoteng originally wanted to say something else, but after hearing Zhang Mingzhen's words, he seemed to remember the ardent expectation of the Yanping County King before he left, so he forcibly endured it, snorted and said nothing.In fact, he didn't want to talk about these things at first, but after coming to Ningbo these days, he has been in contact with many old people intermittently (he used to patrol the sea road in Ningshao), and he talked about what these overseas visitors who had entered Yi from Xia in the Eastern Dynasty did in Yin County and other places. So I understood the general idea, and I was very angry for a while.Taking advantage of this opportunity, they exploded together, not wanting to be interrupted by Zhang Mingzhen's words.

Of course, this is just to vent his personal emotions. He still remembers his own job, which is to take advantage of the alliance to get more benefits from Liu Junmen of the Eastern Dynasty.As for letting the king of Yanping County lead the army to join the alliance in Ningbo and attack the Tartars together, that is never even thinking about it. They have already made up their minds to attack the city in Fujian to expand the influence of the Emperor Yongli, and do as little as possible for the rest .

Standing behind Liu Haiyang, General Liu Guochang of the Dashun Zuoying System also sneered when he heard the words. He came from a poor family and hated these gentlemen who wantonly oppressed and exploited farmers. At this time, I saw that these people had been so downcast that they were living on the east bank, and they were still chatting crookedly. I couldn't understand it at once—if it weren't for Lao Tzu and Commander Liu on the east bank to lead the army to fight the Qing army to the death, how could I give you a chance? Opportunities to seize territory in Wentai and Fujian?Believe it or not, if we negotiate peace with the Tartars today, tomorrow Jierharang will lead the main force to go south across the mountains and take you all together?

Liu Haiyang didn't take Lu Ruoteng's words as disobedience, but he ignored him, and called everyone to sit down in a small building on the first or second floor of the pier.The hall on the first floor of the small building is quite spacious. At this time, a very long conference table was set up. Liu Haiyang was not humble, and sat directly on the main seat. Two staff officers sat behind him, holding notebooks in their hands to record .

Zhang Mingzhen only brought Ruan Jin and another senior master into the room, and he didn't say anything at this time, he found the first seat and sat down; Lu Ruoteng seemed to be struggling for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh, and joined the two screen friends , and sat across from Zhang Mingzhen; then Liu Guochang from Dashun, who brought along Yuan Bao and Zhang Guangcui, two nephew generals, gave Lu Ruoteng and others a cold look before slowly taking his seat; finally, there was One person entered the seat alone, this person was Li Chengdong's confidant general in Guangdong, Hao Shangjiu, Marquis of Xintai of Nanming Dynasty.A while ago, he led the army to pacify the Qing army that invaded Chaozhou Prefecture. After colluding with the people from the East Bank, he sold a large number of Chaozhou prisoners to the East Bank in exchange for a large amount of much-needed military resources.This time for the Ningbo alliance, Li Chengdong considered again and again, and still sent Hao Shangjiu to bring more than [-] people to Ningbo on a ship from the east coast.

"Everyone, I, Liu Haiyang, am a vulgar person. I don't like being polite, so I just say what I have to say." Liu Haiyang looked at the representatives of various forces sitting at the bottom, and said in a sonorous and forceful voice: "The situation in the past year, everyone I have also seen that the Qing court troops were divided into three groups, from Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and Jiangbei to the south, with a mighty force of 10 horses, sweeping up the rebels from all walks of life with the momentum of Mount Tai. At this critical moment, our army cannot sit still. Therefore, I want to lead my army up the Yangtze River, attack Zhenjiang, Nanjing and other places along the way, interrupt the deployment of the Qing court, and strive for a favorable situation for the rebels everywhere, what do you think?"

"This is a serious matter, and I can't wait to ask for it." As soon as Liu Haiyang finished speaking, Hao Shangjiu, the "truster" who brought his own dry food, called out: "Liu Jun's family is high-minded, and he should be the leader of the alliance. If we need to contribute, there will be no answer." .”

Hao Shangjiu was from Henan, and he was born as a bandit. He had always been a northerner general that Li Chengdong relied heavily on in his army.Before Li Chengdong was beaten by Chen Tai's southward Qing army, he lost a lot of money, and the army mainly composed of northerners lived in Guangdong for a long time, and the army was plagued by epidemics and morale was extremely low.At this time, it was Liu Haiyang's move to attack Hangzhou that relieved him of the siege. Chen Taihuo quickly led the main force of the Qing army to the north, and rescued Hangzhou with Jierhalang who was heading east; He and his men rekindled their confidence, reorganized their troops and entered Chaozhou, and repeatedly fought with the soldiers and horses of Fujian Admiral Zhao Guozuo. Later, when the Zheng family entered Fujian in a large scale from the sea, Zhao Guozuo shrank his troops and let Li Chengdong Defeated the local remnants of the Qing army and recovered the entire Chaozhou Prefecture.

Two months ago, the East Coast Fleet went south to warn the Dutch, and took a trip to Guangdong on the way, and successfully established a relationship with Li Chengdong.Li Chengdong is a man of no integrity, he is a standard character who is a mother if he has a milk. After hearing that the old yellow guns (retired artillery, each with hundreds of rounds of life) and other military resources can be sold on the East Bank , Li Chengdong was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Hao Shangjiu to sell a large number of Chaozhou local Qing troops captured in the Chaozhou War (it is hard to say how many of them were innocent civilians) to the East Bank as piglets, in exchange for a batch of much-needed troops. military capital.

After completing the deal with the Dong'an people, Li Chengdong suddenly became interested in Dong Chao.After hearing that Liu Junmen, who was stationed in Ningbo, planned to join forces with various armed forces to launch the Yangtze River Campaign, he shyly expressed that he was willing to send some troops to fight along with him—he was also a local powerful faction in Nanming anyway, and he had There are more than 500 troops (of which about [-] to [-] are the core troops brought from the north), and their independence has always been strong. Therefore, even though Emperor Yongli has not yet expressed his views on the alliance (or even heard about it), Li Chengdong had already decided that Hao Shangjiu would transfer [-] people from the Chaozhou garrison to the north to participate in the Battle of the Yangtze River in order to deepen ties with the Eastern Dynasty.

Of course, Hao Shangjiu knew what his boss was thinking, so Liu Haiyang jumped out to speak out in support as soon as he got his start, causing Zhang Mingzhen, Lu Ruoteng, and Liu Guochang to look sideways at him.But Liu Haiyang nodded approvingly towards Hao Shangjiu, which made Hao Shangjiu feel as refreshed as if drinking cold water in the dog days. Enough for more than 2000 people to change their outfits collectively.

After Hao Shangjiu spoke, Liu Guochang was a little depressed, because he was Liu Haiyang's pre-arranged entrustment, but he didn't expect this job to be robbed, so he could only say rather angrily: "What Commander Liu said Yes! I dare not say that there are too many people in this battle. 4000 people are not a problem, and they are all seasoned warriors. They are not comparable to some mobs. I am afraid that some people's chests will slap the mountain before the battle, but But when it comes time to fight, it's too loose and tight, which makes us lose the face of our old Chuangjun."

Hao Shangjiu's boss, Li Chengdong, was originally a general of Gao Jie's army, so Liu Guochang could not be wrong when he said that they were from the old Chuangjun, and he himself had always held a contemptuous attitude towards these former Chuangjun armed forces who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. I don't look good anymore.And after Liu Guochang said these words, he thought that Hao Shangjiu would be furious to refute, but he didn't expect him to be thick-skinned, and he had already made up his mind to get some good things this time before leaving, so no matter what you said, he would not leave. Liu Guochang was helpless.

After two people expressed their opinions one after another, everyone's eyes fell on Zhang Mingzhen and Lu Ruoteng present here.Especially Zhang Mingzhen, who currently has a large territory in Wentai and other places, has always been the one with the highest strength and prestige in the Lu Jianguo system. His statement is extremely important to the success of this alliance.

(End of this chapter)