Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 377
On November 8th, a total of [-] people, including the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and Emperor Zhu Youjian's entourage, gathered at the gate of Huangji in the Forbidden City of Nanjing.

That day was when the sun was shining brightly.

The [-] soldiers are all dressed in mandarin duck battle robes, cotton armor, red tasseled round helmets, Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns, and leather boots. They shine brightly in the sun and look majestic.

Even the cavalry were riding tall horses, wearing white gloves, and holding alloy steel scimitars, shining coldly.

The cannon carriages were lined up outside, and they looked like giant iron beasts, glaring at the front.

Qin Liangyu wore a silver chain mail and rode a white war horse, holding a long halberd, and his helmet was as silver as ice crystals. His pair of phoenix eyes swept across but showed his heroine qualities.

As the commander-in-chief of the Ming army in this battle, she naturally has a certain bearing, so Zhu Youjian specially ordered her to wear silver armor and hold a long halberd, so that she looks mighty and extraordinary.

But Qin Liangyu was old after all, and he could no longer gallop on the battlefield wearing such a heavy silver armor and long halberd, but it was still okay to go for a walk on horseback.

Immediately behind Qin Liangyu were He Xin and Wu Mengming, commander of Jinyiwei. Both of them were wearing python suits instead of military uniforms, so as to bring out Qin Liangyu's majesty.

Zhu Youjian came out on a golden dragon chariot. This time he could only be regarded as an inspection tour, not a personal conquest, so he naturally did not show off the limelight, and only dealt with political affairs with Lu Jiude in the dragon chariot.

It stands to reason that in this war, as the emperor, he does not have to leave the Forbidden City.

However, Zhu Youjian didn't want to keep himself trapped in the Forbidden City. He wanted to go out and have a look. He wanted to see with his own eyes how the people in the area where the war took place viewed the Ming and Qing disputes, and saw with his own eyes the guards who participated in the war. What do military officers and soldiers think.

In addition, he also knows that he has almost offended the entire civilian group, and his biggest reliance now is the army. He cannot lose control of the army. Even in this war, he has to get in closer contact with the officers and soldiers of the Guards .

The gentry of the northern group do not want to see Da Ming continue to exist, so that they will always be charged with betraying Da Ming, and they do not want the ocean interests to be occupied by Da Ming forever.

Because in the Qing Dynasty, the sea ban policy was adopted, and the scholar-bureaucrats, especially the coastal scholar-bureaucrats, wanted to ban the sea, so as to control the profits of ocean trade in their own hands.

But Ming Dynasty opened the sea, and now it is getting bigger and bigger, even directly affecting the interests of the northern gentry.

Therefore, the northern gentry hoped that the Manchus could rule the world.

The gentry in the Ming Dynasty also opposed the opening of the sea. The Donglin Party even advocated the prohibition of the sea. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River got their wish. Up to four ports.

It is precisely because of the full opening of these four ports and the implementation of commercial taxes that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River still strongly resisted Zhu Youjian's imperial power after the Qian Qianyi case and the Zhang Shenyan case, and even almost launched a coup.

To be precise, there have been several coups attempted by civil officials to overthrow Zhu Youjian's regime since Zhu Youjian issued a decree to levy business taxes before moving south.

But now, relying on the support of the army and the common people, Zhu Youjian established his own navy by relying on the support of the army and the common people, and won over the Zheng Group, so that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River continued to be suppressed, and the entire civil official group did not dare to interfere with the imperial power. This kind of "treacherous officials" who can only follow themselves, from the depose of the prince and the demolition of Donglin Academy, marks that the entire civil servant group has completely lost any chance to resist the imperial power.

However, these civil servants must be dissatisfied with Zhu Youjian's behavior, and it has even begun to spread among the public that this is the darkest era in the history of Ming Dynasty, even darker than it was during the Tianqi period of Chenghua, because Zhu Youjian treated civil servants not only It is a court battle but directly mobilizes the army to massacre.

These civil servants are now daring to be angry and dare not speak out. While thinking about how to restore Zhu Cihuang in the country, they hope that the Qing Dynasty can teach Zhu Youjian a lesson and let Zhu Youjian know that such tyranny is not good.

Zhu Youjian knew that these civil servants and gentlemen were very dissatisfied with him.

But if he does it all over again, he still has to do the same thing. How can he raise his own army without taking away the benefits from the civil servants and gentry? How can he develop the Daming military base that now has a complete industrial system.

If Zhu Youjian hadn't seized the interests of these Jiangnan gentry through house raids and commercial taxes, and then gave them all to the army, it would have been impossible to control the 60 army so easily.

High salaries and benefits, as well as superior political treatment, and even daring to order the massacre of scholars for the dignity of the Guards officers and soldiers, these are the reasons why Zhu Youjian firmly controlled the army.

This is why many gentry families don't understand why their children are no longer willing to listen to their clan's mercy after joining the Guards, because they no longer need to gain more benefits through the clan.

Zhu Youjian knew that this war could not be lost, and once lost, it would mean that the Manchus would rule the world.

And his backyard will also catch fire, and the civil servants who are dissatisfied with him will take the opportunity to attack, and the army he controls will fall apart due to failure. If he loses the army, he will lose control of finances, and the interests of maritime trade will be destroyed. Take it away again, and the Zheng Group, which has not yet turned against him, will continue to be his smuggling group.

However, Zhu Youjian thought it was impossible for him to lose.

At least the recuperating common people are unwilling to fight, and the handicraftsmen, small merchants and petty bourgeoisie will not be willing to let most of the commercial interests be occupied by the rich and powerful.

These are comparisons of soft power. Even if it is hard power, Zhu Youjian doesn't think he will lose.

At this time, the fighting power and equipment level of the Ming army is far from comparable to that of the 17th year of Chongzhen. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, it still defeated the Manchurian cavalry and went south. In the 20th year of Chongzhen, even if the Manchu Qing improved and expanded their weapons and horses, there would be no first time. offensive.

Seeing the continuous ships on the Yangtze River leaving the port one after another, all of which were loaded with guns, artillery and ammunition, Zhu Youjian undoubtedly became more confident.

At this time, Zhijiang Shipyard also began to have a batch of warships leaving the military port to start their maiden voyage one after another. The Ming Navy now has dozens of large warships. It is no longer a problem to guard the entire Jiangnan waters and harass the Liaodong Peninsula to Bohai Bay.

Zhu Youjian and his party landed in Kuah.

As soon as they arrived in Kuah, apart from Jin Yiwei and an independent cavalry battalion directly under the Second Guards Corps and an independent infantry battalion to continue to guard Zhu Youjian's safety, Qin Liangyu led the main force of the Second Guards Army's Second Corps to Fenghuang first. Positive.

According to the plan, the governor generals of each guard army will hold a pre-war meeting in Fengyang in early December to issue the final strategic deployment.

Zhu Youjian was not directly involved in this war, so naturally he was not in a hurry.

　After watching the movie, I came to a weekend dinner with my friends, so I came back late, and I will try my best to finish this ten thousand characters before 12:100. Thank you for the reward of [-] book coins
　　
　
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