Tianjin, known as Zhigu in ancient times.

After the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhigu Village, which was still a large fishing village, was renamed Haijin Town and became the grain transshipment center at that time.

In the second year of Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty (1400), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, crossed the Grand Canal and went south to compete for the throne. This time, Zhu Di drove his nephew off the stage and grabbed the dragon chair. After that, Zhu Di, who was transferred from King Yan to Emperor Yongle, renamed this place Tianjin, that is, the ferry where the Son of Heaven passed.

As a military important place and transportation hub in the north, after Emperor Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, he soon began to build a city in Tianjin in the second year of Yongle, called Tianjin Wei.

The Tianjin Acropolis is in the old city of later generations. The circumference of the whole acropolis is nine miles, the total area is 1.64 square kilometers, the east and west are wide, the north and south are narrow, the shape is like an abacus, and it is also called the abacus city.

The layout of the Acropolis is similar to that of a traditional Chinese county town, with a cross street connecting the north and the south, east and west, and a drum tower built at the intersection of the cross street.

In the acropolis, the imperial court not only set up military offices such as the commanders of the guards, the thousands of households, the Zhenfu Division, the Experience Division, the Qing Military Department and other military offices, but also arranged a series of civilian yamen such as military equipment, general judgment, transportation, grain and salt.

Although it shows that the imperial court does not attach importance to Tianjin's geographical advantages in shipping, but only by virtue of the Haihe River system extending in all directions and the North-South Grand Canal, Tianjin has easily become the hub of transportation in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, since the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, Tianjin is a commercial port with many trees, many temples and many households.

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January 10, 1630, Dagukou, Tianjin. At the mouth of the Haihe River, which was well known to future generations, black smoke rose from the open sea early this morning.

The reason why Dagukou is so famous is probably because of the battle between the British and French forces at the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, in the Ming Dynasty, Dagukou was actually already an important place for coastal defense, "the land is Jiuhe Jin, the road leads to seven provinces", "the gateway of Beijing and Tianjin, the throat of sea and land".

Although there was no such large-scale artillery emplacement as in the late Qing Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, there were also piers and garrisons with artillery erected at Dagukou.

So at this moment, the garrison who climbed on the pier platform at the mouth of Dagu put the fourth person in total money, and his scalp was a little numb.

The water of the Haihe River, mixed with muddy yellow mud and sand, collides with the blue-green sea water in winter at the mouth of the sea, making the sea surface turbid and black and yellow.

Just on the black and yellow sea, a large ship with black smoke has filled the mouth of the river. Some of these strange ships have white sails, some have Chinese hard sails, and without exception, all of them are emitting black smoke that is thick or faint.

Although during this time, Qian has seen this kind of strange ship emitting black smoke many times. But this morning, when he saw so many smoky boats covering the sea, he couldn't help but feel a sense of fear and depression.

"Fortunately, it's their own soldiers and horses, this group of southerners is weird." Accompanied by the muttering of the general Qian Commander, it was the approach of the sea vessels: the northbound fleet had already organized its entire ranks, and under the leadership of the "Surveillance", which had arrived earlier, it slowly entered the mouth of the Haihe River in a line.

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One day a month and a half ago, the Surveillance Signal appeared in Haihekou in the early morning, just like today.

At that time, the money was the general, but he immediately ordered the wolf smoke to be ignited: Tianjin Wei had never seen a Western-style soft sailing ship since it was built, and the native-born Qian Zongzong naturally did not regard the strange ship as his own.

At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had just besieged the city, and Tianjin Wei, who was close to the capital, was already frightened three times a day, and his nerves were tense to the extreme.

Therefore, after seeing the wolf smoke from the relay, the city was shocked, and the merchants and people at home and abroad rushed to the wolves, and the scene was chaotic. Then the main force of the water battalion, under the personal leadership of the chief soldier Wang Hong, came out violently and went down the coastal river, preparing to meet the Tartar army for a while.

The reason why the water battalion is so brave is that as a bridgehead for gathering troops and supplying troops, the Tianjin soldiers know very well that the Tartar water army is not a climate, and it is purely chicken feed, so they will kill the generals.

Then when General Wang arrived at Dagukou and saw the surveillance number with white sails hanging and traveling long away, everyone was dumbfounded.

After seeing the main master, the surveillance number rowed out of the boat, sent a messenger, and saw Wang Hong with documents.

When Wang Hong read a bunch of official letters sent from the Fujian governor's yamen, he couldn't help but point to the messenger and jump to his feet and scold, so he almost pushed out this short-haired pirate in strange costumes and beheaded his mother's pee, you show me this? Do you know how much loss of life and property this behavior has caused to the people of Tianjin?

However, the oolong that day really can't be blamed on the surveillance number.

As early as when the surveillance number went to Fuzhou to get the documents and set off, another 800 miles of urgent official documents went to the military headquarters in the capital. It has already been explained that there will be a ship north to Tianjin in the near future, and the Ministry of War is asked to forward Tianjin Wei, which is a regular process.

However, what I didn't expect was that when Kumon arrived in the capital, because the Tartars were fighting fiercely under the city, the nine gates were closed. In this way, the official document dragged on for a long time before finding an opportunity to hang himself from the city.

As for what to say about forwarding receipts and the like, this one really doesn't exist. Recently, the number of military intelligence documents that have been posted in contact with various parts of the world has skyrocketed, but the information channels of the Beijing division have been intermittent, so low-level documents like those sent by Fujian have been pressed alive in the military department, and until the day the surveillance number came to Dagukou, the military department did not send anyone to Tianjin to inform ......

So, the surveillance number originally thought that it would wait for someone to take care of it, but it didn't expect that the Tianjin general army would personally kill it with a large number of ships......

After explaining the oolong clearly, General Wang also finished his fire, so the two sides officially connected to each other, and the surveillance number returned to Tianjin City with the team.

After arriving in Tianjin, the surveillance number replenished coal water and food on the spot, and actually set sail again two days later, leaving an explanation that he went to sea to reconnoiter the Tartar situation......

This time it made the chief soldier angry again.

However, the Surveillance was the guest army of King Qin, and theoretically speaking, the ship was not under the jurisdiction of the Tianjin General Army and the Governor Yamen, and the senior officers in charge of commanding the defense of the capital were the main managers of the Surveillance Ship.

This highlights the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty's lack of attention to the navy: reinforcements from the sea such as the Beishang Fleet, the commander-in-chief trapped in the capital, or Chongzhen himself, actually had no way to directly command. In other words, after Cao Zongbing goes ashore in the future, he can completely use the reason of "military orders are not working" to stay in Tianjin and not leave, but Tianjin can't help these people.

Of course, this is also the soldiers and horses that pass through the crowd.

Normally, since grain and straw logistics need local supplies, no matter what the guest army does, it depends on the faces of local officials, and it is impossible to be so arrogant.

But the surveillance number was so arrogant: after the boxes of Cao Datou were thrown out, all kinds of good coal, glutinous rice, fruits, vegetables and meat were continuously sent to the ship by local merchants, and the glutinous rice was still the Taicang "white grain" for the royal family...... Where does this make sense?

So although the chief soldier was unhappy, in front of the local tyrant, no one cared about his temper.

So the surveillance number went to sea for three days and rested for two days, and regarded Tianjin Wei as a hotel. In a month and a half, all the sea areas, including the Bohai Bay and even the coast of Dalian and North Korea, were all run by the surveillance number.

On January 5, the surveillance number did not go to sea again for the first time, and while staying in Tianjin to recuperate, it informed the yamen: Fujian's Qinwang fleet is about to arrive at the port, and this time do not engage in oolong.

On the day of the 9th, the surveillance number went out to sea with several Ming army sentry ships to wait, and on the morning of the 10th, on the pier platform at the mouth of Dagu, Qian saw the northbound fleet.

After seeing several warships that were exactly the same as the Surveillance Watch, Qian learned to be obedient this time, and honestly didn't light the wolf smoke. Then, after a communication and exchange, the northbound fleet, under the leadership of the surveillance and several Ming ships, slowly sailed into the Haihe River and went straight to Tianjin Wei.

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Like the city of Guangzhou, Tianjin has many rivers because it is also an estuary. There are more than 300 tributaries of the rivers that come from the upper reaches, and the Haihe River, which eventually gathers hundreds of rivers and rushes into the sea, is the largest river in North China.

In later generations, Dagukou was about 50 kilometers away from the old city. However, in the Ming Dynasty, because the coastline had not yet been extended, the fleet drove less than 40 kilometers along the river, and the rectangular Tianjin Acropolis was seen from afar.

The station of Tianjin Acropolis is in the so-called Sanyangkou, which is the confluence of the Haihe River, the Wei River and the Ziya River, also known as Xiaozhigu.

In the southeast of the Acropolis, it is Dazhigu, a transportation hub that converges the north-south canal and the Haihe River. Standing on the bow of the ship and looking at it, the ships on the side of Dazhigu are full of shores, the mansions are continuous, and the terraces are lined up, as if there is no war in the capital in the north, and it looks like a drunken dream.

After the northbound fleet arrived outside the Acropolis gate, it did not enter the city entirely: although the Acropolis has a water gate and a water village, the place is not big, and the private houses of the government office have already crowded the little places in the city, so the northbound fleet with many belongings must find another station.

So the fleet dropped anchor outside the city. Only the flagship of the fleet, with the three-bottle "Zhengfeng" hanging on the mast, slowly sailed into the water gate of the Acropolis.

At this time, Zhai Feng, the governor of Tianjin, and Wang Hong, the chief soldier, had already taken the officials in the city and stood at the Shuizhai Wharf waiting.

Zhai Feng is a native of Shandong, and was previously ostracized by Wei Zhongxian and reduced to the people. Later, Chongzhen was the right attendant of the military department at the beginning, and last year he replaced Cui Erjin, the household attendant, and was transferred to the governor of Tianjin.

In Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty, there were no two civil and military officers, the governor and the chief soldier. At the beginning, after Emperor Yongle built Tianjin City, he mobilized three guards to guard Tianjin, which was for Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Left Guard and Right Guard.

These three guards are at the same level, and there have been no higher-level officials to govern Tianjin.

However, in the Wanli period, because of the Japanese invasion of Korea, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to rescue on the one hand, and on the other hand, set up a governor and a general army in Tianjin, responsible for maritime defense and the responsibility of defending the capital. It was only two years later that these positions were abolished after the Japanese incident.

In the period of the Apocalypse in the northern Manchu Dynasty, due to the increasing strategic position of Tianjin, the imperial court reinstated the governor and general army in Tianjin.

Therefore, these two can only be regarded as pocket bosses in the same level of Zhenfu: the territory is only around Tianjin, and the responsibility and power are only coastal defense.

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"Hahaha." After a hearty laugh, Chief Cao, who was wearing a big red official robe, walked steadily off the board of the ship with the official steps that had been successfully cultivated in recent years. Lao Yuan bowed his hand and saluted: "Xiaguan Cao Chuan see Governor Zhai, General Wang Bing." ”

"Hurry up and excuse me!" Zhai Feng and Wang Hong hurriedly treated them equally: the Ming Dynasty army paid attention to the "big and small system", not to mention that Cao Chuan, the deputy chief soldier of the guest army, was not under the jurisdiction of these two pocket bosses at all, so everyone was properly regarded as colleagues at the same level.

After the bigwigs saluted each other, General Cao and Bingbeidao, the Zhenfu Division, and several middle-level civil and military officials from the Qing Military Department saluted.

After that, it was the turn of several hereditary commanders of Tianjin Sanwei who wore red robes.

In the late Ming Dynasty, with the gradual agriculturalization of the guard post and the weakening of military functions, the social status of military households and officers of the guard post also began to decline. ”

From here, it can be seen that the commanders of the guards, who are known as the three grades, have lost their dignity in front of low-level civil officials, and have completely degenerated into rural landlords wearing high-level official uniforms.

And today, in front of Cao Zongbing, who has a heavy army, several hereditary commanders of Tianjin Sanwei, the same as the commanders, are the same. Although this group of people has a high level of official uniforms, their status is low, and they are all ranked last.

However, Zhang Dongdong did not discriminate against these local snakes, and still maintained standard etiquette: everyone still has a lot of dealings to fight after this, and there is no need to stiffen the relationship now.

After the meeting, Cao Zongbing went to the lobby of the water village with the officials. Recently, many of the soldiers and horses of King Qinwang who came from all over the country passed through Tianjin, so these local officials had no passion, and there was no welcome to send them to that set.

Everyone's task now is to hold a meeting as soon as possible, and after Cao Zongbing has said the requirements, and then discussed the logistical issues of supplying grain and straw with several civilian officials, it will be considered over.

After meeting and taking a seat according to the official character, General Cao was not polite, and first raised the issue of stationing: Since the soldiers and horses he brought were from the southern army and were not accustomed to the cold climate of the north, they had to rest in Tianjin for a period of time before they could consider going to the battlefield.

Therefore, Qin Wangjun needs to requisition the old school yard and several wharf warehouses in Dazhigu Port for rest.

Before this, the surveillance number was not in vain in Tianjin, and all the information of the station had already been investigated.

As a military city, Tianjin Wei naturally has a lot of school fields outside the city. The old school field is a place name, located a little farther away, on the north side of the Ziya River. This place was still used by the garrison before the Taichang year, and after several heavy floods, the door wall of the house was damaged, and it was abandoned.

After hearing that General Cao asked the garrison to rest in the old school yard by name, the officials in the city did not object, in short, it was an abandoned site, and it was given.

As for the dock warehouse...... There are people here who are unhappy.

Thinking that the canal on both sides of the big Zhigu is a land of every inch of land, if this is requisitioned for no reason, there will always be people here who will feel the pain of flesh.

Fortunately, General Cao knew the meaning when he heard the song, and saw that the governor had squeezed out a wharf and a warehouse with difficulty, and after the constipated expression on the faces of the cao and grain supervisors present, he laughed: "If this is not the case, three wharves, eight large warehouses, I will pay the rent here, and you don't have to make it difficult." ”