Chapter 1186: The Northern Expedition is a means, not an end

Ma Shiying was a little proud, he learned very well, looked up at the sky, put his hands behind his back, Shi Shiran said: "If you don't want to repeat this tragedy, you have to take one step and think about three steps, no, you have to think about at least five steps...... Once you find the crux of the problem, you need to solve it so that you don't make the same mistake again...... In fact, the Northern Expedition is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in unifying people's hearts, and a country with an unstable heart will fall apart at the slightest disturbance. If these are not addressed, what is the point of the Northern Expedition? ”

Huang Yingyun looked at Ma Shiying, and then looked at the battleship under construction in the distance, the huge figure, the deterrent force formed, made Huang Yingyun can't help but roar.

Grief, excitement, grievance, unwillingness, and a hint of ...... Admire.

Huang Yingyun vaguely felt in his heart that all this he saw in front of him was no longer the strength that a prince under the command of the Ming family should have, but a struggle for hegemony! World!

From Ma Shiying's words, Huang Yingyun can vaguely taste and confirm this feeling, Wu Wang Tude, not only the Northern Expedition, but the world.

It was this impulse and repression that made Huang Yingyun want to roar for no reason.

It turned out that everything that King Anxi and himself dreamed of had long become a habit in King Wu's Jiangnan.

This psychological gap made Huang Yingyun want to hit his head against the wall.

It can be said that there are mixed tastes.

Ma Shiying smiled and shook his head, he did the same, but later, Ma Shiying got used to it.

As a person who came over, Ma Shiying ignored Huang Yingyun, but walked away from the distance, letting Huang Yingyun go crazy there.

……。

The second time Huang Yingyun met Wu Zheng, he went to the railway construction site in Songjiang Province.

At that time, Wu Zheng was also inspecting the progress of the project.

In order to catch up with the progress of the project, the railway from Hangzhou to Wusong, which is about seven or eight hundred miles, was divided into three sections, the section from Hangzhou to Jiaxing, the section from Jiaxing to Huating, and the section from Huating to Wusong.

Each section will start construction from the north and south at the same time.

More than 20,000 manpower was mobilized, all of whom were Qing soldiers captured in the previous war, and of course, more than ninety percent were Han Chinese.

Wu Zheng was "merciful" to the captives, giving them the opportunity to repent and rehabilitate, as long as the railway was built, they could regain their freedom, whether they stayed in Jiangnan or returned to Jiangbei, they would not be hindered.

Therefore, the labor enthusiasm of these people is quite high, and the progress is also very fast, Wu Zheng is satisfied, and thinks to himself, it is estimated that after a year and a half, it will be ready for trial operation.

When he met Huang Yingyun, Wu Zheng was in a good mood at that time.

He smiled and said to Huang Yingyun: "After watching the past few days, what do you feel in your heart...... It is up to the king to hear it. ”

Huang Yingyun looked at Wu Zheng with complicated eyes, and sighed: "In the past few days, students have seen many things that they have never seen in their lives, heard things that they never dared to think, and also seen the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army...... But if any of these military workshops, shipyards, chambers of commerce, etc., were owned by the Great Western Army, then today, Huguang should have been recovered. Now that King Wu has all of these, he will compete in the world, and the Northern Expedition will be successful! ”

Wu Zheng smiled even more, and everyone was willing to listen to flattery.

Huang Yingyun continued: "But the student still can't figure it out, what is King Wu waiting for? King Wu doesn't have to worry at all, the Northern Expedition across the river was surrounded by the Qing army because of the lone army, in fact, as long as the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the river with a blow, with the momentum of the wind and remnants, to recover the entire territory of Yangzhou, in this way, the Jiangbei army and the people will be attached to the people, it can be described as a situation of a hundred responses...... The main force of the Qing court was pinned down in the southwest and northwest, and it was too late to rush back to the rescue, if the king of Wu regained Yangzhou, the soldiers pointed directly at Xuzhou, the Qing court was shaken, the world was shaken, and it could be an immortal cause. ”

Wu Zheng laughed and said, "Didn't Lao Ma explain it to you?" ”

On the side, Ma Shiying hurriedly said: "My subordinates have explained, so I told him exactly what the prince answered." ”

Huang Yingyun shook his head and said: "Master Ma did explain it to the students, but after thinking about it repeatedly in the past few days, the students always felt that they were ...... Inappropriate. ”

Wu Zheng asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Huang Yingyun said: "Wu Wangtian is a genius, and the students know that they are not as good as themselves, but there are four words in their hearts that they want to spit out. ”

"Even if it's just that."

"Choking on food." Huang Yingyun said slowly, "The wise don't take it. ”

Wu Zheng's expression did not move, with the original smile, turned around and pointed to the railway under construction, and said to Huang Yingyun: "Do you know what is being built here?" ”

Huang Yingyun replied: "I didn't know before, but after Master Ma solved the puzzles, I know now...... It's just that the students don't understand that the official road from Hangzhou to Wusong is smooth, and King Wu spent so much manpower and material resources to build such a railway, what is the significance? According to a rough estimate, the money spent on this road is probably enough for 100,000 troops to cross the river to recover the entire territory of Yangzhou, right? ”

Wu Zheng laughed, "You have a point, but you still undercalculated the cost required...... This king tells you that the money spent on this railway is enough for 100,000 Northern Expeditionary troops to conquer Xuzhou. ”

Huang Yingyun thought that he had moved Wu Zheng, and hurriedly said: "Wu Wang Rongyu, it's still too late to stop at this time, turn these refined iron into steel knives, artillery and other sharp weapons, and prepare for war immediately, and the Northern Expedition will definitely be able to ...... in the near future." ”

Wu Zheng raised his hand, interrupted Huang Yingyun, and said: "In the north of Yangzhou, including Xuzhou and Tianjin, although the ordinary people still resist, most of the entire scholar class has been attached to the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... By the way, they may fall, no, they will! Is it sincere? Definitely not! So what is the use of these people that the king wants? You can't kill it, you can't use it unwillingly, and it's a scourge to keep it...... It's very difficult. ”

Huang Yingyun was a little dizzy, he couldn't understand what Wu Zheng meant.

Wu Zheng said with a smile: "Now there is a son of heaven in Nanzhili, and there is an emperor in Yungui. The people of the various provinces in Jiangbei have their own interests, and once they are suppressed by the king and their interests are not answered, they will naturally go to the two emperors...... Huang Yingyun, you can't think of the final ending, right? It was a more tragic event than the Tartar slaughter. Because, that's the Han people killing each other! ”

Huang Yingyun gradually came to his senses, and he understood.

Wu Zheng is still the king of Wu of the Yixing Dynasty in name, if he waves the Northern Expedition and recovers Jiangbei, then the imperial court will move north again, and the land and population will naturally return to the Yixing Dynasty.

But there is the Yongli Dynasty in the southwest, and once the north is recovered, the Yongli Dynasty will naturally go to Beijing, and the Yixing Dynasty will naturally not tolerate it.

Who will become Emperor Sun?

Even if both emperors voluntarily abdicate the throne, will their ministers be willing?

In this way, the situation of double dragons fighting each other and fighting in the same room is absolutely unavoidable.

Such a well-known civil war will inevitably cause greater damage to the world than the Manchu Qing Dynasty going south.

There are lessons from the Longwu Dynasty and the Lu Jianguo Dynasty killing each other and the sabre-rattling, all of which is expected.