Chapter 35 Parties (3)
Here, as soon as the words came out, Shunzhi had already clapped his hands and praised them. Seeing this, the relatives and nobles also understood that this estimate was already discussed by the Shunzhi monarch and ministers, and it was not easy to say much if they really had ideas, so they simply echoed the voice and finalized this matter first.
Merging the remaining cattle records of the two feudal domains separately, at most, it is just to add some soldiers to supplement the shortage, the cost can be reduced to a minimum, and it can also ensure that other Han generals will not be cold, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Shang Zhizhi is still in Guilin, and the Qing court immediately issued an order for him to return to Beijing with those feudal soldiers to rest. And Geng Zhaozhong was in the capital, and he got the news early, and he personally had some expectations for being able to inherit the title of King Jingnan, that is, those officers under his command looked a little smiling in the face of future promotions.
"The slave who has changed from a slave to a slave, and he will fight hard with those thieves in the future, which one is called a fool if he is happy."
The gossip came into his ears, and a world manager named Wei Guoxian under Geng Zhaozhong's command couldn't help but secretly slander himself. However, this matter is said to be a joint discussion of the magnates of the Eight Banners, and even Shunzhi nodded, even if he is not happy, Niu Lu Zhangjing, who is a small member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is just a fart-like character, where can he talk too much.
Secretly slandered himself, but the pace of rushing to Geng Zhaozhong's mansion to show his loyalty did not stop at all. It's just that if this former flag man of the Ministry of Internal Affairs knew that, as in the original history, his family had always been registered in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about a hundred years later, one of his female descendants would be posthumously crowned empress, because the Wei Jia clan gave birth to the next emperor for the emperor who was said to have perfect martial arts, God knows if he would have devoured the Sony who proposed the reconstruction plan in public, and even chewed the bones.
Of course, Wei Guoxian may have chewed Chen Kai up, but the problem is that I don't know if he has such good teeth and such a high consciousness.
The reconstruction work of the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan is only to avoid chilling the hearts of other Han generals, otherwise if they follow the will of those Eight Banners relatives and nobles, lose a province, lose so many soldiers and horses, and fight the battle into the current ghostly appearance, it would be light to pull all the survivors to Ningguta and give them to the armored people as slaves.
This is just a small thing that is not enough to affect the overall situation, it is not imminent, it is just that it needs to be done and starts to do it slowly. In contrast, the two provinces fell, and the Qing court, on the one hand, sent Jidu to lead a large army south to Zhejiang to assist in the defense, and on the other hand, it also increased troops in southern Jiangxi. At the same time, due to the fact that Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan entered the Yangtze River and Nanjing was shaken, the Qing court simply set up eight banners to garrison Zhenjiang in the lower reaches of Nanjing, and used the Han army with the red flag to strengthen the mountain and the real stone Tingzhu as the general of Zhenhai, so as to further strengthen the control of the river defense.
Shi Tingzhu is said to be a Sinicized Jurchen surnamed Guerjia, because his father's name is Shi Han, and his family is sinicized, so he changed his surname to Shi. As a result, in his lifetime, the Liao incident began, and the Houjin army swept through Liaodong, and he went to Baba to surrender the Houjin army. However, this person is the veteran marshal of the Han Army Banner, when Wu Zhen Chaoha was founded, he was the deputy of Ang Bang Zhangjing Tong Yang, and when Tong Yang died, he once took over the Ang Bang Zhangjing of Wu Zhen Chaoha. And that Wuzhen Chaoha is the predecessor of the Eight Banners of the Han Army.
Such a figure went out of the town of Jingkou, which shows how much attention the Qing court attached to Jiangfang. This, in the final analysis, also has another consideration, that is, during the Battle of Zhaoqing, although the Eight Banners Army that went south to help failed to fight Li Dingguo in advance, it did not take a few months to rush to Guangdong. However, in the Battle of Xinhui last year, because Nanjing was threatened by the Ming army's naval division, the garrison of the Eight Banners could not be mobilized to the south, so they could only transfer troops from the capital. If it weren't for this, before Chen Kai could get out of the battle situation in Fujian, the Eight Banners Army went south to cooperate with the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan to repel Li Dingguo, and it was even more possible to achieve various defeats on the battlefield in Guangdong.
This time is nothing more than a remedy, and it is not too late to hope for it. With the fall of the two provinces, the pressure of the Qing army in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanjiang and other places increased dramatically, and the pressure on the officials and generals in these areas was also the same. However, compared to others, the most intense pressure is still the southwest longitude of the southwest of Hong Chengchou, compared to others, he is the Qing court south of the Yangtze River, and even the whole country to shoulder the greatest burden.
Changsha, the southwest economic strategy of the government office, since the defeat of Guangdong, here has become even more busy. Originally, the Qing court had Hong Chengchou sitting in Huguang on the southwest battlefield, two feudatories guarding Guangdong, and Wu Sangui guarding Hanzhong. Now, Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui are unharmed, but the two feudatories are gone, Guangdong has fallen, especially the Zheng group in the southeast and Li Dingguo in the southwest have joined forces, the situation is so corrupt, and the staff of the Jingxue Yamen, who are still busy at the moment, are afraid that they will have to bear the greater risk of overwork and death.
"Tell me that Zhou Daotai has just sent news, and there are two more cottages willing to belong to the Qing Dynasty."
In the lobby of the Southwest Economic Strategy, Hong Chengchou sat in front of the desk, and on both sides were still Zhang Dayuan and Wang Fuchen's pair of humming two generals. The staff sent an urgent report, and the Zhou Daotai official mentioned in his mouth worshiped the senator of Zuojiang Province in Guangxi, but the cottage that the banner people appeased was not in Guangxi, but in Huangzhou Mansion in the north of Huguang.
The matter of Huangzhou cottage, Hong Chengchou has always been handed over to Zhou Shizhong and Chen Hongfan to do, the two started with Li Youshi, followed the vine and touched the melon, and uprooted the local anti-Qing forces in Huangzhou cottage one by one, and did not disappoint Hong Chengchou the most. During this period, although the overall situation was gradually deteriorating, the situation was gradually recovering under the work of the Changsha shogunate, which he had established.
Nodding, Hong Chengchou didn't give any orders, put the urgent report aside, and secretly wrote down the reply letter to Zhou Shizhong, who had an official position in Guangxi but had been busy in the north of Huguang, and the action of flipping through another report in his hand did not stop because of this.
is so busy, the pair of humming generals behind him are already strange. Not long ago, after learning the news of the fall of Guangdong, the Qing court did not even have time to confirm the life or death of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, so they could not wait to add another Guangdong to Hong Chengchou's official post in the five provinces of "Jingluhuguang, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Jiangxi."
The official position has increased, and the power has become heavier, which is probably because I have understood the truth that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, so I gave Hong Chengchou greater trust.
In an instant, the report in hand was reviewed. The content was reported by Hu Quancai, the highest-ranking staff of the Changsha shogunate, that he had appeased a chief military officer named Xie Zongkong, Hao Yongzhong, the Duke of Yiguo in the Ming court. This person was responsible for guarding the Qingfeng Zhaikou Road, and Hu Quancai rebelled against it, and that pass fell into the hands of the Qing army, so that the safety of Yunyang could be better ensured.
The terrain and landforms of the lake are all in Hong Chengchou's mind, and according to the map, he found the direction of that place from his memory, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Hao Yongzhong is the thief Hao Shaoqi who originally followed He Tengjiao, and Yongzhong was later given the name of the Ming Dynasty. This person is a relatively good mix among the generals of Kuidong, and after entering Kuidong, he frequently launched attacks on the Yunyang line. Being able to appease the generals under his command is a victory from any point of view, and it will be of varying degrees of benefit to the present and the future.
After reading the report, Hong Chengchou considered Hu Quancai's plan - to reorganize Xie Zongkong's troops, some of them were incorporated into the Qing army, and the rest were sent to their hometowns for resettlement. In this way, it not only disintegrated and weakened the anti-Qing forces, but also actually enhanced the strength of the Qing army, which can be described as a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
Hu Quancai's talent, Hong Chengchou is trustworthy, and he completed the affirmative reply in a few words, and handed over the rest to Hu Quancai for his own disposal. After reading this one, Hong Chengchou continued to look at the reports sent from other places, among them, Huguang accounted for the majority, because the staff of the Changsha shogunate were mainly placed in this vast area, in order to resume production nearby and strengthen the local Qing army. These bureaucrats from the staff naturally give priority to their proprietors when reporting to their work, and those governors, governors, etc., officialdom etiquette is required, but the main work is still responsible to Hong Chengchou, this is the principle.
A large number of reports from various prefectures and counties, including a few reports from Jiangxi and Southern Jiangxi, came without trivial matters, and the payment was not the governor, or the chief military officer, Hong Chengchou just sat there, looked at it for a long time, straightened up, rubbed his eyes, and had to sigh that the years were unforgiving.
There are so many opportunities for him, and for him, there is not much exaggeration. The area of the six provinces, Huguang, Jiangxi and the half of Guangxi, not to mention, even if Yunnan and Guizhou are all provinces owned by the Ming army, the Qing army's meticulous work can also penetrate in, and something can always be reported. Not to mention Guangdong, where conflict is most likely to break out, or where the tide of war can be changed, it is even more important to be more careful.
Stretching his back, Hong Chengchou once again entered the state of working at the desk. A moment later, another soldier outside the door entered, sent an urgent report, Wang Fuchen took the letter, and forwarded it to Hong Chengchou, who read it carefully, first a joy, and then even more worried, in that seemingly old eyes faint, but in fact, occasionally cold flashes, still piercing cold eyes, fleeting.
"Oumei, Liao Wenying has already succeeded, and all the Yaomin cottages in the eighth row of Lianzhou have been attached to the Qing Dynasty. The thief who was originally entrenched there has also fled, but the direction of escape is not satisfactory. ”
"Went south?"
"Yes." After the official business was disposed of, during the meal, Hong Chengchou and Huang Zhixuan had a conversation without a match, mentioning this matter, Hong Chengchou seemed to be an understatement, but the next words still made Huang Zhixuan's brows frown: "The news that came in the afternoon, Guangzhou's detailed work claimed that Chen Kai had officially entered the city of Guangzhou. ”
"This ......"
Hearing this, Huang Zhixuan was stunned at first, and then easily thought of Chen Kai's victory over Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi, civil officials in western Guangdong, in the political struggle in Guangdong. Now their main opponent in Guangdong has become Chen Kai, and Huang Zhixuan still prefers to face the civil official group in western Guangdong, after all, in this period when the enemy is around, the opponent changes, and the weaker the better.
However, the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes. Huang Zhixuan immediately reminded Hong Chengchou to prepare early on Chen Kai's issue, lest this guy, who has been highly rated for several years since his debut, really make a bigger mess and make a mess that they can't clean up at all.
However, when this reminder came out, Hong Chengchou only shook his head, and instead said to Huang Zhixuan: "Chen Kai is in charge of Guangdong, and he himself has a mess to be busy with, and at this stage, he is the least threatening to us." At this time, Li Dingguo, who really needs to be guarded against, once Chen Kai is behind him to preside over the military supply, that old thief is the biggest threat, just like when Chen Kai presided over the rear for Haikou when he was in Chaozhou and southern Fujian! ”
A civil official with excellent wisdom and administrative ability and a commander who can fight well is an extremely terrible combination in any era. Moreover, according to the information they had received before, the western part of Guangzhou was the actual control area of Li Dingguo, and the place where the military depended was handed over, and it was handed over to Chen Kai at this time, and it was likely that there would be another big move soon, which caused them even more worried.
Chen Kai probably won't move his nest for the time being, but where will Li Dingguo go. To the east, it was through eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, and joined forces with Zheng Chenggong to attack Jiangxi and Zhejiang, so as to take Nanjing directly, which was the most terrifying possibility for the Qing court, but it was also the most unlikely. Don't talk about factional issues, just talk about a military food reserve, Fujian is estimated to be unable to bear it, no food, it is difficult for the Ming army to drag the salt corpse to fight, the style of painting and the usual image of the two Ming armies are completely incompatible.
Aside from going to Fujian, it is impossible to go south to the sea. The rest is nothing more than a westward return to Guangxi and a northward entry into Southern Jiangxi, both of which may be a big threat to Hong Chengchou, so he has to pay more attention to them.
In response to the military offensive of the Ming army, Hong Chengchou's original plan was to build a 5,000-mile defense line, from the northern part of Huguang to the northern part of Guangxi, and connect with the two feudatories in Guangdong, so as to realize the encirclement posture of the Ming army in the southwest. This line of defense requires a large number of soldiers and supporting facilities, food, grass, weapons, administrative system, etc., etc., for which Hong Chengchou can be said to have exhausted himself and broken his heart.
However, in the first battle of Guangzhou, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao went to Huang Taiji to report first, and the defense line immediately made a hole, and at the same time, the Ming army in the southeast and southwest achieved border and alliance, which was the last thing he wanted to see. However, at this point, he could only redouble his efforts to continue to connect the defense line to the mountainous areas of southern Jiangxi and eastern Jiangxi to prevent the Ming army from achieving a breakthrough.
In this way, it is no longer 5,000 miles long, but 10,000 miles long, fortunately, there is no need to build the city wall, otherwise it will become the Great Wall.
Relying on the terrain and terrain to defend is the principle of Hong Chengchou. But before this long side was built, what he was most afraid of was that the Ming army would take the lead and further destroy his plan. But it was precisely under such circumstances that Li Dingguo was about to move again, and Hong Chengchou had to devote more energy to paying attention to the battle situation on the southern front.
It's just that just when he shifted his attention to the south, the Huguang battlefield, which had already stabilized the confrontation, took the lead in making waves. To be exact, it was Liu Wenxiu, the king of Funan, who sent troops.
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