Chapter 11 Do you want to go to Liaodong to make soy sauce?
From the perspective of the traverser, there are too many places for optimization and integration of the Zheng Group today, and once completed, the strength of the entire Zheng Group can be greatly increased.
But it will take time!
Although Chen Hua is a grassroots, he also understands the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it.
Besides, he still has three years to go.
Chen Hua, who didn't feel anxious in his heart, used a super strong patience to quietly pay attention to the evolution of the situation. However, that doesn't mean he's just watching from the sidelines.
After Chen Hua entered May, he began to discuss the "separation of military and business" with others, and in mid-April, he selected a hundred elite soldiers from among the shorts in the defenders of Anping City.
“…… There will be a charter, a number of soldiers, and a limited salary, and the law is only fine. In the middle of the night, holding Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Record of Military Training", Chen Hua could see it very late.
“…… The first is not to use the city to travel and slip, but the face is white, the shape is also convenient. Treacherous people, their expressions are uncertain, and those who see the government are unscrupulous. The first available, just honest people in the countryside. The so-called honest people in the countryside, black and stout, able to endure hardship, solid skin and flesh on their hands, and the color of earth, this is the first ......"
If he wants to seize the Central Plains and realize his greater ambitions, what Chen Hua needs is not a strengthened and enlarged version of the original Zheng Clan's land division, but a new army, a real new army.
No matter how many new armies there are, they start growing from seeds.
Does the Zheng Group have seeds now? No.
Then he needs to make it himself.
Although Chen Hua doesn't know anything about military training, has he ever taken physical education class? Have you also received military training? Draw a scoop according to the gourd. Then refer to Qi Jiguang's masterpiece in detail, and then combine the "experience" in his mind to train a team of instructors first.
Whether it's good or bad, something is better than nothing, isn't it?
Get up at midnight every day and exercise for an hour. In the morning, an hour of drill, an hour of cultural education.
An hour is half an hour, this is from Chen Hua's mouth, and it soon became popular in Anping.
In the afternoon, two hours of drills, and one hour of culture and education in the evening.
Chen Hua has always been hands-on. Obviously, it took a lot of effort to put a lot of effort into those hundred blanks.
This was already a scene in Anping City for the next three months. By the end of the three months, there were only 60 people left from the original 100 people. This is still Chen Hua's sake, for the sake of the passing line, and he showed mercy to his subordinates several times.
However, just when the first batch of 3,000 refugees from Qilu was sent to Dayuan, and when the 60 New Army instructors were also sent to Dayuan, a sudden rush report disrupted Chen Hua's rhythm.
At this moment, the time has entered August, and in the blink of an eye, Chen Hua has been crossing for four months. The entire Zheng Group was slowly 'improving' in his eyes, and at this time, Jingshi Kuaima sent an urgent report.
But Zheng Zhilong was cheated, and the mastermind was Zheng Zhilong's fellow countryman - Jiang Dejing, the old man of the court.
Jiang Dejing is the pride of Quanzhou, not only because of his high official position - as a cabinet minister, he also has a high discipline that is completely different from his colleagues. In addition to being upright, he loves the people and values agriculture, Kuang Zheng is good at managing money and managing the army, and his reputation is full of the Central Plains, and his reputation in Fujian is not weak.
Yes, Jiang Dejing, Hong Chengchou and Zheng Zhilong are all from Quanzhou, Jiang Dejing is from Jinjiang, Zheng Zhilong and Hong Chengchou are both from Nan'an, and they are real fellow countrymen! [Nan'an and Jinjiang are both Linxian counties, and most of Hong Chengchou's children are married to Jinjiang's families. 】
Otherwise, how could Zheng Zhilong be so gullible to believe Hong Chengchou's nonsense, thinking that the Manchu Qing would really crown him as the prince?
Between Hong Chengchou and Zheng Zhilong, there were fellow villagers, and the two eyes of the pit were full of tears. But that hasn't happened yet, and it can't happen again here. And now Jiang Dejing has taken the lead in pit fellow villagers.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the southeastern provinces were very stable, and the northeast, which was thousands of miles away, was now fighting in Songjin.
Huang Taiji learned the lessons of the past storms on Ningyuan and the setbacks of Jinzhou, and formulated a battle plan for a long siege and forced to surrender. In the spring of last year, he ordered Jierharang, Duoduo and others to lead the troops to build Yizhou City (now Yizhou Town, Yixian County, Jinzhou).
Yizhou is located on the bank of the Daling River between Quang Ninh and Jinzhou, the terrain is open, the land is fertile, the city is built here, in fact, the outpost position of the attack on Jin, once the Eight Banners Army attack Jin, this place is an excellent logistics supply base.
In June of the same year, Huang Taiji commanded the Eight Banners to come to Jinzhou and began a protracted battle to besiege the city.
While harvesting all the crops outside Jinzhou City, he swept and cleared the strongholds of the Ming army on the periphery of Jinzhou, and completely cut off the connection between the Ming army stationed in Jinzhou and the outside.
It's March this year. Further measures were taken to build a camp outside Jinzhou City, which surrounded the city, dug deep trenches outside the camps, and erected fences, and there were deep moats between the camps, so that Jinzhou was "impassable."
The Jinzhou garrison was Zu Dashou, and a considerable part of his army were Mongols, and the city was besieged, so he rebelled and secretly contacted Jierharang. This matter was detected by Zu Dashou, who wanted to capture the leader of the rebels, but he had no choice but to act secretly, but was peeped through by the rebels, and preemptively engaged the Ming army.
The Dongguan guard general Wu Bashi surrendered, and the Eight Banners captured the outer city of Jinzhou. The siege of Jinzhou City was completely completed, "filling in the trenches and destroying the trenches, and breaking off solidarity"!
The rice in Jincheng City is only available for more than a month, and the beans are less than a month.
Emperor Chongzhen then ordered Hong Chengchou to lead Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Cao Bianjiao, Ma Ke, Wang Tingchen, Wu Sangui eight general soldiers, 130,000 foot cavalry, and quickly ordered the general soldiers of each town to "leave the customs immediately", and quickly meet the troops in Ningyuan to relieve the siege of Jinzhou.
As a result, it dragged on until July, and Hong Chengchou had not yet sworn in Ningyuan!
As a traverser, from the perspective of a latecomer, Hong Chengchou's prudence is not necessarily wrong. Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, advocated a quick battle and a quick victory on the grounds that the soldiers were too much and the salary was difficult, urging Hong Chengchou to march, and Emperor Chongzhen easily listened to it, and ordered Hong Chengchou to "march into the army immediately", which was definitely a faint move. Its disastrous consequences are no less than those of Geshuhan Zhantongguan!
But Jiang Dejing's fellow villagers pit fellow villagers, saying that Zheng Zhilong and Hong Chengchou have a friendship with fellow villagers, and they can use Zheng's sailors to help Hong and solve the urgent needs of Liaodong.
This news was heard by the spies sent into the capital by Zheng Zhilong, and immediately sent a secret letter, Pegasus urgently reported to Anping!
The letter also said that Jiang Dejing's proposal had not yet been adopted because a group of people led by Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, strongly opposed the proposal. The reason is Zheng Zhilong's background. Because Zheng Zhilong was born in Haikou, he should be vulgar and vicious, and he can't bear the responsibility. and attacked Jiang Dejing for forming a party for personal gain, because Jiang Dejing, Zheng Zhilong and Hong Chengchou are all fellow countrymen.
Chen Hua didn't know that when Chongzhen was fourteen years old, Zheng Zhilong had also experienced this incident. He didn't study history.
He is a historical writer who loves to read time-traveling novels. I only know that after Zheng Zhilong got Liu Xiang, he shrank in Fujian and became a rich man. And the entire Ming Dynasty seems to have forgotten Zheng Zhilong, or Fujian land......
As for the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou was defeated and captured, and immediately surrendered. The 130,000 Ming army was defeated and Jinzhou Zu Dashou surrendered, he knew this, but when it came to the details of the whole battle, Chen Hua was blind.
Originally, he was only going to live in the nest for three years, and he was good at running the navy and army, and then broke out when Chongzhen was seventeen years old. But he didn't want to travel for only a hundred days, and Jiang Dejing's two words connected him with the Tartars.
Chen Hua asked people to call Zheng Hongkui.
This is a person he has relied on very much recently, although he does not have too outstanding talents, but as an indigenous, as a brother of the flesh, it is enough to refer to Chen Hua in detail.
After reading the letter delivered by the Beijing Express, Zheng Hongkui was shocked.
"The eldest brother and the Jiang family have always been friendly, why did Jiang Dejing put us in such a dangerous place?"
Jinzhou City has been besieged by the Eight Banners Corps, and Zu Dashou has even lost the outer city, even if Dongguan is newly recaptured? Can the Zheng family sailor still drive the warship directly to the shore?
He didn't think that his own army was very capable of fighting, and it could fight more than the invincible Eight Banners Army.
Although he knew that his eldest brother had wasted a lot of heart to rectify the army for a while, and asked Fusong [Zheng Chenggong's name] to go to Qilu to bring back a lot of displaced refugees, it is said that there are many good soldiers and seedlings inside, as long as they can eat their stomachs, they will be raised for three or two months, they are all big men!
But that is in the future, not now, and at present, the land forces of the Zheng group, I am afraid that after pulling to Liaodong, a single charge of the Tartars will be defeated.
"The main force of the Tartars is now in Jinzhou, and our army only makes a disturbance attack from the sea and takes the ...... east of the Liao River."
The countless emotions in Chen Hua's heart have turned into torrents, surging and irrepressible!
Fighting the Manchu Dynasty, he was willing to do a hundred things, although he knew the 'best' method, he still asked Hong Chengchou to bury the last main force of the Ming Dynasty. But this 'vicious' method was born before because 'Zheng Zhilong' could stay out of the matter, and now he has been involved. If you want him to stand by and watch, at least he won't have any strength, which is called Chen Hua's 'shame'.
This is politically incorrect!
So much so that after receiving the news from the capital, he didn't blame Jiang Dejing at all, but had the urge to immediately raise troops across the sea to PK Huang Taiji.
"Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou and other places east of the Liao River are just scratches of the skin. And the battle of Jinzhou, Huang Taiji did it with all his might, how important is it? It is old in the military revolution, how can it be a big loss because of a small one. ”
Zheng Hongkui looked at Chen Hua with some shock, he found that his eldest brother had really changed, and he couldn't understand it.
Because his intuition told him that the 'Zheng Zhilong' in front of him really had the idea of sending troops!
It's insane!
If he wasn't still in front of Chen Hua, Zheng Hongkui would definitely have a bucket of water to wash his brain!
"What's more, the eldest brother has the world in mind and has lofty ambitions, so wouldn't it be a good thing for the Ming and Qing Dynasties to live in my generation?" This is a great thing, and it is best for the Ming and Qing dynasties to fight and lose both. The ambitious official brother is so biased that he wants to get involved?
Chen Hua's feverish brain also calmed down a little, but it wasn't because of Zheng Hongkui's sentence "Isn't it a good thing to live in my generation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?" But he understood that he couldn't attack the enemy and save him, so how could he talk about containing the Manchu Qing at this time? Did the laborers go to Liaodong to get soy sauce once?
That's not going to work!