Chapter 16 Pre-War Preparations
The next day, Sun Chengzong and Qin Liangyu led 5,000 troops to wait at the city gate, preparing to escort the queen and the prince to Nanjing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Your Majesty, why don't you go with your concubines," the queen hesitated a few times, and finally persuaded Chongzhen to go to Nanjing together.
"I can't follow you this time, I have my own responsibilities, you have to remember that if something happens to me, you will immediately lead the prince to the throne in Nanjing, among the auxiliary ministers I left for the prince, Qin Liangyu is the most reliable, you have to be close to her, you can rest assured that a few leading generals, I have already helped you transfer to Nanjing, be careful of Yuan Chonghuan and Zuo Liangyu." There is only so much I can do for you and the prince, you have to take care of yourself and your children in Nanjing, and when the war subsides here, I will take you home" Hearing Chongzhen's tone of explaining the future, Queen Zhou knew that the next BJ City would be extremely dangerous, and she couldn't help but cry when she thought that Chongzhen would stay in the capital.
"Good, don't cry, come and hug the prince, you see how cute my prince is, the time is almost up, let's go, now send your mother and son out of the city" Queen Zhou on the side stopped her tears and followed Chongzhen, who was holding the prince, to the door.
Watching the queen's frame slowly move away, Chongzhen turned around and went back to the palace, inside the Taiji Palace
"Big companion, is there any new news from Huang Taiji's side," Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen on the side as he looked at the map placed on the dragon case.
"Back to the emperor, there is still new news today, but the ministers have already instructed that as soon as there is news, it will be sent to the emperor as soon as possible, your majesty, you got up early today, or should you rest for a while" Wang Chengen was a little worried about Chongzhen, Chongzhen has not rested much recently.
"Don't worry, I'm fine, there's no one now, big companion, you can find a place to sit down by yourself, look at you standing weirdly tired" Wang Chengen ran around behind him, he was old, and there was no one here, so why should he care about some red tape.
"The emperor is not tired" Wang Chengen abides by it, the emperor can feel sorry for himself, but he must remember his identity as a slave and cannot cross the line, which is also one of the reasons why Wang Chengen has always won Chongzhen's trust.
Hearing Wang Chengen's words, Chongzhen looked up and looked around, except for the dragon chair he made, there was really no other place to sit, so Chongzhen picked up a stack of folds and put them on the steps, "There is only this one for the big companion, you will do it, I will be busy for a while" After speaking, Chongzhen supported Wang Chengen's shoulders and pressed him on the steps.
In the face of Chongzhen's actions, Wang Chengen's heart was warm, so he sat on the fold, looking at the fold below, Wang Chengen wanted to know what expressions those adults would have when they saw the fold of their book being sat under the butt by an old eunuch.
Chongzhen looked at the map, now the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the Jurchens, without the Jurchens making trouble, the peasant uprising, Chongzhen has the confidence to let people run around with that group of mud legs, but now the Guanning Jin defense line, after investing so much manpower and material resources in the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens found the relationship on the Mongolian side, and they could completely bypass this line of defense and make a detour into the pass, which made the role of this line of defense greatly reduced.
However, the reason for this is that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlang and got into trouble, with this Mao Wenlong, how dare the Jurchens come out to attack the Ming Dynasty, and now the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army on the two islands have lost their commanders, and they are almost unusable. General Dong, who went deep behind the enemy's back, is gone, it's really a pity, if he didn't know that Xiaoice River would become more and more intense, and the outbreak of the peasant uprising was coming, in order to let Huang Taiji feel at ease to enter the pass, he would not give up the Dongjiang Army if he said anything, as the influence of Xiaoice River became stronger and stronger, Daming's life would be more and more difficult, which was also the reason why he was in a hurry to start a war with the main Jurchen forces. If you don't take advantage of the time when the Ming Dynasty still has the strength to completely cripple the Jurchens, after a while, you will have to face a great drought across the country, peasant uprisings, and the ensuing large-scale plague, if the Jurchens come to make trouble again at that time, the Ming Dynasty will be miserable, and it will be dragged to death like the previous life.
Xiaoice River makes the current Daming unable to go on the expedition, but the Jurchens are not happy, it just so happens that the Jurchen leader Huang Taiji this guy is extremely ambitious, and actually dares to go deep into his imperial city alone, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely destroy the Jurchens, Chongzhen said that he would not let go, even if he sacrificed the Dongjiang Army.
Crippled the main force of this Jurchen, with the population of the Jurchens at least a few years to recover, so that he can free up a few years to concentrate on cleaning up the Ming Dynasty, when the time comes to Weihaiwei and Dengzhouwei, build a harbor to train the navy, build a big ship with artillery, and send troops again to take the double island as a stronghold, at this time the Jurchens can only be beaten passively without a navy, and the navy can go up the Yalu River along the river, so that the entire Jurchen hinterland is under the threat of the Ming Dynasty's navy, when necessary, The navy can even bring a large number of sergeants along the Hunhe River to Shenyang, I want to see if the Jurchens dare to make a detour to Mongolia to enter the customs again after recovering from the threat of the navy.
Now at this time, there are mature flintlock pistols in Europe, and the technology on battleships and artillery has begun to gradually widen the distance from the Ming Dynasty, the last time I asked people to find a group of European mercenaries to come to the capital, Chongzhen took the time to meet, and let them go back, this group of people also play with flintlock pistols, and will not build artillery and warships, Chongzhen saw it and rewarded them with some gold, let them leave a few flintlock pistols and let them go back to help them find some talents who can build artillery and warships, And said that after the warship is built, in addition to rewarding gold, they can also send a warship built by themselves, which instantly caused the group of Europeans to cheer, with the stimulation of gold and warships, Chongzhen is not afraid that they will not come back, and besides, there is not a Catholic John Tang in the capital, if not, he can sacrifice some interests, and through Catholicism, he can still get the talent he wants.
Speaking of flintlock pistols, Chongzhen remembered that in addition to a Xu Guangqi in the Ming Dynasty, there was also a Bi Maokang, who knew that he would become Chongzhen, and he must have studied the history of the Ming Dynasty in his last life, which is like now, except for the few celebrities known to the people of the whole country at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the other people who are not very famous don't know who is who, some of them have heard about it and then forgotten it, and they can't remember it if they don't have the opportunity to think of it, if it weren't for the flintlock pistols of the Europeans, Chongzhen can't remember Bi Maokang.