Shimonoseki Pier.

Mu Zhaigong, go all the way!

Yang Qing stood on the dock and waved goodbye to Qian Qianyi, who was standing on the deck of the warship in the middle of the river.

The latter smiled and threw his hand at him.

Then he turned to others very casually, and Yang Qing also turned his gaze not far away, Liu Ruyi's gaze happened to turn the same way, and when he saw the smile on this guy's face, he quickly lowered his head and took a step back, putting himself under the protection of the maid, Yang Qing turned back to the river with a smile......

This is the messenger of the driver.

Yang Qing wouldn't care about this kind of thing, it was all discussed internally by Donglin Qunxian, and in the end, the result they discussed was to let Gu Xichou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, be the chief envoy, Qian Qianyi was the deputy envoy, and Chang Yanling, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, was also the deputy envoy, plus Tian Xiong, who was in charge of the escort, led an infantry brigade, and King Fu, who was the uncle of Emperor Longxing, to form a welcoming regiment. The latter has achieved good results in Huaixi for more than a year, at least the people who follow the Fu Fan are self-sufficient and useless, they mainly grow corn purchased from the nearby Huangzhuang, and also engage in some aquatic sidelines, the original history of the Ming Hongguang Emperor, this corn gnawed on the fish soup and drank it and did not lose much weight.

It's just a little darker.

It is said that King Fu is now personally cultivating Huoqiu.

However, in the original history, he had already been beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market at this time, and it is estimated that even the meat was rotten into a pile of white bones in the ground.

From this point of view, he should be grateful to Yang Qing.

According to the previous reform, all the restrictions of the clan have been lifted, even the vassal king can leave his fiefdom at will, and can even lead the army as an official, so even if it is necessary to open up the wasteland and farm, the bottom of the vast majority of the clan is still acceptable to the current life. After all, it is very common for the low-level clan to not be able to make a fortune, in the past, they were confined in the fiefdom and were not even allowed to leave the city, but now they are at least free, and some people who are self-confident and knowledgeable rely on the title of the clan to bluff some rich people are also happy.

Since you can't resist......

Then just close your eyes and enjoy!

In short, this welcoming group, which included civil ministers, military generals, nobles and clansmen, set off from Nanjing, and then they would go up the Yangtze River, turn into the Han River in Wuchang and go north, and enter the control area of Jin Shenghuan in Yicheng. Then Jin Shenghuan, the governor of Huguang, who was not recognized by Nanjing, but was indeed appointed by the Holy Decree of the Ming Emperor, was responsible for sending them to Chang'an via Wuguan Road.

As for the results......

It's hard to say.

It is still unknown whether Li Zicheng will let people go, even if he releases people, he is not so happy, isn't it a fool to let go of the fat sheep sent to the door? In short, it depends on how much blood the sages of Donglin are willing to give, so if Li Zicheng doesn't knock them out of the bone and suck the marrow, then he will be called the king in vain, and poor Donglin sages will do their best for the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, the household department is not ready to pay for it.

"Master Hou, when it is broken, it will be broken!"

Li Yutian said sinisterly.

"Don't talk nonsense, we are all loyal ministers!"

Yang Qingyi said rhetorically.

Li Yutian was instigating him to quickly send Jinyi Wei to kill Zhu Cihong to avoid trouble.

It's not a hard job.

Zhu Cihong has been under house arrest by Li Zicheng in the former Qin Palace, and Li Zicheng took the original political envoy as his Qin Palace, and Jinyiwei has a large number of spies in Chang'an, and even the palace has been bought, so it is not too difficult to poison or something.

Anyway, the person died at the hands of Li Zicheng.

In the end, whether Li Zicheng did it or not, or whether he had a motive or not, he did it.

"Master Hou, those who achieve great things are not informal!"

Li Yutian continued.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's not a big deal!"

Yang Qing continued to speak righteously.

"You just pretend to be good!"

Li Yutian slandered in his heart, but Yang Qing couldn't help him if he didn't do it, he exchanged glances with Huang Fei, Yang Qing's henchmen, and they all showed a rather helpless expression. In other words, this kind of thing is understood, if you want to say that these Yang Qing's cronies don't have any ideas from Long, it would be nonsense, Li Yutian, Huang Fei, Cao Youyi, Wu Guogui, Gao Dejie on the northern front, these are all one with Yang Qing. Not to mention the yellow robe of the loyal and brave marquis, it is also beautiful to maintain the current situation, they are all high-ranking officials and have a bright future, although they know that Yang Qing is very concerned about the land, so they don't grab good land, but Yang Qing's companies have their shares.

Even banks.

These are all the big capitalists of the future.

After a few years, all the sages of Donglin will be killed, and Huang Degong will be kicked aside, and then the princess will ascend the throne and officially become the empress, even if Yang Qing always learns from Cao Cao, who else can the throne be given to the princess for a hundred years?

Don't you give your son back to outsiders?

Wu Zetian knew that the throne couldn't be given to Wu Sansi!

This country is also the sac of the Yang family.

And their descendants will all be rich and noble with the country at that time, and they will all be as rich and noble as the Duke of Wei for two hundred years, everyone understands these very well, but won't this Zhu Cihong come back?

What's left to play?

"Don't worry, I'm not a fool!"

Yang Qing said.

He had to prevent these subordinates from doing it themselves, this was not a good bird, to say that they didn't have the courage to let Zhu Cihong die halfway would be an insult to their personality.

"I have a way to solve this matter, and it is a complete solution, what will happen to you as I am now, whether Your Majesty can come back or not. But don't make your own decisions, otherwise it will ruin my plan, in short, I will take you to create a new Ming, a new Ming that your children and grandchildren will enjoy forever rich. ”

Yang Qing continued.

Li Yutian and the others looked at each other and didn't say anything more.

Yang Qing silently watched the warships leave the dock and sail away on the mighty Yangtze River.

At this time, two thousand miles away, the Ming army also began to attack the city of Geranza.

The body of the big kun.

"These damn Mingren, what are they doing?"

On the southeast corner of the city of Geranza, on the castle of Gambofield, Governor François. Caron held the binoculars and looked at the Erkun body in the distance like a tail dragging towards the south, and a large number of Ming troops gathered on this beach less than two miles away at this moment. The red-clad soldiers were clearly preparing for the bombardment, but the problem was that it was too far away, long beyond the aiming range of the cannons, and even the eighteen-pounder guns in his castle could hardly effectively attack targets that far away.

It was impossible for the Ming army to transport heavier artillery to Erkun, where there was no dock.

"Whatever, we have Fort Zeellandia!"

An officer behind him said, holding a wine glass.

Indeed, they had the impregnable Fort of Zeelandia, a fortress consisting of a three-story main fort and a single-storey outer fort, and even the bricks were brought from Java, and their long war with the Spaniards had long proved the impregnability of such forts.

"Thankfully!"

Caron said with the same lightheartedness.

Almost at the moment when he finished saying this, the Ming army in the distance suddenly spewed out of the gunpowder smoke towards the sky, and a faint trace of smoke in the gunpowder moved on the background of the canopy at an extremely fast speed.

"Damn, they're using mortars!"

Cuarón exclaimed.

The officer didn't bother to drink and pretend, and the two rushed into the house behind them as fast as they could, and almost as soon as they entered the door, a strange whistling sound was heard in the sky. A dark shadow barely visible to the naked eye, trailing a faint trail of smoke, slammed into the rammed earth at the top of the fortress, and bounced off with a splash of dirt, and flew into the door of a nearby house under their horrified gaze. There was a sudden scream from inside, and the two hapless officers rushed out like crazy, but the moment they stepped out of the door, the entire house behind them turned into countless fragments, and the two men flew out like two dead dogs, driven by the flames of the explosion.

"All retreat to the castle!"

At the same time as the two men fell to the city, Caron rushed out in the smoke and shouted.

The officers and soldiers in the barracks and on the top of the fort were scattered in an instant, and at the same time the shell of the second mortar in the sky fell, right in the middle of several soldiers who had abandoned the gun position, and before it could really land, it turned into the flames of the explosion, and the six soldiers immediately splattered their flesh and blood in the explosion, and even the cannon behind them was overturned.

"Forty-eight pounder, forty-eight pounder mortar!"

The officer screamed in horror.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we must fight back, or they will destroy everything we have!"

He grabbed Cuarón and shouted.

Caron also woke up instantly.

Indeed, they had to fight back.

To put it bluntly, the fortress is the city wall, the petal-shaped angular city wall, but the core is still the inside of the city wall protection, after giving up Chikan and giving up the Dayuan town outside, all the more than 2,000 Dutch people are hiding in the protection of the city wall of this fortress. Inside the main fort were the church, the garrison and the administrative structure, and inside the outer fort were the ordinary Dutch people and supplies, their food and fresh water were all in these buildings. Originally, there was a large area of buildings in the east that was a residential area, but it was not part of the castle's defense and was simply abandoned. Direct-fire artillery could not threaten the buildings inside these castles at all, because the height of the multi-layered bastions and the protection of the walls would block all direct fire, and the shells would have to penetrate the thick walls before they could hit them.

But it can't stop the cannonballs falling overhead!

Even if people could squeeze into the passages inside the fortress to avoid the shells, they wouldn't last a few days if all these things were blown up outside!

It would be better if it were a large fortress in Europe.

Because the area of the large fortress is large enough, the killing range of the mortar shell is limited, and it can still be carried after all, but Fort Zelandia or the city of Geranza is so big, the explosion of a 48-pounder mortar shell will cause serious damage.

"Shoot back, these scoundrels!"

Cuarón roared in grief.

The officers and soldiers who were fleeing looked at each other.

"What are you looking at?"

Caron roared.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we can't see where their cannons are!"

An artillery officer said weakly.

As if mocking their incompetence, another cannonball whizzed down, and then flooded a building in an instant with the flames and smoke of the explosion.