Chapter 17 The Emperor is angry and asks for the guilt, and the kiln soldiers enter Yungui

When Zhang Zhimu sent the news that the Yaogang Navy sank the warship of the Great Francois (Spain) people at sea, and informed the emperor by secret telegram, the case of the Chongzhen Emperor had already been placed on the table of the Dongchang sent back, and the Yaogang people had fully taken over the information of Liangguang, and of course, there was also the information that the Yaogang people had bloodied Zhaoqing.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen knew very well that the Yaogang people were now looking for things wherever they wanted to take them, and he was helpless against the Yaogang people. The emperor can still sit here, that is, the kiln people give themselves face. However, Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand, the people of Yaogang said that they would solve the problem of Liaodong this year, but they were fierce enemies, why did they divide their troops to seize Liangguang? But Liangguang was taken away by the kiln gang, and it was too embarrassing for me not to say a word, I have to ask why this Zhang Zhimu didn't give me any face, and he didn't even say hello when he took it to Liangguang.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent a telegram back to Zhang Zhimu, first affirming that the whole annihilation provoked us with the Great Francophone warship, and agreed to keep it secret for the time being, and after I was stable around, I would free up my hands to deal with them. The following is to ask Zhang Zhimu, why did he send troops to occupy Liangguang in a good manner, and also washed Zhaoqing in blood, causing a tragedy in the world?

The people of Yaogang received a call from Emperor Chongzhen, and they all admired the efficiency of Emperor Chongzhen's intelligence system, Zhang Zhimu said: "We underestimated the ability of Dongchang. The emperor got the news so quickly. ”

Chen Yufeng smiled and said, "Hehe! What do you think? Zhimu, how do you reply to the emperor? ”

"Don't worry! It's not something I'm thinking about now. Zhang Zhimu said, "In fact, the emperor just needs a reason to say the past." After saying that, he turned around and shouted, "Someone!" ”

A staff officer came in to salute, and Zhang Zhimu said to the staff officer, "Call back to the emperor!" ”

"Yes!" The staff officer agreed, and hurriedly came over and took out a pen and paper to prepare for the record.

"Your Majesty: In order to send Li Zicheng's army to Annam, our army marched along the waterway, dredged the waterway all the way to the border of Annam. During this period, it was found that due to the repeated attacks and harassment of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, many places in Liangguang and Guangxi had been completely out of control, and there had been no management by court officials for a long time, and bandits were rampant in those places, and the people's livelihood was withered. Many people in Fuzhou jointly asked us to help manage it. After investigation, the situation in the two vast ministries and counties is like this, and even if there are officials in some localities, they are still doing their own things and doing things in a disorderly manner. After repeated requests for instructions from the officers and men in front, we agreed that they should handle the matter at their discretion. The prefect of Zhaoqing gathered the people to become the king independently, and when our army approached, not only did not listen to the advice, but also opened artillery and arrows to attack our army. I have already sent someone to find out the details. In my opinion, the two Guangxi and Guangxi have been out of control for a long time, and they cannot continue in this way, and they should also be managed in a unified manner. After the two provinces are stabilized, we can devote ourselves to the management of the southeast peninsula and create a reasonable boundary for our children and grandchildren.

In addition, it is reported that after our army arrived in Guangdong, the people of Macao (Portuguese) continued to provoke us, and the officers and men of our army, in a fit of rage, rose up to counterattack, annihilated the people of Macao, killed the governor they had appointed privately, sank two armed merchant ships, blew up the church where they carried out cultural aggression, and blew up the fortress they had built in Macao. Now Macau has been fully recovered.

April of the twenty-second year of Chongzhen. ”

Zhang Zhimu signed the draft telegram handed over by the staff officer, and the staff officer hurriedly went out to deliver the report.

"Poor Emperor!" Ouyang He sighed and said, "Mr. Zhang, how do we deal with the emperor's affairs in the end?" ”

"Hmmm! Didn't think about it. To tell the truth, Emperor Chongzhen is really a good emperor! I guess he'll find some time to come to the kiln this year. Let's go with the flow, and then the emperor himself should find a way out for himself. I think we should build a Senate office building this year, and it should be a little more magnificent. Zhang Zhimu replied very vaguely.

Chen Yufeng smiled and said, "Hehe! The emperor's affairs are not in a hurry, if we take down the emperor too early, there will be many people who will rise up against us in the name of the user emperor. We used the emperor to gag their mouths. It doesn't delay what we're doing. ”

"I've always thought it was a good idea. Now that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have no restraint on those imperial relatives of the Ming Dynasty, these people are also ready to move, and we can't give them an excuse to oppose us now. We must now complete the land reform as soon as possible. Those big landlords have no land, they can't coerce many people, and they can't make much noise. Ouyang He understood it.

Emperor Chongzhen received a telegram from Zhang Zhimu, although he was not satisfied, he could only swallow this breath, but Emperor Chongzhen was still very happy that the Yaogang people drove away the little Francos (Portuguese) people in Macao. He knew very well in his heart that those officials in Guangdong said that they were trying to collect money from those barbarians and accommodate those foreigners, but in fact, those officials themselves got more privately. Because the little Francois (Spain) people can hand over forty or fifty thousand taels of silver every year, which is an income for the imperial court, which is very short of silver, so the imperial court turned a blind eye and let these barbarians stay in Macao for nearly a hundred years. Of course, the kiln people don't care about this bit of silver, maybe the kiln people themselves take over Macao and earn more silver. It's a troublesome thing, and it's good for the kiln people to make a profit.

Now, there are three hot spots of construction in the entire Ming Dynasty, in addition to the kiln gang has always been a big construction, and then there is Hankou and Quanzhou on Li Mao's side. Hankou has Li Mao in charge there, everything is carried out in an orderly manner, and the construction there has brought many benefits to the surrounding people. In the past, as long as the construction of construction was carried out, the people suffered, either by apportioning taxes or by sending labor services, and what the people were most afraid of was where to build construction. Now it is different, all walks of life can benefit from this large investment, and even the poor people can get the money with their strength. Hankow is prosperous.

Quanzhou is also here, in addition to Fan Chengkun here, the two giants of Yaogang, Lu Chengxiang and Qiu Laodong, have rushed to Quanzhou. The department store in Quanzhou has already chosen a location and started construction. Civil works for the power plant in Quanzhou have also started long ago. Qiu Laodong's family took a team of people and started the construction of the customs. With the support of Fan Chengkun, the navy divided several speedboats and formed the first customs anti-smuggling brigade. After the public announcement, the customs business was quickly launched.

In fact, Chinese and foreign maritime businessmen are very welcome to do so. Because the customs tariff is clearly priced, everyone can calculate it clearly, and there is no need to secretly find someone to dredge it, and the amount of silver spent is less.

However, Qiu Laodong calculated that if the tariff was calculated according to this method, it would be a large increase in income. Lu Chengxiang heard about this, and together with Qiu's old family, he established a perfect regulatory agency. These two men were so involved in the development of regulations that it would not be easy for anyone to come up with the idea of fighting these tariffs.

After Guangdong was completely captured, Lu Chengxiang and Qiu Laodong also came to Guangzhou together, and established a customs office in Guangzhou. With Fujian's experience, things in Guangdong are much simpler.

Since the settlement of the two Guangxi was very smooth, it far exceeded the original estimate. According to the specific situation, Liu Chenghuang and Qin Peng suggested to the Yaogang Command Center that the Mountain Jungle Army develop westward and cooperate with Zhang Xianzhong and Zhao Jinli to solve the problem in the southwest.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's battle with those Tusi in the southwest was not smooth, and it turned out that Zhang Xianzhong had reduced a lot of troops, and now he was transferred to the front line, and the rear was completely handed over to Zhao Jinli and them. Zhao Jinli: They completely took up the work of logistics and transportation. The ammunition that Yaogang constantly supported was sent to the front line by Zhao Jinli. The **and hand** and musket bullets sent by the kiln gang were the most popular with Zhang Xianzhong. With sufficient **, Zhang Xianzhong and they can bombard those tenacious Tusi soldiers with ** without scruples.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the Tusi soldiers are not the opponents of Zhang Xianzhong's officers and soldiers, but there are too many Tusi soldiers, they are more able to endure hardships, and they are better at climbing mountains and mountains.

When encircling and suppressing the Tusi soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong and them used the means of extermination, and the Tusi soldiers were inseparable from the people at all. Therefore, where Zhang Xianzhong's army passed, the jade was burned. Men and women, young and old, will be exterminated. However, the Tusi soldiers still had an endless stream of reinforcements. Later, Zhang Xianzhong and the others found that the Tusi soldiers who came to support them were dressed differently, and they caught a few live people to know that it was Tusi soldiers from all ethnic groups and all over the country who came to support, and there were all of them. Zhang Xianzhong understood why the Tusi soldiers couldn't kill endlessly.

Zhang Xianzhong also notified the kiln gang by telegram, of course, Zhang Xianzhong didn't say how hard he fought, but just asked Zhang Zhimu not to worry.

In this case, Qin Peng and Liu Chenghuang proposed to send troops to the west to march west to Guizhou and Yunnan, and Zhang Zhimu felt that this was just the right way to support Zhang Xianzhong and them from the back and relieve Zhang Xianzhong and them of some pressure. Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also agreed with this suggestion. It's just that the expansion of the mountain jungle army will be delayed for a while, but the matter in the south will be the same sooner or later. Finally, the command center sent a telegram to Liu Chenghuang and Qin Peng, agreeing to their march into Guizhou, Yunnan.

Qin Peng and Jiang Wei, the commander of the mountain and jungle army, commanded the army westward to march to Guizhou, Yunnan, and the affairs of Liangguang were handed over to Liu Chenghuang to take care of.

The Tusi in the southwest usually went their own way, coveted each other's territory, and often fought constantly, but in the face of the Han people, they were able to unite hand in hand.

Shuixi Tusi thought that the opportunity to rebel had come, and launched a rebellion, but he did not expect to encounter Zhang Xianzhong's all-out encirclement and suppression, Shuixi Tusi and the Tusi who rebelled with him, seeing that they could not support it, asked all the Tusi in the southwest for help, they were not talking about rebellion, but that the Han people wanted to exterminate their people from all over the country. Those toasts are not afraid of chaos, and they don't care whether these statements are right or not, but just use this as an excuse for them to follow the chaos. Because they hate those Han people who think they are civilized and noble from the bottom of their hearts, and they just need a reason to kill Han people. Therefore, more than 300 toasts in the southwest responded almost together and sent people to support Shuixi toasts.

By the time Qin Peng and Jiang Wei organized their armies to march to Yunnan and Guizhou, the resistance they encountered was not so strong. When it comes to mountain and jungle warfare, Jiang Wei's army is an expert. In addition, the automatic rifle of jungle warfare is also a sharp weapon, and those Tusi soldiers and Zhang Xianzhong may be able to fight against them, but they can't take any advantage with the mountain jungle army.

Qin Peng and Li Wei discussed, they listened to the old boatman's opinion, a regiment of men and horses took advantage of the good water situation, took a tugboat, under the guidance of the old boatman, from the Xijiang River into the Xun River into the Qianjiang River, and then into the Hongshui River, Nanpan River upstream, directly to Dianchi Lake. Although along the way, the speedboat at the front station blew up the reef blocking the road and used a lot of **, but from the waterway to Dianchi Lake, the Yaogang army took a lot of mountain roads. When the news of their arrival at Dianchi Lake by boat reached Qin Peng's headquarters, Qin Peng telegraphed back to report to the head of the regiment that in the future, a water transportation company would be set up, and a deputy position should be arranged for the old shipwright who led the way in the water transportation company, and he should be given the highest salary.

There was also a road of officers and soldiers, who set off from Nanning by tugboat and went west through the Youjiang River to Tianzhou (Baise) and Guangnan Fu (Guangnan).

According to the specific situation in Yunnan and Guizhou, the large army acted separately, first with divisions as units, and then with regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons as units. With the current combat capability of the Yaogang army, it is not very easy for the Tusi soldiers to easily eliminate these teams, especially the mountain and jungle army is particularly taken care of, and the radio can already be configured to the platoon, and all departments can contact and communicate at any time through the radio.

However, Qin Peng and Li Wei did not dare to be careless about the few toasts near the south, especially the Lao Si (in present-day Laos), the Eight Hundred Dadian Si (in Myanmar), the Mu Bang Si (Myanmar), and the Meng Yang Si (Myanmar). When the army was sent, it was pointed out that these places must be completely resolved.

When these situations were reported to Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu also specifically pointed out that these Tusi territories must be recovered. Those toasts can not be polite if they do not obey, as long as we ensure that our territory is recovered, any means can be taken.

It would be possible to send more troops on the other side of the border. We must adopt a policy of attaching equal importance to the local people, love those who support us, and eliminate anyone who opposes us. It is also necessary to adopt the method of using razing to defeat us, and those who are willing to cooperate with our work can arrange for them to participate in our work. After stabilization, conditions permitted, and they were allowed to elect their own leaders, but the original Tusi and their descendants were not allowed to participate in the elections. The toast system must be resolutely broken, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Zhang Zhimu's instructions were quickly notified to the ranks at all levels. The soldiers had the principles and direction of their actions.

Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng both know that in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and it is difficult for outsiders to find them in various Tusi villages, and it is even more difficult to do their work well, so this is a very long-term work. However, the matter was handed over to Qin Peng and them, and there was no need to ask more about the kiln gang.

Qin Peng's actions, Sichuan Zhang Xianzhong and their side could soon feel it. Often in front of the two armies facing each other, Zhang Xianzhong and their army, as soon as the morning dawned and was preparing to go out to fight, he found that the people on the opposite side were all gone overnight. Those Tusi soldiers who came to support were fighting very hard, and they didn't want to fight. As soon as they heard that their stockade was also under attack from behind, they didn't want to work for others here, so these toast soldiers often discussed and ran away in the night.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Xianzhong really admired these people in Yaogang very much, and the people of Yaogang stabbed them in the back of the Tusi soldiers, and completely destroyed their sense of resistance. How could Zhang Xianzhong let go of such an opportunity and take the opportunity to cover up the past. Zhao Jinli's team also followed closely.

However, Zhao Jinli is a little worried, everyone was killed by Zhang Xianzhong and them in front, who will rely on production and tax payment here in the future? Therefore, Zhao Jinli kept sending telegrams to Zhang Xianzhong, asking Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates to show mercy. But Zhang Xianzhong felt that it was also a hidden danger to stay if he was disobedient, and besides, his army was now red-eyed, and it was very difficult to prevent the soldiers from doing anything.

After Yaogang got Zhao Jinli's report, he had no other way but to study the matter of immigrating to Yungui, Sichuan.

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