Chapter 188: The Heroes' Attention

According to their own plans, the people of Yaogang are taking a steady pace and gradually accelerating their development.

There are a few people in this world who care more about them, always watching their every move. The first and second issues of Yaogang Weekly were respectively placed on the desks of Emperor Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Huang Taiji.

These people relied on their respective intelligence systems to keep an eye on Yaogang and Zhang Zhimu.

When Emperor Chongzhen got the "Yaogang Weekly", he felt very novel, and read it twice, but he didn't feel that he had read enough. After putting down the newspaper, I couldn't help but say, "The content is too little." ”

The prince who delivered the newspaper hurriedly said: "They learn the habits of Westerners in the kiln, and they will send one every seven days." I'll let them send a new newspaper directly to the palace every time. ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "Don't let them know that I saw this thing." I'm going to see what else they can do? ”

The prince came to answer: "Tsk! ”

Emperor Chongzhen asked: "Do you think this Zhang Zhimu looks like a businessman?" ”

Wang Gonggong said: "This Zhang Zhimu I think sometimes he is more like a businessman than a businessman. For example, last time, we had already beaten the Qing army away, and if we pursued it together, we would definitely get greater results, but in order to get a little bit of what the Qing army left, he only let me lead people to chase alone. This Zhang Zhimu is still a full businessman. But if you want to say that he is a businessman, he is willing to spend effort and money on major matters related to the safety of the court. Moreover, he donated tens of thousands of stones of grain to various parts of Shanxi, and there was no such businessman in the whole world. ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Yes, don't talk about that, even the "Kiln Gang Weekly" he ran is not like a businessman's businessman, how much effort and manpower does it take?" I'm afraid that if such a person has a different heart, it will be even more terrible than Li Zicheng. ”

Wang Gonggong broke out in a cold sweat and said: "I see that he donated a lot of muskets to Tongguan and Datong, and the price of the muskets he sold to Datong and Biguan, and asked, if it is made by our Ministry of Industry, it will not even be able to get the capital, that is, Zhang Zhimu did not earn much of their silver on this." If he had a different heart, he wouldn't do it, would he? ”

Emperor Chongzhen also said: "I think so." That's what I don't understand. But Zhang Zhimu is a person I can't put into words. His newspaper was given to me as soon as it came out. I can't put this newspaper down. ”

The prince promised to go down, but Emperor Chongzhen stopped him, "What's the matter with your glass carriage?" And those called soaps. ”

Wang Gonggong hurriedly squeezed out a smile and said, "That's what Zhang Zhimu asked me to bring to you, he wants to show a little loyalty." ”

Chongzhen patted the table and said, "Don't give me a sloppy look, I'm talking about the glass carriage you turn around in Beijing every day?" Even the ministers of the imperial court don't have a glass carriage, what kind of system do you sit and walk around. ”

The prince hurriedly knelt down and said, "Oh, the emperor, the slave died unjustly." This is all caused by Zhang Zhimu. He insisted that I bring a carriage back, and when I was fine, let him find someone to go around Beijing, do you think I could not agree? ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "You said the steel spring carriage last time, was it Zhang Zhimu who asked you to do it for him this time?" ”

The prince said, "Yes, I am afraid of gossip, and I have not dared to sit in this glass carriage once." They all let them pull the empty car to turn it around for him. ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "This Zhang Zhimu is like a businessman at this point. Did he earn back his money last time? ”

Seeing that Chongzhen didn't mean to be angry, Wang Gonggong got up and said: "Zhang Zhimu is not the one who cares about the front, the carriages they build now are not enough to sell in Shanxi, and when they become bigger, there will not be enough to sell in Beijing." Now many people are asking me if I can help buy a glass carriage. ”

Emperor Chongzhen laughed and waved his hand, and the prince fell backwards.

Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing and others are also reading this newspaper of Eryaogang, Li Zicheng wants to see the difference of Zhang Zhimu in this newspaper, this newspaper makes him feel refreshed. But after reading it, Niu Jinxing stroked his mustache and said, "I think Zhang Zhimu has the appearance of an emperor." ”

Niu Jinxing's words made Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin both look up at him, Niu Jinxing smiled and said: "But this person himself doesn't know this, according to the information we sent back, this person is still bent on currying favor with their court, he doesn't know that this court is already precarious." However, this person may also have wings that are not yet full, and he has not yet realized that he should plan the world. ”

Liu Zongmin's heart could only tolerate Li Zicheng sitting in the world, and when he heard Niu Jinxing's words, he was not polite, and said, "I just want to know what we should do?" Can't wait for this guy to get bigger. ”

Knowing that Liu Zongmin was hot-tempered, Niu Jinxing was not angry, and said: "We can't take care of this person now, we must set up the name of King Chuang this year, so that the name is justified, and we can command the world." ”

Liu Zongmin slapped the table and said angrily: "I think it's true that someone wants to be an official, and it's fake to make King Chuang the king." ”

Seeing that Liu Zongmin was talking more and more, King Chuang interrupted Liu Zongmin's words and said: "Zong Min must not talk nonsense, the military advisor is for the sake of the whole army. ”

It turned out that Li Zicheng was thinking about establishing himself as king in Xiangyang this year, and the name was good, called King Xinshun.

People like Liu Zongmin don't care about Li Zicheng's title, because he hasn't won the sky yet. However, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, these literati and military advisors, all hope that Li Zicheng can have an official name, so that they will all have official titles, and they will no longer have to be called thieves.

Li Zicheng has always been obsessed with this Zhang Zhimu, and this person makes him feel more and more terrible. His nephew, Li Guo, gave up his own cover to cover a team of people who returned to the camp with a captured musket and **. However, when he handed over the musket to his skilled craftsmen to imitate, it took more than a month to produce a single barrel. Everyone studied the ** together, and they didn't find anything special, in Song Xiance's words: "It's the *** of the artillery, which is thrown by hand." ”

But Li Zicheng knew that this thing could not be produced in large quantities, because the ** used by his artillery was not enough, and it was even more impossible to use it on it. But Li Guo didn't see anyone alive or dead, which made Li Zicheng worry for a long time, this Li Guo was his own nephew who ran out of the house with him, but he didn't expect that he didn't come back this time. Liu Zongmin's 2,000 elite cavalry were almost all annihilated, which made Liu Zongmin's cavalry a little demoralized.

What Li Zicheng didn't understand was that Zhang Zhimu of this kiln gang had a total of several thousand people, and he had not been formed for a long time. Every time this Zhang Zhimu doesn't exert much force, but he hurts himself a lot. He slowly had a hunch that this Zhang Zhimu was likely to be a difficult opponent for him in the future. Fang Cai Niu Jinxing said, this person has the appearance of an emperor, not only Liu Zongmin was furious, but Li Zicheng also sighed in his heart, but many years of iron-blooded career made Li Zicheng's joy and anger not flow.

Li Zicheng now understands very well that although this Zhang Zhimu's wings are not yet full, it is no longer a small fight that can deal with him. The top priority now is to defeat Shaanxi as soon as possible after the king is established, and then go all out to deal with Shanxi, and at the same time clean up this Zhang Zhimu.

However, after reading the newspaper in Yaogang today, Li Zicheng faintly felt a little inferior, none of his own masters can run such a newspaper, and a newspaper like this will bring all the hearts of everyone in Yaogang together, which his military advisers did not notice, which also made Li Zicheng feel a little lost. Li Zicheng read far more information in this newspaper than others.

After Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, saw the newspaper in Yaogang, he happily turned around the ground twice. There are many reasons why Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zifeng broke up, but they both want to win the world by themselves, which is the main reason, and everything else is excuses and ***.

However, Zhang Xianzhong watched Li Zicheng get bigger and bigger, and he was a little worried. But since Zhang Xianzhong knew that there was a Zhang Zhimu in Shanxi, it seemed that everything was changing, and as for where the change was, Zhang Xianzhong himself couldn't think of it. What made Zhang Xianzhong puzzled was that Zhang Zhimu in the kiln gang only had a few thousand people in total, and there were more bandit cottages than them, why could he have such skills and play such a big role. But today, from this newspaper, he saw the spirit of a king. This person is blocking Shanxi, Li Zicheng doesn't want to win the world, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but say to himself: "This time my old Zhang has a lively look." I just don't know how he will reply to the fact that I want to form an alliance with Zhang Zhimu. ”

Now Zhang Xianzhong is very comfortable that he is too far away from this Zhang Zhimu, there is no serious conflict, and he has established contact with Zhang Zhimu's people, and the horse furs he needs in the future can be obtained through Zhang Zhimu. Zhang Xianzhong is thinking, I'm afraid that what Li Zicheng can't expect is that if I join forces with Zhang Zhimu in the future, there will be no place for him in the Central Plains. What makes Zhang Xianzhong puzzled is that this Zhang Zhimu has extended his business tentacles so far, is he not afraid of a little change in things and losses? Or this Zhang Zhimu will be attached to the court forever and be willing to be a courtier of this half-dead court. But it's not like it, he himself should be able to see that it is completely expedient for the imperial court to allow him to have his own armament now, and when the world is a little calmer, this will lead to death. The enigmatic Zhang Zhimu made the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong puzzled.

He knew that Zhang Zhimu was playing with this time difference. With this time gap, Zhang Zhimu will make the imperial court want to do something to him.

Another person who cares more about Zhang Zhimu is Huang Taiji in the northeast outside Shanhaiguan.

Huang Taiji, who is fluent in Manchu and Han, put down this "Yaogang Weekly" and nodded: "No wonder this Zhang Zhimu is poked at the place where we are going to die." This person will become the biggest obstacle for us to enter the Ming Dynasty in the future. ”

In less than a year, this Zhang Zhimu took down all the eight major businessmen in Zhangjiakou, along with the intelligence networks of Zhangjiakou, Datong, and Hukou. Not only did they destroy the Mongolian cavalry and the Manchu iron cavalry of the Mongolian cavalry that responded to them, but they also annihilated all the red flags. The vitality of the entire Qing army was greatly damaged.

This was a major defeat that the Qing army had never experienced since its return.

What kind of person is Zhang Zhimu of this kiln, he is so bold, he can't see a single such person among those mediocre officials of the Ming Dynasty, if there are several such people in the Ming Dynasty, it is needless to say that the Qing army is going to enter the customs, and it would be good if people didn't come to exterminate us.

Through this newspaper, Huang Taiji believes that Zhang Zhimu is definitely not a simple businessman, and he will definitely rebel and fight for the world by himself in the future. But what I don't understand is why he is so desperate to protect their court. According to reliable information, their muskets were given to many Ming troops for free, which is not like what a merchant does. But if the person is rebellious, he will not arm his future enemies. This also made Huang Taiji unable to understand.

However, Huang Taiji always believed that his intelligence system had made a mistake, at least Zhang Zhimu of this kiln post only had a few thousand people in total, this number was absolutely inaccurate, otherwise such a small number of people, no matter how good the firearms were, they would not be able to stop the impact of the Qing army's iron cavalry. On the one hand, Huang Taiji ordered to continue to investigate the situation of Yaogang, and on the other hand, he ordered the Qing army to properly maintain the pressure on Shanhaiguan, but in a short period of time, it was absolutely not allowed to attack. Huang Taiji, who is well versed in the habits of the Han people, knows that as long as he does not take the initiative to attack, the Han people themselves will rectify themselves, and when they themselves are not close to each other, the Qing army will also recover, and how to act at that time will be determined as appropriate. The blood shed by the Manchurians must be repaid by the Han people tenfold and hundredfold.

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