Nanking.

"This old Li is getting more and more inexplicable!"

Yang Qing looked at the report of the Jinyi Guard in his hand speechlessly.

He has moved into the palace......

The whole family moved in.

Her Majesty the Empress has specially decreed that the whole family of the Imperial Husband and Protector of the Kingdom have moved into the palace, including a large group of concubines, and of course, including the godsister. Recently, the husbands in Nanjing have taken the empress as a model and educated their wives, but their wives only need to say that you are also worthy of being compared with the protector of the country, and then they will easily go back......

Well, that's just gossip.

The Lord Protector who moved into the palace is actually no different from the past.

It's not like he hasn't lived in the past.

Gu Junen appeared in the Northern Capital with a high profile, of course, it was impossible to hide it from Jinyiwei, and then the information was sent to him.

Although at this time, General Li Zicheng led an army of 300,000 to ask Nanjing for the news that it had been made public, but he actually took the initiative to contact Dolgon so unabashedly, which still made the Protector feel a little inexplicable. Li Zicheng doesn't need to do this at all, his *** Nan's nature is not serious, as the vassal king of the Ping Imperial Family, it is understandable that Nanjing suddenly deposed the emperor. Even if he loses the battle next, he can explain it by understanding it after being educated by the Protector of the Kingdom, and then fight for his life, after all, he is also out of loyalty to the old king.

But the nature of Liaison with Dorgon has changed.

He has become a traitor who lures the wolf into the house and Zhu Cihong.

There will certainly be no amnesty for him.

Zhu Cihong can be sentenced to hanging, and if he fails, he will at least be beheaded, but the former is due to the reduction of the shadow of Taizu, etc., and the rebellion itself must be beheaded.

And even if Li Zicheng doesn't contact, Dolgon will follow up with all his strength after he makes a move, and for an inevitable result, he completely cut off his retreat, which is completely dizzy, saying that at this moment Yang Qing is a little suspicious that Li Zicheng was really squeezed dry by Gu Hengbo, not only his body, but also his brain......

"Woe to the water!"

He sighed and tossed the information aside.

The empress raised her head vigilantly, then snorted while holding her completely invisible belly, as if she was already in labor, half-lying on the short couch, and Li Xiangjun carefully beat her shoulders behind, looking like Lafayette possessed.

As for Yang Qing's next response......

There is no need to deal with it, the strategic deployment of the Ming army was originally standby, Wuchang Dutong Huang Fei had previously moved to Xiangyang, and the Imperial Mausoleum in the sacrifice capital was deposed because Zhu Cihong was deposed, and it was changed to Nanjing to worship the sky, and the Dou Fame Department originally stationed in Fengyang was transferred to Nanyang. The Ming army each had an army in Xiangyang and Nanyang, and the Tenth Army, which was originally on the second line, went north from Huai'an to Chenzhou, Xiangyang, and Nanyang to block the Han River and Wuguan Road, while the Chenzhou Ming army relied on the supply of the national highway and waited in Chenzhou to meet Li Zicheng's attack from Luoyang.

It is not possible to move forward, and it will not be possible to provide a steady stream of supplies in winter.

The national highway can only go to Chenzhou.

And Xiangyang and Nanyang are reserves, and then north is Zhengzhou, originally there was only such a gap between Nanyang and Zhengzhou, but this gap is basically a no-man's land, whether it is Huaibei's recultivation or the Huangzhuang along the Yellow River has not yet reached this area.

The garrison in Chenzhou can completely plug this gap.

Li Zicheng can only go out of Luoyang.

The logistics of his exit from Wuguan could not be guaranteed, and he also had to face the fortress of Nanyang, with part of his troops out of Wuguan, with Hanzhong three sections out of the Han River to drag the Huangfei of Xiangyang, with the Qing army to contain the cavalry army of Zhengzhou and Hebei, Li Zicheng led the main force of the Shun army out of Luoyang and directly into Chenzhou and went south along the national highway. This was the only strategy he and Dolgon could adopt, and Dolgon had to dedicate some of his forces to contain the Ming army in Shandong, and he could not risk the Ming army going straight to Beijing along the canal, although there was a fortress of Dongchang on this line, but the Ming army along the canal was carrying heavy artillery. In short, the pattern of the war will become that the Ming army of Shandong will attack along the canal, the Ming army of Chenzhou will block Li Zicheng as the main force, and the Ming army of Zhengzhou will hold the isolated city, and the main battle should be on this ancient plain in the upper reaches of the Yinghe River.

This battlefield is suitable.

It is almost a no-man's land, and only a few imperial villages along the Yinghe River maintain shipping, but they are not mainly farmed, but use the vast plains for grazing.

Mainly cattle herding.

After all, cattle are an important resource.

Yang Qing has always been a safe no-man's land in Henan as a pasture, used to breed cattle and even dairy cows, after all, idle is idle, especially cows can already make milk powder, and even pasteurization technology has been born with the perfection of thermometers. Such a place is not afraid of war damage, it is nothing more than a large empty grassland, and the national highway behind it can support the two armies to continue to fight when the river is frozen, a four-wheeled carriage carrying thousands of catties of materials can run from Fengyang to Chenzhou in eight days, and Yang Qing can mobilize thousands of such carriages for this road.

This is the purpose of his national road.

In the future, this national highway will continue to extend forward, and even after the recovery of the northern capital, it will also extend to the northern capital, extend to Guanwai, and extend to Shenyang and Datong. Before the construction of the railway, the national highway was the most important land transportation mode in the Ming Dynasty, and in Yang Qing's plan, the Chinese highway would also extend westward to the far western regions. Even if the construction of the railway begins, it will still have to rely on the national highway for a long time to the west, at least in his plan, this will hardly change in 50 years, after all, both the Longhai Railway and the Lanxin Railway are huge projects. Even with his most ambitious plan, he could only build the railway to Dihua in his lifetime, so the national highway to the Western Regions would be irreplaceable for the next hundred years.

"You won't take the initiative? Do you have to wait for Li Zicheng to do it? It's better to listen to me and let Jinyiwei go and kill Li Zicheng! ”

The Empress said dissatisfiedly.

It is said that since she learned that she was pregnant, Her Majesty has become more and more difficult to serve.

"No need, let's sing and dance!"

Yang Qing said.

After saying that, he threw aside the information in his hand......

"Your Majesty, He Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is waiting to see you."

A palace maid came in and said.

Now there are no eunuchs in the palace, and all of them have been replaced by palace maids, but they are not the slave palace maids of the past, but the employment system. Since the slave release order has already been implemented, of course, the empress cannot raise Han people as slaves and maids, and the empress has a noble status, and she cannot let those Siyi women serve, and in the end she can only use the employment system.

The palace maid is no longer without freedom is.

If you want to marry, you can marry.

If you want to quit, you can also quit.

Even if you usually have a holiday, you can go wherever you like if you are not worth it.

Of course, if the protector is mad and insults a certain palace maid, then the latter can also go to Dali Temple to accuse him of rape......

Well, Her Majesty the Empress is really well-intentioned.

As for the palace ladies in the past, they also signed another employment contract, and those who did not want to stay in the palace could resign and go home to marry, while those old palace ladies who served Her Majesty until the age of 60 were given pension by the empress. As for the original eunuchs, except for a few who followed Han Zanzhou to continue to manage internal affairs, the others were all in Lu Jiude, and Wang Chengen was in charge of the imperial village and taxation, and there were basically no eunuchs in the palace.

The empress looked at Yang Qing.

"Ask him to come here!"

Yang Qing said.

Her Majesty the Empress also quickly switched states, restored her grace as the king of a country, and sat in the position that Yang Qing gave up, although everyone knew it, but the face still had to be maintained, and He Tengjiao was also a more dignified person.

Soon He Tengjiao walked in.

This leader of Hunan's anti-Qing Dynasty in history has not had many twists and turns in his career over the years, and he has quietly walked from the political envoy of Huguang to the position of cabinet minister. He wasn't a genius either, not even as good as Gu Yinxi, who was originally below him, but the situation in history pushed him to a position where he had to turn the tide, and although this was beyond his ability, he didn't give in after all, and he resisted to the end of his life. However, because of the changes brought by Yang Qing, he did not face the broken mountains and rivers, and the situation did not need him to turn the tide, so he could only be promoted step by step as an ordinary official, and he was almost sixty years old with the help of the promotion of his fellow countryman Ma Shiying, and finally reached the high position of Shangshu.

"What's the matter with Yun Conggong?"

Her Majesty said.

"Your Majesty, the French Tribute Envoy is rude and rude, and the minister thinks that such a barbarian is not enough to insult the saint!"

He Tengjiao said.

Louis XIV ......

Well, France was indeed the Sun King at this time.

It's just that the Sun King is only twelve years old, and the power of France is decided by Mazarin, and there was Louis and his mother as regent before, but after his mother's death, Mazaran was gone, and the cardinal is equivalent to the regent, or Dolgon of France, but this regent definitely didn't think about usurping the throne.

Louis or Mazarin's emissaries arrived in Nanking ten days ago, and their ships docked in Qinzhou because of the unfavorable winds, waiting for the spring breeze to change, this time the new version of the Chinese company had a total of six merchant ships, which were originally eight, but they were pirated in the Indian Ocean, and two ships sank. As for where the pirates came from, this is completely irrelevant, at this time they were actually still at war with Spain, and even France was at war internally, which is also known as the Slingers, and Louis was even driven out of Paris last year. Although the Prince of Condé, the great nobles who had fallen to the Fronde, were frightened by the head of Charles I and chose to compromise, the Prince of Condé and Mazaran fought again, and Mazarin arrested the Prince of Condé in January of this year. But Durenny fled and attacked France with the Spanish army, by which time he should have been defeated, and then Mazarin himself exiled himself to quell the infighting in January, but then returned to Paris. The Prince of Condé rebelled again, and this time Durrenne was on the side of the royal family, and the most famous French commanders of the era fought each other in this way, and in the end, the Prince of Condé was defeated and Louis XIV recaptured Paris......

Uh, that's France in chaos.

However, the chaos in France did not prevent Mazarin from making a fortune in the East, after all, money was the most important thing.

But He Tengjiao's statement......

"Yun Conggong, how rude are the French envoys, they refuse to bow down to Your Majesty?"

Yang Qing said curiously.

"It's good to say, although that Kerbell was reluctant, but after knowing that the British, Dutch, and Portuguese envoys were all kneeling, he didn't dare to continue to insist on not kneeling, but his insistence on another matter is quite puzzling."

He Tengjiao said.

At this moment, he even showed an expression on his face that his three views had been seriously impacted.

"What does he insist on?"

Her Majesty said with great interest.

For the always solemn and unsmiling Shoshu of the Ministry of Rites to show such an expression, then the French envoy must have insisted on something very strange.

"Your Majesty, the French envoy insists on refusing to bathe!"

He Tengjiao said helplessly.

Belch?!

Her Majesty the Empress looked confused.

Yang Qing next to him was already smiling.

"Your Majesty, this minister is also very puzzled, Your Majesty does not know, the French envoy does not know how long he has not bathed, he can smell the stench on his body, and in order to cover up this stench, he also sprinkled perfume on his body, the fragrance mixed with the stench is simply disgusting. But he was still dressed cleanly, and the minister thought he was a little stupid at first, but later he was very smart, and his politeness was far better than that of the Dutch and the British, but for some reason, no matter the minister's good words or warnings, he just refused to bathe. Even if the minister told him that the British and the Dutch could only be seen by bathing and changing clothes, he refused to bathe, but denounced the British and Dutch as heresies, and protected the country, is there any difference in the Yahweh they believe? ”

He Tengjiao said.

"Well, it's a little different, Corbel is supposed to be an old-fashioned believer, and quite a fanatical believer, the Dutch are Protestant, and those fanatical old-church believers do regard Protestantism as heretical. However, I think we should respect other people's traditional customs, since it is not a matter of principle to bow down, then we might as well be generous, if he doesn't want to bathe, it's not a big deal. ”

Yang Qing said.

In other words, he didn't want the smell of French high society to change.

Let the French take a bath?

That's a crime!

A France that defecates in the open and never bathes is the most real, and we have to respect the customs of the French people......

"Lord Protector, but the smell of the messenger is really disgusting, and letting him see His Majesty like this will make His Majesty feel unwell, and he also likes to defecate in the open."

He Tengjiao said.

Apparently this Kerber is indeed very religious.

It's no wonder that He Tengjiao can't stand it, the Ming Dynasty is not uncommon for foreigners now, but whether it is the British or the Dutch, they are actually Protestants, although the Portuguese are Catholics, they don't care very much about this, and they have long been rotten if they don't take a bath in Macau, and these guys who can create the Ming version of the Bible must be flexible enough. But the French are criticized even in Europe in this regard, if Kebel is really a devout believer, I am afraid that it is possible that he has not taken a bath for more than ten years, and it is no wonder that He Tengjiao collapsed when he suddenly met such a guy.

"This is easy to do, just let him stay farther away!"

Her Majesty said.

Apparently the Empress also wanted to meet the messenger who could bow down but not bathe. ()

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