Jiang Xiang instructed the guards to guard the mansion, ordered his henchmen to guard the outside of the hall, and waited for a few cronies and generals to be called, everyone said a few words, Jiang Xiang told Gao Ding, Niu Guangtian and other generals about the news brought by Hu Weizong, and the prince of Daming Chu wanted them to raise troops, and then closed the house to discuss.

"You are all my henchmen, now I am willing to serve Dorgon's orders, want to deprive us of military power, you know the meanness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, once we lose our men, we are fish on the chopping board, to be slaughtered!" Jiang Xiang looked at a few people with an indignant expression, "Besides, we are Han people, and now we have the order of the King of Chu, and this town wants to uphold the righteousness of the world, you are willing to follow us!" ”

Gao Ding, Niu Guangtian and the Jiang brothers, seeing Jiang Xiang looking at them, they all stood up, Gao Ding immediately hugged his fists, "Since the Manchurians entered the customs, they have been rampant and unpopular, and the last general will naturally follow the military gate, and there is nothing to say." ”

Niu Guangtian also immediately stated, "I have long wanted to oppose my mother, and I swear to follow the military gate to the death!" ”

After Jiang Xiang defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he had a lot of merits, but not only did he not get a reward, but he was constantly reprimanded and reprimanded, and his official rank was still the chief soldier of Datong, and there was no change in ten years, and the generals under him naturally could not be promoted.

In one place, it has been ten years, but there is no chance to climb up, and now it is even possible to be kicked down, and anyone will be full of resentment.

Several generals expressed their stance one after another, and the Jiang brothers naturally stood on Jiang Xiang's side and supported it anyway.

Jiang Xiang nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand arrogantly, "Okay, since all the brothers agree, then we will work together to achieve great things!" ”

Hu Weizong saw that Jiang Xiang and the generals of Datong Town were willing to do something, and he was happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "The military gate and the generals are united, and the big thing is half done!" He paused, and then said: "This other half, it depends on the plan of the military gate!" ”

Jiang Xiang had been prepared for the uprising, but the situation he thought was that the Ming army was in the Northern Expedition, he started an incident in Datong and cooperated with the Ming army from behind, but at this time the situation changed, he did it first, and the Ming army then supported.

Jiang Xiang touched the short beard under his forehead, pondered for a moment and said: "Now the main forces of the Qing army are in Nanyang and Huaibei, Beizhi and Shanxi are very empty. Attacking Xuanfu to the west and threatening Beijing will inevitably shake the world, and Dolgon will definitely quickly mobilize troops to quell the rebellion, and we may not be able to withstand it. ”

After all, Jiang Xiang has experienced a series of wars such as Chongzhen Pingkou, Jin after the war outside the Guan, and the entry of the Qing army. He has survived until now, and almost all the famous generals of his era are dying, and he has become a famous general in the world.

Although this uprising was completely different from the previous plan, he also quickly analyzed a plan.

Hu Weizong frowned, thinking in his heart, in terms of effect, if Jiang Xiang attacked Xuanfu and jumped over the Great Wall to threaten Beijing, then the Qing court would definitely not hesitate to send troops back to help, and immediately be able to relieve the predicament faced by the Ming army in Nanyang and Huainan, but once the Qing soldiers quickly returned to help, Jiang Xiang may not be able to withstand the counterattack of the Qing army with the land of Xuanda, and the king of Chu will definitely not go north in a short period of time to rectify the interior of the Southern Ming Dynasty, so Jiang Xiang also has some truth in his consideration.

"What does Junmen mean to fight Taiyuan in the south and collect the land of the Three Jins?" Hu Weizong asked.

Jiang Xiang nodded, "Datong, not enough to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if you take the whole Jin, then there is the Great Wall in the north, the danger of the Yellow River in the south, the Taihang in the east, and the governor of Shanxi Ning I will be in the city, this town will take him, Taiyuan is at your fingertips." Moreover, the Manchu Qing Dynasty invaded the south, in order to raise food and wages, the people of Shanxi were expropriated violently, so that the people's grievances boiled, and a lot of grain and grass were still waiting to be transported in Taiyuan. ”

Gao Ding and the Jiang brothers listened to Jiang Xiang's words, and their hearts were excited, as if they had seen the scene of Shanxi rising up in groups, attacking the city and pulling out the village, and making contributions.

"Speaking of food and salary, the Jiexiu Fan family and the Lingshi Wang family can copy it to replenish military funds!" Hu Weizong listened to Jiang Xiang's plan and suddenly added.

Hearing his words, Gao Ding, Niu Guangtian and the Jiang brothers were stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other, their eyes leaking fierce light, and their eyes all revealed greed.

After the Qing troops entered the customs, military expenditures soared, and the finances were very difficult, in this regard, Zu Kefa and Zhang Cunren of the Metropolitan Procuratorate once suggested: "Shandong is the way of grain transportation, Shanxi is the way of merchants, and it is urgent to appease them. Therefore, the Manchu regime mostly adopted a policy of appeasement towards Shanxi merchants.

In the early years of Shunzhi, the Manchu Qing Dynasty summoned Fan Yongdou, a wealthy merchant who had repeatedly helped the Manchus to transport prohibited materials to the Guanwai, as the imperial merchant of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and gave Zhangjiakou a property.

In the process of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's march into the Central Plains, and most of its large-scale military expeditions, they were financed by Shanxi merchants.

Among these Shanxi merchants, the most hateful were the eight imperial merchants headed by Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku. These people made political investments in the Manchu Qing Dynasty very early, and when the Qing court entered the Central Plains, they naturally reaped their rewards, and each family had a huge fortune.

The Qing court levied food and salary in Shanxi, and the people of the Sanjin Dynasty suffered for a long time, so that Jiang Xiang felt that he had a certain public opinion basis for the incident, and the food and salary collected by the Qing army from various provinces in Shanxi provided him with military salaries.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiang was a little anxious in his heart, "The key to this incident is to take the entire Shanxi before the Qing army reacts, so we must act quickly." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Xiang looked at Hu Weizong and said: "Chief helmsman, I want to make trouble, what banner does the King of Chu let me play?" ”

He was an important official, and the generals below also looked at Hu Weizong with blazing eyes, Hu Weizong smiled slightly, opened the baggage, and saw that there were more than ten rolls of yellow silk inside, he looked at it, took out a copy, and handed it to Jiang Xiang, "The military gate can be used in the name of the Ming Jin Guogong and the left governor of the right army to call on the three Jin to oppose the Qing Dynasty!" ”

When Jiang Xiang heard this, he was overjoyed, he didn't expect the King of Chu to be so generous, he had worked for the Manchu Qing Dynasty for ten years, and so far he was just a Datong general soldier, the King of Chu was the prince of the country, how Jiang Xiang didn't like it. He hurriedly took the yellow silk from Hu Weizong's hand, unfolded it, and sure enough, it was the edict that canonized him, with the seal of the cabinet and the big seal of the regent of the king of Chu.

When the generals saw Jiang Xiang's expression, they knew that the canonization was true, Jiang Xiang had been crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, and they would naturally not be without promotion, staring at the remaining Huang Juan with glowing eyes, but Hu Weizong did not give them to them, but put them away, "The imperial court doesn't know much about the situation in Shanxi, and the time is in a hurry, so only the military gate is canonized as the Duke of the Kingdom!" ”

When the generals heard him say this, their faces couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but Hu Weizong continued to say when he saw this: "However, His Royal Highness the King of Chu considered that everyone risked their lives to serve the Ming Dynasty, so I asked me to bring dozens of edicts stamped with the great seal of the cabinet and the regent, among which three marquis and dozens of counts, just wait to fill in their names, and after the imperial court recovers the northern land, they can be cashed, so the generals don't need to be anxious." ”

This time for the sake of Shanxi, anyway, the conditions given by Wang Yan can be said to be excellent, far higher than the normal level, and it can almost be said to be indiscriminate, but this is also Wang Yan's helpless move, he needs Jiang Xiang to get up to buy him time to quell the rebellion.

Moreover, after the Jiang Xiang uprising, the Ming Dynasty had to rest for a period of time, in order to avoid the Datong officers and soldiers who surrendered repeatedly under the siege of the Qing army, so Wang Yan decided to open the title higher.

When the generals heard that those yellow silk were all edicts with titles written and just waiting to fill in their names, they suddenly became excited, and they were eager to immediately defeat Shanxi, and even kill them in Beijing, and write their names on the edicts.

Jiang Xiang was also enthusiastic at this time, he glanced at the generals, and immediately ordered: "Gao Ding, you immediately take people to control the city gate, Jiang Youguang, you go to the military camp to transfer troops into the city, this town wants to finish Ning and me, as well as the Manchu officials of Xuanda, and use their heads to sacrifice to the sky!" ”

When many generals heard this, they clenched their fists excitedly, "Oh! I'll do it later! ”

Datong is one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, surrounded by the Great Wall, at the junction of the Taihang anticline and the uplift of the Yin Mountain, the north is the Beikou uplift, the west is the Lei Gong Mountain, the east is the Lishan Mountain, the south is the Sanggan River, it is the barrier of the whole Jin, the gateway of the north, and the throat of the Jin Dynasty and the north straight, it is the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight, and it is called the "key to the north".

The whole Datong town, the jurisdiction area is very extensive, the Great Wall of defense starts from Zhenkoutai in the east, reaches Yajiao Mountain in the west, the total length is 335 kilometers, the number of soldiers in the heyday is as many as 135,778, 50,000 horses, it is the head of the important town of the nine sides, and it is the north gate of the Beijing Division.

Now Datong Town, without the support of the Qing court, naturally it is impossible to have so many soldiers and horses, Jiang Xiang's regular soldiers have 30,000 people, miscellaneous soldiers 20,000, but because Datong is located in a border town, it resists the attack of Mongolia all the year round, so the people are fierce, and almost all adult men have received a certain amount of training.

As long as Jiang Xiang has money and food, then with an order, it is not a problem for the army to expand by tens of thousands in a short period of time.

At this time, Jiang Xiang's 50,000 horses and horses were not all stationed in Datong City, but along the Great Wall, or in the counties and passes around Datong, and the soldiers and horses in the city were only 3,000 people.

The generals came out of the general army palace and acted according to the orders, and the soldiers and horses in the city were immediately mobilized.

Patrols were also strengthened in the streets of the city, especially outside the prefect's yamen and the governor's office, where patrolling soldiers could be seen everywhere, ostensibly to maintain law and order and avoid idlers disturbing the governor, but in fact to monitor the governor's movements.

When the people see people passing by, they will be investigated, and the soldiers will secretly extort money, and if they do not say it, they will probably be arrested on trumped-up charges, and no one will dare to walk on the street.

At this time, behind a wine shop in the city, a few Xiao Si carried a few loads of food boxes and came to the street where the governor was walking.

This is a restaurant to some rich and noble people, delivery of takeaway, generally does not attract interference, but today is a bit special, when the group is about to arrive, they are stopped by a patrol soldier.

"Where are you going?" The lead officer asked.

The accompanying shopkeeper hurriedly took out a handful of copper coins and handed it over, and said with a smile: "It's the wine and food ordered by the governor, let the small shop send it to Xingyuan, and ask the military master to be accommodating." ”

The head of the general did not accept the money, his nose snorted, the shopkeeper understood, and hurriedly took out a few coins of broken silver, and said with a smile: "Official, you will lose money in many small shops." ”

The general was still hesitating, but his subordinates on the side reminded him: "Boss, the general explained that you can't startle the snake!" ””

The general frowned, snatched the money away, and waved his hand, "Go!" ”

When the shopkeeper saw the sentry soldiers walking away, and when they were far away, he hurriedly said, "Hurry up!" ”

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